The Lawdog visits with Quade Cummins who earned his PGA Card this season and is soon to be inducted into the Weatherford Athletics Hall of Fame.
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[Music] Hello everybody and welcome to Western Oklahoma Sports Night. I’m Chuck Ramsey the Law Dog here with you on Law Dog Sports on your uh powered by list. And uh man, I tell you what, it is so much going on. There is so much going on with sports and graduation and just you name it with uh high school sports wrapping up and one thing that is firing up and we’ve already got one major under our belt but as we speak the second major of the PGA tour is going on. So, uh, as much as I love golf and as much as I’m terrible at it and admire people that are pretty good, I had to reach out to Quaid Cumins, a Weatherford Eagle alum and current, uh, card holder for the Professional Golf Association tour, and he is here with me today. Quaid, thank you so much for taking time to visit with me. Yeah, for sure. Would wouldn’t miss it. Um excited excited get talking get relive some memories that uh so fond of for sure and uh you know I came along to Weatherford Sports in 2021 and the 2021 2022 season uh was your younger sister Khloe’s uh senior season. She was a she was a really competitive basketball player. I enjoyed getting to call her games and uh that was a lefty southpaw. Yeah, she was, wasn’t she? Uh, that was a that was the last uh girls class to make the state tournament since I’ve been here. Uh, but that was uh they made it to the semi-finals that year and that was a that was a really good senior class there that she was a part of. But, uh, your time at Weedford was before me. So, uh, you know, just kind of talk about, you know, what what you did at Weatherford and what was kind of your groove. Obviously, golf was was in the repertoire. Did you uh play other sports as well? Yeah. Um, I played football from 7th grade to 9th grade. Um, uh, I wouldn’t say I quit playing football, but I I think my parents kind of talked me away from it a little bit. Um, not not so much for injuries, just uh, golf tournaments in Oklahoma. A lot of them go on in the fall. Um, and it’s hard to play football and play golf at the same time, especially playing uh, you know, you have a week long of practice and then you go play a golf tournament on Saturday and Sunday. It’s pretty tough. Um, just with, you know, soreness and whatnot. I remember there’s a lot of early morning Saturdays that you don’t really want to drive to Oklahoma City. Uh, it feels a lot longer than it did uh, when I was, you know, 14, 15 years old. But no, I played uh football until 9th grade. Uh I actually wrestled uh 7th to 9th grade and then uh I played basketball my last three years. I think it was my dad telling me I need to stay in shape. So uh tried to stay in the best shape I could just to kind of make it to that springtime golf season. Um and yeah, I played golf uh all four years. uh made we made the state tournament as a team all four years which was pretty awesome. I think that uh I kind of came in um we had a pretty good squad. Uh Brock Bell, Bryson Ridley, they were on the team when I showed up uh freshman year. So we already had some solid players. I think they’re just missing, you know, a couple guys. Me and Ryan Stark uh kind of came in and improved the team a little bit. So, uh, we were able to go to state tournament every year. That was a blast. Um, and I was lucky enough to play well to win two state championships. So, that was kind of that was that was basically my high school story right there. Well, and uh, so looking back, when do you first remember, you know, picking up a golf club and getting out and playing? And was it in Weatherford or was it somewhere else? Oh, yeah. It was in Weatherford. Uh um I remember going out with my dad and grandpa. Um they have stories of me going out and playing one hole in my you know I started crying and want my mom to come pick me up. She’d pick me up over there by the airport. That was kind of the pickup drop off location where she didn’t have to drive all the way to the clubhouse. Yeah. So uh I remember getting picked up over there. Um but no, I remember I played my first tournament when I was eight. Uh I don’t know how it came about. Um but uh it was at Clinton Riverside. Um and I ended up winning that. I think there was only, you know, there’s probably five, six people playing. So I I remember I shot I think I shot a 40. Um clipped clipped Garrison Mendoza by one. He was another really good player in Clinton. Um, and that just kind of started, uh, I don’t know if it was the winning feeling or what, but, um, after that it was basically every summer was golf, golf golf, golf golf, and, uh, you know, the older I got, it kind of led bled into more of the springtime through summer through early fall. So, it turned into quite the, you know, extended season for a, you know, middle school, high school kid. Um, so a lot of focus uh going on, but I wouldn’t I wouldn’t change anything from, you know, playing different sports or anything like that. I think I had uh, you know, growing up in Weatherford’s really it’s a unique situation cuz our golf course is very uh, inviting. Um, you know, there’s not a whole lot of rules. um kind of you know I growing up uh you know hearing kids at country clubs and stuff like that you know they can’t drive carts until they’re you know whatever 16 but I could drive a cart when I was 12 and you know play 36 holes in no time. So uh uh loved the situation I grew up in and uh it kind of molded me uh to go to college and played OU. Yeah. So, who was your golf coach at Weatherford uh during uh Tom Bergman all all the way? Um he kind of started uh he actually got he he got he got pretty serious about it with us. I don’t know how serious he was because I know he was the golf coach forever. Um you know, we were waking up a lot of days at, you know, 6:30, 5:30 to go run a lap from the middle school around Swasu back to the middle school. So he I don’t know if that was just a discipline thing just to see if we would do it or if he was actually wanting us to get in shape. I don’t know. Um but you know we all bought into kind of what he had going on. He let a lot of the the he let myself and you know a few other players kind of guide the guide the team to you know practice because a lot of guys uh when we played it was you know you have five six guys that really wanted to play and then you had you know a few guys that liked playing golf casually um and you know just got to go play you know nine holes uh after school which was great. So uh it it was it was really fun. Yeah. And uh so when was it you realized or or how did it go down that you would uh select Oklahoma University as your uh as your destination? I’ve gotten I I really like uh the story kind of it it uh makes me feel really good about the situation I grew up with. um you know, kids now, and I don’t know if uh the high school golf team gets that in depth with golf tournaments, but um I mean, there’s kids out there that play, you know, year-long schedules of playing, you know, big uh junior tournaments, AJAS. Um that’s kind of the top-of-the-line uh junior tour. And uh I never had any idea what that was. I never knew about it until it was it had already come come and passed. So, um uh I just I played locally. I played uh South Centrals um stuff like that. And then uh the OJGT is a golf tour that’s kind of Oklahoma City, Tulsa. Uh and um I remember I got really hot kind of my the back end of my freshman. It was basic. It was freshman fall. So, right when I got right when I was a freshman, I played really well. Won a couple tournaments and then uh kind of did the same thing next summer going into my sophomore year. And then uh I never I never got I didn’t really get recruited. It was kind of like I just won the state tournament my sophomore year. Um and OU and OSU both the coaches came and watched me. I was like, you know, this is pretty cool kind of thing. Um, they both invited me to go on visits. Um, and I went to OU first and I don’t know what it was. I don’t know how recruiting goes with most people. I know, uh, there’s a lot of kids that, you know, go on multiple visits and stuff like that, but I saw U and I was like, dang, this is it. This is I don’t want to go anywhere else. Uh, I don’t even know if Coach Hibble offered me a scholarship at the time. It I was, you know, I still had two years of high school left. A lot can happen. uh for you know you might you know you love it you know when you’re young and you might fall out of it you know junior senior year or something you might find something else uh that you like doing but uh it motiv it kind of motivated me to play even practice even harder to because I had the opportunity to go to OU and then you know looking back past that point it was like I got super lucky with even because I I I didn’t I wasn’t nationally recognized. I wasn’t, you know, a five-star recruit. I wasn’t, you know, this high level guy. So, I don’t know what I don’t know how other than winning the state tournament and winning a couple tournaments. I don’t know how I got recruited to play at OU. And, uh, I’m just I was super I just I like thinking about it. Uh, you know, super lucky that I was able to play well when I did. Uh maybe that, you know, maybe that intrigued the coaches to offer me a scholarship, stuff like that. You know, if I don’t play well when they’re there, I don’t know what happens, but um that’s kind of just how it played out. Um, I don’t know, uh, if it was, you know, I don’t know what the decision decision was, but, um, you know, I went to college with kids that were playing year round schedules and stuff like I I felt like I didn’t fit in. And it kind of it was cool to me to feel like I was different uh kind of a different molded golfer than, you know, the cookie cutter uh you know, country club kid type thing. Well, and also I mean I I think there’s facets of Western Oklahoma golf that probably prepare you for some difficulty that maybe guys don’t face in in other locations. Yeah, for sure. Uh we we have some pretty tough conditions that we get that we have the opportunity to practice and play in and you just got to have fun with it and you know Yeah. stay out there as long as you can. So you you graduate Weatherford in 2015. You said you were a two-time state champion. Yep. Okay. And so you uh you’re at OU and you guys uh pull off the national championship. How’d that feel? Uh, it felt great for me because I didn’t have I didn’t feel the I got I got to I was it was the first year they had alternates so I got to watch in person. Usually they you know you take five guys and that’s it. But this that was the first year they implemented a new rule. Got to take six guys. I was the sixth guy and I got to watch it all. It was a like I was living and dying with every shot. And uh it was super fun to watch cuz the guys had kind of, you know, kept climbing just slowly the entire year and just it was like, you know, something snapped right at the end and it was just like they were the best team in the country and I got to watch it. It kind of it definitely motivates you when you know your best friends and your teammates are the best team in the country and you’re a part of it. So, uh, I think that’s kind of what motivated me to, you know, take it to a next level of, you know, this isn’t just a college, you know, this isn’t just for fun. It’s like you, we have the ability to, um, keep this going and, uh, kind of build a legacy type thing at OU. And it was just it bled into all of our games of, you know, maybe we did strike lightning in a bottle for one week, but past that week, it was like every single guy um improved their game just based off of uh the confidence that we kind of took in off of that national championship. And I think uh I mean most of the guys that were on that team are still playing pro. Maybe not. All of them might still be. Um, but, uh, I think that was kind of like the jump start to U golf and kind of, you know, guys turning pro out of college. And it’s kind of, I mean, it’s still going. Um, Coach’s, I mean, obviously I’m biased, but I think he’s the best coach out there. Uh, he has a great kind of return rate on what guys come in as players versus what they by the time they leave. It’s like they’re, you know, um the way he can teach kids and the way that he can kind of get everybody to buy into the team, uh, you know, the work ethic, the all that kind of stuff. It’s just it’s it’s it’s crazy what he’s been able to do. And, uh, I think he’s going on he might be pushing 20 years now at OU. Uh, it’s cra he got the he got the head coaching job when he was 27 at a D1 school. Yeah, it’s cra it’s it’s crazy the things that he’s been able to do in his they just qualified for their 15th straight uh national championship tournament. So, uh before that they they were kind of on a downward spiral of like they went like seven or eight years without qualifying. Um so yeah, he he’s the best. So, uh, yeah, and I remember when his old when his brother Nate came in as a quarterback at OU, and that was kind of the the the notch on him was that he was a scratch golfer and then also his brother was as well. And then voila, next thing you know, Ryan Dibble is the coach at OU. We’re visiting with Quaid Cummins, a uh soon to be inductee into the Weatherford Athletics Hall of Fame coming up at the ceremony next week, but also he is an OU uh golf alum, a national champion, and also a state champion in high school golf. So, uh you’re at OU, you guys win the Natty. I guess that was in your sophomore season you’d mentioned. Um, obviously teamwise that’s got to be one of the most thrilling things individually because golf is a sport where you you play individually. What was your highlight as a collegiate golfer? Um, I mean that’s definitely up there. Uh, I I I wanted to win one so bad just to know what it felt like. Um, my last year we made it to the championship match and we lost. Uh cuz I didn’t get to feel what those guys, you know, I I was happy, but it was like I didn’t get to hit a shot kind of thing. Like it’s Yeah. It’s like you feel, you know, you you know, you helped them get better and stuff like you you were part of the team, but it was like I wanted to feel, you know, what it felt like to win a national championship while I got to participate. Um so, but then winning national championships definitely up there. We won Big 12s uh the year after that. Um, that was really uh I mean that one’s up there. We got to play in so many cool tournaments, but um if I was going to go top three, I’d probably go national championship one, Big 12’s two, and then uh I got to play in a few team events that were based off of amateur rankings and stuff like that. So, uh the team events are always a little more fun than kind of doing it doing it on your own. So, you get to hang out. Uh kind of I like the locker room atmosphere. Uh you know, you just kind of get to talk shop and hang out. Um eat dinners and stuff like that. And that’s kind of what um you know, high school and college is all about. And then you turn since then turning pro, it’s kind of more your own speed. You do things when you want to do them. Uh, and that’s that’s basically the the stuff that I miss is the is the team stuff for sure. Sure. Well, and uh so I mean you you do your you play your eligibility at OU and then when I came into Western Oklahoma, the first time I heard your name mentioned uh or I saw a story and and somebody said, “Hey dummy, that guy’s from here.” Uh it was when you were uh part of the corn ferry tour. So walk me through you you play collegiately. What’s the next step? Obviously cornf fairy was somewhere in there but how did the perussion go from college to uh professional? Yeah. Um I don’t know for me it was like I had built up uh I had built up enough kind of I felt good enough about my game where I was like okay like returning pro like this isn’t this isn’t a question um you know whatnot and I had just come off of uh like I think I finished fifth in the rankings the year before that I left that before I finished up at OU. We just came off national championship loss and uh turned pro. My first event was I had to Monday qualify into the Witchaw Open. Uh did that uh I basically played my first summer uh as a pro just kind of bouncing around kind of trying to find your own way because they don’t have there’s just qualifying school. I see. uh at the end of the year. It’s in like uh it’s probably like late October, early November maybe. So, you just bounce around, get what you can get. Uh you know, you sign with an agency. Hopefully, they can get you a couple spots in tournaments, whatnot. Um and then, uh got good enough status to go on the corner tour and I was corn tours, you know, it’s like AAA golf. Okay. Basically, it’s the step below. Yeah. And was out there for three years. Uh, great tour. Gives you, you know, someplace to play. It’s a grind, though. It’s It’s uh you got to play like 20 weeks out of 24, so you’re gone a lot. Um, and then, uh, played really good. Last year was kind of like my breakthrough of consistency wise of, you know, I just stacked a ton of weeks in a row of, uh, you know, it was just it I I don’t know what the stats were, but it’s like I I don’t know, like seven top 10s, couple second places kind of thing. Like just super consistent. uh had only missed a couple cuts and then uh played good enough to get my PJ tour card. So, um it’s only my I think this is my fourth full season as a pro. So, yeah, it’s not too far off of college. Um you know, hopefully outstanding. I mean, you get that PGA card, I mean that you’re you’re in rare error. I’m I’m telling you. Yeah, it’s it’s uh it’s definitely something that you know you dream about, but then it’s kind of the at the same time uh it’s probably like the second or third year of college or you might you it’s like kind of make or break. It’s like you kind of lean one way or the other. And yeah, luckily we our team was so good that it was kind of like, you know, we’re not going to have like a party summer, you know, a part like it’s not going to be laidback. Like we’re all trying to get as good as we can and it’s I mean it’s just motivating when you’re around a group of guys like that. Um, so it’s kind of, you know, you, Coach Hibble recruited all these guys, so, you know, he surrounded everybody around people that wanted to get better. And I think that’s kind of the key to, you know, keep going. uh maybe if you don’t want to or whatnot and then you know you look up and you’re talented enough or dedicated enough to do something that maybe you didn’t think you could do or um maybe you wanted to do but it’s something I’ve wanted to do since I was, you know, 12 years old. Um it’s it’s a it’s crazy to think that I’ve been, you know, at competitive golf for uh I guess 21 years now. I’ve just turned 29 last month. Um, so it’s it’s crazy to think about, but I, you know, I hope I get to do it for 20 more years and Yeah. Uh, keep going. Yeah. And, uh, you know, I mean, it, like I said, when I say rare error, I mean, I I see guys that, you know, play in some of these scrambles or or, you know, that play a lot at Dillson. I mean, it it it just seems to me like there is just such a step and like you mentioned the grind that your your good golfer at a at a course would would just have to do so much more. uh you know, is that is that a fair statement? Like Yeah, it’s it’s it’s funny when you cuz I mean there’s definitely guys that I know, you know, Gary Smith, really good golfer, you know, probably I don’t know if he’s breaking par consistently at Weatherford, but it’s just like he’s really good. And I don’t want to throw him under the bus here. I don’t know if he’s going to see this stuff, but it’s just it’s just it’s just uh it’s it’s kind of, you know, it’s a different level of whatnot. Like I could go out and play with him at Weatherford or play with Lance Dobbins at Weatherford and they they could 100% beat me, but it’s kind of the you know, you come play on my in my arena and it’s like it’s it’s pretty far Yeah. far away. Um but no, I mean it’s it’s definitely uh the further along I’ve gotten, it definitely feels more of like it it’s not work, but you do you have to work really hard. It’s it’s like it’s really fun. Like I love to practice. I love to do all these things, but you can get out to the course at 8 a.m. and the time goes by like that and it’s dark. It’s like I mean you it it takes and you can be working the whole time. It’s it’s a it’s really strange and you know pro I’m probably sick in the head for it, but it’s uh it’s just I I love doing it. It’s it’s the you know probably the not so good things about it. You know you got to go through and out airports you know two three times a week sometimes. So uh that’s probably the worst part of it. Uh loading up the golf bag and the luggage not not very fun. But uh playing good the grind. I can see where there’s some glamour to it and then there’s probably some some just grinding to it. Yeah. Like anything. Yeah. It’s uh I mean it’s a blast. I wouldn’t I wouldn’t change anything. uh you wouldn’t do anything different. You mentioned Lance Dobbins and I visit with him a bit because I live in Thomas and uh the Thomas Terrier boys just took second in state class 2A I think and uh he’s got a I think Rhett is his kid who’s really really big Yeah, they they’ve taken a good liking to it. Um I see them up here a decent amount at Oak Tree. Um, they come in and out, you know. I It’s hard. I lose track of time because it’s like I was just gone for four straight weeks, but I come home and it feels like I was home like, you know, it felt like I was gone for like a week when I come back home. And uh but yeah, I see that I see them a decent amount. I see uh he he’ll bring up the Weatherford crew every now and then with him to, you know, play around at National. Um but yeah, no, that’s great. He’s I I know his sons are into it and he’s brought uh you know Thomas Golf. I I don’t know. I hopefully they keep doing it after Yeah. Brett goes. So I think I think they’ve got some kids you know but I know uh with Weatherford Jackson Smith was the lone com uh qualifier for state and I can’t I should know this. I don’t know if they’ve already played yet or not. Yeah, they played all the state tournaments were uh they they had already had they I think every single class was on Monday and Tuesday. Okay. So I last week. So yeah. Um you know and and Jackson we’re we’re relying on him to come back and uh yeah and fill in for uh all the all the players we’re losing this year on the on the basketball team. But I could see where you know he’s he’s 6’4 and I’m sure he can hit the ball a ton. He’s probably a a good a good uh golfer as well. obviously qualifying for state, but uh well, so real quick, so Oak Tree is your kind of home course. Yeah. Yeah. This is where um it’s where I this where I play out of. This kind of the hot spot for uh the tour, the pro golfer side of uh you know, I think there’s like 12 of us out here. So, okay. It’s very nice. It’s uh I get to drive my golf cart to the course. A lot of times I don’t even leave the premises kind of thing. It’s like I go to the golf course, come home, it’s time for bed. Um, so, uh, it’s good. You got a lot of guys out here. Uh, a lot of the O, it’s mainly U and OSU guys. You know, there’s a few, there’s a couple of guys that, uh, just like the, it’s very convenient. Um, very high level golf course. Um, and, you know, it’s a good just a good group of guys. It’s kind of back to that locker room atmosphere. You know, you get to play with your buddies. uh you know it’s a lot harder when you have to do everything by yourself. Uh so it’s kind of easy to practice with those guys and play with those guys and then you travel with them. You kind of have a little group to you know go eat dinner with or you know stay in the house with um if you go that route. So it’s a good spot. So that’s your home course. Uh, as far as courses in the state of Oklahoma, what what would you consider uh your your second favorite of my courses? Yeah. Just what you’ve played in Oklahoma? Um, I I mean I for sure have a sweet spot for the western Oklahoma golf just because it’s it’s not glamorous, but it’s very you’re going to get this is what I would tell anybody that’s you know you’re going to get bad lies out there a lot more than you get bad lies at an oak tree or at Oklahoma City. You’re going to get some bad bounces. It it it definitely preps you differently than playing, you know, the cleancut style of golf. Yeah. And the Greens in Western Oklahoma are some of the toughest greens to play on because they’re all the defense is is that they’re basically upside down balls. It’s like they’re very, you know, very rounded on the edges. So, it’s very challenging to hit the ball close. Um, and it’s I mean, I think about it all the time. It’s I just cannot believe that. Um, you know, growing up in Weatherford, Oklahoma, and then being able to pursue pro golf, um, I know it’s pretty, it feels like it’s not that crazy, but I know it’s, it’s relatively out there based on, um, just kind of the kind of the DNA of a, you know, a pro golfer. Um, and it just teaches you how to play golf. You’re not out there, you know, you’re not out there just pounding range balls. Like, you get to go play as many holes as you want, drive the golf cart where, you know, basically wherever you want, you know, hopefully not in spots, you know, like the green or the bunkers, but it’s just the the way I I just I took a liking to it and I just never I just never let up. And um but growing up, I I would definitely put Weatherford at my number one. I don’t know how I haven’t played any of these courses in quite some time, but Prairie West is definitely up there. And then when I was in high school, Riverside was really good. Um I’ I’ve heard that maybe they had to close down for some water reasons. I don’t know. Yeah, but they were really good in high school. Uh or that course was really good in Yeah, it really is a beautiful course. Yeah, kind of on the river bottom. Um but yeah, I I really don’t play that much golf um outside of Oak Tree. Uh it’s just kind of my it’s kind of the spot. Um we are it’s it’s a lot like you know it’s a it’s a nice golf course, but I get to almost treat it the same as you know I get to go practice out on the course like I got to at Weatherford. Like it’s a it feels like home to me, but it’s the closest thing to a PJ tour course that would let you do that. like you’re not going to be able to go out on the course at Southern Hills and you know hit 10 drivers and 10 wedge shots and stuff like that. And I’m able to do that um out here and uh I really I don’t even know if I’ve played more than two or three courses in Oklahoma this year. So uh I kind of stick to stick to what I know. Yeah. Well, and uh as we visit with begin to wrap up this visit with Quaid Cummins, uh I tell you, you know, tell us what’s what’s on the tap for for the rest of your summer. What are your what are your shooting for to uh to try to uh you know, you got your PGA card, so what’s what’s on agenda for the rest of this year? Um I’ve played relatively solid. It’s just hard. Uh it definitely I I’m sure that every rookie in any sport would probably say the same thing. just it’s just a learning. You just got it’s a next level up. Um so I’m not I’m not going to be too hard on myself with because I I’ve played fine. Not I haven’t played great. I haven’t played horrible. Um it’s just the you know you got to keep your head down and keep doing what you’re doing. Do what do what you did to get you to this point. It’s not like you have to change your identity. Um, so I’m just going to keep keep my head down and keep plugging along and hopefully, you know, some results will come from that. But, um, you know, golf’s golf’s a crazy game because you can, you know, you could be playing great and then it could just fall off or you could be playing horrible and you could win the next tournament that, you know, it gets you into basically every tournament. Uh, you know, you’re only one week away. I think that’s kind of the saying for golfers is, you know, you can’t get, you know, too far from center. Yeah. Or uh, you know, you don’t know what’s around the corner. Um, but yeah, I just I’m going to keep grinding away and, you know, hopefully have a chance to win a tournament. If I do, great. If not, um, you know, it’s part of it. What’s the strongest, uh, facet of your game, driving, mid-range? Um, see, I I’m not good at this question. I like to say that I’m very consistent at everything. Stats-wise, it would probably say putting. It’s it’s and it putting is a great thing to have for a lot of reasons. You know, if you’re the putter is the ultimate say so in golf. It is you could play horrible, but if you putt good, you’re not going to play that bad. So, uh, so I, that’s what I really key in on. If I’m, you know, I’m not driving it good, practice putting more. Like, it’s just like it’s get as good as you can at making putts, getting up and down. And that’s kind of, I mean, that’s what saves your rounds. It’s just I mean, it’s the same in any sport. If you make dumb mistakes, it’s going to catch up to you. So, it’s the same thing. Uh, you know, you just got to do the do the small things, do what you can, and uh just kind of just see what see what adds up at the end. Well, I saw a clip today on Twitter of Max Homa teeing off on a par4 374 374 yards and he put it within a foot of the hole. Yeah. And I I reposted and said, you know, yours truly would still two putt that. you know, but uh but no, it’s it’s an interesting game and and I’ve played more of it since I’ve moved to Western Oklahoma than I have in my life. I’m kind of a kind of a regular with a with a group of guys who go to uh uh Romanos quite a bit. So, that’s that’s always a challenge for us terrible golfers. But, uh it is a lot of fun. But I tell you, you know, we’re going to be following you closely and we’ll be wishing you the best of luck and man, congratulations on the induction into the Weatherford Athletics Hall of Fame. I from what I understand, you said you won’t be able to make it, but I know they’ll do a great job uh honoring you there at that ceremony. Yeah, thanks. I I mean, it’s it’s crazy to it’s crazy to think that I’ve done enough um with, you know, only, you know, I’m only 29. Um, but yeah, I mean I I love Weatherford. It’s where I grew up. Uh, it’s still where I’m announced off the first tea and I still get chills when they when they say from Weatherford, Oklahoma. Um, yeah. So, it’s it’s definitely home home to me. Western Oklahoma is home. Um, and I wouldn’t wouldn’t change it for the world. Well, I mean, my catchphrase for three-pointers, uh, you know, in basketball is let that eagle soar once more. So, if I’m uh watching you on the PGA tour, I’ll have to I’ll have to let out some let that let that sore once. Yeah. Bring bring the good vibes. I’ll be glad to accept your award for you, too, if you want me to. I No. Uh listen, man. Thank you so much for taking the time to visit with me here and uh it’s just a pleasure to get to get to meet you through through a Zoom call and then also uh use this uh content to uh get the word out for the Hall of Fame uh coming up on uh Friday the 23rd of May. And uh it’s going to be a lot of fun. The scramble will be that morning. Uh yours truly will be out there hacking in that. And uh I’ll keep you in the back of my mind to say, you know, what would Quaid do here? Yeah. Yeah. Don’t beat yourself up too bad. Golf Golf’s a hard game. Yeah. I mean, that’s the thing. It it What’s the point in it if you go out there and and I have no expectation, you know? If you hit a great shot, enjoy it because the next, you know, at my level. But anyway, thanks so much for joining me, Quaid. Yeah. Thank you. He’s Quaid Cumins, Weatherford High School alum, U alum, national champion at OU and on the PGA tour. Got his PGA card this season and uh we’re looking forward to seeing a lot of him upcoming. This will be on our YouTube channel at Law Dogsports as well as uh clips of it on our uh Instagram uh Twitter and in Instagram, TwitterX and Facebook. And then also you can find links to it uh this interview on our website lawsports.com. Be safe out there. Don’t text and drive and sure don’t drink and drive. And we’ll talk to you real soon. [Music]
