WEBVTT - Tournament Week: BTS with CH3 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.640 It's the Son of a Butch podcast. We come to 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:12.680 you every Wednesday. I'm your host, Claude Harmon. This week 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:15.640 I thought i'd answer a question I get a lot, 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.440 which is what is a normal week like on tour. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.800 So this week it's the first live event. I'm down 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:26.119 at Myacoba. Three guys in the field this week, Dustin Johnson, 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:30.280 Brooks Kepka, and Pat Perez. So it's the first event 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:32.720 of the live season. So it's a little bit like 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.840 getting back to work. Certainly, everybody's really excited about getting 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:42.000 back playing. It's been a long layoff and it's certainly 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.479 a long layoff. Certainly a long layoff for me, but 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:47.880 I think for most of the Live guys it's probably 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.560 the longest break a lot of them have had in 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.160 their entire professional career. I mean, they've almost been off 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.120 almost three months. Some of the guys played a couple 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.600 weeks ago in Saudi Arabia. Of the guys went on 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:04.479 and played on the Asian Tour. But this is kind 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.399 of the first real tournament of the year for for Live, 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.520 and my job this week is is just to try 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:15.840 and check up on all the guys and and kind 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:19.520 of get an idea of what they're doing, how they're playing. 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.720 I've been doing a lot of work at home with 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:27.000 the guys, got to do some work in Saudi. But um, 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:31.640 it's a little bit different tournament weeks versus home weeks. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.920 So three players this week, and the biggest question I 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:39.039 get asked a lot is how do you balance three players? 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.959 And um, I guess the easy answer to that is 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.559 it's a lot of juggling. You know, there's only there's 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.160 three players that you've got to work with, but there's 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.000 only one of you, there's one of me. So I'm 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.160 trying to get the most out of my day and 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:54.680 get the most out of my time as I can. 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.920 I'm lucky in that, you know, with the way that 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:03.680 Live does things, DJ and Brooks are on different teams, 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.040 but DJ and Pat are on the same team, so 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.960 they tend to play a lot of their practice rounds together. 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:10.560 And when I was on the PJA Tour, and I 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:14.400 think most instructors that have multiple players, there's a bunch 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.160 of them out there. I mean, Sean Foley's got a 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.400 bunch of players. Justin Parsons has a lot of players. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.360 I think everybody has. Pete Cowan's always had, you know, 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.560 a ton of players, So I think it's all about balancing, 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:28.840 and so what you end up trying to do is 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:33.280 get the players that you work with to play practice 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:38.280 rounds together. So I'm lucky in that DJ and Pat 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.440 play the majority of their practice rounds together. When Brooks 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.040 and DJ were on the PJA Tour and I was 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:45.880 working with both of them, they would play a lot 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.760 of practice rounds together. Back in the day, when I 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.440 was working with Ricky Fowler and Jimmy Walker, they were friends, 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.480 they would play a lot of practice rounds together. So 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:58.080 I'm lucky in that respect in that I'm able to 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.200 have multiple plays in the same group when you go 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.320 out on the golf course. Makes a little bit difficult 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.440 when they're on the driving range, so you're kind of 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:11.000 bouncing around. You're trying to balance everybody's schedule, and that's 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.680 one thing I think everybody should try and get an 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:19.400 idea of individual golfers, individual athletes kind of practice when 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.240 they want to. It's not a team, so it's not 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.480 like a NFL team or an NBA team, where the 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:30.440 team practices when the team practices, So everybody practices when 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:35.000 the team practices. Patrick Mahomes practice schedule is based off 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.000 of when the Kansas City Chiefs are going to practice. 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.680 He doesn't do his own thing, doesn't do his own practice. 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:43.360 He practices with the team. But in individual sports, the 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.600 players can kind of set their own schedules and kind 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:50.680 of set their own practice schedules as well. So DJ 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.600 tends to like to work out in the morning. So 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.360 he got up this morning, worked out first thing this morning, 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.000 and I think he was there right around ten o'clock. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:01.520 I got to the golf course. I always tend to 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.600 try and get to the golf course about an hour 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.840 to two hours before I know the players are going 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.520 to be there. That's just that's me. That's my OCD. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.960 I don't like to feel rushed and everything, and that 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.320 gives me an opportunity to kind of sit down. The 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.720 caddies normally get there before the players, so that gives 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:19.520 you an opportunity to sit down with the caddies and 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.839 kind of talk to them about what they've been seeing, 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.160 where they're at. But obviously, with it being a new 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.320 year and a new start to the season, we don't 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.359 have a lot of data points for that. So this morning, 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.320 first guy that I got to on the range. Brooks 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.240 was on the range. I got to spend some time 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.960 with him in Saudi Arabia when he played the Asian 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:40.080 Tour event. He played decent, you know, it was a 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.000 little little kind of I wouldn't say rusty, but it's 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.320 the early part of the year. I think one of 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.320 the things going into tournaments if players have had long 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.640 layoffs is it's not necessarily the golf swing that's going 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.720 to be the issue. I think it's a lot of 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.680 the nuances around the greens. It's hitting shots. It's kind 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.479 of the three quarter in between a seven in an 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.480 eight and what kind of shot you're going to hit. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.080 That's the kind of stuff that you can't really simulate 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.480 in practice. Right, we can try and do that as 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.520 much as we want on the driving range. We can 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.559 try and do as much as we want at home, 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.719 but ultimately there's a big, big, massive, massive difference between 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.320 playing at home and then playing in a tournament. And 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.000 there's a massive difference between practice rounds and range sessions 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.039 at home. Then there are once you're at a tournament, 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.039 because you know, regardless of what day it is, there 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.880 is a test coming. The test is once the tournament starts. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.359 So in Live's case, they play fifty four holes. On 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.400 the PGA Tour, they play seventy two holes. So the 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.800 test is coming, and the test is going to be Friday, Saturday, 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.760 and Sunday, so you're trying to get them ready. You know, 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.240 it's kind of on countdown. So we all flew in yesterday, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.679 so it's we gotta practice round Tuesday, got a practice 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.760 round Wednesday, pro am Thursday, and then they'll tee it 0:05:55.839 --> 0:06:00.560 up on Friday. So when the players get to tournaments, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:04.000 they know that they've got a condensed period of time, 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.719 and they know they've got a finite period of time 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.920 on how much they can get done for the week. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:15.560 So we've got Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to kind of 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.640 get all the work that we need to do to do. 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:22.840 In an ideal world, my job would be not saying 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.240 too much, right, I mean, that would be an ideal situation. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.240 I think a lot of people look at coaches and 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.800 they see as standing on driving ranges behind the players. 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.160 There are a lot of times that you know, we're 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:38.280 not saying anything. I think the biggest thing that tour 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:42.120 coaches do is they are a second pair of eyes 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.440 for the player. So very similar to use, you know, 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.680 to use an analogy with football, Patrick Mahomes after every 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:54.240 series of downs, he comes over and sits down and 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.360 they kind of show him what the schemes are. They 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.960 kind of go through what he's looking at. They show 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.279 and pictures. They say, hey, listen, this is what the 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.640 defense is doing, this is what the defense has been doing, 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.320 and he kind of gets a good gauge on what 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.880 that is right. And in a lot of ways, we're 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.760 not necessarily doing that, but what we are trying to 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:15.200 do is we're trying to look at what we've been 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.200 working on in practice and you know, seeing you know, 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:22.600 we every player has their own kind of individual DNA, 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:26.160 they have their own kind of individual swing. So in 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:27.920 the case of the three guys that I'm working with, 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.840 DJ Brooks and Pat, DJ and Brooks both fade the 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.480 golf ball. Pat Perez likes to draw the golf ball. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.040 So how your work, how I'm working with these players 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:43.440 is different, and each individual player is is a different person, 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.080 and you know, everyone has kind of their own personalities 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:50.120 and their own kind of way of doing things. So 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:54.120 when you have multiple players, you're dealing as much I 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.360 think with their personalities as you are with their golf swings. 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.560 Everybody kind of has their own kind of indio sec sees, 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:05.720 and I think players want to be taught in a 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.120 specific way that's specific to them, and you kind of 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.520 learn that early. You kind of learn what players like, 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.400 how much information. There are times where players want lots 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.320 of information, there are times where players don't want to 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.800 let a lot of information. There are players that want 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.480 a lot of information, and then there are players that 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.240 don't want a lot of information. In the case of 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.720 Brooks and DJ, there are two players that they don't 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.360 want a lot of information. They don't play their best 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.560 when they have a lot of thoughts in their head. 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.319 So I think a lot of what my job with 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.040 Brooks and DJ is to try and manage them as 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:46.600 much as people as you're managing them as golfers. And 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.040 the way that they learn, the way that they take 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.679 on information, the information they want is all kind of 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.400 player dependent, and it's it's based a lot on their personalities, 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:00.520 what kind of not so much learning, but how they 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:05.040 process the information. So you know, just in going through it, 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.600 j DJ doesn't want a lot of information, and I 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.400 think a lot of players would be surprised the DJ 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.520 is really kind of a field player. You wouldn't think 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.880 that because DJ's career has been defined by distance length. 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:22.960 He's kind of known for the way he drives the 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.120 golf ball. Driving the golf ball is kind of his 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.920 calling card, right, It's part of his DNA. But to 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.320 be honest with you, DJ doesn't want a lot of information. 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.400 He uses a launch monitor, but he's really only using 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:41.240 it for some very very specific things. When DJ uses 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.560 a launch monitor, he's normally got a carry distance, he's 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.640 got a total distance, and then he'll look at spin 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.440 and so based off of those numbers. I've never been 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.960 around a player that has been able to kind of 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.120 hit a shot, look at what that shot is doing, 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.679 and then basically almost able to call out exactly or 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.679 within a few hundred arpians of what the spin is 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.240 doesn't matter, if it's wedge, doesn't matter, if it's a 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:12.920 nine seven five driver. I think probably more so with 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:16.280 the wedges and the driver. It's almost like DJs a 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:21.080 sixth sense. He's like he's clued in. He's very very 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:25.560 specific in the way that he practices as well. DJ 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:30.240 likes to his warmups on tournament days are probably the 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:34.360 longest of anybody on tour. DJ's normally from the time 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.480 he leaves the locker room and is going to do 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.040 his practice or warm up and then go to the 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.120 golf course, he's right around an hour and a half. 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.079 And just to give you the opposite of that, Brooks 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.319 is right around thirty minutes. So DJ's warm up is 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.840 an hour and a half, Brooks is thirty. DJ spends 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.240 probably about forty five minutes to an hour of that 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.520 warm up in practice hitting wedges. So all of his 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.319 wedge instances are kind of under one hundred and fifty yards, 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:09.360 and so he's really really tuned into kind of the 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.000 swing that he needs to make. DJ has with his wedges. 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.760 DJ has three swings. He has a half a full 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.679 or half, three quarter and full, and those are the 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.239 lengths of the backswing. So he's making a half backswing 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.120 and a half follow through, three quarter length back swing, 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.720 three quarter length follow through, and then fall back and 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.200 through and he has three different yards. So with all 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.880 of his wedges, he's going to have a half, a 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.560 three quarter, and a full and those are all going 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:42.320 to go different distances, and that's really where he's kind 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.640 of dials. So the only thing he's looking at when 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.280 he's hitting these wedge shots is does it go the 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.400 right distance and does it have the right spin? And 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:55.040 I honestly it happens four or five times a year. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.880 He'll be hitting a shot with let's say his sand wedge, 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:00.800 and he'll hit two or three of them and he'll 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.160 say to me, is that a good swing? And I'll say, yeah, 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.120 that's that's that's a good swing, and he's right, yeah, 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.080 that's not going the right distance. It's either going too far, 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.400 it's going too short. And he's looking at the spin 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:12.559 and he's looking at what the club is doing. And 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.240 he'll hit a couple more and he'll say to Aja's 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.800 brother who caddies for him, and say, Aj, can you 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.280 get the wedge checked, because with that swing, it should 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:27.160 produce this distance in this number, and it's it's uncanny. 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.959 AJ will take the wedge to the truck and they'll 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.120 look at the loft or the lie and they'll say, yeah, 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.640 it was out one degree this way, one degree that way. 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.240 Probably more so for the tour players wear and tear 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.400 because of all the travel that they do. They're constantly 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.360 putting their clubs on airplanes, clubs can get bent. So 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:51.240 DJ's practice is very much wedge specific. So today, same thing, 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.679 he's looking at wedges, he went over. He had a 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.840 little bit of a back issue a couple of weeks ago, 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.520 so he has not been hitting a lot of golf balls. 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.640 But today it was actually really surprising. I was surprised 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.080 it that how well he was hitting. It was such 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.840 a long layoff. I guess I shouldn't probably be surprised 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:12.800 by that, because a long layoff for tour players, I 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.240 mean they need that, they need that break. And I 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:21.280 was really quite surprised and really quite excited about how 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:25.440 well DJ was moving. But when I'm working with DJ, 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.360 I'm looking at some specific things in his golf swing. 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.880 So because both Brooks and DJ want to fade the 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.400 golf ball and they have a lot of speed, we're 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.920 always looking at the takeaway and the down swing, and 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:43.439 both Brooks and DJ both struggle when the takeaway gets 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:48.200 a little bit too neutral. Going back sometimes with the wedges, 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.840 DJ can get it a little bit inside and then 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.880 as the club is coming down, the club gets a 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.440 little bit inside going that way. And for both the 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.440 guys at Brooks and DJ, because they both like to 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.760 fade the golf ball. 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A player 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.360 can only look at what the golf balls doing, but 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.640 they can't visually see themselves in other sports. Again, I 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.560 used football as an example. When players come off of 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.000 football fields, the offense goes with the offense, the defense 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.680 goes with the defense, and then the offensive or defensive coordinator, 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.680 the running back coach, whatever individual coach will come over 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:23.960 and say, Okay, this is what you're doing, this is 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.680 what was going on. They'll show them some plays. So 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.920 we don't have necessarily the availability to do that, but 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:33.680 I use a tremendous amount of video because both Brooks 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:38.720 and DJ, I would classify them as very much visual learners. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:43.200 They want to look at golf swings. DJ sometimes if 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.520 he's struggling or trying to work, if we're trying to 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:47.600 work on a backswing or work on a down swing, 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.440 I'll film one. I'll film it from the down the 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.440 line angle, and then i'll film it from face on 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.520 and I'll show it to him and he'll say, and 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.680 I always film one at slow motion and then one 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.920 at full speed. And so what DJ tends to do 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.440 is he'll look at the full speed one and he'll 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.600 just watch it over and over again. I'll watch it 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.840 like five times in a row. If it's if it's 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.200 from down the line, he's looking whatever he's looking at 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.320 his back swing is down swing, he'll say, hey, run 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.160 that at full speed, and he'll look at my phone 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.320 and we'll run it at full speed and he's like, okay, 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:19.200 let me, let me look at that in slow motion. 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.479 And then normally he'll kind of take my phone and 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.320 he'll kind of you jog the frames on where he 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:28.479 wants it. But he is a very very visual learner. 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.439 A lot of times, if we're working on things, I 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.080 will I've got an app on my phone to where 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.840 I can, you know, take still pictures and kind of 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.560 show positions side by side, And I do that a 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.159 lot of times. If we're working on trying to get 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.680 the golf club a little bit more in front, I'll 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.720 look at a swing where the golf club was a 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.199 little bit neutral, a little bit too much inside, and 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.040 I'll kind of put those two backswings side by side, 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.160 and then I'll kind of put the two down swing 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.360 side by side. And and DJ has this really kind 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.399 of uncanny way to kind of look at it and 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.480 go because where where there are other players want to 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.760 look at UM, they want to look at launch monitor numbers. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.879 There are coaches that want to see launch monitor numbers. 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.720 UM Brooks and DJ are just not those type of players. 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.160 UM doesn't make it right, it doesn't make it wrong. 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.520 There are guys that want a lot of information. UM 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.200 you know. I guess the best example I could use 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.960 would be, you know, Justin Rose and Sean Foley, and 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:26.080 I think you know falls and and Rosie, they they're 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:30.480 always looking at track men numbers. UM, Sean always looking 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.080 at numbers, because I think the way that Sean thinks 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.199 about the golf swing is, you know, you look at 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.440 the numbers. UM, that's the way his brain works. UM. 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:42.719 Some players aren't like that. My brain doesn't work like that. 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.440 I mean, it just doesn't. I'm not a math guy. 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.199 I'm not a science guy. UM. If I'm looking at 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.080 the numbers on a launch monitor, I'm looking at them 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:55.520 for one hundred percent something specific. I don't want to 0:18:55.560 --> 0:19:00.359 see every shot on a launch monitor because the launch 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:04.000 monitor is not really telling me what's happening. What's telling 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:07.080 me what's happening with the player is what my eyes 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.680 can see. And I think a lot of UM instructors 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:16.920 think that, you know, launch monitors, that's that's going to 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.160 be kind of the end all be all. I always say, 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.320 the computer and the monitor that you need is in 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:27.480 your eyes. So I'm looking at what the ball flights doing. 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:31.040 I'm and and specifically with Brooks and DJ I think 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:36.080 those two. We're looking a lot at start lines, how 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:38.760 they're starting the golf ball, where they're starting the golf ball, 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.280 and then the other thing going back to that second 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.120 pair of eyes. Um, I think one of my main 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:49.160 jobs is to kind of do kind of a hundred 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:53.040 and eighty kind of three sixty view of what the 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:55.439 player is doing. You know, walk around, look at the 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:57.680 ball position, and a lot of times I'll just say 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.360 to Brooks or DJ, hey just move the golf ball 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:02.679 half a ball more forward, move the golf ball half 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.320 a ball back. Hey, just your shoulders are a little shut. 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:09.679 I'm always looking at what I can see that the 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:13.280 player is doing before they hit the golf ball, because 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.920 to me, a lot of what happens with tour players 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.800 and competitive golfers, a lot of I wouldn't say the mistakes, 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.119 but a lot of where they get into trouble is 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:24.959 the way they're addressing the golf ball. And you know, 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.720 with the speed of specifically with guys like Brooks and DJ, 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.680 they've got so much speed that if the setup gets bad, 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.720 the alignment gets bad, the ball position gets bad, they 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:37.639 can start hitting the golf ball a long way offline 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:41.520 because there's just a slight you know, fault in how 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.800 they're setting up. So I'm always, especially early in the 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:47.280 year now that we're getting back to playing, now that 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:50.280 we're ramping up back into tournaments, I'm hyper focused on, 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:53.000 you know, the basics, all the stuff that isn't sexy 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:57.680 in modern teaching right now, ball position, grip stance, posture alignment. 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:01.040 That was kind of the mantra when my dad grew 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:02.560 up and when my dad was playing. You know, my 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:04.959 dad's you know, going to be eighty at the end 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:08.640 of this summer. You know, Grip stance, posture alignment. That's 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:10.240 what he grew up on. He didn't grow up on 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:12.479 launch monitors, he didn't grow up on three D. He 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:14.880 didn't grow up on all of the technology and all 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:17.919 of the things we know, and and so I'm always 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:19.679 trying to say, Okay, what can I look at and 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:21.440 what can I say? And I just will say to 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:25.200 you know, in an ideal world, my job at a 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:28.040 tour event would be not to say too much. I mean, 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:31.320 that would be a one hundred percent win for both 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:33.399 me and the player, because that would mean they're in 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:36.320 a pretty good position, right They're in a pretty good 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:38.520 place to where we're not going to have to make 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:43.320 a lot of changes, and in an ideal world, I 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.560 won't be making we won't be making a lot of changes, right, 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:49.199 We're not going to be making a lot of you know, 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:51.840 backswing changes. We're just trying to make some small little 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:54.760 tweaks knowing that they're on countdown. Right, it's Tuesday, so 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:57.120 that means whatever we were working on today, they've got 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:01.119 Wednesday and Thursday to try and embed implement that, and 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:02.879 then they've got to go play the game then the 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:06.920 test starts, right. So you know, like I said, DJ 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:11.040 hasn't been playing a lot of competitive golf. He really has. 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:13.280 This is going to be the first competitive tournament DJ's 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:17.320 played since Miami of last year, I think in October. 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:20.640 So you know, we don't have a lot of data 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:23.399 points on what he's been doing. Yes, we've watched him, 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:26.439 played hit balls in practice. Yes, I mean we played 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:31.080 golf all weekend. But what they're doing at home has 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:33.359 very little bearing on what they're going to do once 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:35.720 the tournament starts. Because you can be hitting a grade 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:38.840 at home and hit a terrible at a tournament. You 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:41.560 cannot be playing grade at a tournament or at a 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:46.000 in your practice and play good right. So a lot 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:48.879 of it is just basics, and the basics for DJ's 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:52.280 golf swing are pretty much the basics for Brooks's golf swing. 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:54.240 They like to fade it, keep the golf club in 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:56.000 front of them going back, get it back out in 0:22:56.040 --> 0:23:00.680 front of them coming down. DJ's got that unique head position. 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:02.800 One of the things that we were working on over 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:06.520 the weekend because DJ had a little tweak in his 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:08.480 back a couple of weeks ago, and I think he 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:10.920 just was a little bit kind of reticent to just 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:13.160 kind of get through it. So he was hanging back 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:15.280 a little so and as he was hanging back, his 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:18.639 head actually wasn't kind of rotating out towards the target 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:21.520 the way it normally does. But that was one of 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:23.679 the things I was saying, Listen, just make sure you 0:23:23.680 --> 0:23:26.480 get through it, don't hang too much back on your 0:23:26.840 --> 0:23:29.720 right side, and just get your weight forward. Brooks a 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:32.160 little bit of the same thing, a little slight alteration 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:36.000 to his ball position. The tendency with Brooks is to 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:38.040 get the golf ball too far back in his stance, 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:40.640 and again, as a fader of the golf ball, that's 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:42.840 the death move from him because then on the downswing 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:46.159 the path gets too neutral and he can't kind of 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:48.439 round the corner, get the get the club working and 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:52.159 exiting left. So this morning, a lot of what we 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:53.960 were doing with Brooks is just I was checking the 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:55.960 ball position and just saying, hey, make sure that ball 0:23:56.000 --> 0:23:58.200 position to get too far back. Every now and again 0:23:58.200 --> 0:23:59.840 it would creep and he would either hit one to 0:23:59.880 --> 0:24:02.760 the left or he'd hit one to the right. But 0:24:02.840 --> 0:24:06.600 if that ball position stays nice and forward, He's normally 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:08.600 in a good place because then he can feel like 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:11.920 the chest opens up, he feels like he can turn 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:14.440 through it, he feels like he can release the golf club, 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:17.520 and then he can just basically hit the shots that 0:24:17.600 --> 0:24:22.000 he wants. Pat Perez is the one hundred and eighty 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:25.439 degree opposite of that. Pat likes and wants to be 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:27.199 able to draw the golf ball. He wants to be 0:24:27.200 --> 0:24:29.359 able to start the golf ball to the right, he 0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:31.080 wants to be able to curve it back from right 0:24:31.119 --> 0:24:33.840 to left. So the things I'm working on with Brooks 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:36.840 and DJ are the opposites of what I'm working on 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:40.920 with Pat Perez. Pat's tendency, the takeaway gets a little 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:43.760 bit quick, gets a little bit fast, he can kind 0:24:43.760 --> 0:24:47.280 of have that little bit of outmove going back. The 0:24:47.359 --> 0:24:51.000 club then on the downswing gets really really quick in transition, 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:54.159 and he just can't shift that path right enough to 0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:57.640 start the golf ball in the direction that he wants to. So, 0:24:58.040 --> 0:25:00.439 in the same way that with Brooks and DJ Faders 0:25:00.440 --> 0:25:02.520 were trying to have them get the golf club and 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:04.800 keep the golf club very much in front of them, 0:25:04.840 --> 0:25:06.920 in Pat's case, we're trying to have the golf club 0:25:06.960 --> 0:25:10.359 work very much what he feels like is on the inside. 0:25:10.720 --> 0:25:15.320 Have that downswing work on the inside. You know, I 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:19.720 wouldn't say that's something that I teach on a regular basis. 0:25:19.920 --> 0:25:21.800 A lot of players that I work with, I think 0:25:21.840 --> 0:25:25.240 do that too much. The golf club gets two inside 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:28.399 going back, then they get kind of two inside coming down, 0:25:28.800 --> 0:25:30.800 the body gets a little bit slow, and then their 0:25:30.800 --> 0:25:34.160 hands get a little bit active. And it was something 0:25:34.160 --> 0:25:35.760 that we kind of keyed in on at the end 0:25:35.800 --> 0:25:40.080 of last season at the Miami event. I know that 0:25:39.720 --> 0:25:44.040 that Pat he sees a draw right, he sees the 0:25:44.040 --> 0:25:47.440 golf ball go right to left. We've had some success 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:50.520 with Pat in having him hit fades, but I know 0:25:50.880 --> 0:25:53.719 that kind of the holy grail for him as a player. 0:25:54.400 --> 0:25:58.440 His shot that he sees and wants to hit is draw. 0:25:58.680 --> 0:26:02.520 So the only way that he can feel that is 0:26:02.560 --> 0:26:07.119 for that backswing to feel like it's almost too much inside. 0:26:07.160 --> 0:26:09.720 And it's a fine line right now with me as 0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:13.040 his coach and as an instructor, because there are times 0:26:13.040 --> 0:26:16.080 where the golf club and my kind of the way 0:26:16.119 --> 0:26:18.440 I think and in my opinion, and I'm like, that's 0:26:18.480 --> 0:26:21.280 a little that's a little deep, and that's a little inside. 0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:25.119 But the way that Pat's bodywork, Pat doesn't have a 0:26:25.160 --> 0:26:28.679 lot of rotation. He had a hip injury from a 0:26:28.680 --> 0:26:32.520 car accident years ago on his left hip. So Pat 0:26:32.560 --> 0:26:34.840 has a lot of lateral move to his golf swing, 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:37.639 almost a lot of lateral slide to his golf swing. 0:26:37.960 --> 0:26:41.080 So again it's the complete one hundred and eighty degree 0:26:41.119 --> 0:26:45.040 opposite of guys like Brooks and DJ. They have speed, 0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:49.760 they can rotate. Pat doesn't have that. That's not part 0:26:49.760 --> 0:26:52.960 of his DNA. So my job as the coach is 0:26:53.119 --> 0:26:57.960 first and foremost I have to give the player confidence, 0:26:58.080 --> 0:26:59.760 right I feel like that is one of my main 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:05.400 jobs is to instill confid in the player. And Pat's 0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:10.520 confidence comes from being able to see the draw, being 0:27:10.560 --> 0:27:13.040 able to see the golf ball curve from right to left. 0:27:13.040 --> 0:27:15.560 So this morning we were working on really trying to 0:27:15.560 --> 0:27:18.679 have that golf club work what he feels like is inside, 0:27:19.000 --> 0:27:21.479 and then really trying to get him to feel like 0:27:21.560 --> 0:27:24.240 he starts that golf ball out to the right and 0:27:24.320 --> 0:27:27.040 when he does that, the first thing it does is 0:27:27.080 --> 0:27:29.800 he starts to see the shape that he wants to see, 0:27:29.800 --> 0:27:32.960 which is a draw. And my job as a coach 0:27:33.040 --> 0:27:37.359 is to listen to the player and I ask players, listen, 0:27:37.400 --> 0:27:39.520 what shapes do you want to hit? What shots do 0:27:39.560 --> 0:27:41.880 you want to hit? And then I feel like it's 0:27:41.920 --> 0:27:44.080 my job to say, Okay, the player wants to do 0:27:44.160 --> 0:27:47.560 this one can they do that? Do they have the 0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:51.320 physical ability to put the club in these positions? In 0:27:51.400 --> 0:27:53.600 Pat's case, when he gets the backswinging a little bit 0:27:53.640 --> 0:27:56.040 on the inside, he's able to turn the golf ball 0:27:56.080 --> 0:27:58.440 over and draw it. So that was the stuff we 0:27:58.480 --> 0:28:01.560 did on the range, not too long, and then the 0:28:01.600 --> 0:28:04.159 guys went to the golf course, so I did a 0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:08.560 lot of bouncing around. Um DJ and Pat play their 0:28:08.560 --> 0:28:12.280 practice rounds together. Brooks plays his practice rounds on Live 0:28:12.400 --> 0:28:19.679 with his team. So DJ and Brooks and they're different, right, 0:28:19.680 --> 0:28:22.280 They've got different teams. So Brooks plays with his team. 0:28:22.920 --> 0:28:24.719 Pat and DJ tend to play a lot of their 0:28:24.720 --> 0:28:27.879 practice rounds together. Um, Peter eu line has joined M 0:28:28.480 --> 0:28:32.840 Dustin's team this week or this year on the aces. So, um, Pete, 0:28:32.880 --> 0:28:34.840 your line was out with us today. So when we're 0:28:34.880 --> 0:28:37.399 out of the golf course. UM yeah, I mean again, 0:28:37.520 --> 0:28:40.320 I'm just checking basics, right, because I don't want to 0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:42.560 be working too much swing mechanics while they're on the 0:28:42.600 --> 0:28:46.080 golf course. I'm talking with the caddies. I'm saying, hey, listen, 0:28:46.120 --> 0:28:47.840 you know what what are you seeing? What do you 0:28:47.880 --> 0:28:49.880 like here? What do you think about the strategy here? 0:28:49.920 --> 0:28:52.240 Where do you think the miss should be here? So 0:28:53.160 --> 0:28:56.600 it's something that it's hard to explain, but UM, I 0:28:56.800 --> 0:29:01.360 love it. I love that kind of collaboration between myself 0:29:01.400 --> 0:29:05.840 and the player, between me and the caddy. UM. I 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:10.560 really value the practice rounds because it's an opportunity for 0:29:10.600 --> 0:29:13.200 all of us to get there. We're talking about strategy, 0:29:13.320 --> 0:29:15.680 We're talking about how they're going to play, what clubs 0:29:15.720 --> 0:29:17.240 are going to hit off the tier. They're hitting three 0:29:17.280 --> 0:29:20.640 woods for the hitting drivers. Um, I think it's fascinating 0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:22.600 to listen. I mean, I've been doing this, you know, 0:29:22.680 --> 0:29:24.920 pretty much the majority of my adult life, but it's 0:29:24.960 --> 0:29:28.760 always fascinating to listen to that interaction between the player 0:29:28.800 --> 0:29:32.720 and the caddy. I love listening to to AJ and DJ. 0:29:32.840 --> 0:29:36.800 I love listening to H and Pat. I think Ricky 0:29:36.840 --> 0:29:38.480 Elliott to me, is one of the best caddies in 0:29:38.520 --> 0:29:41.560 the world. The interaction between you know, him and Brooks 0:29:41.760 --> 0:29:43.560 and the way that they kind of go about it. 0:29:43.720 --> 0:29:47.240 Um And I think those the caddies as well, know 0:29:47.400 --> 0:29:50.200 their player, they know what type of information, how much 0:29:50.240 --> 0:29:54.520 information they want. So I just I enjoy the practice 0:29:54.600 --> 0:29:57.920 round so much because once the tournament starts as a 0:29:58.000 --> 0:30:01.200 coach as as as a golf coach, you know, being 0:30:01.280 --> 0:30:07.080 a professional golfer and coaching professional golfers. Once Thursday or 0:30:07.080 --> 0:30:12.240 Friday starts, once they get inside the ropes, they basically 0:30:12.280 --> 0:30:14.840 go to the moon. I can't say anything. They're on 0:30:14.840 --> 0:30:18.400 another planet. They're inside the ropes, and there's nothing that 0:30:18.520 --> 0:30:21.640 I can do as the instructors, as the coach to 0:30:21.800 --> 0:30:25.120 influence what they're doing. So if I see Brooks's ball 0:30:25.160 --> 0:30:27.200 positions start to creep too far back, if I see 0:30:27.320 --> 0:30:29.880 DJ's alignment get a little bit off, if I see 0:30:30.040 --> 0:30:32.000 Pats start to take the golf club a little bit 0:30:32.000 --> 0:30:34.959 too much on the outside once they're in a tournament, 0:30:35.360 --> 0:30:37.680 once from the time they tee off until the time 0:30:37.720 --> 0:30:40.400 they finish, I can't do anything about it. And I'll 0:30:40.400 --> 0:30:44.640 be honest with you, it is unbelievably frustrating when I 0:30:44.680 --> 0:30:47.840 watch team sports, when I watch college football and watch 0:30:48.120 --> 0:30:51.120 the adjustments guys like Nick Saban are able to make 0:30:52.680 --> 0:30:56.560 Kirby smart at Georgia, The changes they're able to make 0:30:56.600 --> 0:30:59.880 at halftime, the personnel that they're able to bring in 0:31:00.240 --> 0:31:02.440 the play calls, that they're able to learn from what 0:31:02.520 --> 0:31:05.200 happened in the first half. I don't get to do that. 0:31:05.360 --> 0:31:08.200 Once the player goes inside the ropes and they're playing 0:31:08.240 --> 0:31:11.640 a competitive round on tour, I'm not allowed to talk 0:31:11.680 --> 0:31:13.640 to them. I can't say anything to them. I can't 0:31:14.080 --> 0:31:18.000 do any hand gestures. I try and never really get 0:31:18.040 --> 0:31:21.800 anywhere close to where they are. I try and get 0:31:21.840 --> 0:31:23.800 ahead so I can see where the ball's finishing. But 0:31:24.200 --> 0:31:26.680 it's just a little thing that I've always done. I 0:31:26.760 --> 0:31:29.800 just don't want them to see me. I want them 0:31:29.840 --> 0:31:33.120 to kind of be in their world focusing on the 0:31:33.160 --> 0:31:36.240 things that they need to focus on, but it is frustrating. 0:31:36.320 --> 0:31:38.760 So that's why I think the practice rounds for me 0:31:38.800 --> 0:31:41.600 are are so important because I'm able to get inside 0:31:41.600 --> 0:31:43.760 the ropes. I'm able to look at the golf course. 0:31:43.800 --> 0:31:46.680 I'm able to look at the strategy, so that after 0:31:46.880 --> 0:31:50.560 the tournament rounds finish, were then able to kind of 0:31:50.600 --> 0:31:53.920 look at what they're doing where they were hitting shots. 0:31:54.080 --> 0:31:56.640 Because I've been out on the golf course, I kind 0:31:56.640 --> 0:32:01.000 of know where everything is. Take a moment to thank 0:32:01.120 --> 0:32:04.120 for Wellness for supporting the show. You guys hear me 0:32:04.160 --> 0:32:06.200 talk about them every week, and the reason I do 0:32:06.240 --> 0:32:08.760 that is because I drink their coffee every week. 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So um, on Live, we got in Monday, 0:33:26.880 --> 0:33:30.080 we're Tuesday Wednesday, so we'll do nine holes again tomorrow, 0:33:30.520 --> 0:33:34.440 ProAm on Thursday, and then the tournament starts. But as 0:33:34.440 --> 0:33:37.560 I said earlier, in an ideal world, UM, I'm not 0:33:37.680 --> 0:33:41.920 saying a lot um I'm not having them work on 0:33:41.960 --> 0:33:44.640 a lot of technical stuff. Now, there are weeks where 0:33:44.720 --> 0:33:47.200 the players aren't playing good and you have to get 0:33:47.200 --> 0:33:50.600 in there and and and work and and try and 0:33:50.640 --> 0:33:54.280 fix things. Um. But I always remembers years ago, probably 0:33:54.600 --> 0:33:58.560 six seven, eight years ago. I think we're in Washington, 0:33:58.640 --> 0:34:01.280 DC at congressional for the for the Old at and 0:34:01.360 --> 0:34:04.719 T and I was talking to Sean about, you know, 0:34:04.760 --> 0:34:06.920 our job and stuff like that, and it was interesting 0:34:06.920 --> 0:34:09.080 that Full said, you know, I kind of feel like 0:34:09.120 --> 0:34:13.520 we're we're we're doctors, and you know, the PGA Tour 0:34:13.640 --> 0:34:16.480 is kind of the battlefield, right. Yes, I know it's 0:34:16.520 --> 0:34:18.840 not a real battle field, and I'm not trying to 0:34:18.880 --> 0:34:21.680 make the analogy that golfers are any more important than 0:34:21.719 --> 0:34:25.120 they are, but it's the field of play. And he's like, listen, 0:34:25.120 --> 0:34:27.480 there's once the tournaments kind of start, and once we 0:34:27.480 --> 0:34:29.200 get here, it's a little bit like we're just doing 0:34:29.239 --> 0:34:32.400 triage because we can't really do a lot of open 0:34:32.440 --> 0:34:36.440 heart surgery while they're you know, in battle right, and 0:34:36.440 --> 0:34:40.360 and and it's it's it's important to realize that once 0:34:40.719 --> 0:34:45.120 we get to tournament weeks, because the weeks are what 0:34:45.160 --> 0:34:47.560 they are. You know, when the tournament's going to start, 0:34:48.600 --> 0:34:51.440 you don't have the availability to take the car and 0:34:51.480 --> 0:34:55.120 pull it apart and rebuild the engine because the player 0:34:55.200 --> 0:34:58.200 has to play. And that's something that's taken me a 0:34:58.239 --> 0:35:01.560 lot long time to learn, and I've learned by you know, 0:35:01.600 --> 0:35:03.920 making a tremendous amount of mistakes, right, you know, you'd 0:35:04.000 --> 0:35:06.880 make mistakes where I think early in my career I was. 0:35:07.200 --> 0:35:10.920 I was way more hands on, way more information, And 0:35:11.440 --> 0:35:14.160 now in an ideal world, I try and do as 0:35:14.280 --> 0:35:18.360 much of the hard work, the technical work, the drill 0:35:18.400 --> 0:35:21.719 work when we're home and when we're in off week, 0:35:21.800 --> 0:35:23.920 so that when we get to tournaments, we're not really 0:35:23.960 --> 0:35:30.200 doing a lot of technical mechanical work because I don't 0:35:30.239 --> 0:35:32.839 want the players in that headspace. I want them to 0:35:32.960 --> 0:35:37.160 be in the play headspace, you know. So I love 0:35:37.200 --> 0:35:39.040 the fact that I work with players that hit the 0:35:39.040 --> 0:35:42.160 golf ball different directions. I don't believe that there's one 0:35:42.200 --> 0:35:44.919 way to swing the golf club. I don't believe that 0:35:45.480 --> 0:35:48.600 I don't have a system, right, I don't have every 0:35:48.600 --> 0:35:51.680 player I work with doing the same thing. I have 0:35:52.160 --> 0:35:55.040 things in the golf swing that I believe in. I 0:35:55.200 --> 0:35:58.439 have a philosophy in my own head of things that 0:35:58.880 --> 0:36:03.520 I think make players hit shots better. But I don't 0:36:03.600 --> 0:36:09.160 have a specific formula system. So in that respect, Um, 0:36:09.760 --> 0:36:12.799 I like it that all the players are different to me. Um, 0:36:13.080 --> 0:36:15.760 you know, DJ is different from Brooks, Brooks is different 0:36:15.760 --> 0:36:20.120 from Pat m They're in different ages, they're different stages 0:36:20.160 --> 0:36:24.520 of their career. They've all got different skill sets. You know, 0:36:24.640 --> 0:36:31.279 DJ's a freak athlete and you know, unbelievably flexible, tremendous 0:36:31.280 --> 0:36:36.719 amount of flexibility. Brooks has had some pretty significant catastrophic injuries, 0:36:37.680 --> 0:36:40.759 and you know, we're constantly working around them. Pat is 0:36:40.760 --> 0:36:43.920 in his mid to late forties. His body isn't what 0:36:44.280 --> 0:36:46.320 it once was, but Pat still has a lot of speed. 0:36:46.880 --> 0:36:50.600 But I'm working with all of these players as individuals 0:36:50.600 --> 0:36:53.440 and trying to take what they do and you learn 0:36:54.360 --> 0:36:56.960 your delivery, kind of like being a stand up comedian. 0:36:57.000 --> 0:36:58.759 It's a little bit like what the you know, what 0:36:58.880 --> 0:37:02.240 kind of crowd is it tonight? You're playing to your audience. 0:37:02.280 --> 0:37:05.719 And so I'm working with Pat differently than I'm working 0:37:05.719 --> 0:37:08.120 with Brooks, and I'm working with Brooks differently than I'm 0:37:08.120 --> 0:37:11.360 working with DJ. And I think for me, that's one 0:37:11.400 --> 0:37:13.879 of the things that I really really like about what 0:37:13.920 --> 0:37:16.760 I do. So, yeah, we got to see the golf course. 0:37:16.800 --> 0:37:19.879 We're talking about strategy, we're talking about what you want, 0:37:19.960 --> 0:37:22.520 what shots you want to hit. You know, A lot 0:37:22.520 --> 0:37:25.279 of it is is a lot of me being you know, 0:37:25.320 --> 0:37:28.400 super super positive. M That's one of the things that 0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:30.520 that I try and do. You know, I learned from 0:37:30.520 --> 0:37:31.840 my dad that I try and be as much of 0:37:31.880 --> 0:37:34.359 a cheerleader as I can. Even if the player hits 0:37:34.400 --> 0:37:36.439 a bad shot, I'll say, you know, listen, that wasn't 0:37:36.440 --> 0:37:37.960 that bad. We just need to get the golf club 0:37:38.000 --> 0:37:40.000 a little bit more here, because the last thing you 0:37:40.040 --> 0:37:41.960 want to be doing is putting a lot of doubt 0:37:42.080 --> 0:37:45.279 in in the players that you work with in their head. 0:37:45.400 --> 0:37:49.680 So we got good practice rounds in today, went back 0:37:49.680 --> 0:37:54.320 to the range afterwards, didn't do a ton of stuff. 0:37:55.239 --> 0:37:57.960 Brooks always likes to go to the range and really 0:37:57.960 --> 0:38:00.799 just kind of wind down. He does that in practice rounds, 0:38:00.840 --> 0:38:03.560 and he does that in tournament rounds. He likes to 0:38:03.600 --> 0:38:06.759 go from the golf course, maybe get some lunch, but 0:38:06.840 --> 0:38:09.920 go back to the range. DJ doesn't really do a 0:38:09.920 --> 0:38:14.839 lot of practicing after tournament rounds right or after practice rounds. 0:38:14.880 --> 0:38:16.399 Every now and again, we'll go back to the range. 0:38:16.440 --> 0:38:19.360 But he's just like, yeah, I mean I felt go 0:38:19.480 --> 0:38:21.480 down the course today, I know what I need to do. 0:38:21.560 --> 0:38:26.040 We'll get back at it tomorrow. And so that's very different. 0:38:26.120 --> 0:38:29.000 And you know, everybody kind of has their own way 0:38:29.000 --> 0:38:31.879 of practicing, and so a lot of my job people 0:38:31.920 --> 0:38:34.919 ask me, you know, describe what your job is. It's 0:38:34.920 --> 0:38:37.960 as much managing people as it is, you know, teaching golf. 0:38:38.640 --> 0:38:43.600 And let's be honest, right, I'm not actively teaching Dustin Johnson, 0:38:43.760 --> 0:38:47.680 Brooks Kepka and Pat Perez anything. Right, these goes were 0:38:47.760 --> 0:38:52.040 great players a long time before they met me. Right, 0:38:53.520 --> 0:38:56.520 I'm not teaching them anything. I think a lot of 0:38:56.560 --> 0:39:01.000 what I'm doing out here onto his coach. Right, we 0:39:01.160 --> 0:39:05.200 know what they do when they play their best. They're 0:39:05.200 --> 0:39:09.840 the athlete. I'm the coach. I'm I'm not hitting any shots, soum. 0:39:10.600 --> 0:39:13.319 They're great players, and a lot of what I'm trying 0:39:13.360 --> 0:39:15.600 to do is listen. We know you perform your best 0:39:15.640 --> 0:39:18.400 when you do these things. We kind of have a recipe, 0:39:18.920 --> 0:39:21.640 a blueprint, and we've got a lot of data points. Right. 0:39:21.680 --> 0:39:25.080 That's the great thing about you know, working with competitive 0:39:25.080 --> 0:39:27.160 golfers is you know, I've been working with DJ since 0:39:27.200 --> 0:39:32.160 about I guess around two twelve twenty thirteen. I worked 0:39:32.160 --> 0:39:35.480 with Brooks for eight years, took a little you know, 0:39:35.520 --> 0:39:38.719 took to your break and we got back together kind of, 0:39:38.840 --> 0:39:42.080 you know, summer of last year. I know what makes 0:39:42.160 --> 0:39:45.239 DJ his best, right. I know what DJ does when 0:39:45.280 --> 0:39:47.200 he's the number one player in the world, when he's 0:39:47.239 --> 0:39:51.600 winning majors, when he's winning tournaments. I know what Brooks 0:39:51.640 --> 0:39:56.040 does when he plays his best. And in terms with Pat, 0:39:56.080 --> 0:39:58.760 I think a lot of my job is to try 0:39:58.800 --> 0:40:02.799 and may Pat as confident as a player as he can, 0:40:02.880 --> 0:40:06.600 because Pat can get negative, he can beat himself up. 0:40:06.640 --> 0:40:09.880 He can I think at times he can almost self 0:40:09.920 --> 0:40:13.120 sabotage himself by the mental attitude that he has. So 0:40:13.640 --> 0:40:17.319 I think I'm trying to do much more of a 0:40:17.320 --> 0:40:21.200 coaching role with patum probably than any of the players 0:40:21.200 --> 0:40:24.640 I work with, because you know, it's my job to 0:40:24.719 --> 0:40:26.920 keep him up. It's my job to keep him positive. 0:40:26.960 --> 0:40:30.840 It's my job to think get him thinking that he's 0:40:30.880 --> 0:40:34.440 playing good and that good golf is around the corner. 0:40:35.400 --> 0:40:37.160 And then lastly, I think a huge part of my 0:40:37.280 --> 0:40:40.000 job is after after everybody finished today, I went in 0:40:40.400 --> 0:40:44.200 with Brooks Keepka's physio Mark Wall, who, in my opinion, 0:40:46.440 --> 0:40:50.600 he is the most valuable person on Brooks's team. When 0:40:50.600 --> 0:40:54.320 Brooks first turn pro and he got his PGA Tour cardum, 0:40:54.400 --> 0:40:56.000 I said to him, I said, you need to hire 0:40:56.080 --> 0:40:59.160 Mark Wall. Mark Wall was you know, he worked with 0:40:59.239 --> 0:41:03.720 Jimmy Walker, worked with JB. Holmes, he worked with Steve Stricker. 0:41:04.280 --> 0:41:09.000 He's almost like a savant when it comes to biomechanics, 0:41:09.000 --> 0:41:12.839 what the body is doing, and probably someone who I 0:41:12.920 --> 0:41:18.360 trust as much as anybody. So during the offseason, Brooks 0:41:18.440 --> 0:41:22.239 came in and Mark came down and they basically did 0:41:22.360 --> 0:41:31.000 a total diagnostic of Brooks's body, his food intake, what 0:41:31.080 --> 0:41:33.279 he's allergic to, what foods are good from him, what 0:41:33.320 --> 0:41:36.600 foods aren't good for him. They did a complete three 0:41:36.640 --> 0:41:38.759 D screen of what his golf swing was doing. And 0:41:38.800 --> 0:41:41.319 so I sat for almost two hours with Mark Wall 0:41:41.400 --> 0:41:44.120 today and Mark kind of ran me through everything that's 0:41:44.160 --> 0:41:48.879 going on with Brooks physically, where the limitations are, what 0:41:48.920 --> 0:41:52.680 the issues are. He's constantly Marcus and listen, what are 0:41:52.719 --> 0:41:54.920 you What are you seeing in his golf swing? What 0:41:54.960 --> 0:41:56.839 are you trying to do in his golf swing? And 0:41:56.960 --> 0:41:59.640 based off of that, I'm looking at what Mark, as 0:41:59.680 --> 0:42:02.520 the guy that's in charge of Brooks's body. Listen, what 0:42:02.760 --> 0:42:05.040 is his body able to do? What is his body 0:42:05.080 --> 0:42:07.600 able not to do? And then based off of that, 0:42:08.080 --> 0:42:10.680 I'm trying to look at what I'm doing and hopefully 0:42:10.760 --> 0:42:12.759 we're on the same page. But I think it was 0:42:12.800 --> 0:42:15.600 really important in the offseason, given some of the injuries 0:42:15.600 --> 0:42:17.759 that Brooks has had in the last couple of years, 0:42:17.760 --> 0:42:21.759 to kind of get that big diagnostic look. It was 0:42:21.800 --> 0:42:25.400 a pretty lengthy report. I think Mark does a fantastic 0:42:25.480 --> 0:42:29.120 job and making things really really easy for me to understand. 0:42:29.560 --> 0:42:33.440 But I don't think that that the fans realize what 0:42:33.520 --> 0:42:37.000 a collaborative effort all of this is. And yeah, there's 0:42:37.920 --> 0:42:44.319 there's the jackass instructor, the jackass reporters and journalists that say, 0:42:44.360 --> 0:42:46.720 you know, I'm tired of these players talking about their team. 0:42:46.760 --> 0:42:49.880 It's an individual sport. You know, enough with the team, 0:42:50.000 --> 0:42:54.040 go play and stuff. But the modern athlete has a 0:42:54.080 --> 0:42:56.760 team of people around them, and you know, I am 0:42:56.800 --> 0:42:59.799 a huge part of that team, but there are so 0:43:00.040 --> 0:43:01.880 many other people that are part of that team. And 0:43:01.920 --> 0:43:04.759 what we're trying to do is get everybody on the 0:43:04.800 --> 0:43:08.400 same page. Brooks has a big team, DJ has a 0:43:08.400 --> 0:43:11.600 big team. Pat doesn't necessarily have a huge team. So 0:43:11.680 --> 0:43:14.200 I think in my role with Pat, he almost kind 0:43:14.200 --> 0:43:16.319 of looks at me like a head coach that I'm 0:43:16.360 --> 0:43:20.160 the head coach of his team, and he looks to 0:43:20.400 --> 0:43:23.719 me for a lot of things like that. Brooks and 0:43:23.800 --> 0:43:27.319 DJ maybe not so much. You know, Brooks has a 0:43:27.320 --> 0:43:30.960 putting instructor, he has a short game instructor, he has 0:43:31.000 --> 0:43:35.040 a trainer, He has Mark Wall as his physio. So 0:43:35.400 --> 0:43:37.719 I mean, we've got five six guys on Brooks's team. 0:43:37.760 --> 0:43:41.560 DJ's got Joey Ds his trainer, He's got a physio, 0:43:42.040 --> 0:43:44.200 and then I'm in charge of the golf part of it. 0:43:44.200 --> 0:43:46.319 And then he's got Ajs his cato, And that's a 0:43:46.360 --> 0:43:49.319 lot of people, and it's a collaborative effort, and a 0:43:49.360 --> 0:43:51.839 lot of my job is to sit and meet with 0:43:51.920 --> 0:43:54.279 all of these people on the team and try and 0:43:54.360 --> 0:43:56.560 get kind of as much of a three hundred, you know, 0:43:56.880 --> 0:43:59.799 kind of a thirty eight thousand foot overview of what 0:44:00.239 --> 0:44:03.120 everybody's doing, and then what I can do from a 0:44:03.160 --> 0:44:06.240 golf standpoint, and going back to you know, Brooks's physio, 0:44:06.400 --> 0:44:09.440 Mark Wall. There are weeks where Mark will say, hey, listen, 0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:11.960 Brooks's body isn't moving great this week, So we got 0:44:11.960 --> 0:44:14.200 to limit how many balls we hit. Let's try and 0:44:14.239 --> 0:44:17.719 get quantity out of the window and let's get or 0:44:18.320 --> 0:44:21.440 let's get quality and not get a ton of reps. 0:44:21.480 --> 0:44:23.880 The reps that we're going to get. Let's get a 0:44:23.880 --> 0:44:26.439 lot out of these reps, because his body just isn't 0:44:26.480 --> 0:44:28.600 in a place right now to stand there and hit 0:44:28.600 --> 0:44:32.720 a ton of golf balls. So that's kind of what 0:44:32.880 --> 0:44:35.680 a normal day is like for me. Obviously, the bigger 0:44:35.719 --> 0:44:40.600 the tournament, things change. I mean Majors, it's different. Players 0:44:40.640 --> 0:44:43.160 are very very different at majors than they are at 0:44:43.239 --> 0:44:46.200 regular tour events. I mean, you can just tell they 0:44:46.320 --> 0:44:51.040 understand what the stakes are, they understand the task at head, 0:44:51.120 --> 0:44:55.400 they understand the holy grail is winning majors, right, I mean, 0:44:55.440 --> 0:44:58.600 that's what every tour player wants to win. So when 0:44:58.600 --> 0:45:03.480 they're at major's they're very different. They're a little bit 0:45:03.600 --> 0:45:09.200 on edge. I wouldn't say that they're panicking, but they're 0:45:09.239 --> 0:45:11.960 more on edge at at at majors than they aren't 0:45:11.960 --> 0:45:17.560 regular tour events. But yeah, that's kind of what I do. 0:45:17.760 --> 0:45:20.960 We'll do the same thing tomorrow and kind of go 0:45:21.040 --> 0:45:23.879 through that that kind of same kind of routine. We'll 0:45:23.960 --> 0:45:25.560 work a little bit on the range, we'll get out 0:45:25.560 --> 0:45:28.839 on the golf course, maybe hit some balls after. But 0:45:29.080 --> 0:45:32.400 it's a lot of that's a lot of me just 0:45:32.520 --> 0:45:35.279 kind of looking at what they're doing and being that 0:45:35.360 --> 0:45:38.200 second pair of eyes, being that coach and say, listen, 0:45:38.200 --> 0:45:40.359 we know what you do when you play your best. 0:45:40.400 --> 0:45:43.400 If we can get the golf club and these positions, 0:45:43.400 --> 0:45:45.480 if your body can move it in this way, then 0:45:45.600 --> 0:45:47.960 you can go to the golf course and just play golf. 0:45:48.000 --> 0:45:53.200 And ultimately, that's my job is to send tour players 0:45:53.480 --> 0:45:56.480 as as a tour coach, it's my job to get 0:45:56.480 --> 0:45:59.120 them ready to play tournaments. And I don't really think 0:45:59.160 --> 0:46:02.680 I'm doing anything different than you know, Cameron McCormick's doing. 0:46:02.840 --> 0:46:06.640 We might with Jordan Spieth. Kim works with Jordan Spieth, 0:46:07.000 --> 0:46:10.759 has worked with Daniel Bergery, just started work with Tom Kim. 0:46:10.760 --> 0:46:12.319 You know, I spend a lot of time with the 0:46:12.320 --> 0:46:15.560 other coaches. We talk about what the players are doing. 0:46:15.880 --> 0:46:22.720 I'm not someone that is afraid to talk to other coaches. 0:46:22.760 --> 0:46:25.200 A lot of times I'll say to the coaches that 0:46:25.760 --> 0:46:29.000 whose opinions I trust and believe in, I'll say, hey, 0:46:29.120 --> 0:46:30.560 what do you think about this, What do you think 0:46:30.600 --> 0:46:34.239 about this move? What do you think about this problem? 0:46:34.680 --> 0:46:37.320 And try and take some information from the other players. 0:46:37.520 --> 0:46:40.600 I'm so lucky in being able to work on tour, 0:46:40.719 --> 0:46:45.000 to have the availability to have access to what I 0:46:45.040 --> 0:46:47.520 believe are some of the best coaches in the world, 0:46:48.560 --> 0:46:50.560 to be able to pick their brains, to talk to 0:46:50.719 --> 0:46:53.399 them about what they're working on with players, to say, hey, 0:46:53.400 --> 0:46:55.160 what are you guys going to do on seven? What 0:46:55.239 --> 0:46:56.759 are you guys going to do on nine? What do 0:46:56.840 --> 0:46:58.480 you are you guys hitting driver on this while you 0:46:58.520 --> 0:47:01.880 guys hitting three wood? Where do you see the miss 0:47:01.920 --> 0:47:07.799 on this whole? So it's a constant I guess it's 0:47:07.800 --> 0:47:11.600 a constant quest for information. For me, it's a constant 0:47:11.680 --> 0:47:16.160 quest for knowledge to try and figure out all of 0:47:16.160 --> 0:47:19.799 this stuff that that makes golfers this giant puzzle. We're 0:47:19.800 --> 0:47:24.560 trying to put these puzzle pieces in. Listen, I'm not 0:47:24.600 --> 0:47:28.520 digging ditches. I have an unbelievable job. I'm incredibly lucky. 0:47:28.560 --> 0:47:32.080 It's long hours, it's a lot of standing outside, and 0:47:32.920 --> 0:47:35.520 I've got a horrendous golf tan because I'm outside all 0:47:35.520 --> 0:47:39.360 the time. But you know, I consider myself so unbelievably 0:47:39.440 --> 0:47:42.080 lucky that, you know, some of the best players in 0:47:42.120 --> 0:47:45.600 the world would entrust me to help them with their 0:47:45.640 --> 0:47:50.160 golf and I never never take that lightly. It means 0:47:50.160 --> 0:47:54.440 something to me, and I really feel like I'm incredibly 0:47:54.520 --> 0:47:58.600 lucky to get to do what I do and I'm 0:47:58.600 --> 0:48:01.879 excited for the year when you see these guys play well, 0:48:02.440 --> 0:48:05.080 trust me, there's a lot of stuff that goes into that. 0:48:05.120 --> 0:48:07.480 There are a lot of people working behind the scenes, 0:48:08.400 --> 0:48:11.359 and you know, I'm I'm very, very thankful and very 0:48:11.440 --> 0:48:14.040 lucky to be a part of that. So that's kind 0:48:14.080 --> 0:48:17.640 of a day in the life of of what I 0:48:17.760 --> 0:48:22.880 do on the on tour, and you know, I love it. 0:48:22.880 --> 0:48:24.839 It's a huge part of my life and you know, 0:48:24.880 --> 0:48:32.840 I'm excited to continue to do it. So a lot 0:48:32.880 --> 0:48:38.919 of stuff happening in golf. Last week, finally John Ram 0:48:38.960 --> 0:48:43.880 gets to number one in the world. It makes absolutely 0:48:43.880 --> 0:48:45.800 no sense to me if you look at the record 0:48:46.280 --> 0:48:49.400 that John Ram has had in the last three to 0:48:49.480 --> 0:48:53.160 four months, that it's taken this many wins for him 0:48:53.160 --> 0:48:54.680 to get to number one in the world. And I 0:48:54.719 --> 0:48:57.000 think John's talked about it. I think a lot of 0:48:57.000 --> 0:48:59.680 people are talking about it. I think there's gotta be 0:49:00.480 --> 0:49:04.359 a different way to start ranking players that are playing 0:49:04.360 --> 0:49:08.239 competitive golf because John rom has been the number one 0:49:08.320 --> 0:49:12.319 ranked player in the world for a long time. And um, 0:49:12.600 --> 0:49:14.680 you know, we saw Tiger Woods come back last week. 0:49:15.160 --> 0:49:17.319 UM yeah, I mean it was good to see Tiger back. 0:49:17.360 --> 0:49:20.560 I mean Tiger, he's the goat. Um, he's the needle, 0:49:21.120 --> 0:49:23.359 and you know, it was good to see him back. Um, 0:49:24.239 --> 0:49:26.400 and we saw some good golf from Tiger. So I 0:49:26.440 --> 0:49:28.600 don't know if we'll be able to see Tiger a 0:49:28.640 --> 0:49:30.920 lot because I don't know, you know, how much his 0:49:31.000 --> 0:49:35.800 body can hold up. I know some of the guys 0:49:35.840 --> 0:49:38.840 that work with Tiger behind the scenes on you know, 0:49:38.960 --> 0:49:42.280 his his goal and his body and it takes a village. 0:49:42.280 --> 0:49:45.520 And it was nice to hear Tiger say, you know 0:49:45.719 --> 0:49:48.440 last week, I want to thank my team for getting 0:49:48.480 --> 0:49:52.719 me ready. UM. I don't think anybody has any concept 0:49:52.800 --> 0:49:54.760 of all of the things that it takes for Tiger 0:49:54.760 --> 0:49:58.319 Woods play golf in twenty twenty three. M it's not 0:49:58.440 --> 0:50:01.680 band aids that he's able to put on the physical 0:50:01.719 --> 0:50:04.319 issues that he's got. It takes an enormous amount of 0:50:04.320 --> 0:50:09.080 work from um, some incredibly talented and smart people that 0:50:09.120 --> 0:50:13.719 are helping him. And yeah, it was fun to see him. Um, 0:50:13.800 --> 0:50:17.040 it was good to see Max Homer. He's it's been 0:50:17.080 --> 0:50:20.800 fun to watch Max kind of become one, in my opinion, 0:50:20.840 --> 0:50:24.200 one of the best players in the world. He's such 0:50:24.239 --> 0:50:27.399 a likable character, loves golf swinging. I think the work 0:50:27.719 --> 0:50:32.800 in his instructor, Mark Blackburn have done has really started 0:50:32.800 --> 0:50:34.360 to pay off and has really turned him into one 0:50:34.360 --> 0:50:36.920 of the best players in the world. But an iconic 0:50:36.960 --> 0:50:40.360 golf course, Riviera always great to see that golf course. 0:50:40.640 --> 0:50:44.920 I think it's one of the gems of of of 0:50:45.000 --> 0:50:47.800 golf courses in the United States. It's it's great design, 0:50:49.040 --> 0:50:51.880 it's in a great part of the world. And um yeah, 0:50:51.920 --> 0:50:55.000 I mean the golf season in full flow. I'm excited 0:50:55.120 --> 0:50:57.160 for Live to get back up and running. If you're 0:50:57.200 --> 0:51:01.080 not a Live fan, I'm okay with that. Um it's okay. 0:51:01.200 --> 0:51:02.560 I mean, if it's not for you, if you don't 0:51:02.560 --> 0:51:06.040 like the product for whatever reason, that's cool. Um I'm 0:51:06.080 --> 0:51:08.719 not a country music fan. I don't listen to country music. 0:51:09.719 --> 0:51:12.359 Doesn't mean the country music is bad. It's just not 0:51:12.400 --> 0:51:15.960 my jam. It's not my thing. And if Live isn't 0:51:16.000 --> 0:51:19.640 your thing, that's okay too, but I'm excited. Um, I 0:51:19.640 --> 0:51:22.680 think we're going to see some good golf. And twenty 0:51:22.719 --> 0:51:26.360 twenty three is, you know, for me, is finally getting 0:51:26.520 --> 0:51:31.680 up and running. Can't thank everybody enough for listening. If 0:51:31.680 --> 0:51:35.080 you're new, if if you're new to the podcasts, we've 0:51:35.080 --> 0:51:37.640 got a bunch of great episodes, We've got a bunch 0:51:37.640 --> 0:51:40.359 of great guests, and if you're a regular listener, thank 0:51:40.400 --> 0:51:43.520 you so much. Um. We're going to keep trying to 0:51:43.560 --> 0:51:46.560 get as much information as possible. I'm doing some of 0:51:46.560 --> 0:51:49.160 these solo pots because the feedback has been pretty good. People. 0:51:49.719 --> 0:51:52.360 You know, my job is a teach golf for a living, 0:51:52.400 --> 0:51:54.840 and I think everybody listening wants to improve their golf. 0:51:55.200 --> 0:51:58.360 And if I can help and tell my story and 0:51:58.719 --> 0:52:03.040 give my experiences and the information that that I use, 0:52:03.960 --> 0:52:08.200 hopefully that's helping players. And that's been the feedback. We 0:52:08.200 --> 0:52:10.439 will I promise we'll get back to the guests soon. 0:52:10.680 --> 0:52:15.520 But everybody had to suffer with another H three podcast 0:52:15.680 --> 0:52:19.439 this week. Looking forward to seeing you next week. Son 0:52:19.480 --> 0:52:23.040 of a Bush comes to you every Wednesday. Thanks for listening.