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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Son of a Butsch podcast. As always,

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Claude Harmon. Wanted to talk about a

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Speaker 1: little game I played with one of my juniors this week.

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Speaker 1: Ming Bojang, senior in college, won the Florida one A

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Speaker 1: high school state championship this year. He's going to the

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Speaker 1: University of Virginia in the fall, one of the best

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Speaker 1: D one programs in the country. He lives in Orlando,

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Speaker 1: comes down and spend some time with me. Wanted to

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Speaker 1: work a little bit on his iron game. Now, obviously

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Speaker 1: it's easy to do that on the driving range, work

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Speaker 1: on his technique, work on his swing, work on positions,

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Speaker 1: all those things. But wanted to throw a little bit

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Speaker 1: different game at him. So it's a real luxury. You're

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Speaker 1: at the club that I work at, the Floridian. We

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Speaker 1: have an amazing golf course, but we also have a

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Speaker 1: par three course called the Harmon Course, nine hole par

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Speaker 1: three course that my dad, Bush Harmon, helped design. Shot

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Speaker 1: rangers kind of eighty two, probably stretch some shot to

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Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty. So we took Mingbo over to

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Speaker 1: the par three course and said, okay, the goal is

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Speaker 1: to hit every single green and we started off by saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a par three course and it's just

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Speaker 1: nine holes, so kind of goes out and then comes back.

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Speaker 1: And so the goal was to say to Mingbo, okay,

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Speaker 1: our goal is to hit nine greens in a row.

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Speaker 1: If we miss a green, we come back and start again. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: not everybody has the opportunity to do that, right, It

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Speaker 1: is a luxury to be able to do that, but

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Speaker 1: it's a great learning opportunity. And we didn't do any putting.

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Speaker 1: So the goal was to go ahead and take a

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Speaker 1: look at the yardage, and then the win on every

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Speaker 1: hole was can you just hit the green. You don't

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Speaker 1: need to go flag hunting, you don't need to attack pins.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter where the pins are. The goal

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Speaker 1: was to hit nine greens in a row, and if

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Speaker 1: we missed one, we came back and started at zero. Well,

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Speaker 1: one of the cool things that Mingbo was able to

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Speaker 1: do was we played that game and he had eighteen

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Speaker 1: greens in a row. Eighteen greens in a row, and

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Speaker 1: when we got done, I said to him, when's the

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Speaker 1: last time he even thought about doing that? I can't

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Speaker 1: imagine there's been a time where he's hit eighteen greens

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Speaker 1: in a row. So we started off by just doing

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Speaker 1: nine and the first couple holes were not very very long.

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Speaker 1: They were in that kind of you know, eighty to

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Speaker 1: one hundred range. But again, I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: golfers Mingbo's kind of in that case as well. He

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Speaker 1: thinks he needs to hit it closer. When I started

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Speaker 1: doing some work with Cam Smith, I had Ryan Chrysler

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Speaker 1: take a look at, you know, kind of take a

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Speaker 1: deep dive into his data. And when I talked to

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Speaker 1: Cam when I first started working with him about what

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Speaker 1: he was trying to work on and what he felt

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Speaker 1: like he needed to work on his that he felt

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Speaker 1: like his iron game he needed to hit it closer

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Speaker 1: from kind of that wedge to eight iron range, right,

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Speaker 1: And in taking a look at his data, Ryan Krissher

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Speaker 1: don't need to hit it closer, you just need to

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Speaker 1: He certainly can't do that at the tour level. So

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Speaker 1: I was asking Mingo. We were working on the driving range,

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Speaker 1: and we were talking about his golf swing. His golf

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Speaker 1: swing's always pretty good, right, He's a pretty solid looking

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Speaker 1: golf swing. I've worked with him probably now, you know,

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Speaker 1: four or five years, and originally when his parents brought

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Speaker 1: technique work. But I told him day one, listen, I

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Speaker 1: we can monitor it. I think we can always make

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Speaker 1: it better, but I think we can turn you into

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Speaker 1: a better golfer. And so I think one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons why he's going to play Division one in the

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Speaker 1: He's gotten better at being a golfer, and I think

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Speaker 1: from a junior golf standpoint, that would be kind of

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Speaker 1: you know, he would have a lot of that, right,

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Speaker 1: he would have a lot of those yardages. And I

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Speaker 1: I told them, listen, there's the green, don't even think

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Speaker 1: stand up, execute and hit the green. That's it. That's

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Speaker 1: all we need you to do. So I think this

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Speaker 1: is a really really good game to play. Obviously, not

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Speaker 1: everybody has the luxury to just go out and play

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Speaker 1: you don't have the opportunity to do that, go to

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Speaker 1: your driving range and say, okay, I'm going to use

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Speaker 1: the target greens on the driving range and see how

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Speaker 1: many of these I can hit in a row. And

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Speaker 1: if I miss one, I kind of start back at zero.

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Speaker 1: So just see if you can hit nine greens in

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Speaker 1: and you can just kind of cycle through all of

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Speaker 1: of driving range as your playground. But if you can

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Speaker 1: World Cup is being played right now, and you know

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Speaker 1: one of the things they talk about in football, slash soccer,

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Speaker 1: on goal and making the goalkeeper make safe, meaning hit

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Speaker 1: the target. A lot of times you'll see in the

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Speaker 1: World Cup players will have a shot and they won't

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Speaker 1: use analogies from other sports. Just hit the target. So

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Speaker 1: the rules of the game would be hit the green,

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter where middle edge sixty feet, If it's on

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Speaker 1: a green, go back and start over. Sounds really really simple,

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Speaker 1: actually trying to do with every swing. You can do

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Speaker 1: you can do it there. But it's just we're always

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out with practice. I've said this before

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Speaker 1: on the pod A lot of times people will say

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Speaker 1: what I'm doing on the driving range and take it

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Speaker 1: to the golf course? Right? How do I manage that?

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Speaker 1: And so I think this is a great game, it's

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Speaker 1: really really simple. But the number one thing it's going

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Speaker 1: to do is kind of your process over your targets.

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Speaker 1: So if you're only trying to hit the green, the flag,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter where it is. So if you're just

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Speaker 1: trying to hit the green, you're making your target much

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Speaker 1: target oriented. The strategy kind of changes. So big target,

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Speaker 1: just trying to hit the target. So if you're doing

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Speaker 1: and see if I can do that multiple times. If

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Speaker 1: you get close to the pin, that's a bonus, But

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Speaker 1: hitting the green, that's your job. When I took Mingbo

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Speaker 1: hit eighteen eighteen greens in a row. He hit it

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Speaker 1: inside of five six feet I think four or five times.

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Speaker 1: think that it's I just think we're so target an

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Speaker 1: don't know where the flag is. That's another really good

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Speaker 1: way to play this game. Obviously it's difficult to do that.

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Speaker 1: Not everybody has access to go and take the flags out,

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Speaker 1: So shifting your focus from where's the pin? You don't

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Speaker 1: sheets why because their talent level is so high that

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Speaker 1: Start big, make it smaller. But I do think if

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