00:00I do think it's interesting in what you're talking about in terms of the approach that now, you know, Tommy,
00:07the agent to Akshay Batia and to Blades Brown advising for that route versus advising for a, you know, using
00:14this, this PGA tour use system that's gotten better and better over the years to eventually find your way onto
00:20the PGA tour.
00:21And to me, it feels like the Blades Brown Akshay approach has a higher ceiling, but a lower floor. Like
00:27if you get that wrong and you don't get sponsor exemptions and you lose status, like you could be tumbling
00:32out of relevance very quickly, but kind of to our point now, it's some of these points you're getting for
00:39this PGA tour you accelerated.
00:41If there's another good player you're contending with and you're not earning that three points you need or whatever it
00:46is to kind of inch up towards 20, look at where Blades is now and made a bet on himself
00:50and he earned special temp membership on the PGA tour and is, you know, likely looking like a lot of
00:55PGA tour card next year.
00:57Whereas the PGA tour use system definitely provides a pathway that probably a lot of college, you know, golfers did
01:03not have in previous years, but it's a little bit safer, right?
01:06It's like, you know, even if you stay in that system and you're not in the top five, we got
01:10all these different pathways for you to, to kind of pursue, to get a card through America's corn fairy tour,
01:16however that looks.
01:17So it's, I think it's good in both ways. I think it takes a lot of, um, it takes making
01:22a big gamble, making a big bet on yourself.
01:24You're actually a Blades Brown, but if you, if you have that much belief, look at how it played out
01:28for both of them.
01:28And college golf is, is very different than professional golf, college golf. You have everything being taken care of for
01:36you from, um, you know, the coaches already having the schedule set up.
01:40You have everything at your, your locker, when it comes to clothes, everything's ordered for you. You know, you get
01:46out to, uh, the golf course and, you know, sometimes the practice schedule could be something that's created by the
01:52coach.
01:52And you, you know, you're kind of following what, you know, the practices for the day, whereas a pro you
01:58set your own schedule, you book your own stuff, you stay just by yourself.
02:02So you lose the community as a professional golfer. Um, but as a collegiate golfer, you know, you have, you
02:09know, have all the teammates, you have so much fun with all these guys.
02:12And, and some guys really do like being around other, other guys and they get better by playing against, you
02:20know, guys that they're around every single day where they kind of compete day in and day out.
02:23Some guys get worse because they're either in a, a system where the practice in which they, uh, you know,
02:30the coaches running them through is something that maybe isn't the best way for that player to get better.
02:35That maybe they would do better as a loner where they can just, you know, go do their own thing,
02:40not, you know, be around the guys as much like they don't, they don't, they don't need that.
02:44Like maybe another player would. And I think some players play well in that college golf system. You know, when
02:52you, you know, it's often, you got the team van, you get there and, uh, you got shotgun starts and
02:58you're used to the same schedule over and over.
03:01And then when you get out to professional golf, it's just, it's just different, man. It's just a little bit
03:06different. Like the style in which you got to go, go, go make birdies.
03:09And especially with collegiate golf, how I think setups at college golf tournaments sometimes can be harder than the PGA
03:17tour. And what I mean by that is that most college tournaments will always tip it out. Like they'll never
03:23move tees around. They just play the back of the box every single time. And you're playing for the most
03:28part in fall and spring. So you're not playing in the summer when it's dead calm.
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