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We normally come to 10 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: you every Wednesday. Took a couple of weeks off as 11 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: I've been traveling and went down to the live event 12 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,919 Speaker 1: in Adelaide, was at the live event in Singapore and 13 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: currently recording this in Bangkok. Just here in Thailand. I'm 14 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: opening up a new academy here under my brand, the 15 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: Claude Harman Performance Golf brand. Got one in Dubai, opening 16 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: them one here. Really really excited about it and it's 17 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: really cool to get an opportunity to travel. And I 18 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: think the last three three weeks for me has has 19 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 1: shown me that global golf is. It's so cool, right 20 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: And I think there's a lot of talk about growing 21 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: the game, all the stuff going on with live, all 22 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: the stuff going on with the PGA Tour and stuff. 23 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: But when you get outside the United States, when you travel, 24 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: I'm lucky enough to get to do that, you see 25 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: that golf is a global game and there is a 26 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: passion for golf all over the world. Just wanted to 27 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: touch a little bit on the live of that down 28 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: in Adelaide. Listen. I know that it's crazy times right 29 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 1: now in golf right and I know there are people 30 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: that are on the PGA Tour side, they're fiercely anti live. 31 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: There's the live people all of that. Listen. I've been 32 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: saying this, if you love golf and if you want 33 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: to watch golf, you can watch that anywhere. You can 34 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: consume it on the PGA Tour, DP World, LPGA Champs Tour, 35 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: Asian Tour Live, you can find all that anywhere. You 36 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: can find it on TV, you can find it online. 37 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,119 Speaker 1: There were some great players down at the Adelaide tournament 38 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: for live and it's kind of become over the last 39 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: two years lives kind of signature event. And again, all 40 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: of my players that I work with, when I say 41 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: this all the time, the three players I work with, 42 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: Dustin Johnson, Brooks, Kepka, Pat Perez, they made the choice 43 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,839 Speaker 1: to go to Live. I'm their coach. I go where 44 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: they go. So I think a lot of I think 45 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 1: one of the things that I think it does kind 46 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: of upset me and it makes me mad that I 47 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: think a lot of the To me, it's just my opinion. 48 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,839 Speaker 1: A lot of the fiercely, fiercely anti Live people will 49 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: openly tell you they don't watch, they don't care, they've 50 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: never been to an event. So I try and use 51 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: the podcast to say listen, make up your own mind. 52 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: But the event in Adelaide has become over the last 53 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: two years kind of lives signature event, and the crowds 54 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: the first year were just they're unbelievable. And Australia is starved, 55 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 1: starved for professional golf, right. It used to be a 56 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: lot of players used to go down there and a 57 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,679 Speaker 1: lot of players the Australian Open. There's been a rich, 58 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: rich history down in Australia of players going down there, 59 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 1: but in a number of years that that just kind 60 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: of didn't happen. And so I think one of the 61 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: reasons why the event is so so l liked and 62 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: so well attended is it's an opportunity for players to 63 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: or for the fans to kind of see some of 64 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: the best players in the world and they just don't 65 00:03:53,800 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: see that many great players in one place. The Australian 66 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: get to see Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson, John Rahm, 67 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: cam Smith, Bryson, d Chambeau, Wac o'neman and then a 68 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: bunch of other players. So for the Aussie fans, I 69 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: think it's so well attended because it is an amazing 70 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 1: tournament and it's an opportunity for them to see a 71 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: lot of great players in one place. Now, yes, I 72 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: saw online they were talking, you know, the live guys. 73 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 1: You know there are social accounts where the live people 74 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: are going, hey, first time great players have been down there, 75 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: And somebody said, yeah, well Jordan Speith went down in 76 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen and won the Australian Open. I got news 77 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: for you. Jordan Speith was paid to go down there 78 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: an appearance fee. He didn't go down there for free. 79 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: He didn't go down there because his sole intention was 80 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: to play Aussie golf. He did what every great player does, 81 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 1: what every great player should be allowed to do. If 82 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 1: you're the reigning if you're a reigning major champion, you 83 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: can go outside the United States. They will pay you 84 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: to come to their event. That has been going on 85 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: for over thirty years. That's not news, right, We've talked 86 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: about I've talked about this on the pod Dubai Abu 87 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: Dhabi Guitar China. Appearance fees are part of the game, right, 88 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:27,160 Speaker 1: So yeah, the live guys, a lot of them, they 89 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: got the bag, they got paid. But that's been going on. 90 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: That's not news. So I don't care which side you're on. 91 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 1: If you love the PGA Tour, fine, If you like live, 92 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: that's fine. I don't care. But you don't have to choose, 93 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 1: and you can watch your golf wherever you want. If 94 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: you want to watch great players, if you want to 95 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: watch John Rahm, Dustin Johnson, Brooks, Koepka, Phil Mickelson, Cam Smith, Bryson, 96 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 1: you can watch them. They just play on live now, right. 97 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: So if you don't like that and you don't want 98 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: to watch because of that, in my opinion, I says 99 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 1: I think that says more about you than it does 100 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: about that my job as I've got my own podcast, 101 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 1: so I can say whatever the hell I want. But 102 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: I think one of my jobs is I've been to 103 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: every live event and I work with the players, So 104 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 1: if you haven't been, if you don't know a lot 105 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: about it, or whatever side you're on. The event was amazing. 106 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: It's one of the coolest golf events I've been to. 107 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: The fans were great, the golf course, the Grange. Yes, 108 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 1: I'd love for the tournament to be at Royal Adelaide 109 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: across the street, which is unbelievable. I'd love it to 110 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 1: be at Royal Melbourne. But the sand Belt golf courses 111 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: and the Grange is kind of old school. I posted 112 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 1: a video on my social and the bunkering in the 113 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: sand Belt region in Australia of these golf courses is 114 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 1: just so damn cool, right. The green complexes are cool, 115 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: the short game stuff is cool. So it's always great 116 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: to go down to Australia and see how cool the 117 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: golf courses are because it forces they're tight. If they're 118 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: firm and fast, you can run the golf ball. There's 119 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: so many different options coming into these green complexes, so 120 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: it forces you to kind of be a little bit 121 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: of a kind of old school shop maker. So the 122 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: event last year was well attended. There was a ton 123 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: of people. Fisher DJ he played last year. He played 124 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: again this year on the Saturday night. It was amazing. 125 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: It was just it felt like it felt like a 126 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: festival at a golf tournament at night. It was cool. 127 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: The fans were everywhere. They were excited to see all 128 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 1: these players. You could see the kids trying to get 129 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: views of their favorite players. And then and you know 130 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: the way that live works. You've got an individual winner 131 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: every week, and you've got the team format. Cam Smith's team, 132 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: the Rippers, all Australian. They're in a playoff with the 133 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: South Africans. That was cool. They the Australians ended up 134 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: winning two man playoff leash Mark Leishman and Cam Smith. 135 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: I mean, I talked to Cam in Singapore and he 136 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: was like, this is one of the coolest things I've 137 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,239 Speaker 1: ever done. Right, It was one of the coolest things 138 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: of his career. Whether you like that or you don't, 139 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: Whether you agree with that or you don't, Cam Smith 140 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: thinks it's one of the coolest things he's ever done right. 141 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: So it was a great event. I couldn't believe how 142 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: many people showed up. I mean, they sold more tickets 143 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: this year than last year. And it was it was fun. 144 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: It was really really cool. And for those of the 145 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: players and the people involved in Live, it's their biggest event. 146 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: They don't have any majors, right, so it's the biggest 147 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 1: tournament they had, And it was great and it was 148 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: cool to go down there, and I thought it was 149 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: a fitting end for cam Smith and the Rippers to win. 150 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: They got up on stage did the shoey. It was 151 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: fun and listen. If you don't like that, I'm okay 152 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:20,839 Speaker 1: with that. That's that's your choice. But I think my 153 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: job and what I try and do in my podcast 154 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: is to talk about what's going on in the game 155 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: of golf and talk about what's happening. And it was 156 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 1: really really cool. So we went straight from Adelaide and 157 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: went to Singapore and brooks Kepka won last week and listen, 158 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: I think it was a big, big win for brooks Kepka. Ah, 159 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: he did not. He didn't have his best stuff at Augusta. 160 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: He said that he knew that those of us around 161 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 1: him we knew that as well. He went in there 162 00:09:55,320 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: obviously having won the PGA last year, took a lead 163 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: on Sunday last year into the final group with John Rahm, 164 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: didn't get it done. The Masters is a tournament that 165 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 1: Brooks death desperately wants to win. It is what he 166 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: feels like, even though he's got five majors now, he 167 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 1: will feel at the end of his career that if 168 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,080 Speaker 1: he doesn't have a Master's, if he doesn't have a 169 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: green jacket, that it will be something that he wants that. 170 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: He's been close twice, right, He's had two second place finishes, 171 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: once in nineteen when Tiger won and then last year 172 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 1: when John ramwan. He has the game to win around there. 173 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: He knows that he has been so close. He knows 174 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: he can win that golf tournament. He didn't have his 175 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: best stuff a couple of weeks ago. He was struggling 176 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: with his golf swing and struggling with his setup. He 177 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,319 Speaker 1: couldn't get comfortable on the range, he wasn't seeing his window. 178 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: It was just a really, really weird week. I think 179 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: you know, Brooks was trying to psych himself up to 180 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 1: try and make things happen, and sometimes that just doesn't work. 181 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: And you will not find anyone in competitive professional gulf 182 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: that's harder on themselves than Brooks. I know, having been 183 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: around him for over a decade now and worked with him, 184 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: he demands and expects so much from himself, and I 185 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: think that can sometimes come across in his interviews and 186 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 1: his persona and the way he carries himself. I think 187 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: a lot of people look at that as maybe being arrogant, 188 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: as maybe being like he thinks he's better than everybody else. 189 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 1: I just think he has incredibly high standards of himself, 190 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: is incredibly high standards of all of us on his team. 191 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 1: And there was a little bit of a reset after 192 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:57,079 Speaker 1: Augusta and a little bit of a refocus, and what 193 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:00,199 Speaker 1: we did over the last two weeks is just get 194 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: back down to basics. And that's why I wanted to 195 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: talk about this because I think it's something that everyone 196 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: listening can can look at in their own game. When 197 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: Brooks struggles, ninety nine percent of the time, it's set 198 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: up related. And I've talked about this on the pod. 199 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:21,359 Speaker 1: Before the ball position can get too far back, his alignment, 200 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: his stance can kind of get all all over the 201 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 1: place and That's what was happening at Augusta. He kept 202 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: saying to me on the range, in all of the 203 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:32,839 Speaker 1: practice rounds, in all of the practice sessions, in all 204 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: of the warm ups, he had a two way miss. 205 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,839 Speaker 1: He was struggling. All of the stuff that we were 206 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: trying to work on, that we'd normally work on didn't work. 207 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: He was struggling ball position. He couldn't get comfortable. No 208 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:47,719 Speaker 1: matter what we were trying to tell on he was 209 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: just like, I just nothing feels right. And listen, as 210 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: a player, every now and again, you know, the system 211 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 1: doesn't work. They're not robots. They're not perfect. They're never 212 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 1: going to be perfect as good as they are, as 213 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: great as they are, even on the runs that they're on. 214 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:07,839 Speaker 1: This historic run that Scotty Scheffler is on right now, 215 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 1: playing golf that we just haven't seen in so long, 216 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: the amazing, amazing golf that he's playing right now. Every 217 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: now and again, you know, the system doesn't work. It 218 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: doesn't feel right. We've seen that with Rory McElroy. When 219 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: Rory gets on these big, massive runs where it looks 220 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: like he's basically just gonna win every tournament right now, 221 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: you can see that Rory's searching. Rory didn't get the 222 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 1: result he wanted at the Masters. He went out and 223 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 1: saw my dad did a little trying to get a 224 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: little bit of a reset. It happens with players, and 225 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 1: you know, there's all these cliches and sports, but one 226 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 1: of my favorites is the only thing that really matters 227 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 1: after you get knocked down is what you do next, 228 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 1: because everybody's going to get knocked down, right, Everybody's going 229 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: to get hit in the mouth. Mike Tyson has famously 230 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: said everybody's got a plan until they get hit in 231 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: the mouth. Then the plan changes. And I think for 232 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: Brooks how much his focus and how much he defines 233 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 1: his career based off of the Majors. The Masters was 234 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: a punch in the face and so we did a 235 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: massive reset. So he came to his Caddy and I 236 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: Ricky Elliott, and he said, Okay, we've got to get 237 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 1: my set up right. We've got to get my basics right, 238 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: we've got to get my ball position right, we've got 239 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: to get my alignment right. So he said to us 240 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: early in the week down in Australia, he said, listen, 241 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: I want the two of you to nag me and 242 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: be hyper focused and hyper vigilant on my ball position, 243 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: my setup, my alignment. So when Brooks's ball position gets 244 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: back in his stance, he has his strong grip, his 245 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: hands can get too far forward, and that left arm 246 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: can get high, that right arm can get a little 247 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: bit low, the shoulders can get a little bit closed. 248 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: And what that does is it alters the takeaway to 249 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: where the takeaway no longer goes outside and vertical, it 250 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: starts to get inside. Even though he's trying to do 251 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: what he wants to do, what we want him to 252 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: do from a swing technique, when that ball position gets back, 253 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: when his shoulders get too shut, there's a domino effect. 254 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: You've heard me talk about this before on the pod. 255 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: There's a domino effect of things that happen. That is 256 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: the domino that starts to cause the other things on 257 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 1: the downswing, that's the domino. His setup, his ball position, 258 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: the things that he does before he hits the golf 259 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: ball are is the domino that starts to push all 260 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: the other dominoes. So it doesn't matter what he's trying 261 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: to do with the backswing and the takeaway, I'm telling 262 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: him get it more in front, get it more front. 263 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: We're also looking at the ball position, and he's struggling 264 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: to get comfortable. So at a major championship, it's hard 265 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: to make changes because you know that these players are 266 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: going out and having to play at Augusta. Like everyone 267 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: else in the field, there was a lot of wind 268 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: going on. He was playing in a lot of winds. 269 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: So then the ball position, because he's trying to keep 270 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 1: the golf ball down, that's going to be even worse. 271 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: So he said to Ricky and I listen, I don't 272 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 1: care if I tell you. I don't want to hear 273 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 1: any more about my alignment, ball position, and set up. 274 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: Keep saying it, so this is no joke. Every single 275 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: shot he hit in practice, every single shot that I 276 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: was with him on the golf course in practice rounds 277 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: for the last two weeks, his caddy, Ricky and I 278 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 1: before he hit a golf ball, he would so we 279 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: would Ricky and I would tag team him. I'd go 280 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 1: down the line, so I'd stand behind him, kind of 281 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 1: where we see most of the television coverage from where 282 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: you're behind and they get the shot tracer. That's what 283 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: I call down the line, and then Ricky would go 284 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: over and stand as if he was looking at what 285 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: we would call face on. So every especially on the range, 286 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: there wasn't a shot that Brooks was hitting where he 287 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 1: wasn't like saying to Ricky before he hit the shot, 288 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: how's my ball position? How's my alignment? He'd say, how's 289 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: my alignment? To me? Every single shot. We used a 290 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,439 Speaker 1: lot of video. Brooks is a very visual learner. He 291 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: likes to see what his body's doing. He likes to 292 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: see what his ball position is, how things are working. 293 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: So one of the things that I always tell Brooks 294 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: is listened. When your shoulders get too closed, the left 295 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 1: arm gets too high, the right arm gets too low, 296 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: that elbow kind of tucks down. That's great if you're 297 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 1: trying to hit a draw right. We try and do 298 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: that with the amateur. A lot of you listening are 299 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,239 Speaker 1: in the position that we're trying to get Brooks in. 300 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,479 Speaker 1: Your shoulders are open, that right arm is high. So 301 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people that are trying to 302 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,239 Speaker 1: draw the golf ball are being told listen, close your 303 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 1: shoulders more, get that right arm high, tuck that elbow in, 304 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,160 Speaker 1: and then on the downswing, try and keep that right 305 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: elbow close to your body, try and swing more into out, 306 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: get that path more to the right. All of that 307 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: is great if you're trying to hit a draw, it's 308 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 1: not conducive to what Brooks is trying to do. He's 309 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: trying to hit fades. He's trying to hit fades that 310 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,440 Speaker 1: start left of his target. He's also trying to hit 311 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: fades with one hundred and twenty mile an hour clubhead 312 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: speed and over one eighty ball speed. When that system 313 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: and that process gets off with his speed, he can 314 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: get the double miss and he can hit the golf 315 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:26,199 Speaker 1: ball a long way offline. So process and sticking to 316 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: the process. He went to every member of his team 317 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: who was down there that week. Pete Cowen and Jeff Pierce, 318 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,760 Speaker 1: his putting instructor, didn't come. I was down there and 319 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,199 Speaker 1: he said to us, okay, He said to Ricky as Caddie, 320 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: Mark Wallace, trainer, doctor Arsapaya, who looks after kind of 321 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 1: his kind of team, and then Hamish, his trainer. He 322 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,360 Speaker 1: said to all of us, listen, We said to all 323 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 1: of us internally, we've got to get back to basics, 324 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 1: and we've just got to really really stick to the process. 325 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,360 Speaker 1: So I spent a lot of time with the off 326 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: course team. What is he doing in the gym? How 327 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: can we match what he's doing in the gym with 328 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:06,159 Speaker 1: what we're trying to get him to feel with the 329 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:11,479 Speaker 1: golf swing. And it was a total reset. And he 330 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 1: played good in Adelaide the final day, shot in the 331 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: sixties kind of I can't remember the actual number, but 332 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 1: played really good. Didn't feel like he made any putts. 333 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:27,680 Speaker 1: Led Adelaide in greens and regulation, which is a big 334 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,919 Speaker 1: stat for Books Brooks. When Brooks was number one in 335 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: the world and winning majors at a very fast clip, 336 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: everyone thought it was his driving. Yes, Brooks is a 337 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 1: good driver the golf ball. Yes, Brooks hits the golf 338 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,360 Speaker 1: ball a long way, can hit high bomb fades, he 339 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,239 Speaker 1: can dominate with the driver. When Brooks was number one 340 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,439 Speaker 1: in the world, nobody really was paying attention to the 341 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 1: fact that he was one of the best iron players 342 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: in the game. And the players that played with Brooks 343 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 1: when he was number one in the world would be like, dude, 344 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: the guy's iron game is a joke. So when Adelaide, 345 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: what we started to see was number one. We started 346 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: to see Brooks hit a lot of fairways right, a 347 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: lot of fairways for someone with his speed, guys like Brooks, 348 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: DJ Rory, they're not going to hit twelve thirteen fairways 349 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 1: right because they're not hitting a lot of drivers. So 350 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 1: based off of how many drivers he's hitting, the driver 351 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: was better, the misses were better, they were less destructive. 352 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:27,639 Speaker 1: But the iron game started to come back. The quality 353 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,959 Speaker 1: of the strike started to come back. Where he was 354 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:35,160 Speaker 1: catching it in the face started to come back. And 355 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: in Adelaide he started to hit a lot of shots 356 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 1: kind of pin high, not pin high to two feet 357 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: five feet, ten feet, pin high to fifteen twenty feet, 358 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 1: but they were quality golf shots. And then the thing 359 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: that he said before we got to Singapore at the 360 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 1: end of the week was his off speed stuff felt 361 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,680 Speaker 1: normal again. Right off speed stuff means when he's trying 362 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: to instead of hitting eight, he's going to try in 363 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 1: a little three quarter seven. Instead of trying to nuke 364 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,360 Speaker 1: or hammer a nine, he's gonna chip a little bit 365 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 1: of an eight, instead of trying to hammer a wedge, 366 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,959 Speaker 1: He's going to three quarter the nine. Right. So the 367 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 1: off speed stuff started to get better as the setup 368 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: and the ball position and the process of what we 369 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: were doing with all of the basics. Everything that we 370 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:26,880 Speaker 1: kind of did in the last two weeks with Brooks 371 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:31,479 Speaker 1: was all before he hit the golf ball. Then the 372 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 1: domino effect of that allowed a lot of the things 373 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: that we're trying to work on in his golf swing 374 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: somewhat for lack of a better term, fall into place 375 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,439 Speaker 1: without him having to think so much about it. But 376 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:51,639 Speaker 1: every shot we were looking at the setup and he 377 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,119 Speaker 1: was saying it was kind of a jog. And he 378 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,199 Speaker 1: told me, listen, there is probably going to be a 379 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: point in the next two weeks where I'm gonna say, listen, 380 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 1: I'm tired of hearing about my setup. He said. I'm 381 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: telling you and everybody on the team you have permission. 382 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,680 Speaker 1: If I tell you I'm tired of hearing about the setup, 383 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: stay with me, and stay on me, and keep beating 384 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 1: me up about my setup. If the ball is half 385 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: a ball, too far back, too far forward, I want 386 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: to know if my shoulders are half We're not measuring, 387 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 1: we don't have any three D on the driving range. 388 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: But if my shoulders need to be a little bit 389 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: more open, he said, tell me they need to be 390 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: a little bit more open. If they're a little bit 391 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,400 Speaker 1: too closed, tell me, they're a little bit too close. 392 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:37,199 Speaker 1: So I think Brooks wanted to take ownership of that 393 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: and hold himself accountable for that, but also he wants 394 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: to hold us accountable for that as well. Witness insurmountable 395 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 1: deficits turn into unforgettable victories at the Travelers Championship, the 396 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: northeast one and only PGA tour signature event. 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Brooks' 406 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 1: is one in one of them, DJ's one and one 407 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: of them, but there hasn't really been a team playoff. 408 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: And the team playoff and what more of a fitting 409 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 1: playoff in Australia was Cam Smith's live team. Lucas Herbert Australian, 410 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 1: Mark Leishman Australian, Matty Jones Australian, Cam Smith Australian, the 411 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:58,479 Speaker 1: All Australian team in Australia playoff against the Stingers, the 412 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:02,679 Speaker 1: All South African team. Right, the fans were going nuts. 413 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: It was crazy, right, So it was a great finish 414 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 1: to the tournament and everybody was watching. So the locker 415 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: room in Adelaide was kind of in on the bottom 416 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: floor and then upstairs where the player dining was was 417 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: where everybody was eating TVs and everything like that. So 418 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: Sunday a lot of guys are leaving, maybe catching a flight, 419 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 1: packing up everything out of the locker room. So you 420 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: walk down a hallway and there was a door on 421 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: the right and a door on the left, and the 422 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: door on the left there was a gym and the 423 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 1: door on the right was into the locker room. So 424 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: the majority of people were either packing up, the caddies 425 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 1: are packing up all the bags, they're putting the club 426 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 1: gloves all in the covers, everything they're putting everything, they're 427 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 1: locking up. Everybody that was flying out that night. The 428 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,119 Speaker 1: locker room's filled with suitcases and stuff like that. So 429 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,119 Speaker 1: guys are showering, they're getting their stuff, they're catching flights. 430 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: But the majority of the people had just finished. They 431 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: knew there was going to be a playoff. The players, 432 00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: all the people that are involved in the live team, 433 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: the caddies. I was sitting with Wac o'neman and Mito Pereira. 434 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: We were grabbing some food afterwards and the playoff happened. 435 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: So we're all sitting and you know, a bunch of 436 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 1: players and stuff, and the playoff was going on. There's 437 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 1: a couple holes in the playoff and everything like that. 438 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 1: I was upstairs. I went downstairs to grab my phone 439 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 1: charger out of the locker, and I went past the gym. 440 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: Who's in the gym getting his ass kicked by doctor 441 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 1: Aarra and his trader Hamish Brooks Koepka. I took video 442 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,119 Speaker 1: of it. Played good that day. Shot in the sixties. 443 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,879 Speaker 1: Led the week in greens and Regulation, literally getting the 444 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: shit kicked out of him by his trainer, full workout hour. 445 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 1: He was at the gym every night after the rounds. 446 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: He was working out after the rounds. He wasn't leaving 447 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 1: the golf course untill eight o'clock. Listen, lots of players 448 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: do this, right, This isn't anything that is specific to Brooks. 449 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: People do this in the NBA, people do this in 450 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: the NFL, people do this in the pre rugby, Major 451 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: League Baseball. Every professional athlete in every professional sport, there 452 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: are people that do this. Brooks is one of them. 453 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,199 Speaker 1: He was getting his ass handed to him by his 454 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 1: trainer in the gym and he said, I need to 455 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 1: do this. I need to kind of get beat up 456 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,919 Speaker 1: to kind of refocus. That's kind of the way that 457 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: he operates. He's talked for the last two weeks how 458 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: sore he is because he's been getting his ass kicked 459 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,880 Speaker 1: in the gym, which he asked for, which he wanted. 460 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,880 Speaker 1: But my point is that's how much he wants to win. 461 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,439 Speaker 1: That's how important winning is to him. And when he 462 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: doesn't win, he beats himself up and he holds himself accountable. 463 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 1: And I took a video of it. I was blown away. 464 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: I was like, I didn't even know he's working out. 465 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 1: And I walked in, looked at him, looked at the team. 466 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 1: They shook their heads. He looked at me, shook his head. 467 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 1: Nobody said anything, and I walked out and we got 468 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:04,160 Speaker 1: to Singapore. Same thing. Stay on me on the setup, 469 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,679 Speaker 1: stay on me on the ball position, stay on me 470 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 1: on the alignment. We could start to see that things 471 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 1: were starting to turn around. Every team goes through this, right, 472 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: Every instructor that works with players goes through this. I've 473 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 1: had instructors on the pod. The hottest instructor in the 474 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 1: game right now who's having so much success, Mark Blackburn. 475 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 1: He sees this. You can tell when players have fallen down, 476 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: when they've struggled, when they've had to hit the reset button. 477 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: You can tell when they're doing the work, when they're 478 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,119 Speaker 1: putting in the time, when they're committed, when they're ready 479 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,159 Speaker 1: to go. Brooks was ready to go. He wasn't happy 480 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: with the way he played Augusta, so I figured Singapore 481 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: would be a good week. It's a good golf course, 482 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,639 Speaker 1: it's a fun golf course, and the practice sessions were good. 483 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 1: He said. Golf was starting to feel for him normal, 484 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: starting to feel the club in the places needed to be, 485 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 1: starting to see the ball start in the windows. He 486 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,399 Speaker 1: was hitting it really good in the practice rounds, but 487 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: he wasn't making a lot of pots, and he said 488 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: after Adelaide, man, I feel like if I just could 489 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,359 Speaker 1: make a few more potts, start to see some balls 490 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,680 Speaker 1: go in. The ball striking is there. And I kept 491 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 1: saying to him in Adelaide, I know you're hitting it better. 492 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: You know you're hitting it better. You can feel it, 493 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 1: we can see it. You just have to be patient 494 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: because the good rounds are going to come. But it's 495 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,439 Speaker 1: hard to do that as an athlete. It's hard to 496 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: do that as a player. So Singapore was good and 497 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 1: we were out in the pro am. We did a 498 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: nine hole pro am on Thursday, and he played the 499 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 1: back nine and the fourteenth hole. In the fifteenth hole 500 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 1: or right along the water, So fourteenth holes part three 501 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: water all the way down the left hand side. Fifteenth hole, 502 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: part four, water all the way down the right hand side. 503 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 1: So in the practice round started on ten Brooks, pipes 504 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: it right down the middle, hits it's about ten feet. 505 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: Putt breaks, you know, it's breaking from right to left. 506 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: Hits a really good putt, maybe just a little bit 507 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 1: too hard, hits the lip, you know, lips out and 508 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 1: you can just see him just go, man, what do 509 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 1: I have to do to make a putt. He changed 510 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 1: putters as well in the last month, which is something 511 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: that Brooks doesn't really do. He doesn't really change his equipment. 512 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 1: He's won all five of his majors with the same 513 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: style of putter, the blade kind of Scotty Cameron Newport 514 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 1: that you know from watching Tiger Woods, but he's made 515 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,239 Speaker 1: the decision to kind of go to a little bit 516 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: more of a mallet, pretty much the same putter that 517 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: Justin Thomas is using. Right, We saw that with Scotty Scheffler. 518 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: Scotty Shuffler was struggling a little bit with his putting. 519 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 1: He went to a mallet and it's helped. Right, We 520 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 1: were making some changes to his putting stroke to where 521 00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: the blade was. He was just taking a little bit 522 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 1: on the inside and then there's a little bit of 523 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 1: a loop. So we were doing a lot of work 524 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: to just try and feel like for him that he 525 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 1: wasn't using so much of his hands, that he was 526 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 1: trying to feel like he was letting his arms swing 527 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 1: a little bit better. So again, same thing he kept saying, listen, 528 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 1: stay on me about how the putter is going back. 529 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 1: Make sure that putter doesn't get too inside on me. 530 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: Make sure my ball position doesn't get too far back 531 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: on me. The same thing happens with Brooks's putting, that 532 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 1: happens with his full swing. So we stayed on that. 533 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: We sent a lot of videos every single night. I'm 534 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: videoing golf swings during the day, set up driver irons, 535 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 1: putting ball positions. Every single night. I'm sending those to 536 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: him just so he can see them, and he would 537 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: send him back to me, saying, starting to look better, 538 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 1: starting to feel better. I like this, still think I 539 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 1: could do this better. So we knew we were kind 540 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 1: of trending in a better place. So practice round again. 541 00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: Eleventh hole pipes, It hits, it's about fifteen feet one eighties. 542 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: It lits it out again, and you can see he's 543 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:08,240 Speaker 1: getting more and more frustrated. Twelfth hole part four, hammer's 544 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: drive down there, hits it to about five feet, missus 545 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 1: thirteen pipes of driver. Again, this isn't the program. Hits 546 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:21,040 Speaker 1: one to about fifteen feet, lips it out and just 547 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 1: lost it. You could sell. He's like, I'm so tired 548 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 1: of not making any potts. I'm working my ass off 549 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 1: in the gym. I feel like I'm doing all the 550 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 1: right stuff. I just can't make a pot. So we 551 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: got to the fourteenth hole, which is part three, water 552 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,080 Speaker 1: all the way down the left hand side, and as 553 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 1: we were walking up, we just talked about it and 554 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: I said, man, and Ricky, and I is caddy Ricky Ellen, 555 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,239 Speaker 1: who's been on his bag since day one, since he 556 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 1: started playing on the PGA Tour, since he's won all 557 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: these majors, And we just said, listen, you're the best 558 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 1: pressure putter, one of the best pressure pressure punters I've 559 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 1: ever seen. Definitely, Brooks is one of the best pressure 560 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 1: putters I've ever seen in a major championship. He likes that. 561 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 1: And I said, but when you're putting bad, it's not 562 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: always your technique right sometimes, so I said to him, listen, 563 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 1: your stroke looks better, you know, it looks better. Your 564 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 1: stroke is okay based off of what you've been doing. 565 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 1: Maybe it's just the speed and the line and we 566 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: just need to dial those in a little bit more. 567 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 1: And I said, listen, halfway through this practice round, you've 568 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 1: hit really good pots. It's not your stroke, it's just, hey, 569 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 1: you hit that one a little bit too hard. Hey 570 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: you hit that one a little bit too soft. Maybe 571 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 1: that broke a little bit more than you thought. So again, 572 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 1: that's execution, that's not technique. We're looking at the veils 573 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 1: he would miss. He missed a couple of putts in 574 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,680 Speaker 1: that practice. Early He's like, can you video my setup? 575 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 1: Can you video the punch take. We showed it to 576 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 1: him and he's like, dude, that all looks good. Right. 577 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,840 Speaker 1: We're like, it looks good. I could see him getting 578 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: more frustrated, and I just told him, I said, listen, 579 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,320 Speaker 1: Steph Curry plays for the Golden State Warriors. One of 580 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:12,240 Speaker 1: the best three point shooters the game's ever seen. He's 581 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,280 Speaker 1: so good at shooting three points that a lot of 582 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: people think he changed the way the NBA is being played, 583 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: because the NBA is now a lot of three pointers. 584 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 1: He's the best at it. If he's in the NBA Finals, 585 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:26,240 Speaker 1: Game seven, and he goes from three point land in 586 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,200 Speaker 1: the first quarter, oh for seven. And they start the 587 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,440 Speaker 1: second quarter and he goes and he misses the first two, 588 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: and then they start getting him open looks and he 589 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:40,040 Speaker 1: starts passing it taking shots. Steve Kerr, the head coach 590 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,880 Speaker 1: of the Golden State Warriors, is going to call time out. 591 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 1: He played with Michael Jordan on the Chicago Bulls. He's 592 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 1: won championships, He's going to call time out and pull 593 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 1: Steph aside and say, what the hell are you doing? 594 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,040 Speaker 1: Keep shooting. And I said that story to Brooks. I'm like, 595 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 1: you've got to keep shooting. Steph Curry is not going 596 00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 1: to stop shooting. He's going to keep taking his shot. 597 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 1: And I said, you just have to be patient and 598 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 1: keep shooting. And we were talking about that on the 599 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 1: fourteenth hole. We talked about it the rest of the round. 600 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 1: And so during his warm up even on Sunday, I 601 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,400 Speaker 1: took some videos of his golf swing while he's warming 602 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 1: up and I just said, listen, take a look at this. 603 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 1: This where you are with your seven iron face on. 604 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, that ball position's good. Showed him one 605 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,440 Speaker 1: down the line. I said, yeah, that setup's good. The setup, 606 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,799 Speaker 1: we couldn't see that left arm. When Brooks gets a 607 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 1: little bit too closed with the setup, we see too 608 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 1: much of his left forearm from down the line, his 609 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,920 Speaker 1: hips get a little bit too closed. In Adelaide, I 610 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,520 Speaker 1: put an alignment rod through his belt loops so we 611 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 1: could set up and he could see where his hips were. 612 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,040 Speaker 1: And we were doing that. That's a great tip. If 613 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,879 Speaker 1: you're struggling with your alignment with your lower body, put 614 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: an alignment rod through your belt loops and get that 615 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,239 Speaker 1: set up and you'll see where those hips are. So 616 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,440 Speaker 1: if your hips are too closed or hips are too open. 617 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,640 Speaker 1: So the last thing I said to him before he 618 00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,960 Speaker 1: went out on Sunday, Man, it's just keep shooting, keep shooting, 619 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,440 Speaker 1: and so on. Sunday got off to a really good 620 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,560 Speaker 1: I mean the first round that he played on Friday, 621 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 1: I think it was five under through seven and started 622 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,880 Speaker 1: to see some putts go in one of the leaders 623 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 1: I think he was leading, if not one of the 624 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:20,440 Speaker 1: leaders right near the lead, maybe one back. And then Saturday, 625 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,080 Speaker 1: really good round of golf going, but I think it 626 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:27,960 Speaker 1: was then on sixteen he three putted and from like 627 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,000 Speaker 1: five feet he lipped one out, which is what has 628 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,560 Speaker 1: been happening with his putting. And I said to the 629 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 1: guys on the team, it's gonna be interesting to see 630 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,359 Speaker 1: how he finishes. Now we're gonna know a lot about 631 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,279 Speaker 1: where his headspace is based off of what we see. 632 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,480 Speaker 1: For the next two holes, par three and then an 633 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:49,719 Speaker 1: easy par five. Right the par three seventeenth, he made 634 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,839 Speaker 1: a bad swing hit it to the bunker, just got 635 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,120 Speaker 1: a little bit under it and then hit it's about 636 00:35:54,320 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 1: seven feet and then lipped one in for par. I 637 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,360 Speaker 1: thought that that was huge. I really did. Mentally, I 638 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,400 Speaker 1: thought that that was a really really big deal. And 639 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:12,399 Speaker 1: then Sunday kind of got to lead to about two 640 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,719 Speaker 1: shots and then on the fourteenth hole, where in the 641 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,840 Speaker 1: practice round on Thursday, his caddie Ricky and Elliot and 642 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,280 Speaker 1: I started talking to him about you've got to stay patient. 643 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,680 Speaker 1: But I said to him in that practice round as 644 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,840 Speaker 1: well when he won the PGA at o'kill, there's always 645 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:29,760 Speaker 1: going to be a point in the round to where 646 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,439 Speaker 1: you have to make a putt. You have to do 647 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 1: something right, you have to do something special, and you're 648 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 1: probably going to be faced with if you want to 649 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,879 Speaker 1: win the tournament, there's no real other option other than 650 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 1: to make a pott. And at o'kill last year in 651 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,520 Speaker 1: the PGA, that's what he had. He had a downhill 652 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:54,920 Speaker 1: fast left to right, probably thirteen foot for par on 653 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,319 Speaker 1: a par five. He made the pot and I said 654 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,640 Speaker 1: to him in the practice round during the pro I said, 655 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,160 Speaker 1: were you thinking about your stroke? Then he said no, 656 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:07,000 Speaker 1: I said, that was you As the athlete saying, if 657 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,279 Speaker 1: I want to win this golf tournament, I've got to 658 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,759 Speaker 1: will this putt in the hole. Tiger Woods did that. 659 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,279 Speaker 1: Tiger Woods told me, and it's funny. We're going back 660 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,200 Speaker 1: to Valhalla for the PGA next week. He told me 661 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,600 Speaker 1: to get into the playoff against Bob May. And I 662 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,000 Speaker 1: think it was two thousand. He had a putt that 663 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,080 Speaker 1: he had to make to get into a playoff with 664 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,520 Speaker 1: Bob May. He's supposed to crush Bob May. He didn't. 665 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,360 Speaker 1: He had to make a putt. I said, in your head, 666 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 1: what are you saying to yourself? And Tiger, I'll never 667 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,439 Speaker 1: forget it to you. Tiger said to me. I said 668 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,520 Speaker 1: to myself, I want to win another major if I 669 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,920 Speaker 1: want to hoist the Wannamaker. If I don't want to 670 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,880 Speaker 1: get into a playoff and try and win this tournament, 671 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,839 Speaker 1: there is no other option other than to make it. 672 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,920 Speaker 1: And that's what we were trying to say to Brooks. Listen, 673 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:50,080 Speaker 1: you've done this before. You know how to do this. 674 00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,600 Speaker 1: Turn your brain off and just putt. Just try and 675 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:58,600 Speaker 1: make it. Try and make it. Sometimes we get into 676 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:00,759 Speaker 1: that spell where we're trying not to miss it right, 677 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,839 Speaker 1: Try and make it, and so on the green where 678 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,160 Speaker 1: we started talking to him about that pin was back left, 679 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,319 Speaker 1: water all the way down on the right. He hit 680 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:16,240 Speaker 1: one to about forty feet, big break fast right to left, 681 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,960 Speaker 1: left it about eight feet short, maybe ten feet short, 682 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,120 Speaker 1: stood up for par, hooped it right in the center 683 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,960 Speaker 1: next hole. In my head, I'm saying to myself, Okay, 684 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:31,360 Speaker 1: water on the left right, bunker's right ball. It's not 685 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,560 Speaker 1: a long hole. He doesn't have to pound driver down there. 686 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,560 Speaker 1: But you make a bad swing, you're struggling to make 687 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,560 Speaker 1: a par. He took out his three iron, roasted one 688 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 1: right down the middle of the fairway, and then stood 689 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,440 Speaker 1: up and hit a little three quarter off speed, a 690 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,799 Speaker 1: little chip. It was either a wedge or nine to 691 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:51,760 Speaker 1: about twelve feet pin high, made it, then went to eighteen. 692 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:53,960 Speaker 1: Knew he had a lead, think he had a two 693 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,960 Speaker 1: shot lead at that point. Knew that he could take two. 694 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,279 Speaker 1: They always say, if you could take two, take two. 695 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,239 Speaker 1: Didn't hit a great drive, hit it to the right, 696 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,320 Speaker 1: had to lay up, hit one over the green, didn't 697 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,960 Speaker 1: come down, and then finished the tournament off by holing 698 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,799 Speaker 1: probably about a six seven foot birdie putt, which I 699 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,600 Speaker 1: think was huge and I said to him after the round, 700 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,640 Speaker 1: man he putted great today, and he said, I should 701 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:21,280 Speaker 1: turn my brain off. I just quit thinking about my stroke. 702 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:23,839 Speaker 1: I just turned my brain off. And I think that's 703 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:28,120 Speaker 1: an important lesson for everyone listening that sometimes you can 704 00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,520 Speaker 1: overthink it. Sometimes you're trying not to miss it. You're 705 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,640 Speaker 1: not trying to make it. Sometimes you're trying to not 706 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:37,359 Speaker 1: hit a bad shot, and you're not trying to hit 707 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:38,880 Speaker 1: a good shot, You're just trying not to hit a 708 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:46,520 Speaker 1: bad one. I think what we saw from Books in 709 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:50,319 Speaker 1: Singapore is kind of the reset that he needed. He's 710 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,840 Speaker 1: going to go into the PGA Championship at Valhalla with 711 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:57,239 Speaker 1: a lot of confidence. I think he's gonna play well. 712 00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:01,359 Speaker 1: I really do. I think he learned a lot over 713 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,719 Speaker 1: the last month. I think he's done the work. I 714 00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,240 Speaker 1: think he's put his body through a lot. I think 715 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:10,800 Speaker 1: he's punished himself. I think he's demanded a lot of himself, 716 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,719 Speaker 1: demanded a lot from the team around him. And I 717 00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,600 Speaker 1: think the Masters was the reset he needed. I think 718 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:18,600 Speaker 1: the Masters was a little bit of the reset that 719 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:22,040 Speaker 1: I needed and the team needed. And I think it 720 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:27,600 Speaker 1: just goes to show you, guys, everyone listening grip, stance, 721 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:33,200 Speaker 1: posture alignment, the basics, the stuff that no one is 722 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:38,759 Speaker 1: making TikTok Instagram videos, YouTube videos. It's not cool, it's 723 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,800 Speaker 1: not sexy. It's not laying it down, it's not shallowing 724 00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,759 Speaker 1: it out, it's not all that bullshit. We just went 725 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:51,360 Speaker 1: back to basics with Brooks. We just went back to basics, posture, alignment, grip, 726 00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:56,040 Speaker 1: where he's aiming, all of that. That started the dominoes 727 00:40:56,239 --> 00:41:00,279 Speaker 1: going in the right direction. And I don't care whether 728 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,400 Speaker 1: you think it was a statement when for Brooks or not. 729 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,359 Speaker 1: I know it was, and I know he knows it was. 730 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,359 Speaker 1: It was the confidence he needed. It's his fourth win 731 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,040 Speaker 1: on liv. Listen, if you don't think the competition's any good, 732 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:13,920 Speaker 1: I think that says more about you than it does 733 00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,640 Speaker 1: about the competition. He's beating some of the best players 734 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,880 Speaker 1: in the world, and I really don't care if you 735 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,239 Speaker 1: don't think that. I know that because I see the 736 00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,080 Speaker 1: golf that they're playing, I know the players he's playing against, 737 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,439 Speaker 1: and I think it's a good reset for Brooks. And 738 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,319 Speaker 1: we'll see what this brings for the rest of the year. 739 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:35,839 Speaker 1: He's got three majors left and he believes in his 740 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:41,080 Speaker 1: goal this year, he's got five, he's got three chances left. 741 00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,759 Speaker 1: I know in his head he's trying to get to 742 00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,320 Speaker 1: eight by the end of this year because he believes 743 00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,520 Speaker 1: he can get to ten. He believes he can get 744 00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,919 Speaker 1: to double digits. And I just thought I would share 745 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,560 Speaker 1: that story with you that sometimes you have to hit 746 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,719 Speaker 1: the reset button. Sometimes you have to go back to basics. 747 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:05,080 Speaker 1: Sometimes you can get the dominoes to change by the 748 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,120 Speaker 1: things that you're doing before you hit the golf ball. 749 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:11,719 Speaker 1: So so so proud of him. I know how hard 750 00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:13,600 Speaker 1: he works, I know how hard he wants all of 751 00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:17,920 Speaker 1: this and a really really good win for him. And 752 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,160 Speaker 1: I'm really excited to get to Valhalla. I'll fly back 753 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,560 Speaker 1: to the US tomorrow night, get back on Thursday, and 754 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:27,760 Speaker 1: then we will head up to Valhalla and the PGA 755 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:31,840 Speaker 1: on Sunday. Going to do and record a little PGA 756 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,600 Speaker 1: preview show which will come out next week with my dad. 757 00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:38,640 Speaker 1: Butch Harmon talk about obviously the favorite Scotti Scheffler. Can 758 00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:42,040 Speaker 1: he get another major? The run he's on is historic, 759 00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,680 Speaker 1: I think, I mean it is. He's playing unbelievable golf. 760 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:48,600 Speaker 1: Hopefully get his kind of take on some of the 761 00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,120 Speaker 1: stuff that he's been working on with Rory. Is this 762 00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:55,920 Speaker 1: the opportunity ten years on last major? Roy One? Was 763 00:42:55,960 --> 00:43:00,560 Speaker 1: it the PGA Championship at Valhalla twenty fourteen? And if 764 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:04,359 Speaker 1: I told anybody listening that in fourteen Brooks Koepka would 765 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,000 Speaker 1: have more majors than Rory, you wouldn't believe it. Why 766 00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,879 Speaker 1: because you probably hadn't heard of Brooks yet, and maybe 767 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,239 Speaker 1: you didn't think he was that good, and he wasn't 768 00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:16,520 Speaker 1: that good at that point. And Rory in twenty fourteen, 769 00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,279 Speaker 1: I thought by now he'd have ten. That's how good 770 00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,360 Speaker 1: he is, That's how great of a player he is. 771 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:25,319 Speaker 1: So I think there's a lot of storylines that we 772 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,960 Speaker 1: could kind of see aligning at the PGA, and I'm 773 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,480 Speaker 1: really excited to get to it. So yeah, two week 774 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:34,919 Speaker 1: break from the pod, but we are back. Can't thank 775 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:39,200 Speaker 1: everybody enough for listening, Rate, review, subscribe, wherever you get 776 00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:42,480 Speaker 1: your podcast. Son of a Butch comes to you almost 777 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,560 Speaker 1: every Wednesday. But we will definitely see you next week.