Lee Trevino’s Dairy Queen Compliments and ‘Caddy’ Lessons | Weekend 9

welcome! you ask where are you? I call this “Weekend 9.” Think of it as a spot to warm up on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I have an idea. Here’s a hint. I’ll keep tweeting. However, there are only nine in total, sometimes more, sometimes less. who am i? The following paragraphs will tell you part of that story. The contact information is as follows nick.piastowski@golf.com.

We don’t need Team Woods.

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Because we still have Annika Sorenstam and her son Will. He leaked this week that he recently defeated his mother, a Hall of Famer.

And we still have John Daley and his son John Daley II, whose older brother Daley is now a senior in college and whom we still affectionately refer to as “Lil Jon.”

And we still have Bernhard Langer and his son Jason, a New York City businessman, who will probably win. Also.

What’s the point here?

This weekend’s PNC Championship is one of our great golf events, even without Tiger Woods and his son Charlie, who have played in the past five PNCs, not playing. They are absent this year because Tiger is recovering from surgery. But that shouldn’t really matter.

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Because it’s still open. It shows your sincerity.

The environment helps. Winning is great at PNC, but so are participation medals. (On Friday, I was happy to hear that Nelly Korda was looking forward to seeing her father, Petr, a former professional tennis player, “nervous.”) The year is coming to an end, both on the calendar and on the golf campaign. Things are loosening up. Everyone is around their families too. Things become less stuffy.

And we got a good one.

Trevor Immelman talks about his love for golf and more.

“You know, I started when I was five years old and fell in love with the sport right away,” he said. “Just saying that gave me goosebumps. I was hooked right away. I grew up in a small suburb outside of Cape Town and because of the time difference, we could watch major championships and PGA Tour events on TV late into the night. We would record it on VHS and play it back and watch non-stop golf, professional golf non-stop, trying to imitate the players and try to do what they were doing on TV, hoping that one day we’d get the chance.”

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“The first major tournament I saw on TV was the ’86 Masters, one of the most famous tournaments. From that moment on, I thought to myself, Okay, everything I do from now on, I need a decision and an answer to that decision, will this help me get to the Masters one day?

“So when I was younger I was very focused and my love was intense and deep and my fire was burning really bright, so I got good quickly. I practiced a lot. My parents allowed me every possible opportunity to try it out.”

“You know, I tried to go on the most competitive tour on the planet in a corner of Africa and got there despite being a little tough and with a little chip on my shoulder.

“And then your life starts to change a little bit and you get 10, 15 years on tour and I start to struggle a little bit and it becomes a little more painful. That happens to everyone if you play the sport long enough.”

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“But that’s where that love really comes back to help me, because sometimes, especially in my case, after winning the Masters, I get hurt, or I’m down, or I’m struggling, and I’m devastated.

“You’ve got to have that love, or you’ll just roll over and quit. But at the end of the day, if you look at it from a little bit of a different perspective, the role that I have now, everything that I have, everything that he (son Jacob) has, and everything that our entire family has is because of golf, the PGA Tour, major championships, and frankly the United States of America having the opportunity to compete with the best players here.”

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“So, that love is pretty intense, and I hope that the people who watch me on CBS TV over the weekend don’t sleep and hear that passion coming through the TV, because I’m really grateful for everything the game has given me.”

And here Immelman is talking about nerves.

“I’ve realized over the years that I don’t think people can control their nerves,” he said. “When I hear people say, ‘Oh, I’m just trying to control my nerves,’ I think that’s a flat-out lie. We’re all human, and we all get anxious, nervous, and insecure at times. Sometimes there’s no rhyme or reason to it. It can happen on a three-foot putt or the tee shot on the 18th hole. It can happen at any time, and you just have to live with it.”

“I learned that. There were times when I was so confident in my shots and I hit bad shots, and other times when I felt completely exposed and thought there was no way I could hit a good shot, and I always thought it was interesting that I did.

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“So I started questioning myself, ‘Okay, how much does it really matter how much I feel?’ Just keep going. Trust your training, trust what you’ve put into practice. At the end of the day, if you do your best, you’ll be able to rest your head on your pillow at night.”

And below Padraig Harrington talks about scoring and hitting good golf shots.

And below is Fred Couple talking a little bit.

No, we don’t need Team Woods.

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2. The video below was also good.