[MUSIC PLAYING] Dude, that smiley coffin for 61. Wow. I'm smiley coffin, and this is the smiley show. [MUSIC PLAYING] All right, guys. Welcome back to another episode of the smiley show. Thrilled to have Colin Moore-Caller joining us today. Colin, what time is it? Where are we? What's the-- what's on the coffee order for this morning? You a coffee drinker? I am a coffee drinker. Thanks for having us, smiley. We're back home. We're in Vegas, 7 o'clock, nice and early start. We have this nice, fancy coffee machine. I don't know how to use it, but I can't do the thing. And we got a little-- just a little bit of brown sugar, kind of like a shake and espresso that you would get at Starbucks, but just way better. Just regular milk, a little bit of sweet cream. And just so you can still taste the coffee, which is really good. Yes. But I don't drink on the road, like I don't know. No, I get on the road. I almost got a little jittery. Yeah, and I think it's a little scar tissue. I used to drink a lot of coffee in college, like we all did. And I get a qualifying on a small-- I drank a lot of coffee, a lot of coffee. But I get a qualifying, and I'd have the jitters, and I'm like, oh, it's probably not the best idea, so. Yeah, that's probably a good call. And I would imagine that you drank a lot of coffee, because probably cow was a much more difficult school than LSU, so I probably didn't have quite as tough of a time as you did maybe. Yeah, maybe a little bit. I wouldn't put them in there. Maybe their bubbles touched a little bit. If you put in like a Venn diagram on like academics, athletics, maybe it's like slightly over. Yeah, the classes I went to is how can you-- how good are you at peeling a crawfish, how fast can you maybe chug a beer, and then a little bit of marketing stuff? I think they're good. No, I think they're good at that. Maybe I should want to tell us you. Yeah, I'm sure you've got some eligibility left. We'd love to have you at the Tigers. Go Tigers. Go Tigers. It's 7 AM, so I need to get you warmed up a little bit. We can't just jump right in here. So I want to know what's your favorite-- what's your favorite PGA tour city to visit for food or coffee to? Yeah. L.A. is like cheating, so I'm like, I'm going to take ribs. I'm going to take L.A. out. I grew up there. We don't go to New York enough. What was fun, obviously, we just came back from travelers, and that was amazing, because you have a ton of pizza. That's awesome. So New Orleans has grown on me. Louisiana has grown on me. My first stop for dessert classic was actually-- I was like, OK, I was getting used to it. Obviously, a lot of butter, a lot of heavy food, a lot of fried food. And now I've found my spots. My favorite restaurant, I think, one of my favorite restaurants all year is this place called Shaya, Shaya, if you've ever been. Shaya. It's like some of your restaurants. Mediterranean, Greek, Lebanese type food. And it is one of my favorite spots. It's hard to pick a city, because some of the cities I just have like one or two spots. And I'll just eat there all week, so that's-- I just rinse and repeat. Yeah, the first time you have those char grilled oysters in New Orleans for the first time, you see all the butter, and you're like, man, these are unbelievable. And then the next day, you're like, why do I feel like-- Yeah, not even the next day like night. They have them on the Pro Am. They have them during the Pro Am now. Wednesday, it's like a tee off on 10. And they'll have it on the first tee. And I mean, you're on the toilet in like two and a half hours. You're trying to rush this 18-hole Pro Am group. You've got to go a little faster. My best New Orleans story at the Zurich one year, it was the first round. I'm a player with David Tom's and Charlie Hoffman. So David Tom's is like the best crowd. And similar situation, you got off to a rough start with the stomach. And on the 12th tee, Port-a-Potty right over there, needed to go. And come out, hit my tee shot, had no idea. And David Tom's and Charlie Hoffman, being the older veterans that they are, they did tell me a toilet paper draped on the back of my belt loop. So that's New Orleans summed up in a nutshell. I don't think I'll ever go-- I don't think I'll ever take a deuce in a Port-a-Potty. I don't think I'll ever have. Buddy, I didn't have an option. No, I don't care if there's an option. I think I'd rather go on a bush. I think I'd rather like squat on the side than go on a Port-a-Potty. Those Port-a-Pottys are disgusting. Like absolutely so. Tough scene, absolutely so. Really tough start to the tournament on my third hole. That's not such a good feeling. Hey, I mean, free job. I probably freed you guys up. And you just cruising around. Actually, I had-- because that was the week after spring break, the first time we went. I shot 68-81, so I don't know if that was the first round or the second round. I'm going to have to guess it was the second round. We're going to guess it was the second round. Alternate shot. So that was probably a little brutal one. Yeah. Dude, you mentioned LA, too. I know that's your favorite city. That's your town. Are we going to talk a little brownie of LeBron? Like, is that-- Yeah. Are we going to go there? I was at-- you know, I practiced at Summit. And I was in the cold plunge and hopped in the sauna. And literally, two minutes later, or 20 minutes later, I looked at my phone and LeBron gets drafted. Look, I think-- I have mixed reviews. I'm very happy for JJ Redick. I got to know JJ a little bit. A little bit. How great is he, man? He's the best. He's so good. So I'm excited for him. And me growing up, Kobe fan, I've gotten to know Paul Gasol a little bit. Over the past few years, Lakers, to me, is like, that's everything. Like, that's what I watch growing up. I'm a huge Lakers fan, huge Dodgers fan. So I'm excited to see where it goes. Obviously, he had the health scare. So I think that kind of took him out a little bit to see what his full potential was in college. But it's interesting. I mean, you're like, what? He's the 50/5 draft pick. You're kind of in that zone where now you've got to go prove yourself. It's like, you've got to go prove yourself, whether it's in Summer League or whatever it is. And they're like, earn a spot. Everyone's talking about the name and all that stuff. Obviously, he wants to play with LeBron. I think it was a play for the Lakers to keep LeBron. That's a good play. Right? Because he wants to play with him. And if that was another team, like I was reading things, like, the Celtics should have just drafted him. I think it was the Celtics before. Like, the Celtics should have drafted him. The Pistons should have drafted him in the first round. And then got LeBron to go to Detroit. Exactly. And just held him like, buy a little string right here and be like, hey, hey, LeBron, come on. So who knows what we're going to see. But the Lakers-- I mean, the Lakers need, I think, a full, just reset. I think they're at a spot now where the West Coast-- Westside is just looking so strong. And LeBron's getting old, not that he's not amazing. But he needs other players around him. Yeah, LA is definitely a Lakers' town and a Dodgers' town. So I imagine that you're constantly following those teams. And I'm interested to see how Bronnie does too. Because the stats doesn't really validate a second round pick by any means. But he definitely has good genes, I'd say. So we'll see what happens there with Bronnie. It helps. It helps. I mean, look, the knowledge is there. And that's like a big part of it. It was like, you know, just understanding the game. Like, he's got that. And he's got the best dad you could ask for in the world. So yeah, he's pretty good at his job, I'd say. Man, it's not bad. So let's get into what I just-- it's always fun too to kind of have guys like yourself come on. And then it just do a bit of a deep dive into when you turn pro and where you are now. And just kind of look out throughout the years. And there's things that I picked up on that I was like, man, I don't remember that. And holy crap, that's kind of wild to think about. And I'm sure you have those moments too, looking back at over the years thinking, man, I was kind of young and I was kicking ass. So let's start in 2019. You know, you go to Cal, you have a tremendous career there. And before we kind of get to when you turn pro, was there ever an option or a decision while you're in college to leave early? The thought was definitely there. So I'm going to go all the way back to the summer between my freshman and sophomore year. And I played one Corn Fair, then I got in through a sponsors exemption to transmit. So back then I feel like now what we're seeing, I mean, we're seeing Miles Russell, he's a 15 year old kid on P.J. Jordan, right? We're seeing all these amateurs play in like even six, seven years ago when I was in college, like I didn't feel like as many of us were playing in these events to kind of get starts and just to learn what it's like. So lost in a playoff in Wichita. Kansas is like one of my favorite states. I think my record there, if we ever have a tournament in Kansas, just lay the hammer on me. - Game over. - Yeah, it's over, like people are done. You know, I need to finish like first, second, second. - We need a US Open at Prairie Dunes, there you go. - Sets, like I'm there. So that was my first time where I got a true test of like what professional golfers was like, lost in a playoff to Ollie Schneider Jones. I'm pretty sure you played again. Like you guys are roughly the same age, right? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - So you were going this way up for a year? - I didn't even go this far back. 2016. - Goodness gracious, man. - Yeah. But I mean, I was still no one. Like I was not, I was not anyone at that point. And that's where I was like, okay, well, maybe, you know, if I won and like everyone in my corner was like, no, like you're not, like that's not smart. So fast forward, get their junior year and that. - If you would have won, if you would have won, would you have, do you think you were just turn pro? - I don't know. I like, I 100% would not have been ready. Like golf game wise, everything. Like I would not have been ready. But it's hard to say no if you win as an amateur and say, okay, I'm gonna stay an amateur and go back to college, right? - Yeah. - But lost, it all worked out. So, you know, fast forward in junior year, I have a great junior year. And at that point, you know, I'm like, okay, I can go. But from the very start, I said I was gonna go to college, finish up, you know, I got in the business school to your program. And I just felt bad that like I'm doing all this stuff to accomplish these goals. And it's not, like I'm not just signing up and doing this stuff just for fun. You know, people do that and like, so be it. Like they know what they're setting forth. But one of my goals is to finish college. And I had one more year. At that point golf was never going away. We didn't know what COVID was. (laughing) And think about it, I feel so bad for those kids that were, you know, graduating at that time. But it was not going away. I could prove myself even more and just get more reps and kind of use that senior year to just be as prepared as I could. So I use that senior year to get as prepared as I could for when I turned pro. And I thought I had one of the easiest transitions, turning pro in that summer of '19 where I was like not shocked at all. Golf, you obviously had to play good golf. But like, nothing surprised me from any direction when I was out there. - Yeah, you showed up to the travelers. That was your first sponsor's exemption after you turned pro, right? - No, that was my second. So I played, I played Canada. So I went sectionals, Canada, U.S. Open, travelers. That was the first one that I would afford. - I saw that in the fourth. - And maybe it, yeah. - And saw, those were all their first ones. But I got in Canada and like, I, yeah, got the ball rolling as fast as I could. - 'Cause I was looking at the travelers. You finished T36 there and then 3M was interesting because, you know, you finished second to Matthew Wolf, but then it's also kind of a good, you know, reflection of at that time, you know, it was the three guys that everybody was talking about. It was you, it was Matthew Wolf and it was Victor Havelin. How much did you pay attention to what other guys were doing? I know you looked Matthew Wolf head-to-head and I'd I at the 3M, but right from the get-go, I mean, you guys were just off to such a fast start. - Yeah. I think when it comes down to it, it's like we all, we're all obviously all playing great golf, like that's within it itself. But like our belief in ourselves that like, we could do it. And then seeing Matt play well, seeing Victor play really well is just like, we're just gonna kind of like ride each other, you know, not that we were competing against each other, but essentially we were the three to four sponsor exemptions every single tournament for that summer. And we all wanted the same goal, right? We all wanted to earn our card for the next year. And after Wolf had won, I mean, that was his, what, second start or third start, second start. Like, like we're off to the races now and it's like no slacking. I mean, Wolf's getting into the WGCs at that point. Like he's getting into everything. And after 3M was like, okay, well, I was like really close to earning enough points in that 125. And that's, this is one of my favorite stories is like, we get to John Deere the next week. I finished fourth, I finished up and like, you know, I'm happy, but like, whatever, I'm kind of over it. And JJ's like, oh, you just earned your card. Like congrats. And I was like, yeah, thanks. And he's like, you knew you were gonna do it. And I was like, I did. So that was like a point where in our relationship with me and JJ, who's my cat, he was like, we just had that sense of like, we're gonna get things done. You know, you kind of set your mind to it. There's all a million pieces that have to go right. But he was like, oh, like, huh. Okay, maybe we can do it. Like it wasn't like a fluke a week ago. And it wasn't a fluke this week. It's like, okay, you know, things, you just play good golf and good golf takes care of it anywhere. And that's like the simple truth of it. How did you meet JJ and how did y'all get set up? He, I was actually interviewing like, I had three caddies that I had lined up like to call. Like, and that's it. And like, I mean, you've gone through this like, I don't know how to hire, like, how do you hire a caddy? Like, no, there's no book on how to hire these guys. And right, you know, right before I was gonna go to Sectionals, this was maybe like a month before he reached out to my agent and, you know, my agent called him up and sounded like a good guy. And so I called him up too. And the only question I asked him was like, are you organized? And like, for me, that's like everything. Like, I just want to be on time. I want someone to be there, someone I can trust. So we started working and Sectionals was our first event. We, he noticed that like, I literally could not put from my life. Like, I think we went through, we were like through 20 holes. I'd hit maybe 18 out of 20 greens, had like a million, 15 to 20 footers. And I'm like the 20, 21st hole of our second 18. He's looking at me. He's like, hey, like, you know, I'm, I'm a pretty good, like, I'm a pretty good golfer. Like I read putts pretty well. Like, you want me to read a putt? And I'm like, sure, like, I mean, I can't sniff the hole. So we have like a 35 footer, I drain it. We go to the next to lab, like 25 feet. I drain it. And then we make it on the, we make it on the number. So that was a nice start to our catty player relationship there. - Yeah, little did JJ know that, that, that 35 and 25 footers, what got him the job. - Exactly. - For a guy who's like, this brother is 20 feet. And he finally gets the ball to go in the hole. It's like, yeah, you're hired. You're hired. - Exactly. Like, oh man, you can read a pile? Like, done. - Time it up. - Yeah, and you got off to such a fast start. And I think a stat that, that, that I'm sure that you get frustrated by now is, it's an incredible stat because it'll probably nobody will get as close to a Tiger Woods record like you did. And consecutive cuts made right off the get-goes. I believe it was 22 consecutive made cuts. - Yeah. - To start your future tour career. Tiger Woods had the cut streak record at 25. - How badly did you want to take down Tiger's record with that one? - I, yeah, it, it frustrates me because you know where a, you know where I missed my cut? - I, I. - Was not travelers. - It was travelers. - Was travelers. - Yes. - There's travelers. There's literally not travelers. And like travelers are just haunting me the past few years. Like I love the event and I love the course, but like I have just not played well. And I'm not going to name the player, but there's a player that joined me on the practice round. So I'm, I'm curious if you ever listened to this podcast. If he's going to remember this. And I was playing great. I mean, I had just come off. I think I lost in a playoff at Colonial. So this is like right after COVID playing good. And this player comes up to me and he starts talking about the golf swing and I'm playing this practice round. And he starts, I'm not blaming it on this player, but like we go to this, we have like tools left and he's like talking to me and he's like, telling me how to hit cuts. And I'm like, well, (beep) me. Like, I think I know how to hit my cuts. I mean, I've been doing it for my, you know, since college, and I'm like, all right. So whatever. So we missed the cut and I'm just like so bummed because like you said, like it's so hard to get to any Tiger record. So when you get close, it's like, man, I, you know, this is the best thing ever. It all worked out because I think I missed the cut and then I won the next week. So now I think whenever I miss a cut, I'm going to win the next week. I wasn't played out exactly like that, but you know, it's a good, it's a good like thought to have. - Yeah, when we finished up this conversation, I got three names that just came to my mind on who they're playing my game at. I think I have the guy, and I don't think he's been on his podcast. - I can bet, not that I've listened to a lot of the episodes, I can bet that he's not been on the podcast. So that can be obvious. I know it is. I just have such-- - There's no way you know who it is. - I think I got it. All right, I'll ask you after, I'll ask you after. Comment in the, in the YouTube comment section if you think you know who it is. So, all right, so we're in 2019, you get your PGA tour card, and in 2020, what do you know, COVID strikes us? And then we show up at TPC Harding Park at a PGA championship, and your expectations going into that week were what? - This was my second major. The week before was the WGC and Memphis. So what we have our first platform on. Final round of that event, this is all leading up to PGA. Final round of that event, we changed something in my putting stroke. We kind of changed just kind of the weight of like my balance. Like I felt like I was leaning back, so I kind of moved a little bit weight forward. - Oh, wow. - Put it all right that Sunday. So I show up and I was the most relaxed I've ever been showing up to any off-term. Partially because I had played there, like people said like, oh, you've played there a hundred times. I'd played there maybe 10 times. I'd played morning like 10 times in college. I knew what it was like, but I just knew the city. 'Cause like we'd go in the city, we'd play Lake Merced, we'd play Cal Club, and we'd play all these golf, SF golf club, like some of the best courses in San Francisco we'd play. So like I knew every road, I knew every highway, I knew how to get there. And I just remember showing up on a Monday, I was like, why is everyone so tense? Like there's zero fans, there's no one there. It felt super relaxed and everyone just felt so tense but like that's what a major is. I felt really tense at Pebble, which is my first major in '19. But that's 'cause I was like literally my first major. - Yeah. - At this point now. - And there's tons of people. - And there's tons of people. It's like you're at Pebble Beach. It's the nicest place in the world. And now I'm showing up to a Harding Park where in my opinion it was like, it was not one of my favorites in the city. It was kind of just like it was there. And I was like, I don't know what everyone's stressing about. So the most stressful thing for me was at that point, obviously Ryder Cup, was it Ryder Cup? Yeah, 20 or in 20, Ryder Cup happened in 21. - Yeah, that sounds right. - I think. So like at this point, like I'm kind of on the radar of just getting to know the captains. I play a practice around with Steve Stricker. I think Davis Love was there. And that was like the most stressful part of my week was like playing a practice round with them. 'Cause I'm like, oh, I don't want to say anything wrong. I don't want to like make myself look like a fool. But it was like, I just remember like everyone was like so stressed. And I'm like, is this what major golf is like? And I was like, can't be. I get seriously, cannot be like this. And I just kind of went about my business, like did my practice rounds. And you know, obviously it all worked out. - But on Sunday on the first tee, JJ told me the story. How did they announce your name? - Shoot, they... I want to say they said like Colin Maury, comma. Colin Maury, comma. I think it's how they did it. And I love it because like, I think at least twice a week, like they either get my city wrong or they get my name wrong. And I'm like, I just can't, I can't bomb it. Like I'm going to change my name. I'm going to change it to like three letters. First name, last name. I'm like A-B-C-D-F, all right? From California, that's it. - I tell you what, doing my prep for this interview, Colin, I, for the entire history of my life of knowing your name, I thought you had one L in your name. Until... - Oh, see, this is what's up. - This is what's up. This is what's up about it, smiling. - This is my new idea. You had two Ls in Colin. - Yeah, I do. I don't know how to tell people that. I'm not going to tell people I got two Ls, but like... - Yeah, on me, trust me. - This is coming from a guy with the name Smiley. So, all this is... - Smiley, yeah. - Yeah, but nobody could spell it right though. So, it's all good. It's all good. - My name I use everywhere I go is like Kyle. I just go everywhere. - Kyle? - I just Colin as a Kyle. - Yeah, we're not going to ask you. - Yeah, mine's got a small Kyle. - Mine's Carter, 'cause that's my first name. So, anywhere I go is Carter. Even at LSU, I went by Carter. And all my classes got to know anybody. And the last thing I wanted to do is explain my name. - Yeah. - Smiley, 'cause everybody back home, Birmingham's like, "Oh yeah, Smiley, we know the name. We know you forever. Go to Baton Rouge." And it's like, "Okay, we're your parent Tippies." (laughing) - What? - What's the name? What's the name? - Come on. - I can't imagine that there's been any other major champion that has had their name pronounced incorrectly on the first T on the Sunday. So, you got that going for you? - I mean, I've gotten calm on Gomory. We've gotten... - Yeah, we got it, we got it all, but that's brutal. - Oh. - Was that drive on the '16 pole count? Where do you rank that as far as just most clutch shots you've hit in your career? - Number one. - It's in my minutes. - Yeah, it's my first major championship. I'm tied for the lead, Paul Casey just made birdie. And I mean, yeah, like I can't, I can't put anything above it because like, it literally set me up to win the, to win a major. I was the 70th pole of our tournament. I like, for me, I had to make the putt. So to me, the putt is just as equal as the shot, but obviously the shot's gonna, what's gonna get the credit. So, yeah, I mean, it's, it's, it's definitely up there. And I think it'll be up there for, for a long, long time. - Yeah, and you chipped in at the 14th hole too. It's going back and looking at highlights. I think everybody remembers the drive at 16, but the chip in at 14, it's got you in a position to be able to make that eagle and kind of run away with it. At 18 and when you hit it left on that 18th hole, that second shot, I think, oh God, it's so far left. And in a way, it's like six feet left of the pit. - This guy has totally different misses than I do. - We will. No, I was even so far, right? - I was there. - I think it was a nine hour, it was like a chunk pull. Thankfully, like that was still a straight ball at the time. And trust me, I was so relieved to see that ball land over the pin like, it was not a shot you want to hit. And then it all worked out. Thanks. I mean, I literally had to hit the putt like this far and then the putt made the way to the hole. And I was like, okay, we're good. - Well, one year later, open championship in 2021, he battled it out with Jordan Speed at that one. Royal St. George's club. JJ told me a pretty good story about the fifth hole, about how he got him, maybe fired you up to propel you to have a really good week. - Yeah, like I don't mind talking to the ball and stuff, but I was on my tilt. So this was Saturday, obviously we're near the lead, whether we're in the final group or the second to final group. Second to last group. I'm like one over through four and we go to five. I mean, it's a five lit off the tee, like very basic. I hit a shot, it looks good in the air. JJ's like, oh, great shot. And the ball's not even to its apex. And I'm like, oh boy, here we go. I'm watching it, the wind's taking in. It's falling left, it's falling left. And it ends up right on the lip of a bunker. (laughs) - This bunker's a crazy job, dude, that week, right? - Yeah, exactly. I mean, there's like, there's a lot of fescue around. I mean, and all these bunkers, like if you're on the lip of a bunker on an open chainmanship, like you're not gonna have a stance. We're walking up and I see the ball and I'm just like, this is stupid. Like you just talked to my ball and my ball descended up on the lip of the bunker, like. So I look at him, I'm so pissed. I almost hit my next shot OB. I chip up, make bogey. I hit a pitching wedge on the next part three and I'm just absolutely losing it. And I'm like, you cannot talk to my golf ball like this. You just know more talk to my golf ball. And he's like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm like, like, no, no, like, and I hate, this is like the only time I've ever gotten mad at him because like, to me, it's never really the cat's fault. Like people are gonna make mistakes. Like, yes, he's like, we've added numbers wrong, but at the end of the day, like I'm the one that needs a double check everything. So I hate when he apologizes, but like I needed him to apologize for me to get over myself. And at that point we played like a near flawless, you know, 27 holes, let's call it from that on. But like, I was so mad at him talking to my golf ball that now anytime he talks to my golf ball and it goes wrong, like I think both of us go back to that moment and we're like, yeah, we just can't talk to a golf ball anymore. Like it just can't, like we'll joke about it now, but like it's, you know, seriously like at that moment, I was ready to rip off heads. - That was, I was. - Oh God, and it's so relatable. Any golfer knows that when a player in their group says good shot or their ball is right, getting close to the hole and it lips out. Charlie, you and my co-host and producer on this is probably the worst of doing this. And I just like, just like stop. Don't you say anything. - And I think it's the worst like on the putting ring. Like if you're playing with your buddies and they're like, oh nice putt, it's going in like, oh, good birdie. And you're like, it's not, it's not it. - It's not it. - No, it's not in the. - You shut your mouth. - Yeah. And like you, yeah, it has to be up there with one of the worst feelings and like one of the worst, like the most messed up things to say to your partner of just saying like, oh, good drive or like, you know, like you're thinking, oh, maybe the balls in the water or the OB and you're like, no, no, it's fine. And they like have no clue where it is. And you're just like, you're on full tilt. - It's, it's a, it's always a tough scene when that happens. It's a very tough scene, a tough scene for JJ. - At the fifth hole at Rolls-Royce. - Yeah. - Royal or St. George's club, it did work out. And that's kind of where I want to take you to next is, you know, weaving the Open Championship in 2021. You have got to feel like you're on top of the world. You know, you just, you've already won two major championships and you have to think to yourself, what's next? What can I, what records can I break? You know, I just can't imagine how much confidence that is, that you probably had leaving that Open Championship that led us into a 2022 that I'm sure was a very frustrating year for you. - Yeah. I mean, golf was simple. Like I knew where the ball was going. I didn't have to sit on the range and try and figure things out. I go in later that fall, I win the race to Dubai and win the DP World Championship over there. - Yeah. - And I get that point. - Even that. (laughing) - Exactly. And at that point, like golf is feeling easy, it's not the right word, but just, you're getting every break that you ask for, right? And as a golfer, like when you're playing well, you get all the breaks, you think you're lucky. And, you know, some of the best players like, like you just, the good players are lucky, but that's just how things are going. You know, you might hit it way offline and it hits a tree in your little fairway. And, you know, I'm gonna fast forward, so we'll go a month later and we go to Tigers event. And I think this is where, not the Tigers event bothered me, but this is where it all kind of started to just not go my way. And, you know, I think I had a five shot lead going to the final round. If I win that day, I think we become number one in the world. Lose the lead, Victor ends up winning. And at that point, I'm like, man, like, yes, bad rounds happen, leads like that. You don't often get a lead like that and then give it away. And at that point, I was like, okay, whatever. It's been a long season. Everything still feels good, whatever. Showing to 22. I think we have an okay finish at Hawaii and then I go over to Dubai. And this is where all the nightmare fuel, all the night, you know, just the whole thing goes abrupt. Go to Dubai, feeling a little weird, feeling a little sick, nothing's feeling right. Play, I'll be the first week, go to Dubai and I just, we're on the range and I'm just don't know where the ball is going. And this is kind of where I think I went down the wrong path of like trying to favor it out. Instead of just saying, let's get the body right, let's just let it all heal. I come back the next week, I have Rick, my coach come out and we are just grinding on the range, going through these new fields, going through things that we've never done. And the problem with me as a student and as someone that wants to perfect it is, and the two coaches I've worked with, right, Rick Sussinghouse and Mark Blackman, they will vouch for this. And I know for sure JJ will vouch, anyone that knows me really well will vouch for this. If they bring something up and they just have an idea, I will go down this rabbit hole of coming up with 50 other things and feels that I will just say, oh, I think this feels right. Let me just try this. And then I'll ask the question, I'll be like, well, what does this do? And like, but what if I have my hands here? So what if I feel this? Well, how about if I clear my lower body and try it with pressure here? And that is my worst nemesis. And that's the path I started going down in '22, early in '22 was I started to try these new fields that I've never done in my life ever. And sometimes you have to. Well, so the problem when I was in Dubai was I felt, I was coming over the top. Like I was just pulling it hard over the top. And that's like, that's fine. Like I've come over the top and I've pulled it left and hit these wipey cuts. And that was kind of my bad thing. But I just felt like anything I did, nothing dropped the club. I couldn't shower. And like for me, I couldn't get the club to just be in the slot and just kind of turn. Like for me, that's what I need. I can just hold my wrist conditions in turn. And from there, like I started going down these fields where I felt my hands drop and I stopped my lower body. And then later that summer, US Open, I started playing draws. So for me, it was a nightmare because my body wasn't moving. And then I started using my hands even more. And it was just, and then I think at that point, you go in three, four months, five months of doing it, you just build in these patterns and you forget. And that's what sex back off is like you forget what you did for so long. It's still in there, but you have to remember you have to just find those fields again. And I was so far out of that that I mean, I spent, I think in 2022 to 2023, I've spent more hours on the range in those two years or what's called a year and a half than I did definitely than I did my entire college career and definitely within a span of five years before that. Like I have, I've never spent that much time on the range and like it sucked, it literally sucked. But I'm glad I'm kind of working myself out of that now. - It's so funny you say all that because for golfers, we play our best when we can get away from the game and you can turn your brain off. When you just have that confidence of being able to go on a vacation for two weeks or wherever, just get away from the game and come back and know what your ingredients are. You know exactly what you need to work on. And that's how you're able to work plans and be able to improve and get better. And like you were just talking about, it's so hard to show up week to week in pound balls and pound balls. And what ends up happening is your body isn't working as well. And then these fields that you think might work, you have to work on them so hard to have you any chance 'cause they're just band-aids, basically what they are. - Yeah, no, it's like, and that's what it was. Like it was a week to week band-aid, it was a prayer to, I mean, even like you go back to last year, like even as recent as like Detroit. Like Detroit's happening right now, right? I spent that Monday. I spent four hours on the range trying to find a feel so I could use for that week. - Yeah. - It didn't last the next week. Like it was just a one week thing. And that's like what's so scary about golf is that when you don't have it, these bands, these fields are just like, yeah, they're so, so short. But that's, I mean, that's our sport. - Yeah, and in 2022 as well, so let's remember all the things that we just talked about, but the full swing that you're working on, all these fields, and what people don't realize that surprised me is that in 2019, 2020, 2021, you're putting sets, you were never in the top 125 in putting, and you never had a putting coach, or at least hired a full-time putting coach. - Yeah, sure not. - 2022, you hired Steven Sweeney. So on top of all the stuff that you're doing on the range, hitting all these golf balls, now you have a putting coach to help you try to improve your putting as well. So I imagined it that you just had a lot going on in that 2022 and '23, but Sweeney's really helped you out from looking at your statistics. - Sweeney's been amazing, so that was the end of '22 when I was like, screw the golf swing, let's just work on putting, and let's just, let's get this sorted out. And that's what's tough, is like you work on one thing that you neglect the other side. - Yeah, my landscape is here, hopefully that is a ruinous. (laughing) That you have certain things to focus on, you can't focus on every aspect of your off-game unless everything's working, you're like, okay, let me just, let me chisel at it. And I think that's what I've learned about golf, is like, it's all about just chiseling a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, versus trying to just throw the biggest load and saying, okay, I'm gonna just absolutely do this, because all of our golf games are good enough to be out here, like they truly are. But then we all go down these paths. So, Sweeney's been amazing just because I now understand what I need to do and what works for me, and I don't stray away. And when I do, I know what things to go back to, like just simple mirror-putting drills, speed drills, little competitions I do. And like, the confidence is just so much higher. I'm still looking for those hot streaks that obviously early on in my career, I had a handful of those to be able to win, but now it's way more consistent to where like, if my hitting's not as good, like we're not, you know, we're not way off the planet, like I can still kind of make do. And that's like one of the biggest things. - Anything from a technical aspect that he saw with your putting stroke that you'll fix and right off the get-go in '22? - The biggest thing for me was tempo. So you look at a lot of tempo. I think if you look at like, look at Harding Park, for example, where I won, and then you look at like a today stroke, Harding Park was very short back, super accelerated through really hard hit. Now it's kind of the opposite is like, I'll have a longer backstroke and not necessarily decelerate, but just let the putter head fall and just let it hit. And like from there, you know, on a sliding downhill putt, I don't feel like I'm like shoving the putt. I feel like I'm actually just letting the putter go. That was like the biggest thing. That's still something we work on, tempo. But you see so many people shove it. Not that you can't put it like that, but I don't think you want to have it like super short and just like absolutely jam it up the hole. Like yeah, I don't think you ever see good putters like that. - No, and what it does too, it matches your full swing. You're full swing tendencies for you. You have such good tempo on the way back. It's slow, it's long, you know, you're never in a rush. So it matches up more that long flowy backstroke with the putter because it matches kind of what you do with your full swing. You see that a lot up and down the board with PGA tour players that have short games that kind of mimic their full swings, whether it's tempo or just maybe some technical things. - Well, it just look, I mean, exactly, if you can have your entire golf game from like T shots to putting look like you're the same person, then I think that's how you put a complete player, right? And it's like, well, how do you do that? And it's so hard to do it. Like now I'm thinking about like, what does it look like? (laughing) I feel like my buffer game's different than my shipping than my actual-- - No, no, everything's good, trust me, trust me. - I'm not letting you get down a rabbit hole. - You're going to get a smiley show. - But yeah, that's like, you, when you look at some of the best players, like I love Jordan 'cause like everything's kind of that same rhythm. Swing looks similar to the chips and just how he drives it and then the putts are similar with the little forward press. Like it all matches and that's what's really cool when you see some of these players, everyone's different. But when it matches, like that's when you start playing really well. - Yeah, totally. And you mentioned that you went and saw Mark Blackburn. This would have been last fall. And you won at the Zozo championship in Japan. And I think a lot of people forget about that 'cause it was in the middle of the night over here in the States. But you did win with Mark Blackburn. And I'm curious just from what you've learned about yourself about maybe some technical things that you may have picked up from Mark in the way he coached you, that you were able to take back to Rick and be able to have the ingredients and just the confidence that you kind of know what direction you want to go with your stuff. - Yeah, like Mark was this, well, my second, essentially ever coached in the past, you know, since high school. Like since junior golf, he's the second ever person I've ever really talked to about the golf swing. We won our first week working together. - First week. - It was first week. - Well, yeah, literally, he came out to Vegas about a week and a half I left before Japan. And then I go to Japan and we win. And I'm like, I'm back. I'm like nothing's stopping me. Like nothing is stopping me. I mean, Ryder Cup, I played some awful golf and I hate it because like that's when you want to play your best golf is you're wearing the red, white, and blue, you want to show up. And I got absolutely whooped by Victor, that finals, that's a singles day. And at that point, I was like, man, this is, he was, he was. - He was, but like, he wasn't, I knew I had to play really good, but like I had no chance. Like I, the golf I played that day was just horrible. And when I wanted in Japan, I was like, I don't think I could lose this. Like I don't think what I just did will ever go away. And I think I can repeat this every day. That's what we all believe. You know, it just, it feels that easy some days and it's not the others. The biggest thing I learned from Mark and Mark, I love him. Mark, I hope you listen to this 'cause we still, I still owe you a pickable match. I think I can beat you. Mark is so smart. I mean, you know him, right? Like he is, he's incredible. He's one of the smartest people I've ever met that knows the golf swing, that understands the golf swing, that knows cause and effects and it's impressive. That's like, that's what I needed. And at that point, you know, 'cause Rick and I, what Rick and I do really well is we talked through the fields. He's big on the mental side, but we talked through the fields and we kind of go through that stuff. And you know, through 22, 23, I kind of hit a point where I was like, we don't have the answers. I don't have the answers. I didn't have what I was looking for and I was frustrated through that year and a half that I needed this reset. And you know, with Mark, whenever I asked for something, he always had an answer. And if it didn't work, we always tried something new. And that's what I needed. But I realized through this little period of kind of going from the fall of 23, beginning of 24 this year, kind of going through, you know, Bay Hill, I missed a cut. We go to players, I'm searching. I have no clue what to do. And this early few months of the year, nothing was kind of going where I wanted, that I kind of got to a point of saying, look, I have all the answers 'cause Mark has all the answers, but it's still not coming through. Like something's still not putting from the range to the golf course, being able to put together the shots. So, you know, I end the relationship with Mark and I will ever be grateful for that because one, he gave me the knowledge that I've never had. So I now understand the golf swing, just from a cause and effect, this versus that, you know, you move something here, this is where the club's gonna go, this is where the hands are gonna go. That stuff that like, you know, you just dive a little bit deeper in a golf, like you start to understand. But the biggest thing that I think I've even learned personally that, you know, I don't think even Mark told me or Rick told me or anyone's told me that I just kind of figured out was it doesn't matter all these feels, learn. And for me, what I told Mark and Rick through all this process of when I was not hitting the ball while I was like, I don't know where the golf club is, which means I don't know where the golf, where the face is in relation to where my hands and body are. I didn't know if it was closed, I didn't know where it was open, I didn't know where the ball was. So what I've done, and I think why I'm hitting the ball a little bit better, I wouldn't say it's like amazing, but it's definitely not where I was earlier this year, a year ago, two years ago, was I've now matched and figured out where the club face was. Yeah, and it's so hard to do, but I started just messing around and saying, okay, I'm gonna start this ball and put it on the toe and just find the center of the face and learn how to hit the center of the face. You know, I've talked to Tiger, I was like, you know, this was a few years ago when Charlie was just getting in Charlie's kid and not that I've ever met Charlie, but he's like, yeah, all I'm just telling him to do is like, you can swing as hard as you want, but you just need to find the center of the face. If you can find the center of the face, you can do whatever you want with your golf swing, but the best players always come back to impact and they're hitting the center of the face, they wear out that spot. And I started just screwing around with like, almost setting the club where the ball wasn't on the face and finding how to hit the center. And then starting it on the heel, like, you know, I watched the Heath the gods or Siath. - Does it? - The dude sets it on the hosel. He sets it on the hosel. And I'm like, this is like night, this is scary, but if you know how to move your hands and find out the center of the face, you can screw around and have fun like that. And that kind of got me the feels of like, okay, it's learning where my hands are gonna be in relation to space as I'm coming through impact and finding the center of the face. And that has been one of the biggest things that I've learned is like, doesn't matter how you swing, doesn't matter what the feels are at the top of the backswing, those are all band-aids. But at the end of the day, the best players find the center of the face, they know where the face is and you can either hold it off, let the club release, whatever it is. That's like, that was the key for me. There's obviously a lot more to it, but you know, people listening like, just learn how to hit the center of the face. It doesn't matter what it looks like. Learn how to hit the center of the face and you'll see a repetitive motion, you'll see a repetitive shot if you find the center of the face. People just don't find the center of the face. - Yeah, as I preach to the choir over here, as you and I were texting to set up this amazing conversation thus far, I said, you know what, I'm playing Friday afternoon, I'm scheduled to play Saturday morning, but there's a chance I don't play Saturday morning if I decide to give the game up and you're like, no, you're gonna play Saturday morning. - You're gonna play. - There's no way you don't. It's just, 'cause if it doesn't go well today, you're gonna just try something new. And it's like, that's why golf is amazing. It's like, you can always try something new every day and there's a million things you can try. You know, like, I've been, you know, I like on Instagram and Twitter and you see Sauce Gardener, right? He's like picking up the game. You see that? - Yeah, yeah, I love it. - And like, he's like, yeah, I'm just been watching a bunch of YouTube's and I'm like, buddy, wait till you talk to like five golfers. You're gonna have 50 million things to try and you're gonna be, you're gonna be screwed. Like, there is something about being just, you know, ignorant about the entire golf game and then you just go out and hit the ball. But like, that's a simple. It's like, oh, what do you do? I hit a golf ball that doesn't, I hit a ball that doesn't move. All right, it can't be that hard. - Well, welcome, Sauce. One of us. - Yeah, one of us, yes. Come on, water's great. Could you up on in, buddy? (laughing) - Yeah, just like, you know, it's just like golf cults that you're just gonna go down this rabbit hole and it's just gonna kind of spiral into this million, million thought process of how do I hit this golf ball? - Well, I mean, let's wrap up with 2024 and I just wanna kind of run through just what you've been able to accomplish really since, you know, post Valero. You finish third at the Masters. Let's go through your majors. You finish fourth at the PGA, 14th at the US Open. You're on a streak of eight straight top 16s and in stroke play events without a partner. So we're gonna put the Zurich-Chargold Oysters. - Yeah, my Zurich record's not too good. If anyone, I'm looking for a partner, Kurt. Maybe you come back, but I bet you. (laughing) - I'll get you in. - I'm a Zurich guy, I'll get you in. I mean, my best finish was this year. I got the T28. Whatever others. - Yeah, there you go. - It's my best finish ever, so I got some work to do. Star practicing, smiley. - Yeah, okay, I got you. I'll let you know. I played today. (laughing) - But anyway, five top 10s, I mean, in a row. I mean, you're in a really good spot as far as just how well you've been able to just put rounds together, man, this year. It's been really fun to watch and it's been so impressive. And for like the longest time, I think I was just waiting to see, all right, is he gonna be, is he gonna be able to keep that consistency up? And that every single week, man, I just look at your stats. And the putting to me is what seemed like got you over the hump early in the spring that kind of allowed your ball striking to kind of come into form, where I noticed that you just had these great putting rounds and it sets you up to have really nice weeks. So you feel like that's kind of how your year's kind of gone in 2024 with the ball striking is now kind of there. - A little bit, I mean, when you're putting well, it takes the stress off hitting it really close. But the problem is like, if you're gonna contend in these tournaments, you gotta make birdies. You gotta hit it closer. And knowing what I've done in the past, it's like, okay, I still put an emphasis on my approach shots. Pudding definitely got me over there. I mean, I put it, I think, really, really well at Augusta. - Yes. - And for me, those are some of my favorite greens to put on because you take out all the analytical stuff. It is just high line, drip speed. How do I make this? - Yeah. - You know, and I have been using it. - It's like, exactly. And it's like, you have to do that stuff. And that's like, it always frees me up when I go over there and like, whether I put well or I play well, it's fun to put out there because it's just, you gotta be creative. And for me, I think when I go back, you know, you started at Augusta, I think with the irons, I started to see shots where I could swing free. And not only just swing free, and it's not like this carefree where you don't care where the ball goes, I still want the ball to go where I want. But I trusted that my good shots were gonna be good and my misses were gonna be okay. And that's the worst is when you think your misses are gonna be really, really bad and you don't know where it's gonna go. Well, that's where your ball's gonna go. And, you know, we found a swing thought at Augusta. We kept trying that. And I would say this past kind of month and a half, two months, maybe after Zurich, is where I kind of came together and had this another swing thought, this other feel. And it's allowed me to just swing it. And now when I miss the shot and I miss it, just say left, I hate missing a left, but when I do miss it left, I know the answer. It's just like putting, you know, if I hit a bad putt, I'm like, I know what I did. Or at least I know the two things that I did. So I'm at that point now where I'm hitting the ball and if I hit a bad shot, I know what it is versus me saying, maybe it was this or maybe I could have done this. Maybe it was that the maybes is what scares you. And I'm at this point now where it's not about the maybes, it's just more about did I execute or not? Like, how many times can I repeat it? And it's so fun. Like, I mean, you know it, like it is, it's so fun to play golf like that. But now it's about closing out tournaments, you know? It's about winning. How do I put together four rounds? My final rounds haven't been as good as I've wanted or just solid at all, you know? And it's just like, how do I put together these rounds? And to me, it's just more of a mental thing. It's just more of me kind of going through my business and being as prepared as I am on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and just saying, okay, that's what I'm gonna do. - Did you bend Tigers here a little bit at the Tiger Jam in Vegas right before the Memorial, just about closing the deal and winning? Like, did you, were you able to ask him any questions in regards to that? - No, and I should have. Now I'm writing down a list for our tailor mate, she'd at the end of the year. How do you get the rest of the guys there? - That's like what I'm like, I got Scotty, I got Rory, I got Tyre, I mean, shit, I got a great crew to ask on how to win tournaments. No, you know, I think everyone's different. And I don't, when I look back at my wins, it's to me winning is not about, it's not about like, oh, how do I do this? You know, it's not like, oh, how do you win? Like, I don't think anyone can write a book on how to win. - Yeah, I don't, like there's no secret. But I think when I look back at all of my wins and I look back at the good events, there's a certain thing and a certain trait essentially to how the week kind of goes and that mentality you have at the beginning of a Sunday and just how you go through your prep, that is the biggest thing on how you perform while on a Sunday, not like, oh man, this is what I need to do, I have to hit this, I have to do this, it's just more about the flow of the day. And I think it's just a small little tweak. And then it's just showing up on Sundays and just going off, you know? So hopefully, you know, this next kind of two months to end the season, hopefully I can just kind of go on a little tear, similar to obviously what Scotty's been doing, but to what Victor did last year and just find a groove on putting together four really good rounds of closing out golf tournaments. I mean, it is very, very close and it's not something I need to essentially do in the golf game, it's just more about, you know, how do I go through my day and just say, okay, this is the one I'm gonna do, and you know, maybe I need to have coffee on a Sunday, I don't know. - Yeah, come on, we need some coffee. - Yeah, so my favorite moment from you in 2024 was at Jack's place in the 12th hole and you talked about swinging freely and be able to hit shots with confidence. Everybody knows that that is played in Jack's event, how difficult that Sunday pin is and how firm those greens are. And you got up there first and you hit a beautiful, looked like a little floaty seven iron, 25 feet left of it. And of course, you're going up against Scotty, Chef, and he somehow finds that there's room in between your golf ball and the kinds of it. And you're just like, what am I supposed to do here? But on that walk to the green in that situation, were you telling yourself, I'm gonna make this and I'm gonna get myself something to think or for Scotty for something to think about on his putt that he actually did miss? - Honestly, I was just trying to get out of there with par. (laughing) That putt was breaking maybe seven, eight feet left or right. But that's the momentum slings. I'm not trying to just make par, I'm obviously trying to make the putt. But those are the putts where you're like, if that drops, I mean, that is so big on my side of momentum. And then for him to miss, it's like we are still very much in this golf tournament. - With a ball game. Back to the ball striking though, on that hole, like when I'm able to pick up the tee and not really watch the ball and just kind of be like, oh, it's fine. With water and bunkers and everything, that's when you know you have full control. When you know exactly how it's spinning, when you know how you hit it and you know the ball is going within a window of three yards, that's full control. So I mean, that was definitely the punt of the week. For me, that was like, okay, we're still in this. And like, to be honest, the way it all played out, I think I made bogey on 16. So I was down two with two to go. - Good hole. - It gave me 16. - Yeah, I'm gonna bring up JT because that's exactly what, yeah, great hole. - Yeah, I know you redid it, blow it up, let's make a new hole. I'm sure you put a podcast all the time. But like, I think we're at a point where like, no one hits the green. It kind of gave me that like JT workday vibes that we had during COVID where I ended up, you know, we had that playoff and all that. 'Cause I was, it was in the exact same position. I was two down with two to go against JT. I made birdie on 17 and I made par, go to playoff. This one, I make a five footer for par, Scotty makes bogey on 17. And then on 18, like honestly, I thought, I thought I made it. Like I thought I at least gave myself a chance and it didn't go in, but, you know, it's just one of those courses where I've played well and I've had good finishes. I mean, I think I missed the kind of few years ago, but it's like you show up and you think you can birdie every hole and, yeah. - It's the risk reward on that place is, if you pull off the shot, you get good birdie looks, but you have six footers that break two feet. So it's a little bit like Augusta like you talked about. So super sweet golf course. And the traveler is real quick because I'd be remiss not to ask you this question. How do you hit a shot from 60 yards? It really would make the ball stop on top of a car because as you saw that I commented on your Instagram, I said, you're a wizard, Colin. And I hope you read it in Hagrid's voice. - I did. You know, all the conditions were with me. It was a perfect down grain lie. I was pitching into an up slope. It's a fun shot. - Yeah, it's a fun shot when you pull it off and like, you know, I pull it, if I pull it even like four, you know, three yards left of that, it's in the water. I don't know, there's a lot of it. For me, you know, I lean back a lot of my chip shots. That's one you cannot lean back. Like, you know, I work on just kind of keeping my head forward and keeping it centered and all that stuff. That's just a shot that I think only professionals can pull off and like really good, really, really good, you know, golfers that play every day. Like, I don't think, I don't think you can teach that specific shot to an amateur. Like, you can teach them how to spin the shot, but I don't think you're creating that spin for an amateur golfer like it was sick. It's like the coolest video ever. Like, honestly, I've watched it. Since I've gotten home, I've watched it at least 20 times and I'm like, yeah, this is good. - Sick, this is amazing. - Between that and the picture of you almost shipping in behind the green at 18 with, they shot it from the front. It just was, I mean, you got, it's got to be your new profile pick, by the way. - I may not move it, maybe I'll move it. I'll change it, I'll change it just for you. - Yeah, I need a different mode, yeah. - Well, what's the rest of the year we got? So are we doing Scottish and openers up the next two? - Scottish, open, week off, and Olympics. And then we're off to playoffs. So we got a big stretch. - Yeah, I'm very, very happy. - That's an honor. I added two events this year just to see if I can give myself a chance to make the Olympics. You know, you go back all the way to Bay Hill. I think if you look at my world golf ranking and you look at where I was in those standings, I was just nowhere to be seen. But it's been a nice stretch and that's, you know, like I wanted to make a push forward and I'm super, super happy to be a part of that team. - That's a hell of an accomplishment. And if I recall the last Olympics, you were in a seven-way tie for third and tried to get that bronze medal. - What a weird deal. - Seven guys for one medal. It's this weird race. - Well it makes it worse. - What makes it worse is that I made it all the way. It was like, now it was me and C.T. Pan. Like I wear the last two guys and I plug it in the bunker. I make bogey and I'm like, that's how I lose. Like I grinded out 72 holes, two, three extra playoffs holes to lose because I plugged it in the bunker in a (beep) bunker shot and I make bogey like that. Terrible, terrible way. So hopefully we can do a little bit better on that. - Oh man, well this has been a great conversation Colin. I appreciate you coming on. We'll be cheering for you to try to get your second Open Championship. We'll see you through the playoffs. And maybe you'll come join us on Happy Hour at some point at one of these events. 'Cause I'd love to have you call some golf with me because your golf knowledge is great. Would love to hear you just, maybe just roast Max Holman when he's playing golf because he does the roasting. So it's so hard to do though. - Max is such a good guy. Max never says a bad thing about me or maybe he does and I just don't hear it. But it's hard for me to say anything bad about Max 'cause I think Max is one of the best people that I know. And I'm very lucky to have him and my close friends. So, but I'll try, I'll try. - We'll see. - Good stuff, buddy, man. I appreciate it. Thanks for coming on. I mean it's eight AM in Vegas. There's only, where you heading? You gonna play some golf? - I'm gonna go, yeah, I'll probably go practice a little bit early. Summit is as, you know, you know the discovery life. - Yeah, you know. - I should wear my summit hat. - It's pretty good. - We could have met. - It's pretty good. It's all right, that's all right. I think the people should put a line on what you need to shoot to have a chance to be my Zurich partner. So we'll set it, I mean for two days, I don't know where you're playing. We'll just set it like seven under. I think that's a fair number. - That's a fair number. - Two day total seven under to have a chance. - I think that's actually right where it should be because if things go like I think it will go today, I think I'm gonna have to grind, grind, grind for a two under par 70. Like I think it's gonna be some hard work. But when you haven't played in three weeks, you know how it goes? Like you just need to put that one round. If I can just sneak it under par and then tomorrow, maybe I'll take it deep. So what am I gonna do? - Not too many drinks on the course. - Not too many drinks on the course there, all right? This is like, yeah, is your draft day? - It even if I don't, I'm just gonna keep moving the goalposts throughout the year until eventually, until eventually I'm just carrying your bag in the program. (laughing) - It's an 18 old firm, I don't think you don't want that one. You don't want that one too long. - Good stuff, Colin. Thanks for coming on. - Thanks, Colin. - We'll be cheering for you, buddy. - Appreciate it, man. - You know, I listened to this podcast. It's really cool. - Oh, for sure. - I'm one of the fans and subscribers, but make sure you like it for this grab. - It's cool to see what you guys are doing. I know golf fans appreciate it, but we do too. So please keep it up. - For all the good people of YouTube, like and subscribe. - You guys have some good takes, So I'm happy to come on and shoot the--
Two-time major winner Collin Morikawa reveals his morning coffee routine, talks about the ups and downs of his golf journey, discusses his favorite PGA Tour cities, & shares funny stories from the road. Dive into his unique golf journey and learn about the insights and challenges he faced along the way.
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Top PGA Tour cities for food and coffee
Collin’s path from college golf to pro success
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