Peter Malnati's emotion today was obviously cool, but I think his words are also quite important.
Here they are.
"... To have this moment. It just feels so amazing. Obviously, my family believes in me. I have the best caddie. He's been loyal to me for a long time, through a lot of down times, too. I'm so thankful. I'm so thankful for my wife. She makes this all possible.
"Life is hard.
"It's obviously glamorous at times like this. This is my dream job, and it's absolutely amazing. But life is really, really hard, too. When you're trying to figure out how to live this lifestyle and have two kids and be everything you want to be, it's really hard.
"My wife has been an absolute rock through all of it. She's amazing. ... my family is amazing. It just feels so good.
“It feels so good."
Everything for the last two years has been looked at through the lens of "what is the most economically advantageous situation no matter the cost?" instead of "where best (and how best) can I and others thrive as human beings?"
Money doesn't solve most of our problems, no matter how badly we want that to not be true. It’s the human condition.
Life *is* hard.
Making even terrible Tour money makes it more comfortable but not much easier.
Money doesn’t make our kids turn out OK or improve our relationships or make us content, though I kind of feel like the rhetoric of late has implied that it will.
To capture a moment like this and realize how meaningul it is as a respite from the difficulty of life is incredible.
So often over the last few years (for a variety of reasons) we have seen players speak shamefully about the choices they’ve made.
This? This was pure pride. Pride in engaging the difficulty. Pride in doing your best.
Pride in remembering that there are much more important things than success in golf (and the money that comes with it), even though it’s sometimes actually success in golf that helps remind us of that very truth.
Dustin Johnson said he barely touched a club during LIV’s offseason. Was genuinely surprised at his T5 finish in Mexico. Just won the Vegas event. $4.7 million just in individual earnings in first 2 events.
Elijah didn’t have much. Good player and played w 9 clubs. Hayden Buckley sent him clothes, and Greyson Sigg did too. And an amazing person donated $5K to our foundation to make his dreams come true. He got fitted for brand new everything. Driver thru putter. Bag, range finder, new shoes on the way. On Friday you will read an article from his teacher who connected us to Elijah. And if you don’t cry, you aren’t human. I can’t tell you how much I love this.
When fans get on guys who hold out from camp or want more money or think about themselves just remember tonight is proof guys are risking their lives to play and the NFL was 100% completely fine with starting that game again after giving the players a “5 minute warmup”
I know hidden junk fees – like processing fees on concert tickets – are a pain.
They’re unfair, deceptive, and add up.
That’s why, last week, I called on my Administration to crack down on these fees and put that money back in your pocket.
A 63-year-old Larry Mize who averaged 230 off the tee playing in his final Masters beat a 28-year-old Bryson DeChambeau who averaged 310 off the tee at a place he once described as a par 67 for him this is the greatest sport on the planet.
Former #Badgers player Josh Engel's Rice Lake team, in Madison to play in the WIAA state tournament Thursday, is checking out the #Badgers practice today.
Good luck to the @Auggie_Hockey team tonight in their game against @USAHockeyNTDP. Let’s not forget the last time the Auggies played NTDP when @domminnows1 blew by @AM34 in the neutral zone at Ed Saugestad Arena
Yesterday I was commentating on pickup basketball from my apartment window when I was suddenly thrust into covering a 5 alarm fire. Some people are calling me a hero for my reporting. I just want to get back to covering what I love, which is the awful players in my neighborhood.