he could consistently compete with his old buddies, but he knows he's a more complete golfer now than he was when he played full-time. I don't hit the ball as well as I used to, but I had the best sports psychologists you could ever hire with fighter pilot training, he said. If I had been the mental player then that I am now, I would have won a lot of mini-tour events. The pro-am provided Aduddell a nice spark to his old ambitions of being a world-class golfer, but he knows that being a fighter pilot is a great job, too. Because on a regular basis, like a bird, he can look out over the world at high speeds and see it from a perspective that very few have.