PGA Tour rookie Max Greyserman put collectively a debut season to be happy with in 2024. However the 29-year-old’s profession nearly got here to a screeching halt two years in the past.
In an look on GOLF’s Supbar podcast, Greyserman defined to co-hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz how a wrist harm practically derailed his promising future in professional golf.
“So I’m thirty seventh [in the Official World Golf Ranking] proper now, and that’s a terrific spot to be, and it seems like I’ll be going to Augusta, and it’s simply loopy to consider from the place I used to be a yr in the past, and even two years in the past once I had wrist surgical procedure in 2022 and I didn’t actually know if I used to be going to maintain taking part in professional,” Greyserman mentioned, “and now I’m simply residing the dream and doubtless going to Augusta, so it’s simply loopy the place life can take you.”
When Knost requested how shut Greyserman got here near calling it quits, the brand new professional revealed that following his surgical procedure, he explored different potential paths his life may take, visiting his brother-in-law’s actual property workplace to be taught in regards to the trade, and speaking to his faculty pals from Duke who lived in New York Metropolis working in finance.
“I used to be pondering effectively perhaps I may go hang around with them and type of get pleasure from life otherwise,” Greyserman defined.
Ultimately, Greyserman realized that he wasn’t completed with professional golf simply but.
“I simply determined that my story wasn’t completed in golf, and simply type of awakened in the future and mentioned ‘again to work, get this wrist factor over with after which proper again to work,’” Greyserman mentioned. “And as quickly as I acquired again on the Korn Ferry Tour the next yr after surgical procedure I used to be off and operating, I by no means regarded again, completed ninth after which this rookie yr. So very grateful.”
Apparently, the professional revealed that it was his exploration of alternate careers that in the end pointed him again to golf.
“I really feel just like the wrist surgical procedure gave me a bit of little bit of perspective, as a result of it confirmed me what life would have been like had I not performed golf, and I believe I used to be OK with that, and the truth that I used to be OK with that… that I used to be OK for Plan B I believe gave me perspective to go chase Plan A, which was professional golf.”
You may watch Greyserman clarify his expertise within the video above, take heed to his episode of Supbar right here, or watch his full look within the video beneath.