WEBVTT - Justin Parsons 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:07.920 It's the Son of a Butcher podcast. We come to 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:12.360 you every Wednesday. This week's guest Justin Parsons. Justin's been 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:15.440 on the pod before, but we had to get him 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.079 back on this week coming off the Open Championship that 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.919 Brian Harmon won. JP is the coach of Brian Harmon. 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.120 We shared a house last week not far from Hoylake 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.920 and it was a very very It was a really 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.920 special experience for me JP and I. He's one of 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.159 my closest friends and you know, someone who I have 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:39.479 tremendous amount of respect for, and we just huddled in, 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.960 we we cooked, we ordered in food, and it was 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.440 it was a really really special week. And to see 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:50.960 Brian Harmon get it done and to see JP be 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:56.040 part of a major championship is it's pretty special. And 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.800 I hired JP. I moved to Dubai in two thousand 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:03.880 and eight and met him on a couple of trips 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.479 and just I just I just he had something and 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.000 I sent him a message. I was pretty tough on 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.480 him in the beginning when he worked for He worked 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.160 for me for three years, and then when I left 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.600 and moved to the US, he took over the running 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.080 of the academy that we had at the L's Club, 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:24.160 and I was pretty hard on him, and uh, there 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.960 were some tough times at the beginning, but I sent 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.520 him a message on Sunday night that now he knows 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:32.320 why I was so hard on him, because I just 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.520 knew that he he could do what he's done and 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.959 and that has become one of the best golf instructors 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:43.000 in the world. So really excited to get an opportunity 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.199 to talk to him again. And I think everybody's going 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.360 to enjoy it. So sit back and enjoy listening to 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:59.200 Justin Parsons. So justin your first major championship as a coach, 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:02.960 what was it? Was it different than you thought it 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.160 was going to be? And what's the last forty eight 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:06.640 hours been? 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:06.760 Like? 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.080 I think when you texted me and told me to 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.079 walk around the room and keep breathing, I think I 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.280 actually kind of helped because I think at one point 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:18.200 I was setting hence not breathing, which isn't you know 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.600 as you approach our tender years, it's not a good 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.240 way to be blood pressure spiking. 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:24.400 So yeah, it was. 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.799 It was nerve wracking, plod I you know, I couldn't 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:28.520 really relax until he got the ball into the middle 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.200 of that seventeenth green. I think he was he's in 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.240 too good a space to hit to do anything silly 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.440 down the last, but that's seventeenth hole, Like you could 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.200 nearly make anything there if you've got you know, if 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.040 you've got something wrong off the tee and got some 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.080 bad lies and you know, you and I saw it 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.040 was like out there, it was it was carnage waiting 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:44.360 to happen. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:51.040 He's he's a very interesting player, you know. He he 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.239 does so many things well, but he's never been thought 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.760 of as a superstar. But if you think about it, 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:02.120 JP from an amateur standpoint up until Brian Harmon turned pro, 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:06.200 he basically did everything that you would say would be 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:10.359 the prototype to becoming a superstar on the PGA Tour 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.880 and having, you know, a Hall of Fame type career 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.160 based off of what he did as a as a 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.000 junior golfer, as an amateur golfer. 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:19.799 Well, you know, you and your dad have always helped 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.800 me with that. Like, you know, you want to see 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.079 what a player's really capable of. Who did he beat 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.359 when he was fourteen? How many people was he beaten 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.720 when he was eighteen, How was he as an amateur? 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.600 What was he like in college? And as you've just said, 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.960 you know, Brian was an absolute superstar, you know, really 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.760 all the way through those ranks. I think that you know, 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.360 as I've gotten to know him, his inquisitive, very fast 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.960 acting mind has probably done him as slight the service 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.080 and he's had to work very hard. And you probably 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.280 listened with interest to a lot of his press stuff, 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.560 you know about the process and staying in the process 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.880 and things. And the weird thing is, you know, Scott 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.640 Tway Country and I have been you know, gently trying 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.920 to quiet in those appreciour routines, done a little bit, 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.880 you know, adding structure to the warm ups, doing all 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:06.960 of the things that we know that are going to 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.880 end up kind of calming the player downing. And for 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.200 whatever reason, the Open Championship he embraced all of it. 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.360 And he made it, you know, like you and I 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.839 talk about, he made it his idea and he was 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:18.680 able to execute. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:22.840 I mean, I've been lucky enough to be a part 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:26.719 of major championships with players before, and I can never 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:31.960 put my finger jp on what's different about them that week. 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.680 But we spend so much time around these players. You know, 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:37.800 we devote so much of our lives to them and 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.840 and in a lot of ways, I always say tour 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.760 players sometimes are like dogs. They communicate with you non verbally. 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.400 You can see when they're in good moods. They don't 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.440 have to tell you. You can see when they're in bad moods. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.760 You can see when things are all Was there anything 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:57.000 different about Brian last week that's been different than times 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.679 when he hasn't won a big tournament. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.719 There was definitely some sort of psychological shift, There's no 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:06.800 no question about that. 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:07.039 You know. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.040 We we've done some things at the back end of 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.520 last year to try and assist and then Brian that 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.839 the Renaissance Club started taking ice bats, which you know, 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.800 there's a lot of research and it's a very popular 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:18.240 little thing. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:18.479 You know. 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.000 You see people you know all all over, from Joe 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.160 Rogan to other members of the you know, the sort 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.480 of the mainstream, you know, advising that that's a great 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.000 thing for you know, athletic recovery, getting yourself into the 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:31.640 right head space, being resilient. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:34.840 And it was weird. I said to again, I said 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.320 the country on Friday after he shot that low run, 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:38.560 I said, you know, Brian's had a bit of an 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.360 aura about him in the last two weeks and we 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.200 started discussing or and without getting to Yogic, you know, 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.280 he definitely started to there was a very much more 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:51.560 of a calmness surrounding him that was different to some 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.040 of the things in the past. And we had, you know, really. 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.800 Good conversations, a lot of humor of Renaissance and and 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.160 lots of fun on the on the range really at 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.440 Liverpool too. So yeah, I mean, it's it's a very 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.240 hard thing to pinpoint. I'm glad that you referenced to 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.719 her players as dogs and I didn't, but they they 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.920 are a you know, they're an incredible They're they're incredible 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.120 people at what they do. They do things that we've 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.440 always kind of in the game, you know, many of 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:18.760 us wanted to do and they do it at an 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.120 extremely high level under the greatest of pressure. And I'm 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:23.920 sure I'm just like you that I'm kind of in 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.919 awe of them when they're able to deliver those big performances. 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.840 You mentioned playing. I mean, you grew up wanting to 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.400 be a player, Ricky. We were flying home. I got 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.080 a ride home with Brooks from Liverpool, and Ricky Elliot, 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.240 who caddies for Brooks, was on the plane and we 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.279 were when you won. We were talking about it and 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.760 he said, you know, justin you know, I know, I 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.000 mean Ricky. You and Ricky have known each other pretty 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.520 much your whole lives. You played junior golf together and 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:55.279 you wanted to be a player. Did you ever envision 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.159 when you were younger growing up in Northern Ironland and 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.479 playing playing in these am your tournaments, and playing in 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.839 the rain and and all the things that you have 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.440 to go through in Northern Ireland, did you ever let 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.880 your mind wander to one day coaching and coaching someone 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.480 that that wins the Open Championship and lifts a claric 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.320 jog No. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.320 I think that probably happened a bit later. I mean, 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:19.880 I think you know, and I. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.080 Know it was. It was never massively part of your 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.360 like professional story. You weren't. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.480 You weren't in a position where you ever really wanted 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.680 to do And I think I think had I been knew, 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:31.960 I think if I was around the people and the 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:33.880 players that you were around, it would it would have 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:35.880 quickly occurred to me that I wasn't good enough to 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.920 do it. You know, you're you're growing up watching you know, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.400 Greg Norman and Davis Love and people hit golf shots, 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.560 and you're you know, you're probably immediately aware that I 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:45.200 can't do that. 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.160 I mean, that's just so. I think we were a 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:51.360 little bit in dream in dreamland before before the Internet 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.520 and all of the information that we have. But you know, 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.080 certainly it's a I wouldn't say it's that. I think when, 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.600 like you said, you join a very illustrious club. Brian 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.400 Harman joined in the illustrious club to. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.400 Be able to be a part of a team of 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.960 individuals who assisted a player to win a major championship. 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.600 I mean, there's not that many people like that around, 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:11.960 so I can't say that it would have been a 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.360 frontal kind of goal. But you know, to see it happen, 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.360 it just makes it. It makes it even more weird. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.000 You know, Brian sent me a text last night. They 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.760 left Liverpool at three am Monday morning. They got to Paris. 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:25.640 I think he must have texted me from the plane 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:27.840 in Paris and he said, I'm afraid to go to 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:29.840 sleep because it might wake up and it didn't happen. 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:35.240 Oh that's I mean, that's amazing. I mean, what are 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.040 it is? I mean when we were texting, I was 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.200 on the plane. We're somewhere over the Atlantic, and you know, 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:45.040 we were looking online. The Internet was kind of sporadic, 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.360 and Brooks was saying, you know, we we were counting 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.120 down the holes and Brooks was saying, Okay, if he 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.200 gets through here, he's fine. And then once once he 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.760 made that long pot at fourteen, I was looking online 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.679 and I said to Brooks, I said, he just hold 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.280 it from forty feet on fourteen and Brooke said, well, 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.840 it's game over now, he said, because he's got two 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:08.400 far fives coming up. And even if something disastrous happens 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.280 at seventeen, he built such a big lead. I think 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:16.520 one of the impressive things JP he slept on a 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.880 five shot lead two nights in a row, which is very, 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.680 very difficult to do. And we stayed together last week 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.559 in the house and we were talking about it, and 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.079 you know, we were overdosing on curry and red wine 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.640 for the week, but you know we talked about that 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.680 and you kept asking me questions. I mean, I remember 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.120 on Friday night you were saying, you know, what's you know, 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.000 what's what's going to happen. Who's the threat. I said, listen, 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:45.880 the big lead, it's tough, and it's at catch twenty 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.480 two of the big lead is great, but the big 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:53.280 league can go quickly and be over in two holes. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.640 And I think what was really impressive is he didn't 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:00.520 get off to great starts either Saturday or so, but 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:05.240 as the rounds went on, he really seemed to calm 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:10.440 down and almost play his way into good golf. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:12.679 Yeah. I think you're probably right. 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.320 I mean, I think the advice that you gave me 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.640 on Friday night, when you know Jeremy Elliott, who's who 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.040 was there all week with with Brian, he he had 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:21.800 texted me and said. 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:22.839 You know what am I going to do now? 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.559 With with Brian until three point thirty on Saturday, which 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.280 is a really late tea time, and you know, I'm thinking, 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.599 should I look up museums, go for a walk of 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.920 the beach, you know, do two work? And you just 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.040 said to me, you know, having having had experience of this, well, 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:38.640 you've got to tell him that this is the way 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.560 it is at the Open champmanship. Jack Nicholas has done it, 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.600 Tiger's done it, Louie's done it. The boys that you know, 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.360 they've had that tea time, and they've had they've had 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.240 to accept that this is part of part of what 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:52.000 it is to be one of the few people who 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:53.920 could even have claimed to ever get close to winning 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.040 an open chapmanship. And and whether or not Jeremy passed 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:58.760 on that or whether or not that they embraced it, 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.679 I'll find out you later. But I thought that was 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.320 great advice because you have to embrace it. You have 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.080 to look at it full in the face and say, right, 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:05.839 I'm going to take this on. 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.440 And I think he did take it on, and you know, 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.360 and the rest of its history. But I agree with you. 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.880 He you know, if anything, the brain was probably moving 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.319 pretty quickly the first two or three holes and as 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.520 he got into his process, and you know, as he 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.000 got through it, you know, you and I talked a 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.320 wee bit about the fact that, like he's his iron 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.080 play has been something that we've we've been improving, I 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.839 think fairly steadily over two years. And I think Link's 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.160 golf really helps him because it makes him get on 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:32.920 top of the golf ball and makes him drive the 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:34.400 golf ball out a bit more and be a bit 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.280 more aggressive with a strike. He's you know Jack Glunkan 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.640 who was in my thoughts a lot over the weekend. 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.600 You know, Jack always said, never let Brian help the 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:44.360 ball up in the air. 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.520 You know, because he's not the longest player, he doesn't 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.080 hit it way up into the sky. And then mechanically 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:51.920 if he ever starts to try and help it up 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.200 in the air, it really you know, it puts him 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:55.959 in a bad spot with his you know, with his 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.360 pivot and with you know where the golf club starts 0:11:58.360 --> 0:11:59.200 to get delivered from. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:00.560 And I think link skof really helps. 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.640 And we saw him play well at some nundrews and 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.120 you know he quieted himself doing I think he had 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:07.800 that strike on it and he was deep in his 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.200 process and he showed the world what he can do. 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.280 So I want to thank our partners at rapsodo. If 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.280 you've been listening since the beginning, you know I'm a 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.839 massive fan of rap sodos mobile launch monitors. 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Tell 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:03.600 us JP, what the process that you and his caddie, 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.800 Scott Tway, whose brother is Bob Tway, who won a 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:10.000 major championship. I think you know Scott. Everybody calls him 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.920 country on tour. I think Scott's a calming influence for Brian. 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.679 But what is what is the process? And and I 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.920 know that that you've talked a lot about one of 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:24.600 the keys is alignment and having consistent alignment. And in 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:30.720 twenty twenty three, there aren't any Instagram golfer influencer people 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:36.200 doing videos on alignment right they're they're not doing any 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:42.160 videos and on grip, posture, stance, alignment. But so much 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:46.280 of what goes into great golf at the elite, elite level, 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.800 I think people will be surprised that a lot of 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:55.360 times it is the basic, basic fundamentals that you have 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.240 to look after. And you talked a lot about the alignment. 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.280 Talk me through what you've done with his alignment, what 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.960 the tendencies were, and how you've helped him kind of 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.000 create a consistent alignment. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:09.000 Yeah. 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:10.800 Well, I mean, first and foremost, it's like you know, 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:12.720 you and I talk about those tendencies. I mean, I've 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.160 been I watching him at tournaments, watching him on practice rhymes, 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.120 and when he aims too far to the right and 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.400 he ends up like underturning, because he's already a little restricted. 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.680 He's got a very very square trail foot, if you 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:28.640 can imagine, So he's already restricted underturns, has a lot 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.640 of lateral movement, and his down swing club then gets 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:33.440 a little bit underneath and he has to kind of 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.720 tran and swing it out towards the target, so he 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:37.760 loses all his kind of rotary pressure on. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:38.240 The golf ball. 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.480 I mean, that's so that I can do all that 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.600 on Instagram when people would love that. But the fact 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:44.600 is that that comes from him aiming too far to 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.040 the right, so and then. 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.800 And unless you fix the aim, you can work on 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.000 the other stuff. And that's what I don't think a 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.840 lot of people listening understand that. The domino effect of 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.520 what is all the things that you talked about that 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.680 everybody that's a golf nerd loves to hear, you know, 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:07.000 lateral slide, club laying down all of that. Those are 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.840 all the effects. They're not the cause, they're not the 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.600 reason why he's hitting the bad shots. The bad shots 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.880 come from the alignment gets off and then the domino 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.880 effect of everything else. He has to do what he 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:21.960 has to do. My dad is always you and I've 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.320 I've said this to you a million times. You know, 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.240 when we work together back in the day in Dubai. 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.120 You're never doing what you're doing in the golf swing 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.360 because you want to. You're doing it because you have 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.560 to do that. So the alignment, how did you get 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:39.480 him to buy into being a consistent you know alignment. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.080 And there's been some great pictures on Instagram, you know, 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.120 on social to where there's a shaft for his foot 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.640 line and then there's a shaft kind of in between 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.920 his feet for his ball position. Was that something that 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.040 that you implemented and came up with. 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:53.880 Yeah, I think we did. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.800 I mean we had we've had variations of that over 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:58.440 the last couple of years, with the shoft on the 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.480 ground like you've described, the horizontal for the ball position, 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:05.080 and another shaft just to the to the left of 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.000 target as it would be. And he's always having us 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.200 because his tendency would be to start it too far 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.280 to the left, so as he starts at more to 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:12.760 the right, then he starts to get. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.760 A feel of getting on top of it and keeping 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:15.600 good pressure on it. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:20.280 I would say that more recently he's really double back 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.240 onto that right. I'm going to do that in every 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.119 single session, and I see you see golf alignment I 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.719 think is extremely difficult. I think you're you're aiming at 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:32.120 targets that are different distances in front of you. You're 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.440 hitting golf shots with clubs that are different lengths, You're 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.639 standing with different distances from the golf ball, and the 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:40.280 golf balls land on the ground in front of you. 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.199 So I think it's it's a constant training of the eyes. 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.520 And the best players that I've certainly worked for, I 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:50.000 would say have a much more acute understanding and awareness 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.280 and respect for alignment than the rest of us do. 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.840 And I think part of Brand's, part of brand structure, 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:57.800 part of his journey, has been to understand that we 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:01.199 had a really interesting little thing that happened last year, 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.159 not this year. Last year at Health and Head he 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.320 was on that eighth hole, you'd probably notice like a 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.600 par four, there's a hazard on the right. Second shot, 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.640 there's a tree, and he realized that he could kind 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.560 of like close the face a little bit and stay 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:14.840 aiming pretty square and then hit like what we'd call 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.320 a pressure cut, and he hit one shot, and that 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.520 one shot resulted in him playing really really good golf 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.920 for about I'm going to say most of the summer 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.119 of last year, und of the fall, because he finally 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.520 understood that he didn't have to open up way to 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.280 the right in his case to cut it. He could 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.520 kind of stay pretty square and cover it and get 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.280 on top of it. And you know, we went he 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:36.760 went away from it a little bit, took a lot 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.960 of time off over Christmas, and then gradually we feel 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.639 like we've been piecing it all together, and then you know, 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.000 the process has been really good. He uses that DST 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.119 the Bendy Club, which helps people kind of do the 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.400 same type of thing. He gets his alignment really well structured. 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.080 He uses a smart ball between his arms from time 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.040 to time just to soften that early set that he 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.800 has in his takeaway, and that makes him very kind 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.000 of pivot driven, and you know, he's got a really 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:00.800 good engine when. 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:02.480 He gets it. When he gets it, going and you know, 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:03.840 you could see like people think. 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.720 He's obviously he's not six foot five, but he's you know, 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:08.919 he's still in and around with a waterproof suit on 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:10.879 cruise in about one hundred and sixty seven hundred and 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.800 sixty eight miles an hour of ball speed, which you know, 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:15.600 it's it's not what DJ can do, and it's not 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:16.359 what Rory can do. 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:18.560 But you know, he's hitting driver more often than a 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:20.760 lot of other players, and he's. 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:22.719 Very comfortable doing that. And when you combine that with 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:26.960 a putting performance he put in he was unstoppable one. 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.280 Hundred and forty two and driving distance going into the week. 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.960 He's five six weighs about one hundred and fifty pounds. 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:35.439 I read and I saw some things that mentioned the 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.760 fact that he hits So there are a lot of players, 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:43.240 you know, DJ, Rory, the bombers, you know, the big 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:48.280 big bombers. They can't hit driver everywhere they're hitting you know, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.800 driving irons or hitting three woods. But I saw and 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.600 noticed that he hits driver a lot. How do you 0:19:55.760 --> 0:20:00.200 feel like him hitting driver a lot plays into a 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:01.680 strength for him. 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:03.959 I think it plays into a great strength for him, 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:05.840 And I think you know there are golf courses that 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.640 we go to through the year where we almost know 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:11.520 that Brian has a competitive advantage with that, Like the 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:14.320 seventeenth hole of Travelers. He has a competitive advantage there 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.679 because he aims at down that left or off draws 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:19.000 it three hundred dish down the middle and hits a wedge, 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:20.440 and a lot of guys are hitting four iron off 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.159 that tee. It does the same at healthon. 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.960 Head hits hits driver an awful lot more hits driver 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:29.600 down four at the Players Championship in sawgrass and hits 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:31.160 a log wedge, and a lot of guys are hitting 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:33.320 hybrids or long arms on that tea. 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:35.680 And that's a big advantage if you can stand up 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:38.320 on holes like that and hit driver where everybody else 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:40.439 because then if you miss. The other thing is if 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:44.119 you if he's hitting driver where everyone else is hitting 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:49.760 you know, three wood iron, if he hits the fairway 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:52.639 and they miss the fairway with a four iron, now 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:55.359 they're miles back and they're hitting it out of the rough. 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.720 So there is a distinct competitive advantage there. I have 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:03.040 not I would say that he's been a really elite 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:05.600 level driver of the golf ball for a long long time, 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:07.920 you know, really since he went on tour and you. 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:10.480 Know, country let him, lets him go with the driver. 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:12.080 And the other thing. 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.119 I think with the speed he's he's very rarely like 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:17.320 one rep max speed with his driver. 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:18.879 He's extremely versatile. 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:22.280 He tees a lot of them low hits, little squeezers hits, 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:25.399 some little off speed ones, and so he is positioning 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:28.119 it because you know, I know we've worked here. You know, 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:30.639 I've seen him do fifteen in a row about one 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:32.480 hundred and between one hundred and seventy one hundred and 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:35.080 seventy two ball speed. But then I'll sometimes look and 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:37.040 he'll hit driver and it'll be a one fifty eight. 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:39.320 But he's just probably teed at low and kind of 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:41.160 squeezed it out there and gone a little bit of run. 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.840 And again, you know he's got an advantage from that. 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:48.960 You mentioned the putting. He gained almost twelve strokes and 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:52.560 strokes game putting fifty eight out of fifty nine from 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:56.480 ten feet. He mentioned that he found something in Scotland 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:59.800 the week before, got a little training, aid what do 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:04.000 you put down? I mean the elite, elite putting that 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:05.800 he put on display last week at Hoylight. 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:09.879 Well he is, like he said, I would say, I 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:12.040 remember Phil Kenyon. You know Phil works here, and Phil 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:13.919 had to look at him, and you know, Phil and 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:15.800 I were kind of comparing notes because Phil knows that 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:18.000 I'm going to kind of keep assuming that kind of 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:21.480 the overall the head coach role is such an and 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:24.000 Phil said, look, this guy's been in top fifty and 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:26.880 putting for eleven years, so he is a really really 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:29.040 good putter, so he must be mindful of that. Like, 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:31.480 it's not we're not going into We're not going into 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:34.520 this with someone who's really maybe not very good at it, 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.280 and we need to make a real wholesale change. But 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:40.720 in looking at the mechanics of it again, Tennessee, similar 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:42.359 to the full swing, aims a little too far to 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:45.080 the right, tends to kind of hood the face on 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.119 the way back backside of it a little bit on 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:49.200 the way in, and kind of pushes a few putts. 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:52.600 So the little template that he got just encouraged the 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:56.480 correct amount of rotation for his stroke. When he gets 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:58.560 that little bit of rotation and he has a beautiful 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:00.359 release on it, his head doesn't back out of it 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:02.640 at all, and he really gets a rolling end o Bran. 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:06.880 I think the greens being those sort of flat greens. 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:09.040 I think when you get as good a role on 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:12.000 it as he gets, I can imagine that you know, 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:15.480 you're kind of going just up against your alignment because 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:17.920 he's he's hitting the golf ball beautifully. And I think 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:19.040 you could see. 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:21.000 A lot of his putts were hit what appeared to 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:23.520 me to be fairly straight, and they held their line 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:24.920 and they went in the center of the hole from 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:28.480 various distances. And again the links courses like that, you 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:31.360 know a lot of them. The burrows are very subtle, 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:34.520 and as long as your alignment and your your strike 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:35.840 is really good, you've got a chance. 0:23:39.880 --> 0:23:41.560 To me, one of the marks of a great putter 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:44.440 is you never see a different putter in their bag. 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:47.480 He's got a I mean, I think it was the 0:23:47.520 --> 0:23:50.800 first of the big kind of tailor made putters. I mean, 0:23:50.920 --> 0:23:56.119 it's a massive putter. It's a game improvement type putter. 0:23:56.640 --> 0:23:59.480 But he rolls shit out of it, and he doesn't 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:02.639 he never does he mess around with putters. He doesn't 0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:06.679 strike me as I mean, I've never seen him with 0:24:06.720 --> 0:24:07.680 another putter in the back. 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:10.560 He's classic. He sometimes he'll turn up with another putter, 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:11.720 you know, and he'll put with it for a bet. 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:12.600 I said, you're gonna use this? 0:24:12.640 --> 0:24:14.200 He goes, no, I'm just making the other one jealous 0:24:14.240 --> 0:24:15.520 for a minute. 0:24:18.119 --> 0:24:22.719 He mentioned that on Saturday after I think two bogies 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:25.399 in a row, a spectator said to him as he 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:28.440 was walking from tee to green or from the green 0:24:28.480 --> 0:24:30.800 to the next, he made a comment that you don't 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:33.600 have the stones for this. And he mentioned it in 0:24:33.640 --> 0:24:36.320 his press conference and he said with a smile on 0:24:36.359 --> 0:24:42.080 his face, that helped on tour. Brian has a reputation 0:24:42.320 --> 0:24:47.920 for being a killer, of being someone that isn't out 0:24:47.920 --> 0:24:50.600 there to make friends. He's not trying to be the 0:24:50.640 --> 0:24:53.840 most liked, and I think one of his big strength 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:59.320 is the fact that he's mean and he likes the fight. 0:25:00.880 --> 0:25:02.160 Yeah, there's no quote. 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:05.480 I mean I think it probably stems from you'll never 0:25:05.560 --> 0:25:07.840 be in the tallest veggest. You know, he's a very 0:25:07.920 --> 0:25:10.480 he's an extremely accomplished athlete. If you speak to the 0:25:10.760 --> 0:25:12.600 trainers and stuff here that work work with him. But 0:25:13.000 --> 0:25:14.719 you know, people have always probably said, now you're too 0:25:14.760 --> 0:25:16.240 small to do this, or you're not going to be 0:25:16.240 --> 0:25:17.960 able to quite do this. You're not the right frame 0:25:18.000 --> 0:25:20.560 and they'll you know, and he loves proving people wrong. 0:25:20.800 --> 0:25:23.480 And that guy, you know, that guy helped him an 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:26.040 awful lot because as soon as you know, again, Country 0:25:26.040 --> 0:25:28.639 and I like, we've we've tried to figure out some strategies, 0:25:28.640 --> 0:25:31.160 sometimes without really annoying him, you know, because you don't 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:33.400 want to alienate a player. But how could we use 0:25:33.440 --> 0:25:35.800 that I want to prove you wrong mentality in a 0:25:35.920 --> 0:25:38.119 in a training system, you know, if you know, if 0:25:38.119 --> 0:25:39.879 we turn around him and say, well, you can't do this, 0:25:40.720 --> 0:25:42.800 he could construe that as well. These boys don't believe 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:45.560 in me anymore. But whether it's like a guy in 0:25:45.600 --> 0:25:47.200 the crowd like that and he says, harmon, you don't 0:25:47.200 --> 0:25:49.160 have the stones for this, and Brian's just saw I'm 0:25:49.160 --> 0:25:50.280 going to show you who's. 0:25:50.040 --> 0:25:50.840 Got the stones for this. 0:25:50.960 --> 0:25:53.639 And and I think that was a you know, that 0:25:53.720 --> 0:25:56.560 was a lovely insight into, you know, some of the 0:25:56.600 --> 0:25:59.639 things that can create and assist some of these performances. 0:25:59.680 --> 0:26:01.920 Because I saw on the Golf channel David Valla the 0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:04.040 similar thing happened to him at the Open Championship that 0:26:04.040 --> 0:26:07.560 he won. Somebody said that like somewhere through the back nine. 0:26:07.760 --> 0:26:10.080 Don't worry the value of time to throw this away, 0:26:10.560 --> 0:26:12.679 I think when I'm definitely not going to throw this 0:26:12.720 --> 0:26:15.520 away now. So it's a it's an interesting study in 0:26:15.600 --> 0:26:17.880 psychology that but he did. 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:20.159 I mean, he's coming off with two bogies. It's a 0:26:20.200 --> 0:26:22.560 flip and comment. The guy's probably been boozing all day. 0:26:23.800 --> 0:26:26.119 He obviously he doesn't know Brian at all, is just 0:26:26.160 --> 0:26:28.679 a spectator. But he says something. But I thought it was, 0:26:28.840 --> 0:26:31.359 like you said, a unique insight into the way he thinks. 0:26:31.359 --> 0:26:36.000 Because he said it really reset him, and that could 0:26:36.000 --> 0:26:37.880 go the other way too, right, I mean, you're you're 0:26:37.920 --> 0:26:41.400 just bogie two holes. You know you're playing against You're 0:26:41.440 --> 0:26:44.200 obviously not the favorite. I mean the two favorites last week, 0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:47.160 you know Tommy Fleetwood, and then you know the favorite 0:26:47.160 --> 0:26:51.880 every week is Roy McElroy, and the press makes him 0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:55.720 the favorite every week, regardless of how he's playing. But 0:26:55.840 --> 0:26:58.600 it was an interesting insight into he said it. It 0:26:58.600 --> 0:27:01.560 it gave him a little reset. I've heard other players 0:27:01.600 --> 0:27:03.160 say it's kind of a wake up call to where 0:27:03.200 --> 0:27:05.800 you go, oh, okay, now I need to focus in 0:27:06.359 --> 0:27:09.399 and really really kind of stick to what I'm doing. 0:27:10.920 --> 0:27:16.800 It'll be interesting to see how that plays out, because 0:27:16.840 --> 0:27:19.760 I mean, that's a huge that's a huge turning point 0:27:19.760 --> 0:27:21.880 in a round that could have gone the other way. 0:27:23.080 --> 0:27:27.159 Yeah, I think the word reset is a is a 0:27:27.200 --> 0:27:30.320 cool way of looking at it because I think ten 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:32.919 years ago Brian might have got angered by that. But 0:27:33.000 --> 0:27:35.840 he uses the word reset, which is almost like, Okay, 0:27:35.840 --> 0:27:37.520 now I need to go back to the stuff that 0:27:37.560 --> 0:27:41.320 I'm doing really well and then proceed, And that's how 0:27:41.359 --> 0:27:43.240 I'm going to show them that I'm going to be 0:27:43.280 --> 0:27:46.240 able to do this. Rather than like being really angry 0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:49.480 and being upset with it all, he just reset, And 0:27:49.560 --> 0:27:52.240 I think I think if he's using it in that way, 0:27:52.280 --> 0:27:54.280 I think he's beginning to use some of the fuel 0:27:55.080 --> 0:27:57.080 in the right way that he may have may or 0:27:57.119 --> 0:27:58.320 may not have used it in the wrong way in 0:27:58.359 --> 0:27:59.160 the past. 0:28:00.560 --> 0:28:03.239 I mean, if you look at what this could do, 0:28:03.480 --> 0:28:05.919 I mean, even though he's in his mid thirties, but 0:28:06.240 --> 0:28:08.360 if you look at the caliber of players that were 0:28:08.400 --> 0:28:11.000 on that leader board. You know, we talked about it, 0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:13.119 like I said, you know, I think it was dinner 0:28:14.240 --> 0:28:17.280 Friday night, you know, I said, listen, John Rahm's going 0:28:17.320 --> 0:28:20.120 to make a run, right, He's going to make a run. 0:28:20.240 --> 0:28:22.360 I mean, he's just that good of a player. He's 0:28:22.400 --> 0:28:24.399 going to get out early. He's going to make a run. 0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:30.280 Rory was making a run. You had some elite, elite players. 0:28:30.320 --> 0:28:33.520 And what do you think this does for Brian's confidence? 0:28:33.520 --> 0:28:35.960 I mean, he goes to third and Ryder Cup six 0:28:36.040 --> 0:28:38.080 in the FedEx. He's top ten in the world now, 0:28:38.080 --> 0:28:40.000 in the world rankings, if you still believe in the 0:28:40.000 --> 0:28:44.320 world rankings, but he is now. I mean, on top 0:28:44.400 --> 0:28:47.240 of having a major championship, which he'll be a major 0:28:47.280 --> 0:28:49.760 champion for the rest of his life, this puts him 0:28:49.800 --> 0:28:53.840 in a really really interesting position for the remainder of 0:28:53.880 --> 0:28:56.520 the year. I mean, had he been talking at you 0:28:56.560 --> 0:28:59.520 guys on the team been talking about Ryder Cup at all, 0:28:59.640 --> 0:29:01.760 or or is that just something that out of nowhere. 0:29:01.800 --> 0:29:03.680 He goes to third and he is going to be 0:29:03.760 --> 0:29:05.400 on the plane going to Rome for the US T. 0:29:06.360 --> 0:29:08.760 Yeah, I mean I think we would. 0:29:08.920 --> 0:29:13.880 We would avoid those kind of outcome based expectational type 0:29:13.880 --> 0:29:17.680 of conversations with with Brian. It's he's much better as 0:29:17.680 --> 0:29:20.440 many are better served and continue to get into his 0:29:20.480 --> 0:29:24.720 process and do his work. I think that I think 0:29:24.760 --> 0:29:27.360 he got so lost in it that all of those things, 0:29:27.520 --> 0:29:29.240 you know, if they did rear there, if you know, 0:29:29.280 --> 0:29:31.239 he talked a little bit about thoughts coming to him 0:29:31.240 --> 0:29:32.800 and he was able just to go and think about 0:29:32.840 --> 0:29:33.360 something else. 0:29:35.200 --> 0:29:37.560 I'm thrilled for him. You know, he's played two walker cups. 0:29:38.280 --> 0:29:39.120 Like you say, he's. 0:29:38.960 --> 0:29:42.280 Had a an unbelievable pedigree, and that was one of 0:29:42.280 --> 0:29:45.240 the things that really surprised me that every time he 0:29:45.320 --> 0:29:48.479 looked like maybe having a wobble, he was able to 0:29:48.560 --> 0:29:52.280 resiliently move forwards. And I was also quite surprised that, 0:29:52.720 --> 0:29:54.640 you know, nobody else was able to kind of get 0:29:54.680 --> 0:29:57.640 up to the ten eleven under mark and really get 0:29:57.680 --> 0:29:59.760 after him, because you know, like you said, I mean, 0:29:59.760 --> 0:30:01.600 these are these were the best players. 0:30:01.320 --> 0:30:01.840 In the world. 0:30:02.120 --> 0:30:04.600 I thought Rory was playing for the most part, playing 0:30:04.720 --> 0:30:07.080 very very well. I think John Ram's an unbelievable player. 0:30:07.080 --> 0:30:07.320 I was. 0:30:08.000 --> 0:30:11.160 I was thrilled to see Tommy Fleet would play so 0:30:11.200 --> 0:30:13.280 well in front of the galleries, and I was although 0:30:13.280 --> 0:30:14.760 I obviously had a dog in the fight, I was 0:30:14.800 --> 0:30:17.240 disappointed that he wasn't able to do anything on Sunday 0:30:17.280 --> 0:30:19.760 and a test them with the Tommy Fleet would one 0:30:19.760 --> 0:30:21.680 of the first things I saw when Brian was walking 0:30:21.680 --> 0:30:23.920 from the eighteenth to the to the scoring team. Was 0:30:23.960 --> 0:30:26.320 Tommy putting his arm around him and then congratulate him. 0:30:26.320 --> 0:30:29.080 And that's how good a human being Tommy Fleet would is. 0:30:30.360 --> 0:30:32.880 And the first person that he sees when he gets 0:30:32.920 --> 0:30:36.040 to scoring is Zach Johnson. I mean, obviously he's part 0:30:36.080 --> 0:30:40.880 of the whole Sea Island crew. How important is that 0:30:41.200 --> 0:30:44.160 crew that that? I mean, you're at Sea Island now. 0:30:44.480 --> 0:30:46.880 But Sea Island is one of those places very similar 0:30:46.960 --> 0:30:49.440 to to where I am down here in Jupiter, to 0:30:49.440 --> 0:30:51.560 where there are a ton of players. There's a bunch 0:30:51.600 --> 0:30:55.040 of people that play on tour. It has a it 0:30:55.440 --> 0:31:00.120 has a history and a tradition of having tour play. 0:31:00.760 --> 0:31:03.040 Talk to me about Sea Island and what do you 0:31:03.200 --> 0:31:06.480 feel like all those players being in that one area 0:31:06.920 --> 0:31:09.760 does not only for Brian, but for all of them. 0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:11.960 Well, I think one of the coolest things that they 0:31:12.000 --> 0:31:15.080 do is that they are friends. They hang out and 0:31:15.120 --> 0:31:19.600 they're extremely competitive, and frankly, I find that quite difficult, 0:31:19.680 --> 0:31:21.800 like if that was me, you know, and they pull 0:31:21.880 --> 0:31:24.720 for one another whenever they see things like what Brian's doing, 0:31:24.840 --> 0:31:28.640 you know, coming to fruition, and they also you know, 0:31:28.640 --> 0:31:32.680 they also are inwardly wanting to win at all at 0:31:32.720 --> 0:31:35.200 all costs, and I think it's a very very healthy thing, 0:31:35.240 --> 0:31:37.360 you know. I see Paton and Harris and Brian. You know, 0:31:37.360 --> 0:31:39.520 they'll play some practice rounds together and they'll have some 0:31:39.560 --> 0:31:42.320 fun together. But at the same time, you know, once 0:31:42.800 --> 0:31:45.560 the gloves come off, they want to win, and you 0:31:45.600 --> 0:31:46.240 know they're doing a. 0:31:46.200 --> 0:31:46.840 Nice job here. 0:31:46.840 --> 0:31:50.640 Obviously, the performance center is incredible. I think the varied 0:31:50.680 --> 0:31:52.880 weather that we get down here is helpful for them. 0:31:53.800 --> 0:31:56.360 We've got some really really good variants in our golf 0:31:56.360 --> 0:31:57.480 courses Ocean. 0:31:57.120 --> 0:32:00.360 For US Frederica and the three courses here at uh 0:32:00.560 --> 0:32:01.280 at Sea Island. 0:32:01.320 --> 0:32:03.400 So I think it's uh, you know, it's a kind 0:32:03.400 --> 0:32:05.040 of a cool project to be a part of. I 0:32:05.600 --> 0:32:08.040 go down to Florida, but as you know, to see 0:32:08.640 --> 0:32:11.120 Gracie and and and those sorts of guys, and I 0:32:11.440 --> 0:32:13.360 get a sort of a similar feel sometimes at the 0:32:13.360 --> 0:32:15.440 Bears Club. I think there's you know, there's some some 0:32:15.520 --> 0:32:18.720 cool stuff going on. I don't know whether you guys 0:32:18.760 --> 0:32:20.960 all see one another as much as we would here 0:32:21.000 --> 0:32:24.160 with you know, there's not that many you know, restaurants 0:32:24.160 --> 0:32:26.120 and bits and pieces, so there's a lot of you know, 0:32:26.120 --> 0:32:28.000 there's a lot of people that see one another socially 0:32:28.040 --> 0:32:30.800 here too. But you know, it's pretty cool with with 0:32:30.840 --> 0:32:33.800 the performance center, Randy and Tom doing the fitness stuff, 0:32:33.840 --> 0:32:36.520 Phil coming in and out with his with his putting work. 0:32:37.400 --> 0:32:38.920 You know, we've got a we've got a really good 0:32:38.960 --> 0:32:41.680 backbone here for for people to get better when they're 0:32:41.720 --> 0:32:42.400 when they're at home. 0:32:43.720 --> 0:32:46.240 You know, Jp, One of the things that that I 0:32:46.280 --> 0:32:51.440 love about you as a coach is that you don't 0:32:51.440 --> 0:32:54.840 have a method, you don't have a theory, you don't 0:32:54.880 --> 0:32:59.160 have a swing that you're trying to teach everyone. You 0:32:59.200 --> 0:33:03.040 work with players of all different shapes and sizes that 0:33:03.200 --> 0:33:07.320 work that hit the ball very very different. Is that 0:33:07.400 --> 0:33:10.680 by design? Is that something that was important to you 0:33:10.760 --> 0:33:13.640 to to kind of see the player as as as 0:33:13.640 --> 0:33:17.680 an individual, as opposed to saying, Okay, I'm gonna have 0:33:17.760 --> 0:33:19.520 my ideas and I'm going to put them on the 0:33:19.520 --> 0:33:21.200 players that come to work with me. 0:33:22.360 --> 0:33:24.760 Well, you know, without without being dogmatic, I can't I 0:33:24.800 --> 0:33:26.880 can't really think that there is any other way to 0:33:26.880 --> 0:33:30.240 do it. I just I can't understand how we could 0:33:30.280 --> 0:33:34.080 ever treat two or five or eight individuals in the 0:33:34.120 --> 0:33:37.520 same way and expect to get the same results. So 0:33:38.040 --> 0:33:41.280 you know, for me, it's it's you know, I absolutely 0:33:41.360 --> 0:33:43.400 understand the question. I think it's an excellent question, but 0:33:43.440 --> 0:33:45.560 I don't I don't really understand how it could be 0:33:45.600 --> 0:33:47.959 done any other way because all these people like you know, 0:33:48.040 --> 0:33:49.600 and and and you and I are in the same 0:33:49.600 --> 0:33:52.920 boat with that. They're all so different. They've learned different things. 0:33:52.960 --> 0:33:56.640 They've they've had different parents, they've grown up playing different sports, 0:33:57.080 --> 0:33:59.680 they see out of different eyes, they be there different. 0:34:00.040 --> 0:34:03.479 You know, they're left handed, right handed, their their bodies 0:34:03.480 --> 0:34:06.080 are different, their brains are different. So you know, for me, 0:34:06.160 --> 0:34:08.560 it's just it just doesn't make any sense to do 0:34:08.600 --> 0:34:10.719 it any other way than to sit down with each 0:34:10.760 --> 0:34:13.319 person as an individual. And yeah, I think I would 0:34:13.360 --> 0:34:15.719 have learned an awful lot a lot of that through 0:34:15.960 --> 0:34:18.600 you know, what your family do and how they've seen 0:34:18.640 --> 0:34:22.480 golf and helped people to play better golf, and they're 0:34:22.560 --> 0:34:24.040 you know, I think it's your daughter always said, we're 0:34:24.080 --> 0:34:27.120 not you know, we're here to teach. We're teach people 0:34:27.160 --> 0:34:30.040 to play golf. We're not teaching golf to people. So 0:34:30.200 --> 0:34:32.200 you know, the human being always kind of comes first. 0:34:32.239 --> 0:34:36.080 For me, you made a big decision you know, you 0:34:36.120 --> 0:34:37.799 and I worked together. I moved to Dubai in two 0:34:37.840 --> 0:34:41.800 thousand and eight. I think I hired you in the summer. Easily. 0:34:41.840 --> 0:34:44.799 One of the smartest and best decisions that I ever 0:34:44.840 --> 0:34:46.879 made was was hiring you to be on my team. 0:34:47.400 --> 0:34:50.359 And I lived in Dubai for three years. You ran 0:34:50.400 --> 0:34:54.839 our academy there. You can get really comfortable in Dubai. 0:34:54.920 --> 0:34:56.800 It's a great place to live. It's an easy place 0:34:56.800 --> 0:35:00.960 to live. The decision when I remember you called me 0:35:01.000 --> 0:35:02.600 and said there was an opportunity for you to go 0:35:02.640 --> 0:35:06.080 to Sea Island, and you were a bit hesitant. You know, 0:35:06.400 --> 0:35:12.360 young kids, young family, you know, great lifestyle. Obviously it 0:35:12.480 --> 0:35:17.719 worked out, but your changes are tough to make. That 0:35:17.840 --> 0:35:20.239 process of saying okay, I'm going to pick up my 0:35:20.280 --> 0:35:26.000 family and move from Dubai and move to America. Talk 0:35:26.080 --> 0:35:29.320 me through the process at South Georgia. I mean, I 0:35:29.400 --> 0:35:31.439 keep telling you if you get a pickup truck and 0:35:31.440 --> 0:35:34.720 and and and where the pinpoint belt and start hunting, 0:35:35.080 --> 0:35:36.640 you and I aren't going to be friends anymore, you know, 0:35:36.640 --> 0:35:40.000 I mean, But but it must have been a big decision. 0:35:40.040 --> 0:35:41.880 I mean, I've done it. I mean a lot of 0:35:41.880 --> 0:35:46.360 people have, but it's a daunting decision to move to 0:35:46.400 --> 0:35:48.640 another country and and and hope it's all going to 0:35:48.840 --> 0:35:50.479 work out. Yeah. 0:35:50.640 --> 0:35:53.840 I mean the guys that having done some research about 0:35:53.880 --> 0:35:56.600 Sea Islander, you know, it's a very very classy organization, 0:35:56.680 --> 0:35:59.960 they're not gonna they're not going to entertain hiring someone 0:36:00.320 --> 0:36:02.319 without really wanting them to be a part of the 0:36:02.360 --> 0:36:04.239 kind of the family here. And they've been, you know, 0:36:04.239 --> 0:36:07.920 they've been absolutely unbelievable. I always thought of Dubai as 0:36:07.960 --> 0:36:10.080 really more of a young man or young woman's time, 0:36:10.280 --> 0:36:12.239 you know. I think it's it's a fabulous place to be, 0:36:12.840 --> 0:36:17.040 you know, Claude, it's fast, it's ever changing. People move 0:36:17.080 --> 0:36:18.800 in and out of different different positions. 0:36:18.800 --> 0:36:21.520 So as a father of two kids at that point, 0:36:21.560 --> 0:36:23.120 who were you. 0:36:23.080 --> 0:36:25.840 Know, what's Henry Molly was maybe seven or so at 0:36:25.920 --> 0:36:27.799 or six and Henry was three or four, you know, 0:36:27.880 --> 0:36:30.279 something like that, I'm thinking to myself, like Dubai is 0:36:30.680 --> 0:36:33.319 it's it's a brilliant place, but it's also it can 0:36:33.400 --> 0:36:35.960 be quite transient and things can move pretty fast, you know, 0:36:36.200 --> 0:36:38.520 the goalposts can shift a bit. So I think I 0:36:38.560 --> 0:36:42.319 saw some stability and pursuing something different. I was also 0:36:42.480 --> 0:36:45.520 traveling as you know, I was helping Peter Uline, Louis 0:36:45.719 --> 0:36:47.440 Ustaus and Charles Schwartzel. 0:36:47.040 --> 0:36:47.439 At the time. 0:36:47.520 --> 0:36:50.640 And you know, again as a young young ash father 0:36:50.760 --> 0:36:54.680 going from Dubai to la and Dubai to Fort Lauderdale, 0:36:54.680 --> 0:36:57.000 and I remember pitching up at your house and you know, 0:36:57.040 --> 0:36:59.040 at seven in the evening and fall asleep on your 0:36:59.040 --> 0:37:01.799 clutch you if, you know, it was it's a it's 0:37:01.800 --> 0:37:04.600 a hard lifestyle and trying to travel like that. So 0:37:04.640 --> 0:37:07.000 it was becoming clear to me that I either embrace 0:37:07.080 --> 0:37:09.120 the role of trying to teach some of the better 0:37:09.120 --> 0:37:11.439 players in the world or or kind of stay put 0:37:11.480 --> 0:37:14.239 somewhere a little bit more. And you know, I felt 0:37:14.280 --> 0:37:16.000 like I still really wanted to do that, and I'm 0:37:16.000 --> 0:37:18.719 still very passionate about about doing that. And you know, 0:37:18.760 --> 0:37:20.880 see Islands giving me the chance to kind of do 0:37:21.000 --> 0:37:23.000 a little bit of both, you know, be able to 0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:25.359 you know, do some teaching here when I'm at home. 0:37:26.320 --> 0:37:28.839 You know, a pretty quick flight from Jacksonville at Lander 0:37:28.880 --> 0:37:31.480 or Brunswick to Atlanta to get to most of the 0:37:31.480 --> 0:37:32.560 the tour venues. 0:37:32.280 --> 0:37:32.799 That we go to. 0:37:33.000 --> 0:37:36.480 And you know, a beautiful environment here for kids to 0:37:36.560 --> 0:37:37.080 grow up in. 0:37:37.280 --> 0:37:38.160 You know, the islands. 0:37:38.480 --> 0:37:41.319 The island's beautiful, they've got some some independence, they've got 0:37:41.360 --> 0:37:43.359 some good friends that they run around with, and they're 0:37:43.400 --> 0:37:46.279 in and out of swimming pools and so yeah, so far, 0:37:46.360 --> 0:37:46.719 so good. 0:37:51.520 --> 0:37:55.400 Obviously, there's a long list of major champions to come 0:37:55.440 --> 0:37:58.680 out of Northern Ireland, but you're you're now part of 0:37:59.320 --> 0:38:05.399 that fabric of major championships as well. I think every 0:38:05.440 --> 0:38:09.680 country needs role models for young instructors. And I think 0:38:10.680 --> 0:38:12.759 you may not have thought of this, but there'll be 0:38:12.880 --> 0:38:16.720 someone that's teaching on a driving range in you know, Banger, 0:38:17.400 --> 0:38:20.640 you know, somewhere where it's not great, where the weather's 0:38:20.719 --> 0:38:25.040 not good, where the ranges aren't good, that will see, 0:38:25.239 --> 0:38:28.880 you know, Justin Parsons, who's from Hollywood Golf Club, has 0:38:29.280 --> 0:38:32.200 worked with a major champion. Have you let your mind 0:38:32.280 --> 0:38:35.680 think about you know what that means from you know, 0:38:35.880 --> 0:38:39.960 a Northern Ireland standpoint, And. 0:38:40.600 --> 0:38:42.000 I don't know a little bit. 0:38:42.120 --> 0:38:44.239 I mean I think I think, like you know, you 0:38:44.280 --> 0:38:47.000 and I have talked about it's it's nice to it's 0:38:47.080 --> 0:38:49.560 nice to consider that you could use some of the 0:38:49.719 --> 0:38:52.399 achievements that you've had and players have had to try 0:38:52.440 --> 0:38:53.239 to give a bit back. 0:38:53.360 --> 0:38:54.080 I think you get to. 0:38:54.400 --> 0:38:56.560 Again to our sort of stage where you know, and 0:38:56.600 --> 0:38:58.160 I know you do some of this with you know, 0:38:58.200 --> 0:39:00.000 with your broadcasting and things that got but to get 0:39:00.120 --> 0:39:02.200 a bit back and to try and try and help 0:39:02.239 --> 0:39:04.200 some people along the way, it's it's amazing. I mean, 0:39:04.200 --> 0:39:08.279 the minded text messages and WhatsApps and stuff on Instagram 0:39:08.320 --> 0:39:10.239 and things that that I've got, it's it's really quite 0:39:10.320 --> 0:39:13.640 humbling to to consider that you're in that kind of 0:39:13.680 --> 0:39:16.200 group of people who are who are thought of in 0:39:16.200 --> 0:39:18.800 that way. So, you know, as I sort of process 0:39:18.840 --> 0:39:20.640 it and try and figure figure some stuff out, I 0:39:20.680 --> 0:39:22.719 would like to try and arrange how to how to 0:39:22.760 --> 0:39:25.279 give a bit back with with people and and you know, 0:39:25.400 --> 0:39:27.680 like I was very fortunate to get to become a 0:39:27.719 --> 0:39:31.680 part of your family and be trained and taught and 0:39:32.200 --> 0:39:36.120 helped by you know, the first family of golf instruction, 0:39:36.760 --> 0:39:40.040 I mean, and some of those boys and girls back 0:39:40.040 --> 0:39:42.319 there doing that won't maybe have that chance. But maybe 0:39:42.360 --> 0:39:43.640 if I can give a week bit back to them 0:39:43.680 --> 0:39:45.040 and help them on the way, I would like to 0:39:45.080 --> 0:39:45.399 do that. 0:39:46.400 --> 0:39:50.280 Has my dad messaged you multiple times? 0:39:50.480 --> 0:39:56.080 Yes, he was very he was very excited. You know, 0:39:56.120 --> 0:40:00.120 he's been he's been amazing to me, you know, his 0:40:00.120 --> 0:40:04.279 his his approach with treating the human being. He's like 0:40:04.320 --> 0:40:07.120 a chameleon, as you've you've seen many more times than 0:40:07.120 --> 0:40:11.200 I have. His ability to communicate with each and in 0:40:11.440 --> 0:40:14.479 every individual in a slightly more nuanced and different way, 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:19.000 you know, belittles his uh you know, his his rogue 0:40:19.000 --> 0:40:23.719 americanisms sometimes and he you know, I remember seeing him teach, 0:40:25.000 --> 0:40:27.840 you know, people who were kind of religious and good living, 0:40:27.920 --> 0:40:29.759 and all of a sudden he'd be like a like 0:40:29.800 --> 0:40:32.200 a pastor or a preacher. And then you know, some 0:40:32.280 --> 0:40:33.759 of the boys who liked to gamble and go to 0:40:33.840 --> 0:40:35.560 Vegas for other reasons, and all of a sudden he 0:40:35.640 --> 0:40:36.920 turned into the frock boy again. 0:40:37.680 --> 0:40:40.400 And I was always I was always in, you know, 0:40:40.440 --> 0:40:43.120 in great admiration for you know, the guy who I 0:40:43.120 --> 0:40:45.040 think is probably the best that there's ever been at 0:40:45.040 --> 0:40:45.480 what we do. 0:40:47.080 --> 0:40:52.520 JP you you've left, You've left on Saturday. You had 0:40:52.560 --> 0:40:56.960 a player who's had a five shot lead going into Saturday. 0:40:56.960 --> 0:40:58.759 You had a player that had a five shot lead 0:40:58.840 --> 0:41:01.640 going into Sunday, and you chose to go home. It 0:41:01.719 --> 0:41:06.400 was your daughter's eleventh birthday. And I gotta be honest 0:41:06.400 --> 0:41:11.120 with you, I was surprised you took off, not because 0:41:11.280 --> 0:41:14.480 I think you could have affected the outcome, but because 0:41:15.719 --> 0:41:17.560 I've been lucky enough to be a part of players 0:41:17.600 --> 0:41:21.279 winning major championships before, and it is a very unique thing. 0:41:21.320 --> 0:41:24.640 But you said something that has really stuck with me. 0:41:24.719 --> 0:41:27.839 You said, listen, my daughter's eleven before she goes away 0:41:27.840 --> 0:41:30.200 to college. How many more birthdays am I going to 0:41:30.200 --> 0:41:33.280 be a part of? And I think it's a testament 0:41:33.320 --> 0:41:36.560 to the type of person you are that you could 0:41:36.560 --> 0:41:39.480 have easily stayed and been standing on the eighteenth Green 0:41:39.520 --> 0:41:42.359 and give Brian a big hug and been a part 0:41:42.360 --> 0:41:44.600 of it and seen it up close, and but you 0:41:44.719 --> 0:41:47.760 chose to get on an airplane Saturday and go home. 0:41:50.320 --> 0:41:52.920 That was a strange one for me. I want I 0:41:52.960 --> 0:41:54.400 as much as I wanted you to be there for 0:41:54.520 --> 0:41:59.920 Molly's birthday, selfishly, from a professional standpoint, I wanted to 0:42:00.239 --> 0:42:01.839 be there to be a part of it. 0:42:02.760 --> 0:42:07.239 Well, you know, truthfully, I thought of like, she's. 0:42:07.000 --> 0:42:10.520 Not quite at an age where she understands the gravity 0:42:10.520 --> 0:42:13.799 of what happened on suddenly from a professional perspective, but 0:42:14.520 --> 0:42:16.600 you know, and at some point she will be at 0:42:16.600 --> 0:42:19.000 an age where she realizes that I came home. 0:42:19.120 --> 0:42:21.400 And that's I mean, that's the balance, right, I mean 0:42:21.440 --> 0:42:24.760 the balance in what we do is trying to balance 0:42:24.880 --> 0:42:28.640 you know, the players, the travel, and then the work life. 0:42:28.640 --> 0:42:31.000 And I think you know, out of all the people 0:42:31.040 --> 0:42:34.600 that are currently doing it what we do, I think 0:42:34.640 --> 0:42:38.919 you do an amazing job at trying to balance all 0:42:38.960 --> 0:42:42.040 of it very well, because you know, I'm I'm terrible 0:42:42.040 --> 0:42:46.080 at it. I'm you know, I'm I'm not good at 0:42:46.160 --> 0:42:48.399 I'm not good at the work life balance. That's for sure. 0:42:48.520 --> 0:42:50.600 Well on the caveat in there, you know. 0:42:50.640 --> 0:42:53.399 And I'm going to say this is we finished off 0:42:53.440 --> 0:42:56.440 that little putting session on Friday and I and I 0:42:56.480 --> 0:42:59.200 gave Brian a high five and I said, and I 0:42:59.719 --> 0:43:01.719 can't held all his hand. And I said, I'm already 0:43:01.760 --> 0:43:04.440 here tomorrow unless you need me. And he said, no, 0:43:04.520 --> 0:43:06.480 go home. You're you're doing my birthday party, aren't you. 0:43:06.520 --> 0:43:06.920 I went yeah. 0:43:06.960 --> 0:43:08.600 He said no, I'd go from here, don't worry about it, 0:43:09.080 --> 0:43:12.160 and had he said, JP, this is this is a 0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:13.880 big week. I'd love you to stay and hang on. 0:43:14.320 --> 0:43:16.960 I'd be the first one on Delta to put that 0:43:17.120 --> 0:43:20.000 to Monday. But he did, you know, and I checked 0:43:20.000 --> 0:43:22.040 with him and if he had needed me, I would 0:43:22.080 --> 0:43:24.160 have been there for him and I'd have probably ended 0:43:24.200 --> 0:43:25.239 up having to buy Molly a. 0:43:25.160 --> 0:43:26.759 Horse or something like that. 0:43:26.800 --> 0:43:30.040 But you know, and that's just the way that the 0:43:30.080 --> 0:43:32.279 way that I wanted it to be. So if he 0:43:32.360 --> 0:43:33.920 didn't need me, I'm sticking the planet. 0:43:35.960 --> 0:43:38.359 Well, it was lonely in the house on Saturday night, 0:43:38.719 --> 0:43:41.000 the curry and the red wine didn't taste is good. 0:43:41.920 --> 0:43:45.200 But honestly, mate, I mean you and I have You're 0:43:45.239 --> 0:43:47.759 the brother I never had, and you know I never 0:43:47.840 --> 0:43:51.240 had a brother, And you know, I've learned an enormous 0:43:51.280 --> 0:43:56.000 amount from you, and you've been such a a stabilizing 0:43:56.080 --> 0:44:00.279 and positive person in my life. And you know, I 0:44:00.280 --> 0:44:03.640 certainly wouldn't be where I am today without you and 0:44:04.560 --> 0:44:06.319 oh your help. So I'm proud of you. 0:44:06.880 --> 0:44:11.080 And well, I think if we haven't met, I think 0:44:11.280 --> 0:44:16.440 at some point a situation in a Dubai bank probably 0:44:16.480 --> 0:44:18.759 would have taken you into some sort of jail for 0:44:19.320 --> 0:44:20.799 couple of years that I tried to come. 0:44:21.280 --> 0:44:22.160 You know, for those of you who. 0:44:22.040 --> 0:44:24.520 Don't know, the story club is asked to sign, I 0:44:24.520 --> 0:44:26.920 think you were asked to sign fifty two checks. 0:44:27.440 --> 0:44:29.200 Yeah, when you buy a car, when you buy a 0:44:29.239 --> 0:44:32.000 car in Dubai, you have to have you have to 0:44:32.719 --> 0:44:34.640 you're making payments, and you have to sign a check 0:44:34.719 --> 0:44:35.520 for each one. 0:44:36.080 --> 0:44:39.319 They probably have they probably have modernized that since two 0:44:39.360 --> 0:44:41.320 thousand and eight or two thousand and nine, So forgive 0:44:41.400 --> 0:44:41.759 us for. 0:44:42.200 --> 0:44:44.480 But they did, and they put it in a safety deposit. One. 0:44:44.520 --> 0:44:46.400 So you got fifty two checks from the bank. 0:44:47.040 --> 0:44:50.319 And I specifically asked you went with me when we 0:44:50.360 --> 0:44:52.840 when I was buying the car, and I said, do 0:44:52.880 --> 0:44:54.640 I need more checks because I have to go to 0:44:54.680 --> 0:44:57.680 the bank to get more checks, And they said, no, 0:44:58.320 --> 0:45:00.799 fifty two. So we went to the bank, we got 0:45:00.800 --> 0:45:06.160 the fifty two checks, and we went back in signed 0:45:06.160 --> 0:45:08.160 all fifty two of them. And then they said, and 0:45:08.200 --> 0:45:10.880 now you need one more check for the total value 0:45:10.880 --> 0:45:13.319 of the car. So now we had to go back 0:45:13.360 --> 0:45:16.080 to Dubiden. We had to go back to Emerts mall. 0:45:16.560 --> 0:45:20.319 And Emerts yeah, Emirates NBD, isn't it ever? And we 0:45:20.480 --> 0:45:22.400 uh and then and I thought you were going to 0:45:22.440 --> 0:45:25.640 have a problem with mister Muhammad what was it Muhammad 0:45:25.640 --> 0:45:27.439 Sharif I think his name might have been or something 0:45:27.520 --> 0:45:27.880 like that. 0:45:27.920 --> 0:45:29.640 Well, when he told when he told me, I wasn't 0:45:29.680 --> 0:45:33.160 signing my name my signature. He said, you're signing your 0:45:33.239 --> 0:45:38.759 name improperly, and and you put your hand, you put 0:45:38.800 --> 0:45:43.000 your hand on my shoulder and said, breathe, breathe, breathe. 0:45:43.560 --> 0:45:45.760 I did for you what you did for me on Sunday. 0:45:45.840 --> 0:45:48.080 So we're kind of we're even there, but no, I 0:45:48.360 --> 0:45:52.600 appreciate all the all love and support club. We've we've 0:45:52.600 --> 0:45:54.000 been a good old we've had a good old run 0:45:54.040 --> 0:45:55.920 out and it's it's special for me to do this 0:45:56.000 --> 0:45:57.239 and have a have a talk with you. 0:45:58.040 --> 0:46:01.200 Well, I can't tell you how proud I am of you. 0:46:01.280 --> 0:46:04.799 I love you, and you are one of the best 0:46:04.880 --> 0:46:07.160 in the world at what you do. And this certainly 0:46:07.160 --> 0:46:08.640 isn't going to be the last major you're going to 0:46:08.680 --> 0:46:10.920 be involved with. So thanks for coming back on and 0:46:10.960 --> 0:46:13.960 talking to us and enjoy it. You're going to see 0:46:13.960 --> 0:46:14.399 Brian win. 0:46:14.560 --> 0:46:18.200 Hopefully, Brian's gonna fly back on Friday. He went he 0:46:18.200 --> 0:46:21.000 went to Syracuse, which was the plan, to to see 0:46:21.000 --> 0:46:23.520 his family. You know, Kelly and the kids have been 0:46:23.560 --> 0:46:26.360 up there for for a week or so, so I 0:46:26.640 --> 0:46:27.680 would imagine. 0:46:27.320 --> 0:46:29.279 That he'll he'll probably need a little bit of. 0:46:29.320 --> 0:46:31.160 Rest, which he may or may not get with his 0:46:31.239 --> 0:46:34.200 three beautiful young children, but he'll. 0:46:34.000 --> 0:46:36.520 He'll be back here Friday. I have no idea. I 0:46:36.520 --> 0:46:38.359 don't even know whether he's going to play Windham. 0:46:38.120 --> 0:46:41.480 Yet, he'll sure as hell doesn't need to. 0:46:42.480 --> 0:46:45.279 He does not need to anymore. No, but you know, 0:46:45.680 --> 0:46:47.040 you know what these guys are like. 0:46:47.080 --> 0:46:48.719 Maybe that was on the schedule and there were there 0:46:48.760 --> 0:46:51.000 were things going on, but you know, we're probably looking 0:46:51.000 --> 0:46:51.840 forward to the playoffs. 0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:55.640 The Ryder Cup will be decided when it's decided. But 0:46:55.719 --> 0:46:58.520 I do hope that he you know, here is a 0:46:58.560 --> 0:47:00.200 place there and it'll be nice for him to to 0:47:00.239 --> 0:47:01.919 maintain that sort of top six thing. 0:47:02.360 --> 0:47:05.640 He's third on the list with two events left. He 0:47:06.760 --> 0:47:10.840 can't fall. He is going to be on the team 0:47:11.160 --> 0:47:15.120 in Rome. You don't have anything to worry about. Enjoyed 0:47:15.160 --> 0:47:17.160 drinking out of the Cleric jug. I got to do 0:47:17.200 --> 0:47:20.720 it once with Ernie Els and it's pretty special. And 0:47:21.680 --> 0:47:25.440 make sure you pour something in there that's good. I 0:47:25.640 --> 0:47:33.880 see it. So that was justin Parsons And like I said, 0:47:34.600 --> 0:47:37.440 he's a hell of an instructor, but he's a better person. 0:47:37.480 --> 0:47:41.040 I don't know that there are many instructors with a 0:47:41.080 --> 0:47:44.560 player trying to win their first major as a player 0:47:44.600 --> 0:47:48.040 and as a coach having a player win their first major, 0:47:48.920 --> 0:47:50.719 not a lot of people would fly home, but he 0:47:50.760 --> 0:47:53.200 flew home for his daughter's birthday. And I think that 0:47:53.280 --> 0:47:55.080 says a hell of a lot about him as a 0:47:55.160 --> 0:47:57.720 human being. And he is one of the good ones. 0:47:57.800 --> 0:48:00.480 And I am so so proud of him, proud to 0:48:00.480 --> 0:48:03.319 call him a friend, and proud to watch all the 0:48:03.360 --> 0:48:07.000 work that he does. So the Major's twenty twenty three 0:48:07.280 --> 0:48:11.319 in the books John Rahm, Brooks Kepka, Wyndham Clark, and 0:48:11.400 --> 0:48:15.000 now Brian Harmon, And don't think a lot of people 0:48:15.040 --> 0:48:17.840 would have picked him, but early in the week it 0:48:18.040 --> 0:48:21.279 just had. I've seen Brian Harmon play well before he 0:48:21.640 --> 0:48:24.839 took the lead into Aaron Hills in twenty seventeen, when 0:48:24.840 --> 0:48:27.960 brooks Kepka won. When I was working with Brooks in 0:48:28.239 --> 0:48:32.000 twenty seventeen and I had a friend from the US saying, Hey, 0:48:32.040 --> 0:48:34.600 give me a dark horse pick that nobody's looking at. 0:48:34.880 --> 0:48:39.000 And this was on Wednesday. I said bet Ham, Brian Harmon, 0:48:39.080 --> 0:48:41.879 and he was like, what I said, Brian Harmon, It's 0:48:41.920 --> 0:48:43.799 the perfect kind of golf course for him. And I 0:48:43.920 --> 0:48:47.960 mentioned in one of the practice rounds to Brooks that 0:48:48.000 --> 0:48:50.160 I was staying with JP that week and I said, 0:48:50.160 --> 0:48:51.799 this is a good golf course for Brian Harmon and 0:48:52.200 --> 0:48:54.560 PK said yeah, I mean this perfect golf course for 0:48:54.600 --> 0:48:57.240 the type of golf that he plays. And it turned 0:48:57.280 --> 0:49:01.200 out to be true. So that it's the twenty twenty 0:49:01.280 --> 0:49:04.400 three major championships in the books. Two weeks left on 0:49:04.440 --> 0:49:08.719 the PGA Tour, We got Ryder Cup coming up live, 0:49:08.760 --> 0:49:11.280 still has a bunch of events and then the Fall Series, 0:49:11.320 --> 0:49:15.000 so we'll see what this does for Brian Harmon and 0:49:15.200 --> 0:49:19.279 his career. Son of a Butcher comes to you every Wednesday. 0:49:19.920 --> 0:49:21.600 We will see you all next week.