The GOOD GOOD CHAMPIONSHIP: My Expectations

let's get into it what do I honestly expect of myself and of the good good championships when I first started this process of kind of preparing or finding out I was in the tournament it was a five-week five and a half week process to try to get my golf game sharp enough competitive enough to contend in this tournament in the first video I made a month ago was like could I win it yes I could is that a realistic expectation now absolutely not but if you're a competitive golfer you're a tournament player you need to approach your tournament play with the expectation anticipation that you have a chance to win your team it up just to play well like what are you preparing for you need to go into tournament play thinking you can win that tournament you may have zero chance in hell but you gotta you gotta have your mind there and over the years of my playing career when I played well or even when I played bad I still entered tournaments thinking I could win the tournament and I and I did sometimes I did win the tournament and I did a lot of times missed the cut or not finishing the money my life now is I haven't played competitive golfing over just about a year it'll be like 11 and a half months from a good Championship which is today that you're watching it right now this video is coming out and uh my last tournament which was like around Memorial Day of 2022. I mean I've put a lot of pressure on myself in these last five weeks and when I was playing a little bit with some friends and it wasn't going well it was It was kind of frustrating me and like making me super worried and my anxiety was going up and it was like what the heck thankfully I'm kind of through that my expectations yes I want to go out to Phoenix and play well I want to qualify for the actual kind of real Tournament of it because I don't want to fly out there and just basically spend thirteen hundred dollars to do a Monday qualifier because that's not my life and that's not the best move for my family so I want to go out there and get through and qualify I know what I have to do thankfully I have a lot of experience knowing what that takes I've done it before but my mental game is going to be it like that's gonna be what makes or breaks it because if uh I'm not mentally strong I'm getting in my own way it's going to be a waste of time and I don't want that to happen so yes today is is one week from the tournament I have a week to practice I will get out there I will play a practice round and on that Sunday I'm gonna just spend hours around the greens there because that's the gonna be the key my game my my long game my swing thankfully I've been practicing that it feels fine indoors I can kind of do what I want a golf ball to do unless I pick a stupid shot which is a mental thing like pick the right shot and don't bite off more than I can chew because if I start to choose the wrong shot or a cute shot that I I have in the bag but I haven't practiced that's how I'll make mistakes and I'll put myself behind the eight ball so when I get out to Phoenix play my practice round with Zach with some friends let's just get a comfortable with the golf course and then really get comfortable with my short game so if I can give myself you know three four hours out there to just kind of cram my short game I play my best when I have trust and confidence in my practice so I think that little cram session will certainly give me a lot of confidence on and around the greens for Monday it's kind of cool that I'm playing with Zach and Luke they've paired all the content creators together the tea times they haven't sent them to us but if you had paid attention to the YouTube videos I guess which someone texted me Zach told me we're playing we're playing together um a bit strange but whatever that's just kind of part of this tournament this is a professional golf tournament but it's it's YouTube It's a YouTube thing more than it is or first then it's a professional golf tournament because there's a lot of things that are going on in this tournament for this tournament for the players um that aren't are unlike any other professional golf tournament like to have a qualifying round and then a day off of filming and then two rounds of golf like that's going to be very different for a lot of the the touring Pros if they do qualify that's going to be kind of strange for them the six of us that are content creators we're gonna be the most comfortable with that so if we happen to play well enough and kind of Catch Fire and qualify we'll be most comfortable with that day of filming and don't think it'll drain us as much but those two rounds I mean it's I heard something that there's like basically they're going to be filming they're gonna be a cameraman for every player so that's a whole other thing for a lot of the players luckily for the the six of us that are kind of the do YouTube the flow of it will be something we're a bit more comfortable with but we are certainly The Underdogs when it comes to that Monday qualifying round so going back to what I said like a month ago can I win it yes is that a realistic probably not definitely not like I'm gonna have to Play Some solid golf on the Monday probably shoot a couple under or better the the strength of the field is there the weather we don't know so I guess who knows what the score will take so just just play really good golf and make a lot of birdies the actual tournament rounds two days I'm gonna have to play some of the best golf of my life probably back to back which I can do who knows I haven't played tournament golf in a year uh my head space is it's probably happier than it's ever been I'm more comfortable with who I am as a person and in my life um so yeah maybe maybe but realistically these are my expectations I want to go out there and and silence my nerves my anxiety um my my self-doubt I want to prove something to myself and it's easy as I've been doing this YouTube Journey especially documenting when I did play full time it's easy to think like I mean there's there's people that are giving me shitty comments that I suck and I don't have a chance at this and part of you wants to be like screw you I watch this but at the end of the day that doesn't matter like literally these are people I do not know strangers complete strangers telling me how that I don't have a chance like okay cool thank you because there's complete strangers saying good luck I hope you play well so it's just like I wrestle with that a little bit I'm not I'm I'm human I'm gonna be honest but at the end of the day my expectations are to do something good for for myself and my family I'm not for my career or not for a while if I play well here that'll Propel me to there which is how a lot of mini tour players are and I was for the longest time if I get a good stretch of golf here that'll allow me to do this that'll allow me to do that I mean yes I want to play more tournament golf but I watched my son full time and I make a YouTube video a week part-time for a fun hobby playing competitive tournament golf is not my life it's not my story anymore maybe one day but I'm not rushing that day and if that date doesn't come I'm okay with that but like this this play in Phoenix the good good Championship it's just gonna be a good like litmus test to my attitude my my focus and my game and my headspace and all those things so um yeah we're hoping it's happening right now we can't share while we're there that's a whole other thing there's ndas because these are YouTube videos for good good that are coming out down the road so I'm gonna be documenting I'm gonna kind of Vlog my experience like the good old days of a tournament but that video won't come out until it's allowed to come out um so thanks for all the support and hopefully I will see you on the other side having made it to those Elite 12 and actually leaving Phoenix a little bit a little bit cash in my jeans peace