Fairways of Life is joined by Trevor Cone, a PGA Tour Player who first joined the Tour in 2023. Since then, Trevor has be grinding to improve his game and the results from the World Wide Technology Championship (Tied for 4th) show that his effort has been paying off.
Trevor Conn is our guest. His best finish of the season at the Worldwide Technologies Championship with a tie for fourth. He moved up from 179th to 156 in points. Now, we’ve been focusing a lot on the fact that the number went from 125 to 100 to keep your card for 2026, but the number from 100 to 125 is still important because that can give you conditional status on the PGA tour. Uh, two Cornferry Tour wins to Trevor’s credit. 54 PGA Tour starts he’s had as well and 122 career starts in the corn ferry tour. All said and done. Thanking Trevor for his time right now. What’s going on, Trevor? I take it you’re in Bermuda right now. I am. The uh the folks in the media center were nice enough to let me sit down for a second, but um yeah, happy to be on. Cool, man. Um the big question when you have a finish like you had last week, a tie for fourth in that field. Did you find something? Was it something that was coming on that you’ve been working on for a while? What happened? No, I mean I think it’s just a culmination of a lot of things. Uh my team, my caddy, and my coach, uh we’ve really been working hard pretty much all year. I mean, obviously the results weren’t there in the beginning of the year, but um we’ve just been sticking to the same process and and the letting the results come. Um luckily the past couple months it’s been it’s been pretty good. Uh starting around like 3 a.m. I want to say. Um, so I’ve been on kind of growing to this moment and uh hopefully finish off the year strong. But no, I mean last week great golf course for me just wide fairways and and hit the ball straight and pretty long so I have a little bit of advantage there and just I made a lot of putts. So just try and keep the putter hot the next couple weeks really. It’s interesting Trevor because you hear great players like Rory Moy will talk about confidence. He’ll use the word confidence and a certain shot gave him confidence, a certain round gave him confidence, a certain week gave him confidence. So, you’re talking about one of the top players in the game constantly referring to confidence gained in certain circumstances. How important is that to you? How much is that the 15th club in your bag in terms of feeling confident like you mentioned with a hot putter or confident with the way that you’re striking the ball long and straight? Yeah, I mean I think confidence is just as big of a key as everyone says. Um I mean I think everyone out here knows that they have the game that’s good enough. Uh even if they don’t have the confidence, but it just goes to show when you do get that to that next level of of gaining a little bit of confidence and seeing a few results, you uh you really gain a lot from it. And uh I’d like to see that going forward the next couple weeks. Yeah. I mean, I guess the bigger question to that too would be when you’re not getting, say, early in a season where you’re not necessarily having the performances that you expected or that you wanted and you knew that you were putting yourself in position for an uphill battle. How do you carry yourself through that? Is that also a default to your team? But where do you find the mental and emotional fortitude to go, I know what I’m doing. I can do this. I just have to be patient to let it happen. Yeah. I mean, I’d be lying if I said uh it was all all easy, but my coach uh really tried to reiterate after I’d say Tori um that it’s a long season and you you never realize how long it is. Like if I look back now, Tori seems like ages ago um with as many events as we play. But um and I wouldn’t say I necessarily believed him at the time, but now that I look back, I you really do have to focus on the long-term goals and and not get stuck in, oh, I had a rough week this week or a rough week next week. Uh you really just have to stick to your process and and keep doing the things that you know work and uh just stick to your stick to your methods really. I mean, there’s not much else to it. Just eventually, you know, the results are going to come. What about now, Trevor? You are, as we just mentioned, 156. Uh, with a performance like you had last week, you can get yourself inside of 125 for that conditional status we’re talking about and maybe something wild, which we hope for you. Uh, you might be able to get yourself inside of that top 100 and or be exempt at least with the with the tournaments that are left. What are your thoughts? What are your hopes? uh what do you see moving forward in terms of and where are you meant from a mental standpoint in saying yeah I’m going to I’m going to let it all go in the next couple weeks. Uh yeah, I mean it’s hard to to really think about it in terms of of like trying to get inside top 100. I you out here I think when you start thinking about points and where you are in the FedEx Cup it it doesn’t do you any good. Um, I mean, at this point, late late in this stage, you you have to, unfortunately, but, um, I I like where we’re at and I like these next two golf courses for my game. Um, and I think me and my caddy have got a good thing going. So, just trying to keep doing the things we know work and and, uh, I really like where my games at, especially going into this week. Um, it’s been a while since I’ve had a good finish and building off that and like you said, confidence is key and I think golf becomes a lot a lot easier when you have a lot of uh pep in your step. Awesome. Sponsors of course are important particularly for players such as yourself that’s making the march at this stage in your career. Do you want to share with us who you’ve aligned yourself with? I guess so we can use this form to say thank you to them too. Yeah, for sure. Uh you can see I’m trying to keep them visible, but uh I have a couple of VT sponsors uh from Virginia Tech. Triumph is the NIL affiliate for Virginia Tech. So they’ve been nice enough to uh extend a hand. And uh Jana King, a local franchise back home in Charlotte that’s been generous to me for a number of years now. And uh High Lane is also a local Charlotte Virginia Tech grad. So yeah, huge thanks to them. and and obviously Fjoy and Titus for all the help that they give. Without those guys, it wouldn’t be possible for for us to be out here doing what we love to do. Do you have someone that you look at in the world of sport or particularly in the world of golf that you consider your hero that you can kind of look at at times like this where you know you’re on a charge over the next few days, which we wish you the very very best with obviously, but you can look at it and go, you know what, that person’s my inspiration. They did it. So can I. Uh, I mean there’s I get a lot of uh a lot of correlation to Lucas Glover and I was lucky enough to play with him uh the final round of Barberolaw a few years ago and he he’s a great guy, one of the better guys out here and um I kind of looked up to him when I first got out here and and we have similar games so it’s it was nice to pick his brain about a couple things and I’m not sure hero is the right word but yeah, one of the guys I look up to for sure. Well, what would your message be then? You’re on a stage that inspires. You’re you’re in the world of entertainment as much as you are in the world of professional sports. For people that are hoping to achieve the goal in their life to make it inside the number of their life to make sure they can carry on in their pursuit, what would your message be for those people out there? Uh, I mean, based on my experience, I think the the biggest thing is just to stick to your stick to your guns and stick to your process. if you uh belief goes a long way and uh I think Ted Lasso was right about that one. So uh just keep doing what you’re doing, keep putting in the hard work and uh a lot of things are earned in this life and not necessarily given. So uh good things come to those those who wait. Trevor, we love your perspective. We love how chill you are about what’s uh in front of you and how much you feel that you are ready for it. And as I mentioned, we do wish you the very very best. All all success may you have. Thanks, Matt.
