Peter Malnati ends an 8+ year drought and captures the Valspar Championship. Jimmy Stanger returns to Tampa for the Valspar Championship with memories of attending as a child on his mind. Scott Stallings plays a round of golf with Chicago Cubs catcher Yan Gomes and takes batting practice at Cubs spring training.
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it’s like for me beating the Sun up
every day is like a first Victory also
spend a lot more time looking at Clouds
now than I used to like that’s a frontal
passage
like
total
nerd welcome to PGA Tour the cut
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Pro first on the te from Las Vegas
Nevada Maverick
mcney age 28 Stanford Alum good college
career good amateur career a lot of
Promise as he came out on tour and last
year missed a significant chunk of the
season with a left shoulder injury able
to work his way
back I wasn’t really having a ton of fun
out there it’s really it’s a hard game
they’re really really good players and
when you’re not at your best and your
body’s not doing what you wanted to do
is it’s really hard to compete with
those
guys and uh that’s when I took a look at
how things were going and and was really
honest with myself and said okay my
goals are in January at Sony Open I want
to be fully healthy I want to have a
golf swing that doesn’t hurt me I want
to have full status and I want to be
just excited to go out and play golf so
this summer has been different cuz I’ve
had a limited ball count but the most
important thing I do is hitting balls
I’ve been doing some pretty I’ve been
making some pretty significant swing
changes because I think a few movements
in my swing were what caused the injury
in the first
place when I warm up especially now I’m
really just focusing on kind of moving
my upper body the proper
way I had a tear in the anterior
ligament of the SC joint that’s the
joint that connects your sternum and
your collar bone so right here um and so
when that would get irritated my trap
and neck would lock up would pull my
first rib out of position which would
cause impingement under my collar bone
and with the first and second ribs so
every time I would get to impact and the
way I was swinging I created a lot of
compression here it just didn’t feel
good and so what really feels nice is
when I get my left shoulder what feels
like working down which just isn’t
working way up um and and kind of having
a a longer right arm Butch has always
been on me to feel like I’ve got a long
right arm and high right shoulder
through impact cover the ball that way
and you know Scott Hamilton is saying
that you know it doesn’t hurt when at
impact I’m more open than I am tilted so
I’m really just trying to feel that way
and that opens up and loosens everything
in there and um it feels good it’s just
when I get here I really want to go this
way so I have to really tell myself to
do the
opposite 170 so we’re sneaking up on it
swinging a golf club was an important
part of the recovery process uh I would
go to the range for 10 minutes and just
move a golf club so I had a PRP
injection in my SC joint which really
aggravated and and annoyed everything in
there for a while but it was important
to get that joint moving in the way that
I wanted it to move so that it healed
ready to take on the stresses of a golf
swing that one was nice 140 let’s
go I just started taking flying lessons
in my free time when I’m not practicing
like the typical week I’ll practice 7
days a week and then four days a week
I’ll be in the gym and the other three
days I would uh go fly so that’s kind of
how I’ve gotten through my pilot’s
license and uh obviously now with this
break I’ve had a little bit more time to
uh pursue my instrument rating sooner
than I anticipated but it’s been fun I
love it Sky condition few
6,000 5 100 temperature 2 6 Celsius I
love the studying and the and the
learning aspect of it I love the flying
aspect I love the the focus so what I’m
doing right now is because we’re in
Henderson which is really close to the
uh Las Vegas McCarron airport uh we have
all of these called airspace shelves
like this one right here goes from 4,000
ft to 10,000 ft for what it’s worth a
lot of my coaches going back to my
college coaches have always had an
action item for me on my year-end review
of you know what are you what are you
passionate about outside of golf what do
you do outside of golf and I go well I
golf all day I work out I cook
food go to bed and it was just kind of
that and uh and flying in aviation is is
definitely the one thing that is stuck
and that I’m really passionate about and
it it is an escape from
golf this is uh 100 low Le fuel so I’m
looking for that light blue color
anything that smells like kerosene that
could be jet fuel which is really
dangerous cuz you’ll fire up and start
flying but then the engine will die
so again looking to make sure that it’s
the right type of fuel it’s uh does not
have water in it and it doesn’t have a
bunch of particulate in
it all
right all right I’m all good um yeah you
can pass me that door thank
you all right
clear here is 426 Bravo golf Henderson
Tower make a left downwind departure
Southwest bound Runway 35 left cleared
for
take power
set engine
green speed
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alove 90 safe alude flaps up 5 mil West
Northwest 3,100 patol West it’s
something I take seriously because I
don’t want to be average in an airplane
you want to be really good when you’re
in a box in the sky but I absolutely
love it it’s so fun to fly I have so
much fun out here planes are so safe and
reliable yeah I liked school when I was
in school but I love studying airplane
stuff and Aviation and I you know people
say youve got the aviation bug and I I
definitely have it we’re right near the
Henderson Airport it’s very quick flight
and uh at all in we’re pretty lucky to
have such a great practice area right
here there we go feeling some positive
G’s two G’s right there in the bank this
plane is rated for 3.8 so we are just
fine traffic Hotel
around in a steep turn this is important
for sometimes terrain or traffic
avoidance but just general airplane
control good instrument scan be able to
manage a bunch of things so that is a
steep
turn right
down
watch here we
go touchdown flaps up aerodynamic
breaking here we
gol like to Echo turn left Echo contact
around have a good
day okay it’s been really fun over the
last year to keep training and working
and you know really the reason I love
flying is the reason why I love golf is
because you’re always learning and
there’s always room for improvement and
it’s one of those things where the more
you learn the more you realize you don’t
know so I’m really excited to take this
instrument check ride because that opens
up a whole new uh way of flying and um
it’s it’s just fun I love it every time
I uh I get in the airplane it’s a high
and I I don’t think about anything else
practice area solo recorded and we are
good Jimmy Stanger lives in the
northeast Florida area here good to see
him playing well make the cut one of the
22 first
timers I moved up here in 2021 with the
desire to be around PJ tour Pros playing
PJ Tour golf course and to see how my
game Stacks up against them to see maybe
that will get me to the next level
hoping that one day I’d be driving to
the golf course to play in The Players
grew up in the Tampa area wonderful
Junior player played at the University
of Virginia finally out on tour after
about 6 years on the corn fairy
tour players is a home event just living
here and going to church here meetting
my fiance here and and all that Tampa’s
where I grew up Tampa’s my home could
not be a bigger Tampa Bay Buccaneers
raised lightning fan so to be able to go
home and play in the PGA Tour event in
Tampa that I grew up attending extra
special in in so many ways my dad took
me out there when I was uh 6 Seven 8
years old I loved following guys who
were really really good players that
weren’t necessarily big names so Luke
Donald comes to mind would always play
every year out there Jason gay would
play a couple times Ernie retif John
Houston won it back in the day and loved
watching him play
golf I remember thinking I can’t imagine
how a professional golfer is hitting
shots with these many people watching
and then performing that well in the
conditions that PJ tour makes golf
courses
I’ve done it at bbar as a sponsor
exemption back in 17 and 18 but this
time I get to do it as a PJ tour member
so instead of being an outsider I’ve
earned my way into it and that that
makes it in in a way even more special
than before while making his third start
at the valpar championship and first
with his tour card the memory of Jimmy
stanger’s childhood best friend remains
with him as it does during every round
of golf that he plays Harris would be
out there vpar volunteering with me too
so we had some memories out there
together we lived a block away from each
other played golf every day I remember
he was chipping on the golf course and
just didn’t feel right went in found a
tumor kind of on his top end of his
spinal cord lower end of his brain and
it was pinching a nerve kind of down his
left side of his left arm about a year
and a half later after fighting it he
passed away and made a huge impact on me
I was 13 years old at the time and I
realized quickly that this world’s a
whole lot more than just about Golf and
that life can come at you fast like it
did for Harris but I also saw the impact
that Harris’s story had on others
sometimes when I make birdie putts I
point to the sky thanking the good Lord
and thanking thanking him for helping
that putt go in I marked my golf balls
with ha just to honor him started doing
that whenever he came down with cancer
and haven’t stopped even my wedges have
pray strong and Romans 12:12 be joyful
in Hope patient Affliction and faithful
in
prayer those were the the words that we
clung to in that time I’ll never forget
those
things in addition to carrying on the
memory of Harris Stanger strives to make
an impact on his community by founding
birdies for Hope which raises money for
every birdie he makes on the course
Stanger rolls in another one yeah wow
birdies for hope it’s blown me away how
kind people have been how generous
they’ve been to donate wanting to get
involved it’s special for me to know
that golf is doing more than just
promoting myself but hopefully when I’m
playing well when I’m making birdies
that we’re hoping to helping to impact
other people it’s amazing that get put a
little white golf ball in the hole can
help impact those things for the
better it’s been one of the wackiest
Sundays we’ve ever seen and in the end
it looks like it’s going to be the guy
with a rumpled bucket hat and the yellow
golf
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ball he’s never played in the Masters in
fact Peter Mady who’s been out here for
a decade has played in only three
Majors that
is going to
change that was almost the finish the
kind of finish you dream
of for the first time since the
2015 Sanderson Farms Championship Peter
Mady enjoys his day back in the winner
circle that moment of winning a
tournament and having your family come
out on the green and the big hugs not
that’s something that I’ve seen other
families have and that’s been my dream
you know there’s
been a lot of stretches of golf in the
last nine years when wondered if I would
ever have that that experience and I’m
at peace with who I am and the way I
live and the work that I put into this
if I had never had the moment I had
today I would have been completely
fine but man was that special melot’s
second career win places him just six
spots outside of the Comcast business
tour top 10 and AIDS in his quest to
finish the season inside the top 10 for
the first time really validating for
just all the hard work all the times
I’ve gotten on that plane and flown away
from my family when they’ve stayed home
it was all preparing for that moment
it’s sinking in now but it still feels
completely
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done third shot 63
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yds yeah well done
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hey guys Scott Stallings here from the
PGA tour with some buddies of mine from
the Cubs we got a random Brewer here as
well my buddy Yan we trained together
back here in Knoxville out here TPC
Champions show them a little bit of my
world and then kind of go back uh this
afternoon and I can see a little bit of
their
world Co him up dude why does that sound
like a wet
newspaper get done tiger twirl I mean
Drew ball that’s what the center the
club face one of I knew was going to do
that I feel like even my finish look
like a pro huh when is the last time you
played
um confessional uh about month and a
half
ago if it counts that I played in Wade’s
simulator oh then less than a month and
a half ago that was Wade was telling me
that his he was raiding his handicap off
of how he play simulator yes and the
thing about the simulator you can delete
your shot and then shoot again and you
just keep getting your low score the
screen of Lies where you have to take
your glove off to putt like and then
people make fun of you if you don’t take
your glove off to putt yeah no don’t be
that guy you got to keep it on the whole
time leave it on just leave it on yeah
no just keep it on the whole time now I
got to take it off and then put it
exactly how I wanted it again
and is the base coach guy going to be
there today oh yeah will he chill yeah
oh yeah he’s got to be there hey where
am I putting here I would just put
toward the hole Wade was my partner
yesterday and he played awful now he’s
showing his true capability oh well
that’s about the
same all the same he does it he does it
for a living never
doubt you didn’t play like this at all
yesterday sorry sorry about
that
what what is happening I need to take
more months
off left arm straight right arm
underneath turn no all kind of stuff
this is where you blur everything when
to like don’t mess up any kids that are
watching
this and that ain’t
good wait are you going to make a birdie
yeah probably soon don’t let me play
from the red teas you’re putting for a
birdie bag it bag it
bagot he’s taking
it good eye contact yeah look look look
everybody in the eye that was the easy
part maybe not for them but definitely
for me so we’re going to go to the Cubs
facility and you we’ll see what
happens
for the third time in his last seven PGA
Tour starts Tony fenal is a winner I’ve
always had belief but the confidence
when you win was contagious I’ve worked
extremely hard on my body and on my game
and now I’m starting to Bear the fruits
of that labor it feels amazing Tony feno
returns to Houston seeking to defend his
title at the Texas Children’s Houston
open after a year away from the tour
schedule the tournament returns shifting
back to the spring for the first time
since 2018 the renovation of the course
the investment in the local community
had transformed this beloved property
and the good folks here in Houston are
better for it when the PGA Tour arrives
each year the energy capital of Texas
gets
energized this is my tryy out y’all just
tell Jay enjoyed my 14 years on tour Tak
my talents to
Chicago what’s up guys this is Yan Gomes
we’re here at the Cubs facility bringing
Scott to to our environment
now do 10 burpees every ball you miss
what if I do if I actually hit one over
the
fence oh oh
yeah oh yeah there you
go there we
go that was high why did we do this when
we play golf all those bogeys
dude y’all are hitting a moving ball
this the ball I hit is on the ground
imagine like in golf you would basically
start with your club that way and then
the club would just come down that’s the
difference in baseball we’re we’re
trying to like create like everything
here instead of
like he knows how to hit the ball now
we’re trying to get him to hit a ball
over the
fence oh there you go we putting the
ball in the air now hey we’re done with
the warm
UPS there we go that’s
it that was pretty good not the 100
swings it’s way harder than it looks I
did hit a lot of balls though no
dude only that’s the most swings I’ve
ever seen somebody take and you did hit
the fence I feel pretty good dude my my
arm feels dead no you haven’t seen this
guy go at it he he doesn’t there’s no
this guy tank was an empty yeah my arm
will fall off before I quit hey I never
threw the bat I didn’t use one curse
word those are positives one time in
three holes he was beating me through
and then I birded one and then couple
parts he par part part so I had to leave
for a little bit Yeah and then we went
downhill left but but for a three- hole
stretch you were tore ready I was ready
I thought you know what maybe I can do
this as baseball ready as I
am carrying this bat around is way
cooler than a golf club you ever been to
a weight room before I’ve been a time to
time I have been in weight rooms if you
know it’s good for you this is this is
where you spend most of your time the
gym is where we met Yan and I became
friends through the gym we needed some
training partners and I don’t know it
took me a while to kind of validate
myself into like the baseball kind of
training world but you know thankfully
they took a chance and on me and you
know that’s what be you know our
friendship kind of started in training
and it’s cool to kind of see how the Two
Worlds come together and like we have
two completely different jobs but we’re
both trying to be the best at it what it
is and you know it kind of starts and
ends in here you know baseball is my
first love and uh you know obviously a
huge fan of of yan and all the stuff
that he does and so it’s cool to kind of
have a chance to kind of you know look
behind the curtain a little
bit I clearly don’t have a future at
this so no you do just you know the
biggest thing that we have is we start
in the mar leagues and then we come up
to the big leagues yeah the thing is I
don’t have a future on yours either we
both know what the work behind the
scenes can look like and uh it was cool
just to kind of get a a little bit more
behind the scenes appreciate the time
and hospitality and best of luck this
year absolutely
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