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And we started relating it to Scottie Scheffler
and what he said before the Open Championship,
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where golf is not the most important thing in
his life.
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If he were to stop playing golf, he would be
absolutely fine, and it's funny because I kinda
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went through that too, where for a week, almost
two weeks, I would say, I just completely
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stopped playing golf.
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Did not pick up a club.
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Through this process, part of it was because
I'm so swamped at the agency right now, which
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is a great thing, being busy on that side of
things.
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We even had a little bit of a hiccup through
this process where I couldn't train for a week.
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However, with everything I have over that
90-day period, I just wanna tell you, I got a
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DEXA scan done, which if you don't know what a
DEXA scan is, you get all your information
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about your body when it comes to just fat, how
much fat you have.
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It gives you a 3D rendering as to where the fat
is on your body.
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My DEXA scan showed that I had lost 12 pounds
of fat.
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Twelve pounds of fat while maintaining my lean
mass and muscle mass, which both increased
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slightly.
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He's been awesome throughout this process with
giving me the guidance that I need and really,
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you know, it's funny because when you think of
the mental side of the game, I always kinda
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looked at it as, oh, you need like a mental
performance coach.
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You need somebody good there.
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The golf coach is just as much a part of the
mental aspect as well with you.
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I'm really building that confidence and so
forth.
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So I give a shout out to Josh.
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Thank you so much for everything that you do
and you've done for me.
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I'm greatly appreciative of it.
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Welcome back, everybody, to Pull Hook Golf the
podcast.
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I'm your host, Matt Cook.
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And tonight, it is just me.
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It is a solo episode, and it's something that I
preach to all podcasters that, hey, if you can
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do a solo episode, it is the most difficult
thing to do as a podcast, as a show, and
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something that especially if you don't script
it.
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Right?
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If you don't script a solo episode, it becomes
very challenging, very difficult, even more
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difficult to do live, which we are doing right
now.
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And no, this is not scripted in the least.
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So this is gonna be a fun episode.
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It's gonna be a little bit of a test, but at
the same time, I wanted to take one episode to
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kinda take you guys through.
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We have kind of a lull within the golf space
right now when it comes to tournaments.
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We're getting prepped up, ready to go for the
Ryder Cup.
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We just had the Procore Championship this past
weekend.
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And truth be told, it was a little bit
anticlimactic.
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So we will talk about that at the very end of
this episode.
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We'll talk about the ramifications from that
outcome, and we'll get into that side of things
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as well.
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However, we do have a bit of an agenda here
tonight, which we're going to be going over a
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few things.
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And one of those things ends up being my
personal 5 a.m.
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comeback, and that's why, for instance, I
decided, hey, you know what?
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Just gonna give myself the mic tonight, we're
gonna go ahead and have this broke down or
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broken down.
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I don't know the exact term there, but we will
get this.
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Really, a lot of people have been asking me
because I haven't been posting as much content
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in regards to my daily routines and so forth.
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That's going to start to pick back up a little
bit, I believe.
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And I just wanna talk to you guys a little bit
about that on tonight's episode.
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But before we do, I wanna give a shout-out to
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They've got a cardigan, they've got polos.
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side of things with the polo next week, so
you'll be seeing that.
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I use the speaker all the time, just over my
left side here.
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And that thing is unreal.
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It's the G-ROK speaker.
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I also use the golf magnet.
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If you go under their golf section, they've got
this stand that you just—it's a golf shaft, you
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pop it into the ground, but it's MagSafe, it
connects to their cases as well as to an
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iPhone.
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you can record yourself.
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I use it all over the place.
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I use it for my mobility stuff with Stark
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I use it for the personal training sessions
that are virtual as well.
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because it attaches to anything metal and then
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you just pop your phone on there, makes it easy
for recording content.
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comeback stuff that you see is probably being
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Alright.
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Special episode because today's Day 90, folks.
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I've been doing this for 90 days straight for
the 5 a.m.
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comeback over at Stark Health.
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There have been a lot of partners within this
with me, so I don't want to sit here and say
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I've done it all myself.
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I have figured it out.
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It is all me.
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All I've done is followed exactly what I've
been told.
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I have eaten what they've told me to eat or not
eat, and I have also done all the training
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sessions that they've asked.
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We even had a little bit of a hiccup through
this process where I couldn't train for a week.
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However, with everything, I have over that
90-day period.
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I just want to tell you, I got a DEXA scan
done, which if you don't know what a DEXA scan
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is, you get all your information about your
body when it comes to just fat, how much fat
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you have, it gives you a 3D rendering as to
like where the fat is on your body.
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My DEXA scan showed that I had lost 12 pounds
of fat.
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12 pounds of fat while maintaining my lean mass
and muscle mass, which both increased slightly
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through that process.
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I will say Todd Vande Hei, who is the CEO and
founder of Stark out in California, him along
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with his team of doctors, nutritionists,
chiropractors, and trainers really are the
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difference makers here.
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I have done personal training.
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You have seen people that I've brought on for
golf-specific training, which I absolutely love
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and I believe in.
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So when it comes to golf performance and so
forth, working out, getting your body right,
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for me, this is a transformation.
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So I needed something to go even further, and
that's where the doctors, nutritionists,
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chiropractors really come into play, as well as
their training program.
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They've built me, and they can build it for any
type of athlete or anybody that's looking to
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get back into sports.
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I know there are a lot of executives out there
that listen to this podcast that are like, hey,
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how's that 5 a.m.
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comeback coming along?
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You know, are you still training?
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I haven't missed a beat when it comes to the
training side of things.
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And I will just say like the results, yeah, I'm
blown away by the results.
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And here's the great part, we're only getting
started.
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So as this continues, I'm gonna be posting more
content, especially as I learn more.
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That's the one thing about this podcast, I
don't know if everybody has known is that I am
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an observer and I'm a learner.
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I just will try to be a sponge to everything I
possibly can, which is why commenting on and
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providing you with my observations about
professional golf and the game is one of the
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most—and I know this isn't a word—but the
funnest parts of this entire podcast.
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I love being able to take my knowledge, what
I'm actually seeing, what I've been taught,
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what I've been told, looking at different
opinions, and breaking it down from my point of
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view and my perspective.
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So the same thing's gonna happen with the 5
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comeback from the teachings and trainings from
not only the personal trainers, but from Todd
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himself.
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And if you do wanna learn more about Todd Van
Ehn as well as Stark Health, he's got a great
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podcast called Health is a Skill.
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I've never understood the name of that podcast
until I started going through the training and
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I'm like, wow.
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I had no idea my diet was this screwed up.
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I had no idea that my body was in this bad of
condition, like getting all my blood work and
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labs done and everything.
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I can't, I can't tell them enough and I just go
to L.A. or
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or actually, Newport Beach is where I go train
with Stark Health.
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And they've got another location right there in
Tustin as well.
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But doing it virtually, I go in once a month in
person just to make sure I get the blood work
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done.
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I get a DEXA scan.
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I train.
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I get mobility done with the neuromuscular
chiropractor.
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That's one of the most important things as a
golfer.
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Being able to move your body in the way that
you need to, and I'm still not there from a
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mobility standpoint.
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So again, as I kind of go through this process,
I'll be sharing with you a lot around just my
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observations and the way that I view certain
things within this and what's important, just
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so that I will show you the pathway if you're
somebody that wants to start getting back to a
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healthy standpoint.
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Like I know there's a lot of golfers out there
that, you know, aren't necessarily at the peak
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of their health and want to get back into it
and want to play better.
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So that's going to become part of not only this
podcast but the content that comes out around
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the 5 a.m.
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comeback.
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But I do also want to give a shout-out to some
of my partners along the way.
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So not just Stark Health, but Trot Golfer who's
on here right now.
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I want to give a shout-out to him.
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I saw him earlier today, was out there getting
a golf lesson from him.
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He's been awesome throughout this process,
giving me the guidance that I need.
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And really, you know, it's funny because when
you think of the mental side of the game, I
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always kind of looked at it as, oh, you need
like a mental performance coach.
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You need somebody good there.
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The golf coach is just as much a part of the
mental aspect as well with you.
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Really building that confidence and so forth.
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So I give a shout-out to Josh's name.
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Thank you so much for everything that you do
and you've done for me.
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I'm greatly appreciative of it.
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Also want to shout out Jones Sports Co, which
they have been with me kind of from early on.
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I mean, when Bobby Brown was a co-host on this
show and he was a PGA Tour caddy, he was the
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one that connected me with Jones Sports and
they've been great ever since.
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So they're my golf bag now and I absolutely
love it.
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So definitely check them out when you get a
chance.
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Custom Golf AZ.
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My guy, Ruben, over there who has refinished my
golf clubs.
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Some people are like, wow, you're playing
really old blades, Titleist blades.
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They've been refinished.
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They look gorgeous.
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And full shoutout to him.
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He's been doing clubs for me for a while now.
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Also helped me with the fitting with my driver
and getting that all dialed in, which today,
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like, Trot will tell you, it was absolutely
dialed today with the driver.
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Did not miss many fairways out there when we
were going around and we happened to, as a
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team, just a little update around the grass
league and how that training is going and
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everything.
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I will say that my goals and priorities with
all of this have kind of shifted a little bit
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and it's bigger than golf with this 5 a.m.
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comeback.
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The one thing that I will mention is that we
went out there today as a two-man team and shot
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six under through nine holes.
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So we missed a reasonable eagle putt and two
really reasonable birdie putts.
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There was one birdie putt that we missed from
long range.
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But that being said, yeah, I'm getting to the
point where I'm getting excited about golf and,
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you know, everything, as I mentioned, is bigger
than golf.
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It kind of started out as, hey, I want to make
the grass league next year and be a part of a
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team and so forth.
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Now, it's really kind of shifted because I'm
like, man, after winning a member-guest, it
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really just—the winning part wasn't it for me.
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So digging a little bit deeper and making this
a little bit deeper is something that was
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certainly something that needed to happen,
naturally happen, and the evolution of it is
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currently ongoing.
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I'm starting to get some passion back around
golf and not be playing scared to where it's
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like, oh, every shot matters, it's so
important.
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And that's been a lot of work done with Dr.
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Lee Piccarello.
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Want to give a shout-out to him.
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He has been phenomenal for the mental side.
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We recently had a breakthrough this week,
actually, and it was perfect timing around it
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to where everything's evolving and really
becoming bigger, like I said, than just golf
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itself.
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Want to give a shout-out to Swing Shift Indoor
Golf Club.
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That place has been a home for me for a lot of
the training in the mornings and just has been
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great.
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Putting-wise, Wellputt, I want to give a
shout-out to them for giving me some putting
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mats.
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Shafts, KBS, best shafts in the industry,
especially in irons.
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I absolutely love them.
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So I want to give them a shout-out for
providing me with golf shafts.
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Rockform, the health side of things with Vibe.
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You might have seen, I've got a clip on
Instagram from Vibe with the Vibe device, and
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I've used that quite a bit in recovery and so
forth.
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Media production-wise, giving a shout-out to my
company Mission Matters, who I work for and run
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an agency for.
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They're doing all the media production now for
the 5AM Comeback as well as for the Pull Hook
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Golf podcast.
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And that's pretty much it.
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So I wanted to give you guys a quick update,
and I did mention a few episodes ago that, you
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know, I was filming all these Instagram stories
every single day trying to just keep up with
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everything I was doing, and it just felt like
it was becoming a burden more so than alignment
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with the actual project and everything that's
going on in the transformation.
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Now, we're starting to get back into that side
of things.
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So we're also bringing on an intern to start
filming some stuff as well.
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So we'll see.
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It's going to be, once again, this is
continuing to evolve and gets bigger and bigger
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as I go along.
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So I appreciate everybody that's reached out
about it, everybody that has, you know, gained
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something from it.
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I'm doing this for myself, and it is something
to where, like, at the end of the day, if
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nobody sees it, it doesn't matter.
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Doesn't matter.
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I'm doing it because I am somebody who wants to
better myself through this process, and so far
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it's absolutely happening.
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And I hope that that continues and the
evolution of me continues, and you guys all get
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to see it.
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And if you guys get anything out of it, that'll
be absolutely icing on top of the cake.
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With that said, as the evolution has continued
with me personally, I do want to take a moment
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and just acknowledge Charlie Kirk's death.
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I don't care.
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Here's the disclaimer.
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I don't care which side of the fence you're on
politically.
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First of all, I'm not a political person.
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I always have felt like I am Switzerland when
it comes to it.
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And when it comes to my own voting style, I
have voted on both sides of the spectrum, and I
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always just go with whoever is the best
candidate at the time.
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So I do not belong to either party.
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So I want to make that very, very clear, you
know, as we get into this discussion.
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Because this is something that with Charlie
Kirk's death and the assassination of Charlie
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Kirk, it's transcended politics.
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It's made its way into the golf world.
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Phil Mickelson has made comments, which I know
he tends to be on the conservative side.
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You know, Matt Vincenzo, who now is part of LIV
Golf as a writer, he's made comments in regards
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to it.
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And the thing is, if you know me and you know
this show, we've been pretty, like, adverse to
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LIV after kind of embracing them early on,
trying to give them a chance.
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We've kind of moved on from them.
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And with that, those guys are obviously on the
LIV side of things with golf.
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And I fully agree with some of their comments
that they've made in regards to Charlie.
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I think it is wild that anybody who has looked
at his content and actually spent time like
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actually getting into watching full things, not
just a snippet or a quote that was taken out of
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context because that happens often in our day
and age.
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And here's my plea to everybody, is don't let
this be a moment to where you're choosing a
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side.
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This is a moment of humanity.
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This is a moment and it hit me really hard and
I don't know why.
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That's the weirdest thing, like I was not a
Charlie Kirk follower.
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I did not watch a ton of Charlie Kirk content.
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Every once in a while, it would show up in my
TikTok feed as I would post something on Pull
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Hook Golf.
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It would pop up every once in a while in my
Instagram feed.
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Like I do not spend a ton of time on social
media.
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I purposely try not to because it tends to be a
cesspool of negativity a lot of times.
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And that's where I just hope and when people
are celebrating a death of somebody, I'm just I
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look at it and I'm like, man, I feel bad for
humanity.
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I feel like I'm sad that people, you look at
this and you think this is a good thing.
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It's a horrible thing.
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And anybody in media should be saying the exact
same thing because somebody took out someone
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because of their voice, because of their
opinion.
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We live in America.
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We have the freedom of speech.
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We should be able to say what we want.
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And even if you are celebrating somebody's
death, and I get that that's part of freedom of
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speech, it's just wrong in this instance.
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It is dead wrong, but I do hope that people can
heal.
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And I do hope that those people can be
enlightened with the fact of, wow, that is
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really wrong.
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And I just hope that as humans, we can all come
together within this.
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And I do hope and look forward to hopefully a
better day to come.
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Because again, I don't know how anybody, no
matter what side you're on, can view this as a
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good thing.
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It is a devastating thing.
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And again, it has transcended into sports.
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We see the New York Yankees.
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We see the Jets.
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We see all these teams that are doing moments
of silence.
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So it's transcended politics.
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It's into sports.
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And I think that's a good thing because there
was a human being that was taken for their
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opinion, and that's something that we cannot
stand for as Americans.
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And if you do, I really hope that somehow,
someway, you can see past eventually and move
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on from that opinion and change.
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So I'll leave it as that.
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But it is wild as I've kind of been like, now I
see more of the sides to everything when it
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comes to politics, which I've never done
before.
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Again, this is not a political show.
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We've never talked politics outside of
potentially a golf swing of Donald Trump.
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Right?
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I don't like politics per se.
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I'm not into it, but seeing the sides very
divided when it not only comes to this, but
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it's like, wow.
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It's eye-opening to the whole thing.
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And it's kind of changed my perspective on the
game of golf as well, when it comes to PGA
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Tour, LIV Golf, and just like, wow.
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Like, the division is not good.
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That is not good in the game of golf.
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It's not good in America.
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It's not good in politics.
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And again, I just hope that at some point, as
humans, we can look at each other as humans.
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Like I always looked at the dividing gulf as
kind of being an entertainment piece.
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Like I never really sat there and took it all
that serious.
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I know some people did.
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Like some people have just an absolute hatred
for the other side, but that was never the
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intent.
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It was always for entertainment purposes on
this show anyways.
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And it's like, it's okay to have an opinion and
not like something, but to hate something and
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be divided from it, that's where I draw the
line personally.
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So again, this is an interesting solo episode
where I just felt compelled to have this
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conversation.
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And if that makes us lose followers, listeners,
I don't care.
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Because that is not what I'm doing this for.
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And I will say that, like, that was something
where especially over the past year or so, you
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get so kind of drawn into numbers and trying to
grow the show and everything.
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And I'm just, it's really, I'm past that in a
lot of ways.
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And it's like, these are some of the important
topics that I feel like.
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And just so that you know that, hey, like this
is affecting more so than just the people you
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think it might be.
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Moving on.
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Twosome golf.
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Finally, right?
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Finally, some golf beyond my personal 5 a.m.
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comeback, beyond the terrible tragic
assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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Getting into the Pro Court Championship, one of
the coolest tournaments I feel like that
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doesn't get enough.
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I feel like it's at the wrong time of year too.
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It's just like, man, the season's done.
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Go up to Napa Valley.
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It's kinda like the first tournament as it's
almost like a reward for the players.
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It's like the Century Tournament that
apparently is not gonna be happening as the
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first tournament next year because of the
drought happening in Hawaii.
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I just saw that news being broke by Scratch
today, but apparently that event is getting
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canceled.
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At least not gonna be played in Hawaii.
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But a tournament that's, in my opinion, I look
at it as this is kind of a similar thing where
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it's like, hey, this is a reward for anybody
who wants to go up to Napa Valley, have a great
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weekend with their family, play some
professional golf, potentially win a bunch of
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money.
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I'd say from everything that I've heard from
players and caddies, it's a fun golf course to
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go play.
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And we had yet again, Scottie Scheffler who
decided to play because he's getting ready for
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the Ryder Cup.
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The U.S.
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team had everybody come out to Napa.
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So even Bryson showed up in Napa even though he
couldn't play and even though he had those
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comments in regards to not being able to play.
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I believe Xander Schauffele was the other one
who did not play to my knowledge.
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I did not look so hard into it before tonight's
episode around that.
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If a guy wants to take off a week, I'm okay
with that.
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Like, especially a couple before the Ryder Cup,
as long as they're getting their game in shape
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and so forth.
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And especially if they didn't think that this
tournament was going to help them prepare for
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the Ryder Cup, which it's probably not.
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It's not a similar golf course.
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Very different in that respect.
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So, nonetheless, Scottie Scheffler decides to
play, Scottie Scheffler wins.
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The bigger story here in my opinion is Ben
Griffin.
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Because this is going to be his first Ryder
Cup.
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Was selected to be on the team.
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Does he deserve it?
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Sure.
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Absolutely.
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He deserves it.
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Anybody in that top 15 I feel like deserves a
spot in the Ryder Cup and granted you can only
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get six additional picks outside of the top six
that are on the team automatically because of
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rankings.
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So Ben Griffin, all he's gotta do is two-putt
to get into a playoff with Scottie Scheffler.
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As soon as I saw him doing and stepping around
the hole in between his line on like a
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five-foot putt, maybe six feet, if I'm being
generous.
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And he's doing AimPoint and I'm like, and the
announcers are saying that this is an easy
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putt.
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Don't give away the hole.
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I'm just sitting there and he's gonna miss his
putt.
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The pressure gets to people in a certain way
and here's the thing, how bad is this going to
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hurt him heading into the Ryder Cup?
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An absolute pressure cooker of an event that's
unlike pressure you face any other time.
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It's different pressure than a major, different
pressure than trying to get a win.
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It's just different.
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You're doing it for your country.
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The fans are absolutely going berserk.
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It's match play.
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I'm just like, man, this is gonna be either a
great thing or a horrible thing that this
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happened right before the Ryder Cup.
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Man, I played so good.
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There were so many good things to do.
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Every single time from people that have been
trained mentally properly, you're going to get
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that in PR training, whether they have their
agent and their team around them.
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00:29:23,384 --> 00:29:25,545
I saw this specifically with Jordan Spieth.
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00:29:25,545 --> 00:29:27,785
He always said the right things early on.
447
00:29:27,785 --> 00:29:31,065
And he had a great team with Jay Danzi and
Jordan Lewites.
448
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:36,279
Those guys were great around him but they
helped him so much with the messaging as to
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00:29:36,279 --> 00:29:37,159
what to say.
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00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:44,134
And so I look at it especially in this
situation with Ben Griffin, I'm like, man, how
451
00:29:44,134 --> 00:29:45,894
could this be used as a good thing?
452
00:29:46,934 --> 00:29:48,294
And what's the potential?
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00:29:48,294 --> 00:29:53,815
If he doesn't handle this mentally properly,
process it properly, spins it in that positive
454
00:29:53,815 --> 00:29:58,130
way, this is gonna be a huge detriment to him
and the U.S.
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00:29:58,130 --> 00:30:03,569
team because as soon as he gets over a six-foot
putt under pressure during the Ryder Cup, you
456
00:30:03,569 --> 00:30:06,289
better believe that's gonna be running through
his head.
457
00:30:06,690 --> 00:30:09,490
Now, you may be asking me, well, Matt, how do
you do that?
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00:30:10,694 --> 00:30:14,855
Well, I will bring on at some point Dr.
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00:30:14,855 --> 00:30:15,894
Lee Picariello.
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00:30:15,894 --> 00:30:20,214
We were talking about it during our session on
Monday morning.
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00:30:20,214 --> 00:30:25,099
We always meet Monday mornings, and he gets my
week started off right.
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00:30:25,579 --> 00:30:26,859
And we were talking about this.
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00:30:26,859 --> 00:30:28,700
We were also talking about Scottie Scheffler.
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00:30:28,700 --> 00:30:30,299
We were also talking about the 5 a.m.
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00:30:30,299 --> 00:30:31,099
comeback.
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00:30:31,579 --> 00:30:36,059
And he was asking me in regards to, you know,
filming and stuff like that.
467
00:30:36,494 --> 00:30:41,055
Like, he noticed that the stories weren't as
much and so forth and we started talking about
468
00:30:41,055 --> 00:30:46,815
kind of the evolution to everything and how
it's gotten bigger than, you know, worrying
469
00:30:46,815 --> 00:30:51,769
about making a team on the grass league next
year.
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00:30:52,730 --> 00:30:54,330
Is that still one of the goals?
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00:30:54,330 --> 00:30:55,049
Absolutely.
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00:30:55,609 --> 00:31:00,169
And we started relating it to Scottie Scheffler
and what he said before the Open Championship,
473
00:31:00,730 --> 00:31:03,849
where golf is not the most important thing in
his life.
474
00:31:04,474 --> 00:31:08,315
If he were to stop playing golf, he would be
absolutely fine.
475
00:31:08,315 --> 00:31:14,555
And it's funny because I kinda went through
that too where for a week, almost two weeks, I
476
00:31:14,555 --> 00:31:17,434
would say, just completely stopped playing
golf.
477
00:31:18,070 --> 00:31:19,750
Did not pick up a club.
478
00:31:21,029 --> 00:31:27,029
Through this process, part of it was because
I'm so swamped at the agency right now, which
479
00:31:27,029 --> 00:31:29,509
is a great thing being busy on that side of
things.
480
00:31:30,404 --> 00:31:36,565
Also, taking a trip to Newport Beach to go to
Stark in person and really focusing on the
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00:31:36,565 --> 00:31:37,204
training.
482
00:31:37,205 --> 00:31:42,644
I did not pick up a club, but that was also
partially because I was saying, like, man, the
483
00:31:42,644 --> 00:31:48,890
member-guest that won, like, everything was,
like, being built up that that was so important
484
00:31:48,890 --> 00:31:49,450
at the time.
485
00:31:49,450 --> 00:31:54,490
And then not having another tournament to look
forward to immediately thereafter and start
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00:31:54,490 --> 00:31:59,210
training for, there was, like, this letdown of,
like, well, what next?
487
00:32:01,085 --> 00:32:03,884
And that made me really kinda dig deeper.
488
00:32:03,884 --> 00:32:10,045
So I've really seen how Scottie Scheffler with
that mindset, it becomes so damn powerful.
489
00:32:10,924 --> 00:32:15,485
Because now, you're not stressing over the
small stuff in a golf tournament.
490
00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:20,220
And you can just go out there and perform your
absolute best.
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00:32:20,619 --> 00:32:21,019
And Dr.
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00:32:21,019 --> 00:32:26,940
Lee Picariello talks about, with me especially,
you don't wanna be on the extreme of either
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00:32:26,940 --> 00:32:33,755
side of full excitement that this matters so
much to you, and you also don't wanna be on the
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00:32:33,755 --> 00:32:40,475
other side of it to where you are so
uninterested and it doesn't mean anything to
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00:32:40,475 --> 00:32:40,634
you.
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00:32:41,470 --> 00:32:43,950
The best performance happens right in the
middle.
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00:32:45,230 --> 00:32:50,109
And that's something with Scottie Scheffler
that we're seeing live and in action.
498
00:32:50,109 --> 00:32:56,269
And for Ben Griffin, it looked like that moment
just mattered so much to him.
499
00:32:57,375 --> 00:33:01,214
It was everything to him to try to get into
that playoff.
500
00:33:01,615 --> 00:33:06,335
And again, if all of a sudden we get to the
Ryder Cup and that comes out, now I'm a big
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00:33:06,335 --> 00:33:12,109
believer that you gotta be putting yourself in
that situation to learn enough about yourself
502
00:33:12,350 --> 00:33:16,190
and keep putting yourself in that situation
until you succeed.
503
00:33:17,230 --> 00:33:19,230
So at least he put himself there.
504
00:33:19,390 --> 00:33:19,869
Right?
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00:33:19,869 --> 00:33:22,670
And that's why I think this could end up being
a great thing for him.
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00:33:23,234 --> 00:33:28,755
And if he goes to the Ryder Cup and he
overcomes a six-foot putt under pressure that
507
00:33:28,755 --> 00:33:37,634
he has to have, that's gonna set him up for
next year and really being able to overcome and
508
00:33:37,634 --> 00:33:41,129
get that first victory or a victory, I should
say.
509
00:33:41,690 --> 00:33:42,970
Not the first victory.
510
00:33:42,970 --> 00:33:44,490
I don't think it's his first victory.
511
00:33:44,490 --> 00:33:45,450
I could be wrong.
512
00:33:45,450 --> 00:33:46,249
I wonder.
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00:33:48,169 --> 00:33:53,554
Trot, if you're on right now, if you could tell
me if Ben Griffin has won a golf tournament.
514
00:33:53,554 --> 00:33:55,075
I can't remember for the life of me.
515
00:33:55,075 --> 00:34:00,115
I feel like all of a sudden he has won, but I'm
not quite sure.
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00:34:00,115 --> 00:34:01,714
I wanna say that he has.
517
00:34:02,034 --> 00:34:07,730
So with that, that's the pro core.
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00:34:07,730 --> 00:34:09,730
That's the situation there.
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00:34:10,130 --> 00:34:17,875
I do see Scottie Scheffler just absolutely
being able to be dialed when it comes to the
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00:34:17,875 --> 00:34:18,835
Ryder Cup.
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00:34:19,394 --> 00:34:25,474
Because again, unless he just lets it get too
big in his head, I think he's gonna have a
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00:34:25,474 --> 00:34:27,315
massive Ryder Cup this year.
523
00:34:28,035 --> 00:34:30,355
But what's interesting is so the U.S.
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00:34:30,355 --> 00:34:34,989
team had everybody go out there and try to get
everybody to play in the pro core.
525
00:34:35,789 --> 00:34:43,150
Meanwhile, Europe has everybody flown into
Bethpage and you can see them as a team goofing
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00:34:43,150 --> 00:34:43,630
off.
527
00:34:43,630 --> 00:34:49,695
I think there was a clip of Tyrrell Hatton who
was about to hit a drive and all of a sudden
528
00:34:49,695 --> 00:34:51,375
somebody farts in his backswing.
529
00:34:52,175 --> 00:34:54,255
And they're just having an absolute blast.
530
00:34:54,974 --> 00:34:56,894
They are just absolutely embracing it.
531
00:34:56,894 --> 00:35:01,369
And again, it kinda goes to the individualistic
side of the U.S.
532
00:35:01,369 --> 00:35:02,089
Ryder Cup team.
533
00:35:02,089 --> 00:35:02,969
And I'm not saying the U.S.
534
00:35:02,969 --> 00:35:05,369
Ryder Cup team is doing anything wrong, by the
way.
535
00:35:05,369 --> 00:35:09,049
This is just my observation as to what I've
seen.
536
00:35:09,049 --> 00:35:15,574
It's kinda, you know, go to the pro core as
individuals, play in that as individuals, get
537
00:35:15,574 --> 00:35:17,414
your game in shape as individuals.
538
00:35:18,135 --> 00:35:22,135
You know, I don't know what they're doing for
team camaraderie in the evenings.
539
00:35:22,135 --> 00:35:24,135
Could be awesome in Napa Valley.
540
00:35:24,559 --> 00:35:29,119
You know, maybe having some dinners, drinking
some wine, getting to know each other even that
541
00:35:29,119 --> 00:35:30,000
much better.
542
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:37,835
And then gonna go over to Bethpage Black, but
the European team traveling over here going and
543
00:35:37,835 --> 00:35:40,875
practicing out at Bethpage as a team.
544
00:35:40,875 --> 00:35:42,554
They know how to do the team thing.
545
00:35:42,635 --> 00:35:43,994
That is for damn sure.
546
00:35:44,394 --> 00:35:50,489
I mean, that's one thing that I don't think is
debatable that the Europeans know how to be a
547
00:35:50,489 --> 00:35:51,050
team.
548
00:35:51,849 --> 00:35:57,130
And maybe it's from, you know, when the guys
are traveling around on the European Tour or
549
00:35:57,130 --> 00:36:02,650
the DP World Tour now, that they all had this
camaraderie to where they'd all hang out
550
00:36:02,650 --> 00:36:04,410
together, all go out together.
551
00:36:05,744 --> 00:36:09,105
That doesn't happen here in the States on the
PGA Tour, and I know a lot of these guys
552
00:36:09,105 --> 00:36:12,945
obviously have come over and they play on the
PGA Tour week in and week out.
553
00:36:13,344 --> 00:36:19,664
But they also, you know, we heard it from Bobby
Mac when he first came out on tour that it was
554
00:36:19,664 --> 00:36:23,239
very lonely, didn't enjoy, you know, traveling
around.
555
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,320
It wasn't like the European Tour.
556
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:31,719
So I don't know if that has something to do
with them and their bonding and how they, like,
557
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:37,925
work together as a team and so forth, but
that's one of the areas that I think should be
558
00:36:37,925 --> 00:36:39,045
looked at by the U.S.
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00:36:39,045 --> 00:36:43,765
Team and, you know, if there's a way to get
these guys to bond even more.
560
00:36:43,765 --> 00:36:50,940
I am very curious over this next week to dig
in, learn as much as possible in regards to
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00:36:50,940 --> 00:36:53,420
what's going on team-wise between the U.S.
562
00:36:53,420 --> 00:37:00,780
Ryder Cup team, the European team, and then to
report back to you guys, bringing on Buttsy and
563
00:37:00,780 --> 00:37:06,514
Brent and really getting into the Ryder Cup on
next Tuesday's episode.
564
00:37:07,155 --> 00:37:14,195
So really until then, I want everybody to just
be a good human being.
565
00:37:15,074 --> 00:37:21,359
I mean, that's what I'm striving to be at this
point in life is just to be the best version of
566
00:37:21,359 --> 00:37:22,559
me that I can be.
567
00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:26,159
And that was the big breakthrough this week is
realizing, oh, wow.
568
00:37:26,159 --> 00:37:26,800
Yeah.
569
00:37:27,039 --> 00:37:29,359
Golf is not the most important thing.
570
00:37:29,359 --> 00:37:30,239
Not for me.
571
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,239
Really shouldn't be for anybody.
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Peace out.
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A-Town down.
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,559
And we started relating it to Scottie Scheffler
and what he said before the Open Championship,
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where golf is not the most important thing in
his life.
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00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:14,240
If he were to stop playing golf, he would be
absolutely fine, and it's funny because I kinda
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00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:20,695
went through that too, where for a week, almost
two weeks, I would say, I just completely
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00:00:20,695 --> 00:00:22,054
stopped playing golf.
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Did not pick up a club.
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Through this process, part of it was because
I'm so swamped at the agency right now, which
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is a great thing, being busy on that side of
things.
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We even had a little bit of a hiccup through
this process where I couldn't train for a week.
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However, with everything I have over that
90-day period, I just wanna tell you, I got a
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DEXA scan done, which if you don't know what a
DEXA scan is, you get all your information
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about your body when it comes to just fat, how
much fat you have.
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It gives you a 3D rendering as to where the fat
is on your body.
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My DEXA scan showed that I had lost 12 pounds
of fat.
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Twelve pounds of fat while maintaining my lean
mass and muscle mass, which both increased
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slightly.
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He's been awesome throughout this process with
giving me the guidance that I need and really,
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you know, it's funny because when you think of
the mental side of the game, I always kinda
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looked at it as, oh, you need like a mental
performance coach.
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You need somebody good there.
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The golf coach is just as much a part of the
mental aspect as well with you.
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I'm really building that confidence and so
forth.
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So I give a shout out to Josh.
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Thank you so much for everything that you do
and you've done for me.
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I'm greatly appreciative of it.
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Welcome back, everybody, to Pull Hook Golf the
podcast.
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I'm your host, Matt Cook.
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And tonight, it is just me.
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It is a solo episode, and it's something that I
preach to all podcasters that, hey, if you can
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do a solo episode, it is the most difficult
thing to do as a podcast, as a show, and
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something that especially if you don't script
it.
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Right?
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If you don't script a solo episode, it becomes
very challenging, very difficult, even more
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difficult to do live, which we are doing right
now.
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And no, this is not scripted in the least.
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So this is gonna be a fun episode.
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It's gonna be a little bit of a test, but at
the same time, I wanted to take one episode to
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kinda take you guys through.
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We have kind of a lull within the golf space
right now when it comes to tournaments.
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We're getting prepped up, ready to go for the
Ryder Cup.
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We just had the Procore Championship this past
weekend.
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And truth be told, it was a little bit
anticlimactic.
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So we will talk about that at the very end of
this episode.
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We'll talk about the ramifications from that
outcome, and we'll get into that side of things
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as well.
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However, we do have a bit of an agenda here
tonight, which we're going to be going over a
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few things.
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And one of those things ends up being my
personal 5 a.m.
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comeback, and that's why, for instance, I
decided, hey, you know what?
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Just gonna give myself the mic tonight, we're
gonna go ahead and have this broke down or
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broken down.
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I don't know the exact term there, but we will
get this.
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Really, a lot of people have been asking me
because I haven't been posting as much content
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in regards to my daily routines and so forth.
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That's going to start to pick back up a little
bit, I believe.
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And I just wanna talk to you guys a little bit
about that on tonight's episode.
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side of things with the polo next week, so
you'll be seeing that.
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I also wanna give a shoutout to Rokform,
they've been unreal with us and folks, use the
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promo code PULLHOOK2025 over there for any
speakers, phone cases.
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I know the iPhone 17 just came out.
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iPhone 17, iPhone Air, and then also the iPhone
17 Pro.
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Awesome cases over at rokform.com.
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Once again, PULLHOOK2025 is your promo code for
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I use the speaker all the time, just over my
left side here.
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It's the G-ROK speaker.
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I also use the golf magnet.
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If you go under their golf section, they've got
this stand that you just—it's a golf shaft, you
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pop it into the ground, but it's MagSafe, it
connects to their cases as well as to an
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iPhone.
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you can record yourself.
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I use it all over the place.
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I use it for my mobility stuff with Stark
Health.
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I use it for the personal training sessions
that are virtual as well.
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And I gotta tell you, it makes it a breeze
because it attaches to anything metal and then
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you just pop your phone on there, makes it easy
for recording content.
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So all the 5 a.m.
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comeback stuff that you see is probably being
recorded using a particular product.
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Alright.
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Special episode because today's Day 90, folks.
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I've been doing this for 90 days straight for
the 5 a.m.
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comeback over at Stark Health.
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There have been a lot of partners within this
with me, so I don't want to sit here and say
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I've done it all myself.
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I have figured it out.
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It is all me.
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All I've done is followed exactly what I've
been told.
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I have eaten what they've told me to eat or not
eat, and I have also done all the training
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sessions that they've asked.
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We even had a little bit of a hiccup through
this process where I couldn't train for a week.
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However, with everything, I have over that
90-day period.
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I just want to tell you, I got a DEXA scan
done, which if you don't know what a DEXA scan
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is, you get all your information about your
body when it comes to just fat, how much fat
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you have, it gives you a 3D rendering as to
like where the fat is on your body.
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My DEXA scan showed that I had lost 12 pounds
of fat.
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12 pounds of fat while maintaining my lean mass
and muscle mass, which both increased slightly
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through that process.
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I will say Todd Vande Hei, who is the CEO and
founder of Stark out in California, him along
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with his team of doctors, nutritionists,
chiropractors, and trainers really are the
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difference makers here.
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I have done personal training.
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You have seen people that I've brought on for
golf-specific training, which I absolutely love
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and I believe in.
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So when it comes to golf performance and so
forth, working out, getting your body right,
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for me, this is a transformation.
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So I needed something to go even further, and
that's where the doctors, nutritionists,
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chiropractors really come into play, as well as
their training program.
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They've built me, and they can build it for any
type of athlete or anybody that's looking to
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get back into sports.
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I know there are a lot of executives out there
that listen to this podcast that are like, hey,
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how's that 5 a.m.
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comeback coming along?
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You know, are you still training?
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I haven't missed a beat when it comes to the
training side of things.
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And I will just say like the results, yeah, I'm
blown away by the results.
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And here's the great part, we're only getting
started.
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So as this continues, I'm gonna be posting more
content, especially as I learn more.
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That's the one thing about this podcast, I
don't know if everybody has known is that I am
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an observer and I'm a learner.
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I just will try to be a sponge to everything I
possibly can, which is why commenting on and
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providing you with my observations about
professional golf and the game is one of the
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most—and I know this isn't a word—but the
funnest parts of this entire podcast.
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I love being able to take my knowledge, what
I'm actually seeing, what I've been taught,
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what I've been told, looking at different
opinions, and breaking it down from my point of
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view and my perspective.
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So the same thing's gonna happen with the 5
a.m.
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comeback from the teachings and trainings from
not only the personal trainers, but from Todd
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himself.
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And if you do wanna learn more about Todd Van
Ehn as well as Stark Health, he's got a great
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podcast called Health is a Skill.
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I've never understood the name of that podcast
until I started going through the training and
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I'm like, wow.
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I had no idea my diet was this screwed up.
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I had no idea that my body was in this bad of
condition, like getting all my blood work and
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labs done and everything.
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I can't, I can't tell them enough and I just go
to L.A. or
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or actually, Newport Beach is where I go train
with Stark Health.
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And they've got another location right there in
Tustin as well.
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But doing it virtually, I go in once a month in
person just to make sure I get the blood work
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done.
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I get a DEXA scan.
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I train.
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I get mobility done with the neuromuscular
chiropractor.
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That's one of the most important things as a
golfer.
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Being able to move your body in the way that
you need to, and I'm still not there from a
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mobility standpoint.
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So I'm still super tight, super wound up when
it comes to the strain of the muscles and so
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forth.
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So again, as I kind of go through this process,
I'll be sharing with you a lot around just my
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observations and the way that I view certain
things within this and what's important, just
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so that I will show you the pathway if you're
somebody that wants to start getting back to a
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healthy standpoint.
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Like I know there's a lot of golfers out there
that, you know, aren't necessarily at the peak
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of their health and want to get back into it
and want to play better.
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So that's going to become part of not only this
podcast but the content that comes out around
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the 5 a.m.
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comeback.
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But I do also want to give a shout-out to some
of my partners along the way.
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So not just Stark Health, but Trot Golfer who's
on here right now.
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I want to give a shout-out to him.
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I saw him earlier today, was out there getting
a golf lesson from him.
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He's been awesome throughout this process,
giving me the guidance that I need.
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And really, you know, it's funny because when
you think of the mental side of the game, I
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always kind of looked at it as, oh, you need
like a mental performance coach.
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You need somebody good there.
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The golf coach is just as much a part of the
mental aspect as well with you.
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Really building that confidence and so forth.
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So I give a shout-out to Josh's name.
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Thank you so much for everything that you do
and you've done for me.
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I'm greatly appreciative of it.
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Also want to shout out Jones Sports Co, which
they have been with me kind of from early on.
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I mean, when Bobby Brown was a co-host on this
show and he was a PGA Tour caddy, he was the
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one that connected me with Jones Sports and
they've been great ever since.
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So they're my golf bag now and I absolutely
love it.
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So definitely check them out when you get a
chance.
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Custom Golf AZ.
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My guy, Ruben, over there who has refinished my
golf clubs.
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Some people are like, wow, you're playing
really old blades, Titleist blades.
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They've been refinished.
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They look gorgeous.
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And full shoutout to him.
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He's been doing clubs for me for a while now.
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Also helped me with the fitting with my driver
and getting that all dialed in, which today,
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like, Trot will tell you, it was absolutely
dialed today with the driver.
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Did not miss many fairways out there when we
were going around and we happened to, as a
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team, just a little update around the grass
league and how that training is going and
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everything.
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I will say that my goals and priorities with
all of this have kind of shifted a little bit
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and it's bigger than golf with this 5 a.m.
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comeback.
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The one thing that I will mention is that we
went out there today as a two-man team and shot
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six under through nine holes.
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So we missed a reasonable eagle putt and two
really reasonable birdie putts.
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There was one birdie putt that we missed from
long range.
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But that being said, yeah, I'm getting to the
point where I'm getting excited about golf and,
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you know, everything, as I mentioned, is bigger
than golf.
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It kind of started out as, hey, I want to make
the grass league next year and be a part of a
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team and so forth.
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Now, it's really kind of shifted because I'm
like, man, after winning a member-guest, it
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really just—the winning part wasn't it for me.
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a little bit deeper is something that was
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certainly something that needed to happen,
naturally happen, and the evolution of it is
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currently ongoing.
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I'm starting to get some passion back around
golf and not be playing scared to where it's
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like, oh, every shot matters, it's so
important.
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Lee Piccarello.
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Want to give a shout-out to him.
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He has been phenomenal for the mental side.
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We recently had a breakthrough this week,
actually, and it was perfect timing around it
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to where everything's evolving and really
becoming bigger, like I said, than just golf
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itself.
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Want to give a shout-out to Swing Shift Indoor
Golf Club.
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That place has been a home for me for a lot of
the training in the mornings and just has been
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great.
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Putting-wise, Wellputt, I want to give a
shout-out to them for giving me some putting
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mats.
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Shafts, KBS, best shafts in the industry,
especially in irons.
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I absolutely love them.
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So I want to give them a shout-out for
providing me with golf shafts.
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Rockform, the health side of things with Vibe.
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You might have seen, I've got a clip on
Instagram from Vibe with the Vibe device, and
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I've used that quite a bit in recovery and so
forth.
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Media production-wise, giving a shout-out to my
company Mission Matters, who I work for and run
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an agency for.
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They're doing all the media production now for
the 5AM Comeback as well as for the Pull Hook
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Golf podcast.
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And that's pretty much it.
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So I wanted to give you guys a quick update,
and I did mention a few episodes ago that, you
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know, I was filming all these Instagram stories
every single day trying to just keep up with
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everything I was doing, and it just felt like
it was becoming a burden more so than alignment
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with the actual project and everything that's
going on in the transformation.
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Now, we're starting to get back into that side
of things.
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So we're also bringing on an intern to start
filming some stuff as well.
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It's going to be, once again, this is
continuing to evolve and gets bigger and bigger
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as I go along.
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So I appreciate everybody that's reached out
about it, everybody that has, you know, gained
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something from it.
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I'm doing this for myself, and it is something
to where, like, at the end of the day, if
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nobody sees it, it doesn't matter.
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Doesn't matter.
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I'm doing it because I am somebody who wants to
better myself through this process, and so far
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it's absolutely happening.
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And I hope that that continues and the
evolution of me continues, and you guys all get
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to see it.
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And if you guys get anything out of it, that'll
be absolutely icing on top of the cake.
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With that said, as the evolution has continued
with me personally, I do want to take a moment
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and just acknowledge Charlie Kirk's death.
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I don't care.
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Here's the disclaimer.
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I don't care which side of the fence you're on
politically.
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First of all, I'm not a political person.
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I always have felt like I am Switzerland when
it comes to it.
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And when it comes to my own voting style, I
have voted on both sides of the spectrum, and I
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always just go with whoever is the best
candidate at the time.
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So I do not belong to either party.
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So I want to make that very, very clear, you
know, as we get into this discussion.
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Because this is something that with Charlie
Kirk's death and the assassination of Charlie
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Kirk, it's transcended politics.
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It's made its way into the golf world.
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Phil Mickelson has made comments, which I know
he tends to be on the conservative side.
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You know, Matt Vincenzo, who now is part of LIV
Golf as a writer, he's made comments in regards
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to it.
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And the thing is, if you know me and you know
this show, we've been pretty, like, adverse to
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LIV after kind of embracing them early on,
trying to give them a chance.
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We've kind of moved on from them.
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And with that, those guys are obviously on the
LIV side of things with golf.
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And I fully agree with some of their comments
that they've made in regards to Charlie.
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I think it is wild that anybody who has looked
at his content and actually spent time like
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actually getting into watching full things, not
just a snippet or a quote that was taken out of
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context because that happens often in our day
and age.
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And here's my plea to everybody, is don't let
this be a moment to where you're choosing a
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side.
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This is a moment of humanity.
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This is a moment and it hit me really hard and
I don't know why.
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That's the weirdest thing, like I was not a
Charlie Kirk follower.
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I did not watch a ton of Charlie Kirk content.
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Every once in a while, it would show up in my
TikTok feed as I would post something on Pull
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Hook Golf.
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It would pop up every once in a while in my
Instagram feed.
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Like I do not spend a ton of time on social
media.
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I purposely try not to because it tends to be a
cesspool of negativity a lot of times.
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And that's where I just hope and when people
are celebrating a death of somebody, I'm just I
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look at it and I'm like, man, I feel bad for
humanity.
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I feel like I'm sad that people, you look at
this and you think this is a good thing.
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It's a horrible thing.
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And anybody in media should be saying the exact
same thing because somebody took out someone
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because of their voice, because of their
opinion.
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We live in America.
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We have the freedom of speech.
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We should be able to say what we want.
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And even if you are celebrating somebody's
death, and I get that that's part of freedom of
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speech, it's just wrong in this instance.
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It is dead wrong, but I do hope that people can
heal.
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And I do hope that those people can be
enlightened with the fact of, wow, that is
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really wrong.
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And I just hope that as humans, we can all come
together within this.
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And I do hope and look forward to hopefully a
better day to come.
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Because again, I don't know how anybody, no
matter what side you're on, can view this as a
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good thing.
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It is a devastating thing.
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And again, it has transcended into sports.
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We see the New York Yankees.
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We see the Jets.
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We see all these teams that are doing moments
of silence.
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So it's transcended politics.
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It's into sports.
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And I think that's a good thing because there
was a human being that was taken for their
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opinion, and that's something that we cannot
stand for as Americans.
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And if you do, I really hope that somehow,
someway, you can see past eventually and move
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on from that opinion and change.
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So I'll leave it as that.
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But it is wild as I've kind of been like, now I
see more of the sides to everything when it
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comes to politics, which I've never done
before.
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Again, this is not a political show.
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We've never talked politics outside of
potentially a golf swing of Donald Trump.
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Right?
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I don't like politics per se.
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I'm not into it, but seeing the sides very
divided when it not only comes to this, but
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it's like, wow.
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It's eye-opening to the whole thing.
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And it's kind of changed my perspective on the
game of golf as well, when it comes to PGA
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Tour, LIV Golf, and just like, wow.
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Like, the division is not good.
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That is not good in the game of golf.
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It's not good in America.
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It's not good in politics.
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And again, I just hope that at some point, as
humans, we can look at each other as humans.
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Like I always looked at the dividing gulf as
kind of being an entertainment piece.
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Like I never really sat there and took it all
that serious.
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I know some people did.
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Like some people have just an absolute hatred
for the other side, but that was never the
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intent.
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It was always for entertainment purposes on
this show anyways.
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And it's like, it's okay to have an opinion and
not like something, but to hate something and
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be divided from it, that's where I draw the
line personally.
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So again, this is an interesting solo episode
where I just felt compelled to have this
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conversation.
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And if that makes us lose followers, listeners,
I don't care.
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Because that is not what I'm doing this for.
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And I will say that, like, that was something
where especially over the past year or so, you
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get so kind of drawn into numbers and trying to
grow the show and everything.
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And I'm just, it's really, I'm past that in a
lot of ways.
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And it's like, these are some of the important
topics that I feel like.
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And just so that you know that, hey, like this
is affecting more so than just the people you
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think it might be.
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Moving on.
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Twosome golf.
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Finally, right?
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Finally, some golf beyond my personal 5 a.m.
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comeback, beyond the terrible tragic
assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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Getting into the Pro Court Championship, one of
the coolest tournaments I feel like that
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doesn't get enough.
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I feel like it's at the wrong time of year too.
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It's just like, man, the season's done.
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Go up to Napa Valley.
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It's kinda like the first tournament as it's
almost like a reward for the players.
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It's like the Century Tournament that
apparently is not gonna be happening as the
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first tournament next year because of the
drought happening in Hawaii.
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I just saw that news being broke by Scratch
today, but apparently that event is getting
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canceled.
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At least not gonna be played in Hawaii.
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But a tournament that's, in my opinion, I look
at it as this is kind of a similar thing where
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it's like, hey, this is a reward for anybody
who wants to go up to Napa Valley, have a great
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weekend with their family, play some
professional golf, potentially win a bunch of
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money.
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I'd say from everything that I've heard from
players and caddies, it's a fun golf course to
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go play.
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And we had yet again, Scottie Scheffler who
decided to play because he's getting ready for
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the Ryder Cup.
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The U.S.
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team had everybody come out to Napa.
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So even Bryson showed up in Napa even though he
couldn't play and even though he had those
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comments in regards to not being able to play.
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I believe Xander Schauffele was the other one
who did not play to my knowledge.
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I did not look so hard into it before tonight's
episode around that.
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If a guy wants to take off a week, I'm okay
with that.
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Like, especially a couple before the Ryder Cup,
as long as they're getting their game in shape
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and so forth.
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And especially if they didn't think that this
tournament was going to help them prepare for
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the Ryder Cup, which it's probably not.
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It's not a similar golf course.
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Very different in that respect.
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So, nonetheless, Scottie Scheffler decides to
play, Scottie Scheffler wins.
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The bigger story here in my opinion is Ben
Griffin.
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Because this is going to be his first Ryder
Cup.
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Was selected to be on the team.
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Does he deserve it?
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Sure.
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Absolutely.
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He deserves it.
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Anybody in that top 15 I feel like deserves a
spot in the Ryder Cup and granted you can only
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get six additional picks outside of the top six
that are on the team automatically because of
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rankings.
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So Ben Griffin, all he's gotta do is two-putt
to get into a playoff with Scottie Scheffler.
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As soon as I saw him doing and stepping around
the hole in between his line on like a
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five-foot putt, maybe six feet, if I'm being
generous.
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And he's doing AimPoint and I'm like, and the
announcers are saying that this is an easy
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putt.
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Don't give away the hole.
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I'm just sitting there and he's gonna miss his
putt.
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The pressure gets to people in a certain way
and here's the thing, how bad is this going to
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hurt him heading into the Ryder Cup?
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An absolute pressure cooker of an event that's
unlike pressure you face any other time.
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It's different pressure than a major, different
pressure than trying to get a win.
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It's just different.
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You're doing it for your country.
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The fans are absolutely going berserk.
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It's match play.
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I'm just like, man, this is gonna be either a
great thing or a horrible thing that this
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happened right before the Ryder Cup.
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Man, I played so good.
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There were so many good things to do.
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Every single time from people that have been
trained mentally properly, you're going to get
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that in PR training, whether they have their
agent and their team around them.
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I saw this specifically with Jordan Spieth.
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He always said the right things early on.
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And he had a great team with Jay Danzi and
Jordan Lewites.
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Those guys were great around him but they
helped him so much with the messaging as to
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what to say.
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And so I look at it especially in this
situation with Ben Griffin, I'm like, man, how
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could this be used as a good thing?
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And what's the potential?
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If he doesn't handle this mentally properly,
process it properly, spins it in that positive
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way, this is gonna be a huge detriment to him
and the U.S.
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team because as soon as he gets over a six-foot
putt under pressure during the Ryder Cup, you
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better believe that's gonna be running through
his head.
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Now, you may be asking me, well, Matt, how do
you do that?
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Well, I will bring on at some point Dr.
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Lee Picariello.
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We were talking about it during our session on
Monday morning.
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We always meet Monday mornings, and he gets my
week started off right.
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And we were talking about this.
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We were also talking about Scottie Scheffler.
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We were also talking about the 5 a.m.
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comeback.
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And he was asking me in regards to, you know,
filming and stuff like that.
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Like, he noticed that the stories weren't as
much and so forth and we started talking about
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kind of the evolution to everything and how
it's gotten bigger than, you know, worrying
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about making a team on the grass league next
year.
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Is that still one of the goals?
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Absolutely.
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And we started relating it to Scottie Scheffler
and what he said before the Open Championship,
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where golf is not the most important thing in
his life.
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If he were to stop playing golf, he would be
absolutely fine.
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And it's funny because I kinda went through
that too where for a week, almost two weeks, I
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would say, just completely stopped playing
golf.
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Did not pick up a club.
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Through this process, part of it was because
I'm so swamped at the agency right now, which
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is a great thing being busy on that side of
things.
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Also, taking a trip to Newport Beach to go to
Stark in person and really focusing on the
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training.
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I did not pick up a club, but that was also
partially because I was saying, like, man, the
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member-guest that won, like, everything was,
like, being built up that that was so important
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at the time.
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And then not having another tournament to look
forward to immediately thereafter and start
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training for, there was, like, this letdown of,
like, well, what next?
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And that made me really kinda dig deeper.
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So I've really seen how Scottie Scheffler with
that mindset, it becomes so damn powerful.
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Because now, you're not stressing over the
small stuff in a golf tournament.
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And you can just go out there and perform your
absolute best.
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And Dr.
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Lee Picariello talks about, with me especially,
you don't wanna be on the extreme of either
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side of full excitement that this matters so
much to you, and you also don't wanna be on the
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other side of it to where you are so
uninterested and it doesn't mean anything to
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you.
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The best performance happens right in the
middle.
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And that's something with Scottie Scheffler
that we're seeing live and in action.
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And for Ben Griffin, it looked like that moment
just mattered so much to him.
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It was everything to him to try to get into
that playoff.
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And again, if all of a sudden we get to the
Ryder Cup and that comes out, now I'm a big
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believer that you gotta be putting yourself in
that situation to learn enough about yourself
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and keep putting yourself in that situation
until you succeed.
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So at least he put himself there.
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Right?
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And that's why I think this could end up being
a great thing for him.
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And if he goes to the Ryder Cup and he
overcomes a six-foot putt under pressure that
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he has to have, that's gonna set him up for
next year and really being able to overcome and
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get that first victory or a victory, I should
say.
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Not the first victory.
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I don't think it's his first victory.
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I could be wrong.
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I wonder.
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Trot, if you're on right now, if you could tell
me if Ben Griffin has won a golf tournament.
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I can't remember for the life of me.
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I feel like all of a sudden he has won, but I'm
not quite sure.
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I wanna say that he has.
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So with that, that's the pro core.
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That's the situation there.
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I do see Scottie Scheffler just absolutely
being able to be dialed when it comes to the
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Ryder Cup.
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Because again, unless he just lets it get too
big in his head, I think he's gonna have a
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massive Ryder Cup this year.
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But what's interesting is so the U.S.
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team had everybody go out there and try to get
everybody to play in the pro core.
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00:34:35,789 --> 00:34:43,150
Meanwhile, Europe has everybody flown into
Bethpage and you can see them as a team goofing
526
00:34:43,150 --> 00:34:43,630
off.
527
00:34:43,630 --> 00:34:49,695
I think there was a clip of Tyrrell Hatton who
was about to hit a drive and all of a sudden
528
00:34:49,695 --> 00:34:51,375
somebody farts in his backswing.
529
00:34:52,175 --> 00:34:54,255
And they're just having an absolute blast.
530
00:34:54,974 --> 00:34:56,894
They are just absolutely embracing it.
531
00:34:56,894 --> 00:35:01,369
And again, it kinda goes to the individualistic
side of the U.S.
532
00:35:01,369 --> 00:35:02,089
Ryder Cup team.
533
00:35:02,089 --> 00:35:02,969
And I'm not saying the U.S.
534
00:35:02,969 --> 00:35:05,369
Ryder Cup team is doing anything wrong, by the
way.
535
00:35:05,369 --> 00:35:09,049
This is just my observation as to what I've
seen.
536
00:35:09,049 --> 00:35:15,574
It's kinda, you know, go to the pro core as
individuals, play in that as individuals, get
537
00:35:15,574 --> 00:35:17,414
your game in shape as individuals.
538
00:35:18,135 --> 00:35:22,135
You know, I don't know what they're doing for
team camaraderie in the evenings.
539
00:35:22,135 --> 00:35:24,135
Could be awesome in Napa Valley.
540
00:35:24,559 --> 00:35:29,119
You know, maybe having some dinners, drinking
some wine, getting to know each other even that
541
00:35:29,119 --> 00:35:30,000
much better.
542
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:37,835
And then gonna go over to Bethpage Black, but
the European team traveling over here going and
543
00:35:37,835 --> 00:35:40,875
practicing out at Bethpage as a team.
544
00:35:40,875 --> 00:35:42,554
They know how to do the team thing.
545
00:35:42,635 --> 00:35:43,994
That is for damn sure.
546
00:35:44,394 --> 00:35:50,489
I mean, that's one thing that I don't think is
debatable that the Europeans know how to be a
547
00:35:50,489 --> 00:35:51,050
team.
548
00:35:51,849 --> 00:35:57,130
And maybe it's from, you know, when the guys
are traveling around on the European Tour or
549
00:35:57,130 --> 00:36:02,650
the DP World Tour now, that they all had this
camaraderie to where they'd all hang out
550
00:36:02,650 --> 00:36:04,410
together, all go out together.
551
00:36:05,744 --> 00:36:09,105
That doesn't happen here in the States on the
PGA Tour, and I know a lot of these guys
552
00:36:09,105 --> 00:36:12,945
obviously have come over and they play on the
PGA Tour week in and week out.
553
00:36:13,344 --> 00:36:19,664
But they also, you know, we heard it from Bobby
Mac when he first came out on tour that it was
554
00:36:19,664 --> 00:36:23,239
very lonely, didn't enjoy, you know, traveling
around.
555
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,320
It wasn't like the European Tour.
556
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:31,719
So I don't know if that has something to do
with them and their bonding and how they, like,
557
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:37,925
work together as a team and so forth, but
that's one of the areas that I think should be
558
00:36:37,925 --> 00:36:39,045
looked at by the U.S.
559
00:36:39,045 --> 00:36:43,765
Team and, you know, if there's a way to get
these guys to bond even more.
560
00:36:43,765 --> 00:36:50,940
I am very curious over this next week to dig
in, learn as much as possible in regards to
561
00:36:50,940 --> 00:36:53,420
what's going on team-wise between the U.S.
562
00:36:53,420 --> 00:37:00,780
Ryder Cup team, the European team, and then to
report back to you guys, bringing on Buttsy and
563
00:37:00,780 --> 00:37:06,514
Brent and really getting into the Ryder Cup on
next Tuesday's episode.
564
00:37:07,155 --> 00:37:14,195
So really until then, I want everybody to just
be a good human being.
565
00:37:15,074 --> 00:37:21,359
I mean, that's what I'm striving to be at this
point in life is just to be the best version of
566
00:37:21,359 --> 00:37:22,559
me that I can be.
567
00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:26,159
And that was the big breakthrough this week is
realizing, oh, wow.
568
00:37:26,159 --> 00:37:26,800
Yeah.
569
00:37:27,039 --> 00:37:29,359
Golf is not the most important thing.
570
00:37:29,359 --> 00:37:30,239
Not for me.
571
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,239
Really shouldn't be for anybody.
572
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And until next time, everybody.
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Peace out.
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A-Town down.
