123 Professional Wins-Fairways of Life w Matt Adams-Tues March 5

Matt Adams is joined by World Golf Hall of Famer and 2x Major Champion Bernhard Langer. We’ll find out how his injury is healing and what he thinks about the state of golf today. Matty recaps a crazy weekend of golf with Austin Eckroat getting his 1st PGA Tour win, Joaquin Niemann winning again on the LIV Tour and Hannah Green draining a long putt in dramatic fashion to win on the LPGA Tour.

Welcome to the most listened to golf in the world the fairways of Life show on air online and around the world with the most candid interviews Unforgettable stories taking you beyond the ropes here’s your host New York Times bestselling author Matt Adams years and years from now Mr Palmer

What do you want the legacy of Arnold Palmer to be well uh I suppose that Justus and I have made a contribution to the game to help make it a little better is that not incredible what’s going on everybody welcome into the program Mt Adams here

With you Andrew and Dom are behind the glass so that is a tiny clip from an interview that we did with Mr Palmer ended up being sadly shortly before he passed away we think it was the last full long form interview that he ever did and we’re going to have more of it

Coming up for you but I just I love that piece because it showed the humility of the man who made such a major impact on the game and this week of course the Arnold Palmer Invitational where everybody will be at Bay Hill and rightfully so it will very much be about

The man himself in the golf course that he absolutely loved who play regularly is one of the most difficult on the PGA tour what a week of golf that it was behind us I had an absolute ball I was working for PJ Tour live for the cognizant classic in the Palm Beaches I

Thought it was great to see Austin ecro emerge Ascend to Victory another one of these young guns that has fulfilled the promise he did it in his 50th start can you imagine that in his 50th start he ends up winning on the PGA tour uh waen wins again we’re going to be

Talking about that as well and we will also be talking about the fact that he is apparently on his way to another major championship rex hogard on nbcsports.com with that report henna green wins she had a 27 foot birdie putt to secure her Victory on the LPGA Tour

And what I love about this photo is look at Andrea Lee cheering her on fist in the air cheering IR on with that Victory and before we went on the air Dom did you end up making this the question of the day or what did you what did you

Decide to do no I did it’s totally the question of the day it’s it needs to be the question of the day and it’s an interesting question which is should you cheer on your your playe partner should you be doing that and how do you guys feel

About that do you think that if you’re if you’re a professional Tour player and you see something extraordinary happen like Nick Dunlap had his first ever hole in one at the seventh at PGA National right first ever on the PGA tour and you know I saw his playing Partners giving

Him high fives low fives congratulating him that is that okay you know I I’m not I’m not saying it’s cheering but I remember seeing the video from the 1970 open when Doug Sanders missed that that putt that would have won the open of course then he went

Into the playoff the next day and got crushed by Jack Nicholas and you could see if you if you ever get a chance to see the video go on to YouTube look it up he spins Lee trino spins in the background away from it and when I saw

Him at St Andrews for the 150th open I asked Mr trino I said I got to start here with all the success you’ve had in the open multiple time open Champion back toback Etc but I got to ask you a question about 1970 because it took

Place in the property we were walking on I said I saw you spin away and he was like yeah he’s like Doug should have walked away Doug should have walked away and re set and step back in and hit the putt I don’t know whether that’s necessarily cheering on but it’s

Definitely reacting to something your opponent’s doing that’s not going to help you one way or the other so if you want to vote on the question of the day log on to the fairways of Life YouTube channel when you’re there make sure you subscribe so you’re part of our posting We post

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Are doing a tiger was named the recipient of the usga’s 2024 Bob Jones award so congratulations to Tiger Woods with the announcement of that I believe it was their annual meetings at the USGA we’re having this week now to this conversation about Arnold Palmer and this incredible impact

That Mr Palmer has had on the World of Golf check this out he was part of the inaugural World Golf Hall of Fame class 1974 95 professional wins 62 of which were on the PGA tour which still stands as fifth all time he won seven major championships he won the Masters four

Times he was a two-time open champion of course he won the US Open in 1960 that was at Cherry Hills he drove the first green he won the Bob Jones award in 1971 the old Thomas old Tom Morris award in 1983 PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 98 pay Stewart award in

2000 703 PGA Tour starts 155 top five finishes do the math on that one for a second 22% of the time he was in the top five and what’s amazing about that is when you realize that golfers don’t just retire at their Prime they continue to to

Play so if you if you took a stat like that and put it into winning years which his last win year was 1973 if memory serves and did it from the time he joined the turn tour in 1973 that percentage would be even more impressive is what I’m saying so in that interview

That we did with Mr Palmer I I love to talk to players about their background and their influences and their families and I asked him about the impact of his father Deacon who’s legendary because of and through his son too and Mr Palmer spoke about when he

Was a young kid and he was full of energy and conviction this is what he did in his father’s reaction was such here you go well I I was playing in a Junior tournament I was 16 and uh I was playing pretty good and I was playing the mayor

Of Pittsburgh’s son uh Vell and uh I missed a a short putt on the 17th hole and I turned and let the butterfly and over a row of trees and and my father was there and as it turned out I hold a putt on the last hole to

Win the match and I got in the car to go home with my family and it was dead silent there was not a sound and I expected something at least nice going or something the next thing I heard was the chewing out and and if you ever do

That again you’ll never play golf as long as you live in my house and that was my father talking and he was very serious did you ever throw a club again well maybe a little pitch but not real bad I I I that taught me a lesson is that corre great from Mr

Palmer so the interview just was was amazing because we were in this tiny little house that was that to the left of the 18th green uh at Bay Hill his beloved Bay Hill and I remember it’s a typical Florida day you know the Sunshine State and the

Sun was just beaming and this house was this little tiny house it had a galley kitchen you could tell where you where the dining table was was one time an outside porch you could see the slate stone and someone had enclosed it just to make give us a tiny

Bit more space in there for for whoever was one time living in this house and behind it was a little sitting room you could kind of see it uh Andrew could you go to the picture that you have Frozen up on our preview screen and you can see

That that room the space behind Mr Palmer there’s a clock back there and there’s there’s a little couch and chair and it’s a TV room that’s a that’s that’s a room behind him that’s not even the room that we’re in and it was a tiny little room in there it was maybe I’d

Guess 10x 10 6×6 something like like that it was small and we had a high back chair where Mr Palmer was sitting and other than that that was pretty much a house there may have been one other room one other bedroom but if there was it

Was it was Tiny and we could hear you know we were there early had the camera set up and all the rats just one camera Mr Palmer I didn’t want a camera on me at all it was just about him and we could hear the door jiggling and we knew

Someone was coming it was a little hallway that led down to the front door because the the way they had built the garage into the house uh into the framing of the house so the door opens and it’s Florida right so the Sun comes through beaming down this dark hallway l

A laser beam and we’re wondering it’s you know somebody helping Mr Palmer what have you and it was unmistakably his silhouette and he was coming down the hallway his his movement at this point his life was labored but none of us dared ask Mr Palm

If he need any help right and so he comes to the chair that highback chair I was telling you about and he kind of rumps down into it and and he’s sitting there and and and you know our team is starting to buzz around him with things that they

Need to do microphones and boom mics and lighting and all that and he’s he’s looking around like this and at the time I would venture to say that Mr Palmer was still probably making was at least making multiple millions of dollars a years in endorsements in his business ventures

I if I had to guess I would say probably 2030 million a year he could live any place he wanted whatever castle that he wanted for the king and he just was looking around and and he and his and he said to no one in particular in in a low voice

He said I used to live in this house and he said I’m thinking about moving back in again and it was just incredible and again it was a reflection of the humility of Arnold Palmer and obviously the lasting impact that he is left on the game of golf excited about the uh

API this week as to Austin eot in his victory he won his first PJ tour Victory as I mentioned in his 50th start he did it here you go 25 years one month and 21 days he is the fourth firsttime winner in nine events this season in the PGA

Tour of course the others Nick Dunlap at the American Express Matthew Express Matthew Pavone at the Farmers Insurance open Jake nap at the Mexico open uh at Vidant he moves from 94 to number 17 in the FedEx Cup and qualifies for this week’s API presented by MasterCard via

The Aon next 10 which I want to get into with you so you can see uh who’s qualified for those categories not only the next 10 But the A on swing five as well uh he did hold a one-stroke lead when play was suspended due to Darkness on Sunday and complete completed 11

Holes yesterday in that two under Mark of 67 to secure his victory becomes the youngest tour winner this season and youngest since ludvig oer 24 at the 2023 RSM classic uh he finished number three in the inaugural PJ tour university rankings in 2021 earning direct access on the corn fery tour after completing

His college career at Oklahoma State becoming the second PGA Tour University of Alum to win on the PGA Tour joning jonan oberg uh that point about him being the youngest as a tour member I think that the qu the qualification should be made there to add to the notes

That I have received he recorded four top 10 and 32 starts during his rookie season on tour last year his previous best finish was Tai for second at the CJ cup uh at Byron Nelson he improves to one for two when holding a 54o leader co-lead because of uh the A4 mention he

Led the field in total birdies with 23 very very impressive indeed okay so after he finished up he had a chance to address the media and the question that has to be asked his first PGA Tour win to do it in as few starts as he

Had how you feeling yeah I’m really not sure how I feel yet um haven’t really settled down um but just super excited and you know I’ve been waiting for this moment my whole life and I really uh don’t have a whole lot of words for it

Right now but super excited yeah I mean he’s the one that got me involved in the game My dad is and um he’s uh you know he’s been my swing instructor since um he might be I’m I’m the second most excited person in the world right now

He’s definitely the first um it’s just been you know we’re it’s been our Dream him his and I together since I was you know three is playing professional golf and winning on the PJ tour so it’s just a dream come true for both of us yeah

Yeah I think 15 with where the win Direction was and the number I had it wasn’t that uncomfortable um for me at that moment where the you know if I would have been struggling with my ball striking I think that would have been really but having to hit three wood

Today on 16 I didn’t really love the idea of that because I’d been hitting three iron all week and then the wind direction was different this morning it was into the wind so I felt like I needed hit three wood and that was just a little uncomfortable but um definitely

The shot on 17 17’s the most you know scariest t- shot I think of the year I mean I it’s a tough one you looked cool and calm throughout that stretch is that how you felt on the inside no no I was I was shaking my boots from the moment I

Got out here this morning so um yeah I just try to keep it calm to meanor I think I do pretty well that in in all aspects whenever I’m playing bad or good um but I definitely didn’t feel calm on the inside that’s for sure is that something you actively think about

Staying calm staying even ke your dad said you definitely don’t get that from him so uh is that something you’re actively working on on the golf course is just kind of something about your personality or it just comes natural no I think that’s just something about my personality just comes natural I’m that

Way in everyday life not just you know on the golf course is just pretty stok never too high never too low so um I think it’s a blessing in golf though really cool very very cool indeed congratulations to Austin ekro I had a chance to meet him a few years ago a

Couple years ago now at the college golf showcase which was held out at Scottdale National was put on by pxg really really good kid really really solid guy and delighted that he has had that Victory I want to hear from minwu Lee as well here Ty for second was Eric Van royan who

Finishes with that 63 which was incredible and then minwu Lee shoots that 67 but before we jump to him Dom let me jump back over to you and find out are you getting any comments back on the fairways of Life YouTube page and the question of the day which I’ll allow

You to to tell us what it is by your phrasing yeah the question of the day is is quite simp simple do do you should you should golfers cheer on their plane Partners Andrew put that picture back up of Andre Lee uh cheering on Hannah green

After she made that she basically made a 30-footer on the last hole to win the tournament and you can see her planing partner who’s clearly not going to win like yes way to go should should we be doing that right now it’s 81% are yes which is I gotta be honest kind of

Surprising I thought they’d be I thought I thought people would be a little bit more competitively angry about it but I guess not yeah but I mean at that point I don’t know what would have kept her from winning that event I I honestly don’t know she won by what five Strokes

So at that point that she makes a 27 plus foot putt to kind of put the the cherry on top of the Sunday why not why why can’t you be happy for someone else’s success Dom you don’t have to be so miserable well I mean you you you can but you know

A lifetime of playing and watching sports it’s just it just feels weird to me it just feel I mean you know you’re you’re in the NBA finals and you’re you know the guy your garden hits a three it’s like way to go man nice shot now we’re losing like what doesn’t make any

Sense to me just saying even that even that I’m wondering if uh if there isn’t some mumbling that you don’t hear that someone’s like hey nice basket you know whatever well I think there’s 81% disagree with I think there’s hold on I think there’s a difference between sportsmanship and

Cheering I guess I maybe I didn’t make that clear I do think there’s a there’s a divide there there’s a difference between being a you know a good Sportsman like hey you know way to go you guys beat us in the title game but we’ll get you next time you don’t think

Jack Nichol ever said nice putt to somebody I don’t necessarily think tiger did no comment fair enough all right so minwu Lee shot a final round 67 ends up in a tie for second I just think the the sky’s a limit for minwu Lee and this is

What he had to say afterwards reflecting on what just took place yeah really proud of the way I handled myself this week um obviously bad swing on um on six uh five on the when I made a double bogy on the par three which which stung I was

Off to a hot start there and um that kind of put me back so to finish like that and to start after the rain delay like that um really good moment and pat on the back and uh yeah looking forward to next couple events thinking about

That um you know my manager Brent you know signed me up for that yesterday and I saw it on the email I know he tried to do it on the low low but um I did see it you know come through the email saying

You know I was signed up for it just in case I do I think it was a sol3 um so I knew that before before last night uh that I needed to play like that and uh yeah it’s amazing I mean I was thinking about it coming down the stretch and um

Just obviously thinking about the win but um yeah it was really proud moment today all right so just before we run the break here Dom’s already yelling at me we need to take a break I I do want to take a look at the swing five and I

Do want to take a look at the next 10 because these are players that have earned their way into the signature event that’s going on this week the Arnold Palmer Invitational in the next 10 now the only thing I I think one of the things that they need to look at

With this is that if you’ve won you are going to be exempt into these Signature Events then I think that the next 10 should not include players who are already exempt into otherwise so you get a more players into it right it it gets more opportunities but there you could see

The next 10 the and the list of players that have secured their way into the Arnold Palmer Invitational this week and then there is also the Aon swing five and these players you can see Sammy valaki there you see Min Wu Le CT pen Steven Jager and Justin lower who was a

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Rules on already saying there’s a difference between sportsmanship and cheering for your opponent what’s the percentage now of people coming back going oh it’s okay it’s all right to tell somebody they did a nice job 84% are saying yes it’s okay to cheer on your playing partner and Cutthroat competitor that is Dominic

Scarano is dead set against it I wouldn’t say that I’m just saying I I don’t understand I I probably should I probably should have said something between sports manip and cheering because I do I really do believe those are two different things being a good sport you know you’re you’re playing a

Basketball and someone makes a really good shot over you it’s like a it’s a good shot man but if that shot was to win the game yeah no you’re not getting anything from me well what if the what if the opponent was already up by 30

Points what if you had no chance to win game you’re definitely not getting anything for me I mean that’s a hard pass there for me I don’t think I’m overly competitive I think I’m regular competitive I’m very regular what’s interesting with you Dom is you do your

Question of the day and it’s clear that you have a preset view of how it’s going to come back because when when I ask you like what’s going on you could tell immediately because you’re always like I can’t believe it I’m so surprised 84% of people 84% of people are decent and say

Yeah yeah it’s okay it’s all right there’s nothing WR 85% now by the way but yes5 no I do a preset I do I always I always type the question I’m like I know what the answer is to this question and then the answer is always something

Oftimes you don’t know what the answer is to that question all right so Gary Woodland to speaking of Feelgood stories which probably aggravates Dom I don’t know uh Gary Woodland was named the recipient of the Ben Hogan award by the golf writers association of America this

Year in his March back from his recent brain surgery now as to that LPGA Victory uh Hannah green was able to secure that Victory with that putt on the final hole it was over 27 feet long it secured her fourth win on the LPGA and when she got done she was explaining

To the assemble just how excited she is with what she had secured yeah um I knew that they moved the T forward on 17 so it wouldn’t be too tricky um on that hole but I knew that that was going to be a tough hole to make uh birdie but um

Even 18 I had six iron in so it wasn’t exactly a an easy PA but um I just I didn’t really hold many puts from long range today um until obviously the last couple holes but um I made a really good Birdie on 16 um was able to have a two

Part there kind of gave my first part a little bit too much um and then made a 5 footer for birdie so that was nice um I could then see the leaderboard on 17 green and made a PO there and then I knew I needed to at least 30 the last to

Win by one so so as soon as that part went in I was just like oh my god i’ I’ve won like I felt bad for the girls that had to putt after that but um yeah it just all went really really quickly um yeah it’s kind of hard not to see the

Leaderboards on this golf course um when they’re bright red and as big as they are um it’s hard not to see them and actually sometimes they’re actually the line that you want to take into the greens so I I usually look at leaderboards anyway so I’m not too

Concerned I kind of like to know myself um I don’t really know if it dictated my game plans as so much but um I just knew on the greens I needed to be aggressive and make sure I got the part past the hole um versus leaving them short but um

Yeah it was it looked like it could be anyone’s game come the back nine I’ve always loved coming to Singapore 20121 was my first year and I almost won the championship I three puted 17 and then three puted 18 to lose by one so it’s a

Place that I really enjoy coming to um you know the food is always amazing um the golf of course is great and we’ve been very fortunate today with the weather to hold up so um yeah it feels great to have this trophy um in my hands

I think you just have to enjoy the sport it can be one that doesn’t give you much success straight away um even though I’ve had four wins um on the LPGA I think this is now my 11th worldwide but um there’s so many hard moments in golf

Um you know Seline played amazing today but she didn’t end up having the trophy on her hands but she still should be really proud of herself um for how she performed under the pressure so you got to take these highs when they come because it it doesn’t always come and

Golf can be a lonely sport sometimes but I feel like that’s what um I’ve been really good about the last couple years is having the right people around me to support me and um there’s so many of us Aussies on tour now it’s nice that we get to travel together and um have

Dinner um just have good friendship while we’re out playing cuz some weeks can be longer than others for sure wow that was perfect because she basically answered the camaraderie that they have as competitors uh out on the road of the world now W Neiman has won again at the live

Event this funny because we were having this conversation the other day about picks for the Masters and and Dom had I think there were four players that I wasn’t allowed to pick from I said walking neeman’s my pick and then he had the next day remember it was like do you

Want to change your pick I don’t want to change my pick so he’s going to the Masters he’s already been granted a special invitation and Rex haard at nbcsports.com wrote this live golf’s Hae nigran special invite into the PGA Championship this is from the fourth he writes PGA of

America’s uh spokesperson confirmed that Liv Go’s walki Neiman has been granted a special invitation to play in this year’s PGA Championship the invitation was first reported by golfworks.com two weeks ago Augusta National granted the ch a special invitation to play in the Masters and the move by the PJ of

America to invite nean who qualified for the Open Championship bya his victory at the Australian Open December now means he’s qualified for three of this year’s four major championships the PJ of America normally invites players who are ranked inside the top 100 in the world to the year’s second major last year

Eight players from Liv golf which does not receive world ranking points were granted special invitations including number 131 Paul Casey nean Who currently ranked 72nd in the world has two victories in live golf this season including last week uh in Saudi Arabia the PGA Championship will be held May

16th to 19th at the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville Kentucky so after he finished up Wen had this reflection on the latest victory yeah it’s G me a lot of confident and I mean obviously having a good week is always positive did and I

Think I got to go back and yeah I mean get some rest look back into what I did this week the way I play the way I hit the ball and and what I can do better so uh I think that was one of the advice

I well not an advice but I I remember in myova I was with JN on the press conference and he was talking about it that when you when you win you you’re are so excited that you really you don’t really notice what you did well and

Didn’t do well so kind of makes some it make me so much sense what he said that I mean he he was right so I I think there is a lot of positive things that I got to take from this week obviously because of winning and and see what I

Can do better for next week and yeah it’s I mean like I said also in Mexico I would love to be on this situation but having the three other guys here next to me it would be a lot more fun congratulations to Bryson shambo’s team as you saw in the graphic uh wins

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Booty I know but the one that’s cheering for her was five shots behind Andrea it’s okay because that was a great part by Hannah green but anyway 87% of you currently are saying no it’s okay I am Absolut absolutely pumped for our next guest he’s a member of the World Golf

Hall of Fame in his career ready for this he has 123 professional victories 42 European tour wins that’s second all time 46 PGA Tour Champions wins first all time passing the unpassable hail Irwin that gives it away right that it’s Bernard Langer coming up a two-time Masters

Champion in 1985 and 1993 a member of 10 Ridder Cup teams with a record of 215 and six winning 24 po points overall 2004 European Rider Cup captain and that was a 18 and 1 half to n and a half victory that was against Hal Sutton

At Oakland Hills he was captain of the the USI obviously Bernard is 512 European tour starts 326 PGA Tour starts 341 PGA Tour champ ion starts and that’s 1,179 starts since he turned professional in 1972 this is a player that has won for decades and decades and decades it’s an

Honor it’s a pleasure to welcome burnhard Langer to the show so burnhard first let me start with how are you feeling how are you healing up good morning Matt I’m feeling great uh my surgery was four weeks ago and uh I’m doing very well everything is going

Going according to plan or even better so I’m excited to be um actually yesterday was the first time in four and a half weeks that I took some steps without holding on to anything no crutches no scooter and that that was pretty exciting so it it will be a process but

Uh I am very positive and uh enjoying my time at home I I have to tell you I don’t think anybody is or would be surprised to learn that you’re ahead of schedule on on your rehab may I ask you what happened how how did you get the

Injury I was playing pickle ball here at Woodfield Country Club where I live and um yeah I was very much warmed up we had already played an hour and a half and just uh somebody was trying to lob me and I took a couple of steps backward

Hit the ball and as I came down I heard a loud Pop I knew pretty much immediately what happened because I had seen it before a friend of mine was shooting hoops and when he landed on with his foot I heard this gunshot almost noise and and he had popped or

Torn his ailles I knew right away what it was and what what is the status now do you you mentioned that you were able to take a few steps are you wearing a boot or how does the healing process go so that you don’t provide any additional

Trauma or injury to the area right that’s a great question and uh it’s amazing how much uh they’ve learned over the years first of all I think my surgeon Dr hudkins did a great job here at Miami Baptist hospital and uh I was never in a cast I was only in a boot

Which is important because you can take the boot off I was doing rehab three days after surgery and uh we’re just progressing uh every every day every week we uh add more things we the the boot has an angle to it because they don’t want you toast up they want your

Toes down initially to put less stress on the Achilles and that degree of down is becoming less and less and less and I think this coming Friday my foot will or the boot will go to neutral which is basically you know what you have just standing normally and then I will make

Uh some or start exercises to get into a regular shoe soon and be able to walk and and stand without any any help I’m sure that you could appreciate burnhard the irony of you being injured because just you just seemed like the Iron Horse Forever on on tour but it takes me back

To a conversation that that you and I had some time ago where you explaining to us no no I this this I’ve had major injury before and if if I remember correctly it was when you were serving in the Army and I believe you went out for a

Run and you had a heavy pack on you want to share with the world what happened to that young burnhard Langer then yeah I didn’t go for for run I was in the boot camp the first 3 months uh I had to do 15 months of uh national

Service I was in the Air Force and that particular morning it was a January morning very cold and frost on the grounds uh and we were told to get our backpack together with certain things that weighed about 25 lbs and uh grab our rifle and we would be marching out

On the Frozen Fields all day long going through the countryside and then the guy in charge just said uh today one of our exercises is uh if a enemy airplane low flying enemy airplane is shooting machine gun bullets at you you throw yourself on the ground as quickly as you

Can so he showed us one time and he threw himself straight on the stomach uh which isn’t much fun when you have a backpack and a rifle so there’s no way to protect yourself to fall or throwing yourself down so initially I would throw myself sort of on the side and roll on

My stomach and uh about an hour into it he caught me and and said what’s your name I said Langer goes come here how did I tell you to do this so I had to do 20 extra make a long story short we did this hundreds of times during eight hour

Period of uh walking around the countryside basically and next morning I couldn’t get out of bed first they saw I was uh just lazy or or you know didn’t want to be part of the routine today and I said no I can’t move I was trying to

Move my foot uh to roll out of bed it wouldn’t move I was trying to move my arm it didn’t move it I was in excruciating pain so they finally realized that it was real and they sent an ambulance got me to the hospital and realized that I had a stress fracture in

My lower back L4 L5 and two bulging disc and this was I’m 19 years old so I played one year on tour and then I had to do military service and now I got this injury and I saw well I’m I’m done I’m never going to play professional golf again you can’t

Hit thousands of balls with a stress fracture and bulging discs and stuff and your lower back but after six weeks of being hospitalized I I came back did some rehab and eventually got better uh not having surgery so that was uh amazing and I did have many occasions

Dur my career when that lower back acted up till I met um a doctor in a proam at the uh Munich tournament on the European tour and he said I can probably help you and he did he gave me couple of injections that created scar tissue to strengthen the uh worn out

Ligaments and Ever from that point on I’ve hardly ever had back problems and this is 25 30 years ago now so I was very fortunate to run into the right guy at the right time absolutely fascinating there there was another sad irony with with your most recent injury

And surgery too of course and that relates to the Masters uh this was going to be a grand year for you uh burnhard and now of course you are laid up surely you’ll be there for the dinner uh on on Tuesday night but I’m just curious about

Where your heart where your mind where your emotions are now with with what took place and how that impacts your plans you know I I as I said I’m a very positive guy I look at the bright side of of life and uh I will be just blessed

To be at the Masters be part of the dinner and uh visit with some of my sponsors uh hang out with my family and just enjoy the tournament from a different uh point of view where you don’t actually hit a shot uh but still takeing take it in soak it in so that’s

That’s the good thing I should be able to walk at that point in time but not be able to play a Prof uh with competitive golf I should be able to Chip and Putt and hit a few balls but but I wouldn’t be ready so um that’s that’s the goal uh

I also plan to do my play my last European Tour event uh in Munich I grew up in the near Munich this is about an hour away from where I grew up uh that’s going to be in I believe end of June or July so I should be able to do that uh

To basically say my farewell to the European tour uh the regular tour I might still play a few senior events over there and so it it was a big year I’m also exempt into the US Open at pineer uh by the way of winning the US Senior Open last year and that’s still

Questionable whether I’m going to be participating or not so um we will do the best of it but I’m you know the goal is to heal up 100% and then come back whenever I’m ready and still enjoy a few more years on the champions tour which

Is a great place to play golf I hope you do enjoy those years because when you enjoy those years we enjoy getting to see you play more with the legend that is burnhard Langer right after this I guess hello world huh and with one subtle hello tiger began an amazing and unth thinkable

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To do or want to do you can’t work out you can’t practice you can’t play you’ve got to just chill you’ve got to let your body heal so I’m curious where your mind goes when you think back on your own career is it recently eclipsing hail

Irwin with what you did on the Champs tour which is just mindblowing with the 46 victories is it something else in your story career but when you have a moment which you were forced to do where you can reflect where’s your mind going yeah it’s a another great question

Matt it’s actually the second time I’ve been laid off I had some surgery in 2011 that took literally 8 months till it was painfree so this will hopefully not take quite that long so and then we had where we were shut down so it’s it’s not

The very first time and uh but I do reflect on you know the last 50 years as a professional golfer for me and uh it’s been an incredible blessing it’s been a great Challenge from a coming from C from a country like Germany where golf is nothing nobody knows much about golf

Or or didn’t 50 years ago when I said I’m a professional golf they thought I was playing PPT you know miniature golf people had no idea it’s changed a little bit now so it’s very very fortunate very blessed as and as I look back uh what

Strikes me the most is uh certain things have happened in my life where the right people came in to the right time to encourage me to guide me and to me this is not a coincidence it’s all God ordained uh because too many of those things have happened uh and so I’m

Extremely blessed and sometimes people ask me you know what’s what are the the best victories or the most meaningful and you know everybody thinks it’s the Masters and it’s it’s the big the big major championships and and yes they’re important but sometimes to me you know

My very first tournament I won as a 17-year-old may be just as important or winning the father Sun tournament five times means a great deal to me because I’m out there with my sons and my daughters uh you know competing with other Legends in the game and and so

Many other things that have happened in my life U so it’s it’s been an amazing ride and uh truly blessed to end up you know Marrying an American and to live in this great country of uh the USA uh living down here in South Florida where

The weather is normal and get get to play golf every day if you want pretty much uh it it’s been such such an amazing thing for me to enjoy and to meet all these great uh people on the on the golf circuit uh because I’m a strong

Believer that golf teaches you to be humbled golf teaches you to be honest and uh many other great things so I’m excited for the first tea program because these young people learn a lot of great things uh that are very helpful for for their whole life indeed we only have a couple

Minutes left here but you described yourself as a positive person multiple times today what do you feel about the state of the game I realize you don’t have a lot of time to answer this but what do you feel about where the the game is right now and what’s the positive spin on

That yeah it’s uh positive The only positive I see is the professionals are making a lot more money uh I don’t see a lot of other positive things at this point in time but I’m not really too involved I’m not on the committees or the boards that

Make all the decisions but I don’t think LIF golf uh was great for the game of golf it’s not really here to unite the game or or make it that much better that’s my point of view it costs a lot of division and friction as I said the

Only good thing that came out of it the guys that play on the LIF tour and the top guys on the PJ tour make a lot more money than they did two or three years ago all right before we say goodbye to you and thank you for your time today

Burnhard let’s uh ask you about your sponsors so we have an opportunity to say thank you to them in the minute we have left yeah so I’m very grateful for all the the people that have supported me for many many years especially Mercedes and Burber and tour Ed uh and uslbm and

Uh you know there there have been many many others I’m going to forget a few probably but uh very grateful met some wonderful people in prams that led to more and uh we have great relationships with Rolex for instance and uh several others so um you know look forward to uh

Extending those relationships and have some good times together well looking forward to seeing you down the road at Augusta and we wish you the very very best in your continue healing and thank you very much for your time my pleasure thanks Matt all the best it was good to

See you okay Dom this is your opportunity let’s find out what the people had to say to the big question of the day is it okay to cheer for your opponent in sports I I paraphrase it but I know you you you actually asked the question slightly differently

Yes I did is should golfers cheer for their playing partners and right now the answers are coming in I think officially it’s at 85% I think I affected those numbers I feel like people are voting against me right now well yes I think there’s a difference I think there’s a difference between

Sportsmanship and cheering I really believe that you know if you’re if if if your opponent drains if your opponent makes a hole in one that’s great it’s a big moment but if they made a hole in one to beat you no thank you not getting high five from

Me there you go that coming from Dom so coming up this week it is the Arnold Palmer Invitational week and don’t forget that the clips that we were showing you of Mr Palmer in the interview that we did with him uh you can find that on our Fairways of Life

YouTube channel if you want to watch the whole interview we do hope to feature the entire interview this week uh we’ll let you know because we still have more Hall of Fame members coming up and what you may find of Interest here not just Hall of Fame members in the world of

Golf but those who’ve come from other sports that are very much impacting the game of golf right now thank thank you so much for your company folks always a pleasure to spend part of the day with you we’ll be back with you again tomorrow until then goodbye for now