Monday Motivation: Green Jacket?! More Like Watching The Greatest Display Of Resilience, Ever.

Good morning, Cadre. Luke Wendtland here. Good morning. Good morning, man. What a great morning. Happy Monday to you and yours. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. There we are. We are live. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. Hope everybody had a great weekend. Rest, recharge, came back. Just want to give you a little. There is the amazing Miami Beach. We are in Miami. A good friend of mine sent a message a couple days ago and said, hey, do you want to go to Miami? I got a work thing. I'm down here for just a, you know, court, quick little 24, 48 hours.

You want to go? I'm, like, done. I love it. I love it. So there's nothing like waking up on the beach of Miami. There's, of course, that. So we put in. We put in 12 miles. No, excuse me. We put in 15 and a half miles yesterday of walking, and it was just absolutely fantastic. So good morning again to everybody in Cadre. Good morning to the Cadre sphere. I just had to share. We watched the Masters yesterday. Love the Cadre cap. Yeah, thanks. Speak Wonder. Good morning, Jules. Good morning, everybody.

We watched the Masters yesterday. And if you want to watch a masterclass, like, truly a master class in resilience, please go to YouTube and watch the fourth round. Look at what happened to Rory McIlroy, the individual that won the Masters. Good morning, Steph Irwin. Steph Irwin knows exactly what I'm talking about from Georgia with the Masters and what transpired in the Masters yesterday. But that was an absolute masterclass in resilience. An individual started the round up two. So you had plus two, started the round up two, ended up getting towards the end of the, like, hole 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.

So call it the back half or the back last third of the entire tournament. And he had a lead, and his lead grew, and it grew to the point where it almost seemed, like, insurmountable that somebody would catch him. And it was going to be, for his career, Grand Islam, winning all four majors in golf, winning his first major in 11 years. It was. And he just absolutely went downhill. He double bogeyed a hole right on the back nine. On 13, he bogeyed the one right after he found himself with two holes to go, actually not only tied for the lead, but he was down.

And then he had to come back on hole 17 and 18 and strike some unbelievable shots just in order to make it to a playoff. It was insane. It was unbelievable. I just. I can't believe it. And then on hole 15, 16, like, he had to, like he said in this press conference, I had to hit some of the best shots that I've ever hit in my life in order to extend this tournament, which should have never happened, but regardless, he did. And guess how long it took him in 2011, he had a four stroke lead going into the back nine in 2011 to win the career grand slam.

This was a 24 year old kid, and I know I've got to be careful with that when I say kid, but this 24 year old Northern Ireland kid who came on board, it was just hot out the gates and ultimately had to wait 11 years to have this opportunity again. And he seized it. So I want you to think about this. When that promotion maybe didn't go your way, maybe when that business you're starting is going with slow traction and progress and all of a sudden this boy. And actually it's probably a 20 year dream in the making since he's been 15 on tour, but 24, he was this close.

He was that close. And he had to wait 11 years for the opportunity to wear that jacket. And it was one of the most incredible master displays that you'll ever see in your life on resilience. And if you want to go back, like I said, and YouTube some clips today, it was so emotional. He's been one of my favorite athletes ever since I was young. I had his early, his Jumeirah hat, that's who he was sponsored by way, way back in the day. So I had that when I was in my early 20s, late teens, as I always just loved Rory.

But to see him come back the way he did. And then the question that he answered, this individual asked this really astute question when he said, you know, when you were 24, when you were 24 and you almost won, you know, what would you tell that kid today? And he said, he goes, there's so much about the world you have to know. There's so much of the world yet that you, that you don't know about. There's so much of the world and Katie, oh my God, Katie, I love you. Katie says yes. Oh my God. I couldn't stop crying.

Watching me either, it was like I had more emotion than he did letting out. It was just tears running down my eyes. I watched it kind of over and over and over again at night. And I just kept watching this and going, oh my God, what an unbelievable feat. And how he's able to come back. So I just want to share, you know, to everybody that, you know, there's. I know we gotta be careful with Spirituality and whatnot. But I was gonna say, like, there's a plan, you know, there's a spiritual plan for all of us.

And it might not be on our timetable, it might not be on our watch, but when it's supposed to happen, it will. And I just want you all to think about that as you continue to head into your week, head into your life, heading to whatever that might be that you're heading into. So remember that. And I encourage you all, if you have not seen it, to. Well, I'm sure it's probably now on all of your feeds in life. But to watch some of those moments where he makes. And then, I mean, the shot. I just got to say this.

The shot he hit on the first playoff hole. So they both hit a great drive. So in golf, if you don't know. Let me take you back a minute. In golf, if you don't know, if you end the Masters tied, you have literally sudden death playoff. US Open, you play a full 18 holes. A couple other ones, you play three holes. In this particular case, you play one, and if you both par it, you go to the next. If you both are both bogey or both birdie, you go to the next and so on. Well, in this particular case, they both hit great drives.

The first individual hits this unbelievable shot. I mean, unbelievable shot into the 18th hole, you know, 10 foot birdie putt. Here comes Rory, hits his next shot within two feet. I mean, it's insane. And to think he just bogeyed that hole. He just bogeyed that hole when he had a chance to win. He literally just bokeyed that hole 15 minutes prior. And he could have played the tape in his head of, I'm gonna lose this. I can't believe I hit that shot this way. He could have played all those tapes in his head.

Instead, he played the tape of it's my time. It's my time. Even. Even when he had his. He started the. Started the round, and he double bogeyed the very first hole. You know what his mind was when he was talking about in the press conference? He said, john Ram double bogeyed the first hole. He went on to win. So immediately he's looking for the positive. He's like, I needed to be an eternal optimist today in order to win this. And he also was just open saying, I was so nervous. I was so nervous the whole entire time.

I was so nervous. The back nine, I was so nervous. You could see it. Like, I was insanely nervous. And I just love that he was so open and honest and vulnerable about that. Instead of like just, you know, covering it with rose colored glasses and saying, you know, I wasn't nervous, I was fine, man up, blah blah, blah. Instead he was saying like, no bullshit. That was hard. So I leave you today with go back and if you didn't see it, watch a little bit. If you did, check, you witnessed something very, very special.

That's for d*** sure. But everybody have a good day. Thanks for being you. Thanks for being Cadre. Thanks for being a part of this. And we too are, you know, one of those, I think stories that will be 11 years in the making as well. But you just gotta keep moving forward. That's what it's about. Take care everybody. Have a great day. It's good to see you. I just love, love, love when all of a sudden the names pop up. And this is why I do it. It's the best thing in the world. So peace everybody. Have a great day.

Lift somebody up. Bye bye.