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Bud Cauley Interview: Closing in on his return from injury, obtaining his Tour card through sponsor exemptions

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Golf, Sports

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar, PGA Tour pro Bud Cauley joins former PGA Tour pro Colt Knost and jicky jack legend Drew Stoltz for an exclusive interview. The former Alabama standout talks his friendship with Justin Thomas, being one of the few players to secure his Tour card through sponsor exemptions, and what we can expect as he attempts to return to form following a series of injuries.

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0:00.0

Well, hello again, world. Welcome back to golf subpar with Coltnost and Drew Stoltz.

0:17.0

Slazyman, you know, there's been a guy that has been a fixture at the top of the leaderboards

0:22.0

on the PGA Tour this fall, and he finally ended up the top man. Taylor Gooch picked up his

0:27.0

first W on the PGA Tour down at the RSM. Fear the Gooch. That's what the rest of the PGA

0:32.0

Tour is thinking right now. What if this kids had an unbelievable fall? I say Katie's 30

0:36.0

years old, he's paid his dues, he's played other tours coming out, took him a couple times

0:40.0

to get through Q school before he got corn fairy status, and now he's playing some

0:43.0

of the best golf on the planet. Six events this fall, he's played five times

0:47.0

inside the top 11. That's hard to do, and I just feel like it's just week after

0:51.0

week after week where you're more surprised when you don't see him up there than

0:54.0

when you are, and this is kind of, you know, we talk about the fall season,

0:57.0

it's not always the best fields of the year, but it gives guys a chance like

1:00.0

Taylor Gooch to come out and like really announce themselves on the PGA Tour,

1:04.0

because he's been a monster. Well, he has been a monster, and he is number

1:08.0

one on the FedEx Cup points list heading into the 2022 year. He is, it's going

1:13.0

to be interesting to see, you know, he was a guy, he was 51 in the official

1:16.0

world golf rankings heading into the RSM. He knew, you know, this is basically

1:20.0

the last event of the year to pick up world ranking points, getting that top

1:23.0

50 before the year ends, you get the invite to Augusta. He just went out and took

1:27.0

care of business and got the W pretty impressive, considering he, we had him on

1:30.0

our Series XM show, he knew where he stood, he knew he had to play well

1:33.0

this week. Yeah, it goes ahead and gets all the invitations, all the free money

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