riverside backup video god bless golf: And God bless golf. My name is Chip Brooks. So happy you have joined us today. I'm running a solo show today. Timmy Tucker is in Bermuda, counting for Ben James, and Richie unfortunately can't join us at the moment, may reach us later in the day. But today's episode is pretty special. We have a guest in actually gonna be our first guest we've ever had on this show, and it is a gentleman named Austin Hitt. He is a brand new member of the PGA Tour. and he is from our hometown. He is a legacy and Heathrow member. grew up, went to Lake Mary High School before his journey sent him to the University of North Carolina, where he played for five years, including an extra year in COVID. And what he's done this year has been phenomenal when you especially look at what he did. these last seven events and pretty much had a life changing stretch to where he won the final Corn Fair event of the season. He secured his tour card and he went from chasing his dream to actually living it. there will be some talk about golf today. There will be some some I don't want to say gut wrenching moments. I'll try to keep that away, but his father was a friend of ours and a friend of the club and certainly meant a lot to everybody in that area. And without further ado, We are gonna welcome in Austin Hitt. There he is, big guy. Austin, can you hear me? What's going on? How are you? I'm great, man. God bless golf. It's I appreciate you giving us some time today. we were just going in a little bit about your your journey to from where we were, you know, seven months ago to where we are now. so other than welcome to the show, how's how's life been a little different these last couple of weeks? Tell me a little bit about what's going on. thanks for having me. Yeah, it's yeah, it's been good, been busy. it in a good way. yeah, just trying to I just got back home yesterday from visiting my girlfriend out in Stanford and yeah, settling back in and yeah, it's been crazy. Yeah, it's it's it's funny to see, man, because obviously this is a special episode for all of as I mentioned before, all of the the Lake Mary Heathrow legacy community. You have so many people pulling for you. And it's just amazing to see here where you are. But let's just talk about a little bit of the journey. I mean, you grew up here in Florida, you went to Lake Mary High School, you were a star on that golf team. In those days, obviously, when we're all good golfers at 15, 16, we dream about the PGA tour. your dad was a hell of a player, and there was a lot of good players always around Heathrow and Legacy. did you always believe that professional golf was realistic? In those days. Yeah, I look I I said that in an interview somewhere last week. They s asked something similar and I said what you what you always wanted to do. And it was a little different, something along the lines of Did you always know you wanted to be a pro golfer? And I said, Yes. And I looking back, I was probably delusional in thinking that. which is funny. I be like you said, we had a lot of great professional players around, whether it was Sam Ryder, Chris DeMarco, Jim Thorpe. so to me, professional golf felt normal. and looking back, I didn't realize how far away it was. once you start playing professionally, I think all of a sudden it felt tougher. but I was delusional at the time that I'm gonna go to college, I'm gonna turn pro and I'm gonna play on the PJ tour. now looking back, I had a long way to go and and still do, but it's it was cool in our area where I grew up in Lake Mary that professional golf felt pretty normal. and I think a lot of kids growing up in different parts of the country don't have that. Yeah, you know, that's a that's a great point that you say, Austin. And just to kind of piggyback on that, as you know, Lake Mary High School still practices out at Legacy, and I'm out there a lot and you see all these kids and a lot of good players that were just like you, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen. And not that you ever walked up and said, Hey, do you have any advice? Or these kids are doing the same thing, but I always wanted to be able to feel like When I'm talking to these young players, to be able to give an example like, hey, I can remember a July and it was 107 degrees and I was up here just because I was bored and there was Austin on the putting green, you know, f fresh removed from a cut at a Tour Americas event, probably grinding, working, knowing that it wasn't necessarily about the next day, it was about the total process. And I think you now, just like you had guys like DeMarco and Thorpey and Sam Ryder to look at. You have these kids that are playing for Lake Mary. They're carrying the same bag you had. They're on the same range. You've always they've seen you out there because you're out there before you moved and you were out there and always working. And I think having someone like you're now the kid, or you're now the guy that when some 13-year-old makes it say, Yeah, man, I Austin Hit was on my range when I was a twelve-year-old hitting bunker shots. And if he could make it, I could make it. And that's a great point you make about how I guess normal it seemed like to be on the PJ tour. Like how hard can it be? I I see these guys hit balls. Like if they can do it, I can do it. as you know, it's not easy. but that's a great reference point. And the guys that know you have always talked about, we've always said, you we we always felt you had such a great head space for the game because this game is is is is so cruel and is so mean. And it beats you up more than it rewards you. And then when you get those rewards, you don't even feel like you're almost like, Well, at least I didn't mess that up. So to have that kind of mental capacity, do you do you have you always been like that? No matter what sport you played, were you always just kind of comfortable in the moment and in in it like to embrace the challenge? yes and no. I feel like, yeah, I I've always been pretty good at that aspect. but like I said, it kind of goes back to playing in those games, back when I was in high school and squaring up with the pros. I felt like It was really even playing against you and Thad and some of the other guys that it was really cool that from a young age, and I didn't realize it at the time, that I'm gonna go out and play for five bucks against a guy on the PJ tour. And they're not gonna take it easy on me. there's gonna be times when they're gonna take my money and be happy about it, they're gonna press me on the last hole, whatever it is. And I'm gonna go back that day. I'm gonna be upset about it. And I gotta go out and practice and try to figure out how to beat them the next day. And I didn't realize it until way later on that doing that was a lot harder than when I played in let's say in college or a big junior event. and I didn't realize how much I was kind of training that aspect of the game. so you kind of get you're becoming comfortable being uncomfortable, which in golf you're always gonna be uncomfortable. So it's like how do you get more comfortable being there? And yeah, I think that goes back to a lot of those games I played growing up and and even now it's hey you're there's times you're gonna win, there's times you're gonna lose, and how do respond to it? And I think playing those taught me lot growing up. Yeah, no, that's such a great point too. And just to speak on that, what was the coolest part about being a North Carolina Tar Heel? Obviously after having a great career in college, you go to UNC and just you know, what was that what was that experience like? Because I I know that Obviously it's a big subject of where you are now, but that had a big part in your journey. So just just tell me about how how cool that was and what are things about UNC that you'll you'll always love and never forget. It was awesome. It was awesome. growing up in Orlando, I didn't know how cool it was until I got there. and I was so lucky to be able to go there. It it it was amazing, I think, mostly from the people. whether it was other top athletes, on the basketball team, football, tennis, and then the people on the golf team. I it's been well talked about. I've had amazing teammates who some of them are playing on the PJ tour already and have been been really successful. And I think the coolest part I've taken away is all the relationships that I made there. and then being around so many people that can kind of push you on to the next level. And again it's it was very similar to what I had growing up. It was when you had a lot of great players around and everyone's trying to kind of reach the same goal, it becomes a little more normal. and then looking back, it again, you don't realize how how nice it was to have that around until you you move on. And a lot of us are either playing on the PJ tour or professional tennis or in the MBA or in the MLB or whatever it is. And you don't realize how how cool it was until you look back. Yeah, that's a good point. It's not now you're having to drive yourself. It's not just, hey, co get on the bus and I'll tell you when we get there. and that's such a cool place. And I've I've always loved UNC. And I'm having a little issue with my camera, so I don't know if you can see my Carolina blue shirt that I wore today. But moving forward and and onto that, and and again, this is something that we we hope to be talking to you throughout the year and your journey. But as far as when we jump right into the most recent thing that's happened, and that is you basically talking Taking the bull by the horns and and earning your way onto the PGA tour. And I was doing some research this morning. I'm gonna throw these numbers at you and just just to tell you how crazy it is and for those listening. So your first nine events of this year, you were total of twelve under par and you missed five cuts. The next nine events after that, you were seventy-seven under and you missed three cuts. And then in your last seven events. You were ninety nine under par. Now that one is ridiculous. I don't know if you knew that or not. You probably kind of did. But A, how insane does that sound when you hear it, even though you did it? Yeah, it's crazy. It's it was definitely a nice run to end the season. but it it's funny how golf works. I feel like that in that middle stretch the beginning stretch was definitely I could have done better. The middle stretch it felt like I yet and it's funny to look back on the little moments throughout a season, throughout a year, throughout a couple years that can kind of spark you on. and you sometimes realize them in the moment, sometimes you don't. I had a shot and I don't know if it got included in these final seven events or not. I had a shot in Chicago on the fourteenth hole of the first round where I was two or three over, I think, and I hit this drive And it plays like kind of some swing stuff I've been working on and I finally really emphasized it and hit it perfect and I handed the club back to my caddy and said, We're we're good to go for the rest of the year. And we were kinda kidding, but it we I've referenced it a couple of times. It was like, Man, that it really did turn the year. Sometimes it's just one shot on a random day on a Thursday. it's crazy. That's funny you say that too, because you know, I'm sure you've seen the story about the time that Tiger and Stevie Williams were driving home and Stevie pulled over on the side of the road because Tiger was like, I gotta figure this thing out or he figured this thing out and he's making practice swings on the side of like I-95 or something. 'cause I was gonna ask you, where was that time that you said, I figured something out here? But one thing I did notice when I was going through your schedule is that stretch from that first nine to the next nine, you had a couple week break. I think you were you or maybe you just took those A couple weeks off and it really looked like once that that event hit in May, whether you had hit the red re reset button or maybe you figured something out. But from that point forward, you just went on an absolute tear. I mean almost almost a hundred and ninety under for for basically sixteen events. and like you said, it's funny how something that that doesn't seem that hard can seem that simple. And then next thing you know, here you are shooting, you know, shooting a 60. Which was like, Hello. obviously that guy was playing also great in Birdie the Last Hole to to win, but I even I think was that round did that do anything to you or was it just kind of like I've kind of been waiting for this or was there something where you're like, Okay, if I've whatever's going now, I've just gotta keep the pedal down. Yeah, I'll leave in I'll take it back. You were talking on those first nine events. It was interesting after the first eight events. I actually switched coaches too. I I hired a a new putting coach after the first four events and I hired a new swing coach after the first eight. So it he did reference after those first nine as well. We've we've joked about it a couple of times this week it's it's it kinda we started working together after the eighth event and it like you said it was nice to have that break and be able to be able to have get on a nice little run. So Yeah, with it. Yeah, with it. Going back to the going back to the sixty, it yeah, it was awesome. It it was kind of waiting for a round like that. I'd I'd shot some really good rounds. and to kind of have one line up, and I feel like there was a number of times where I maybe got to six, seven hundred par but to be able just kind of keep going that day was awesome. It I don't know how many birties in a row I finished with. I kind of lost track. Dude, it was it's yeah, no, I I got on a really nice run and Yeah, it was great to finish it out. It was a bummer that it didn't work out and and result in the win, but it was a it was a great tournament. Well, it certainly laid the groundwork for the fact that you're like, Yeah, I know I can win. And then let's just go right to it. The final corn ferry event of the year. I believe, could be wrong, but believe you were twenty-one on that mythical bubble list or whatever they talk about going into the final week. And instead of saying I'm gonna I'm gonna bust that bubble, what was the point of that week where you were like because I mean you had it you played great first two days where you would w did you tell yourself 'cause I mean I know we're golfers we're so weird. We seem to lie to ourselves sometimes when our brain starts working. Were you like, all right, I this is the one I'm gonna win. Or you just felt good about the you were this was the week. clearly you can't control the outcome, but i from an in team yes and no, yes and no. I feel like I I go back talking about that I Got on a really nice run through that middle stretch of the year, kinda like you talked about, some great swing stuff kinda fell into place. But we we had a weird like going into the Tulsa event. I was up practicing the legacy club and back home for a couple of days and it just really didn't feel good. Went into Tulsa, played really poorly, kinda finished in your last place. came back here to West Palm Beach and worked with my coach all weekend and we we were in a good spot but not a great spot. It's So n not necessarily that I was feeling like it was gonna be the week. I was So you weren't really sure. I that's even going into Thursday. We had hit so many balls going in that we kinda both my coach and I decided that it was like we're not necessarily gonna focus on so much of hitting balls. I think we're just gonna, you know, go out and play and see what happens. I've done a lot of good work all year and kinda trust that and make sure your body's fresh and so I was kind of nervous going into it, more so because I knew I had played great all year, but it didn't necessarily feel good going into the very last event. so Well, I I think too, and this was my personal thought y and I'll let you answer this. you know, for all of us that have ever played been playing golf, whether we're trying to make a cut or or trying to keep our card or whatever it may be. You never want to go into that final round or final tournament and better better be like, well this better be the best round of my life. You're like, you know, having to shoot sixty four to make the cut is a is a is a bad feeling. so necessarily this was your first year where you were able you you weren't going into the final couple events where like I gotta win one of these. You were just saying, hey, just keep playing good and just look up at the end. And You know, you you finished strong. I mean, you just you kept going and going for those last, you know, seven events and you really obviously you looked up, but you really kept your head down till it was all said and done. And then when you look back, you're thinking, Man, that that was amazing. And I heard a great adage one time and then I'll let you answer this question. The guy was asked they were asking him a another sprinter about Usain Bolt. And they said it's not necessarily he's faster than everybody, he just slows down later than everybody. As far as his speed, you know, first fifty, it's even, but everybody starts to slow down and he just waits a little bit longer. And I felt like you were going at such a great pace that what was gonna you were just it was just gonna end and you were gonna be where you were gonna be. And that's kind of how it ended up for you. And it turned out to be a win. Didn't need to be a win. Awesome that what a great way to get your first and hopefully last Corn Fairy tour event win ever. and and so how different was the celebration of what of that moment from maybe what you had pictured years before of like how it was gonna be. Because did you feel exhausted? Like in your brain is obviously spinning, but the amount of effort it goes into winning a tournament and how you feel after you win versus how you feel after you finish sixth. so what was that what was that moment like? Did was did anything surprise you as far as you were kind of maybe underexcited when you should have been elated? Yeah, I even like even going into the final round, I I think I was so nervous with the aspect of you're trying to win the tournament, but in the back of your head you know you don't really need to win. in your top fifteen and it's a slippery slope. It when I had a couple of times like you start looking up at the leaderboard and it's like, Okay, I've got like five or six shots on fifteenth, maybe, and I think fifteenth's good. It's like, okay, hold on, I need to try to win. Yeah, yeah. So I was able to really do a good job that final day. I was nervous throughout the entire week, but really the final day I the nerves kinda all went away. And it was this weird spot I was in. I wish I could replicate it more of I was so focused on trying to win. such a great headspace that all of a sudden I get all the way to hole eighteen, the putt goes in and I'm doing the interview and it's I'm just kind of in shock of I'm not necessarily, you know, over the moon excited like I had been in the past. And it was almost like where's the next hole? Where where do I go next? right. I was in such a good headspace that it was just the next hole, the next hole, the next hole, the next hole, and all of sudden there's no more holes. so it was different than when I made it through the Latin American tour three and a half years ago. I made it through on the last hole by three points for the entire season to make it in the top five and move up to Cornberry. And that was a way different. It was an immediate satisfaction. Like I I had two putts from ten feet to make it. And it felt like I couldn't even do that. It was I was so nervous. But on this one it was like completely opposite. It was so great. I was so locked in that it the moment didn't even hit me. which both are good to learn from, but both super different. and I think even afterwards I was definitely excited, but it didn't really set in. whereas when I was in Latin America, it was like a celebration remember when I walked off the green. It's like, my gosh, I I can finally get on the corn ferry. You can a bunch of things going through your head. You can make enough money to keep playing. Yeah. All different things. whereas the the making it through last week, winning, all the different things, getting your card, it didn't really immediately hit me. which was was weird how different they were. You know, and I think that's for all you l young guys listening, we'll hope to get a clip of this. I mean, that is just such a great that shows a it's a level of maturity, it's a level of experience. And that's a that's also with a guy that has, you know, there's scar tissue out there, right? Like we I've mentioned all the time when we talk about this game. We love this game. That's why this show is called God Bless Golf. But man, it'll cut you in how you respond to all those. And the fact that you were literally walking off of eighteen, not even knowing it was eighteen, and in your brain shows where you've grown, probably as a golfer, certainly as a professional. it's a maturity level and it's a confidence level. It's like You know, I tell people all the time, ema when you try to explain golf, imagine waking up one day and trying to walk out of your room and you forgot how to walk. And some days as golfers, we feel like that, but now we just wake up and we walk and we're not even thinking. And the fact that you're in that place, and now here comes even the n the next step where you're gonna have to learn that almost all over again at another level, because as you know, you know where you're headed. We all know where you're headed. You're you're now rubbing shoulders with the best players in the world, which means you're one of the best players in the world. And so when you have that mentality, how do you how do you sh how do you s you know, how do you define your goals for the season? Is is is having a goal too f high it crazy? Is having a goal too low, like keeping my car too low? Like how do you approach that season and you're you're fortunate enough to be I think you're living with some guys that are on tour and have had some success and I'm sure that stuff rubs off onto you. But but how do you how do you do that? Because, you know, that's something that obviously I'm sure is You've already done if or are you working on with all your coaches? Yeah, I think it's I think I learned that a lot when I moved up from the Latin America to the Corn Ferry. It's one, you don't know what you don't know. And then two, I mean I I always feel like if you just keep trying to get better and then also understanding that it doesn't get easier when you move up. a lot of guys like I I hear them, if I could just make it through Q school. I'll be able to play great on the corn cherry. I was like, yeah, no. I agree. But it only gets harder. And I think realizing that yes, it is only going to get harder and being okay with that, is a great place to start. with regards to goals, I I don't know. I think if I could focus on continuing to get better and keeping a great mindset, taking the ups and downs as they come, I'll be happy with wherever it checks out. Well, fantastic. And just a few more things because obviously your life and your job is to play golf. So being indoors when the sun is out, I know is probably taboo. But a one of the questions I wanted to to ask you about, and you were saying that you know you're just gonna with the PGA tour season, I know a lot of people are confused because there's like tournaments going on. Like Tim Tucker, who's normally on this show, is in is with Ben James and Bermuda right now. and with With the events left in the season, do you have a chance to get in into any of these? And if you do, does that do anything for your card or only possibly help your world ranking? So let's say you got into like the RSM and you played, and let's say you made whatever, two hundred grand. Does that count towards anything going forward, or does it just up your world ranking going into the season? Or do you even know how that works? Because I certainly don't. No, it's yeah, if you were able to play this fall you'd got an exemption or something, it it necess it wouldn't necessarily help you outside of world ranking. if you were to win, maybe you get some longer term exemptions. But no, with regards to me being a member, it'll start in January. out at the Palm Springs. Palm Springs event. Yeah. so no, nothing this fall necessarily. it it'd be great to play, but it doesn't it doesn't count for this season. my membership doesn't kick until January. So now so you're down in West Palm, Jupiter area. It's October 22nd. Your first tour event is in January. I'm sure you've put together a game plan of how you're gonna just, you know, day to day spend these times, weeks, keep you fresh. I mean, it's gotta I know you gotta just wish there was another tournament next week, like the way you're playing. How do you manage all that? And and and what do you do to kind of keep that balance of Boy, January's far away, but man, I really I do need to get better every day. I mean, how do you how do you approach it? Or are you a full in like this is this is the time where I grind and get ready? I don't know. I think going back to what you said, like I I look at it as a long term type of thing. I I think I took that approach right when I left college that if you're always trying to work on your game and get better. You might wake up in three, four, five years and be in a great spot. if you take that approach every day, whether it's the off season, whether it's during tournaments, whether it's wherever, if you keep going for that long term approach, I think you can end up in a good spot. I think golf's tough because like even this morning I was working with my coach and we were talking about it about a different kid that he works with and he wanted to come in and go work with them and hit the ball great tomorrow. wouldn't you wanna be in a great position and in six months and play great golf or six months from there and you get up a really good base. So I think that's the way I look at it is like how can I make those incremental improvements throughout the entire year. and obviously this this time of year you can, you know, make a little bigger changes if you wanted to, but I think I had a really good plan in place. of just keep doing what I'm doing and I'll be ready to go in January. True, true, true. All right, couple of questions from some people that wanted me to ask you this. Best athlete or best golfer that wasn't a golfer that was an athlete at UNC when you were there. Did you ever get to play with any of the other athletes and who would that be? tennis player, Will Blumberg. He he was our number one tennis player and our our coach tried to get him onto the golf team. He was that good. Wow. Is he is he like a hedge fund manager now or is he playing professionally? Yeah, I think that's actually what he yeah, he's in he played on the ATP for a little bit, stopped. he's he's gotta be a plus five handicap. He will he it's fifty fifty if he's beating me each time. That's tennis some of those tennis players are freaks. I mean, that's such a beast of a game. I don't know if you play any tennis or not, but as far as your own game, if you're assessing, what would you say the most underrated part of your game? Not that everybody's seen you hit all kinds of shots, but clearly you know how to make birdies. But is there a part of your game that maybe you feel is underrated that is really, really exceptional? maybe wedge play this year has really improved. I don't know if that shines through in the stats. It's kind of hard to stratify just your wedge play. I mean ninety nine under in seven events makes me makes me know that you probably know how to hit a wedge. I'd say usually usually people would say I'm a pretty good putter and a pretty accurate driver. Yeah, I always thought you hit it straight. Absolutely. And the wedge play this year has been really big. I bought a track man at the beginning of the year and it was super helpful. I feel like it's underrated because it's kinda hard to track that on the corner limit. Yeah. what give me what's your favorite college golf memory of all the of all the times you were there? Do you have one that sticks out that's just one of those that when you're sixty and you're hanging out with all the guys you went to school with that you probably live with now, that you would just always remember? Well, we joke about I think there was one time where I don't know what it got into a coach and he he wanted to make us have these serious practices all of a sudden and I think he was upset with someone showing up late or whatever and all of a sudden out of we've n we'd never done anything before, never done anything after. But that day he wanted us to do wall sits outside of our build up. So we did wall sits and then you had to go make these putts and run around or something. And I remember all of us are like What's the We're the golf team. What are we doing here? It's so we still joke about it today, like that might have been the stupidest thing we ever did. But it turned into a funny story. And the best part is that we we never did it again. It was just a I think he was trying out to see how we'd respond, and he's like, All right, we don't need to do this again. my god. Well, you know, I'd heard it's funny you say that 'cause I think it sometime maybe it was five or six years ago, Alabama had Their golf team started using like one of the saving strength coaches, and all their players started like hurting their wrists and stuff. And yeah, I I mean, look, you guys need to be fit, but the number one job of a golf coach is to make sure that his players get to the golf tournament and you don't get a speeding ticket on the way. all right. Last thing, and I wanted to save it for the end because I just want one, I I knew your dad. obviously he was one of the first members I ever met. We both have the same name, Chip and Chip. And when we when you were coming down the final stretch, we were hanging out with Greg and Heather Libby, and Heather Libby, you know both of them. she plays tennis with your mom. And when they interviewed you, I knew they were gonna ask some sort of question, but the the first thing was when your answer was my dad, after they asked you that question, Greg and I are both sitting there trying to act like we're not teary eyed, while Heather and my wife are just bawling. And you know, I have a son, I have two daughters, and you you know, all you ever want is is what's best for your kids. But that golfer relationship, father son, and knowing how much how proud your dad was of you, that was just one of the cooler things. It's something I'll never forget. And give me a little just a little snip of just your f at what point was it walking up the fairway or was it not until you put it out where you're like, Man, I just It'd be cool if Dad was here and I know he's watching and he's loving every second of this. No, I thought I thought that a lot of times this year. It I had a ball on the final round. fourth hole, I hooked it out of bounds and it bounced back in play. I had a the the tenth hole I'd make a wedge shot from a hundred yards. I the fourteenth hole I made a bomb. And each time I'm kind of smiling to myself that I might man my dad'd be kind of he'd be kinda laughing at these things going on. so I no I think about him a lot. He every time I used to call him after a bad round, he would always say, Okay, what'd you shoot? Blah blah blah. seventy five. Well, it beats seventy six. You're right. You're right. So it's beat seventy six. And I guys on the tour will laugh at me now that w whenever something's going bad, it could always be a little worse. Absolutely. Trying to remember that and that was the attitude that he always had. And I think I think about him a lot from that standpoint and trying to keep that attitude and no, I yeah, it's I was thinking about him walking up the last screen, seeing the tour bound thing on the side, kinda knowing I'm gonna make it. Yeah. No, I was thinking, man, he would be loving this. Yeah. Well, I can tell you this from, you know, I'll share this one last story with you and then we'll leave and let you go and hit balls and get better today. You there's a when the New York Giants beat the Patriots that year the Patriots were undefeated in the Super Bowl, Tom Coughlin gave a speech to his team and he says, you know, when you win the Super Bowl, it's not just you. Like your whole family wins it. Your whole You know, your friends, your family. It's this group of people that have seen the journey. You know, like I said earlier in the comments, I've known you now for so long. I remember all those days you were out there grinding. You were doing all the things that nobody sees, which is why you're here today. But I just want you to know the the the feeling. When you get that tour card, I can't tell you how many people, you know, were living vicariously through that. Not so much saying it's my thing, but like You're our guy. This is a hometown guy that we've all seen. Some people I've only I've only known you since 2018 when I moved here. But I mean, I know all these ki people and these families have known you since you were just a little tyke. And so I I don't it's hard for you to obviously grasp that, but what does it feel like? Because I can't even imagine the amount of text calls. I know it's impossible to get back to everybody. but what does that feel when you feel like you really do have this entire community and this this town behind you just really rooting for you, honestly, living day living shot to shot, especially on that final day. How does that make you feel? And what just what is that tell me a little bit about how that does make you feel and the community itself that is is always pulling for you. No, it's awesome. It's awesome. Even I feel like other other players will take notice of it as well. It's it's super cool to have The community back at Legacy Club in Heathrow where I grew up, it was like I talked about earlier, it it's a golf community and they've had a lot of professional golf. and it's cool to kind of grow up there. I lived there my whole life. I moved back there initially and played professionally. My dad was super involved in the club and running a bunch of games. It was a good player. So to be able to put all those things together and be able to pull it off was super cool. it It's somewhere where it feels like home to me and everyone is super supportive. and it's something that I feel like a lot of other guys don't have. so it's super cool to have everyone kinda pulling for me back home and shoot, I love coming back. Well, there's gonna be a few more pictures of you when you come back, just so you know. I think I see you that picture in the pro shop the other day. That was cool. That was cool. But that's awesome stuff. And look, man, I can't tell you how much I appreciate you taking some time for us. We look forward to having a lot more of these as we follow your journey. and once again, like I said, can't thank you enough for coming on and we are pulling for you and so happy for you. And with that being said, we'll wanna wish Austin a a good rest of the year. We'll see you soon, bud. God bless golf and thanks again. Thanks, Chip. We'll talk to you soon. All right, buddy. See ya. Later.