1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Son of a Butcher podcast. I'm 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: your host Claude Harmon. Next week, the year's second major 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: championship takes place just outside of Philadelphia at Ironomic Golf Club. 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 1: And I think majors are a really, really good opportunity 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: for you to learn something about your game by watching 6 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 1: the best players in the world get together four times 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: a year. Those are the tournaments that the best players 8 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: in the world want to win. Those are the tournaments 9 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:32,239 Speaker 1: that your career is kind of judged by. But I 10 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: think watching major championships, watching how these great players deal 11 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: with the challenges that a major championship gives them is 12 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: something that can really really help your game. So get 13 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: in front of the TV as you always do. Four 14 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,520 Speaker 1: times a year, best players in the world get together. 15 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: But it is really really an opportunity for you to 16 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: learn something that you can take to your game. So 17 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: major championships, they don't change golf, they kind of expose it. 18 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: Every major championship presents a regular golf challenge, right, They're 19 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: just regular weeks, right, but the volume is turned up 20 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: so loud. The way they present the golf course, narrow 21 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: failways become impossible to hit the greens become super super hard, 22 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: rough chipping, short game becomes super super important, And it's 23 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: not just great entertainment. It's really a free coaching session 24 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: for you if you kind of know what to look at. Now. 25 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: I've been lucky throughout my career to work with three 26 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: players Ernie Els, Brooks, Koepka, Dustin Johnson. They won eight majors, 27 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: and I love going to major championships, right. I think 28 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: they're very, very different weeks. As coaches and people on 29 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: the performance side, we try and prepare for them differently 30 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: because the test is different. And so let's get to 31 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: that first part right off the bat. The golf course 32 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: set up up. The setup of the golf course really 33 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: does dictate a lot of the strategy. There's regular PGA 34 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: Tour events where they play hard golf courses, right, Riviera 35 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: Memorial places like that. Those are kind of old school 36 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 1: hard golf courses. And then there are just regular PGA 37 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 1: Tour events where you're going to shoot a lot under 38 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: par courses out in the Desert, Vegas, Palm Springs. I mean, 39 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: it's a birdie fest, right. But major championships are different 40 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,639 Speaker 1: because they set the golf course up different and They 41 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: tend to set the golf courses up as difficult as 42 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: possible by design to test every shot that a tour 43 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: player has and needs to have. They take fairways that are, 44 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: you know, thirty five yards and narrow them to twenty 45 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: twenty two yards. That's not a small change. That's basically 46 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: a completely different style of golf course. The rough goes 47 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: from maybe two inches one inches on a regular golf course, 48 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: sometimes the five inches, which means if you miss fairways 49 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 1: you literally can't get to the green. The greens get really, 50 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: really firm. Maybe not so much this time of year 51 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: in Philadelphia because the weather's not going to get super 52 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: super hot and the greens aren't going to get super 53 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: baked out, but normally the greens get firm. You're looking 54 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: at just trying to hold greens. Pin positions get tough, 55 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: so the margin for error really does disappear. So I 56 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,839 Speaker 1: think the first thing that happens there is the tea 57 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: shots right. Driving the golf ball to win major championships 58 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: is incredibly important. I was talking to Thomas Deetree, had 59 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: dinner with him last night, and he made a trip 60 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 1: up to Ironomic last week. Showed me some videos of 61 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: golf course looks and beautiful conditions, a beautiful design golf course. 62 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: He said. The fairways weren't super super narrow. The rough 63 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: does look like it's going to be up depending on 64 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: what the weather kind of gives us. And this time 65 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: of year, I don't think the golf course is going 66 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: to play really really fast, really really kind of firm 67 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: and bouncy. You expect to see that at the Open 68 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: Championship in July. We're definitely going to expect to see 69 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: that at Shinnacock out on Long Island in the Hampton's 70 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 1: for the US Open. But a lot of this next 71 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: week will a little bit be weather dependent. But yeah, 72 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 1: I mean we're going to look at in the practice rounds, 73 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: We're going to be looking at getting the golf ball 74 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: and play off the tea. What is the easiest way 75 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: for us to do that? Strategy wise? I've talked before 76 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: about one of the non negotiables that I have is 77 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: the fifteen yard rule. Right, if you're going to try 78 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 1: and carry a bunker, a lake, a stream, set of 79 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: trees and stuff. If you can't comfortably carry that by 80 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: fifteen yards, lay up fifteen yards back right. I did 81 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: a podcast earlier in the year about non negotiables. That's 82 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 1: really really one of them. So I think a lot 83 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,159 Speaker 1: of the practice rounds is a lot about sight lines. 84 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 1: What clubs are going to hit off the tee. Where 85 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 1: is the trouble? Do they want to lay back of that? 86 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: Do they want to go kind of try and challenge 87 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 1: it and go over it? The problem when you do 88 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: that is if you lay back, you're probably going to 89 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: be coming in with a little bit longer iron, So 90 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: that's all part of it. You're not really aiming for 91 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: a lot of pins. In major championships, the fat part 92 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: of the green becomes, you know, one of the really 93 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,799 Speaker 1: big targets. I think the players really stop aiming at flags. 94 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 1: They're really playing more for position, and every shot really 95 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: becomes a conversation about miss patterns right, where is the 96 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: best place to miss it? And you're really just trying 97 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 1: to avoid any of those things. So the takeaway that 98 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: you can take for your home course is your course 99 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: is going to maybe reward hero shots. If you try 100 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: and take them on right, you might be able to 101 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: get away with that. Major championships you've got no chance. 102 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 1: So most amateurs really don't ever think about course management 103 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: because you know the golf course that you're playing, you 104 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 1: might not have to. You know, the fairways can be 105 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: really really wide. You could be playing a golf course 106 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: that doesn't really have a lot of rough. You could 107 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: be playing on greens that are you know, slow, soft, 108 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 1: not a lot of undulation. Depending on where you live, 109 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: you could play golf courses that don't really have a 110 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 1: lot of thick, thick rough. But your course should be 111 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: played like a major championship. So pick smaller landing areas 112 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: off the tee, which I think kind of narrows the focus. 113 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: Wedges really really important another non negotiable. You can't miss 114 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: greens with wedges. Major championship courses force tour players into 115 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: playing boring golf, but boring golf tends to win major championships. 116 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: That's the same for you at your home course. I've 117 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: talked about it loads of times before on the pod. 118 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 1: Try and play as boring golf as possible, right, Try 119 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: and stay way from the ups and downs the volatility, 120 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: because that is really really difficult to do and recover 121 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: from in major championships. You're just not going to see 122 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: this up and down major championship runs where you're making 123 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: a bunch of birdies, a bunch of bogies a big number, 124 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: and you can get it back on the back nine. 125 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: That just doesn't happen. So point number two, pars win 126 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: major championships. If you think about it, Tour players kind 127 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: of average around four birdies, maybe around at a major. 128 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: That's it. So if you compare that to a regular 129 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,239 Speaker 1: PGA Tour event where you're kind of in that five 130 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: to six range with the birdies sometimes maybe seven to 131 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: eight and soft conditions on the right kind of golf course. 132 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: So what's the difference. It's not that making fewer birdies 133 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: is worse than major championships. It's that birdies are much 134 00:07:55,280 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: much harder to come by, and pars become so so important. 135 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: Accepting pars on holes, I think is really really important. 136 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: Where a lot of amateur golfers are just they're constantly 137 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: trying to make birdies, right. I've talked before. The par 138 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: Game did a podcast on that. If you haven't listened 139 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: to it, go check that out. Just try and make pars, 140 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: I mean, just think of playing to make pars. Major 141 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: champions accept pars on holes, right, And if you listen 142 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: to every major champion, they talk about trying to avoid 143 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: making double bogies. They talk about Boge's being survivable, and 144 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: big numbers are really kind of the knockout punch four 145 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: rounds or players that are in contention, they make a 146 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: big number at the wrong time and they really really struggle. 147 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: And if you listen to the majority of major champions 148 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: when they're being interviewed, they all say the same thing. 149 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 1: I really stayed patient today, I really stayed patient all week. 150 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: So staying patient at your own course is really really important. 151 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 1: Amateurs look at par fives, as you know, I gotta 152 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: try to make Bertie. I gotta try make Bertie. Tour 153 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: players see par fives in a major and they think, okay, 154 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: I just am not going to make anything other than 155 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: a par here, right, because you're going to struggle to 156 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: survive that. Amateurs look at pretty much any situation and think, yeah, 157 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: all in, just send, send, send, I'm just gonna push 158 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: all my chips in. I'm gonna go for every shot. 159 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: Tour players are thinking, Okay, where's supposed topos to bail 160 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: out major championships? Right? Where's the best opportunity if I 161 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:41,319 Speaker 1: get out of position? Where can I try and make 162 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,719 Speaker 1: a par from so major championships are about survival for 163 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: tour championships, and I think the average golfer looks at 164 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: a round of golf and it's filled with a lot 165 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 1: of volatility, kind of ups and downs, and that's really, really, 166 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: really tough to do on a regular bay. So the 167 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: next time you go out and play, count how many 168 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: times you make a bogie or more when you're trying 169 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: to make a birdie when you're trying to be aggressive. 170 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: Now flip that. Imagine you just tried to play for par, 171 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: you laid up, you hit it to mill the green 172 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: two putt, and you move on. You'd probably shave two 173 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: to five strokes without really doing anything with your golf swing. 174 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: That's not theory, that's not swing mechanics, that's just math. 175 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 1: So amateurs lose strokes trying to constantly make birdies. Tour 176 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: players win majors trying to not make big numbers and 177 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: trying to make a lot of pars point number three. 178 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: Majors are a mental marathon. It's seventy two holes of 179 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: who can control their emotions. If you think about it, 180 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: it's not want four rounds of golf. It's one kind 181 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: of constant seventy two whole rounds with breaks in between 182 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: for other players to go sleep, and then wore them 183 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 1: back up right, which means the emotional swings kind of 184 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: have to be flat. I think Brooks keptco is the 185 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 1: best at that. I think Brooks was the best that 186 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 1: I've really seen at managing chaos. He liked the fact 187 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: that he knew majors were going to be tough. I 188 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: worked with Brooks for the five majors that he won. 189 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 1: He loved the fact that it was going to be difficult. 190 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: He wanted the golf course to be really, really hard. 191 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 1: I remember out at Pebble Beach when Gary Woodland won 192 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: and the weather wasn't what they expected. There wasn't really 193 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: really really bad Pebble Beach weather. The course was out 194 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: of Pebble Beach was soft, and I remember Paul McGinley 195 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: saying Brooks is going to struggle that week. He said, 196 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: He's really going to struggle this week. And I said why, 197 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 1: and he said, well, the golf course is easy, and 198 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 1: he wants the golf course and needs the golf course 199 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: to be as hard as possible because that's what rates 200 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: him from everybody else. Then you end up finishing second. 201 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 1: Gary Woodland went on to win. But he's right, the 202 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:06,560 Speaker 1: best players in the world want the golf courses to 203 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:08,959 Speaker 1: be set up the hardest, but the best players I 204 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,559 Speaker 1: think Scotti Scheffler is probably as good as anybody at 205 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:18,199 Speaker 1: managing his emotions, especially in major championships. Right, you can't 206 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 1: focus on bad breaks, bad stretches of holes. You've just 207 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 1: got to keep playing. And I think the people that 208 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: win major championships on Sunday are always the players that 209 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: have managed their emotions the best, not just necessarily ones 210 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: that hit it the best. So I think sticking to 211 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:42,479 Speaker 1: your routine, having a really really good game plan, sticking 212 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: to that game plan, realizing that you're going to make 213 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 1: bad swings, you're going to get bad lies, Bad things 214 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:51,599 Speaker 1: are going to happen to you in major championships, and 215 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 1: I think it's how you deal with that. You hear 216 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: all the time in major championships that players who are 217 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: trying to not look at leaderboards, why are they doing that. 218 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: Whe They're trying not to get ahead of them themselves. 219 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: They're trying to not get out of the moment. When 220 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: you watch major championships, listen to how many times guys say, listen, 221 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 1: I wasn't really looking at leaderboards today. I was just 222 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: really kind of focused on my own game. Try that, 223 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 1: Try and just really think about each shot as it comes. 224 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: If you have one bad hole, try and put it 225 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 1: behind you. Try and not go all in on the 226 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: next hole. Try and treat your Saturday round or Sunday 227 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: round like a major championship to where you're just saying, listen, 228 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: I'm just going to try and make as many pars 229 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: as possible, take advantage of the good opportunities that I have, 230 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:42,079 Speaker 1: and if it hit a bad shot, let it go 231 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: and just move on. And that I think is super 232 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: super important because major championships really are kind of a 233 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: war of attrition. I remember when Brooks won the PGA 234 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: at Bell Reeve, had a lead they was playing with 235 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 1: Adam Scott. Tiger was right in front of him making 236 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: a run, and Brooks didn't get off to the best start. 237 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: Sometimes champions don't get off to great starts. I mean 238 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: we saw that with Rory McElroy at times. I mean, 239 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: he doesn't go shoot sixty two every time he wins 240 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: major championship. Sometimes he gets off to a little bit 241 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,680 Speaker 1: of a rough start. We saw that Augusta this year 242 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: and last year is as well. I mean didn't get 243 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: off the necessarily the best starts. But you can survive 244 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: having a good mindset, having a good game plan, and 245 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: sticking to the process and not trying to think about 246 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: the last shot you hit or think about the shots 247 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: that you have coming up point number four. You will 248 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: miss greens in major championships, especially if you don't drive 249 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: it well. The question is what happens next after that. 250 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: So if you think about it, a tour pro averages 251 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: about high sixties in greens in regulation per normal week. 252 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 1: Major championships sometimes that drops below sixty percent, So this 253 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: means a typical round in a major you might be 254 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: missing you know, five, six, seven, maybe eight greens. So 255 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: short game becomes hugely, hugely important the majority of time. 256 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: If you look at major champions and then you look 257 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: at their up and down and they're scrambling for the week, 258 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: rarely are they outside of the top ten because you're 259 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: going to have to get up and down when you 260 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: can't or you're not hitting greens. The short game is 261 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: no longer optional. It's it's the skill that you need 262 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: to have. A major champion, let's say gets up and 263 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: down around sixty sixty five percent of the time of 264 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 1: that week. They're probably saving eight, maybe even double digits 265 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: shots versus the field over four rounds. That sometimes is 266 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: what wins them the trophy. Sometimes you can go back 267 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: and watch a major champion and look at and up 268 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: and down, and the announcers on TV will say that, listen, 269 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: they'll escape with a great par, great chip shot, maybe 270 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 1: hold the thirty five footer, but they make a really 271 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: good up and down for par. Sometimes they make a 272 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: really good up and down for bogie, and the announcers 273 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: will say, listen, he goes on to win this tournament. 274 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 1: He'll look back at this hole as kind of the 275 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: turning point in one of the reasons as to why. 276 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: So you are going to have a lot of shots 277 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: in a major championship around the greens, you're also at 278 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: your home course going to have a lot of shots 279 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: from around the green. So I think most golfers practice 280 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: eighty to ninety percent of their time hitting full shots 281 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: right and then they lose sixty seventy sometimes eighty percent 282 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: of their shots from inside of one hundred yards around 283 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: the green. So if you flip that and spend maybe 284 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: a little bit more time on your short game. It's 285 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 1: going to make a massive difference. When's the last time 286 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: you went out and practice from bad lies, tight lies, 287 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: buried lies, in the rough, awkward stances. Talked about that 288 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: recently on a pod practicing recovery shots. So if you 289 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: can save par from off the green half the time, 290 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: handicap is just going to plummet. I think that's another 291 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: really really important thing to realize Major championships. You're going 292 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 1: to miss greens because they're tough to hit by design 293 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: at your home course, given your skill level, greens are 294 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 1: probably going to be tough for you to hit. It 295 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:26,439 Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you can't play the game. And then 296 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: last point, play your game. Don't get into the trap 297 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: of what the golf course is going to bait you. 298 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 1: In major venues, Major courses are designed to seduce the 299 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: players into doing things that maybe they can't do, maybe 300 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: they don't want to do. The put pins in positions 301 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:49,640 Speaker 1: to where you think, oh, I can go at this one, 302 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:51,680 Speaker 1: I can go at this one, I can get there 303 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: on this par five. The and the way the course 304 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: is set up is trying to get you to play 305 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:04,439 Speaker 1: the golf course specific way. Major champions and the girls 306 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: on the LPGA that win major championships as well. They 307 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:11,400 Speaker 1: play their own game. They stick to their game plan. 308 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 1: Another example, Brooks kept he likes to fade the golf ball. 309 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: That major championship, the PJ at Bell Reeve. The eighteenth 310 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:21,679 Speaker 1: hole was a kind of dog leg from right to 311 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 1: left where you needed to kind of hit a draw 312 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: because there were trees on the on the left hand side. 313 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: There were a couple bunkers out there. So we got 314 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: there on the Monday. I remember Ricky Elidas Brooks as 315 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,199 Speaker 1: caddie saying, listen, I think we hit threewood here, or 316 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,399 Speaker 1: we hit driving iron. And Brooks hit a three wood 317 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 1: and kind of, you know, hit a hook because he 318 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: was trying to hit a little bit of a draw 319 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 1: and went into the rough. And then he was like, okay, 320 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit the driving iron, which was going to 321 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: leave him further back. But he hit one, kind of 322 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 1: missed it a little bit and just got into the rough. 323 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: And he was like, you know, I don't really like 324 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: either of those shots because three wood, I'm trying to 325 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: draw it. That's not my normal shape. If I hit 326 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: the driving iron and I miss it, and I missed 327 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 1: the fair way. Now I'm a long way back hitting 328 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,679 Speaker 1: out of rough. So what he did was on the 329 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: Monday we tried to see if he could carry the 330 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 1: trees on the left hand side and just hit his 331 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 1: normal fade, and he was able to do that. And obviously, 332 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: if the wind was into him, he wasn't going to 333 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 1: be able to do that. But he said no wind 334 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: or a little bit down when he felt like he 335 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:29,360 Speaker 1: could comfortably clear the trees on the left and then 336 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: basically just hit his normal shape, which is a little 337 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: bit of a fade, and he did that all four days. 338 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 1: He did that. On Sunday, I remember Tiger Woods finishing 339 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: in front of Brooks and kind of given a really 340 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,959 Speaker 1: really big fist pump, And I think, looking back on 341 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,919 Speaker 1: that now, he probably did that because he knew the 342 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,160 Speaker 1: books still had to play a hole that just didn't 343 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: set up for his eye and it was going to 344 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:56,199 Speaker 1: be difficult for him to play. But on Sunday, in 345 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: the final round, he just hammered his high bomb new 346 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 1: cut way down there and basically had an easy iron 347 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 1: shot and lifted the trophy. So stick to your game plan, 348 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 1: don't go halfway through the round if you're hitting draws 349 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: and the draws doesn't work in and say okay, now 350 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and try and hit fades. That 351 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:18,959 Speaker 1: that rarely rarely works. If you're only swinging at about 352 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,880 Speaker 1: seventy five eighty percent that day, that's kind of your 353 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:25,479 Speaker 1: your full swing. You don't need to go find an 354 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 1: extra ten yards. Just stick to your game plan. If 355 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,479 Speaker 1: your B game shows up or your C game, you 356 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 1: have to go play with it. You'll warm up. You 357 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: don't have your A game, you don't have your best stuff, 358 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 1: You're probably not going to find it. And that's I've 359 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,159 Speaker 1: been talking about that as much as I possibly can 360 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: on the pod. The difference between playing golf and playing 361 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 1: golf swing majors in force that discipline you have to 362 00:20:52,880 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 1: play golf. A major championship is a pure execution. Phase 363 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:06,360 Speaker 1: of that. I've talked about the three technique or execution. 364 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,479 Speaker 1: There really isn't a lot of room for technique. If 365 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: we show up at a major championship and a player 366 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 1: is not playing his best, if the swing isn't where 367 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: he wants it, it's hard to change that. At a 368 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: regular tour event, the last thing we want to be 369 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 1: doing at a major, is working on a ton of technique. 370 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: Hopefully we're going there and we're thinking about strategy. So 371 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 1: a lot of players either like to play the week 372 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 1: before and take a lot of the stuff that they're 373 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: going to see in a major championship and try and 374 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: use it and hit shots. Tiger was notorious for that. 375 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 1: Tiger would be hitting draws on holes that you wouldn't 376 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 1: necessarily hit draws going into Augusta, but he would be 377 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 1: getting ready for Augusta. He'd be hitting a lot of 378 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,959 Speaker 1: really really high shots. A lot of players will take 379 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 1: the week off. I think scottiy Scheffler's taking this week off. 380 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: He's going to work on his technique this week, grind 381 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: on it, think about all the things that he needs 382 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: to do from technique standpoint to get ready for next week. 383 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: And then he's going to go to next week to 384 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: Philadelphia and he's going to be thinking with this caddy, 385 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: Teddy Scott about strategy, what the golf course is going 386 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: to give him. That's a lot of reasons why players 387 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:17,399 Speaker 1: go up and play major championship venues pre tournament. I mean, 388 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: you heard Roy Mackaway talk about this. He didn't want 389 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,360 Speaker 1: to play any of the tournaments in Texas coming up 390 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: to Augusta. He wanted to go up to Augusta as 391 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: many times as possible so we could see the golf course. 392 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: He's not going up there to work on his golf swing. 393 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: He's going up there to work on what the golf 394 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: course is going to be set up like, to get 395 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 1: used to the conditions, to get used to the kind 396 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 1: of shots he's going to hit. And you want to 397 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: get all of this stuff done beforehand. So on your 398 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: home course, do the work. If you're playing on the weekend, 399 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 1: if you can get to the range and work on 400 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 1: your golf swing and work on your technique, do the 401 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 1: work before you go play. So your major championship is 402 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 1: every time you tee it up. If you're a weekend golfers, 403 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:05,679 Speaker 1: that's a major championship for you. That's an opportunity for 404 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:10,920 Speaker 1: you to treat the game like your game at your 405 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 1: home course. Your home course might be sixty two sixty three, 406 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 1: you know, it might be in the six thousand yard range. 407 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: You're not playing a long, hard golf course that they're 408 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 1: stretching as long as possible. You know, a lot of 409 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: times when we go to major championships, specifically on some 410 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: of the older old school golf courses up in the Northeast, 411 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: the par changes from seventy two and they take two 412 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: par fives for the members and turn them into really 413 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 1: really long par fours, right, and so it should be 414 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: a par five. It may have a par five green 415 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: that really isn't super super big, but now all of 416 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 1: a sudden, it's a close to five hundred yard maybe 417 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: even over five hundred yard par four to where you're 418 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 1: going to be coming in with a club that people 419 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 1: that play that all the time they could play it 420 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:58,199 Speaker 1: as a three shotter. So you should be using your 421 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 1: practice sessions as places to try and get your golf 422 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 1: swing better. And then you should be treating your home 423 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,000 Speaker 1: course like a major championship. Right. I know it's hard 424 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 1: to do, but try and trust your golf swing, Try 425 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,880 Speaker 1: and trust the version that you have that day. Learn 426 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 1: how to say, listen, this is what i've got today, right, 427 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: and so based off of what I've got today, that's 428 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: going to help me plan and play the golf course. 429 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: The course sometimes isn't your opponent. Your ego is right, 430 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: you're trying to do things that you know you shouldn't 431 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: be doing. You're trying to do things that you know 432 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 1: he can't do. I was talking to a junior golfer 433 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,880 Speaker 1: earlier this week about a tournament round that he had 434 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: made a double bogie on a really short part four 435 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 1: It was like three hundred and seventy yards and hit 436 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: a really really good drive and then was in between 437 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: clubs and the clubs that he was in between, he 438 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: chose a club, and he said, when we were asking, hey, 439 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: what was the thought processor, He's like, my life is 440 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: in between clubs, and I chose I knew I was 441 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,919 Speaker 1: choosing the wrong club, but I hit it anyway. I 442 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,360 Speaker 1: mean that to me is just I mean, that's just crazy. Right. 443 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: So I think if you can start to think about 444 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: these five things. Of course, set up every shot matters, 445 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,680 Speaker 1: play for position, don't even worry about where the pins are. 446 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: Pars win major championships. Bernies are a bonus. Bogie's doubles, 447 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: big numbers, the killers, the mental marathon that is a 448 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 1: major championship. Try and keep your emotions in check for 449 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 1: seventy two holes, for eighteen holes, if you're playing a tournament, 450 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 1: just said, listen, you know what, I'm just going to 451 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 1: do a really good job if I've got a one 452 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 1: or a two day tournament, I'm just going to do 453 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,880 Speaker 1: a really good job at controlling my emotions because that's 454 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: a choice. You're going to miss greens. If you miss 455 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,399 Speaker 1: a green, your short game can save you, saves you 456 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 1: at the tour level, save you at the amateur level. 457 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: So just don't stand on the range and pound golf 458 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: balls and work on your golf swing and then play 459 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 1: your game. Don't let your ego get in the way. 460 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: Don't let your ego be doing or making you do 461 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:22,159 Speaker 1: things that you don't want to do. So I think 462 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: the challenge for everybody listening is next weekend, when you're 463 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: sitting in front of your TV and you're watching the 464 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: PGA Championship, watching the second major of the year, watch 465 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: it differently. Watch where players are laying up, watch the bailouts, 466 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 1: watch the boring, boring pars. Watch how rarely you're going 467 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:47,120 Speaker 1: to see players firing it a bunch of pins, hitting 468 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 1: it inside a five feet Watch how many times the 469 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: announcers CBS next week so Jim Nantz Trevor Immelman, Watch 470 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,920 Speaker 1: how many times Trevor being a major champion who won 471 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 1: a green jacket at the Masters Watch how many times 472 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 1: someone hits it to twenty feet, you know, doesn't hit 473 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: it what you would think would be a good shot. 474 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 1: Watch how many times Trev says, man, that's a really 475 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: good shot. That's the shot he needed to hit right here. 476 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: That's going to give him the best chance at getting 477 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: out of here with a pall. And if he makes berdie, 478 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: it's a bonus. Watch where they're aiming, Watch the clubs 479 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: that they're hitting off the tee. Watch how they recover 480 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 1: from bad shots, Watch how they recover from maybe making 481 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: a couple of bogies. I think if you watch major 482 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 1: championships differently, Yeah, focus on the great shots, because we'll 483 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: see some, But listen to our players. They don't get 484 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 1: better at major championships. They just play smarter. And that 485 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 1: playing smarter is available to you right now on your 486 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,400 Speaker 1: home golf courses. These are the lessons that you can 487 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 1: use on the weekends to help you turn your home 488 00:27:54,560 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: course your regular weekend round of golf. It's major and 489 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 1: it should be important do your best to watch these 490 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: major championships on TV and then look at how these 491 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,640 Speaker 1: great players are dealing with the challenges that a major 492 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 1: championship gives them. I think if you can do that, 493 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: and if you can start to do that, we have 494 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 1: three more Majors for the rest of the year, and 495 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: I think if you can just watch them differently, it 496 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 1: really is an opportunity for you to learn something that 497 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 1: you can take to your home course, to the course 498 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,399 Speaker 1: that you play on a regular basis. And none of 499 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,439 Speaker 1: this has anything to do with your golf swing or 500 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 1: your technique, but give that a try next week. I'm 501 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: really excited to get to Philadelphia. It's going to be 502 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 1: a fun week. I like the golf course. The Bunkering 503 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 1: looks beautiful, kind of an old school course, and I 504 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 1: think we are in for a really, really good Major championship. 505 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: I'm in there are some really good players playing some 506 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: really really good golf, and I think this is going 507 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 1: to be a good one. Great review. Subscribe wherever you 508 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: get your podcast. It's the Son of a Butcher Podcast