Cole Hammer

Did Lamb goes in.

Uh, Cole Hammer dropped out this week, and Ben Coles dropped out.

Coles not even playing is probably g- I think gonna get his card via like PGA.

He, he, uh, PGA Tour fall, uh, I think he's gonna get a full card and, and via PGA Tour points this year and then in the fall, uh, so it didn't bother.

But it opened up for Hitt and Lamb to jump in.

Yudi Saguaro was the first guy out, started the week at 21, ended the week at 21.

Uh, felt a bit of empathy for sure for Cole Hammer, who, um, shot 73 in the final round, went from 20th to 22nd.

Um, we've kinda gotten to know...

Where there was desperation, Rex, where there was urgency, was the Korn Ferry Tour Championship and the 20 players who were going to be promoted to the PGA Tour.

It was Cole Hammer, who was sort of the hard luck loser in this case, falling out of that top 20, gave a great interview looking ahead.

Uh, still could potentially earn his PGA Tour card through Q School, but obviously sorely disappointed to miss out.

A couple of intriguing names, I must admit, who are going to be among these top 20 graduates.

It all built to that moment for him to perform.

And I think it's different than being Cole Hammer or someone like that where you're right on the edge of your tour card, but you just don't have your game.

That's a different situation.

And I think when you show up to the practice tee and you're flushing it and you've been playing really well for months at a time, it is pressure, but it is a different kind of pressure than like, let's say Q School, where you don't have a job next year, right? Like he's got a job no matter what.

And I think he had every belief that he was going to break through and get his, this is called Austin Hitt.

break through and get his pga tour card um so yeah there are varying levels of pressure but like you know cole and this is this is speaking of the yin yang and the good and the bad cole hammer makes bogey on like the last hole yesterday to miss his tour car and austin hit obviously wins and moves up he was one of the two players with davis lamb to move into the top 20 and get his tour card but cole hammer and you tweeted about this spoke to the media afterwards probably one of the greater disappointments of his career and good for him for doing that.

We can't imagine how difficult it is and how gut wrenching it is to try to be insightful and self reflective or just reflective when you are dealing with that level of disappointment.

yeah and i mean the interview was great if you haven't seen it i've uh tweeted about it it's just like yeah he's like i didn't have my game and my putter bailed me out for a long time but it can only hold up for so long and i mean again mark you've been in this situation in different type of things like it must be helpless feeling to like know what's on the line and know you can't pull it out right like the game's just not there so uh and and Cole's been out there for a while and a lot of expectations when he came out he was the number one amateur in the world at the time and like he hasn't lived up to that and and fairly or unfairly and that all hits you as you're coming down line to that point I do want to talk about a round that was bad, but also impressive.

Yeah.

I saw the interview Cole Hammer did.

First of all, I, I loved it.

Um-

You're focused on the SAS qualifier.

The, uh ...

I was talking to Matt Every earlier, and he was talking about as a Korn Ferry Tour player going into 2027, and I'm sure you guys saw Cole Hammer, who was the bubble guy-

Yeah

I think that makes them feel a little bit less pressure because they're going to pass him with a decent week.

And our guy Cole Hammer, fifth year on the Corn Furry Tour, he's number 20.

I think that would be monumental for him.

Well, we're excited to see you interview.

Yeah, and I'll stand by it.

He's a special, special dude.

So there's people on the outside that always look at these top college players, and they're playing tour events, and they're away from the program, and I remember Texas a few years ago when the Cooties and Cole Hammer played a tour event between regionals and nationals, and I remember Field saying something like, our job first and foremost is to get these guys on the tour and playing well.

Is that kind of your, the way you look at Tyler missing the first two events, like you look at it as like your number one job is to get these guys ready and that's just a part of it?