I remember hearing you just walking by an interview,
you were doing it at Augusta a few years ago
and where you were saying,
you know,
I don't just want to get back to world number one.
I want to stay there for even longer this time than, than initially.
And I think, you know, maybe it just slipped outside the, the top 50 in the world.
And I was just like,
wow, the,
the confidence and
the resolve to not just think that, but to say that out loud,
I thought was really striking and
because, you know, you, you felt ultimately what, outside the top 150 in the world.
And I don't know if it always felt like it,
but,
but it was certainly a drop from where you'd been. So where did you find,
where did you find it within yourself to say?
No, II, I can be the best player in the world.
I can be one of the elite players in the world in that moment. I think,
I think ultimately, I know that I can because I, I've been there before.
Um
uh
and
I don't know, it's just like, it's, it's, it's a goal of mine. So
if you said, hey, I wanna put,
I wanna lose some weight.
You don't need to lose weight.
But like if you said, if you said II, I need to lose weight and then you,
you set it out to people like, hey, I'm losing, I'm going to lose,
then you're accountable for those, for those words.
So, and that's the same thing as like, hey,
like I'm putting my goal out to everyone to, to know that, hey, I'm,
this is my goal
and it's OK. I'm gonna do everything I possibly can to try and uh to, to get back there.
If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out,
but it's not from the lack of trying and work hard work.
Um I'm gonna do everything I possibly can to get back there.
But, but it all, it's more of a like self
motivator,
you know, when you put something out there like that, you, you're like going, ok,
I need to do it
now.
Granted there's a lot of people that put a lot of things
out there and then don't follow through because they don't either like,
really believe in it
or they like, just say it because they wanna say it and that's what people need.
They think people like wanna hear from you. But like,
for me it's like, no,
I wanna get back to number one because I know what it felt like to
get back there I know how hard I had to work to get back there.
I know, um,
what it was like when I was there and I would make s, uh, like
certain tweaks and changes.
Um,
once I get back there
to, to ultimately stay there a lot longer than what I did, which was like about a year.
Um,
it's funny, I
think that's why some people don't,
don't feel comfortable working as hard as,
as you've been talking about to begin with.
Right. Is because
what if you work that hard
and,
and nothing happens,
right. There's a fear of putting yourself out there that you see,
I,
yeah, I do. I, I definitely understand that. But like, you have to,
you have to believe in the team you have
that they're, they're, that they're steering you in the right direction.
You have to believe in your ability to be able to get there.
Because if you don't, like, granted, there's like
a lot of guys on the tour that are happy to be
70th and, and fedex, there's some, some guys out there that have, like,
really,
really good game already and can get to number one in the world based off how they are.
Um, and then there's some guys that they can't and they have to develop it.
Now, granted that takes,
that takes a lot of, um, a
lot of strength to be able to sit there and go. Ok. Well,
I'm
70th and fedex how do I get to number one in the world?
Ok. These are the steps that I need to get. I need to get my
greens regulation up. I need to chip better. I need to put better. Well, ok,
if I do that,
how much more time do I need to work? And
also like,
do I have the correct people in place to be
able to push me in the right direction for that?
And
are my priorities straight? Because
do I have a wife? Do I have kids? Do I? You know what I mean?
I like is everyone on board for me to
be able to really kind of capture this moment because
being number one in the world is like a re is a lifestyle choice.
Like you have to wake up every single day and go
planning to be number one in the world or I am number one in the world.
I have to do this every single day. I have to do, I have to be disciplined in my body.
I have to be disciplined in my, my, my nutrition, I have to be disciplined and,
and whatever it is my mental side. Um And it's you have to
dedicate and give yourself to that
and certain things around you have to sacrifice a little bit.