1 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: It's the Son of a Butcher podcast. We come to 2 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 1: you every Wednesday. This week and an interesting experience last week. 3 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 1: But I think a lot of people think that the 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: only thing that I do is just work with tour 5 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: players players trying to play professionally and stuff. But I 6 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 1: do spend an enormous amount of time just giving golf 7 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: lessons to regular people. I was over in the UK 8 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: for a wedding and spent some time with my in 9 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: laws and my father. My father in law Mike McCleary, 10 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: big golfer, seventy five years old. He's had some he's 11 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:47,279 Speaker 1: had some health issues. He's two knee replacements, open heart surgery, 12 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: he's been diagnosed with some early stages of Parkinson's, so 13 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: he's got a little bit of a tremor. But you 14 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: won't find someone that likes golf more than Mike does. 15 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,319 Speaker 1: And he watches golf, and he used to be very 16 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: good player in his mid seventies. Now obviously his body 17 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: isn't allowing him to do the things that he wants 18 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: to do from a golf standpoint, But and he doesn't 19 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 1: get to play nearly as much golf as he'd like to. 20 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: He certainly doesn't get to practice as much as he'd 21 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: like to. But we had some really good weather. We 22 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: went to his club, the Wellow Golf Club, which kind 23 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: of just a little bit outside of Southampton, and it 24 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: was a really really nice day. It's good to see 25 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: him get out on the golf course, but no warm up, 26 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: We didn't go to the driving range. We just went 27 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 1: straight to the golf course and he played nine holes 28 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: and so I kind of rode around with him, and 29 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: it was just it was a really interesting day in 30 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: that I think Mike is he is. He is the 31 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: average golfer, right, he is the epitome of the average golfer. 32 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: He's just used to be a good player. Handicap isn't 33 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: what it used to be. Handicap probably certainly isn't what 34 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: he wants his handicap to be. But we went on 35 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: on the golf course and listen, there are a lot 36 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: of things that we could do with Mike's golf swing, 37 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: from a grip standpoint, from a club face standpoint, from 38 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: a path standpoint. So there are a lot of technical 39 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: things that we could do with his golf swing. And 40 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 1: occasionally when I do get to spend time with him, 41 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,399 Speaker 1: we work on some technical stuff, but I spent nine 42 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,119 Speaker 1: holes riding around with him. Has to take a cart 43 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: now because you know, with the double knee replacement, walking 44 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: nine holes, he just can't do it. He tends, like 45 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: a lot of people listening to this podcast, he tends 46 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 1: to slice the golf ball. The ball moves from left 47 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: to right, and I would say compression is as much 48 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: an issue as the direction the golf ball is going, 49 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: So the quality of the contact, the quality of the 50 00:02:55,360 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: strike for him is as important and one of the 51 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 1: reasons why he hits good shots and one of the 52 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: reasons why he hits poor shots. But from a real 53 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 1: world standpoint, I watched him hit every shot for nine holes. 54 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: I didn't say anything about his golf swing. And the 55 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 1: reason I didn't say anything about his golf swing is, listen, 56 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: he doesn't get a chance to practice that much, and 57 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 1: we were actually out on the golf course and he 58 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: was actually playing golf. So I kind of make a 59 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: big distinction between practicing golf and playing golf, and I 60 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: think that's something that everyone listening should really do as well. 61 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: There is practicing golf and then there is playing golf. 62 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: And it's a theme that that I stay on on 63 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: the pod. But I think most people focus all their 64 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: time on practicing golf and never really focus anytime on 65 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: playing golf. So I got to go out play nine 66 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: holes with my father. The golf course was in really 67 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: good shape. The greens weren't super super fast. It's fairly flat, 68 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: but if you did hit it off the fairway, the 69 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: rough was quite it was quite peenals, quite thick. It 70 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: was very very hot, which is rare in the UK, 71 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: but I mean it was in the nineties. The golf 72 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 1: course was firm, the golf course was fast, and the 73 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: golf course was a little bit bouncy. But after we 74 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 1: played nine holes, I think Mike was really very surprised 75 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: that we didn't talk about as golf swing and where 76 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 1: I feel like when I go out with players and 77 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: I watched them play golf on the golf course, I 78 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 1: think that's from an instruction standpoint, I think that's where 79 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: you can make so many changes in so many gains. 80 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 1: So we got to the first hole. Mike had a 81 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 1: really nice drive right down, pretty much right down in 82 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: the middle of the fairway, didn't hit a great shot 83 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: on the next one, ball came up just short of 84 00:04:53,400 --> 00:05:00,799 Speaker 1: the Green ended up making five right next hole par five. 85 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 1: I think he ended up making six. But the third 86 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: hole was a par three that was kind of up 87 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: the tea box, one of those tea boxes that's kind 88 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: of below where kind of the the rise of the 89 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: hill is you could see the green. It was right 90 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: around one hundred and ninety yards, pretty pretty flat, no breeze, 91 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: so it was playing the actual and Mike got up 92 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 1: and he said, uh, I'm going to hit three wood 93 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: And I said, listen, why don't you hit driver as 94 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 1: opposed to you know, Mike can probably carry his driver 95 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: right around that one ninety to two hundred two o five. 96 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: Maybe if he really really catches one, he's going to 97 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: carry it, you know, two ten in the air. But 98 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: he wants to pull a three wood. And I said, listen, 99 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: is there trouble around the greens? And he said, really, 100 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: not that much trouble. And we when we got up there, 101 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: there wasn't really a lot of them. So there's no water. 102 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,120 Speaker 1: I mean, I think there was one bunker, but it 103 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: wasn't really kind of in play, if you know what 104 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: I mean. It was a bunker that you'd have to 105 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: almost hit a really really bad shot. To get into. 106 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 1: So his first inclination is to pull out a three wood, 107 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 1: and I said, listen, you tend to slice the golf ball, 108 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 1: and when you do miss it, you tend to miss 109 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 1: it to the right. It gets a little bit spinny, 110 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: you're losing a lot of distance. So takes driver. And 111 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,359 Speaker 1: his initial reaction was, well, what if it's too much club? 112 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 1: And I said, well what if it is? I mean, 113 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: when's the last time you were really really upset with 114 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: yourself on a par three by hitting it over the green. 115 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,359 Speaker 1: That doesn't happen to most people listening to this podcast. 116 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: Doesn't happen to me a lot when I play that, 117 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 1: I don't hit it too far. If anything, I come 118 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: up short. So he was I think he was a 119 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: little bit tentative to hit the driver because I think 120 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:52,919 Speaker 1: he thought it was a little bit too much. If 121 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: he caught it. He had a pretty decent drive and 122 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: it came up just short of of the so he 123 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: probably was about five yards off the putting surface, but 124 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 1: was pin hives just a little bit to the to 125 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: the left, about pin high. And so when we got 126 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: up to the green, he had a pretty easy chip 127 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: and he chipped it up on the green and made 128 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: a par. And so when we looked back at the 129 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: at the at from the green to the to the 130 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: tea box, you know, we're looking back, and I said, listen, 131 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: if you don't hit your three wood really solid, if 132 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: you don't hit it really really well, and you hit 133 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: the shot and have the miss that you normally miss, 134 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: you're going to miss it to the right, probably in 135 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: the rough, and it's probably going to come up twenty 136 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: thirty yards short of the green. We hit driver where 137 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: he's pin high. He's got an easy chip, and he 138 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: gets out of there with par. So we go to 139 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: the next hole and dog leg from kind of kind 140 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: of downhill, a little slopey fairway, but pretty straight, maybe 141 00:07:58,040 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: just a little bit of a dog leg, not too 142 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: much to a dog like, but maybe just a little 143 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: bit from right to left. And again he tends to 144 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: fade the golf ball and the miss is a slice. 145 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: And so standing behind him and I look where he's aiming, 146 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: and he's aiming basically right down the middle of the fairway. 147 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: So if he hits a good drive and hits one straight, 148 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: he's going to be fine. But if he hits the 149 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: shape that is consistent he's going to miss it into 150 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: the right rough, maybe into the trees. He's going to 151 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: get into trouble. So I said to him, listen, go 152 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: ahead and take your set up and tell me when 153 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,440 Speaker 1: you get comfortable. And he took his set up, got comfortable, 154 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: and I said, okay, I'm just gonna put a shaft 155 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: down on your foot line and you can see where 156 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 1: you're aiming. And he said, wow, I'm pretty much aiming 157 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: dead center of the fairway. If I miss this golf 158 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: ball at all, it's going into the right rough. So 159 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: I said, listen, just aim a little bit more to 160 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 1: your left. So he hit the first one and i'd 161 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: let him hit the first one, and he kind of 162 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: hit a little bit of a pole, and I said, okay, 163 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: now let's hit another golf ball and go ahead and 164 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: name what you feel down is the left side of 165 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: the fairway. And so he set up and I said, 166 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: you know, go ahead and aim down the left side 167 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: of the fairway. And he set up and I was like, 168 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: you can go more left, you can go more left, 169 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 1: you can go more left, and he was very surprised 170 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: at how far left I got him. And then I said, listen, 171 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: you tend to Like most people, when you do slice 172 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: the driver, you're hitting down on the ball and your 173 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: path is from out to in. And so I said, 174 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 1: the goal in hitting the driver is to take how 175 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 1: much you're hitting down on the golf ball and hit 176 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: a little bit more up on it. So I teed 177 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 1: the golf ball much higher than he normally tease it, 178 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 1: and I put it a lot more forward in his stance. 179 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: And I said, okay, so we're going to move the 180 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: golf ball a little bit more forward in your stance. 181 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: We're going to tee it a little bit higher. We're 182 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 1: going to get you to aim a little bit more, 183 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: you know, probably twenty thirty yards more left than you 184 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: initially aimed. And then go ahead and hit it. And 185 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:10,080 Speaker 1: he hit a really beautiful high little fade. The ball 186 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:12,079 Speaker 1: went a lot higher. Because the golf ball was more 187 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: forward in his stance, he was able to catch the 188 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: golf ball a little bit more on the op as 189 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: opposed to hitting so much down on it. And he 190 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: hit the golf ball with the same golf swing forty 191 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: yards further than the drive he hit previously. I didn't 192 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: tell him to swing any harder, and fundamentally, his golf 193 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: swing didn't change, And that was one of the things 194 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:37,679 Speaker 1: that I did say to him on the golf course. 195 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: And I think it's really important for everyone listening. In 196 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 1: a nine hole round of golf and an eighteen hole 197 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: round of golf, and if you are in that kind 198 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 1: of fifteen to twenty to twenty five handicap range, I 199 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: got news for you. Your golf swing isn't going to 200 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: fundamentally change that much in the horse of playing nine 201 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 1: holes or eighteen. So whatever your golf swing is, whatever 202 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: your swing tendencies are, whatever your DNA is of your 203 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: golf swing, the shape that you hit, kind of how 204 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 1: you hit it, that's probably not going to change a 205 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,560 Speaker 1: lot in nine holes of golf. And I got news 206 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,839 Speaker 1: for you as well. You're probably not halfway through your 207 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 1: round exponentially going to start hitting the golf ball a 208 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: tremendous amount. Further so, your yardages are kind of what 209 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: they are when you start, and your DNA of what 210 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: you do from a golf standpoint, regardless of one of 211 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:41,679 Speaker 1: whatever it is that you're working on, regardless of what 212 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: you're trying to do in your golf swing, it's not 213 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 1: really going to change that much once you get out 214 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 1: on the golf course and you start playing. And I 215 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 1: think he was a little bit surprised when I said 216 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 1: that to him, and I said, listen, it's that's that's 217 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:58,559 Speaker 1: not a criticism. That's not saying that you're doing anything wrong. 218 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,079 Speaker 1: You have what you have when you come to the 219 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 1: golf course. And I think so many people that are 220 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 1: listening to the podcast go to the golf course and 221 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: fundamentally think that in nine holes or eighteen holes that 222 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:15,839 Speaker 1: your golf swing is going to dramatically change and it's 223 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:20,319 Speaker 1: going to dramatically change for the better. That doesn't really happen. 224 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: And I don't see that a lot. Now do I 225 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:26,199 Speaker 1: see that at the tour level. Yes, I see players 226 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: go out and get off to bad starts and shoot 227 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 1: over par on the front nine and then find it 228 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,560 Speaker 1: on the back nine and go back and shoot, you know, 229 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 1: shoot two over, three over on the front, and then 230 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: shoot twenty nine on the back, shoot thirty on the back. 231 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,439 Speaker 1: I've seen that more times than I can count. And 232 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: you will see that if you follow any players on 233 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,679 Speaker 1: the PGA Tour, you'll see players that play really really 234 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: good on the front play poorly on the back. You'll 235 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: see players play not that great on the front and 236 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: play really really good on the back. The talent level 237 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: at the tour level, at the elite level, is so 238 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 1: much greater than the talent level that we all have. 239 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: But I say this all the time. We are incredibly influenced. 240 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,119 Speaker 1: All golfers are incredibly influenced by what they watch on television. 241 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: And so your golf swing isn't going to change. So 242 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 1: my father in law's golf swing in nine holes isn't 243 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: going He's not going to miraculously start not swinging out 244 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 1: to end. That's his DNA, that's what he does. That's 245 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 1: what he does on a regular basis. So what I'm 246 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: trying to do on the golf course is saying, hey, 247 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: let's allow for the miss that you've got right so, 248 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: and let's also look at where you're setting up from 249 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:40,959 Speaker 1: a tea box standpoint. So I think, like a lot 250 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: of players, he just comes to the middle of the 251 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,679 Speaker 1: tea box, which really kind of allows him or gives 252 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: him more license to aim neutral and aim square. So 253 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:52,960 Speaker 1: he's aiming down the middle of the fairway. He's set 254 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 1: up in the middle of the tea box. So again, 255 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: you've heard me talk about if you're a regular listen 256 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: to the pod. I'm always trying. I'm always trying with players, 257 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: whether they're someone like my father in law, who's, you know, 258 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,679 Speaker 1: in his mid seventies. He's got some body issues. His 259 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 1: golf isn't nearly what it used to be. I think 260 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 1: he's one of these players, like a lot of people, 261 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 1: as we get older, that we look back to the 262 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: glory days of what we used to be able to 263 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: do as opposed to being honest with ourselves as to 264 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 1: what we are able to do now. And your golf 265 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 1: swing as you get older is going to I mean, 266 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 1: your golf swing's always going to be in a constant 267 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 1: state of flux, right, It's constantly changing. But I do 268 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: think that you can make gains by looking at where 269 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: you're setting up on the tea box. So what I 270 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: asked Mike to do, I said, listen, as opposed to 271 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: coming over to the into the middle of the tea box, 272 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: why don't we go over to the far right hand side, 273 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: Because you slice the golf ball, so in a lot 274 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: of ways, I think it's easier for people that slice 275 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: the golf ball to see more of the fairway, to 276 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: see more of the golf course from the tea box 277 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: by coming over to the far right hand side, which 278 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: allows you then to aim more left. Because then if 279 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: you're curving the golf ball, and you've got the golf 280 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 1: ball curving from right to left, like a lot of 281 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: people listening to this podcast do, your ball can be 282 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 1: curving back towards the middle of the fairway, even if 283 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: you still have a little bit of slice. But if 284 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: you set up right in the middle of every fairway, 285 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 1: go straight down the middle tee it up right in 286 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: the middle of the tea box, you're eliminating a lot 287 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: of the usable space that you've got from an aim standpoint, 288 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: but also the usable space you have from how your 289 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 1: golf ball curves. So if you are someone that slices 290 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: the golf ball, don't be afraid to come over to 291 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 1: that far right hand side and then say, Okay, now 292 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: I'm going to aim a lot more left than I 293 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: normally do. Right, I'm going to give myself room. I'm 294 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: going to have the shape that I have, but I'm 295 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: just going to set up differently. I talked to Mike about, 296 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 1: you know, the concept that with your irons you want 297 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: to be hitting down on the golf ball. I mean, obviously, 298 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: the golf ball's on the ground and as we hit 299 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: down on it, and that helps the golf ball get 300 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: into the air. But with the driver, the ball is 301 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: already on a tee. And I think so many golfers 302 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: struggle with the driver. They're losing so much distance, they're 303 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: losing so much direction because they are hitting so much down. 304 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 1: So Mike had the golf ball a little bit too 305 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: far back in a stance, and so I said, just 306 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 1: move the golf ball more forward, te the golf ball 307 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: a little bit higher, and then you're trying to swing 308 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: a little bit more on the up and hit the 309 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: golf ball a little bit higher. That was the only 310 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: real technical thing I said to him. In the course 311 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 1: of the nine holes that I watched him play. All 312 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: I tried to get him to do is say, okay, listen, 313 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,080 Speaker 1: let's look at where you're aiming. Let's look at where 314 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: you're trying to land the golf ball. And then one 315 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: of the things that I did was every time he 316 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 1: went to pull an iron, whether if it was an 317 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: eight iron, I told him pull a seven iron. If 318 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: it was a pitching wedge, I said, pull a nine iron. 319 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: And what I was trying to get him to do 320 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: was play for the miss, not play for the great shot. Again, 321 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: most golfers their yardages. I don't think the average golfer 322 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 1: really has any real concept as to how really far 323 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: they hit their golf ball. They don't understand how far 324 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:38,639 Speaker 1: they hit it. They maybe think, Okay, I hit it 325 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:40,640 Speaker 1: once on a part three and I had a really 326 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,639 Speaker 1: good shot. And let's say I had an eight iron 327 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,679 Speaker 1: and I hit it one hundred and fifty yards. So now, 328 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,880 Speaker 1: regardless of how my body feels, regardless of how I've 329 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,360 Speaker 1: been playing, regardless how I've been hitting it, I think 330 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 1: golfers have these arbitrary numbers in their head that they 331 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: hold on to, and I think those numbers are probably 332 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: influenced a lot by what they hear on television, a 333 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: lot by what they see other people play with. It's 334 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: very important that you have an understanding as to how 335 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:11,399 Speaker 1: far you hit the golf ball. It doesn't matter what 336 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: the people you play with on a regular basis, doesn't 337 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 1: matter how far they hit the golf ball. The only 338 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: thing that matters is how far you hit the golf ball. 339 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: So what I started to do kind of midway through 340 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 1: the round is. I just said, listen, every iron you pull, 341 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: I'm going to have you pull another one. So we 342 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: got to a par three. It was about one hundred 343 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: and sixty yards. It was a little bit downhill, and 344 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: I think Mike pulled out a club the first time. 345 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 1: There was a little bit of kind of gorse area 346 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:44,640 Speaker 1: and a little bit of stream running through the front 347 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: of the green. There was a bunker to the left, 348 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: There was rough around the green, so there's nothing over 349 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 1: the green, and there was really only one bunker on 350 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: the left hand side, so there wasn't any bunkers on 351 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:58,399 Speaker 1: the right. So I think the first club that he 352 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:02,640 Speaker 1: pulled out from one hundred and six yards was his 353 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 1: five iron, and he kind of topped it and you 354 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: could tell that he was trying to make a swing 355 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 1: that was a very very hard, fast swing because he 356 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: didn't have enough club. I think instinctively, we as golfers 357 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 1: know when we don't have enough club, right. I think 358 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: it's I think it's something that's really I think if 359 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,439 Speaker 1: everybody was honest with themselves. I think a lot of 360 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: times you pull a club, you know it's not the 361 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: right club, and then what you try and do is 362 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 1: especially on par threes. You try and swing so hard 363 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: because you're trying to hit the golf ball a specific 364 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 1: distance that you don't really hit it. Maybe you once did, 365 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 1: maybe you do occasionally, but that's not the real usable 366 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: distance that you hit your club and you make too 367 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,640 Speaker 1: hard of a swing. So that's what that's what he did. 368 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: He hit it into the into the water. He's staring 369 00:19:56,600 --> 00:20:00,439 Speaker 1: at making double triple bogie in the face. So I 370 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 1: went back to his golf bag and got a seven 371 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: wood out and I said, hit me the seven wood. 372 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: And so I think five iron is maybe does he 373 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 1: have a feign he might have a foreign I think 374 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: I did mention something about the fact that he had 375 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 1: a four n four iron, and I said, what the 376 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: hell do you have a four iron? Four? I mean, 377 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 1: that's you're never going to hit that club. You're not 378 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: going to hit it well, get you know, hybrid replacements. 379 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 1: But he took out. It was either seven or a 380 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:42,399 Speaker 1: six wood. Hit a beautiful shot again, just missed the green. 381 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: Was just off of the fringe on a flat lie 382 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 1: in the rough. The ball was sitting down a little bit, 383 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 1: but again it's pin high. So the golf ball is 384 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: going thirty to forty yards further. Again, same thing that 385 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: we did with the driver, by having him aim differently, 386 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 1: by having move the golf he hits the golf ball 387 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 1: a little bit more solid because one he catches the 388 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: ball in the center of the face. So when I'm 389 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:13,359 Speaker 1: looking at launch monitor technology, I think everyone is obsessed 390 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 1: with clubhead speed, which I do think is important, but 391 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 1: I'm looking at ball speed and I think that if 392 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,400 Speaker 1: you can start to hit the golf ball a little 393 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 1: bit more in the center of the face, sometimes your 394 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 1: clubhead speed might go down, but your ball speed will 395 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 1: massively jump ten fifteen miles per hour and the golf 396 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,920 Speaker 1: ball will go further. So by choosing a different golf 397 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: club that he doesn't have to hit as hard, he 398 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: catches it more in the center of the face, gets 399 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 1: it to the green. So now he was over in 400 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 1: just a little bit of the rough. He was in 401 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: that kind of go no go zone that a lot 402 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:56,919 Speaker 1: of people are in. It's just off the fringe. He 403 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 1: could put it the ball sitting down a little bit. 404 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: The instinct was to take the putter because he doesn't 405 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,160 Speaker 1: feel comfortable with the chip, and I said, listen, keep 406 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: the six wood, the seven wood in your hand, and 407 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: why don't we make an exaggerated putting stroke with a 408 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: seven wood a six wood. You could do this with 409 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 1: three woods, four woods, five woods. Play the golf ball 410 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 1: in the middle of your stance, get a little bit 411 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: closer to it, so the shaft gets a little bit 412 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: more vertical. And then because the length of the club 413 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: that you're using is so much longer than your putter, 414 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: you don't necessarily have to have that kind of kill 415 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 1: putt stroke through the grass. And he had a but, 416 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 1: and so the first one he hit a little bit 417 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: too hard, but it was only maybe five to six 418 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,920 Speaker 1: seven feet past the hole. But as I said to him, 419 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: when is the last time you were in the situation 420 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 1: and your approach shot to the grid? I went past 421 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 1: the hole, not bladed over the green, but just past 422 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 1: the hole. And he was like, it doesn't really happen 423 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: that often. So we put a couple more down and 424 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: I said, again, it's just an exaggerated putting stroke. And 425 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: after two or three of these, he hit some beautiful, little, 426 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 1: effectively kind of a bump and run putt with a 427 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: seven wood a six wood, and it basically rolls a 428 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 1: lot like the putt, and he was like, listen, I'd 429 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: never really thought of doing that. I would either putt 430 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 1: it or then I would take my lob wedge, try 431 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 1: and open the face and hit some sort of lob shot, 432 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 1: which is the complete wrong shot to hit right. I mean, 433 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 1: it's just such a risky shot, a shot that he 434 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,399 Speaker 1: doesn't need to hit. But because he doesn't have a 435 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: tremendous amount of confidence in his chipping, he likes to 436 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 1: putt from everywhere. So again, just trying to give him 437 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 1: another option up to a downhill par When we get 438 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: to downhill par four, probably around two eighty, which you 439 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: know from the back tiase a lot of people could drive. 440 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 1: But again had him come over to the left hand, 441 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,879 Speaker 1: to the right hand side of the of the tea box, 442 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: aimed down that left hand side, moved that golf bole 443 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 1: a little bit more forward in the stands and just 444 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: try and hit up on it. And he hit a 445 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 1: beautiful high almost just a little bit of just a 446 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:31,359 Speaker 1: high straight ball which landed just in the left hand 447 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,919 Speaker 1: side of the fairway. And he had a shot that 448 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 1: initially so it was downhill, nothing in front of the 449 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 1: green and no rough in front of the green, and 450 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 1: the fairways were a little bit firm and bouncy, and 451 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: so we had some rooms. So initially he wanted to 452 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,120 Speaker 1: hit a sand wedge and I said, okay, go ahead 453 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,960 Speaker 1: and hit the sand wedge, and again it I think 454 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: again instinctively he didn't think that it was enough club 455 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 1: but the yardage said okay, I'm downhill, I can hit 456 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 1: my sand wedge. Hit it really really high, ran up 457 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: the face, super spinny ballooned on him, went a little 458 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: bit to the right and came up, you know, fifteen 459 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: twenty yards short. Not a good shot. And I said, okay, 460 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,199 Speaker 1: why don't you go get me a pitching wedge or 461 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 1: nine iron and land this golf ball. So he probably 462 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: had about you know, he was playing from the up tee, 463 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,880 Speaker 1: so he probably had about one hundred yards. And I said, listen, 464 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,120 Speaker 1: why don't you try and hit this golf ball between 465 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 1: fifty to seventy yards. It's going to land on the 466 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 1: fairway in front of the grass. It's downhill, it's gonna 467 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: get some gravity help to it, and it's going to 468 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,199 Speaker 1: roll and it's gonna you don't have to carry the 469 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: golf ball all the way to the flag. It's exactly 470 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 1: what he did, and he rolled it up about ten feet, 471 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:03,400 Speaker 1: had a legit birdie chance, missed the putt, but got 472 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,199 Speaker 1: out of there with a four, So a shot that 473 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: he probably wouldn't have tried to hit, but a shot 474 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,479 Speaker 1: that gave him a legit chance because he's trying to 475 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 1: carry the sandwich all the way to the flag spin it. 476 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: When I asked him, he was like, I was trying 477 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: to carry it all the way to the flag and 478 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 1: you'll hopefully get some spin. But in my head, I'm 479 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 1: asking myself, Okay, what are you actively doing to try 480 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: and get any of the spin? Right? Tell me what 481 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: you're doing that you're going to to do in your 482 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: golf swing that is going to impart some spin on 483 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:44,199 Speaker 1: this golf ball. And you know, we create spin with 484 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,880 Speaker 1: our irons in short game with speed, right, and most 485 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: people just don't get that good quality contact. They're trying 486 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 1: to hit the golf ball too high, they don't catch 487 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: it solid. The ball speeds all over all over the place. 488 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,439 Speaker 1: Where they catch the golf ball in the center of 489 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,159 Speaker 1: the faces, they're catching on the heel, they're catching on 490 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,159 Speaker 1: the toe, and because they're trying to hit it so hard. 491 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: Mike is like a lot of golfers. He's trying to 492 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 1: hit the golf ball so hard that as he makes 493 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 1: this rapid fast move on the downswing, his balance gets 494 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,919 Speaker 1: off and he falls backwards, which you know, I was saying, listen, 495 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: if you want a swing thought on all of your 496 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 1: iron shots, just try and at impact feel like you 497 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,160 Speaker 1: have more weight on your lead foot than your backfoot. 498 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 1: And he did that. You've start to be able to 499 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: take some divots and started to hit some better shots, 500 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: which to me is what is the most important. I 501 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: think it was eye opening that we weren't really talking 502 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,960 Speaker 1: about technique. We weren't really talking about what he was 503 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,679 Speaker 1: doing in his golf swing. We were talking about club selection, 504 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 1: we were talking about where you're landing. So next hole 505 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: was a shortish part four, and I didn't give him 506 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 1: any audio prompts on where to aim, where to set up, 507 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 1: just to see if if he would, you know, absorb 508 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,160 Speaker 1: any of this. So we got up hit a really 509 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 1: nice drive that had his kind of patented shape, which 510 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: was a little bit from left to right. But because 511 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,399 Speaker 1: he had teed up in the middle of the tea box, 512 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,880 Speaker 1: and because he'd aimed right down the center of the fairway, 513 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: he missed the golf ball into the left rough or 514 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,400 Speaker 1: into the right roff. We never found the golf ball, 515 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,119 Speaker 1: and I said, okay, now hit another one. Aim a 516 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 1: little bit, come to the right hand side of the 517 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: tea box. Aim down that left side. He had a 518 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: much better drive, still a little bit on the spinny side, 519 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: still a little bit on the left to right curve side, 520 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,479 Speaker 1: but just got into kind of the first cut. We 521 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 1: were able to find the golf ball, and the lie 522 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: was sitting down just a little bit, and the natural 523 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 1: inclination is for him to take some sort of lofted wood, 524 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: and I just said, listen, you're probably unless you hit 525 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 1: an absolute hero shot, you're probably not going to get 526 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: the golf ball onto the putting surface. Because I think 527 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 1: he originally went to choose his five hybrid, and I said, 528 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 1: you know, that lie, the ball sitting down. I said, 529 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: you don't need to try and go for this green, right, 530 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: So why don't we just take a seven iron something 531 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: that's got a lot of loft on it. You can 532 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 1: kind of gouge us out. The green again was a 533 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: little bit downhill, and I said, you know, maybe you 534 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: roll this thing up and get it on the front edge. 535 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 1: He had a really nice iron shot with the seven wood, 536 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 1: didn't quite get to the putting surface, so he had 537 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 1: a chip shot. The pin was kind of cut on 538 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 1: the left hand side of the green. There was a 539 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: bunker left and there was a little bit of a 540 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 1: mound about five to ten paces in front of the flag, 541 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: and then he had about twenty five you know, so 542 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: from where he was, he was probably about five to 543 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 1: five to seven yards from the putting surface and then 544 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 1: he had a lot more about thirty feet of green 545 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: from there. So what I did to him is I said, 546 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 1: all right, why don't we think about this logically, is 547 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: let's I'm going to walk to where the front edge 548 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 1: of the green is and then I'm going to continue 549 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: to walk all the way to the flag. So we 550 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: had a shot to where it was about about thirty 551 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 1: five steps from ball to the flag. And again his 552 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 1: first inclination was to take a club that lands the 553 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,239 Speaker 1: golf ball next to the flag, try to carry it 554 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 1: all the way. But I said to him, listen, I'm 555 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 1: going to walk to where from where your ball is 556 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 1: to where the front edge of the green to the 557 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 1: putting surface started. And that was about fifteen steps. So 558 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: it's a round a thirty to thirty five ish shot. 559 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 1: But I said, if you think about it, you only 560 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 1: need to carry the golf ball fifteen yards in the air. 561 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: And rather than take your sand wedge or your lob 562 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 1: wedge and try and carry it all the way to 563 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 1: the flag, we've got some green to work with. Take 564 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 1: your pitching wedge, your fifty. The golf swing is going 565 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: to be smaller. Try and land this sink fifteen yards 566 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 1: in the air, fifteen to seventeen yards in the air, 567 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: and then it rolls like a pot. That's what he did. 568 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 1: He took a pitching wedge, landed at about fifteen sixteen 569 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: yards in the air, and it rolled up to about 570 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 1: five feet and he made the pot. Again. I'll keep 571 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 1: saying this. Your technique once you get out onto the 572 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 1: golf course is probably not going to massively change, and 573 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 1: it's probably not going to massively change for the better. 574 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:00,200 Speaker 1: So you've got what you've got. So learning how to 575 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: play with the shape that you've got, with the distance 576 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 1: you've got, can very much improve your scores because you're 577 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 1: not trying to do things you can't. You're not trying 578 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: to do things that aren't you You slice the golf ball. 579 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 1: That's the miss. When you hit a good one, you 580 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: hit a fade, and if you hit a really good one, 581 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: you hit kind of a straight ball, right. But the 582 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: majority of the shots that a lot of people hit 583 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 1: with the clubs, especially with the driver, is the slice. 584 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,719 Speaker 1: That's unfortunately, that's not going to get better. And if 585 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 1: you spend eighteen holes trying to go out and work 586 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 1: on your golf swing, work on your technique, if you're 587 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,280 Speaker 1: going to do that, that's fine, but don't keep score. 588 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 1: If you're going to do that, then because that's not 589 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 1: playing golf. That is playing golf swing and working on 590 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,120 Speaker 1: your technique, which I think has a time and a place. 591 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 1: But I believe that if you're going out to the 592 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 1: golf course, you were going out to play golf. You 593 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 1: were going out to play the game of golf, not practice. 594 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: If you're in a practice practice on the driving range. 595 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,480 Speaker 1: And I do think it's a habit that it's an 596 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 1: easy habit to get into. Right, you go out on 597 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 1: the golf course, you hit a couple of bad shots, 598 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: you say, listen, I'm just gonna work on my game. 599 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,240 Speaker 1: And I think it's really important to go out on 600 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 1: the golf course and say, Okay, I didn't necessarily get 601 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: off to the best start today. I didn't get off 602 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 1: to the start that I wanted. But what I am 603 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 1: going to do is play with what I've got. I'm 604 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 1: going to maybe take one or two clubs more than 605 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,280 Speaker 1: what I want on my iron shots. I'm gonna do 606 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 1: that on par three specifically, so that if you don't 607 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 1: hit the golf ball perfect, if I don't hit the 608 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: golf ball solid, it's gonna come off. But it was 609 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 1: just a one. It was a great day to get 610 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,760 Speaker 1: out there and spend some time, you know, with my 611 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 1: father in law and you know, who hasn't been able 612 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 1: to play golf the way he wants to. You know, 613 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,680 Speaker 1: the health issues that he has don't allow him to 614 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 1: do what he wants to from a body standpoint. But 615 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 1: as someone that is lucky enough to play with the 616 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,720 Speaker 1: best players in the world, the games we were able 617 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,719 Speaker 1: to make with his game where we were able to 618 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:20,400 Speaker 1: shave strokes off by club selection alignment. If you're out 619 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:24,360 Speaker 1: and you're not playing in a tournament, right, it's not 620 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 1: a tournament. Put a club down. Put a club down 621 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 1: on your foot line so that you can see where 622 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,880 Speaker 1: you're aiming. Don't be afraid to hit shots on the 623 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:39,440 Speaker 1: golf course. You know you're not playing a competition. Okay, 624 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 1: don't turn your scorecard in if you're doing that, But 625 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,120 Speaker 1: put a club down and say, okay, this is where 626 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: I would want my feet to aim. Maybe go out 627 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,800 Speaker 1: and play nine holes and use an alignment rod and say, okay, 628 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,040 Speaker 1: let me see where I'm aiming. Okay, yeah, let me 629 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,640 Speaker 1: aim and don't turn the scorecard in. But maybe if 630 00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:00,319 Speaker 1: you're shaving two three shots off of your round, by 631 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: just aiming better, aiming for your shape, you can make 632 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:11,480 Speaker 1: some big improvements At the highest level. We are tweaking 633 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 1: golf swings right. We're working a lot on technique, but 634 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:21,800 Speaker 1: I think regular, everyday golfers could benefit so much from 635 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 1: what I was able to do with my father in law. Listen, 636 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:30,799 Speaker 1: aim more left, take more club, try and have more 637 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 1: weight on your front foot. Don't worry about your golf swing. 638 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,520 Speaker 1: Just your golf swing is your golf swing. Just make 639 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,360 Speaker 1: sure with your irons that you've got more weight on 640 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 1: your front foot than your back foot when you hit contact, 641 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,360 Speaker 1: when the ball contacts the club, more weight on your 642 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,520 Speaker 1: front foot, and I think my father in law was 643 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:50,319 Speaker 1: really surprised at how many better shots that he hit. 644 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,919 Speaker 1: We didn't talk about his golf swing. Your golf swing 645 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:58,040 Speaker 1: isn't going to fundamentally change that much, so just wanted 646 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:01,840 Speaker 1: to share kind of a real world experience. Tour players 647 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,160 Speaker 1: aren't in the real world for everybody listening, right, we 648 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,320 Speaker 1: don't hit the golf ball like they do. We just don't, 649 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,799 Speaker 1: So stop trying. Try and hit the golf ball like 650 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,360 Speaker 1: you hit it. Try and hit the golf ball more solid, 651 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,800 Speaker 1: allow for the miss, allow for your shape, and really 652 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,520 Speaker 1: remember that your golf swing isn't going to change that 653 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,920 Speaker 1: much on the golf course. So the golf swing you 654 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,560 Speaker 1: have on the driving range, that's probably going to be 655 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,520 Speaker 1: the golf swing you have on the golf course. Allow 656 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,120 Speaker 1: for it, learn how to play with it, and I 657 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 1: think you can make some gains by aiming better club 658 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 1: selection and just thinking better on the golf course. I 659 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:48,359 Speaker 1: want to thank everybody for listening. Son of a Butch 660 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,080 Speaker 1: comes to you every Wednesday. We'll see you next week.