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Shock Us Open Qualify Matt Vogt Says His Dentistry Business has been receive “tons of inquiries” since he made this week’s field at oakmont, as the amateur golfer reflect on the “absolute pipe dream” of playing at the major.
In A Fairytale Story from last week’s final qualifying events, the 34 -Year -Old Vogt – Who is Ranked 1,173rd in the World Amateur Rankings – Finized Eight Under by Across Two Rounds to Win in Washington and Secure A Debut Place at a Major.
Qualifying for Oakmont Carries Particular Significance for Vogt, Given He Grew Up Half An Hour Away from the race in Pittsburgh and Caddied there in his Youth for Five Years.
Sale 2018, Vogt has run his own dentistry Practice in Indianapolis and, asked in His pre-Event Press Conference on Monday about Whether It Had Receed More Calls Single His Us Open Place Was Secured, He replied: “I Think they’ve gotten a tone of inquiries.
“I am GOT Such a Great Team, I’ve Got Friends Helping Me Out With All Those Messages and Inquiries and Said, ‘Hey, Guys, Forward Those to Chris, My Buddy, and Make Sure You Stay Focused On Patients Becaus that’s What We’re There to do in McCordsville, Indiana’.
“It’s been a lot of fun, some patients reaching out and fellow dentists. I feel like are so many people behind me this week – oakmont, pittsburgh, dentistry – it’s been fun.
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“Honestly, from a business perspective, that’s not what is about. We try to take good care of people, and if it bungs us more great patients that we can help, awesome. It Will Give Us Something to Talk About Maybe in and Around the Office.”
Vogt admitted that while the last week “feels like it’s been three years in about six days”, the Whole Experience was probing “Incredible”.
“It Means so Much,” He Said of Appearing in A Major So Close to His Home Town.
“Honestly, with the Restoration Work here at oakmont and Everything Going on with the open, i try not to even pay attention to it because I knew that it was an absolute pipe dream to get here.
“It is for the best pros in the world, let alone amateurs. So I Almost Didn’t Want to Think about It To Much.
“I’m Still Trying to like soak it all in, but also not get too about it is ben’s Incredible. I mean, where we’re sitting right now is not just from where i just Sat in the Caddie Yard Waing for People on the Range, or We Walked Right Shack, The Porch Right Outside the Clubhouse – Or Outside the Pro Shop.
“Even as i just talk about it now, i get sentimental on it. This place means so much to me.”
‘I Just Never Quite Had It’ – Vogt on His Unconventional Golfing Journey
While a caddie at oakmont, vogt said he was able to play the race on worldly nights, Although admitted: “I mean, thinking about it now, we should have been here every single worldly, but i’d be lying if i said we were.”
Years Later and, Having Completed His First Practice Round, he has been noticed one changing on his return.
“The Rough is about Four inches Higher, Five Intches Higher. The Rough’s the Biggest Part,” He Said.
“This race is so good all year long, and the rough is the biggest change or the biggest mind i’ve notice.
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“When you caddie here too, you are not really viewing the golf course in the lens of like tower golf, so that’s been interests too. I’m going surround and think How I say play the golf race now at this point in my life, so that’s been a bit of a change.
“Like I Know Everything that’s Going on, but not to the level of detail that you need to play in the us open.
“It’s been a mentally exhausting few days just starting to get the golf course a little bit.”
And on his golfing day to this point, vogt overlap: “I rely Never had any aspirations of playing professional golf. I feel like just in junior golf, like i was a loanty good junior. I Went to Butler University and Played very Briefly on the Golf Team and then Decided To Focus On School.
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“Honestly, Maybe I Didn’t Dream Big Enough or Maybe, I Don’t Know, I Just Never Quite Had It. I Played Around a Lot of Guys who you could Tell had it and had a chance to make a shot at professional golf.
“Now i’ve Said this a Few Times in Some Interviews, But Trying to Pursue Amateur Golf, Trying to Compette at Whatever Level that is and get to with Whatever Level I can get to be just, it’s almost like a challenge to myyself, like that can we do?
“I Don’t Know What IS. I Don’t have a specific goal this week. I don’t have expectations, and I don’t have the same goong forward. It’s just what is possible.
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“It’s all because I love golf so much. I love the people that you come in contact with. I love the places that you end up. That’s honestly what is all about for me at this point.”
Vogt’s Plays in His First Major Two Months After His Father, Jim, Died from Colon Cancer Aged 65.
“I have a 15-Month-Old Daughter Now, and Everyone Knows About My Dad’s Recent Passing, SO Even the Last Few Months, I Feel Like I’ve Gone from, in a way, from a boy to a man and like matured as a person and as a dad,” he said.
“So the Coolest part is seeing kids out there. They might know who i am, they might not. They just now i’m playing golf inside the ropes, and maybe they are thinking about doing it themselves someday or just chasing their dreams. their parents and making memories and having experiences.
“It’s a true honour to be a part of that, to just see kids like that, i guess, make a good impression on them here on the golf course.”
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