WEBVTT - Playing Lessons with CH3 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:08.320 It's the Son of a Butcher podcast. We come to 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:14.320 you every Wednesday. This week and an interesting experience last week. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.599 But I think a lot of people think that the 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.560 only thing that I do is just work with tour 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.200 players players trying to play professionally and stuff. But I 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.439 do spend an enormous amount of time just giving golf 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:30.200 lessons to regular people. I was over in the UK 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.800 for a wedding and spent some time with my in 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.479 laws and my father. My father in law Mike McCleary, 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:42.000 big golfer, seventy five years old. He's had some he's 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:47.279 had some health issues. He's two knee replacements, open heart surgery, 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.600 he's been diagnosed with some early stages of Parkinson's, so 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.520 he's got a little bit of a tremor. But you 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.160 won't find someone that likes golf more than Mike does. 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.319 And he watches golf, and he used to be very 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.680 good player in his mid seventies. Now obviously his body 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.800 isn't allowing him to do the things that he wants 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:11.720 to do from a golf standpoint, But and he doesn't 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.840 get to play nearly as much golf as he'd like to. 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.720 He certainly doesn't get to practice as much as he'd 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:22.560 like to. But we had some really good weather. We 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.240 went to his club, the Wellow Golf Club, which kind 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:28.920 of just a little bit outside of Southampton, and it 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:32.160 was a really really nice day. It's good to see 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:35.200 him get out on the golf course, but no warm up, 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.760 We didn't go to the driving range. We just went 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.039 straight to the golf course and he played nine holes 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.480 and so I kind of rode around with him, and 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.920 it was just it was a really interesting day in 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:51.920 that I think Mike is he is. He is the 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.760 average golfer, right, he is the epitome of the average golfer. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.240 He's just used to be a good player. Handicap isn't 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:03.080 what it used to be. Handicap probably certainly isn't what 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.680 he wants his handicap to be. But we went on 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.440 on the golf course and listen, there are a lot 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.400 of things that we could do with Mike's golf swing, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.760 from a grip standpoint, from a club face standpoint, from 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.560 a path standpoint. So there are a lot of technical 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.240 things that we could do with his golf swing. And 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:24.639 occasionally when I do get to spend time with him, 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.399 we work on some technical stuff, but I spent nine 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.119 holes riding around with him. Has to take a cart 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.160 now because you know, with the double knee replacement, walking 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:39.120 nine holes, he just can't do it. He tends, like 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.480 a lot of people listening to this podcast, he tends 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.360 to slice the golf ball. The ball moves from left 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:49.160 to right, and I would say compression is as much 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:53.000 an issue as the direction the golf ball is going, 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.320 So the quality of the contact, the quality of the 0:02:55.360 --> 0:03:00.440 strike for him is as important and one of the 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.919 reasons why he hits good shots and one of the 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:07.360 reasons why he hits poor shots. But from a real 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.640 world standpoint, I watched him hit every shot for nine holes. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.280 I didn't say anything about his golf swing. And the 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.080 reason I didn't say anything about his golf swing is, listen, 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.000 he doesn't get a chance to practice that much, and 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.920 we were actually out on the golf course and he 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.200 was actually playing golf. So I kind of make a 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:33.040 big distinction between practicing golf and playing golf, and I 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.840 think that's something that everyone listening should really do as well. 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.000 There is practicing golf and then there is playing golf. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.680 And it's a theme that that I stay on on 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.400 the pod. But I think most people focus all their 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.280 time on practicing golf and never really focus anytime on 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.680 playing golf. So I got to go out play nine 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.080 holes with my father. The golf course was in really 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:59.080 good shape. The greens weren't super super fast. It's fairly flat, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.600 but if you did hit it off the fairway, the 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:06.920 rough was quite it was quite peenals, quite thick. It 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.560 was very very hot, which is rare in the UK, 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.360 but I mean it was in the nineties. The golf 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.159 course was firm, the golf course was fast, and the 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:20.200 golf course was a little bit bouncy. But after we 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:25.159 played nine holes, I think Mike was really very surprised 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.200 that we didn't talk about as golf swing and where 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.600 I feel like when I go out with players and 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:35.560 I watched them play golf on the golf course, I 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.040 think that's from an instruction standpoint, I think that's where 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.760 you can make so many changes in so many gains. 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.240 So we got to the first hole. Mike had a 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.720 really nice drive right down, pretty much right down in 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.800 the middle of the fairway, didn't hit a great shot 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.360 on the next one, ball came up just short of 0:04:53.400 --> 0:05:00.799 the Green ended up making five right next hole par five. 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:06.599 I think he ended up making six. But the third 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:10.000 hole was a par three that was kind of up 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.640 the tea box, one of those tea boxes that's kind 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.560 of below where kind of the the rise of the 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.080 hill is you could see the green. It was right 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:22.440 around one hundred and ninety yards, pretty pretty flat, no breeze, 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.520 so it was playing the actual and Mike got up 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:28.599 and he said, uh, I'm going to hit three wood 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.760 And I said, listen, why don't you hit driver as 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.440 opposed to you know, Mike can probably carry his driver 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:39.240 right around that one ninety to two hundred two o five. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.120 Maybe if he really really catches one, he's going to 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.800 carry it, you know, two ten in the air. But 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.760 he wants to pull a three wood. And I said, listen, 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.560 is there trouble around the greens? And he said, really, 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.080 not that much trouble. And we when we got up there, 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.120 there wasn't really a lot of them. So there's no water. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.120 I mean, I think there was one bunker, but it 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.880 wasn't really kind of in play, if you know what 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.400 I mean. It was a bunker that you'd have to 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.760 almost hit a really really bad shot. To get into. 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:11.039 So his first inclination is to pull out a three wood, 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.480 and I said, listen, you tend to slice the golf ball, 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:16.719 and when you do miss it, you tend to miss 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.160 it to the right. It gets a little bit spinny, 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:25.039 you're losing a lot of distance. So takes driver. And 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.359 his initial reaction was, well, what if it's too much club? 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.280 And I said, well what if it is? I mean, 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.960 when's the last time you were really really upset with 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.400 yourself on a par three by hitting it over the green. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.359 That doesn't happen to most people listening to this podcast. 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:42.520 Doesn't happen to me a lot when I play that, 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.840 I don't hit it too far. If anything, I come 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.200 up short. So he was I think he was a 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.360 little bit tentative to hit the driver because I think 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:52.919 he thought it was a little bit too much. If 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.960 he caught it. He had a pretty decent drive and 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:01.240 it came up just short of of the so he 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.880 probably was about five yards off the putting surface, but 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.000 was pin hives just a little bit to the to 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.520 the left, about pin high. And so when we got 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.360 up to the green, he had a pretty easy chip 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.560 and he chipped it up on the green and made 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.640 a par. And so when we looked back at the 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.080 at the at from the green to the to the 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.880 tea box, you know, we're looking back, and I said, listen, 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.960 if you don't hit your three wood really solid, if 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.960 you don't hit it really really well, and you hit 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.640 the shot and have the miss that you normally miss, 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.040 you're going to miss it to the right, probably in 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:40.160 the rough, and it's probably going to come up twenty 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.760 thirty yards short of the green. We hit driver where 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.440 he's pin high. He's got an easy chip, and he 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.520 gets out of there with par. So we go to 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.400 the next hole and dog leg from kind of kind 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:58.000 of downhill, a little slopey fairway, but pretty straight, maybe 0:07:58.040 --> 0:07:59.760 just a little bit of a dog leg, not too 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:01.360 much to a dog like, but maybe just a little 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.120 bit from right to left. And again he tends to 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.520 fade the golf ball and the miss is a slice. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.920 And so standing behind him and I look where he's aiming, 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.280 and he's aiming basically right down the middle of the fairway. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.440 So if he hits a good drive and hits one straight, 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.920 he's going to be fine. But if he hits the 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.800 shape that is consistent he's going to miss it into 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.920 the right rough, maybe into the trees. He's going to 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.240 get into trouble. So I said to him, listen, go 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.000 ahead and take your set up and tell me when 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.440 you get comfortable. And he took his set up, got comfortable, 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:35.920 and I said, okay, I'm just gonna put a shaft 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.280 down on your foot line and you can see where 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.960 you're aiming. And he said, wow, I'm pretty much aiming 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.280 dead center of the fairway. If I miss this golf 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.280 ball at all, it's going into the right rough. So 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.600 I said, listen, just aim a little bit more to 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.439 your left. So he hit the first one and i'd 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.280 let him hit the first one, and he kind of 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.360 hit a little bit of a pole, and I said, okay, 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.160 now let's hit another golf ball and go ahead and 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.400 name what you feel down is the left side of 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.840 the fairway. And so he set up and I said, 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:11.880 you know, go ahead and aim down the left side 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.400 of the fairway. And he set up and I was like, 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.760 you can go more left, you can go more left, 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.679 you can go more left, and he was very surprised 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:23.880 at how far left I got him. And then I said, listen, 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.280 you tend to Like most people, when you do slice 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:31.400 the driver, you're hitting down on the ball and your 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:35.000 path is from out to in. And so I said, 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.440 the goal in hitting the driver is to take how 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.480 much you're hitting down on the golf ball and hit 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.480 a little bit more up on it. So I teed 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:46.320 the golf ball much higher than he normally tease it, 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.880 and I put it a lot more forward in his stance. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:51.840 And I said, okay, so we're going to move the 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.800 golf ball a little bit more forward in your stance. 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.360 We're going to tee it a little bit higher. We're 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.800 going to get you to aim a little bit more, 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.640 you know, probably twenty thirty yards more left than you 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.040 initially aimed. And then go ahead and hit it. And 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:10.080 he hit a really beautiful high little fade. The ball 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.079 went a lot higher. Because the golf ball was more 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.760 forward in his stance, he was able to catch the 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:16.400 golf ball a little bit more on the op as 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.360 opposed to hitting so much down on it. And he 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:24.440 hit the golf ball with the same golf swing forty 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:28.760 yards further than the drive he hit previously. I didn't 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.640 tell him to swing any harder, and fundamentally, his golf 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.720 swing didn't change, And that was one of the things 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.679 that I did say to him on the golf course. 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:42.120 And I think it's really important for everyone listening. In 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.320 a nine hole round of golf and an eighteen hole 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.640 round of golf, and if you are in that kind 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:53.080 of fifteen to twenty to twenty five handicap range, I 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.160 got news for you. Your golf swing isn't going to 0:10:56.360 --> 0:11:01.160 fundamentally change that much in the horse of playing nine 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.680 holes or eighteen. So whatever your golf swing is, whatever 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:09.960 your swing tendencies are, whatever your DNA is of your 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.640 golf swing, the shape that you hit, kind of how 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.880 you hit it, that's probably not going to change a 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.560 lot in nine holes of golf. And I got news 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.839 for you as well. You're probably not halfway through your 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:26.680 round exponentially going to start hitting the golf ball a 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.880 tremendous amount. Further so, your yardages are kind of what 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:35.040 they are when you start, and your DNA of what 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.720 you do from a golf standpoint, regardless of one of 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.679 whatever it is that you're working on, regardless of what 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.800 you're trying to do in your golf swing, it's not 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.440 really going to change that much once you get out 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.560 on the golf course and you start playing. And I 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.840 think he was a little bit surprised when I said 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.440 that to him, and I said, listen, it's that's that's 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:58.559 not a criticism. That's not saying that you're doing anything wrong. 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.079 You have what you have when you come to the 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.959 golf course. And I think so many people that are 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.480 listening to the podcast go to the golf course and 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.880 fundamentally think that in nine holes or eighteen holes that 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:15.839 your golf swing is going to dramatically change and it's 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:20.319 going to dramatically change for the better. That doesn't really happen. 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.880 And I don't see that a lot. Now do I 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.199 see that at the tour level. Yes, I see players 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.600 go out and get off to bad starts and shoot 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.200 over par on the front nine and then find it 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.560 on the back nine and go back and shoot, you know, 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.560 shoot two over, three over on the front, and then 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.120 shoot twenty nine on the back, shoot thirty on the back. 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.439 I've seen that more times than I can count. And 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.720 you will see that if you follow any players on 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.679 the PGA Tour, you'll see players that play really really 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.080 good on the front play poorly on the back. You'll 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.480 see players play not that great on the front and 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.240 play really really good on the back. The talent level 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.600 at the tour level, at the elite level, is so 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:03.200 much greater than the talent level that we all have. 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:07.800 But I say this all the time. We are incredibly influenced. 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:11.119 All golfers are incredibly influenced by what they watch on television. 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.360 And so your golf swing isn't going to change. So 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.600 my father in law's golf swing in nine holes isn't 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:23.520 going He's not going to miraculously start not swinging out 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.720 to end. That's his DNA, that's what he does. That's 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.280 what he does on a regular basis. So what I'm 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.160 trying to do on the golf course is saying, hey, 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.400 let's allow for the miss that you've got right so, 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.520 and let's also look at where you're setting up from 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.959 a tea box standpoint. So I think, like a lot 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.080 of players, he just comes to the middle of the 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:46.679 tea box, which really kind of allows him or gives 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:50.480 him more license to aim neutral and aim square. So 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.960 he's aiming down the middle of the fairway. He's set 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.320 up in the middle of the tea box. So again, 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.920 you've heard me talk about if you're a regular listen 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.600 to the pod. I'm always trying. I'm always trying with players, 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:05.360 whether they're someone like my father in law, who's, you know, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.679 in his mid seventies. He's got some body issues. His 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.440 golf isn't nearly what it used to be. I think 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.320 he's one of these players, like a lot of people, 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.800 as we get older, that we look back to the 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.080 glory days of what we used to be able to 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.440 do as opposed to being honest with ourselves as to 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.680 what we are able to do now. And your golf 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:30.480 swing as you get older is going to I mean, 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.160 your golf swing's always going to be in a constant 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:36.760 state of flux, right, It's constantly changing. But I do 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:42.280 think that you can make gains by looking at where 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:43.840 you're setting up on the tea box. So what I 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.320 asked Mike to do, I said, listen, as opposed to 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:50.240 coming over to the into the middle of the tea box, 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.040 why don't we go over to the far right hand side, 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.840 Because you slice the golf ball, so in a lot 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.400 of ways, I think it's easier for people that slice 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.760 the golf ball to see more of the fairway, to 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.120 see more of the golf course from the tea box 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.160 by coming over to the far right hand side, which 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.760 allows you then to aim more left. Because then if 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.000 you're curving the golf ball, and you've got the golf 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.360 ball curving from right to left, like a lot of 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:20.080 people listening to this podcast do, your ball can be 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.880 curving back towards the middle of the fairway, even if 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:25.960 you still have a little bit of slice. But if 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.400 you set up right in the middle of every fairway, 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.760 go straight down the middle tee it up right in 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:35.280 the middle of the tea box, you're eliminating a lot 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:39.240 of the usable space that you've got from an aim standpoint, 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:43.560 but also the usable space you have from how your 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.760 golf ball curves. So if you are someone that slices 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.200 the golf ball, don't be afraid to come over to 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.080 that far right hand side and then say, Okay, now 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.120 I'm going to aim a lot more left than I 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:59.360 normally do. Right, I'm going to give myself room. I'm 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.640 going to have the shape that I have, but I'm 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:10.400 just going to set up differently. I talked to Mike about, 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.160 you know, the concept that with your irons you want 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.320 to be hitting down on the golf ball. I mean, obviously, 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.280 the golf ball's on the ground and as we hit 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.040 down on it, and that helps the golf ball get 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.920 into the air. But with the driver, the ball is 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.320 already on a tee. And I think so many golfers 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:29.040 struggle with the driver. They're losing so much distance, they're 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.920 losing so much direction because they are hitting so much down. 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.240 So Mike had the golf ball a little bit too 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.560 far back in a stance, and so I said, just 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.880 move the golf ball more forward, te the golf ball 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.080 a little bit higher, and then you're trying to swing 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.200 a little bit more on the up and hit the 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.240 golf ball a little bit higher. That was the only 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.440 real technical thing I said to him. In the course 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.920 of the nine holes that I watched him play. All 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.360 I tried to get him to do is say, okay, listen, 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:00.080 let's look at where you're aiming. Let's look at where 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.680 you're trying to land the golf ball. And then one 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.280 of the things that I did was every time he 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.159 went to pull an iron, whether if it was an 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.280 eight iron, I told him pull a seven iron. If 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.320 it was a pitching wedge, I said, pull a nine iron. 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.240 And what I was trying to get him to do 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:22.600 was play for the miss, not play for the great shot. Again, 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.680 most golfers their yardages. I don't think the average golfer 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:31.200 really has any real concept as to how really far 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:35.000 they hit their golf ball. They don't understand how far 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.639 they hit it. They maybe think, Okay, I hit it 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:40.640 once on a part three and I had a really 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.639 good shot. And let's say I had an eight iron 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.679 and I hit it one hundred and fifty yards. So now, 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.880 regardless of how my body feels, regardless of how I've 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:53.360 been playing, regardless how I've been hitting it, I think 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.720 golfers have these arbitrary numbers in their head that they 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.000 hold on to, and I think those numbers are probably 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.280 influenced a lot by what they hear on television, a 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.000 lot by what they see other people play with. It's 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.280 very important that you have an understanding as to how 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.399 far you hit the golf ball. It doesn't matter what 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.320 the people you play with on a regular basis, doesn't 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.320 matter how far they hit the golf ball. The only 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:18.520 thing that matters is how far you hit the golf ball. 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:20.760 So what I started to do kind of midway through 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.359 the round is. I just said, listen, every iron you pull, 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.879 I'm going to have you pull another one. So we 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.040 got to a par three. It was about one hundred 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.800 and sixty yards. It was a little bit downhill, and 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:38.480 I think Mike pulled out a club the first time. 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.760 There was a little bit of kind of gorse area 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.640 and a little bit of stream running through the front 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.760 of the green. There was a bunker to the left, 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:49.240 There was rough around the green, so there's nothing over 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:53.200 the green, and there was really only one bunker on 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.280 the left hand side, so there wasn't any bunkers on 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.399 the right. So I think the first club that he 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:02.640 pulled out from one hundred and six yards was his 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:09.679 five iron, and he kind of topped it and you 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:11.840 could tell that he was trying to make a swing 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.960 that was a very very hard, fast swing because he 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.280 didn't have enough club. I think instinctively, we as golfers 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:21.960 know when we don't have enough club, right. I think 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.040 it's I think it's something that's really I think if 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:28.439 everybody was honest with themselves. I think a lot of 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.720 times you pull a club, you know it's not the 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.080 right club, and then what you try and do is 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.520 especially on par threes. You try and swing so hard 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.320 because you're trying to hit the golf ball a specific 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.440 distance that you don't really hit it. Maybe you once did, 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.480 maybe you do occasionally, but that's not the real usable 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:49.480 distance that you hit your club and you make too 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:52.640 hard of a swing. So that's what that's what he did. 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.520 He hit it into the into the water. He's staring 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:00.439 at making double triple bogie in the face. So I 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:06.800 went back to his golf bag and got a seven 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:10.000 wood out and I said, hit me the seven wood. 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:17.760 And so I think five iron is maybe does he 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.440 have a feign he might have a foreign I think 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:22.320 I did mention something about the fact that he had 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:24.399 a four n four iron, and I said, what the 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:25.800 hell do you have a four iron? Four? I mean, 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:28.840 that's you're never going to hit that club. You're not 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:33.560 going to hit it well, get you know, hybrid replacements. 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:37.359 But he took out. It was either seven or a 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:42.399 six wood. Hit a beautiful shot again, just missed the green. 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:45.760 Was just off of the fringe on a flat lie 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.440 in the rough. The ball was sitting down a little bit, 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.600 but again it's pin high. So the golf ball is 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:56.600 going thirty to forty yards further. Again, same thing that 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.840 we did with the driver, by having him aim differently, 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.960 by having move the golf he hits the golf ball 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:07.359 a little bit more solid because one he catches the 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:09.320 ball in the center of the face. So when I'm 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:13.359 looking at launch monitor technology, I think everyone is obsessed 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.960 with clubhead speed, which I do think is important, but 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:20.560 I'm looking at ball speed and I think that if 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:22.400 you can start to hit the golf ball a little 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:26.200 bit more in the center of the face, sometimes your 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:29.359 clubhead speed might go down, but your ball speed will 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:34.120 massively jump ten fifteen miles per hour and the golf 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.920 ball will go further. So by choosing a different golf 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:40.600 club that he doesn't have to hit as hard, he 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:43.080 catches it more in the center of the face, gets 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:47.480 it to the green. So now he was over in 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:50.560 just a little bit of the rough. He was in 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:53.000