Hey guys, welcome back to the Rick Shields Golf Show podcast.

Happy New Year guy.

Happy new year, Rick.

2026.

Wow.

It is mad, in it, when you actually think about it.

I'm 40 this year.

Wow. Over that hill. It's all downhill from here. Middle of this year, I am turning 40. You know what's mad though about the years? I'm someone who works in years. I remember things from certain years. You are incredible with years. Yeah, I don't know why. So I'm at 2013 onwards, I have memories of each year,

things that I kind of go to and I'm thinking of a year.

It would have been funny there

if you went,

I can't remember what year since.

No,

but what's weird is

when you're talking about years,

not they want to go back to this time,

but the whole COVID stuff

was like six years ago.

This time six years ago, there was kind of talks of it in China, of this kind of mystery flu thing that we didn't know much about that we thought nothing of all that's over there. Then March comes around and it was like, wow. And then obviously, terribly there was thousands of people globally lost the lives and many people were affected by it, which obviously is, it was a disaster globally. It was terrible. But the world of golf, I think from COVID had this incredible boom. And the amount of people we now meet who say, oh, yeah, I started playing golf in COVID or after COVID or during COVID, whatever. COVID was a blessing for golf. And that was six years ago. It doesn't feel it does it either.

No.

But it also does.

But we lost that couple of years.

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