223: Harry Hall: A Candid Look at Golf's Rising Star

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Hey everybody, thank you so much for tuning into this week's show of the chasing daylight podcast.

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We're replaying an interview with our friend, harry Hall, back from October of 2021.

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This was fresh off Harry's top 10 finish at the Shriners, which got him into the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.

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He was in Bermuda and took a little time away from prepping for that tournament to chat with us about his life at UNLV and his professional career.

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He's been in the news a little bit lately because of his top play out at Colonial and which has, you know, increased his FedEx Cup standings.

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I think he's at 73rd now.

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He's really close to making the playoffs, which is going to be exciting, and so we wanted to play this interview for you because he's been in the news and We're pretty excited about the way he's playing.

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So thank you so much for tuning in for this one.

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We are gonna try and record something tonight with all the stuff that's been going on in golf With the PIF and the PGA merger, its US Open Week.

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There's just a ton of ton of golf going on, and so we're gonna try and get some people on and have a little round table about what everything that's going on.

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But in the meantime, it is Wednesday and I wanted to put something out, so please enjoy this episode and Thanks a lot for listening.

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Welcome to the show, everybody.

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I've got a great interview for you today.

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Former UNLV golfer and now professional golfer, harry Hall, joins us for an interview.

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He is live from Bermuda getting ready to play in his second PGA tournament event.

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With his top 10 finish to the Shriners, he made it into this field, talk a little bit about his UNLV career, what brought him over here, and just some good stories From one hell of a player.

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His name is gonna be more popular in the next coming years, i firmly believe, and it's not because he wears the same hat Bryson does.

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It's a kickback.

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Relax, enjoy this one.

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It was a blast and thanks for tuning in.

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Welcome back to the Chasing Daylight.

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Everybody got a nice interview series for you today on the phone with me, which I just found out.

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He's live from Bermuda, mr Harry Hall.

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How you doing today, sir, very good.

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Thank you, matt, how you doing Well, it's beautiful weather today It sucks.

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You're not here to enjoy it, but I kind of, you know, would rather be where you are.

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To tell you the truth, i Am Sat in a nice hotel room.

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I've got a band playing outside my patio door.

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I'm on the beach, gonna spend the other week in Bermuda and play in my And play in my Fourth pg Tour of it, so I'm excited life is good, right?

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Yeah, so I know a lot about you because I'm a UNLV junkie, been, you know, fan of yours, since, since you got to UNLV.

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But you're originally from how's it?

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Hale, england.

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Yeah, what brought you All the way around the other side of the planet to play at UNLV?

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Wow, i'm originally from Campbell, which is a little town close to the, close to the hail that no one likes to tell Tell you they're from, so I'm actually from here.

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We moved that when I was about 13 to be moved up in the world.

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I was like people don't like to say they're from Henderson, they say they're from Vegas.

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Yeah, right, exactly.

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So I'm actually from Cornwall.

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I grew up there with the primary school that when I was about I went away to boarding school for a year and play golf because pretty good, and got a scholarship and Came back to hail when I was 12 and Went just went to a normal school and it wasn't till I was about 16 and I was playing in some national events, member of what you know, the on the 16 boys team and the under 18s, and Had a lot of interest through college golf Coaches in America coming over the watch we play.

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And Phil row, who was from West Cornwall golf club, the same golf course I played at in Cornwall, england, was assistant coach of Stanford.

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He moved To UNLV in 2000, the end of 2013, just in time for me to sign in importing to go to a school.

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I could never have gone to Stanford academically and It was a blessing that he went to UNLV and Invited me on a visit because you know we have that connection from being from the same place.

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Yeah, i grew up there with friends kind of mentoring me that Didn't move on like he did to the states from where I come from and Yeah, what you know, he was the best school.

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I was looking at the time it went on a visit and saw shadow Creek, and I'm having spanish trails or Las Vegas country club, but you know, wow, 360 days is pure sunshine, you know so to be.

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Yeah.

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We, we kind of got it, got it lucky here.

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The the winner isn't really winter compared to the rest of the world.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Well, you know, I spent most Saturday morning 35-minute.

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Our wind and water proofs and It hardly holds the colors, you know Zero, thirty-two in power flight.

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So what was, what was your reaction to Vegas?

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I mean, had you, had you been to a big city like that, like I'm sure you probably in the London right?

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You know on the few times.

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It was my first time in America on my official visit.

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Oh really.

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Yeah, i went to, went to Vegas and went to Marquette.

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In was constant, completely two different places and I Love Vegas.

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You know I was at the time I was 16, 17 and you know, like the big, i know I dressed enough, like the whole atmosphere that Vegas had, the golf, it was fantastic and, yeah, i loved it.

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You know I still did so you had a pretty, pretty outstanding career and in 2019 you awarded the Mountain West golfer of the year Only the sixth player in UNLV history to win that.

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So congrats on that.

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That's a nice little accolade to have, thank you.

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So after UNLV there was there's a little gap between that and your cornfairy start.

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What was going on between graduating and getting out on the cornfairy?

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Well, i graduated in three and a half years, at the end of 18, and decided to do another semester at UNLV Just so.

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I played on the team and finished my you know NCAA eligibility and did a fourth year with the guys and You know another national championship and then Went back to England that summer and played in a few competitions and then played the Walker Cup, which is great Britain Island against the USA, which was something I always wanted to do because Phil Roe, who obviously helped me Progress in my career, was my coach at UNLV, played on the team.

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Oh nice, yeah.

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So that that was really cool to get that on my CB and you know, looking at his CV in the past, i was trying to take off everything on it on his one.

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So to get how the Walker Cup was really cool and every every golf from Great Britain Island really cherishes playing in the Walker Cup and That's kind of critical of them to go for us.

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That was really really nice.

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Who else was on that team with you?

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Anybody we'd know?

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No no, not really.

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It's.

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It was amazing because I'm kind of Covid really affected a lot of people my age back in Europe because I haven't had a Q-School for two years, yeah, and They haven't been able to progress as much as you could.

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Over here at least we've had some, you know, monday qualifiers to play a system that you could, you know, graduate into and I know that the cornfrey tour was two years into one, but I still made it just because I got through Q-School and at the end of 2019, even with conditional status.

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So I played the Walker Cup Turn pro before I played any Q-School.

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I got an invite into the Alford Dunn Hill links, st Andrews teams, barns and car news team and play played that right after the Walker Cup and I Came 15.

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I'm playing my first professional then and I remember playing In practice round Luke Donald and seeing all the guys and I'm thinking, wow, it's my first tournament and I Like Kings Barnes the first they shoot to under, play St Andrews the next they shoot for under and I'm right on the cut line and Kings Barnes and St Andrews, because every rotation Everyone's at all three courses for three days and they all place an angel on the last day.

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She don't want to finish on car news to you really, because you kind of just started to stay where you stay where you're at.

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You know if I shot level pilot program being happy, but when they made the cut I knew I had to take it and I shot four under a car news team, which was a great score at that, and I made the cut by two and I'm on the same scores or a macro, and I Got, i got paired within that Sunday night.

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That Saturday night and I played my first professional event with Roy on Sunday, the home of golf, and, oh wow, shot 65 and damn in 15 and That was.

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That was a nice introduction to professional golf and something that you know I I'll remember forever.

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Just playing with Roy and having a bit of a crowd watchers and being a st Andrews and My dad watching.

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Now that was awesome.

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And after that I came over playing corn for a talk U school But through all the way to finals that made me a concrete or member.

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I came 113 for finals, in the top 40, get their automatic starts and we're in a place of 113.

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I was never gonna get start on the corn very tall, but it meant that I could do the Monday qualifiers for cheaper and if I did get some events Then my points would count, because I was a member.

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Oh nice.

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If you're not a member, you have to do Monday qualifiers and get, you know, 350 points before you even eligible for a reshuffle or To be in the in the field automatically.

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So you know, i, i, i got through Q school But never had a star, and then code.

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It happened.

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So I was trying to call and I didn't qualify for the first couple Because you can't qualify for Bahamas, and then the events in both of us are the Panama I try to qualify for for a few And I didn't make it.

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So there was about 10 events to start the season.

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I didn't play it and then code.

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It happened in that February, march.

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So Four months later I'm doing some Monday qualifiers and, like I kill it, i get in three out of nine Mondays, which is a really good percentage.

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Yeah, and yeah.

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And I.

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I came to 36 in Utah and because I was a member, my points counted and I got in the next reshuffle and it meant that I had the next three events On the corn pro tour and I go miss cut, miss cut, second place and I'm on the corn pro tour ever since.

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I managed to finish 2020 off well, with a few top tens, and I finished 67th on the list, playing half the events of everybody else, but at least that got me a full schedule in 2021 where I won an event.

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This year I didn't have my best year on the course and that win kind of really made the year look like it was and I'm very thankful for that.

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I got the job that I did in the clutch and when I wasn't content, i finished it off, but that was kind of that.

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I was one of the top 10 for 2022 event.

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You could be saying, well, i don't know, it wasn't a great year, but I made it to the finals, i'm comfortable and I'm in the same spot as everybody else.

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Coming next year, you probably go with my my honest career.

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Finishing the Walker Cup was great, but prior to the Walker Cup, i hadn't been a star.

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A lot of people probably wouldn't have picked me to come on and do so well and went on the Corn Freight Tour and my top 10 of the Shriders a couple of weeks ago.

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People probably wouldn't have chose me to have the results I've had after college, but I kept on going and kept on taking a step up the ladder.

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Hopefully I can do it for many more years to come.

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Oh yeah for sure you are Too much talent.

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So back in June, right before the Wichita, you put something out on Instagram that just really increased my level of respect for you.

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So I'm going to read this what you wrote I've had this photo of my library for a while now.

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I've been waiting for a good result on the course to post it, but that hasn't happened.

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Then I realized that's me falling into a trap of only posting positive, successful posts when life isn't really like that.

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I have failures all the time, but tend not to share them with others, except those close to my team.

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I am where I am today because of how I deal with failures and, fortunately for me, when we can change a lot of things in my world.

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Then you went out and won.

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Had you always had that mindset, and just I'm trying, instagram and social media can really overtake somebody.

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Was it something that happened that?

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had you realized that, or have you always thought like that?

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You go through spells, don't you?

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Obviously, everybody goes through ups and downs.

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You never see it, do you?

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You never see it on social media.

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I just thought I need to switch something up.

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It's negative, but I'm not posting at all.

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If you only post positive stuff, that might flip your mindset.

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But if I'm not posting at all, that's kind of negative because I like to post and I like to say relevant, but obviously something was going on where I wasn't playing good enough goals.

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I think that I deserve the post of turning by the ballot and nobody wants to know that.

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I think it was just a very spontaneous thing.

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I thought you know what.

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I'm going to post this for that, because I like it.

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It doesn't matter how I play.

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What does it matter?

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I mean, you want to be a nice person, a good person.

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If I came T50 last week and not T5, someone might think T50 is a fantastic result and I'm on the corporate tour I loved it.

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I thought it was great and I wish more people in the spotlight would post that.

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I mean, it's so easy to get this glamorous life of a professional golfer out there.

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Local knowledge we just said in our podcast this last week they had a great episode talking about mental health and a lot of the struggles that some of these top guys, like Matt Wolf and a couple of other players, are going through.

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It's nice to see that side of it.

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Of course, everybody wants to see the fast cars and the hot chicks and the big checks, but that's not everyday life, even for the top players in the world.

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That's not their everyday life.

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So I was glad that you embraced that.

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It freed you up a little bit mentally and you had a hell of a tournament.

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I think that I've posted a lot to do with fifting my mindset and having a refreshed week for sure.

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It's subconscious.

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It was in the back of my mind that I took a little bit of weight off my shoulders and a little bit of pressure and thought I had a lot of support.

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Everybody loved that post.

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I got a lot of messages after saying H respect, that It was nice.

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I think a lot of people feel like that all the time.

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If they don't post for two weeks, they're probably going through it and they're waiting for a chance to do something positive to come up to give them an excuse to post.

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I think now that I've done that, i need to not do it more often.

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but I definitely noticed this when I'm going through those spots again and still posting.

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It's healthy to do.

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Let's get some beach photos out there.

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Bermude is too beautiful.

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Want to touch on Shriners, of course, but before you got into Shriners, a rumor was swirling around and Phil confirmed this for me You had a match against Taylor to see who was going to get the exemption.

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Okay, talk me through that.

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What was that like When we heard it?

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because somebody who told us that was this guy who was just annihilated out on the 17th at Shriners.

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He had been drinking all day.

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He was telling us about it, so I didn't know how much truth there was to it And before we wanted to talk about it, we wanted to confirm.

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I reached out to Phil Reedy who was catting for you.

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He goes yeah, yeah, it happened.

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I go all right, let's hear from you.

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It's an amazing way to get into an event.

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You've got you and Taylor to the top guys on the corn fairy tour that are from UNLV.

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It's a home game for you guys.

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So what was that like?

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Well, first off, I'd heard a few people around town, from the local businesses and the people I played golf with on a regular basis, that oh hey, just looking good, I think you're in the tournament.

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I'm like great.

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Then Patrick Lindsey, tournament director of the Shriners, says Harry, I've got a question for you.

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She might meet me at TPC Sunwinds tomorrow.

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I'm like, yeah, Patrick, I'll see you there.

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And I'm thinking, okay, he's just going to ask me if I want the exemption.

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He wouldn't invite me to the office to say no, would he?

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So I thought what other option is that?

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And when I got there I was obviously through the rumors.

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I knew I had a good chance.

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And yeah, complete bombshell.

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He says I've been thinking I can't decide.

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Do you want to play for it?

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We take a more government.

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I've got one spot left And I want to give it the one of you, not the one of the two.

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And obviously I'm not going to say no right To play someone one on one spot in the tournament is way better rods and a Monday qualifier, And I'm just very grateful for any opportunity I get and said that would be fantastic.

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Patrick, thank you very much for considering me.

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And the week later, to the against table.

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We had a local rules official, Kim Quinn, from the SNGA, and we went out there us too.

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It was pretty comfortable off the first tee because we were quite good friends actually and I had a lot of goals for each other the last six years.

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He was a senior when I was a sophomore at college, So he was a junior when I was a freshman.

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I did two years with him on the tee and we were good friends and hung out a lot.

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His games got fantastic over the last couple of years.

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I know that he's a tough competitor.

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Anyway, I shot 68, which wasn't my best score around Clipster-Sumlin, but he shot 69.

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He pretty tense actually.

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I had a three shot lead with five to go.

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I eagles 13 to go five under and he bogeyed it to go two under.

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I thought that was kind of it.

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It's not quite solid.

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I don't make any big numbers.

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I bogeyed 15.

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It drove right and hit three and went into the desert.

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I didn't get up and down, I bogeyed it and he parted.

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Then he burned 16 and I parted.

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This time only one in front was 17 and 18 to play.

00:22:58.565 --> 00:23:00.681
In that They're good, solid holes at TPC-Sumlin.

00:23:01.035 --> 00:23:04.347
The closing holes there are arguably some of the best in town.

00:23:04.347 --> 00:23:05.954
Yeah, exactly.

00:23:07.557 --> 00:23:13.468
We both hit it on the green on 17, 18 and 25 feet and both missed.

00:23:13.468 --> 00:23:17.221
Yeah, but got him by one.

00:23:17.221 --> 00:23:18.384
That's so cool.

00:23:20.296 --> 00:23:21.961
I mean, I'd never heard of that.

00:23:21.961 --> 00:23:23.621
I thought it was great that they did that.

00:23:25.097 --> 00:23:26.983
Everyone thought it was pretty great.

00:23:26.983 --> 00:23:28.540
They've never heard it either.

00:23:28.540 --> 00:23:40.244
All the players I played a pratt and strowman, i've been over JGus and Scott Pearsie and even a few other guys said hey, mate, by the way, did you?

00:23:40.244 --> 00:23:42.059
I have to play a playoff together?

00:23:43.375 --> 00:23:45.359
I thought they played that a little bit.

00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:48.115
That's so cool, okay.

00:23:48.115 --> 00:23:49.179
So question about Taylor.

00:23:49.179 --> 00:23:55.183
He didn't go to a corn very event because he qualified for the US Open.

00:23:55.183 --> 00:23:58.441
Makes the cut at the US Open.

00:23:58.441 --> 00:24:03.203
I got to know your opinion.

00:24:03.203 --> 00:24:03.846
I'm curious.

00:24:03.846 --> 00:24:06.020
You're somebody that's out there that's grinding.

00:24:07.957 --> 00:24:10.944
So Springfield two weeks prior.

00:24:10.944 --> 00:24:15.919
Well, so, first of all, I don't know if Taylor had to go to local or not.

00:24:15.919 --> 00:24:19.222
He might have gone to local and qualified for sections.

00:24:19.222 --> 00:24:23.482
The US Open has a local qualified and an sectional.

00:24:23.482 --> 00:24:25.287
I don't know what he did.

00:24:25.287 --> 00:24:29.526
He might have been exempt through World Ranking Top 500.

00:24:29.526 --> 00:24:30.858
If not, he did local.

00:24:31.894 --> 00:24:35.943
I remember seeing him in Springfield, Illinois, where I came second in 2020.

00:24:35.943 --> 00:24:50.381
And I go you know we're on the chat, we're on the driving range And he goes hey, you're going to play in the US Open And I go see you.

00:24:50.381 --> 00:24:53.280
Through the Walker Cup, I was exempt in the sectional.

00:24:53.280 --> 00:25:07.221
So all I had to do is do a qualifier on the Monday or Tuesday of sectionals and have a great chance If you're eligible for sectional straight away.

00:25:07.221 --> 00:25:18.575
I'm probably the only one in this year that didn't go And I thought you know what I cannot miss a week from the corn pro to, I'm sitting 74 on the list and top 75.

00:25:18.575 --> 00:25:30.982
I think in the finals and every week, so important I kind of had the confidence if I can, if I can just be on the conference all this year and get my car, I'll play in the US Open for the next 25 years.

00:25:30.982 --> 00:25:33.067
That was my mindset.

00:25:33.067 --> 00:25:36.301
So anyway, I see him on the range and he goes.

00:25:36.301 --> 00:25:40.013
Well, you're not playing the US Open, You're exempt in the sectionals.

00:25:40.013 --> 00:25:48.623
But he was almost like joking around to say, well, you know what you're doing, but he's 19th on the list and he's not thinking anything of it.

00:25:50.515 --> 00:25:56.934
Anyway, the US Open comes around, He qualifies And it's a toy pines.

00:25:56.934 --> 00:26:01.186
Well, I'm in Wichita and check this out.

00:26:01.186 --> 00:26:10.048
He goes from 19 to 24th on the list, or he might have gone from like 22 to 26.

00:26:10.048 --> 00:26:12.140
I think that week might have moved him out.

00:26:12.140 --> 00:26:12.781
I'm not sure.

00:26:12.781 --> 00:26:13.523
Yeah, I think it did.

00:26:13.523 --> 00:26:18.425
I go from 74 to 36 because I won.

00:26:18.425 --> 00:26:36.180
I decided not to go to sectionals even though I was exempt, thinking, you know, US Open, I could play in a maiden championship And I decided not to do it because I valued being on the Contrary Tour so much and that I can't afford to miss a week.

00:26:36.180 --> 00:26:43.346
And I went on one in Wichita the same day that John Ram won, on Father's Day, a toy pines.

00:26:43.346 --> 00:26:54.179
So I would say that that's a pretty smart decision on my behalf, or at least it played well in my court.

00:26:54.179 --> 00:27:02.106
Oh yeah, Taylor, might you never know, he might not have had a good year out.

00:27:02.106 --> 00:27:02.989
Yeah, you still got to play.

00:27:03.316 --> 00:27:04.602
You know, you still got to play the events.

00:27:04.602 --> 00:27:05.175
It's not?

00:27:05.196 --> 00:27:07.221
no, it wasn't a gimme that he's going to cut and get involved.

00:27:07.221 --> 00:27:17.280
I might have helped him give up for the rest of the year and you know he came second at Salt Lake City at the end of the year.

00:27:17.280 --> 00:27:22.221
You know he had a good few results after.

00:27:22.221 --> 00:27:38.057
but every point is really important And unless you were solid in the top 10 and locked your card up already, i wouldn't play the Wichita.

00:27:39.736 --> 00:27:40.176
Yeah, I think.

00:27:40.176 --> 00:27:43.503
What did you miss out by two points for the final 25?

00:27:46.717 --> 00:27:48.861
Five points and then the finals.

00:27:48.861 --> 00:28:02.275
all we had to do, i think, was make the cut in Indiana, and you know we did, and I don't know how you can finish 26-26.

00:28:02.275 --> 00:28:04.255
I felt terrible.

00:28:04.255 --> 00:28:07.005
OK, thank you that you know.

00:28:07.005 --> 00:28:08.529
you never want to see that.

00:28:09.080 --> 00:28:10.648
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:28:10.648 --> 00:28:12.843
So what?

00:28:12.843 --> 00:28:14.808
how often do you play out at Summerlin?

00:28:14.808 --> 00:28:23.104
So, for having such a great tournament, you know, getting top 10 on the PGA Tour at Summerlin, how often do you play there?

00:28:23.104 --> 00:28:27.728
to where you know, that course, and it gave you a little, if at any kind of advantage.

00:28:29.743 --> 00:28:32.570
I play there a lot because I live too far away.

00:28:32.570 --> 00:28:50.625
I get a little bit of a outlet on the 215 and Russell and 70, 10 minutes from TPC Summerlin And when you're away for 23 out of 25 weeks on the corn front tour in a year when you are home for a day or two you're not going to.

00:28:50.625 --> 00:28:55.708
You're going to value your time And I love to go to the Chatham Creek.

00:28:55.708 --> 00:29:19.009
I play there, chatham Creek and TPC Summerlin and Spanish trails on the member at the TPC Summerlin And I consider it as the office you know they're so good They have like Cali balls close to home You can play a lot of other golfers you know with a similar ability and have a nice little friendly competitive match on the golf course.

00:29:19.009 --> 00:29:25.872
So I probably played 30 times prior to seeing it up this year at the tournament.

00:29:26.113 --> 00:29:28.846
Yeah, we played on Tuesday after the event.

00:29:28.846 --> 00:29:33.286
A friend of mine is a member out there And so he invited us out to play.

00:29:33.286 --> 00:29:44.010
Jeremy and I played on Tuesday and it was I've probably played it eight or nine times and it was, i thought, in phenomenal shape.

00:29:44.010 --> 00:29:47.667
I mean, the greens were just really, really good.

00:29:47.667 --> 00:29:49.311
Had you seen it?

00:29:49.311 --> 00:29:52.126
What do you think how the course was set up?

00:29:53.700 --> 00:29:55.814
Had you heard about the course prior to the tournament?

00:29:55.940 --> 00:29:59.489
Oh yeah, with the nematodes infection and they weren't even.

00:29:59.528 --> 00:30:12.122
Sure, Mate, I was away at the corn fray tour finals but they shut the course down for the members for three or four weeks because the greens were destroyed And I didn't see them.

00:30:12.122 --> 00:30:14.367
But everyone was saying that it was bad.

00:30:14.367 --> 00:30:23.153
Yeah, It was really bad and they had to get a PJ tour grominist in treat the greens.

00:30:23.153 --> 00:30:30.713
I was very impressed by the time the tournament came around, that the course was fantastic.

00:30:30.713 --> 00:30:37.906
I thought you know, yeah, I said whatever, whatever they did just rinse and repeat because the greens were amazing.

00:30:39.304 --> 00:30:40.548
They weren't, they were fantastic.

00:30:40.548 --> 00:30:46.565
They rolled through, you know they weren't lightening fast but by the time some day hit they were really firm.

00:30:46.565 --> 00:30:51.470
You know, on Monday they were so soft.

00:30:51.470 --> 00:31:08.550
So the ability they have, i think, with the weather and how they manipulate watering course they Vegas is probably a pretty cool climate to do whatever they want with the course And they got it in a fantastic place, especially with everything they had to deal with.

00:31:08.971 --> 00:31:13.682
Yeah, we were out there Friday, saturday and then played it on Monday And I was.

00:31:13.682 --> 00:31:14.484
I was blown away.

00:31:14.484 --> 00:31:20.323
I've been telling everybody it's probably one of the best Shriner events at that course in a long time.

00:31:21.446 --> 00:31:33.006
Oh really, i've watched the Shriner a couple of times when I was at UNLV And I just remember it being so firm and fast, and it was by Saturday and Sunday.

00:31:33.446 --> 00:31:36.885
Yeah, it's a great course.

00:31:36.885 --> 00:31:37.749
It's underrated.

00:31:37.749 --> 00:31:43.704
I know it gets beat up a lot because people say that you know the scores are so high that it doesn't challenge the guys.

00:31:43.704 --> 00:31:44.059
But it's.

00:31:44.059 --> 00:31:47.407
I mean, it's not an easy course.

00:31:47.407 --> 00:31:55.074
I don't think There's some elements that can come into play And, like you said, if they can control the greens and get in firm, it can play tough.

00:31:56.460 --> 00:32:04.708
Yeah, it's demanding off the tee some shots and you know around the greens If you miss the greens there's not many easy up and downs.

00:32:05.980 --> 00:32:10.332
You had a nice one on Friday, or was it Friday or Saturday?

00:32:10.332 --> 00:32:12.346
Were you on 15?

00:32:12.346 --> 00:32:17.692
Your bunker shot went long and you put it off the back right into the hole.

00:32:17.692 --> 00:32:18.174
That was nice.

00:32:19.439 --> 00:32:19.819
That was nice.

00:32:19.819 --> 00:32:21.625
Yeah, I gave out a nice fishbone.

00:32:24.259 --> 00:32:27.787
That's a crazy hole And Joe and I played it.

00:32:27.787 --> 00:32:32.301
Joe played it for the first time last year And he loves.

00:32:32.301 --> 00:32:35.790
He's really into architecture and design.

00:32:35.790 --> 00:32:41.883
And one thing from the broadcast that you do not get about the 15th hole is the view from the tee box.

00:32:41.883 --> 00:32:46.428
They never show that, It's always, you know, from the little tower above the green.

00:32:47.220 --> 00:33:06.326
But that tee shot is really unique And I really would love to see them show that view because the way that I think it was a weed that designed that course, the way he designed that, it's such a different perspective standing there looking at it than in the overhead.

00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:10.164
I think drive will pass for us.

00:33:10.164 --> 00:33:11.990
Fantastic.

00:33:11.990 --> 00:33:20.866
And it's so nice as well that you get a lot of drivers off that tee box And when they land on the green, normally they stay on the green.

00:33:20.866 --> 00:33:27.450
You know it's pretty rare, but yeah, you just got to commit to.

00:33:27.450 --> 00:33:31.465
You know that has it on the left And I hope it well.

00:33:31.465 --> 00:33:33.349
I do anyway hope it fades a little bit.

00:33:33.349 --> 00:33:36.646
You're on the green 80% of the time.

00:33:36.646 --> 00:33:40.807
If you're not on the green, it's great up and down hole.

00:33:40.807 --> 00:33:44.987
Yeah, you can get up and down around the green.

00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:49.829
You go from that one to the really scoreable par five.

00:33:49.829 --> 00:33:52.625
That's pretty much a two shot hole for most players.

00:33:52.625 --> 00:33:55.403
Yeah, a very challenging par three.

00:33:55.403 --> 00:34:05.710
And then the 18th hole is a great closing hole And when that, when that pin on 18 is up front, there can be some scary shots into that green.

00:34:07.051 --> 00:34:11.614
Yeah, i managed to hit it to six inches when the pin was up front.

00:34:11.614 --> 00:34:26.179
That was nice, but I think the key there is getting a good drive away, because a lot of people are scared and they leave out the right and then you have, you know, 160 yards and not 130.

00:34:26.179 --> 00:34:37.514
And that's a lot tougher shot, especially when the three out of the four days the pins are tucked, you know the front and then middle left and then back left.

00:34:37.514 --> 00:34:38.784
They're all along the water.

00:34:38.784 --> 00:34:45.050
I played the last few yards really well in the tournament.

00:34:45.632 --> 00:34:49.188
Yeah, 66, 65, 68, 68.

00:34:49.188 --> 00:34:51.507
That's four really good days.

00:34:53.657 --> 00:35:11.632
Yeah, Yeah, I was a little disappointed some day to you know, in the heat of the moment I felt like the weekend I had some better scores out there, I think, And I'm so used to playing deep sea sun and shooting six and seven on a consistent basis.

00:35:11.632 --> 00:35:15.724
I knew it was out there on the weekend, But I made a couple of mistakes.

00:35:15.724 --> 00:35:30.851
On Sunday I flew it into the hole on 11 on Sunday, Sam dunked in it, bounced out 20 feet and a late par, And then I had a shot on my life on nine out of a bunker.

00:35:30.851 --> 00:35:33.045
You know the bunker on nine to the left.

00:35:33.045 --> 00:35:43.891
Yeah, I hit it in there and I was at the ball below my feet and I was hitting this five on a five on draw and the Puma's front left.

00:35:43.891 --> 00:35:46.427
I hit the 20 feet and it's one of the best shots of the hit.

00:35:47.101 --> 00:35:52.994
I hit it into the third bunker, You know, into the furthest bunker on 13, the par five.

00:35:52.994 --> 00:36:00.652
I thought I could do a very similar shot hook it 50 yards and land it over that bunker, short the green and roll it up onto the green.

00:36:00.652 --> 00:36:03.666
I was in that bunker and that was.

00:36:03.666 --> 00:36:13.413
You know, that's a shot and a half right there, Cause then you're hitting a wedge out and and then I'm making bogey and you know those.

00:36:13.413 --> 00:36:19.972
Those two things change a little bit and I might have walked away.

00:36:19.972 --> 00:36:20.413
The second.

00:36:20.413 --> 00:36:21.664
I'll probably still in the court.

00:36:21.664 --> 00:36:23.847
Sung jamming is pretty impressive.

00:36:23.847 --> 00:36:25.088
Yeah, he was going nuts.

00:36:26.556 --> 00:36:27.601
Yeah, so are you.

00:36:27.601 --> 00:36:32.840
are you a uh uh analytical thinker like that, to where you remember all the shots?

00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:43.211
I'm very statistical, yeah, always trying to figure out how I can improve by half a shot.

00:36:43.380 --> 00:36:55.192
You know it's I love I love talking to golfers because, um, i, the guy that I went and cattyed for out at the U S mid-am, he, he forgets the shot after he hits it.

00:36:55.192 --> 00:36:56.884
He, you know we'll, we'll be talking.

00:36:56.884 --> 00:36:59.550
We've done a lot of traveling together and it's, it's funny.

00:36:59.550 --> 00:37:02.422
He'll hit a shot and I'm like, oh, that's just like that shot You hit when we were at Cabot.

00:37:02.422 --> 00:37:04.126
And he's like what are you talking about?

00:37:04.907 --> 00:37:06.552
And I remember Yeah.

00:37:07.460 --> 00:37:08.081
And so do I.

00:37:08.081 --> 00:37:09.505
I'm I and it's.

00:37:09.505 --> 00:37:15.664
Sometimes I've thought of it as a curse because I remember too much, like I shouldn't be remembering all this.

00:37:15.664 --> 00:37:18.664
Um, but I have a heart, it's just, it's just there.

00:37:18.664 --> 00:37:23.110
So that's, that's cool to hear that, uh, that your, your mind, thinks that way.

00:37:24.681 --> 00:37:48.192
Yeah, I'm, yeah, I'm very statistical and my father called and kind of always have been since I got the U and I'll be in the field road in a very similar way Psychology grad, quite intellectual, And we, uh, we know the hour four years and I'm I'm still going.

00:37:49.619 --> 00:37:53.268
What did you think about the, the cornfair event that was at Paiute?

00:37:53.268 --> 00:37:55.050
What's your thoughts on that?

00:37:55.050 --> 00:37:55.753
Should they come back?

00:37:55.753 --> 00:38:00.489
Wait, the the schedules come out and I haven't seen it yet, but do you think that needs to come back?

00:38:00.750 --> 00:38:05.467
Yeah, And they're not.

00:38:05.467 --> 00:38:08.132
Uh, there's not on the schedule.

00:38:08.172 --> 00:38:09.521
Yeah, I saw that there's.

00:38:09.521 --> 00:38:14.123
there's a gap in April and it's right around the master's time, So I don't know if.

00:38:15.668 --> 00:38:19.099
I mean, there's oh is it was that to be determined, probably.

00:38:19.862 --> 00:38:21.188
I'm, I'm, fingers crossed.

00:38:21.188 --> 00:38:22.143
I haven't heard anything.

00:38:22.143 --> 00:38:27.483
We have a buddy that worked with the agency that put that event on Um and it was.

00:38:27.483 --> 00:38:29.891
It was there because of COVID.

00:38:29.891 --> 00:38:39.409
They couldn't do the Bermuda event Um, or the Bahamas, i think it was Um, so they they're on.

00:38:39.469 --> 00:38:40.070
They're on now.

00:38:40.070 --> 00:38:42.788
The Bahamas are starting again in January.

00:38:42.788 --> 00:38:46.469
That'll be my hopefully, if I can play well this week.

00:38:47.802 --> 00:38:49.108
Let's, let's get you on the PGA tour.

00:38:50.884 --> 00:38:55.951
That would be nice, but at the moment I'm scheduled to go to the Bahamas for the first time.

00:38:55.951 --> 00:39:00.128
You know the meter in Bahamas is not bad life, is it?

00:39:00.349 --> 00:39:00.969
No, not at all.

00:39:00.969 --> 00:39:01.630
Not at all.

00:39:03.204 --> 00:39:05.119
I I feel like I should go home.

00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:08.047
You know I'm halfway home from Vegas.

00:39:08.047 --> 00:39:11.728
It's a short flight from England, very tentative.

00:39:13.023 --> 00:39:14.608
Well, hey, you get another top 10.

00:39:14.608 --> 00:39:16.405
You'll have a good reason to go home for a little bit.

00:39:18.422 --> 00:39:21.132
No, i know I wouldn't, because I think I'd be in my coma.

00:39:22.195 --> 00:39:28.088
Oh yeah, Oh yeah, That's a good yeah, Yeah, So, um, what is?

00:39:28.088 --> 00:39:28.606
what is?

00:39:28.606 --> 00:39:30.534
what is the plan, or you know?

00:39:30.534 --> 00:39:34.193
do you have your schedule worked out for cornfairy yet, or is it?

00:39:34.193 --> 00:39:36.936

223: Harry Hall: A Candid Look at Golf's Rising Star

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