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LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA | He certainly doesn’t strike you as a guy with an alias. When you first meet Jason Brown, aka Colt Ford, you can’t imagine why he has two names. Nor do you know without a Google search which name his mama gave him and which one he chose. In the age of the internet, aliases are for off-the-grid outlaws. Actors still do it occasionally but not to hide Jewish heritage or immigrant roots anymore. Eric Banadinović became Eric Bana for pronunciation reasons and Olivia Jane Cockburn became Olivia Wilde to give her some writer cred. But even author pseudonyms have become passé. Brown/Ford is about as far from Hollywood as you can get. With a cap and a couple days’ worth of beard, he wouldn’t draw a second look in every Flying J and Waffle House in the country. And there’s certainly nothing about chatting with him – he’s quick with a smile and a handshake – that gives a hint about a dual life.
The only people who recognize both Jason Farris Brown and Colt Ford as the same guy are deep-in-the-weeds golf fans who also have “country rap” on their Spotify playlists.
“It’s weird for everybody else but it doesn’t feel weird because it’s always been normal for me,” Ford said of a career in golf that took him around the world playing professionally for the better part of a decade, followed by a second act as a country star who has written chart-topping hits for Jason Aldean and been featured in major sports leagues.
“My mom always said, ‘God doesn’t give you anything he doesn’t intend for you to use,’ ” Ford said. “I happen to be a good athlete and I happen to be good at music. I chose golf because I knew that music depended so much on luck. If I’m good at golf, I can make a living. And I did that for almost 10 years. Then I became a club pro and a teaching pro, but I could never make music go away. I was always writing music, always playing music, always had songs running through my head.”
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