Passion & Profit in an American Pastime

I Love that.

That's so cool.

When and why I did around 2012. I had my best year on tour, 2013. It felt like I was kind of starting from scratch again.

You know, everybody starts from zero every year. There wasn't a lot of residuals. I was traveling 200 plus days a year on the road, a lot of it.

Now the tour had started to wane a little bit from, from the financial crisis and sponsorships were dwindling a little bit. So a lot of people were traveling internationally in order to supplement themselves. And for me, it was a fantastic experience.

But as I like to tell people, when you've been to places like, you know, I went to Qatar five years in a row to play in the Qatar Open and it was a great event. But when you go to places like that five, six times, you're not there to really sightsee anymore. You know, you're there to do a job.

And, you know, getting on a plane for 12, 15 hours, it was not something I necessarily wanted to be doing for my entire career. And I knew, I knew that I was leaving a couple good years on the table for sure. But I also knew that if I was going to do this for another three or four years, into my late 30s, early 40s, it was going to be something that I was going to do for my entire career.

And I wanted to see what else was out there. So I went back to business school.

Great. Okay, so pick us up there. Where did you go to business school and what did you think the future held? Was that just sort of a I'll go to business school and figure out my future sort of thing, or did you have direct, more direction?

Well, I've been entrepreneurial my whole career and I wanted to be entrepreneurial after school, but I didn't really know what that looked like. And I knew, you know, I applied to some programs, I was going to stay local. I was living in Dallas at the time.

I was going to stay local in Dallas. Ended up speaking with some folks who kind of encouraged me to dream bigger. So I actually put a, an acceptance on hold for a year.