WEBVTT - Episode 44: Juan Postigo Arce 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:01.240 The guys from paying. 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:03.920 They've kind of showed me how much the equipment matters. 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.000 I just love that I can hit any shot I 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:06.560 kind of want. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:08.480 We're gonna be able to tell some fun stories about 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:10.640 what goes on here to help golfers play better golf. 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:14.000 Welcome back to the Paining proven Grounds podcast. I'm Shane 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.959 Baker and Marty Jertsen over there, and we got a 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:21.240 great guest today. One Postigo joining us plays DP World Tour. 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:23.720 Is it Edgar or do you say E d G 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:24.640 A which. 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:27.440 Both of them, both of them, but I'd say ed Guys, 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:27.800 he's here. 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.240 How long you've been playing professional golf? I only been 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:31.080 battling it out there. 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.240 I've been playing golf for my entire life, but professionally 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:39.320 just three years now, and it's been fun journey. 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.599 How's it going? How how different is pro golf from 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:44.519 year one to now year three? 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.680 It's quite similar. I mean I enjoyed the game the 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:51.279 same way I did when I was an amateur. I 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.600 really love traveling, I really love do what I do, 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.800 and so I haven't seen a lot of differences. Just 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:58.920 at my bank account, sometimes you just go up and 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:03.160 down quid the creek well, it's okay, it's okay. 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:07.880 At least you got part you know sometimes you So. 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.959 You were born without much of your right leg. You 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:11.840 started playing golf at the age of twelve. I saw 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.600 that when you were fourteen you were a thirty handicap. Yeah, 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.760 and you got down to a four handicap in a 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:17.520 couple of years. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:17.759 Yeah. 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:20.360 Did the bug bite right away? Were you obsessed with 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:21.839 golf right when? You kind of film the game? 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.240 Like, I came really from a really sportive family. I 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:27.680 think when I was wronging with my disability, my parents 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.319 starting me to to sport pretty quick. I was a 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.440 good swimmer, was a good skier. I was pretty good 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:38.480 sailor at that time. But my granddad just retired from 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.000 work and he started playing golf, and so I was 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.160 the only grandson that want to play with him. So 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.440 that's why why I got engaged with the game, and 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.400 I really loved it. I think the opportunities that the 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.600 game of gold gives you as a disabled are much 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.200 bigger than any other sport. Because when I was sailing, 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.000 I have different boat. When I was a swimmer, I 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.160 couldn't make the same times at the other died. But 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.040 now as a golfer. I play with the same equipment 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.200 and the same golf club, the same golf ball, the 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.640 same golf course, and I can beat anyone. So I 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:12.400 think that's why the game already I got passionate about it. 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.640 Well, growing up in Spain, who are some of your 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.360 the golfers that influenced you or that you kind of 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.680 looked looked up to in your childhood and early on 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:22.320 your golf. 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.600 Care We're We're a pretty small country. Golf is not 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:30.360 very big sports, just soccer around there or tennis, but 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.640 we have pretty good golfers in Obviously, say bay status 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.720 has been the main experiension around them. We're from the 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.240 same town, so it's been great to have been close 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.560 to him and his family. And Oli is also a 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:49.640 big name marital and then obviously rum many others that 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.079 came through and that make the game much bigger in 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:53.880 our country. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.120 We hear so much about Savvy as this inspiration for 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.760 Spanish golfers and for European golfers. I mean, being from 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.120 his hometown, is it everywhere? I mean the people know 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.000 of him across the board. Is the kind of a 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.120 legend of Sevy in your hometown A big part of 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:10.119 your town now. 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.840 It is it is Savy obviously is a big name 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.600 over there in might. Like forty fifty years ago, when 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.560 these men started playing majors and doing these kind of things, 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.080 golf was just a very small sport in the country, 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.000 just for the richest people. He was a cuddy, humble 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.919 guy from how the beginning farmer family. And so the 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.040 story he has, the way he did it, the way 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.920 he show us the younger that we were coming through, 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.880 how it's been done, it's really passionately doesn't make us 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.640 a bit more focused on our targets. And I think 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.480 he's a really big part of any European golfer, not 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.680 the Spandy, but European golfer Marty. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.920 It's so interesting. You know, as Americans, we don't run 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.120 into this this that often, but you think about somebody 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.320 like Seve takes up the game, becomes obviously a great player, 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.880 starts to play well in major, starts to win major championships, 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.360 and then fifteen twenty thirty years later you see this 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.120 boom in golf from the area he's from or the 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.760 country he's in. You think about somebody like Victor Hoven, right, Yeah, 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.960 in Victor Hovelin and coming from a country that hasn't 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.080 had a whole bunch of great golfers from that area 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.039 over the years. You think about what Victor Hoblin's success 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.120 could do to where he is from in fifteen or 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.160 twenty years, as young players see them pop up. I mean, 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.960 you know, the dream Team in the NBA in ninety two, 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.560 and how many great basketball players have now come from Europe. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.680 I mean it is crazy to see that how one 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.440 person can have such an impact on an area. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:39.080 Yeah, and I think Spain is there's so much all 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.599 the players that come from Spain, the Spaniards, they have 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.360 this passion about them and at least from the outside 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.640 looking in, That's what I think we've seen with you, Juan, 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.120 And it's been fun for us at paying to get 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.159 to know you more and help support you with equipment 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.440 because you kind of bring that. You kind of bring 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:03.200 that to the game into the sport. Tell us about 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.800 the last tell us a little about about what you 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.159 think you were, the strengths of your game are, and 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:14.080 what your priorities are from a playing standpoint, competitive standpoint. 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.719 I think I'm pretty strong at every part of the game. 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.359 But my coach doesn't say the same. 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.160 Coach. Who is your coach right now? 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.599 My coach is a big name over there. It's Sane. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.400 He's from the same era that us. He's now sixty five. 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.480 He started cutting at the same time that he did, 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.520 so they were pretty close friends. So that's my kind 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.400 of coach, old school coach. We don't work too much 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.400 with technologiest. We don't like truck Man. I use it 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.360 at some points. I think it's necessary to know some 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.279 data sometimes, but we are not based on that for 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.120 the day work. But I think we work out on 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:51.720 the short game. 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:53.520 Uh. 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:58.119 It's really important because obviously with my disability, some times 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.800 I miss my balance on some longer show, so I 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.960 may probably miss two more greens that an average go 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.040 pro for perhaps, so I need to get up and 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.919 noun more. Usually, my driver is a big strength. Like 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.000 when I changed to being seven years ago. Eight years ago, 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.320 it was a game changer to have bing drivers on 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.160 the back because they really stable and those miss hit 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.080 I may have because of my balance, they keep the 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.599 ball in the fare away. I'm not that short, so 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:27.880 I think that was a big change for me. And 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:33.200 then from a bus striking perspective, I need to know 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.000 very well how the body is sitting. It's really important 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.760 not to be really wet areas or windy anything that 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:45.200 can move me. It makes it tougher. 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:51.440 Yeah, so short game and in terms of your club 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.680 head speed, we're talking a little bit. I've tried to 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.400 swing on one leg and Shane, I don't know what 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.440 I swing My drivers probably around eighty miles. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.880 I mean the same. I mean, it's mean what you're 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:02.760 you're in that you're up in the uppward hundred, right, 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:04.640 I mean yeah, I mean very very impressive. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:08.479 Yeah, I'm around one o five. My goal is to 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:09.360 get to one ten. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:11.600 What are you doing to get to one ten? Are 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.520 you doing? Like speed training? How do you you working 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:16.760 out in the gym? Like how are you trying to 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:17.360 get to one ten? 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.240 I'm doing everything I can. I mean, I'm working hard 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:25.360 on my strength, on my mobility, I'm working on everything. 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.920 But I think I'm reaching some point that is going 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.880 is getting tough to go up. There's a big player. 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:33.760 A few years ago we were at the Open Champion 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.600 to Miss Andrews and I was hitting balls in the 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.760 range and Bryson the shamble came in and he can 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:42.280 of take you a video, of course, but you can 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.200 take me a video. But after that, I asked him, Bryson, 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.600 what can I do to get some more some more mild, 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.800 and he just said no, it's very simple, very simple. 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.320 You have to hit one hundred drives every day as 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.800 high as you can, and your ball pit will increase 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.160 pretty fast. And I say, Bryson, if I hate one 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.000 hundred drives from Monday, I won't be able to get 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:08.320 out from bed until Thursday. So quite yeah, that's right. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:09.920 But it was a fun conversation. 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.040 You initially tried to play with a prosthetic, right, and 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:14.800 then it just didn't make sense for you, So that's 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.640 kind of the reason you switched to just swinging on 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:17.960 one leg. 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.440 Well, basically, I play with my prosthetic my first five 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:25.160 years playing the game. But at the age of sixteen seventeen, 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:29.240 I had an operation on my stamp, so something went 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.440 pretty wrong. So everything that touched my stamp I have 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.160 like a nerve pain. So anything that touched this. Obviously 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.680 I can put my weight on a prosthetic kills me. 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.520 So that's why I had to decide or stop playing 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.760 the game or just keep with one leg. Was quite tough. 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.880 At the moment because I was like a two handicapper, 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.079 or I mean I was a good player at that point. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.839 So starting playing from the beginning again, your mind knowing 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.920 how well you could play, but your body couldn't do 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.360 that movement was my talenting at that point. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.079 Well let's go, let's talk about what's in your bag 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.320 a little bit. So you got uh ten k driver, Yeah, 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.959 talked a lot about the forgiveness helping you. 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:09.240 Right. 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.160 Uh, what's the rest of your bag? Breakdown? Look like 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.720 into your your metal woods and then into your long irons. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.800 Yeah, I play ten k. Just a few days ago, 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.640 I thought the G four thirte was max was difficult 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.959 to improve, but these guys did it again. 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:27.640 Physics wins. 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:29.959 I just put it straight in the bag after hitting 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.960 three four shots here and then I've got five and 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.280 three boot The max is Uh. I wought my cheft 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.000 a little bit shorter than those from a long time ago. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.280 I think Mike Lee, yeah seven years ago told me 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.880 to used to show those boots a little bit, and 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.600 I have much better impact than I feel the club 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.360 had much more table through impact. And then last year 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.120 I make a main sweet in the factory in Greensboro. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.000 I used to play it two thirty four iron, but 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.559 it was some times difficult to get the carry distance 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.920 at some awkward spots, so we decided to build up 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.160 a hybrid. I was anti hybrid player, I mean, I 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:11.920 didn't like hybrids all. I thought it was going to 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.040 go left and those. 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.160 Way or that before right. 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.760 Yeah, yeah, But the fields over there I just fitted 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.360 pretty well. I mean, and the ball is just pretty 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.559 good ball flight, and I find that with my three 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.000 quarter swing, I can make the distance I was making 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.400 with my full fire and before it was pretty good change. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.920 And from down there, I've got five fire into putting 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.440 wet to the I two thirties. I've been playing the 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.920 icy for a long time and this is my second 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.240 set of five two thirties. So it's pretty good, very 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:44.079 stable iron, very accurate with the distances, which I think 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.280 it's key on the on the high level, at least 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.320 I know exactly what the boy's going to do. And 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:54.240 on the heel impacts, it's amazingly it doesn't lose any distance, 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.000 I mean maybe two three yards, which is great because 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.360 I hit off the hill often, so I know my 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.920 boy's going to be in the green. Just that's the bin. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:06.640 So it's pretty good. And then I changed a few 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.520 days ago from the glide Pro. I played Glipro for 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:13.000 a while, which I love them. Yeah, fifty four fifty eight, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:19.160 I changed the S one fifty nine and uh, pretty 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:19.839 pretty good. Yeah. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:25.000 I noticed in your wedges you're using the h grind, right, 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.840 So what have you noticed with that? What do you 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:32.360 like in your short game technique? What are some of 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.240 the characteristics of how you use your fifty four and 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.080 fifty eight or your wedges around the green? 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.760 Yeah, look with it. With the glide Pro, I found 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:43.040 out that sometimes I like using my my clap place 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.160 they would open all the time. Yeah, So I felt 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.160 that sometimes with the old wags is the bound the 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.920 bounds hit the ground before. 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.000 Too early, too early. 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.640 So I went here and lit to my we've God, 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.200 what do you need the eighth grind? Okay, give it 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.800 to me. And it's like a little bit it's just 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.520 not the bouncy, just the grind, a little bit less bounty, 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.320 and I can feel like my face open on tide 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.120 lights and I know it's going to go through the 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.880 ground perfectly. And so it's like a little getting changered 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.120 to be fair, I mean I tested three days ago, 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.640 as I said to you, with your feeders, and it 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.120 was great to see how the ball was coming low 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.080 and spinny without interacting with the ground. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.480 So it was beautiful, beautiful, And you use that in 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.000 the fifty four and the fifty eight, so that H 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.679 one stands for half moon. Yeah, right, so you get 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.840 that little half moon crescent shape. 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.600 So when you open the face, yeah, it's more fatterned. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.320 That the leadage stays lower to the ground. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.240 Yeah, so that's pretty pretty good. Yeah. 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:41.560 One, What is it like being an inspiration for people? 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.679 I know you travel around the world and you know 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.880 you try to raise awareness for disabled golfers. What is 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:48.559 it like when people reach out to you on social 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.200 media or people ask you how do you play golf 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:52.760 or how did you get into golf? What is it 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.120 like being a role model if you will, to so 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:56.040 many people out there. 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.200 I mean, I wouldn't like to say a role model 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:03.360 because my mother wouldn't be agreed with that. No, but 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.200 it is amazing. I mean to see what can you 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.600 generate just playing the game you love? It is something 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.640 great because for me I was more like this, It's 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.960 something I've been doing all my life. I've just my 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:20.040 crutches before that, my wett is, so I mean it's 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.120 something that I live with it and I don't know 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:26.719 what's putting to shoo. So I mean it's something that 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.199 I don't understand. But I see on people what you 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.800 create on them that feeling that I also can do it, 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.319 and that's great to see I received. I was talking 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.440 with Christiane a few moments ago on how many message 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.640 you received every week on social media on my son 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.920 You're just lost one leg, du country, what a golfer? 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.000 You think he will be able to keep going? Of 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:50.840 course he will be able to keep going. Just go 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.400 to the range, go to your head pro and start 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.400 building it and start doing it. And I think the 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.760 game of golf is the best platform to do it. 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:05.120 And I think with with brands like being that really 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:08.480 are focus on make this game adaptive to anyone, I mean, 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.959 just support too many other players that yeah, I mean, 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.600 we've got golfers without arms, I mean, and we've got 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.559 incredible engineers around here that are able to be a 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.480 set of plays for them. I mean, I think I'm 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.440 on the on the perfect spot to show because what 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:26.160 we are doing and we this partnership is is going 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.680 great because I think we will show many more people 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.040 what the game of goal and what equipment is going 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:33.200 to do in their lives. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.960 Yeah, Shane, we had doctor Paul wood On who kind 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.880 of helped kick off a bunch of our engineering work 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.160 we've done. Want talked about, you know, some of our 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.760 paddle attachments we have for for golfers playing without arms. 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.040 It's pretty incredible and very fun to watch, very fun 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.640 to play play golf with you guys. I'm jealous of 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.680 your swing personally. For those of you that haven't seen it, 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.920 go go go google on and check out how pure 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:57.800 is golf swing is. 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:03.520 So you mentioned Savvy is such an inspiration. Sevie's son 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.760 is your agent. How did that relationship come about? 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.680 Oh, this is a little bit of a crazy thing. 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:15.680 I know Haabier and Carmen and Miguel the family for 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.360 a long time. We're pretty good friends. We are almost 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:19.960 the same age. He's a bit older than me, but 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.240 we're a good friend. We've played all of golf together, 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.720 and Habier was playing professional golf. He decided not to 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.960 play anymore two three years ago, and so we started 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.480 working together. He called me, I want I was playing 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.480 in Dubai the Wife and Ali two years ago, and 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.640 he told me that he was interested in working with me, 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.800 and I said, Lavier, of course, I'd love to work 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.880 with you. So I went back home and he called 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.320 me to go to his house, his dad house, big 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.560 house on top of the town and beautiful and for 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.520 the golf course. And when we went to the to 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.520 the hall and I was signing a dealer with Kavier 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.920 on top of a of a table with a glass table, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.280 and under there it was all them how do you 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.600 call them? Those pages, the baties, the Asta baties, Brittish 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.560 Open batties, the PA Champion by the US Open battiest, 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.760 goosebumps on goose, And I was like, what I'm doing here? 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.800 I think it was a crazy moment in my career. 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:19.640 And obvisually working with him, it's pretty good. He's Spanish, 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.200 I'm Spanish. We got on well together. He's really interested, 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:27.240 really in my career and he's a golf lover. So 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.240 I think I'm in pretty good hands. 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.280 What's your schedule like, what's what's a year like for you? 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.360 How many events are you playing? How often are you 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.680 traveling comes stateside much? And playing things over here? What 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:38.640 does your ear look like? 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.200 I traveled around let's year, I traveled twenty five weeks. 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.960 I played probably sixteen tournaments last year, and I had 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:51.440 ear nine weeks for sponsors or speeches or different kinds 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:55.160 of things, So pretty traveled much. My main schedule is 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:59.120 based on DP World Tour. We played there nine a year, 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.400 so that's pretty busy. And then I played the Major 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.520 with the JUS Open here in the US, British Open 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:11.359 in the UK, and also Open as well in Australia, 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.960 and then I tried to play professional elements in Spain 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.400 on the app Store as well on the Challenge Tour. 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.240 Who is quite a busy schedule. 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.640 Yeah, I mean you're twenty thirty events? Is that fair 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:24.600 to say? I mean, is that? Are you close to 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:25.639 twenty five at this point? 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:29.200 Yeah? Yeah this year, I hope. I mean I shouldn't 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.520 play that much. My doctors don't like me to do 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.720 that often. But it's just you can't say no, right, 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.520 why don't you you want to come to Phoenix? Oh, 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:42.199 we'll do it. Why not? I mean we want to 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.320 come to Japan? All right, We'll go to Japan, we'll 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.800 make it. And then you end the year you look 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:49.960 back and say, oh, I took one hundred and twenty 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.200 plains this year. It's just pretty busy. 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:53.760 I got everywhere. 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:56.240 I don't remember everywhere. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.000 One. Pia Nielsen and Lynn Marriott have been great. They're 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:04.200 great friends of paying Ping Ambassadords. I personally read their 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.720 books when I was growing up. Vision fifty four very 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.000 inspirational to me. Tell us a little bit about how 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.280 they've inspired you in their work. 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:18.600 I think it's easy to know what they have done 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.880 for the game. I read that book as well. I've 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:25.640 got conversations with them, and I think the vision they've 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.040 got they have to make this game simpler than what 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.680 it is, is really what the key on their book. 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.640 I mean, you can make only one everything a whole, 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:38.880 you can bury everything a whole. Why not. We're more 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:45.360 focused on our missus than our targets. And that's I'm 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.879 a professional golfer and it still happened to me sometimes. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:53.080 So I really think the vision they've got it's great 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.280 for everyone, for amateurs, but for professional is what makes 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.080 us for a living, So it's pretty important. 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.720 Yeah. Yeah, Well, one tell us a little bit about 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:05.000 what you're especially maybe when you're traveling you know, and 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.160 playing tournaments. What does your practice routine look like. What 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:12.679 percentage of your time do you work on driving, full swinging, chipping, putting, 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:13.840 and how do you kind of organize that? 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:18.280 So when I'm home, I try to practice every day 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.480 from Monday to Friday. I try to get the weekends off, 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.720 but they're never all because I play nine hole with 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:29.320 friends or just you. Yeah I'm a geek. Yeah, And 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.680 so I wake up seven, go to the game, make 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:34.800 some warm ups. It's really important for me to warm 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.480 up before going off to the range because my body 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.119 is quite stiff in the mornings. If I need to 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:42.320 go to the gym to lose up a little bit, 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:44.679 it's just half an a forty minutes warm up. I 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:48.560 go to the range. I usually hit one hour balls, 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:52.160 one hour and a half short game practice, and then 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.240