Kevin Van Valkenburg

Uh, and I'm suffering from this, this stuff.

I'm, I'm feeling often overwhelmed and carrying around this burden is enormous to me.

I just, I don't really know how to deal with it.

Uh, I feel this anxiety all the time about, you know, people looking at me and wondering, you know, the, the health scares that I've been through and just the act of talking about that, uh,

managed to sort of free gary up to just be a better golfer and what a kind of a cool thing that is i mean like you know i obviously won in houston but just the results in general been better you know he's he's already started off again at the dural this week he's in the top 10 after the first round uh who knows sort of how that'll play out but it's a great course for him it was the top 10 uh at the heritage

i mean you know it didn't play great obviously like at the masters but uh was good enough you know shot in 66 in the last day it played pretty well at the valspar which was the sort of the next tournament after he'd kind of revealed like what was going on and everything i just think it makes for a really cool story of someone who kind of felt this burden and was willing to sort of open up with the hope that some people had

know would be going through similar things and i i literally got like just by like retweeting a couple stories a couple people message me and be like you know i'm going through something similar with this uh and i just want like you to know that like gary talking about this really did mean a lot to me and i hope you guys will keep

talking about this and keep the awareness out there.

I think that that's just a cool thing.

I think he was 130th in the world last year and now he's in the top 50.

He's probably going to keep climbing just with more steady play.

His stroke's gained across the board.

He's better.

He's the top 30 player in the world right now, I would say.

I think he's 30th right now and

strokes gained on the pga tour so you know you could put him you know top 40 somewhere top 50 in the world kind of when the as the season plays out it's just a great story and i just i love that some the simple thing like that not a simple thing obviously but a complicated thing like that was able to help him play better golf yeah i mean this is just

I just was going to say one little anecdote.

When he came back first from the lesion, the brain surgery stuff, I just happened to be walking past him on like a Monday at Riviera.

And we kind of made eye contact.

And I was like, hey, Garrett, it's just great to see you back out here.