“I had a lot of fun. Honestly, I think a lot of people probably were stressing yesterday, but I mean, you know you’re playing Final Stage Q-School and it’s blowing 40 and everybody’s falling apart. That sounds like fun to me,” Greco said as he spoke about the environment in the Final Stage event. Talking about his struggles at the beginning, he further stated how he had tried a few sports as a junior as golf fell on the costlier spectrum for his family.
He also mentioned, “Thankfully, like we had Youth on Course once I found that in high school, that was a big part of being able to play more golf consistently,” while indicating how his father originally felt about one round of golf being so expensive that he could only afford to visit there once a month.
Discussing his initial days in golf, John Greco said, “I remember after my freshman year of high school, I literally had like these beginner clubs, like they were half hybrids,” as he shared how he worked a job in the summer to buy better clubs. Presumably, a big fan of the GOAT, Tiger Woods, he mentioned how he could “spot the Tiger Woods Victory Red blades with the Tiger Woods logo on it because Tiger’s the man,” while stating that he was only 15 at that time.
Recollecting how he made up his mind to pursue golf, he said, “And that’s when also I saw Tiger Woods in the U.S. Open at Pebble. So that was probably like; probably from then was when I was like, ‘okay, golf’s it, golf’s it, I want to do that.” Coming back to the struggles, Greco mentioned how despite all the hard work his parents did, pursuing a career in golf was just very expensive. He also talked about how they were not in the loop of the options they had available to get discounts for junior players and it was too late by the time they learned about it.
He then went on to give a glimpse of his s𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁 set as he said, “I don’t have the pedigree that plenty of other guys have,” while discussing how, at this stage, everyone was given an equal opportunity, and that allowed Greco to shine after years of hard work.
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