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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another edition of the

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Speaker 2: FRIDAYGG Podcast. This afternoon, we have Wyndham Clark as our guest.

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Speaker 2: Wyndham is a star player for the Oregon Ducks and

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Speaker 2: the top ranked college golfer.

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Speaker 1: He's a senior and is right now prepared for the.

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Speaker 2: National Championships here in Chicago at Rich Harvis Farms.

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Speaker 1: Wyndham, thanks for coming on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 2: I think obviously, you know, a lot of the golf

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Speaker 2: You know, why don't you start by telling everybody a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so I'm from Denver, Colorado. I got into

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Speaker 1: Me to hear, cool.

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Speaker 2: Uh, do you did you play any other sports or

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Speaker 4: I did. I played everything, you know, from hockey, the baseball, football, basketball, soccer.

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Speaker 4: I played it all. I started as years going on,

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Speaker 1: Cool. Cool, that's uh, that's cool.

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Speaker 2: And then, uh, in Denver you kind of had probably

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Speaker 1: Where where'd you grow up? Playing out in Denver?

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Speaker 4: I was fortunate enough to grow up playing at Cherry

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Speaker 2: That's Arnie's Arnie spot for that first US Open, right, yep?

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Speaker 2: So so then you got into you got into college golf,

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Speaker 4: You know, I don't regret going to Oklahoma State or

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So what's like, what would you say is

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Speaker 4: You know, I'd say as far as my strength, I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think everybody always wants to hit

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, So so you know, we'll get you out

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Speaker 2: As a parting question, so if you could take one

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean when you when you hit

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Speaker 2: you know, as far as so. But hey, Wendam, thanks

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Speaker 2: luck here this week at Rich Harvest and we'll be.

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Speaker 1: Rooting for you.

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Speaker 4: Awesome. Yeah, thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.

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