The Team Roping Journal

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The saying’s ubiquitous: Roping is the golf of rodeo … which is lucky for 7.5 heeler Kevin Lozares because he’s a card-carrying PGA golf pro.

“They’re a lot more similar than you think,” Lozares posited. “Mentally, how you approach structuring practices and the mental game of it, looking at improving your roping as a marathon and not a race. Evaluating stats percentages. So, a little different approach to roping, but from that standpoint, I feel like roping and golf are identical.”

Lozares, 34, who’s originally from California, is a second-generation golf professional, and he was just 2 years old when he held his first club, but his grandfather was an RCA roughie, so it was just a

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