Adrian Meronk tried skydiving once and is hooked! The Polish LIV Golf star talks about the other sports he played growing up and why he eventually chose to pursue a career in golf.
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away from golf what do you do for fun I’m a big fan of any kind of sport I enjoy puddle tennis uh I’m into wake surfing really um I used to play a lot of basketball football volleyball when I was growing up and I just enjoy watching watching sports as well when I have a week off I would spend some time in the gym playing some PlayStation uh chilling with friends you know chilling on the beach like I I enjoy I enjoy Beach like like some like water activities and stuff like that that’s my that’s my jump nice is there much of that in Dubai that’s where you live it’s quite a bit yeah it’s quite a bit well there’s this whole indoor place now where you can like you can snowboard and you can yeah ski but I cannot ski anymore because you know inury and stuff uh but um you can you can do like a you know water water activities like jet ski and stuff like that wake surfing have you skyed uh I have you have on the pal I have two years ago yeah on the palm that’s my first time you won’t go skiing but you’ll skyd well I probably won’t won’t do it again but I have done it I have done it J’s afraid of height yeah no I mean to be honest it was probably one of the coolest experiences in my life it’s on my bucket list I would recommend it I would recommend it and to do it in Dubai as well cuz it’s the view is insane no I’ll be glad to push you though yeah it is the most fun honly yeah not in Dubai but I did it in the US oh my goodness feel when I when I jumped and I land when I when we landed I was like let’s go again but the Free Fall is the the best the best I mean the best feeling there’s nothing like it I’m not sure how high it was how long you free fall for it uh 40 seconds maybe it seems like forever though right yeah it seems like forever but to be honest when they open the door I mean you just it’s so high you can really you know really afraid of heights you just have to jump well you jump they push you the guy that’s behind you goes forward he goes like 3 two go oh see your guy is nice my guy went three yeah okay get to a one experience that’s a feeling I’m never going to experience I’ll make you experience it never say never no I know never that’s what I’m saying I’m be that I’m want to be that 102y old Sky jumper I went up with one of our uncles and he was 70 when he jumped and he freaking loved it y great you’ll be that you’re nearly part is being in the plane and taking off you know there’s no way out when only when the thing keep’s going up and you’re just sitting there going oh are you sure and you can’t really like back out now you know you can well and when I open the door and the the cold air just hits you yeah no but it’s it’s great would you do it again I would do it again I would do it again yeah maybe I’ll come to Dubai and find think is addicting the feeling is addicting adal adrenaline adrenaline yeah I got a pilot life Li that’s the closest I get I was terrified Heights and terrified little plane so once I flew in a little plane I went and got a pilot’s license and I literally I was so into it that I got it in just under a month which is a p private license 40 hours of training wow but that first solo is the only thing I can come close to in that feeling cuz you you you do eight or nine or 10 hours of training and then your your instructor thinks you’re ready and he doesn’t tell you it’s coming he says all right do a couple touch and goes and a full stop and then he hops out of the plane he goes you’re ready I’m like no just just just sit here oh that’s going to be so ter oh so exhilarating roll rolling out on the runway in a little you know single engine prop plane and and when you climb out there’s torque on the prop so you have to use counter counter Rudder so you use right Rudder on on all aircraft as they’re pulling out any single engine to keep the tail from going sideways and my right foot’s just going like this on I’m so damn nervous oh yeah it was just terrifying but exhilarating you never forget that feeling same thing you still fly though no no I quit flying when uh just before my son was born CU I didn’t mind being Cavalier with my life but I wasn’t going to kill his dad you do have some sense in you no no I just a sense of responsibility okay yeah um let’s talk about your amateur career your amateur life I mean you moved from Poland to Tennessee culture that was a big culture shock to be honest did you visit first I never visited oh my goodness did you research it did you I researched it what the Tri Cities area was like well kind of but I never visited but I had like bunch of uh friends that I knew like golfers like a lot like our team was very European so that was the main factor that why I went there but to be honest when I arrived it was a big culture culture shock my English wasn’t that sharp so neither are the people that live there yeah exactly so it was tough apologies to everyone in Tennessee I love the tribe Cities area don’t get me wrong so have to to get used to it you know um also the food was a bit different the culture uh I mean just living there was a bit bit different than they had to look at they had to look like you like you were yeah I mean like just came off of UFO yeah exactly but uh after the first year it was it was great I really enjoyed you you did all four years I did all four years and you played a lot with Rah um who else spe who else spe Justin Thomas um bunch of guys just can’t remember now but uh a lot of Pros that I mean that guys that are Pros now yeah that’s good I can’t believe you never went to the Nascar race there yeah I mean that is literally it’s a short track one of the two short tracks that they still raise and it is I’ve never been but everybody says it is just as good a fun time as you can have yeah I drove I drove past it I mean it’s quite impressive it looks quite big uh but we never really had time I think was just busy with golf they’re committed to their sport yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah uh I mean to be fair to you I lived in Daytona and I lived 5 minutes from the track uh and never been to the r there you go you can hear it my apartment shakes from it right yeah I lived in Orlando 21 years and never been to never been to never been no never been wow yeah I’d rather watch faity says there’s something like 26 golf courses in Poland that’s it I around that yeah so one for every letter of the alphabet pretty much yeah yeah so how did when you play the other sports I mean obviously you’re 6′ 6 athletic as we’ve seen in his stretching routine incredible and volleyball and basketball you obviously you can jump how did you gravitate toward golf when you physically had an easier path to other sports yeah so golf was in our family since I remember my father always played he used to be a a professional volleyball player so he kind of looked for a sport that he could you know play after after the career and that was golf so since I remember like every family vacation was going to Spain to play some golf and stuff like that so I I picked it up quite early like when I was six or seven but it was always uh with other sports like football volleyball basketball and I really enjoyed it to be honest if I didn’t play golf I probably would be volleyball player or basketball player I might be a little bit too short these days but I I was really enjoying um volleyball and football as well I was quite a good goalie um but at some point at some point I don’t know I got annoyed with team sports you know when someone just didn’t pass me the ball I kind of wanted to control you know my own own this Destiny and my own like um stuff when I play so that’s why I kind of went towards Golf and when I was 14 or 15 I uh kind of focused more on golf uh started going abroad to like you junior tournaments um with Polish national team and stuff like that and I started enjoy enjoying the process of training and the tournaments and competition yeah and that’s that’s how it started for for real when was it when you realized that you were just a world class player when I was uh 16 or 17 I started to work with Coach Matthew Tipper so he used to work for David Leb and he kind of um made me believe that I have potential to go to States and compete you know on the scholarship and uh play with the best amateurs juniors in the world so that was a kind of first um belief and time when I kind of you know believed I can do something with golf but I think um when I realized I can go pro it was the second year in college I started to play much better quite consist consistently um got my couple of first uh wins wins on in college so that kind of um made me believe as well and made me want to be a professional golfer I would say second second year in college but success didn’t come right out of the gates I mean you were what your third season on the challenge tour you got your first win so it wasn’t like it wasn’t like so many guys they they they just think I’m so good I’m going to go out and kill it you you actually had to earn it for a while yeah to be honest if I if you look at my career has been like a steady progression uh when I turn when I turned Pro after college I got like seven invites on challenge tour and actually from these seven invites I finished 30 in the ranking 30th in the ranking so that was a kind of good start to secure the cart for next year then I dipped a little bit and then after after that the second year on challenge tour I got my win I got promoted to Europe inter and from there it was just uh upwards which was which was nice yeah yeah well you had four European tour wins right yeah2 two and 22 23 yeah yeah
