Join us for another episode of The Smylie Show as we kick things off with co-host Charlie Hulme, who shares the heartwarming news of becoming a proud girl dad while joining the podcast from a hospital room. The conversation shifts to the much-anticipated chat with Canadian golf stars and recent International Team members, Corey Conners & Taylor Pendrith, as they talk about their Presidents Cup experiences and reflect on their respective journeys from Canada to the PGA Tour. They also dive into their days at Kent State University, current states of their golf games, and more!
🔹 Recap the weekend in golf
🔹 College Stories
🔹 Presidents Cup experiences
🔹 Unique golf journeys
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Charlie is a girl dad!!
07:29 - Sanderson Farms Championship
15:22 - Tyrrell Hatton wins the Dunhill Links
20:45 - COREY CONNERS
22:40 - Kent State Golf Pipeline
24:15 - Canadian Junior Golf Development
28:27 - Improving Golf Game
36:38 - Presidents Cup Team Selection
38:45 - Favorite Moments from Presidents Cup
41:13 - Recovery Time After Presidents Cup
45:50 - TAYLOR PENDRITH
50:13 - Journey to Golf Success
52:30 - Path to the PGA Tour
57:16 - Taylor’s Putting Improvements
1:02:15 - Playing Well with Mike Weir
1:03:48 - Most Memorable Day of Golf
1:05:35 - Playing with Adam Scott
1:08:27 - Balancing Fatherhood and Golf
1:09:27 - Who Won between Corey and Taylor?
1:10:14 - Like & Subscribe
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Contact us before canceling entire accounts to continue bill credits or credit stop-and-balance on a required finance agreement. Bill credits end if you pay off devices early. C-T-Mobile.com Welcome back to the Smiley Show. He is Smiley Kaufman. I am Charlie Hume. If you're listening to this podcast and you're wondering why I'm doing my best Hushtones ASMR edition or if you're watching this podcast and wondering why I'm sitting in what appears to be some sort of a broom closet with a odd like harsh lot in my face because right over here my wife sitting in a hospital bed and just beyond my wife actually my wife's arms right now. It's my brand new baby daughter. We have we have a little girl, Spiley. I mean I'm just I'm thrilled to be part of the Girl Dad Club now. Come on let's go. Let's go. I'm yelling in my overtime voice let's go. Come on. How good is that? It's it's the best man. It is we this obviously we've been doing baby watch here on the show for a couple weeks now and we thought maybe it was going to come last week. She held out important update. She held out till after the Men's League semifinals which we won so big update there for show purposes she held out until after President's Cup that was a big one there and yeah I mean a bunch of stuff happening golf this week but I've you know watched a lot of it with that sound don't really know what's going on because I've just been hanging out and do hospital having this little baby so I mean you're about to be tuned in to fall off unlike any other fall that you've ever been a part of because you're just dying for anything to come on the TV that the first couple weeks we watched a lot of sports this weekend we watched all my teams lost North Carolina football is just I really hate that she had to see that her mother's alma mater Virginia Tech Women's Soccer beat the defending national champions Florida State today. Okay well I was wearing a little Virginia Tech onesies so that was good count that as a win yeah yeah okay I mean let's I mean you're first off welcome to team girl dad I think all of those here that are on team girl dad welcome Charlie to to an elite group it's a group that we we give in early but we definitely want to keep our foot in the sand if you know what I mean I love that there are a lot of things but let's just start with the fact that the first person on the show to have a live visual with my baby girl Katie that's the name where it's a family name her name's Kadek we might call our Katie we might call Casey still workshopping some stuff but the first person was was not smiling was was not Jackson it's not Brian it was Corey Connors so first person to me my baby I was sitting in the lobby of our recording platform waiting for you to do the interview and he was just kind of sitting alone while we got set up oh hey Corey just letting you know smile to be back here's my new serious note smiley that that first like when that when they when they took her out and the nurses were cleaning her up and she had her little hand wrapped around my finger like you know you're looking forward to being a first of all a dad my son that was amazing but the girl dad thing it was just like oh wow my heart is completely melting and I can't wait to to watch this little girl grow up it's the sweetest thing and she's such a sweetheart man it is it's just it's just it's an indescribable feeling and I'm so glad to be part of the club has as Walker had a chance to meet a little Katie yet Walker so picked up Walker today brought him here very very sweet he's he's still he's turning two in a couple weeks but he's he's got a few words so he knows he comes in he points there said baby baby he's really yeah very good and he and he wanted to get up and see mama and he he handed a little stuffed animal to her he had a little stuffed bumblebee that he put in her lab really oh it's so sweet and so he's sitting there and then he's he's watching her with with Amanda holding her and he's points there he looks at me he says go bye I said unfortunately Walker she will not be going by she's your sister she's here to stay but it was a good try it was it was nice ever got a good start with a yeah maybe a slight hiccup there but we'll take a walker he was he was pretty sweet I think it's he's gonna take some time to get adjusted to it also I gotta laugh to you this is probably the most of our podcast my wife's ever heard in our entire lives that's same with my prior lab record say with my wife so the pro for those of you that are listening I think we all send congrats over to Charlie and Amanda for their new baby and also I think you got to respect the hustle you got to respect the hustle with a man right now brought his pot equipment to the hospital I thought for sure we would just be using some air pods but no we got the equipment we got the full equipment last hospital note before we moved to a little bit of golf talk is least comfortable chair in America as we build it in the lead-up was worried about this in a big way with this baby arrived we spent an entire night not sleeping so we got to the hospital a little after 10 right on the fourth you took a 445 I think and this baby did not yet it's baby arrived at 504 a.m. on Saturday so no sleep that night and then stayed up with it the entire day so this last night of sleep I'm like man I'm I'm sleep deprived and I got a sleep in this chair and I gotta I have to say I will give credit where credits do the chair I got a good spot reclined it maybe is because I was so tired I got pretty solid sleep last night okay so to get shot out to the chair shout out to the chair yeah this is you know good friend has a great video of me like getting a sneaky workout in on day three of being in the hospital I was doing hip mobility drills with one of the towels that you could kind of see through like one of those terrible hospital towels that I was using as hip mobility so I was driving my knee to my chest and out and around trying to get some hip mobility because you can't be leaving that hospital not you know having your equilibrium perfect as you carry that do not for the first time but now we should at least for you that all the new baby equipment you got to relearn how to do it but at least you do know how to do a lot of it yeah it was I realized I completely forgot everything involved with taking care of an infant child swaddling you know how diaper changes for for tiny little babies like all those sorts of things like what how do we do this again but it it's kind of it's come back quickly that diapers crazy that first like couple weeks it's a I think I remember being like super sticky like it was how to word they called it to that was not poop it was I can't remember it was scientific name for what they call infant poop and we are not a science pot so that's where we'll stop on describing it in poop but it is different there's a lot of extra work that goes in there but listen every moment of it's been worth it so thank you appreciate the congratulations smiley and everyone's well wishes has reached out from show perspective fan perspective you all the best loving it maybe head home tomorrow I'll say this smiley the watching the golf I have seen on mute this week you know while the baby's been sleeping first of all saw Tyrrell Hatton won the Dunhill so for me that boats incredibly well for another top 10 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational this next year he's gonna play great at Bay Hill so I love seeing that I was following corn fairy tour finals a little bit it was kind of fun to see those dirty guys are in their tour cards really enjoyed last year previewing that crop of rookies that came to the tour with James and Nitties and just talking about guys like Jake Knapp the burst on of the scene so there's definitely some names on that group excited to make see make their tour debut this next season Aldrich Pot Gider the South African kid like I think that kids got all the town the world super young so excited for that but the last thing I saw was the finish of the Sanderson man and you almost nailed another one and done pick outside of one and done season I just feel terrible for Keith Mitchell yeah you know it was tough because he made he made such a good stroke on that first pot to where you know it sneaks by that four and a half foot range and I think everybody's thinking the same thing and that's the hardest thing is a player to you know be that close to winning the tournament so then having to reset later in the day uphill pot Bermuda grain could go left could go right you play it out on the left edge and it doesn't move and I'm gutted for Keith because he's a player that when you go look at the data and the stats he's a guy that you know I I want to see you know him have more opportunities I think you can put him in a group of you know five to ten players and Keith would be in the top of that list of players who I'd just feel like have been right on the outside looking in in this new PJ tour system and you know credit to him he's gone and played events for instance in Reno right after the Open Championship so he's he has you know he could you know say hey this system isn't right it's not fair well I got to give Keith a lot of credit because he's gone and played events that maybe other guys would say you know what I'm better than that I don't need to play in those events but Keith has gone and play those events and for instance this fall has an opportunity to go play his way into that that next 10 category to try to get early signature events and like we saw with plenty of players last week or last year you know all it takes is a good week in one of those signature events early it's such a season up and for a player like Keith that can drive it as well as he can you know you got to look out for a guy like that get off to a hot start and I'm I'm sure he's made quite a bit of a jump you know finishing in third but still a bit away to go I imagine through the end of the fall and imagine he wants to try to get a win locked up so he could take some time off but very tough and Kevin you did win in a playoff against Bo Haas for which we did have a wild ruling situation unfold I don't know if you saw the Bo Haas or ruling situation shall I walk you through it please do because I was looking at the clock and realizing the hospital cafeteria closed and was like okay let's go make sure that everyone gets fed tonight so please walk me through the ruling yes so alright so Bo hits it left up the tee and him and Keith are tied Kevin used in the house at 23 a birdie from either Bo or Keith wins keys in the fairway right Bo is left stymie behind a tree and online with the pin is a tree two feet in front of him so he was so it was close enough to the tree to where it would have to take some insane miraculous 80 yard of slice to be able to get something near the green and he brings over rules official it says so this hospitality over here to the left that winds the green you know it's it can I take a drop from that and he was arguing that that hospitality was in the way of where he wanted to play the shot where and you know I think if he could have made a case if the pin was back right but because it was tucked left there's just no case to be made there it's like you know you got to play out to the fairway you know that shots not reasonable so I thought it was you know he first off he asked for a second opinion which I thought was like I think I think when we're we're begging a little bit too much here to try to try to get this drop so ends up playing it out to the fairway gets it up and down from par with I don't know how far he had maybe a hundred 130 yards or something like that almost made it made it with the wedge shot and then taps in for par he actually hit so Keith's lag putt was outside of Bo's wedge shot so Keith misses Bo makes Bo goes in the playoff hits a left off the tee Kevin you it's a fairway it sticks it inside of four feet makes a birdie pot so you're telling me that the the result of the playoff maybe was a little bit of ball don't lie situation after Bo was begging down and for the relief the ball don't lie the calmer gods actually were on his side in this and the fact that he didn't take the drop because you know getting up and down for par was definitely a golf God karma type of situation so I think it was we're at even playing field now he may have been down one to social media going to the playoff Bo was but I think morally you know himself when he showed up on the tee he was all square and the in the playoff just happened to seek having you hit us three I should I should say two really nice shots and what why is Sanderson farms like always electric at the end by the way oh I was gonna say a couple things on that I mean last year well it was this was like a six-way playoff yeah right I thought I was gonna be there overnight and Luceless made that long putt I'm like Luke I love you great putt and I was out there and I guess that just makes me think on the topic of Keith Mitchell just seeing how upset you know obviously he was to have not made it into the playoff not a chance to win but you know we saw Lou Big Oberg part of that six-man playoff Luceless of course wins and then what's Lou Big do at the end of the fall wins the RSM so other opportunities for Keith to get it done even though you know he doesn't get it done this weekend and Kevin you this is a guy that we were talking for the show about and I just you know recall he had a hot start to this calendar year great ball striker not the greatest putter the world but I think it putter it's a formula where the putter does get hot he could be in and around it any given a week so you know a deserving winner yeah strokes gain off the tee if you're just trying to profile a golfer that you don't know much about Kevin you said four top tens this year really hot start to the year like you said AmEx and Sony media top tens but he's 13th in that off the T category putting 159 the data really shows it's a lot worse than that with the putter but had a good week I guess this week of the pottery gets a 23 under so for Kevin played Arizona State I'm not sure how I assume he must have been an all-american there but speaks good English I just don't know Kevin I haven't had an opportunity to speak with him but I look forward to watching him play because he's obviously an incredible ball striker and a player to look out for you know when I think about Chinese golfers how Tom Lee's the guy that comes to mind Carl you and another that we've seen a little bit of and you know for such a big country it wouldn't be surprised to see more and more Chinese golfers become you know really nice solid players on the tour Kevin you seems to be kind of the next in line how Tom's actually kind of found a little bit of his game I saw he actually played DP World Tour this week I think he played well well on a similar topic and on the topic also of of fathers and their children watching Tyrrell when I'm not even sure if Tyrrell played this weekend with his dad in the Dunhill but I do remember when I was over in Scotland this summer hearing a number of interesting stories involving Tyrrell's dad and the gist of it essentially was endless and I think Tyrrell's hilarious but just that Tyrrell's behavior on the course is very much a apple does not fall far from the tree situation so I was I was really tickled seeing him when a third Dunhill which is incredible but just you know he's one of his third Dunhill that's his third Dunhill win I didn't know that that's and I believe that's interesting this is you know baby a rival weekend so don't hold me to this but I believe he tied the course record of St. Andrews this week so fun a great playing for him look things looking good for Legion 13 yes indeed and I'm looking to see I don't know I'm looking to see where Tyrrell Hatton would have jumped to they don't have the Dunhill up yet I don't know WGR because that's a huge week for a guy that's just trying to stay inside the top 50 when he went to live that was his last event on tour was the Sony and he left at 15th he's currently 38 so winning that at the Dunhill should should be a big jump for him probably back inside the top 25 you'd have to imagine which gets him set for all the majors next year so that was you know for you know well I think you never know what's going to happen these guys when they go if they're going to go play in well and DP World Tour events how are they going to keep their world ranking up they have so little opportunities in the majors so Hatton seems to have you know taken a gamble it's you know he's able to continue to play good golf he's made a lot of money and a good on him I guess well I'll save the corn fairy tour championships deep dive for when we have a James Smith he's in some like I don't think Amanda quite wants to hear all 30 breakdown of the corn fairy tour well definitely if not James and then he's Shane Bacon would be another great guy to you know get their ear on exactly what to expect from this crop because looking through it it's not quite as many names I'm familiar with guys I've seen their names but don't know them personally quite as much as the last class so I'm actually really looking forward to doing that before the Sony when we start to see these guys week and week out absolutely yeah I was getting a lot of more reaction from that side of the room when I was talking about her daughter and son but once we dealt with the Sanderson farm surprisingly not a ton of reaction coming from the hospital bed over there so I think that's my cue here maybe go change on their diaper too but give him an air five and congrats to congrats to you man that's that's a lot of fun there's no joy better than than having bringing kids into the world and you're crushing already as dad to walk her I'm looking forward to seeing girl dad Charlie crush it as well and forgive me if is that an LPGA hoodie is that what we're looking at here you were looking at a certified LPGA hoodie I mean like I'm not trying to be the dad that is you know gonna force my kid in the playing sports you should get her as she wants but she came out very healthy 10 pound baby that's another thing 10 pounds girl is is was eating good in there I think we got some athletic jeans in the mix okay watching I tell you we're gonna do she's got more balls to be the new already I think so and we're gonna do a lot of bottle feeds you know whatever time of the night or day that we're doing and and watching the LPGA tour highlights watching a little Nelly Corda you know just just a lot of rosings where we can kind of get our eyes on to start learning via osmosis that's gonna be my kind of play so I thought I'd bring the LPGA sweatshirt to the hospital in honor of my future tour pro daughter so that's that's where we're going there Katie calm to the Hall of Fame here you heard it heard it here first yes to be a nice clip to roll out someday but yeah no I appreciate the well wishes man and this is this is a brief snippet the rest of the show very much looking forward to catching up on both the interviews you have lined up here because as mentioned I did say hello to Corey Connors with my daughter in hand but did not hear the rest of that interview and you also have Taylor Printer is coming on so yeah fired up to check out both of those which are both coming up right now we we've got the Kent State you know golf alumni team checked off our list we already had McKenzie Hughes on over this year and you know just doing Corey's interview was a fantastic conversation with Corey just you know about the president's cup about his golf game and unfortunately hearing how easy it is for him to hit the golf ball not think about it so that was frustrating from my perspective hearing you know one of the best ball strikers in the world tell him tell me how he does it so you're gonna have to listen for yourself to Corey and Taylor is somebody that I've gotten to know a little bit better this year that I've heard is just socially fantastic so I'm looking forward to hearing what Taylor has its tour for us and yeah okay and I guess okay and listen more of the better anthems is out there I think it might be the best anthem excited to listen to both of those I'm checking out now I'm not checking out from the hospital I'm checking out from this podcast we'll see how long I stay here and look forward to seeing you on the other side buddy yep got to be brother all right welcome back guys to another episode of the smiley show and I have a great guest on today it's actually we're gonna have two Canadians on today our first is Corey Connors joining us from where Corey where are we at now back in Jupiter Florida yeah thanks for having me yeah absolutely if Jupiter Florida so Corey we're going to definitely get into some presents cup talk because I was there had a front row seat to some incredible golf by not only you but the wrestling international team just coming up short against that strong American lineup but we want to get into that a little later on but I think Corey we got to start with just your journey and professional golf I go back to your two PGA tour wins your first one Monday qualifying at the Valera Open and I played a practice round with you I think on Tuesday like after you Monday qualified and I was thinking to myself I was like you know what this guy's got it and of course you go on and win that week so I had a pretty good feel for how your game was that week yeah I guess I had it yeah that was a cool obviously a cool story and a cool way to get my first win it was my second year on tour and I already had some decent finishes but I was flying out of a conditional category so um yeah I had to chase some Mondays there was little less pressure on me I would say on the Mondays because I did have the um decent FedEx points racked up but um definitely a memorable week and um yeah I do remember the uh the practice round it was cool to play a few holes with you yeah I just remember uh you know just how straight you at the golf ball and and you've been hitting it straight for pretty much ever since you came on tour that seems to be the strength of your game I want to get into that as well but I think the most interesting part about your journey up is where you started your collegiate or where you played your collegiate golf I should say at Kent State Taylor Pendreth McKenzie Hughes also on that team how did all the Canadians end up at Kent State I just have to know who was the one that got this train rolling yeah there's always been a little bit of a Canadian pipeline uh to Kent State and I grew up playing junior golf with Mac Hughes and I didn't know Taylor as well until we started at Kent really um became great friends there I lived together every year but uh the coach her page you got to give him a shout out he I saw him by the way he was watching you guys at the yeah it was it was cool to be able to share that with him he was pretty proud of us his guys and it was fun to have him there and he was he was pretty pumped up so I guess he's the reason really he recruited a lot in Canada um like I had playing some junior golf with Mac he was a couple years ahead of me and my mind was made up pretty early I didn't really stop around much it's just where I wanted to go they had uh had some good teams just before us and you know knew it we could kind of keep that momentum going yeah it wasn't too far from home where I grew up in southwestern Ontario just five hour drive or so that's great it was kind of something as well I've never really been away from home and obviously did some traveling playing amateur and junior golf but the the yeah commute was uh it was a nice thing I was able to get back home uh a few times throughout the year and um yeah I like that about it as well but great program great facilities and and coach her page did uh did some awesome things and uh give him a lot of credit to getting us to where we are today you know alongside Taylor and Mac on tour now get your holidays started with the perfect tree and your perfect style from the Home Depot whether you want something that you can assemble in a few clicks steal the show with over 2 000 color changing bulbs or a tree with lights that can be controlled by remote or foot pedal the Home Depot has it all in our huge assortment of premium trees plus get free delivery on over two million items this holiday from the Home Depot subject to availability see Home Depot dot com slash delivery for details you spent over here AT&T customers switching to T-Mobile has never been easier we'll pay off your adjusting phone and give you a new one three all on America's largest 5g network visit T-Mobile dot com slash carrier freedom to switch today pay off up to 650 dollars via virtual prepaid master 115 days free phone up to 830 dollars via 24 monthly book credits plus tax qualifying port and trade and service on go 5g next to credit required contact us before canceling entire account to continue build credits to credit stop and balance and required finance agreement is due it's fun to watch him you had definitely seen your coach there and the president's got was pretty cool but i'm also curious to Corey so Canadian junior golf Canadian amateur golf and you go and play college golf with some of your friends obviously that you'd played in those events and travel around i'm sure the country with what was that experience life growing up in point playing Canadian junior and amateur golf you know compared to maybe America where it's much more of just like trying to get in front of the coaches i would imagine that Canada maybe was a little bit more of a system where Canada golf is trying to get you know these guys out to where they can eventually be on tour yeah there's there's not as many events in Canada growing up they try and do a good job of creating some higher profile junior events but up until i guess in my junior career you know college was a it was a goal so i wanted to impress coaches but i mean i guess didn't really know what i needed to do for that just play golf had fun right now they did have a good system in place and the Canadian national team i think i first got on the national team right around when i had committed to go to Kent State um so you know they certainly helped develop me and you know get me ready for college golf but yeah i don't know i think just got you know put there's some big events the Canadian junior championship and Canadian amateur played in a number of times you know starting when i was like 14 years old so i think those events had some college coach eyes there but it certainly wasn't anything like the AJGA sort of program the US junior um so yeah i i did play zero AJGA events um i did play um the in california in the calaway junior world yep yep you and i both i played uh i played with you at the us kids golf championship okay in in general island georgia i'll never forget this southern guy named smiley wow how about that i did not know that we played together but i remember playing at jekyll out i still remember i got six because i was telling all my friends at school in the second grade that i was a six best player in the world because i mean it was the us kids world junior it felt like you know that i was accurate at the time absolutely yeah well you nipped me by a couple but and okay i do i do look at that call back there from bacoria i love that um but yeah they i don't know i guess did enough good stuff and i got got noticed and got noticed by herb anyways and um he was off and running i'm a little bit curious about the national team cori so you said you make the national team what did that allow you to do was it you know have the funding to go play and more junior golf was it having more access to coaches what what's that uh allow you to be able to when you made that team yeah it's kind of an all-encompassing program and it's maybe not for everybody i grew up in a small town you know really supportive parents but you know they didn't really know what direction they should be you know advising me to go so the national team coaching resources um some extra money financially to help travel good training camps pretty much every month throughout the winter time to stay sharp and oh nice everything from nutrition fitness you know physiotherapy and and great coaching and still working with Derek Ingram who is the national team coach uh we've been we've spent a lot of time together over the last i guess 16 years now but um yeah it was a pretty big honor you know we've got to wear Canada shirt and carry the Canada bag at all the events so it felt pretty cool as a junior and i think the resources they uh they offered to me were always really really helpful but basically they you know the sky's the limit they've got everything in place to we've got some training facilities now for the juniors in Canada the programs continue to grow but um yeah anything that you need they're able to help with and provide guidance and it's definitely a great asset for Canadian juniors who are at the elite level who have an opportunity to make the team well that's that's terrific and i want to talk a little bit about Brandon Ingram and how he's helped your game uh since you were a junior to where you are now because going through your stats from 2024 all the way back to when you got on the tour i've never clicked a year to year to year in seeing the exact same stats year after year after year you're a model of consistency for your own game you know exactly what your game is and probably what you're going to have every day is that somewhat of frustrating at times that that you almost try to do too much to try to improve or do you just continue just to play Corey counters golf and know exactly what you do yeah i think throughout my career there've been you know a few lessons that uh we've learned of trying to make some changes um you know change a little bit too much and kind of gets me out of who i am you know who i am has you know been successful i still you know have room to grow and i still am hungry to kind of get to that upper echelon you know you're the top player in the world but um yeah you know we've basically work on the same stuff you know we've learned making you know big changes doesn't really translate uh yeah you know onto the golf course for me just got to continue to refine things i feel like certain areas of my game have gotten more consistent you know my off weeks are a lot better and that's something that's important on tour as well you know you go into a tournament or you don't quite have your best stuff but you know still have belief and and still can find a way to you know to get it done and give yourself a outside chance is is nice and have been able to do that on some off weeks um over the past couple years especially and yeah just uh you know basically our chats and you know send me a text before playing is just be Corey Connors and i guess that's the easiest thing for me to do and just uh yeah well when i see i have Corey Connors on the sheet for the group i'm walking with that day i pretty much when you tee it up or you hit a shot i pretty much know where it's going it's pretty obvious like you're just a such a consistent ball striker so what are the things that you work on and and what are the just like how many swing thoughts do you have do you have very few what are your corrections that you make when you do get off i'm always curious to talk to somebody that's so good at what they do of how they make corrections on the golf course yeah i think the biggest thing for me is is the rhythm and i've always had really good tempo in my golf swing and that's something that i've tried to continue as much as possible and something that i focus on you know almost weekly just trying to stay in that good rhythm um you know my intensity starts to creep in i'm able to get on top of them a lot quicker just having a little bit more experience but you know basically my swing thoughts are very minimal i'd say only the first maybe foot away from the ball and that's about it just trying to sort of get things synced up and you know moving loading up behind and i do think about trying to get a little bit more pressure on my right foot my back leg being a righty um and just try and get that started in the first sort of foot of my swing and from there just have a good rhythm and hit it yeah well you need to uh rent a room inside my head for just around the golf and that'll really make you appreciate how little swing thoughts that you have versus sometimes what i'm battling which is like 20 swing thoughts and sometimes i'll go through all of them in the first four holes but that i'm not going to bore you with that because we don't we're not here to talk about that as as uh you're obviously one of the best at what you do ball striking so let's let's talk about the short game let's talk about the putting two areas i feel like when you look at it um you have good weeks but other weeks it seems like that's what your battle is but you also hit a lot more greens than a lot of other people and you have a lot more putts for birdie so stats can be a bit skewing in that but when you look at it in a grand scheme of things how hard have you worked on that aspect of your game and sometimes have you feel like you've overworked it to where you've had to think about that part of your game a little bit too much yeah i think in in all the work i do i try and be really smart about you know what i'm doing but um i probably focused 25 percent of my time on ball hitting and 75 percent of the time on wedging and putting uh when when i'm practicing so it's been a huge area of you know focus for me over the last number of years and like you said there've been some quite good weeks where maybe i haven't hit it good and my short game and and putting out kind of bailed me out and allowed me to to hang around uh but yeah it's it's tough as well to have great putting stats and around the green stats when you hit it really good because you don't get opportunities if you make one mistake there you know that your stats are you know doomed for the day you don't get a lot of opportunities to redeem yourself and you know with the putting you could hit it to you know 25 feet every day or every hole all day and um you know make one of them it looks like you had a very you know blah putting day and it's like you did but not gonna make a lot of you know 20 plus footpots um so i i feel like i've made i feel like the consistency's gotten better and i've turned my poor weeks in those areas uh better my better weeks have been better as well but you know it's still a work in progress i guess and um it's kind of funny with with my full swing and in my routine there's so much freedom and no thinking and then you know you get to some of those and trying to work on technical stuff or so there's a balance i try and find of dumbing it down as much as possible but also you know trying to focus on things that i need to get to get better at well it's really interesting that you say that because it's it's sometimes so easy to you know have your mind occupied once you're trying to work on something to try to improve it that it sometimes makes you worse you know i feel that way sometimes not not practicing as much as i used to and i feel like i haven't done a chalk line in three years but i feel like my putting is just the same and that kind of goes sometimes with putting that it's having that freedom and putting with freedom sometimes is is it's a fleeting thing to find but once you find it it's it's it's nice to ride it but you just never know what you're going to have sometimes i imagine yeah it's you know there's there's definitely a lot of unknowns and to your point it's you know i can take you know a week off at home and you know go and play with some buddies and make everything and i hadn't thought about putting and just it doesn't make sense right now and then you go and grind every day the whole day and just can't can't put it in the hole on the golf course so is there anything technique wise is there like anything technique wise putting that that you're you know just constantly trying to work on or is it just as simple as just being a better green reader and being better with your speed i feel like my speed's always been been really good um it i am a little on the light side sometimes which isn't great especially when the greens get a little bit slower but anytime the greens are fast which is pretty typical of the tour events my speed's usually really good it's something that i do work pretty hard on and every day i might warm up to a speed drill but um it's kind of you know i just try and make sure everything's pretty neutral in my setup it is a big thing for me and yeah i switched to left-hand low cross-handed putting handful years ago and i think um when i left-handed writer um and like so i think oh my left hand is a little bit more dominant and i think the left hand low actually helped me there with the the pace of my stroke and and a little bit more freedom there so that's something that that's been a a nice change that i would say and help with consistency and the strike but few of my tendencies is kind of coming up and out of pots so trying to you know stay pretty pretty balanced and solid and even feeling uh like i have a bit more weight on my front foot yep it's kind of got a better a better hit on it and that makes sense the ball rolling that makes that makes plenty of sense and and cori i saw you make some pretty dang big time pots of this president's cup and some high leverage situation so let's get there i mean it had to be a week that you have been looking forward to it for a very long time to try to make this team and you you make the team on point to you you played incredible uh in doing so this year was it difficult to you know keep your mind off of the making this team but i mean you made your you're currently on a shriek of 30 straight made cuts and 22 out of 22 this year so looking at the stats i would say you weren't quite or too worried about it because he played some incredible golf this year yeah i i would never say i was really worried about it um you know not not saying i really didn't want to make the team and i was thinking about it you know quite a lot but there was other things you know to play for a weekend and week out big goals and make the olympic team got to represent Canada and the olympics um got it pretty close there i just nipped at em had when by one spot on the world rankings after the us open when the cutoff was so um yeah that was it was nice to let that team as well but um yeah the president's cup just with everything you know being in Canada my career being the captain someone i idolized looked up to and have gotten close with over the last number of years um huge goal to make the team and um huge honor to represent the internationals and in my home country and you know the the week was really really special really memorable definitely some some moments that will be tough to top throughout my golf career but um disappointing not to bring the cup uh or win the cup for my career but um you know it was was closer than the this scoreboard um we battled hard but some of the moments there it's you know finally sunken in a little bit some of the moments were so special and and the fans and everyone behind me you know i would say compared to charlotte a couple of years ago you know felt a lot more comfortable you know in that atmosphere and also helped knowing everyone was cheering us on everyone was behind us and um it was a definitely pretty cool experience well you've mentioned some moments well over some of those favorite moments i think getting to partner up with mac u's in the alternate shot the the uh force them on friday um we were we were vibing i don't know either of us have ever played better golf and i think we were seven unders through 13 holes when we closed out the match and it could have been better uh but i think that the last shot that i hit there on on 13 that day five iron like two rank 212 maybe to the hole and came off the club and actually like hurt my hand club twirling so hard i don't know if i've ever really club twirled but i was walking off the tee like dang i like just scrape my hand there has like must have been a good club twirl but it felt so good coming off the face i know it was going to be really good and backported into to get get us a point um that was pretty sweet and uh the same hole again on sunday the everyone in the stands singing no canada we got a 35 foot putt you know down a slope curling a lot um you know they finish up saying you know canada's i'm getting ready to step into the ball and the only thing going through my head is i'm making this pot and put it in that was a really cool special moment as well i mean i i i saw this majestic five iron you hit because i'm calling the shot as it's in the air and i just said it depends on the bounce because it i felt like this could go in and it was such an incredible shot but that whole arena there at the 13th hole when you walk up you know i never had been to a Montreal Canadiens game but i felt like i was in an arena because it was that loud i couldn't hear anything in my ears as they're just cheering on you and mckenzie he was walking up to the green mckenzie he just makes that putt game over in that match it just just an incredible day yeah overall it was really cool it's such a fun team to be a part of it created a great culture in that international team and um obviously the american u.s team is pretty uh pretty solid so they uh you know they're not easy to beat but yeah it it was a fun fun week mike did a great job and um you know being able to experience some of those things uh it was was pretty neat and the feeling after friday where we swept the the forceums um you know tough uh tough to beat but it takes a lot out of you that that week there's a lot of goals and a lot of energy expelled club twirling and whatever but um yeah it was uh it was a lot of fun that too bad we couldn't uh get over the finish line how how many days after the president's cup did you finally feel like you were back to a hundred percent because i imagine the physical you know challenge of that entire week and then the mental challenge as well just of how much you're pouring into every single shot i mean was it a full week later we were finally just back to like okay i can i can go out and play golf and not be exhausted yeah pretty much um you know definitely you know four or five days after trying mentally recover is the big thing um you know there's a lot of highs and lows that week and it's uh it's pretty draining mentally but um yeah was been able to uh was able to get home the following week and um hang out with the my wife and daughter and kind of get back to a little little bit of normal life but try and uh try and recover uh a little bit right please so i mean uh i will one one little thing i'll say about you and mckenzie hues because i got i got to watch you guys play both sessions of alternate shot and i was thinking in my head i was like okay gory conners has two wins what are we going to do to get them to three and my idea for you is i think you should register it for the next event as either mckenzie conners or cori hues because i think that combination and it i you two are just unbelievable i just can't describe the chemistry that you guys had this that week and on that golf course yeah it's it's pretty cool we we partner up all the time you know pretty much every Tuesday and practice rounds so we've got lots of experience playing playing matches together the alternate shots a little little tougher to kind of find your rhythm but i feel like being so close and knowing each other so well um it was as if i was hitting the shot and like i'm sure when he was watching this he was right into it he knew where it was gonna go i knew where you know his shots were gonna go and you know i knew he was making pots and he was he was making some pots man and even that bunker shot cori on 12 that ball was for the last five feet i'm watching mckenzie because i saw the ball like five feet out and i'm thinking it's gonna go in so i go pan and i watch mckenzie i'm like is he is he thinking it's going in and he's like tip towing and he's his eyes are so big and then he goes in fist bumps trips over the uh the mic we had next to the green it just i mean just the most chaotic scene watching all of the international there's a bunch of y'all's team that was right there and max going crazy you're going crazy it just you can't i mean that's why this this event and just any match play with with countries involved and seeing all the emotions come out of guys that you know typically on a bunker shot like that mckenzie you normally be like yeah tip gap but yeah international uh freshens gap so good yeah it's pretty wild i feel like you know my personality is pretty pretty dull and never get too high too low but just something about that event you make a big pot and you just lose control and your emotions uh come out of you so i uh yeah i have more fist bumps than then i've had my career probably that week but uh that was a lot of fun it was fun to watch and i'm looking forward to watching next year are you going to play much this fall career are you just uh gonna see you in 2025 yeah not uh not too much looking forward to the grant sorton event playing with brook henderson again upgrade uh this year and uh in december uh nothing else on on the tour schedule gonna you're gonna go over to south africa for the dead bank yum december as well um so i got a couple months off here uh my wife is uh do with the new baby uh next few weeks so okay you're on you're on the clock we got charlie as well so uh that's that's really great stuff so cori i appreciate you coming on uh especially with the baby on the way and what on on the way out cori can you give me one thing can you give me one question for taylor pendreth what do we have to ask him i would just play golfing them this morning and in the rain that was it was quite fun to have the rest of it is there anything that we have just got to know about taylor pendreth that just that screens hey man you got to ask him about that that freshman year decision that he made it can't state or anything on the road that comes to mind he yeah we had some we had some good times together i guess you ask him about uh you can ask him about a christmas party uh that we went to and uh what what we were second state this is second state okay uh we're gonna have to we're gonna open up with that so all right thank you cori i appreciate very much and uh look forward to seeing you down the road man yeah you got it thanks for having me taylor all right we got another canadian golfer joining us here taylor pendreth we just had cori counters on taylor and i left the conversation with cori and i said cori give me something as taylor pendreth and it took him a second he's like all right you need to ask him what we dressed up as at kens state i believe it was for how wean is what he said so can you enlighten us on what this outfit was no that's what he came up with uh there's halloween at camp was unbelievable really oh yeah it was a wild time but um we had a couple good ones i mean i'm sure the one he's referencing is trailer park boys um a few more watch bell if you don't know that show you should watch it it's unreal um yeah i was uh ricki and cori was bubbles um i'm assuming that's one he's talking about the other time we did uh actually i don't know if cori was there for that but we were like a uh a breakfast sandwich i was like a piece of bacon and that was an egg but the trailer park boys i'm sure is one yeah i'm seeing this did you do the uh i've seen i've seen the show before i've never like watched it in full but i see i got i'm looking at ricki are you ricki i was ricki yeah yeah like did you do the sideburn thing like did you learn how to smoke go on yeah it's good i mean what was kens state like and i know uh you mckenzie and and cori all end up there but i don't think i've ever asked anybody what kens state uh what the college experience is like yeah i was cool man i loved it i had a great time i mean it was close-ish to home and um the golf program was obviously really strong for a school that far north and um we had a really fun time yeah um you know the facility that we had was was world-class and um we had lots of fun as well at the school as it was uh it was a good good time um the three of us had a fantastic time at school yeah so like you're all right so you're 33 mckenzie is 33 cori's 32 so did you and mckenzie coming in the same class and then cori was one year behind is that is that sound right uh no so i actually skipped a year after high school because i wasn't that good at golf um so i just practiced that year in canada and then was recruited so i came in with cori he's a year younger than me and then max a year older than me but he was two years ahead in school he i think he was at can't when he was like 17 or something but yeah so uh i came in with cori yeah we were roommates for four years man you got to dive into that for me now so what was your junior golf experience like if you know when you finished up you well i mean what did you do right after high school so you just went and practiced for a year and then and then got recruited and then next thing you know you're at Kent State Point College golf hey yeah i mean pretty much i i like i didn't really play junior golf i i never played in internment until i was like 16 wow and uh i know i needed to like play in some of the bigger like Ontario events and Canadian events and so i decided to take a year off after high school and work on my game i was working at golf town which is like golf galaxy in the u.s and changing grips and selling nirons and wedges and doing all that and um yeah then her page found me at uh tournament and um i went down for a visit i had a couple other um visits booked and went to Kent and loved it i mean it was the perfect fit get your holidays started with the perfect tree and your perfect style from the home depot whether you want something that you can assemble in a few clicks steal the show with over 2 000 color changing bulbs or a tree with lights that can be controlled by remote or foot pedal the home depot has it all in our huge assortment of premium trees plus get free delivery on 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together our coach he was on the national team and i was working with the national team coach and he said you got to play together and that was the first time i ever met him that was probably like summer before we were going to school so um yeah i didn't like i said i didn't really play in those big junior events like those guys did so i obviously knew their names but i didn't know them that well and that was the first time i played with cori and then yeah we ended up four years roommates together and um still very close with him and um yeah that's so interesting man i didn't know that about you and and i i think that doesn't surprise me either because when i watch you play uh over the years it you strike me as a person that always has just had just the raw ability to have these superpowers in this game your ability to hit it long you've had a great uh season on the greens with the putter you know is the game just for you always just been something like you know be able to pick it up at 16 and then somehow be able to progress into a collegiate golfer and then you know be a winner on the pga tour i mean you've made some leaps and bounds here from when you're 17 years old here taylor yeah yeah i mean i've always loved sports um and played hockey and baseball at like a very high level and wanted to be a baseball player like my whole life um and then picked up golf kind of late and you know always i guess had the raw ability to hit the ball far um you know i was a good pitcher in baseball could hit a good hitter had a good slap shot in hockey so i was always like powerful and yeah i don't know picked up a golf club and was able to hit the ball further than all my friends and didn't really think anything of it and um but then got a little bit more serious into golf when i was you know 17-18 and then the year off that i took um after high school and and got you know pretty good at it good enough to get me a scholarship to a school in the states and still the first you know two three years probably of school i'd i didn't have any ambitions of being a pro golfer really i mean i knew i was good but i don't think i believed that i was good enough you know and um yeah i think the coaches there really you know made me a better player and taught me how to actually play the game of golf and um they knew that i was talented for sure but needed to learn how to score the golf ball a little bit better and they did a great job and then you know i had a couple wins in college and my junior and senior year i i had some really good finishes and was honorable mention all-american and then kind of believe that maybe i should you know give pro golf a try and um yeah that's i guess that's how it happened well you and i uh both turned pro in 2014 so how about that so what why don't you just give me just uh a snapshot or spark notes of all that you can remember from 2014-2024 so that'd be 10 years as a pro so it's where you are now right so you play in president's cups winning on the pj tour this just didn't happen overnight and from talking to matt broome your agent he had mentioned to me that this is the first full year that you really have been injury free was it injury prone throughout the 10 years or was it a warning development at the beginning injuries along the way and then you're just kind of getting into a groove here uh i guess 33 years old yeah a bit of everything i guess i mean um 2015 was my first i guess full year as a pro and i played on the mckenzie tour and finished third um i only played eight events because i parlayed some corn fairy starts top 25s and um yeah finished second i think three or four times that year and um was feeling great got corn fairy status went out there finished fourth in bow guitar which was like the second or third event of the year yep we're now i was flying i was you know feeling good playing good um and had an injury in my wrist um that year and i think i played maybe 13 or 14 weeks in a row you know how it is yeah it's unbelievable the most golf you ever played you'll you'll find out if you like played pro golf or not just played 15 in a row yeah i think i missed like 11 cuts in a row and was it was hurting not playing good and um lost status and didn't play really much in 17 or 18 wasn't sure i was gonna do played a little mckenzie tour back to mckenzie tour full time in 19 was healthy that year feeling great um had two wins um got corn fairy status again i was out there i played great um pretty much injury free in 2020 covid year happened had to stay out there another year um which was tough i mean they gave us the alternate field events which was good and the us opened so that was fun but um had to stay out there another year as opposed to graduating right away and then been on tour yeah the last three years is my end of my third year this year and i've had some battles it had a broken rib my rookie year missed four months uh this year at the beginning of the year my shoulder was you know really bothering me i wasn't sure if i was gonna play or get it fixed and uh PRP injections and uh it's been seeming to be holding up pretty well so um and then yeah just finished president's cup last week so it's it's been a journey man it's been a grind man i so just in that i want to hear all of that the the years that i really want to just ask one more question about a 17-18 so coming off of that risk injury you lose status and you said that you didn't know what you're going to do so i i imagine that what kept you going was you're really solid golf and that knowing that you could do it but still the the the anxiousness and not knowing what was in front of you and whether you're going to be able to make it in pro golf and onto the PGA tour i'm sure those questions loon pretty pretty largely in your own head uh trying to figure out what the next steps were yeah for sure i mean there was definitely times during that period where you know i didn't know if i was gonna play golf didn't know if i was i always thought i was good enough if i was healthy but it had been and i had proven that in in 2015 you know and um but it's just it's tough man like it's such a grind and everybody's so good and and like you know that you're good enough when you're you know that you're good golf is good enough but it's it's hard to do it all the time and especially throw some injuries it's it's tricky to form it at your best you know playing hurt and i'm watching you know my buddy's Corey and Mac they're on the PGA tour winning events and i play with them a lot and and know that you know if i play good i'm as good as them um so it's it's yeah it was it was a grind man it was a battle and finally getting out to the PGA tour everybody's oh you're a 30-year-old rookie i'm like hey i'd rather be a rookie at 30 than a rookie ever so whatever everybody's journeys different and yeah i've had to i've had to grind pretty hard up and down on different levels of the tour so it's uh i'm happy that i stuck with it because it's been uh it's paid off and it's been it's been a really fun ride you know i think most players too when you just talk about a player um whether it's just bar talk and you're like you know if i had mentioned taylor pinder then i think the first thing that would come out of most people's mouths would say Canadian hits it far but when i i think the thing that shocked me just doing some some research on you taylor was you know looking at the first two years that kind of fit the profile of who you were as a golfer looking at the sets but this past year i was blown away at how good your putting stats were your seventh in putting for you what was the big change this year why why why were the why were the putts fallen was it something that you change in your in your setup or your stroke putters i always am interested to see why guys make a huge jump from um in a category yeah um yeah i guess statistically for my whole career that's probably been the weakest part of my game um is on the greens and um i switched to a center shafted putter two years ago maybe i think i i think it was my second year on tour i switched to it and i don't know my stats from from last year on putting but i felt like i put it better and i felt like i was you know making progress i guess close to putting good but um i haven't really changed i changed putters uh for this year i'm using a jailbird center shafted jailbird um and uh i've been doing the same stuff though you know same drills um you know really i guess putting a little bit more work in on like the speed of the greens each week and trying to dial that in um which i think has helped a lot and um my feel and um three putts you know trying to you know obviously avoid those is huge but yeah i've been doing the same stuff i think just you know getting a little bit more confidence with the putter and seeing some putts fall early um and seeing some putts fall in big moments right a long way for the confidence but i haven't really changed my practice or preparation i've been doing the same stuff that i've been doing for 10 years um but new putter i mean yeah that putter seems to be working good this year well when you start getting hitting that start line you know that definitely makes a big difference when it starts uh kind of freeing up the rest of your game right when you can hit it to 20 feet feel like you can make a putt that definitely makes a difference and when i look at your results to this year to where you have six top tens on the year and i think that speaks highly to you know what like what a hot putter can do for a guy that when you're able to make putts you turn those you know 25th to 30th place finishes into top tens and that's what it seemed like you're good golf this year you found a way to get yourself in position more often than not and in the last four or five tee times on sundays i think would you credit that to just your overall game just being that much better and just getting a little bit more confidence yeah definitely i think um you know the second half of the season i've played a lot of really solid golf and and everything was nothing was spectacular but everything was really solid i wasn't driving the ball great at the beginning of the year and and that was really bothering me and i switched shafts in houston and you know i was swinging a little slower than with my shoulder and then it progressively kept getting better and better and the last second or second half of the season i was driving it you know how i was the previous two years and felt really good with it could swing hard at it and so the driving improved you know the irons were just steady solid if i hit it good that week i'd likely have a good finish because you know my putting was was pretty solid all year really but yeah i think i think my whole game overall was just really steady and solid this year and then you mix in you know a really good putting week and you got a top 10 or or a top five so yes it's been uh had a lot of really really solid results man this year and it's been it's been awesome i wasn't in the in the big events at the beginning of the year and then after i won in dallas i got in the three remaining ones and um a couple majors and was able to play pretty some some pretty solid golf in those events so um and then the last three playoff events were were good as well so um it's been a really cool year yeah i didn't expect it at the start of the year um but uh obviously happy that happy that i'm here yeah a lot of great things ahead for you taylor playing in your first masters next year like you said winning at buyer nelson uh you finish 14th of the fedex cup which also comes with a nice chunk of change so a lot of really positive things for you taylor and as we kind of get towards the end of this conversation i i mean we got to talk suppressance cap right i mean you just you got the international shield shirt still wearing is still reppin the black and gold so let's talk a little bit about this week and that second half of the year i think the most impressive thing taylor you just mentioned how well you're playing is playing well knowing that you know you were going you're you have mike we're checking your your stats your score whole by whole every single day and you're able to just you know make it to where you you became an obvious pick at the end it was a no-douder and i think you got to give yourself a lot of credit for how well you played to make that team yeah yeah thanks molly yeah it's uh we had a team dinner actually in in dallas that week um and i think it was on tuesday night and um this really inspired me and you know mike said he believed somebody in this room is going to win this week and um i ended up winning and it was it was just it was pretty cool mike you know mike was texting me throughout the week and um you know texted me sunday morning or saturday night and and just gave me some nice words and um was able to get it done which was really cool and then um yeah i played really steady the rest of the year and it was definitely on my mind it was um you know i played the one in charlotte but this one i knew was going to be a bit different and um playing in canada uh under mike we're legend one of my heroes you know somebody i really look up to and it's uh it was a big one for me and um the week last week was was awesome obviously it's not the result our team wanted but it was uh some really cool moments and friday is a day that you know it's the most fun i've probably ever had on the golf course and i think it's the most fun the spectators ever had on a golf course it was it was a really cool day i think it was the most fun i've ever had on a golf course as an uncours commentator i mean just it was just electric i was uh just spoke with kori uh we had mckenzie earlier on this year and i told kori i was like you want to get your third win you just need to enter the field as as kori hues or mckenzie conners because you too just need to play alternate shot and just pursue a career in that because you too were unbelievable yeah yeah they were dialed i don't know it was it was cool man like that's that friday day i mean thursday we got smoked obviously on the score um it was closer though it was much is a bit closer yeah we you know we me and bez took him to 18 and it could have gone either way um i think there's two other matches that went to 18 and um afterwards on thursday you know like obviously our team's disappointed because we didn't get a point um but the bus ride back was electric and and busy if you know busy he was getting the boys going and you know trying to have you know keep the spirits high and um it's a really fun bus ride we went home and and then came back friday and everybody was pumped up to play and to play hard and we were able to flip it on friday which was which was such a fun day man no anybody anybody really expected it but we you know we thought we could do it but um everybody i guess had kind of written us off after day one but it was it was sweet it was really really cool day yep and uh i i think uh the last thing when i asked you about this president's cup i mean you got to partner up with adam scott guy's a legend man how cool is it just teeing it up and then every now that he had to just kind of pinch yourself right i mean it's adam scott it was so cool yeah it was uh well when we we were in montreal a couple weeks before and he was going to be one of my potential pairings i mean the guy is an absolute legend he's you know the president's cup means so much to him and he's played in so many and um we played alternate shot a couple weeks ago and and we did really nicely and i i thought we were going to be a really good pair and you know i think he was pumped up um to play with me and i certainly was pumped to play with him and um we went on friday and we did really nice man like we were we were vibing we were we were you know we were on and it was really cool um you know that day he got that that win made him the most winningest player that's right in history and it was my first point so it was it's something i'll always remember and and then i got to play with him all day saturday which was really cool and i i felt terrible i did not have my best stuff saturday morning and was hitting some horrible shots and he played really really nicely um but we went out saturday afternoon and we're able to you know get the match under control and we're we're vibing again and i think we're five maybe five under through twelve or something that day and and we were going pretty good and was able to limp into another win um on saturday afternoon but yeah he's he's such a cool dude man like he's he's he wants it he wants to win so badly but he is just like i don't know the nicest guy and wants you to do well and and just the energy he brings is is awesome so i had i had a blast playing three rounds with him it was it was really cool so adam scott's 44 years old do you think you're gonna have that kind of speed when you're 44? i have no chance to smash is it right? well i'm hoping when i'm 44 i'll be happy yeah i know he he bombs it yeah he yeah he bombs it his short game though was was very impressive i put him in some seriously awkward spots and some of the rounds and he was able to you know flop it up to three feet it was impressive is yeah he's his overall game's unreal but he bombs it yeah bomb yeah it's so impressive it's it's a flatter ball flying he likes turning it over right to left it's something that you just don't see a whole lot anymore you just see mostly fades and ballway up in the air and adam hits is like this flat bullet and you're just like huh i don't even know how to get a setting of a driver to do that i'd have to put it so far back in my stance to get that fat flight and his swing's perfect so it's nice to watch all day yeah he's good looking guy too he's got all the advantages this guy yeah well tell you where i know you and i both have kids about a kid i should say at the same age uh you got one turning two soon uh how's it been uh being a father on the road that was been awesome man it's been you know they travel pretty much every week and um i wouldn't want it any other way it's i would never see them and it's it's um i feel like these times are something you you don't want to miss and um he's such a good boy and um you know we're having a a really fun time i just got done playing in puddles for the last two hours and it's a habit down that scene you know he just loves it it's pouring rain here in florida and we're just outside jumping in puddles so there you go brought a big smile to my face but yeah they're um to have them on the road means a lot and um i wouldn't want it any other way it's it's it's been challenging at the beginning for sure but now it's it's you know you have a bad day on the course you come home to to my wife and son and it brings a smile on your face and you always it's great great perspective and taylor thank you for your time man and i think the last thing i'm gonna ask you here is is since we just had cori on he mentioned that youtube played gop this morning who won the match it was there was some uh there's some questionable shots so there was it was kind of a rainy brutal day but um we actually didn't play a match but i think i would have gone probably okay all right taylor pindreth gets a point here for the internationals in canada cori counters not earning a point in the match this morning but i'm already looking forward to chicago madina in two years i know the internationals uh want to take a shot try to take down that uh tough american lineup but it was fun watching you taylor play all five up in canada and looking forward to seeing you the rest of your man appreciate your time right on yeah thanks for having me smile everybody see you know i listened to this podcast it's really cool and all 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Join us for another episode of The Smylie Show as we kick things off with co-host Charlie Hulme, who shares the heartwarming news of becoming a proud girl dad while joining the podcast from a hospital room. The conversation shifts to the much-anticipated chat with Canadian golf stars and recent International Team members, Corey Conners & Taylor Pendrith, as they talk about their Presidents Cup experiences and reflect on their respective journeys from Canada to the PGA Tour. They also dive into their days at Kent State University, current states of their golf games, and more!
