Speaker 1: It's the Son of a Butch podcast. We come to
Speaker 1: you every Wednesday. I'm your host, Claude Harmon. This week
Speaker 1: I thought i'd answer a question I get a lot,
Speaker 1: which is what is a normal week like on tour.
Speaker 1: So this week it's the first live event. I'm down
Speaker 1: at Myacoba. Three guys in the field this week, Dustin Johnson,
Speaker 1: Brooks Kepka, and Pat Perez. So it's the first event
Speaker 1: of the live season. So it's a little bit like
Speaker 1: getting back to work. Certainly, everybody's really excited about getting
Speaker 1: back playing. It's been a long layoff and it's certainly
Speaker 1: a long layoff. Certainly a long layoff for me, but
Speaker 1: I think for most of the Live guys it's probably
Speaker 1: the longest break a lot of them have had in
Speaker 1: their entire professional career. I mean, they've almost been off
Speaker 1: almost three months. Some of the guys played a couple
Speaker 1: weeks ago in Saudi Arabia. Of the guys went on
Speaker 1: and played on the Asian Tour. But this is kind
Speaker 1: of the first real tournament of the year for for Live,
Speaker 1: and my job this week is is just to try
Speaker 1: and check up on all the guys and and kind
Speaker 1: of get an idea of what they're doing, how they're playing.
Speaker 1: I've been doing a lot of work at home with
Speaker 1: the guys, got to do some work in Saudi. But um,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different tournament weeks versus home weeks.
Speaker 1: So three players this week, and the biggest question I
Speaker 1: get asked a lot is how do you balance three players?
Speaker 1: And um, I guess the easy answer to that is
Speaker 1: it's a lot of juggling. You know, there's only there's
Speaker 1: three players that you've got to work with, but there's
Speaker 1: only one of you, there's one of me. So I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get the most out of my day and
Speaker 1: get the most out of my time as I can.
Speaker 1: I'm lucky in that, you know, with the way that
Speaker 1: Live does things, DJ and Brooks are on different teams,
Speaker 1: but DJ and Pat are on the same team, so
Speaker 1: they tend to play a lot of their practice rounds together.
Speaker 1: And when I was on the PJA Tour, and I
Speaker 1: think most instructors that have multiple players, there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of them out there. I mean, Sean Foley's got a
Speaker 1: bunch of players. Justin Parsons has a lot of players.
Speaker 1: I think everybody has. Pete Cowan's always had, you know,
Speaker 1: a ton of players, So I think it's all about balancing,
Speaker 1: and so what you end up trying to do is
Speaker 1: get the players that you work with to play practice
Speaker 1: rounds together. So I'm lucky in that DJ and Pat
Speaker 1: play the majority of their practice rounds together. When Brooks
Speaker 1: and DJ were on the PJA Tour and I was
Speaker 1: working with both of them, they would play a lot
Speaker 1: of practice rounds together. Back in the day, when I
Speaker 1: was working with Ricky Fowler and Jimmy Walker, they were friends,
Speaker 1: they would play a lot of practice rounds together. So
Speaker 1: I'm lucky in that respect in that I'm able to
Speaker 1: have multiple plays in the same group when you go
Speaker 1: out on the golf course. Makes a little bit difficult
Speaker 1: when they're on the driving range, so you're kind of
Speaker 1: bouncing around. You're trying to balance everybody's schedule, and that's
Speaker 1: one thing I think everybody should try and get an
Speaker 1: idea of individual golfers, individual athletes kind of practice when
Speaker 1: they want to. It's not a team, so it's not
Speaker 1: like a NFL team or an NBA team, where the
Speaker 1: team practices when the team practices, So everybody practices when
Speaker 1: the team practices. Patrick Mahomes practice schedule is based off
Speaker 1: of when the Kansas City Chiefs are going to practice.
Speaker 1: He doesn't do his own thing, doesn't do his own practice.
Speaker 1: He practices with the team. But in individual sports, the
Speaker 1: players can kind of set their own schedules and kind
Speaker 1: of set their own practice schedules as well. So DJ
Speaker 1: tends to like to work out in the morning. So
Speaker 1: he got up this morning, worked out first thing this morning,
Speaker 1: and I think he was there right around ten o'clock.
Speaker 1: I got to the golf course. I always tend to
Speaker 1: try and get to the golf course about an hour
Speaker 1: to two hours before I know the players are going
Speaker 1: to be there. That's just that's me. That's my OCD.
Speaker 1: I don't like to feel rushed and everything, and that
Speaker 1: gives me an opportunity to kind of sit down. The
Speaker 1: caddies normally get there before the players, so that gives
Speaker 1: you an opportunity to sit down with the caddies and
Speaker 1: kind of talk to them about what they've been seeing,
Speaker 1: where they're at. But obviously, with it being a new
Speaker 1: year and a new start to the season, we don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of data points for that. So this morning,
Speaker 1: first guy that I got to on the range. Brooks
Speaker 1: was on the range. I got to spend some time
Speaker 1: with him in Saudi Arabia when he played the Asian
Speaker 1: Tour event. He played decent, you know, it was a
Speaker 1: little little kind of I wouldn't say rusty, but it's
Speaker 1: the early part of the year. I think one of
Speaker 1: the things going into tournaments if players have had long
Speaker 1: layoffs is it's not necessarily the golf swing that's going
Speaker 1: to be the issue. I think it's a lot of
Speaker 1: the nuances around the greens. It's hitting shots. It's kind
Speaker 1: of the three quarter in between a seven in an
Speaker 1: eight and what kind of shot you're going to hit.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff that you can't really simulate
Speaker 1: in practice. Right, we can try and do that as
Speaker 1: much as we want on the driving range. We can
Speaker 1: try and do as much as we want at home,
Speaker 1: but ultimately there's a big, big, massive, massive difference between
Speaker 1: playing at home and then playing in a tournament. And
Speaker 1: there's a massive difference between practice rounds and range sessions
Speaker 1: at home. Then there are once you're at a tournament,
Speaker 1: because you know, regardless of what day it is, there
Speaker 1: is a test coming. The test is once the tournament starts.
Speaker 1: So in Live's case, they play fifty four holes. On
Speaker 1: the PGA Tour, they play seventy two holes. So the
Speaker 1: test is coming, and the test is going to be Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 1: and Sunday, so you're trying to get them ready. You know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of on countdown. So we all flew in yesterday,
Speaker 1: so it's we gotta practice round Tuesday, got a practice
Speaker 1: round Wednesday, pro am Thursday, and then they'll tee it
Speaker 1: up on Friday. So when the players get to tournaments,
Speaker 1: they know that they've got a condensed period of time,
Speaker 1: and they know they've got a finite period of time
Speaker 1: on how much they can get done for the week.
Speaker 1: So we've got Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to kind of
Speaker 1: get all the work that we need to do to do.
Speaker 1: In an ideal world, my job would be not saying
Speaker 1: too much, right, I mean, that would be an ideal situation.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people look at coaches and
Speaker 1: they see as standing on driving ranges behind the players.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of times that you know, we're
Speaker 1: not saying anything. I think the biggest thing that tour
Speaker 1: coaches do is they are a second pair of eyes
Speaker 1: for the player. So very similar to use, you know,
Speaker 1: to use an analogy with football, Patrick Mahomes after every
Speaker 1: series of downs, he comes over and sits down and
Speaker 1: they kind of show him what the schemes are. They
Speaker 1: kind of go through what he's looking at. They show
Speaker 1: and pictures. They say, hey, listen, this is what the
Speaker 1: defense is doing, this is what the defense has been doing,
Speaker 1: and he kind of gets a good gauge on what
Speaker 1: that is right. And in a lot of ways, we're
Speaker 1: not necessarily doing that, but what we are trying to
Speaker 1: do is we're trying to look at what we've been
Speaker 1: working on in practice and you know, seeing you know,
Speaker 1: we every player has their own kind of individual DNA,
Speaker 1: they have their own kind of individual swing. So in
Speaker 1: the case of the three guys that I'm working with,
Speaker 1: DJ Brooks and Pat, DJ and Brooks both fade the
Speaker 1: golf ball. Pat Perez likes to draw the golf ball.
Speaker 1: So how your work, how I'm working with these players
Speaker 1: is different, and each individual player is is a different person,
Speaker 1: and you know, everyone has kind of their own personalities
Speaker 1: and their own kind of way of doing things. So
Speaker 1: when you have multiple players, you're dealing as much I
Speaker 1: think with their personalities as you are with their golf swings.
Speaker 1: Everybody kind of has their own kind of indio sec sees,
Speaker 1: and I think players want to be taught in a
Speaker 1: specific way that's specific to them, and you kind of
Speaker 1: learn that early. You kind of learn what players like,
Speaker 1: how much information. There are times where players want lots
Speaker 1: of information, there are times where players don't want to
Speaker 1: let a lot of information. There are players that want
Speaker 1: a lot of information, and then there are players that
Speaker 1: don't want a lot of information. In the case of
Speaker 1: Brooks and DJ, there are two players that they don't
Speaker 1: want a lot of information. They don't play their best
Speaker 1: when they have a lot of thoughts in their head.
Speaker 1: So I think a lot of what my job with
Speaker 1: Brooks and DJ is to try and manage them as
Speaker 1: much as people as you're managing them as golfers. And
Speaker 1: the way that they learn, the way that they take
Speaker 1: on information, the information they want is all kind of
Speaker 1: player dependent, and it's it's based a lot on their personalities,
Speaker 1: what kind of not so much learning, but how they
Speaker 1: process the information. So you know, just in going through it,
Speaker 1: j DJ doesn't want a lot of information, and I
Speaker 1: think a lot of players would be surprised the DJ
Speaker 1: is really kind of a field player. You wouldn't think
Speaker 1: that because DJ's career has been defined by distance length.
Speaker 1: He's kind of known for the way he drives the
Speaker 1: golf ball. Driving the golf ball is kind of his
Speaker 1: calling card, right, It's part of his DNA. But to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, DJ doesn't want a lot of information.
Speaker 1: He uses a launch monitor, but he's really only using
Speaker 1: it for some very very specific things. When DJ uses
Speaker 1: a launch monitor, he's normally got a carry distance, he's
Speaker 1: got a total distance, and then he'll look at spin
Speaker 1: and so based off of those numbers. I've never been
Speaker 1: around a player that has been able to kind of
Speaker 1: hit a shot, look at what that shot is doing,
Speaker 1: and then basically almost able to call out exactly or
Speaker 1: within a few hundred arpians of what the spin is
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, if it's wedge, doesn't matter, if it's a
Speaker 1: nine seven five driver. I think probably more so with
Speaker 1: the wedges and the driver. It's almost like DJs a
Speaker 1: sixth sense. He's like he's clued in. He's very very
Speaker 1: specific in the way that he practices as well. DJ
Speaker 1: likes to his warmups on tournament days are probably the
Speaker 1: longest of anybody on tour. DJ's normally from the time
Speaker 1: he leaves the locker room and is going to do
Speaker 1: his practice or warm up and then go to the
Speaker 1: golf course, he's right around an hour and a half.
Speaker 1: And just to give you the opposite of that, Brooks
Speaker 1: is right around thirty minutes. So DJ's warm up is
Speaker 1: an hour and a half, Brooks is thirty. DJ spends
Speaker 1: probably about forty five minutes to an hour of that
Speaker 1: warm up in practice hitting wedges. So all of his
Speaker 1: wedge instances are kind of under one hundred and fifty yards,
Speaker 1: and so he's really really tuned into kind of the
Speaker 1: swing that he needs to make. DJ has with his wedges.
Speaker 1: DJ has three swings. He has a half a full
Speaker 1: or half, three quarter and full, and those are the
Speaker 1: lengths of the backswing. So he's making a half backswing
Speaker 1: and a half follow through, three quarter length back swing,
Speaker 1: three quarter length follow through, and then fall back and
Speaker 1: through and he has three different yards. So with all
Speaker 1: of his wedges, he's going to have a half, a
Speaker 1: three quarter, and a full and those are all going
Speaker 1: to go different distances, and that's really where he's kind
Speaker 1: of dials. So the only thing he's looking at when
Speaker 1: he's hitting these wedge shots is does it go the
Speaker 1: right distance and does it have the right spin? And
Speaker 1: I honestly it happens four or five times a year.
Speaker 1: He'll be hitting a shot with let's say his sand wedge,
Speaker 1: and he'll hit two or three of them and he'll
Speaker 1: say to me, is that a good swing? And I'll say, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's a good swing, and he's right, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not going the right distance. It's either going too far,
Speaker 1: it's going too short. And he's looking at the spin
Speaker 1: and he's looking at what the club is doing. And
Speaker 1: he'll hit a couple more and he'll say to Aja's
Speaker 1: brother who caddies for him, and say, Aj, can you
Speaker 1: get the wedge checked, because with that swing, it should
Speaker 1: produce this distance in this number, and it's it's uncanny.
Speaker 1: AJ will take the wedge to the truck and they'll
Speaker 1: look at the loft or the lie and they'll say, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was out one degree this way, one degree that way.
Speaker 1: Probably more so for the tour players wear and tear
Speaker 1: because of all the travel that they do. They're constantly
Speaker 1: putting their clubs on airplanes, clubs can get bent. So
Speaker 1: DJ's practice is very much wedge specific. So today, same thing,
Speaker 1: he's looking at wedges, he went over. He had a
Speaker 1: little bit of a back issue a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: so he has not been hitting a lot of golf balls.
Speaker 1: But today it was actually really surprising. I was surprised
Speaker 1: it that how well he was hitting. It was such
Speaker 1: a long layoff. I guess I shouldn't probably be surprised
Speaker 1: by that, because a long layoff for tour players, I
Speaker 1: mean they need that, they need that break. And I
Speaker 1: was really quite surprised and really quite excited about how
Speaker 1: well DJ was moving. But when I'm working with DJ,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at some specific things in his golf swing.
Speaker 1: So because both Brooks and DJ want to fade the
Speaker 1: golf ball and they have a lot of speed, we're
Speaker 1: always looking at the takeaway and the down swing, and
Speaker 1: both Brooks and DJ both struggle when the takeaway gets
Speaker 1: a little bit too neutral. Going back sometimes with the wedges,
Speaker 1: DJ can get it a little bit inside and then
Speaker 1: as the club is coming down, the club gets a
Speaker 1: little bit inside going that way. And for both the
Speaker 1: guys at Brooks and DJ, because they both like to
Speaker 1: fade the golf ball. They want to get the path left.
Speaker 1: They want to get that golf ball starting left of
Speaker 1: the target and then fading back to the target. So
Speaker 1: we're checking the backswing, we're checking the down swing, We're
Speaker 1: checking a lot With DJ and Brooks, I would say
Speaker 1: a lot of what happens to them when they get
Speaker 1: off is it's basics right, it's posture, it's distance from
Speaker 1: the golf ball too far, too close, golf ball too
Speaker 1: far back, golf ball too far forward, just alignment. I
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Speaker 1: think the biggest thing for me, in my opinion, that
Speaker 1: tour coaches do is we are a second pair of
Speaker 1: eyes because the player can't see themselves right. A player
Speaker 1: can only look at what the golf balls doing, but
Speaker 1: they can't visually see themselves in other sports. Again, I
Speaker 1: used football as an example. When players come off of
Speaker 1: football fields, the offense goes with the offense, the defense
Speaker 1: goes with the defense, and then the offensive or defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: the running back coach, whatever individual coach will come over
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, this is what you're doing, this is
Speaker 1: what was going on. They'll show them some plays. So
Speaker 1: we don't have necessarily the availability to do that, but
Speaker 1: I use a tremendous amount of video because both Brooks
Speaker 1: and DJ, I would classify them as very much visual learners.
Speaker 1: They want to look at golf swings. DJ sometimes if
Speaker 1: he's struggling or trying to work, if we're trying to
Speaker 1: work on a backswing or work on a down swing,
Speaker 1: I'll film one. I'll film it from the down the
Speaker 1: line angle, and then i'll film it from face on
Speaker 1: and I'll show it to him and he'll say, and
Speaker 1: I always film one at slow motion and then one
Speaker 1: at full speed. And so what DJ tends to do
Speaker 1: is he'll look at the full speed one and he'll
Speaker 1: just watch it over and over again. I'll watch it
Speaker 1: like five times in a row. If it's if it's
Speaker 1: from down the line, he's looking whatever he's looking at
Speaker 1: his back swing is down swing, he'll say, hey, run
Speaker 1: that at full speed, and he'll look at my phone
Speaker 1: and we'll run it at full speed and he's like, okay,
Speaker 1: let me, let me look at that in slow motion.
Speaker 1: And then normally he'll kind of take my phone and
Speaker 1: he'll kind of you jog the frames on where he
Speaker 1: wants it. But he is a very very visual learner.
Speaker 1: A lot of times, if we're working on things, I
Speaker 1: will I've got an app on my phone to where
Speaker 1: I can, you know, take still pictures and kind of
Speaker 1: show positions side by side, And I do that a
Speaker 1: lot of times. If we're working on trying to get
Speaker 1: the golf club a little bit more in front, I'll
Speaker 1: look at a swing where the golf club was a
Speaker 1: little bit neutral, a little bit too much inside, and
Speaker 1: I'll kind of put those two backswings side by side,
Speaker 1: and then I'll kind of put the two down swing
Speaker 1: side by side. And and DJ has this really kind
Speaker 1: of uncanny way to kind of look at it and
Speaker 1: go because where where there are other players want to
Speaker 1: look at UM, they want to look at launch monitor numbers.
Speaker 1: There are coaches that want to see launch monitor numbers.
Speaker 1: UM Brooks and DJ are just not those type of players.
Speaker 1: UM doesn't make it right, it doesn't make it wrong.
Speaker 1: There are guys that want a lot of information. UM
Speaker 1: you know. I guess the best example I could use
Speaker 1: would be, you know, Justin Rose and Sean Foley, and
Speaker 1: I think you know falls and and Rosie, they they're
Speaker 1: always looking at track men numbers. UM, Sean always looking
Speaker 1: at numbers, because I think the way that Sean thinks
Speaker 1: about the golf swing is, you know, you look at
Speaker 1: the numbers. UM, that's the way his brain works. UM.
Speaker 1: Some players aren't like that. My brain doesn't work like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just doesn't. I'm not a math guy.
Speaker 1: I'm not a science guy. UM. If I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the numbers on a launch monitor, I'm looking at them
Speaker 1: for one hundred percent something specific. I don't want to
Speaker 1: see every shot on a launch monitor because the launch
Speaker 1: monitor is not really telling me what's happening. What's telling
Speaker 1: me what's happening with the player is what my eyes
Speaker 1: can see. And I think a lot of UM instructors
Speaker 1: think that, you know, launch monitors, that's that's going to
Speaker 1: be kind of the end all be all. I always say,
Speaker 1: the computer and the monitor that you need is in
Speaker 1: your eyes. So I'm looking at what the ball flights doing.
Speaker 1: I'm and and specifically with Brooks and DJ I think
Speaker 1: those two. We're looking a lot at start lines, how
Speaker 1: they're starting the golf ball, where they're starting the golf ball,
Speaker 1: and then the other thing going back to that second
Speaker 1: pair of eyes. Um, I think one of my main
Speaker 1: jobs is to kind of do kind of a hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty kind of three sixty view of what the
Speaker 1: player is doing. You know, walk around, look at the
Speaker 1: ball position, and a lot of times I'll just say
Speaker 1: to Brooks or DJ, hey just move the golf ball
Speaker 1: half a ball more forward, move the golf ball half
Speaker 1: a ball back. Hey, just your shoulders are a little shut.
Speaker 1: I'm always looking at what I can see that the
Speaker 1: player is doing before they hit the golf ball, because
Speaker 1: to me, a lot of what happens with tour players
Speaker 1: and competitive golfers, a lot of I wouldn't say the mistakes,
Speaker 1: but a lot of where they get into trouble is
Speaker 1: the way they're addressing the golf ball. And you know,
Speaker 1: with the speed of specifically with guys like Brooks and DJ,
Speaker 1: they've got so much speed that if the setup gets bad,
Speaker 1: the alignment gets bad, the ball position gets bad, they
Speaker 1: can start hitting the golf ball a long way offline
Speaker 1: because there's just a slight you know, fault in how
Speaker 1: they're setting up. So I'm always, especially early in the
Speaker 1: year now that we're getting back to playing, now that
Speaker 1: we're ramping up back into tournaments, I'm hyper focused on,
Speaker 1: you know, the basics, all the stuff that isn't sexy
Speaker 1: in modern teaching right now, ball position, grip stance, posture alignment.
Speaker 1: That was kind of the mantra when my dad grew
Speaker 1: up and when my dad was playing. You know, my
Speaker 1: dad's you know, going to be eighty at the end
Speaker 1: of this summer. You know, Grip stance, posture alignment. That's
Speaker 1: what he grew up on. He didn't grow up on
Speaker 1: launch monitors, he didn't grow up on three D. He
Speaker 1: didn't grow up on all of the technology and all
Speaker 1: of the things we know, and and so I'm always
Speaker 1: trying to say, Okay, what can I look at and
Speaker 1: what can I say? And I just will say to
Speaker 1: you know, in an ideal world, my job at a
Speaker 1: tour event would be not to say too much. I mean,
Speaker 1: that would be a one hundred percent win for both
Speaker 1: me and the player, because that would mean they're in
Speaker 1: a pretty good position, right They're in a pretty good
Speaker 1: place to where we're not going to have to make
Speaker 1: a lot of changes, and in an ideal world, I
Speaker 1: won't be making we won't be making a lot of changes, right,
Speaker 1: We're not going to be making a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: backswing changes. We're just trying to make some small little
Speaker 1: tweaks knowing that they're on countdown. Right, it's Tuesday, so
Speaker 1: that means whatever we were working on today, they've got
Speaker 1: Wednesday and Thursday to try and embed implement that, and
Speaker 1: then they've got to go play the game then the
Speaker 1: test starts, right. So you know, like I said, DJ
Speaker 1: hasn't been playing a lot of competitive golf. He really has.
Speaker 1: This is going to be the first competitive tournament DJ's
Speaker 1: played since Miami of last year, I think in October.
Speaker 1: So you know, we don't have a lot of data
Speaker 1: points on what he's been doing. Yes, we've watched him,
Speaker 1: played hit balls in practice. Yes, I mean we played
Speaker 1: golf all weekend. But what they're doing at home has
Speaker 1: very little bearing on what they're going to do once
Speaker 1: the tournament starts. Because you can be hitting a grade
Speaker 1: at home and hit a terrible at a tournament. You
Speaker 1: cannot be playing grade at a tournament or at a
Speaker 1: in your practice and play good right. So a lot
Speaker 1: of it is just basics, and the basics for DJ's
Speaker 1: golf swing are pretty much the basics for Brooks's golf swing.
Speaker 1: They like to fade it, keep the golf club in
Speaker 1: front of them going back, get it back out in
Speaker 1: front of them coming down. DJ's got that unique head position.
Speaker 1: One of the things that we were working on over
Speaker 1: the weekend because DJ had a little tweak in his
Speaker 1: back a couple of weeks ago, and I think he
Speaker 1: just was a little bit kind of reticent to just
Speaker 1: kind of get through it. So he was hanging back
Speaker 1: a little so and as he was hanging back, his
Speaker 1: head actually wasn't kind of rotating out towards the target
Speaker 1: the way it normally does. But that was one of
Speaker 1: the things I was saying, Listen, just make sure you
Speaker 1: get through it, don't hang too much back on your
Speaker 1: right side, and just get your weight forward. Brooks a
Speaker 1: little bit of the same thing, a little slight alteration
Speaker 1: to his ball position. The tendency with Brooks is to
Speaker 1: get the golf ball too far back in his stance,
Speaker 1: and again, as a fader of the golf ball, that's
Speaker 1: the death move from him because then on the downswing
Speaker 1: the path gets too neutral and he can't kind of
Speaker 1: round the corner, get the get the club working and
Speaker 1: exiting left. So this morning, a lot of what we
Speaker 1: were doing with Brooks is just I was checking the
Speaker 1: ball position and just saying, hey, make sure that ball
Speaker 1: position to get too far back. Every now and again
Speaker 1: it would creep and he would either hit one to
Speaker 1: the left or he'd hit one to the right. But
Speaker 1: if that ball position stays nice and forward, He's normally
Speaker 1: in a good place because then he can feel like
Speaker 1: the chest opens up, he feels like he can turn
Speaker 1: through it, he feels like he can release the golf club,
Speaker 1: and then he can just basically hit the shots that
Speaker 1: he wants. Pat Perez is the one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: degree opposite of that. Pat likes and wants to be
Speaker 1: able to draw the golf ball. He wants to be
Speaker 1: able to start the golf ball to the right, he
Speaker 1: wants to be able to curve it back from right
Speaker 1: to left. So the things I'm working on with Brooks
Speaker 1: and DJ are the opposites of what I'm working on
Speaker 1: with Pat Perez. Pat's tendency, the takeaway gets a little
Speaker 1: bit quick, gets a little bit fast, he can kind
Speaker 1: of have that little bit of outmove going back. The
Speaker 1: club then on the downswing gets really really quick in transition,
Speaker 1: and he just can't shift that path right enough to
Speaker 1: start the golf ball in the direction that he wants to. So,
Speaker 1: in the same way that with Brooks and DJ Faders
Speaker 1: were trying to have them get the golf club and
Speaker 1: keep the golf club very much in front of them,
Speaker 1: in Pat's case, we're trying to have the golf club
Speaker 1: work very much what he feels like is on the inside.
Speaker 1: Have that downswing work on the inside. You know, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say that's something that I teach on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: A lot of players that I work with, I think
Speaker 1: do that too much. The golf club gets two inside
Speaker 1: going back, then they get kind of two inside coming down,
Speaker 1: the body gets a little bit slow, and then their
Speaker 1: hands get a little bit active. And it was something
Speaker 1: that we kind of keyed in on at the end
Speaker 1: of last season at the Miami event. I know that
Speaker 1: that Pat he sees a draw right, he sees the
Speaker 1: golf ball go right to left. We've had some success
Speaker 1: with Pat in having him hit fades, but I know
Speaker 1: that kind of the holy grail for him as a player.
Speaker 1: His shot that he sees and wants to hit is draw.
Speaker 1: So the only way that he can feel that is
Speaker 1: for that backswing to feel like it's almost too much inside.
Speaker 1: And it's a fine line right now with me as
Speaker 1: his coach and as an instructor, because there are times
Speaker 1: where the golf club and my kind of the way
Speaker 1: I think and in my opinion, and I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: a little that's a little deep, and that's a little inside.
Speaker 1: But the way that Pat's bodywork, Pat doesn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of rotation. He had a hip injury from a
Speaker 1: car accident years ago on his left hip. So Pat
Speaker 1: has a lot of lateral move to his golf swing,
Speaker 1: almost a lot of lateral slide to his golf swing.
Speaker 1: So again it's the complete one hundred and eighty degree
Speaker 1: opposite of guys like Brooks and DJ. They have speed,
Speaker 1: they can rotate. Pat doesn't have that. That's not part
Speaker 1: of his DNA. So my job as the coach is
Speaker 1: first and foremost I have to give the player confidence,
Speaker 1: right I feel like that is one of my main
Speaker 1: jobs is to instill confid in the player. And Pat's
Speaker 1: confidence comes from being able to see the draw, being
Speaker 1: able to see the golf ball curve from right to left.
Speaker 1: So this morning we were working on really trying to
Speaker 1: have that golf club work what he feels like is inside,
Speaker 1: and then really trying to get him to feel like
Speaker 1: he starts that golf ball out to the right and
Speaker 1: when he does that, the first thing it does is
Speaker 1: he starts to see the shape that he wants to see,
Speaker 1: which is a draw. And my job as a coach
Speaker 1: is to listen to the player and I ask players, listen,
Speaker 1: what shapes do you want to hit? What shots do
Speaker 1: you want to hit? And then I feel like it's
Speaker 1: my job to say, Okay, the player wants to do
Speaker 1: this one can they do that? Do they have the
Speaker 1: physical ability to put the club in these positions? In
Speaker 1: Pat's case, when he gets the backswinging a little bit
Speaker 1: on the inside, he's able to turn the golf ball
Speaker 1: over and draw it. So that was the stuff we
Speaker 1: did on the range, not too long, and then the
Speaker 1: guys went to the golf course, so I did a
Speaker 1: lot of bouncing around. Um DJ and Pat play their
Speaker 1: practice rounds together. Brooks plays his practice rounds on Live
Speaker 1: with his team. So DJ and Brooks and they're different, right,
Speaker 1: They've got different teams. So Brooks plays with his team.
Speaker 1: Pat and DJ tend to play a lot of their
Speaker 1: practice rounds together. Um, Peter eu line has joined M
Speaker 1: Dustin's team this week or this year on the aces. So, um, Pete,
Speaker 1: your line was out with us today. So when we're
Speaker 1: out of the golf course. UM yeah, I mean again,
Speaker 1: I'm just checking basics, right, because I don't want to
Speaker 1: be working too much swing mechanics while they're on the
Speaker 1: golf course. I'm talking with the caddies. I'm saying, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you know what what are you seeing? What do you
Speaker 1: like here? What do you think about the strategy here?
Speaker 1: Where do you think the miss should be here? So
Speaker 1: it's something that it's hard to explain, but UM, I
Speaker 1: love it. I love that kind of collaboration between myself
Speaker 1: and the player, between me and the caddy. UM. I
Speaker 1: really value the practice rounds because it's an opportunity for
Speaker 1: all of us to get there. We're talking about strategy,
Speaker 1: We're talking about how they're going to play, what clubs
Speaker 1: are going to hit off the tier. They're hitting three
Speaker 1: woods for the hitting drivers. Um, I think it's fascinating
Speaker 1: to listen. I mean, I've been doing this, you know,
Speaker 1: pretty much the majority of my adult life, but it's
Speaker 1: always fascinating to listen to that interaction between the player
Speaker 1: and the caddy. I love listening to to AJ and DJ.
Speaker 1: I love listening to H and Pat. I think Ricky
Speaker 1: Elliott to me, is one of the best caddies in
Speaker 1: the world. The interaction between you know, him and Brooks
Speaker 1: and the way that they kind of go about it.
Speaker 1: Um And I think those the caddies as well, know
Speaker 1: their player, they know what type of information, how much
Speaker 1: information they want. So I just I enjoy the practice
Speaker 1: round so much because once the tournament starts as a
Speaker 1: coach as as as a golf coach, you know, being
Speaker 1: a professional golfer and coaching professional golfers. Once Thursday or
Speaker 1: Friday starts, once they get inside the ropes, they basically
Speaker 1: go to the moon. I can't say anything. They're on
Speaker 1: another planet. They're inside the ropes, and there's nothing that
Speaker 1: I can do as the instructors, as the coach to
Speaker 1: influence what they're doing. So if I see Brooks's ball
Speaker 1: positions start to creep too far back, if I see
Speaker 1: DJ's alignment get a little bit off, if I see
Speaker 1: Pats start to take the golf club a little bit
Speaker 1: too much on the outside once they're in a tournament,
Speaker 1: once from the time they tee off until the time
Speaker 1: they finish, I can't do anything about it. And I'll
Speaker 1: be honest with you, it is unbelievably frustrating when I
Speaker 1: watch team sports, when I watch college football and watch
Speaker 1: the adjustments guys like Nick Saban are able to make
Speaker 1: Kirby smart at Georgia, The changes they're able to make
Speaker 1: at halftime, the personnel that they're able to bring in
Speaker 1: the play calls, that they're able to learn from what
Speaker 1: happened in the first half. I don't get to do that.
Speaker 1: Once the player goes inside the ropes and they're playing
Speaker 1: a competitive round on tour, I'm not allowed to talk
Speaker 1: to them. I can't say anything to them. I can't
Speaker 1: do any hand gestures. I try and never really get
Speaker 1: anywhere close to where they are. I try and get
Speaker 1: ahead so I can see where the ball's finishing. But
Speaker 1: it's just a little thing that I've always done. I
Speaker 1: just don't want them to see me. I want them
Speaker 1: to kind of be in their world focusing on the
Speaker 1: things that they need to focus on, but it is frustrating.
Speaker 1: So that's why I think the practice rounds for me
Speaker 1: are are so important because I'm able to get inside
Speaker 1: the ropes. I'm able to look at the golf course.
Speaker 1: I'm able to look at the strategy, so that after
Speaker 1: the tournament rounds finish, were then able to kind of
Speaker 1: look at what they're doing where they were hitting shots.
Speaker 1: Because I've been out on the golf course, I kind
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Speaker 1: most players now are adopting the nine whole practice rounds. Um,
Speaker 1: you'll see some players maybe play eighteen holes. But um,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of players, you know, both on
Speaker 1: Live and the PGA Tour, Um, they're playing nine they
Speaker 1: might play nine Tuesday. If they're in the pro am,
Speaker 1: they know they're probably going to play eighteen holes. So
Speaker 1: a lot of times players get to tournaments, um, they don't.
Speaker 1: They get in Monday night, they play nine holes on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: they play eighteen holes on Wednesday, and then they kind
Speaker 1: of get out. So um, on Live, we got in Monday,
Speaker 1: we're Tuesday Wednesday, so we'll do nine holes again tomorrow,
Speaker 1: ProAm on Thursday, and then the tournament starts. But as
Speaker 1: I said earlier, in an ideal world, UM, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying a lot um I'm not having them work on
Speaker 1: a lot of technical stuff. Now, there are weeks where
Speaker 1: the players aren't playing good and you have to get
Speaker 1: in there and and and work and and try and
Speaker 1: fix things. Um. But I always remembers years ago, probably
Speaker 1: six seven, eight years ago. I think we're in Washington,
Speaker 1: DC at congressional for the for the Old at and
Speaker 1: T and I was talking to Sean about, you know,
Speaker 1: our job and stuff like that, and it was interesting
Speaker 1: that Full said, you know, I kind of feel like
Speaker 1: we're we're we're doctors, and you know, the PGA Tour
Speaker 1: is kind of the battlefield, right. Yes, I know it's
Speaker 1: not a real battle field, and I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: make the analogy that golfers are any more important than
Speaker 1: they are, but it's the field of play. And he's like, listen,
Speaker 1: there's once the tournaments kind of start, and once we
Speaker 1: get here, it's a little bit like we're just doing
Speaker 1: triage because we can't really do a lot of open
Speaker 1: heart surgery while they're you know, in battle right, and
Speaker 1: and and it's it's it's important to realize that once
Speaker 1: we get to tournament weeks, because the weeks are what
Speaker 1: they are. You know, when the tournament's going to start,
Speaker 1: you don't have the availability to take the car and
Speaker 1: pull it apart and rebuild the engine because the player
Speaker 1: has to play. And that's something that's taken me a
Speaker 1: lot long time to learn, and I've learned by you know,
Speaker 1: making a tremendous amount of mistakes, right, you know, you'd
Speaker 1: make mistakes where I think early in my career I was.
Speaker 1: I was way more hands on, way more information, And
Speaker 1: now in an ideal world, I try and do as
Speaker 1: much of the hard work, the technical work, the drill
Speaker 1: work when we're home and when we're in off week,
Speaker 1: so that when we get to tournaments, we're not really
Speaker 1: doing a lot of technical mechanical work because I don't
Speaker 1: want the players in that headspace. I want them to
Speaker 1: be in the play headspace, you know. So I love
Speaker 1: the fact that I work with players that hit the
Speaker 1: golf ball different directions. I don't believe that there's one
Speaker 1: way to swing the golf club. I don't believe that
Speaker 1: I don't have a system, right, I don't have every
Speaker 1: player I work with doing the same thing. I have
Speaker 1: things in the golf swing that I believe in. I
Speaker 1: have a philosophy in my own head of things that
Speaker 1: I think make players hit shots better. But I don't
Speaker 1: have a specific formula system. So in that respect, Um,
Speaker 1: I like it that all the players are different to me. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, DJ is different from Brooks, Brooks is different
Speaker 1: from Pat m They're in different ages, they're different stages
Speaker 1: of their career. They've all got different skill sets. You know,
Speaker 1: DJ's a freak athlete and you know, unbelievably flexible, tremendous
Speaker 1: amount of flexibility. Brooks has had some pretty significant catastrophic injuries,
Speaker 1: and you know, we're constantly working around them. Pat is
Speaker 1: in his mid to late forties. His body isn't what
Speaker 1: it once was, but Pat still has a lot of speed.
Speaker 1: But I'm working with all of these players as individuals
Speaker 1: and trying to take what they do and you learn
Speaker 1: your delivery, kind of like being a stand up comedian.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit like what the you know, what
Speaker 1: kind of crowd is it tonight? You're playing to your audience.
Speaker 1: And so I'm working with Pat differently than I'm working
Speaker 1: with Brooks, and I'm working with Brooks differently than I'm
Speaker 1: working with DJ. And I think for me, that's one
Speaker 1: of the things that I really really like about what
Speaker 1: I do. So, yeah, we got to see the golf course.
Speaker 1: We're talking about strategy, we're talking about what you want,
Speaker 1: what shots you want to hit. You know, A lot
Speaker 1: of it is is a lot of me being you know,
Speaker 1: super super positive. M That's one of the things that
Speaker 1: that I try and do. You know, I learned from
Speaker 1: my dad that I try and be as much of
Speaker 1: a cheerleader as I can. Even if the player hits
Speaker 1: a bad shot, I'll say, you know, listen, that wasn't
Speaker 1: that bad. We just need to get the golf club
Speaker 1: a little bit more here, because the last thing you
Speaker 1: want to be doing is putting a lot of doubt
Speaker 1: in in the players that you work with in their head.
Speaker 1: So we got good practice rounds in today, went back
Speaker 1: to the range afterwards, didn't do a ton of stuff.
Speaker 1: Brooks always likes to go to the range and really
Speaker 1: just kind of wind down. He does that in practice rounds,
Speaker 1: and he does that in tournament rounds. He likes to
Speaker 1: go from the golf course, maybe get some lunch, but
Speaker 1: go back to the range. DJ doesn't really do a
Speaker 1: lot of practicing after tournament rounds right or after practice rounds.
Speaker 1: Every now and again, we'll go back to the range.
Speaker 1: But he's just like, yeah, I mean I felt go
Speaker 1: down the course today, I know what I need to do.
Speaker 1: We'll get back at it tomorrow. And so that's very different.
Speaker 1: And you know, everybody kind of has their own way
Speaker 1: of practicing, and so a lot of my job people
Speaker 1: ask me, you know, describe what your job is. It's
Speaker 1: as much managing people as it is, you know, teaching golf.
Speaker 1: And let's be honest, right, I'm not actively teaching Dustin Johnson,
Speaker 1: Brooks Kepka and Pat Perez anything. Right, these goes were
Speaker 1: great players a long time before they met me. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm not teaching them anything. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: what I'm doing out here onto his coach. Right, we
Speaker 1: know what they do when they play their best. They're
Speaker 1: the athlete. I'm the coach. I'm I'm not hitting any shots, soum.
Speaker 1: They're great players, and a lot of what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to do is listen. We know you perform your best
Speaker 1: when you do these things. We kind of have a recipe,
Speaker 1: a blueprint, and we've got a lot of data points. Right.
Speaker 1: That's the great thing about you know, working with competitive
Speaker 1: golfers is you know, I've been working with DJ since
Speaker 1: about I guess around two twelve twenty thirteen. I worked
Speaker 1: with Brooks for eight years, took a little you know,
Speaker 1: took to your break and we got back together kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, summer of last year. I know what makes
Speaker 1: DJ his best, right. I know what DJ does when
Speaker 1: he's the number one player in the world, when he's
Speaker 1: winning majors, when he's winning tournaments. I know what Brooks
Speaker 1: does when he plays his best. And in terms with Pat,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of my job is to try
Speaker 1: and may Pat as confident as a player as he can,
Speaker 1: because Pat can get negative, he can beat himself up.
Speaker 1: He can I think at times he can almost self
Speaker 1: sabotage himself by the mental attitude that he has. So
Speaker 1: I think I'm trying to do much more of a
Speaker 1: coaching role with patum probably than any of the players
Speaker 1: I work with, because you know, it's my job to
Speaker 1: keep him up. It's my job to keep him positive.
Speaker 1: It's my job to think get him thinking that he's
Speaker 1: playing good and that good golf is around the corner.
Speaker 1: And then lastly, I think a huge part of my
Speaker 1: job is after after everybody finished today, I went in
Speaker 1: with Brooks Keepka's physio Mark Wall, who, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: he is the most valuable person on Brooks's team. When
Speaker 1: Brooks first turn pro and he got his PGA Tour cardum,
Speaker 1: I said to him, I said, you need to hire
Speaker 1: Mark Wall. Mark Wall was you know, he worked with
Speaker 1: Jimmy Walker, worked with JB. Holmes, he worked with Steve Stricker.
Speaker 1: He's almost like a savant when it comes to biomechanics,
Speaker 1: what the body is doing, and probably someone who I
Speaker 1: trust as much as anybody. So during the offseason, Brooks
Speaker 1: came in and Mark came down and they basically did
Speaker 1: a total diagnostic of Brooks's body, his food intake, what
Speaker 1: he's allergic to, what foods are good from him, what
Speaker 1: foods aren't good for him. They did a complete three
Speaker 1: D screen of what his golf swing was doing. And
Speaker 1: so I sat for almost two hours with Mark Wall
Speaker 1: today and Mark kind of ran me through everything that's
Speaker 1: going on with Brooks physically, where the limitations are, what
Speaker 1: the issues are. He's constantly Marcus and listen, what are
Speaker 1: you What are you seeing in his golf swing? What
Speaker 1: are you trying to do in his golf swing? And
Speaker 1: based off of that, I'm looking at what Mark, as
Speaker 1: the guy that's in charge of Brooks's body. Listen, what
Speaker 1: is his body able to do? What is his body
Speaker 1: able not to do? And then based off of that,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to look at what I'm doing and hopefully
Speaker 1: we're on the same page. But I think it was
Speaker 1: really important in the offseason, given some of the injuries
Speaker 1: that Brooks has had in the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: to kind of get that big diagnostic look. It was
Speaker 1: a pretty lengthy report. I think Mark does a fantastic
Speaker 1: job and making things really really easy for me to understand.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that that the fans realize what
Speaker 1: a collaborative effort all of this is. And yeah, there's
Speaker 1: there's the jackass instructor, the jackass reporters and journalists that say,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm tired of these players talking about their team.
Speaker 1: It's an individual sport. You know, enough with the team,
Speaker 1: go play and stuff. But the modern athlete has a
Speaker 1: team of people around them, and you know, I am
Speaker 1: a huge part of that team, but there are so
Speaker 1: many other people that are part of that team. And
Speaker 1: what we're trying to do is get everybody on the
Speaker 1: same page. Brooks has a big team, DJ has a
Speaker 1: big team. Pat doesn't necessarily have a huge team. So
Speaker 1: I think in my role with Pat, he almost kind
Speaker 1: of looks at me like a head coach that I'm
Speaker 1: the head coach of his team, and he looks to
Speaker 1: me for a lot of things like that. Brooks and
Speaker 1: DJ maybe not so much. You know, Brooks has a
Speaker 1: putting instructor, he has a short game instructor, he has
Speaker 1: a trainer, He has Mark Wall as his physio. So
Speaker 1: I mean, we've got five six guys on Brooks's team.
Speaker 1: DJ's got Joey Ds his trainer, He's got a physio,
Speaker 1: and then I'm in charge of the golf part of it.
Speaker 1: And then he's got Ajs his cato, And that's a
Speaker 1: lot of people, and it's a collaborative effort, and a
Speaker 1: lot of my job is to sit and meet with
Speaker 1: all of these people on the team and try and
Speaker 1: get kind of as much of a three hundred, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of a thirty eight thousand foot overview of what
Speaker 1: everybody's doing, and then what I can do from a
Speaker 1: golf standpoint, and going back to you know, Brooks's physio,
Speaker 1: Mark Wall. There are weeks where Mark will say, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: Brooks's body isn't moving great this week, So we got
Speaker 1: to limit how many balls we hit. Let's try and
Speaker 1: get quantity out of the window and let's get or
Speaker 1: let's get quality and not get a ton of reps.
Speaker 1: The reps that we're going to get. Let's get a
Speaker 1: lot out of these reps, because his body just isn't
Speaker 1: in a place right now to stand there and hit
Speaker 1: a ton of golf balls. So that's kind of what
Speaker 1: a normal day is like for me. Obviously, the bigger
Speaker 1: the tournament, things change. I mean Majors, it's different. Players
Speaker 1: are very very different at majors than they are at
Speaker 1: regular tour events. I mean, you can just tell they
Speaker 1: understand what the stakes are, they understand the task at head,
Speaker 1: they understand the holy grail is winning majors, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what every tour player wants to win. So when
Speaker 1: they're at major's they're very different. They're a little bit
Speaker 1: on edge. I wouldn't say that they're panicking, but they're
Speaker 1: more on edge at at at majors than they aren't
Speaker 1: regular tour events. But yeah, that's kind of what I do.
Speaker 1: We'll do the same thing tomorrow and kind of go
Speaker 1: through that that kind of same kind of routine. We'll
Speaker 1: work a little bit on the range, we'll get out
Speaker 1: on the golf course, maybe hit some balls after. But
Speaker 1: it's a lot of that's a lot of me just
Speaker 1: kind of looking at what they're doing and being that
Speaker 1: second pair of eyes, being that coach and say, listen,
Speaker 1: we know what you do when you play your best.
Speaker 1: If we can get the golf club and these positions,
Speaker 1: if your body can move it in this way, then
Speaker 1: you can go to the golf course and just play golf.
Speaker 1: And ultimately, that's my job is to send tour players
Speaker 1: as as a tour coach, it's my job to get
Speaker 1: them ready to play tournaments. And I don't really think
Speaker 1: I'm doing anything different than you know, Cameron McCormick's doing.
Speaker 1: We might with Jordan Spieth. Kim works with Jordan Spieth,
Speaker 1: has worked with Daniel Bergery, just started work with Tom Kim.
Speaker 1: You know, I spend a lot of time with the
Speaker 1: other coaches. We talk about what the players are doing.
Speaker 1: I'm not someone that is afraid to talk to other coaches.
Speaker 1: A lot of times I'll say to the coaches that
Speaker 1: whose opinions I trust and believe in, I'll say, hey,
Speaker 1: what do you think about this, What do you think
Speaker 1: about this move? What do you think about this problem?
Speaker 1: And try and take some information from the other players.
Speaker 1: I'm so lucky in being able to work on tour,
Speaker 1: to have the availability to have access to what I
Speaker 1: believe are some of the best coaches in the world,
Speaker 1: to be able to pick their brains, to talk to
Speaker 1: them about what they're working on with players, to say, hey,
Speaker 1: what are you guys going to do on seven? What
Speaker 1: are you guys going to do on nine? What do
Speaker 1: you are you guys hitting driver on this while you
Speaker 1: guys hitting three wood? Where do you see the miss
Speaker 1: on this whole? So it's a constant I guess it's
Speaker 1: a constant quest for information. For me, it's a constant
Speaker 1: quest for knowledge to try and figure out all of
Speaker 1: this stuff that that makes golfers this giant puzzle. We're
Speaker 1: trying to put these puzzle pieces in. Listen, I'm not
Speaker 1: digging ditches. I have an unbelievable job. I'm incredibly lucky.
Speaker 1: It's long hours, it's a lot of standing outside, and
Speaker 1: I've got a horrendous golf tan because I'm outside all
Speaker 1: the time. But you know, I consider myself so unbelievably
Speaker 1: lucky that, you know, some of the best players in
Speaker 1: the world would entrust me to help them with their
Speaker 1: golf and I never never take that lightly. It means
Speaker 1: something to me, and I really feel like I'm incredibly
Speaker 1: lucky to get to do what I do and I'm
Speaker 1: excited for the year when you see these guys play well,
Speaker 1: trust me, there's a lot of stuff that goes into that.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people working behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm I'm very, very thankful and very
Speaker 1: lucky to be a part of that. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of a day in the life of of what I
Speaker 1: do on the on tour, and you know, I love it.
Speaker 1: It's a huge part of my life and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to continue to do it. So a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff happening in golf. Last week, finally John Ram
Speaker 1: gets to number one in the world. It makes absolutely
Speaker 1: no sense to me if you look at the record
Speaker 1: that John Ram has had in the last three to
Speaker 1: four months, that it's taken this many wins for him
Speaker 1: to get to number one in the world. And I
Speaker 1: think John's talked about it. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people are talking about it. I think there's gotta be
Speaker 1: a different way to start ranking players that are playing
Speaker 1: competitive golf because John rom has been the number one
Speaker 1: ranked player in the world for a long time. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, we saw Tiger Woods come back last week.
Speaker 1: UM yeah, I mean it was good to see Tiger back.
Speaker 1: I mean Tiger, he's the goat. Um, he's the needle,
Speaker 1: and you know, it was good to see him back. Um,
Speaker 1: and we saw some good golf from Tiger. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if we'll be able to see Tiger a
Speaker 1: lot because I don't know, you know, how much his
Speaker 1: body can hold up. I know some of the guys
Speaker 1: that work with Tiger behind the scenes on you know,
Speaker 1: his his goal and his body and it takes a village.
Speaker 1: And it was nice to hear Tiger say, you know
Speaker 1: last week, I want to thank my team for getting
Speaker 1: me ready. UM. I don't think anybody has any concept
Speaker 1: of all of the things that it takes for Tiger
Speaker 1: Woods play golf in twenty twenty three. M it's not
Speaker 1: band aids that he's able to put on the physical
Speaker 1: issues that he's got. It takes an enormous amount of
Speaker 1: work from um, some incredibly talented and smart people that
Speaker 1: are helping him. And yeah, it was fun to see him. Um,
Speaker 1: it was good to see Max Homer. He's it's been
Speaker 1: fun to watch Max kind of become one, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: one of the best players in the world. He's such
Speaker 1: a likable character, loves golf swinging. I think the work
Speaker 1: in his instructor, Mark Blackburn have done has really started
Speaker 1: to pay off and has really turned him into one
Speaker 1: of the best players in the world. But an iconic
Speaker 1: golf course, Riviera always great to see that golf course.
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the gems of of of
Speaker 1: golf courses in the United States. It's it's great design,
Speaker 1: it's in a great part of the world. And um yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the golf season in full flow. I'm excited
Speaker 1: for Live to get back up and running. If you're
Speaker 1: not a Live fan, I'm okay with that. Um it's okay.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's not for you, if you don't
Speaker 1: like the product for whatever reason, that's cool. Um I'm
Speaker 1: not a country music fan. I don't listen to country music.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean the country music is bad. It's just not
Speaker 1: my jam. It's not my thing. And if Live isn't
Speaker 1: your thing, that's okay too, but I'm excited. Um, I
Speaker 1: think we're going to see some good golf. And twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three is, you know, for me, is finally getting
Speaker 1: up and running. Can't thank everybody enough for listening. If
Speaker 1: you're new, if if you're new to the podcasts, we've
Speaker 1: got a bunch of great episodes, We've got a bunch
Speaker 1: of great guests, and if you're a regular listener, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Um. We're going to keep trying to
Speaker 1: get as much information as possible. I'm doing some of
Speaker 1: these solo pots because the feedback has been pretty good. People.
Speaker 1: You know, my job is a teach golf for a living,
Speaker 1: and I think everybody listening wants to improve their golf.
Speaker 1: And if I can help and tell my story and
Speaker 1: give my experiences and the information that that I use,
Speaker 1: hopefully that's helping players. And that's been the feedback. We
Speaker 1: will I promise we'll get back to the guests soon.
Speaker 1: But everybody had to suffer with another H three podcast
Speaker 1: this week. Looking forward to seeing you next week. Son
Speaker 1: of a Bush comes to you every Wednesday. Thanks for listening.