TAMPA — If you think golf is boring, then you haven’t met Trevor Consavage.
"I always like to refer to myself as the Harlem Globetrotters of golf, because nobody really knows what golf trick shots are,” Consavage explained.
Yes, the’s the trick-shot artist who hit a golf ball off Jameis Winston’s head. But don’t worry Bucs fans, he’s a professional.
For the past 13 years, Consavage has been operating his own golf entertainment business, Macho Man Entertainment.
"It’s just gotten bigger and better every year,” Consavage said. "I’m up to about just over 100 events a year internationally. And I have about 7 or 8 independent contractor, trick-shot guys, that also work for me.”
He’s made a successful career out of hitting incredible shots — not for the lowest round on the PGA Tour, but to entertain audiences around the world.
"I’m a little flashy at times, it’s all about jokes and content and it’s not all about trick shots sometimes,” Consavage said.
Just how good is he? So good that I volunteered to be a human tee.
Consavage successfully hit a golf ball off my head — not once, but twice. And just as impressive as his coordination is his powerful swing.
Consavage is also a long drive pro with six World-Long Drive Championships under his belt.
"Longest in competition has been 468 yards, so that was a good ball,” Consavage said.
Golf is the center of his life, but it wasn’t always that way.
"Never in a million years would I have thought this is what I would be doing with my life,” he said.
Consavage was a standout pitcher with MLB hopes.
"My father was great — he exposed me to everything sports-wise, so he let me dabble in just about everything,” he explained. "But for the most part, baseball was the love of my life. And golf was something we just did to spend time together.”
But his path took an unexpected turn.
"I unfortunately had two surgeries to my pitching arm — fell into working in the golf industry and I moved to Orlando,” Consavage said. "One of our members had taken notice of how far I hit the golf ball and introduced me to someone he grew up with in Puerto Rico.”
That person was Hall of Fame PGA Pro Chi Chi Rodriguez.
"He liked the distance that I hit the golf ball, but he also noticed my hand-eye coordination and thought I would be great at doing golf exhibitions, golf entertainment trick shots — I didn’t even know what that was at the time,” Consavage said.
He certainly knows what they are now.
"He exposed that side of the golf industry to me, and I just fell in love with it, it's what I did,” he said. "It became that void I was missing when my baseball career was over.”
Consavage trained with Rodriguez in Puerto Rico and ever since has been wowing audiences, while using his talents to raise money for charity.
"I’ve raised over 2.5 million dollars for those various organizations and it’s so nice to have a career that feels like you’re playing all day, and you’re doing something for people that matters and you’re helping others that actually need it,” he said.
Consavage is living his dream career — the one he never knew he had.