WHAT Mini Tour Golf COSTS: PART 2

got a special episode for you today I'm gonna do a little part 2 to the video the episode the vlog I made back in I believe it was May I'm gonna link it up here down below that was the video I made entitled what mini-tour golf costs it's been doing very very well I think it's a video that a lot of people out there want to see it was just to look at what one particular event costs now that my season up here in Canada is over I think it's a good time to make part two of that series if you want of that idea and I'm gonna talk about what this season cost me out of my pocket going to talk about the entry fees the expenses the sponsorship dollars and then the winnings and see where I finished in this summer up here in Canada that I finished in the positive did I finish in the negative find out okay let's start with entry fees this summer between entry fees and membership fees I paid eight thousand two hundred and thirty dollars in entry fees yeah meat or golf isn't cheap then when it comes to the expenses the expenses to play all of these events Hotel food travel airfare all that fun fun stuff from May 1st to October 1st my expenses were roughly eighty six forty five eight thousand six hundred and forty five dollars I spent that much in expenses now let's talk about the income I had a little bit of sponsorship dollars this year I had seventy five hundred dollars in sponsorship so that money goes towards these expenses so $7,500 in sponsorship money and then though other forms of income his winnings I kept track of all of my winnings this year and I want 7870 rough that's from Bray Lake store CCP tour and pro-ams seventy eight seventy I had a good gear but that's not a lot of money so now when we look at all of these things sponsorship wins expenses entry fees where does that leave will flip beats but this this so my totals total expenses was sixteen thousand eight hundred and seventy five dollars that's five months 16 grand in expenses to play miniature golf and then my total income between sponsorship and winnings fifteen thousand three hundred and seventy dollars so my net for 2017 is negative 1505 that's how my year went and it was a pretty good year my putter and my short game cost me a lot of money but that is what mini-tour golf costs let that sink in guys this is what we do for a living because we believe in ourselves and we want to make it to the PGA Tour okay so now that you've seen all the math all of the ins in the out you saw what it cost week to week now that's what it costs season to season this is just five months of my season as anyone who follows the channel I do have a part-time side job as a public speaker that money obviously helps offset this but it also pays my bills my rent my food my offseason it pays for that it pays my interest on early years of my career because as many many players out there can relate they're probably in this boat as well if you look at it every year is likely gonna be a loss early in my career I had a lot of losses I had sponsorship money and then I lost it so you play on credit you borrow money from your parents you do whatever you can but every year is arguably a loss so you begin to float that debt that's a hard hard thing for a lot of meetings who our golfers we float a lot of debt the money I make luckily as a public speaker emcee whatever I can I can do the charity events I do it helps that it helps me keep going but I can't go any further this year I'll play an event in October I'll play of an event in December down in Florida but that's about it because there's not enough money left if my year were a little bit better if I had made say about ten thousand more in earnings I could have gone to Q school I could have gone to European tour school or web.com tour school and tried to progress my career beyond this season into some status for next year but I can't i straight-up can't you know it's not a bad thing but it's just the kind of harsh reality if I you know fall into some more sponsorship money well then doors can open if I make a little bit more money on the golf course doors can open but where I am right now is the exact same place I was in a year ago granted I have a little bit more money in the bank than a year ago but I'm still in the same place where I don't know what I'll do next year my worst case scenario is doing the exact same thing as this here and my best case scenario is coming into some some money over to the offseason and allowing myself to go to Q school be it for Latino America or PGA Tour Canada and playing back on a higher level tour and getting a little bit closer to playing on the web.com tour in 2019 it kind of comes down to this it comes down to the dollars and the cents and I lost 1,500 bucks this season that's not so bad because I probably had years where I've lost three four five six times that but I kept going cuz I do believe in yourself and you know your break is just around the corner and I feel like this year making the changes I made to work with Dan in the beginning of my season is why this is happening is why I'm losing less but the catch-22 is the time that I take to speak and travel and do that does take away a little bit from my preparation for tournaments and I understand that I'm ok with that it's what I choose to do because I love both but I know that this offseason if I hone in and keep playing maybe once a month the tournament and hone in on my short game and work really really hard on my short game I'm gonna push myself into a better 2018 and that's all we want to do as players we want to have a better year than the year before so 2017 was better for me than 2016 was so I can keep that track going 2018 is gonna be a great season and I'm far far far from from giving up from quit from packing in from retiring I believe in myself and I know that if I keep working hard and keep slugging it through these incredibly expensive mini-tour journeys and struggles the break will come that a bank account will grow the level of play will increase and the stature of Tor will increase alongside that that I mean I could have had the same finish as I had in Ontario but had them in Quebec and I probably would have made four or five times more money and I would be going to Q school but unfortunately I can't so I have to find Plan B keep preparing keep practicing keep working hard if not harder than I've ever worked before because next year my break can come I can play well at the right time and boom things can skyrocket from there but that's it that's what mini-tour golf costs for anybody out there that wanted to know beyond the one week that's what five months cost five months costs almost $17,000 it's pretty crazy to write it all down like this but I really hope you enjoyed this this glimpse into it I'm packing up everything here in Ottawa because I head down to Jacksonville on Thursday time to start busting my hump and and focusing on 2018 hustling a little bit trying to find some speaking work in the offseason hopefully there's people out there that they want to hire me to come and speak at their event and share my story and and all that fun stuff give this video a thumbs up make sure you subscribe because there's gonna be a lot of cool things coming in the offseason I've been taking note of a lot of your guys requests and things you want to see so get ready for from some tips some insights some shorter videos that are specifically meant to help your golf game so until then see you guys later peace [Music]