WEBVTT - Episode 30: 2024 Golf Checklist 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.400 The guys from Ping. They've kind of showed me how 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.280 much dequiment matters. I just love that I can hit 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:06.600 any shot I kind of want. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:08.520 We're gonna be able to tell some fun stories about 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:10.640 what goes on here to help golfers play better golf. 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:14.360 Welcome back to the Ping proven Grounds Podcast. I'm Shane Bacon. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.439 That's Marty Jerts and Marty. Happy New Year. You know 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.760 what we gotta start with, right? Do you got a resolution? 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.440 You got you got something you're gonna You're gonna set 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.680 your goals and eyes and mind and body ad at 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:27.479 twenty twenty four. 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.960 Oh, Shane, I used to be super big into the resolutions, 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.120 you know, like and for me it was always removing 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.360 something was like a good resolution. Like one year being 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:40.440 from Arizona, Man, I love chips and guac. I had 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.480 to give up chips. I was like, I couldn't do it. 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:45.280 Did you do the whole year? Did you did you 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.360 do the whole year and not do it? I did 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:48.280 the entire year? 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:49.519 Oh my goodness. 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.000 One year. I regret this, but I gave up coffee. 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.200 I like switched to tea and then I had a 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.360 I did it literally for the whole year, but I 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:59.720 rebounded on that now, so I'm not doing that. But 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.240 I think this year, you know, I think it's gonna 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:08.120 be maybe because over forty is maybe maybe diet wise, 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.240 get a little more protein in the diet. That's gonna 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.479 be my big thing for for twenty four. How about you, 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:13.640 what are you dot on your list? 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:18.319 I'm adding an extra leg and lower body workout a week. So, 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.600 as you know, Marty, it's super easy to do kind 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.279 of beach body workout and go do arms and things 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.200 like that. And I think at times I get a 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.360 little lazy with going to the gym and focusing solely 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.759 on lower body, like spend fifty minutes or an hour 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.119 entirely on legs and glutes and things like that. So 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.600 my goal, and I've been working with a trainer on 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.080 kind of getting nice a plan for this is I'm 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.280 just going to introduce a lot more leg workouts. Again, 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.360 you said it, Marty, I just turned forty, you know, 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:49.840 late last year, and these are the types of things 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:51.480 we've got to be thinking about. And so, yeah, it's 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:53.840 funny you and I are focused on the same stuff. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.920 It's like diet and gym or basically what you have 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:58.560 to have to do when you when you when you 0:01:58.640 --> 0:01:59.960 flip the calendar over, you know. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.360 Yeah, exactly. But I think it's good. I mean, when 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.000 we're talking about what we're going to talk about some 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.680 golf things here is just those habits. I think that's 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.799 a really big deal, is to at the beginning of 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.480 the year, is there's a good time to kind of 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.880 establish what your habits are going to be for the year, 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.360 knowing that life's going to come your way, things are 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.200 going to get in the way, But what are those 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.040 habits you can go back to? And yeah, I think 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.080 we've feeling good about both of ours, Shane. 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.640 Yeah, and you know, Marty, it's interesting. I mean I remember, 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.840 you know, doing like early Clubhouse podcast, you know ten, 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.760 you know, seven, eight years ago, and I would always 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.600 ask players about goals because if you remember, Justin Thomas 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.120 made it famous where he would post that notes app 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:42.880 at the end of the year on what his goals 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.000 were in which one he's achieved. And I think this 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.120 is actually something that's pretty important for even everyday golfers. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.800 I think it's easy to say I'm going to spend 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.240 a little bit more time on the range this year. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.040 I'm gonna spend a little bit more time on my 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.440 short game, but to actually write out goals for your 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.359 golf game. As much as we're all obsessed with the 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.600 game and obsessed with playing, what are you actually trying 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:05.839 to achieve in twenty four? 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:06.080 You know? 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.720 For me with my golf game, Marty, I'm going to 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.880 just simply try to play more tournaments. Not necessarily, you know, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.760 try to do more whatever. I hope that comes with 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.200 the territory. But I'm just going to try to spend 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:18.679 a little bit more time in my calendar if it 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.799 allows that. Obviously I've got two little kids and I've 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.040 got jobs, but I'm going to try to just play 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.079 if I can play in more golf tournaments, get more 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.760 competitive in that space. Because I had a good twenty 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.480 twenty three in terms of tournament golf. But as I 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.440 look back on last year and kind of think about 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.240 this year, I wish I would have played more tournaments. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.320 So that's kind of one of my big focuses for 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:39.880 next year. For this year. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:41.800 Yeah, no, Shan, I love that I did that. In 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.280 twenty three. I recommitted because I had an off year 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.600 in twenty two, didn't play many tournaments at all for 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.600 me and I up. I played in all of pretty 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.800 much all of our section events in twenty three and 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.440 it worked. It forced me to kind of be a 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.040 little more dissi planned in my practice, and then you 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.160 get the feedback playing in the tournament golf. I mean, 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.080 you can be playing good like you did this year, 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.560 and then you play big tournament, then your next you 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.000 low your calendar. Your next one is not for six weeks. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.240 You know, it's tough. It's tough to keep that momentum going. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.240 I think about that on tour lot with the pro golfers. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.160 You know, some of the guys that have great ends 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.160 to the season. You think about the way Victor obviously 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.039 played at the end of twenty three and into the 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.599 Ryder Cup and things like that, and everybody reacts the 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:24.680 same way, Wow, Victor's gonna win a major championship. He's 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.040 you know, he's obviously on the precipice of those types 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.000 of things. And you said it, Marty, I mean, the 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.320 gap from the end of that part of their season 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.359 until when they ramp things back up again in January, 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:36.800 and then you think about the big events early in 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.159 the season, and then you think about that first major championship. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.960 I mean, what are you talking six seven months? For 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:45.560 those players, it's remembering what I did well. And for 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.400 Victor it was obviously everything. I mean, he hit the 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.400 ball great and he putted great, but remembering what those 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:55.039 fields were like and applying them in your practice and 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.160 in your planning, and then of course you know when 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.159 you get back to tournament golf in twenty four. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.520 Yeah, and golf such a fragile game, Shane, You and 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.200 I both know, man, you can you can lose those feelings. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.480 You know, you think they're just right there, but you 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.520 know sometimes it's you know, they're fleeting. So that's what 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:12.200 that's what makes this game so fun though. 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.919 Yeah, and Marty is is listeners are thinking about a 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.840 checklist for twenty twenty four, What are some of the 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.560 things that you would push them to consider to think about, 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.960 to focus on not just maybe with their playing in 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.480 their golf game, but he also in their golf bag. 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.080 Yeah. I think it's just a good time to have, like, 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.240 you know, I like to call it like a retrospective, 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:38.080 you know, just take a nice, good hard look at 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.440 your game and what your goals are, Right, Shane, I 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.520 think that's a big deal. I think back to when 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.640 we had Preston summer Hates on the podcast. Hey Preston, 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:46.880 what do you need to do to get better? He 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.000 was like, well, I thought about this for a couple 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.800 of weeks and wrote a ten page detailed plan. I 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.480 don't think the everyday golfer needs to go to Preston level. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.839 I'm not going to Preston level personally, but hey, what 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.240 a great example for all of us to do a 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.320 little look back on your game. Be like, hey, you know, 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.720 just like you did, I want to play more tournaments. 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.520 You know, what are your goals, what were your strengths, 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.680 what were your weaknesses? If you use any type of 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.720 stats tracking app, heck, even if you just look at 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.479 your gen trends over the years, right, take a look 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.000 at some of your stats and do a little assessment 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.040 on your game. Get you and if you have somebody 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.320 that can help you with it even better, whether that's 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.240 a coach, caddy, friend, do you play a lot of 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.040 golf with what have you? Uh? Take a look, take 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.280 a look at your game and see where you think 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.760 I think that the low hanging fruit is is it 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.800 you're driving, is it your short game, is it your 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.040 mid iron? Play and then you could start to start 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.760 to try to curate an action plan, maybe some habits 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.080 from a practice standpoint, and then an action plan to 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.440 take a look at it from an equipment standpoint. 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:52.800 Yeah, I think something you mentioned off the top there 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.760 is so smart. I mean, obviously there's so many apps 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.360 out there in terms of tracking your golf. And you know, 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.320 I battle with this, Marti at times playing golf is 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:02.480 do I want to be on my. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:03.719 Phone when I'm playing? 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:05.800 Or do I not want to be? And obviously, I 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.520 mean for me, golf is a bit of a disconnect 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.440 from the phone. It's so funny. I'll go on golf 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.840 trip sometimes, Marty, and I'll get done. I'll be on 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.120 the flight home and go, I want to post pictures 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.200 on Instagram, and I go. I didn't take many pictures, 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:18.680 which is a good thing. That means I had a 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.520 great golf trip, right, I mean, if I didn't pull 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.680 my phone out all the time, that typically means I 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.320 was having a great time on the golf course. But 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.480 I do think, considering where we're at in modern technology, 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.080 leaning on those even if it's after the run, even 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.119 if you're at you can track on scorecards and plug 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.040 it in on the back end, fairways, hit greens potts, 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.239 things like that. I think it's so important because Marty 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.400 you mentioned low hanging fruit. I'm not sure everybody understands 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.960 what they're good at and what they're bad at, right, 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.080 And I think being able to track that in some 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:52.120 capacity can help golfers understand where they should spend their 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.080 time practicing, where they should spend their time. Maybe they've 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:56.720 got a four year old driver, right, Maybe I haven't 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.320 driven the ball. Well, maybe it's worth spending a little 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.680 bit of time getting fit for something new in the 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.160 bag that might be able to help improve that. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:05.960 Yeah, Shane, you know, we don't need to spend a 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.440 ton of too much time on stats tracking apps. But 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.480 what it does, you hit the nail on the head, 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.160 is it helps you get back past your own personal 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.000 bias of what you think is your strength or weakness 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.040 in your game. I was just recently at a big 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.400 conference talking to some of the top teachers and one 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.320 of them said, hey, I bring my players on the 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:30.040 course because you can identify the low hanging fruit to 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.800 help them get better. Almost immediately, they might they might 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.520 tell you, oh, my drivings, you know, not that good. 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.440 Then you get on the course, they actually drive it okay, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.240 they miss their high handicap, or they missed a ton 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.520 of greens. They really struggle with the chipping. But maybe 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.800 they're blanking that out. You know, there's that bias in 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:47.880 there to give you that true assessment. And that's really 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:49.520 where the stats come in. You don't need a lot, 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.920 rely one hundred percent on them, but use them as 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.800 kind of a piece of the puzzle to help identify 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.520 where you need help. And then it's at and then 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.079 it's you know, Shane, it's maybe take a whole listic 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:01.959 view of your golf game. Do you need to work 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:06.320 on some fitness stuff, some speed stuff, some practice habits, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.679 and set some realistic goals for yourself for the year? Right? 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.000 I think that's the thing is like, Hey, I think 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.360 life's gonna come at me, family, kids, job, travel, what 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.560 have you? What are some realistic things I can do? 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:21.360 Can I get a little putting that in my house 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.760 and and do some block practice for five or ten 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.760 minutes while I'm watching watching the basketball in the winter? Right, 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.400 these are those tiny things that add up a lot 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.360 over time. And then what can we do from an 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.120 equipment standpoint where am I where's the low hanging fruit 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.760 From an equipment performance standpoint. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.080 Yeah, like, can you hit the ball longer? I mean 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.920 that's that's a simple fix. I mean I just was 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.760 messing around with the Max ten K. I love it. 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.880 I love the look of it. I know we're gonna 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:51.920 chat more and more about the new driver in the 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.440 coming weeks, but just simply adding a new driver in 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.360 the bag can help you pick up those five or 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.120 ten yards that maybe you've lost or that you'd love 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.120 to improve in terms of what you're trying to do. 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.640 I mean, these are simple fixes for the golf bag 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.840 to help somebody fill a slight hole. That's maybe there's 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:11.160 something they've been thinking about. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.720 Yeah, absolutely, Shane. I try to take a look at 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.800 from an equipment standpoint to help golfers out there. Have 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.240 a little checklist of what things to look at. Number One, 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.240 you highlight it first the driver. Are you leaving distance 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:29.920 on the table through the driver? Fitting and performance? So 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.760 the fitting aspect is, let's make sure you have the 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.240 optimal launch and spin. And if you have not been 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.920 on a launch monitor, you haven't been through our copilot 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.400 tool or understand our chart we have which is angle 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:48.360 of attack, ball speed. What are the perfect launch conditions? 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.920 So many golfers are misfit by not having the right 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:56.160 launch and spin. So there's the fitting side of the driver. 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.200 Then there's the performance side, which is making sure you 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.760 have the latest technology in our four to thirty family, 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.040 for example, to give you that forgiveness around the face, 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.120 to give you that spinsistency, to give you that inertia, 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.840 to give you all the ball speed that comes with everything, 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.439 and marry those two things up together. The driver is 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.199 the most important club. At least once a year, it's 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.360 a perfect time of year before the season. Get in, 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.440 get your launch numbers and make sure your driver is 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.760 optimized for launch, and spend Marty. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.679 You mentioned the weather. You mentioned you know in a 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.439 lot of the areas of the country it's cold, you're 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.600 not playing a whole bunch of golf. And you mentioned 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.640 Ping Copilot, And this is my reminder to everybody out there, 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.280 spend a little bit of time with the apps that 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:42.120 Ping and Marty have created because it's such an easy fix. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.800 You talk about driving, you talk about gapping. I know 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.079 we spent a lot of time in terms of gapping, 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:51.679 but that gapping app if you don't understand where this Again, 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.960 these are simple fixes, Marty. I mean, this isn't going 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.440 out and having a change or swing or spend hours 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.320 on the range working on path takeaway and things like that. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.439 This is simply am I filling the gaps the right 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.760 way with the right clubs. Do I have a huge 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.600 hole at one twenty that I don't? I don't realize, Marty. 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.559 It's amazing how many buddies I'll talk to of mine that, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:14.800 you know, we'll be playing a scramble or we'll be 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.800 out playing best Ball or something like that and they're like, ah, 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.640 you know, I don't want to hit driver, you ride. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.600 I don't really have anything in the one twenty range, 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.880 and my mind's blown, you know. I'm like, this is 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.920 a scoring opportunity. You've got to at that dialed and 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.079 I love. I mean, one of my favorite things at 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.840 ping is that gapping app because it just helps it 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:34.640 helps an issue that a lot of golfers have. 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.960 Yeah, Shane, I totally agree so that that gapping app 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.960 is a great tool to lean on. Are our tons 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.880 of our fitters out there using it. If you want 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:45.320 to find a fitter that's using it, you go to 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.320 you go to our find a Fitter tool on ping 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.200 dot com and you can filter buy an account that 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.720 has and is using copiloting and go see them and 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.320 ask to get on the Gaping app. Because even if 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.120 you're not let's say you got a new set I 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.480 two thirties or G four thirty irons in you know, 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:06.520 the last year or two, there's still it's still worthwhile 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.800 going through the Gaping app even if you're not going 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:10.640 to replace you know you're not in the market for 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:12.960 new irons. To look at the edges of your bag, 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.280 like you were talking about Shane, the wedges. Do you 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.040 have the right gapping in your wedges? Number one? And 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.079 then maybe you're playing down to a four iron or 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.120 a five iron, you're struggling with that club. What's the 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.439 right replacement for that? Can you take a look at 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.280 just you know, a hybrid or high lofted fairway would 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.000 go on there, get on that Gaping app. I think 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.880 that's the next from the driver drivers Number one, make 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.000 sure you're optimized for launch and spin for your angle 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:41.240 of attack. Number two would be looking at your second figuration. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.400 Are you are you comfortable with where what is the 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.960 longest iron in your bag? Number one. And on the 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.760 other end of the bag, like you were talking about, Shane, 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.520 you got to make let's make sure those those wedges 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:57.040 are scoring clubs and you have them gapped appropriately. That's 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:57.760 such a big deal. 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.240 Yeah, I mean, we've had plenty of guests on that 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.680 have talked a little bit about this or around this 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.560 idea of not just the wedges. But I mean, I 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.360 love what you mentioned with the high loft at fairy Woods. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.199 You know, I've talked so much about my love for 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:14.360 my seven wood and this becoming so popular. I also, 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.080 you know, I always think about this through the eyes 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.000 and the lenses of my buddies that play golf and 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:19.840 that are kind of all over the board in terms 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.240 of handicapping. But there's so many of my friends that 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.400 have a club in their bag that either they rarely 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.680 use if ever right and a lot of the time 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.360 that'll be a three wood. And so if you have 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.000 a club in your bag. And again, as we're talking 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.480 about kind of that checklist for the new year, checklist 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.040 for twenty twenty four, what can I do when I'm not, 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.520 you know, trying to find answers in the dirt? One 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.600 of those things is is there a club in your bag, 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.520 that's a cobweb club, right, you're not using it enough 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.680 to you know, be one of fourteen because fourteen is 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.720 in theory a pretty small number. It's just making sure 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:53.960 how often are you pulling it out. I do this 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.680 thing every year already, where my my golf shirts. I 0:14:58.040 --> 0:14:59.720 at the start of the year, I flip the hangars 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.200 the way, and by the end of the year, if 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.720 there's hangars that are still facing the wrong way, those 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.480 shirts get donated. Obviously I'm not wearing those shirts. Right. 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:09.600 The same thing can be done with your golf clubs. 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:14.440 Are you using golf clubs enough to you know, mandate 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.880 a spot on the bag and if not, really consider 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:18.320 some other options. 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.800 Yeah, that's a great point, Shane. That's again where it's 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.520 hard to kind of know that from memory. Like if 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.320 you have arcos, for example, you can look and see 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.320 how how much you've hit the three wood. And one 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.080 of the fun things we've talked about a little bit 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.720 here before, Shane, is that how the three wood is 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.200 used is very different for all players out there. For example, 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:43.160 me and you, we hit our three wood probably eighty 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.960 eight out of ten times off the tee right for 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.960 the golfer out there that drives it two hundred yards, 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.720 they're the opposite. They hit it eight out of ten 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.240 times off the ground. So that's why you know, a 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.960 three wood might not be the right club for that golfer. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.160 It might be a might be a five wood might 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.120 be like kind of a you know, we make a 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.960 fourwood out of a five wood. Put a five wood 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.280 in the in the big minus or a five sft 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:13.040 version five woods something that's very easy to hit off 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.240 the ground. But if you're a better player with more speed, 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:17.720 you want to be optimizing that three with off the t. 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.200 So that's cobweb club, I think is a really good 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.840 way to frame it and take a look at it. 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.280 Can you replace it with something that's going to be 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:26.920 more useful? 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.440 Yeah, If this is just my PSA here, If you 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.560 hate a club in your bag, flip it out of 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.000 the bag. Like, there's no reason to have a long 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.320 iron that you can't hit and you don't love that. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.520 You've got to strike perfectly to hit the number that 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.280 you kind of have written down in your yardage book, 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.520 if you will, for what that number carries. Think about 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.800 a hybrid, think about a lofted Fairwe would like think 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:53.160 about these other options. There's so many options across the 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:57.560 board these days, with crossovers and with lofted fairwy woods 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.680 becoming more popular. You don't have to have have the 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:02.960 four iron in your bag if you don't feel comfortable 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.520 hitting that. I love my four iron. There's so many 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.520 people out there that don't. There's no reason to have 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.199 clubs in your bag that aren't helping your game. If 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.480 they're hurting your game, take them out and get a 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:14.600 little bit more creative. 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.280 With the bag. Yeah, Shane. I think one of the 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.439 big things to make sure the bed the better players 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:22.680 listen to this is that hybrids no longer go left right. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.719 We don't. We don't have that issue necessarily, and so 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.159 don't be afraid of that. Give it you if you 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:32.000 wiped them out forever. Five years ago you first tried 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:36.400 hybrids they hooked, or ten years ago, we've solved that problem. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:41.160 We got Joaquin Nieman playing a five hybrid and stuffing 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:45.000 it out there. So give yourself permission that we can 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.359 always go flatter with them to get them to fly straight. 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:52.879 So definitely take a look at cobweb clubs. Set composition 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.080 between your driver and your longest iron. That's a really 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.040 good area to focus. And then Shane, I would say 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.800 after that, after those two pieces would be looking at 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.239 your wedges and making sure if you're not spinning it 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.320 around the greens, if you're hitting chip shots, pitch shots, 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:13.760 ball sliding up the face, you don't have that capability 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.959 when you have a really good lie to hit that 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.440