WEBVTT - Episode 22: Taylor Moore 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.400 The guys from paying They've kind of showed me how 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.120 much the equipment matters. I just love that I can 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:06.600 hit any shot I kind of want. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:08.480 We're gonna be able to tell some fun stories about 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:10.640 what goes on here to help golfers play better golf. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.040 Welcome back to the Ping proven Grounds Podcast. I'm Shane 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:16.120 Baker and that's Marty Jerts and Marty. We've got another 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:18.840 great guest in the tour truck with Taylor Moore. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.720 Yeah, it's gonna be fun. Taylor. It's excited to spend 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.599 a little time together, hear about your journey and talk 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:25.160 little gear. 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:27.520 I want to kind of start with the journey because 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:29.040 you're a thirty year old player. You won on the 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.800 PGA Tour this year for the first time. What was 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.320 the journey like? How did you kind of handle going 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.319 through different tours? You had a great amateur career. What 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:39.400 was the journey like to the point where you win 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:40.560 on the PGA Tour. 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:45.200 Yes, you know, I spent five years outside the PGA 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.159 Tour but playing professional golf, and so I feel like 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.000 I was pretty acclimated to, you know, what professional golf was. 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:54.800 And yeah, my senior year at Arkansas. I qualified for 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.080 the Canadian Tour and had status out there immediately, and 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:00.400 then right after our national championship, you know, my year, 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:03.000 I went straight up to Canada and got acclimated to 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.480 what you know, professional golf was. And so that's how Yeah, 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:06.279 that's all I got started. 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.600 How was Arkansas out Canada? How was that? How was 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:09.160 that switch? 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:09.520 Yeah? 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:11.360 You're like, where are where? 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:12.080 Where are we here? 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:12.320 Well? 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.160 I was actually we were actually in Eugene, organ and 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.360 so we're kind of close to my first term. It 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.759 was in Victoria, British Columbia, so it wasn't too too 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.120 far to travel. But it was funny. I went up 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.399 there and wore all my Arkansas gear and you know, 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:25.840 playing with professional golfers. It was this college kid, you know, 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:27.679 up here trying to get after it. So that was 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:28.600 that was pretty fun. 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:32.199 Did you have a moment during the journey where golf 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.600 was frustrated and you were thinking, maybe this isn't going 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.039 to be it, Maybe I'm gonna pursue something else, What 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.520 else could I do? Was there ever anything like that 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:40.399 that float it through the brain. 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:42.920 I definitely had, you know a couple of peers that 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.000 come to mind that I was frustrated. I never really 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.600 allowed myself to, you know, think about what I potentially 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:53.000 wanted to do elsewise, you know, or otherwise, and I, yeah, 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.240 I got injured in nineteen. I was I was kind 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.960 of a big moment for me, just to get some 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.760 perspective on life and you know, have some time away 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.480 from the game. And then we had a two and 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.120 one you know season during COVID on the corn Ferry 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.120 and I was about seventy fifth place roughly after the 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.040 first kind of you know part of it, and was 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:13.960 just very frustrated with how I was playing, and you 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:15.720 know had to really you know, grab a bull by 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.920 the horns and redirect a little bit. And uh yeah, 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:20.600 teared up to that last season to get out here. 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.600 Did you graduate from Canadian to corn Ferry And then 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.720 what point in your journey on Canadian did you get 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:26.440 your win there? 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:27.800 I did Median. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.160 Yeah, so I finished third on that money list in Canada, 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:33.760 and I went, like I said, straight from Oregon to 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.400 Victoria and I finished solo second my first event, so 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.360 it kind of kind of kind of popped me up 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.040 on the on the money list right there. And that 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.360 was the second event out of the twelve that we 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.400 played over the course of the summer, and about halfway 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.480 through I won in Thunder Bay and so that was 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.720 a pretty cool week, first professional win. My dad was 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:52.040 on the back. He came up to hang out with 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:53.760 me for the week, and you know, we happened to win, 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.360 which was a lot of fun and something that that 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:56.200 we definitely remember. 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.280 Was it close or did you how many did you 0:02:58.360 --> 0:02:59.440 win by? It? 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.360 Go went by two or three? But I was actually 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.040 I was paired in the final round with another ping pro, 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.440 Corey Connors, Canadians, So that was kind of that was 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:06.840 a cool kind of duel by. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:11.519 Three, by the way, I'm telling you, unbelievable. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:13.839 It was funny, Like, so I had a couple shot 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.520 lead obviously on eighteen and uh, hit it in the fairway. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.240 My dad's like, what do you think? What do you think? 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.240 I'm like, driver off the decks, end it up there, 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:22.840 like you know, I kind of freaked him out and 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.640 I'm like, I'm just kidding, I'm gonna lay up. That 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:27.919 was pretty funny. He's, uh, he always tells that story. 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:29.320 But yeah, that was It was a lot of fun 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:30.720 to get my first first win up there. 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.800 And then Corn Ferry Tour. When uh, tell us about 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.520 that win, because you've knocked off a win on Canadian 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.640 corn Fairy and then this year. 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.480 Real quick, would you win by in corn Fairy? Let's see? 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:41.440 How Yeah? 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:41.960 What was that? 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.560 I know, I just remember blacking out on Saturday and 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:48.160 shooting sixty and then shoot six and then I think 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:53.800 sixty six the final round, but maybe two ye by three? Three? Yeah, two, 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.120 I like to one by three. Yeah. No, that was 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:58.360 That was pretty cool. And that was a couple of 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.360 years into corner. You know, I think I was my 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.800 fourth season on corn Fairy, hadn't won my previous three, 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.480 and you know, obviously been close a few times, and 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:08.800 you know, kept my card on corn Fair every year. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.280 But yeah, that was that was pretty surreal. I was 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.520 in a really good period of playing golf during that summer, 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.520 my last year on corn Fairy. You know, I shot 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.920 twenty seven under to win that week, shot twenty five 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.040 under the next finished sol the second, you know, which 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:25.320 obviously elevated me to you know, pretty high number on 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.080 the Corn Fairy Tour pointsless so. 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.800 Taylor the mentality of a Corn Fairy Tour player. I 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.240 don't think casual golf fans quite understand the difference in 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.040 corn Fairy Tour golf versus PGA Tour golf. When you're 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.039 out there on the KFT, it's it's a birdy fest. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.040 You're trying to shoot as low as possible. You can 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.160 kind of hit it offline and still get away with it. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.280 What was the biggest change for you when you got 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.200 to the PGA Tour. It just in terms of how 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:48.000 you play golf. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.440 Course management's obviously a lot different, you know out here, 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.680 just based on course setup and conditions, I feel like, 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.240 but I was. I was appreciative of the fact that 0:04:58.320 --> 0:04:59.760 I had to learn how to play that style of 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.520 golf as well, the aggressive, stay aggresive style. I'm just 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.719 learning how to make birdies and get comfortable making birdies 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.440 because you know, there are some weeks out here that 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.599 are like that. But also out here, you know, driving 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.000 the volume the fairways of value, missing in correct spots 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.440 and giving yourself some space is of value. So yeah, 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:18.560 I was appreciative, and you know, like I said, there's 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:19.919 some weeks out here we got to go low, but 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.720 definitely gotta gotta play smart out here and a little 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:23.919 more conservative at times. 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.240 I find that very interesting. So your your wins, your 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.400 win on corn Fair was like twenty three hundred, you 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.920 shot twenty twenty six under, and then you win one 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:36.440 of the hardest events relative to par this year at 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.520 the Valspar. I mean watching the Valspar every year, it's 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.839 like watching a mat, like the scores like watching a major. 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.240 You know, usually like single digits under par. I think 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.720 you shot ten right this year to win by one. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.599 So what was it about that course that you know 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.839 you think suited your game? 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.800 And yeah, I think I think that whole Florida kind 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.440 of swing, I've like internally feel comfortab because it's on Bermuda. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.640 It's a little fa it gets, you know, a little 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:04.599 crazy in some spots, like they Hill. There's literally no 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.440 grass on those greens, zero friction. And actually valls War 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.800 got a little bit that way as well, and so 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.080 you know, I think I'm comfortable on that type of 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.119 grass in that environment. And just with how fast I got, 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:17.760 I knew just to give myself some space if I 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.400 did miss, and you know, try to drive the ball 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:20.960 on the fairway and get as many you know, short 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.920 irons and wedges as possible and had a good week 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.520 on the greens, you know that we anytime I feel 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:30.880 like my game no three putts, you know, no balls 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:32.839 in the hat, just little stuff that we always talk about. 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:34.840 And I did a really good job of that that week, like. 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.360 The Tiger rules, right, yeah, bogie par five, no three putts, 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.240 try not to lose a golf ball and if you 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:41.919 can kind of check those off a list of ye 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:42.440 hanging out. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.719 All that little stuff adds up, you know, over four days, 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.000 and I think there's one set that popped up where 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:49.880 I didn't miss a pot inside it, you know, seven 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.359 feet all week, seventy of seventy or something like that, 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.680 which is like that stuff has to happen sometimes for 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.920 you to win, right exactly. Yeah, it was cool. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.760 What would you sign up for, Let's say next year 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.799 the tour was looking at scheduling all the golf courses 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.440 that you want to play. Are you looking at twenty 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.360 five under and you got to go low and get 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:08.920 out there and get it, or are you looking more 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.679 a Valce bar where ten undred has a possibility of winning. 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:13.800 What fits your game is better. 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.880 I prefer the harder courses, but I think some of 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.440 the ones that you you know, can go low, or 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.160 some fun tracks as well, so I think I'll do 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.920 a little bit of a balance, you know, if I had, 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.960 if I had to guess, But it seems like the 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:28.800 the way the tour is going, the you know, elevated 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:30.560 events and the majors, those are obviously going to be 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.560 you know, your higher scoring events for the most part. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:37.920 So Taylor winning that event in March got you into 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.760 all the majors right this year. Yeah, so tell us 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.920 about that you went from playing no major. I mean, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.680 this journey is incredible, you know, It's it's. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.080 Why again, like why following pro golf is so fun 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:54.040 because you have the kind of super duper young stars 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.280 like the Jordan Speeds and you know, I mean obviously 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.640 see Ricky Fowler pop up and nearly win right out 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.360 of the gate. But there are so many extremely talented 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.440 players that do go through this journey like yours, which 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.600 again I'm sure gives you great perspective in terms of 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.680 PGA tor golf because you check those boxes on your 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:10.440 way to this path. 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.440 Yeah. Absolutely, And you know, I think everybody's journey out 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.360 here is different, right, Like you guys are saying speed, 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.640 there's some star studded guys coming out of school, especially now, 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.840 that can come out here and play immediately. And you know, 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:23.840 for me, I think personally I needed those years on 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:25.480 the corn for you just to learn how to play golf, 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.680 learn how to be a professional, you know, learn how 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.640 to score in all different kinds of conditions and tournaments 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.000 and scenarios. And I think if I potentially would have 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.120 made the Tour after my first or second year on Cornfery, 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.360 I don't know if I would have stayed out here 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.719 just because I wasn't ready. But yeah, it's just it's 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:40.640 pretty cool to see. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.480 To your point, What was it like turning up at 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:43.360 Augusta this year? 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.480 It was pretty cool, man, Yeah, it was awesome. I 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.320 had never been out there. You had a chance to 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:49.760 play a ride in you I had a chance to 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:50.720 play say I'm. 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.800 Good, which is still crazy to me. I mean, I mean, 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.200 I Dustin told me he did it one time. Dustin 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:57.959 had a chance to play it. I know Colt knows 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.559 qualified for the Masters because you in the Am and 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.480 then turned pro at the invite. I mean, there's not 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.760 a lot of people on this planet, maybe less people 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:07.520 that have walked on the Moon that have turned down 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:08.040 on Augustina. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.839 I know, I know, well it had just been a 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:12.400 thing for me and my dad. We wanted, you know, 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.200 our first time out there to be when I qualified, 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.680 and so obviously some incentive there. But I had a chance, 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.480 you know, from a member that I met at school 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.440 at Arkansas, to to go out there and play. And 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:22.840 my dad wasn't able to go on the trip. It 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:24.120 was just going to be me. So I was like, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.560 I appreciate it, but no, Sirah, like, my dad can't go, 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.200 then I don't, you know, I don't want to break 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.480 our little little thing we got going. So yeah, that 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:31.920 was cool. 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.360 You talked a lot about your dad and he's caddied 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.160 for you. How's your dad's golf game? Is he who 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:37.280 got you into golf? 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.160 He is? Yeah, he got me into the game, and 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.240 you know, he coached college baseball a little bit high 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.320 school baseball the end of his career and him and 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:45.760 his coaching, but as we go play golf in their 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.320 in their free time, and I just you know, tagging 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.600 along and hop in the cart and you know, try 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.000 to do what they did when I was you know, three, 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:52.439 four or five years old, and that's how I got 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:53.960 into it. But yeah, he's caddy for me a little 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.520 bit got me to the game lost following. I think 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.600 it's hard, you know, for a lot of dads out 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.400 here to have sons, you know, the PGA Tour, it's 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.040 hard just being dad because a lot of them were 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.240 so involved at a young age. So that's been a big, 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:08.080 you know, learning curve for him. But yeah, he's uh, yeah, 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:08.439 he's good. 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.160 Is he comfortable now being dad? 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:10.480 Ye? 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:12.679 Comfortable kind of taking that step away. I mean, if 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.560 you've got that coaching mind, you're always thinking about coaching, 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.320 and obviously with your son playing so well and competing, 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.560 he wants to coach his son. Is he okay now 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.160 just kind of sitting back cocktail and so and watching 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:24.000 golf from the tower. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.320 He is, he is. And you know, have a younger 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.680 brother as well, so everybody's out of the house. Everybody's adults, 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.760 everybody you know, you know, living their own lives, and 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.440 so yeah, he's uh, he's fully adjusted now and totally 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.280 content coming out here and uh, you know, getting into 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.120 player dining and hanging out and being a part of 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.280 being a part of it. So he's great as well. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.000 I don't I don't have to get you a sandwich 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:44.800 and doctor Pember at the turn anymore, like I can 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:45.760 just go in here and do that. 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.760 So, Taylor, you mentioned baseball, your dad coaching baseball, you 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.120 were a baseball player. Tell us about your journey like 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.880 baseball golf, When did the when did. 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.400 The Yeah we heard good, Yeah we heard you like 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:58.840 a good really good baseball. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.760 Yeah I was. I was really good. You know. I 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.719 quit baseball for my freshman year high school. So I 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.559 played both pretty parallel, I would say, until about eighth grade, 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.520 and then I started really you know, picking more and 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.160 more golf tournaments and kind of the time frame too. 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.400 When I got into the pen junior program. I was fourteen. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:17.680 Jeff Brown found me when I was in eighth grade. 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.680 You know, we weren't totally sure if it was legal 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.080 to get golf equipment because my dad, being a baseball coach, 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.600 was like, no kids can get sponsored. And you know, 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.360 in team sports, you can't get free equipment. You can't 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.520 do anything unless you know the team has all the 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.079 access to it. But yeah, I played baseball at a 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.040 high level, you know, through my freshman year and was 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.400 going to camps in the summer and you know, really 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.120 trying to figure out what I wanted to do in college. 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.800 And at the next level, what position did you play, Like, 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.520 what what were you good at in baseball? 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.720 Yeah? I played short and second you know, middle figure, 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.800 probably the coach's son. It was kind of like, you know, 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.720 you're required to play that at some point, I feel like, 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.800 but my dad played center field, and I really enjoyed 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.840 playing outfield too. That was that was a lot of fun. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.800 But yeah, I think it was just naturally more gifted short, short, 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:00.520 and second base. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.320 I was a lefty coming up in East Texas playing baseball, 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.720 and my coach made me play catcher a little bit 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.199 as a catcher, which lefties don't play catcher. Yes, so crazy, 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.480 But me and my buddy, my buddy Russy played first. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.880 We'd pick off so many guys that were getting sleepy 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.360 on first because you could just rifle it down first base. 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.240 It was always fun. But yeah, having the baseball and 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.080 the golf thing, I don't know for you, it was 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.760 really tough for me because the swings are so different. 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.120 So you're in a batting cage, you're hitting balls baseball wise, 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:29.720 and then you go to the driving range. It always 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:31.520 took me a little bit of time to adjust. Was 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.280 that part of the reason you decided to give up baseball. 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.640 You know, I didn't really have that issue. A lot 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.040 of people maybe would assume, but for me, I just 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:41.800 I didn't really have that problem. I was able to, 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.160 you know, decipher ball being still on a tee and 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.040 then a ball coming at you and being able to react, 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.040 and you know, maybe it's just lucky and God given 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:49.960 a little bit. But I didn't have, you know, too 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.000 much of that. I had more rust just from not 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.600 playing golf right than anything, because I would go, you know, 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.280 play a baseball tournament over the weekend Thursday through Sunday, 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.160 and then roll around and play oaklhand junior golf men 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.199 on Monday morning. He's like, Okay, this is weird, like 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.360 and I haven't practiced ready. You haven't done anything. 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.600 So, Taylor, you mentioned Jeff brown took care of you 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.760 starting at age thirteen fourteen. I want to know some 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:15.760 of your like favorite pin clubs, whether it's driver, iron, 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.240 what'd you use those early days? What do you what 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:19.600 do you remember about them? 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:23.000 So I remember my first driver that Brownie got me 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.280 was a G two eleven and a half degree with 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.559 a lady's flex in it. Because I was a small kid. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.560 That was like literally like maybe five foot one hundred pounds, 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.480 and he's like, let's get you some loft in a 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.080 in a cheft that you can whip around and swing 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:37.760 as fast as you can. So that was that was 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.680 pretty cool, just so you know, think about that. Other 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.040 clubs I love. I love the Rapture V two at 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.920 a Mitsubishi dmana whiteboarding it and the V two with 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.640 some with some loft as well. Ten five. 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.360 I think you still have these clubs somewhere, do you think? 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.200 Somewhere at home? Probably probably my parents' house. They have 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.720 a little they call it the Taylor Golf Shed in 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:01.320 the back corner. They got literally all kinds of you know, yeah, 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:02.800 for the podcast, we might. 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:04.959 What about putters? What about putter? 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:09.360 Redwood D sixty six, Oh nice, Yeah, those are still, 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.640 in my opinion, some of the best, you know, feeling putters. 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.840 And you know, obviously the new PLD line with the 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:15.840 mild face and stuff is about as close as we've 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.880 we've gotten to that, which feels, you know, very similar. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.240 But yeah, Redwood D sixty six, I'm still I still 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.200 play the S fifty five irons, so I have to 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.760 mention those, you know. Oh yeah, Seven eight nine years 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.200 old and probably no better than you, but yeah I played. 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:31.480 Have you have you tinkered with some of the new 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.080 irons and thought about going into them? And why do 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.080 you kind of stick to the the O g irons 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:37.200 that you've had in the bag for a few years. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.240 Yeah, for sure, I've tried, you know, anything new that 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.440 comes out, especially now being on tour we have access 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.760 to right and so I did play the Blueprints for 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.280 a period of time, you know, on my last year 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:47.880 on corn Ferry and when I first got out here 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.680 on tour, which I love because there's so much playability 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.720 in the Blueprint irons, you know, not a lot of 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.680 offset able to work it both ways pretty easy obviously 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.920 the player profile with the smaller blade, which is awesome, 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.720 but always gravitated back. I think just naturally being a 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:05.440 pink kid, I love to look at a little bit 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.720 of offset, have a little bit of forgiveness in the 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.560 long irons, especially you know out here on tour, you know, 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.080 in that three and four, and I would like a 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.560 little bit of mass to look at times playing on 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:16.680 these firm hard courses. 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.560 Yeah. So our blue our Blueprint S is kind of 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:23.000 that marriage of the S from S fifty five with 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.960 the blueprint and getting some of those soul design properties, 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.880 you know Areddiction think. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.080 S Blueprints twenty four. You heard it here first here 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:36.080 the iron change. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.840 You're a guy that likes to move the ball kind 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.160 of the opposite way of what maybe the modern player does. 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.480 I know you guys do some waiting in that world 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.000 as well with your woods. Why do you like to 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.920 see the ball move that way? And how many players 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:51.440 do you play with its still kind of turn the 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:51.880 ball over? 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.200 Yeah, I'm just a naturally drawler right like right to 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.000