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Speaker 1: It's the son of a which podcast. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Claude Harmon. Just back from three weeks in Asia. Was

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Speaker 1: out at my academy in Bangkok. Really excited about that project.

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Speaker 1: It's a really cool spot. And then Hong Kong and

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Speaker 1: Singapore with Live Dustin Johnson. Did you have a chance

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Speaker 1: to win Singapore last group on Sunday? So that was

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Speaker 1: really really encouraging. But what I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: is some of the stuff that we did in Singapore

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Speaker 1: with DJ that I think is applicable for your game.

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Speaker 1: I'm always trying to figure out how i can use

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Speaker 1: the information that I'm lucky enough to see and hear

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Speaker 1: about and work on tour with, because I do think

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Speaker 1: you can learn some things from what the best players

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Speaker 1: in the world are doing. I did a content shoot

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Speaker 1: and put out some content for Rafsoto, a launch monitor

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Speaker 1: that I think is one of the best on the market,

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Speaker 1: mainly because it's affordable. It's under one thousand dollars. It's

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Speaker 1: something that you can use. But one of the persons

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Speaker 1: in the comment said, hey, I'm not a tour pro,

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Speaker 1: so none of the stuff you're talking about is applicable.

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Speaker 1: And yardages and stuff like that, but I do think

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Speaker 1: that understanding how far you hit the golf ball and

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Speaker 1: understanding what you do on the golf course is massively important.

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Speaker 1: So just to give you a little insight, So obviously

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Speaker 1: on the PGA Tour, they're shot linked data, right, they

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Speaker 1: have some of the best data on the planet, and

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Speaker 1: as a player, as a coach, you can go in

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Speaker 1: and look at the data. You can look at what

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Speaker 1: you're doing, how you're performing, what clubs you're using, things

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Speaker 1: like that, And I think most professional golfers now at

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Speaker 1: the elite level have some sort of stats program that

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Speaker 1: they're either keeping themselves or they have companies using. We

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Speaker 1: do that as well, so we kind of get reports

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Speaker 1: every week on what the golf course strategy should be

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Speaker 1: based off of historical data, based off of what players

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Speaker 1: have done there before. So last week we're in Singapore

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Speaker 1: and at all the data and from a strategy standpoint,

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Speaker 1: the first thing that we noticed is due to the

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Speaker 1: length of the golf course and due to DJ's length,

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Speaker 1: he was only going to really hit five drivers or

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Speaker 1: needed to hit five drivers all week. Yes, he can

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Speaker 1: hit driver on a lot of holes, but the risk

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Speaker 1: versus the reward where the carries are where the troubles are,

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Speaker 1: So we pretty much identified that he was only going

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Speaker 1: to hit five drivers, going to hit drivers on the

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Speaker 1: two par fives, and then there were a couple of

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Speaker 1: other holes that he hit drivers the year before, so

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Speaker 1: we kind of knew he was going to hit five drivers.

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Speaker 1: So that means a lot of three woods off the tees.

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Speaker 1: He carries a nine wood and a seven wood, so

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Speaker 1: a lot of those clubs off of the tees. But really,

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Speaker 1: in looking at all of the data, the majority of

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Speaker 1: the clubs the yardage is that he was going to have,

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Speaker 1: We're going to be from one to twenty five to

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Speaker 1: two twenty five, So for DJ that's right around a

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Speaker 1: pitching wedge, kind of a gap wedge, and up to

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Speaker 1: a five iron. So the majority of the shots he

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Speaker 1: was going to hit, we knew the clubs that he

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Speaker 1: was going to be using pretty much the majority of

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Speaker 1: the round. So what we did was in our practice

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Speaker 1: session we kind of came up with a test. That's

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Speaker 1: Richard Bland, who is just playing some of the best

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Speaker 1: golf of his career in his early fifties. One two

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Speaker 1: majors on the Champs Tour last year, plays on live

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Speaker 1: but Richard's been coming over before some of the tournaments

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Speaker 1: into doing some warm weather training at my place in

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Speaker 1: Florida at the Floridian. His coach Tim Barter comes over

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Speaker 1: sometimes as well. But this year Blandy was over and

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Speaker 1: every week I see him on Live. I see him

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Speaker 1: with a launch monitor, and he's always got a little

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Speaker 1: book out and he's always writing things in a book

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Speaker 1: I asked him what he was doing. He said, listen,

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Speaker 1: what I've come up with is a wedged test. And

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Speaker 1: what I do is I take twenty balls and I

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Speaker 1: randomize the numbers between eighty and one hundred and thirty yards. Right,

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Speaker 1: you can go on Google type in random number generator.

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Speaker 1: It'll come up and you can put in whatever number

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Speaker 1: So he puts in eighty to one thirty and then

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Speaker 1: hits a number and it spits out a random number.

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Speaker 1: And so the goal of the test, if you think

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Speaker 1: going to be. He can use any club in his bag,

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Speaker 1: and the goal is to have a total score for

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Speaker 1: the twenty balls of forty right. And the idea behind

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Speaker 1: the way you take the test is you randomize the number,

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Speaker 1: and let's say the number is one forty four. You

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Speaker 1: take the club that you think you're going to hit

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Speaker 1: the golf ball one hundred and forty four yards, and

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Speaker 1: whatever the difference is, you write that number down. So,

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Speaker 1: for example, if it's one forty four and you carry

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Speaker 1: it one fifty for that you're write down five and

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Speaker 1: you go through that, and then at the end of

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Speaker 1: the test you add up all of the numbers that

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Speaker 1: you were short or long out, and the goal would

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Speaker 1: be forty right, So two yards out with every single ball.

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Speaker 1: And he says over the last two three years he's

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Speaker 1: been doing this religiously in every practice session he has, right,

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Speaker 1: So it's no surprise that for someone like Richard Bland,

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Speaker 1: who's in his fifties not nearly as long as some

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Speaker 1: of the players, he's going to play against the lowest

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Speaker 1: hanging fruit. And the way that he can really, really

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Speaker 1: score and the way that he can really separate himself

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Speaker 1: from the rest of the field used to be really

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Speaker 1: really good with eighty two, one hundred and thirty. The

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Speaker 1: scoring clubs right your wedges and stuff like that. And

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Speaker 1: he does this test on a regular basis religiously. And

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Speaker 1: I think we are in Adelaide and he told me, hey,

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Speaker 1: I just got twenty nine, and if you hit the number.

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Speaker 1: So let's say the number is one fifteen and you

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Speaker 1: carry the golf ball one fifteen, that's zero, right, So

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Speaker 1: twenty nine is an unbelievable score. And in Hong Kong

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Speaker 1: we did that a couple of times with DJ. DJ

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Speaker 1: got thirty eight. One of the times was doing that

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Speaker 1: with another of the players. I teach Noah Kent, who

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Speaker 1: we're trying. He's going to play in the Masters this year.

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Speaker 1: He'll play in the US Open by finishing second in

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Speaker 1: the Usam. So if you get to the finals of

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Speaker 1: we've been having Noah do this religiously, trying to get

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Speaker 1: in twenty twelve, I think last week was as little

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Speaker 1: technique work golf swing work that we've ever done. We

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Speaker 1: swing is in a pretty good place Hong Kong. He

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Speaker 1: finished dead last. A lot of people jumped on the

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Speaker 1: bandwagon on that doesn't care all that bullshit. That's fine,

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Speaker 1: if you want to do that, go for it. Thursday

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Speaker 1: had a rib out and his physio doctor, matt Ort,

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Speaker 1: He got better every day. Bogie the last hole on

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Speaker 1: hitting a draw. So he hit a draw for almost

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Speaker 1: two and a half rounds, which isn't his normal shape

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Speaker 1: at all. But we got to Singapore and every single

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Speaker 1: also having him pick out specific targets, right, not just

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Speaker 1: aiming at one target, So not only randomizing the number,

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Speaker 1: trying to get him in a game type situation. I've

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Speaker 1: it really kind of got him not thinking so much

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Speaker 1: he had a chance to win shut eight under the

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Speaker 1: first day, was in the last group with wach o'neman

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Speaker 1: I can't work on my distances. Right, I'm not a

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Speaker 1: tour player, so I can't work on my distances. So

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Speaker 1: maybe try this. Go to the driving range, and every

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Speaker 1: have some flags, right, They're going to have target flags,

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Speaker 1: target greens. And if it doesn't have target flags and

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Speaker 1: target greens, it's going to have numbers, right, big scoreboard

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Speaker 1: type numbers, one hundred yards, one hundred and fifty yards whatever,

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Speaker 1: those yards are, right, But most are going to have

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Speaker 1: And I think most golfers now have a launch monitor.

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Speaker 1: If you don't have a launch monitor, I mean have

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Speaker 1: a rangefinder. Launch monitors expensive, right, some of the ones

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Speaker 1: the players on the PGA Tour use thirty thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: fifteen thousand dollars, ten thousand, whatever the numbers. I think

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Speaker 1: launch monitor technology is going down, and I think launch

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Speaker 1: a huge fan of rap Sodo. They've got two launch

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Speaker 1: monitors that are I think affordable. If golf is an

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Speaker 1: important part of your life and if you are really

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Speaker 1: really focused and trying to lower your handicap and get better.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't have a launch monitor, if you've

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Speaker 1: got a rangefinder, pick out a bunch of different targets, right,

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Speaker 1: pick out the different yardages and randomize these yardages. Right.

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Speaker 1: Pick out the fifty yard flag and get a number

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Speaker 1: on what that is, and then a seventy five yard

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