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Patrick Braun

@patrickbraun1

Christian, Husband, Father, Sales & Marketing Leader, Businessman, competitive golfer, IRONMAN, Texas A&M Aggie, Carpe Diem!

Houston, Texas Beigetreten Haziran 2010
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Patrick Braun
Patrick Braun@patrickbraun1·
@THPGolf @CallawayGolf Great job capturing the truth! This driver is a weapon and it can be personalized in so many ways that it will be amazing for just about every golfer.
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Patrick Braun
Patrick Braun@patrickbraun1·
Ags just need to keep improving every week. Pitchers improve pitch locations and keep walks to a minimum. Hitters continue to develop into complete hitters who use the entire field. 1% better every day and do the above the Ags will be in Omaha. Trust the process and do NOT get complacent.
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Jack Hirsh
Jack Hirsh@JR_HIRSHey·
Cleveland X Swag Wedges Giveaway!!! Haven’t done one of these in a while, so giving away this set of Cleveland X Swag RTZ wedges and Z-Star Diamond golf balls. To enter: Like this post Follow me and @Fully_Equipped Comment your pick for Masters Winner picked Saturday!
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Pete Pappas
Pete Pappas@PGAPappas·
Another PWPIPasatiempo player was fit for a new Callaway Quantum driver over the weekend and Mike (Kovatch) will be on full attack from the tee come game day. 😤 Mike was fit at Callaway Fitting and Performance HQ and gained both speed and forgiveness compared to his Titleist driver. He wound up with the Quantum Triple Diamond Max, 9°, with a Fujikura Ventus Blue VeloCore+ 6S shaft and this combo had him consistently hitting long butter cuts. 💪 Mike will also be playing the Odyssey Ai-Dual 7 DB putter at Pasatiempo. And thanks to Mike Vrska at Callaway for dialing Mike in. 👍
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Patrick Braun
Patrick Braun@patrickbraun1·
Read this. Incredible come back story. Just WOW!
Game 7@game7__

Gary Woodland is the anti-Tiger Woods in every possible way. Allow me to explain why. Gary Woodland just won the Houston Open by five shots. Two and a half years ago, doctors cut a baseball-sized hole in his skull to remove a brain lesion. He spent two nights in the ICU. There was a real chance he would wake up paralyzed. This is the best comeback story in golf right now and it's not even close. The full story behind today is insane. In 2019, Gary Woodland won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. He finished 13-under and beat Brooks Koepka by three strokes. At that point, Woodland had four PGA Tour wins including a major, and was ranked 12th in the world. Then everything slowly fell apart. After the 2023 Masters, Woodland became consumed by fear. Not regular nerves. Actual, debilitating terror. He was afraid he was going to die. Afraid something was going to happen to his kids. Afraid of falling to his death in his sleep. At the Memorial Tournament in June 2023, he woke up in his hotel room and clung to the mattress for an hour. He was convinced that if he let go, he would fall. His hands were trembling. He had no appetite. Spasms would jolt him awake at night. He was losing focus over putts. Forgetting what club he was holding mid-swing. An MRI finally revealed the cause. A lesion was growing on his brain. It was pressing directly on the part of his brain that controls fear and anxiety. Think about that. The thing responsible for every irrational terror he was experiencing had a physical, medical explanation. His brain was literally being pressed into a constant state of fear. In September 2023, Woodland had a craniotomy. Surgeons removed as much of the lesion as they could, roughly half, because it was pressed against the optic tract of his left eye. They cut off blood supply to the rest to try to stop it from growing. He walked out of the hospital two days later. Started putting again two days after that. He came back to the PGA Tour in January 2024 at the Sony Open. But he was nowhere near the same player. In 26 starts during 2024, he had three top-25 finishes. His best was a tie for ninth at the Shriners Children's Open. For a former U.S. Open champion, those are survival numbers. And nobody knew the full extent of what he was dealing with. Because on top of the brain surgery and the recovery, Woodland had been diagnosed with PTSD. He kept it hidden for over a year. He described being hypervigilant on the course. A walking scorer once got too close from behind and startled him so badly that his vision went blurry and he forgot where he was. He would go into bathrooms between holes and cry. He would break down in the scoring trailer after rounds. He would sprint to his car in the parking lot just to hide it from everyone. He said he felt like he was living a lie. Spending so much energy pretending to be okay that he had nothing left for the actual golf. On March 9, three weeks before this Houston Open, Woodland finally told the truth publicly. He sat down with Golf Channel's Rex Hoggard and revealed everything. The PTSD. The crying. The fear. All of it. He said after that interview it felt like a thousand pounds had been lifted off his back. Then he showed up at Memorial Park. He opened with a 64. Then a 63. Then a 65. Then a 67 on Sunday to close it out. 259 total. A tournament record. 21-under par. Five strokes clear of Nicolai Højgaard. Wire to wire. Led every single round. His first win since the 2019 U.S. Open. Nearly seven years between victories. Brain surgery, PTSD, two years of hiding in bathrooms between holes, and a thousand pounds of weight he was carrying that nobody could see. This is a guy who was a basketball player first. He grew up in Topeka, Kansas, won state basketball titles at Shawnee Heights High School, and played a year of college basketball at Washburn before he realized golf was his future. He won the Courage Award from the PGA Tour in 2025. The seventh player to ever receive it. And now, at 41 years old, with titanium plates holding his skull together, he walked into Memorial Park three weeks after telling the world the truth about what he had been going through and played the best golf of the entire field for four straight days. The full breakdown of Woodland's career, the surgery, the PTSD, and how he got to this point is here: itsgame7.com/news/gary-wood… There is a reason this one hits different. Comeback stories in sports usually involve torn ACLs or shoulder surgeries. Things you can see. Things that heal on a timeline. Woodland's comeback was from something that rewired his brain. Something that turned his own mind against him. And the hardest part of his recovery wasn't physical. It was admitting to the people around him that he wasn't okay. Three weeks ago he said the words out loud. Today he won a golf tournament by five shots.

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Patrick Braun
Patrick Braun@patrickbraun1·
@SenTuberville And NIL money should be tracked and published per player and team. Viewable by all and not kept private. Must create accountability.
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Coach Tommy Tuberville
Coach Tommy Tuberville@SenTuberville·
My NIL bill is simple. You get five consecutive years to play five seasons with one free transfer. If you choose to transfer again, you sit out a year. Proud to be leading the charge to SAVE COLLEGE SPORTS.
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Texas A&M Baseball
Texas A&M Baseball@AggieBaseball·
First pitch 🔜
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Patrick Braun@patrickbraun1·
@NCAABaseball @AggieBaseball Now that’s what you want to see!!! Grahovac going oppo means he is heating up and about to hit even better than he has been. Great hitters use the entire field. This is great hitting!
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Patrick Braun
Patrick Braun@patrickbraun1·
@Pirates @SNPittsburgh @937theFan Why put Cruz in CF? That’s one of the most crucial defensive positions. Errors there mean runs will score. Put him in right or left if he has to be on the field. 🤷‍♂️
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Jim Dalfino
Jim Dalfino@jimsoxfan·
CB Bucknor has 78 challenges so far and was wrong on all of them.
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Pete Pappas
Pete Pappas@PGAPappas·
I need constant supervision.
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Lupton Drinking Club
Lupton Drinking Club@luptonbeers·
TCU has hit literally a million feet worth of home runs so far this weekend 🔥🔥 we’re so back 😤😤
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Patrick Braun@patrickbraun1·
@ThePoniExpress Guess they realized that centerfield defense might be kind of important. 🧐
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Andrew Fillipponi
Andrew Fillipponi@ThePoniExpress·
The Pirates benched Oneil Cruz to play a centerfielder who can actually catch the ball. Novel concept.
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Patrick Braun@patrickbraun1·
@TCU_Baseball Great lineup! Let’s go put up some crooked numbers today. A lot of them!!!
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Patrick Braun@patrickbraun1·
@Travis_L_Brown Getting the W is great. The 13 K’s is concerning. 11 walks helped the Ags and 8 timely hits produced nice volume of runs. Ags continues to be one dimensional at the plate. Thank God for FRESHCORN! He shut down Mizzou and stopped them cold.
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Patrick Braun@patrickbraun1·
@SeanUnfiltered Hard to win if your hitters do not put the ball in play. Very small sample size to date but I sure hope they improve their approaches at the plate. Would have thought hitters would be sharper coming off spring training. 🤷‍♂️
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Sean Salisbury
Sean Salisbury@SeanUnfiltered·
My Astros fans! It’s that time and I miss you guys on a daily basis, big time! So, share your real season expectations about the 2026 team. What’s the vibe!#astros #mlb
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Patrick Braun@patrickbraun1·
That guy should not be in CF. Routine plays. People are taking about the Sun influence. That’s BS. The sun being in the sky and shining has been a part of the game for a long time. Good players can adjust and still track a fly ball despite the sun’s influence. Eliminate the excuses. This was just very poor defensive play. Period.
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Jeff Passan
Jeff Passan@JeffPassan·
Oneil Cruz misread a Brett Baty line drive to center field. His first step was in. That was a mistake. The ball went over his head and cleared the bases. The next pitch, Cruz lost the ball in the sun. The Mets have put up five runs on Paul Skenes and there's still only one out.
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