Navigating Professional Golf Choices: Tom McKibbins's Dilemma

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00:00Not that Tom McKibben's in the same place that Eugenio Shikara was but I mean you're looking around seeing guys who are saying

00:07You know, I thought

00:09You just mortgaging things that should be important to any young professional player

00:14I think that's what Rory's saying

00:15It's like you have chances to play on

00:16You know Ryder Cup teams to get into majors things like that

00:20Not saying you completely forfeit that if you go to lives there ways to do that

00:24But it just makes it so much harder and for what I mean

00:26I just can't imagine that how much is how much is getting paid?

00:29I mean, I'm thinking in my head that let's say he got paid somewhere between seven to ten million dollars now

00:36You never know what the future holds. You never know if you're gonna have injuries

00:40You never know if you're gonna lose your game. I I sure didn't and

00:43Looking back if I was, you know, given a live offer after my rookie year for that much money. I would

00:50Frickin consider it. I know it's yeah, I think any

00:54Person would now

00:56my

00:57Feeling on the game of golf if I would have gone to the live to and accept that offer

01:01I think without an understanding like hey this I did this to you know, change my

01:07my my family's lives like for for years to come now, I

01:12Dang sure wouldn't be I saying I need world recce points over it. Whatever. I gets the decision I made

01:18I think a lot of these guys have handled it the right way, but others haven't and it's been kind of surprising to see

01:25John Rahm who was I thought of you know, such a good advocate for the PGA Tour and its interviews for free a

01:33Good year or two, right? Well, you want any time he was asked a question about live

01:38He was pretty strong on the PGA Tour and I think at times would touch on

01:43You know his his desire to play

01:46On the Ryder Cup teams and support the DP World Tour and how difficult it was for him to do both and so I

01:54Could see in a world now how it's easier for him to do both. But at the same time like man

02:02No cuts closed shop to or no relegation

02:06Yeah