WEBVTT - Two Worlds 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:03.320 It's the Son of a Butch podcast. I'm your host, 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:06.880 Claude Harmon on the road this week in Mexico City. 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:09.360 But I wanted to do a podcast about kind of 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:12.320 the last two weeks for me. So was that the 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.680 Masters had Dustin Johnson and Noah Kent, the amateur the 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:17.599 book played at Augusta, so it was there for the 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.639 entire week, and you know, tournament weeks, tour weeks, what 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.680 we're doing with players, yeah, I mean, it's individual, it's 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.200 specific to what the player's doing. So it was at 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:29.960 a major all week, and then following the week, came 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.080 home and had, you know, a week's worth of lessons 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:37.040 at home with just average, everyday regular golfers, and I 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.600 just kind of wanted to talk about my experience in 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:44.319 the difference between those two weeks, because listen, it's golf, right, 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.280 We're working with players, we're trying to help players play 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.440 the game of golf. But it's very different at the 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.920 elite tour level, specifically the week of a major. The 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:56.960 things that you're working on with a player when you're 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.040 working with them is very different than what you're working 0:00:59.080 --> 0:00:59.840 on at. 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:01.959 Home with just regular golfers. 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:05.679 So you know, the Masters, DJ one in twenty twenty, 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.920 so he's got good history there. He's finished second there. 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.720 He loves the golf course, seventy four to seventy three. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.760 And yeah, I mean I had an unfortunate finish on Friday, 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.200 Bogie seventeen, Doull bug at eighteen. But actually, you know, 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.679 the first round eighty six percent of the fairways, seventy 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.200 percent of the greens, didn't really putt great. It's tough 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.240 to putt great around that place. Thirty three putts second day, 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.640 didn't hit as many fairways, didn't hit him any greens 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.560 seventy one percent of the fairways, sixty one percent of 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:36.839 the greens, but twenty nine putts. So played a little better, 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.080 easily could have made the cut. But listen, it's a 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.840 hard golf course and you're going into that week. I 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.240 think DJ was coming in with some good confidence. He'd 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.559 played well in Singapore, played decent in Miami at Durraw, 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.960 which is again a really really hard golf course. But 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.400 for DJ major weeks, we're always trying to think in 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.880 terms of okay, let's work on the putting, work on 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.320 the short game, ball striking. For DJ, I mean, he's 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.800 been driving the golf really really well. So when you're 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.160 working with a player at a tournament, you tend to 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.640 not practice their strengths. Right, We're not going to stand 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.519 there and hit if someone's driving it really good or 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.440 someone's iron plays really good, We're not going to stand 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:12.799 there and hit a ton of those. We're going to 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.320 work on the stuff that, you know, the golf course 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.480 kind of demands and what. 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:19.239 The weaknesses are. 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.920 And I think for right now, you know, certainly DJ's 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.440 weapons still even at this stage of his career, is 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:26.600 the driver. I mean, he drove the golf ball as 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.240 far as anybody at Augusta, so the distance is still there. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.240 He's been driving it really really well. The iron game 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.600 has been pretty solid. I think the big thing for 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.440 DJ is just putting. And so the week of a major, 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:38.440 you're trying to figure out, Okay, they're going to be 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.840 playing a lot of practice rounds, right, And a lot 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.920 of the practice rounds at Augusta are very They're kind 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.960 of specific practice rounds in that you kind of know 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:48.080 where the flags are. 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:48.480 Going to be. 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.960 It's a very unique golf course in that it's the 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.040 same golf course, right, So when you're trying to prepare 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:58.679 for a major, but specifically if you're trying and when 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.840 you're trying to prepare for a GUS to National, you 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:02.640 kind of know what. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.359 To prepare for. The test is the test, right. 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:09.040 The golf course is the golf course. So we're not 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:13.200 spending a ton of time kind of technique wise, unless 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.240 we absolutely positively need to. A lot of it is 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:20.600 just strategy. The range at Augusta, the tournament range that 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:24.440 they really only use for maybe three four times a year. 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:26.560 I think it's one of the best ranges, if not 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:30.120 the best range in professional golf from an aesthetic standpoint, 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.520 from a look standpoint, and it's got great target greens 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.640 and then it's got two very defined, specific fairways. A 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.840 lot of driving ranges don't have anything on the driving 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.200 range other than just flags, but at Augusta National they 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:48.120 have trees, and so when we're hitting drivers, it's a 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.440 great driving range to do that, right, because it gives 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:54.120 you really really defined visuals. It also gives you really 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.200 really defined visuals that look very similar to what the 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.480 golf course is going to look like. So you know, 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.800 from a st how a g standpoint, A lot of 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.480 what you're talking about at Augusta is what are you 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.240 going to hit off the tees where you're hitting drivers, 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.920 where you're hitting three woods, what's the layup going to be? 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.960 And the driving range there gives us a really good 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.600 opportunity to kind of simulate what we're doing. So we 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.159 spent a lot of time with DJ trying to shape holes. 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.640 The tenth hole at Augusta National, for those of you 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:27.320 that have been there, severely downhill, tremendous amount of downhill slope, 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.480 but you need to basically almost hit a hook from 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.560 where the tea box is. You almost want to have 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.040 the feeling that you're trying to overdraw the golf ball. 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.120 So for DJ, that's not his go to shape. He 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:44.160 fades the golf ball, but there's no benefit and you 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.560 just can't fade it on that hole. So spend a 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.760 lot of time trying to draw the golf ball. What 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.480 clubs we were going to hit off there? Was it 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.560 going to be a three wood, he carries a seven wood, 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.080 he carries a nine wood, or trying to look at 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.800 what the weather is going to be like Thursday and Friday, 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.800 where the wind is going to be, and how the 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.040 golf course is going to play relative to the wind direction, 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.719 So a lot of what we're doing before the tournament 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.480 starts is basically I'd say more so than any other course, 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:15.159 maybe maybe the Open Championship because of the weather and 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.200 the kind of shots that you're going to have to hit. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:22.120 But I do think that from a prep standpoint, more 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.440 goes into the prep at Augusta at the Masters than 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.400 probably any tournament. I definitely think you can overprepare. I 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.279 definitely think that it's a golf course that makes you 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.919 think right. It makes you think on basically every shot, 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.480 so you can't turn your brain off, you can't turn 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.599 your focus off. So you know, certainly a lot of 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.760 work in just trying to talk about the strategy. Spend 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.159 a lot of time in the short game area. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:49.720 I think at. 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.479 Augusta they have one of the best, if not the 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:53.359 best short game. 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:54.200 Area in the world. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:58.520 They've had two really big greens, tons of undulation, lots 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.520 of bunkers, and it simulates a lot of what you're 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.920 going to see on the golf course. So spend a 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.400 lot of time over there in short game and short 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.360 game is pretty good, and spend a lot of time 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:09.040 putting wise. 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:10.200 I mean, it's a tough. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:14.280 Golf course to put wise, because the greens are incredibly fast, 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.599 they have a tremendous amount of undulation, they have a 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.320 tremendous amount of slope, and its toured. 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.520 You have to work a lot. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:25.839 On defensive putting. But if you get too defensive, then 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.880 you're never really giving yourself chances. So the day that 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.960 DJ had thirty three putts, birdie conversion rate out of 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.960 all the birdie chances he has was fifteen percent. The 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.960 following day, twenty nine putts, the birdie conversion rate was 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.120 thirty six. So I do think that there are a 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.840 lot of mind games that the golf course plays with you. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.000 So in the prep work that we were doing, it 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.400 was more golf course and strategy related with DJ than 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.880 it was necessarily swing related. And then I worked with 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.840 Noah Kn't. Noah got to the finals of the USAM, 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.200 lost on the thirty six holes of the USAM last 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.599 summer at Hazeltine, and as a result of that, the 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.599 Masters and the USGA gave the two finalists at the 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.440 USAM they give them invites into the Masters. So for Noah, 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.960 as a twenty year old sophomore at the University of Florida, 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.920 he played in the Masters, and he was standing on 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.400 the sixth hole, the par three in the first round 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:22.800 two under, and he was leading the Masters. So regardless 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.680 of what happened the rest. 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.480 Of the week he didn't make the cut, he. 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.280 Got to play with Bernhard Longer in his final major. 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:36.400 Bernhard Longer on Thursday at Augusta hit hybrid into nine 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.200 of the par fours, the nine of the ten par 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:43.640 fours in a major at Augusta National, Bernhard Langer hit 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.480 hybrids into nine of the ten. Noah kent on the 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:51.320 first hole, had seventy four yards to the front, and 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.360 I think he was under one hundred to the flag. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:59.000 I've never seen anyone hit a drive where Noah hit 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.680 it on the first hole. Bernhard Langer beat him on 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:05.320 the first day by five six. I mean, Noah's out 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:09.280 driving him by fifty to seventy yards on every hole, 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.120 and Bernhard Langer had a pot on the last hole 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.720 to make the cut in his last major. So I 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:19.440 think for Noah it was a massive, massive learning curve, 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.760 the prep work that we were doing. From Noah's standpoint, 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.720 he played the Terra Cotta Amateur the week before the 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.200 week before that, he had played in the Houston Open 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:31.880 on the PGA Tour event and missed the cut by 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.040 a couple there, so that was a good opportunity to 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:35.520 kind of see where his game stacked up. He was 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.560 going to take that following week off and just kind 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.920 of go up to Augusta do some practice round work 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.000 early in the week, but I thought it would be 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.880 a good idea in talking to his coaches at Florida, 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.800 J C. Deacon and Dudley Hart, I thought he needed 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.880 some reps. So he entered the Terra Cotta Amateur the 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.680 week before Augusta and finished fourth, So I thought that 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:54.959 was good. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.200 I thought that was really really good. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:58.920 And then we had to get him a caddy for Augusta, 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:00.800 and you know that was a process as well. We 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.400 thought about taking a local caddy. Obviously one of the 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.240 local Augusta caddies definitely knows the golf course well, knows 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.880 the greens well, but given the distances that Noah hits it. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.280 He played a practice round with Rory McRoy on Tuesday. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.760 They played the back nine. Harry Diamond said he was 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.559 really really impressed. I think no outdrove Rory on every hole. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:22.880 So he has tremendous distance. He has tremendous power, and 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:24.840 the task and the goal as a twenty year old 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.040 now is just to try and get Noah to learn 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:31.720 how to use that power, use his skills, use the 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.360 tools that he has in his toolbox. So hit a 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.440 new caddy that week, Jonathan Smart Smarty, who caddies for 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.439 Cameron Stringgalion Live. But Smarty's been a good caddy for 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.839 a very very long time and was on the bag 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.080 for Danny Willett when he won the Master. So I 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.160 thought that that would be a good fit to have 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:52.720 somebody that had won around augusta national before that was 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:56.440 still in the modern game, that wasn't you know, out 0:09:56.480 --> 0:10:00.120 of caddying and had caddied before. So that was a 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.480 trying to get those two acclimated. It was really the 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.959 first time on the Monday that they'd even seen each 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:08.880 other and met. We had a bunch of zoom calls. 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:12.000 They'd conversed and talked, but as a caddy, until you 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:13.560 see a player up close. I mean I had talked 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.080 to Smarty and send them videos and sent them videos 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.319 from Houston and talked to him about what I saw 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.440 and things like that, and I thought that first meeting 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.480 was going to be really, really interesting, and I thought 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.200 it was a good fit. I think Smarty was really 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:32.800 really impressed with Noah's game and practice rounds. Tuesday he 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:38.080 played with He and DJ played against Phil Mickelson and 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.800 Michael Kim. They played the front nine. I thought that 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:42.559 was really huge for Noah to be able to get 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:46.720 out with someone like DJ, who obviously former world number one, 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:51.760 has won US Open, but it's won the Masters, and 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.640 they have a similar type game, and they have a 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.600 similar type skill set from a distance in power standpoint, 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.480 So I thought that was going to be invaluable for him. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.640 And then I can't think of anybody other than maybe 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.720 Tiger Woods, that you would want to play a practice 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.160 around with during tournament week than Phil Micholson. The knowledge, 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.480 the skill set, the way he thinks about playing that 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.320 golf course, the way he thinks about playing that tournament, 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.040 and there's a reason why he has multiple green jackets, 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.160 there's a reason why he's a multiple major champion. And 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.520 then a player like Michael Kim, who obviously is having 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:30.000 a really really good year, got into that top fifty category. 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.760 If you follow him on social he's got a lot 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.280 of really good things to say. Works with Sean Foley. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:36.959 I think they've done a great job on his golf swing. 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.400 He's become really really consistent. And so they played a 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.880 match and I think zul square going to the last 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.560 hole DJ and Noah against Phil and Michael Kim. I 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.800 think from the ninth fairway, Phil lipped it out, hit 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.800 it to like two feet and said to Noah, well, 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:54.720 you guys lose, and Noah hit it I think to 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.160 fifteen twenty feet and then Noah buried it out him, 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.720 you know, and walked it into little fistpon, which Phil 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.120 was not happy about. So I thought that was really 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.600 really cool to watch. Kind of the practice round set up. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.920 He took a friend that had caddy for him in 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.640 the summer in the USM and the Porter Cup took 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.280 him to the par three, which again really cool experience 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.240 for him. But from Noah's standpoint, I mean, he is 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:22.240 very very raw, and that's what everybody said about him 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.400 that played with him. Listen, tons of speed, tons of distance, 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.840 tons of power, but he has a very raw talent. 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.679 Every swing is an opportunity to take control and King 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.280 Cobra Wedges give you the tools and tech to put 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.760 the course at your command with MIM eighty six to 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:42.239 twenty construction, a redesigned Cobra speed notch, flight window technology, 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.319 and grinds tailored for every condition. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:45.880 These wedges adapt to. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:51.120 Your game and elevate your confidence. So a lot of it, 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.600 again similar to what we were doing with DJ, did 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.520 a little bit of technical work on his golf swing. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.439 Noah likes to fade the golf ball, so we did 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.640 a lot of work the week at the of just saying, listen, 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.360 let's make sure we get really really specific in our 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.320 start lines where we want the ball to start, and 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.240 then let's just try and get the golf ball specifically 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.640 going one direction. So trying to get the golf ball. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.200 If there was going to be a miss, the miss 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:14.880 was going to be to the right and not to 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.959 the left, because it's impossible to play any tournament, let 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:22.800 alone a major, let alone Augusta with a two way miss. 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.280 So did a lot of work with him, just trying 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.679 to feel like he wasn't really using his hands a lot. 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.640 I think the other thing that Noah, because he has 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.480 a lot of speed, but he has a very short backswing. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.720 He's six foot five, so he has a tremendous amount 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.880 of speed and power. He's blessed with great genetics, long arms, 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:39.960 long legs, so. 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:40.520 He can move it. 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.360 But I think at times his backswing gets a little 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.840 bit short. So a lot of work in the practice 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.560 rounds and a lot of work on the range and 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.400 just saying, listen, let's make sure that you finish your 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.720 back swing. So I was having him take a setup 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.800 and standing and then just having him make a shoulder turn, 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:58.440 and then I was putting my hand kind of in 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.000 the middle of his back where kind of the low 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.439 go on the shirt would be on the middle of 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:04.680 a tour player's back, and I was like, listen, okay, 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.839 you've got to get to hear every single time. And 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:09.720 one of the things that I wanted him to do 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.440 in his practice swings, both on the range and on 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.600 the golf course, was to make a practice swing where 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.800 he went to the top of his backswing and he stopped, 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.400 then he started down, so he got that feeling of okay, 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.920 where do we want the body to be at the top, 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.200 And then did some just kind of basic impact drills, 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.920 had him hit some kind of three quarter shots to 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:30.960 where he felt like he wasn't really using his hands, 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.080 really felt like the club face was coming into impact 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.800 in a really really square position, and trying to feel 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.640 like he was keeping his body moving his hips, his chest, 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.680 his big muscles, because when Noah gets in trouble, he 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.840 gets a little bit short at the top and then 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:46.920 kind of gets way out in front of it early 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:48.720 and then kind of has to back out of it 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.520 and his body kind of can stall out and stop 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.080 and the hands get active and that's where we can 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:55.040 get that two way miss. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:56.520 So really wanted him. 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.160 To try and feel like, you know, he was continuing 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.280 to finish the turn. A phrase that my grandfather used 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.680 to use, and I said this to Noah. My grandfather 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.360 used to say, give yourself time to make a good backswing. 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.720 And you know, that's something that I think a lot 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.760 of golfers struggle with. Is in an effort to try 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.400 and get more distance, in an effort to try and 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.320 get more power, they're trying to hit the golf ball 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.480 kind of with their backswing. And if you think about 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.760 the backswing, and what I said to Noah is, listen, 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:23.520 the backswing is the creation phase. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:23.680 Right. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.520 You're trying to create power, You're trying to create movement. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.480 On the backswing. The downswing is where we're going to 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.720 be storing that power, and then the follow through is 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.240 where we're going to be unloading that power. And I 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.200 think a lot of golfers that kind of creation phase 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.480 gets kind of lost. They don't really make a turn, 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:43.840 they don't really wind anything up, and then they struggle 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.040 with the unwine. They struggle with getting through the golf ball. 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.520 So Noah just making sure that on the golf swing, 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.000 the golf swing didn't get too quick, the golf swing 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.560 didn't get too fast, and trying to get him to 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.960 feel like with the longer stuff, he was making as 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.800 big a turn as possible, but feeling like he wasn't 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.280 going at it at full speed because obviously the speed 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.760 is going to change when he gets to the golf course. Adrenaline, focus, 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.240 you know, pressure, all of those things, so the golf 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.280 swing is going to get faster on the golf course. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.640 So I thought, you know, I thought our practice rounds 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:16.840 were really good. 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:17.840 He wasn't. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.680 He likes to fade the golf ball. He can draw 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.560 the golf ball, but the tenth hole, he made some 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.080 big numbers there. The tenth hole was the struggle for him. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.360 So we were trying in the practice rounds to figure out, Okay, 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.480 what do we do. Do we smash just smash driver, 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.880 because that's the club he has the most confidence in. 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.040 Do we hit three wood? He carries a seven wood, 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.600 which he can carry well over two fifty three wood 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.800 he can carry, you know, close to three hundred. But 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.520 I thought ten was going to be a difficulty shot 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.680 because it doesn't suit his eye. It's a nervous one, 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.960 and it's one where there really isn't another option other 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.200 than to stand up and hit a draw if you 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:57.960 want to take advantage of the slope. 0:16:58.360 --> 0:16:59.800 It is a brutal shot. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.400 If you hang one out kind of to the right 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:04.919 and it doesn't catch the slope and it doesn't go 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.800 down the hill, then you're on a down slope ball 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.000 can kind of either be a blow or above your 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:14.320 feet and you're going in over two hundred yards to 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:18.960 a green that is incredibly difficult to hit under normal circumstance. 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.119 You missed the green to the left, you're you're pretty 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.639 much making bogie your double. You miss the green to 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.400 the right and one of the bunkers to the right, 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:27.800 depending on where the pin is, and you're in the 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.920 bunker on the right, the green slopes dramatically away. It's 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:33.920 a very hard bunker shot. If you hit it there, 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:35.840 you're probably gonna make bogie it best. 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:37.960 And he didn't execute. 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.920 On the golf course in the tournament the shot that 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.560 we had practiced. He was able to do it in practice, 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.840 and you know, trying to get him, Okay, listen, you're 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:46.200 gonna try and hit a little bit of a draw 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.280 with either probably your three wood, go at it a 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.679 little bit easier, because the harder you go at it, 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.639 that's when you tend to not finish that backswing, and 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.159 then you can get way out in front of it 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.720 early and then you can bring in the big right 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.040 man where you can bring in the quick left miss. 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:04.920 He brought in the quick left miss. He missed it 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.359 left and gonna make bogear double if you do that. 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.760 But really really proud of him. On Friday, which was 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.160 his final round, he didn't make the cut. He had 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.879 that kind of same shot that Roy McElroy had up 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:19.320 on the pine straw on thirteen. Everybody saw Rory hit 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.960 it to you know, probably six seven feet and make 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.720 the putt for eagle. Noah had pretty much the same 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.880 shot pretty much the same club. I think he hit 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.479 a chip four iron kind of like Rory did. Hit 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.240 it to a foot eagle, got some crystal. If you 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.879 make an eagle out Augusta, you get some crystal. And 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.960 I think that was really one of the highlights. He 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.320 said afterwards that he tried to enjoy it a little 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:45.639 bit more. On Friday's practice round, he also said, and 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:47.240 I think this was something that was important that we 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.840 saw on Thursday. He and his caddy Smarty, they were 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.760 in between clubs. He chose a shot that I don't 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.280