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This week, I’m joined by PGA Tour Champions player Rob Labritz—a golfer whose career is defined by tenacity, resilience and an incredible will to succeed.
Rob shares his remarkable journey from discovering golf as a youngster in Connecticut and working as a club professional to competing in eight PGA Championships and finally earning his PGA Tour Champions card at the age of 50.
We discuss:
- Falling in love with golf after finding his dad’s clubs
- Learning to shape shots while working and playing at Shinnecock Hills
- Balancing life as a club professional with elite-level competition
- The nerves of his first major championship at Hazeltine
- Becoming the only club professional to make the cut at the 2010 PGA Championship
- Finishing as the leading club professional at Bethpage Black in 2019
- The shot that earned him a place in the PGA Championship—and made SportsCenter
- Visualising PGA Tour Champions success for 14 years
- The emotional story behind finally winning Q-School
- Competing alongside players including Ernie Els, Miguel Ángel Jiménez and K. J. Choi
- The extraordinary standard of golf on the PGA Tour Champions
- Battling injury, losing status and refusing to give up
- Why failure can teach you more than success
- Rob’s best advice: play like a kid and never forget why you love the game
A brilliant conversation about perseverance, belief and continuing to chase your ambitions—whatever stage of your career you’re at.
Follow Rob: @roblabritzgolf
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