Matt Atkins, PGA Tour Pro

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Episode 104

Matt Atkins is a golfer on the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup. He finished 19th on the Web.com Tour Regular Season money list in 2017 and got his first tour victory winning the El Bosque Mexico Championship.

The 27-year-old carded two additional top-10 finishes, making 15 cuts in 25 starts.

In college at South Caroilna-Aiken, he was named a Division II All-American in his junior and senior years and was the Peach Belt Conference Player of the Year in 2013.

He and his wife Jill were married in July of 2017.

On this episode of the podcast, Matt Atkins shares about the grind of being a professional golfer on tour, the moment he finally heard the Gospel in college, watching Tiger Woods up close, and how he was introduced to his wife.

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0:09.2	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
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