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You have to Google it. Google it. Is it hard for you to comprehend that you’re still coming here to this venue 15 years after winning your first PJ tour event at this place? Yeah. I mean, listen, I felt like it took me a long time to win my first PJ tournament tour event. Uh, you know, I’ve been on tour over here since I was three. So, it definitely took me quite quite a bit of time to break through on this tour. So, there was seven years before breaking through, now 15 years since. So, yeah, I mean, it’s it’s quite amazing when I think about it like that. Um, but yeah, the 15 years, I mean, you know, the image I have is my little son Leo was kind of messing around in a bunker behind 18. I mean, now you’d lose him in these bunkers, but back then you could still see him in the bunkers. Um, how much pride do you take in that just playing that long? Yeah, I think I’m getting to that stage in my career where that is the goal now, you know, sort of having pride of performance and trying to buck the trend of what, you know, is a natural kind of aging process. is it does there are things that are more difficult or get more difficult but yeah you don’t want to kind of believe it and I still think my good is good which is what I’ve seen this year it’s been inconsistent this year um but my good is good and that’s the most important thing to see I’d rather that than top 20th every week um just to know that if I do put things together I’m capable of winning you know and I think that that’s still I still believe that longevity is is underrated and frankly consistency who inspires you long or doesn’t count yeah yeah he’s crazy for Sure. I think uh you know Steve Stricker I think is a really nice example. I think he won is he like nine time maybe nine times in his 40s and I think he did it you know living in the Midwest you know locking things up for winter having a great family didn’t sacrifice the world in order to do it you know he’s a really good I think uh role model from that point of view. So you know if you could have a career like his in his 40s I think that’s what I would say is doable but aspirational. Um and maybe not a name you’d probably think that would come to mind first and foremost. uh you know there’s a lot of if you choose to kind of go all in there’s other things in your life that suffer right so it just depends on on the balance of that but um you know in other sports obviously yeah I mean Jovovich clearly is sort of the one pushing greatness for in a sport where you do wear out pretty quick what about Scott yeah listen I mean Adam’s a huge benchmark for me and I think I am for him you know we’re both within couple weeks of each other in terms of age if you look at our careers they’re remarkably similar in terms of top 10’s cuts made. He’s got a couple more wins, but majors this that the other, FedEx Cup, you know, like world number one, very kind of quite interestingly comparable and, you know, good friends as well. But, um, there’s things that he does really well that I’m like, I need to push myself to still be competitive that way. And I’m sure he looks at my game and thinks there’s things that he needs to do to to sort of compete with me. So, yeah, he’s a, you know, Sergio as well. We’re sort of all like around 1980. I think Sergio still plays good golf, you know. Um, obviously not seeing as much of him anymore to really kind of go up headto-head. But yeah, um, I think we’re the three players that have kind of kept the form, you know, in terms of just being out on tour and competing and popping our names up on the leaderboard once in a while. We’re probably the the guys doing doing well at that. What ways are you now than you were? Um, I mean, it’s just a good question. And um I’d say generally I’ve puted the ball better in the last five or six years than I did throughout my 20s and 30s. You know, I was an elite ball striker I think for a long long long time. And uh if I’d have putted it as I did now back then I’d have probably done a lot of damage, but um that’s been an element of my game I’ve had to figure out. And like anything, the ball striker hasn’t quite been as as good. But you know, you it’s nice to know that I have access to it all. It’s just finding putting all together on the right week. Can I ask you um your thoughts on Oakmont? You played it obviously in the US Open. Yeah. It’s got such a great, you know, hard reputation. Does it live up to it? Do you recall the first time you visited? Yeah. I just remember sort of um expecting, you know, with the name Oak M trees and I was expecting more of a treeine golf course and I was just like staggered by a sea of green grass. I was just like, whoa. Um it’s tough for sure. So, I think um from my point of view, I think I’ve got to approach it with, you know, I’ve put a mini driver in the bag this week um with the premise of I think I need to hit it in play at the US Open. I think there’s still the the guys who hit it far enough um can still be very aggressive off the tea. That doesn’t really suit me. I don’t hit it quite far enough to to justify being in the rough. So, yeah, I think from the way I’m going to try and play the golf course, it’s uh definitely, you know, you got to be somewhat long off a te 280 to 320. You got to hit it in that zip code, but um you got to put it in play. So yeah, that’s my recollections of you can’t play that golf course from the rough as you can’t play this week from the rough. When you sorry, when you hear from people about the Masters, does that make it I don’t know, does it soften the blow of of not having won or does it fuel you to go, “Oh, that was nice that they’re congratulating me for that or Yeah, I think selfishly they enjoyed it because someone kind of was there to step up and have a good round and make it interesting.” So I think from a watching point of view, which I haven’t had a chance to watch it back, apparently it was a good watch. So I think people I think people were just grateful that you know there it was it was exciting in the end. Um I think that that’s what people kind of enjoyed. Um yeah, so from my point of view, yeah, I think I’ll look back at it always with where there were a couple of opportunities, but Rory gave me huge opportunity as well like you know there’s no way I should be in a playoff um you know when he’s in the middle of fairway on 18. So, you know, you and I stepped up and hit the great hit the good, you know, hit every bit as good of golf shots as I could hit under in the moment. I felt like I learned a lot from 2017 when I was in a similar situation. So, yeah, from that point of view, I can walk away from it a lot easier than if I had have done something in the moment where I knew I’d let myself down. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks, Justin. Thank you.
