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Speaker 1: Welcome back for another Friday Egg podcast. This time I'm

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Speaker 1: joined by two stars of the Illinois golf team, Nick

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Speaker 1: Hardy and Dylan Meyer. Both Nick and Dylan are juniors

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Speaker 1: and among the top amateur players in the world. The

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Speaker 1: first half of the podcast we speak with Nick and

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Speaker 1: the second half we speak with Dylan. As always, please

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Speaker 1: subscribe to the podcast and iTunes and leave us a review.

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Speaker 2: I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset.

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Speaker 1: When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.

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Speaker 2: And when I find my ball in a.

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Speaker 3: Brid egg Frida Egg, the dreaded Friday Friday Friday Bride Egg, Lie.

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Speaker 1: I'm about ready to run off the golf course. We

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Speaker 1: are back for another podcast, and today we welcome a

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Speaker 1: couple of college golf stars from the University of Illinois.

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Speaker 1: Up first, we have junior Nick Hardy, who has qualified

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Speaker 1: for the last two US Opens, was recently named to

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Speaker 1: the Palmer Cup team, and was the runaway Illinois State

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Speaker 1: am champ. Nick, how are you doing today? Yeah, of course,

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Speaker 1: I'm hanging in there. It's a good weekend with March

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Speaker 1: madness and got the API on in the background. You've

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Speaker 1: been watching any of the golf this season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've watched pretty much as much as I can.

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Speaker 2: As much I can. I love to watch, you know,

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Speaker 2: the tournaments every weekend. Starting to see a lot of

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Speaker 2: names that I've played with too, so it's it's really

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Speaker 2: cool to see and yeah, I love watching the golf.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I imagine you probably have play with a lot

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Speaker 1: of the guys, especially now. I mean you you qualified

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Speaker 1: for a lot of USGA events young, so you know

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Speaker 1: a lot of those guys that are twenty five were

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Speaker 1: probably some of the guys that you looked up to.

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Speaker 2: Huh, Yeah, no doubt. I mean I seeing like guys

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Speaker 2: so so early. And then like you know, obviously my

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Speaker 2: teammates Brian Campbell, Charlie Danielson and Thomas Teacher either having success.

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Speaker 2: So it's really cool and fun to follow them for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's cool. I'm in Illinois grad and it's cool

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Speaker 1: So I'd love to give the listeners a little bit

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Speaker 1: How did you get into golf?

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Speaker 2: I grew up, playing at a Part three course in

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Speaker 2: I had a passion for it and I just love

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So how did you get to pick Illinois? You

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Speaker 1: know what other schools were you looking at? And what

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Speaker 1: what got you there to Illinois?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So I visited Illinois twice before I committed. The

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's quite the program. It's it's amazing what

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Speaker 2: like this winter, I've never played so much in one winter.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like you're just a golf knot, which is which

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that whole life you guys.

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Speaker 1: I know it's a little bit tougher to do without shot.

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Speaker 2: Link, but yeah, well we use we use the golf

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Speaker 1: Where you know, where would you say over the time

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Speaker 1: So you've qualified for two straight US Opens, and you

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Speaker 1: shot a final round sixty eight, and then you got

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Speaker 2: Huh yeah. I first met to at the Walker Cup practice.

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Speaker 2: He He's unbelievable. I love him so much. He's a

435
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 2: such a great guy.

436
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Speaker 1: What what do you think? What do you think his

437
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 1: chances are at the at the Masters?

438
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Speaker 2: I love his chance. He's a great player, you know,

439
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 2: I think uh, I think he I think it's you know,

440
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 2: obviously he's there to compete hopefully to win, but I

441
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,399
Speaker 2: think he definitely has a good time to make in

442
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 2: the cut, and that would be really cool.

443
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I was looking at some odds the

444
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 1: other day and like they've got him like paired up

445
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 1: the same as like you know these like old champions

446
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 1: and it's like this kid's twenty five and he played

447
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: at USC like you know, he.

448
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,520
Speaker 2: Hit to really trade off the team. That's the key

449
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 2: to Gusta too. So I mean, you know, if he

450
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 2: you know, he's in a good form, I could. I

451
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,639
Speaker 2: could totally as he's a gamer. You saw it with

452
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,159
Speaker 2: the last six holes on the mid m that was

453
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Speaker 2: really cool.

454
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was those those six holes were so

455
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: hard and he made all those birdies. I mean that

456
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 1: was insane.

457
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.

458
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Speaker 1: Like those were like some of the hardest holes I've

459
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: ever played. And so if you could pick one core

460
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 1: or so you had to play one of the two

461
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,679
Speaker 1: courses for the rest of your life Orange or blue

462
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: and quitting is not an option, which would be and

463
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,120
Speaker 1: this is from a former an.

464
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Speaker 2: I would play Orange. I mean Orange is I think

465
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 2: a little bit better, but I would definitely not quit.

466
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 1: It. Neither is a great option, but golf is better

467
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 1: than no golf.

468
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:51,920
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, exactly.

469
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Speaker 1: So then I j g A. Matt wanted to know

470
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Speaker 1: if there be any animosity with your future team teammate

471
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,360
Speaker 1: Brendan O'Reilly because he beat you when he was thirteen.

472
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 2: Oh, none at all. I mean I hope we have

473
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 2: more matches like that, because if we do, then our

474
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 2: team is in good shape. I think.

475
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh. He seems he likes to post pictures

476
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 1: of his his swing on Instagram. He seems like he's

477
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 1: a great player.

478
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I don't know if there's anyone who

479
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 2: loves the game more than him. So that's what it is,

480
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 2: a good thing.

481
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so curious if you could take one aspect of

482
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Speaker 1: a former ALIGNI players game, you know, whether it be

483
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: like Stricker's wedge game or Peters is driving, what would

484
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,199
Speaker 1: you what would you want to take from another player?

485
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 2: Honestly, there'd be so many, so many, I mean I

486
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 2: think about it. I mean, all these players that come through,

487
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 2: I mean there's one thing that comes to mind. It's

488
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 2: it's their minds, and that's their their short games. I mean,

489
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 2: Coach Small, Stricker and all the guys you know above me,

490
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 2: there their short games are incredible. But one thing I

491
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 2: will say is Brian Campbell's mind was incredible, you know,

492
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 2: like I think Charlie and I talked about it a lot.

493
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 2: I mean, Brian just always had that that incredible mindset.

494
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 2: And Coach Mall says a lot like you've got to

495
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 2: pretend every day is a qualifier and you're just it's

496
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 2: do or die every day. And that's exactly what Brian

497
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 2: was like, Like, I mean, it didn't matter what round

498
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 2: it was, that he could go out there and shoot

499
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 2: a scrappy sixty three any day. It was incredible Brian.

500
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 2: Brian had an incredible mindset. I love his mindset. But

501
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 2: I mean when you look at everyone's short games, like

502
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 2: Coach Even, I mean Coach Small, he's a great short game.

503
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 2: But Petre Danielson, Campbell, Peters, got three, everyone, every one

504
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 2: of them had a great short game obviously stricer. So

505
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 2: that's something I look at too for sure that I

506
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 2: want to emulate.

507
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's a mind and short game go go

508
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: very far. So we were short on time here and

509
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:15,719
Speaker 1: I'm going to get you out of here on a

510
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: couple quick overrated, underrated, underrated questions. So just you know

511
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: whether you think it's overrated underrated? One answer you know quick,

512
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 1: So Papa Dell's pizza.

513
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 2: Overrated, I'm a I'm a Papa John's guy, Papa.

514
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: John's Either way, Papa is in the house.

515
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 2: Huh yeah, yeah exactly.

516
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: Phil Mickelson underrated, underrated, So you think he's one of

517
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: the best ten players of.

518
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 2: All time for sure? Guaranteed.

519
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: All Right, White Belts.

520
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 2: Way overrated, that's.

521
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: The answer I like to hear. All right, single shaft irons.

522
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't know. I don't know for that one.

523
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 2: I've never tried it, so I can't really say anything.

524
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: Okay, I think it makes sense if somebody starting, but

525
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: I couldn't imagine like switching to it in the middle.

526
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 2: Of I couldn't imagine that either. But if I tried it,

527
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 2: I would I would have an opinion for sure.

528
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, hey, Nick, thanks so much for your time

529
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: and best of luck with the spring season, and we'll

530
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 1: we'll see you up ed hopefully at rich Harvest Farms.

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00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 2: For sure. Sounds good. Thank you for having me on Andy,

532
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you all right, all.

533
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Speaker 1: Right, all right, now we welcome Dylan Meyron, the reigning

534
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: Western am Champ, another one of Illinois's star players, and

535
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 1: uh made a long quarterfinal run at the US AM.

536
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 2: How you doing, Dylan good yourself?

537
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: Hey, you know, I'm I'm hanging in there. It's it's Friday.

538
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: N c A tournaments on, you know, Uh, life is good.

539
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 2: So I agree.

540
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 3: I agree there NCAA tournament's always a good time.

541
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: Who you uh? With Illinois not in it? Who are

542
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: you rooting for?

543
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 2: Uh? You know, I'm not really rooting for anyone.

544
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 3: I'm kind of just enjoying the all the high seeds

545
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 3: beating the good, the good team. So it's kind of

546
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 3: where I'm following mostly.

547
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's sometimes when you don't have a horse in

548
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: the race, it's actually more fun because you just can

549
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: root for all utter chaos.

550
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 2: Right, That's exactly right.

551
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: So I'd love to hear a little bit about your background.

552
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: Give the listeners an idea of who you are and

553
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: how you got into golf.

554
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 4: So I'm from Evansville, Indiana.

555
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 3: I tried to throw on the border at Kentucky, southwest

556
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 3: part of the state, and.

557
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 2: I grew up.

558
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 4: My family is a bunch of farmers.

559
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 3: All my uncles are my great uncles. But I didn't

560
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 3: grow up being on the farm or anything like that,

561
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 3: but I grew up definitely that.

562
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 4: Kind of atmosphere and that kind of background.

563
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 3: I went to a high school where golf really wasn't

564
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 3: a priority as in Indiana.

565
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 2: Basketball was always the priority.

566
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 3: So we were kind of that second class sport, didn't

567
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 3: really have much recognition.

568
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 2: But you know, you get up closer.

569
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Speaker 3: And you started playing in tournaments closer to Indianapolis where

570
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 3: golf actually mattered.

571
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 4: That's when I started getting.

572
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 3: Noticed by by schools and things like that, which led

573
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 3: me here to Coach Small. There's a couple of alumni

574
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 3: from back at home that one one played here.

575
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 2: His name is Keith Bratton.

576
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 4: He got in touch with.

577
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 3: Coach Small, let him know about me, and then things

578
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 3: kind of went off from there.

579
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 4: How I started to.

580
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 3: Play golf was with my grandpa. He had a group

581
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 3: of guys, or my grandpa and my father. They had

582
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 3: a group of guys that played on every Thursday night

583
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 3: at a local golf course. And I'd always tag along

584
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 3: ever since I was a little kid, about five years old,

585
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 3: and I just kept going with them, and I just

586
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 3: developed a love for the game and just carried.

587
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 4: Me to where I am.

588
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: Now, that's great. So did you still tee it up

589
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: with the with the old golf group every once in

590
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: a while.

591
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I don't.

592
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 3: They don't really play all that much anymore, but they

593
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 3: do sit around and casually go to the nineteenth Tee

594
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 3: Nineteenth Green, you know, a nice little bar area, always

595
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 3: kind of hooping and.

596
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 2: Hollering around about whatever's going on.

597
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 3: So I kind of go up there and see them

598
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 3: a little bit every now and again with my grandpa

599
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 3: because I know he likes that, and I know those

600
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 3: guys like seeing me as well. So I definitely get

601
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 3: around him some, but just don't really play much golf

602
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 3: with him anymore.

603
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, you're kind of busy too. You got

604
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: got a lot of tournaments you're playing in. So how

605
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: do you, you know, narrow down and pick Illinois? What

606
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: was kind of like the deciding factor?

607
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 3: You know, it really came down to coach Small and

608
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 3: what he does to produce pros. Really, it's what I

609
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 3: wanted to do. It's kind of the path I wanted

610
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 3: to follow my dreams. I mean, yeah, Indiana, they had

611
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 3: Jeff Overton who was from Evansville. I mean that was

612
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 3: kind of they wanted me to follow him, that's in

613
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 3: those steps. But you know, I wanted to create my

614
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 3: own path, and so I came here and I wanted

615
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 3: to be something different. I didn't want to go into

616
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 3: a culture where I thought that I would be the

617
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 3: top dog or that I would be looked upon differently.

618
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 3: I wanted to come somewhere where I had to start

619
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 3: from the bottom and work my way to the top,

620
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 3: which I'm still not to that top point yet.

621
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 2: So it's still a work in progress.

622
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 3: Because coach just makes you not only a better golfer,

623
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 3: what a better person individually.

624
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean you you had a huge kind

625
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: of coming out this past year where you went from

626
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: kind of a you know, people were wondering if you know,

627
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: the bottom of Illinois's roster would hold up, and especially

628
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 1: you know, I remember watching that match against Oregon with

629
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 1: with Aaron Wise, and you know, the announcers didn't know

630
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: much about you, but you know, you kept making putts

631
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: and you ended up taking down kind of the college's

632
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 1: top dog at the time. How much did that match

633
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: help give you confidence going into the summer.

634
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 3: You know, it gave me a lot of confidence to

635
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 3: show that I can play at the top level and

636
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 3: compete with the best guys in the country, and I'm

637
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 3: going to step up to the t box thinking I

638
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 3: can live a tournament, rather than thinking I'm going to

639
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 3: get in top ten and just kind of sneak my

640
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 3: leg in there and just have my name float around,

641
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 3: you know, I'd get in there, and I'd battle on

642
00:34:58,719 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 3: and compete and.

643
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 4: Just kept leading me.

644
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 3: To play in better and better over the summer, and

645
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 3: just had a different edge about it, you know. And

646
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:08,800
Speaker 3: that's kind of the one thing I've kind of lacked

647
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 3: the spring thus far, is this little edge, and you know,

648
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 3: and now I'm kind of getting back into it and

649
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 3: starting to get that fire into my stomach again. Where

650
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 3: and you get on that high horse and I need

651
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 3: to just keep riding it.

652
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:27,320
Speaker 1: How how much different is the kind of atmosphere of

653
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 1: of that NCAA tournament match play setting compared to like

654
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: your your you know, amateur tournaments and kind of the individuals.

655
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 1: How much how much different is it is?

656
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 2: It?

657
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: Is it ratchet up pressure?

658
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it was a lot of pressure. I

659
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 3: feel like there's more weight to it. Especially you're playing

660
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 3: for the university, so you're playing for something bigger than yourself,

661
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 3: which is always something great to do. I mean, you're

662
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 3: on national tell vision, representing a university and playing against

663
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 3: the best guys in the country, So I mean it's

664
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 3: kind of like our March madness where anything can happen.

665
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 3: The best shots typically get hit during these times, you know,

666
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 3: and just nerve, I mean just positive nerves come out

667
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 3: and you just feel really really appreciative and really great

668
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 3: about the opportunity that you get to play in that

669
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 3: kind of situation.

670
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: So, you know, in today's era of like you know, Bombers,

671
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: the Bombing Gouge, you're kind of a throwback guy who

672
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: you know is steady, hits it, you know, straight, a

673
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,320
Speaker 1: little bit shorter, and you've had a ton of match

674
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: play success. Do you think it's you have a huge

675
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:45,439
Speaker 1: advantage because a lot of times you're playing behind guys

676
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: and you're hitting first into greens.

677
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's definitely an advantage of mine that I have,

678
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 3: because I mean, I can I'm confident with any kind

679
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 3: of club I have from the fairway, whether it be

680
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 3: a nine iron or.

681
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,399
Speaker 4: A three hybrid two hybrid, I'm gonna feel like I'm.

682
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 3: Gonna put it within ten fifteen feet every time. So

683
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 3: I mean usually whenever I get on the streak and

684
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 3: I get on a roll with my ball striking, that's

685
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 3: typically what happens, and then I'm able to make some putts.

686
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 3: And I mean, it's just one of those things. It's

687
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 3: just it's a pressure throughout the entire day. I mean,

688
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 3: you can do it for three four holes in a row,

689
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:23,800
Speaker 3: but you do it for twelve, thirteen, fourteen holes in

690
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 3: a row, it starts really wearing down on your opponent

691
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 3: mentally as the day goes on.

692
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: Do you do you approach how do you approach match

693
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,359
Speaker 1: play compared to stroke? Do you have a little bit

694
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 1: different mindset?

695
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 3: Not really, I mean there's I mean there's some things

696
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 3: that are different in strategy. You kind of see you

697
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 3: after what the other players doing. But you know where

698
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 3: I'm finding most of my successes is if I just

699
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 3: play my game one shot at a time, Because I know,

700
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 3: if I'm gonna hit it down the center of the

701
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,399
Speaker 3: fairway and I'm gonna hit it into the green, either

702
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 3: make my putt or two butt and I'm gonna get

703
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 3: moving on.

704
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 2: So if I if I.

705
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 3: Just keep playing consistent golf for eighteen holes, it's gonna

706
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 3: really wear down an opponent and then if they can

707
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 3: beat me by shooting a sixty five sixty six, then

708
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 3: you know they deserve to win.

709
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna make them win.

710
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 3: That's the that's really the goal of playing at match play.

711
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's in all of golf. Is one shed

712
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: at a time is always a good way to approach it. So,

713
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: you know, with the Western Am, you have this great run,

714
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: you end up, you know, running through and you make

715
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: it into match play and then you win, You take

716
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: out take down Sam Horsfeld, who is playing incredible golf

717
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: that week. But you know, one of the things that

718
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: most people don't think about with the Western Am is

719
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: like how much golf you have to play? Like how

720
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,879
Speaker 1: exhausted were you at the end of the week after

721
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 1: playing like three or four straight days of thirty six holes?

722
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 3: You know, honestly I was. After that event, I was.

723
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 3: I was still in turn that mode because I had

724
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 3: to go straight to the Usam and my body and

725
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 3: my mind were still thinking compete, compete, compete during that

726
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 3: entire time.

727
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 4: I mean for the three or.

728
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 3: Four days I had in between to go home and

729
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 3: travel back up to.

730
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 4: Michigan for the USAM.

731
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,919
Speaker 3: It really hit me the exhausting point in time, because,

732
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 3: I mean, even playing in the USAM, I was still

733
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 3: a bunch of days in a row if I had

734
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 3: to play golf. So there was a there was about

735
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 3: a I would say, a fourteen day period where my

736
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 3: mind and my body was just focused on competing and

737
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 3: it just didn't feel tired.

738
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 2: I just felt great.

739
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 3: But whenever I got beat and I was in the

740
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 3: car heading home and I finally got to sit down

741
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 3: and I got home from traveling, that's when it really

742
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 3: hit me. I was like, Wow, I'm super exhausted, and

743
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 3: I don't know how my body was able to keep

744
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 3: it locked in in that mode and keep playing solid

745
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 3: golf through that entire time. But yeah, it definitely head

746
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 3: after the USAM.

747
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: So that stretch, I mean, you played, you know, a

748
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: ton of just spectacular players, and you know some of

749
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: the you know, big names of the future of pro golf,

750
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 1: and you know who would would you say is the

751
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: toughest competitor that you faced off against and the you know,

752
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: the kind of guy that impressed you the most.

753
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:25,399
Speaker 2: It's kind of hard to say.

754
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 3: I mean, everyone brought something different to the table that

755
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 3: I competed with being.

756
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 2: A force field.

757
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 3: I mean, you can make countless Breds in a row,

758
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 3: you know. And then Nick Carlson I played in the

759
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,439
Speaker 3: USAM and got beat too. I mean he's a gritty kid.

760
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 3: I mean he gets after him. I mean he doesn't.

761
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,240
Speaker 3: He just stays on the grind, stays on it, stays

762
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 3: on it.

763
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 2: You know. I was really impressed the way he did that.

764
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 3: I mean, some kids give up if they get three down,

765
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:54,800
Speaker 3: four down, but you know, everyone just brought something different

766
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 3: to the table than I was impressed with, whether it

767
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,280
Speaker 3: was a short game, whether there's the way they struck

768
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 3: the golf ball. But I mean, and you can't really

769
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 3: say that I had a fun competitor that I enjoyed

770
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 3: playing with because I enjoyed playing with all of them

771
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 3: because they all brought something different, unique to the table.

772
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: That's cool. So, you know, kind of continuing on the

773
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: match play theme here, like you got and you and

774
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 1: Nick got to go out to the Walker Cup practice

775
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,720
Speaker 1: at La c C. Tell us a little bit about

776
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: that experience, and you know kind of what you took

777
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: away from it.

778
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I mean there's definitely a good experience

779
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 3: getting around some of the other guys in college. It

780
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 3: definitely helped going down there with Nick and being with

781
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 3: a teammate, definitely loosing things up.

782
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 2: A little bit.

783
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 3: But no, it's just like I said, it's just good

784
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 3: to get around those guys and start kind of building

785
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 3: a team bond, whether they're going to be there or not,

786
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 3: whether I'm gonna be there or not, it's definitely good

787
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,919
Speaker 3: to have that part of the process. You know, I'd

788
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 3: never really talked to Maverick McNeely that much, but you know,

789
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 3: me and him had some good conversations over the course

790
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 3: of the week. The mid Am champion Stu Haggis Dan

791
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:08,800
Speaker 3: I was able to meet him, and then Scott Harvey,

792
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 3: who is a runner up, I got to meet him and.

793
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 2: Talk to him. So, you know, there was just a

794
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:14,320
Speaker 2: bunch of knowledge.

795
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 3: That was tossed around about golf and and some some

796
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 3: of it about life from Spider and some of the

797
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:22,760
Speaker 3: USGA guys. You know, it's definitely one of those things

798
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:25,280
Speaker 3: that I'm never gonna forget, regardless of I'm on Walker

799
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 3: Cup team and not. There's just a lot of a

800
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 3: lot of cool things and good ideas tossed around at

801
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 3: that at that practice.

802
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I imagine you can pick up so much from

803
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: all those guys. You know, everybody just different things that

804
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: other guys do a little differently or think about ways differently,

805
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 1: and you know, and kind of and take a little

806
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: bit from everybody that's out there, since everybody's got so

807
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 1: much talent.

808
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah, Like I said, Mattick McNeely, I

809
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 3: mean he's being the number one amateur in the world.

810
00:42:58,160 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 2: I mean he has.

811
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 3: I just love picking his brain because I mean he's

812
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 3: number one for a reason. And now I see him

813
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 3: at some of these tournaments and I'm just watching what

814
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,399
Speaker 3: he does, and I mean it's the same thing every time.

815
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 3: Even at that practice, he was still dedicated to his

816
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 3: routine and did everything. So it was it was good

817
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 3: to pick up on little things like that to make

818
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 3: yourself a little bit better than just someone else behind you.

819
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: Do you watch a lot of PGA Tour golf?

820
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:25,439
Speaker 2: Not as much.

821
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 3: I mean I watched the majors a little bit, but

822
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 3: I mean I'm not really the type to sit down

823
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 3: and watch watch around of golf on television. I'm more

824
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 3: of kind of like watching basketball and things like that.

825
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,839
Speaker 1: I gotcha. So in your free time, you like kind

826
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: of getting away from the game.

827
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, definitely. Yeah, That's always been one of my

828
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 3: things is in my free time, I just completely get

829
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 3: away from golf and I do something different or my

830
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:54,439
Speaker 3: mind's down on it. Because for me, I can't stay

831
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 3: on a constant grind each and every day twenty four

832
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 3: to seven of golf, golf, golf, golf. I gotta give

833
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 3: myself a mental break and then come back to it,

834
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 3: whether it be an hour break, a couple hour break,

835
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 3: but I need something in there that breaks up the

836
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 3: time of me and concentrations. That way, I don't wear

837
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 3: myself out.

838
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: So what are you What are some of your favorite

839
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,439
Speaker 1: things to do down in Champagne during your free time?

840
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 2: Favorite thing I mean, you know, I mean we like

841
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 2: to watch a lot of basketball.

842
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 3: I mean, especially myself, play some video games. I mean

843
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,399
Speaker 3: we I mean typically we had to do a bunch

844
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 3: of studying, so I mean studying is one of those

845
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 3: things as well. You know, I'm interested in politics, so

846
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 3: I watch a lot of Fox News, got to catch

847
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 3: up on everything, and I read up on some of

848
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 3: the policies and everything going through Congress, and you know,

849
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 3: I feel like not a lot of kids my age

850
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 3: do that, but you know, it's definitely one of those

851
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 3: interests that I have that I feel that my hobby

852
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 3: is it gets me off of golf and onto something

853
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 3: completely different.

854
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: So so if if the golf doesn't work out, are

855
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: you looking to get into possibly politics?

856
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's for sure.

857
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 3: That's definitely the career path I'm looking at. That's that's

858
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 3: my majors political science. So I'm definitely interested in that

859
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 3: field and holding the public office and doing things like that.

860
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 4: Nature.

861
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: Well, you could be like Bubba you know, I read

862
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 1: that he's thinking about running for the for mayor of Pensacola.

863
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I heard all that too, but it's

864
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 3: awfully hard. You got to dedicate what you got to

865
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 3: dedicate your life to it if you really want to make.

866
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 2: A good change and whatnot.

867
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 4: So we'll see what he does.

868
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: If you were a pro and in Volvic offered you,

869
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: you know, say, a million dollars to play their ball,

870
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: and Titleists offered you five hundred thousand to play their ball,

871
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:51,919
Speaker 1: which would you choose.

872
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 2: It?

873
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 3: Just I mean, it really depends on the page of

874
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 3: where I'm at. I mean, if I'm Bubba Watson, I've

875
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:01,439
Speaker 3: won a couple of Masters probably gonna take the Vulvic deal,

876
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 3: you know, just because I can. But I mean, if

877
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 3: I'm just a new guy on tour, I'm not gonna

878
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 3: go take a chance with the Pulvic golf ball. I'm

879
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 3: gonna go ahead and play my titleist that I know

880
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 3: how I'm gonna play with, and hopefully I'm gonna end

881
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 3: up making more money that way by playing than just

882
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 3: on endorsements.

883
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: It's so so I'm curious. Uh say, say the PGA

884
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: Tour calls you up and they say, Dylan, we want

885
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:31,839
Speaker 1: to give you a sponsors exemption into the Zurich and

886
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: you can pick your teammate for the for the for

887
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: the tournament. Who are you rolling with?

888
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 3: You know?

889
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,240
Speaker 2: I'm honestly I would I would say I'd be rolling.

890
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 4: With Rickey Faller.

891
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 3: I feel like I'd roll with him because I feel

892
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 3: like there would be a lot of positive vibes going on,

893
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 3: and I feel like he knows that team atmosphere fairly

894
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 3: well with being from Oklahoma State.

895
00:46:58,120 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 4: So I mean, that's the guy I roll with.

896
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,919
Speaker 1: Have you gotten to meet Ricky or play with Ricky yet?

897
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 4: No?

898
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 2: I haven't, actually, So.

899
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 1: That's that's that's on the bucket list, that's on.

900
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 2: The bugle list. I feel like that would be a

901
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 2: good little duo.

902
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:17,359
Speaker 1: Uh huh, it's a you guys would compliment. I feel

903
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: like you feel like you guys are complimenting. He's nice

904
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: and long. But it is how much how much? How

905
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: important is the positive mojo for you?

906
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 2: Oh? Positive mojo is all nearly everything. I mean, if

907
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:31,319
Speaker 2: you can get some.

908
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 3: Positive mojo between you and a partner, then you can

909
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 3: see it in college golf. I mean you can see

910
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 3: it and the March Madains going this week. I mean,

911
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 3: the teams that bring a positive mindset to an event

912
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,839
Speaker 3: are gonna be the teams are gonna be very, very

913
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 3: hard to be just because regardless if there's adversity that

914
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,280
Speaker 3: hits them, they're gonna bounce right back, whether it's.

915
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 4: The next shot, the next hole, or anything like that.

916
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 4: I mean, they're not going.

917
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 3: To be completely destroyed if they end up making a

918
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 3: double bowie. They're gonna come back the next hole, make

919
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 3: birdie and just keep bouncing back and keep fighting for

920
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,760
Speaker 3: a team. So that's positivity is something we talk about

921
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 3: on this team. That's a part of our culture that

922
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 3: we try to promote because.

923
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 2: You get it going, you get a.

924
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 3: Couple of birdies rolling, you send the positive vibes backwards

925
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 3: to the guys behind you. It really starts to roll

926
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:20,320
Speaker 3: and they start making Bertie. So there's definitely that positive

927
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:21,359
Speaker 3: energy that's out there.

928
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 1: So do you prefer kind of the college golf season

929
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 1: over the amateur golf season because of that, you know,

930
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: kind of team atmosphere and you know the the you know,

931
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,360
Speaker 1: idea of playing for something bigger than yourself.

932
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, for sure, because I mean this makes you,

933
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 3: This makes you become not only a better player, but

934
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 3: a better person.

935
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:43,879
Speaker 2: You'll learn more.

936
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 3: I mean, you can be out there by yourself on

937
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 3: the road and just playing golf and becoming a robot

938
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 3: and not really learn anything about yourself or others, really.

939
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 4: Know how to interact with others.

940
00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 3: And I mean it's definitely something say that college golf

941
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 3: is able to do on.

942
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 2: The other side off the course, I mean, because you can't.

943
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 3: Replicate positive, positive vibes or a team atmosphere on the

944
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 3: amateur circuit during the summer, because I mean, me and

945
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 3: Nick will run across each other during tournaments during the summer,

946
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 3: but there's that I mean, we want each other to

947
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:26,359
Speaker 3: do well, but it's not the same as when you're

948
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:27,960
Speaker 3: here and you're playing for your team.

949
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:29,879
Speaker 4: So it's definitely something special to be a part of.

950
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's it's cool. It's a I love teams stuff.

951
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: It's uh, you know, I grew up playing a ton

952
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:42,280
Speaker 1: of other sports, and uh, if you were running college golf,

953
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:44,959
Speaker 1: you know what is was one thing that you would

954
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 1: either change or you know, add whether it be a

955
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: new format or a new tournament or a change in

956
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: the rules. What what would what change would you make?

957
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 2: Man, I don't even know.

958
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:04,280
Speaker 3: That's a tough one. So like in the NCAA tournament,

959
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:10,240
Speaker 3: I feel like all five guys should count. I feel

960
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 3: like it's, uh, that's an added factor in there, because

961
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 3: if your team's actually going to be the best team,

962
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 3: you need to feel the best five out there for

963
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 3: the week. I feel like that's important. I mean, I

964
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 3: feel like that holds everyone accountable rather than just giving

965
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 3: that fit guy the way out saying no, if you

966
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 3: play good today, then you can.

967
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 4: Count, but if you don't, then all right.

968
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 3: But I feel like if you have the fifth guy

969
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 3: into the mix, the best teams are really going to

970
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 3: show whether I mean, it could be I mean, it

971
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 3: could be anyone, any five guys could show up rather

972
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 3: than just four guys.

973
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, it adds like almost the weight. They have that

974
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 1: element in the match play, but the stroke play, it

975
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense because you got to have

976
00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 1: the most depth and the most you know, everybody's show

977
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 1: up every round.

978
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:03,400
Speaker 2: Huh yeah, exactly.

979
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 4: I mean it's kind of like basketball.

980
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 3: You don't when you have your starting five out there,

981
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 3: you don't just let one guy come out, come out.

982
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 2: And he's just dull.

983
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 3: You're gonna have a guy come in that's gonna try

984
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 3: to change the mojo and bring something to the table.

985
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 4: Is the fifth spot.

986
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,800
Speaker 3: So that's kind of something that goes along the lines

987
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 3: with with RNs double A tournament.

988
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: So so Illinois's got a little bit of a coaching search.

989
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:34,239
Speaker 1: You got anybody that you want to see Illinois higher?

990
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 3: Oh man, you know, sat here and I've thought about it,

991
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, obviously my dream guy that i'd want,

992
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 3: and I just know he's not even come.

993
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 2: Here at Brad Stevens because.

994
00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 3: I feel like he knows Midwest basketball more than anyone.

995
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 3: He's he did such a great job with Butler. But

996
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 3: you know, I honestly think I feel like Tony Bennett

997
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 3: would be a good one. Definitely a good one from Virginia.

998
00:51:58,000 --> 00:51:59,760
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean I don't really.

999
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:01,880
Speaker 3: Have a big wish list. I mean, whoever we get,

1000
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 3: they're gonna hopefully turn the program around. And you know,

1001
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 3: I trust Whitman on what he's doing. I mean, he

1002
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 3: did higher Levey, so we'll see. And the donors are

1003
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 3: willing to pay in the university is willing to pay

1004
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,720
Speaker 3: this new coach, so well, we'll see what what we get.

1005
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:21,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we I'm a I'm an Illinois grad, so

1006
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: I've been watching that. I'm hoping for a big higher

1007
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 1: I think Brad Stevens is doing pretty good in that

1008
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: NB in the NBA unfortunately.

1009
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know that definitely would it. You almost

1010
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 2: hope that he was having a bad.

1011
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 3: Year this year that he would think about coming back,

1012
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:38,360
Speaker 3: but that's definitely not gonna happen.

1013
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So we've got some we got some Twitter questions.

1014
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 1: I want to get to here and uh and Nick

1015
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: deferred to you on on Brett's question of if you

1016
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: could compare you and Nick to any w w E

1017
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: tag team, who would it be?

1018
00:52:58,239 --> 00:52:59,720
Speaker 2: Oh Man.

1019
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:06,399
Speaker 3: Man old Man w w E tag team. Trying to

1020
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,880
Speaker 3: think of a good one here. You know, honestly, I

1021
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 3: think we'd be around the D generation X to be

1022
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 3: completely honest, I.

1023
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 2: Think we bring we bring some spice to the table.

1024
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 2: We're a little bit something different.

1025
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 3: You know, we're kind of in your face of a

1026
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 3: tag team. So I feel like that's kind.

1027
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:26,920
Speaker 4: Of what we'd be related to.

1028
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 1: That's a little a little spicy. You know, you got

1029
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 1: you got two different styles of play. I think you

1030
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: could be, you know, one of the great pairings of

1031
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 1: like a little like a two different style wrestlers too.

1032
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 3: You know that's exactly try well, Shawn Michael's a little

1033
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 3: triple h you know.

1034
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:54,319
Speaker 1: So uh Stewart uh Hagastad's got got a question here

1035
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:58,280
Speaker 1: is which would you rather wear for every round of golf?

1036
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 1: A floral sunby and white sunglasses or socks and crocs.

1037
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 3: Oh man, I'm telling you I'd be I would be

1038
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 3: the floral hat with white sunglasses because it just just

1039
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:15,399
Speaker 3: screams class I feel like, you know what I mean.

1040
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:17,400
Speaker 3: But then again, you have the socks and the crocs

1041
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:22,359
Speaker 3: that scream I'm a grinder, don't really have it all.

1042
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:23,800
Speaker 3: When I'm gonna go out there and give it everything

1043
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:25,400
Speaker 3: I got. And this is what I got and this

1044
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 3: is what I'm gonna do with it. But I'm definitely

1045
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 3: more of the floral hat and white sunglasses, you know.

1046
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 1: Stu. Stu texted me and he he guessed the opposite

1047
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: of what happened. He thought you were going to be

1048
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: the socks and crocs guy and Nick was going to

1049
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 1: be the sunbonnet and white sunglasses. Yeah.

1050
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, he texted me and told me that too. But

1051
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 3: you know, my honest opinion was I figure that Hardy

1052
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 3: would go with socks and crocs.

1053
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:53,880
Speaker 1: I go socks and crocs. You know, I think it

1054
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 1: just says that, you know, you don't really give a shit.

1055
00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:05,240
Speaker 1: I ex right, So Brian Atkinson, former online I golfer

1056
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 1: wants to know one course for the rest of your life,

1057
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 1: and you can't quit orange or blue.

1058
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:16,440
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with orange. You know. They they've actually

1059
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 2: had some really good.

1060
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 3: Greens over the past seven eight months. I mean they've

1061
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 3: been so they've been rolling so good. So I take

1062
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 3: play at Orange, man.

1063
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 1: I stayed down one summer for summer school, and I'd

1064
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 1: play it out of the orange and and like you'd

1065
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: have love wedges in and you'd have to land I'm

1066
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: sure to the green because we're so rock hard. It's

1067
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 1: it's it's something else. I hope one day they get

1068
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:51,319
Speaker 1: like a really great university golf course, like you know,

1069
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:54,560
Speaker 1: you see a lot of universities have some good tracks

1070
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 1: and and that'd be a cool thing for Illinois to get.

1071
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, that would be That's definitely one of those

1072
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 3: wishless items.

1073
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:04,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we just uh, we gotta get we gotta

1074
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: talk to the right donors.

1075
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 2: Right, that's exactly right.

1076
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: So Todd Mitchell wants to know why do you like

1077
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:14,920
Speaker 1: salad so much?

1078
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 3: Why I like salad so much? Yeah, you know, I'm

1079
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 3: not really the.

1080
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:23,280
Speaker 2: Healthiest kid out there, so I think.

1081
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:24,840
Speaker 4: That's kind of why you wanted to know that question.

1082
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 2: But can I always.

1083
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,760
Speaker 3: Drink coke and I'm always eating kind of like snack

1084
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 3: foods and things like that and never really get the

1085
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:37,399
Speaker 3: salad before the meals and the buffet lines. So yeah,

1086
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 3: that's probably where that stims from.

1087
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'm I'm more of the.

1088
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 2: Burger king fast food guy, you know.

1089
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 1: To Todd's becoming an old man, so he's he's got

1090
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:48,839
Speaker 1: to take care of himself a little bit more than you.

1091
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 1: You know.

1092
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's gotta eat his greens.

1093
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 2: You know, he's gotta stay a little bit healthier.

1094
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 4: And all that good stuff.

1095
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 1: Yeah he's Uh, he's a heck of a player, though,

1096
00:56:59,040 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.

1097
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:02,439
Speaker 2: Yes he is. Yes, he is a good guy too,

1098
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 2: good guy.

1099
00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, very good guy. So I get you out of

1100
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:11,320
Speaker 1: here with one last question, then we'll do a little

1101
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: overrated underrated. But of all the former and current aligne, I,

1102
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 1: if you could take one aspect of their golf game,

1103
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 1: whose would you take? And uh, why.

1104
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 3: I would take Charlie's short game, to be honest. I mean,

1105
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 3: he's he's got one of the best short games that

1106
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 3: I've ever I've ever seen, and it's always it always

1107
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 3: keeps him alive. So that's definitely one of the things

1108
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 3: I didn't want to take. And no, I try to

1109
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:42,640
Speaker 3: learn from him over the course of time, and you

1110
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 3: know he learned from coach, so.

1111
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 2: Taking in what coach has said.

1112
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:48,959
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's kind of who I'd go with.

1113
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was. I was happy to see him Monday

1114
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 1: into the Valsparre and make a tut. I mean, it's

1115
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: it's only a matter of time. Before he gets out

1116
00:57:57,800 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: there full time.

1117
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, sooner or later you'll get there.

1118
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's too much talent not to get there. So

1119
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: let's let's go to overrated, underrated all right? Uh, lifting weights.

1120
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 3: Lifting weights, underrated.

1121
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:24,440
Speaker 1: Underrated all right? Silver mine subs.

1122
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 2: Silver mine subs. Yeah, they still have no idea, no

1123
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 2: idea what that is.

1124
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 1: It doesn't exist anymore.

1125
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 2: I have no idea what that is?

1126
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 1: Man. That shows how old I am.

1127
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with It's underrated, theted.

1128
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna switch it to Papa Dell's. I

1129
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: you know, I thought I thought there was no way

1130
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 1: silver Mine wouldever be gone.

1131
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Papa. That's definitely definitely underrated.

1132
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: All right, alright? Uh Tom de Tree's.

1133
00:58:54,880 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 3: Hair, Oh Tom Tree's hair. Man, that's neither underrated or overrated.

1134
00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 2: It's just perfect. It's perfect. Man. You can't you can't

1135
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 2: pit that one on me, all right, hutting cutting, Oh man,

1136
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 2: that's underrated. Too many people don't really focus on it.

1137
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 3: They always think I've hit the long ball and everything

1138
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 3: like that. But trust me, I put it terrible in Vegas,

1139
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:26,520
Speaker 3: and I hit the ball the best I ever did,

1140
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 3: and I came in twenty five, So it's definitely underrated.

1141
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:33,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, putting bad is just the worst.

1142
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's awful.

1143
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 1: Track man, track.

1144
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 3: Man, there's aspects of it that can be overrated. You

1145
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 3: can start looking at way too many things and you

1146
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 3: can get so wrapped up and swing and that's definitely not.

1147
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 2: Who I am.

1148
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 3: I'm more of a field guy, so that's I would

1149
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 3: go overrated.

1150
00:59:56,080 --> 01:00:00,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm on the overrated train there too. So Hey,

1151
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,560
Speaker 1: thank Dylan, thanks for the time, and I want to

1152
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 1: wish you the best of luck here in the spring,

1153
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 1: restless spring, and hopefully we'll get to see you up

1154
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: at rich Harvest.

1155
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, I appreciate it.

1156
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: Ye, have a good one, all right, you too,