# Golf, Identity, and Starting Over

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Podcast: [The Bag Drop: Untold Stories in Golf](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bag-drop-untold-stories-in-golf-1147207)
Published: 2026-05-11T11:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

What happens when the thing you’ve built your entire identity around suddenly stops being your job? This week, Matt and The Professor sit down with a friend and former PGA Tour player and Korn Ferry Tour winner, Chris Wilson, for one of the most honest conversations we’ve had about professional golf, pressure, performance, and life after competition. What starts as a conversation about Q-School, Northwestern, and surviving on Tour slowly becomes something much deeper: how the elite performers learn to let go, reinvent themselves, and figure out who they are when the score no longer defines them. Along the way, Chris explains why bad weather can free your golf swing, why “be aggressive” is terrible putting advice, how Tour players spiral after missed cuts, and why the best skill he carried from golf into finance had nothing to do with golf at all. What the conversation dives into: Why miserable weather sometimes produces the best golf The hidden psychological pressure of Tour reshuffles and missed cuts What winning on the Korn Ferry Tour actually changes - and what it doesn’t The difference between linear and nonlinear putters Why Chris says he “never thought about pace” while putting The challenge of separating your identity from your golf game What elite golf teaches you about business, communication, and relationships How learning to “care less” can actually improve performance Connect with our guest 💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-wilson-98b112127/ Follow The Bag Drop 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebagdrop 🐦 X/Twitter: https://x.com/thebagdropgolf 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBagDropGolf Listen to The Bag Drop 🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bag-drop-untold-stories-in-golf/id1430328006 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/s…

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