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Brodie's Thoughts On His Injury | Debate Night Clips
Brodie shares his honest thoughts on struggling with injury during a recent tournament. The golf pro discusses how playing two rounds in one day under pressure may have contributed to his knee issues, which were exacerbated by an ankle injury sustained earlier in the event. Brodie explains that reducing throwing and increasing recovery techniques, such as stretching, foam rolling, icing, and elevating, helped him manage the pain. He also talks about a particularly challenging hole where the headwind proved tough, leading to some missed shots. The tournament, one of Brodie's favorites, was frustratingly cut short due to his injury. The video offers a glimpse into the mental and physical struggles faced by professional golfers, providing insight into the challenges of competing at a high level despite adversity.
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in that morning group you were able to put together a pretty solid round i believe you shot six under that morning um but then the afternoon round you kind of struggled through and it looked like you were getting affected by your knee is what it seemed like on coverage was that mainly just from playing two rounds in one day under tournament pressure or like what exactly was going on yeah so i twisted my ankle pretty bad at left and uh i think that kind of you know sometimes when you jack something else in your body it ends up putting a lot more pressure on another joint kind of in your body change how you walk and stuff like that and so i think that ended up kind of tweaking my knee a little bit and i've been able to manage it pretty well just simply by you know reducing the amount of throwing i've been doing and increasing recovery as far as uh doing the norm attack stretching foam rolling icing elevating all those type of things to kind of keep the swelling in check that day was just it was just a tough one to do where you know you start at seven in the morning you end up finishing around 12 or so then you have like a four hour break and then you get back to warming up and then going back out there um it was yeah it was definitely frustrating because that this is a course one one of my favorite tournaments to play uh it's also a very fun course to play and it's one that i think i can be very competitive at and yeah so i ended up uh i ended up starting fine and picked up a couple bogeys on uh was it four five and six or three four five and six i think something like that just by throwing ob shots five was five was causing me problems all week um until i finally went forehand the final round yeah i'm surprised you weren't going for hand yeah the wind was it wind yeah it was just the headwind was really bad on saturday on that hole and i told myself pre-tournament like it was a headwind i'm going backhand and i think i should just i need to trust my forehand into a...
