Cromwell, Connecticut — Sometimes Matthew Wolff needs to realize that his life isn't too bad.
He needs to be aware that he is okay.
No matter how many bogies he makes.
Regardless of the number of cuts he missed.
Sometimes we need a simple, random event to remind him of these things.
He received two reminders on Fridayin the second round of the Travelers Championship. One is off the golf course and the other is off the golf course.
23-year-old Wolff started the day outside the cutline (after shooting 71 in the opening round) and crouched directly above it. He holed out a birdie wedge on the 18th hole and was safely 3 under on the cut line.
Wolf will enter the weekend at the TPC River Highlands, 11 shots from Xander Schauffele's lead, who scored 63 twice in a row on Friday. Therefore, Wolff has no intention of winning the tournament. But that's okay. Entering the week, he missed a cut in four of the previous three tournaments and the previous five tournaments.
Wolff played 28 tournament rounds in 2022 in the 1960s before the 4 under 66 he shot on Friday (highlighted by its amazing holeout of 18). I posted only 2 rounds.
When the round is over Wolff Came out of the score. When a young man approached him and said, "That's why I started playing golf," he received another reminder that he was okay.
From nearby Glastonbury, Connecticut, Will Sutton made it his job to hang around the clubhouse when Wolff finished the round.
"He's unique," Sutton told the post after meeting Wolf. "His swing is unique. He had many low points, but he's back."
Wolf isn't there yet, but he's sure I'm back at.
When he won the 3M Open in 2019, it was Wolff's fourth professional tournament.
He left Oklahoma and turned professional at the same time. As his college teammate, Viktor Hovland, and Cal's Collin Morikawa. Three of them were predicted to take over the sport and become new stars in the game.
When Wolff won the 3M, he was the first of the three to win the PGA Tour event, kicking Morikawa out in one shot.
However, since his victory in Minnesota, Wolf has been wrapped by Morikawa and Hovland, who soared the world rankings while Wolf was stalling.
Morikawa, 25, has won five PGA Tour tours, including two major championships, and is ranked fourth in the world. Hovland, ranked 8th, has won the PGA Tour three times.
Meanwhile, Wolff looked like a losing golfer in the woods for the past two years, but his world ranking fell to 74th. He remains transparent about tolls. It took him mentally and spoke openly about his mental health struggle.
"I have to mature," Wolff told the post on Friday after the round. "You have to live through experience and learn from what you are experiencing. Unfortunately, I have to do it in front of millions of people, which is difficult for me to handle.
The rapid rise of Morikawa and Hovland also confused Wolf's heart.
"It was difficult," Wolff said. "They are my two best friends and I'm really happy with their success, but for me I knew everyone was playing together in college and winning the tournament left and right. I think we can do exactly what they are doing. "
He was playing and grinding, but as a result he couldn't see, making himself more and more difficult and exacerbating his problems on the golf course.
"Unfortunately, I was in a really bad place for a while," he said. "I've been having a lot of trouble with myself for the last six months and that's affecting my golf."
Like he received on Friday I need more reminders.
"It's hard to remember how many people are over par when they're on the golf course and not playing well," Wolff said. "When I get off the golf course and try to see it from an outside perspective, I'm really lucky where I am."
He believes the results will come again. ..
He has been asked if he is in a better place since the United States. When it opened last year, he publicly opened a vein about the fight against mental health, Wolff said, "Oh, sure."
What was the most useful?
"Time," he said.
