00:00Scotty had some comments today on the topic of fulfillment.
00:04It was about a five-minute discussion back and forth.
00:06I have a minute and 30-second excerpt that I kind of chopped up
00:10that I'm going to play for you here, and we'll react to it on the back end.
00:14It's fulfilling from a sense of accomplishment,
00:16but it's not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart.
00:21There's a lot of people that make it to what they thought was going to fulfill them in life,
00:25and then you get there, and all of a sudden you get to number one in the world,
00:28and then they're like, what's the point?
00:30And I really do believe that because what is the point?
00:34You're like, why do I want to win this tournament so bad?
00:36That's something that I wrestle with on a daily basis.
00:38It's like showing up at the Masters every year, it's like,
00:40why do I want to win this golf tournament so badly?
00:43Why do I want to win the Open Championship so badly?
00:46I don't know because if I win, it's going to be awesome for about two minutes,
00:51and then we're going to get to the next week, and it's going to be like,
00:53hey, you won two majors this year.
00:54How important is it for you to win the FedExCup playoffs?
00:56And it's just like, we're back here again.
00:58You know, I'm kind of a sicko.
01:00I love putting in the work.
01:02I love being able to practice.
01:03I love getting out to live out my dreams.
01:05But at the end of the day, sometimes I just don't understand the point, you know,
01:08because I don't know if I'm making any sense or not, but I love being a father.
01:15I love being able to take care of my son.
01:16I love being able to provide for my family out here playing golf.
01:19And, you know, every day when I wake up early to go put in the work, you know,
01:23my wife thanks me for going out and working so hard.
01:26And when I get home, I try and thank her every day for taking care of our son.
01:29It's just, you know, that's why I talk about families being my priority because it really is.
01:34You know, I'm blessed to be able to come out here and play golf.
01:36But if my golf ever started affecting my home life or it ever affected the relationship I have with my wife or with my son,
01:43you know, that's going to be the last day that I play out here for a living.
01:45This has been taken in a lot of different ways by a lot of different people.
01:49And I wonder how you take it upon hearing him talk about this.
01:55Well, how do you take it?
01:56Let me ask you.
01:58I'm happy to start because I was I was watching this.
02:03I'd just gotten back from the airport and I'm sitting here in my office.
02:06My wife's sitting on my couch and I'm sitting on the floor with my daughter,
02:09who's about nine months old and she's she's using a tea.
02:13I should add a clean tea as a teething tool.
02:17And it's hard to even say this right now that kind of welling up a little bit because I just felt like it's two things stood out to me.
02:24The first is where he ends that statement.
02:26And it's just, you know, we love the game of golf.
02:29We sit here and talk about this a couple of times a week, Smiley.
02:31But it really I love where Scotty's head is at all times, but especially here of like what's important in life.
02:37And the way he prioritizes family and being a dad, you and I are, you know, means a lot to us as well.
02:44It means more to us than golf.
02:45And I felt like him taking the platform this week in a major and saying that is a pretty meaningful thing.
02:52And it and it, you know, my wife was like, he's is that Scotty talking like he's just the best.
02:56And it's like, yeah, it's really it frames everything.
02:59But I think what's getting lost there is like he is he taught he's process oriented and he says it throughout.
03:08I actually there I wish I could play the full five minutes, but he still talks about how much he loves the game of golf.
03:14And we know how competitive he is and how much he's dedicated to the process of getting better every day and working hard at it every day.
03:23And I think really, you know, some could read this as being anti-competitive or anti-attached result.
03:30I think it's the opposite.
03:31It's like he's not defining himself based on who wins a trophy, shoots the best score.
03:36It's like, am I every day going out and giving all that I have to getting better at this game that I absolutely love?
03:44And is that feeling fulfilling to me?
03:46And that to me, I thought was I loved all of that so much, specifically the parts I selected.
03:53But it hit me that way.
03:54And it's just it's yet another reason why I just I love just about everything about Scotty Shetler.
04:00Well, it's it's the chase that that that kind of comes to my mind.
04:06It's it's the chase to being great and one of the best of all time.
04:11And I think that is what he will always be measured against in the game of golf is how how great Scotty Shetler can be.
04:20And I think that'll be something that, you know, with Tiger, how many like how many majors is Scotty going to win?
04:25These are things that he will be asked for the rest of his career.
04:30And we will continue to talk about it for the rest of his career, because you know why?
04:36Because he is the best and I can understand exactly where he's coming from, because this game of golf, he wins a lot, but he wins way more than anybody else.
04:47But he also does fail a bunch and he's very competitive psycho.
04:51It's a vicious cycle that you can get into where, you know, it's you have ups, you have downs.
04:58But also it's it's kind of difficult to, you know, process compartmentalize different aspects of your life at times.
05:06And it could suffocate you. You could feel like you have nothing else but to think about is your golf game.
05:12And that's where I think Scotty's perspective in all this is really cool.
05:16The fact that maybe he will go through struggles one day and that he can just lean on his family in that time and that he doesn't lose himself in the game of golf.
05:24And that he is able to still be the dad that he is when he's playing good golf.
