Mastering Golf: The Art of Planning & Adaptability

I guess the only follow-up question I would have to just planning your day and just the element of time and just being able to make adjustments sometimes. So, for instance, like if you're playing a professional golf tournament and you have a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday where you plan your entire week, at what point for you when things kind of like your brain is telling you something's off and you need to go work on something a little bit longer, are you somebody that's able to make those adjustments and spend more time or do you feel like... Or is it almost like your brain craves just the ability just to stay on schedule and just doing that and just accepting where you end up at the end of the week? Yeah, that's why I talked about like the rain. When I have a plan and you get like punched in the face, everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face, right? So I think it's really important to be flexible and be able to roll the punches. So say I'm playing a tournament like Tulsa. Yeah. Being what like 23 in the points list trying to get my PGA Tour card and I'm thinking to myself okay I need to have a perfect week. Monday's got to be perfect. Tuesday's got to be perfect. Wednesday got to be perfect and then I get to Monday and I'm like I don't have to hit a golf ball. Like I'm going the range I'm like it's going like this. So I think to me I'm like okay I had to like 8:30 to 9:30 warm up, 9 to 11 practice in the range but I told myself you know I'm going to take a step back, readjust my schedule, and then roll with what feels comfortable for me. So to answer your question, like, yes, I love being in my routine, but you need to be okay with being uncomfortable. And that's why The Obstacle is the Way was a good book for me to read. That's probably the same, man. Professional golf, like, you just have to eventually just be okay being uncomfortable. And that's one of the hardest things and probably one of the biggest learning curves that I think a lot of young professionals have. Like thinking back to this year, the amount of times that I was uncomfortable, whether it was the injury with my foot and being like this ruined my chance at a PGA Tour card or looking back at my win and making bogey because I missed a fairway with the six iron and I hit it like 150 yards offline, snap hook, and then ending up winning the tournament. Like in the book, it talks about how these obstacles are what makes you. It's what makes you who you are, and if you don't go through these challenges, through these obstacles, you end up not being this version of yourself that you end up coming to love, and there's always going to be this version of you, so Matthew McConaughey has this speech where he says, you know, who's your hero, and he answers the question, my hero is me 10 years from now, and 10 years from now, the guy comes back and goes, oh, are you your hero yet, and he goes, no, my hero is me five years from now. And it's just a story of constantly chasing the next version of you and constantly going through these obstacles and these struggles to get there. And without them, you never really grow. So I, yeah, I finished 30th on the points list. I don't have my PGA Tour card right now, but I got QSchool in about a month and I am so pumped and ready to go and going through these changes to hopefully get out on the other side and achieve that dream of mine of playing on the best tour in the world. We're always chasing something, right? Chasing the next. version of ourselves I've seen that clip so many times. And maybe it's just the way Matthew McConaughey delivers things. You're just like, man. Yeah. Yeah. I'm chasing. He can say anything. He can say anything. And I'd be like, I'm in. I'm in.