2024 PDGA Masters Disc Golf World Championships | Eric McCabe Full Press Conference Interview
Eric McCabe, world champion disc golfer, shares his thoughts and strategies ahead of the 2024 PDGA Masters Disc Golf World Championships. Set in his home course, the conversation delves into his role as a competitor, his involvement with dynamic disc, the tournament staff, and logistics. Eric also opens up about his recent forays into competing at higher levels, including finishing second in a Texas tier event and winning subsequent tournaments to qualify for this year's Masters. He shares insights on how he transitioned from casual play to competitive success, offering a glimpse into his mindset and approach as he prepares to face the best players in the world.
Watch Eric McCabe's exclusive interview after winning the PDGA Masters championship at the world championships.
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a world champion joining us now in Eric mccab emac so great to see you let's start with a few of the we'll say Logistics housekeeping almost of course this is your backyard literally literally your backyard what role are you playing this week in terms of being a competitor which we're going to talk about but also in terms of dynamic disc and the tournament and the staff and everything else what hats are you wearing competitor that's about it that's about it this week with the Masters worlds going on um I did help my my normal painting of the OBS on a handful of courses mainly out at Champions landing and then a couple of the courses out of town and and helped Jackie a little bit early on with some formats and layouts and those kind of things but uh but yeah man it's I don't envy those people right now with the scrambling that's has to be going on with the the Cottonwood River coming up and flooding into the Jon or flooding into Peter Pan and Opie obvious viously getting flooded out as well so yeah this week I'm I'm a I'm a competitor this week and I'm excited about it well and that maybe just perfectly Segways into how serious are you taking this world championships knowing you've you know taken off a few of those other hats that you typically wear dead serious Terry no just kidding I'm not at all not serious at all are you kidding me um I you know I I think it was a couple years ago at this point when I found out worlds is going to be here for Masters and I'm like you know what I hadn't been playing if you go look at my PD GA I think I played one Flex start C tier at midnight in Alaska at 1.1 year and then last year I actually went out and played some a tiers uh under MP 40 and had some success I mainly did it so I can qualify for this get points and and get in the realway and not just say hey can I get into this you know so but I I had some success in those a tiers I think I finished second in the first one by a stroke down in Texas and then I won...
