00:00You know, I think I get I get asked this question a lot from parents on if they have a junior that's good enough to maybe play college golf or has aspirations of playing at the next level.
00:10They're like, what do we need to be playing in? And, you know, I think a lot of people feel like to get noticed, they have to play AJGAs or the national events just to kind of get noticed for you.
00:21Do you feel like would you recommend that a good junior golfer has to play national stuff or do you feel like playing their local stuff is good enough if you can compete at the highest level there?
00:33Yeah, I mean, I love playing the local stuff. And how I'd say this is like if if just beat people at a different level.
00:43And I feel like growing up, we had such a good level locally with Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, North Florida, South Carolina.
00:52There's there's so many good players playing in those SJGT events. I think I played maybe five or six AJGAs in my career.
01:00Is that it? Just five or six? Yeah, because I so I went to high school in Chattanooga at Baylor School.
01:07We had a really good team up there, but really good academic school and a really good golf program.
01:14But it was hard for me to miss school. It was hard for me to I think we got three unexcused absences a semester and playing in a AJG, AJGA event, playing in a SJGT event didn't.
01:28Wasn't excused, so I had to pick and choose carefully of when I was going to miss school and the SJGT events.
01:34You drive Friday after school and get to somewhere and play Saturday, Sunday and then come back.
01:39Some of those AJGAs were more three day events. Have to leave on Thursday.
01:45So I remember I played the one in Rome. I think I finished third in that AJGA in Rome, Georgia.
01:51Yeah, that's not too far away. You can make that.
01:53Played playing the one in Hilton Head. I remember I think that was my the biggest term was the Rolex.
01:58I somehow qualified for the Rolex. I think I shot 86 the first round.
02:03And my mom is like the biggest positive, like she's like the most positive person and supporter of me.
02:12And she would always mostly drive me to this golf tournament.
02:15So I remember it was like hole number 13 or 14.
02:18She came up to me and she was like, I don't think you should hit driver anymore.
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