Short Par 4 The Magazine Issue #2 October 2020 | Page 45

couldn ' t see myself doing anything else . I just wanted to be a part of it and , you know , to be where I am today , it ' s crazy . It gives me goosebumps thinking about it . I can ' t believe it .

So when did you realize you wanted to get involved in Trickshots ?

In 2015 , I just moved back to Virginia from Florida to work for the Golf Channel Academy . There was a little point in time after work where I would kind of not have anything to do , and I saw this video of a guy Reman in France , juggling the golf ball , and I just thought was the coolest thing ever . And me being my lazy self , instead of going and being productive and working on my game or working on , you know , maybe new drills for the kids , I went out and worked on juggling , and I posted a video on Instagram . It wasn ' t anything good , honestly . Five years ago , I wasn ' t . But I posted a video , and it got some like cool . But another one got more legs . And then , by the third or fourth video I posted , I got a feature on golf gods or something like that .

I was like , well shit , this is quite cool , like , you can get posted on the Internet for personal stuff , so all right . Well , maybe I ' ll take that to a deeper level . And at the time , it was against the grain of golf . And you know , I love golf so much , but I think there ' s a lot of things that people can do to improve the sport ’ s scope . And I thought that might be one of them . And now it was like , here ' s my chance . I ' m very passionate about it , so I kind of just have to go on .

You ’ ve done some cool things in the golf space , is there anything that stands out to you ?

This Journey , I guess we could call it , has given me a lot of opportunities . So many cool things and , you know , I ' ve been able to meet a lot of great people and see some great parts of the world that I ' m so fortunate for that I had . One trip that I went on that stands out is I went to Paris to compete in the World Golf Trickshot Championship . It wasn ' t anything major , but it was for me . I got to go