Devastated Justin Lower after losing his playing rights in PGA Tour

Emotional interview with Justin Lower after missed the cut in RSM Classic PGA Tour.

know when you’re ready. All good. Justin um gave it a run a little short of the cut line. How would you describe kind of what’s going through your mind right now? Um I don’t know. I’m just pretty pissed off to be honest. I don’t really have anything else to say. Anything I seem to say or anytime I speak my mind, people tend to not like it. So, I’m just not going to say a whole lot. There’s a whole lot I could say about the changes and everything, but obviously in the situation I’m in, I feel threatened by that, which I totally get. I totally get the need for these changes. Do I agree with them? No. I don’t think our product is that bad to where we have to blow everything up, which is what it seemed like. But obviously, I had a shitty year. I mean, I missed a lot of cuts. I missed a lot of cuts by shot. I shot 27 over at the US Open for two days. Like, did I have my best stuff this year? Absolutely not. But I worked my ass off this fall. And to come up this short, it sucks. Like, did I need like an awesome weekend, like an awesome day, an awesome weekend to absolutely have a chance at top 100? Yeah, I did. I think I needed to finish solo seventh for everything. I I mean, that’s to get a top 10 just like that. I mean, that’s unless you’re Scotty or Tiger or one of the really really good players, like it just doesn’t happen just like that. So, and I mean I played okay for the past couple days. My putting has been shitty all year, but it just it just really sucks the situation that I’m in and the situation other guys are in. And it I just I don’t like the direction the tour is going, but and not to try to make anything put put you in any sort of but you know we’ve you’ve been pretty open about your journey and you’ve been on these lines. Um how do you describe like battling the cut line in a situation like this? Like what is kind what kind of goes on on the inside down the stretch as you’re kind of fighting that fighting yourself fighting what it means? I mean it just it’s why we all play. We all want to be out here every week. As much as we complain about being out here every week, as much as we complain about the weather, as much as we complain about the travel, charters, whatever it is we complain about, we still want to be out here playing. Like, that’s all it is. That’s all I want to do is be out here playing. I My life is about to change dramatically in about like three, four months. I have twins on the way. I have no idea what to expect. So, I’m that’s really all I’m thinking about right now along with how I can improve in the game of golf and how I can prolong my career, but I’m as far as I don’t know what the future holds for me. So, we’ll see. I don’t think anyone knows what the categories will be like next year. I mean, they can give projections all they want, but you have no idea what’s going to happen. So, um hopefully I just get to take advantage of the starts when I get them. So, and lastly, um, you know, earlier in your career was no given that you would make it out here. 100%. Like I am I went to an NIA school. I lost my dad and brother when I was 15. for more for me to get four years out here. I don’t know what to say really. I mean, I love it out here. Do I love it out here? I love everyone out here. I love everyone involved with the tour. Are there some people that piss me off? Yes, absolutely there are. Are there some things that piss me off? Yes, there are. I’m human. I don’t know. I don’t know what else to do. But I am just so mad right now. Like if I could have just somehow turned it around this year, but I obviously couldn’t. And this game is just really hard and I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to say. I’m just I need to figure out how to get better. So, thank you. Yeah.