A friendship between PGA golfer Josh Teater and University of Kentucky Baseball coach Nick Mingione developed that helped Teater get his Tour card for the 3rd time in his career. All with the help of the GOOD Chain.
The first connection between Josh terer and Nick Mone was in 2018 Josh was at the barbasol championship and went through a mutual friend for a simple ask I didn’t have a hat uh sponsor and I was just wearing you know hats that I kind of told something about me came to the
Right person baseball coach like we have access to caps right after terer and his family moved back to Kentucky from Georgia Josh took his sons to menon’s baseball camp and then they officially met in person he’s like I’m I’m Josh terer I’m like Josh deer man this is
You you know like he said you know even still that day we walk around the facility a little bit show some Stu Josh was an all City baseball player and still has a love for the game but it’s golf that has provided for his family
Josh was on the PGA tour from 2010 until he lost his tour card in 2014 he continued on the web.com tour and got that tour card back in 2018 for three more years then he had to go back to work on the corn fairy tour to try and
Make it back that’s when terer and Mone met for a 2-hour lunch and their relationship went to another level yeah I remember him asking me like I noticed You’ made cut in the last three augusts like why is that and I mean some people would think why you would why would you
Ask that but that was a fair question like you know I play so long so much I play seven eight weeks in a row and that’s kind of the end of the year and you’re kind of pressing and things like that so it kind of got me thinking in
Ways that maybe I hadn’t thought before then in September of 2023 terer was playing well on the corn fairy he needed to finish in the top 30 by the end of the year to earn that tour card back at the age of 44 three tournaments from the
End of the year just outside of Nashville Mion went down to watch terer play he missed the cut with a 71 in the second round Mion stayed with Teeter and his caddy Joe musong a Lafayette and fellow Morehead grad in a home that they’d rented out for the week and then
Things elevated more as Mion and Joe went through some more numbers me today yeah like we missed the cut by like I mean he came back with a I remember a measuring tape and it was like 18 in is what they came up with how
Close I was to shooting you know 6 4 instead of 72 with two tournaments to play Mone felt Teeter needed just one final nudge to accomplish his goal of getting back on the PGA tour in one of those early meetings they watched a Joo willink video entitled good and menio
Built off of that with help from his son and we got these styrofoam like little Bas layer cakes and and we went and got these prongs and these good so we went and got these Joo drinks so that’s like the aluminum from the Jo drink and we buil like tropy yeah and we’ve
Got the engineering wasn’t the best on the original good cup it kind of started to fall apart so Teeter made some modifications I went to Lowe’s at 10:00 one night and got a big heavy chain and took some of the words off or the letters off there and you know it’s it’s
Still kind of I guess transitioning you know I don’t know when the final product will show up but we’ve got part of it right here in this backpack I mean let see yeah do you want to wear it I mean you think I do I do because I I want to
Be good today do you think you’ve won it yet today whether or not it was the trophy the chain or the change in attitude with good being the Mantra terer completed the goal of earning his PGA Tour card for the third time on the final few holes of his final tournament
In Newberg Indiana he knocked in this putt from just off the green to birdie and then got a par on 18 to finish in the top 30 and get the chance to sport the good chain in his celebration put your mind in the right place do the
Right things um have a good plan have good people around you and it can all be good and for the UK baseball coach to have a part in helping teer get back on the tour well it was special but we both uh you know want to support
Our families and like everybody and uh I think it’s just been an awesome connection and um one of the great reasons uh we’re back in Kentucky
