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

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Speaker 1: Claude Harmon for everyone listening in the United States. Hope

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Speaker 1: everyone had a good Thanksgiving break. I saw some stuff

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Speaker 1: on social media this week on X Twitter, I just I.

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Speaker 2: Can't get used to calling it X.

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Speaker 1: One of the sites I follow Practical Golf John Sherman,

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Speaker 1: who stuff I really really like. He posted some stuff

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Speaker 1: that really really kind of resonated with me about how

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Speaker 1: to play, something that I'm always talking about on the pod. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I mean technique hugely important helps to have better golf swing,

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Speaker 1: but as I keep saying, everybody's trying to make their

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Speaker 1: golf swing better. And I just wanted to kind of

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Speaker 1: go through some of these things because it is a

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Speaker 1: lot of really good information and knowledge that I think

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Speaker 1: can help you, and I wanted to kind of expand

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Speaker 1: on it. So one of the first things, a typical

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Speaker 1: PJ Tour player lands the ball twenty feet from the

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Speaker 1: pin from one hundred to hundred and twenty five yards

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Speaker 1: in the fairway, And I think that's really important to

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Speaker 1: realize because they are so influenced when we watch golf

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Speaker 1: on television, right, I think that is something that you

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Speaker 1: know I've been involved in golf pretty much my entire life.

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Speaker 1: But when I look at the average golfer and I

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Speaker 1: look at the way the average golfer thinks about their

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Speaker 1: own game and plays, I think they're very skewed by television, right.

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Speaker 1: I think they're very skewed by television massively. From a

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Speaker 1: distance standpoint, right, how far you feel like you hit

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Speaker 1: the ball with your clubs? How far you hit a

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Speaker 1: nine iron, how far you hit a seven iron, how

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Speaker 1: far you hit a five iron? And I think it's

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Speaker 1: easy to get caught into that trap because we watch

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Speaker 1: so much golf on television. You've got the you know,

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Speaker 1: the guys in the booth. You know, you've got Jim

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Speaker 1: Manton Trevor and they throw it down to cult nose

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Speaker 1: and they say.

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Speaker 2: Cult, what's he got?

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Speaker 1: And you know, he's got one hundred and seventy five

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Speaker 1: yards and he's going to hit this club. You hear

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Speaker 1: that enough times, right, and you hear that over and

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Speaker 1: over and over again, because a lot of the distances

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Speaker 1: on the PGA Tour iron wise, are the same. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there are some longer hitters and some guys that can

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Speaker 1: really really vomit. But I think once you get to

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Speaker 1: the Elite Tour level. Distance wise, there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of players that you're going to be watching on television

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Speaker 1: that hit a seven iron the same disc, that's a

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Speaker 1: hit a five iron the same distance, right, And I

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Speaker 1: think you hear these numbers, they are arbitrary numbers for

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Speaker 1: your game because they're somebody else. It's Roy McElroy, you

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Speaker 1: know from that distance. It's not us, right, it's not

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Speaker 1: us mere mortals. And then you have this thing that

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Speaker 1: I think one of the great things about tech, and

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Speaker 1: one of the great things about the data age that

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Speaker 1: we're in is now we can kind of look at

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Speaker 1: data and quantify, you know, what is a good shot

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Speaker 1: and what is a bad shot. And I think most

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Speaker 1: golfers are very skewed in what they think a good

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Speaker 1: shot is. So if the best players in the world

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Speaker 1: in the men's game are averaging twenty feet from inside

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Speaker 1: I do think it it can somewhat change what you

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Speaker 1: think is a good shot. So if the best players

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Speaker 1: are a higher handicapped player hit the green. Hitting the

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Speaker 1: green is a good shot. Right from one hundred yards

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Speaker 1: it is a good shot. Let yourself off the hook.

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Speaker 1: Don't beat yourself up if you're one hundred yards out.

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Speaker 1: If you're one hundred and twenty five yards out and

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Speaker 1: you hit it to forty feet, maybe given your skill set,

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Speaker 1: maybe given what you can and can't do, and maybe

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Speaker 1: the control that you have over your golf swing and

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Speaker 1: control that you have over your golf ball, maybe from

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Speaker 1: those distances one hundred to one twenty five, just basically

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Speaker 1: hitting the target, hitting the green, having the ball finished

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Speaker 1: and maybe it's a good shot for a lot of

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Speaker 1: I think the higher the handicap, the harder on themselves

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Speaker 1: just don't think you're gonna put so much pressure on

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Speaker 1: yourself if you're struggling to break one hundred for the

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Speaker 1: first time, if you're struggling to break eighty for the

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Speaker 1: first time. Hitting greens anywhere on the greens is a

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Speaker 1: good shot. Giving yourself a chance to putt for a birdie,

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Speaker 1: Given how difficult hitting greens is, even from the middle

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Speaker 1: that consistently hit the green from that distance is much

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Speaker 1: smaller than you think. The amount of players that not

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Speaker 1: Player you know, he's got one hundred yards in his hands,

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Speaker 1: not gonna be happy with that. Yeah, he's probably not.

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Speaker 1: But the statistics and the data show you that that's

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Speaker 1: four or the best players in the world, So lowering

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Speaker 1: your expectations, but also on the golf course. Managing your

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Speaker 1: expectations right. You don't have to hit it to ten

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Speaker 1: greens right, hit more greens anywhere on the green. That

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Speaker 1: is a win. So when you're standing in the fairway,

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Speaker 1: if you can get the golf ball anywhere on the

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Speaker 1: green as a massive, massive win. And then another stat

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Speaker 1: that I saw, tour players average bogie eighty percent of

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Speaker 1: the time from a recovery situation, most likely in the trees.

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Speaker 1: They're out of position, they make bogie. They average bogie

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Speaker 2: Of the time.

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Speaker 1: Something I talk about on the pod all the time.

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Speaker 1: One of the ways that you are going to lower

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Speaker 1: your handicap is to make more bogies and eliminate the

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Speaker 1: big numbers. So if eighty percent of tour players are

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Speaker 1: averaging bogie from the trees, that means that they're probably

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Speaker 1: playing way more conservative than you are. They're probably way

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Speaker 2: Right, So.

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Speaker 1: I say this on the pod all the time. I

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Speaker 1: Get out of trouble in one shot, right, Just find

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Speaker 1: a way to get out of trouble in one shot

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Speaker 2: But it's not going to be.

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Speaker 1: So you're trying to hit a recovery shot and you

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Speaker 1: try and hit the hero shot, you don't pull it off.

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Speaker 1: Now you have to hit what another recovery shot, right,

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Speaker 1: And if you didn't make a good decision on the

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Speaker 1: first one, you're probably not going to make a good

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Speaker 1: decision on And I laughed because I was teaching. I

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Speaker 1: Division one college golf finish top ten in the state

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Speaker 1: two double bogies in the high school state championships individual

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Speaker 1: That's two shots better. Turned the two doubles into just pars.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he probably would have finished second or third.

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Speaker 1: And when I talked to him over text about it,

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Speaker 1: I was looking at a scorecard. We were going back

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Speaker 1: and forth after the first and for the two double

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Speaker 1: bogies that he made, he said to me, it was

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Speaker 1: the wrong decision. I made the wrong decision. It wasn't talent,

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Speaker 1: It wasn't hours spent on the range, it wasn't technique,

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Speaker 1: wasn't laying the shaft down, it wasn't shallowing it out.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't getting to.

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Speaker 1: Handle more forward and impact, all of the technical stuff

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Speaker 1: that everybody's trying to work on in their golf swings.

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Speaker 1: Here's a kid that's you know, he's a scratch golfer, right,

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Speaker 1: He's telling me, the two double bogies I made are

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Speaker 1: from bad decisions. Yeah, you hit a bad shot to

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Speaker 1: get himself into that position, right, But then what happened

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Speaker 1: He didn't take the easy way out, he didn't hit

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Speaker 1: tour players average bogies when they get into trouble. Right,

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Speaker 1: he just said, I'm all in. I'm gonna try and

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Speaker 1: It cost him an opportunity to win a state championship.

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Speaker 1: He's good enough to win one, finished top five last year,

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Speaker 1: and he's only gotten better this year. But decision making

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Speaker 1: on the golf course is hugely, hugely, hugely important. And

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Speaker 1: I just think, if if we can all when we

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Speaker 1: world eighty percent of the time make bogie, not par

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Speaker 1: by the way bogie. So get into trouble, off the tee,

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Speaker 1: get out of position wherever the mindset has to go. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the worst I make here is bogie. Right, the worst

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Speaker 2: Me to get out of jail? Here?

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Speaker 1: Where's the path of least resistance? Where can I hit

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Speaker 1: a shot to where my next one I'm gonna have

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Speaker 1: a clear, unobstructed view of the green from somewhat of

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Speaker 1: a flatish fairway, lie and take my medicine. I made

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Speaker 1: a bad swing, I got myself into the position, but

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Speaker 1: what I'm not going to do is compound it and

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Speaker 1: make it worse. So really really like that, That really

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Speaker 1: really reson with me. Another slide that John put up

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Speaker 1: that I really really liked. Typical tour player averages three

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Speaker 1: point five birdies per round, and most of them are

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Speaker 1: on the par fives, right, so scoring averages on tour

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Speaker 1: par three's average round three just a little over par.

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Speaker 1: Same with the par four scorings over par, and par

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Speaker 1: five scoring is under par. So and these are just

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Speaker 1: some basic numbers, but a kind of one to five

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Speaker 1: handicap range is kind of going to be right around

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Speaker 1: that one and a half birdie's per round. And then

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Speaker 1: as the handicaps get higher, the amount of birdies per

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Speaker 1: round you're going to make becomes almost non existent. So

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Speaker 1: if handicap golfers that are kind of low single digits,

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Speaker 1: they're not even averaging two birdies per round. So if

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Speaker 1: if you're trying to break ninety or eighty for the

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Speaker 2: I miss it.

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Speaker 1: I get out of here with bogie. But there is

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Speaker 1: no right way to play golf. There is no right

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Speaker 1: because if there was, everybody would swing the golf club

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Speaker 1: You know, this this tweet from Practical Golf. It's a

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Speaker 1: good follow a lot of good information, but I just

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Speaker 1: that will help reduce scores, lower your handicap. Maybe there

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Speaker 1: is more to it than just pounding golf balls on

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Speaker 1: the driving range. Massively important. You need to have a

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Speaker 1: higher handicap player who was just really really struggling. I

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Speaker 1: Feet were moving around all over the place. As a

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Speaker 1: result of the legs moving around, balance was off a

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Speaker 1: lot of club place manipulation. That was an example of

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Speaker 1: a player to where we had to say, listen, these

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Speaker 1: are basics. Now you have lost kind of your ability

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Speaker 1: So let's go back to the beginning. Let's go back

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Speaker 1: to hitting some wedges. Let's go back to hitting some

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Speaker 1: bumping runs. Get you contact back, get your feel back,

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Speaker 1: all of that, regardless of that, right, regardless of what

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Speaker 1: I'm working on with a player and a lesson, regardless

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Speaker 1: are going to play golf, they have to go to

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Speaker 1: the golf course with whatever golf swing they've got. They're

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Speaker 1: not going to show up to the golf course and

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Speaker 1: have Nelly Corda's golf swing. If you're a twenty five

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Speaker 1: and work on it, work on it. You have what

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Speaker 2: You're not going to go to.

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Speaker 1: The first t and become Tommy Fleetwood, Rory McElroy, Scottie Scheffler,

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Speaker 1: Max Homer.

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Speaker 2: We can keep going right.

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Speaker 1: You are who you are, and you have your skill set.

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Speaker 1: You have your toolbox. Find out what that is, find

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Speaker 1: out the things that you're comfortable with, that you're good at,

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Speaker 1: the distances that you hit solid shots from, and then

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Speaker 1: just ride that stuff. Ride it as long as you

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Speaker 1: can stay on that horse.

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Speaker 2: Just ride what you have.

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Speaker 1: If you're trying to break a hundred for the first time,

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Speaker 1: you are going to have a club in your bag

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Speaker 1: that you have confidence in. So play to those clubs,

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Speaker 1: play to those strengths. And I really liked the stuff

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Speaker 1: that I saw from Practical Golf John Truman. I just

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Speaker 1: liked it. I think it's good. I love a lot

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Speaker 1: of his stuff, and I wanted to give him a

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Speaker 1: shout out, but also just expand on some of the

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Speaker 1: information because I think it's power, and you know, having

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Speaker 1: this kind of knowledge on how far you need to

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Speaker 1: hit the golf ball, where you need to hit the

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Speaker 1: golf ball, what club selection you're using. Those are all

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Speaker 1: the things that go into playing the game, not practicing

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Speaker 1: the game. So I can't thank everybody enough for listening, rate, review,

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