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Speaker 1: It's the Son of a Butch podcast. We come to

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Speaker 1: you every Wednesday. I'm your host, Claude Harmon. This week

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Speaker 1: I thought i'd answer a question I get a lot,

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Speaker 1: which is what is a normal week like on tour.

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Speaker 1: So this week it's the first live event. I'm down

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Speaker 1: at Myacoba. Three guys in the field this week, Dustin Johnson,

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Speaker 1: Brooks Kepka, and Pat Perez. So it's the first event

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Speaker 1: of the live season. So it's a little bit like

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Speaker 1: getting back to work. Certainly, everybody's really excited about getting

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Speaker 1: back playing. It's been a long layoff and it's certainly

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Speaker 1: a long layoff. Certainly a long layoff for me, but

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Speaker 1: I think for most of the Live guys it's probably

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Speaker 1: the longest break a lot of them have had in

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Speaker 1: their entire professional career. I mean, they've almost been off

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Speaker 1: almost three months. Some of the guys played a couple

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Speaker 1: weeks ago in Saudi Arabia. Of the guys went on

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Speaker 1: and played on the Asian Tour. But this is kind

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Speaker 1: of the first real tournament of the year for for Live,

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Speaker 1: and my job this week is is just to try

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Speaker 1: and check up on all the guys and and kind

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Speaker 1: I've been doing a lot of work at home with

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Speaker 1: the guys, got to do some work in Saudi. But um,

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit different tournament weeks versus home weeks.

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Speaker 1: So three players this week, and the biggest question I

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Speaker 1: get asked a lot is how do you balance three players?

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Speaker 1: And um, I guess the easy answer to that is

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of juggling. You know, there's only there's

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Speaker 1: three players that you've got to work with, but there's

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Speaker 1: only one of you, there's one of me. So I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to get the most out of my day and

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Speaker 1: get the most out of my time as I can.

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Speaker 1: I'm lucky in that, you know, with the way that

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Speaker 1: Live does things, DJ and Brooks are on different teams,

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Speaker 1: but DJ and Pat are on the same team, so

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Speaker 1: they tend to play a lot of their practice rounds together.

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Speaker 1: And when I was on the PJA Tour, and I

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Speaker 1: think most instructors that have multiple players, there's a bunch

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Speaker 1: of them out there. I mean, Sean Foley's got a

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Speaker 1: I think everybody has. Pete Cowan's always had, you know,

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Speaker 1: and so what you end up trying to do is

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Speaker 1: get the players that you work with to play practice

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Speaker 1: rounds together. So I'm lucky in that DJ and Pat

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Speaker 1: play the majority of their practice rounds together. When Brooks

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Speaker 1: working with both of them, they would play a lot

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Speaker 1: of practice rounds together. Back in the day, when I

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Speaker 1: was working with Ricky Fowler and Jimmy Walker, they were friends,

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Speaker 1: they would play a lot of practice rounds together. So

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Speaker 1: I'm lucky in that respect in that I'm able to

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Speaker 1: have multiple plays in the same group when you go

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Speaker 1: out on the golf course. Makes a little bit difficult

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Speaker 1: when they're on the driving range, so you're kind of

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Speaker 1: bouncing around. You're trying to balance everybody's schedule, and that's

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Speaker 1: one thing I think everybody should try and get an

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Speaker 1: idea of individual golfers, individual athletes kind of practice when

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Speaker 1: they want to. It's not a team, so it's not

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Speaker 1: like a NFL team or an NBA team, where the

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Speaker 1: team practices when the team practices, So everybody practices when

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Speaker 1: the team practices. Patrick Mahomes practice schedule is based off

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Speaker 1: He doesn't do his own thing, doesn't do his own practice.

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Speaker 1: He practices with the team. But in individual sports, the

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Speaker 1: of set their own practice schedules as well. So DJ

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Speaker 1: and I think he was there right around ten o'clock.

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Speaker 1: I got to the golf course. I always tend to

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Speaker 1: try and get to the golf course about an hour

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Speaker 1: to two hours before I know the players are going

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Speaker 1: to be there. That's just that's me. That's my OCD.

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Speaker 1: I don't like to feel rushed and everything, and that

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Speaker 1: where they're at. But obviously, with it being a new

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Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff that you can't really simulate

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Speaker 1: in practice. Right, we can try and do that as

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Speaker 1: but ultimately there's a big, big, massive, massive difference between

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Speaker 1: there's a massive difference between practice rounds and range sessions

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Speaker 1: at home. Then there are once you're at a tournament,

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Speaker 1: because you know, regardless of what day it is, there

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Speaker 1: is a test coming. The test is once the tournament starts.

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Speaker 1: So in Live's case, they play fifty four holes. On

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Speaker 1: the PGA Tour, they play seventy two holes. So the

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Speaker 1: test is coming, and the test is going to be Friday, Saturday,

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Speaker 1: and Sunday, so you're trying to get them ready. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of on countdown. So we all flew in yesterday,

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Speaker 1: so it's we gotta practice round Tuesday, got a practice

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Speaker 1: they know that they've got a condensed period of time,

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Speaker 1: and they know they've got a finite period of time

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Speaker 1: So we've got Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to kind of

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Speaker 1: In an ideal world, my job would be not saying

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people look at coaches and

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Speaker 1: they see as standing on driving ranges behind the players.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of times that you know, we're

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Speaker 1: not saying anything. I think the biggest thing that tour

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Speaker 1: to use an analogy with football, Patrick Mahomes after every

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Speaker 1: that is right. And in a lot of ways, we're

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Speaker 1: we every player has their own kind of individual DNA,

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Speaker 1: they have their own kind of individual swing. So in

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Speaker 1: DJ Brooks and Pat, DJ and Brooks both fade the

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Speaker 1: So how your work, how I'm working with these players

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Speaker 1: and you know, everyone has kind of their own personalities

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Speaker 1: when you have multiple players, you're dealing as much I

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Speaker 1: Everybody kind of has their own kind of indio sec sees,

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Speaker 1: how much information. There are times where players want lots

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Speaker 1: want a lot of information. They don't play their best

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Speaker 1: So I think a lot of what my job with

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Speaker 1: the way that they learn, the way that they take

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Speaker 1: He uses a launch monitor, but he's really only using

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter, if it's wedge, doesn't matter, if it's a

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Speaker 1: sixth sense. He's like he's clued in. He's very very

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Speaker 1: likes to his warmups on tournament days are probably the

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Speaker 1: And just to give you the opposite of that, Brooks

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Speaker 1: an hour and a half, Brooks is thirty. DJ spends

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Speaker 1: probably about forty five minutes to an hour of that

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Speaker 1: warm up in practice hitting wedges. So all of his

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Speaker 1: DJ has three swings. He has a half a full

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Speaker 1: or half, three quarter and full, and those are the

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Speaker 1: and a half follow through, three quarter length back swing,

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Speaker 1: the weekend because DJ had a little tweak in his

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Speaker 1: back a couple of weeks ago, and I think he

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Speaker 1: just was a little bit kind of reticent to just

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Speaker 1: kind of get through it. So he was hanging back

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Speaker 1: a little so and as he was hanging back, his

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Speaker 1: head actually wasn't kind of rotating out towards the target

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Speaker 1: the way it normally does. But that was one of

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Speaker 1: the things I was saying, Listen, just make sure you

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Speaker 1: get through it, don't hang too much back on your

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Speaker 1: right side, and just get your weight forward. Brooks a

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Speaker 1: little bit of the same thing, a little slight alteration

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Speaker 1: to his ball position. The tendency with Brooks is to

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Speaker 1: get the golf ball too far back in his stance,

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Speaker 1: and again, as a fader of the golf ball, that's

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Speaker 1: the death move from him because then on the downswing

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Speaker 1: the path gets too neutral and he can't kind of

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Speaker 1: round the corner, get the get the club working and

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Speaker 1: exiting left. So this morning, a lot of what we

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Speaker 1: were doing with Brooks is just I was checking the

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Speaker 1: ball position and just saying, hey, make sure that ball

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Speaker 1: position to get too far back. Every now and again

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Speaker 1: it would creep and he would either hit one to

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Speaker 1: the left or he'd hit one to the right. But

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Speaker 1: if that ball position stays nice and forward, He's normally

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Speaker 1: in a good place because then he can feel like

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Speaker 1: the chest opens up, he feels like he can turn

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Speaker 1: through it, he feels like he can release the golf club,

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Speaker 1: and then he can just basically hit the shots that

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Speaker 1: he wants. Pat Perez is the one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: degree opposite of that. Pat likes and wants to be

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Speaker 1: able to draw the golf ball. He wants to be

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Speaker 1: able to start the golf ball to the right, he

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Speaker 1: wants to be able to curve it back from right

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Speaker 1: to left. So the things I'm working on with Brooks

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Speaker 1: and DJ are the opposites of what I'm working on

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Speaker 1: with Pat Perez. Pat's tendency, the takeaway gets a little

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Speaker 1: bit quick, gets a little bit fast, he can kind

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Speaker 1: of have that little bit of outmove going back. The

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Speaker 1: club then on the downswing gets really really quick in transition,

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Speaker 1: and he just can't shift that path right enough to

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Speaker 1: start the golf ball in the direction that he wants to. So,

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Speaker 1: in the same way that with Brooks and DJ Faders

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Speaker 1: were trying to have them get the golf club and

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Speaker 1: keep the golf club very much in front of them,

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Speaker 1: in Pat's case, we're trying to have the golf club

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Speaker 1: work very much what he feels like is on the inside.

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Speaker 1: Have that downswing work on the inside. You know, I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say that's something that I teach on a regular basis.

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Speaker 1: A lot of players that I work with, I think

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Speaker 1: do that too much. The golf club gets two inside

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Speaker 1: going back, then they get kind of two inside coming down,

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Speaker 1: the body gets a little bit slow, and then their

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Speaker 1: hands get a little bit active. And it was something

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Speaker 1: that we kind of keyed in on at the end

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Speaker 1: of last season at the Miami event. I know that

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Speaker 1: that Pat he sees a draw right, he sees the

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Speaker 1: golf ball go right to left. We've had some success

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Speaker 1: with Pat in having him hit fades, but I know

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Speaker 1: that kind of the holy grail for him as a player.

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Speaker 1: His shot that he sees and wants to hit is draw.

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Speaker 1: So the only way that he can feel that is

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Speaker 1: for that backswing to feel like it's almost too much inside.

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Speaker 1: And it's a fine line right now with me as

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Speaker 1: his coach and as an instructor, because there are times

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Speaker 1: where the golf club and my kind of the way

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Speaker 1: I think and in my opinion, and I'm like, that's

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Speaker 1: a little that's a little deep, and that's a little inside.

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Speaker 1: But the way that Pat's bodywork, Pat doesn't have a

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Speaker 1: lot of rotation. He had a hip injury from a

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Speaker 1: car accident years ago on his left hip. So Pat

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Speaker 1: has a lot of lateral move to his golf swing,

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Speaker 1: almost a lot of lateral slide to his golf swing.

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Speaker 1: So again it's the complete one hundred and eighty degree

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Speaker 1: opposite of guys like Brooks and DJ. They have speed,

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Speaker 1: they can rotate. Pat doesn't have that. That's not part

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Speaker 1: of his DNA. So my job as the coach is

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Speaker 1: first and foremost I have to give the player confidence,

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Speaker 1: right I feel like that is one of my main

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Speaker 1: jobs is to instill confid in the player. And Pat's

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Speaker 1: confidence comes from being able to see the draw, being

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Speaker 1: able to see the golf ball curve from right to left.

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Speaker 1: So this morning we were working on really trying to

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Speaker 1: have that golf club work what he feels like is inside,

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Speaker 1: and then really trying to get him to feel like

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Speaker 1: he starts that golf ball out to the right and

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Speaker 1: when he does that, the first thing it does is

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Speaker 1: he starts to see the shape that he wants to see,

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Speaker 1: which is a draw. And my job as a coach

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Speaker 1: is to listen to the player and I ask players, listen,

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Speaker 1: what shapes do you want to hit? What shots do

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Speaker 1: you want to hit? And then I feel like it's

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Speaker 1: my job to say, Okay, the player wants to do

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Speaker 1: this one can they do that? Do they have the

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Speaker 1: physical ability to put the club in these positions? In

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Speaker 1: Pat's case, when he gets the backswinging a little bit

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Speaker 1: on the inside, he's able to turn the golf ball

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Speaker 1: over and draw it. So that was the stuff we

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Speaker 1: did on the range, not too long, and then the

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Speaker 1: guys went to the golf course, so I did a

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Speaker 1: lot of bouncing around. Um DJ and Pat play their

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Speaker 1: practice rounds together. Brooks plays his practice rounds on Live

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Speaker 1: with his team. So DJ and Brooks and they're different, right,

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Speaker 1: They've got different teams. So Brooks plays with his team.

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Speaker 1: Pat and DJ tend to play a lot of their

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Speaker 1: practice rounds together. Um, Peter eu line has joined M

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Speaker 1: Dustin's team this week or this year on the aces. So, um, Pete,

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Speaker 1: your line was out with us today. So when we're

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Speaker 1: out of the golf course. UM yeah, I mean again,

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Speaker 1: I'm just checking basics, right, because I don't want to

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Speaker 1: be working too much swing mechanics while they're on the

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Speaker 1: golf course. I'm talking with the caddies. I'm saying, hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: you know what what are you seeing? What do you

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Speaker 1: like here? What do you think about the strategy here?

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Speaker 1: Where do you think the miss should be here? So

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Speaker 1: it's something that it's hard to explain, but UM, I

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Speaker 1: love it. I love that kind of collaboration between myself

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Speaker 1: and the player, between me and the caddy. UM. I

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Speaker 1: really value the practice rounds because it's an opportunity for

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Speaker 1: all of us to get there. We're talking about strategy,

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Speaker 1: We're talking about how they're going to play, what clubs

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Speaker 1: are going to hit off the tier. They're hitting three

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Speaker 1: woods for the hitting drivers. Um, I think it's fascinating

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Speaker 1: to listen. I mean, I've been doing this, you know,

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Speaker 1: pretty much the majority of my adult life, but it's

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Speaker 1: always fascinating to listen to that interaction between the player

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Speaker 1: and the caddy. I love listening to to AJ and DJ.

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Speaker 1: I love listening to H and Pat. I think Ricky

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Speaker 1: Elliott to me, is one of the best caddies in

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Speaker 1: the world. The interaction between you know, him and Brooks

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Speaker 1: and the way that they kind of go about it.

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Speaker 1: Um And I think those the caddies as well, know

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Speaker 1: their player, they know what type of information, how much

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Speaker 1: information they want. So I just I enjoy the practice

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Speaker 1: round so much because once the tournament starts as a

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Speaker 1: coach as as as a golf coach, you know, being

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Speaker 1: a professional golfer and coaching professional golfers. Once Thursday or

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Speaker 1: Friday starts, once they get inside the ropes, they basically

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Speaker 1: go to the moon. I can't say anything. They're on

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Speaker 1: another planet. They're inside the ropes, and there's nothing that

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Speaker 1: I can do as the instructors, as the coach to

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Speaker 1: influence what they're doing. So if I see Brooks's ball

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Speaker 1: positions start to creep too far back, if I see

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Speaker 1: DJ's alignment get a little bit off, if I see

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Speaker 1: Pats start to take the golf club a little bit

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Speaker 1: too much on the outside once they're in a tournament,

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Speaker 1: once from the time they tee off until the time

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Speaker 1: they finish, I can't do anything about it. And I'll

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, it is unbelievably frustrating when I

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Speaker 1: watch team sports, when I watch college football and watch

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Speaker 1: the adjustments guys like Nick Saban are able to make

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Speaker 1: Kirby smart at Georgia, The changes they're able to make

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Speaker 1: at halftime, the personnel that they're able to bring in

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Speaker 1: the play calls, that they're able to learn from what

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Speaker 1: happened in the first half. I don't get to do that.

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Speaker 1: Once the player goes inside the ropes and they're playing

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Speaker 1: a competitive round on tour, I'm not allowed to talk

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Speaker 1: to them. I can't say anything to them. I can't

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Speaker 1: do any hand gestures. I try and never really get

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Speaker 1: anywhere close to where they are. I try and get

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Speaker 1: ahead so I can see where the ball's finishing. But

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Speaker 1: it's just a little thing that I've always done. I

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Speaker 1: just don't want them to see me. I want them

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Speaker 1: to kind of be in their world focusing on the

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Speaker 1: things that they need to focus on, but it is frustrating.

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Speaker 1: So that's why I think the practice rounds for me

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Speaker 1: are are so important because I'm able to get inside

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Speaker 1: the ropes. I'm able to look at the golf course.

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Speaker 1: I'm able to look at the strategy, so that after

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Speaker 1: look at what they're doing where they were hitting shots.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of players, you know, both on

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Speaker 1: They get in Monday night, they play nine holes on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: we're Tuesday Wednesday, so we'll do nine holes again tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: ProAm on Thursday, and then the tournament starts. But as

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Speaker 1: fix things. Um. But I always remembers years ago, probably

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Speaker 1: that Full said, you know, I kind of feel like

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Speaker 1: we're we're we're doctors, and you know, the PGA Tour

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Speaker 1: is kind of the battlefield, right. Yes, I know it's

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Speaker 1: not a real battle field, and I'm not trying to

643
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Speaker 1: make the analogy that golfers are any more important than

644
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: they are, but it's the field of play. And he's like, listen,

645
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: there's once the tournaments kind of start, and once we

646
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 1: get here, it's a little bit like we're just doing

647
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: triage because we can't really do a lot of open

648
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: heart surgery while they're you know, in battle right, and

649
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: and and it's it's it's important to realize that once

650
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: we get to tournament weeks, because the weeks are what

651
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: they are. You know, when the tournament's going to start,

652
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 1: you don't have the availability to take the car and

653
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: pull it apart and rebuild the engine because the player

654
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 1: has to play. And that's something that's taken me a

655
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: lot long time to learn, and I've learned by you know,

656
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: making a tremendous amount of mistakes, right, you know, you'd

657
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 1: make mistakes where I think early in my career I was.

658
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: I was way more hands on, way more information, And

659
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: now in an ideal world, I try and do as

660
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 1: much of the hard work, the technical work, the drill

661
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: work when we're home and when we're in off week,

662
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: so that when we get to tournaments, we're not really

663
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: doing a lot of technical mechanical work because I don't

664
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,839
Speaker 1: want the players in that headspace. I want them to

665
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: be in the play headspace, you know. So I love

666
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: the fact that I work with players that hit the

667
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: golf ball different directions. I don't believe that there's one

668
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,919
Speaker 1: way to swing the golf club. I don't believe that

669
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: I don't have a system, right, I don't have every

670
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: player I work with doing the same thing. I have

671
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: things in the golf swing that I believe in. I

672
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:58,439
Speaker 1: have a philosophy in my own head of things that

673
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: I think make players hit shots better. But I don't

674
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: have a specific formula system. So in that respect, Um,

675
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 1: I like it that all the players are different to me. Um,

676
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,760
Speaker 1: you know, DJ is different from Brooks, Brooks is different

677
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: from Pat m They're in different ages, they're different stages

678
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: of their career. They've all got different skill sets. You know,

679
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: DJ's a freak athlete and you know, unbelievably flexible, tremendous

680
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: amount of flexibility. Brooks has had some pretty significant catastrophic injuries,

681
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: and you know, we're constantly working around them. Pat is

682
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: in his mid to late forties. His body isn't what

683
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 1: it once was, but Pat still has a lot of speed.

684
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: But I'm working with all of these players as individuals

685
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 1: and trying to take what they do and you learn

686
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: your delivery, kind of like being a stand up comedian.

687
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 1: It's a little bit like what the you know, what

688
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,240
Speaker 1: kind of crowd is it tonight? You're playing to your audience.

689
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: And so I'm working with Pat differently than I'm working

690
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: with Brooks, and I'm working with Brooks differently than I'm

691
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 1: working with DJ. And I think for me, that's one

692
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 1: of the things that I really really like about what

693
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,760
Speaker 1: I do. So, yeah, we got to see the golf course.

694
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 1: We're talking about strategy, we're talking about what you want,

695
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: what shots you want to hit. You know, A lot

696
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 1: of it is is a lot of me being you know,

697
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: super super positive. M That's one of the things that

698
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: that I try and do. You know, I learned from

699
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 1: my dad that I try and be as much of

700
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,359
Speaker 1: a cheerleader as I can. Even if the player hits

701
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,439
Speaker 1: a bad shot, I'll say, you know, listen, that wasn't

702
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: that bad. We just need to get the golf club

703
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: a little bit more here, because the last thing you

704
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: want to be doing is putting a lot of doubt

705
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 1: in in the players that you work with in their head.

706
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: So we got good practice rounds in today, went back

707
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: to the range afterwards, didn't do a ton of stuff.

708
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: Brooks always likes to go to the range and really

709
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: just kind of wind down. He does that in practice rounds,

710
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: and he does that in tournament rounds. He likes to

711
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: go from the golf course, maybe get some lunch, but

712
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: go back to the range. DJ doesn't really do a

713
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 1: lot of practicing after tournament rounds right or after practice rounds.

714
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:16,399
Speaker 1: Every now and again, we'll go back to the range.

715
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: But he's just like, yeah, I mean I felt go

716
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: down the course today, I know what I need to do.

717
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: We'll get back at it tomorrow. And so that's very different.

718
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: And you know, everybody kind of has their own way

719
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,879
Speaker 1: of practicing, and so a lot of my job people

720
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,919
Speaker 1: ask me, you know, describe what your job is. It's

721
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: as much managing people as it is, you know, teaching golf.

722
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: And let's be honest, right, I'm not actively teaching Dustin Johnson,

723
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: Brooks Kepka and Pat Perez anything. Right, these goes were

724
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: great players a long time before they met me. Right,

725
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: I'm not teaching them anything. I think a lot of

726
00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: what I'm doing out here onto his coach. Right, we

727
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: know what they do when they play their best. They're

728
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 1: the athlete. I'm the coach. I'm I'm not hitting any shots, soum.

729
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: They're great players, and a lot of what I'm trying

730
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: to do is listen. We know you perform your best

731
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 1: when you do these things. We kind of have a recipe,

732
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: a blueprint, and we've got a lot of data points. Right.

733
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: That's the great thing about you know, working with competitive

734
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: golfers is you know, I've been working with DJ since

735
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: about I guess around two twelve twenty thirteen. I worked

736
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: with Brooks for eight years, took a little you know,

737
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: took to your break and we got back together kind of,

738
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: you know, summer of last year. I know what makes

739
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: DJ his best, right. I know what DJ does when

740
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: he's the number one player in the world, when he's

741
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: winning majors, when he's winning tournaments. I know what Brooks

742
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: does when he plays his best. And in terms with Pat,

743
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,760
Speaker 1: I think a lot of my job is to try

744
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: and may Pat as confident as a player as he can,

745
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: because Pat can get negative, he can beat himself up.

746
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 1: He can I think at times he can almost self

747
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: sabotage himself by the mental attitude that he has. So

748
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: I think I'm trying to do much more of a

749
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: coaching role with patum probably than any of the players

750
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: I work with, because you know, it's my job to

751
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: keep him up. It's my job to keep him positive.

752
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 1: It's my job to think get him thinking that he's

753
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: playing good and that good golf is around the corner.

754
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: And then lastly, I think a huge part of my

755
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: job is after after everybody finished today, I went in

756
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: with Brooks Keepka's physio Mark Wall, who, in my opinion,

757
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: he is the most valuable person on Brooks's team. When

758
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:54,320
Speaker 1: Brooks first turn pro and he got his PGA Tour cardum,

759
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: I said to him, I said, you need to hire

760
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: Mark Wall. Mark Wall was you know, he worked with

761
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:03,720
Speaker 1: Jimmy Walker, worked with JB. Holmes, he worked with Steve Stricker.

762
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: He's almost like a savant when it comes to biomechanics,

763
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,839
Speaker 1: what the body is doing, and probably someone who I

764
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 1: trust as much as anybody. So during the offseason, Brooks

765
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: came in and Mark came down and they basically did

766
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: a total diagnostic of Brooks's body, his food intake, what

767
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: he's allergic to, what foods are good from him, what

768
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: foods aren't good for him. They did a complete three

769
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 1: D screen of what his golf swing was doing. And

770
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 1: so I sat for almost two hours with Mark Wall

771
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: today and Mark kind of ran me through everything that's

772
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 1: going on with Brooks physically, where the limitations are, what

773
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: the issues are. He's constantly Marcus and listen, what are

774
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: you What are you seeing in his golf swing? What

775
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 1: are you trying to do in his golf swing? And

776
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: based off of that, I'm looking at what Mark, as

777
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: the guy that's in charge of Brooks's body. Listen, what

778
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: is his body able to do? What is his body

779
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: able not to do? And then based off of that,

780
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: I'm trying to look at what I'm doing and hopefully

781
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: we're on the same page. But I think it was

782
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: really important in the offseason, given some of the injuries

783
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: that Brooks has had in the last couple of years,

784
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 1: to kind of get that big diagnostic look. It was

785
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 1: a pretty lengthy report. I think Mark does a fantastic

786
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: job and making things really really easy for me to understand.

787
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 1: But I don't think that that the fans realize what

788
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: a collaborative effort all of this is. And yeah, there's

789
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: there's the jackass instructor, the jackass reporters and journalists that say,

790
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,720
Speaker 1: you know, I'm tired of these players talking about their team.

791
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 1: It's an individual sport. You know, enough with the team,

792
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: go play and stuff. But the modern athlete has a

793
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,760
Speaker 1: team of people around them, and you know, I am

794
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 1: a huge part of that team, but there are so

795
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: many other people that are part of that team. And

796
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: what we're trying to do is get everybody on the

797
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: same page. Brooks has a big team, DJ has a

798
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: big team. Pat doesn't necessarily have a huge team. So

799
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: I think in my role with Pat, he almost kind

800
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 1: of looks at me like a head coach that I'm

801
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: the head coach of his team, and he looks to

802
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 1: me for a lot of things like that. Brooks and

803
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 1: DJ maybe not so much. You know, Brooks has a

804
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: putting instructor, he has a short game instructor, he has

805
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: a trainer, He has Mark Wall as his physio. So

806
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 1: I mean, we've got five six guys on Brooks's team.

807
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: DJ's got Joey Ds his trainer, He's got a physio,

808
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: and then I'm in charge of the golf part of it.

809
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 1: And then he's got Ajs his cato, And that's a

810
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 1: lot of people, and it's a collaborative effort, and a

811
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,839
Speaker 1: lot of my job is to sit and meet with

812
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 1: all of these people on the team and try and

813
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: get kind of as much of a three hundred, you know,

814
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 1: kind of a thirty eight thousand foot overview of what

815
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: everybody's doing, and then what I can do from a

816
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:06,240
Speaker 1: golf standpoint, and going back to you know, Brooks's physio,

817
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 1: Mark Wall. There are weeks where Mark will say, hey, listen,

818
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: Brooks's body isn't moving great this week, So we got

819
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: to limit how many balls we hit. Let's try and

820
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: get quantity out of the window and let's get or

821
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: let's get quality and not get a ton of reps.

822
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 1: The reps that we're going to get. Let's get a

823
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,439
Speaker 1: lot out of these reps, because his body just isn't

824
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: in a place right now to stand there and hit

825
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:32,720
Speaker 1: a ton of golf balls. So that's kind of what

826
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: a normal day is like for me. Obviously, the bigger

827
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: the tournament, things change. I mean Majors, it's different. Players

828
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: are very very different at majors than they are at

829
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: regular tour events. I mean, you can just tell they

830
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: understand what the stakes are, they understand the task at head,

831
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 1: they understand the holy grail is winning majors, right, I mean,

832
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: that's what every tour player wants to win. So when

833
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: they're at major's they're very different. They're a little bit

834
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: on edge. I wouldn't say that they're panicking, but they're

835
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: more on edge at at at majors than they aren't

836
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: regular tour events. But yeah, that's kind of what I do.

837
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: We'll do the same thing tomorrow and kind of go

838
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,879
Speaker 1: through that that kind of same kind of routine. We'll

839
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: work a little bit on the range, we'll get out

840
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,839
Speaker 1: on the golf course, maybe hit some balls after. But

841
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: it's a lot of that's a lot of me just

842
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 1: kind of looking at what they're doing and being that

843
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: second pair of eyes, being that coach and say, listen,

844
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 1: we know what you do when you play your best.

845
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: If we can get the golf club and these positions,

846
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: if your body can move it in this way, then

847
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: you can go to the golf course and just play golf.

848
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: And ultimately, that's my job is to send tour players

849
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: as as a tour coach, it's my job to get

850
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: them ready to play tournaments. And I don't really think

851
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: I'm doing anything different than you know, Cameron McCormick's doing.

852
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: We might with Jordan Spieth. Kim works with Jordan Spieth,

853
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: has worked with Daniel Bergery, just started work with Tom Kim.

854
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Speaker 1: You know, I spend a lot of time with the

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Speaker 1: other coaches. We talk about what the players are doing.

856
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Speaker 1: I'm not someone that is afraid to talk to other coaches.

857
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Speaker 1: A lot of times I'll say to the coaches that

858
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: whose opinions I trust and believe in, I'll say, hey,

859
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: what do you think about this, What do you think

860
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: about this move? What do you think about this problem?

861
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:37,320
Speaker 1: And try and take some information from the other players.

862
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: I'm so lucky in being able to work on tour,

863
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: to have the availability to have access to what I

864
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Speaker 1: believe are some of the best coaches in the world,

865
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Speaker 1: to be able to pick their brains, to talk to

866
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Speaker 1: them about what they're working on with players, to say, hey,

867
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Speaker 1: what are you guys going to do on seven? What

868
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 1: are you guys going to do on nine? What do

869
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 1: you are you guys hitting driver on this while you

870
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 1: guys hitting three wood? Where do you see the miss

871
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: on this whole? So it's a constant I guess it's

872
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: a constant quest for information. For me, it's a constant

873
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: quest for knowledge to try and figure out all of

874
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: this stuff that that makes golfers this giant puzzle. We're

875
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: trying to put these puzzle pieces in. Listen, I'm not

876
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: digging ditches. I have an unbelievable job. I'm incredibly lucky.

877
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Speaker 1: It's long hours, it's a lot of standing outside, and

878
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: I've got a horrendous golf tan because I'm outside all

879
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: the time. But you know, I consider myself so unbelievably

880
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: lucky that, you know, some of the best players in

881
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 1: the world would entrust me to help them with their

882
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: golf and I never never take that lightly. It means

883
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 1: something to me, and I really feel like I'm incredibly

884
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: lucky to get to do what I do and I'm

885
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 1: excited for the year when you see these guys play well,

886
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: trust me, there's a lot of stuff that goes into that.

887
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people working behind the scenes,

888
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm I'm very, very thankful and very

889
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: lucky to be a part of that. So that's kind

890
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Speaker 1: of a day in the life of of what I

891
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 1: do on the on tour, and you know, I love it.

892
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:24,839
Speaker 1: It's a huge part of my life and you know,

893
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 1: I'm excited to continue to do it. So a lot

894
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:38,919
Speaker 1: of stuff happening in golf. Last week, finally John Ram

895
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 1: gets to number one in the world. It makes absolutely

896
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 1: no sense to me if you look at the record

897
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Speaker 1: that John Ram has had in the last three to

898
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Speaker 1: four months, that it's taken this many wins for him

899
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Speaker 1: to get to number one in the world. And I

900
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 1: think John's talked about it. I think a lot of

901
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: people are talking about it. I think there's gotta be

902
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 1: a different way to start ranking players that are playing

903
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: competitive golf because John rom has been the number one

904
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Speaker 1: ranked player in the world for a long time. And um,

905
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Speaker 1: you know, we saw Tiger Woods come back last week.

906
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Speaker 1: UM yeah, I mean it was good to see Tiger back.

907
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Speaker 1: I mean Tiger, he's the goat. Um, he's the needle,

908
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Speaker 1: and you know, it was good to see him back. Um,

909
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: and we saw some good golf from Tiger. So I

910
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: don't know if we'll be able to see Tiger a

911
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: lot because I don't know, you know, how much his

912
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:35,800
Speaker 1: body can hold up. I know some of the guys

913
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Speaker 1: that work with Tiger behind the scenes on you know,

914
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Speaker 1: his his goal and his body and it takes a village.

915
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Speaker 1: And it was nice to hear Tiger say, you know

916
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Speaker 1: last week, I want to thank my team for getting

917
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Speaker 1: me ready. UM. I don't think anybody has any concept

918
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Speaker 1: of all of the things that it takes for Tiger

919
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Speaker 1: Woods play golf in twenty twenty three. M it's not

920
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Speaker 1: band aids that he's able to put on the physical

921
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Speaker 1: issues that he's got. It takes an enormous amount of

922
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Speaker 1: work from um, some incredibly talented and smart people that

923
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Speaker 1: are helping him. And yeah, it was fun to see him. Um,

924
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Speaker 1: it was good to see Max Homer. He's it's been

925
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Speaker 1: fun to watch Max kind of become one, in my opinion,

926
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Speaker 1: one of the best players in the world. He's such

927
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Speaker 1: a likable character, loves golf swinging. I think the work

928
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Speaker 1: in his instructor, Mark Blackburn have done has really started

929
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 1: to pay off and has really turned him into one

930
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Speaker 1: of the best players in the world. But an iconic

931
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Speaker 1: golf course, Riviera always great to see that golf course.

932
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Speaker 1: I think it's one of the gems of of of

933
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Speaker 1: golf courses in the United States. It's it's great design,

934
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Speaker 1: it's in a great part of the world. And um yeah,

935
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Speaker 1: I mean the golf season in full flow. I'm excited

936
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Speaker 1: for Live to get back up and running. If you're

937
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 1: not a Live fan, I'm okay with that. Um it's okay.

938
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Speaker 1: I mean, if it's not for you, if you don't

939
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: like the product for whatever reason, that's cool. Um I'm

940
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 1: not a country music fan. I don't listen to country music.

941
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:12,359
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean the country music is bad. It's just not

942
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Speaker 1: my jam. It's not my thing. And if Live isn't

943
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 1: your thing, that's okay too, but I'm excited. Um, I

944
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: think we're going to see some good golf. And twenty

945
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Speaker 1: twenty three is, you know, for me, is finally getting

946
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Speaker 1: up and running. Can't thank everybody enough for listening. If

947
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: you're new, if if you're new to the podcasts, we've

948
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 1: got a bunch of great episodes, We've got a bunch

949
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 1: of great guests, and if you're a regular listener, thank

950
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: you so much. Um. We're going to keep trying to

951
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Speaker 1: get as much information as possible. I'm doing some of

952
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Speaker 1: these solo pots because the feedback has been pretty good. People.

953
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Speaker 1: You know, my job is a teach golf for a living,

954
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Speaker 1: and I think everybody listening wants to improve their golf.

955
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 1: And if I can help and tell my story and

956
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: give my experiences and the information that that I use,

957
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: hopefully that's helping players. And that's been the feedback. We

958
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Speaker 1: will I promise we'll get back to the guests soon.

959
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Speaker 1: But everybody had to suffer with another H three podcast

960
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Speaker 1: this week. Looking forward to seeing you next week. Son

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Speaker 1: of a Bush comes to you every Wednesday. Thanks for listening.