4.8 • 949 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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On today’s episode, Erik sits down with Neal Shipley—the 2024 Masters low amateur turned rising professional—to talk about what it takes to make the leap from college golf to the PGA and Korn Ferry Tours.
They dig into Neal’s journey from his childhood home track at Mt. Lebanon Golf Course in Pennsylvania to the biggest stage in golf, what it felt like to be low am at Augusta, and the mindset shifts required to compete for a living. Neal also shares his dream golf trip with friends, his unique approach to the game, and the lessons he’s carrying forward as he starts his professional career.
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| 0:00.0 | And welcome to the Ak-Gayernsling show. |
| 0:03.8 | Neil Shibbley, you are a professional golfer, but you also seem to have a lot of experience with production. |
| 0:09.8 | You just said sound speeds. |
| 0:12.2 | How do you know what that is? |
| 0:15.3 | So I did that commercial shoot for paying, well, I guess first time i heard it was like um with the full swing |
| 0:22.1 | people during my sit down and um yeah it's like sound speeds it's just like that's just like |
| 0:27.5 | sounds so nice and it's it kind of yeah it's just a funny little thing and then at the ping shoot you're |
| 0:32.1 | there all day and like now it's just yeah you just hear it all the time. So just picked up on that one. |
| 0:37.8 | You also are like, you know, we just finished our video that we shot. |
| 0:44.1 | And if you're listening to the podcast, you haven't seen the video, you got to go see it. |
| 0:48.1 | What I guess what the originally the title was going to be, what does a tour player shoot at a muni what do you think the title of the video |
| 0:55.9 | should be jeez i mean but i think part of it is kind of like neil shippley back at his home |
| 1:01.6 | course they're like you know where he grew up playing golf um and a lot of it too is like what's |
| 1:06.9 | muni muni golf first tour golf and what the difference is and how like a tour player we're so |
| 1:12.5 | tuned into the conditions we get week to week firm fast um you know usually the rough isn't crazy |
| 1:19.4 | long and juicy every week but when we come out here they just got off a lot of rain the rough |
| 1:24.2 | hadn't been cut in a while it's thick you got You got softer green, slower green. So it's a |
| 1:29.1 | different like style of golf. And you got to adjust to that. So it's kind of like, what are the |
| 1:33.5 | differences for us as a tour pro? Like how do we adjust for conditions like this and how it kind of |
| 1:39.1 | affected my game? Yeah. It almost makes me think of like, you know, if you had like a Formula One driver and then put him in like a delivery truck. Yeah. It almost makes me think of like, you know, if you had like a Formula One driver and then put him in like a delivery truck. |
| 1:48.3 | You know what I mean? This is like how do you, how do you even do that, you know? |
| 1:51.7 | Yeah. No, it's, I think, you know, like that's a great analogy because those guys are so tuned into their cars and how that car works and reacts on turns. |
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