Rough Fairways: A Journey to the PGA Tour – Taylor Montgomery

PGA Tour rookie Taylor Montgomery joined the pod to talk about his hot start (solo 3rd at the Fortinet), his bond with his father, and much more.

He talks about his love for gambling and shares a story about taking money from a well known poker player.

[Music] on this week’s episode we welcome Taylor Montgomery fresh off his solo third in Napa a nice little start to his PGA Tour career and you don’t want to miss which poker star he took money from wait till you hear about his favorite club in the bag it is beat to hell he’s ready to beat down the PGA Tour join us next on Rough Airways eat sleep and then what’s the other one golf of course I should have known right on man well thanks for joining us dude yeah of course no thank you for having me appreciate it absolutely um you had a pretty good weekend oh yeah yeah it was uh a weekend I’ll remember forever that’s for sure oh yeah yeah uh I think I doubled my earnings in just one weekend has it sunk in yet i I mean you’ve played on the PGA Tour before and started and you’ve played in a couple US Opens but has it really truly sunk in that you’re a PGA Tour member um not really i haven’t been I’ve just been trying to practice as hard as I can and uh just do everything that I can do to prepare myself and I haven’t really thought about uh what I’ve been doing and uh kind of what’s ahead i’ve just been trying to put one foot forward and go from there it it’s like a when we met in Boisey and interviewed you after your third round you you come across as like a process versus results kind of guy uh yeah definitely uh I mean maybe not so much in the past but uh at least lately I’ve been trying to figure out a system that can help me play better golf and kind of keep me focused while I’m practicing and little things like that to help me uh succeed the best I can did you get nervous this week at in Napa yeah I did the first two rounds was uh it was like a different nervous it was more like uh just not as comfortable I think uh being I haven’t seen the golf course like I don’t know how it’s going to play like I’ve heard it’s going to get super firm this and that and kind of just didn’t know what to expect and uh the putter responded the first day that’s for sure i love that putter by the way people make fun of me for it all the time it has like missing paint chips and Yeah uh dented on the bottom so there’s a lot to that thing but that’s how you know it works yeah if it goes in who cares what it looks like right yep exactly that’s like when you uh what do they say like if you see a guy with a Sunday bag and a bunch of old blades you never bet against them you know just if you see a guy that has his name on the bag and the ugliest putter yep that is very true so take us through your last four weeks i mean you know you you made it to the uh Cornferry Tour finals in Boisey um and then all the way through um oh gosh where was Indiana i can’t remember where it was but um you really haven’t taken a break recently have you have you you’ve been playing like what six straight weeks uh yeah I had a I took off the last event of Indiana and just to kind of give myself some time for the upcoming fall uh I’ll be pretty busy for sure coming up now uh I should get into almost everything starting in the uh the new year too um just at the start at least like for like the California swing and stuff like that so sure i’m excited to to get it going should be fun it’ll be a lot of golf though that’s for sure now did you get that from getting the solo third this weekend because you increase status as you as you play better right yeah uh like I definitely need to like there’s so many things that I don’t even know like the world ranking and crap like that that I don’t even really pay attention to but they are important if you want to get into the big events and like the major championships and things like that so Gotcha well and you like Tory Pines too because the first time you played it there and it might not be the first time but you got uh T11 at the last year’s Farmers yeah yeah yeah that was that was the other biggest week of my life it’s a great course to do it on i used to live in San Diego so I played north and south even before the renovations and the South is such a brutal course yeah it it’s a tough golf course for sure just plays so long and uh it’s I I like it better in the afternoon the ball goes a little further there yeah do you have Yeah go ahead Mike i say you have event experience in the past how is it different going to your first event as an actual card carrying member is there anything really different or Yeah I would definitely say that like when I played US Open and uh farmers I didn’t have any status so there wasn’t like an expectation of like I’d say the hardest part the expectation to keep your keep your card that was what was hard with like cornfairy and stuff you’ll um you just job security is number one uh it in anything really uh but especially PGA tour compared to like corn ferry tour there’s a big uh difference in the amount of money that you’ll make sure and then uh so I think going to my first event was definitely more nerve-wracking just because I didn’t know what to expect and I’m trying to block my card up for next year as soon as I can and I know sometimes it can come down to one shot here or there and this week helped with a with a big finish i made two birdies on the last two holes and it was a $280,000 difference and who knows how I didn’t even look at the points but the points are dramatically different from like a third place finish to a sixth place finish is uh is a lot did you stick around for the the ending speaking of it coming down to a shot yeah you didn’t you didn’t buy your plane ticket home did you i I left right when they were on AT&T kind of knew that uh and I should have stayed ju because our flight got delayed anyways but I was flying out of Sacramento and it was like an hour and a half late uh or hour and a half drive and I should have stuck around that was one of the craziest finishes I’ve ever seen somebody texted me and we were on a road that didn’t have service and I somehow got the text message like “Oh my god did that just happen?” And I was like “Uh oh what happened do I need play like what’s going on and I’m like there ain’t no way like the 18th hole there’s no trouble there’s no water there’s nothing like it had to be something have had to happen with and willlet and it did that I mean you I told all my friends I mean when you had that chip and had that putt I mean he was maybe a like percentage was like maybe 0.1 or 01 of him able ble to win a golf tournament i mean it’s just I I mean the odds were so crazy like it just cannot happen and it did what are What are the rules if uh if they both just tanked it and you’re on the road and you’re supposed to be in a playoff would you get like 10 minutes to get back or something uh yeah I I don’t think I would have been able to make it oh did um do you carry that expectation kind of going back to that that nervous that new nervous of having the expectation now that you’re a an official PGA Tour member do you carry that expectation and do you add pressure to yourself by wanting to lock it up sooner um yeah sometime sometimes I do and then uh you try to get it out of your head as fast as possible i mean there’s so many different thoughts that uh go into your head i mean golf is like I grew up playing all the sports basketball baseball like golf is the hardest mentally because of the timing i think like a round of golf out there is probably four and a half hours sometimes five if the weather is bad and there’s just so much time for thoughts to go in and out of your head and that’s why you see uh things that happen to Danny will like like there’s so they can happen so easily just by controlling your thoughts it’s it’s it’s crazy in your body the way it feels dayto day changes um it’s it’s something uh that I kind of knew i mean just kind of nerves and stuff that cause it but it’s mainly like your thoughts like your heart rate start changes everything changes it’s it’s truly amazing like how different your body can feel sometimes in a golf tournament dayto day like it’s it’s crazy how do you deal with stuff like that did you since you played sports did you did you put yourself into competition did you put yourself in pressure situations it’s not like uh Yeah uh like growing up and stuff I would gamble on the golf course which is uh I think is great because it gives you that pressure aspect hey I need to make this putt or do this like it gives you those like uh thoughts and I think they’ve helped me prepare for moments like these like you’re always going to fail like everybody does um but yesterday was pretty special uh just being able to birdie the last two holes kind of when I need to when I don’t have like the greatest status and uh stuff like that but I mean I’m going to mess it up again sometime in the future and then I’m gonna I’m gonna make up for it somewhere else so that’s just golf and uh that’s just how it goes well it’s a hell of a start um we’re talking to Taylor Montgomery here he’s PJ remember just got his card this is his first official year on tour you played your co collegiate golf at the at UNLV and you and your I read you and your father were the only two uh son combo to ever play for Coach Knight yeah yeah that’s awesome my uh dad was a pretty good player as well uh he was a good ball striker he could never putt so I’m glad Wait are you the better putter and then he’s the better ball striker or how does this go yeah I would definitely say so for sure so did you uh like talk about your relationship with your dad and and your golf relationship with him did you Did he teach you as your original uh coach for you and inspiration oh yeah yeah i probably I would have never got into golf if it wasn’t for him and Shadow Creek and the guys that I met out there uh I mean he got me into like little games like probably when I was 13 just gambling for $5 on the golf course but it felt like a million and I just loved that feeling of like the little nerves and stuff that you had to do something and that’s what made me fall in love with the game but my dad and I have a good relationship we talk a lot of trash to each other and stuff like that people sometimes take it the wrong way they think we hate each other but that’s not how it is like him and I just like to talk trash right i like talking trash too eddie could attest to that yeah we you got to talk trash to your buddies on tour i mean that actually is do you um when you get into a good group of a guys that you’ve ever that you’ve played with a lot of rounds with whether it be corn ferry or I mean a PGA tour do you guys do are you a talker on the golf course do you kind of stick to you and your caddy and just head down focused not not not really in tournaments but like a fun round back home and stuff i don’t think there’s one second that goes by that somebody’s not saying something offensive to somebody else like it’s just it’s just how it is well you I mean your co your collegiate golf you played gosh almost in the mecca of college golf with you know Vegas and you got Phoenix there then you got LA just you know a drive away um talk about college golf and and how how that experience kind of shaped who you are as as a pro now uh yeah ever since like I’d say high school I knew that I wanted to play professional golf so when I was in college I wasn’t the the greatest player uh I had a few ups i won a tournament in Colorado and that was pretty much it uh but I was I I practiced harder than everybody else in my opinion and that really I just stuck with it and I eventually uh figured out how to hit it straight because I couldn’t keep the ball and play in college so that was that was the main difference that’s a lot of college golfers i I played in a small school and there were very few guys that weren’t trying to hit a hero shot every time yeah exactly i played aggressive and I swung at about 10 miles an hour faster than I do now uh but couldn’t couldn’t find the map what’s a what’s a So would you say putting is the best part of your game yeah I would say I’m known for that i feel like I’m a pretty good wedge player from like 80 to 130 yards as well i’d say that’s another uh big strength of mine what was your Did you have an aha moment when you you said you’re not that you you weren’t that good in college so what made you kind of like say “Hey let’s dial it back down and I need to do this if I really want to get to this next level.” Did you did you have that gosh I know I’m really good but what do I need to do what talk about that a little bit yeah I found a a coach in Texas that I really liked i worked with a lot of other guys and uh I mean there’s never really a quick fix but I just didn’t uh like him as much as I liked John Sinclair and Dallas uh he’s really helped me with everything um mainly ball striking with the driver and uh my iron play of recent for sure very cool so a crazy season if I would have told you Taylor at the beginning of the 2022 season you’re not going to win and you’re still going to get your card would you have believed that my dad and I had arguments about this the whole beginning of the year i told him how crazy he was that I I needed to win to get my card like it’s almost impossible because the points are so low and sure enough it was maybe the first time in his life he’s ever been right and he So you you believe that you did have to win but he’s like “No you don’t have to win you just have to play consistently.” Yeah yeah he’s like “All you got to do is There’s always no best i’m like you know how hard that is i was like you know how hard that is to top 10 every week and uh and I was like why don’t you just win one or two and go on but I mean they’re they’re both hard it’s obviously really hard to win but he was definitely right with that one well apparently you don’t know how hard it is because you did it you did it seem like with ease i mean we weren’t out there watching you every day but uh you seemed I was texting with Mike after your uh you shot 64 on Saturday at the Boyisey Open and then the next week you shot 64 on Saturday and I’m like I think Taylor really likes to play golf on Saturday do Do you have like It’s so weird do you have a spe a thing that you wake up on a Saturday and is it like the the the rush of moving day or something or No idea um and then like the Sundays I would shoot like one or two under and couldn’t get anything going and then this week I felt like on Saturday I couldn’t get anything going and then Sunday was a super low one i I I don’t know like golf is just so weird uh like with I mean sometime sometimes you feel like you don’t play that great and you score really well and then other times you feel like wow I hit it really good today and you just don’t score um I don’t know it’s just golf is very weird yeah talk about your relationship with your caddy oh he’s great uh it’s uh a a new guy who’s been with me five weeks now okay uh his name’s Darren Ward uh I’ve grown up playing golf with him i’ve known him since the Phil Ivy days out at Shadow Creek and uh he caddies out there and we’d have gambling matches together and um he’s a great dude don’t don’t tell him I said that but he he is a good dude i I won’t he Well we’re not gonna have him listen to this then all right hold on a second i got to follow up there phil Ivy days so there’s some stories there for obviously the people that might not know who Phil Ivy is he’s a professional poker player um if I’m talking about the Phil Ivy that you’re talking about yeah okay that’s what I thought that’s him so did you guys play with Phil and and if you did what what were the stakes um I never really played golf with him when I was younger okay uh but the first time I met him my dad and I pulled into Shadow Creek and we could hear this car coming down the the street and it just sounded like a sick car and we heard that he played a guy for a million dollars on one hole out there and um he ended up winning obviously and he pulls up and I couldn’t have been more than 11 12 years old and he throws me the keys and he’s like uh he wanted me to go drive it down the street my dad and I ended up driving it but he’s like “Hey look what this guy bought me yesterday because he beat him on the ninth pole.” But wow he’s like “Oh I like that’s how that’s how those guys were they they’ win money and they I mean they’d go out and buy something just to piss the other guy off and be like “Hey look what your money bought me thank you.” Wow it’s just it it was uh pretty cool to uh see that and we had that thing going like 140 on the side street no cars around but sure i mean it was it was a pretty sweet uh thing and that’s I mean that was right around the time I’m like “Wow I want to play golf and I want to get a really nice car right guess that beats uh me rubbing the hamburger in that I bought with my buddies with money.” Okay what’s the most you’ve ever won as a nonpro like before you even turned pro with your buddies um as of like I’ve played probably a decent game maybe like three or 4 thousand from guys like I’ve never played like a really really big game nothing because they like I feel like a lot of the guys they would like to play me but they don’t want to beat me out of like five 10,000 uh or anything they don’t want to get into that stuff i mean now they probably be like “All right I’m now they do beat you for like five.” Yeah I know uh so I never really played like big games but they felt like they felt big to me because I didn’t really have any money so uh but that’s how I kind of got started in golf and that’s what interest me the most was the gambling aspect of the game did you ever win those and you pull up in your used Civic to rub rub it in their faces yeah exactly did you ever go back a as an uh an older kid to play Phil Ivy well I I saw him a couple years ago and uh he said this was the last time that he ever plays with me i had a 12-footer on hole eight we were playing nine holes i had a 12-footer on eight out at Shadow Creek and he was running his mouth like he always does and uh I was playing with my buddy Kurt as well and he’s like “All right Hot Shot since you’re so good $1,000 even money from it was like 10 12 feet.” And I was like “You got it.” Because I I knew what like the putt did and stuff well I ended up making it so he gave me the thousand all in 20s uh right right there on the spot yeah right there on the spot of course he had it in his pocket and then we go to hole nine and I hit it about 15 feet and then he gave me like a little better i mean 15footer is not 50/50 so I think I got uh two to one odds which is terrible odds anyways and and uh so I had that for the double or nothing basically but I got two to one odds and I made that one as well so I beat him out of three uh 3,000 and two putts and that was the last time I saw him you should call him again yeah I know i’m sure I’ll see him sometime soon oh I love it he’s Taylor McGomery and he’s taken $3,000 of Phil Ivy’s money that’s That’s a first on Rough Fairways i love it man all right so you got a week off president’s Cup this week uh you going to play Sanderson yep yeah I’m playing Sanderson playing pretty much everything I can get into in the fall for sure sure walk us through a week a day in the life of Taylor Montgomery on tour uh do you have like a Are you a routine guy do you show up you know 15 minutes putting chipping then range uh like tournament play or just like proams and stuff like that yeah like a tournament typically I get to the course two hours early and either have breakfast or lunch like sit around and then warm up for like an hour and 20 minutes and then kind of go uh and then after that if if I don’t have if I have a morning round I’ll practice a little bit in the afternoon but uh it’s pretty tiring uh playing tournament golf especially two three weeks in a row it’s pretty hard on your uh body to like performance-wise like it’s hard to play really good golf uh because you’re walking eight nine miles a day and swinging a club and uh it gets it gets tough after a while have you changed I mean I know this is I guess just your first tournament have you changed or do you think you need to change anything about your preparation now that you’re on the PGA tour versus the way you did things on Cornferry um I don’t think so well this year I am going to change because I don’t know any of the golf courses so I’m going to try to play in a lot of the Monday proams gotcha and just so I can uh see 18 holes of the course early and then kind of rest on Wednesday because I won’t be in the uh proams there um and then Tuesday probably practice and play nine holes the nine holes that I think is like tougher for me sure let’s expand on that what’s tougher to you what do you mean by that like is is that how the course is set up or Yeah just by like how like which nine do I think is uh like the harder harder nine uh I’ll play that one or like more tricky I guess like more demanding shots uh I’ll try to play that one more so than the other on Tuesday you got a travel buddy you uh travel with your caddy um don’t really tra I mean we travel sometimes like flights and stuff uh but no I typically have my like own hotel room and kind of do my own thing and we’ll go get dinner and stuff like that i’ll go eat with some of the uh players and stuff like that but nothing like completely set up and repetitive you going to take the camaraderie that you guys typically have on the corn ferry tour to the PJ tour or is it is it all business now i mean obviously it’s fun of course you guys are all have that same goal to get your your cards and you made friends on the Cornferry tour and you probably have PGA Tour friends but is it is it a different mindset or or do you guys still have that cuz Mike and I have been interviewing some Cornfairy guys for the last year and it it just seems like a really really good like frat camaraderie everybody’s on the same team to to get the to get their cards no it is uh we all had fun at orientation uh last week as well uh there wasn’t a guy on the cornfair tour that I didn’t like um we all get along they’re great dudes and um obviously in tournament time we’re all trying to beat each other but we’re all friends as well so it’s it’s uh it’s it’s it golf is a little different in that aspect of the game you’re not trying to beat somebody’s brains in as much like physically right well I that’s the one thing I like about golf even just playing amongst friends like you want to if you win you want to win because you played your best against someone else’s best you’re not hoping for someone to tank so that you can win you know you’re not happy if you win because you just played the best out of everybody who played terrible that day yeah and at the same time you guys are all you know your own bosses and trying to like you said beat each other’s brains in and and still have that that friendship remain intact and there’s there’s no hard feelings of course but it’s just it’s all it’s it’s just golf right at the end of the day right yeah exactly like the only ones that can control our shots like we’re we are technically playing against them but it’s not like a reaction sport where you’re actually reacting to the other player and what they’re doing um it it’s all on you and yeah we talk bunch of crap to each other and stuff like that but at the end of the day we’re we’re still friends absolutely uh what’s the best advice you’ve ever received from a fellow pro um that’s a tough one i’m not sure yet i’d have to think about that one okay it’s still it’s still a work in progress when we have you on after you win um then you can answer that all right i will all right so what’s the goal this year obviously to to to get your card um and to maintain your and to to keep your card job security as you said um h how do you mentally how are you just going to approach that are you just going to head down process versus results and and let it happen then you’re going to get a a text from Jay Monahan or the communicate PGA Tour communications going “Hey you wrapped up your card or you you already Yeah yeah i’m going to kind of just play week to week and see what happens but I’d really like to make it to East Lake at the end of the year i think that would be um a really good really good year um it it’s going to be tough but uh it definitely helps with the start that I had last week does so we have this uh running it’s a I don’t know what it is it’s It could be magic it could just be a joke here on Rough Fairways but it’s the podcast bump and when we invited you on before you started your tournament and everybody that comes on this podcast after they are on the podcast they typically do very very well so the fact I hope that continues for sure it it will Taylor so but the fact that you you we we invited you on before Fortnite and then you placed third it was like a pre-podcast bump already yeah we don’t want to take too much credit so we’re not trying to take too much credit but I’m just saying you’re welcome yeah no that’s true that is true uh let’s do some quick hitters here what’s the last shot that you that gave you nightmares the last shot that gave me nightmares in in tournament play um h that’ definitely be probably the well when I was playing really bad was the 16th hole at Victoria National or the 14th or the 17th or the 18th i mean that golf entire back nine yeah i I I mean I don’t know that that course and I just don’t get along all right i I know what your favorite club in the bag is so what’s your second favorite club uh I don’t know i I kind of like chipping as well what’s your favorite non-p putter in the bag probably like a a 60 degree or a driver uh the others are kind of kind of boring i guess it would be either driver or 60 yeah yeah when’s the last time you paid for a round of golf um not that long ago where did I uh somewhere in Arizona i think uh just went down there and I think it was like $80 or something so you ever you ever get the feeling now that you’re a PGA tour member you can just kind of pull your card out and just as you’re like you’re you’re grabbing for your Visa and go “Oh oh what’s that?” and then just have it fall out or something no just pull literally the PGA Tour card out of your You guys take this card no I would never do that but uh you’re too nice of a guy to do that i don’t know yeah I don’t want to be an arrogant type who Who’s the best Who’s the best dressed on tour best dressed i have no idea uh no clue all right who’s your Who’s your Mount Rushmore of golfers um I’d say probably uh Tiger Woods Phil Mickelson [Music] and two more probably Arnold Palmer and then I don’t really watch Jack play but I I’d probably like to watch him so I’d probably pick Jack as well down there yeah all right let’s say 20 30 years when we’re all older we’re watching the Masters who’s your honorary starters for the Masters i would say Paul Azinger and Colt No both of those guys nice i love it all right you’re commissioner for the day you get to pick one rule in golf you get to change what what are you picking one rule oh man there’s so many of them why can I not think about it uh what is a dumb rule i think 90% of them are dumb but yeah there’s there’s some Oh there’s one the one that’s really weird is like say your driver breaks or like cracks if you have or like let’s say your uh like yeah your driver head breaks and you have your backup driver head in your golf bag you can’t play it it has to be in your locker um and then somebody has to go to your locker and grab the driver head and they have to bring it out to you um I think that’s a really weird weird rule that is weird um which it’s like rules you would never even think of but it happened to Justin S during uh Omaha the Omaha Cornferry event and luckily he had his driver back at his hotel room and somebody went and grabbed it but he wouldn’t have been able to play it if he had his driver shaft like in his bag or something like that it’s It’s very odd to me i will say you have picked one of the more obscure rules out of all the times we’ve asked that question yeah we always talk rules on the show i don’t know if you’ve listened to any of the sh uh previous episodes and you probably haven’t but yeah we always like to talk rules on this show and just cuz I think there’s so many there’s so many rules that you don’t even know i didn’t even know that rule existed and no so it’s silly it’s weird and like they change them all the time but sometimes they don’t change the right ones yeah eight times out of 10 we usually get the divots in the fairway rule are you a fade or you play a draw uh I try to play a draw but it kind of fades i’m trying I’m trying to get it to go right to left what do you prefer Treeeline golf courses or links uh I would say definitely treeine golf courses okay would you rather play in the wind or the rain definitely the wind the the rain like in golf carts it sounds nice but uh like with the umbrella and the towels and it it’s just a pain in the ass front pen or back pin uh depends on if the greens are firm or soft front pen if they’re soft uh back pin if they’re firm i like that that’s the first qualifying answer there that’s right never had anybody think through that one no they just answer it i like that one course for the rest of your life you get to play for free uh definitely Shadow Creek nice man no i’m still looking at that stats of the of of this last year that you had you closed the season with seven top 10s in your final eight starts and then you also finished second on the tour in all-around ranking did you know that yeah yep and like the uh scoring average was Yeah 68.36 for me which was nice yeah and birdie average yeah yeah are you are you a stats guy do you keep track of your stats not really no are you a scoreboard watcher uh not really no okay just head down and and get the job done and then if you win somebody’s going to tell you you won yeah pretty much i mean I’ll look at it and like the last like if I if like I see it and stuff um it doesn’t really uh bug me you just never know what can happen i mean the guy could birdie the last two or he can bogey the last two like there’s so many different things that can happen three feet do you have a playoff record have you ever played in the playoff uh like a a Yeah I’ve played in a couple playoffs like in a tournament or Yeah yeah just like like a tour event yeah yep yeah like a corn ferry event i played in a playoff and there was three of us and he birdied our first hole that was and I lost yep that was that so So how are you are you are you a flyer or a a driver around to tournaments are you going to take your car to drive or you you just going to fly everywhere and just No I’m just going to fly everywhere okay uh we kind of go all over the place maybe for the West Coast swing I’ll I’ll drive but uh other than that you kind of have to fly sure well if NetJets is listening Taylor needs a sponsorship we’ve talked to them they’re they’re pretty they’re pretty expensive even with the logo on the chest more than people think oh yeah but yeah they need to come down in price for sure i hope they’re listening who who are your who are your sponsors Taylor who helps you out uh Diamonte is going to be a sponsor i have Ascendant National uh Pelaton not the not the bike oh but uh and then uh MGM Rewards is obviously a huge um sponsor and then there’s new ones up and coming uh hopefully that I’ll have uh by the end of this year can you talk about that process i mean is it are they reaching out to you or do you have a manager are you Yeah just talk about that yeah I have an agent um he does a really good job it’s It’s crazy all the stuff that has to happen and you hear a lot of things like “Oh this person’s going to give you this or this person’s going to do that.” And a lot of times it never ends up happening but uh I mean it’s still great just to get to know the guys and maybe a relationship or sponsorship can happen in the future that’s awesome well he’s Taylor Montgomery uh he is a an official PGA Tour member uh this year your first year your first full year on tour uh Taylor before we let you go I want to know how golf has changed your life um I feel like as a kid it’s definitely changed my life you never know like what path you’re going to take in life and um like golf kept me on and golf and basketball kept me on like the straight and narrow uh no drugs no nothing i mean uh I’ve been a pretty good kid up to this point that’s for sure uh and I think golf has just gave me something to focus on to kind of not let me steer off the wrong path really so hopefully more kids can uh learn to love a sport and just stick with it and not listen to all the people telling them they can’t do something and hopefully they just continue to do it and prove them [Music] wrong rough Fairways is produced by Eddie Dunn and Mike Cells damn that story about Phil Ivy and taking his money that’s going to be a first on this show taylor thanks again for the stories good luck for the rest of the year for Mike I’m Eddie we are Rough Fairways coming up in the next couple of weeks we got PGA Tour player Philip Nolles and some more surprised guests you just got to tune in listeners appreciate your support have a nice weekend enjoy go play some golf get outside and please be kind to each other [Music] [Music]