Chantel McCabe sits down with Jared Wolfe, Wilson Furr, and Chris Gotterup for a discussion at the KFT Player Panel 2023.
all right we’ve had a quick player switch but um Jared wolf will be in the house that collapses stage and thank you for graciously accepting our invite last night Jared’s played on both the PG tour and the port fairy tour so we’re happy to have him back on property here Wilson for University of Alabama graduate we’ll be talking about what experience now exactly uh and tia will be getting into some conversation with him about just getting even to the furniture store and how tricky that can be for some uh graduated from college and finding pudding so to speak at a professional level and last but not least Chris gotta a superstar we’re going to be talking about a commercial that he was in with Tiger Woods believe it or not love how the guys just go for a super step and I’m going up the side here uh with sort of legs welcome in any of the stragglers feel free to take a seat and we’ll we will save some time at the end for questions these guys are gonna have to share the mic sorry to tell you guys but it’s not the most comfortable but make sure if you have a question save it to the end I’ll kind of do a q a to get things going and uh that we’d love to hear what you have to say since you guys are the heartbeat of the community and we want you to stay engaged so we’ll start things off Jared thanks again for uh joining us I had a few commitments already this week but you clearly are one of the older uh veterans on this stage of the experience we have absolutely which is kind of crazy because I know a learning question a lot of people have everywhere I go is what’s going on with the landscape you’ve lived on both sides of things now and we’re obviously going to be sensitive to what’s happening with another league in another tour but there’s just so much chaos in golf right now I haven’t been navigated that life it’s been it’s been interesting because you know like you said this is year 13 or 14 pro and last year was my rookie year on the PGA tour so as a executive experience ago I had everything going on but yeah it’s a great time for golf right now versus we’re going up opportunities and going up the if we play game golf we’re gonna we’re gonna get rewarded better than any other generations and that’s a good point to make because a lot of people say wow these pgs were a person it’s a 20 million dollars for these designated events have you all are heard about these designated events I have been trained by the PGA Tour they are designated as they prefer but they’re very capitalized but the person’s on the fourth grade tour are rising significant significantly as well which makes this such a difference for people with families uh when you’re worried about child care or being a liberty spouse on the road for a extended period of Time how significant is that it’s huge you know uh sorry this my work here on this tour was the 2014 where the there were there was persons where he made the cut when you finish last getting her enough eight or nine hundred dollars and that wasn’t enough obviously okay so to give fast forward to that’s where we’re at now he’s a great place one to just it one kind of say it’s about time but two uh it shows the level of competition on this tour that uh that it it is a high level of competition that’s very true uh both said we’ll kick things over to you and I kind of gave it to you before we get into your story do you have a parchment in this market going sure okay how is it going pretty great I mean I’ve lost a bunch of games but I’m doing better than some people I would say so yeah all right is it with other players or just some buddies from home okay all right so me try to talk about uh is a perfect example I am not involved in March Madness my version of a bracket is a Dell match play this week on the PG tour I am golf through and through last week I was outside the valve spot championship and I heard you know a girl in her heels and you know I enjoy it herself and a few class sales and she said to the gentleman beside her so these players all play 18 holes all four days and I thought to myself oh my gosh that’s me trying to talk about basketball so we will just end that conversation there I have absolutely nothing to contribute uh but I’m glad that your breath is doing well you and I were talking before we got on the stage about how just ridiculous I mean we talked to Jared about his experience and now he’s seeing the professional golf ball you graduate you come out try to find status and footing and it’s near impossible give a little taste of what that was like yeah sure so I graduated from Alabama in 2021 uh in May uh you play I got you know played that summer golf had a good Summer Golf off after the US Open you know had some good events uh and then you go to Q school in the fall so I went to q12 made it through first stage and then this second stage um and if you miss second stage you know it’s kind of you know your Year’s done so for the next year up until I just played mini tours played in Canada um PGA tour Canada and then came back to Q School this year and got through first second third to get status out here so I mean it’s definitely you know it feels kind of like you’re an outsider looking in a bit you know you’ve got friends and buddies that you know you could play with out here but you don’t have a spot in the event so I think that’s kind of the tricky part for professional golfers because I mean I know 40 guys that don’t have status on this tour that could win this tournament you know and so and that’s just who I am I mean I’m sure he knows just as many of them Chris so there’s a lot of really good golfers out there instead of has statuses is absolutely critical you need a job well what is it like going through those lows because when they hear the Glamorous stories of Scottish shuffler waiting for times and even his wife I don’t know if you all heard the story uh before the Masters final round last year with his wife Meredith giving him a pep talk because he was an emotional wreck to try to hang on to a lead and take it home to win that first grade jacket but some of the low points especially when you are trying to gain status what does that look like yeah I mean it’s not easy um like I said when you don’t with considering I was in Canada last year I felt like I had said somewhere so I was at least playing golf in a place on a tour so that was helpful but yeah I mean those lows are tough you always feel like you’re a mile away because you don’t have a halfway to the event unless you go shoot seven or eight under a Monday qualifier so I’d just say that that Gap just feels so far at all times that you no matter how well you’re playing you feel like you’re a long way away um but and then quite the opposite now you know you feel like even if you’re not playing well you know you feel like you could turn it around one week and you’re that close so it’s really A Tale of Two Cities I would say yeah yeah between the two perfectly explain to this one that qualifiers which uh are an opportunity uh in the past the opens yeah actually let’s answer your question that’s enough last year I played it nine Monday qualifiers and I think when I went back and looked at I think I was like 23 under Paul or 24 under par through you know like eight rounds or through that first eight things which I mean is whatever but you didn’t get I didn’t get your one yeah I remember reading a Panda Express I shot 66 in uh the links on the Bayou in Alexandria Louisiana and 65 was the number and so I was here sitting there and just being like what is this man I feel like I did pretty good yeah welcome yeah oh Chris you had a really strong summer and as the Haskins Award winner I’m sure you you felt like you could go out with grab some momentum and you got a little bit of that last summer at the flip side of when things are low how about the highs of when you get to ride away so to speak yeah I mean in my case I’ve had plenty of lows in golf and everyone will um and I went through five years of school surgeries and everything and uh yeah I mean I worked really hard and it was nice for it to all pay off and then yeah last year was amazing finishing school at Oklahoma and running the Haskins and then basically uh we finished the national championship we lost now I flew home played Us open local uh sectionals qualified I’ve been through Canada all in the same week and and then I played golf pretty much every week for the next 20 weeks it felt like so um yeah I mean it’s a job interview for all of us to be able to play against the best players in the world and um yeah I was lucky enough to play well and it happened to have a good year last year and I left school with no status anywhere and I didn’t really think about it too much but um it was great to play well and then to have a chance to you know lock up status for this year for sure yeah and you kind of went through the world and that happened so fast and that’s the other thing of playing uh maybe just coming out on tutorials you have to continue to play to be able to get those next opportunities especially if you’re playing well you want to are there any flashes of moments or maybe being paired with somebody you’ve looked up to that stick out in your mind um the play with Ricky I played with Ricky Paul goitis at 3am and it was pretty funny because there’s a bunch of people that are telling me you know plug what is old enough to me and my dad and stuff and uh yeah I remember there was the 11th hole at 3M um it was planning to win the long car forward he couldn’t go to the fairways and just so windy oh you had a time with that and stuff and uh but yeah it’s just I mean I played plenty of practice rounds with um cool people and I’m lucky enough to have like a good team around me and um they have a good connection for the question because I played Kim Smith before he won the British chef Us open and then um plenty of other cool cool guys but um yeah once you’re on that level and you’re kind of equal level with them when you’re playing the same with that they’re all pretty cool guys which is which is fine for sharing the it’s awesome it makes it way less stressful because you know that there are capital guys and you’re doing the same things then you put a while you can beat them um it just changes your perspective perspective on golf for sure well everybody has a story and the Haskins Award winner is the golf version of the Heisman award so his name was prestigious honor and uh pretty cool to say this guy started at Rutgers University and uh making his way to the highest credit you can get in the college race uh talk about what college was like for you and how It prepares you now better than ever I mean I mean you don’t personally have anything to compare it to but how we felt prepared getting up to the professional circuits yeah I mean when I started the Rutgers I sucked to be honest um and I didn’t really care about golf that much when I got there I knew I was all right and when I got there it was definitely humbled and put them in my place a little bit um and now I took it off pretty seriously it worked out pretty hard a lot of way to go out in good shape and then uh yeah and then um you know I started playing against better people’s better events and um I was actually in college and forever the other day which isn’t too far from noon uh we that was our last event at Rutgers before coven shut everything down and I actually tore a ligament in my hand that week um right before coven so it was cool to go back there and see because I was one of the darkest and lowest moments in my golf period and then go play there and have some fun and napling and you know the corn Fair event here this week so um but yeah chantelle’s question is um College wealth you know you’re playing against guys that you know more calories than college student two years ago and Scotty didn’t call it nothing long ago they’re fighting against these guys and then all of a sudden we moved into top five player in the world so if you’re beating them in College events and you’re probably against them in the same group there’s no reason why you know any of us couldn’t do that it’s just cast the right streak and then boom there you go I said um yeah that’s it’s it’s pretty cool you know we’re all playing for schools and stuff but um together it is basically a mini pro life but just everything’s paid for bicycle which is nice and you’re not paying the caddy yeah well I’m glad that you brought up some of the realities that you face and one thing I’d love to ask people say is um max Homer famously said hey Max home with fans in here I would obviously they love the guys that we have in the room but the rise to success he’s a perfect example of how you can kind of be spooked and if you look around you on the Range and he had a famous story of actually going back down after losing status to steer on the paging tour and had to go back into status student form Theory tour finals which is one ability to do that um and I’ll never forget the conversation I have with him and he’s now had this with other people saying I felt just out of place when we got beside Rory McIlroy like I looked up to her right now for it even though he’s only a few years older than me how am I supposed to play beside him and beat him I’m Starstruck by him like he’s that good and I’m still learning so tell us what that feels like when you’re getting out there and college prepares is better than ever the question said you better than ever but to just deal with the mindset that comes with it yeah I definitely think college prepares you a lot for that um you were actually there for one of the SE moments for me that was that moment um my freshman year at College like we played in the finals and asked to Championship I’ve never seen crowds before in my life like that and I remember walking up the hill and y’all’s Booth was right there about the putting green and it was calm on the range and then you just go up there and chaos and I I wasn’t ready for that in my mind I never seen it I’ve never felt it um and like in some of the guys that we played with that day by the time I was a senior in college I was born on PJ too and so I think you know once you start seeing them like he’s like Chris said when you start seeing these players and you know you’re playing with you know what their games are like when you start seeing them compete with guys when you’ve watched your whole life it starts to you know become a little bit more of a reality but then doing it is another thing for sure it’s so crazy to think about I mean can you imagine if we will never as pure morals be able to think about being in the shoes of these professionals that have to literally go from one extreme to the next from one level to the next and all the things that come with it I want to ask you about Dad life Jared because uh that’s a very real thing yeah I know you do and it’s so sweet it really is a traveling circus but but um Dad life kind of service being a parent being a spouse is so important how do you balance and navigate that you’ve had some years of practice now what would it take to get there I mean I like that joke um my wife and I joke around that we we made it through the first year of our marriage then we can make it through anything it was we just gotten freshly married uh then I went from being home for three or four weeks and gone a week to being home one week gone four weeks first part of the tour was down in South America and then Wi-Fi wasn’t working and I’m sure everybody in here know it remembers their you know first few years in marriage and how communication is kind of important right yeah that’s kind of a thing so we sucked at it and and fast forward to or this is our 10-year anniversary this year support and we enjoy it and uh yeah um oh there we go and uh so we’re loving it we’ve got a beautiful three and a half year old daughter uh just loving that and last year was really special uh rookie year on the PGA tour and they got to go to pretty much every event so it was fun for me to be done and see her uh running up on 18th green you know I was I was never in the final group but I was close in one minute but uh you know it was just fun after all the all the final rounds that ever come running up and see my wife there it just was fun to have that but as far as balancing you know on the road stuff because we’re I’ve been here since eight o’clock this morning um you know and that’s kind of typically how the days go out here you got here for a while some days some days you’re acting for half a day and so on but you’re trying to balance that you get out get out of the golf course where your adrenaline’s run at this level you get off and all you want to do is sit on the couch and do nothing and watch TV and your wife’s like all right that’s what are we gonna go do we got a free Avatar that doesn’t care what you just did and she’s pulling on your leg ones you’re gonna do stuff so I would have any other way it’s been the best uh and I absolutely love it now I think they will be here this weekend hopefully to run up on 18. uh with a trophy this time and said if there’s any congrats with playing [Applause] okay well while we’re on the topic how did you and your wife meet can you help me there you go all right yeah oh yeah that’s perfect um so I looked I’m from Louisville Kentucky she’s from uh just outside of Nashville from Clarksville and I did not need harmony for about two weeks didn’t match these people but nothing whatever he never sent me an email it says we recommend that you broaden your search for Verizon so apparently I’ve gone through all probably two million single women in Louisville and he said no so uh they took me down to Nashville and uh and she was she was my first date that was her first date honey Harmony uh we met in the middle of Bowling Green had a great time uh and honestly it was from the first date you know it was awesome [Music] qualifiers and out by one in 2021 yeah I was in a playoff s are you serious and then oh yeah and then last year he got to play I did yeah I mean just soaking in those moments you’re trying to play golf but there’s a lot of distractions going on with that one yeah for sure so the turn is at the course that I grew up playing which was really cool that the term I got moved there when I was like 17 so I hope that I could play in it one day my own course is kind of kind of a bit of a dream of mine um and yeah so right first year return parole lost my six hole playoff thought I was in uh didn’t so missed out on that bombed out and then the next year right after the first day to Q School this year walked off the last screen just relieved that I got through the first stage and then still got mountain to climb and got a call from the tournament director that they were going to give me a spot this year which you know like I said have a dream come true to play back at home and you know my whole family there and playing their own golf course it was it was really cool and I’m sure there’s a little insight of knowledge about to garnish from that so what were the crowds like from all over the state yeah we had a good crowd out there for sure you know it’s weird playing your own golf course yeah and a tour of that because you don’t realize how much different tournaments or so in your normal everyday brand so it felt like I’d never seen some of these I’ve never seen the greens that speed I’ve never seen a rough that time and I was like this doesn’t feel like falling in a hole [Applause] yeah this feels it’s tough but no it was really cool and I really hope to do it again you know it was it was a lot that Circle Chris you’re up next uh uh people are in a Sky swing speed and how many people in here are maybe doing a little something make it a little more appetite and I’m not quite as worried about my swing speed but maybe I should be um so what are you up to now that’s it yeah I don’t know I probably am like on the golf course probably like 125 and 130 range it’s just stupid I don’t know why it went well like buzzworthy discussion happening in the golf world have people heard about the USGA and the possibility of the ball being rolled back for 2026 or several ways away I could go on 20 different rabbit hole tangents about this however I like to hear just some brief summary or two cents on this yeah I mean for me um I think it’s smart in some sense I know the boat companies probably not too happy about it um but I think you know me being from the Northeast um all the old school courses are short-ish and kind of tucked in neighborhoods and all that you don’t need to hit it 330 yards for it to be tricky or hard um I think honestly I think the problem with some of the golf is that you know you build these eight thousand yard courses and they’re really not that fun to play um they’re kind of just hit it and gathered out and get it somewhere out there but you know when you’re playing in New York and you have 1600 yards and it’s the RS 6 800 yards that we’re playing because you have to hit in this spot of the Fairway I think it’s just kind of the golf courses and how they’re designed and you see all the old courses like Colonial and I’m trying to figure Pebble Beach holds up pretty good and all those old school courses have been around for 150 years they don’t seem to have any trouble when you know Gathering not hitting it that far so I don’t think the ball back is a huge deal um I’m sure some people aren’t happy about it but I think for me personally I don’t spend it a lot around the green so I’ll be happy about it easier um so yeah I think I mean obviously there’s something that has to be done you can’t keep going further and further without consequences um yeah I think it’s I mean I think it brings out more creativity of more Spin and um yeah I think you see some guys that you know maybe aren’t happy about it but you can’t make decisions and make everyone happy so um I don’t know what the right answer is but I don’t see an issue with it I’m going to make sure that uh uh full disclosure I mentioned I was outside of Valspar last week working for SiriusXM and every single person there must have been 12 minimum players I spoke to not a single one like this so you are the second person I’ve heard of Patrick Harrington is the only other guy who’s in favor of this but I mean you’ve got reasons to back it up what do you think about all this Wilson um I like the face to start I think that describes it I really don’t know I mean I can see both sides that’s I see a nightmare fuel for like equipment manufacturers and you know all that kind of jazz I mean they’re gonna have to start redoing how they do drivers they’re going to start having to redo the fall plants I mean yeah it’s gonna be chaos also where do you call a lead golfer do you say college offers your league you make them play the rollback ball there’s a lot of it just brings a lot of questions but the same token going 20 yards shorter I think it brings in a lot of cool golf courses that just can’t be played nowadays like my mind goes to like Chicago like Chicago Golf Club you can’t play it nowadays because these tour Pros will shoot 30 on here right but I say these two girls that’s weird but yeah they shoot 30 under and then they roll the ball back all of a sudden the course is at least playable you know the bunkers are not completely out of play so I can see both sides and I’m just glad I’m not the one making the decision to be honest yeah I think a lot of people think something needs to happen I’ve heard some conversation during the speak for example last week mentioned uh and this is a little too Niche for me going into the CC’s for actually manufacturing the clubs themselves and not touching the golf ball so there’s not a differential and to be fair at the professional level there is restrictions on how hot for example a driver can be so if they extended that further does that may be a possibility during something you can see happening I think it’s just it’s too much I also think it’s kind of opening the box of possibilities in the future that it needs things I’m not against something being done I just don’t know it’s a golf ball I think maybe the club could be changed a little bit there could be tighter testing on the driver but you mess with the golf ball you’re messing with a lot of stuff at that point and I think if you but if you take the we’re talking about one club that everybody’s up throwing out every certain organizations are upset about and it’s the driver don’t penalize the golf ball for everything so it has just not too sense with it but also grew up when when three when 320 CC’s or 300cc driver was like the biggest you know the cowboy big birthday came out yeah the Nike Sasquatch so as soon as as soon as like the the Big Bertha came out you know or the Warburton whoever was at that fairway wood that was ever um you know I remember those things came out like you know that I was still I was hitting you just as far then you know so I I but it just puts a premium on hitting the sweet spot I think you do that you have these courses like you have the the RBC at Valspar last week you don’t have 20 30 under money service I think um you know I don’t really need to take a volunteer like Joe would rather see us hit it 320 330 then you know what’s up at the uh or hitting it to 90 and seeing it you know kind of all out of the air and I’ll make a really cool noise but at the same point you know like to curse it to the model and and I’m I’m you know right like it’s just going to be now he’s hitting at 305 instead of 3 20. right so we still going to be long hitter it’s just gonna yeah I think it’s just a block yeah the relative just changes yeah just a lot so I mean I think I think something’s gonna be not I just don’t know what I don’t yeah I wondered myself uh teaching tours I’m very much in control of this and can choose some forces that force you into some positions and more dog legs and Tighter Fairways like what we see showcased at the Players Championship every year um you mentioned the Green Egg yeah so tell us that some of the things you like to make on that bad boy yeah so the Sanderson Farms tournament is talking about I just told you it was one of my favorite events last year late in the fall it’s an awesome golf course but they sometimes at the events they give us tea gifts and that that week they give a green egg it’s a green egg smoker it’s the best thing a funny story about my wife though we were at like a marriage conference and they said the question what’s one thing you take away from you know that you would take that your husband would throw down the trash that’s what I was going to say my old like all my old golf stuff is I’ve got a garage full of everything from all the years I was like you guys would have a bunch of eventually [Music] exactly so the greetings stays outside that’s why it doesn’t go go inside it stays outside I eat outside of um yeah Pizza I’m a huge pizza guy on the Green Egg I love it but even brisket chuck roast um you know chicken on its fine cooking steaks on it’s fine but really anything that’s low and slow on it is it makes me look way better at cooking nice okay I have an experiments a Bitcoin yet but I am all about uh yeah all right what are you making what are you picking up earlier that’s my issue because I’m my home little parents so they got it until I get into a place where I can use it but I’ve got to take some notes yeah switching the topics here uh putting I know you’ve experimented with all kinds of different things including bringing in the doctor so give us a good visual of what the Potter has looked like to get into where you’re at right now yeah that’s so the putter was the biggest struggle for me going through college and probably junior golf um I always struggled with the same thing and it was when I line the ball up it would be in the center of the hole I’d know it and then I’d stand over and it would look terrible it wouldn’t look like this point in the center of the hole and not just panicking this and then move along um and when I saw I went to see him he’s more of a vision training doctor I guess he was in vision for 20 years before he got into putting and so he’s essentially his concept behind putting is that when you’re driving down the interstate how do you drive you stare in front of you and you just show up there well if you stare three lanes right you’re gonna hit a car there’s no way around it well if you’re putting and you’re trying to hit something in a straight line and you’re staring in the third lane to the right you’re gonna miss you know it’s the same concept and I was staring you know in the trees to the right of the interstate I would just look that way look that way and hit and so as he’s shown me you know if you’re an athletic person and you’re never looking at what you’re trying to hit it at how do you ever expect to hit it there wow and so that’s really the core of what he’s working on with me and it’s something that for whatever reason you just never think of it I didn’t think all the fundamentals your grip the speed you name it and it’s just like no like you’re not looking you know your vision is just whack on putting it because you kind of bend over to the side of it and getting kind of awkward so that’s been more of what it isn’t for me and to be honest with you it’s made plenty a lot more fun you know I feel like I can just kind of React to what I see and um yeah it’s definitely brought out more of a creative side to it because I’m looking at it instead of just lining it up and trusting it I guess would be the way I did do it my my eye is alone I’m like where were you looking I mean I’m looking at the hole when I’m fighting but well it’s so it’s I guess the way to describe it for me is like on a 10-foot pod and it’s straight and this is the ball and that’s the whole the trace of my vision of my look would be like that okay so I would just work my way around well I’m trying to roll it right here while I’m looking up so kind of peak like that wow so yeah okay I’ve heard Adam Scott for example who does a lot of tinkering talk about uh himself experimenting with different color Putters is that something that even scored on I’ve never messed too much with that no I just knew that something looked wrong about what I was doing and that’s they’re all I read on the internet this guy was talking about it so I was like awesome yeah call 9-1-1 for The Pet Doctor that is impressive earlier Chris about the commercial that you were in with Tiger Woods did anybody see this this came out December right we did it in December I don’t know I don’t know when it’s I don’t even know if it’s energy I haven’t seen it but I’ve seen it it’s a Bridgestone commercial uh and there’s several different players involved in this Tiger Woods being one of them next season too Jason Fred and look at this guy named drop it okay so I mean yeah and none of us have been the commercial Tiger Woods can you share with the class what that’s like yeah I mean um it was cool it was uh that was the day after his tournament in the Bahamas um was it the hero stuff yeah um and we’re going to be there at seven and I got there whatever 6 50 on time um and uh he was there for an hour before me probably and he was ripping autographs and stuff and it was pretty cool to see that because he just handed the trophy to Victor you know 12 hours before that and he was already there in Florida um doing that but yeah everyone was really cool um we did a cool video of Us hidden singers and it was funny I think the guy asking us what we do and I was like oh yeah I do this this and he’s like oh no I’m doing everything the exact opposite I was like they know that’s not the best thing here in that town but I do like mine so I’m going to stick with of it but um yeah and he was just really cool he was you could tell why I I’ve never been around him um you know that close and personal and I figured out why he’s so good and why he’s won so many times and you know in a fun commercial shoot he was trying to beat everyone and everything we did and um it was it was pretty cool that is so cool hey engineer to interact with any of the other players on your day yeah so Jason and I play the same ball so we were doing all of our stuff together on the side and um and he was really cool and you know he was picking everyone’s brain and he it’s funny to see a guy like that who’s you know we’ve been to world number one and he was like whenever tiger was hitting he had his phone down taking videos of tiger hitting and like it’s just it’s funny to see a guy like that like fan on another guy yeah um but he was super cool and I was asking him a bunch of questions and he was asking me questions and um yeah it’s just a cool day tell us what the questions were well I mean I forget now but we were talking about you know I I’m my struggle with short game area and he’s obviously known for a short game child’s asking him questions and he would ask me stuff I do with my driver and we’re just being kind of nerding that a little bit but okay golf dudes yeah being golf guys um but yeah it’s just cool to meet those guys on a personal level and then you know and I talk with uh talk with him and Grandma and you know more just kind of um friendly which is cool yeah he is a good guy and yeah nicest guy ever oh my gosh Jason the day if you are not already a fan of him I mean you want to talk about it and something really good too right now he’s go I said he was going to win before a second date in April and we’re running out of time now so he’s got to kick things in here but uh he it is really cool to see how much of a golf key the former number one in the world is and I have a feeling he is going to continue to climb closer and closer to that top spot but this guy will have swing videos just his entire phone showing videos of himself anybody else he has an entire Barn built for all of his golf paraphernalities insane he has his own private range with some guy that man created for himself had his own house pretty pretty good and uh his oldest son Dash I think he’s like 10 or 11 now is like getting really into the game so just imagine uh two boys out there really loving it’s all at the level that they do it’s really really sweet to see um well we’ll end with this I’m curious before we get to the Q a here and open it up to the floor what is your favorite memory to date sort of a special memory uh as a professional uh that’s a good question I have a couple but I think for me um the second shot I hit at the U.S open on the second round to make the cut because I have my professional cut I made and for you to be at the US Open and I had who knows how many people I had there on the last hole I hit it to like two inches on the last hole and the place went kind of place went crazy and that was my first kind of you know welcome to the show moment so for me that job will always be special and I have my best friend kind of informative it was it was pretty awesome so cool I mean imagine having that as a memory gives me chills have it for you I guess Mom is literally a one mile down the road um at the final stage at Q school last year I had a six motor on the last hole and I was the 39th place in the top 40 guys at Vance and I just remember sitting over it looking at it and I was like well his left Rider and I just remember sitting there and I was like all right well if I missed this spot you know I can live with it missing High I like that and firm but I’m not gonna miss it love you and that’s pretty much all I told myself I couldn’t even feel my hands but I was like hell or high water this thing’s missing hot if it misses and it’s and sure enough it went in the left Center was playing with me and he like gave me a handshake and he’s like man that was so sick and I tried to say something nothing came out no words came out and so I’d say that was about as cool as it got for me yeah oh man and the way you tell the story too is equally as good you know she keeps you on the end of your seat well we’re on you for a minute uh I oh my how much I love coming to this property but just give us a taste of what it’s like you guys travel everywhere but arriving to themself and Athletic Club it is a really tight-knit community and especially you can feel the work when you get on the property what does it feel like from your perspective yeah it’s cool um outside the ropes it just seems like a really cool Community I mean it seems like a bunch of golf and just my girlfriend’s talking about it it seems like they probably all got their best friends out there and they’re just playing golf and having a great time man it’s tough to beat that inside the ropes bills you know some of those few School courses but a little tight yeah a little tricky um but no all the courses have been superb shaved I mean there are a lot of people play all these courses every day I mean it’s couldn’t ask for too much more it seems like there’s a bunch of them so they get a lot of variety so yeah so you know seems like pretty solid place to live there’s six golf courses I mean and I’m sure the weather’s pretty solid here so no doubt about it getting warmed up as if it goes on well going back to uh the question I asked the other two what would you say is the most special and your favorite moment as a professional yeah I wanted the Bahamas in 2020 on this tour uh and that was my first win on the corn parade tour like I said I’ve been at it for about at that point 10 years of trying to get to the PGA Tour and when I walked off that green or I guess more or less that night let’s say that night they started hitting me oh my gosh like I’m I’m almost on the PGA tour like I’ve won the second event of the year like I I’ve just got to play halfway decent golf on PGA Tour unfortunately covered hits we have to wait another year which is okay it’s great everything worked out great I won later in that year again so it’s all good we’re all good uh but that was awesome too I got to face town with my wife and daughter uh at that time she was you know barely barely sitting up in her chair and stuff so it was fun everybody’s crying we all had a great time that was that’s definitely group and I want to ask you this question too coming on to this property it definitely feels different so what do you think I think it’s awesome every time every time I come up here this is my third or fourth year playing it the golf course gets better every year the food I don’t know how it keeps getting better but it keeps getting better there’s a difficult is the player dying uh every year has been really good this is always one of our top five favorite tournaments we’re we’re Beyond grateful that you all let us come and play here and also that you all supported as much as you do believe it or not that’s not always the case and and we’re very thankful for that we don’t that doesn’t that doesn’t go over our heads we all appreciate it and the support you all have given us over the years uh you know pulled your golf carts up to watch uh I think’s been been one of the coolest things to see what you all do behind was at fob to grab the hole I mean that’s awesome yeah that’s so cool all right that’s so much fun did anybody here do they do they all do that did sit behind the home hey is this the course where the ladies are behind the greenhouse for one you guys are literally like five people talk about a few other places absolutely yeah it’s great um so you know again thank you all for that and this is we love coming here and I know we have some people in the audience who are hosting players and caddies for that fact and that shows your support in so many ways that is not an easy commitment yeah well it is really special and I want to follow up with this all Nation soccer is an initiative that you’re a part of uh and you started that earlier this year so tell people what this charitable mission is all about absolutely uh some of our friends I’m around in Jacksonville Florida now so just down the road not far away um some of our friends are missionaries and they have started a and he used to play Semi-Pro soccer started an all nations soccer and Jacksonville lives over probably over five four thousand refugees there from all different kind of countries all different backgrounds so they instead of going out of the states they decided to stay in Jacksonville and they had started a soccer league or they just basically they minister to uh to all the refugees they they support them with you know food clothes opportunity or even the ones that are still well off opportunity to play a sport that they are grew up in love they have people on there on those teams that could probably play for their country in a world cup all the way up to people like me that could go play I don’t but people like me that you know dads that just there’s a whole dad team we laugh about there’s a little dancing in that place we’re all uh and so you’ve got all levels and and it’s just a really cool thing we’ve been able to go to a bunch of the games so earlier in this year I partnered with them and for everybody that I make uh that I make I’m putting ten dollars in every equals 20. uh and then I’ll get people to match it for a series of events and so we’ve got some people for the first four events I’m gonna get some people for these two events that we have in a row and things like that and it’s an all nations soccer um if you guys have any questions ask me any uh as well but it’s a great organization they’re doing they’re doing stuff with uh you know about a thousand of almost a thousand refugees right now in Jacksonville wow well thank you for sharing that and thank you guys for letting me build you for a few minutes
