WEBVTT - What we can learn from Anthony Kim 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:08.920 So if something happened last week that I didn't think 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:11.960 anybody in the golf world ever thought would happen. Anthony 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.280 Kim came back to playing golf and I was in 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:20.920 Saudi Arabia. It was it was very It was very interesting. 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:24.280 I mean, first of all, I mean I never thought 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.040 we'd see him again, right, I mean, I never thought 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:31.520 that we would ever see Anthony Kim playing competitive golf again. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.479 And so to see him back and to see to 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.240 just kind of see him in the flesh was just 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.920 it was crazy because I'm a fan. I was a 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:45.199 fan of his when he played and you know, a 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:49.720 twelve year absence. I mean, I was at the Houston 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.960 Open in twenty and twelve. I was working with Ernie 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.320 L's and AKA was it was kind of right around 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.760 the tee off times that Ernie. He was in the 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:04.120 in Ernie's wave, and I watched him warm up, watched 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.319 him hit some shots on the course. He pulled out, 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.160 and then that was That was kind of it. But 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:15.679 it's crazy to think that he's back playing golf. I 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.880 talked to him a bit. I posted some videos of 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:22.160 his golf swing on my Instagram, and I guess you'd say, 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.480 they went viral because everybody picked him up and everybody 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:25.959 was looking at and it was a driver you know, 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.800 it was a driver swing and an iron swing. And 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.520 I think it's important to have to put into context 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.040 who Anthony Kim was. I mean, there are a lot 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.880 of people listening to this podcast that never saw him play, 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:45.520 but I did, and listen. He wasn't He didn't win 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.280 fifteen twenty times, right, but he won three times on 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:54.240 the PGA Tour, won a Ryder Cup, went three and 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:58.640 one in the President's Cup, third the Masters in twenty ten, 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:04.480 fifth in the the Open Championship twenty eleven. And he 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.960 was kind of a cult type figure, cult type hero 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:14.560 because he he was a total breaking of the mold 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:18.000 of what everyone thought. Everybody on the PGA Tour was. 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.280 He was this young kid. You know, he had the 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.200 ak belt with all the look like diamonds all over it. 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:29.480 He just had an amazing looking golf swing, and you know, 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.160 he was young, and I think it was kind of 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.560 infectious the kind of energy that he brought. And then 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:39.120 out of nowhere, he was just gone and he was injured, 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.480 and then there were all these rumors and it was 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.480 you know, over the last twelve years, it's been like Bigfoot. 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.600 You know, you would hear people say, oh, man saw 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.160 ak the other day in Dallas, or I saw Anthony 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.399 cam in Vegas, or I saw him in Palm Springs. 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.639 And then every now and again, you'd you'd hear somebody say, man, 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.560 I saw him hitting golf balls and it still looked 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.880 the same. So, you know, over the last i'd say 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.919 probably about three four months, and we kind of heard 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:11.240 that there were rumors, and you know, he showed up 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:15.320 on Live last week and played, and listen, he didn't 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:19.440 play great. Seventy six, seventy six, seventy four, he topped one, 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:23.000 he shanked one, and there were a lot of people, 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.000 you know, I read I saw on social and I'm 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.640 sure there's a lot of people listening that say, you 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.200 know that says, yeah, this is why Live's a joke 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.560 that they let people like Anthony Kim, you know, play. 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.400 But you all listening need to understand that the PGA 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:44.600 tour was one hundred percent trying to get Anthony Kim 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.600 back on the PGA tour. Listen, I know that, I 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.360 know that for a fact. So anybody that thinks that 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:55.760 the tour wasn't trying to get Anthony Kim to come play. Unfortunately, 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.160 I got news for you. They were he chose live, 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.440 and it'll be interesting to see what happened. But the 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.600 reason why I wanted to talk about it, obviously everybody's 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.480 been talking about. But the reason why I wanted to 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:10.800 talk about it and talk about his comeback he is 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.160 I think it kind of blends with what a lot 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.200 of you hear me talk about on the podcast. All 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.039 the time, I watched Anthony Kim on the driving range 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.120 and I just sat there and watched him hit balls 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.240 for twenty minutes, talk to him a bit, but just 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.640 watched him as a fan, as an instructor, as someone 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:30.040 that loves golf swings and listen. It was I mean, 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.520 I've sitting there with Pat Perez and a couple of 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:36.600 the other players, and you know, Charles Schwatzel was watching 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.480 him hit balls and he was just looking weird, just 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.279 laughing because I mean, he was asking questions. First of all, 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.080 he used DJ's track Man, and I think this story 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:46.960 got out, but he had no idea how to use TrackMan. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.239 And I think the other thing that I in talking 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.919 to AKA that I found very interesting is how much 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.640 the game of golf has changed since he left twelve 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.960 years ago. You know, he had no idea how to 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.880 use a launch monitor. He used DJ's track man. We 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.640 had to tell him how to set it up, We 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.480 had to tell him how to normalize it. We had 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.280 to tell him what numbers to put on, and he 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.120 he had no clue. He had no clue how to 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:17.120 use one. He talked a lot about how much equipment 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:21.480 has changed and how much balls have changed, so that 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.440 I found very very interesting because I didn't really think 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:28.240 in twelve years until you know, I was talking to 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.080 Aka about it. The game has changed, I mean, and 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.159 the technology has changed. I mean, the driver technology has changed. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.880 Everything has changed in the last twelve years. And I 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.640 think we look at all of the advances in golf 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.400 and we kind of look at them retrospectively, you know, 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.880 thirty forty fifty years ago. But the game has changed 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:54.520 in the last decade to fifteen years. And Pat Perez 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.719 told me a great story of having breakfast with Aka 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.360 and sitting down and talking to him, and Akay said, listen, 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.599 are there any rules that I need to know about 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.400 that have changed? And if you think about it, twelve 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.960 years ago, you were dropping the golf ball kind of 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.960 shoulder height, you could you couldn't double hit a chip 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.520 without a penalty. You couldn't tap down spike marks. It 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.360 was funny. I said, we were going through on the range, 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.479 we're going through some more of the rules and I said, 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:20.600 you know, you can tap down spike marks, and he said, 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:22.520 you know, it's funny. I was watching golf the other 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.600 day on TV and I saw somebody tap it down 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:29.280 spipe marks, and I was thinking, they're definitely cheating. And 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.920 it was strange just to it was kind of like 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:39.480 he'd come back to, you know, the planet. And obviously 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.719 the planet that he's come back to is professional golf, 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.440 but when you're away from it for that long, and 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.560 I wasn't surprised. I thought he could do anything. Last week. 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.840 I thought he could shoot, you know, under par I 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.039 thought he could shoot over for but I thought seventy 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.599 seven or seventy six, seventy six, seventy four was probably 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.679 about accurate. I don't know how one of the things 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.840 that that Anthony said to me that he was not 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.840 concerned about, but he thought that was going to be 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:07.960 not an issue, but something that he was gonna have 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.080 to deal with is He was like, I haven't walked 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:15.640 eighteen holes in twelve years. Any golf that he had 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.280 been playing, he's playing in karts. And I don't think 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.600 people realize that, Yes, golf is not a contact sport. 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.080 Everybody says, you know, it's easy, you know, it's not 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:29.360 physical and stuff. But walking fifty four holes, walking seventy 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.760 two holes, walking thirty six holes. I mean, one of 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:35.560 the things that amateurs always say to the tour players 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.480 in pro ams is they're amazed at how tired they 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:39.880 are by the end of the day because of all 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.760 the walking. So that was something I think ak was 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.080 having to deal with for the first time in a 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.720 long time. But the golf swing on the driving range 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:56.880 looked great. I mean it looked good. The speed he 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:01.040 wasn't up to full speed, but there were watching him 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.760 and they were going I could see him shooting under 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.320 power because of how good he was hitting it on 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.960 the range. But that's what I wanted to talk about. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:13.320 And you've heard me say this before, but I think 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:17.720 this is the best example of this that we could 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:22.800 possibly have. What you do on the driving range has 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:30.120 very little to almost no involvement in the outcome. It's 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.240 what you do on the golf course. So Ak's hitting balls. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.280 I'm watching them hit balls. Other players are watching them 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.000 hit balls, and everybody's gone, Man, golf swing looks money. 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.320 I mean, the golf swing looks great. But there is 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.440 a massive difference to what your golf swing looks like 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:47.479 on the driving range and how your golf swing performs 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:49.840 on the golf course. And I think we saw that 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.920 last week with Anthony Kim. I'm sure that he hit 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.000 a lot of good shots on the range and he 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.200 hit some good shots on the golf course during the tournaments. 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:03.600 His good shots were good shots, and that is something 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.280 that I talked to all the players that I work 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.280 with a lot, but I specifically, you know, probably talk 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:14.640 more to junior golfers about this. The warm up, your 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:21.480 practice sessions, your practice rounds, they're just that they're practice. 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.679 And there's a big, big difference when the flag goes up, 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.040 when they put give you a scorecard and a pencil 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.160 and you put it in your back pocket and you 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:34.080 know that every bad shot you hit is going to 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:39.080 cost you strokes. I watched, yeah, I walked around some 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.040 holes and watched Anthony play and listen he was rusty. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.960 You know, I don't think he had total control over 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:51.840 his golf ball. I don't think he one knew where 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.400 it was going. And I think that's just because he 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:58.080 he has played no golf. He also told us when 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.920 when he was getting back into golf, he ordered golf 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:05.320 clubs off the internet because when he quit playing, he 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:09.280 basically just gave away to his friends all his golf clubs. 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.319 He didn't have any golf clubs. So I think it's 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.200 going to take him sometime to dial in the equipment. 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.720 I think it's going to take some time to dial 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.400 in his body. And I think it's going to take 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.760 some time to dial in his golf swing so that 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.040 he can go out on the golf course and perform 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:27.400 and have his golf swing do what it needs to 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:31.680 do on the golf course. But the walk, and I've 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.880 said this a million times and it's a cliche, but 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.079 it's a cliche because it's true. The longest walking golf 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.680 is from the driving range to the first tee. And 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:45.120 I think that if you are trying to get better 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.600 at golf, you have to ask yourself two things. Do 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.360 you want to be a better practicer? Do you want 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.679 to have a really good looking golf swing on the 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.320 driving range and have a golf swing that everybody looks 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.880 at and goes, man, he's got a beautiful looking golf 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.360 I mean, we can go through loads of players that 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:09.680 have really good looking golf swings that haven't one big tournaments, 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.880 that haven't performed at the highest level, and I think 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.040 we're seeing that with Aka. It was really cool to 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.640 see him again. It was so cool to see him 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.000 hit golf balls and to watch his golf I was 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.920 always a huge, huge fan of the way he swung 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.360 the golf club, so to be able to see him 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:33.720 again hitting golf balls on a driving range was really cool. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.840 It was something, you know, special, to watch it up 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.040 close and to just be able to sit there for 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.440 fifteen twenty minutes and watch him hit balls, and everybody 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.440 that was watching him hit balls was would kind of 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.920 walk away after watching him hit you know, five ten 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.760 balls and just kind of shake their head and just go, man, 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:54.200 that looks really cool. But there is a massive, massive 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:59.160 difference between the esthetics of your golf swing and how 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.920 your golf swing performs when you were on the golf course, 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.600 and I think we saw that. I think we saw, 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:09.000 you know, Anthony hit some wayward shots. He didn't get 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.600 off to great starts, and that's something I think everybody 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.240 listening goes through in their own golf swing. I think 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.679 seeing I mean, in my opinion, what we saw from 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.840 Anthony Kim last week was probably the closest that the 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.160 rest of us are ever going to get to having 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:35.080 somebody's game mirror rs. Meaning, didn't get off to great starts, 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:41.120 made some big numbers, shanked some, topped some. That's what 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.800 all of us do on a regular basis as well, 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.160 and I think it was a unique insight to just 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:53.040 how hard the game of golf is and also how 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:57.880 hard competitive professional golf is. I mean, the players make 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.320 it look easy. I think there is this sometimes this 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:08.080 kind of misguided view that yeah, it's not really that hard, 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.440 but golf is hard, and golf is hard on a 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:16.040 number of different levels. Golf is hard physically, golf is 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:21.000 hard technically, and golf most importantly and probably the most 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.199 important part of the game of golf is the mental 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.480 aspect of it. It's hard mentally. It's hard to stand 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.640 up if you've hit a bad shot, if you've topped one, 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.439 if you've shanked one, if you've rinched one in the water, 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.480 if you've snapped hooked one out of bounds, it is very, 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:39.439 very difficult to stand back up on the next shot 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:44.400 and make a committed golf swing. And that is I 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.719 think the things that I took from last week that 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.920 I think are positives for Ak. Right. I think that 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.000 you know, there were some good shots. You know, his 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.559 touch wasn't great. You know, his short game wasn't great. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.360 You know his speed was a little bit off on 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:05.800 the putting greens. But I think this week as well 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:09.120 in Hong Kong, for Ak, I think it's another opportunity 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.000 for him to test and kind of gauge where he's at. 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:13.920 And then I think what he's going to do is 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.680 go home and kind of say, okay, let's make a plan. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.560 I mean, he had one of his boys caddying for him. 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.120 He knows he needs to get a real caddy, someone 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.880 that can help him on the golf course, someone that 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.960 can you know, shepherd him around the course. Is at 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.840 a veteran, is it a young guy. I don't know. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:41.920 His old caddy, Biggie. He caddies Eric Larson. He cardies 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:46.760 for Harris English. Now Gary Matthews, who caddies for Wako'neman, 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.440 who's won two out of the first three live events. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.680 He caddied for ak in the past, So I think 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.480 the caddy is going to be a big part of this. 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.520 I think if Anthony can get somebody on the bag 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.760 that he knows, he trusts, he likes, and that can 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.720 kind of point him in the right direction, I think 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:12.120 that's going to be big. Obviously, he's going to need 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:17.040 to get more command and control over his ball flights, 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.240 over his trajectories, all of that stuff. And to be 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.120 honest with you, again, going back to what I just said, 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:28.040 that's another example that he's human, that he's just like 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:29.960 all of us. Like we're all trying to get better 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.040 command control over a ball flight, we're trying to hit 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:37.000 it more solid. I think that Anthony will take these 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.960 two weeks, and depending on how he plays this, I 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.040 would think that he would play better this week in 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.400 Hong Kong than he played last week. A completely different 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.400 type of golf course. This is much tighter, it's more 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:53.160 tree lined. Last week in Jeddo was desert, so if 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.320 you hit it offline, you're hitting it into the desert. 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:56.840 This week, if you hit it offline, you're hitting in 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.400 the trees. But it's a different style of golf course. 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.840 The length isn't going to be that big of an issue. 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:07.200 So I mean, obviously there's some really really long hitters 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.720 on Live Listen. There's long hitters everywhere, right, there's long 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.640 hitters on the PGA Tour, DP World, wherever. But this week, 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.400 I think Anthony isn't going to be so much behind 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.560 the eight ball, behind the bombers. But his iron game 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.120 wasn't great last week. And I think if if he 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.560 can go away after you know, the first two weeks 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:32.360 and and really grind and kind of figure out use 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:36.440 these two weeks and say, Okay, what wasn't working on 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:40.200 the golf course? What aspect of my game wasn't working? 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.120 Was it short game, was it putting? Was it iron play, 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.960 was it driving? Whatever it was? I think, ak, we'll 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.480 get a good idea of what he needs to work on. 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.920 But I think it's just fascinating that your golf swing 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:56.480 can I I was I was marveling at how good 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.880 it looked. I mean when he started hitting drivers, I 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:00.320 was just standing there and I was like, I mean, 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.360 how good's the position that he puts it in at 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.960 the top. I mean the impact positions. You know, I 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.400 took a bunch of slow mo video for myself, and 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:13.000 when you slow it down, you know, the positions are 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:19.199 really really good in slow motion. In positions, AK swing 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:24.199 looks solid, looks good. It looks like someone that has 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.840 played golf at an incredibly high level. It looks like 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.639 someone that has won tournaments on the PGA Tour, that 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.159 has played in Ryder Cups. I mean, his golf swing 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:39.040 passes the look test. But again, there's so much more 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.040 to golf than just the way your golf swing looks. 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:46.560 And I hope everyone listening takes what Ak went through 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.520 last week and applies it to their own game and says, Okay, 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.840 there's what I do on the driving range, and then 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:57.000 there's what I do when I'm actually playing golf. And 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.679 I think last week is probably the best example I 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:06.879 can give to everybody listening that playing the game of 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.359 golf is more important than what your golf swing looks like. Okay, yeah, 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.960 Anthony hit some bad shots and part of that has 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:17.280 to do with his golf swing. I think he needs 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:21.680 more reps. Something that you know, Tiger Woods has made 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:25.720 famous and made a constant statement. You know, you hear 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.959 players say that, but he does. He needs reps, he 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:34.000 needs more practice, he needs more rounds of golf. So 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:37.479 I would imagine that he's probably going to be playing 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.399 a lot of golf and hitting a lot of golf balls, 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.720 and you know, he'll go on the driving range. He'll 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.280 figure out what works and what doesn't work. Is is 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:50.159 golf swing definitely looked faster on the driving range. It 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:54.240 looked more committed on the driving range than it did 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.119 on some of the shots on the course. And again, 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.720 I think that's a great parallel that everybody can for 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.720 their own game, that you're trying to swing the golf 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.800 club on the driving range the same way you swing 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:10.120 it on the golf course. Which, listen, that's hard to do, right, 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:12.320 I mean, you've got out of bounds, you've got water, 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:16.080 you've got hazards, you've got all of these things. So he, 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.280 from what I was looking at, he was definitely making 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.320 committed golf swings, and the golf swings looked a little 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:27.080 bit more committed on the driving range, the irons and 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.359 the driver as well. I mean he was able to 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.080 kind of swing at it on the range and then 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.639 on the golf course at times it looked a little 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.280 bit like he was steering it. And you all, if 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:42.000 you're a regular listener of the pod, have heard me 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.639 all the time say one of the best things that 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:46.760 you can do on the golf course is to say, Okay, 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:53.919 let me make a committed golf swing, okay to a 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:59.320 not aggressive target. So just just making committed golf swings 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:06.800 to conservative targets, right. But I also think last week 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:11.040 is an example of you can not get off to 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.119 a good start. I think the positive Anthony will take 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.760 where the long string of pars that he put together, 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:20.159 I think that's that's important because you don't want to 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.919 go out and shoot ninety and stuff. And listen, there 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:26.880 were a lot of people that wanted him to fail there, 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:30.280 and you see those people, and I think anybody that 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:34.120 wants Anthony Kim to fail and to not do well 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:39.600 is is doing that for their own reasons. And I 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:43.919 think that you know, he he's going to get better, 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:49.800 He's going to get more comfortable. I would imagine, you know, 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:54.760 he'll maybe go at some pins as the golf swing 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:57.520 gets better that maybe he wasn't or maybe he just 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:00.000 says listen, I'm just going to try and be really 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:04.439 really conservative and and minimize all the mistakes that I'm making, 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:09.000 and try and you stay away from the big numbers. 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:13.560 I thought the first day his opening round, to not 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:16.520 have any really really big numbers, I thought was a win. 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.320 He threw in some some doubles, which I expected him 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:26.040 to do, and again that's a massive reason why he 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:30.040 was shooting the scores that he was shooting. But I 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:34.160 think when you over this coming year, I think Anthony Kim, 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:35.960 you know, he's going to play a lot on live 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:38.760 and I think it's going to be a very cool 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:41.720 opportunity for all of us, his golf fans and his 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:46.800 golfers to watch someone kind of come back and watch 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:52.080 how he handles the comeback, what he does. He worked 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:56.880 the majority of his professional career with Adam Shriver as 0:21:56.920 --> 0:22:00.320 his instructor. Adam works on the PGA Tour with Sam Ryder, 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:03.120 or at least did when when I was still on 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:04.600 on tour. I've been on tour in a while, but 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:08.560 Adam's a great coach. Does he link back up with him, 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:11.560 Does Adam start coming out and traveling with him and 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:14.320 and helping him. Does he you know, try the lone 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:17.880 wolf thing and dig it out of the dirt. Does 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:22.520 he get an instructor, does he hire somebody to help 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:24.800 him with his golf swing, to help him with his 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:28.159 golf game. I think all of that is on the table. 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:34.560 But I really I was just I was really happy 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:37.600 to see him again. Listen, I'm not friends with him, 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:41.160 we're not boys. I knew him to say hello to him, 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:47.119 But as a golfer and as a golf fan, I 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:51.480 think it is an opportunity for some sense of redemption 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:54.480 for a K and I and and I'd be interested 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:59.480 to hear what his goals are, what what he thinks 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:03.200 is kind of a win for this year, because I 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:07.720 would imagine given the type of personality that Ak has, 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:10.679 that that we've all been able to kind of you know, 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:14.919 watch he always had a tremendous amount of confidence, and 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:16.639 I think that was one of the things that that 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:19.480 I always really liked about him is he just didn't 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:23.600 give a shit. He he wanted to beat you. He 0:23:23.880 --> 0:23:27.040 had a lot of swag, and you know, you can 0:23:27.160 --> 0:23:32.199 still see some of that there, but you know, he 0:23:32.240 --> 0:23:34.919 looks different. He's got the long hair, he's got the 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:38.920 sleeve tad on the left arm. I'm here for all that, right, 0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:43.080 I mean, and listen, a lot of people were talking 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:46.119