Zach Top has been busy, as the chart-topping, Audacy LAUNCH artist has oscillated between shows around the world and the pursuit of a better golf game back at home. The “I Never Lie” singer joins Katie Neal this week for the 'Superstar Power Hour,' opening up about life off-stage and sharing the stories behind a few of his biggest hits.
When he is not on the road, Zach enjoys golfing and tinkering in his garage he tells Katie, and he stays committed to lowering his golf handicap. “I sit in the backyard and I got a net I hit balls into.” shares Top, “and I got a little portable simulator set up and then I take videos of my swing, and then look at my swing and say that looks bad, and then I try to do something different and it works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't.”
“I did not understand for the longest time why golf was like… why people were so obsessed with it, but then, when you start playing, like there's so many things that have to go right all at the same time and it's ridiculous.”
When he’s not at home trying to get better, he’s on the road working towards that lower handicap, already reformed after a few years of touring.
“I used to look at guys with their gym trailers and, you know, Riley [Green]'s got a big old gym set up out there, and I'm sitting over there drinking beer at 10 in the morning and laughing at him for working out,” he says. “Now that's me too.”
“I thought I had 10 or 15 years of good hard living in me, and I'm three years into full-time being on the road and I'm already slowing down.”
“We do a little working out in the morning, a lot of times go play golf,” he adds. “That's a fun little way to get away from the venue for a little while too. It sounds like it'd be glamorous and fun, but yeah, you're just sitting in another parking lot every day. They usually have it set up really nice, it's comfortable and we're on our buses and stuff like that, so there's nothing to complain about, but it is nice to get out of the parking lot and away from the venue, go see some green grass.”
For more behind-the-scenes stories of life on the road, and the origin of some of his songs, check out the full conversation above.
