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Speaker 1: The guys from Ping. They've kind of showed me how

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Speaker 1: much the equipment matters. I just love that I can

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Speaker 2: We're gonna be able to tell some fun stories about

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Speaker 2: what goes on here to help golfers play better golf.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Ping Proving Grounds Podcast. I'm Shane

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Speaker 3: Bak and that is Marty Jerts, and we are in

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Speaker 3: the Ping truck. The tour truck. Cory Connors is here

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Speaker 3: by the way, Marty.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, see him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And you're having a fantastic year, very consistent, and

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Speaker 2: we're excited to deep dive into a few tomics.

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Speaker 3: Before we get into your golf game. I was told

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Speaker 3: before we got going that you have an amazing golf room.

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Speaker 3: Can we expand a little bit on this golf room?

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Speaker 3: Because I didn't nobody, I didn't get any details. I

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Speaker 3: don't know if there's like a simulator in there, Like,

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Speaker 3: what are we talking about?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my wife and I both from a small town

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Speaker 4: list Well, Ontario, Canada, So we built a house there.

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Speaker 4: You know, we've been living at this summer and was

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Speaker 4: able to design the house from scratch and of course

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Speaker 4: tried to fit in ample space to put a nice

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Speaker 4: golf room. So yeah, I've got a simulator Foresight GC

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Speaker 4: Hawk and pretty cool, you know, fun to play games.

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Speaker 4: You know, can practice, you know, familiar with the foresight,

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Speaker 4: you know, I've I've loved just messing around with and

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Speaker 4: Dad ball, She's right in there. Yeah, she's likes teeing

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Speaker 3: I need your parntal advice on this because my four

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Speaker 3: But no interest? How did this happen?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think just organically. I think, yeah, she really

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Speaker 1: Corey.

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Speaker 2: I think, I mean one of the fun things about

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been really fun to be a Canadian on

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Speaker 4: You know, you can't enjoy it all year round, but

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Speaker 4: Definitely, as far as the hockey and golf translation, I think,

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Speaker 4: So but yeah, basketball, I'm probably a ten handicap, not nothing, nothing.

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Speaker 3: But we've talked about the boom of Canadian golf. I'm

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Speaker 2: So what tell us the story of how why you

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Speaker 4: you know, trying to fine tune all the skills.

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Speaker 1: And pro am.

438
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Speaker 4: Wednesday, get in a little practice, usually play the pro

439
00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,919
Speaker 4: ams in the morning, so a little practice, uh, you know,

440
00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,880
Speaker 4: have some lunch and then goes spend some time with

441
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Speaker 4: the girls in the afternoon. It's it's really fun having

442
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Speaker 4: my daughter and wife on the road, just I don't know,

443
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Speaker 4: a little normalcy.

444
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Speaker 3: H Do you notice when they're not on the road,

445
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Speaker 3: if you have a bad round or if you don't

446
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Speaker 3: play well, do you notice that frustration like lingering versus

447
00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:38,360
Speaker 3: when they are on the road, they can go out

448
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:40,119
Speaker 3: and go I gotta go see the family, Like they

449
00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:41,200
Speaker 3: don't care really what I shot.

450
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Speaker 4: Yeah, my daughter definitely doesn't care what I shot. She's

451
00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:44,200
Speaker 4: she's pumped.

452
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Speaker 1: Out the same dad every every every time.

453
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Speaker 4: So but yeah, I think I'm definitely when I'm by myself,

454
00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,080
Speaker 4: definitely more consumed by golf and just thinking about my

455
00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,720
Speaker 4: round or thinking about the next day, you know, way

456
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Speaker 4: more than I would be when they're around, and I can,

457
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,680
Speaker 4: you know, shut my mind off and just have fun

458
00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:06,119
Speaker 4: coloring and reading books.

459
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Speaker 2: Corey, you've played a number of a number of different

460
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Speaker 2: PLD putters. Tell tell us a little bit about how

461
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Speaker 2: that process has gone for you in terms of things

462
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Speaker 2: we've customized for you in the putter, some things that

463
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Speaker 2: might be super important to you that we were able

464
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Speaker 2: to do with those pods and in which one you're

465
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Speaker 2: playing now is at the time.

466
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So.

467
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Speaker 4: All through my time at Kent State was an answer

468
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Speaker 4: putter user, like the blade feel and sort of the

469
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,439
Speaker 4: flow of the stroke with that used to blade putter

470
00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 4: when I first got on tour, switched to a sort

471
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Speaker 4: of a mid mallet PLD just trying to get a

472
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Speaker 4: little bit more consistency and had success with that, you know,

473
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Speaker 4: try to went back to a blade again and you know,

474
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Speaker 4: had some success there again, fell into a funk and

475
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Speaker 4: tried out the little the mallet potter the time that

476
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Speaker 4: I'm using now. I switched away from that UH for

477
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Speaker 4: probably about a year to UH like the OSLO model

478
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Speaker 4: and sort of messed around with a couple of different

479
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 4: hozzele types there the I guess the answer to sort

480
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Speaker 4: of hozzle that I'm most comfortable with. You know, was

481
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Speaker 4: able to customize the the Oslo with the answer three neck,

482
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Speaker 4: which is kind of like a little a little bit

483
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Speaker 4: of a slant neck. So having that you know capability

484
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Speaker 4: was really cool. Ultimately went back to the to the

485
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Speaker 4: time again. It's it served me well over the last

486
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Speaker 4: you know, the season. Really I felt like I've been

487
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Speaker 4: a little bit more consistent still, you know, trying to

488
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Speaker 4: work hard on that area of my game and get

489
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Speaker 4: the ball in the whole a little better. But you know,

490
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Speaker 4: my my bad weeks are aren't as bad, and starting

491
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Speaker 4: to have some some pretty good weeks that are you know,

492
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Speaker 4: keep me in tournaments or getting me up near the

493
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Speaker 4: top of the leaderboard. So the customization of the PLD

494
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 4: is really cool, and you know, changing the finish, you know,

495
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,199
Speaker 4: got the black finish and on my putter. Now just

496
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 4: think you know, all the design features of the putters

497
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:17,639
Speaker 4: that just frames the ball really nicely, and you know,

498
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,520
Speaker 4: something that it's cool to be able to mess around

499
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,720
Speaker 4: with and and you know, easy to find something you like.

500
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Speaker 3: Mart you know what this sounds like, sounds like somebody

501
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 3: needs more PLDs in.

502
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Speaker 2: The exactly.

503
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Speaker 3: A few different models.

504
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Speaker 4: I'm just trying to get some gold ones and trying

505
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,600
Speaker 4: to get the biggest and try and get the biggest,

506
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 4: biggest putter model available.

507
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Speaker 3: So there are some wild ones in the vault I've seen.

508
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 3: You know, there are a few League Westwood models in there.

509
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's got quite a mix in there, very

510
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 2: very fun mixed Corey.

511
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Speaker 3: When Canadian sports are on TV and you're playing golf,

512
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Speaker 3: do you think about what's going on in the back

513
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 3: of your mind? Do you have like a caddy check

514
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 3: to score? Are you trying not to think about that?

515
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,440
Speaker 3: Like if it's a big, big like in the cup

516
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,640
Speaker 3: finals or you know, Olympic match, Like is that going

517
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 3: on the back of your brainer? Can you kind of

518
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 3: shove that out?

519
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: Yeah?

520
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 4: I can shut it out a little bit. It's always,

521
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 4: you know, I'm always kind of thinking about it. You know,

522
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 4: if there's something really big happening, someone in the crowd's

523
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,879
Speaker 4: probably yelling at me to okay, be updated. So but

524
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Speaker 4: I'm not super crazy about that. Fortunately, the you know,

525
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 4: big Toronto may Pleife fan probably my favorite professional sports team,

526
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 4: big hockey fan in general, but their games are typically

527
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,199
Speaker 4: in the evening, so I'm off the golf course and

528
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 4: I can tune in on my laptop or iPad in

529
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Speaker 4: the hotel room. But yeah, you know see a lot

530
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 4: of the English guys kind of checking it, checking up.

531
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Speaker 4: We're a little more curious on some of the soccer

532
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 4: football scores they But yeah, I'm not uh, not crazy

533
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Speaker 4: about that.

534
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, NFL game goes on like it like noon. If

535
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 3: you've got like the one pm Eastern game and your

536
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:53,680
Speaker 3: team's play it and you're kind of in the hut

537
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 3: on a Sunday, it's like I might check the score

538
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 3: after nine, just see what we're doing. But yeah, hockey

539
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,919
Speaker 3: in the evening. You mentioned RBC Canadian Open Major. I

540
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 3: mean you said that when you go to that event,

541
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Speaker 3: what's it like in terms of being a Canadian player

542
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,679
Speaker 3: playing it, getting himself in contention and the fans reaction

543
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,120
Speaker 3: doesn't feel as big to you as a President's Cup

544
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:13,920
Speaker 3: as as a major championship.

545
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,919
Speaker 4: Does Yeah, it feels it feels massive. You know, my

546
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,400
Speaker 4: mug is plastered all over billboards and you know, things

547
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 4: around the clubhouse. So it's kind of weird, but it

548
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,119
Speaker 4: feels huge. The Canadians love sports, Cananes love you know,

549
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 4: they're Canadian golfers, and it's a pretty special feeling teaming

550
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 4: up in that event. And you know, played pretty well

551
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 4: the last couple of years. I hadn't had much success there,

552
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 4: but it's been really fun to get in the mix

553
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 4: and you just feel so much support from all the fans.

554
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 4: It's it's an unbelievable feeling and and something that you know,

555
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Speaker 4: I look forward to, you know, continuing to have for

556
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Speaker 4: for many years into the future.

557
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Speaker 3: Well, it's just so interesting, Like I mean, I think

558
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Speaker 3: is golfers. You know, we are conditioned to think every

559
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 3: golfer wants to win the Masters, in the US Open,

560
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 3: in the Open Championship. And when when Max Homill won

561
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 3: RIV and he said, this is the event I wanted

562
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 3: to win the most of every golf tournament out there.

563
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 3: I mean, do you feel like that with the Canadian Open?

564
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 3: I mean, does it feel like even as much that

565
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 3: would come with the major championship victory, if you were

566
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Speaker 3: able to snag one of those, I mean, would that

567
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 3: be the career highlight for you?

568
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Speaker 1: It would definitely be.

569
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Speaker 4: I'd be lying if I said a major championship wouldn't

570
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 4: be wouldn't be ahead of the RBC Canadian Open for me.

571
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Speaker 4: You know, it's just their historic championships. They're the majors.

572
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 4: But you know it's a very very close runner up

573
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Speaker 4: would be winning the RBC Canadian Open. And you know,

574
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Speaker 4: I'm definitely inspired by watching Nick Taylor win this year

575
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 4: and you know, looking forward to getting getting some more

576
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 4: cracks at it. But it's a really special event. And yeah,

577
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 4: it's it's way up there for sure.

578
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Speaker 3: And he didn't get tackled.

579
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Speaker 1: I didn't get tackled.

580
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 4: For I couldn't work, I couldn't find my bottle of champagne. Fortunately,

581
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 4: I may have gotten tackled chest injury. I also give

582
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Speaker 4: Hadman a hard time. I was like, yeah, he looked

583
00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,400
Speaker 4: at both of us and said, I'm tackling this guy.

584
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,360
Speaker 4: So the younger guy, the smaller guy.

585
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Speaker 1: He's older.

586
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Speaker 2: Corey, you have the honor of playing in the Olympics.

587
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,439
Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about what that was like.

588
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, it's funny, like I didn't dream of

589
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 4: being an Olympian when I was a kid because golf

590
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 4: wasn't in the Olympics. But you know, ever since I

591
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,719
Speaker 4: think the Olympics in Rio, it was kind of on

592
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 4: my radar and.

593
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Speaker 1: It was a huge goal. But it would be really cool.

594
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Speaker 4: I can represent Canada, you know, the Olympics, and you know,

595
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 4: being an Olympian.

596
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: Is is kind of a.

597
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 4: Pretty cool thing to have on your resume, and it

598
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 4: was an incredible honor, you know, to make that team

599
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 4: and the experience was really really cool. I played in

600
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Speaker 4: Tokyo and in twenty twenty one and still pretty locked

601
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 4: down with restrictions, so we weren't able to go and

602
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 4: watch other events. You know, every time the Olympics is on.

603
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 4: When I was a kid, I was always tuned in,

604
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 4: whether it was summer or winter Olympics, watching all the

605
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 4: sports and cheering on the Canadians. So it would have

606
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:01,959
Speaker 4: been to get to experience some of those other events

607
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 4: and you know, cheer on some of the other fellow Canadians,

608
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 4: but just getting introduced, you know, putting on the Canada

609
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 4: shirt was pretty cool feeling and incredible honor and you know,

610
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,239
Speaker 4: still hopefully have a few more in my future and

611
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 4: you know, going to keep working hard to try and

612
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 4: make the Canadian Olympic team for Paris next year.

613
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Speaker 3: There is something about the Olympics, especially in golf, that

614
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 3: I really appreciate, and that is the fact that week

615
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 3: in and week out, we talk about the winner in

616
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 3: golf and that's it. And you can have a good

617
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 3: week and finish fourth or eighth or twelfth, even and

618
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 3: have a great week. I hit the ball great, maybe

619
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 3: I didn't make as many putts. I love the fact

620
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 3: that there's a celebration for that top three position and

621
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Speaker 3: we celebrate it, even in a sport that doesn't typically

622
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 3: celebrate it. Do you wish there was a little more

623
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 3: of that and golf we're second and third was appreciated,

624
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 3: maybe a little bit more than it is considering there's

625
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 3: one hundred and forty guys teen it up every week.

626
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I certainly appreciate, you know, the weeks.

627
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 4: You know, even if I don't win, you know, having

628
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 4: a solid finish, you know, get yourself in the top ten,

629
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 4: you know, you feel pretty good about yourself after the week.

630
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 4: The Olympics is unique in that aspect where you know, gold, silver, bronze,

631
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 4: top three get recognized. You know, I'm fine with golf

632
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 4: being the way it is. I can fly under the

633
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 4: radar and be happy with some solid weeks, I guess.

634
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 4: But yeah, that aspect of the Olympics is pretty cool.

635
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 4: And you know, you're you know you're not you're obviously

636
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 4: fighting for the gold medal, playing for the gold medal,

637
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 4: but you know there's a couple of consolation prizes that

638
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 4: are pretty good as well.

639
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that playoff for the bronze. I mean

640
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 3: I remember we were calling the action and like it

641
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 3: felt like you were calling the final championship putt right,

642
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 3: and this was for third place, and you had these

643
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 3: big names in it, and you obviously had countrymen involved.

644
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 3: I mean, it was really really cool. And again, I

645
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 3: like we were talking about your major record. I mean,

646
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 3: you play three straight years the Masters, you finished top

647
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 3: ten three straight years, Yet it seems like the only

648
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 3: kind of conversation point is who wins, not the guy

649
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,719
Speaker 3: that's played as you know, arguably as consistent golf as

650
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 3: anybody that goes national last three years.

651
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, I remember watching that playoff as well. It

652
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 4: was really cool, and yeah, it's it's a big deal.

653
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 4: You know, it's just something unique and something different. The

654
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 4: the Olympics is yeah, pretty special. But yeah, like my

655
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Speaker 4: record at Augusta of some top ten finishes, you know,

656
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Speaker 4: definitely felt good and you know, was was proud of that,

657
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Speaker 4: but yeah it wasn't I wasn't really talked about much

658
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Speaker 4: because I don't have a green jacket just to have

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Speaker 4: black and blue ones in the closet at all.

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Speaker 3: I mean, listen, you can start to think though, I mean,

661
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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if poutine has been involved

662
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Speaker 3: in a Master's before. Maybe Mike were had it somewhere

663
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Speaker 3: in there, but at least throw it maybe in the conversation, right.

664
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we would have to have to put that probably

665
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Speaker 4: to nap, probably mix that in. Yeah it can get messy,

666
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Speaker 4: but it's Corey.

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Speaker 2: How much how much do you think drawing the golf

668
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Speaker 2: balls helped you at Augusta? Like is it is it

669
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 2: a significant? I mean I've been there, I've walked around it.

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Speaker 2: I haven't been back on the either new or old

671
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Speaker 2: tea on thirteen or some of those holes. You know,

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Speaker 2: even two t how much of an advantage is it

673
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 2: for you because so many of the other players here

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00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 2: hit the cuts out there nowadays right handed.

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Speaker 1: Go Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I really think that the right to left ball flight

677
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 4: you know, fits in at Augusta National really really well.

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Speaker 4: There's a few T shots that are are kind of

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Speaker 4: tricky that I find difficult, and the first I think

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00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 4: everybody finds the first difficult, But hitting a draw off

681
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 4: of that tee it's I don't quite hit it far

682
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 4: enough that I can get myself into trouble, so there's

683
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 4: still room out there.

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Speaker 1: The eighth is.

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Speaker 4: Another one where it's kind of tricky to fit a

686
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Speaker 4: draw into that fairway. Again, the fairway's pretty wide and

687
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 4: I've been able to hit plenty of good shots there,

688
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 4: But so many of the T shots I think really

689
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 4: shape up nicely for a draw. Even the you know,

690
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 4: seventh is a really straight hole, but I've you know,

691
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Speaker 4: you can fit a draw in there nicely. The thirteenth

692
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Speaker 4: stands out definitely, and even fourteen being able to hit

693
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Speaker 4: it right to left is great, but thirteen hitting a

694
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Speaker 4: right to left trying to sneak it around the corner

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00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 4: a little bit is It's definitely the ideal shape.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's a reason and there's been so much

697
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 3: Lefty success there over the last few years, and it's

698
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 3: because if you hit that big booming cut. I mean

699
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 3: we saw obviously Bubba hit that shot them thirteen and

700
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Speaker 3: twenty fourteen that everybody thought was going to be lost

701
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 3: and he had wedge yet I mean, if you can

702
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 3: move it in that direction, you can have some success

703
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 3: of that golfer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely think so. And you know even you

705
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 4: know some of the iron shots as well, you know,

706
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 4: being hitting it right to left. I've I've found comfort

707
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 4: in that on a number of the whole locations, on

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Speaker 4: a number of the holes as well.

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Speaker 1: Corey.

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Speaker 3: Obviously you're wearing in President's Cup gear. When the President's

711
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Speaker 3: Cups ends, now for you, when do you start thinking

712
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Speaker 3: about the next time you could play or potentially make

713
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Speaker 3: the team.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a pretty much at President's Cup. You know,

715
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Speaker 4: it's been looking forward to, you know, ever since you know,

716
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 4: leaving Charlotte. Really yeah, in my home country in Canada,

717
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 4: you know, Mike, we're being the captain someone I idolized

718
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 4: and really looked up to as a young Canadian golfer.

719
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 4: It's it's going to be massive there and you know,

720
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 4: definitely gonna be working really really hard to try and

721
00:32:58,920 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 4: earn my spot on that team.

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Speaker 1: It's yeah, it.

723
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Speaker 4: Feels special to you know, be a part of that group,

724
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Speaker 4: and it'll feel extra special to be on home soil

725
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Speaker 4: with with Mike as a captain, and you know, hopefully

726
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Speaker 4: myself and and some other Canadians can play their way

727
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 4: on that team as well, because we've we've all been

728
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Speaker 4: trending in the right direction over this past season, so

729
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Speaker 4: hopefully that can continue and we'll definitely have some some

730
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Speaker 4: hometown support there, I think in Montreal, so definitely, you know,

731
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Speaker 4: big goal of mine, you know, coming in you know,

732
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Speaker 4: to next season, and yeah, it'd be pretty amazing to

733
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Speaker 4: get to be a part of that team.

734
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Speaker 3: Are you good about setting goals in it not feeling intimidating?

735
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Speaker 3: I mean something like this where obviously there's not very

736
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Speaker 3: many players that are going to make a President's Cup

737
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Speaker 3: team when you write that down, or you know, obviously

738
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Speaker 3: the President's Cups going to Canada and it'd be a

739
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Speaker 3: big deal to be on that team. Does that add

740
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 3: weight on your shoulders or is that something you can

741
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 3: handle pretty well?

742
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm definitely good about, you know, writing down some goals,

743
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 4: and I've been able to handle that that pretty well.

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Speaker 4: I think it's just you know, each week, each week

745
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 4: is a huge week, honestly, you know out here on

746
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 4: the PGA tour, so really trying to take care of

747
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 4: business week in and week out. And you know, if

748
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 4: you do that consistently enough for you know, a long

749
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 4: enough time, you know the the other big goals are

750
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 4: going to fall into place and take care of themselves.

751
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Speaker 4: So yeah, it's definitely definitely beyond my my goals for

752
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 4: next year making the President's Cup team. But you know,

753
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Speaker 4: I think I'm pretty good at you know, taking it

754
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 4: week by week and you know, working hard on the

755
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 4: game on the off weeks and making sure I'm ready

756
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Speaker 4: to go every week, and you know, those those cumulative

757
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Speaker 4: results will speak for themselves.

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Speaker 3: Corey, Canadians are chill, I'd say, for the most part,

759
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 3: very chill people, easy going, fun to hang out with.

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Speaker 3: Which American professional golfer has the most Canadian in your opinion?

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Speaker 3: Is there somebody that stands out that when you look

762
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Speaker 3: at you go, you could you could pass as the

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Speaker 3: Canadian you got you kind of got that.

764
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Speaker 4: I'm not really sure we kind of a Canadian fraternity

765
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Speaker 4: out here. We spend a lot of time together. Not

766
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 4: that I opposed any any Americans getting in there, but no,

767
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 4: no one really comes comes to mind off the top

768
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Speaker 4: of my head. I'm a lot of guys are really nice.

769
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Speaker 3: That's what I was going to say, the right professional golf.

770
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 4: So many guys are really really nice. Yeah, welcome any

771
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 4: of them as a Canadian.

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Speaker 2: Why aren't there any lefties now in the Canadian great point? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean, and are you do you do anything left handed?

774
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: I right left handed, but that everything else right handed?

775
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 2: Why aren't there any lefties?

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00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 1: That's that's a good question.

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Speaker 3: You right lefty? So you drag across the ink I

778
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 3: do my hand gets I should have gone righty with it.

779
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 1: Well, it's funny when I right lefty.

780
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 3: To my everything lefty, I'll right righty. It's so weird.

781
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Speaker 1: That is weird.

782
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 4: Ye, My dad just flipped me around when I was

783
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 4: a kid, said I was doing it backwards. So I

784
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 4: actually could play play golf. When I was a junior

785
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 4: golfer with my friends, I'd play lefty once in a

786
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 4: while and could the game beat up on them. Not

787
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 4: too bad, I think I haven't really, that's probably stop

788
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 4: when I was like fourteen or fifth team, but a

789
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:05,320
Speaker 4: couple couple of nine hole games and high thirties or forty,

790
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 4: so wow, you're like.

791
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 2: VJ level could come in handy for a shot you

792
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 2: never know, although not the way you drive it though.

793
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 3: That's right, he doesn't have another spots, right, have to

794
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 3: fight round.

795
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 4: I think over the last few years, I've tried to

796
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 4: pull that at one time on like a green side

797
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 4: shot and just totally butchered it, and like.

798
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: Well, there you go.

799
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna stick to a righty with your golf, all right, Lefty,

800
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 3: I'll play golf righty. Well, Corey, really appreciate the time,

801
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:26,879
Speaker 3: good luck the rest of the year. Excited to see

802
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 3: on that President's Cup team and we appreciate you taking

803
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 3: some time.

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00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks guys, good join you.

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