Speaker 1: It's the Son of a Bitch podcast. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Claude harmon a solo episode of the pod this week,
Speaker 1: and I thought i'd kind of go over some stuff.
Speaker 1: I just I'm actually in Dubai at my academy, which
Speaker 1: is always fun. It's over here the other night, but
Speaker 1: I spoke at the Titleist Performance Institute World Golf Fitness
Speaker 1: Summit on Friday, kind of did a presentation, but wanted
Speaker 1: to go through one of the things that I talked about,
Speaker 1: which was kind of my checklist when I'm giving golf
Speaker 1: lessons right what I'm looking for and how I look
Speaker 1: at golf swings, and I think by doing this, I
Speaker 1: think it can help you think about your own golf
Speaker 1: swing and your own golf game. So the first thing
Speaker 1: I do when a player comes in and I watch
Speaker 1: a player hit at golf balls, I always think, what
Speaker 1: is that player's DNA or their kind of swing signature.
Speaker 1: And I think, player, regardless of your handicap, you will
Speaker 1: have something that is kind of your DNA, kind of
Speaker 1: the way that you swing the golf club. And I
Speaker 1: think a lot of times this is why players struggle
Speaker 1: over years of and they tend to struggle when they don't,
Speaker 1: when they don't get regular golf lessons and they're not
Speaker 1: working on something, they're just trying a bunch of stuff,
Speaker 1: but they don't really fundamentally understand kind of what it
Speaker 1: is that they do. So when I look at a
Speaker 1: golf swing and I look at a player, I'll always
Speaker 1: ask a couple of things. But one of the things
Speaker 1: I'll ask is tell me what you're trying to do
Speaker 1: in the golf swing, and tell me why you're trying
Speaker 1: to do this in the golf swing. And that sounds
Speaker 1: and should be a pretty simple question and should be
Speaker 1: a pretty simple answer. But I think a lot of
Speaker 1: players they don't really know what they're trying to do.
Speaker 1: They struggle with the concept of what they're trying to do.
Speaker 1: But also, and I've talked about this on the pod before,
Speaker 1: they don't understand what their body can do as well.
Speaker 1: So when I look at a player, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out, Okay, what does that player do naturally. And
Speaker 1: one of the things that my dad talked a lot
Speaker 1: about when I was a young instructor, he said, listen,
Speaker 1: I don't ever want to take away what a player
Speaker 1: does naturally. And I think a lot of times for
Speaker 1: the instructors out there listening. You can have a model
Speaker 1: in your head maybe right, I'm not a huge fan
Speaker 1: of that, but you can have a model in your
Speaker 1: head about how you want everyone to swing the golf club.
Speaker 1: The only problem with that is you might be taking
Speaker 1: away what a player does naturally, and what they do
Speaker 1: naturally could be a huge part of what makes them
Speaker 1: who they are. So I'm always looking at a player.
Speaker 1: Does a player have a tremendous amount of speed? Does
Speaker 1: a player not have a lot of so I kind
Speaker 1: of work. I'll give you an example. So there's two
Speaker 1: players I work with who have a tremendous amount of speed.
Speaker 1: Brooks and DJ on the men's side have a tremendous
Speaker 1: amount of speed. I work with a player on the
Speaker 1: LPGA Tour named Marina Alex. She played on the Solheim Cup.
Speaker 1: She's a multiple winner on the LPGA Tour. Marina doesn't
Speaker 1: have a lot of speed, right, Marina's back is a
Speaker 1: little bit compromised. She's had some back issues. So there
Speaker 1: are a lot of things that Marina does naturally that
Speaker 1: you know, physically I can't change, even though I might
Speaker 1: not like them. It's just she does certain things in
Speaker 1: the golf swing. Her body has some limitations, so there
Speaker 1: are some things that she does that are just part
Speaker 1: of her golf swing and if I try and change those.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously everybody is trying to hit the golf
Speaker 1: ball further, but on the LPGA Tour, distance is a
Speaker 1: it's a differentiator. So the obvious thing in watching Marina
Speaker 1: hit GoF balls is to say, Okay, she needs hit
Speaker 1: the golf ball further. So there are loads of different things, now,
Speaker 1: speed sticks, stacked, all of these different things that we
Speaker 1: could do to try and help Marina hit the golf
Speaker 1: ball further. We do all those things, her back's gonna
Speaker 1: go down, it's gonna crash. So I have to take
Speaker 1: a look at what she does physically. I have to
Speaker 1: take a look at what she does naturally. Dustin Johnson's
Speaker 1: another great example. The position he gets into at the
Speaker 1: top of his backswing with that flat left wrist. That
Speaker 1: is what he does naturally that he doesn't know why
Speaker 1: he does that. He's never been taught to do that,
Speaker 1: that's just what he does in the golf swing. So
Speaker 1: years ago, probably I don't know, fifteen twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: when my dad started working with DJ. Phil Michelson said, Hey,
Speaker 1: I play a lot of golf with DJ. Has been
Speaker 1: my partner in the money game. I want you to
Speaker 1: take a look at him. My dad was working with Phil,
Speaker 1: and I think everybody looked at DJ's golf swing when
Speaker 1: he turned pro, looked at that position at the top
Speaker 1: of the back swing. Nobody was really playing from that position.
Speaker 1: Maybe back in the day Paul Aigsner from there, but
Speaker 1: certainly nobody with a tremendous amount of speed. So I
Speaker 1: think in looking at his goal swing, my dad looked
Speaker 1: at that left risk position and was like, listen, that's
Speaker 1: what DJ does. Naturally. I'm not training him to do that.
Speaker 1: I'm not teaching him to do that. That's what he does.
Speaker 1: It's a risk position in twenty twenty four that I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are trying to get into it.
Speaker 1: It's Brooks is a little bit on the shut side.
Speaker 1: DJ is a little bit on the shut side. We
Speaker 1: are seeing more players play from that position. But that's
Speaker 1: what DJ does naturally. No one's teaching him to do that.
Speaker 1: The other thing I'm always looking at with a player
Speaker 1: is I'm asking as say, Okay, what does this player
Speaker 1: need do they need speed, do they need accuracy? Do
Speaker 1: they need consistency? There will be something that the player needs,
Speaker 1: so I'm always saying, Okay, do they need to hit it?
Speaker 1: So again, using Marine Alex is an example, and I've
Speaker 1: had her on the pod as well. Marina needs speed.
Speaker 1: The problem is we have to work around that given
Speaker 1: what her body can do physically. So I'm always trying
Speaker 1: to balance that between what a player wants to do
Speaker 1: versus what a player does and what a player can do.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think players just it's a concept issue. They
Speaker 1: don't know they're supposed to be doing this. They don't
Speaker 1: know they're not supposed to be doing this. So that's
Speaker 1: why that first question, Hey, tell me what you do
Speaker 1: in the golf swing, what you're trying to do in
Speaker 1: the golf swing. Sometimes they'll just be a concept problem. Listen,
Speaker 1: you don't know you're not supposed to do that, or
Speaker 1: you don't know you're supposed to do this. Sometimes it'll
Speaker 1: be a body issue. So the physical screen, getting screen
Speaker 1: to understand what your body can and can't do naturally,
Speaker 1: I think is huge. I'm always asking myself how much
Speaker 1: is too much? Meaning I think it's important as an
Speaker 1: instructure to understand the type of learner a person is,
Speaker 1: and I learn a lot by asking questions about, Hey,
Speaker 1: what do you do for a living? Listen, if you
Speaker 1: work with somebody that says, oh, I'm an engineer, you
Speaker 1: can probably give them a bunch of data and it's
Speaker 1: not going to confuse them because that's the world they
Speaker 1: live in. But if somebody doesn't have a brain like that,
Speaker 1: and you overload them with tons of launch monitor data
Speaker 1: or a bunch of information and a bunch of numbers,
Speaker 1: and they don't learn like that. I've worked with two
Speaker 1: players that are on opposite ends of the spectrum, so
Speaker 1: Trevor Immerman. When I worked with Trevor in the early
Speaker 1: two thousands, I couldn't give Trevor enough information, right, That's
Speaker 1: the way his brain worked. He wanted as much information
Speaker 1: as possible. DJ wants things to be pretty simple. His
Speaker 1: brain just isn't wired like that, is not wired to
Speaker 1: get a bunch of information. He wants things to be simple. Trevor,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, wanted I wouldn't say Trevor wanted
Speaker 1: things to be complicated in the years that I worked
Speaker 1: with him, but Trevor wanted more information. I mean you
Speaker 1: could give I mean information for Trevor was crack for
Speaker 1: the crack addict. Just give me more, more, more, more more.
Speaker 1: And I don't necessarily think at times that was the
Speaker 1: best thing for him and his career. If I tried
Speaker 1: to overload DJ with a bunch of information and a
Speaker 1: bunch of numbers and data and stuff like that, It's
Speaker 1: just not the way his brain works. So with regards
Speaker 1: to the player, I'm always asking myself, Okay, how much
Speaker 1: is too much? How much is too little. The other
Speaker 1: thing I'm really trying to do when I look at
Speaker 1: golf swings is as an instructor. If I'm working with
Speaker 1: the player, I want to try and help them build
Speaker 1: the golf swing that is going to hold up under pressure.
Speaker 1: For the tour players that I'm incredibly lucky enough to
Speaker 1: work with, that is the back nine on Sunday right,
Speaker 1: that is coming down the stretch in a major, that
Speaker 1: is trying to win a tournament on a tour somewhere
Speaker 1: in the world. For the majority of you listening to
Speaker 1: this podcast, pressure is trying to break one hundred for
Speaker 1: the first time, trying to break ninety for the first time,
Speaker 1: trying to break eighty for the first time, trying to
Speaker 1: win the club championship, the city amateur. So pressure comes
Speaker 1: and is different for everybody, but pressure's pressure, right. So
Speaker 1: when I look at golf swings, I'm always thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: what am I doing to help this person while they're
Speaker 1: on the golf course. I'm not thinking about how to
Speaker 1: make their golf swing look good on the driving range, right,
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking about a model in my head that
Speaker 1: I have a specific swing model that I am going
Speaker 1: to try and get everybody into. So for the instructors
Speaker 1: out there, but also for everyone else listening that's playing.
Speaker 1: If you aren't working on things in your golf swing
Speaker 1: that are going to help you score and perform better
Speaker 1: on the golf course, you're wasting your time. The reason
Speaker 1: I say that is I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are trying to have their golf swing look better. Right.
Speaker 1: I worked with Graham McDowell when he just turned pro,
Speaker 1: probably Gosh two thousand and three, two thousand and four
Speaker 1: won the Italian Open. But I worked with Graham in
Speaker 1: two stints. I worked with them for a while and
Speaker 1: then he moved on to another instructure, and I think
Speaker 1: like five six he came back to me and said, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to try and work with you again and stuff.
Speaker 1: And I've got some video somewhere that I'm still trying
Speaker 1: to find. I've got pictures of Graham McDowell looking like
Speaker 1: Tiger in two thousand, right knee flexed, club online at
Speaker 1: the top, club face dead, neutral, left wrist in a
Speaker 1: perfect position. Looking at it on TV, the video looked
Speaker 1: like Tiger Woods in two thousand. The only problem was
Speaker 1: from that position Gmac could not get the club onto
Speaker 1: the ball, couldn't make contact. Looked great on film, looked
Speaker 1: great on video. Positions were perfect, just couldn't hit the
Speaker 1: golf ball from there. So, when you're looking at your
Speaker 1: golf swing, aesthetics or function, I am far more interested
Speaker 1: in function than I am in aesthetics. Esthetics are the
Speaker 1: way a golf swing looks and the style of a
Speaker 1: golf swing. But golf is not figure skating, right, Golf
Speaker 1: is not gymnastics. There's not judges saying, oh, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: got the best looking golf swing. If that was the case.
Speaker 1: Adam Scott, Nellie Corda, Tommy Fleetwood, the people that have
Speaker 1: beautifully fundamentally sound golf swings that look really, really good,
Speaker 1: they'd win all the time, but they don't. Across the gamut,
Speaker 1: there's golf swings that are very, very different that are
Speaker 1: winning golf tournaments. There's not one specific way to swing
Speaker 1: the golf club. If you look at the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: and you go to the World Golf Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: and you go and look at all the people that
Speaker 1: have been inducted, is there anybody out there listening that's
Speaker 1: a golf instructor that has a junior golfer, female junior
Speaker 1: golfer fifteen sixteen, Is anybody trying to teach her to
Speaker 1: swing the golf club like on Akasians damp the greatest
Speaker 1: golf female golfer of all time, one of the greatest
Speaker 1: golfers of all time. No one's trying to do that, right,
Speaker 1: No one's trying to teach any I don't see anybody
Speaker 1: coming in. I don't see anything on social media where
Speaker 1: people are trying to have everybody swing like on a
Speaker 1: Coasorians dam right. I don't see anybody teaching putting like
Speaker 1: Jack Nicholas putted, one of the greatest putters of all time.
Speaker 1: Jack's one of the greatest putters of all time. Jack's
Speaker 1: one of the greatest pressure putters of all time. But
Speaker 1: nobody is trying to emulate that, right, but under pressure
Speaker 1: Jack made every put So my point behind that is
Speaker 1: your golf swing has to be functional. Yeah, it'd be
Speaker 1: great if your golf swing looked good, but some of
Speaker 1: my favorite golf swings don't necessarily look that great, but
Speaker 1: they are one hundred functional. Great example would be Bubba Watson.
Speaker 1: Anybody trying to swing the golf club like Bubba Watson.
Speaker 1: Anybody trying to swing the golf club and shape it
Speaker 1: and curve it like Bubba Watson. Nope, guys won two Masters,
Speaker 1: Guy's got two Green jackets, been on Ryder Cups, He's
Speaker 1: been on President's Cups, a hell of a player, has
Speaker 1: had a hell of a career. But again, no one's
Speaker 1: trying to swing like that. No one's trying to actively
Speaker 1: work on the things that Bubba Watson does. But under
Speaker 1: Pressure won two majors, one two Masters. So if you're
Speaker 1: taking lessons, if you're working on your own game, you
Speaker 1: have to think of it like this, what am I
Speaker 1: working on in Will it help me score on the
Speaker 1: golf course? Not will it make my golf swing look better?
Speaker 1: On video will make it look better on the range
Speaker 1: because none of that matters for the instructors out there.
Speaker 1: Build a team, right, Build a team around you. Find
Speaker 1: a physio, chiropractor, medical in your area. Right, So if
Speaker 1: you have players, I think the guy Greg and Dave
Speaker 1: Greg Rose and Dave Phillips, both who've been on the pod,
Speaker 1: and you can go check them out the work that
Speaker 1: they've done at the Titleist Performance Institute. They were big
Speaker 1: on that, right, Create a team. So I'm currently at
Speaker 1: my academy in Dubai. I have seven full time instructors
Speaker 1: here and we have two full time fitness guys. Right,
Speaker 1: that's mandatory for us. At my academy, at my dad's
Speaker 1: academy in Florida, at the Floridian where I work, we
Speaker 1: have instructors and then we have a fitness guy. Just
Speaker 1: open up an academy out in Bangkok. We're in the
Speaker 1: process of hiring. So we're building a team of people
Speaker 1: around us. You want to work. If I'm taking lessons,
Speaker 1: I want to find an instructor that if there's something
Speaker 1: wrong with my body, he's got somebody that he can
Speaker 1: send me to. If I'm doing something in my golf swing,
Speaker 1: if I'm in pain hitting golf balls. He's got somebody
Speaker 1: that I can go to. So I think building a
Speaker 1: team as an instructor, building a core group of people
Speaker 1: around you hugely important. I'm always trying to build a
Speaker 1: strength with players, right. I think in order to be
Speaker 1: a good golfer, you've got to have a strength, right.
Speaker 1: I always say that at the elite tour level. Right.
Speaker 1: If you look at the best players in the world,
Speaker 1: they all have a strength, right, and their calling card
Speaker 1: is that strength. Brad faxon great putter, Patrick Reid, Sevy,
Speaker 1: bi Astero's unbelievable short game, Rory DJ Brooks. The strength
Speaker 1: is speed the driver, Luke Donald unbelievable wedge player. Right.
Speaker 1: So when you're looking at your own game, think about
Speaker 1: do you have a strength? Right? And I listen, when
Speaker 1: we're looking at strengths with players, I really don't care
Speaker 1: what that strength is. Are you a good green reader
Speaker 1: that could be a strength. Are you a good win
Speaker 1: player that could be a strength, Or you a good
Speaker 1: bunker player that could be your strength? Right? And then
Speaker 1: you look at that strength and you try and ride that.
Speaker 1: So let's say you're a really good wedge player, right,
Speaker 1: You're gonna want to try and lay up to where
Speaker 1: you lay up to your strength. Right. If you're a
Speaker 1: great putter, you're gonna try and hit more greens so
Speaker 1: you can take advantage of your putting. Right. If you're
Speaker 1: not a great putter, if your short game isn't great, right,
Speaker 1: then you've got to try and hit more greens. Right.
Speaker 1: So I also when players come in and take a
Speaker 1: golf lesson for the first time, I try and find
Speaker 1: something in their golf swing that's a strength. Hey you've
Speaker 1: got a great grip, that's the strength of yours. Hey,
Speaker 1: you've got a great setup. You've got great posture, you've
Speaker 1: got great tempo, you've got great rhythm. I don't care
Speaker 1: what it is. It's easy for me in a golf
Speaker 1: lesson to look at a twenty five handicapper and tell
Speaker 1: them all the things are doing wrong, right. I want
Speaker 1: to find some things. Hey, listen, I really like a
Speaker 1: lot of these things in your golf swing. We just
Speaker 1: need to clean up a couple of other things. But
Speaker 1: you do a lot of really good things in the
Speaker 1: golf swing. And when I say that to a fifteen
Speaker 1: twenty handicapper, hey, I think you do some really nice
Speaker 1: things good things in the golf swing. They're like, well,
Speaker 1: why am I twenty five handicap? Why am I still
Speaker 1: at fifteen? Right? Then I can say, well, these are
Speaker 1: the problems, but you do this really really well, so
Speaker 1: make sure you keep doing that really really well. Another
Speaker 1: thing that I look at when I look at players,
Speaker 1: and it's something that I've talked about before on the pod,
Speaker 1: but I will continue to talk about it because I
Speaker 1: think it's hugely important. Start line where the golf ball
Speaker 1: is starting. When I'm looking at a player, I am
Speaker 1: evaluating how good a player they are on their ability
Speaker 1: to start the golf ball in the direction it needs
Speaker 1: to start for the shape they're telling me they're trying
Speaker 1: to hit. So if a player is trying to hit draws,
Speaker 1: and we give them a target and say, all right,
Speaker 1: you know, take a seven iron out. You know it's
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty yards one hundred and forty yards
Speaker 1: hundred However, are you hit a seven iron? Right? What
Speaker 1: shape you hit? And I do this before I tell
Speaker 1: them anything, right, I do this at the beginning of
Speaker 1: a golf lesson. Watch a player hit some balls. I'll
Speaker 1: have them watched some you know, once they get warmed up. Hey,
Speaker 1: hit me some seven irons. Tell me what you're trying
Speaker 1: to do. What kind of shape you are you trying
Speaker 1: to play? What kind of shape do you like to play?
Speaker 1: Where's the miss what's the contact like on the golf course? Hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I really like to try and draw the
Speaker 1: golf ball. All right? Cool? Okay, So there's the target
Speaker 1: flag and then we're gonna give you ten balls. And
Speaker 1: the only thing I'm going to ask you to do
Speaker 1: in these ten balls is can you start all ten
Speaker 1: of them to the right? If you're a fader of
Speaker 1: the golf ball, Hey, you like to hit fades? All right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna pick out a target, give you seven iron,
Speaker 1: give you eight iron, whatever the club, and say, all right,
Speaker 1: just hit me ten balls. And the only task here
Speaker 1: is all ten of them start. If you're trying to
Speaker 1: fade it, all ten of them start left of the
Speaker 1: target right. So I'm as much interested in that as
Speaker 1: to how their golf swing looks right and how they're
Speaker 1: I want to know, can you just concept wise what
Speaker 1: would you need to do? I take a lot of
Speaker 1: video and I'll show a player. Okay, let's say you're
Speaker 1: trying to draw the golf ball and the club's working
Speaker 1: very much on the outside on the takeaway. And then
Speaker 1: we go to try and have you hit more of
Speaker 1: a draw and feel like the club works maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit more on the inside so that it can
Speaker 1: work a little bit more into out on the downswing.
Speaker 1: And what I'll do is say, all right, this is
Speaker 1: the first swing you were making with the club you
Speaker 1: know is working way outside, and now this is you
Speaker 1: trying to hit a draw the club going back. So
Speaker 1: I'll put the two pictures on the screen and say,
Speaker 1: all right, if you didn't know this was you, tell
Speaker 1: me which one hits fades and which ones hit draws. Right,
Speaker 1: you should kind of be able to look at a
Speaker 1: swing and say, yeah, I mean, it would look to
Speaker 1: me like that swing would produce fade. It would look
Speaker 1: to me like that swing would produce a draw. And
Speaker 1: again that goes back into one of the things I
Speaker 1: talked about at the beginning, which is concept Right, if
Speaker 1: you're trying to draw the golf ball by take if
Speaker 1: you're trying to fade the golf ball by massively taking
Speaker 1: the golf club inside, right, you're going to have to
Speaker 1: do more than likely what Hail Irwin did take it inside,
Speaker 1: come over the top and hit a fade that way?
Speaker 1: So I think also this always leads me in a
Speaker 1: golf lesson to talk about intent. What is your intent?
Speaker 1: What is your intention? What are you trying to do?
Speaker 1: I think intent is really really important to me. The
Speaker 1: intent is for regular handicapped golfers, non elite tour players.
Speaker 1: I think intention is something that is missing. I think
Speaker 1: you've got to ask yourself, Okay, what are you trying
Speaker 1: to do with your golf swing? What are you trying
Speaker 1: to do with this shot? Right? What is your intention?
Speaker 1: I think that is incredibly powerful, I really do. And
Speaker 1: I think start line ken. If you're a right hand
Speaker 1: if you're right handed, you're trying to hit a draw
Speaker 1: a ball, damn well needs to start right of your target.
Speaker 1: If it starts at your target and curves, you're you're
Speaker 1: gonna miss greens right, You're gonna be in trouble. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to have a hell of a short game.
Speaker 1: So whatever shot you're trying to hit, if you're trying
Speaker 1: to fade it, just stand up and say listen. If
Speaker 1: you want to fade the golf ball, pick your target
Speaker 1: flag out and say all right, I'm gonna hit ten balls,
Speaker 1: and the only thing I'm going to do so if
Speaker 1: I can start all ten of them left of my target.
Speaker 1: If I'm trying to draw the golf ball, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna try and see if i can start all my
Speaker 1: golf balls. Where the ball starts for me, is as important,
Speaker 1: if not more important, than when the ball where the
Speaker 1: ball finishes. But I think I've said this before. I
Speaker 1: think everybody is hyper focused and just obsessed with the
Speaker 1: curvature of the golf ball and where the golf ball
Speaker 1: is ending up. For me, where the golf ball starts
Speaker 1: is as important, if not more important, than when where
Speaker 1: the ball ends up. And then the last team I'm
Speaker 1: trying to do with giving golf lessons is just check
Speaker 1: my ego right. Golf is hard. Golf isn't easy. I
Speaker 1: don't ever think golf is easy. I never played to
Speaker 1: any real high level, so to this day, golf is
Speaker 1: still hard for me. So I'm always talking to my
Speaker 1: instructors that are on my team, hey check here you go.
Speaker 1: Nobody cares if you can do it. The only thing
Speaker 1: that matters is if your students can do it right.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of players that come. A
Speaker 1: lot of instructors that come from a playing background, they
Speaker 1: can be guilty of that. Sometimes I just do it
Speaker 1: like this, You're fine, Yeah, I can do it, so
Speaker 1: you can do it. So I'm always trying to check
Speaker 1: me ago at the door. I said this in my
Speaker 1: presentation on Friday in Orlando for the TPI guys. I've
Speaker 1: worked with Ernie Els he won the Open Championship in
Speaker 1: twenty twelve. I work with Dustin Johnson. He won the
Speaker 1: US Open in sixteen, he won the Masters in twenty
Speaker 1: won the FedEx Cup. He's been number one in the
Speaker 1: world for almost you know, he and Brooks have been
Speaker 1: number one in the world for almost three years cumulative.
Speaker 1: But I still don't know everything, right, I still don't.
Speaker 1: I still haven't figured this out. I never think I have.
Speaker 1: But it would be easy for me, at this stage
Speaker 1: of my career to just say, listen, I've got all
Speaker 1: these major champions, I've got all these guys that have
Speaker 1: been number one in the world, worked with players that
Speaker 1: have won basically all over the place. But I still
Speaker 1: don't There's still days where I feel like I don't
Speaker 1: know what I'm doing. There's still members of my team
Speaker 1: that I say, hey man, can you take a look
Speaker 1: at this golf swing? Maybe I'm just not seeing it,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm too close to it. So I don't ever
Speaker 1: think that I've figured it out and I've kind of
Speaker 1: found it, because I don't think that quest will ever stop, right,
Speaker 1: I'll always try to get better. I'll always try and improve,
Speaker 1: so my knowledge base can always get better. And so
Speaker 1: I always try and check my ego and just say, listen, man,
Speaker 1: you don't know everything. You can learn something from other instructors.
Speaker 1: I ask when I'm on tour. I'll sit with other
Speaker 1: instructors on tour and say, hey man, i'm working on
Speaker 1: this with a player, what do you think about this? Right?
Speaker 1: And I don't necessarily agree with everything that every other
Speaker 1: instructor does. You know, I have my own way of
Speaker 1: doing things, but I don't know everything, and maybe they
Speaker 1: can see something or come up with idea or concept
Speaker 1: that I don't know. Having given that presentation, I just
Speaker 1: thought it'd be a cool podcast to just talk about
Speaker 1: how I think and about how I see golf swings
Speaker 1: and what I'm trying to work on with players. So
Speaker 1: just a little brief overview of kind of my checklist
Speaker 1: when a player comes in for a golf lesson. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's helpful, maybe it's not. But I think it's some
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Speaker 1: this when you're taking your golf lessons, some of it
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