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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to the Ping Proving Grounds Podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Shane Bakon. That is Marty Jerts and Marty. This is

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Speaker 1: the first time in the career of this podcast we

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Speaker 1: school to do the podcast, which is exciting for us Mason.

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Speaker 1: How with this US Amateur champion Mason? First things first,

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Speaker 1: you're eighteen years old. I know you're about the third

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Speaker 1: youngest ever win the US Amateur, But I was thinking

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Speaker 1: about the golf course Roda you're on right now. So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go Opemont, We're gonna go Olympic, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: go Cyprus, We're gonna go Augusta, We're gonna go Shinnecock.

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Speaker 1: In terms of championship golf before you turn twenty years old,

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Speaker 1: this might be it. I'm not sure it's gonna get

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that that lineup of golf courses is unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: I keep punishing, punishing myself too. It doesn't seem like

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Speaker 3: any of them there's not getting any easier. So I

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Speaker 3: don't know what going on, but no, playing playing some

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Speaker 2: What about tell us a little bit about Oakmont? Uh,

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Speaker 2: How did that help help you get prepped for what

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Speaker 3: Yeah shocking, No, it was. It was so much fun.

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Speaker 3: That was really my first time being able to do that.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, there's a lot of a lot of support

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it was. It was a great experience, and

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Speaker 1: assuming first he shot? You know what? The US Open

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so absolutely. I would say the nerves like got

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Speaker 1: Mason, I know a guy that could probably help you. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, the so I got the playoff. My tea

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Speaker 2: At Olympic there, Mason, did you know I remember I

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Speaker 2: But I remember, uh, Mason was so cold. But what

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Speaker 2: Did did did in your shot shape with your driver

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely no, There is a ton of undulation out there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely. I feel like with my irons, I knew

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Speaker 3: it up on a different golf course every day. Some

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Speaker 2: I that's how you hit a bunch of cool shots, Mason,

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Speaker 2: like those little low spinning wedges, you know, like backpin

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I play a fifty eight degree and I feel

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Speaker 3: But no, that fifty eight degree I use it everywhere

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Speaker 2: And Mason, you switched grinds earlier this year, is that right?

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Speaker 2: Like it from the B grind to t now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So is that something that I went out there

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Speaker 3: I really really worked on.

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Speaker 1: Is uh.

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Speaker 3: I kind of had a pretty concient didn't just low

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Speaker 1: Mason, can you run us through your bag? Like, what

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely so. I the driver is the ping G

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Speaker 3: And then uh my putters a ping Ali Blue.

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Speaker 2: Four, Ali Blue four and what what's your what's your

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've had the Alley Blue for a little over

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Speaker 3: And uh yeah, I haven't looked back. It's a it's

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Speaker 1: But you're such a golfer if you're changing clubs after

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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, let me throw this forty

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Speaker 2: MA say, it looked like your pace of play. I mean,

434
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Speaker 2: for what I could tell is like, oh, you know,

435
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Speaker 2: pretty pretty on the brist side. Has that always kind

436
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Speaker 2: of been your style of play? I mean, that's that's

437
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Speaker 2: just kind of what I observed there during the during

438
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Speaker 2: the matches last week. Yeah.

439
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I've always been a really kind of quick, your

440
00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:03,600
Speaker 3: pace golfer, and I just switched kind of like three

441
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Speaker 3: or four weeks ago. I stopped taking practice strokes on

442
00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,360
Speaker 3: putting from inside five feet and just kind of made

443
00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,560
Speaker 3: it all fuel, but like from anything like seven feet now,

444
00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:13,280
Speaker 3: and I'll take a practice stroke if it's anything that

445
00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:17,080
Speaker 3: I need to focus on speed a little bit. But yeah,

446
00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:21,199
Speaker 3: I'm not a big fan of slow golf. But uh no,

447
00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,920
Speaker 3: I I've always played fast golf. The longer I sit

448
00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:26,160
Speaker 3: there and think about it, the more that I'll play

449
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,040
Speaker 3: mind games in my head and just overthink it. And

450
00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:31,920
Speaker 3: uh yeah, big big thing I always think about is

451
00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,560
Speaker 3: you gotta trust your first instinct and just go with it.

452
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:37,800
Speaker 3: And so that just leaves me less time to double

453
00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,560
Speaker 3: guess myself. Yeah, and just get up there and fire.

454
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Speaker 1: You fired at the US Open qualifier. I mean we

455
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Speaker 1: talked about you getting into oapeline. You saw sixty three.

456
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Speaker 1: Sixty three didn't make a bogie right for thirty six holes, yep.

457
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Speaker 1: I mean you talked about best ball striking at the

458
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Speaker 1: Amateur that had to have been up there as well.

459
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Speaker 1: I mean you were co medalist. I think you shot

460
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Speaker 1: eighteen hunder par. You open with sixty three. You're eating lunch,

461
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Speaker 1: getting ready for that second eighteen, Like where does the

462
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:04,879
Speaker 1: mind go to go? Oh, let's go just do that again.

463
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Speaker 3: Yeah. No, it was. That was an incredible day. Yeah,

464
00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,639
Speaker 3: and I ball struck it really good that day, but

465
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Speaker 3: I still had some shots that I was like, where

466
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Speaker 3: did that come from? No, I got off to a

467
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:19,600
Speaker 3: really good start that day. I think the first eighteen

468
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:21,080
Speaker 3: I was four and or through five and the one

469
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:25,199
Speaker 3: hole I didn't birdie, I missed a four footer. So

470
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Speaker 3: I got off to a great start. And yeah, I

471
00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:32,520
Speaker 3: was eating lunch after that. Uh after the first eighteen.

472
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Speaker 3: That was the only time I looked at the leaderboard

473
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Speaker 3: other than until I was done, and we only had

474
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Speaker 3: like forty five minutes, so I got a hamburger down

475
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:41,680
Speaker 3: as quick as I could. And that was the most

476
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Speaker 3: nervous I've probably ever been on the golf course. Was

477
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Speaker 3: standing for the first t shot in the second round,

478
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Speaker 3: just getting started because fortunately I had played so good

479
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:51,800
Speaker 3: the second round that I kind of had a cake

480
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:55,720
Speaker 3: walk coming home. But yeah, no, I still hit and

481
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 3: I hit uh see whole sixteen at Piedmont Driving Club.

482
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Speaker 3: In the first time I played it, I cold like

483
00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,200
Speaker 3: pretty much duck hooked the three wood found way and

484
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,679
Speaker 3: make par. And the second time I played it, I

485
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:12,200
Speaker 3: went threewood again and pretty much popped it up and

486
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 3: then there were still there there were some still questionable shots,

487
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,480
Speaker 3: but yeah, my putter and uh short game was was

488
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 3: pretty dialed that day.

489
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Speaker 1: Shait.

490
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Speaker 2: We need we need to just introduce Mason to the

491
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 2: thriver man.

492
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Speaker 1: I know it sounds like he might be a big

493
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:27,680
Speaker 1: fan of it. Get him ready, might be able to

494
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 1: hit it on seventeen at Cyprus. We need to get

495
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,320
Speaker 1: him dialed with the with the kind of mini ping driver.

496
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Mason, what uh what about your ball speed?

497
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 1: Man?

498
00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 2: To tell us a little bit about your journey. I

499
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 2: mean here, I saw your cruising some at one eighty

500
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 2: five or so, Like, what's it been like since you're

501
00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,000
Speaker 2: you know, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, now eighteen, Like, what's that

502
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,240
Speaker 2: journey been like from a ball speed standpoint?

503
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:49,840
Speaker 1: Yeah?

504
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I would say between ages sixteen and seventeen, I

505
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,879
Speaker 3: shot up in height. Yeah, and that's been a big thing.

506
00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:58,920
Speaker 3: I've always had a pretty long swing with a lot

507
00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:00,919
Speaker 3: of lag, and that he'll can generate a lot of

508
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,879
Speaker 3: speed as well. I'm I'll be honest, like I'm not

509
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 3: the most muscular guy out there, but I feel like

510
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:10,600
Speaker 3: in golf that you don't really have to be. But yeah,

511
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 3: the I I feel like I've always tried not to

512
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:17,359
Speaker 3: swing too hard because it's one of those things that, like,

513
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,119
Speaker 3: you you see a guy like I played with Tommy

514
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 3: Morrison and he is we'll see, he's six foot nine,

515
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 3: I think, but he had one of the most dowed

516
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 3: back golf swings I've ever swing, and he struck it beautifully.

517
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 3: So it's one like you can you can get wrapped

518
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,119
Speaker 3: up in how far people hit it, but at the

519
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:35,879
Speaker 3: end of the day, it's who hits it the streatest.

520
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 3: But yeah, recently I've gotten pretty comfortable with swinging at

521
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Speaker 3: my driver a little harder and being able to shape

522
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 3: it more and uh, just hit hit a little bit

523
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,439
Speaker 3: more of those kind of fairy finding shots. And if

524
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 3: you ever feel like there's a fairway that's uh pretty wide,

525
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 3: I'll go ahead and give it a rip. But yeah, no,

526
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,879
Speaker 3: it's uh, I've definitely picked up a lot of distance

527
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 3: over the last six months. And but again it's it's

528
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,359
Speaker 3: all about control.

529
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Speaker 1: Are you.

530
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Speaker 2: Are you a like you practice on a track man

531
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 2: or any tech or you just kind of all play

532
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 2: and feel what's your what's your what's in your toolkit

533
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 2: for practicing and training and everything?

534
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I try to keep it pretty feel. But obviously, okay,

535
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 3: I've gotten where I have a foresight launch monitor that

536
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 3: I'll go out there and practice with, but I uh, yeah,

537
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 3: I don't use as much as I probably should. But

538
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 3: I've been such a field golf for my entire life that, yeah,

539
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 3: whenever I'm go out there in practice, I know my swing.

540
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 3: I feel like I can tell what I'm doing wrong,

541
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Speaker 3: even when I'm just standing over the ball or just

542
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 3: made a bad swing. But yeah, a practice day for

543
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 3: me doesn't doesn't always consist of getting out there with

544
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Speaker 3: the launch monitor and checking the numbers of every single shot.

545
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Speaker 1: Mason, you you mentioned obviously the Walker Cup. I was

546
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 1: listening to you on the Friday Podcast today with Andy Johnson,

547
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Speaker 1: and you said you didn't realize winning the US Amateur

548
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: got you a spot on the Walker Cup. Obviously, I

549
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,120
Speaker 1: think everybody in the field that the US am atter

550
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,680
Speaker 1: understands if you make the championship match, you're likely going

551
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: to get the Masters invite US Open. But yeah, when

552
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,919
Speaker 1: did you find out that the win got you a

553
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 1: Walker Cup spot? Was it after after the victory?

554
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,199
Speaker 3: No, so it was Yeah, going into the week, I

555
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 3: had no idea and I got that wasn't on my

556
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:23,199
Speaker 3: mind at all. And I think it was after I

557
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 3: won my quarterfinal match, maybe maybe my round of sixteen.

558
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,680
Speaker 3: I camera, I heard somebody came up to me and said, like,

559
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:31,640
Speaker 3: you know, if you win, you get on the Walker Cup, right,

560
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 3: And I'm like.

561
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 1: Hey, You're like thanks, man, appreciate it.

562
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 3: That's like the pressure.

563
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like when the caddy's like there is out

564
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 1: of bounds left and.

565
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 3: Go straight left. No, but it was uh yeah, so

566
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 3: that that gave I mean, that finals match, if you

567
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 3: get runner up, it comes with so much. That was

568
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 3: what makes that STEMI final match so stressful. But obviously

569
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 3: there's still so much more to play for in that

570
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,640
Speaker 3: finals match, and yeah, that was one thing I really

571
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Speaker 3: wanted to win, uh to get a spot on the

572
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 3: Walker Cup. And so we uh we set out and

573
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 3: uh we were we were hungry for it, and yeah,

574
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Speaker 3: I was just just proud to get it done that

575
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,679
Speaker 3: day because it's it's not an easy day because by

576
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 3: the end of it, you will have played eleven rounds

577
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,400
Speaker 3: to go off in nine days.

578
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Speaker 2: Mason, have you been to Augusta, have you attended and

579
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Speaker 2: how much are you looking forward to that.

580
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So I went to the Wednesday practice round in

581
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Speaker 3: twenty nineteen with my dad and uh, yeah that place,

582
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 3: Yeah it was okay, I guess no, but it was.

583
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,919
Speaker 3: Uh that place looks like it's just like copy and

584
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 3: pasted some AI generated It looks unbelievable. I played Augusta

585
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 3: Country Club a couple of times in Georgia State am

586
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 3: and you just looked through and was like, how is

587
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:48,640
Speaker 3: that like even possible?

588
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:49,719
Speaker 2: Yeah?

589
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm that I'm really excited for that. Uh

590
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 3: obviously I still got to wait on the invite, but

591
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,080
Speaker 3: yeah that if I if I get the opportun you

592
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 3: need to play, that's gonna be uh, probably my best

593
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 3: golf memory ever.

594
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: So I need to ask about this hat you're wearing

595
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 1: because I heard that you have. This is like a

596
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,199
Speaker 1: superstitious hat or your lucky hat or whatever. It's a

597
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: trucker hat and you wear it all the time. I mean,

598
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: is this like, are you wearing it every match you're

599
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: during the amateur? I mean, is this a hat that

600
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: that you don't take off? Do you have other ping hats?

601
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 1: What's the story with this? Oh?

602
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,239
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I apologize. I have way too many ping

603
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 3: hats in my room but a lot of the stickers

604
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 3: on them.

605
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:31,919
Speaker 1: But I no.

606
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,679
Speaker 3: Second round of stroke play, I changed hats and I

607
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 3: did not play well, and I was like, I'm going

608
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 3: back to my back to my trucker hat. And yeah

609
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 3: it was, Uh, I've always worn this hat. This is

610
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 3: probably like my like eighth or ninth one of these,

611
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 3: because they just get so faded. But yeah, I'm I

612
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 3: love navy. This is my color. And uh, yeah, we

613
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 3: we've got We've got quite a few of these Navy

614
00:27:59,400 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 3: trucker hats.

615
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 2: It's funny all the golfers with their superstition, su shame, like.

616
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: We all got some amazing at them. What else you got, Mason?

617
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 1: What else you do that's like superstitious? On the golf course?

618
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,919
Speaker 1: Ball marker heads up, tails down? What do you do?

619
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So if I'm not putting good, if say, if

620
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 3: I'm using a quarter not putting good, I'll use heads,

621
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 3: and then uh, I'll get to I'm so in my

622
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 3: head about it, it's so bad. Say I make a

623
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 3: put on heads, uh the next hole. Sometimes I'll do

624
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 3: tails just to see if I need to flip flop them.

625
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 3: But if I'm minted on tails, I know that's not

626
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 3: the order I need to stick in So's. It's one

627
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 3: of those things I definitely need to not have that

628
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 3: in my head, but it's just something to keep my

629
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 3: mind off overthinking things.

630
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand that, Marty. Do you have something I've

631
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: never asked you that. Do you have something weird you

632
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: do during tournament, golf or whatever, the superstitious? Yeah?

633
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 2: No, I always I use a pitch. I use a

634
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 2: divot fixer. I've I've used literally every round since college.

635
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 2: Like it's super sharp, Like I have to be careful

636
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 2: with it because it's probably fixed it. You know, ten

637
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 2: thousand pitch.

638
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: Have you ever nicked the hand before going? Oh yeah,

639
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: the pencils, the pencil stab.

640
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, it's very similar, similar to the pencil stab.

641
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 3: But if I tried to hold on something like that,

642
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 3: it would be long gone by now.

643
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. I love that I've been doing. My son,

644
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: my oldest was born uh six four nineteen. I've used

645
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty four quarter since he was born. That

646
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: I think is kind of coolough, So he tried to

647
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: take it the other day. By the way, you know,

648
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: I like, I'm pretty diligent about putting it back in

649
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 1: my bag when I finish and I had in my

650
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: pocket after the run. He's like, can I have your Quarterdad?

651
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: I was like, you can have anything I got in

652
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: my life, you can't have that quarter. That's like my

653
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: only thing I actually truly, truly want to keep where

654
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: it needs to be. But yeah, superstittions are funny, man, Mason. Maybe,

655
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: and maybe when you get to Georgia, they'll they'll break

656
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: you out of that at some point. Yeah.

657
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 3: I guess when I get to Georgia, I have to

658
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 3: switch up the hats too. I don't know what I'm.

659
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: Gonna have, a good point. Maybe a Navy I have

660
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: to get like a Navy Georgia at which will be honest.

661
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, which unfortunately red black and Navy.

662
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: Doesn't look good.

663
00:29:57,960 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't look good?

664
00:29:58,720 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: Good?

665
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 3: Doesne look good? We'll figure something out. We'll have to

666
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 3: find a new lucky one.

667
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 2: Mason. What other weather sports you play growing up? Assuming

668
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 2: you're just all golf now, but any other sports? And

669
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 2: when if you if you're all golf now, assuming that,

670
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 2: like when did you kind of go go all in

671
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 2: and specialize?

672
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'd say right now, definitely golf and pickleball?

673
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 3: Pick a ball we go with our buddies at the

674
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 3: club and we play all the time. But yeah, actually

675
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 3: the day before I left for the AM, I I

676
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 3: went and played pickup basketball. Probably probably not the smartest

677
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 3: thing to do, but uh yeah. I played basketball throughout

678
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 3: middle school. That was kind of something I grew up playing.

679
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 3: And then I actually played competitive tennis till I was twelve,

680
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 3: sorry twelve, I think. Yeah, my dad played tennis in college,

681
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 3: so I kind of grewup playing tennis and golf and

682
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 3: I tried everything. I played football, I played baseball, but yeah,

683
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 3: I'd say I focused on tennis and golf the most,

684
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 3: and once I got through middle school, I started really

685
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 3: focusing on golf and I stopped basketball just because one

686
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 3: of those things in the winter, like I get out

687
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 3: of practice at five point thirty and it's pretty dark. Yeah,

688
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 3: there's no time for golf.

689
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: So no, you don't. You don't want to be doing that.

690
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: I will say this, I mean, you are in rarefied era.

691
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: I believe in ninety seven during the Masters, when Tiger

692
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: won by a million, I think he played pickup hoops

693
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: one of those days and Butch got onto him. I

694
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: think there was a story where Butch was like, what

695
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: are you doing, bro? Yeah, I was winning this thing

696
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: by a million. Don't jam a finger?

697
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 3: Yeah I don't. I don't know what I was doing,

698
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 3: but we were down when I went. Sorry, guys, you're good.

699
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 3: When I went to school in Florida, we were at

700
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 3: our state championship and I was still in middle school.

701
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 3: I was playing on the varsity team, and uh, we

702
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 3: were like, there was I guess you take five or

703
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 3: six to the state championship and we were we were like, yeah,

704
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 3: there's a hoop in the parking lot, let's go play.

705
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 3: And our coach like pretty much bolted up our doors,

706
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 3: like absolutely not.

707
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,479
Speaker 1: Do not do that. Please. But you fish as well? Right, yeah?

708
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 3: Sorry. Fishing is something I do all the time fortunately

709
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 3: down like fishing or what Yeah, yeah, bass fishing. There's

710
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 3: a bunch of little ponds and lakes around here, and

711
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 3: I'll go with a lot of my buddies. A lot

712
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 3: of us have little john boats with little motors on them,

713
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,239
Speaker 3: and we'll go out and we'll try to catch as

714
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 3: many as we can. And uh that's something that I'll

715
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 3: my parents probably are mad at me for because I'll

716
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 3: stay out way past i'm supposed to. It'll still be

717
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 3: dark and I'm like one more cast, one more cast,

718
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 3: one more cast. Yeah. I love fishing. I just love

719
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 3: being outdoors in general.

720
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 2: Are you a golf course, lake pond fishermen? Oh?

721
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I played. Let's see, in April, I played the

722
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 3: Terra Cotta am Invitational AM down in Naples, Florida, And

723
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 3: after my second round, I think we had a group

724
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 3: of like five of us that went back out to

725
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 3: the golf course and uh we we caught some of

726
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 3: the biggest bass I think I've ever seen in my life.

727
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 3: That's where you gotta find them, the golf course. Golf

728
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 3: course is oh.

729
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: Good, Mason. Is it weird being back in high school?

730
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you kind of go through this

731
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: whole journey and now obviously you know you probably tick

732
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: off something that maybe you didn't think was going to

733
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: be attainable maybe until you're you know, you're nineteen twenty

734
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: twenty one years old in college. Has this been weird?

735
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: Like going back into this world after I mean, you know,

736
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: you're doing national media and you're doing all this stuff, Like,

737
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: is it strange being back there like at a desk?

738
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of stinks. I'm gonna be honest, No,

739
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 3: I I. I started Wednesday was my first official day

740
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 3: of school a week and half late, so we're already

741
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 3: starting behind the eight ball a baby, Yeah, we're uh,

742
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 3: We're we're getting it done. Fortunately, I went pretty easy

743
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 3: on myself and took a pretty easy schedule this year.

744
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 3: But I'm still in school from eight to three every day, which, uh, which,

745
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 3: But it gives me such a healthy balance, Like I'm

746
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 3: able to hang out with my friends at school. Then

747
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 3: after school I can focus on my golf. But I

748
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 3: feel like if I was playing golf all day every day,

749
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 3: I would just wear myself down, because that's that's just

750
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 3: how golf is.

751
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: After school. Did you are you?

752
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 2: Are you a rain drat?

753
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:22,760
Speaker 1: Do you play?

754
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 2: Do you do you do a little putting routine? What's like,

755
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 2: what's like your average week, like you know, the next

756
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 2: couple of weeks practicing?

757
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I'm I'm absolutely I like to get out

758
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 3: on the golf course. Fortunately, at Glenarvan during the weekdays

759
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 3: we have the big ability, Like even if it's just

760
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,760
Speaker 3: going out on the golf course and dropping some balls

761
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 3: and hitting different shots. But Glenarvin has such a good

762
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,919
Speaker 3: junior program that there's always people to play with out there.

763
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 3: So almost every day after school, I'm I'm playing nine

764
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 3: holes and then we're going to the back of the

765
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 3: range and having putting contests with my friends. And then

766
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 3: some days I'll just want to want to be alone

767
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 3: and uh get some stuff done on my own. But honestly,

768
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not the biggest range rat I am.

769
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 3: I feel like sometimes you can work yourself in the

770
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 3: bad habits just sitting there hitting range balls, and I

771
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 3: find it, I uh, my game gets a little bit

772
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 3: better whenever I'm working on the golf course.

773
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 2: I could change. It's kind of interesting watching, uh, watching

774
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 2: Mason play the am I could kind of tell that,

775
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 2: like I would have guessed that with just your shot shaping,

776
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 2: your sowd off shots, you know, your low wedges really

777
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 2: really fun to watch. You kind of have that style,

778
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 2: like you just spent a lot of time playing golf

779
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 2: hitting shots, right, Yeah.

780
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 3: I mean on the range, you'll you'll you're hitting the

781
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 3: same shot over and over again, and on the golf course,

782
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 3: every time you hit a shot it's something different. So

783
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 3: I just kind of like, even if it's just going

784
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 3: out there and dropping a ball and being like get

785
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 3: this up and down or just dropping the ball kind

786
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:47,800
Speaker 3: of semi blocked out by a tree and it is

787
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 3: like shape it around this tree.

788
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 2: Yeap.

789
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 3: So it's just one of those things that you just

790
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 3: have to kind of play mental games. But yeah, my

791
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 3: coach has always said that he feels like you can

792
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 3: just work yourself into so many bad habits it's by

793
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 3: just pumping range balls all the time.

794
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, street smarts is what I call it. You know,

795
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: you you kind of got book smarts. You know, if

796
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 1: you're on the range just hitting seven iron after seven iron,

797
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: and if you go out there and actually hit golf shots,

798
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,919
Speaker 1: it's a little bit more street knowledge, you know, where

799
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I actually know how to hit this shot.

800
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 1: I've hit this one before. Obviously. I know you're set

801
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: about going to Georgia. You're head of their next year.

802
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: I heard you mentioned you had you've had a lot

803
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: of Georgia jerseys over the years. Do you have a

804
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 1: favorite Georgia jersey you've had in your in your eighteen

805
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: years of life. Is there like a quarterback jersey or

806
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: basketball jersey you've had that was maybe you were at

807
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: the most or was your favorite player coming up?

808
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually had one that I really liked, like

809
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 3: two years ago than the guy transferred. I was like,

810
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 3: what do we do it? Transfer portal? But uh no,

811
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:50,880
Speaker 3: growing up, I was always a big like Sony Michelle guy. Yeah,

812
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 3: and he's he's had a great career in the NFL,

813
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 3: But that just he was the number one, So I

814
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 3: liked having the number one. But uh yeah, I love

815
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 3: getting up to after going to the games. I can't

816
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 3: wait for some of them this fall. I'm just ready

817
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:07,359
Speaker 3: for football football season to start. College football is the best.

818
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,399
Speaker 2: Mace you got any advice man for maybe kiddos out

819
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 2: there that could be listening twelve thirteen, fourteen fifteen that

820
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 2: are kind of thinking about, like, uh, maybe playing a

821
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,360
Speaker 2: few different sports, thinking about going all in on golf.

822
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 2: What what tips, tricks or advice would you give him,

823
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 2: you know, based on your experience here the last few years.

824
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I would say, like the biggest thing is

825
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 3: just don't weigh yourself down, like there's no that go

826
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:36,879
Speaker 3: have fun with your friends, go take some time off.

827
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 3: There's there's no no need to make yourself play every

828
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 3: single day and take the fun out of it. Because

829
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 3: my coaches and my dad, my dad especially he is

830
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 3: he's so big on telling me that if you're not

831
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 3: having fun, it's not gonna translate to good golf. It's

832
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 3: just gonna everything's just gonna get worse. And so I've

833
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 3: always tried to keep a really positive mindset on the

834
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 3: golf course too. And that's what what's so good is

835
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 3: to go find like I would say to kids coming

836
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 3: up and trying to play competitive and maybe trying to

837
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:10,879
Speaker 3: play uh coligiate golf, is go find yourself a good

838
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 3: group of friends to play with every single day. And

839
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 3: and I think that's that's that's the biggest thing. And

840
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 3: golf golf can be boring. You can make it boring,

841
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 3: and you can make it uh, you can make it

842
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 3: too hard on yourself. This is how I would put it.

843
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 3: So I just think and everybody says, go have fun,

844
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 3: make it fun, but I just think there's there's different

845
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 3: levels to that, and uh yeah, So that's one thing.

846
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,439
Speaker 3: I've been super blessed to have such a good, good

847
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 3: group of players to play with Egg Glen Arvin and

848
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 3: we've all made each other better. But it's just one

849
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 3: of those things that, uh, the second you get down

850
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 3: on yourself in this game, it's I mean it's hard

851
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 3: to bounce back. It takes time. But yeah, just keeping

852
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 3: a smile on your face is the biggest thing you

853
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 3: can do.

854
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: Love it. Yeah, Mayson, And it's been great chat with

855
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: you man. I I'm a fan. I loved watching you play.

856
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: Excited to see what you can do. Schedule the rest

857
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 1: of the year. I know you got Walker Cup, You

858
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: got any other big events coming up? I mean, like,

859
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:13,439
Speaker 1: are you're playing high school golf as well? Yeah? What's

860
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: those matches look like?

861
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 2: Yeah?

862
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 3: High school golfs in the spring, So that's gonna be

863
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:18,800
Speaker 3: weird to take a break for Augusta right in the

864
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 3: middle of my high school.

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Speaker 1: Season, you know what. I'm assuming the coach will understand.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, like what's the what's what other big events

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Speaker 1: or what other stuff do you have on the calendar?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So after Walker Cup, I'm playing on the World

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Speaker 3: Am team. We're head into Singapore. Awesome. Uh, never been

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Speaker 3: to Asia before, So that'll be on that'll be that'll

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Speaker 3: be awesome, and then really the rest of us the

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Speaker 3: rest of the fall, I don't have anything. Maybe the

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Speaker 3: Jones Cup uh at an ocean forest in Sea Island

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Speaker 3: in January weather. It's probably gonna be miserable there. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: just just a lot of amateur tournaments and obviously things

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Speaker 3: die down a little bit when when the collegiate players

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Speaker 3: get back in session. But yeah, it'll be good to

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Speaker 3: have a little bit of time off. I've been hitting

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Speaker 3: pretty hard recently, and you're gonna go have some fun

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Speaker 3: with friends. I still got like homecoming to go to.

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Speaker 3: We'll have prom in the spring, so it's still got

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Speaker 3: to live out my senior year.

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Speaker 1: Senior year is fun, man, and then you get to

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Speaker 1: go to Georgia and have even more fun playing a

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Speaker 1: little bit of college golf program there. It's pretty dialed.

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Speaker 1: I feel like, like like Andy said to you on

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Speaker 1: the pod, every time you flip on the first page

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Speaker 1: of a PJA Tour leaderboard, you see a couple of

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Speaker 1: couple of Georgia g's there, and I think they will continue. Congrats, man,

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Speaker 1: I mean, what a what an accomplishment. I know the

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Speaker 1: habit Meyers just off camera, you said you got it yet?

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Speaker 1: Did you get it yesterday in the mail?

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Speaker 3: I got it like two hours ago in the mail,

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Speaker 3: two hours ago.

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Speaker 1: So cool. That's like, I think both the amateur trophies,

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Speaker 1: the Cox Trophy for the Women's am and the US

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Speaker 1: Amateur Trophy are the two coolest and ali golf. So

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Speaker 1: congrats again. We really appreciate the time. Have a great

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Speaker 1: senior year, Enjoy prom enjoy Cyprus, enjoy Augusta, and enjoy Shinnecock.

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Speaker 1: And I would afford to seeing you play a little

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Speaker 1: bit collegiate golf coming up.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you guys, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: That is Mason how that's Marty Jerts And this is

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Speaker 1: the Ping proven Grounds podcast.