WEBVTT - Noah Kent 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:03.800 It's the Son of a Bush podcast. Your host Claude 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.840 ha Rman. My guest this week is a nineteen year 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:10.040 old sophomore at the University of Iowa. You just lost 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:12.119 in the finals of the us AM. It would have 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:14.880 been much cooler to say, no, you won in the 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:18.119 finals of the us AM. But I mean it was 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:20.160 a hell of a summer for you. I mean what happened. 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:22.320 You know, obviously, you played great at Iowa last year 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:25.840 as a freshman, led the team in scoring average, played 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:27.640 in every tournament as a freshman, which I think is 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:31.960 a Division one college golfer is very very rare. Your 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.600 stroke average was great, you had a bunch of top tens. 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.680 But you went into the us AM I think ranked 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.360 five hundred and sixty and in the Wagger rankings and 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.519 you got to the finals. So it's been about just 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:47.400 a little bit under a month. Have you had time 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.760 to decompress and have any kind of reflection on what 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.800 you actually kind of did. I'm second at the Porter 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.840 Cup this summer, so that was a huge stepping stone. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:58.360 I think the year in the development. But I mean 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:00.840 the USM is you know, it's close to being a 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.560 major for you know, you look at the names on 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:05.560 that trophy of everybody who's wanted. But if you had 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.759 a chance to kind of take stock of what. 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:09.720 Happened, Yeah, I just want to say thank you so 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.120 much for having me on. This is awesome. It means 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:16.400 a lot. I don't know. I really haven't reflected yet, 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:20.720 to be quite honest. I mean, I mean, yeah, my 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:24.080 dad sent me a thing, and so my parents, my 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.880 mom and Dana. It's just like you get to eat, 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:28.640 like you see the stuff on Gulf Diye. Just it's 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.959 like here's the Masters field, like going into twenty twenty five. 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:34.480 It's just like you see your name and it's just like, huh, 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:38.160 that's pretty interesting. But it's like, yeah, I mean it 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.160 was a ton of fun. I feel like talking to 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.240 you and talking to Brett, like everybody around me, I 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.160 have like a really awesome team, which means the world 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.120 who all believe in me, probably more than I believe 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.960 in myself at times. So I feel like for me, 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.960 I finally believed in myself the way I should and 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:59.440 it kind of reflected as as belief. But I guess 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:00.240 in the US. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.400 Yeah, I mean for everyone listening that doesn't know if 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.080 you make it to the finals of the US Amateur, 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.880 you get into the Masters, and the following year you 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.799 get into the US Open. I want to go back 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.280 to the beginning. Your dad was a golfer. He played 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.000 in the US Junior. Your stepdad, Data Fryes, a golf 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:21.040 course architect, designed Aaron Hills where Brooks won his first 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.399 major championship. I was there your stepdad, Dana. He took 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.880 you to that tournament. You met Rory McElroy. You were 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.360 playing hockey at that point. How old were you back then? 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:30.960 I mean, I'm bad at math, so. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.639 I think it was nine in twenty seventeen ten. 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.840 I wasn't even going to guess because I would have failed. 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.560 So you're nine years old, you meet Rory McElroy out 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.480 of major championship. What was that like? I mean, he 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.640 obviously you knew who he was, but how did that 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.560 come about? And what was that experience like for you? 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:48.960 Yeah, so he missed the cut, which is kind of 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.720 funny because somebody still gave me time. And Dana met 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:52.760 Sean earlier in the week. 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:54.720 Seawn his agent, Sean Flerty. Yeah. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.160 Yeah, And you know the thing, it kind of stuck out. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.480 It's like Rory is not that tall Orray's not that big, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:01.880 and I'm kind of like, how do you hit the 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.880 ball so far? And he told me how it's all 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.400 in your legs, And I feel like whenever I met him, 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.200 I'm like, this would be kind of cool to do it. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.600 He just did, like playing a major championship. Like I'm 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:13.720 a little kid, like not really thinking much of it. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:15.359 I'm like, okay, like I want to quit hockey and 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:15.960 play golf. 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.400 So yeah, I mean, not many kids like get that 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.119 opportunity to meet, you know, someone from another sport who 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.480 is a you know, I mean Rory at that point, 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:25.639 is it's incredible that he's still sitting on the same 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.480 amount of majors in twenty four that he was sitting 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.560 on in seventeen. He's been the number one player in 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.920 the world. I mean, you can make an argument that 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.240 when he's on I mean, I think he's one of 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.400 the best players in the world day in and day out. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.119 I think he'll go down as one of the best 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.160 of this generation. But you made the decision to change, 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.600 and you played a lot of golf up until that point. 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.520 I mean, what was your by the time you were 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.080 nine ten years old, when you decided to choose the 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.600 pathway of saying, Okay, I'm going to just play competitive 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.640 junior golf. How much golf had you really played? 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.600 My dad got me starting it, but I feel like 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.640 Dana played probably the biggest role in like really getting 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.320 me into it. So he did a course called Colucive Pines, 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.280 which is right by where I live in Naples, Florida. 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.240 And I did a chipping competition no longer after that 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.720 with Rocko Media eight and I hold a couple chip 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.760 shots in front of him, and you know, it's kind 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:17.440 of like you got like a little I didn't even 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.360 know what my ego was at the time that young, 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.320 when he kind of like boosted me up like oh yeah, 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.520 like you're a really good chipper. And it's like kind 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.720 of after that, like you get told you're good at 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.480 something when you're a little kid, and you're kind of like, oh, 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:29.360 maybe I start doing this more, and yeah, I just 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:30.800 started taking it serious. From there. 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.200 I read a story that Tommy Morrison, who's you know, 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.800 Tommy's a stud right playing at the University of Texas. 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:38.760 He came and played in a tournament. Was it at 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.360 Calusa or Naples? When you were how old Naples National. 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.960 I was the Terra Cotta, right, the Terracotta Amateur, which 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:45.800 is a which is a big junior golf tournament. A 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.479 bunch of players have won that before. Tommy is you know, 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.800 I mean he's a larger than what's he like, six 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:51.719 seven six eight? 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:53.880 Yeah, I met him when that year as we were 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.000 both fourteen. He was six eight and I was five 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:57.560 six six eight. 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.080 Is a prech as a fourteen year old. You're six ' 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.960 four now, so you don't have to look up to 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.080 him as much. But again, you meet a young, you know, 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.520 player who was getting a lot of buzz at that time, 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.440 and he spends time with you. I think it's it's 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.960 huge for kids, Noah, to have these kind of data 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.039 points in your life. Right, everybody wants to be you know, 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.240 when you're a junior golfer, I think everybody wants to 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.320 be their heroes, right, you want to be Scotty Scheffler, 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:27.680 Ory McElroy, genre whoever it is. But when you meet 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.560 someone who's kind of a similar age that you're at, 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.279 it's a junior golfer like you are, I think it 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.680 can be a really big boost to help kind of 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.200 plant that seed to where Okay, I could do this 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.520 as well. So you meet him, did you play with him? 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.400 Did you watch him practice? What was that story? 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.560 So I was a standard Bear that year. So I 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.880 was taking scores and I told Dana, I'm like, go 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.200 watch this kid play. Like I know he's fourteen. I 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.040 think he's pretty good. I didn't know how Tolly was actually, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:56.800 So then after a round I met him. We got 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.440 a photo and I'm like, I want to go play 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.239 nine holes, like you want to come play with and 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.479 he was hitting the two iron pass my driver. And 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.120 after the round, I go to Dana, I'm like, yeah, 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.120 I got a long way to go if he's fourteen, 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:13.200 and I'm fourteen, Like so yeah, I mean we actually 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.640 played a practice round together before the USM at Chaska 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.440 Town Course, and the funny thing was was on the 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.880 seventh hole, I went up to him like it's not 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.440 like we're fourteen anymore, and I'm like twenty by him now. 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:25.680 So it's funny the kid. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:27.440 I think he's got a bright future. And when you 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.800 see him, you just don't see golfers that big. But 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.120 I think you now, as a sophomore, you are kind 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:38.200 of the prototype of what we see the modern and 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.480 a junior golfer and modern college golfer six foot four. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.880 Just to piss everybody off, that's that's not a superstar 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:50.280 like yourself as an amateur. What's your ball speed? What's 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.039 your clubhead speed? Right now? Who's like not trying to 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.640 go after once? What do you kind of cruise clubheadspeed 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:56.320 and ball speed at. 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.120 I'd probably say it's like probably somewhere between like twenty 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.200 three and twenty six, and it's probably like eighty four 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:03.800 to like eighty eight somewhere in there. 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.480 Okay, So for everybody listening, that's one hundred and twenty 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:08.280 two to one hundred and twenty three miles per hour 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.840 cluppet speed and kind of mid one eighties ball speed, 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.640 which is on a pore with some of the longest 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.160 hitters in the game. I mean, we'll just keep going 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:19.600 with this to piss everybody off. How far are you 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.360 here in five iron carry, no wind, flat carry, not 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.440 trying to kill one to twenty five twenty five? Okay, Yeah, 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.760 that's great. Everybody's gonna love that seven iron. 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:29.520 One ninety five two hundred. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.320 One ninety five, two hundred. You know you can step 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.520 on it and get it to two fifteen. Okay, this 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.600 will be the one that treats everybody out nine iron? 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:36.040 How far are you here? 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:36.320 Nine? 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.160 I just stock nine iron, no wind, flat line. 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:41.640 One hundred and sixty, one hundred and sixty five. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.080 When I first saw you, I mean, what's it been 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.760 like four years ago? I think four years ago. I 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.840 mean obviously when someone like you as a young kid 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.120 gets brought, you know, by their parents. To me, I'm 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.360 lucky enough to work with some really good players that 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.120 have a tremendous amount of speed, and I've got to 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.119 be honest with you. See you hit a golf ball 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.880 and watching you kind of ramp up through that first 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.280 lesson we got looking at the size you were looking 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.000 at kind of the raw speed that you had, it 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.000 reminded me a lot of the first time that I 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.320 saw Brooks. I met Brooks after he graduated from Florida State. 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.200 He was Peter u Line's roommate. They were playing on 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.760 the Challenge Store. I was working with DJ at the time, 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.520 but I was working with Ernie Els he just won 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.960 his fourth major, and I saw Brooks and I'm just 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.160 watching the speed, and I think it was a very 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.840 similar situation and watching you, I mean I went away 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.120 from that first golf lesson even though you were still 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.679 really really young and still really really raw. You have 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.679 a lot of the attributes in golf that you can't teach. Right. 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.480 It's a little bit like being a running back or 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.160 a wide receiver, either faster or not right. You can 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:48.440 either teach that maybe, but either have that. So you 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.080 have all this speed, you have all this power, and 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:53.960 correct me if I'm wrong. I think it's taken you 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.520 a while to kind of grow into that, to kind 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.600 of understand the speed and the power or you have, 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:04.800 but also how to use that. Have you noticed, Noah, 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.720 the jump from being a high school junior golfer to 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.400 now going into your second year as a college golfer. 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.200 How have you learned and tried to deal with the 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.400 fact that you have this kind of formula one kind 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:19.920 of race car, right? I mean you can go as 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.080 fast as you want if we tell you to hit 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:23.920 it further. I mean, if you really want to jump 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:28.080 on one with your driver, I mean, how far do 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.000 you feel like you can carry it in the air? 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.000 You really want to step on one? 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.640 I got one last winter time in the simulator was 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.240 called here. I got one three sixty at sea level. 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:44.640 So the obvious question is you just played your first 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.719 tournament of the year for the University of Iiowa. You 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.760 guys went up to Minnesota. Back to Minnesota where the 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.559 USAMA was not at hazel team, but good vibes up there. 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.200 Took me through the eight that you make on a 0:09:55.240 --> 0:10:00.240 part five with all the damn speed you have. Talk 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:00.880 me through that. 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.839 Yeah, great great hole to ask about. I really appreciate that. 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:06.080 Yeah, of course. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.000 So I feel like whenever I hit a cut, now 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.960 that's something we've worked on together, and you know, I 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.160 decided to try and not hit a cut, which was 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.680 a dumb, nineteen year old decision that I decided to make. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.280 And yeah, that golf ball's gone living in the woods 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:22.640 somewhere in Minnesota and. 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:23.960 Going to have a cold winter. 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.760 Yeah, and then I hit another one with my mini 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.120 driver and I had to take an unplayable after that drive, 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.040 and yeah, made Nate. That's how that. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.960 You know, when you juniors and college players, you know, 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.720 talk about these big numbers you make, there's always this 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.959 story about, you know, I did this and I did that. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.080 Then it hit into you know, I mean the two iron. 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:47.680 You've got your back how far you carry that? 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:49.760 I took that out. I have a five wood now. 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.520 Okay, so how far you carry the five one comfortable. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:53.559 Is probably to sixty five? 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:55.800 Okay. How long was the par five you just made 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.800 Nate on. I mean it wasn't seven hundred yards tixo 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:02.520 five okay, so you still could have hit five wood 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.439 in the middle of the fairway. Lay up, Yeah, make 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:09.560 a birdie. The jump from junior golf to college golf. 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.679 What have you noticed is the difference for you as 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.400 a player, right, because there is a big step right 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.680 every developmental stage that you go at as an athlete, 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.120 but specifically as a golfer, there is a jump from 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:26.680 junior golf from you know, AJGA golf to high level 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.640 junior golf and then the level that you're trying to 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:31.720 go out now. When you got to Iowa as a freshman, 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:37.840 the mac McLear story fifth your senior two time Big 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.959 Big ten champ, tell everybody what you decided to tell 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.520 your coach that you wanted to do as soon as 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:43.840 you got to Iowa as a freshman. 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:45.840 Yeah, I just wanted them as much as I can 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.520 and beat them as much as I can, And I 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.880 kind of I kind of did that, So that's pretty good. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.760 So you said to your coach, Hey, he's the best 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:57.160 player on the team, he's kind of a stud. I'm 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.719 a freshman coming in. I want to play him and 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.760 see what I can do. You won, right, Yeah, three 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.240 and two, three and two. What did you notice about 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.680 your game going up against someone who's obviously in the 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:14.040 college ranks, a fifty year senior, two time Big ten champ. 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:15.680 I mean, he's the stud of the team, right. Every 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.560 college golf team kind of has that guy that is 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.640 the stud. Most of the time they're either you know, 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.600 juniors or seniors. But there are guys that are studs 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.600 as a freshman, as a sophomore, but very rarely. But 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:29.679 when you got to iowan you kind of I mean, 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:31.440 let's be honest. You called out Mac and Sid listen, 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.200 I want to see what my game can do against 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.559 the team's best player. Were you surprised at the way 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.880 you played? Were you surprised at the way he played? 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:41.960 What did you notice about that day? 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:46.400 Uh? I figured out that he doesn't make as many 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.600 big numbers as I do. I feel like, you know, 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.319 everybody who's the best in college golf. What I've realized 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.800 I've learned a lot from my freshman a sophomore, you're 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.839 like freshman year, I'm kind of looking in like wow, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.679 like everybody's like really good. And you get to your 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:04.480 sophomore and now I kind of feel like I'm kind 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.080 of one of the bigger dogs, like people are kind 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.040 of looking up to me now. But like as a freshman, 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.600 like you see Mac and it's like you don't make 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.960 a big number, Like he doesn't make a double bogie, 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:15.600 Like he makes a bogie at worst. And that's something 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.000 like you talk about how I'm like a race car driver, like, yeah, 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.760 I can make seven birdies around, but I can make 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.400 two triples and a bogie or something. 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.000 You can crash the car, right, you can have the 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.120 fastest lap in the race, be leading the race, and 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.960 then just through. But I think a lot of that 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.280 no is you don't know what you don't know, right, 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:36.480 And so the learning curve, like you said your freshman year, 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.800 I think saying every tournament, qualifying for every tournament you've 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.079 got how many you're what four or five tournaments in 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.840 the fall, four or five tournaments in the spring, You've 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.480 got to go qualify for those? What's it for everybody 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:52.959 listening your college freshman, what's the qualifying process like for 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.840 people that don't know, is a Division one college golfer? 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.040 Yeap. So for our first event on a fall, we'll 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.880 do we did five rounds of qualifying, so play five rounds, 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.720 eighteen holes. Top three guys make it and it's two 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.960 coaches picks. So yeah, won the qualifying this year by ten, 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:11.280 So that was quite nice. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.000 What you do last year in the first qualifier. 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:18.400 They shot on a shoot. Last year I came second. 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.960 I shot fourteen hunder and lost by eleven. Yeah to 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:23.640 mac so that was pretty good. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.440 Was there a learning curve in playing the golf courses 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.680 your freshman year, because obviously you're going to be playing 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.440 on maybe something You're lucky that you grew up kind 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.600 of in Naples. You grew up on good golf courses, 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.880 but still you're going to be going from that jump 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.440 from high school golf to and junior golf to college golf. 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.160 The golf courses are going to be longer, they're going 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.240 to be more difficult, They're going to tuck the pins. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.760 What do you feel like your freshman year at the 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.360 University of Iowa that you learned from yourself, that you 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.640 learned from your teammates, but more importantly, what you learn 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:55.360 from your coaches at Iowa. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.160 Yeah, I mean I feel like everybody in junior golf, 0:14:58.200 --> 0:14:59.760 and I mean I can attest to it because I 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.360 know how I was. I mean, you think your prime 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.240 Tiger Woods in nineteen ninety nine and you see a pen, 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.040 you fire at the pin and you hope it's really close. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:12.120 And you get to college and the pins are three off, 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.640 the corners above ridges, the greens are firm. Every course 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.200 you play in college golf is good at the Division 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.360 one level. Every single golf course you're gonna play is 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.640 gonna be good, and it's gonna they're gonna make it 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.600 as hard as you can. I feel like the thing 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.760 that I've taken in for my coaches, especially from you, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.440 is like you have to pick and choose your points 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.440 and when to use my speed and when to use 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.760 my talent that I'm lucky enough to have, and I 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:37.840 work really hard to keep it and get it better 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.160 and better and better to where I want to go. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.600 And it's like if the pick and choose your spots, 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.960 I feel like you told me one time. We're talking 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.720 about Brooks like asking how many flagsticks and a major 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:48.800 championship he aims at and I think you said for 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.280 four rounds. It was something like four and four rounds. 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.360 He just doesn't do it that all state. And I 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:58.040 think you know, certainly, but that's something that no one 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.760 can tell you, right. I mean I can sit here, 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.360 no matter how many good players that I've worked with, 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.600 no matter how much information I can give you, it's 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.080 still you as the player, having to go out and 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:15.120 make those mistakes yourself. Do you feel like you've learned 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.680 from the experiences that you had that freshman year of 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:24.240 college that you feel like are starting to become kind 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.720 of I don't want to say non negotiables for you, 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:28.880 but I think you have a better understanding of how 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.680 to play the game. But like you said, when you're 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.800 a junior, you can get by I think on being long, right, 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.080 I mean when you were in high school. I mean, 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.200 how much further past everybody on your high school team? 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:41.360 Are you hitting it? One hundred? 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:43.400 Yeah, that's pretty it's a long way. 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.680 Yeah. So you get to Iowa. What's a typical week 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.520 for you at Iowa? Like in season? Right, So obviously 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.400 you're going to class Monday, through Friday, but from a 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.920 from a golf standpoint, because I think it's a good 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.120 insight for a lot of people listening, maybe that are 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.960 thinking about trying to play competitively, maybe their junior or 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.359 they have you know, we've got parents listening. So what's 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.600 a typical week like for you? Talk me through last week? 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:12.000 You get to Iowa Monday, Talk me through Monday through 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:12.960 Friday of last week. 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:17.000 Yeah, so leading the tournament will lift three days a week, 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.679 concluding another day before we leave, like kind of like 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.040 a primer getting ready. So last week Monday, we don't 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.320 have LYFT, but we have practice structured practice from two 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.480 to five. You can do whatever you want. So I'm 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.640 pretty much out there at a like eleven thirty eleven, 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.040 getting my work in before practice and doing a structure. 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.760 Tuesday we have LYFT six thirty to seven thirty, which 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.800 also happens on Thursday and Friday in the morning in 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:44.080 the morning, and then you'll have class and then structured 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.680 practice again pretty much every day. Structured practice will be 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.720 at two o'clock, two to five o'clock. Just that's the 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.720 best for us. But I'm always out there early trying 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.960 to get in work before everybody. I'm lucky enough to 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.400 where I don't have class Thursday and Friday. I'd take 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.440 some online classes so I can allow myself to practice 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.560 little more. So I mean Thursday and Friday for me, 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:03.879 if I'm done with the left and I got my 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.280 homework done, I'll be at the golf course for eight hours. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.520 Just you gotta take advantage of the good weather. I 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:09.840 got it, so you know. 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.360