The Disc Golf Guy - Vlog #68 - Adv Memorial Champion - Angel Garcia
The Disc Golf Guy's vlog #68 brings you an exclusive interview with 2011 Memorial Championships Advanced winner Angel Garcia. The conversation takes place at the prestigious event, where Garcia shares his experience of winning one of the country's largest disc golf competitions. A proud San Diego native, Garcia reflects on his journey to victory, including his previous success in local events such as the Southern California Amateur Disc Golf Championship and the Southwestern Team Tournament Invitational. As he looks to make a name for himself in the professional disc golf scene, Garcia discusses his plans for the remainder of the year, including potential participation in the AM Worlds. The video also touches on Garcia's experience playing out-of-state and competing live on television, offering an intimate look at the life of a top-level disc golfer.
Watch Angel Garcia win at the Advanced Memorial Champion. Relive the action and learn from his strategies in this episode of The Disc Golf Guy's vlog.
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I'm back. I'm the disc golf guy and we are here at the Memorial Championships 2011 edition and uh I'm joined by your Memorial Advanced winner, Angel Garcia. How you doing today, Angel? doing fantastic. You should be. You just won uh one of the largest events in the country. How does that feel? Feels great. Feels great. I struggled a little bit uh towards the middle, but just tried to finish strong and make San Diego proud. Good. So, you hail out of San Diego. Have you had uh other success at other events this year? Um the Southern California Amateur Disc Golf Champion, uh the Southwestern Team Tournament Invitational Champions as a team, San Diego. And that's about it. Well, that sounds like a pretty impressive resume. So, everybody at home is going to immediately want to say, "Well, when's this bagger moving up?" Uh, do you have plans to finish out the year? You playing AM Worlds or anything like that this year that you're concerned about? Well, I'd like to go pro right now if I could. Okay. They're playing tomorrow yet. Maybe you could hop I'll just hop on the card. It's cool. Take your scores, transfer them over over there. Uh, out of uh California, actually, Paul McBth is currently tearing up the Vista course. He had birdied nine out of the first 11 holes. But anyway, you guys in uh California know how to get it done apparently. Uh what was uh give us your best experience of today or this whole entire Memorial event. Um what can I tell you? The sun was shining, the weather was nice. Uh out of state playing disc golf, doing what I love. Man, I had traveling with some buddies probably too. Tons of buddies. All my San Diego friends are here. They're supporting me the entire time. Uh, you were featured on live television as well. Live internet television. How did that feel? It felt great. It felt really good. Now, you'll be able to go home and watch the archive, see what happened, maybe even, uh, if you have to critique yourself or not. I mean, you did win. Uh, but it will all be archived down on the disc golfet.tv website. Uh, any parting shots you want to say to anyone? You got sponsors? Anything else you want to talk about? Um, well,...
