Willie Cauley-Stein Explains How Golfing Saved His Life

now words around town that you a big golfer now yeah basketball is you're a lead at basketball but golfing is your thing man how' you fall in love with golfing man where did that come from but honestly just saved my life man uh I I had I gone through a couple like the last like couple years man two probably like not these last two years these last two years have been great but the two years before that um was a little rough yeah and uh the the beginning stages of it yeah well talking about life was rough okay and then I fell golf man and just seriously saved my life man how how did it well the reason why I'll tell it straight up on here man the reason why uh I had to go like I left Dallas and like that um you know I had to go to rehab and then so when I was in rehab I met this guy named Parker and he was a big golfer and so we just got to like betting like on a little chipping range putting range and I was like survive yeah survive so then after all that I finished all that up and started my recovery it was like a big it's a big part of recovery for me like it's like a it's something for the soul bro it symbolizes what you yeah and so like with that all that that happened my grandmother passing away and like I needed something basketball was taken from me I needed something to hand old like heartache the the the heartache of losing ball the heartache losing my grandma the heach of losing my boy Rex like all that and then like I found this thing that I could just Channel and work on it every day and it's just me I don't have to worry about politics I don't have to worry about coaching I don't have to it's just me getting better and it's like leave everything else where at the door bro as soon as I step out of my car put my my golf shoes on bro it's like it's just gone gone bro it's just me for I see why you say saved your soul man I definitely see BR I've been I've been sober for you know 2 and a half years now I I I I give a lot of that to golf that's what's up man I didn't a lot of people don't know that about the first one I ever told that story hey what's next we got we got it on what's next man

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