He gave up Pro Golf, then qualified for his first PGA Tour event

Josh Goldenberg does not plan to abandon his day’s work. But he had a great time immersing in his old career.

“This week was extraordinary,” he said. “A dream became true.”

He was near noon on Saturday, and Goldenberg was talking by phone from Toronto airport, ready to board a flight to New York. Until Monday morning, he would return to his table in Manhattan, working in Finance for Goldman Sachs. But for now, he was still getting into the good vibrations of the last days, when he would compete in his first PGA Tour event – The RBC Canadian Open -After late qualification in the field.

While Goldenberg’s appearance at TPC Toronto in Osprey Valley had not completely gone out of Blu-a former former golf team at the University of Pennsylvania, it would be a Globe-Trotting mill in development circles for several years-also nothing for which there would be a bank.

He knew the deal. He would give him a professional golf and he would learn how much he had to know that he could not make a reliable living in him. Last March, in 28, he was signed for a stable payment with Goldman Sachs.

Childhood dreams die a lot, and Goldenberg status at Dp Tour World He kept her acceptable for Monday by qualifying until 2025. It happened that Monday qualification for this year’s RBC was planned for a Sunday, facilitating Goldenberg from any conflict of the day’s work. After receiving the blessing from his bosses, Goldenberg flew north for the crucial round at the Pulp club in Caledon, Ontario, where he finished T2 to win a place.

“If you had told me this was the time limit that would happen, I would have laughed,” Goldenberg said. “I was there playing for years. I have done a lot of these qualifiers, and now, when I was sitting on a table for months and I don’t practice, now is when I do?”

I can even enjoy it.

During Monday and Tuesday practice rounds in Osprey Valley, where he tied it to the likes of Joel Dahmen, Tom kimBen An and Danny Willett, Goldenberg could hardly keep the grin out of his face.

“I was looking around the ancestors, the whole environment, and I kept wanting to ask those boys, does this ever grow old?” He said.

On Wednesday, he chose to just stroll the course.

“I was making a conscious attempt to move slowly, just trying to dip it all,” he said.

No matter how cool it was – his first time competing at the highest level of the game – the experience also hit him as strangely known. Working through his heaters before his opening round – by chopping, placing, stretching, swinging – “was a normal type,” Goldenberg said. “I didn’t feel too much outside my comfort zone.”

He could not have asked for a better start. On Thursday morning, he introduced himself with Rory Mcilroy in Green Green (“He was absolutely brilliant.”) And then went out to group 8:24 AM with Thomas Rosenmüller and Mason Andersen, birding in the 10th hole and following it with a harsh up and down for par-3 11.

For a quick moment, he thought, “I’m up there in the manager’s table.”

The electricity he felt was not only his nerves. Goldenberg had a siege of the family around him. His parents, who had raised him in Scarsdale, NY, and presented him in the game almost as soon as he could walk, were present, along with his three sisters, four cousins, a uncle and a aunt. He also had the support of Rick Hartmann, Head Pro from his CC Atlantic House club in Long Island, who Goldenberg said: “It’s been with me on this trip since I was a kid.” Hartmann had just called without qualifying results.

“I am very grateful for my support system, from my family to coaches and in favor, at home,” he said. “They knew I could achieve something like this even when I sometimes didn’t.”

Self -esteem is great in golf. The ability is too. But who does it and who cannot be difficult to understand. That was something else that Goldenberg remembered this week – annoying intangers. With rounds 74 and 71, he fell on the weekend. But he finished four strokes better than Mcilroy, among other things. And as impressed as he was from Pro Tour Pro among him, not even the best shooting he testified to seemed like deeds that he could not attract himself.

“I didn’t feel like there was anything revolutionary,” he said. “In this sense, I think you can say it is angry and frustrating at the same time – knowing that I have skills, but also fully appreciating how difficult it is to live in it, which is something I was unable to do.”

As the fallbacks go, finances are a good one. He enjoys the work and cooperation he wants.

“I’m a very social person and golf can be a lonely lifestyle – I’ve been there,” he said. “I want to be surrounded by a team, and as much as I want to compete, I didn’t get to that point of golf.”

That he is staying with his day’s work does not mean that he is giving up on the game. His DP World Tour status is valid by the end of the year, “so I want to take advantage of it as long as I have it.”

Other qualifiers are probably in his future. But maybe not now.

“I just used five days off,” he said.