![]() ![]() There's no breakaway contest to play goalie for the Red Wings. There's no free throw contest to join the Lakers for a night. Really did not have the talent to play on the PGA Tour but had two great days, Monday qualified and I sent him a message and he missed the cut by 9 or 10, and he said it was the greatest week of his life. His name is Todd Balkin, Was a pizza manager, an assistant pro. I talk about a guy that played in the Byron Nelson a few years. But if you do, you can sign up for a qualifier to play in a PGA Tour event. You have to have a handicap of below 1.4. ![]() "You can be, quote unquote, an average Joe. "That's what I love is there's nothing like it in sports," French said of Monday qualifiers. That potential rags-to-riches story is unique to golf, French said. That underdog story appeals to French, who travels the country documenting Monday qualifiers and lower-profile events. While the Tour's top players might take a private jet from one tournament to the next, that's not the case for thousands and thousands of talented golfers trying to get into a Tour event or earn their card. I pull my camper to every event.' And it was great insight, kind of my aha moment of, 'These guys don't have it as good as a lot of people think.'" We were out on the Canadian Tour, and I said, 'What are you doing here?' And he's like, 'This is how I afford it. But we used to camp (when we were caddying), and we were in a public campground and I was brushing my teeth and a player came in. ![]() "I always say I knew the talent out there and how good these guys are that aren't on the PGA Tour, but I didn't realize the lifestyle they had to live in order to make this work, the financial ramifications and struggle of this," French said. French's love for those trying to break into the PGA Tour grew from his post-college caddying in the minor leagues. "I chose something that wasn't available, and Twitter suggested that one, and I was, like, 'Yeah, no one will care, so I'll just take that.'"ĭespite those modest expectations, French now has just shy of 135,000 followers on Twitter as he tracks one of the least glamorous aspect of professional golf - the Monday qualifiers, a stroke-play event before a pro golf tournament that awards top finishers entry into the field. "It's kind of an insight into how little expectations I had," French said of his Twitter handle. French jokes the handle ( is "the worst," but it has struck a chord with golf fans worldwide. French started a Twitter page in the summer of 2018 that has grown into one of golf's most popular follows. I'm very appreciative of what it is."Īnd what it is is minor-league golf. And six years later, somehow I'm sitting on this set, which is crazy. "I thought I would be home for six weeks or so. "I left my job to stay at home for a couple of weeks," French said. "And that gave me great insight," French said.įrench eventually got a regular job and was running a group of restaurants before his son got sick and required brain surgery at age 2-and-a-half. They went to golf's mini tours to be caddies. "My dad and I did a trip that a lot of people would never dream of," French said on Tuesday's NSN Daily. Ryan French did something similar, but he didn't head to Europe to backpack through The Old Continent. ![]()
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