00:00There was just like this, this period of time where the young players that were coming up
00:06were really starting to prove that they were ready to win now. And I remember you famously had
00:11a quote, I don't know if it was like golf digest, golf week, wherever it was that, and you had
00:16said,
00:17I think that some of the top amateurs can compete with some of the top pros right now. I don't
00:23know
00:23if it was verbatim, but it was something in that same vein. And just kind of looking back on that
00:29quote, and then seeing how really how right you were on how the really the next decade and a half
00:35went on as far as just how good these players were and how ready they were to win.
00:40Did you feel like you're right at the time? And how nice is it to be right 15 years later?
00:46Yeah, I definitely feel like I was right. Now I was 22 years old and hadn't really
00:54made a name for myself. So my opinion didn't matter. Really? Yeah, at that point. And so when
01:00I said that, it was right after I had lost to Harris English in that nationwide event before the
01:08playoff. No, I was one up on AT&T. I make bogey. He makes birdie.
01:14That sucks. But the big winner, the big winner that week, Kyle Reifers, because Kyle Reifers gets
01:20first place money. For finishing third. Still haven't gotten like my thousand dollar box of
01:26wine yet from him. But anyway, but yeah, that that quote was accurate at the time. And I believe it
01:35was accurate. It's still accurate. But the one the one guy that had a really big issue with it was
01:39Scott Verplank. Scott Verplank went off on me after that and had a real big problem with me
01:45saying that. And, you know, I guess he was in his late 40s on tour and he's like, oh, these
01:49guys have
01:49no chance. All this stuff. You got to got to got to. Well, the guys I was talking about, the
01:54guys I
01:54was referring to were were your Harris Englishes, your Ricky Fowlers, your Morgan Hoffmans, Russell
02:01Henleys, Patrick Reeds, all these guys that have been around and are still playing for 15 years.
02:06Like, you know, my career was six years on the PGA Tour. Yours was what? Eight. You know,
02:12that's I feel like that's a pretty normal career. Shelf life. But the guys just in professional
02:18sports, really. Yeah. But the guys I was speaking about have been out there since I said it.
02:24And like, pretty sure I was right. I don't know. That was 2011. And I believe the tour average
02:32age was maybe 37, 38 back then. I bet you it's closer to like 28, 29 now. And that's just
02:42been
02:4315 years. So, yeah, I mean, it was an accurate statement. Should I have said, I don't know,
02:48but I don't really regret saying it. It was accurate.
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