00:00when we look at the corn fairy tour and getting your uh corn fairy tour card that first year
00:05what did you learn about yourself in that year and how much you needed to improve
00:10and then covet kind of comes along so just kind of talk about that period of time and how
00:14challenging it was and just the lessons that you learned about yourself it was an interesting
00:19first year so i got through q school but it was conditional so i had a conditional card when i
00:23went to final stage i thought i've got my corn fairy tour card i'm going to play a bunch of
00:27events this is great ended up finishing like 60 no 48th i think it was so one shot out of
00:33getting a
00:34full card and i was the same spots but you get into a bunch of events early you should so
00:41covet happened
00:43right in like the third week so then what happened is when they restarted everybody was fresh and
00:48wanted to play so that number never actually hit but i monday qualified into the first event back
00:55shot 11 under my first ever monday qualifier to get in i was like i didn't know what i was
01:01doing
01:01my first ever monday i'm like i'll just go out there and play shot 11 under it was at valencia
01:06in
01:07jacksonville the tournament was at tpc dive valley because they had to have all the tournaments at tpc
01:13courses because the only course they're gonna let have an event during covet so i got through got in
01:18made the cut reshuffled and played the rest of the season and it was a super season because of the
01:23there was no q school that year so i essentially got two years of experience for one because i was
01:28going to lose i was going to lose my card like i just was not mentally physically emotionally
01:34prepared enough for pro golf to go out there and perform at the level needed to keep your card on
01:39the corn fray tour so getting those extra what 20 events at the end of the second season was huge
01:44for
01:44me just to learn i went back to q school got my card back and that year did even worse
01:50i even think i made
01:51like five cuts went back to the drawing board but gained on that experience and then the next year
01:59i went played q school over in europe got my full dp world tour card and that was an unbelievable
02:05year
02:06of growth for me being on my own for the first time really being in different places speaking different
02:11languages learning how to play golf on different courses whether i'm in kenya or korea or south africa
02:18or italy like that was the biggest year of growth for me so yeah um to answer your question
02:27that first year was huge and getting that extra double season it was big for me but again like
02:32every year you learn something of this game like whether you drive it well one year and you work
02:36on your putting all all year the next year you're going to be now driving it poorly and then putting
02:40it
02:41great like it's this constant mind battle yo-yo man professional golf isn't it the ups and downs are
02:46just so difficult it's so hard to just kind of stay even keeled uh we all of course all just
02:52want to be
02:52you know the scotty sheffler xander shafley type where there's no weaknesses in your game that'd be
02:56great it's frustrating right you know the what i what i think i noticed the most and probably the least
03:01talked about thing about a guy like scotty sheffler is the ability to do it every day and to have
03:07your
03:08worst um and somehow be able to scrap out a 70. just kind of talk a little bit about how
03:13challenging
03:14that is for not only yourself but like i experienced it you see it all the time in professional golf
03:20um just to be able to to bring it every single day um along with all the travel that it
03:26takes and a
03:27huge team that's trying to push you along yeah i think so when i first turned pro i talked to
03:33morgan
03:33hoffman a lot i knew him through grayson and morgan told me there's going to be everybody telling you
03:39to change this or change that or focus on this focus on that and he told me i don't care
03:43you
03:44know put your blinders on and just do you and continue to get to continue to do you better spoke
03:49to luke donald a couple years ago he said the exact same thing i asked him how did you get
03:53to world
03:53number one he said at first i was chasing distance i broke my wrist and that stopped me from chasing
03:59distance i went back and i focused on my driver i mean my wedges and my putting and that was
04:05my
04:05best part of my game but i got even better and i probably don't want to
