Calvin Heimburg Shares His Thoughts On The Growth Of Disc Golf & Performances At Recent Majors
Calvin Heimburg shares his insights on the growth of professional disc golf and his performances at recent major tournaments. The press conference discussion offers a glimpse into Heimburg's adaptation to life on tour, particularly his experience with van life and its impact on his schedule. Despite the challenges posed by travel, he appears to be thriving, having won an event last year and consistently performing well. Heimburg also discusses his approach to courses, highlighting his aggressive green strategy and reliance on accurate driving. Additionally, he expresses his enthusiasm for the growing sport of professional disc golf, citing increased gallery attendance and a greater ease in making a living through competitive play. The conversation provides valuable insight into Heimburg's perspective on the current state of the Elite Series tour.
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welcome back we have calvin heinberg joining us here at the press conference hello calvin hello we are a quarter of the way theoretically through the season now the first major last weekend and right back into an elite series event how are you adjusting to the van life and your schedule and just the way that you're traveling so far um yeah i mean i'm just in good it's nice having the extra space and just having everything to cook fridge sink everything uh i know life is just a little bit easier uh having all those things in your vehicle so everything's going good and hopefully everything stays good for the remainder of the season so well seemingly it's not affecting your play maybe even enhancing two years ago you actually won this event last year you took second you've been shredding out on the course top card second card every weekend how do you feel going into this weekend specifically i feel pretty good going into this event it's a longer course than what we were playing last weekend a lot more drivers it is a little wet out there but i think it's i mean you sought to attack the course so i think it's still a pretty aggressive green game plan and um just yeah hopefully hitting fairways with the drivers and then making putts all right last question for you calvin it doesn't have much to do with this weekend just can you give us your quick two sentence feelings about the current state of professional disc golf in our our elite series tour um yeah i mean everything i'm super excited for disc golf it's growing at an incredible rate i mean just in the past few years since i've been on tour just the galleries have grown immensely and just the ability to actually make this a livelihood is a little bit more it's easier to actually say this is my job so um yeah it's going great hey calvin nate perkins here i wanted to ask you the past three majors you've put yourself in a position to win this past one you you were on the lead card final round uh usdc uh you two years ago you put yourself in a spot to win with that putt on 17 worlds in utah you put yourself on the lead card...
