Rising Golf Star Eric Cole Shares Insights from Tour Experience
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00:00You sort of burst onto the scene last year, that finish at the Honda, I guess now the
00:07Cognizant, you and Chris Kirk, and as we kind of talked about, 43rd last season, made it
00:13into Signature Events.
00:14This season, now you've done the same by finishing 46th, could even improve on that, but in Signature
00:19Events for 2025.
00:21Just curious, in the last two years, what you feel like the biggest thing you've learned
00:26is on tour, and how you kind of play that forward for goal-setting for 2025?
00:30Yeah, I mean, biggest thing I've learned probably is that, you know, you don't have to play
00:36perfect golf.
00:37I think a lot of times when you're not out here on tour, you watch the coverage or something
00:41like that, and you know, you're seeing guys who are playing some of the best weeks of
00:45their life, and you're seeing every shot they hit, and it just looks like they're not missing
00:49any shots.
00:50So, I think that's one thing that I've learned is, you know, you do obviously have to play
00:55well to have a good finish, but you don't necessarily have to play perfect.
00:58You're allowed to hit a few bad shots here and there, and yeah, to just not beat yourself
01:04up too much and try and be too much of a perfectionist.
01:07Is there any PGA Tour player before you came out here that you tried to model your game
01:11after?
01:12Hmm, good question.
01:16Not really, honestly.
01:17I can't think of one.
01:20Well, can I give you my comparison of like your game?
01:24Your game reminds me so much of Zach Johnson's.
01:26I think y'all have similar strengths, similar ball flights.
01:29You know, I think you carry yourselves in a very similar manner.
01:34Y'all both cash a lot of checks.
01:35I'll take that.
01:36So, that's my comparison.
01:39Any course I feel like that suits Zach Johnson's game, I feel like suits your game, too.
01:42Yeah, thank you.
01:43Yeah, no, I play with Zach in New Orleans this year, and he was playing great, and I
01:48kind of saw a little bit of that, too.
01:50I feel like we both hit a little lower draw.
01:55When you play that style, there's definitely courses that fit your game more than maybe
01:59some of the U.S. Opens and Memorial type of courses.
02:03For sure.