Speaker 1: It's the son of a butch podcast. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Claude Horman solo episode of the pod this week. But
Speaker 1: before we get to that, it was four years ago
Speaker 1: this week that the podcast started. Now read was my
Speaker 1: first guest, and four years on, I think we're close
Speaker 1: to two and a half million downloads. I continue to
Speaker 1: be amazed at people listen. To be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I travel probably twenty twenty five weeks a year all
Speaker 1: over the globe. People no matter where I am, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Bangkok, Thailand, Singapore,
Speaker 1: someone will come up to me and say, hey, listen
Speaker 1: to the podcast, and that just blows me away. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I do it all myself. Obviously, with my
Speaker 1: travel schedule it can get a little bit taxing at times,
Speaker 1: but I travel with podcast bag, record everything, get all
Speaker 1: the guests myself, and just do it all. It's a
Speaker 1: labor of love and we'll keep doing it. We'll keep
Speaker 1: trying to get as many good guests as we can
Speaker 1: and come up with as many topics as possible to
Speaker 1: help you improve your game. And once again, I can't
Speaker 1: thank everybody enough for supporting and listening. It really does
Speaker 1: mean a lot to me. So I spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time obviously as a golf instructor on the podcast
Speaker 1: talking about technique and things like that. But one of
Speaker 1: the things, if you've listened over the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: I think execution is as important as having great technique. Yes, obviously,
Speaker 1: having great technique is a huge part of getting better
Speaker 1: at golf. If your golf swing improves, if your technique improves,
Speaker 1: if your positions improve, all of that, right, But if
Speaker 1: you are going to play golf on a regular basis,
Speaker 1: your golf swing and your golf game is going to
Speaker 1: be in a constant state of flux change. It's never
Speaker 1: really going to be the same all the time. And
Speaker 1: even at that tour level, the best players in the world,
Speaker 1: their game isn't great all the time. Obviously, Yes, when
Speaker 1: the best players in the world are playing their best,
Speaker 1: Scottie Scheffler, Ry McElroy, John Rahm, Brooks, Koepka, any of
Speaker 1: the players right Xander, when they're playing their best like
Speaker 1: last year, Xander, two majors playing great this year, no
Speaker 1: majors so far right hasn't played the way he's played
Speaker 1: last year. Guys, that's just golf. I mean, golf is tough,
Speaker 1: but I see so many players that come and take
Speaker 1: lessons from me, and I just look at the way
Speaker 1: that they're trying to go about getting better. Yes, they're
Speaker 1: trying to take golf lessons. Yes they're trying to improve
Speaker 1: their golf swings, their technique and stuff. But I was
Speaker 1: with a junior golfer I help, and we went out
Speaker 1: on the golf course and we're hitting shots on the course. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: This kid, you know, ranked inside the top one hundred
Speaker 1: and junior golf scoreboard, probably will end up playing Division
Speaker 1: one college golf, wins tournaments, a really really good player,
Speaker 1: and it's got a beautiful golf swing. Technique is really
Speaker 1: really solid. And so we were out on the golf
Speaker 1: course and we were going out and I specifically wanted
Speaker 1: to go out and just hit shots on the course.
Speaker 1: We weren't hitting drives, we were just going to the fairway.
Speaker 1: We were randomizing the numbers out on the golf course
Speaker 1: on the different holes. Here at Floridian. He likes to
Speaker 1: draw the golf ball, so I was like, Okay, let's
Speaker 1: pick out really specific targets on where we want the
Speaker 1: golf ball to start. And then let's be really really
Speaker 1: specific in where we want the golf ball to start
Speaker 1: and where we want the golf ball to finish. And
Speaker 1: so what I was trying to talk to him about is, listen,
Speaker 1: why don't we just go out and we're just trying
Speaker 1: to hit either left or right of it the flag.
Speaker 1: So he likes to draw it, So I was like, okay.
Speaker 1: So we went out to a par three. So water
Speaker 1: down the left hand side of this par three, probably
Speaker 1: about one hundred and I think we were playing it yesterday,
Speaker 1: right around one hundred and sixty five hundred and seventy yards.
Speaker 1: Pin was in the back left hand portion of the green,
Speaker 1: and there is a raised up area on the right
Speaker 1: hand and then there's a slope so they can put
Speaker 1: a pin on kind of a shelf on the right
Speaker 1: hand side of this green, which is a really tough
Speaker 1: pin position. And then the other difficult pin position on
Speaker 1: this whole is back left because anything left of the flag,
Speaker 1: anything left of the green, is going to go into
Speaker 1: the water. So you've got to control your trajectory. You've
Speaker 1: got to control how much curve you've got. So I
Speaker 1: think he was probably seven iron, eight iron something like that.
Speaker 1: Stood up and I watched him go ahead and hit
Speaker 1: the shot, and he got up and he kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, got behind the golf ball, made a couple
Speaker 1: of practice swings, and from I noticed from the time
Speaker 1: that he started making his practice swings. So once he
Speaker 1: finished his practice swings and he was getting ready to
Speaker 1: get into the shot and hit it, I just watched
Speaker 1: his head and I watched his eyes. And so from
Speaker 1: the time he got behind the golf ball and then
Speaker 1: started walking into it, and I noticed his head and
Speaker 1: he's looking at the golf ball. So he gets into
Speaker 1: his set up. He's kind of staring at the golf
Speaker 1: ball and going through some waggles, quick glance at the target,
Speaker 1: back to staring at the golf balls, a couple of
Speaker 1: rehearsal backswings, you know, shuffling his feet, but again no
Speaker 1: look at the target. Then quick glanced to the target
Speaker 1: and back into looking at the ball, shuffling his feet,
Speaker 1: all those things, and then he hit one. So he
Speaker 1: hit two shots. They weren't great. One of them went
Speaker 1: over the green, one of them came up a little
Speaker 1: bit short, and so I mentioned that to him, and
Speaker 1: I said, listen, you are daring at the golf ball
Speaker 1: and just kind of quickly glancing at the target and
Speaker 1: then back to staring at the golf ball and then
Speaker 1: quick glance back to the target. Why don't we try
Speaker 1: and do the opposite right, So, why don't you get
Speaker 1: behind the golf ball? And then I said to him, listen,
Speaker 1: I want a very specific target on where you're trying
Speaker 1: to start the golf ball. So there was the flag
Speaker 1: and then in the horizon behind them there was some,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of trees, and then there was
Speaker 1: a gap in the trees, and then there were some
Speaker 1: more trees, and I said, listen, if you think about
Speaker 1: what we're trying to do here, we're trying to hit
Speaker 1: this ball twenty feet right of the flag pin high,
Speaker 1: So really zone in on where you want this golf
Speaker 1: ball to start, where you want this golf ball to curve.
Speaker 1: And the idea that I've talked about on the pod
Speaker 1: before it's a game that I like to play with players,
Speaker 1: is we give them a target whatever shape they're hitting,
Speaker 1: whether they're hitting draws, whether they're hitting fades. We give
Speaker 1: them ten balls. There's three points available, and then what
Speaker 1: we do is you get your target and then you've
Speaker 1: got kind of another target right of it, however, far
Speaker 1: right of it you to go. That's player dependent, that's
Speaker 1: up to you, and it's kind of ability dependent, right. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if you're not hitting it great and you're working on
Speaker 1: a lot of things, give yourself a big winn. So
Speaker 1: the idea that whether you're hitting a drawer or a fade,
Speaker 1: but if you're hitting a draw, every time you're going
Speaker 1: to hit a draw, go ahead and look at your target.
Speaker 1: And what the launch monitors do is they basically look
Speaker 1: at where your ball is. When you work with a
Speaker 1: launch monitor, it basically is tracking kind of a line
Speaker 1: from your golf ball to the target, and then there's
Speaker 1: the right side of that, there's the left side of that.
Speaker 1: But every time you're going to hit a shot, look
Speaker 1: at your target. If you're going to try and hit
Speaker 1: a draw, what you're going to do is you're going
Speaker 1: to open up a window right of the target. Right,
Speaker 1: you've got a launch window and your target obviously the
Speaker 1: flag that's where you're trying to hit the golf ball too.
Speaker 1: But what I see most players do is they're just
Speaker 1: hyper hyper focused on the target. If they're even looking
Speaker 1: at the target right. So they're going to try and
Speaker 1: hit it at the flag. So what I was saying
Speaker 1: to this player yesterday, this junior, Okay, let's look at
Speaker 1: where we're trying to start the golf ball. You know,
Speaker 1: what is our launch window of where we're trying to
Speaker 1: start it. And he kind of came up with a tree.
Speaker 1: He said, okay, that's kind of my out of bounds
Speaker 1: on the right. I don't want to start it anymore
Speaker 1: right of that. So from behind the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: he had a very clear kind of window of where
Speaker 1: he was trying to hit it. So he's trying to
Speaker 1: start it in that window, curve it in that window,
Speaker 1: have it stay in that window, and hit it solid.
Speaker 1: And that's the game that we play on the range. Right,
Speaker 1: I give him ten balls, tell them to pick a
Speaker 1: target out and then I say, all right, you know
Speaker 1: we've got a flag right of that. We got another
Speaker 1: flag right of that, we got another flag right of that.
Speaker 1: You choose which one as kind of your barrier on
Speaker 1: the right hand side. So that's kind of an out
Speaker 1: of bounds line, and then you've got to start the
Speaker 1: golf ball in that kind of launch window. You get
Speaker 1: a point for that. You get a point if it
Speaker 1: curves and stays in the launch window. So that's two points,
Speaker 1: and then you get a point if you hit it solid.
Speaker 1: So we were on the course and I said, listen,
Speaker 1: you've just hit two balls and you're not even looking
Speaker 1: really at the target. You're just kind of glancing, you know,
Speaker 1: at the target for like a second, and then you're
Speaker 1: kind of staring at the staring at your body, staring
Speaker 1: at all of the stuff that is not moving right,
Speaker 1: and you haven't even hit the ball yet. So I said, listen,
Speaker 1: I want you to stare at the target, glance at
Speaker 1: the ball. Stare at the target, glance at the ball.
Speaker 1: So he stood up, got behind it, and I filmed
Speaker 1: both of these. I filmed the first one where I
Speaker 1: showed him listen, go ahead and take a look at
Speaker 1: this last video. And he's like, yeah, I'm not even
Speaker 1: I'm barely even looking at the target. And I said,
Speaker 1: so you're staring at the ball. What are you staring
Speaker 1: at the ball for? The ball's not going to move right.
Speaker 1: It's not a moving ball right in golf unless the
Speaker 1: ball moves on its own, or the ground moves, the
Speaker 1: ball rolls down hill or something. The ball is stationary.
Speaker 1: It's going to stay in the same place. And I
Speaker 1: think so many golfers are worried so much about their
Speaker 1: technique and their golf swing and their mechanics and all that.
Speaker 1: And again, all of that is important, right, It's important
Speaker 1: part of playing golf. It's an important part of improving golf.
Speaker 1: But as I said in the opening, your golf swing
Speaker 1: isn't going to be perfect every day. Your golf swing
Speaker 1: probably has never going to be perfect. So when you're
Speaker 1: on the golf course, you've got to figure out where
Speaker 1: you're trying to hit the golf ball. And I think
Speaker 1: where you're trying to hit the golf ball and where
Speaker 1: you're trying to start the golf ball, he is majorly important.
Speaker 1: And so I filmed this player on the first shot
Speaker 1: staring at the ball, glancing at the target, staring at
Speaker 1: the ball, glancing at the target. Didn't hit two great shots.
Speaker 1: I said, all right, so let's reverse that. Want you
Speaker 1: to from the time you get behind the golf ball.
Speaker 1: It just wants you to really focus in and stare
Speaker 1: at where you want the ball to start, not where
Speaker 1: you want the ball to finish, where you want the
Speaker 1: ball to start, and just control your start line and
Speaker 1: so I filmed it, and he got up and got
Speaker 1: behind it, and all of a sudden, the walk into
Speaker 1: the ball was a little bit slower because he wasn't
Speaker 1: staring at the ball. He was kind of looking at
Speaker 1: the target. And then he got in and got his
Speaker 1: feet set and he was looking at the target. Then
Speaker 1: he looked down at the golf ball for a second,
Speaker 1: and then back into staring at where he's trying to
Speaker 1: start the golf ball. He did some of his waggles again,
Speaker 1: but staring more at the target than the golf ball.
Speaker 1: And then he got up hit a beautiful high little draw,
Speaker 1: started it on the right hand part of the green
Speaker 1: and started it kind of over where this top shelf is,
Speaker 1: and then landed it on the slope and then one
Speaker 1: bounced it started to go down to the hole, rolling
Speaker 1: like a putt, and he lippt it out. I mean,
Speaker 1: he almost made it. And then I showed him that
Speaker 1: and he was like, wow, that looks really different. It
Speaker 1: looked more, he said, it looked slower. I said, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's slower. I think maybe it's just
Speaker 1: more purposeful and stuff. And so I started thinking about that,
Speaker 1: and so for the rest of the holes that we play.
Speaker 1: It was the same type thing, Okay, hit this one.
Speaker 1: And so what I was doing is I was challenging
Speaker 1: him with his shape. Right, he likes to draw the
Speaker 1: golf ball from right to left, So I was saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: on some holes, we're going to try and have the
Speaker 1: ball finish twenty feet right of the flag, and then
Speaker 1: on some of the holes, we're going to try and
Speaker 1: have the ball finish twenty feet left of the flag.
Speaker 1: So getting him to think about where he was wanting
Speaker 1: the ball to finish and not necessarily being so hyper
Speaker 1: focused on where the pin was in the flag. So
Speaker 1: to me, I think one of the things that's really
Speaker 1: important for golfers and is important when you're hitting shots
Speaker 1: is your intent. Your intention, What are you trying to do?
Speaker 1: What is the formula of what you're trying to do?
Speaker 1: What is the recipe of what you're trying to do?
Speaker 1: And I think so many golfers have a clear picture
Speaker 1: in their head of what they're trying to do when
Speaker 1: they're working on their technique, right when they're working on
Speaker 1: positions and their golf swing, and when they're working on
Speaker 1: mechanics and working on trying not to let the backswing
Speaker 1: get too inside, working on not letting the backswing get
Speaker 1: to outside. Whatever mechanical thoughts or technical thoughts you're using
Speaker 1: in your golf swing. But when you get out on
Speaker 1: the golf course, it's hard to play thinking of all
Speaker 1: of the things that you're trying to work on in
Speaker 1: your golf swing. And then I think the focus becomes
Speaker 1: on the golf course really really internal, to where the
Speaker 1: focus is about a specific body part, a specific muscle,
Speaker 1: a specific body motion. That's all the internal focus. And
Speaker 1: I just see a lot of players struggle on the
Speaker 1: golf course because there's no external focus, right, There's no
Speaker 1: focus on what is this lie going to do? What
Speaker 1: is this slope that I'm on going to do? What
Speaker 1: is that going to do? To the shape? The ball's
Speaker 1: below my feet, what's the ball going to do? How's
Speaker 1: that going to affect it? If the ball is above
Speaker 1: my feet, what is the ball going to do? And
Speaker 1: again going back to this junior that I was saying, okay,
Speaker 1: and then what is your intent on this shot? And
Speaker 1: so what I started doing was asking this player, this junior, okay,
Speaker 1: talk me through what you're going to do, and not
Speaker 1: your technique, not Okay, I want the backswing to go
Speaker 1: a little bit more on the inside, want it to
Speaker 1: be a little bit shorter than I want to try
Speaker 1: and shallow it out and kind of drop it underneath
Speaker 1: and do all that. No, I don't need to know
Speaker 1: any of the I want to know what type of
Speaker 1: shot you're trying to hit. Okay, you tell me you're
Speaker 1: gonna hit a little draw, great, Okay, where's your target? Okay?
Speaker 1: Obviously there's the flag. Okay, So where do you want
Speaker 1: the ball to start? And then what I did was
Speaker 1: I got him verbally going through that, you know, standing
Speaker 1: behind the golf ball and saying, okay, what do we
Speaker 1: got here? Where's the wind? What's the distance? Okay? So
Speaker 1: first of all, what's the distance? And one of the
Speaker 1: things that I try and do with junior golfers, and
Speaker 1: I think it's something that everybody could benefit from, is
Speaker 1: when you walk up and I think I've said this before,
Speaker 1: but when you walk up to an iron shot, you
Speaker 1: stand up and you're going to hit one, don't take
Speaker 1: out your rangefinder, don't look for a yardage marker. Ask
Speaker 1: yourself how far you think the flag is away from you?
Speaker 1: Just ask yourself that first question, come up with a
Speaker 1: number and say, yeah, that looks probably one fifty five.
Speaker 1: Get your range finder. Okay, it was one fifty eight,
Speaker 1: it's one fifty seven. Good. If you think it's one
Speaker 1: fifty five and you hit your rain finder and it's
Speaker 1: one eighty, that's a problem. And I think building that
Speaker 1: kind of trust with yourself of Okay, I know what
Speaker 1: the yardage is. I can see that visually. I think
Speaker 1: visualization on the golf course. There's a lot of ways
Speaker 1: that we visualize things, but I think distance control, depth perception,
Speaker 1: and things like that is something that a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't really kind of practice, they don't really test,
Speaker 1: And I think if you can start doing that is
Speaker 1: the first thing you do when you get up to
Speaker 1: your golf ball is just ask yourself, okay, without any calculations,
Speaker 1: without a yardage book, without a rangefinder, without looking at
Speaker 1: a yardage marker, looking where the one fifty. You know,
Speaker 1: some golf courses are going to have plates on the
Speaker 1: ground that are going to give you yardages, you know,
Speaker 1: just basic yardages one hundred, one fifty, one seventy five,
Speaker 1: or sometimes they have the markers on the side of
Speaker 1: the fairways, right, so you know that's one hundred yard marker.
Speaker 1: And then obviously the fancier of the club, the more
Speaker 1: you know details the yardages are going to be. They're
Speaker 1: going to give you yardage to the front, they're going
Speaker 1: to give you yardage to the middle, they're going to
Speaker 1: give you yardage back, whatever it is. But I think
Speaker 1: if you ask yourself first what is the yardage, and
Speaker 1: then use your rangefinder to test to see if you're right.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you're rangefinder or whatever yardage device that you're using,
Speaker 1: plates things in the ground or on the course. Hopefully
Speaker 1: you're right. You know. I think most golfers now they're
Speaker 1: competitive and serious about their golf have rangefinders. So walk
Speaker 1: up to it, take a look at it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's one sixty five. Go ahead and scope it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it's one sixty three, it's one sixty, it's whatever.
Speaker 1: Then ask yourself, Okay, what club am I going to hit?
Speaker 1: I think building in for the miss, So I think
Speaker 1: early in the round a good thing to do is
Speaker 1: maybe take one more club and swing easy so you
Speaker 1: don't have to kind of jump out of your shoes
Speaker 1: and you know you're playing on the golf course. Play
Speaker 1: for the miss don't play for the good shot. Play
Speaker 1: for okay, if I miss it, let me just take
Speaker 1: enough club. So if I miss hit this a little bit,
Speaker 1: I've got enough club that's gonna maybe get it on
Speaker 1: the green. So choosing the club and then ask yourself, okay,
Speaker 1: where's the flag? Okay, And then dependent on the shape
Speaker 1: that you're trying to hit. Let's say you're trying to
Speaker 1: hit a draw, use the backdrop, use the horizon, use
Speaker 1: the trees, use whatever you've got, and say, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try and hit this golf ball pin high, so
Speaker 1: you know anywhere. I mean, if you could dump all
Speaker 1: of your golf balls twenty to thirty feet left or
Speaker 1: right of the pin, you'd probably lower your scores in
Speaker 1: a pretty quick fashion and start to play pretty good.
Speaker 1: So just think, let me just hit this to twenty feet.
Speaker 1: That's a good shot with an iron. Right, That is
Speaker 1: a really really good shot with an iron. I was watching,
Speaker 1: you know, at the PGA at Quail Hollow down the
Speaker 1: stretch on Sunday. I was doing this with a couple
Speaker 1: of juniors earlier in the week, and we were going
Speaker 1: back and watching shots, and you know, John Rahm Sunday,
Speaker 1: tied for the lead. Part three, stands up and it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful shot to about twenty feet from two hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve yards lip the put out. I think that
Speaker 1: was at thirteen, But a really quality iron shot in
Speaker 1: a major championship on the back nine on Sunday, tied
Speaker 1: for the lead, two hundred and twelve yard par three,
Speaker 1: twenty feet great shot, Just a great shot in those circumstances.
Speaker 1: If anybody was watching, lit the put out, still trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how that didn't go in Scotti Scheffler.
Speaker 1: Just quality iron shots, right, So just trying to hit
Speaker 1: it twenty feet left of it, twenty feet right of it,
Speaker 1: pin high, and then say, Okay, where do I want
Speaker 1: this golf ball to start? Not where do I want
Speaker 1: the golf ball to finish? Where do I want the
Speaker 1: golf ball to start? I think if you're asking yourself
Speaker 1: that question, first of all, if you're asking yourself, okay,
Speaker 1: how far do I think this yardage is without a rangefinder?
Speaker 1: That's a question you're asking yourself, and if you get
Speaker 1: the answer right, you're building some trust with yourself and
Speaker 1: then having a very clear, specific, defined target. And I'm
Speaker 1: talking when you do this on the golf course. Pick
Speaker 1: something specific and say, Okay, I tend to curve the
Speaker 1: golf ball from right to left. I'm going to try
Speaker 1: and get this thing about twenty feet right of the flag.
Speaker 1: That's where I wanted to finish. Okay, where do I
Speaker 1: need to start the golf ball to achieve that goal?
Speaker 1: To me, that is motive, purpose, intent, intention, that's I'm
Speaker 1: intending to do something. So you're also kind of building
Speaker 1: a narrative in your head of on every shot. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me ask myself what the yardage is here? Okay,
Speaker 1: let me see if I'm right, Then where am I
Speaker 1: trying to start the golf ball for the shape that
Speaker 1: I'm trying to hit? Okay, then let me pick out
Speaker 1: a really specific target and then yeah, I mean, you
Speaker 1: can have some swing thoughts, you can have some ideas
Speaker 1: of what you're trying to do from a golf swing standpoint,
Speaker 1: but then I think you've got to get out of
Speaker 1: that mode and then get into play mode. Right the
Speaker 1: vision fifty four mantra of think box playbox. Okay, you're
Speaker 1: in the think box, and then when you're hitting the shot,
Speaker 1: you're in the playbox trying to turn your brain off.
Speaker 1: But I do think going out on the golf course
Speaker 1: and having you know, some visualization of where you're trying
Speaker 1: to start the golf ball and the window that you're
Speaker 1: trying to start the golf ball in. I think having
Speaker 1: a goal of saying, listen, if I could just hit
Speaker 1: my irons twenty thirty feet right of the flag, twenty
Speaker 1: thirty feet left the flag. There were a couple holes
Speaker 1: with a wedge where I was out with this junior
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, I want you to hit
Speaker 1: a little draw in here. So we went shorter the
Speaker 1: to the green, you know, inside of one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty yards. So I said, listen, hit me a little
Speaker 1: I think we were about ninety yards, and I gave
Speaker 1: him a club and I said, listen, hit me a
Speaker 1: little low. What you feel like is a little low
Speaker 1: draw right, and you've got to try and land this.
Speaker 1: And the pin was in the middle of the green,
Speaker 1: I said, and you're going to try and land this
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty feet and have this end up fifteen twenty
Speaker 1: feet short of the flag. So it was uphill, so
Speaker 1: that way you have an uphill pot. And so I said,
Speaker 1: same thing, Okay, where's your target? Got the target and
Speaker 1: you know the flag? Okay, where are you trying to
Speaker 1: start this golf ball? Where do you want the golf
Speaker 1: ball to finish? So ask yourself those questions every time
Speaker 1: you hit an iron shot, and every time you hit
Speaker 1: a driver as well. What shape am I trying to hit?
Speaker 1: Where do I want the golf ball to start? Where
Speaker 1: do I want the golf ball to finish? Are you
Speaker 1: going to start it where you want to every time? No?
Speaker 1: Is it going to finish where you want to every time? No?
Speaker 1: It doesn't do that. For Rory McElroy, Scotti, Scheffler, Nellie Corda,
Speaker 1: Lydia Co, all the best players in the world, they
Speaker 1: don't hit it perfect every time. But I think if
Speaker 1: you start asking yourself those questions, it's going to challenge
Speaker 1: you to come up with an answer. Okay, okay, I've
Speaker 1: got the pin. Okay, where do I want the ball
Speaker 1: to start? And how much curve am I going to have?
Speaker 1: If you're a higher handicapped player, the ball is probably
Speaker 1: going to curve a good deal a good amount, So
Speaker 1: allow for that. I read that. You know, if you
Speaker 1: think back to the PGA that Scotty Scheffler just won.
Speaker 1: He didn't hit it great on the front nine. Right,
Speaker 1: he was over par and he was missing a lot
Speaker 1: of his balls left. Scott, I mean missed it left
Speaker 1: on the first couple holes. I mean the first hole
Speaker 1: from the middle of the fairway, hit it in the
Speaker 1: left bunker. Second hole, trying to hit a fade over
Speaker 1: the trees, double crossed it left. Everything was left on
Speaker 1: the front And I read that it was Teddy Scott's
Speaker 1: caddy that said, Hey, maybe we're just to aim over there.
Speaker 1: Maybe we're aimed too far left, And that would make
Speaker 1: sense to me, right, that tracks for me. I mean
Speaker 1: you're missing it. You're trying to fade the golf ball,
Speaker 1: and you are a fader of the golf ball like
Speaker 1: Scotti Scheffler is, and the control all delete. If you're
Speaker 1: missing it left, he's going to be all right, let
Speaker 1: me just aim a little bit more left and hit
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a cut. And so all
Speaker 1: the balls on the front looked like they were going
Speaker 1: left and missing left. And so it was Teddy Scott
Speaker 1: that said, Hey, maybe we're just aimed too far left.
Speaker 1: Why don't we aim just a little straighter aim what
Speaker 1: you feel like is a little bit more to the right,
Speaker 1: and then from then on Scotty started to flush it.
Speaker 1: So having a recipe, a formula, a plan on every shot,
Speaker 1: I know it sounds really really kind of basic and
Speaker 1: really really simple, but I do think that there is
Speaker 1: power in that. There is power in saying, Okay, what
Speaker 1: do I want to do on this shot? What am
Speaker 1: I going to try and do on this shot? And
Speaker 1: then to execute the shot, where do I need to
Speaker 1: start the golf ball? Where do I need the golf
Speaker 1: ball to finish? And I just don't think those questions
Speaker 1: are asked enough by players to themselves. I just don't Richard,
Speaker 1: target the pin? Okay, how are you going to get
Speaker 1: the ball to the pin? Where do you want the
Speaker 1: ball to start? Where do you want the ball to finish?
Speaker 1: And I think having a focus, there are times on
Speaker 1: the golf course where you need internal focus, right, you
Speaker 1: need feels and things in your golf swing. But I
Speaker 1: just see so many players on the golf course when
Speaker 1: they're playing and they're playing the game just get so
Speaker 1: wrapped up into the internal focus and there's no external focus.
Speaker 1: Where are you aiming? Where do you want the golf
Speaker 1: ball to start? Where do you want the golf ball
Speaker 1: to finish? What club are you going to use for that?
Speaker 1: And I think if most golfers from the middle of
Speaker 1: the fairway would employ the same kind of technique that
Speaker 1: they use when they get into the trees. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: hit one into the trees and what you're looking for
Speaker 1: is a way out of the trees, right, so you've
Speaker 1: kind of hit it into jail and you're looking for
Speaker 1: a way out of jail, and so you'll looking through
Speaker 1: the trees. Sometimes you just see a gap in the tree. Right,
Speaker 1: you see a gap, you see an opening, and you're like,
Speaker 1: it's a perfect shot for an eight iron to kind
Speaker 1: of go right through that gap. And it's almost like
Speaker 1: you can't see anything else, right, So now the only
Speaker 1: thing you're looking at is that gap that you feel
Speaker 1: like you can hit this shot out of. And I
Speaker 1: think if you could kind of have that laser hyper focus,
Speaker 1: but do it from the middle of the fairway and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: where does this ball need to start and what is
Speaker 1: the formula that I'm gonna use to start it in
Speaker 1: this direction? And the self talk then can be in
Speaker 1: your head about the things that you're going to do,
Speaker 1: and the things that you're going to try and do
Speaker 1: to execute a good shot. And I think so many
Speaker 1: players on the golf course just get so wrapped up.
Speaker 1: They're just trying to not hit bad shots. They're just
Speaker 1: trying to not make a bad swing. They're trying to
Speaker 1: not hit it in the water, trying to not hit
Speaker 1: it out of bounds, trying to three putt, trying to
Speaker 1: not leave it in the bunker. And I just think
Speaker 1: that leads to hitting it in the water, three putting,
Speaker 1: not getting out of the bunker, because all you're trying
Speaker 1: to do is not do something. You're not telling yourself, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is what I'm going to attempt to do. This
Speaker 1: is what I'm going to try and do, and this
Speaker 1: is the formula, this is the recipe, this is kind
Speaker 1: of my plan to execute this. You're not gonna do
Speaker 1: it every time, but if the focus is on hitting
Speaker 1: good shots, I'm going to do everything I can do
Speaker 1: here to try and hit a good shot. I'm going
Speaker 1: to do everything I can do here to try and
Speaker 1: hit a good putt, and maybe employing some intention, some visualization,
Speaker 1: and having the focus be maybe just a little bit
Speaker 1: more external and less internal internal focus. I think is
Speaker 1: really really good when you're thinking about body movements, body
Speaker 1: parts and all that. There's a time and a place
Speaker 1: for that. I think the range is a really good
Speaker 1: place for that. But once the game starts, you've got
Speaker 1: to try and play the game as opposed to go
Speaker 1: out and play golf swing. And that's what I see
Speaker 1: most golfers doing. He's on the golf course that they
Speaker 1: are playing golf swing. They're not playing golf. They're not visualizing.
Speaker 1: There's no motive, purpose intent on any of the shots.
Speaker 1: The motive and the purpose and the intent on the
Speaker 1: shot is to just not hit a bad one. And
Speaker 1: I would say for the majority of golfers, there's nothing
Speaker 1: worse when all you're trying to do, you know, mentally,
Speaker 1: when all you're trying to do is not hit a
Speaker 1: bad shot, and you hit a bad shot, you never
Speaker 1: even focused on hitting a good shot. You never even
Speaker 1: picked out a specific target that you were trying to
Speaker 1: start the golf ball out. You never even thought about
Speaker 1: where you wanted the golf ball to finish. So I
Speaker 1: say this all the time. Having a good golf swing,
Speaker 1: having good technique, having great impact, all of those things
Speaker 1: help you improve as a player. But unless you were
Speaker 1: going to play golf in just a simulator controlled environment
Speaker 1: kind of vacuum, and only play when your golf swing
Speaker 1: is perfect, only play when you're hitting it good, only
Speaker 1: play when you have command over your shape, you're going
Speaker 1: to probably play the majority of your golf feeling like
Speaker 1: you don't have it, feeling like your golf swing isn't great.
Speaker 1: And if you're going to continue to still play golf
Speaker 1: with a golf swing that isn't perfect, that doesn't have
Speaker 1: great mechanics, that has some flaws, that has some issues,
Speaker 1: I've got a news flash. That's basically everybody playing golf right.
Speaker 1: But if you are going to play, and you are
Speaker 1: going to play the game, and the focus when you
Speaker 1: go out and play is to try and shoot the
Speaker 1: lowest score, intention, visualization and external focus on the golf
Speaker 1: course I think can help you play better and can
Speaker 1: help improve your scores. So golf swing, everybody's trying to
Speaker 1: have better golf swing, but think better on the golf
Speaker 1: course and think your way through your rounds, and I
Speaker 1: think you will start to some results. Can't thank everybody
Speaker 1: enough for listening. I think we're almost at two and
Speaker 1: a half million downloads. For the pod in a couple
Speaker 1: of years, which to me I still am blown away by.
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