DP World Tour ‘Green Room’ offers fascinating insight into pros’ psychology after missing cut for second straight time | Golf News & Insights

Did the DP World Tour social media team do it again or did the DP World Tour social media team do it again?

The “Green Room” isn’t a new concept for the DPWT social team, but it has a slightly different effect when they manage to get a player as emotionally vulnerable as England’s Matt Wallace in. The concept, for those wondering, is to bring players in immediately after their sometimes bad games to open up about what they’re thinking and feeling. A therapy session, if you will.

The thing is, it’s not a human asking them questions or telling them to open up, it’s a robot. Wallace arrived Friday after shooting a 72 at the Genesis Scottish Open, which allowed him to miss the cut by three shots. It’s his second straight missed cut on the PGA Tour. All it took was a simple question, “Is this your first time here (in the Green Room)?” from the robotic voice, and Wallace began to express exactly what he was thinking and feeling.

“I’m pretty disappointed,” Wallace said. “I’m trying to change my attitude towards the game a little bit and be a little bit more positive about it… I’m just lacking a lot of confidence right now. Yeah, it’s tough.”

That’s when Wallace started fighting back tears. Check out the must-see clip below:

Wow. What’s really shocking about this video is that even though it comes on the heels of two straight MCs for the Englishman, he hasn’t been playing all that bad lately. Before his last two starts, he made five straight cuts with a T-4 and a pair of additional top-20s along the way. It’s not much of an effort to be criticized that much.

The fact is, Wallace is very hands-on, a quality he often demonstrates on the course in good times and bad. We love to see that in an age where everything is about money.

For more highlights from the “Green Room,” there’s an A+ compilation on YouTube. Thomas Bjorn’s short, one-minute rant about the insanity of the sport and the people who do it for a living is remarkable: