Christian, Husband, Father, Sales & Marketing Leader, Businessman, competitive golfer, IRONMAN, Texas A&M Aggie, Carpe Diem!

Houston, Texas
Joined June 2010
I played in the @USGA US Senior Open Regional final qualifier today at GOLFCREST in Pearland, Texas. I failed to qualify but enjoyed it immensely. Truly fun to compete, feel the adrenaline, and hit shots that matter. This field was the best that I have ever played against. Full of pros, top amateurs, and tour winners from both sides of the pond. Grateful to have had the opportunity. Made enough birdies to get through but had too many others. Two poor swings and one missed putt ended up being the difference. I learned a lot out there today and will improve from the experience. It was 7100 yards of hot, humid, sweaty golf. The course was fantastic with a challenging setup and greens that were pure and rolling smooth and fast.
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That might be the absolute worst defensive play on a 4th and 1 in history. @AggieFootball what in the world were you thinking? 🤔. LSU receiver wide open 15 yards beyond the line of scrimmage. How?? Why??
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The Aggies have recruited excellent players. Plenty of talent on the Aggie roster yet the offense is not good, REED continues to struggle by missing open receivers and our defense is mediocre at best. Our secondary is just plain toast and is getting shredded. No excuse to not be able to execute on both sides of the ball. LSU is a good team but they are very beatable. Unfortunately, in the first half the Aggies failed to execute critical plays when needed. If 2nd half does not improve, you have to wonder if ELKO is to blame. I truly have no idea, I am not close to the program. I do know that it is year 3. These are his players. This is his program. His offense and his defense. He is the leader and ultimately results matter. I respect him and truly have believed in him. But the last two weeks are raising doubts.
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LEADERSHIP MATTERS. Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!
This moment always stands out to me from Josh Allen’s first career start back on September 16, 2018 against the Chargers. Down 28-13 in the 3rd quarter, Allen was seen firing up his defense and encouraging them on the sidelines, a week after they had allowed 47 points. Most rookies would shy away from the moment and wait for the veteran leaders (Kyle Williams, Lorenzo Alexander, etc. in this case) to say something. They wouldn’t have the guts to get in the faces of grown men who were established players in the league, some of them being 10+ years older. Not Josh Allen… He’s been a natural leader, since Day 1! 🔥 #BillsMafia
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Tied after 36 holes in the Championship Flight of the Highland Pines Golf Club championship. Chris Cox scored 71/74 and I scored 74/71 from the 7,300 yard professional tees. Congratulations to Chris who won the championship on the first playoff hole. Chris is now the 3 time Highland Pines club champion. Well played Chris! You are very good at golf!
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This is very cool! They make quality putters.
Joel Dahmen is gaming a new Hanna Golf Co. Denver putter this week. Spoke with company founder @DoerflerJared this morning who said it's the first time the small boutique milled putter company out of Iowa has had their putter in play on the PGA Tour. Doerfler said Dahmen has been a longtime supporter of the brand, even buying one of their first models at launch. Dahmen shot 60 with a Hanna Golf putter at home, but had never put one in play on Tour until this week. They've been in contact since, but a few weeks ago, Dahmen and his agent reached out and asked the company to make him a putter for an upcoming head-to-head test to find a flatstick for this week. Doerfler and Co put in 17 hours milling a putter for Dahmen based on the Denver shape with some modifications. They got the call earlier this week that Dahmen was going to game it. Doerfler quit his job and founded the company three years ago with just single CNC machine in his garage and no knowledge of how to use it. Now the company has crafted a custom putter for the PGA Tour.
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This is correct! Being rich is not about having all the money in the world. It’s really when you have enough money that you can live the way you want to live and spend your time as you desire to. It’s not how much - it’s how you are living and spending your time.
You don’t want to be rich so you can buy g wagons & flex jet photos. You want to be rich so you can sit on your porch with a coffee for slow mornings. So you can go to the gym middle of the day. Take long walks and call them meetings. Never miss a single family moment. That is being rich, and it has nothing to do with buying things to impress strangers.
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What a game by @JoshAllenQB Nothing routine. He reads the D, pressures them with runs when needed and threads the needle with rocket throws. He plays QB differently. Without him, Buffalo loses more than half their games.
Sit back and enjoy a master class Josh Allen performance Absolute superstar 👑 #BillsMafia
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Read this! @JoshAllenQB never doubted himself. Everyone else did. He still knew what he was capable of. He persevered. He delivered on his commitment to himself. Awesome!👏
Tonight Josh Allen became the first player in the history of the National Football League with five passing touchdowns and three rushing touchdowns through the first two games of a season. Not the first in fifty years. The first. Here's where he came from. Firebaugh, California. A farming town in the Central Valley with about 7,600 people in it. His family grows cotton. His dad Joel was Firebaugh High School's starting quarterback in 1982. Josh threw for 5,269 yards and 59 touchdowns there. As a senior he had 25 touchdown passes and over 500 yards rushing. He graduated with zero scholarship offers. Not zero from the big schools. Zero, total. No FBS program called. No FCS program called. He didn't even get preferred walk-on offers. A couple of Division III schools floated academic money so he could come play for them. San Diego State said he could walk on, but couldn't promise he'd ever see the field. His father once played in a charity golf tournament with the head coach at Fresno State, the closest big program to home, and mentioned that his son wanted to play there. The coach decided he wasn't the right fit. Late in his senior year, Allen's high school coach pulled him out of class and drove him over to watch Fresno State's spring practice, just to see it. Allen watched their quarterbacks throw for a while. When practice ended, he tapped his coach on the shoulder. "Coach, I'm better than these guys." "You're what?" "I'm better." Nobody agreed with him. So he enrolled at Reedley College, a junior college 65 miles from home, where one of the assistant coaches happened to be married to his cousin. He didn't even start there at first. He sat for three games. In the fourth he came off the bench and ran for four touchdowns. His coordinator told him the offers would start rolling in now. They didn't. So Allen did the only thing left. He sat down and sent a mass email to every head coach, offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in Division I football. More than a thousand of them. Just his stats and a link to his highlight tape. Out of a thousand emails, he got a handful of replies. Out of those, two schools offered him a scholarship. Eastern Michigan and Wyoming. Then he took a visit to Wyoming, and Eastern Michigan pulled their offer. One. He had one. And Wyoming had only found him by accident. Their coaches had driven out to Reedley to scout a completely different player. "I truly felt like I was a Division I quarterback, and I'd felt that way for a long time," Allen said. "I just wanted other people to see it." He took the one offer. At Wyoming he threw for 5,066 yards and 44 touchdowns and turned a two-win team into an eight-win team. Buffalo drafted him seventh overall in 2018, the highest a quarterback had ever gone in franchise history. He won MVP in 2024. Last October, Firebaugh High School named its football field after him. His mother and father stood there for it. His grandfather had been one of the people who pushed for that town to have its own high school and its own field in the first place. The kid nobody wanted just put his name in a place in the record book where nobody else has ever been.
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Could these two be any different? Both great. One slow and one fast. Drastically different swings. Wild game we play. Just find a way to hit it solidly and get it in the hole in less strokes. And play faster! 😊
On the range with the current Open and PGA Championship winners 🏆 #BMWPGA | #RolexSeries
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Learned much from my play this week in the Texas Senior Amateur. My play was not great and failed to make the cut to play final round today. The mental side of tourney golf is exhausting. It’s even worse when you play poorly. I went into this one with a good plan but fell back into old habits. Making 4 double bogeys yesterday was the undoing. Need to figure out the root causes. 2 were from wrong club choice off tee with poor execution. The other two were wrong approach club choice where I chose club based on hole location yardage rather than front edge distance. Simple things but in the moment made the wrong decision. At this level of play - it’s the mental aspect that determines results. The physical skills are always present. But when we make incorrect on course decisions, that negatively affects the physical execution. When you do that over and over, it is exhausting. And detrimental to posting a competitive score. From Medalist in qualifier to scoring 81/80 in the tournament. Humbling for sure. All part of the process on my journey to become a tournament golfer. Doing my best to enjoy the process but honestly this was very disappointing. Much to takeaway from this week. Will learn from it and will apply it to the next event. Keep growing and moving forward.
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89th Texas Senior Amateur, presented by @RepublicAdvise Round 1 Live Scoring 📊🔗share-cdn.golfgenius.com/pag…
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Congratulations to one of the best ever play! @JoseAltuve27 !!! 2,500 hits ✅
Per @SpaceCityHN, Jose Altuve is the fifth middle infielder in Baseball history to get 2500 career hits and the other four are in the Hall of Fame.
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Very true
"Why do people play golf?" Sean Connery was once asked, and he gave a brilliant answer. "If you play golf, you can’t think, honestly, or do anything else while you’re playing. "I think it’s the most revealing game. I don’t know if it’s a game. It’s something other than a game. I couldn’t define it. "But it’s obsessive and revealing and a very healthy balancing act, I think. It certainly is for me, and also it’s one of the few games in the world that’s really still got dignity as a game. "It’s endless, and as Jack Nicklaus says, it’s an unfair game and you have to accept it. It’s like life in that way. "It’s also a game that you can cheat it. It’s the easiest game in the world to cheat at. The only one that suffers is you, because you know. And you can’t unknow."
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Oh my!!!😳. This will not be good for offenses.
There’s a dude currently teaching Myles Garrett how to hit even harder and I think he should be arrested for doing so
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Leadership matters! Elko understands.
This is so freaking good Never heard it put like this “My job is to be opposite the moment”
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Excited to watch @AggieFootball tonight! Have to believe that Elko has some good stuff in store for us. Expecting this team to be disciplined, strong, and fast. Gig’em! 👍
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Truth!!!
The beautiful thing about life is that your goals don’t care about your excuses. They don’t care if it’s inconvenient. They don’t care if you didn’t sleep enough. They don’t care if you had a long day. Your goals only care if you showed up. It’s supposed to be hard. That’s why it has meaning. Every single thing you want in life is on the other side of something that sucks. So fall in love with it. Show up. Just keep showing up. That’s the recipe.
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“Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors…… Matthew 6:9-15 ESV bible.com/bible/59/mat.6.9-1…
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Quitting sets a pattern that is so difficult to reverse. Don’t let your children quit anything they start just because it’s not going their way or it’s too hard. Finish what you committed to do. Learn to persevere and overcome adversity. Life will be challenging at times and everyone needs the skill and strength to make it through the storm. Great story below.
Von Miller reveals after Texas A&M coach Mike Sherman suspended him, he packed everything he owned into his truck and started driving to Florida to transfer, when he called his he dad told him not to quit, so he turned around and led the nation with 17.5 sacks the next season “I had everything I owned in this blanket, and I went to my car. I threw it in the back and I’m driving home. I called my daddy. I’m like, ‘Daddy, man, I’m leaving. Coach Sherman kicked me off the team. I ain’t coming back until I do this and that.’” “I’m thinking my dad is going, ‘All right, we’re going to find something else.’ He said, ‘Pull that truck over, turn around, and go back to school. You’re not quitting.’” “I was like, ‘That was not the answer I was looking for.’ He was like, ‘You’re not just about to quit when it gets hard. You’re going to turn that truck back around. You’re going to go back to school and you’re going to fix it.’” “I had tears going down my face. I was like, ‘Man, this is going to be so hard to fix all of this.’ I turned around. We had a meeting. Coach Sherman told my dad the exact same thing that he told me, and my dad agreed with Coach Sherman.” “There was nowhere I could go. I just had to face the music. I had to face the truth. That spring was a hard one, but I got my grades up. I made it to all my classes. I went through the checklist of everything Coach Sherman wanted me to do.” “That following year, my junior year, was the best year that I had up until that day. I led the nation in sacks. I had 17 and a half sacks. My life had totally changed. That was all a testament to running straight through the storm. The shortest way through the storm is straight. I put my head down and I worked, and my life totally changed that offseason.”
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