1 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: It's the Son of a Butcher podcast. We come to 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:13,120 Speaker 1: you every Wednesday. This week, I had a really really 3 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: interesting experience today. So I was up at the Floridian 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 1: doing some work with Brooks Koepka. We're flying up to 5 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 1: the live event in the morning and we're hitting balls, 6 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: and one of the other instructors that I work alongside with, 7 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: Matt Gallant, was working with a player who's like a 8 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: lot of players, he doesn't have a tour to play on, 9 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 1: he doesn't have status. He's trying to get status. He's 10 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 1: playing in as many different tournaments as he can. There's 11 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: a tour down here in South Florida called the Minor League, 12 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: which a lot of players play in one day two 13 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: day events. But he is signed up for European Q School. 14 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 1: And he Matt had said to me, Hey, listen, you know, 15 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: could could he talk to to this guy Boggle? Could 16 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: Boggle talk to you about Q School and about playing 17 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: in Q School and things like that? And so I'm 18 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: sitting there and I'm thinking, yeah, I mean I could 19 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: I could help him out and talk to him about it. 20 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: But you know, you've got a five time major champion 21 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: and a former world number one, and the current PGA 22 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: champion standing right there. So I said, listen, why don't 23 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: you talk to talk to Brooks ask him some questions. 24 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: So the conversation that ensued, it's one of those things 25 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: that there's a running joke. I'm sure there's a joke 26 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,320 Speaker 1: on the PGA Tour, but there's a running joke with 27 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 1: the players that I work with and a lot of 28 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 1: the live guys, because that's the tour that I seem 29 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: to be spending the most time on. But there'll be 30 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: something that will happen. And we always say the same thing, 31 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: where's Netflix? Right? This would be great content content for 32 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 1: Full Swing, And today was just it was fascinating to 33 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: be a part of. And so you've got a player 34 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: who played college golf who's trying to play professionally. He's 35 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: trying to get status somewhere. He's playing in mini tours, 36 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: he's playing as many different tournaments as he can, sometimes 37 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: one day, sometimes two day events, and then obviously Q School, 38 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: like a lot of players that are trying to play professionally, 39 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:08,959 Speaker 1: that's the route he's trying to go. So I think 40 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 1: he was just looking for some guidance as to how 41 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: to approach going to Q school. Obviously Brooks went to 42 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: Q School. He missed in the US, missed in Europe, 43 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: had to go to the Challenge Tour, and then off 44 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: the Challenge Tour, got to the European Tour, off the 45 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: European Tour, got to the PGA Tour, and the rest 46 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: is somewhat history. But I thought that having Brooks talk 47 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: to him could be, you know, very very important and 48 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: very eye opening, and I think it's always very interesting 49 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: to me. I think most golfers, the way they go 50 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: about trying to play the game of golf is the problem. 51 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: It's yeah, I mean, everybody's technique. It's something if you've 52 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: listened to the podcast regularly, you hear me talk about 53 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: this a lot. But it's something that I'm going to 54 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 1: keep talking about everybody. Everyone, everybody playing on the men's, 55 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: on the women's, on the Champs DP World, Asia, PGA 56 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: Tour Live, doesn't matter what tour you're on. Everyone everyone 57 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: is trying to get better. Everyone is trying to improve 58 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: their technique. Everyone's trying to have their swing get better. Technically, 59 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: they're trying to improve the positions, they're trying to improve 60 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: all of the things that all golfers are trying to 61 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: improve if you're a tour player, if you're an aspiring 62 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: tour player, college golfer, high school golfer, junior golfer, amateur golfer, 63 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: regular golfer. And you've heard me say this before, regular 64 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: golfers are the majority of people that play this sport. 65 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: Everyone's trying to improve their golf swing, everyone's trying to 66 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: improve their technique, So that isn't necessarily going to be 67 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: a as big a differentiators. I think people think, and 68 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: I certainly think that a lot of players that don't 69 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: have status that are trying to play competitively are trying 70 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: to get to the next level, and to the level 71 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:17,919 Speaker 1: that is the holy grail, the PGA Tour, play in Europe, 72 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: play in Asia, play on the LPGA. Historically, those were 73 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 1: the places that everybody wanted to play. Now that lives 74 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: come around, that's different, but historically everyone that was trying 75 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: to play that played college golf, the goal, if you 76 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: were going to try and continue to play professionally would 77 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: be to get to the PGA Tour. And I just 78 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: thought it was fascinating that a player that has no 79 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: status was talking to someone that's five time major champion, 80 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 1: someone that's been number one in the world for a 81 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: pretty significant amount of time, been on Ryder Cups, been 82 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: on President's Cups, won the Varden Trophy, won the Nicholas Ward. 83 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: I think it was very eye opening for this player 84 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 1: to hear Brooks's kind of take on competitive golf. And 85 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 1: it's funny. He talked to him for about a half 86 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: an hour. Brooks was hitting balls, he was on the range, 87 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: Boggle was hitting balls, and they were just kind of talking. 88 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 1: And what Brooks was talking to him about on how 89 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: to prepare for Q school, how to prepare for tournaments, 90 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: I know, was not even close to what I would 91 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: have envisioned this player thinking that Brooks was going to 92 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: talk about the things that he talked about, But in reality, 93 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: Brooks talked mainly about playing the game of golf, not practicing. 94 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 1: You know, Brooks and I both said to this player, listen, 95 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 1: I think a lot of players that are trying to 96 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: play competitively, that are trying to get to the next level, 97 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: they're over practic, right. All they do is practice. All 98 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: they do is hit balls, and they're hitting a ton 99 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,159 Speaker 1: of balls, and they're constantly working on their golf swing. 100 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: They're constantly working on their technique. And this young player 101 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: said he just played a one day event yesterday and 102 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 1: had a legit chance to win it, and said he 103 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,840 Speaker 1: had really a really good chance to win it, didn't 104 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: win it, but had a legit chance to win it, 105 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: and he went into yesterday's one day event on the 106 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: minor league with not a ton of I guess historical 107 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: what you would think would be preparation. I think he'd 108 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: been doing some traveling. I think he'd has some other 109 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: stuff going on. He probably hadn't been putting in the 110 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:47,359 Speaker 1: hours that he normally has, and he said that he 111 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: played so much better yesterday than he has when he's 112 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: practicing more and grinding more and putting in all of 113 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: these hours on the range and working on his technique. 114 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 1: And I think what he got out of Brooks' responses 115 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 1: to him were, well, yesterday you played good because you 116 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,479 Speaker 1: went out and you played golf as opposed to going 117 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: and playing golf swing. And I think a lot of golfers, 118 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: both recreational golfers but also competitive golfers, are playing golf 119 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 1: swing on the golf course. They're not playing golf. They're 120 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: not playing the game of golf. I've said this many times. 121 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: Golf is a game. That's why they give you a 122 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: scorecard and they tell you what the object of the 123 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 1: game is. And the object of the game is to 124 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: play eighteen holes of golf in the lowest amount of 125 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: shots possible. There's par fives, there's par four's, there are 126 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: par threes. So the way golf is designed is you 127 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: know kind of the object of the game before you play. 128 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: That's why you get a scorecard. There's a certain amount 129 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: of par four's, there's a certain amount of par five's, 130 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: there's a certain amount of par threes. There's the distance 131 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: of the course you're playing. And then based off of 132 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: how many par threes and how many par five on 133 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:05,239 Speaker 1: the course, there is a par seventy two, seventy one, seventy, 134 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: whatever that number is. So as golfers, when we go 135 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: play golf, we know what the object of the game 136 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: already is, right, we know that the object of the 137 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: game is to have the least amount of strokes over 138 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: the course of whether it's seventy two, seventy one or 139 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: seventy And my father always has said this phrase, it's 140 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: always one that's stuck with me. There's no place on 141 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: the scorecard for style. There's no real place on the 142 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: scorecard in the box where you put your score. You 143 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: can other places. You can write down how many fairways 144 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,079 Speaker 1: you hit, how many greens you hit, how many puts 145 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 1: you had. You can write down other things. But if 146 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: you think about the way a scorecard is designed, it's 147 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: very very small and there are very very small boxes 148 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: for which you can basically just put a number in. 149 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 1: That's it. There's no place for you to write how 150 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: you made the par, how you made the birdie, how 151 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: you made the bogee, how you made a double bogie. 152 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: There's no place for description, right. The only place, the 153 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 1: only space there really is on a score card is 154 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 1: to put a score down, to put a number. And 155 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: there are a million different ways to make a par, 156 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:22,959 Speaker 1: there are a million different ways to make a boge, 157 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: so many different ways to make doubles and triples and 158 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 1: quads and all of the things. But the object of 159 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 1: the game is to have the lowest amount of strokes. 160 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: And so I think what Brooks was trying to talk 161 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 1: to this player about is was about playing golf. And 162 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: he used a great example. He said last week at Greenbrier, 163 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: the first round, I think bookshot four under. He played 164 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: terrible the first five holes, and Brooks was recounting the 165 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 1: story to this young aspiring professional golfer, and he said, 166 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: you know, the first five holes, I played terrible, and 167 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,199 Speaker 1: I realized and he said, hal, you know, I got 168 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: through halfway through the front nine and I said to 169 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,319 Speaker 1: my caddie, ricky elled. He said, man, I'm just firing 170 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: at every pin and it's just getting me in trouble. 171 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: And the look on this kid's face was one of 172 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: kind of bewilderness, and he said, you know what I 173 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 1: did for the rest of the round. So for the 174 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 1: next thirteen holes is I didn't really shoot at a 175 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 1: lot of flags. I played a little bit more conservatively 176 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: and I ended up shooting four under. And I started 177 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:34,439 Speaker 1: playing better when I started being less aggressive. I think 178 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 1: there's a big difference between being reckless and there's a 179 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: difference between being aggressive and what I always like to say, 180 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:49,199 Speaker 1: and I've said this before on the pod, conservatively aggressive, 181 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:57,319 Speaker 1: make committed swings to conservative targets, and be aggressive to 182 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 1: conservative targets. There are going to be times where you 183 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: can be really really aggressive to aggressive targets. Most of 184 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 1: the time, as Brooks said, that's going to be with 185 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: short irons. And one of the things that I see 186 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: a lot of players doing, regardless of their handicap level, 187 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 1: is they're basically just firing at all the flags. And 188 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:27,079 Speaker 1: Brooks said, you know, definitely, probably more so in the majors. 189 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 1: But if you think about the way that someone like 190 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: Brooks plays the majors, he plays them in a very 191 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 1: very conservative fashion. And what he's trying to do is 192 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 1: play major championships and not make any double bogies, and 193 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:49,719 Speaker 1: he doesn't want to trade bogies for birdies. And what 194 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:52,080 Speaker 1: he was saying today to this player is he said, listen, 195 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,479 Speaker 1: you know, rather than try and be really really aggressive 196 00:11:55,559 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 1: and bring bogie into play, I'm happy to be maybe 197 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:03,959 Speaker 1: a little bit less aggressive. You know, on tour, if 198 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: you play at the highest level, they're tucking pins four 199 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: paces on from the front, four paces on from the back, 200 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: and they're putting them four paces on from the left 201 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: to the right. So you'll see a lot of yardages 202 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: that are four from the front and four from the left, 203 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 1: you know, five from the front, five from the right, 204 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: all the way back, and so they tuck the pins. 205 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,560 Speaker 1: They don't tuck them every single round, but they do 206 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: talk you know, a lot of pins in the course 207 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: of eighteen holes. And what Brooks was saying is he 208 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 1: is far more conservative then I think that this player 209 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: could ever envision that he was. And Brooks talked a 210 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,959 Speaker 1: lot about staying away from the yardages that he's bad 211 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: at with his irons, right. He was saying that, you know, 212 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: rather than push it to a yardage that he doesn't like, 213 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: that he's kind of in between clubs, he'd rather take one, 214 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 1: maybe two if he gets out of position, or if 215 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: it's part five, He's going to lay back to a 216 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: yardage that he has a tremendous amount of confidence in. 217 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: And I could see this player's face just, you know, 218 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: I think he was surprised at listening to one of 219 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: the best players in the world, a current major champion 220 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, just listening to his approach. And 221 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: Brooks was saying, you know, have you been to Q 222 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: school before? And he and this player said yeah, you know, 223 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:32,439 Speaker 1: I never got out of you know, pre qualifying. And 224 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: Brooks was like, well, why is that? You know, what, 225 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 1: what do you feel like is holding you back? And 226 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 1: he's like, well, you know, I feel like sometimes you know, 227 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: I press I try and be a little bit more 228 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: aggressive than I need to. And Brooks was saying, listen, 229 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: I think everybody thinks that they need to swing better, 230 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,559 Speaker 1: but it sounds like you just need to maybe lower 231 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 1: your expectations and manage your expectations. And one of the 232 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: examples that Brooks gave, he said, listen, if you're in 233 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: a major and you've got four rounds, get seventy two holes, 234 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: there's no need to from the jump to just be 235 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: super super aggressive. And I thought it was really cool 236 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: that Brooks talked about kind of playing his way into 237 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: the round, you know, maybe not being super super aggressive. 238 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: And he was saying at Greenbrier last week at the 239 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: Live tournament, first five holes, Brooks said, he's just firing 240 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: at every flag, and you know, I think he was 241 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: over par and then got it back to four under, 242 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: but he was saying, it was when I quit being 243 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: super super aggressive that, you know, and took some more 244 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: conservative targets and said, okay, listen, let me dump this 245 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 1: twenty feet fifteen feet, Maybe not go at this flag 246 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: if I push it or if I pull it, Maybe 247 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: I get lucky and push one or pull one to 248 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: four or five feet because I wasn't aiming necessarily at 249 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: the hole, and I think that is something that is 250 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: really really important for everyone to kind of take to 251 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: their own game. Play your way into the round. Right, 252 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 1: look at where the par fives are, right. Par fives 253 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: are an opportunity for all golfers to pick up strokes. Obviously, 254 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 1: at the tour level, you're trying I think almost every year, 255 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: I think I think this is a generalization, but I 256 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: think this is probably true. I think most players, I 257 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: mean I looked at this couple of times in the past, 258 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: the majority of the players. I think almost every player 259 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 1: is under par on the par fives for the year. 260 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: So tour players are looking to take advantage of par 261 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: fives and use that to get under par. I think 262 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: for the rest of us, we should be looking at 263 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: par fives where tour players, you know, regardless of which 264 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: tour they're playing on, are looking at making birdie, they're 265 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: looking at making maybe an eagle if they can get 266 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 1: there into but they're definitely looking to pick up strokes 267 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 1: on the par fives. I think that for everyone else 268 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: it's playing and for everyone that's listening, if we can 269 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: just not lose shots on par fives, right, you know, 270 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 1: par all the par fives, if you're a fifteen handicapper, 271 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: if you're trying to break eighty for the first time, 272 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: if you're trying to break ninety for the first time, 273 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: if you're trying to break a hundred for the first time, 274 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: if you could try and use the par fives as 275 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: a as a part of your round to where you're 276 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: not losing strokes, because those are the opportunities to where 277 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: you don't have to go for the green. So regardless 278 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: of your handicap level, regardless of how far the par 279 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: five is, you can try and say, Okay, I'm just 280 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: going to three shot this. I'm going to try and 281 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: dump this anywhere on this green and two putt and 282 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: get out of here with parf right and having mat 283 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: mantra next time you go out, rather than say Okay, 284 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 1: I'm going to go out, I'm going to try and 285 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 1: birdy all the par fives. How about just going out 286 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 1: and saying, Okay, I'm going to try and not lose 287 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:03,479 Speaker 1: strokes on the holes that give me the best opportunity 288 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: to gain strokes. Because that's a very very different mindset 289 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: in thinking right in thinking about how you should be 290 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: approaching playing golf. So if you can think in terms, 291 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 1: I'm going to use the par fives as an opportunity 292 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 1: to not lose strokes because obviously par four's are more difficult, 293 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: par threes are more difficult. It's very difficult to play 294 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: the par threes and under par. 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By nature, I think most players always 323 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: are looking at where the flag is and then they 324 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 1: kind of get suckered into firing at all the pins. 325 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 1: And Brooks was saying that there are enormous amount of 326 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 1: pins that he doesn't even mess with, that he doesn't 327 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: even fire at. And I think that you know, he 328 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 1: said to this player, I'm just not good enough to 329 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:34,919 Speaker 1: fire at all the pins. And this is a this 330 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 1: is the reigning PGA champion. This is a player that 331 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 1: has five major championships, a player that has been number 332 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 1: one in the world. And I think that watching the interaction, 333 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: I think most golfers vastly overestimate how good they are. 334 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:56,360 Speaker 1: They vastly overestimate their talent level. And because they overestimate 335 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: their talent level, because they overestimate how far they hit 336 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 1: the golf ball, because they overestimate how straight they hit 337 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:06,119 Speaker 1: the golf ball, they just take an approach to playing 338 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:10,879 Speaker 1: golf that is very, very difficult to manage. It's very 339 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: difficult to recover from the bad shots. And Brooks was saying, listen, 340 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: double bogies and majors are killers because you've got to 341 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: find two other birdies to make up for that, and 342 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,719 Speaker 1: in major championships that's very, very difficult to do because 343 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,119 Speaker 1: of how difficult the golf course is. But if you're 344 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: listening and you're a fifteen a twenty handicapper, every time 345 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: you go out relative to your talent level, relative to 346 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 1: how difficult the golf course is, let's be honest, not everybody, 347 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 1: the majority of golfers are not playing difficult golf courses 348 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,120 Speaker 1: all the time. They're not playing golf courses that are 349 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: seventy four hundred yards with super narrow fairways and US 350 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: Open tile roff greens running twelve to thirteen to fourteen. 351 00:20:56,080 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: The rough around the greens really really difficult, runoff areas 352 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,880 Speaker 1: deep deep bunkers, to where if you hit it offline 353 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: at all, it's a penalty. The majority of people play 354 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:14,679 Speaker 1: golf courses that aren't tournament standard golf courses. So I 355 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 1: think it's a generalization, but I think it's a it's 356 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,399 Speaker 1: an accurate one. And what Brooks was trying to impress 357 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:24,400 Speaker 1: upon this player is, hey, listen, just be more conservative, 358 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: don't necessarily fire at all the flags, try and take 359 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: care of the par fives when you can, and if 360 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 1: you get out of position, get back into position, try 361 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 1: and make a par. And bogies are fine. And I 362 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 1: think Brooks comes from golf from a major championship mindset 363 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: in that, hey, a lot of pars, a lot of 364 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: bogies are okay, and most of us regular average golfers, 365 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: and I'm a regular average golfer and that's just my 366 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 1: talent level. You're just trying to make as many pars 367 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: and as many bogies as you can if you go 368 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 1: out and you make a bunch of pars and you 369 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: make some bogies, you're you're doing a good job keeping 370 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 1: those double bogies. It's something that I will keep pounding 371 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: away on the pod. I think it's a platform that 372 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: you know, I'm lucky to have and pars bogies, Pars bogies, 373 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: you're going to hit some get an opportunity to make 374 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 1: your birdie if you make it good. But make more pars, 375 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: make more bogies, and your scores will improve. I asked 376 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,640 Speaker 1: Brooks on because I figured this kid was gonna ask him. 377 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: I was like, you know, what are you thinking about 378 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 1: when you're playing, like at the at beth Pay I 379 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 1: mean at a o kill all right, So he won 380 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: the PGA this year at o'khill. I said, you know, 381 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: what are you thinking on Sunday? And Brooks said nothing, really, 382 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,159 Speaker 1: he said, I was just thinking about the shot that 383 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: I was playing. So if you remember, Brooks had a 384 00:22:56,080 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 1: lengthy pot for par on a par five, I think 385 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: it was thirteen definitely ten feet maybe even twelve feet 386 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: straight down the hill and he's got a par five 387 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,400 Speaker 1: part four. The next hole is a drivable par four, 388 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: which he drove, which is obviously a birdy opportunity, and 389 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 1: then you're gonna play a part three and then three 390 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: par fours and you're just gonna hang on. So this 391 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 1: is the last of the par fives. He's right in 392 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 1: the middle of the back nine on Sunday in a 393 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: major championship and I said, you know, over that pot, 394 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 1: what were you thinking? And he was like, I was 395 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: thinking about all of the things that I needed to 396 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: do to make that pot. I said, you weren't thinking 397 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: about anything else about the situation you were in the 398 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 1: time of the round, what the score was, where the 399 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 1: competition was, what the holes you had coming ahead, what 400 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: you'd done in the past, And Book said, I wasn't 401 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,679 Speaker 1: thinking of any of that. I was just thinking about 402 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: the shot that I was hitting. And I think that's 403 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: a really, really good way to think about it. Here's 404 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,360 Speaker 1: one of the best players in the world. I think 405 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 1: it's interesting for me when you have players aspiring tour players, 406 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,119 Speaker 1: aspiring competitive golfers. They're always trying to figure out the 407 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: mindset of of tour players. And I think tour players, 408 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:15,880 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, there were a couple of times 409 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 1: where Brooks said, listen, I'm not good enough to to 410 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:21,679 Speaker 1: hit you know, I'm not good enough to hit the 411 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: golf ball one forty two and then hit it to 412 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: one forty seven. I'm just not good enough to do that. 413 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 1: So he said, you know, I kind of have an 414 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,119 Speaker 1: idea of how far I'm going to hit each club, 415 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: and I think you've got one of the best players 416 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 1: in the world saying, listen, I'm not good enough all 417 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: the time to hit it one forty one, forty one, 418 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: one forty two. So a lot of I think what 419 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 1: Brooks was saying to this young player was, you know, 420 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: I'm playing for the miss. I am trying to miss 421 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,679 Speaker 1: it better, and you wouldn't think the best players in 422 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: the world are thinking that way. But Brooks was saying, listen, 423 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,879 Speaker 1: all the practice rounds, He's like, I don't really care 424 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: how I'm hitting it. Necessarily in practice rounds, I fit 425 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,199 Speaker 1: it bad. In practice rounds, I'll go to the range 426 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,239 Speaker 1: afterwards and try and figure it out. But during the 427 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 1: practice rounds, I'm trying to figure out where I'm going 428 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: to hit it. I'm trying to look at where the 429 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 1: trouble is. I'm trying to look at all of the 430 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 1: things that I can do to try and minimize the damage. 431 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 1: And I think if you can approach playing golf like that, 432 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 1: trying to say okay, let me work backwards. Brooks talks 433 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: a lot about looking at holes and figuring out how 434 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: to play holes by going and standing on the front 435 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: of the green and then looking back to the tee. 436 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,800 Speaker 1: And if you've never done that, it's do it at 437 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,120 Speaker 1: your home course. Just you know. Next time you play, 438 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,880 Speaker 1: go play the first hole. Go stand on the front 439 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,879 Speaker 1: of the first hole, and go look back and see 440 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 1: if the hole looks differently from the green than it 441 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 1: does from the tea box, because it will. You'll see 442 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 1: things differently. You'll see the contours, you'll see the shape 443 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: of the whole, You'll see it differently, and I think 444 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 1: you'll see the trouble and maybe where to miss it better. 445 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,439 Speaker 1: Next time you walk up on a green, you know 446 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,639 Speaker 1: on your home course, think about, okay, where are they? 447 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,439 Speaker 1: Where are the pins on this green? And the pins 448 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: in the front left, if the pin's in the front right, 449 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 1: if the pins in the middle, back, left, back right, 450 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: for those five pin positions, where would be the ideal place? 451 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 1: If so, if the pins front right, and if there's 452 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 1: bunkers water rough whatever, think about, Okay, where would be 453 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 1: the optimum place to get up and down from? And 454 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: I've done that with students before, where I've said, Okay, 455 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 1: you've got to miss this green, look at where the 456 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,159 Speaker 1: flag is. You've got to miss the green. Where's the 457 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: easiest place to get up and down from. I think 458 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: what Brooks talked to this young player about today really 459 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,639 Speaker 1: was a game change of room, because Brooks talked a 460 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 1: lot about being conservative, realizing that he's not gonna have 461 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: it all the time, He's not gonna have his best 462 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: stuff all the time. Brooks didn't really feel like he 463 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 1: had his best stuff on Saturday and Sunday at Oakhill 464 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: when he won the PGA, still got the job done. 465 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: And I think one of the things that Brooks was 466 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: trying to say is listen, I didn't have my best stuff, 467 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 1: but I managed the game well. I managed my game well. 468 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,399 Speaker 1: And Brooks talked a lot to this young player today 469 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: about listen, a lot of times, it's about picking the 470 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:51,960 Speaker 1: right approach off the t right and he talked about 471 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: when he won the PGA Championship at Belly even Saint 472 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,879 Speaker 1: Louis played the last round with Adam Scott Tiger was 473 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: making a run the eighteenth hole dog leg from right 474 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 1: to left. Brooks hits fade and in the practice round, 475 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: and Brooks told this young player of the story. Listen, 476 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: he said, there were trees on the left, and Brooks said, Okay, 477 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit driver. If I can hit Driver over 478 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,360 Speaker 1: these trees, that gets me down there on the flat. 479 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a really really short club in my hand, 480 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,920 Speaker 1: or I can hit three wood, but three wood kind 481 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,920 Speaker 1: of brought the bunkers into play. And then he said, listen, 482 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 1: I can hit my three iron, my driving iron and 483 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 1: lay it back of the bunkers. So I take the 484 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: bunkers out of play. But then if I hit it offline, 485 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 1: I'm hitting it into deep, deep rough and I'm a 486 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: long way away from the green. So in Brooks's mind, okay, 487 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: the best option for him was driver. He was driving 488 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: it well that week. He had a tremendous amount of 489 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 1: confidence in his driver. He even though the hole shaped 490 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 1: from right to left, Brooks plays everything from left to right, 491 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 1: but he felt like he could hit it over the trees. 492 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: He bombed one way down there, and we were there. 493 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: I think we were there. On Monday Day or Tuesday 494 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: way down on the flat had a flip wedge in. 495 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 1: He did that on Sunday when he won that week, 496 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: and then he drove it and he said, yeah, I 497 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 1: can get over those trees pretty easily. Obviously, if the 498 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: wind changes and it's more into the wind, that's going 499 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 1: to change the thought process. But he said, if the 500 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 1: wind is like this, and even if it's downwind, then 501 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: I'm definitely hitting driver. He hit a two iron, or 502 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 1: hit his driving iron, which is like a three iron, 503 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 1: and we got down there and I remember this, and 504 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: he told this kid this today. He was like and 505 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: he said to Ricky yellott Man, we're a long way 506 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: back here, and if I miss this at all, if 507 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: it gets into that bunker, or if I miss it 508 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 1: to the right or the left, then I've got a 509 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: long shot. I got to contend with all these trees. 510 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: So the play for Brooks was just to hit driver. Now, 511 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 1: obviously that's Brooks taking advantage of his length. But I 512 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 1: think what he was impressing upon this young player is listen, 513 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: that's the thought process that goes in. Are you gonna 514 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 1: lay short of all the trouble? Are you going to 515 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 1: try and hit it over the truck. If you hit 516 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 1: it over the trouble, it's a massive, massive reward then 517 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: trying to lay short of it, and then if you 518 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: don't hit it perfect. And I think Brooks was really 519 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: really honest about how you're not going to have your 520 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: best stuff every day. You're not going to basically hit 521 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: all the shots, You're not going to have total control 522 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 1: over your shape, you're not going to have total command 523 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: over everything. And it's always interesting to me that aspiring 524 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 1: tour players think that they should hit every shot perfect, 525 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 1: that they should have all the shots in their back, 526 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 1: that they should never have bad days where they don't 527 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: have it, and when they had an opportunity, So this 528 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 1: kid had an opportunity to talk to one of the 529 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: best players in the world today, and Brooks was really 530 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: honest and saying, listen, there's days where I don't have 531 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 1: my best stuff, where I'm not hitting it great, and 532 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,239 Speaker 1: there I just go into damage control, try and make 533 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: as many pars as I can, maybe sneak out a 534 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: couple of birdies on the par fives, get to the 535 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: range and fix it. And I thought it was a 536 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: really really fascinate I wish I wish I'd been recording it, 537 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 1: because I think if I was recording what Brooks was saying, 538 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 1: I think everybody will would be blown away as to 539 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: how simple Brooks is trying to make playing the game, 540 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: and how difficult a young player who obviously isn't as 541 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,640 Speaker 1: talented as Brooks, maybe is as talented as Brooks, and 542 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: if he just doesn't know how to manage his game. 543 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,720 Speaker 1: But when you have an opportunity to talk to one 544 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: of the best players in the world and he tells 545 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: you that he's way more conservative than you are, and 546 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 1: he's trying to make a lot of pars and take 547 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: advantage of the par fives when he can, and he's 548 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 1: not really aiming and firing at a lot of pins. 549 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 1: I think that was an eye opener for this young player, 550 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 1: and hopefully he'll take some of this stuff to heart 551 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 1: and realize that to try and get to the next level, 552 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 1: regardless of what level you're trying to get to break 553 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 1: one hundred, break ninety, break eighty, break par for the 554 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 1: first time, whatever your golf goals are, I do believe 555 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 1: that managing expectations and managing the game that you're trying 556 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 1: to play, but also managing your game. And I think 557 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,479 Speaker 1: that is the one thing that I got from today 558 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,040 Speaker 1: is Brooks was saying, listen, this is how I play, 559 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 1: based off of how I play golf, based off of 560 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: my skill set. Brooks was really honest with this kid 561 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,280 Speaker 1: and said, listen, I don't like that yardage. I'm terrible 562 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 1: at that. I practice it all the time, but I'm 563 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 1: not really great under competition. It's still a work in progress. 564 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 1: But I'm really good at this yardage with my wedges. 565 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 1: He was talking a lot about his wedges with this player, 566 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: and I think this kid was just surprised at how 567 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 1: honest Brooks was, at how conservative he was, and that 568 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,800 Speaker 1: is something that I think is really important for everyone 569 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 1: to hear. Committed swings, committed aggressive swings, not reckless swings, 570 00:32:53,520 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 1: but committed, conservatively aggressive swings to conservative targets and dump 571 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 1: in the middle of the green, get out of there 572 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 1: with the two putt. You're going to get chances, regardless 573 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: of your handicap level. You're going to get some chances 574 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: to make some pars. Hopefully you get some chances to 575 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 1: make some birdies. But for this young player that Brooks 576 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,440 Speaker 1: talked to you today, that's playing Q school he said, listen. 577 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 1: You know, obviously, if you're trying to play Q school, 578 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 1: you're gonna have opportunities to make birdies. I mean, if 579 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 1: you're not, then you need to get a new propression. 580 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,320 Speaker 1: But this kid has played some college golf, he's had 581 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:31,480 Speaker 1: some success, and he's trying to forge his way through 582 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: the Mini tour and professional ranks and hopefully he can 583 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 1: do it. But it was a really cool experience today. 584 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 1: And it's always fascinating when I listen to the best 585 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 1: players in the world because the approach that they're taking 586 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 1: is vastly different than the approach that I think the 587 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 1: majority of golfers are taking. So cool experience. Thought i'd 588 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,560 Speaker 1: share that, and definitely something that I think everybody can 589 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:05,120 Speaker 1: learn from. Committed swings to conservative targets, Committed swings to 590 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 1: conservative targets. Give that a try. I think it can 591 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,640 Speaker 1: help you lower your scores and I think it can 592 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 1: help you enjoy your golf a lot more. Uh So 593 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,480 Speaker 1: that's it for this week. FedEx Cup coming up. I'm 594 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 1: really excited. It's always a fun time of year. Three 595 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:25,239 Speaker 1: tournaments left. Live's got some tournaments. We just had the 596 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 1: fifth Major on the Ladies Tour, kind of winding down, 597 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 1: but so much good golf, and then the Ryder Cup 598 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,799 Speaker 1: coming up on the men's side, Solheim Cup coming up 599 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: on the women's side, Lots and lots of really cool stuff. 600 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,160 Speaker 1: Who is going to be crowned FedEx Cup Champion? Always 601 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 1: a lot of movement, always a lot of volatility, and 602 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,680 Speaker 1: one of my favorite times of the year because there's 603 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,480 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that can happen, and someone over 604 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: the next three weeks is going to get hot, and 605 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:59,440 Speaker 1: to me, that's always something cool, someone who's not in 606 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:04,759 Speaker 1: East right now. Every year there's someone that plays their 607 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,799 Speaker 1: way all the way. I hope we see that again 608 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 1: this year, and I think we will see some volatility, 609 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:14,239 Speaker 1: but a lot still to play for and a cool 610 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,280 Speaker 1: time of the year. So I want to thank everybody 611 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,840 Speaker 1: for listening. I was looking at numbers for the podcast 612 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 1: with my team and I continue to be blown away 613 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,239 Speaker 1: as to how many people listen to the pod. So 614 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:31,000 Speaker 1: for everyone listening, thank you all so much. It really 615 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,200 Speaker 1: means a lot to me. And we're gonna keep trying 616 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 1: to put out content to help you improve your game. 617 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,799 Speaker 1: Son of a Butch comes to you every Wednesday. We 618 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: will see you next week.