All right, we are back for another episode of the Friday

Egg Podcast, and we are excited today to have Stuart Hagestad as our

guests. Stuart won this year's US midamam and that earned him an invitation into next year's

masters and he's also a likely candidate for the 2017 Walker Cup team.

Stuart thanks for coming on.

Thanks for having me.

I excited to get this thing going.

Yeah, yeah.

So we'd love if you could tell us a little bit about yourself.

Give everybody a little background on how you got into golf

and we'll kind of go from there.

Sure.

So I was looking up to grow up in Orange County, California,

and I grew up on a golf course called Big Canyon.

A dad's a great guy. He loves to play. As I can laugh him about he's like a 14. He thinks he's a 5 and plays like a 20. My mom's the closet athletic one in the family. She, you know, she'll never admit it, but every time I see a

throw a football or hit a golf ball, it's right up the middle or with a perfect spiral. So, I think between the two of them, you know, I,

between those two things and growing up on a golf course,

I kind of just, uh, just really gravitated toward the game.

It was this kid, it was pretty good and he was young. He would always play by himself and I'm sure he was playing worst ball or playing two balls or something.

I don't remember this, but I guess in 97 when I was watching the Masters on TV I told my

parents that that was Tiger and that's the story that they like to kind of refer back to, you know,

they knew pretty early that I was, you know, pretty interested in the game.

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