WEBVTT - Episode 70: Matt McCarty 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.320 The guys from paying They've kind of showed me how 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:03.800 much the equipment matters. 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:05.760 I just love that I can hit any shot. 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:07.440 I kind of want we're gonna be able to tell 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:09.480 some fun stories about what goes on here to help 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:10.600 golfers play better golf. 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:14.640 Hey, hey, everybody, welcome back to the Pinging proven Grounds podcast. 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.439 Shane Bake and Marty Jerts in a second appearance for 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:20.320 mister Mat McCarty. You're like a now a podcast regular. 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:22.439 Yeah, yeah, no, happy to be back on. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:27.360 Twenty twenty five. I know this season, I know maybe 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:28.720 you haven't played as good at golf as you play, 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:30.200 But I want to go back to twenty twenty four 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.200 for a bit, because you know, you have this breakout, 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:34.400 You're on the corn Ferry Tour, you flip to the 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.919 PGA Tour, you win pretty much instantly. Have you had 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:41.800 time to like process twenty twenty four like and just 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:43.640 you do you have time like this winner to just 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.519 sit back and go like what I was able to do, 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:47.920 how I was able to play, Like if you had 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:49.239 any time to kind of think about. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:49.920 It, Yeah, definitely. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:51.920 I mean I think when you're kind of just going 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.200 like that, it just kind of everything happens and you're 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.120 just playing good golf and everything kind of snowballs on itself. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.000 But uh yeah, definitely to kind of you know, reminisce 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:01.760 a little bit, but also kind of think about like 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.000 what I'm doing well or what I was doing well, 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.039 like what I need to kind of keep doing, keep 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.520 improving and working on. And uh was a good off season. 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.600 A little shorter than I was used to, but that 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.280 was all all positive, So it's good. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.320 What is like the definition of off season Like, yeah, it's. 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.240 Only in a few weeks. Yeah, yeah, this year, I 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:21.039 mean it flew by. 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.760 It seemed like it was just like it's six weeks, 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.440 but it flew by in a couple So yeah, it 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.320 was good. I mean a lot a lot of sitting 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.560 on the couch watching football after twenty nine events in 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:30.920 a year. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.839 But yeah, no, it was fun. 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.199 Nice to you know, spend time with family and friends 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.319 and just kind of you know, not be bouncing around 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.559 city of city every week, is you know, kind of nice. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:40.680 But uh yeah, it's good. 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.040 What what what type of practicing training? What did you 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:45.840 kind of do during the off season here? 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:47.720 I think a lot of just kind of out, you know, 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.120 my body was kind of a little run down after 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.600 last season, so just trying to kind of recover a 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.240 little bit a little bit like strength training, get back 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.640 in the gym, lift some weights and but yeah, and 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.400 then just kind of give yourself some time to rest, 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.720 I think like mentally as well, just kind of turn 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:04.480 turn your prain off from golf a little bit. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.440 But yeah, Yeah, it was good, and I spend the holidays. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.200 And you know, excited to kind of you know, get 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.600 going out here too and be right back in it. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.080 We were talking before you got going about you shooting 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.320 fifty nine. You said your fourth professional tournament, Is that 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.240 what you said? Or fourth professional round is that right? 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.320 Like turn Yeah, fourth professional tournament in the Wyoming stayed open. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:23.760 Yeah, and you said, you know, one of the hardest 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.160 things we've talked a lot about. It is a cliche 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.000 and professional golfs like the round after and you're like, 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:28.240 you know, you go out there and you shoot even 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.359 I'm assuming in a way you start twenty twenty five, 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.960 you have this incredible twenty twenty four and it's like 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:35.760 back to the grind, you know. You hear players talk 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:37.840 about the first one on the PGA Tour and then 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:39.960 Thursday comes around and it's you know, you're even again, right, 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.400 You're like tied with everybody else. Has it been difficult 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.000 to kind of jump start twenty twenty five after what 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.480 happened last season or have you been energized to get 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:49.520 the year going now? 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.440 I mean, I think got kicked in the teeth a 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.600 little bit early at Centric. I mean, shooting like six 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:55.800 under Friday, I think, and I played okay, and you 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:56.520 just get. 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:57.680 A lapped by that entire field. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.359 But uh, yeah, No, it's been good, and I think 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.400 it's definitely different out here. You know, the courses are 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.600 a little bit more challenging. Obviously, the caliber of other 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:06.800 players is higher. 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.799 So yeah, you're a little off out here and you 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:11.359 kind of can get exposed a little bit. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.239 But you know, it's exciting and dream come true to 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.880 be out here, and especially like growing up in Phoenix 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.000 and starting on the West Coast swing, like very comfortable, 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.680 kind of getting some events in California, went to college 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.639 there and haven't really played you know, tournaments there in 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.160 the last three years. So it's been been a lot 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.880 of fun to kind of be background home and background 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:30.040 a lot of like friends and family. 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:30.720 Two, it has been good. 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.560 You've I think shooting fifty nine, you got the capability 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.880 of going low. How does that like? And then you're 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.760 talking about century where the scores are really really low, obviously, 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.360 talk about that mindset of like continue to make birdies. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.720 I mean when you won last fall, what you were 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:49.280 twenty four under, twenty three I think twenty three under. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.240 So like, just what's it like to kind of be 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.400 in those tournaments where you have to keep making birdies, 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.080 keep making birdies, shoot six seven unders a day? 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:58.480 Yeah, I mean you kind of just got to keep 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.880 looking at the pin and just visualize seeing it go close, 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.920 but really like not really kind of think about where 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.400 you're at and literally like each hole is kind of 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:09.240 its own thing, and you know, once you get to 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.160 like five six seven under, I think that's the thing 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:12.840 that you learn a lot, or at least I learned 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.000 a lot on the corn Ferry Tour. I mean, you know, 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.640 you shoot three four under out there and you're kind 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.200 of getting laps. You kind of got to learn how 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.800 to shoot you know, six seven eight nine hunderbar a 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.359 lot of times, and you know it's very important to 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.440 kind of just keep the pedal down when you're out 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.280 there and on a good day and then days when 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:29.800 you're kind off just kind of figure out how to 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:31.080 scrape something around out there. 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:32.960 What do you think when you look back on twenty 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:34.920 twenty four, the run you had on the corn Ferry Tour, 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:36.800 you win the three times, and then you went on 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.479 the PGA Tour, when you took some time to kind 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.680 of think back to the season, how I played all 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.040 the good stuff? What do you think you did the best? Like, 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.599 what was the part of your game mentally, physically, whatever 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.080 the case may be that you feel like took you 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:50.760 to that place. 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.000 Honestly, I think more than anything, and a lot of 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:54.760 what I've been talking about with like a lot of 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.120 people on my team the last few weeks is just 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.640 just I was just playing golf, like very simil put 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.440 but not like you know, thinking about golf swing, not 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.320 thinking about like my stroke putting, but just kind of 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.760 trying to visualize each shot, commit and just kind of 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.520 hit it as close as you can, try. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.240 To make the ball in the hole as quickly as possible. 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.240 But I mean, just that joy that comes with that 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.520 of just playing the game, and just playing golf in 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.400 general I think is super important for me. But also 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.760 like to have success and just kind of that freedom 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.480 that comes with that is uh usually the best thing 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:25.719 for me. 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:26.039 Yeah. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.039 I mean, like Marty, we had this window. You know, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.400 we're do the Corn Ferry Tour, you know, on TV, 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.080 and I remember mad I think he won a couple 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.839 of times at this point. Maybe we're like in Utah 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:36.320 or something, and we have him in the window, and 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.000 I was pumped because, like, you've been played so well, 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:39.680 and you know, I've known Mat for a while and 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:41.760 you played okay in the opening round. You might have 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.479 shot like one under and like all right, you know, 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.080 I mean it's fine. You know, he's having a good 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.360 season whatever. Like the next day you shot like ten under, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.080 and I'm like, oh, I he is having fun. Like 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.320 this is really fun right now. When you're able to 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.159 even when the round's not going your way or the 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:54.760 opening round's not going your way, you were able to 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:56.880 kind of like walk back in And that stretch has 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.960 to be the best golf you played in your life, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:05:59.960 that run on the Corn Fairy. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:01.960 Yeah, and I think too, like like you said, I mean, 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:03.919 you shoot like one under the first round on pretty 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.160 easy course in Utah, and it's like you can't put 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.640 too much emphasis on like how you're playing, Like sometimes 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.480 you play good and you just kind of the scores 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.720 aren't there, and then it's like, you know, you come 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:15.560 out the next day, and that's a great part about 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.480 golf is you know you always got another chance the 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.400 next day and a ton of rounds out here. So yeah, 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.960 it's definitely good, but that mindset's definitely super important. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.000 Now, tell us a little bit about the week at 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:28.000 the Black Dozer Championship, Like showed up at the course. 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.560 It's a course nobody had played before. I know, watching 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.320 it on TV, it was amazing. You know when did 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.479 you start feeling good? Was it in the practice rounds? 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.760 After the first round? Yeah, I mean about that week. 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.719 The place is just visually very cool, like to look 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.919 at kind of the course, Like I felt good that 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.800 it was like an even playing field. I think like 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:51.400 a lot of these events early in the year too, 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:52.840 is like a lot of these guys have been out here, 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.120 you know, ten fifteen years and very comfortable with the 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.800 golf course. So kind of having that start of like 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.479 on a level playing field, and I felt like I 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.960 honestly a little bit of advantage like growing up in 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.360 the desert kind of a lot of like weird blind 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.560 t shots. You know, if you hit it offline, you're 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.840 not gonna find that golf ball. So very comfortable, like 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.680 you know environment in that aspect, but also like the 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.280 golf course itself, and then you know the weather is 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.440 a little you know, warm kind of you hit a 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.840 high one, the ball really goes. So growing up here, 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.760 you know, in Phoenix was definitely like very similar and yeah, 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.000 and that part of Utah is great. Like me and 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:28.960 my girlfriend went on trip to Zion a couple of 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:30.640 years ago, so I'd been up there before with the 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.240 Red Rocks and loved it, and yeah, it was just 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:33.920 just a lot of fun. 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:38.120 I mean, how much are vibes important to playing good golf? 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.679 Like you go to a place the week's going, well, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.680 maybe the girlfriend's there with you, Like I feel like 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.560 you're a vibes guy in general, Like are vibes massively 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.280 important for having a good week? Or can you show 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.280 up to place the golf where you don't love and 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.040 you're not it's not in your game? You can still 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:53.240 play that type of place? 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.280 Well, yeah, I mean I think it's fifty to fifty. 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:59.120 Like I think when you're comfortable, like having fun off 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.520 the course that week is definitely a lot easier. I 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.640 think a place that my vibes were pretty low was 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.640 at Colorado for TBC Colorado for the corn Ferry Event. 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.200 I'd missed the cut there two years first two years 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.160 out and then this year, you know, I think set 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.240 their fifty four hole scoring record, had like a three 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:15.800 shot lead. 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:17.840 So early into the last round. 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:19.640 But like you know, when you kind of conquer a 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.480 place that you don't feel comfortable at too, that's you know, 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.760 kind of gets it going as well, and kind of 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:27.560 that kind of gave me some confidence. Even though I 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.080 didn't win that week, definitely gave me a lot of 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.360 confidence kind of moving forward and the rest of the season. 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.640 But yeah, I mean it's always fun, like when you're. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:37.680 You know, being in San Diego is a lot better 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.199 than being in Springfield, Illinois. 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:40.800 So the vibes has been a lot better out here 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:41.560 onto it last. 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.880 But what's been the biggest change? I Mean, we ask 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:45.800 players they graduate from the Corn Ferry Tour to the 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.160 PJA Tour this a lot, like what's the one thing 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.000 that stood out or what's the one thing that's been 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.960 mastly different? As you've kind of started twenty twenty five, 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:54.080 and you've got a chance to play in some of 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.920 the really big boy events. Like what's the thing? Doesn't 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:58.960 necessarily have to be a big thing, but what's something 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.600 that stood out to you that's wow, this is way 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.280 different than what I've experienced a pro golfer at this point. 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:04.600 Yeah. 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:06.600 I mean, honestly, just playing against the guys that you 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.160 watch on TV is the biggest thing. Getting the courtesy 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.200 car straight out of the airport is like one of 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.800 the little things that I think that's the nicest, not having. 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.599 To drop it all, like what do you get it? 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:20.559 It's different every week, but it's just kind of there 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:22.120 about it. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:24.840 But if we're about a rental car, I don't if 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.120 we're about riding with other people, like my car is here? 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.120 Yeah, no more Avis lines is really nice. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.320 But uh but yeah, I would say just like the 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.840 golf courses has been the biggest difference for sure. I 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.120 mean a little bit more demanding off the tee always. 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.080 They've been a little bit firmer out here for sure, 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.319 So like kind of puts a premium on ball striking. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.040 But also I like, you know, you kind of got 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:43.520 to think your way around it a little bit more 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.200 less like kind of point shoot, try to go absolutely 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:50.360 ballistic every week, which is nice, but definitely an adjustment 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.840 and you know, kind of a learning experience for sure. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.880 At the Black Desert Championship, I'm curious to get your 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:57.920 take on this, but I read a stat it had 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:02.360 the highest fairway hip percentage but also the most provisionals 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.520 off the tea. Yeah, did you have to hit any 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:06.760 provisionals that week? 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.920 I did not. We did not find the desert. 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.720 Actually, the only time I did find the desert was 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.920 with like a fifty degree from a bunker, just kind 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:15.520 of bladed it. 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.480 But nothing off the tee. So usually pretty accurate. Soay's 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:21.520 one of my strikes out there. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.400 But yeah, the fairways were wide, but it's a very 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.800 visually intimidating golf course and there's like four or five 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.319 out there that you really got to hit well or 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.080 else you're kind of in the lava and you know 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:31.240 you're never gonna find it. 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:33.440 Like like confidence wise, I mean again kind of like 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.520 following you throughout the season, like Corn Ferry Tour and 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.200 just seeing you, like when when when play well, even 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.600 when you weren't winning, you were having high finishes like 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.599 I go to the eighteenth hole on Sunday and the 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.280 way you were able to kind of close that thing out. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.040 It's a par five again. You know, if you spray it, 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:48.320 it can get you in trouble. I think you might 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:49.520 have had what a one or two shot maybe a 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.360 two shot lead at that point. Yeah, and it's like 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.320 smoke a tea shot and then you hit that second 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.920 shot to what like ten feet fifteen feet for eagle. 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.120 It's just to me, it like encapsulated your year. Is 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.160 my confidence in my game to be able to close 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:02.840 something out like that? 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:04.640 Yeah, And I think that's a big part of it. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:06.839 I mean you got to kind of stay aggressive. You 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.280 get a little timid out there, and you know, you 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.440 try to play a little conservative, and then if that 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.120 shot that you're hitting conservative doesn't go well puts you 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:15.800 in more of a bad spot. You're better off kind 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:17.880 of just trying to get it as close as you 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.120 can and make the next one a little bit as easier. 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:21.400 But that was definitely my mindset. 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:22.880 I'm like, you know, I could hit threw it off 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.480 this tea, but then I got, you know, another longer 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.880 iron in and it hit my driver. Well, so kind 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.160 of get as close as possible, and you know, being 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:31.960 able to be on that green in two and you know, 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.120 being able like four or five butt to win was 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.679 definitely very sure. I could let myself relaxed. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:38.760 Yeah yeah, you can actually smile on the walk up. 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.320 Matt, tell us a little bout what's going on in 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.600 your bag? You still rolling the tyn Cee Center shafting. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.480 Yeah, yeah, not much has changed obviously, like the new 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:50.679 wood's coming out, so. 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:53.880 Kind of been tinking around. 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.200 Finally figured it out, you know, how to week kind 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.400 of with the short offseason was kind of tough to 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.839 you know, not playing a lot to kind of really 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.440 you know, trust something in the bag. But after this 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.320 last week, you know, being back in Phoenix and going 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.800 out to ping, you know Thursday, you know, the boys 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:11.880 got me dialed again and the new driver has been 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.480 great and spinning a little bit less, launched a little 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:16.560 higher for me, which is great, and you know, gained 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:17.440 some distance. 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:17.839 A little bit of speed. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:22.760 So was the four lst Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.320 went I went down to the nine and then kind 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.720 of I like seeing loft, so went back up to 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.680 the ten to five, turned it down. It's at about 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.400 nine and a half added a little hot melt, you know, 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.400 got I didn't. I grew up a lefty kind of 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.320 just playing whatever. So I've been learning a little bit 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.200 about kind of tinkering around with some clubs. But uh yeah, 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.360 the guys here are awesome and you know, kind of 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.240 get it, get you going and put you in that perfect, 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:45.000 perfect zone. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:45.640 So it's been good. 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.080 Sw Yeah, being a lefty growing up and you're like, 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:49.280 just use this. 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:50.200 I guess this is the club. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:50.800 I'm going to use it. 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.840 I'll just make it sing. It's just so fun that now. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.079 I mean even with four forty, it's like the four 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.439 wood and the seven would the nine, with like all 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.840 the options for a lefty golfer being the same as 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:01.840 a I mean, it definitely feels different thanhen we were 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:03.079 like teenagers. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.160 You know. Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.040 That's kind of been a big thing for me, like 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.240 the last three or four years of just kind of 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.000 learning about the equipment and you can, you know, if 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:12.800 you kind of want to make the ball do something, 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.200 you can have that advantage, you know, just based on 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:16.080 the club that you're using. 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:17.240 So it's been nice for sure. 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.240 Have you been able to have some fun, like I mean, 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.920 you have this crazy twenty twenty four and then you 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.000 kind of run right into twenty twenty five. Like, have 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.240 you stepped away from the game at all and been 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.040 able to like enjoy it or go do anything or 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.760 has it mostly been chilling, relaxed and just preparing for 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:31.240 the season. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:32.320 Yeah, a little bit of both. 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.160 Me and my girlfriend took a really nice trip for 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.200 like a week in Montana this winter, So that was nice. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.360 Just like you guys are like, you're like not beach. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.400 I mean you're like going to the Zion National Park 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:43.600 in Montana, Like that's your. 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.600 Yeah, So like you know, likes doing hikes and stuff 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:48.840 like that, and you know, we're going to Maui, you know, 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:50.720 for New Year's so we figured we had the beach 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.920 covered and it was kind of cool to do something 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:54.840 like that. And you know, it's been a while since 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:56.679 I had, you know, been on a plane without the clubs, 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:57.680 which is always a nice feel. 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.760 It feels like you're always like forgetting a bunch of stuff. 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:00.920 But it was nice. 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:02.160 You got a sciar snowboarder. 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.080 Not anymore. I haven't been in a while. I'm too 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:06.120 afraid I'm gonna hurt myself. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.319 Smart. Smart, you don't want to do that and you'll 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.040 like just waste a year because you have an AHBL 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.520 injury or something silly. The win, obviously, you get into 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.559 a lot of these major championships. So I mean you're 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.320 looking ahead of twenty twenty five. I know Phoenix has 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:20.680 been big for you in terms of circling and just 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.320 because you grew up here and you've been out to 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.160 the Phoenix Open a whole bunch. So I want to 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.480 talk to you about that a little bit. But as 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.560 we inch closer to augusta like, is it on the brain? 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.040 Do you think about it? Have you got a chance 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.480 to go out there and play around at the golf 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:33.960 course yet? 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.240 I haven't been out yet. I've been thinking about it 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:36.720 kind of. 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:38.880 I was thinking about it last week and maybe in 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.600 another week if the weather kind of turns. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.000 But I think it's snowed there like a week and 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:43.480 a half ago. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:44.680 I was like, I don't know if that's probably not 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:45.680