New PGA Tour cardholder talks losing big in Texas money match

For Chandler Phillips, a three-time All-American at Texas A&M, January can’t come quick sufficient.

Thanks to a stellar Korn Ferry Tour season this 12 months, the place he completed tenth on the factors record, Phillips will likely be heading to the Big Show in 2024, beginning with the Sony Open in Hawaii.

But in the intervening time, he says, his golf equipment are tucked away so he can take pleasure in searching season.

On this week’s episode of Subpar, Phillips revealed to hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz that prolonged layoffs from the sport usually are not a brand new factor for him. In truth, he even took important day off between the autumn and spring seasons in school.

“My old head coach, JC Higgins, he’d get on me pretty good,” Phillips stated. “But I’m just like, hey man, I’ll be fine. Just let me have some fun. We’re goin’ day in, day out. It’s my off-time, like, reset. I’ve kind of always done it. It seems to somewhat work for me. I don’t plan on changing it any time soon.”

The relaxation clearly performs dividends for Phillips, who put the golf equipment away between November and January final 12 months. After only a week of apply, he received the Korn Ferry Tour’s opening occasion, the 2023 Bahamas Great Exuma Classic.

And in case you suppose his newfound PGA Tour standing will change his methods, Phillips says he has no intention of altering his relaxation routine. Hey, the elk and duck are calling!

When Phillips isn’t searching, although, there are many alternatives round his residence in College Station, Texas, to maintain himself sharp, one in every of which is a big-money sport at close by Conroe Country Club, a nine-hole course that Phillips described as “the best nine-hole golf course you will ever play in your life.”

“They have some serious money games out there,” Phillips continued. “After this last time, I told ’em, I was like, alright, it’s gonna be a while before I come back to y’all.”

Phillips stated he performed in a sixsome, as part of a three-man group.

“My team, I was the lowest amount lost,” he stated. “When I am going to Conroe, I often deliver $1,000, $2,000 with me, simply to be protected. And I didn’t have sufficient.

“I was the least amount and I lost $7,900.”

But that’s not the worst of it. By advantage of some extra particular person bets, Phillips stated he watched one in every of his buddies lose $30,000.

“Don’t get me wrong, it got out of hand,” Phillips stated. “But it’s always a fun game. You hate to lose that much, but they guys that we usually play with, they ain’t worried about it.”

So what sort of sport creates a loss like that? Phillips stated they performed two best-ball, hammers (doubling the guess on a gap), and you would press (begin a contemporary new guess on prime of the unique guess) at any time. He estimates they performed between 27 and 36 holes.

“The hammers started out at $50s,” Phillips stated.

Whew!

For extra enjoyable tales from Phillips, take a look at the complete episode beneath.

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