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Speaker 1: It's the Son of a Butch podcast, and today we

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Speaker 1: are going to be setting some rules. I am out

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Speaker 1: in Dubai and I was at my academy and I

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Speaker 1: was working with our junior Elite team the other day,

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Speaker 1: and what I wanted to talk to them about is

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Speaker 1: what I'm going to talk to you about today is

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Speaker 1: setting some twenty twenty six non negotiables, right, and so

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Speaker 1: those non negotiables are going to be ways that I

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Speaker 1: think can help you lower your scores. One of the

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Speaker 1: things that I'm always trying to do is come up

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Speaker 1: with ways to help golfers lower the shield, break those

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Speaker 1: handicap barriers, break those scoring barriers, breaking one hundred for

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Speaker 1: the first time, ninety eighty, breaking power for the first time.

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Speaker 1: And I think, yes, taking lessons, working on your golf swing,

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Speaker 1: working on your technique always going to be a way

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Speaker 1: that are going to help you lower your scores. But

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Speaker 1: I also think that I'm always trying to find different

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Speaker 1: hacks that don't necessarily have anything to do with your

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Speaker 1: technique or your athletic ability or your golf ability. And

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Speaker 1: I think if you can think better on the golf course,

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Speaker 1: and these non negotiables should be a way that your

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Speaker 1: scores can come down, that your handicap can come down,

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Speaker 1: and you can start to enjoy your golf a lot

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Speaker 1: more so. The first non negotiable is if you aren't

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Speaker 1: going to hit a driver off the tee, you have

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Speaker 1: to hit the fairway. The whole point of taking less

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Speaker 1: club off the tee is control, right, You're trading distance

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Speaker 1: for accuracy. So if you're not going to hit your driver,

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Speaker 1: if you're going to pull three wood, if you're going

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Speaker 1: to pull any of your fairway woods, if you're going

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Speaker 1: to pull a hybrid, if you're going to pull an

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Speaker 1: iron and you miss the fairway, you are giving up

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Speaker 1: a lot. You're giving up a lot of distance, and

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Speaker 1: it kind of puts you behind the eight ball, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of times we're not hitting driver

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Speaker 1: because we don't trust it or the whole doesn't call

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Speaker 1: for it, which is fine. But if you're not going

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Speaker 1: to hit driver, this is where you have to execute, right.

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Speaker 1: This isn't about technique, this is about execution. So if

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Speaker 1: you miss the fairway with a driver, I think the

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Speaker 1: thought process is okay. Were you were trying to be

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Speaker 1: aggressive and I get that right. So a lot of

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Speaker 1: times you're gonna pull driver and you're going to miss

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Speaker 1: a fairway. But if you're going to not pull driver,

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Speaker 1: if you're laying up right, I mean a lot of

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Speaker 1: times I think we think, Okay, I'm not gonna hit driver.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna lay up into the middle of the fairway,

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Speaker 1: and then you miss the fairway. You should feel really

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Speaker 1: bad about that because I mean, it's way worse than

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Speaker 1: missing the fairway with the driver, because at least if

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Speaker 1: you were trying to hit your driver, it's the longest

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Speaker 1: club in your bag. It's where you're going to get

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Speaker 1: the max distant. So from a first management standpoint, if

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Speaker 1: the hole requires you to hit a driver and you're

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Speaker 1: not going to hit driver and you're going to pull

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Speaker 1: any other club and you missed the fairway, what the

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Speaker 1: hell was the point of not just smashing driver anyway?

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Speaker 1: So I think that mind shift of you're not hitting driver,

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Speaker 1: you better find the short grass. Otherwise, just take your

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Speaker 1: driver and take chances. So when you're practicing, I think

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Speaker 1: it's really really important. One of the things that we

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Speaker 1: did the other day with our junior Elite team is

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Speaker 1: we gave them a fairway on the golf course. We

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Speaker 1: picked out two flags right, flag to the left, flag

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Speaker 1: to the right, and gave them on the fairway and

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Speaker 1: imaginary fairway that they had to hit and they couldn't

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Speaker 1: hit driver for it. And then what they needed to

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Speaker 1: do was they needed to choose one of their fairway woods,

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Speaker 1: one of their hybrids, and then one of their irons.

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Speaker 1: I think most are going to have that set up

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Speaker 1: in their bag, right. Most players are going to have

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Speaker 1: a three wood, four wood, or a five wood. If

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Speaker 1: you're a regular average golfer, you should have a hybrid.

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Speaker 1: If you don't and you use a driving iron, you

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Speaker 1: can use that and then a five iron, a four iron,

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Speaker 1: driver right. And I think that's a really good thing

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Speaker 1: to start to practice now. A lot of times, I

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Speaker 1: think players when they don't take driver off the tee,

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Speaker 1: they're going to a club that they haven't really done

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Speaker 1: a lot of practice with. Right. They haven't spent a

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Speaker 1: lot of time figuring out which of their non driver

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Speaker 1: is a good club for them. And you should have

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Speaker 1: your favorite club that if you just need to hit

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Speaker 1: and I think that practice that So it's a three

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Speaker 1: ball drill imaginary fairway. You can make the fairway as

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Speaker 1: big or as wide as you want. And that's the

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Speaker 1: cool thing about the driving ring. But the driving range

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Speaker 1: is kind of the playground for us to test stuff out.

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Speaker 1: It's like you're a chef and you're trying to come

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Speaker 1: up with new dishes, and it's kind of like your

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Speaker 1: R and D kitchen. You know what flavors were, what

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Speaker 1: kind of you know, what am I going to try

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Speaker 1: and do here? You're not going to take driver, So

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Speaker 1: look at your fairway woods. If you've got a combo

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Speaker 1: of fairway woods, you're gonna hit one of those. Then

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Speaker 1: if you've got a hybrid or a driving iron, you're

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Speaker 1: going to hit one of those. And then any iron.

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Speaker 1: I think a good rule of thumb would be to

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Speaker 1: have to hit that three times in a row. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's a really good practice for you to

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Speaker 1: get into. And then you can make the fairway. You

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Speaker 1: can start big and make the fairway on the driving range,

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Speaker 1: give yourself a really really big fairway, and then say,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to try and tighten up

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Speaker 1: the fairway. Let's say you do three rounds. Okay, a

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Speaker 1: and just say, okay, I'm gonna make the fairway big,

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Speaker 1: and if I get through that round, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: to a little bit smaller imaginary fairway and if I

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Speaker 1: can do three there. If I can't do three there

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Speaker 1: in a row, I go back to my big fairway

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Speaker 1: and get that confidence and say, okay, I've got to

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Speaker 1: where I can get my three shots that are non

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Speaker 1: and if I can get through that, and then I say,

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Speaker 1: all right, let me really really test this and give

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Speaker 1: you know, fifteen yards really really tight. And I think

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Speaker 1: if you can practice that, it's going to help you.

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Speaker 1: You're going to gain that confidence and then you want

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Speaker 1: to kind of cycle through them. Try it with a

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Speaker 1: you can switch the club, switch the fairway wood, go

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Speaker 1: to your next iron down. But I think that's a really,

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Speaker 1: really good non negotiable. You're not gonna pull driver. You

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Speaker 1: have to hit the fairway because if you're not hitting

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Speaker 1: the fairway with a driver and you miss the fairway

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Speaker 1: with another club, I gotta be honest with you, what

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Speaker 1: the hell did you pull that club for? Anyway, just

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Speaker 1: smash driver and take your chances. Non negotiable for twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six number two. However, many wedges in your hand,

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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of players will kind of

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Speaker 1: be in that three to four range. I think most

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Speaker 1: players could benefit from having a lob wedge, having a

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Speaker 1: sand wedge, having a gap wedge, and having a pitching

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Speaker 1: wedge right. And if you're looking at your wedges, try

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Speaker 1: and keep between. You know, if you've got sixty, you

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Speaker 1: should have fifty six. Then the next one down should

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Speaker 1: be fifty two and then your pitching wedge. What you

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Speaker 1: don't want to do is get those kind of big

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Speaker 1: You have to hit the green with all of your wedges.

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Speaker 1: And I think this is a course management hack because

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are trying to get

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Speaker 1: get a lob wedge in their hand because they feel

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Speaker 1: more comfortable, or they think it's going to be easier

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Speaker 1: for them to score or hit the green with a

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Speaker 1: lob wedge as opposed to a sand wedge, their gap wedge,

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Speaker 1: or they're pitching wedge. Right, it shouldn't make a difference

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Speaker 1: between any of the wedges that you have in your bag,

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Speaker 1: and you need to be able to hit the green

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Speaker 1: with all of your wedges, right, It's a non negotiable

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Speaker 1: that you just can't. And I think this is regardless

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Speaker 1: you're a low handicap, you just can't miss greens with wedges.

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Speaker 1: And I think what we do is this is where

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Speaker 1: I think we're really really influenced by television. Right, we

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Speaker 1: When you're watching golf on TV, they're going to be

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Speaker 1: showing you. On the weekend, especially when a lot of

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Speaker 1: watching the players that are playing the best that week.

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Speaker 1: So watching the wedge game and watching what players do

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Speaker 1: So you have four wedges in your bag, you have

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Speaker 1: three wedges in your bag. A twenty twenty six non

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Speaker 1: scoring clubs, right, and you just you can't give shots

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Speaker 1: away here, right, And you're going to give shots away

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Speaker 1: here if you are missing greens with your wedges. A wedge,

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Speaker 1: if you think about it, is it's a precision club.

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Speaker 1: It's a scoring club. So treat it as such. Make

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Speaker 1: your wedge gain sacred. And the sacred part of your

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Speaker 1: wedge gain is you just can't miss the green because

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Speaker 1: if you miss the green, then you have to rely

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Speaker 1: on your short gain. So again, go to the driving

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Speaker 1: some target greens on them. You can do that and say,

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Speaker 1: all right, same thing that we talked about with the

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Speaker 1: non negotiables as to having to not miss the fair

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Speaker 1: way if you're not taking driver, give yourself three ball

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Speaker 1: challenges with all your wedges and say all right, let

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Speaker 1: me pick out my lob wedge yardage. You can use

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Speaker 1: of this to say, listen, give myself a green complex.

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Speaker 1: You can make it big, you can make it small.

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Speaker 1: But I have to be able to hit my lob

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Speaker 1: and then I move down to my next wedge right,

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Speaker 1: So then I move down to my fifty six, and

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Speaker 1: I have to be able to hit the target three

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Speaker 1: to my lob wedge wedge in theory, and I think

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Speaker 1: most people think, okay, that should be the easiest way

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Speaker 1: able to hit the green with all of your wedges.

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Speaker 1: But the three ball challenge, I think is a really

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Speaker 1: what clubs go, which distance is right. But listen three

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Speaker 1: rules simple, no driver means you hit the fairway. Wedge

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Speaker 1: of the dead zone, right, and then carry it by

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Speaker 1: fifteen if not, lay up short. No ine between. These

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be aspirations. They make them standards for your golf game,

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Speaker 1: and I really do think in twenty twenty six. You know,

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Speaker 1: my goal with the pod obviously is to get guests

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Speaker 1: everybody is trying to improve that. I say this all

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Speaker 1: golf swing, right. And so I'm back out on tour,

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Speaker 1: I'm watching everybody work on their golf swing with their

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Speaker 1: swing coaches, right, the swing coaches out here. Everybody's trying

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Speaker 1: to work on their technique. On the PGA Tour, dp

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Speaker 1: World Live, LPGA Asia Champs Tour, everybody's trying to work

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Speaker 1: on their technique. Everybody's got something they're working on, but

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Speaker 1: them down in your yardage book, write them down on

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Speaker 1: your scorecard. And when you get into these situations, I

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Speaker 1: think it will help you start to think better about

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Speaker 1: I think those will help you start to think better

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Speaker 1: on the golf course. The course management will get better,

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Speaker 1: and they're non negotiables. You can start to apply these

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Speaker 1: to your games. I really believe that twenty twenty six

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Speaker 1: is going to be better for you. Your scores will

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Speaker 1: be better, your handicaps will come down, and if that happens,

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Speaker 1: the most important thing is you will have more fun

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Speaker 1: on the golf course. Thanks everyone for listening. It's the

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Speaker 1: Son of a Butcher podcast