00:00Did you feel like that class coming up when y'all got to college was going to be a class
00:06that potentially changed the way y'all would look at junior golfers coming up as golfers that could compete and
00:14win at an early age?
00:17It's probably not fair to say yes. I think we knew how deep the class was and how, I mean,
00:24we just had a lot of really, really good players.
00:26And I mean, you know, we had a lot of really good players that didn't make it out of our
00:29class.
00:29I think Pellucci's the first guy to come on.
00:31Yeah, absolutely. I mean, but you look at a guy like a Denny McCarthy, you know, where it's like he,
00:36I played Jordan and I both played a junior Ryder Cup with him.
00:39And like, he was a very good junior player, but he was not a Jordan-like name, an Anthony Pellucci
00:46type name.
00:47I think another fair one would be Xander Shoffway. He's a late bloomer.
00:50Yeah, I love Xander to death. I'd never heard of him until, because I mean, obviously, San Diego.
00:56We'd see him in the rankings. He would always kind of be in that 40 to 50, but like he's
01:01never somebody that like popped for us in junior and amateur golf.
01:05Yeah. Yeah. And then just for where he went to college and us, like we never played San Diego State
01:11and college events.
01:13So it just was our paths never crossed. So it is, it's, it's, it's wild. And I mean, you know,
01:18you, you could, there's people like that all throughout, not just golf, but all sports.
01:24But, um, but it is, man, it was, it was a deep, deep class and, and it's cool.
01:28Bug, Patrick Rodgers. Who else? Emiliano Grillo?
01:32Grillo was a weird one because he didn't really go to like school.
01:36Did he know what age he was?
01:37He was, because there was a point.
01:38What's your birth certificate?
01:39There was a point where he was looking in Alabama, like he was going to go to Alabama.
01:44Oh my gosh.
01:45And I just remember, cause I would like talk to him on the phone about it. And like his English
01:49was not great back then. And I'm like, I got no idea what this guy's saying on the phone. And
01:54I'm like trying to, and I'm talking to coach and in my head, I'm like, would this, does this make
01:58any sense for Emiliano to go to out? Like this kid from Argentina going to, going to.
02:03And then his buddy, Jorge Fernandez Valdez.
02:06Yeah.
02:06I mean, he's, I think he's still playing, but he was as good as Emiliano at that same age.
02:10For sure. For sure. But Emiliano was literally, I swear he was like a 2009 grader.
02:15Graduating class. And then the next year is 2010. And next year is 2011. And I'm just, so we claim
02:20them, obviously.
02:21The 2011s. But yeah, man, we did. Yeah. I mean, Ollie, Schneiderjans.
02:27Yeah.
02:27Stud. There's, yeah.
02:30Patrick Rogers.
02:30Yeah. P-Rodge. I mean, him and I, we, we room together and, and amateur events, you know, pretty much
02:36every single week. So yeah, there's a bunch, bunch of guys.
02:39What about your college recruiting story? Because everybody associates you with the University of Alabama, which is such a shame.
02:47Go Tigers.
02:49But, you know, if, if it weren't for guys like Corey Woodson and Bobby Wyatt being at Alabama, do you
02:56think you would have ended up somewhere else?
02:58Were you definitely encouraged a little bit by going to play with, with guys as talented as them?
03:05For sure. I think that the most important thing for, for my college choice was I wanted to win a
03:10national championship, right?
03:11Like I wanted to be, I wanted to be around guys that I felt like made me better.
03:17Um, and, you know, I was fortunate to, to have, to take some visits to different schools to where I
03:22felt like I had that option throughout different schools.
03:24But I mean, just coach, coach Sewell and coach Limbaugh, both were just like the, they made me feel so
03:31comfortable.
03:32And, and I just loved, I, I just felt like they were the perfect dynamic of like a coach and
03:38assistant coach of, of energy, of vibe, of what they bring.
03:43I feel like they were kind of the full package when together and, um, you know, coach Limbaugh would, would
03:49get in our ass and he would chew us out.
03:51Yeah. I mean, I had to, yeah, I forgot an umbrella one tournament and that, that wasn't fun.
03:57Um, I mean, we won the tournament and I think, I think I maybe won or like I finished up
04:03there, but it's like, I forgot my umbrella and it was raining and I, I had to run some sprints
04:09and, you know, but it's, it's little things like that, that.
04:11But you look back and like, it sucked when you're going through it, but I love that.
04:15I think that there was a mental side of that, that really was good for us.
04:20And, uh, but yeah, man, the guys in the team, they just, I loved being around and we did everything
04:24together and they were, I mean, just being able to practice with, with Corey, with Bobby, with Trey, with Strobe.
04:32Bobby, I mean, freaking Lebo, just listen to Lee out there.
04:35Yeah, of course, Willie.
04:37I mean, Tom was so talented.
04:39I mean, there's just so many guys that like, everybody just wanted to like, kind of compete shipping contest, putting
04:46contest, learn from each other.
04:47And, um, so I think that was, that was great.
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