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premium access at gulfsmarter.libson.com. Here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome to the

Golf Smarter podcast, Tommy. Thanks, Fred. It's great to be a part of it. Well, it's a joy to have you on because you've got stellar credentials,

but the recommendation is what I really loved.

I received an email from your brother, who's a golf smarter listener,

but he's not been a golfer his whole life, has he?

He's a new golfer.

He's a new golfer. That's my older

brother, Jimmy. I have two older brothers, but a very accomplished musician by trade, and he

got the golf bug, I would say, maybe three years ago, and really never had played any, you know, in the past, and now he's hooked.

Now, did you obviously didn't have a golf family? Did your father or your parents play

golf as well? My father was a golfer. He was a very good golfer, in fact, and a good athlete.

He was an All-American baseball player at Boston College

and was drafted, hockey player as well.

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