Lauri Lehtinen Shares His Thoughts On His First Time In The USA (2022 Waco)
Lauri Lehtinen, a rising star in disc golf from Finland, shares his thoughts on making his debut in the USA at the 2022 Waco Charity Open. He joins Larry Ellison, the host of this Q&A session, and gets to know him better. Lauri talks about his strengths as a player, including his sidearm technique, which is highly effective on the course. The conversation also delves into how Lauri and other young Finnish players are pushing each other to elevate the sport in their home country. As he navigates the vastly different landscape of American disc golf, Lauri opens up about the challenges of traveling from a winter-dominated climate to a hot summer environment like Texas. With his unique perspective as a newcomer to the USA scene, Lauri offers insight into what it's like to compete on this level and how he's handling the transition.
Watch Finnish pro Lauri Lehtinen make his highly anticipated USA debut at the 2022 Waco tournament in this exclusive disc golf video.
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larry thanks for joining us questions hi lowry welcome to texas is this your first time here at this uh in the united states yeah it is actually and um have you watched some of the coverage on this event yeah of course like every year every year's coverage of us yeah are you excited to play this waco charity open yeah really excited about that um i would like to highlight so i think you're the second highest player from your country is that true yeah it is and what are your strengths in your game um i think sidearm it's really strong and uh budding as well i think wonderful and i think that uh there's a lot of sidearm shots on this course do you have a specific goal in mind for this weekend not really i haven't been here before so it's really tough to say that what it means to be like 10th or so so not really okay for our viewers to get to know you how long have you been playing disc golf since 2015. okay and how did you get into the sport um maybe through friends i think yeah very good all right well we're extremely happy to have you here and good luck this weekend thank you here's brian earhart with more questions larry hi a couple questions for you so you are a player in finland who is a part of a group of young players that are really getting good uh nick loss antilles another player i believe he's even younger than you that's really coming up in finland do you feel like all of you all of these young players in finland are kind of pushing each other to kind of raise the level of the sport in finland yeah i feel like that it's great to have like a lot of lots of other players at my age as well so yeah now when you come over here it's a lot different than finland what would you say is the biggest difference you've noticed so far be it being in texas uh i arrived at a week ago so i think the traveling has been really tough and i'm still having a little bit of jet lag so yeah maybe that and the weather weather also i like came from the uh winter and now it's...
