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Speaker 1: Everyone. Welcome to the Son of a Butcher podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Claud Harmon. Happy New Year, Hope everyone had

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Speaker 1: a safe and happy holiday season. Can't believe it's twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six already, but as we were getting into the

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Speaker 1: start of the new year, I think it's that time

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Speaker 1: of year where everyone is going to be making their

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Speaker 1: New Year's resolutions. Right, Oh, what do you want to

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Speaker 1: go to the gym? Do you want to lose weight?

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Speaker 1: Do you want to eat better, live healthier? Golf? You

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Speaker 1: want to practice more? All of the goals, all the

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Speaker 1: resolutions that you might have. What I want everyone listening.

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Speaker 1: If you're a golfer, you're listening to this and you

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Speaker 1: want to get better, you want to use twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six as a way to try and improve your golf game,

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Speaker 1: improve your handicap. I've got a great resolution that I

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Speaker 1: want everyone listening to try and do in twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 1: and that is your number one golf resolution is stop

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Speaker 1: chasing perfect. Stop to be so perfect. Believe it or not,

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Speaker 1: Chasing perfect is the enemy. It is the enemy of progress.

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Speaker 1: It's the reason why you go on the range and

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Speaker 1: you try something and then it doesn't work. On the

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Speaker 1: golf course. Right, it's the reason why you can't make

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Speaker 1: swing changes. It's the reason why you're going down the

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Speaker 1: YouTube rabbit hole of trying to make everything look curated

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Speaker 1: and perfect. They don't buy another training aid, Please don't

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Speaker 1: watch another YouTube video. Stop chasing perfect, And here is

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Speaker 1: how you should go about that. First of all, your

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Speaker 1: golf swing is never going to be perfect if that's

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Speaker 1: the standard. Right, So if you are waiting for your

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Speaker 1: golf swing to be perfect, you're not practicing anything that

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Speaker 1: has anything to do with golf. You're practicing procrastination because

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Speaker 1: your golf swing is never going to be perfect. No

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Speaker 1: one has the perfect golf swing. And the people that

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Speaker 1: we look at that all the YouTube, all the Instagram

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Speaker 1: videos are made about where everybody just you know, goes

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Speaker 1: crazy over their golf swings, they don't win every week. Right.

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Speaker 1: The people that have the best looking golf swings that

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Speaker 1: you see on Instagram, that you see all the YouTube

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Speaker 1: videos being made about, they don't win six seven, eight

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Speaker 1: times a year, right, They don't win every major. Nellie

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Speaker 1: Carter has probably, I mean, her golf swing is just

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Speaker 1: so good. She didn't have a year in twenty five

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Speaker 1: like she had in twenty four. I still think she's

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Speaker 1: one of the best golfers in the world. I still

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Speaker 1: think she's one of the best female golfers on the planet.

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Speaker 1: I still think she has one of the best looking

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Speaker 1: golf swings technically, esthetically, fundamentally that you could possibly have.

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Speaker 1: How many tournaments did she win last year? There's so

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Speaker 1: much more to that. And the best example I can

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Speaker 1: give of trying to chase perfect is Mo Norman. Right,

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Speaker 1: Tiger Woods family said, you know, Mode Norman owned his

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Speaker 1: own golf swing, understood everything about it. Everyone looks at it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can go online, you can watch these

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Speaker 1: videos of Mo Norman just talking about you know, perfection.

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Speaker 1: Hits the golf ball perfect every time, never missed a shot. Right.

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Speaker 1: He's widely considered one of the best bass to ever live. Right.

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Speaker 1: He has a swing that, by his own admission by

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Speaker 1: other people, it was pure, it repeatable, it was perfection.

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Speaker 1: And he never had the success in tournaments that matched

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Speaker 1: his perfect swing. So think about that, a person that

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Speaker 1: everybody instructor player would look at and marvel at and say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that golf swing is it's a perfection. It produces perfect

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Speaker 1: shot us. But didn't win major championships, he didn't have

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Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame playing career. So if a guy

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Speaker 1: that has one of the most perfect, beautiful, best golf

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Speaker 1: major championships, and maybe there's more to it than just

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Speaker 1: having a perfect golf swing. Obviously, improving your golf swing

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Speaker 1: will help you lower your handicap, all of those things.

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Speaker 1: But you can't just try to be perfect, right, because

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Speaker 1: if you're trying to be perfect, you're not really getting

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Speaker 1: ready to play. You get ready to play golf and

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Speaker 1: lower your handicap and lower your score by playing the

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Speaker 1: golf course and being out on the golf course teaches

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Speaker 1: you things the range never will, right, Pressure, pressure and

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Speaker 1: being on the golf course under pressure will teach you

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Speaker 1: things that your practice never can. You can try and

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Speaker 1: course in your practice sessions. I've talked about that a lot, right,

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Speaker 1: I've had guests on We've talked about that a lot.

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Speaker 1: But it's hard to practice trust. I think you have

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Speaker 1: a perfect shot. There's not a perfect club for every situation.

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Speaker 1: The only thing that matters is your score. Right, Golf

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Speaker 1: to do is become functional. Right. There are golf swings

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Speaker 1: that nobody you know. I was talking to a junior

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Speaker 1: I asked him, if you could have Rory McElroy's golf swing,

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Speaker 1: who would you choose? And he immediately chose Rory and

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Speaker 1: looks aesthetically and visually different than most people. His footwork

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Speaker 1: don't see anybody on Instagram making videos on how to

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Speaker 1: swing like Scotty Scheffer to emulate what he does. I

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Speaker 1: see a lot of videos with people emulating the beautiful, technical,

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Speaker 1: I know my father, but Arman thinks the same. He

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Speaker 1: thinks Lee's one of the greatest ball strikers he's ever seen.

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Speaker 1: And if you listen and watch the way Lee talks

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Speaker 1: trying to be perfect. So again, if you're trying to

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Speaker 1: practice to be perfect, you're trying to practice something that's

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Speaker 1: Amateurs judge every shot on it's either perfect or it's

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Speaker 1: have your handicap get better. And I've talked about this before,

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Speaker 1: Tour players don't hit it good all the time. You know.

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Speaker 1: We had Ricky Fowler talking to some junior golfers recently

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Speaker 1: I've coached two players that have been number one in

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Speaker 1: They still hit bad shots. They still shoot decent scores

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Speaker 1: they don't have it. You know what the differences They

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Speaker 1: you're waiting for your A game to show up, you're probably,

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Speaker 1: regardless of your handicap range, you're probably going to spend

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Speaker 1: really matters is having a repeatable pattern. And it doesn't

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Speaker 1: really matter what that repeatable pattern looks like. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter if it's pretty, It doesn't matter if YouTube or

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Speaker 1: where you can recover. Work on your bad shots. Just

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Speaker 1: I've done podcasts about this, about being in technique phase,

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Speaker 1: But what everyone does is they look at every single

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Speaker 1: every single hole they're playing, and everything is based on

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Speaker 1: to some goals for twenty twenty six that you can achieve,

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Speaker 1: I always ask people that have never won before, you know,

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Speaker 1: always ask them one simple question, what'd you learn from

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Speaker 1: winning this golf tournament? I'd say ninety eight percent of

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Speaker 1: well I guess I'm gonna hit it bad today when

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Speaker 1: was bad. I've talked about this, I'll continue to talk

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Speaker 1: about this. Range sessions, practice sessions. They aren't a one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent full proof formula for playing good on the

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Speaker 1: golf course. You can hit it bad on the range

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Speaker 1: and play good on the golf course. You can hit

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Speaker 1: it great on the range and play bad on the

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Speaker 1: golf course. So, if you're going to make a new

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Speaker 1: Year's resolution for twenty twenty six and you want to

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Speaker 1: improve your golf, if you want to want to improve

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Speaker 1: the score barrier, if you want to break one hundred

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Speaker 1: for the first time, ninety eighty, break par for the

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Speaker 1: first time, please stop chasing perfect. Focus on being more

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Speaker 1: functional on the golf course. Focus on where the miss

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Speaker 1: is going, Focus on trying to make the miss better,

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Speaker 1: Focus on trying to miss it in the right spot,

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Speaker 1: and ask yourself did I get it done? As opposed

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Speaker 1: to just being perfect? To twenty twenty six is upon

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Speaker 1: us going to try and continue to put out really

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Speaker 1: good content, get some really good guests on and hopefully

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Speaker 1: help everyone listening improve their golf swing. Happy New Year.

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