WEBVTT - Scott Vincent 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:08.479 It's the Son of a Butcher podcast. We come to 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:11.200 you every Wednesday. I am your host, Claude Harmon. This 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.440 week's guest Scott Vincent, been playing the last two years 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:17.120 on Live and I think it's one of the kind 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.919 of cool, feel good stories. Here's a guy that was 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:25.040 playing the Japan Tour, had status in Asia, won a tournament, 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.440 got into the first live event in London last year, 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.240 and I spent the last two years playing his golf 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.599 on Live. But I think there's been so many stories 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.720 and so much stuff written about money and excess and 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.360 all of this stuff. But I think Scott's story is 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.080 one of the stories that doesn't get talked about. 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There are strange journeys that people 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.480 get on to play this game, but competitively. And you 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.920 played golf, U College, Golf, Virginia Tech. So you've been 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.560 kind of all over the place, spend some time on 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.080 the Asian Tour. In the last two years you've spent 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.200 on Live but the journey to get to where you 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:56.760 are now Zimbabwe believe it or not. A rich history 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:00.800 of Nicky Price, one of the greats of professional golf. 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.680 How did you get out of Zimbabwe and first of 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:05.960 all get to Virginia Tech. We got to start there. 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.960 Hey yeah, I mean Nick Price had a huge influence 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.320 in Zimbabwe golf and I was part of his academy 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.240 growing up and that that played a huge part in 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:19.720 my development coming through. Amazing coach called Roger Bayless who 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.279 helped get us all started, and just one of those 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:23.800 guys that did it for the love of the game. 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.200 He didn't care that he made nothing from it. He 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.000 was just happy to pour into and yeah, help help 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.480 get all the fundamentals right, help help develop us young 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.640 kids coming through, and just anyone that had a passion 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.800 and was willing to work, he was happy to give 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.520 the time. So a huge I give a lot of 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.640 credit for him and getting my career going. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:44.520 From there. 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.200 There was a connection with Virginia Tech, so I was 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:51.760 probably the fifth Zimbabwan to go there. Brendan Deong is 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.479 one of the better known guys that went there, but 0:04:55.480 --> 0:05:00.920 the McDonald brothers myself, Sean Farrell was another one. But yeah, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.960 Brendan's obviously the top guy that made it from Virginia 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:07.800 Tech onto the PGA and had an amazing career, And 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.080 so that was kind of the connection. But how I 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.560 got scouted was through the Orange Bowl that happens every 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.000 year in December, Okay, just a great spot for international 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.160 kids to come and play and get some exposure and 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.720 see college coaches come down and have a look. And 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.240 so that's where the coach saw me and obviously like 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:27.680 what he saw and wanted me to come out. 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.480 Was it a big, big move to come from Zim 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.640 to Virginia Tech, Because I mean that is a law. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.640 I mean, South Africa's a long way away. Zimbabwe's can 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.000 almost seem like it's even further away. Was there a 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:44.039 little culture shock when you got to play college golf? 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.479 You're playing Division one, You're playing in a big program. 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.920 You know, Virginia Tech has a massive athletic program as well. 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.640 Did it take you a while to get adjusted? 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:56.480 It was a huge shift. 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:01.440 The culture of the food, the people, just how they 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.080 studied as well. Like I never had a computer growing up, 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.320 so everything's done on a computer. So I got my 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.240 first computer, had to learn how to type, spent the 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.960 first year basically just trying to figure out how to 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.880 use this thing. And then yeah, I mean, I mean 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.240 college was amazing. Like like you said, Virginia Tech has 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.919 a huge athletic program, and obviously golf has been fairly 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.320 successful too, but yeah, it was. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:27.159 It was incredible. 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:29.880 I loved I loved every moment that I had at 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.560 Virginia Tech. And funny story because it ties in with 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.640 liv golf, is my very first college tournament was at 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:36.640 rich Harvest Farms. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.560 Okay, yeah, that lives played the last two years. 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.560 Played there the last two years, and obviously coming from 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.880 Zimbabwe where the courses are very different to playing this course, 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.080 which is a really strong, big golf course that can 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:53.000 host a major, you know. Essentially, I remember coming off 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.640 of that tournament calling my dad and saying, I don't 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.200 think I'm good enough to play college golf. 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:58.560 Maybe I should come home. 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.640 Maybe because of the golf, Because of. 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:01.200 The golf course. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.000 Yeah, it was just so big, and I hadn't played 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:04.919 a golf course like that where you're not hitting wedge 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.560 into every single hole. It's like now you're hitting four, five, 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.320 six signs or woods into holes. And it was just 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.200 something that I and even now as a professional, you 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:15.920 play that course and you have a better respect for 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.240 it because of how tough it cam play. So funny 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.200 that then we go back and play it as a 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.400 live player now and okay, it feels a little bit 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.320 different because you've gotten used to the style and your 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.520 prep works different. Maybe you developed a bit more as 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.400 a player, and yeah, it's just kind of done a 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.080 full circle, which is quite funny. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.720 So you turn prone twenty fifteen. Did you go to 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.720 Q school and the usual routes that everybody tries to 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.920 take you try and go, you try to get on 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:43.680 the PGA Tour. If you don't get on PGA Tour, 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.240 you're trying to get on corn Fair, corn Ferry, go 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:51.680 to Europe Asia. What was which qualifiers and qualifying schools 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:52.280 did you go to? 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.040 Yeah, so first off, I wanted to do the typical route, 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.520 go through corn Ferry, went to Q School, got through 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:02.320 I think pre quality, then didn't get through first and 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.640 so it's like now what? And so I was playing 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.040 a bit of mini tour stuff and picked up very 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:08.960 quickly that this is not what I wanted to do 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.720 and just or not play on mini tours. I needed 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.760 to play a full season somewhere and just by chance, 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.520 a buddy reached out to me and said, hey, we're 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.080 going to do Asian Tour Q School, you should consider it, 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.520 and I was like, nah, I want to be in America. 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.240 You know, I've spent time in America. That's where the 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.480 best are. I want to be out here. I was like, Okay, well, 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.160 I've got nothing else to do in January. Let me 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.960 go and give it a shot. Go win first stays 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.720 and finished fourth in the final stage of Q School. 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:40.040 Full talk art now and playing out there. Amazing players, 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.280 huge culture change as well, out of your comfort zone. 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.280 And very different. I mean Asia. I think out of 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:49.760 all of the tours, scott probably has the most diverse 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:54.640 types of golf courses, types of grass, types of conditions 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.280 that you're com playing. I mean to me, the knock 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.280 on the PGA Tour and the corn Firy Tour has 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:03.680 always been but I think the golf is very similar. Right, 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:05.840 You're always going to play in pretty good conditions, You're 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.160 always going to play in pretty good weather. And back 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.000 in the day when I when I started playing, you know, 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.800 started working and working with players. I went to work 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.280 on the European Tour and Trevor Immlman was, Yeah, I've 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.880 had him on the podcast. He's one of my good friends. 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.720 Trevor was the first person I work but back then 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:28.480 it was Trevor Adam Scott, Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter was 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:32.240 they were choosing Europe as a way to kind of 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.480 cut their teeth, and I thought the same thing again, Europe, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.640 You're gonna have to learn how to travel, You're gonna 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.959 have to learn a lot of different golf courses, different 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:43.920 weather conditions. But Asia is a completely different kind of 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.319 That's a whole nother. Like you said, the culture shock 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.800 of the travel, the culture shock of the food there is. 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.000 There is so much more I think to being a 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:59.240 competitive professional golfer and making it then what people think 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:00.800 it is. And I think one of the great things 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:04.040 about going and playing time. I mean, Brooks kept a 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.480 Brooks played in Europe. He didn't take the traditional route, 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.199 he missed in the US, didn't get his US card, 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:16.079 missed European Tour school, and then got onto the Challenge Tour. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:21.199 What do you feel like those type of experiences did 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:25.559 for you and how have they helped your development not 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:27.960 only as a player, Scott, but as a person as well. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.280 Yeah, I think it has a huge impact. It just 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.319 it opens your mind up and you play against different 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.480 people with different styles, and like you said, the foods 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.240 and stuff are just nothing that we're used to in America. 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:45.400 And to be honest, like I love it, I miss 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.920 it at times. The camaraderie of the tour. It's one 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.160 of the friendliest tours I've played on. But like you said, 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.120 you know, you're playing on golf courses where you have 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.880 no idea what you're going to. It could be perfectly 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.120 fine in pristine, amazing or one of the words golf 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.720 courses you are gone to. But regardless of that, it 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:05.600 was you know, I'm here for a reason. I've got 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.160 to figure that out. I've got to come play my best, 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.760 give my best effort and learn something and try and 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.560 put a good result in And so that that was 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.120 the cool part of that is that we all did 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.640 that together. We all kind of jumped on similar flights 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.559 off we went, stayed in random places who knows where, 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.360 and just got on with it. There wasn't much to 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.760 complain about it. We just we just kind of plodded along. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.040 That's we were all on the same boat, which was cool, 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.200 you know, there weren't these big names or little names. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.800 It was we were all doing the same thing. And 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:36.520 yeah that what that does is it just develops you 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.880 as a person as a player. You learn a lot 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.880 about yourself and it develops your game. Of course, you're 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.319 going to learn different shots, different different ways to play. 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.840 And Asia Asia really helped with that. And and through Asia, 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.840 you know, I got access to the European Tour as well. 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.760 And you Rookie of the Year in twenty sixteen on 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.400 the Asian Tour. So you come out of college, you 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.320 miss where you want to play. Everybody wants to play 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.360 on the PGA Tour. Everybody wants to play in America. 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.520 That's where the best players play. But you say, okay, 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.080 I've got so a lot of players I think, Scott 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.880 that I find interesting is they don't do what you do. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.280 Their dream is to go, Okay, I want to play 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.320 the PGA Tour. I don't make it on the PGA Tour. Okay, 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.160 I want to play the corn Fairy. And if you 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:24.040 don't meet those two targets and those two goals, then 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.040 I've seen so many players say okay, well everything now 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:31.360 is is a come down, right, Everything now is kind 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.720 of it's kind of beneath me because I thought I 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.480 was better than this, and I really don't want to 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.520 be And I see a lot of players in go 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.160 they get status somewhere else, but because they didn't get 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:46.440 status where they wanted to, they struggle because it's almost 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.319 like they self sabotage. They were like, oh, well, I'm 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.439 too good to be here, so I'm actually not going 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.080 to go out and do what you did. Is okay, 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.040 I'm in Asia now, I want to play in America. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.280 I want to play on the PGA Tour. But what 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.000 you did was you went out and you're Rookie of 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.600 the Year in twenty sixteen. So you go and have 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:09.280 a really good, solid opening year of professional golf. What 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.520 do you feel like that first year on the Asian 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.760 Tour where you were Rookie of the year. What did 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:18.080 you learn about yourself and what was the jump from Okay, 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.199 I played college golf, played four were you there for 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.600 four years? So four years college golf Division one, So 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.320 you know how to travel, you know how to do 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.760 all of the stuff. But then you go and you 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.880 don't have the success that you wanted to have them, 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.480 you know, by getting onto the PGA Tour, getting on 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.640 the corn ferry, you go to Asia. You weren't planning 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.280 even to go to Asia. Then you go out, you 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:43.760 get through first stage, you win first stage, win first stage, 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:48.160 and then basically finished top five. So now you're fully exempt. 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.520 What do you feel like was the jump from college 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:57.719 golf to professional golf that you kind of noticed and went, Okay, 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.000 this is different now, is it? Or is it just golf? 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.760 And you go into the mindset of saying, listen, even 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.040 though this is Asian Tour, it's just golf. 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.800 It I mean, in the simplest form, it is right, 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.320 it is just golf. But I think from a personal level, 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.640 you have to start owning it yourself. It's like, Okay, 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.520 here's where I'm at. What's the best I can do 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:19.880 with where I'm at? And how am I going to 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.320 get to those big dreams that I have? Obviously the 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.280 plan A didn't work out, But as we know, like 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.080 as we've seen with so many other players, there's so 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.680 many different ways to get back there, and different journeys 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:34.120 develop different people differently, And mine's being a little bit 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.040 different in that I've gone through Asia, tried a bit 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:38.920 in Europe that didn't work out so great, come back 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.560 to Asia, gone to Japan. But it's just been a 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.240 cool journey of just me learning more about who I 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:49.080 am and what I am like as a player, and 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.920 how I can continue to figure out ways to optimize 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:56.760 that and be better. And yeah, like you said that 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:58.800 first year, I mean it's quite a few years ago, 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.120 and trying to remember a little bit more of it. 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:06.400 But obviously that was a validating moment in my careers. Okay, yeah, 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.680 we you know, we came to college, we figured that out. Okay, 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.040 we were good enough for college golf. Now it's another 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.080 level up. You know, not many people get to chase 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.360 their dreams at the professional level, and you don't know 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:18.280 if you're going to be good enough. 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:19.720 Obviously you have big dreams. 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.080 And you want to be good enough, and you're dreaming 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.560 of winning majors and playing at the highest stage. But 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:26.520 is that going to be a reality. You're not sure. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.560 And so going to Asian Tour maybe getting Work of 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.600 the Year was a little validation. It's like, okay, good, 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.960 that was great. Now how do we move on from that? 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.680 We continue to look at ways to improve and get better. 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:43.600 One of the few Western players that played in Japan. 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:48.760 There's the Asian Tour, which is crazy on to itself, 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.560 and then there's an entire another world which is golf 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:57.320 in Japan. And for people that don't know, it's hard 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.000 to find a country more obsessed with golf than they 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:06.000 are in Japan. And the Japanese Tour is very, very specific, 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:12.680 and then you go into a completely another cultural shock 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:17.480 of the food in Japan. If you don't speak Japanese, 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.040 it's a struggle. You've got to get yourself around. How 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:22.920 many years did you play on the Japanese Tour? 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.640 So I did two full seasons out there. Obviously I've 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.680 got a little messed up with COVID and how that 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.000 all works, so two and a half something like that, 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:35.360 and I still have full status out there. But honestly, 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:37.760 Japan's one of my favorite countries. Like once you kind 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.760 of figure out the little things and how to move around, 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:44.280 and it's one of the simplest, most amazing love the culture, love, 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.320 food's amazing, love so many things about it. It's one 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:51.080 country and it's big, but it's small, and so the 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.320 travel in and around that is just incredible. And I'm 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.680 excited to be going back there in a week's time 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:57.760 to go and play some bill. 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.920 You go back which tournaments you. 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.200 So, I'm gonna play the there's one called the ab 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:07.919 ABC event. And then two weeks later I'm playing Doune. 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.000 Phoenix on Phoenix fiftieth anniversary of the Dunlap Phoenix. Brooks 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.880 is going, Brooks is Goings is going, He's won it twice. Yeah, 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:19.840 what's what's playing a golf in Japan like on tour 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:24.480 because obviously you're not Japanese, there's a language barrier golf course. 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:26.679 I love the look of the golf courses Japan that 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.679 dormant to where everything is burnt out, and then the 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.960 greens and the t's are bright, bright green. I love 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.120 the way some of the golf courses in Japan look. 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.800 Like, yeah they're they're pristine, like they take so much 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.440 pride in doing everything one hundred percent. Some of the 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.520 best greens I've put it on and played on their 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.560 courses are incredible, and so it to me. I loved 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.720 it because it felt like right, this is kind of 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:51.720 a slightly. 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:54.880 Smaller version of the PGA Tour. 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:59.040 And so good conditions, great conditions. You know, tons of 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.520 people watching, so you getting used to the crowds. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:06.600 Of television, big stars in Japan, I mean, the the 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:12.399 players in Japan that are good are rock stars in Japan, phenomenal. 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:14.720 I mean they are. I mean, And it's interesting that 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.760 you said that because out of all of the tours, 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.640 and it's funny Adam Scott has said to Scotty loves 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.440 going to Japan, right, I mean, obviously the unicloth thing 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:27.159 now it helps, but Scotty's always gone and played in Japan. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:32.080 And it's interesting that you mentioned that playing professional golf 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:36.040 in Japan is probably the closest you can get to 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.720 playing on the PGA Tour because the crowds are huge, 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.679 there's television every week, there are big superstars. All the 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:50.480 manufacturers have trucks, everybody's logoed up. So I never thought 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.440 about that, but that playing in Japan is probably as 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:57.040 close to being on the PGA Tour from an experience 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:58.320 as a player as you can get. 0:18:58.440 --> 0:18:59.440 Absolutely yeah. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.360 And so seeing that and tasting it's like, this is perfect, 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.639 This is amazing preparation for I'm trying to get to 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.720 and just loved it, you know, it depends an amazing place. 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:12.480 You got your first win in twenty twenty one, Yes, 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:13.679 do you remember it? 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:14.240 Yes? 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.040 What was different? So you get your first really that's 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:22.760 your big that's your first big professional wine. I always 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:28.200 ask players did you need to play as good as 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.879 you thought you did to win your first tournament? Or 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:35.440 was the experience different? Because I think so many players 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.040 Scott feel like the only way they're going to win 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.440 golf tournaments is just to come in all guns, blaze 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.479 and shoot four rounds in the sixties and it's just 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:45.560 going to be this amazing m to shoot sixty three 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:50.840 on Sunday or do something special? Was the experience afterwards? 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.359 Did you have this kind of thought process saying Okay, 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:56.560 that wasn't as hard as I thought it was? 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:57.359 Right on? 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.280 Yeah, you it up so much in your mind and 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:04.159 you think it has to be absolutely perfect. And I 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.639 found that a lot of times just golf in general, 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.760 there's always a testing point at some point during the 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.360 round and which way is that going to swing? Are 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:15.439 you going to let it swing in your favor or 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.920 against because you're going to get tested at some point. 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:21.200 Obviously the nerves and everything and like that's all that's 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:23.200 all part of it. But at some point during the 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:26.240 round you're going to face something that's really uncomfortable, really challenging, 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:28.159 really difficult, and what are you going to do with that? 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:29.560 Are you going to let it. 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:31.720 Linger and affect the way that you're going to finish 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:33.439 the day or you just this is all part of 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:37.159 the process, and so yeah, absolutely, it was just it 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:39.439 was just one of those days where the whole experience 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:43.040 and just being in that was just incredible. Obviously, the 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:45.399 golf kind of followed, and I did play really good golf. 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:47.640 Yeah, it was. It was cool. 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:49.920 I had to make a six footer on the last 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:53.400 hole to win it, and I couldn't really feel the putter. 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:55.680