Guest: Scott Stallings, three-time PGA Tour winner

Host: Jeff Pelizzaro

Episode Number: 347

Podcast: The 18 Strong Podcast

Summary: Dive into this episode of the 18STRONG Podcast as we explore the world of professional golf with Scott Stallings, a three-time PGA Tour winner. We delve into Scott’s triumphant return to the Masters, his outstanding performance during the 2021 and 2022 seasons, and his unique fitness regimen that keeps him at the top of his game. Scott also shares his love for bourbon and challenges listeners with a 10-minute workout that requires no equipment.

Main Topics

Scott’s Return to the Masters
- Experience the thrill of the Masters through Scott’s eyes as he returns to the prestigious tournament after a seven-year hiatus. Learn about the importance of family in Scott’s journey and the challenges he faced playing in varying weather conditions.
Scott’s Incredible Season in 2021 and 2022
- Discover the strategies and planning that led to Scott’s successful seasons in 2021 and 2022, which ultimately led to his return to the Masters.
Scott’s Fitness Regimen and Mental Game
- Gain insights into Scott’s fitness regimen that helps him maintain peak performance. Learn about the mental aspects of golf, and how Scott manages pressure and expectations.
Scott’s Love for Bourbon
- Explore Scott’s passion for bourbon and get a glimpse into his impressive collection.
Scott’s 10-Minute Workout Challenge
- Take on Scott’s 10-minute workout challenge that you can do anywhere, with no equipment needed. Are you up for the challenge?

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Conclusion

In this episode, Scott Stallings takes us on a journey through his return to the Masters, his successful seasons, and his fitness regimen. He also reveals his love for bourbon and challenges listeners to a 10-minute workout. Tune in to the 18STRONG Podcast to hear more about Scott’s experiences and insights.

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Jeff Pelizzaro: [00:00:00] The 18STRONG podcast, episode number 347 with three time PGA Tour winner, Scott Stalling.

What’s up guys? Welcome back to the 18STRONG Podcast where we know the stronger we are, the better we play. I’m your host, Jeff ero, and this is your first time listening to the 18STRONG Podcast. This is a show about golf, about fitness, and really about stories and experiences and guests that can come on and help us all play at our best play at our strongest, and this week the guest is no exception.

We have Scott Stallings three time PGA Tour winner. Most people think when you hear the term golf fitness or a P PGA tour golfer that is. The epitome of golf and fitness. Most people will say Scott Stallings. He’s kinda become that guy in the world of professional golf. this week we get a chance to talk to Scott about everything.

We talk about his return to the masters, after not being there since 2014. We talk about him having such an incredible season in [00:01:00] 21 and 22, which ultimately is what got him back to the masters. We talk fitness, we talk his mental game regimen, we talk his bourbon collection. I found out that he’s a big bourbon guy.

So we discussed that a little bit. And then we have a segment at the end of the show that’s a little bit new that we call our crew NA section. So we had questions from our crew, the 18th strong community that were posed on social media and via email that we put out to Scott too. And then a last little surprise, Scott gives us a little bit of homework.

18th Strong is all about being actionable, taking steps to getting better at this game, getting your fitness ready so you can play your best golf. So I asked Scott to put together a little workout for us. So Scott’s gonna go through a little 10 minute workout that you can do anywhere, no equipment, and we’re gonna challenge the crew a little bit to do this workout and post some results.

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Jeff Pelizzaro: [00:03:00] Scott, welcome back to the show, man.

Scott Stallings: Nice. I’m glad. the wonders of technology never cease. happy to be here.

Jeff Pelizzaro: It’s finally good to get the, the Internet’s working here. It’s crazy, man. hey, I wanna start out with, I know you’ve probably had so many questions about, the whole debacle with the masters invite and everything, but I wanna touch base on you.

Just going back to the Masters this year, after, I believe it was 2014, that was the last time you were there. What did it mean to you to be able to get back on the grounds, be there again, and be able to play in the Masters again?

Scott Stallings: it was a incredible experience. I think that, at any person in my position, at this point in my career with my kids and everything, like I wanted, no matter, I didn’t know when it was, I just wanted to be able to participate in the tournament and have my family be able to experience it with me.

That Wednesday, the part three, that’s prob that was probably my favorite day in golf in my career. I have no idea what I shot. I did not make a hole in one. I [00:04:00] watched Shamus make two hole in ones back to back. I watched Scotty Shuffler slide in the hole on the ninth hole, and he’s my son’s favorite player.

and just the all-encompassing of like golf at a absolute best and family, just everything coming in together to celebrate the, the full golf and full swing. And, the masters kicks off golf season for everybody. And even though we’ve been playing for a long time, and just for my family and my kids to be old enough to remember and look back, it’s that’s a day hopefully we’ll never forget.

and we’re, I have the picture of, this was when my son was, he was 14 months old. When he was at the master’s there, I adjust my screen where you see the little better. Yeah, I can see it in the left hand corner there. Yeah. But,so we’ve got some new pictures to be able to replace that.

And, that’s probably my favorite, golf picture I’ve ever seen. I’m biased, obviously it’s my kid, but just all, everything about it and what it is in its purest form. the tournament was great. I felt very fortunate to get opportunity to play the weekend. struggled coming down [00:05:00] the stretch on Friday with some of that crazy weather that happened, the starting the stopping.

just sorta at the wrong place in the course, at the wrong time with the weather. And, but was fortunate enough to get at some tee times on the weekend and I felt like I took advantage of them. I played a really good round on, had to go back out on Saturday and play. It meant it was brutal out there.

the course that we saw on Thursday and Friday was not the course that we saw on Saturday. it was tough. I hit wedge and Gap wedge into, 17 on, I hit on Thursday or Friday and Saturday morning I hit seven wood. Oh my gosh. it was a lot different, but battled, able to work my way up to the leaderboard.

Obviously feel like I, I left a few out there, like everybody probably feels the same way, but, being in the situation, it was a great week to be out there and, just deal with it, battle it at, the best golf tournament in the world. And so it was a awesome week for me and my family.

Jeff Pelizzaro: How many holes did you have [00:06:00] to get out and play on

Scott Stallings: Sunday? I had to play, had to play 10, so 28 holes, I deploy. I start, we, they gave us the option to tee off on 18 on Saturday, and it was, dead in, off the left at 45 degrees. And,just full rain. And I was like, we’ll see you tomorrow. We’re good.

We’re good? Yeah.

Jeff Pelizzaro: when you came out Sunday morning was, was it still cold? Was it still windy or was it dramatically different than Saturday?

Scott Stallings: dramatically different. Honestly. I’m not sure where my drive would’ve gone on Saturday. because it was raining so hard.

me, I was playing, with Charles Schwartel and we were just laughing as far as what the clubs that we were considering hitting off 18 because not none of us could hit a drive straight, just because the, there were so low spin and the, you couldn’t keep the ball dry. just like balls were going everywhere.

So it was still chilly, but meant very manageable and it ended up [00:07:00] being an incredible afternoon. being able to play and, fairly. Mundane conditions compared to what we dealt with on Friday afternoon and Saturday.

Jeff Pelizzaro: What, there’s a lot of talk about the course changes and obviously 13 was different.

Did that play a big role in scores that weekend or just how you approached the course at all, or was it not that big of a deal?

Scott Stallings: I think it, when the weather was as it was on Friday and Saturday, it was a layup like that. Was it like you, I don’t know, maybe some guys early in the day or whatever.

But there was no, I, no one that I saw was getting there. so I think there, it made some of the, if you were in the, the process of going for the green, it probably made the decision and the shot execution a little bit more difficult because the ball lays in up slope as far as where the ball’s significantly above your feet.

But it also makes it a lot easier to lay up too. It takes the indecision cause I hit three good drives and [00:08:00] one drive in the hazard on Thursday. I hit the top of the tree and came down, went in the hazard. I went twice. one was successful, one was not successful. But it’s just such a awkward shot from that length of distance with the ball so far above your feet to a green that really you don’t want to be left of.

But obviously you can’t be right of it either. I bet in normal dry conditions, the ball kind of gets a little bit further out there and it creates that yardage where you’re definitely going for the green, but you have to deal where in years past guys were able to drive it past that second hill into a flatter spot, which made the whole significantly easier.

It brought the slopes of the fairway way more at the play. What

Jeff Pelizzaro: kind of shot is it, like distance wise and what club would you normally be hitting there

Scott Stallings: if you were to go for it? it’s just kinda depending on pin location and stuff. Let’s just say like a normal wind, somewhere between like that, like 230, 240 down to 200.

one of the practice station was straight down wind and the pin [00:09:00] was middle right. And I had, I hit eight iron, but that’s like perfect scenario down off the right, like high ball kind of pulling a little bit and it’s perfect. maybe some of the longer guys would hit it a little bit further than that.

But it’s just amazing you, the line you could take from that up tee when the downwind was so much further left that you could take it just because the trees on the line now, like you can’t carry all of them no matter whether it’s down or not.

Jeff Pelizzaro: You had a monster year in 2021-2022, season, and that obviously is why you got into the Masters.

Just for people that don’t know, what are the qualifications that do get you back into that tournament every year?

Scott Stallings: I got in, based off of making it to East Lake and competing in the tour championship. So that’s the ultimate prize that, the carrot that dangled at the end of the season.

And, something we’re, striving for a chance to compete for the FedEx Cup at the very end of the year and, had a really solid regular season. super disappointed with the way that [00:10:00] I played at FedEx. I just did not drive the ball in the fairway like I needed to, to be able to play. The course, that’s probably one of my favorites.

On tour, I shot, I think I shot one over, shot two over one under something like that. And because I felt like I was playing great and just didn’t really execute very well off the tee and had a couple practice days there in Memphis, made my way up to B M W,where, up in Delaware where we played Wilmington and the, we played a practice round in my, I’m like, I’m just figuring out different ways to just not like this course in my Cady and, hunter, the guy that we work with from a stats standpoint is just like putting it all together and he’s man, I think you can play great here.

I don’t know if they were, if they necessarily believed it at the time, but whatever. But I’m like, man, we played our first practice round. It was windy and cool and we played it all the way back and I was just hammering four irons into these greens and I’m like, [00:11:00] man, you just can’t hit four irons into these holes and all this and that.

And just progressively, as the weather shifted and the course played a little bit more like they had in mind, I started to see what my guys were saying. You play a lot of shots out of the middle of the bag, which, predominantly is the best part of my game. and there’s a few holes you just have to manage.

be disciplined, have a good attitude, and go out there and take what the kind of course gives you. But then you have a good spot, especially the par threes that are in that, 60, 75, 200 range, which is, that’s where I’ve been able to stay out here for as long as I have to be able to do that pretty well.

So it was a great week. Patrick clip me by one and then it, pushed me into Atlanta for the Tour Championship, which opened up a lot of opportunities for this year. Yeah. So when you do

Jeff Pelizzaro: make that top 30, to go to East Lake, you get in all the majors, the players championship. what are some of the other perks that you guys get?

Because I, like you said, that is the big carrot at the

Scott Stallings: end of the season. [00:12:00] Yeah, it was, all the majors,player championship, invitationals, Kapalua, and then they added it on this year where you were a two, you were given a two year exemption. Oh, okay. For making it. So it was definitely a needless to say it was a big deal.

Yeah.

Jeff Pelizzaro: I would imagine just even scheduling wise, knowing that you’re in those, the majors for sure, Kapalua, all that stuff. how important is that to know that stuff a year ahead of time for you to be able to plan things around for the next year?

Scott Stallings: It was funny, we had this conver, I did another podcast and we were just talking about just the planning aspect of how far out you need to do that.

And I played the open at Hoylake, Royal Liverpool. We were playing, in, when Rory won in 2014. And I was, I was literally like the last guy in the field and my caddie and I joked that we stayed in, basically, we stayed in a different country. it was so long to get to the course based off of where we stayed.

And you’re not driving, [00:13:00] you’re using a shuttle. And I remember going, I had like a. we were like first out and it was, seven o’clock or whatever, and we’re getting picked up at three 30 because we gotta drive like way far away to get to the course. And I remember driving to the golf course and I see these guys walk outta their houses, like right across the street from the course, like coffee, gym shorts.

And I’m like, I am messing up something here. Cause this guy I have, we have not hit a shot and he’s five shots ahead of me. So the ability to plan and work on those things has been,a good opportunity and, gave it still like a good, a leg up and make the, plan your schedule around.

I’m currently in two weeks off, took off, Vita and Wells Fargo as far as building up my schedule to know that basically after this stretch I’m home one week until August. I wouldn’t have had that freedom, to be able to do that. you try to find opportunities to be able to take two weeks off and at some point in the season, and this is my only opportunity based [00:14:00] off course fit preference, all the different things that kind of go along with that.

it’s gonna be a big stretch, but it’s also something that I plan for and,some courses that really fit my eye in places. I feel like I have an opportunity to play well and compete and, look forward to being able to do that, here the remainder of the season. Yeah. the

Jeff Pelizzaro: Wells Fargo, that’s one of the elevated events, right?

And so I would imagine that’s a big decision to decide to take that off and, apparently is that one that just doesn’t suit your eye, even though last time you said that you came in second place at the BMW

Scott Stallings: Championship. last time I played Wells Fargo, I was in the second to last group on Sunday.

It really struggled. But I had a game plan throughout the course of the week that just made me look at the course a little bit differently. But my career best finished there, I think is 32nd. and the field was relatively weak, based off the, strength of field. And obviously this field will be very strong.

and Byron Nelson and I’ve had the opportunity to win twice, of course that I like much better. [00:15:00] and just opportunity, you start thinking of FedEx cut points. I think, the financial incentive of elevated events is obviously a huge indicator for a lot of people. But,a course fit and, understanding that an extra week off in the grand scheme of things, for me to feel like I’m obligated to go play a place that doesn’t necessarily fit, what I like to see, especially off a t, I like it for about two and a half days, and then I stop the ability to be able to cut my irons and start just hitting big draws.

And when I have to feel like I play, like that is where my game just goes to struggle. And so I can hang in there for a little bit and then as soon as that ball stops falling right, it, those left pins really start looking better and that thing starts slinging over. It’s oh my gosh, I feel like it takes me a month.

I feel like it takes me like a month to get out of it.

Jeff Pelizzaro: what has your thought been about, just the changes of the season this year with the elevated events, you think that things are working out well and then I know there’s some big changes coming next year. what are your thoughts there?[00:16:00]

Scott Stallings: I think probably it, it, Liv pushed the tour to make some changes. They were planning on doing probably faster than they were wanting to the FedEx Cup and all that stuff. And, I feel like we get it to a good spot where people generally understand the FedEx Cup and what, whatever it is.

And then we go a couple years where we don’t have any real turmoil and then all of a sudden we just had to change it, where not even the players really understand what’s happening. so I don’t know if that’s an overreaction or under reaction. I’m not in those meetings, but from a player’s perspective, it seems like the idea of, there’s two tours in one now.

Essentially they’re creating three. And as a player that’s been at some point in my career, in all phases of those. To go from one to the next was difficult, but from go to two or one, which would be the newcomers, Korn Ferry guys. And to be able to go to that top tier, fully elevated, 700 point events, 20 million persons like to crack your way into [00:17:00] those out of the tournaments that those guys have an opportunity for.

It seems very hard to get into, but also very hard to get out of because that’s the only tournaments you’re playing, your world ranking stabilizes. your FedEx Cup point allotment is so much higher and so your ability to play your way in some guy that came from. That newer category of tour player to that upper echelon, that guy has played incredible.

And obviously they’ll be somebody that does that. the new crop of players are incredibly talented, but it, it does seem a little one-sided. and, but it goes to show that the financial incentive from a lot of things, is not necessarily the driving force for certain people.

We saw Rory, miss out on Harbortown and, basically, forfeited 3 million bucks. I think that’s, that’s something that people look at as far as him being the driving force. Rory and I get along very well. and would, it could honestly could not say a bad thing about him, but when you start to look out from that [00:18:00] perspective,if it’s that easy to take, tournaments away, that basically you were given a.

just by competing in the event, we’re guaranteed the full value of your PIP bonus. I think that it’s just more the opportunity to create that competitive environment for that many weeks as sponsors and different things can go along to it instead of just people are just looking at the pure financial aspect of it.

And I think that’s where people see the money from Liv and the Elevated and start to look at it instead of like, why are we doing this instead of starting to see at it. Obviously there’s financial incentives in a lot of things that we do, but I think that is the, gets picked up by the media instead of the players as far as what we look at.

It’s and we wanna play and compete against the best. and that’s something that,I think somewhat gets overlooked when everyone just focuses on the financial part.

Jeff Pelizzaro: Is that something, just the whole scenario, is it something that the PGA tour really sits down and listens to you guys?

I would imagine there’s a big contingent of you guys, players association and you guys are all discussing this in the locker rooms and there’s [00:19:00] lots of talks going on. Is it something that you guys come to the table and discuss or is it a little bit top down, this is what we’re

Scott Stallings: doing?

Yeah, it’s very top down, very much, after the fact. but to be honest, those guys have earned the opportunity to be a driving, driving force in the game. And, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t benefit from the opportunity of them, staying with their,loyalty to the tour and helping push it in the direction that it is currently.

I’m not naive to that fact. I do think that they’re the way that the schedule and the things are played out, I think there’s. Maybe some things that are being overlooked. I think the fall schedule and looking back to early parts of my career when the fall banded together to be a part of the FedEx Cup and, to get some insulation and coverage from benefiting of being a FedEx Cup event, rather than when it was just the fall by itself.

I think those tournaments have fought really hard to be very relevant, and have huge impacts on guys starting to the [00:20:00] season and now, I think it’ll be pretty wild to see how those tournaments are affected as far as, what kind of fields, opportunities, sponsor obligations and where the interest falls.

I don’t think anyone really knows the answer. but I, it’ll be very interesting to see,what that plays out, coming forward, especially with the schedule once after the playoffs are over. Gotcha.

Jeff Pelizzaro: As far as your personal goals for this season is are they something that you sit down and say okay, this year I want to, like East Lake is my goal, or are there different levels of your goals short-term, long-term?

And do you sit down with a team or do you sit down, just in a quiet room by yourself and put these things on paper?

Scott Stallings: A little bit of both. I remember I played with Sahi, Sala at. East Lake and he was griping. We played together on Sunday and he is the absolutely fantastic dude.

and he was just getting a little bit chirpy. He was not necessarily hitting it what he is capable of. And I said, ma’am, I one thing to think about if you’re gonna play bad, he might as well play bad here. And [00:21:00] he just looked at it. I said, man, you’re a rookie and you made the tour championship. And he just looked at me and just started buying laughing.

He goes, man, I never thought of it that way. but you don’t know what you’re missing until you have the opportunity to experience. And obviously East Lake and everything that came with it and all the stuff that the tour has done to create such a incentive to be a part of that event as far as everything that comes with it.

And it was just very, eye-opening to man, this is something that I knew that I needed to strive hard to be here. But now even more, it’s here we go. Obviously it goes to that same, being a part of that event and all that comes to. but you have to, it doesn’t just happen in one week now, the seven, the big thing from 1 25 to seven is a huge difference.

So consistent play throughout the course of the year, you have to accumulate week in and week out. I haven’t necessarily capitalized on Sundays as well as I should have. with that kind of being said, there’s a lot of opportunity to come with it being forward, but,I want that feeling.

I want the opportunity coming down the stretch [00:22:00] on Sunday and see what I’m working with and, manage the emotion, anxiety and all that stuff that comes along with it and, have a chance to compete for a title and,I feel like I’m making the steps in the right direction to be able to do that.

With your

Jeff Pelizzaro: two weeks off here, what does this kinda look like? I’m sure it’s great to be home and be able to chill out, hang with the family, prep wise, do you take a little downtime? The first. Part of the time that you’re home, what do,what’s the schedule like? Are you pretty regimented with the schedule for these two weeks?

Scott Stallings: Trying to do as much as I can, and basically from my time my kids are taking us, we, we take them to school and by the time we pick ’em up, I’ve got two young kids, seven and 10, and they’re full going extra school’s over with soccer, gymnastics, lacrosse, all these different things. So I wanna be as much of their lives outside of school as I possibly can.

So that sort of dictates what happens, afternoon, morning, this and that. But, being that’s two weeks off, I train a little bit different,[00:23:00] than I normally do and practice a little bit different where, when one week off, I try to touch, each and every part of my game in a little bit, part of the fitness aspect, throughout the course of the week.

And there may be like major focuses, but you’re still doing like the little things each and every day just to maintain wherein two weeks off, you can try to take bigger chunks and focus on and compartmentalize different parts of your game, different parts of fitness to be able to get the most opportunity to benefit from the most amount of time I’m gonna have for the remainder of the year.

Jeff Pelizzaro: I saw a couple videos showing off the, the suite in that you guys put into your, at your house, and so you’ve got pretty much everything you need there. What do your workouts look like maybe this week, next week? we post on social media and we’ve got some questions from our crew later on, but so many people, obviously, this guy, you’re known as the fitness guy on the tour and people ever wanna know, what is Scott Stallings doing in his workout?

What’s he doing when he is home? What’s he doing when he is on the tour? So what’s this look this week look like for you? Is it [00:24:00] just you in the gym? Do you have some buddies coming over? I know every now and then, at least during the covid times. You said you were having some people come over to the gym and do some group workouts, things like that.

Scott Stallings: a little bit different. normally I follow a schedule of like tournament weekend stuff, heavier, slower, longer into shorter, faster, lighter. It would basically imagine like a Monday through Sunday, all depending on when I travel. And yeah, once Thursday through Sunday comes, relative to my tee times.

try to get the vast majority of the heavier lifting done as far away from Thursday as I can. But with two weeks off, I. Traditionally mix, cardio and strength together, where with two weeks off, I have a little bit of opportunity to deal with, a little bit of soreness, a little bit of discomfort.

So I separate, cardio and strength completely, and split it up into their shorter sessions, but they’re isolated to those like individual components, deadlift, squat, all the different stuff that kind of goes where you can definitely build in some strength, but Not necessarily incorporate the [00:25:00] cardio implement and do that separately.

And, I’ve ran, I’ve rode, I’ve biked and just done everything either morning or afternoon and kind of compliment each other, based off what I’m doing. But as the week progresses, get back into a normal schedule. We had a big group workout today. had some University Tennessee guys come over this morning.

They ran ’em through some stuff, like a team workout. And then I had some other buddies of mine come over and we ran through a little bit added bonus of what the guys did this morning. I don’t mind working out by myself. I don’t mind working out with a group. I was very fortunate to have a lot of people come alongside me and help push me in the right direction as far as in my, health and fitness journey, whatever that looked like.

and so if I have an opportunity to speak in or show someone, what I had, what I’ve had an opportunity to learn from, I’m, you very open that opportunity and not something I take lightly. So we had

Jeff Pelizzaro: you on the show back in 2017, I think it was episode number 1 25. And so now, five years later.

I’m curious, how have [00:26:00] the workouts changed at all? A little bit. I know, you’re 38 years old now as opposed to 32 back then. the body changes a little bit. are there different emphasises, are there different focuses? What’s the recovery like these days? How have things changed since the last time you were on

Scott Stallings: the show?

I think,it’s still at that part in 17. I was still trying to figure out what fitness looked like. I really only knew how to met Conlin. I really knew only had a new, light and fast. Like I didn’t know how to really separate like. Heavy and slow, light and fast and like complimentary movements and like sort of protagonist antagonist pushing and pulling, up, down, left.

A b ab what all that, how you’d put it all together. And, and to be honest, I was the training aspect was a huge part, but it was more just the health and trying to figure out what, where training was implemented throughout what I was doing day in and day out. And there was a lot of times where it felt like I was working out way more than I was practicing and my game [00:27:00] probably showed it, but in the time that I had made all those changes, like golf was not my priority.

Eh, I felt like if I didn’t give the due diligence to figure out all those other shows, I was not gonna be able to play just because I needed to establish some habits that were gonna be lasting instead of just like flashing the pan. oh, maybe we’re gonna try fitness for a little bit and then see how it affects.

no, we’re gonna figure out how this affects life and then see how golf fits in there. And so I think that’s a little bit where the story kind of gets backwards. oh, I did it for my game. It’s like I never thought about golf. like I was thinking of my wife and my kids and myself like, and just, man, if I got to play, that was a bonus.

So I definitely feel like I got a second chance at my career and opportunity to go and play and compete against the best players in the world and have an opportunity to speak and tell some stories as far as how I neglected basically everything you could possibly neglect. blame everyone other than myself and take zero responsibility and then get smacked in the face and realized it was all on [00:28:00] me and I was the reason that I was in the situation.

I was. And thankfully I had some people that were very willing to give their time and energy to help push me in the right direction and, make some changes that hopefully be lasting and have an impact that, you know, throughout the rest of my life, whether I’m playing or not.

Jeff Pelizzaro: have you and I would assume, I know you work a lot with the guys at University of Tennessee and a lot of younger players. Are there some younger guys on tour that you’ve, had some of these candid conversations with or not, and I’m not asking for names or anything, but,where you’ve given them like, hey, this is what really helped me figure this out and this is the direction I went and, giving them the pros and cons of what they might be doing

Scott Stallings: or not doing.

Yeah, I had some guys this morning, and that guy was like, man, this is the most I’ve ever done before 8:00 AM And he’s and I looked at him and he’s what do you think about that? I was like, man, this is Thursday. And he just is like dumbfounded and just And this is just part of my day.

Like I don’t really think about it like that. And this isn’t like a macho, like a beat [00:29:00] head thing. This is just man, I’m gonna train, I’m gonna practice. I’m like, it’s, I ha I had a really funny conversation with a friend of mine and he always starts like, what’d you work out today?

Or Did you work out today? I was like, at some point you’re gonna realize that there’s training involved in every part of my day. throughout the entire week. Some days that’s mobility. Some days that’s a walk. Some days that’s a full on I’m over a rail in the backyard. there’s some training is evolved in every aspect of my life and, whether it’s playing, practicing, working out, all the different things.

so being able to build that and tell that story and, because the moment that you think that you’re good enough, the moment that you think you’ve got it all figured out is the moment you just get, you just, you’re like that tortoise in the hair, man. You’re just coasting along and all of a sudden you see this guy with a hundred twenty nine, nine hour clubhead speed that’s flying at three 40 and you’re just like, where did that come from?

And it just hits you outta nowhere and you’re sitting there man, I’m good enough [00:30:00] right now. And next thing you’re not continuing. Cause the best in the world, the guys that are literally holding the titles week in and week out, they’re consistently trying damned out, figure out ways to get better.

and if you’re not doing that, and the moment I’m not even telling ’em touch the break, I’m saying the moment that the foot comes off the gas at all, these guys are racing right by you. And that’s the mentality you have to have as far as to go play and compete at this level. And, thankfully,have gathered a way to, to add that in notes, my routine and mentality and, be able to build it into a daily habit, but also figure out a way to get off the course, get outta my own head, utilize fitness and training to, to, be where I went, on good days where I go on bad days and everywhere in between, it all starts and end of the training.

Has it

Jeff Pelizzaro: become a, almost like a meditation for you or like a release where that’s some, one of those things where it’s like you get antsy if you haven’t trained that day or if you haven’t done something. and also on the other side of that, are there any specific like mental game things, meditation [00:31:00] that you have implemented over the course of the last several years that also help you with the way that you play and perform on the course?

Scott Stallings: Yeah, my caddy, John, he’s worked for me, work. We’ve worked together for eight years and he’ll be the first to tell you, I’ll come out there some days and he’ll be like, what is going on? we’ll try to do some drills or this and that. And I’ll be like, squirrel, like just looking somewhere all over the place.

And he’d be like, man, have you like moved your body or I like, nah man, I just slept and came out here and he. Get outta here. this is pointless. we’re not gonna do anything functional today until you go figure out something else, and then we’ll come back and try something later.

yeah, I do a lot. I wouldn’t necessarily say I, I do well in competition as far as, making games with myself, whether it’s practice, play, competition, whatever that looks like. And figuring out ways to compete against myself. Obviously I’m competing against the course and my, fellow players on tour, but, [00:32:00] I feel like if I can hold myself to certain standards, whether that’s in the shot or, within a week, if I can maintain that and have some checks and balances in there, like my, my good, can’t compete with the best in the world.

It’s, and it’s at this level, it’s not what your good is, it’s what your bad is. It’s like how good is your bad? And can you compete with that like b, c, D game? Tiger made so famous. It’s like I made hit four fairways and shoot 65 of yours. man, I don’t have that. I shaved four fairways.

I’m like trunk slamming on Fridays. but just trying to figure out different ways to, play and compete with myself, but also understand and figure out ways that guys continually pushing themselves to get better. and again, just like with fitness, just like we’re playing and everything, or life, the moment that you figure it out, like it’s the moment that you hadn’t figured out anything and just there’s so many opportunities to learn and figure out better ways to get better at, whether it’s engulfing life.

And I think that the [00:33:00] moment that you stop learning and training is like you, you can’t operate out here with what? Put out the door.

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Who out there on tour, if any, are guys that you practice with a lot, play some of these games with you. I feel like the people you surround yourself with often are, some of your best friends, but they’re also the ones that push and challenge you the most too. And either on the course, in the gym, whatever it might be.

Are there certain guys that you kinda lean on and that lean on you when you’re out there? Or maybe back when you’re in Tennessee at home, you have a group of buddies it sounds like, that come over to the gym. anybody specific on tour though that would play that role A little bit.

Scott Stallings: probably more just my team in general.

I’m pretty, I would say that if I do anything, I’m pretty regimented as far as the time that I spend doing things. And I try to plan out my day well in advance. And I don’t want, I’m not nec like I would say that on the road, I’m fairly selfish with my time. Just in the fact of I golf is very counterintuitive to my personality because I am not patient.

I don’t have the necessarily cognitive attributes to be good at the game. Just, it takes a lot [00:35:00] for me to, I. Zero in. So if I, if that is involved in my practice or week where I’m waiting on someone else or whatever, I’ve become very dysfunctional and I’m aware of that. So I try to create as much of focus on the things you can control my schedule, time, management body times that I train, all these different things to where I’m not constantly having to utilize the things that I need once the tournament goes around.

because man, I can do it. But the having the other attributes of a week as far as playing in prep, like I’m not a 18 hole practice strong guy. I’m a,I need to, time and attention in certain quantities and be able to do it when it matters. But, I would say when I’m home, it’s a lot different.

just for the simple fact of, I know that, the competition side is not coming. So I do create those same things a little bit, imbalance, uncomfortable situations, whether it’s with the Tennessee guys, other guys that I play with, other pros in the area, whether I travel or not, and be able to [00:36:00] try to find those uncomfortable moments.

So where, when it continually happens, week in and week out on tour, you can remind yourself of this is what I did. And, constantly remind yourself of I know my good is good, but how can I continue to make my bad a little bit better? And so we do a lot of things like that.

When you’re out there

Jeff Pelizzaro: practicing for the golf game specifically, what are the things that you tend to spend the most time on? And then,what’s something that you really don’t like to practice you have to practice?

Scott Stallings: I would definitely spend most of my time from inside 150 yards.

If you ask any one of the Tennessee guys, they’ll say that I don’t hit balls, which is true, but also not true. I’m not scared to go in there and have a session. But if I’m, if the ball is flying out there the way that I’m expecting it to, like I’m not in, I’m not in the habit of trying to figure out how to hit it bad.

And,so I know that there’s no person on earth that ever said they were too good at chipping and pudding or wedge flags. So I spent a lot of time in that area. I do [00:37:00] not enjoy hitting balls. I enjoy, like the new Strokes game thing on TrackMan has completely revitalized my practice because I’m gaming it and, competing against that kind of stuff.

So I, I enjoy that a lot. so those situations I feel like has helped me a lot. But I can chip and putt all the time cause that’s something that growing up, high school, college stuff I neglected because I always hit it pretty good and never realized like, man, these are where you spend all your shots.

I approved from 1 0 7 to 37 in stroke can pudding in a year. and obviously everything of that translated to scores on course opportunities to, to compete week in and week out, made a huge difference. And, so focus on the little areas is something that I try to touch that at every single part of my day, whether I’m playing or practicing before, during, and after.

And, something that I’ll continue to do, for the remainder of my career. You’ve mentioned the

Jeff Pelizzaro: University of Tennessee guys quite a bit. Do you do a lot of work with them? [00:38:00] And what’s a session like when you go out with those guys? I’m always curious what that dynamic is with these youngsters.

I’m sure there’s a few hot shots they want to take down. The big dog, what’s that

Scott Stallings: like? I don’t know. I do a lot of stuff with just the state of Tennessee in general as far as junior golf, whether our kids play free program, a tournament called the Scotty, which is a, team four ball.

We have the junior cup where we split Tennessee down the Middle East versus west. 10 boys and four girls. we’re on our 12th season of that. so just have a little bit of touches throughout, whether new beginner developmental to upper echelon as far as, every single part of junior golf and.

Brita Webb has built an unbelievable program over there and some really great guys that are playing and competing for him. and as much as I hate to say it, they’ve probably helped me as much as I’ve helped them. it doesn’t take much of an 18, 19 year old kid talking some trash before you realize that.

Like, all right, I gotta show these guys. This old guy still got it. I played with them the other day and they were asking me if I needed to play the senior tees. they’re pretty ruthless now. But it’s a, [00:39:00] it’s a cool opportunity to be able to help, like it was just a situation if man, if I had access, like I would literally never leave the guy alone if I was their age.

And it just so happens, it doesn’t matter that it’s me, but it’s just someone that doesn’t, at that level, they aspire to be. And,their facility is a joke. literally incredible as far as there’s no stone unturned and just Eddie in every opportunity to be better. So very thankful for him for the opportunity to be able to play and practice and, hopefully leave it a little bit better.

And I found it. but it’s all to get to the sit it’s all situational. It’s, what’s needed. there’s probably a few things that we do. We’d probably just like to keep it to ourselves. Not that we feel like we’ve got the secret sauce or whatever, but we’ve got some stuff that in house that we manage to ourselves as far as some games that we like to operate.

And,some scenarios we like to recreate it, especially being the fact that in college they have to balance stroke, play, and match play at the, in their ultimate event, whether it’s s e c Copper Championship [00:40:00] or NCAAs. And that is a weird dynamic as far as how you manage a golf course.

Basically, you’re playing the same golf course and back to back days. One is a stroke play to be able to qualify for match play and then where score is. The ultimate indicator as far as if your team succeeds or not, who are in match play score. Obviously the lower score the better, but not necessarily the mentality as far as how you go about it.

So putting guys and, constantly trying to find situations where you have to balance that and be able to work with what sides of your brain and situational awareness, different things like that. And as much as I’m doing it with, like taking these guys through that, I’m doing it myself as well.

And so that’s probably a, a. Something that’s helped me tremendously. And just the competition side as far as I just don’t want to get beat by them. because I will never hear the, if I beat them, it’s expected. If they beat me, I’m just, if I beat them nine outta 10 times, they’re only talking about them one time they beat me.

it’s just you know that, hey, once [00:41:00] that ball grows in the air, like it’s just a different scenario and you better be buttoned up. the chair is strong with those guys, so it’s fun. I told us, I, I said man, and I told one of our kids and I said, if you could learn to practice and apply the amount of trash talk that you can do with yourself and others, you would literally never lose a tournament.

And so hopefully we can get him just turned the corner on that. this

Jeff Pelizzaro: is funny, and this, I might, inquire some help from you here because I find myself now in this predicament really, that most guys I think are in your kids are a little younger. You said 10 and seven, I believe. But,I have a 15 year old boy just made the freshman golf team.

And so it’s funny how that’s awesome. All of a sudden, like it just kicks in this competitive instinct in me. I never want this kid to beat me, ever. and I didn’t play any high level golf or anything, but now it’s like I’m really starting to put more time into my game. And, get a little better at my trash talking as well for the youngster.

but [00:42:00] I don’t think he even knows that this is, this competition is at the forefront right now. But, I think so many guys, and I’ve talked to a couple of my buddies, it’s like now that our kids are starting to get to that age where we know eventually they’re gonna hit it farther than us, they’re starting way younger than me and my buddies did playing golf.

And it’s man, it’s funny how it just kicks in our instinct to start putting in the time, putting in a little more work. So I’m gonna implore you to give all of us. Older guys, what advice would you have for us going in getting, knowing that we’re prepping to beat these youngsters as long as we possibly can?

What’s a couple words of wisdom from Scott

Scott Stallings: Stallings? Oh man. Like the harder you can throw the needle, the better. I give my guys a hard time all the time as far as, whether it’s our junior golfers or our college, whatever, as far as when they’re standing over it, just saying. I was a member at Whisper Rock for a long time in Scottsdale and there was one of the greatest trash talkers of all time that lived there.

And he got this guy just in stitches because he said, man, no one else can hear those [00:43:00] voices as he was standing over it. because you could just tell this guy was like, man, he was going through it. And so I, I had taken that from him. and I tried to. because their physical talent and ability is far greater than mine.

So I gotta supplement like my experience and discipline, some different things. like I gave the example of the they don’t know that these things are supposed to be feared or whatever. It’s like they see flag and this is at all level, like it doesn’t matter. They see pin, they don’t see like the fiery forest they have to get through.

Instead of I’m like over here man, we can just walk around and we’re good. And I think that now there is a situation when it’s the perfect number and you gotta be able to get you in there man you gotta be able to step on the gas. But also there’s a scenario of knowing what not to do as well.

And so he, I think that there’s a lot of things that where you can benefit from a little bit of experience that kind of goes a long way. But [00:44:00] also try to continually put themselves, because whether you’re a dad or a coach or whatever, like you want them to learn and have this, awareness enough so when they sit down, they’re like, all right, I get what you’re talking about.

Because it’s one thing to be able to tell ’em, but it’s another thing to be able to show ’em. And so that’s a lot of what I do, whether it’s some juniors and stuff that I work with or the college guys or pros or whatever. I try to find scenarios where we talk about a question or whatever, just like that.

And I put ’em in a spot of like, where there’s indecision, yo, it’s different. It’s a perfect nine iron pins perfect, whatever, man. hit it. But it’s when we don’t know and how to make your second decision first. And so that’s the scenario as, as much as my son doesn’t really show any interest in golf or whatever, but man, I would love the day that he beat me.

that wouldn’t bother me at all, just for the simple fact of I’ll play against the best players in the world. if he’s beating me, like he’s doing something. And I think that’s just a [00:45:00] different thing because of what I do for a living. but it is funny like seeing some of the younger guys, like where you, they have their island, the prize or whatever, they’re gonna beat this guy, then that’s gonna lead to being this guy instead of eventually if you start to look at it from a little different perspective, you’re just gonna beat everybody so that, hopefully be able to navigate those and you’ll help them learn from themselves.

We’ll also just keeping just a little bit of an edge and. Yo. because as soon as they figure out it’s over for you. I know. so hold onto it as long as you can.

Jeff Pelizzaro: Yeah, I, and that’s the cool part, right? Because obviously as a dad, I want him to be the best possible player. He can’t be the best young man that he can.

really, but, the day that he out is out driving me on a consistent basis, it’s gonna be bittersweet. The time that he starts beating me on a consistent basis gonna be bittersweet. But I want him to be the best he can. I’m gonna try to do everything I can to give him those resources.

And I think that’s what’s neat is it then pushes me to, just to hang on a little bit longer. I gotta push myself a little bit more too. And I think [00:46:00] a lot of the guys and girls listening to our podcast are right there. That’s why. They’re interested in the stuff that, that you do, the fitness, the habits, the mental game, the practice.

And so it’s just a fun little game that we’re playing, but is a way to, to keep moving along and just continuing to get a little bit better. So appreciate that. But, yeah, if your son grows up and starts beating you, that means he’s a pretty

Scott Stallings: quality player. Yeah, we’re battling lacrosse and all the other things that I don’t know anything about.

So I just sit on the sidelines and I cheer for the coach and make sure everyone’s having a good time, have as much many snacks as they need to, and, that’s where I’m at. I love it. Speaking

Jeff Pelizzaro: of having a good time, rumor has it that you’ve got a little stock of some whiskey at the house that, you’ve become a bit of a whiskey connoisseur.

I wanna know, first of all, being a Tennessee guy, are you more of a Tennessee whiskey, that’s I think sour mash, or is that, are you more of a bourbon guy?

Scott Stallings: I spreaded around. I don’t have a distinct loyalty, to any, brand or [00:47:00] whatever. Taylor is my favorite. as far as just one like bottle that’s just sticks out.

and that was. I would say that’s the one that’s week in and week out. If someone asked me what that is, or anyone that knows me would sit there and say, man, like he’s never gonna see that tall yellow label and be disappointed. but, I spread around and I just, I’ve gotten very involved in the nuance of it.

I’ve become friends with some distillers as far as how the whole process works and how you can literally take all these just random things and put it in this whole situation and a little bit of heat, a little bit of time, a little bit of this, a little bit of that. And next thing you get something completely different.

And so I like the process of it a lot. and, just very interesting to me for whatever reason. And, so I’ve established a little bit of a collection,by no means like anything to call home about, but something that, you know, I’m interested in and something that I, continue to do and, share glass with a buddy every now and then go figure out a way to,[00:48:00] do something different.

I heard

Jeff Pelizzaro: when you were,back in when everything was kinda shut down, covid days, you kinda became the mixologist of the neighborhood. What, correct, what one, what did, what’d you get best at? What was your cocktail that you were the

Scott Stallings: best at making? I don’t like gin at all. I just do, I think it smells like pine trees.

It’s like someone that like, doesn’t like chi tea or whatever. It’s just man it, for whatever reason, I just do not enjoy it. I’ve had some of the best people in the world make. What do they think it is? man, this just got something in it that I don’t like. But I have a friend of ours that’s, a children’s hospital doctor, and obviously during covid and stuff, man, they were just, Working a tremendous amount of time.

And for whatever reason I ended up making more like gin batches of different things like that. So I didn’t necessarily, I learned to like it, I learned to tolerate it. But I had a few different recipes that were, Friday afternoons is when we would do that. And we got a, one of those [00:49:00] like big giant mailboxes, our end of our driveway, and they’d have their labels written on these big mason jars and guys would pick ’em up Friday afternoons for the weekend or whenever.

And but I had a couple, Tennessee inspired, one I hadn’t won. Feels like 98 based off the national championship. it’s all orange tequila,a couple other things. but mostly I just matched everything together and,when my daughter actually went back to school, she talked about one of the favorite things that she did at home while she was home, and she told her teacher, we made margaritas.

And that was just like, that was like the email from the teachers. what are we doing? But the teacher said, we have some teachers here that would like that. so if that happens again, let us know.

Jeff Pelizzaro: She’s carrying margaritas in her backpack to school.

Scott Stallings: Yeah, we have not gotten that yet, but, to a, for a little bit.

And that’s the direction we were headed. Love it.

Jeff Pelizzaro: All right, Scott, we’re gonna close out with some questions. we pulled the audience and had some people from our crew sending in some questions for our crew and a segment. So I’m just [00:50:00] gonna roll through these pretty quick ones, and then we’ll get wrapped up here.

First one is from James Lee on Instagram. He wants to know how many ACEs have you had and what was the most memorable one?

Scott Stallings: I have had nine in my life. I had four on tour. They were all memorable for a different reason. my first one, day before my 13th birthday, the Tiger wins like masters and just starts this whole golf thing.

I made one on Father’s Day with my dad, CADed for me. we were at the Korn Ferry event. It was nationwide, the time in Knoxville, and we went out and played. it was for, we did a Father’s Day clinic, junior clinic, and he was Cady for me. We not did this like nine hole exhibition thing and the second hole at Foxton, they don’t play there anymore.

They play Holston, which is my home course here in town. And I made it and it was just like crazy. So that was him, Cady for me, walking around the course. That was pretty cool on Father’s Day to be able to go. And so that was probably the one that, I remember the most. That’s so awesome. [00:51:00]

Jeff Pelizzaro: We got Rob, m g o Blue 7 25 from Instagram says, he wants to know what your typical nutrition on like game day looks like.

What does that. Look like if you’re on tour, what’s breakfast and maybe some encore stuff that you tend to go to?

Scott Stallings: it just kinda depends on when I play. I normally start like a morning day. I start three hours before I tee off. So there’s some early days, depending on whenever that is. I just don’t wanna be rushed and I want to have enough time and attention to be able to eat.

Like I need to eat,move around. Like I need to move around and just prep, the way it needs to instead of just wait till the last minute and just, throw caution to the wind. so I’d say, more time than necessarily routine and just build it up. I don’t have anything, crazy, follow a little bit of macro planning, idea.

I used the RP strength guys for a long time as far as helping, when I made some changes in my body and, the way that I ate and just managed intake with food and different things like that. But, on course I just started working with my menace, supplement company [00:52:00] and I use their fuel product a lot and my bars, the stuff that I eat do a little bit granola, a little bit different things.

And I try to find whatever bar is local because that’s at some point man, you just get sick of eating whatever you are and just make sure it just doesn’t have a bunch of crap in it. And, just some keep munching on, but I think they’ll fuel old product from a menace. It’s a carb electrolyte combo.

And it is my favorite thing I have and I feel like a dr. A drug pusher on tour, I’m just literally just handing them out everywhere and everyone’s and this is great because it’s very rare to find a carb electrolyte mix that is not just blow you up and, so it, they’ve done a really good job at develop their product that in the world of golf is very applicable.

Cool.

Jeff Pelizzaro: I know we had a lot of questions come in about, your fitness journey, your health journey. we did talk a lot about that on the last time you were on the show. So for those of you that were interested in those questions, go back to episode 1 25. Let’s get, Scott walked us through that.

That was awesome. Victoria wants to know, what’s the worst shot you ever hit in a [00:53:00] pro event?

Scott Stallings: Man, I’ve hit so many bad ones. I topped the ball out of the rough. I did it at Memorial. I did it at Man, probably more than I tend to,

man. I have hit some bad ones. I did. I hit the worst shot of the year. This year. I was playing Q P E with my buddy Trey Mullinax, and we were playing with, Nelly and Denny McCarthy and Nelly Short Man was a joke, like her shipping is ridiculous. And Trey and I were Ham and egging it pretty good.

and I was like, I just asked Nelly a lot about chipping and pitching and she won’t puff from off the green. She just chips. But she literally just chips everything. If it doesn’t go in, it’s have a chance. So we just asked a little bit about pitching and this and that. I, we in a play with,Maverick Neely and Lexi on Sunday, and we’re playing the low ball round and we’re on the 12th hole, which is the part three at Timberon.

And I missed it long and right on the green, but I’m in the fairway. And so her, Nelly and I were [00:54:00] talking about just a little bit of setup pitching, and I work with Tim Gilbertson, for my short game. And man, he’s helped my chipping so much. But it was one of these shots that Nelly had described and I was like, here we go.

I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna do right here. The ball did not go. A foot. I literally it was one of those where the ball’s here and you hit in the ground and the club goes over. Yeah. It literally, and what moved the ball is the earth. There was no contact with the ball with my club. But to say that the very next hole, which is the drivable hole, number 13 at Tiburon, I drove it right in front of the green and literally had the almost exact same shot and I made it for a two.

So Nelly helped me out. I didn’t do so hot on the first one, and then the next one I made it. So she helped me out a bunch. See that? That’s a

Jeff Pelizzaro: win-win right there. You made the rest of us normal. People feel good on your first shot and then you came back. So getting redeemed yourself on the

Scott Stallings: second one.

Perfect. [00:55:00] Literally we’re walk, we’re walking to the next tee and Trey puts some on me. He is that is the worst shot I’ve ever seen you hit. I was like, that is the worst shot I have hit. And and literally as I’m taking it back and hitting it as it’s making the contact with the ground, I’m laughing because I have just not done well and it was awful.

And then you had the gut tr bringing up. Yeah, I mean I was committed to it at that moment and I was like, I’m figuring this out. Nelly told me this is what she does. I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna get in there and then I hooped it and the rest is history. That’s sick.

Jeff Pelizzaro: All right. Eric wants to know if there’s something you can tell us that’s behind the scenes in a PGA tour event that most of us wouldn’t know about, have never seen, heard of something that might happen throughout the week that you guys do or see that none of us do on the

Scott Stallings: outside.

I would say that everyone is just pretty normal guys. we’re just like dudes that have a different job than most people. And it is weird [00:56:00] because the job that we have is what most people think about when they’re at their job. Would that, does that make sense? Absolutely. Like most people think about playing and that’s my job.

So when I’m not, I don’t want to do this. And I, so I think that, I do enjoy playing when I’m off. I like seeing different courses, different things like that. I like some arch architecture and different things like that, but I think it would be surprising the number of guys that don’t enjoy playing when they don’t have to.

I think that would be a bigger number than people realize. Wow. Yeah. I’ve

Jeff Pelizzaro: never really thought about that. That yeah. Our leisure activity is job. Is my

Scott Stallings: job. Yeah. Yeah. I got some friends, I got some friends that I asked me, he’s let’s go play. I’m like, Hey, let’s go do something else. I was like, one of my closest friends, I was an insurance office and he is man, when are we gonna play?

I was like, man, when are we gonna go sell some insurance? And he’s I understand what you’re talking about.

Jeff Pelizzaro: what is that for you? what is the hobby that you do like kinda look forward to when [00:57:00] you’re off?

Scott Stallings: I like to cook. I like to, obviously I like to work out and I literally like to be on anyone’s schedule, but my own, like my kids and my family adapt so much to my life as a PGA tour player that when I am, in that mode, it’s like I’m not making any plans.

Whatever y’all want to do, I’m in, I’ll drive, I’ll kick, I’ll pick up, I’ll carry, I’ll, whatever that looks like I’m in. my wife will joke around saying that I sometimes in off weeks is I’m a lost puppy, because it’s so like tournament week, it’s like I’m in charge. Like I make the plan, I do this, but it’s like home week.

It’s whatever y’all need me to do, I’m ready to do it. Whatever that looks like. So because it’s so few and far between, I try to make the most of the time that I do have. So that’s just the best way that I feel like I can get that the most done and be, around with my family as much as I possibly can.

That’s cool. I totally get that.

Jeff Pelizzaro: All right, last one. Dave wants to know if you have any

Scott Stallings: superstitions. I only use, I use a neon yellow [00:58:00] line on my golf ball, and I only used number ones. I played the wrong ball. I’m colored blind. and I played the wrong ball on the nationwide tour, and it made, it was like I, I had a black line and the guy had a blue line and I played his ball, so I just figured out a way to not, so that’s probably it.

That’s probably the only thing that I don’t know. My caddy would probably tell you I’d do a bunch of other weird things. I don’t realize I do, but I play ones. And I use this crazy neon yellow line cause I know that’s my ball.

Jeff Pelizzaro: Are Have you heard of any other guys that have any crazy superstitions out there?

Any of your buddies? Oh,

Scott Stallings: there’s a lot, like all over the place. we need to get into the whiskey closet and, have a little bit more time. Talk about the weird things. See out there.

Jeff Pelizzaro: I’ll take a, I’ll take a rain check on that. I would love to, I’d love to do that behind the scenes for sure.

Alright, man, I can’t thank you enough for taking the time to be on the show. I do have one favor to ask you and I sent you a little text about [00:59:00] this. we wanna have a little bit of an action item for people to take away from their time with Scott Stallings here. And obviously you’re known as the fitness guy on, on the tour.

What’s something that our folks can take this week and do, maybe a little workout, maybe a little scout, something that you like to do 20 minute workout or something like that, that we’re gonna task our crew to do. The week this episode goes out, I’ll, and I’ll do it myself.

Scott Stallings: All right, so there’s a hundred, I thought about this when you text me.

So there’s a workout in CrossFit, which is a hundred burpees for time. And basically like it, the fitness goal is that you are gonna try to break seven minutes. that’s a, like a benchmark. it’s a time cat, but it’s also like you need to have some relative idea of fitness if you cannot break this.

So I turned it into a different of a workout. as far as you start on the minute and you make it a 10 minute cap. But in the process of, you are going to do E every minute after the [01:00:00] first one. So the first minute you can do as many as you want. that’s the only thing you’re doing. And then you are building in every single minute you’re gonna do five squat, five sit-ups, and you’re gonna build off of that.

So you have to do 10 reps before you can go back to doing the burpees. And your goal is to try to beat it 10 minutes. okay. you think about it from an overall time cap that’s 10 burpees a minute, but under fatigue to be able to manage that entire time. And you have to do just basically five squat and then, yeah, that, that’s not an incredible amount of reps, but be able to build it.

You can do it anywhere. You don’t need any equipment. And so that’s most of the time when people ask me these like little benchmark workouts, it’s like you had burpees and a little bit of time and something in there if my buddy Ben Bruno sees this, he’s a LA trainer buddy of mine. I know he hates bur, he hates burpees.

So I’ll also add that in there to bust everything, anything. I do this, I add that in there and I’ll send it to him. I’m at work. He thinks they’re, he thinks they’re stupid and I know that he hates them and I love that he hates them. So [01:01:00] basically when I’m around him, I’ll always hit a couple, just what do you think?

This is awesome

Jeff Pelizzaro: because I had a feeling there were gonna be a bunch of burpees in here and I know that your buddies with Ben and we’re gonna tag him on this and make sure he sees this for sure.

Scott Stallings: so now I’ve just determined that anyone asked me something. because he hates high volume, reps.

especially if someone has some type of inhabit, like just inability to do something you don’t want to, whether it’s low back or, anything like that from where a high volume rep like that could really mess with you and he’s not wrong. For sure. But in the situation of now, it’s become like every single time he, we were doing a, we were in a text thread the other day and we were, someone asked about something and he’s Scott’s gonna say burpees, but they’re stupid.

And so now I just put ’em in everything and I tag him in all of them. That’s hilarious. I love it.

Jeff Pelizzaro: All right, man, I really appreciate you coming on. Good luck this season. obviously the 18STRONG crew is pulling for you. We wanna see you there at East Lake at the end, and, hopefully we can have [01:02:00] another one of these conversations in the future, maybe with a wi little whiskey next time.

Scott Stallings: Absolutely. Just spend on one time of day, man. Sounds good. After the workout. I appreciate it, man. All right, it’s, see you, Scott.

Jeff Pelizzaro: Thanks for joining us this week on the 18th Strong Podcast. If you want any more information, we’ll have information about the workout. We’ll have information about Scott Stallings and any other things that we talked about on this episode over on 18STRONG.com.

Just look up episode number 347 with Scott Stallings and as far as the homework goes, now I’m gonna, full disclaimer, I’m with Ben Bruno. I am not a big Burpees fan, but I didn’t want to send Scott a message and say, Hey, you gotta limit this exercise or that one, because what I wanted him to do was give us something that he would do himself.

And so I’m gonna join the challenge. I just caution you, be careful with your burpees. It’s not the greatest exercise for your wrists, for your shoulders, but just be careful. Now, with that being said, we are posing the challenge for you two within one week of [01:03:00] hearing this episode. To do the Scott Stallings 18STRONG.

Workout. And so we’ll have it listed on our social media on Instagram. It’s the Scott Stallings workout post. You can go there and it’s got the details laid out. We’ll also have it in the show notes, but what we’re gonna ask of you is when you do the workout, leave a comment on that post and tag Scott in it and let us know if you pass or if you failed, if you’re able to do it in the 10 minutes or even better if you want to take a video of yourself doing the workout or a little snippet of you doing the workout.

And then tag 18STRONG and Scott Stalling. And what the heck tag Ben Bruno in these two. I’m sure Ben will love it and Scott would really love for you to tag Ben in there. So let’s see how the 18STRONG crew comes through on the Scott Stallings workout. All right. That’s it for this week. We’re coming back next week with another great episode.

We have another great guest lined up, so it’s day tuned to our social media and our emails because we are gonna continue this crew and a questioning every now and then when we have a, a guest coming on that we know that you’re gonna want to ask some questions for. All right. [01:04:00] Train hard, practice mark, and play Better go.

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