Madison Walker: Pro Files with Dixon Jowers

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would you tell us how did you how did you come to disk off so you know you were you were studying other things you had other passenger in your life and yet here you are on the disc golf pro tour how did that come to be so I decided to look for one we didn't have one at my school at Southern Miss so I started one with a whole bunch of men that I played pickup with and we traveled around to tournaments and I had a tendency to put a little too much heat on my forehand and the guys on my team decided hey why don't we teach you how to play just often so I would go out they'd give me discs to lose all the time and I learned how to play there took a break as I got as I graduated with my degree and then eventually just kind of found it after I got laid off from my first real job and started making money doing it then I met page fears we went on tour together can't get laid off from disc off well yeah I guess I guess you can be asked to leave that's about it so as a kid were you more inclined to sports were you more inclined to aquatic things what you know kind of what was your passion before you ever came across disc golf I my parents we had a boat so we went we went boating every weekend but my parents were also my coaches on my softball team my sister's soccer team so I played a lot of sports and did a lot of outdoor stuff our idea of vacation was going camping or going you know snorkeling so on the weekends we did that and then in high school middle school in high school my parents told me if I didn't play three sports you know a sport in every season then I had to get a job so I was going to be an athlete as long as it did not get a job how many kids would beg for that you play sports or you're gonna have to work and soccer I wanted to play basketball but I was no good maybe more so than anybody else that I see on tour you seem to enjoy the the...