TOUR GOLF IS TOUGH!  

James you're so likeable! Start you're own RU-vid channel with lessons and tips!!!

James is so unbelievably honest. This was a great chat. Throughly enjoyed listening

James, I have been looking all over the internet to see your lessons. Dude, if you have RU-vid lessons for folks you will make a killing on it. Your swing is crazy good, you are a likable guy, without the arrogance of many golf training pros, who are not half as good as you. You can even return to the tour now that you are in a different place in life too. Please help coach the rest of us on RU-vid. Good luck TRUE PRO.

This was great. Very relatable to life and careers in general. We all get to a point that we ask what are we doing? In the end you have to be happy.

3 lessons from James saved my golf life his teaching is so simple and effective nearly giving up to winning two board comps in 3 lessons lovely bloke thanks James

I appreciate that Rick asked if the tour card format was fair. We don't get to hear about the players thoughts on the current format so I really enjoyed that section on the conversation.

I think it is sobering that the reality on tour is not what most people think it is. It is a bloody tough grind for 95%.

Brilliant podcast, James sounds like a great guy and knows what he’s talking about. Wish him the best in the future.

Wow! What a difference in watching the interview compared to listening to the podcasts. I promise I would be willing to waiting a few days to be able to watch the full interviews of the podcasts. The facial expressions and interactions are worth it!

I played golf with James at Old links and watched him shoot the easiest 62 you will ever see. The ability is definitely there.

What an awesome interview about the realities of professional golf and just how hard it is. I wonder how this compares to the PGA tour. You can also tell how geniune James is. I could listen to another 4 or 5 episodes on these type of stories.

What a great insight. Thanks to James for his honesty.

This is a great example of how a talented person needs to have the mental focus to make that talent flourish. One has to be risk tolerant, shut out the outside world, and love the daily grind. There is always tradeoffs for even the most talented out there. I applaud James for sharing his experience. Teaching others is a rewarding life and I hope he can find the love in the daily grind of teaching others to play golf.

This is so interesting. Great content would love more stuff like this.

The best video you have done this is the real life of most golfers not the elite could watch this all night.Great job fellas👍🏌🏿‍♂️⛳️🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇

Very insightful. James thank you for being so honest - a great video. Wishing you every success in whatever direction your career takes you

Went back to this podcast cause youtube brought me back... just gotta love James! Wish him all the best!

I really enjoy any episode with James in it. The dude seems like such a good guy, and from what I've seen, a phenomenal golfer.

Love all the videos with James in them, such a nice guy and fantastic player

What a fabulous and brilliantly honest insight to real tour life at the tough end of the scale.

What a guy James is . Love the honesty a real gem .❤️

Great great listen. Honest , humble guy .

Really appreciate the convo gentlemen!

I have just started watching RS and James is an unbelievable player, produces some magic moments and he is more than good enough to play on European tour.

Brilliant insight really enjoying this content.

Great vid-keep it going gents

Wow, I was glued to every second of this episode. What a fantastic insight into the world of top tier golf. Can't wait for Thursday for the 2nd half. And if this isn't the single best promo for an elite level golf coach I don't know what it. Everyone is going to fall over themselves to get a lesson from James after this. Get ready to up your hourly rate dude.

A true gentlemen and good guy. Love the insight

Thoroughly enjoying these videos and only ever played golf once.

I find insight into professional golf fascinating

Jeff Winther just got a 3rd place on the tour and made 86k. Glad to see someone progressing but boy does it sound like hard work. Such an honest interview

He’s such a lovely person And a amazing golfer

What a lovely humble guy!

So awesome, this peek into professional golf, and I don't even play golf. Imagine if James had a sponsor!

James you are a legend mate. Keep smiling brother

Definitely need to do more pro interviews. I’m a never-gonna-be but this is great for future gonna-be’s.

Really enjoyed this podcast and definitely prefer RU-vid snippets over pure listening to a podcast. Cheers 🍻

I played with many PGA Tour hopefuls in the mid-90’s, I was a +4 from 7,000 yards getting beat handily by guys that couldn’t get through Q-school....

Very tough, I agree. I have seen these guys train.

That was a great listen. Defo agree that people’s perception of a golf pro is miles away from reality

Such a great guy

The story is so relatable to many athletes that decided a sport is no longer for them. I've had a similar moment in my third year of University when I knew it was time to move a sport.

Great story. You have the naturals who win at the pro level in their teens and you have the lifers who grind and never win.

Fantastic Stuff. Man what a grind

Any chance the full podcasts will get uploaded? Love the snippets but would love to listen (and watch) the whole thing.

If you hit 10 fairways, hit most greens, putt well then you miss the cut by 7. My friend started 4 years for a Big 10 University. Won the state Amateur for Juniors and lived in hotels in Florida for 2 years before washing out. Another friend was a rules official for a Monday qualifier at a super tough 7200 yd links course and 2 guys shot 62 to qualify for a Web.com Event. At that course from 7200 I shoot 87 and I’m a 5hcp. Unreal.

What a lovely fella James is. You can’t help but want him to give it another go, especially after watching his Slazenger video. The European Tour could do a lot worse than seek his advice and offer him a job. Pass this onto him pls.

Rick we need more of James on both Channels

If James was as good at soccer as he is at golf, he would be living an extremely comfortable life.

I'm a 2 handicap from 6900 links course and I've never even played in a tournament. Play about 15 rounds a year now that I'm 30. Used to play everyday as a teen

what a man james is

I've been thinking about this and its pretty clear, if you win then you will do well and if you do other than win then you make it very much harder. Thinking "winning" is the answer and thinking "competing" doesn't get the job done. You have to win and there are so many aspects of the game to focus on other than winning that its easy to forget about just winning. Ben Hogan, win and you eat, lose and you go hungry. Its binary.

Are there other ways to get the "gold" European tour card besides through q school?

Yeah, just like us all say, WORK is tough.

Subbed to RS 2nd🏌️‍♂️

Just look at the path koepka took, it’s amazing

Bro, you're saying the mental game was hard in bronze... Whatchu think GOLD life would be like???????

bust out a black sharpie on your beat up coffee table

Has James got a YT channel yet?

The cream will always rise to the top.....end of.

11:00 Why LIV golf exists...

Excellent interview with James, would it be possible to number the interviews so we don't miss any content, ie 2/10

You do have to be almost pathologically fixated upon competing to become top tier. It's fascinating really.

You have to love the grind or you can’t make it.

I thought Guy was going to start rappin at one point. Proper 8 mile jobby

We could set up a patreon for him so he’s got regular income and get back out there. He can use the £70 set from that video! 😅

This is hyper good content and a warning to any would be golfer. I know some VERY good players some of whom had single figure WAGR rank in their time at Amateur level and they all left golf with their tail between their legs once they tried to become a pro. Its an insanely hard sport and the realities of life mean you need money to go to all these events to earn the points and condition yourself to this world. Only way I would go for it is. I had rich parents who said they'll back me until I am 30. I started young with good trainer and was a real prospect and I was off plus 5-6-7 by 18. Unless you're off plus 5-6-7 by 18 you've no chance IMO. its not even enough to be really good, you need to be exceptional in a game which can be lucky and random based. I respect high level players, but do not even their struggle.

You dont buy a house when your profit margin cannot sustain the payments when your're professional career is fluctuating... that thinking would definitely add conscious pressure no wonder why he hung it up

If only James new a really Rick friend I mean rich friend that could sponsor him for a couple of years to see if he can make it without the stress of money in the background............

Guy makes Rick look small.

However, if you constantly make the cut and get into top-20 in ET, you can get all you need making cuts. Think, of the peoplein ordinary occupations... If you cannot make it on the top tour, and if you can win CT events.. In Europeantour, if you are in the top-20 week in week out, you make really good money! Not the same were you on a belt in a factory in a three-shift job.

Money required to make it in some sports is crazy. Talent not everything unfortunately..

We only see the top players the money isn't spread out evenly..unfair.

Way too many guys turning pro these days - they should listen to this. Unless you are ripping it up at Amatuer level and winning elite events go and get a “proper” job

Really enjoyed this interview, so insightful!