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Took a couple of weeks off as 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:46.760 I've been traveling and went down to the live event 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.919 in Adelaide, was at the live event in Singapore and 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:56.160 currently recording this in Bangkok. Just here in Thailand. I'm 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.240 opening up a new academy here under my brand, the 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.280 Claude Harman Performance Golf brand. Got one in Dubai, opening 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:05.000 them one here. Really really excited about it and it's 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.280 really cool to get an opportunity to travel. And I 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.800 think the last three three weeks for me has has 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:14.320 shown me that global golf is. It's so cool, right 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.280 And I think there's a lot of talk about growing 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.120 the game, all the stuff going on with live, all 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:22.080 the stuff going on with the PGA Tour and stuff. 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.880 But when you get outside the United States, when you travel, 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:27.880 I'm lucky enough to get to do that, you see 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:29.800 that golf is a global game and there is a 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:33.440 passion for golf all over the world. Just wanted to 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.800 touch a little bit on the live of that down 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:40.160 in Adelaide. Listen. I know that it's crazy times right 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:41.679 now in golf right and I know there are people 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.280 that are on the PGA Tour side, they're fiercely anti live. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:50.760 There's the live people all of that. Listen. I've been 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:54.040 saying this, if you love golf and if you want 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.400 to watch golf, you can watch that anywhere. You can 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:02.320 consume it on the PGA Tour, DP World, LPGA Champs Tour, 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:07.640 Asian Tour Live, you can find all that anywhere. You 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:11.240 can find it on TV, you can find it online. 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.119 There were some great players down at the Adelaide tournament 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.120 for live and it's kind of become over the last 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.720 two years lives kind of signature event. And again, all 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.480 of my players that I work with, when I say 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.640 this all the time, the three players I work with, 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.440 Dustin Johnson, Brooks, Kepka, Pat Perez, they made the choice 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.839 to go to Live. I'm their coach. I go where 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.720 they go. So I think a lot of I think 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.639 one of the things that I think it does kind 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.000 of upset me and it makes me mad that I 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.600 think a lot of the To me, it's just my opinion. 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.839 A lot of the fiercely, fiercely anti Live people will 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.160 openly tell you they don't watch, they don't care, they've 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.080 never been to an event. So I try and use 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.400 the podcast to say listen, make up your own mind. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.720 But the event in Adelaide has become over the last 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:05.000 two years kind of lives signature event, and the crowds 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:10.040 the first year were just they're unbelievable. And Australia is starved, 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:16.640 starved for professional golf, right. It used to be a 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.560 lot of players used to go down there and a 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.679 lot of players the Australian Open. There's been a rich, 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:26.240 rich history down in Australia of players going down there, 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:30.480 but in a number of years that that just kind 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:35.280 of didn't happen. And so I think one of the 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:40.480 reasons why the event is so so l liked and 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:45.920 so well attended is it's an opportunity for players to 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.240 or for the fans to kind of see some of 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.760 the best players in the world and they just don't 0:03:53.800 --> 0:04:00.240 see that many great players in one place. The Australian 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:05.920 get to see Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson, John Rahm, 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:10.320 cam Smith, Bryson, d Chambeau, Wac o'neman and then a 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.320 bunch of other players. So for the Aussie fans, I 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:16.120 think it's so well attended because it is an amazing 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:20.599 tournament and it's an opportunity for them to see a 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:24.719 lot of great players in one place. Now, yes, I 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.520 saw online they were talking, you know, the live guys. 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.159 You know there are social accounts where the live people 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.400 are going, hey, first time great players have been down there, 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.640 And somebody said, yeah, well Jordan Speith went down in 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.440 twenty fourteen and won the Australian Open. I got news 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.240 for you. Jordan Speith was paid to go down there 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.040 an appearance fee. He didn't go down there for free. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.120 He didn't go down there because his sole intention was 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.760 to play Aussie golf. He did what every great player does, 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.600 what every great player should be allowed to do. If 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.719 you're the reigning if you're a reigning major champion, you 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.800 can go outside the United States. They will pay you 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.320 to come to their event. That has been going on 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:14.880 for over thirty years. That's not news, right, We've talked 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.760 about I've talked about this on the pod Dubai Abu 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:23.520 Dhabi Guitar China. Appearance fees are part of the game, right, 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.160 So yeah, the live guys, a lot of them, they 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.680 got the bag, they got paid. But that's been going on. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.640 That's not news. So I don't care which side you're on. 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:39.479 If you love the PGA Tour, fine, If you like live, 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:44.320 that's fine. I don't care. But you don't have to choose, 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.040 and you can watch your golf wherever you want. If 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.719 you want to watch great players, if you want to 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:55.960 watch John Rahm, Dustin Johnson, Brooks, Koepka, Phil Mickelson, Cam Smith, Bryson, 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.479 you can watch them. They just play on live now, right. 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.400 So if you don't like that and you don't want 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:06.520 to watch because of that, in my opinion, I says 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.719 I think that says more about you than it does 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:13.400 about that my job as I've got my own podcast, 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.159 so I can say whatever the hell I want. But 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.240 I think one of my jobs is I've been to 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.560 every live event and I work with the players, So 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.719 if you haven't been, if you don't know a lot 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:27.080 about it, or whatever side you're on. The event was amazing. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.560 It's one of the coolest golf events I've been to. 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.080 The fans were great, the golf course, the Grange. Yes, 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:40.480 I'd love for the tournament to be at Royal Adelaide 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.120 across the street, which is unbelievable. I'd love it to 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.360 be at Royal Melbourne. But the sand Belt golf courses 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.960 and the Grange is kind of old school. I posted 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:54.719 a video on my social and the bunkering in the 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.400 sand Belt region in Australia of these golf courses is 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:02.920 just so damn cool, right. The green complexes are cool, 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.760 the short game stuff is cool. So it's always great 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.120 to go down to Australia and see how cool the 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.200 golf courses are because it forces they're tight. If they're 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.560 firm and fast, you can run the golf ball. There's 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:20.360 so many different options coming into these green complexes, so 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.240 it forces you to kind of be a little bit 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.520 of a kind of old school shop maker. So the 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.000 event last year was well attended. There was a ton 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:36.480 of people. Fisher DJ he played last year. He played 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.640 again this year on the Saturday night. It was amazing. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.520 It was just it felt like it felt like a 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.000 festival at a golf tournament at night. It was cool. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.600 The fans were everywhere. They were excited to see all 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:57.240 these players. You could see the kids trying to get 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.600 views of their favorite players. And then and you know 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.000 the way that live works. You've got an individual winner 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.640 every week, and you've got the team format. Cam Smith's team, 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:11.400 the Rippers, all Australian. They're in a playoff with the 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.840 South Africans. That was cool. They the Australians ended up 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.760 winning two man playoff leash Mark Leishman and Cam Smith. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.880 I mean, I talked to Cam in Singapore and he 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:24.640 was like, this is one of the coolest things I've 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.239 ever done. Right, It was one of the coolest things 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.400 of his career. Whether you like that or you don't, 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:34.160 Whether you agree with that or you don't, Cam Smith 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.400 thinks it's one of the coolest things he's ever done right. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.960 So it was a great event. I couldn't believe how 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.480 many people showed up. I mean, they sold more tickets 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:49.360 this year than last year. And it was it was fun. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:53.360 It was really really cool. And for those of the 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:58.040 players and the people involved in Live, it's their biggest event. 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.760 They don't have any majors, right, so it's the biggest 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.680 tournament they had, And it was great and it was 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.360 cool to go down there, and I thought it was 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:10.000 a fitting end for cam Smith and the Rippers to win. 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.560 They got up on stage did the shoey. It was 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.560 fun and listen. If you don't like that, I'm okay 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.839 with that. That's that's your choice. But I think my 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.160 job and what I try and do in my podcast 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.000 is to talk about what's going on in the game 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:30.120 of golf and talk about what's happening. And it was 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.840 really really cool. So we went straight from Adelaide and 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:39.280 went to Singapore and brooks Kepka won last week and listen, 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.440 I think it was a big, big win for brooks Kepka. Ah, 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.840 he did not. He didn't have his best stuff at Augusta. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.760 He said that he knew that those of us around 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.920 him we knew that as well. He went in there 0:09:55.320 --> 0:10:00.680 obviously having won the PGA last year, took a lead 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.720 on Sunday last year into the final group with John Rahm, 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:08.480 didn't get it done. The Masters is a tournament that 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:13.680 Brooks death desperately wants to win. It is what he 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:18.160 feels like, even though he's got five majors now, he 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.280 will feel at the end of his career that if 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.080 he doesn't have a Master's, if he doesn't have a 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:29.000 green jacket, that it will be something that he wants that. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.280 He's been close twice, right, He's had two second place finishes, 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.600 once in nineteen when Tiger won and then last year 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.200 when John ramwan. He has the game to win around there. 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.000 He knows that he has been so close. He knows 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.560 he can win that golf tournament. He didn't have his 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:49.240 best stuff a couple of weeks ago. He was struggling 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.400 with his golf swing and struggling with his setup. He 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.319 couldn't get comfortable on the range, he wasn't seeing his window. 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.800 It was just a really, really weird week. I think 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:04.320 you know, Brooks was trying to psych himself up to 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:08.080 try and make things happen, and sometimes that just doesn't work. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:14.400 And you will not find anyone in competitive professional gulf 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:20.760 that's harder on themselves than Brooks. I know, having been 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.800 around him for over a decade now and worked with him, 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:29.240 he demands and expects so much from himself, and I 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.080 think that can sometimes come across in his interviews and 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.960 his persona and the way he carries himself. I think 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.880 a lot of people look at that as maybe being arrogant, 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:43.240 as maybe being like he thinks he's better than everybody else. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.960 I just think he has incredibly high standards of himself, 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.880 is incredibly high standards of all of us on his team. 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.320 And there was a little bit of a reset after 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:57.079 Augusta and a little bit of a refocus, and what 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.199 we did over the last two weeks is just get 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.800 back down to basics. And that's why I wanted to 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.360 talk about this because I think it's something that everyone 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.480 listening can can look at in their own game. When 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:13.960 Brooks struggles, ninety nine percent of the time, it's set 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.760 up related. And I've talked about this on the pod. 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:21.359 Before the ball position can get too far back, his alignment, 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.360 his stance can kind of get all all over the 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.320 place and That's what was happening at Augusta. He kept 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.800 saying to me on the range, in all of the 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.839 practice rounds, in all of the practice sessions, in all 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.000 of the warm ups, he had a two way miss. 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.839 He was struggling. All of the stuff that we were 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.240 trying to work on, that we'd normally work on didn't work. 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.880 He was struggling ball position. He couldn't get comfortable. No 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.719 matter what we were trying to tell on he was 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.520 just like, I just nothing feels right. And listen, as 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:54.280 a player, every now and again, you know, the system 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:58.200 doesn't work. They're not robots. They're not perfect. They're never 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.800 going to be perfect as good as they are, as 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.640 great as they are, even on the runs that they're on. 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.839 This historic run that Scotty Scheffler is on right now, 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.080 playing golf that we just haven't seen in so long, 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:15.880 the amazing, amazing golf that he's playing right now. Every 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:20.720 now and again, you know, the system doesn't work. It 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.800 doesn't feel right. We've seen that with Rory McElroy. When 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.040 Rory gets on these big, massive runs where it looks 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.120 like he's basically just gonna win every tournament right now, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.640 you can see that Rory's searching. Rory didn't get the 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.880 result he wanted at the Masters. He went out and 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.040 saw my dad did a little trying to get a 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.160 little bit of a reset. It happens with players, and 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:45.480 you know, there's all these cliches and sports, but one 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.560 of my favorites is the only thing that really matters 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:50.560 after you get knocked down is what you do next, 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.360 because everybody's going to get knocked down, right, Everybody's going 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.720 to get hit in the mouth. Mike Tyson has famously 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.000 said everybody's got a plan until they get hit in 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.720 the mouth. Then the plan changes. And I think for 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:07.200 Brooks how much his focus and how much he defines 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.920 his career based off of the Majors. The Masters was 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.920 a punch in the face and so we did a 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.600 massive reset. So he came to his Caddy and I 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.280 Ricky Elliott, and he said, Okay, we've got to get 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.680 my set up right. We've got to get my basics right, 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.080 we've got to get my ball position right, we've got 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.040 to get my alignment right. So he said to us 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.840 early in the week down in Australia, he said, listen, 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.720 I want the two of you to nag me and 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:39.680 be hyper focused and hyper vigilant on my ball position, 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:44.360 my setup, my alignment. So when Brooks's ball position gets 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:48.480 back in his stance, he has his strong grip, his 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.120 hands can get too far forward, and that left arm 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.040 can get high, that right arm can get a little 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.000 bit low, the shoulders can get a little bit closed. 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.600 And what that does is it alters the takeaway to 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:04.360 where the takeaway no longer goes outside and vertical, it 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.280 starts to get inside. Even though he's trying to do 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.280 what he wants to do, what we want him to 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.640 do from a swing technique, when that ball position gets back, 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.560 when his shoulders get too shut, there's a domino effect. 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.560 You've heard me talk about this before on the pod. 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.880 There's a domino effect of things that happen. That is 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.800 the domino that starts to cause the other things on 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:29.920 the downswing, that's the domino. His setup, his ball position, 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.880 the things that he does before he hits the golf 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:37.240 ball are is the domino that starts to push all 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.760 the other dominoes. So it doesn't matter what he's trying 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.360 to do with the backswing and the takeaway, I'm telling 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.560 him get it more in front, get it more front. 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:49.000 We're also looking at the ball position, and he's struggling 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:54.640 to get comfortable. So at a major championship, it's hard 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.600 to make changes because you know that these players are 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.960 going out and having to play at Augusta. Like everyone 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.160 else in the field, there was a lot of wind 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.560 going on. He was playing in a lot of winds. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.040 So then the ball position, because he's trying to keep 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.920 the golf ball down, that's going to be even worse. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.320 So he said to Ricky and I listen, I don't 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.400 care if I tell you. I don't want to hear 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.680 any more about my alignment, ball position, and set up. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:26.840 Keep saying it, so this is no joke. Every single 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:31.000 shot he hit in practice, every single shot that I 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.360 was with him on the golf course in practice rounds 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:37.320 for the last two weeks, his caddy, Ricky and I 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.360 before he hit a golf ball, he would so we 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.240 would Ricky and I would tag team him. I'd go 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.240 down the line, so I'd stand behind him, kind of 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.200 where we see most of the television coverage from where 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.160 you're behind and they get the shot tracer. That's what 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.360 I call down the line, and then Ricky would go 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.880 over and stand as if he was looking at what 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.280 we would call face on. So every especially on the range, 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.560 there wasn't a shot that Brooks was hitting where he 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.600 wasn't like saying to Ricky before he hit the shot, 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.480 how's my ball position? How's my alignment? He'd say, how's 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.800 my alignment? To me? Every single shot. We used a 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.439 lot of video. Brooks is a very visual learner. He 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.560 likes to see what his body's doing. He likes to 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.320 see what his ball position is, how things are working. 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.600 So one of the things that I always tell Brooks 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.320 is listened. When your shoulders get too closed, the left 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.080 arm gets too high, the right arm gets too low, 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.560 that elbow kind of tucks down. That's great if you're 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.919 trying to hit a draw right. We try and do 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.840 that with the amateur. A lot of you listening are 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.239 in the position that we're trying to get Brooks in. 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.479 Your shoulders are open, that right arm is high. So 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:39.480 I'm sure a lot of people that are trying to 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.239 draw the golf ball are being told listen, close your 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:46.520 shoulders more, get that right arm high, tuck that elbow in, 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.160 and then on the downswing, try and keep that right 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:53.000 elbow close to your body, try and swing more into out, 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.280 get that path more to the right. All of that 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.560 is great if you're trying to hit a draw, it's 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.240 not conducive to what Brooks is trying to do. He's 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.760 trying to hit fades. He's trying to hit fades that 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.440 start left of his target. He's also trying to hit 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.280 fades with one hundred and twenty mile an hour clubhead 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.800 speed and over one eighty ball speed. When that system 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:18.560 and that process gets off with his speed, he can 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.320 get the double miss and he can hit the golf 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:26.199 ball a long way offline. So process and sticking to 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.520 the process. He went to every member of his team 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.600 who was down there that week. Pete Cowen and Jeff Pierce, 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.760 his putting instructor, didn't come. I was down there and 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.199 he said to us, okay, He said to Ricky as Caddie, 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.600 Mark Wallace, trainer, doctor Arsapaya, who looks after kind of 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.480 his kind of team, and then Hamish, his trainer. He 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.360 said to all of us, listen, We said to all 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.160 of us internally, we've got to get back to basics, 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:56.800 and we've just got to really really stick to the process. 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.360 So I spent a lot of time with the off 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.280 course team. What is he doing in the gym? How 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.600 can we match what he's doing in the gym with 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:06.159 what we're trying to get him to feel with the 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:11.479 golf swing. And it was a total reset. And he 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:16.159 played good in Adelaide the final day, shot in the 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.879 sixties kind of I can't remember the actual number, but 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.119 played really good. Didn't feel like he made any putts. 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.680 Led Adelaide in greens and regulation, which is a big 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.919 stat for Books Brooks. When Brooks was number one in 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:34.240 the world and winning majors at a very fast clip, 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.560 everyone thought it was his driving. Yes, Brooks is a 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.160 good driver the golf ball. Yes, Brooks hits the golf 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.360 ball a long way, can hit high bomb fades, he 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.239 can dominate with the driver. When Brooks was number one 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.439 in the world, nobody really was paying attention to the 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.240 fact that he was one of the best iron players 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.840 in the game. And the players that played with Brooks 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:55.960 when he was number one in the world would be like, dude, 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.520 the guy's iron game is a joke. So when Adelaide, 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.760 what we started to see was number one. We started 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:06.040 to see Brooks hit a lot of fairways right, a 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.280 lot of fairways for someone with his speed, guys like Brooks, 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:13.960 DJ Rory, they're not going to hit twelve thirteen fairways 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:15.800 right because they're not hitting a lot of drivers. So 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:19.200 based off of how many drivers he's hitting, the driver 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:23.080 was better, the misses were better, they were less destructive. 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:27.639 But the iron game started to come back. The quality 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.959 of the strike started to come back. Where he was 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:35.160 catching it in the face started to come back. And 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:37.320 in Adelaide he started to hit a lot of shots 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:41.840 kind of pin high, not pin high to two feet 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:46.320 five feet, ten feet, pin high to fifteen twenty feet, 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:49.200 but they were quality golf shots. And then the thing 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:51.639 that he said before we got to Singapore at the 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:55.359 end of the week was his off speed stuff felt 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:58.680 normal again. Right off speed stuff means when he's trying 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.960 to instead of hitting eight, he's going to try in 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.800 a little three quarter seven. Instead of trying to nuke 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:08.360 or hammer a nine, he's gonna chip a little bit 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:11.399 of an eight, instead of trying to hammer a wedge, 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:14.959 He's going to three quarter the nine. Right. So the 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.640 off speed stuff started to get better as the setup 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.000 and the ball position and the process of what we 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:24.240 were doing with all of the basics. Everything that we 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:26.880 kind of did in the last two weeks with Brooks 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:31.479 was all before he hit the golf ball. Then the 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:34.160 domino effect of that allowed a lot of the things 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.240 that we're trying to work on in his golf swing 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:40.840 somewhat for lack of a better term, fall into place 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:45.439 without him having to think so much about it. But 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:51.639 every shot we were looking at the setup and he 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:54.119 was saying it was kind of a jog. And he 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:57.199 told me, listen, there is probably going to be a 0:21:57.200 --> 0:21:59.280 point in the next two weeks where I'm gonna say, listen, 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:01.960 I'm tired of hearing about my setup. He said. I'm 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:06.240 telling you and everybody on the team you have permission. 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:08.680 If I tell you I'm tired of hearing about the setup, 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:12.320 stay with me, and stay on me, and keep beating 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.000 me up about my setup. If the ball is half 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:18.240 a ball, too far back, too far forward, I want 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:22.560 to know if my shoulders are half We're not measuring, 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:24.520 we don't have any three D on the driving range. 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:26.760 But if my shoulders need to be a little bit 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:29.040 more open, he said, tell me they need to be 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:30.960 a little bit more open. If they're a little bit 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:33.400 too closed, tell me, they're a little bit too close. 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:37.199 So I think Brooks wanted to take ownership of that 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:41.720 and hold himself accountable for that, but also he wants 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:48.080 to hold us accountable for that as well. Witness insurmountable 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:52.639 deficits turn into unforgettable victories at the Travelers Championship, the 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:58.040 northeast one and only PGA tour signature event. See Scotty Scheffler, 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:03.280 Worry McElroy, Victor Hovlin, Patrick Cantley, and returning champion Keegan Bradley, 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:05.920 as well as other PGA Tourist stars in all four 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:09.879 days of the competition at close by TPC River Highlands. 0:23:09.960 --> 0:23:13.399 The excitement tees off June nineteenth through the twenty third. 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:17.760