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UM started working with Brooks again, 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:48.079 UM about maybe a month and a half two months ago. 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.960 It was at the live event in Bedminster, and UM, 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.639 he asked me for some help on the Saturday night 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:59.520 and UH, watch him hits the balls for about minutes 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.760 on the on the on the Saturday night. And then 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.800 on Sunday he asked if I could get to the 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.280 golf course, UM, a little bit early before they teat off, 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:10.000 and we did some work. And UM We've been working, 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.919 you know, pretty much ever since. I think everybody knows. 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.919 He finally got to win, which a couple of weeks ago, 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.760 which I think was really really big for Brooks. UM. 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.040 But I mean the interesting thing is, and in this 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:28.359 whole kind of PGA tour lives stuff. UM, you know, 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.480 I worked with Brooks for eight years when four majors 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.000 a bunch of golf tournaments got to number one in 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:39.600 the world. UM. And this is not propaganda, this is 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.160 not spin. I have never seen him work harder in 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.800 the last two months then he I mean, he didn't 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:49.200 work this hard, didn't practice this much, wasn't putting in 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.920 this amount of time on his golf swing, UM, when 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.840 he was the number one player in the world. And UM, 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.480 I think it's been really really interesting to to to 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:02.840 watch um just how dedicated he is. Listen, I mean Brooks. 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.240 Everybody knows the type of character Brooks is, right, I mean, 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:09.160 Brooks has UM he plays with a chip on his shoulder. Um, 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:15.240 he's got you know, a big, big ego, big persona. UM. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.120 And he didn't like the way he was playing golf. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.200 He didn't like the way he was performing. He didn't 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.440 like the shots that he was sing on the golf course. UM. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:27.080 And you know, full disclosure, we we really hadn't even 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.120 really talked. I mean, I guarantee you and I got 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.599 let go by Brooks at the end of November, um 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.200 or right after the Masters that DJ won in November, 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.080 and up until the time that that that we kind 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:45.040 of started working back together again. Uh. We we didn't talk, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.040 we didn't spend any time together. So UM, I just 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.440 think that anybody that thinks that professional golfers, regardless of 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:55.280 where they're playing, don't care. Um, it's it's just not 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.480 the case. And and Brooks is working as hard as 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:00.640 I've seen him work. Um. A out of what we 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:04.960 did was just kind of getting back to basics a 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.440 lot of Brooks's problems. UM. And this is something I 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.600 think everybody listening can can kind of take to their 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.160 own game. A lot of what goes wrong for Brooks 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:18.120 happens before he hits the golf ball. My dad has 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.360 always said that it takes no athletic or golf ability 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.360 to set up to the golf ball, ball position, posture, alignment, 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.760 all of those things. Uh So, when I when I 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.159 saw Brooks, and I hadn't seen him really play in 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.560 almost two years. UM, a lot of the changes that 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.799 we made to his golf swing were set up related. Um. 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.600 He had gotten the golf ball a little bit back 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.320 in his stance, which when he tries to fade the 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.640 golf ball, which is the predominant shape that he likes 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.840 to play, it's tough to fade it from that position. Um. 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.799 The ball position had gotten back, which for Brooks always 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.360 tends to get his shoulders a little bit on the 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.600 close side. Um. And it's someone that likes to fade 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.840 the golf ball. That's a tough fit when you're trying 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:03.400 to hit a fade with the ball position back and 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.800 your shoulders kind of close. His left arm tends to 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.160 ride up really really high, the right arm tends to 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.480 get a little bit on the low side. And um, so, 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.040 a lot of the changes we made and and he 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.960 was starting to aim a little bit kind of a 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.400 little bit too far to the right, and his shoulders 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.400 were getting a little bit open. So he kind of 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.960 had the open stance to the right, open shoulders to 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.920 the left, close stance to the right, ball position back. 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.039 And even though he was trying to take the golf 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.240 club a little bit more on the outside, which is 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.719 where Brooks plays his best golf, because of the setup, 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.440 because of the ball position, and because of the shoulder position, 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.320 he just couldn't get the golf club to go back 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.160 in the in the right way. So as soon as 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.599 we moved the golf ball a little bit forward, I 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:52.839 actually had him. I feel like his shoulders were almost open, 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.000 like the right arm, the right forearm was higher than 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.800 the left. Um that wasn't the case, but it was 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.840 an exaggerated feel and it was funny, you know, I said, listen, 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.240 get the ball position. We're hitting seven irons. I said, listen, 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.320 get the ball position a little bit more forward. Um, 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.840 I feel like your shoulders are more open. Um aim 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.600 a little bit more left. And we looked at some 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.680 videos and we looked at some pictures, and I think 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:22.360 he was he was blown away at at how strange 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.920 that felt relative to what he thought it was going 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:27.480 to look like. I mean, he thought the ball was 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.960 gonna be off his left toe. It wasn't. He thought 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.840 his shoulders were going to be wide open. They weren't. 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:34.720 But as soon as we were able to get the 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:39.200 set up and what was happening before he started making 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:43.360 a golf swing, it then was part of the domino 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.840 effect that allowed the backswing to get into a better position. 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.240 And that is one of the things that we've worked on. 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.800 We've tried to get the takeaway to get more square, 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.800 more outside. He was getting the golf club a little 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.480 bit on the inside. Brooks has always played his best 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.000 as a fader of the golf ball when the golf 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.480 club works in front of him going back, and then 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.520 the club works in front of him coming down, and 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:10.120 then he's able to rotate and turn through impact. When 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.960 when we started back together. His divot pattern was really 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.640 really deep. He was taking really really deep divots, and 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.120 his trajectory was kind of all over the place. He'd 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.000 hit a high one, he'd hit a bullet low one, 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.920 and he honestly he had a double miss. He'd had 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.200 balls that would start left and go left. He'd have 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:33.240 balls that would start right and go right. So we 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.400 went back to some of the things that we worked 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.800 on UM in the past. And one of the things 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.120 that I worked on that we worked on a lot 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.600 um that I like to work on with players is 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.280 is where is the golf ball starting relative to what 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.400 shot you're trying to hit. So I had Brooks, you know, 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.640 go ahead and pick out a target, and I said, okay, 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.560 let's just hit me ten balls that start left of 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.959 your target. I don't care where they go, but hit 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.200 me ten balls that start left of your target, and 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.680 let's just focus on where they're starting. Let's don't worry 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.280 about where they're going to go. Let's worry about where 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.480 they're going to start. And if we can start them 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.200 left of the target consistently, then we can start to 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.200 manage the face because we know UM, for Brooks, if 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.840 he's starting the golf ball consistently left of his target. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.319 He's doing a good job with managing what the path 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.560 is doing. Um And the other thing that tends to 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.520 happen when when Brooks gets the golf ball back and 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.040 the shoulders get a little bit closed at address coming down, 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.959 the path gets a little bit too neutral, and then 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.480 Brooks can really really kind of drag and drive the 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.240 handle forward with For a lot of people that's a 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.280 great impact position, but for what Brooks is trying to do, 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:45.920 that's the death move for him with all of his 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.840 speed and his power, because he basically just holds the 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.280 face and just hits kind of what you know what 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.680 I kind of term is kind of big block white cuts, 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:56.719 or he gets tired of doing that and he hits 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.600 the snap book. So as soon as we were able 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.280 to get the path in a better position, he was 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:06.760 also better getting into a better impact position. Brooks can 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.120 also at times hang back behind the golf ball and 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.280 get a lot of what we would call side bend 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.360 where he's hit the left shoulder gets really really high, 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.120 the right shoulder gets really really low. There's a lot 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.400 of you know, hang back and and and bending back 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.480 to the right. For him to try and start it online. 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:26.640 Once we were able to get him to feel like 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.160 the club was a little bit more in front of 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.679 the body, get the club exiting a little bit more 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.120 around his body to the low and to the left, 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.200 then his shoulders actually start to turn a little bit 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:41.120 more level through impact and they don't get kind of 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.679 so kind of left shoulder high, right shoulder low. And 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.600 and the divot pattern. He's the one thing that I 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.760 noticed UM last week in Miami. The divot pattern is 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.520 actually he's actually you using the bounce on the on 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.120 on on all the irons that he's using. And the 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.760 quality of the contact, the contact the mean the club 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.640 and the ball and the way the club is interacting 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.960 with the ground has been basically what it was back 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.320 in two thousand and nineteen. UM. I know Brooks, which 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.880 is there was three or four more tournaments that he 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.760 could play in UM because he's playing that good. His 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:21.360 ball striking right now UM is on a par with 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.280 what it was when he was number one in the world. 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.920 And the quality of the strike the hit. Brooks has 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.240 always had a very very heavy, heavy hit to the 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.560 golf ball. UM, so that's really started to come back. 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.720 He started to drive the golf ball better. Um, he's 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.600 starting to drive the golf ball further. Um. A lot 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.000 of the guys that have played with him in the 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.560 last month have come up to me afterwards and said, Dude, 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.040 this guy's hitting it as far as I've seen him 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.240 hit it. Um. But to be honest, a lot of 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:56.040 the changes that we made were all happening before anything 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.840 happened with the golf swing. It's just the way that 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.679 he was setting up to golf ball and it is 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.400 something that that I think everybody listening could could take 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:09.280 something from grip, posture, alignment, all of those things. They're 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.839 not fancy, they're not sexy, but they have a dramatic 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.560 effect on what's happening with the golf club and what's 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.400 happening with your your shots. So Um, as soon as 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.960 Brooks gets the golf club in these positions and starts 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.440 to see the golf ball in practice, in his warm ups, 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.920 in his practice rounds UM, it gives him a tremendous 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:31.760 amount of confidence. I mean, tour players guys are no 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.720 different than than the rest of us. We we all 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.600 play golf through confidence. If you're hitting a lot of fairways, 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.040 if you're hitting a lot of greens. Um, you're going 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:41.840 to make better swings. You can get the golf ball 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.360 and play off the tea regardless of what your handicapped 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.240 level is. You can get the golf ball in a 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.040 fair way. You're going to play better golf because your 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.200 your confidence is gonna go up. So it's been fun. Um, 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.560 it's been fun to see kind of Brooks Um, you 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.319 know not it's it's actually been fun to kind of 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.920 see him get a little bit of swagger back, um 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:05.000 and have the confidence back. Um because you know when 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.240 I when he asked me to start you know, helping 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.440 him again, Um, he had none of that. I mean 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.920 he had no idea where the golf ball was going. Um, 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.920 he didn't have a consistent shape. And for him to 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:20.600 get that shape back has been you know, massive for him. Um. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:25.319 So I think we're gonna see Brooks three comeback healthier, Um, 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.760 ready to go. And you know, I think you're going 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.559 to see him have chances to win golf tournaments regardless 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.719 of where he is playing. Big week last week for 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.240 Pat perez Man, I mean we did some big time 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:42.839 overhaul uh to his golf swing. Last week. He did 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.640 not play good in in Saudi Arabia, especially the last 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.680 two days, he just he just didn't have it. It 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.320 was windy, he wasn't hitting it solid. Um. We were 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:58.720 trying to cycle through a bunch of ideas and swing thoughts. Um. 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.160 We got down to Miami, Um, we were that. I mean, 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:05.160 they didn't play until Saturday, and we grinded Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:12.520 Thursday and Friday pretty much all day. Um. So I 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.439 was talking about Brooks, how Brooks likes to fade the 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.840 golf ball when the golf club gets too much on 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.360 the inside, he struggles. Pat wants to be able to 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:25.280 draw the golf ball. So basically, Um, all the stuff 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.920 that we were working on I was working on with 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.760 Brooks last week, I'm working on the hundred and eighty 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.520 degree opposite with Pat. We were trying to have him 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.360 get the golf club to go a little bit more 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.600 on the inside, because one of Pat's issues is the 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.960 golf club tends to go a little bit. He kind 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.320 of has to where he addresses it almost in the heel, 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:46.880 and then on the back swing the club almost goes 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:51.160 a little bit on the out. And when that happens, Um, 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:53.080 it's not so much what's happening with the golf club 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.320 on the back swing? Pat, Then on the back swing, 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:59.120 his lower body starts kind of going towards the golf 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.680 ball a little bit on the back swing. We call 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.040 that early extension. Had a question about that, can you, 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.000 you know, be a great ball striker if your lower 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.080 body is getting closer to the golf ball m on 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.480 the down swing. Pat's always going to have a little 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.240 bit of that move on the down swing because he 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:18.000 plays very much UM as a lateral player. He doesn't 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.960 have a lot of rotation in his golf swing. UM. 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.200 So one of the ways that he has to draw 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:25.120 the golf balls, he has to draw the golf ball 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.840 by feeling like the backswing and the downswing are working 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.880 really kind of inside on the backswing and then into 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.680 out on the down swing. But by letting him or 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:37.960 by having him feel like the golf club was going 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.440 very much on the inside going back, his right leg 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.800 was actually straightening a little, but it was actually helping 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.600 his lower body not move out of the way, not 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.480 move closer to the golf ball. UM on the back swing. 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:57.840 And he changed on Monday. He changed to a new driver, 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.880 changed to a new chef, and changed to a brand 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:07.000 new golf ball. Um and played really really good um 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.080 on Saturday in the in the team competition with Taylor 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:14.040 Gooch and then on a really really hard golf course. UM. 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.320 I don't know if anybody's played trump de ral, but um, 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.000 they call it the Blue Monster for a reason. It's 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:23.800 a hard golf course. Um, it was blowing. The rough 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.240 is really really I mean the rough just berries. I 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:28.840 mean you hit a ball in the rough in the 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.240 practice rounds, we were struggling to fine golf ball. So 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.040 um he shut two under. UM. I think they're only 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:39.200 maybe two other guys that shut lower scores than he did. Um. Listen, 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.040 he's an easy punching bag. Um for a lot of 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.520 the people that you know, I want that as their narrative. 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.240 But I was really proud of the way he played 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:52.040 last week. Um and uh it was a really really 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.960 solid performance. UM. I think he was really proud of himself. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.440 Um and uh he needed to come through. UM. You 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.400 know the way the team format works, all four scores 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.359 counted on Sunday, and you know, Pat made a lot 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:10.240 of really good clutch par pots from five eight, ten, 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:14.199 um fifteen ft um. Any of those pots don't go in, 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.560 they don't win. And then um, he was finishing on 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:22.240 the eleventh hole. Ninth hole is a long, long, part 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:25.840 three water all the way on the right, bunker's left. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:30.960 He stood up, hit it left of the flag, right 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:32.480 in the middle of the green, pin high and hold 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.760 the pot. He could have easily bailed out hit in 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.280 the bunker, which a lot of guys were doing. Um, 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:39.439 he could have rinsed one in the water. But he 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:41.679 needed to stand up and hit a good shot. And 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:45.919 he did the ten poles Part five. Um, the further 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.199 obviously down you can get it, the better. And he 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:52.440 said that he said to his caddy, um, h, I've 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.480 been doing this on the range all day, every day, 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.960 all this week. I've just got to stand up and 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.240 trust it and hit a great shot. And I think 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:06.080 that's something really really important for everyone listening about that. Um, 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:10.959 the mindset of standing up and trying to hit a 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.399 good shot as opposed to trying to not hit a 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:18.280 bad shot. And and Pat said afterwards that, um, he 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:22.879 was really, really really it was proud of the fact 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.280 that he stood up. And he said on both nine 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.040 and ten when it counted at the end of the round. 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.520 At the end of the tournament. He hit the shots 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.639 that he needed to hit, and partly, you know, Pat 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.679 can have a really really negative attitude at times, you know, 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:40.800 really negative. And um, he stood up and he said 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.280 on nine, he said, I didn't think about the water 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.520 to the right. I didn't think about the bunkers to 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.000 the left. I said, I'm gonna start this at the 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.680 flag and hit a little draw and try and get 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:53.720 it in there about pin high. And that's the shot 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.760 he executed, standing on the tenth faraway dog leg from 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.360 right to left, water all the way down the left 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.240 hand side. So any miss that's left is in trouble. 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:04.760 Any miss that's to the right is gonna end up 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:06.200 in the rough and you're not gonna have a chance 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.760 to get to the green. Same thing. Stood up, said 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.879 that he focused on hitting a good shot, wasn't thinking 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.720 about any of the negative things. Wasn't thinking about the 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.520 water to the left, wasn't thinking about you know, the 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.159 thick rough to the right. But stood up and made 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:26.040 a really really good drivers swing and he said, trusted it. 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.640 He said, I trusted what I was doing all week. 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.920 And I think that is so important for everybody listening 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.320 to take to their own game, to take to the 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.720 driving range. It's so easy to go into all of 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.040 these shots and think about all the places you could 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:42.000 hit them, or all the places that you don't want 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.840 to hit them, But to stand up and actually focus 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:49.720 on hitting a good shot as opposed to trying to 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.639 not hit a bad shot, trying not to hit it 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:55.080 in the water, trying not to hit it into the bunker. 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:58.560 You're not going to hit good shots when you do that. 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.520 That's just it's just not to happen. UM. You know, 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:05.760 negative thoughts in your head will make your body do 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:09.080 things that you're trying to have them not do. It's 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.840 the opposite. And UM, I think it was a great 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:17.520 example in watching UM those two shots of what being 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:22.200 under pressure but standing up and focusing on a lot 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:26.119 of positive things as opposed to a lot of negative things. 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:32.240 And UM. Lastly, Dustin Johnson. UM, listen, Dustin Johnson is playing. 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.440 So I've worked with DJ for over decade now, and 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.000 Dustin Johnson is playing some of the best golf I've 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.040 seen him play. UM. If there was a major championship 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:45.719 next week, UM, Dustin Johnson is going to be one 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:49.359 of the favorites. UM. I think Um Brooks Kepco would 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:52.640 be one of the favorites. That's how good they're playing. Um. 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:54.840 You know, I've heard a lot of comments no competition, 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.560 weak fields. At the end of the day. Last time 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:01.640 I looked, UM, you're not playing against the field, You're 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:05.320 playing against the scorecard. You're playing against the golf course. 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:07.959 So regardless of where you're playing golf. You know, I 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.240 remember my dad once, Um he I think he either 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:15.360 shot fifty nine or sixty and UM, I think it's 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:17.119 one of the lowest scores he's ever shot. But it 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.680 was a nine whole municipal course that he played twice. 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.439 And somebody said, oh, well, you know, I mean, doesn't 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:27.679 he can't really count if you're playing, you know, the 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:29.960 same nine holes, And he's like, I still have to 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:34.080 hit all the shots right. And regardless of what people's 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:38.199 opinions are about live or what you're you know what 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:42.399 side you're on. Um, Dustin Johnson is playing some of 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.560 the best golf right now that I've seen him play. 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:48.280 And the guy has been the only two people that 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:50.560 have been number one in the world longer than than 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:58.000 DJ or Tiger and Greg Norman. That's it, um, and 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:00.439 So if I'm telling you that the guys playing some 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:04.399 of the best golf I've ever seen him play, UM, 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:07.600 I think you should believe it. Because he's hitting the shots. UM. 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.359 He's driving the ball as good as I've seen him 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:14.639 drive the golf ball in a very, very long time. UM. 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:18.720 His wedge game has really really come back. Really for 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:21.119 the last two years, he's driven the ball like ship 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:23.879 and he's his wedge game has been horrendous. UM. And 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:26.639 he'd admit that. And you know, he's been putting in 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:31.639 the work. UM. And I think partly for DJ, and 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:36.160 again this is something that everybody can listen to. It's 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:40.520 confidence you put. You know, in the eight events that 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:43.440 that DJ played on the Live Tour in fourteen rounds 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:49.520 in the sixties, UM, he was playing like the Dustin 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:53.240 Johnson that was the number one player in the world. UM. 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:57.000 And you know, I think the way he played UM 0:22:57.000 --> 0:22:59.800 in the last eight tournaments, UM, it gives me a 0:22:59.840 --> 0:23:03.400 lot of confidence moving forward with where his game is at. 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:08.840 And UM, I know I keep saying this, but confidence 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:11.840 is so so big for these guys. And you just 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:14.919 don't you think that all of these guys you know 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:18.679 that you watch on TV, the girls on the LPGA tour. UM. 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:21.439 Wherever players are playing golf, you think that everybody is 0:23:21.520 --> 0:23:24.600 just hugely confident and has a hundred percent you know, 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:26.560 control of what they're doing. And you know, most of 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:29.119 the times it's not like that. UM. But it's been 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:33.119 really fun UM to watch DJ play, UM, to watch 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:36.000 him drive the golf ball the way he's driven it. UM. 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:39.760 It's it's been a lot of fun UM, a lot 0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:43.200 a lot of reps with DJ. UM. DJ's warm ups 0:23:43.200 --> 0:23:46.000 I've talked to about this before. UM. He's about an 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:48.520 hour and a half UM, so he's hitting a lot 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:52.959 of balls in his warm ups. UM. And he sometimes 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:55.960 every now and again, you know, in around you know, 0:23:56.000 --> 0:23:59.879 we'll get to get about thirty minutes before he t 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:01.919 is off and he'll say, you know, I just felt something. 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:05.280 And I actually always think that it's really really good 0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:08.720 when a player that I'm working with, especially at the 0:24:08.840 --> 0:24:11.840 at the tour level, if they find something or feel 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:15.120 something on their own that I'm not telling them that 0:24:15.280 --> 0:24:17.560 they as the player are able to go you know, 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:19.879 I felt this, and it I always kind of like 0:24:20.000 --> 0:24:23.560 it when it's in a way that I'm not telling 0:24:23.640 --> 0:24:26.320 them to do right. I kind of like that when 0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:29.000 a player says, you know, I kind of felt you know, 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:31.800 and they put what they're trying to work on in 0:24:31.840 --> 0:24:35.320 their own words as opposed to just me telling them 0:24:35.400 --> 0:24:36.959 what to work on. And DJ does that a lot. 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:39.840 I think DJ probably does that more than you know, 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:42.199 any player that I've ever been around, because, believe it 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:46.080 or not, he is the ultimate field player. You wouldn't 0:24:46.119 --> 0:24:49.200 think so the way he plays golf because his strength 0:24:49.480 --> 0:24:55.439 is speed, power dominating with the driver. But DJ is 0:24:55.680 --> 0:25:01.639 very very much a field golfer, a field player. UM yeah, 0:25:01.720 --> 0:25:04.600 I mean it's it's been fun to watch the way 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:06.720 that he has played. It's been fun to watch the 0:25:06.760 --> 0:25:09.159 way that Brooks has played because when those two guys 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:12.879 are playing at the top of their game, UM, I 0:25:12.880 --> 0:25:15.320 don't care what tour you're on, I don't care where 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:20.000 you're playing. Um, they're in that group of players with 0:25:20.280 --> 0:25:24.240 John Ram and Rory McElroy. Um, the way Cam Smith 0:25:24.320 --> 0:25:26.240 is playing right now, the way he puts the golf 0:25:26.280 --> 0:25:29.480 ball when Justin Thomas is in full flow, when Calla 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:33.400 Morikawa's and you know has there are about ten players 0:25:33.400 --> 0:25:39.000 in the world, UM playing that when they're on they're 0:25:39.000 --> 0:25:41.800 tough to be and you know, Brooks and DJ are 0:25:41.840 --> 0:25:44.399 definitely two of those players. I'm looking forward to seeing 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:50.320 what holds for them and UM, I'm excited um to 0:25:50.400 --> 0:25:55.600 see how things go. Let's take a quick break and 0:25:55.680 --> 0:26:01.000 we are back workout drills or movements for people that 0:26:01.040 --> 0:26:05.280 are on the road often. UM, Listen, if you're traveling 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:07.159 a lot and you don't have the opportunity to hit 0:26:07.160 --> 0:26:09.800 a lot of golf balls and stuff, um, and you've 0:26:09.840 --> 0:26:13.359 got your clubs with you, I think shadow swings in 0:26:13.800 --> 0:26:17.600 um in your hotel room, especially now on the east 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:20.480 coast of the US with the weather getting bad, um 0:26:20.520 --> 0:26:22.080 in Europe, the weather is going to start to get 0:26:22.119 --> 0:26:24.200 a little bit rough for a lot of people. UM. 0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:28.280 Hitting balls inside, hitting making practice swings to where you're 0:26:28.359 --> 0:26:31.359 just making you know, swings with the golf club. You know, 0:26:31.800 --> 0:26:34.679 the things that you as the player are working on. 0:26:34.720 --> 0:26:37.080 If you're trying to get the golf club less inside, 0:26:37.119 --> 0:26:39.000 trying to get a feeling of the club going more 0:26:39.600 --> 0:26:41.440 you know outside, if you're trying to get the golf 0:26:41.440 --> 0:26:44.200 club more inside, if you're trying to get more depth, um, 0:26:44.200 --> 0:26:46.760 if you're trying to get more with with whatever it is, 0:26:46.880 --> 0:26:48.879 you're trying to work on in your golf swing. You 0:26:48.960 --> 0:26:52.920 can do that without a without hitting balls. You can 0:26:52.960 --> 0:26:54.919 work on it. Um. One of the things that I 0:26:54.960 --> 0:26:56.720 do with a lot of my students is if we 0:26:56.800 --> 0:27:00.760 are having them make a specific change or move in 0:27:00.800 --> 0:27:02.879 their golf swing, I would say, okay, go ahead and 0:27:02.880 --> 0:27:05.879 take a set up, no ball, and close your eyes 0:27:06.320 --> 0:27:09.760 and go ahead and make me a kind of conicum 0:27:09.840 --> 0:27:13.760 mon alta biz hub super slow mo golf swing all 0:27:13.800 --> 0:27:16.880 the way up to the top, and then a super 0:27:17.000 --> 0:27:21.280 slow motion swing all the way back to impact and 0:27:21.320 --> 0:27:24.320 then follow through. So you can do it in three stages. Right, 0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:25.960 You've just got a golf club, you've got no ball, 0:27:26.240 --> 0:27:28.600 take your set up, close your eyes. Whatever you're trying 0:27:28.640 --> 0:27:32.879 to feel, the positions, the movement patterns, the things that 0:27:32.920 --> 0:27:35.399 you're trying to work on in your golf swing, do 0:27:35.480 --> 0:27:37.680 it with your eyes closed and say, Okay, I'm gonna 0:27:37.680 --> 0:27:40.959 make as much of a slow motion back swing as 0:27:41.000 --> 0:27:44.040 I can and go up to the top and stop 0:27:44.080 --> 0:27:46.159 with my eyes closed, And just what does that feel like? 0:27:46.160 --> 0:27:48.520 The eyes closed just kind of gives you that you're 0:27:48.560 --> 0:27:50.639 not looking at what your body is doing. You're you're 0:27:50.720 --> 0:27:53.040 kind of getting an opportunity to feel what your body 0:27:53.119 --> 0:27:56.159 is doing. Um, go up to the top, do that 0:27:56.240 --> 0:27:58.719 and super slow motion a couple of times. Then go 0:27:58.800 --> 0:28:00.639 up there, go up to the top and stop, and 0:28:00.640 --> 0:28:03.720 then think, okay, I'm gonna start my down I'm gonna 0:28:03.800 --> 0:28:05.919 start the down swing. I'm going to do this in 0:28:06.000 --> 0:28:10.320 as slow emotion as I can possibly do back to impact, 0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:13.120 and then do that a couple of times, and then 0:28:13.119 --> 0:28:15.280 say okay, I'm gonna get back to impact and I'm 0:28:15.280 --> 0:28:18.119 gonna stop. Okay, and now I'm going to do a 0:28:18.240 --> 0:28:23.000 super slow motion version of from impact all the way 0:28:23.119 --> 0:28:27.320 up to my follow through. And those type of slow 0:28:27.400 --> 0:28:32.440 motion golf swings can be really really helpful. UM practice swings. 0:28:32.480 --> 0:28:34.400 I mean, there are a lot of instructors that talk 0:28:34.440 --> 0:28:37.560 a lot about that. I know, UM, Hank Haney is 0:28:37.600 --> 0:28:41.920 a big, big UM practice swing guy. Make as many 0:28:41.920 --> 0:28:46.040 practice swings as possible. So if you are traveling, UM 0:28:46.120 --> 0:28:47.760 and you've got your golf clubs, you can't get to 0:28:47.760 --> 0:28:51.480 the range and you you can't hit balls making swings 0:28:51.520 --> 0:28:54.200 just whatever, you're trying to work on those swings. If 0:28:54.200 --> 0:28:56.560 you're trying not to get the golf club too far 0:28:56.640 --> 0:28:59.280 behind you on the back swing. Get up against a wall, 0:28:59.600 --> 0:29:02.680 get your pockets of your shorts, your pants up against 0:29:02.680 --> 0:29:05.360 that wall, and try and make some slow motion backswings. 0:29:05.360 --> 0:29:07.880 And the idea would be to have the club head 0:29:08.320 --> 0:29:11.800 not hit the wall behind you. Right if you were 0:29:12.200 --> 0:29:14.920 someone that was taking the golf club too much outside, 0:29:15.040 --> 0:29:17.320 take a couple of steps away from the wall and 0:29:17.360 --> 0:29:19.720 in slow motion, try and feel like you're going to 0:29:19.760 --> 0:29:22.000 get the club head to hit the wall behind you. 0:29:22.320 --> 0:29:24.200 There are lots of things that you can do that 0:29:24.240 --> 0:29:28.720 are just kind of mimics the no ball, but isolating 0:29:28.760 --> 0:29:33.959 whatever motion that you have UM, I think can be hugely, 0:29:34.160 --> 0:29:41.080 hugely important, UM for a lot of golfers, especially UM. 0:29:41.160 --> 0:29:43.480 Now if you don't have the time and you don't 0:29:43.480 --> 0:29:48.240 have the weather to get out in practice, UM, what 0:29:48.320 --> 0:29:50.560 do average ams have to do to get to the 0:29:50.640 --> 0:29:54.640 next level? Mentally? I think that's a question that I 0:29:54.680 --> 0:29:56.640 get asked, you know a ton and I think I 0:29:56.680 --> 0:29:59.520 touched on that earlier, UM, you know and talking about 0:29:59.520 --> 0:30:04.120 Pat um Perez. It's easy to go to the range 0:30:04.160 --> 0:30:06.960 and and work on your golf swing. I think a 0:30:06.960 --> 0:30:10.480 lot of people do that, UM. But I think thinking 0:30:10.560 --> 0:30:15.840 your way around the golf course is hugely hugely important. UM. 0:30:15.880 --> 0:30:18.240 I was working with a high school golfer today just 0:30:18.720 --> 0:30:22.160 UM one Regional is qualified for the state championships UM 0:30:22.240 --> 0:30:25.560 next week up in Orlando. Here in Florida where they 0:30:25.600 --> 0:30:28.520 hold the state championships mission in. It is a very 0:30:28.600 --> 0:30:35.360 kind of funky, fiddly kind of golf course, right. Um, 0:30:35.400 --> 0:30:38.120 it's tight. Um. It can kind of make you feel 0:30:38.160 --> 0:30:40.440 really really close to phobic. And I think one of 0:30:40.480 --> 0:30:44.800 the things golf courses like that can do is put 0:30:44.840 --> 0:30:48.800 you playing defense, right and put you on the defensive. 0:30:49.320 --> 0:30:51.480 So what we did was we went through, we went 0:30:51.520 --> 0:30:55.440 to Google Earth. We kind of looked at all of 0:30:55.720 --> 0:30:58.880 kind of what the holes were, kind of looked at um, 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:01.640 you know, got a score card off the internet, looked 0:31:01.680 --> 0:31:05.320 at you know, what the scores were or what the 0:31:05.400 --> 0:31:08.560 yardages were. And basically we just kind of plotted his 0:31:08.720 --> 0:31:13.640 way around a tricky, difficult golf course. UM. And that's 0:31:13.680 --> 0:31:16.840 one way you can kind of change your mindset when 0:31:16.840 --> 0:31:18.959 you're thinking about going out and playing golf. It's your 0:31:19.000 --> 0:31:20.719 if it's your home course, if you play a lot 0:31:20.800 --> 0:31:23.200 of times, Let's say you're gonna even if you're just 0:31:23.200 --> 0:31:25.480 gonna go play casually. You know, if you're gonna go 0:31:25.480 --> 0:31:27.320 play nine holes or eight holes you're not playing in 0:31:27.320 --> 0:31:31.320 a tournament and say all right, the day before or 0:31:31.760 --> 0:31:36.280 while you're having your coffee go through you're around and say, okay, 0:31:36.280 --> 0:31:39.320 what am I going to hit off the first hole here? Um? 0:31:39.400 --> 0:31:41.160 What do I want to hit? You know? Where am 0:31:41.200 --> 0:31:42.920 I gonna hit? Driver? Where am I going to hit 0:31:43.560 --> 0:31:46.080 not driver? What holes am I going to lay up on? 0:31:46.160 --> 0:31:47.760 What holes am I not going to lay up on? 0:31:48.120 --> 0:31:50.200 What do the part three's look like? Where it's the 0:31:50.240 --> 0:31:54.680 easiest place on this green for me to um? I've 0:31:54.720 --> 0:31:56.520 talked about this on the pod before. If you think 0:31:56.520 --> 0:32:00.440 about the first green at your club, if you just 0:32:00.480 --> 0:32:03.320 went down and dropped the ball in the middle of 0:32:03.360 --> 0:32:06.760 every green, right, regardless of where they put the pins, 0:32:07.680 --> 0:32:09.800 how far away are they are you actually going to 0:32:09.840 --> 0:32:11.560 be from the hole? And that that would be a 0:32:11.600 --> 0:32:15.280 really cool thing to do, right, is to drive out 0:32:15.880 --> 0:32:19.320 um on your golf course. Do it one afternoon something, 0:32:19.480 --> 0:32:23.280 Go out and just drive out in a cart, drop 0:32:23.360 --> 0:32:25.840 the ball in the middle of the green and see 0:32:25.880 --> 0:32:27.600 if you just hit it to the middle of the 0:32:27.640 --> 0:32:30.960 green what kind of put you would have. I guarantee 0:32:31.000 --> 0:32:33.400 you you'll hit from if you hit the bland the 0:32:33.400 --> 0:32:36.239 ball in the middle of every green based off of 0:32:36.240 --> 0:32:38.280 where the pins are going to be. For eighteen holes, 0:32:38.520 --> 0:32:41.120 you're probably gonna hit You're gonna hit some good shots 0:32:41.160 --> 0:32:43.320 doing that based off where the pinions. But what you're 0:32:43.360 --> 0:32:44.840 not going to do is you're not going to miss 0:32:44.880 --> 0:32:48.360 green stuff. So actually going around your home course before 0:32:48.400 --> 0:32:53.520 you play and getting into that mental frame of mind, um, 0:32:53.560 --> 0:32:55.480 where you want to hit the golf ball. I think 0:32:55.520 --> 0:32:57.160 so many of us go out on the golf course. 0:32:57.240 --> 0:32:59.600 What I was talking about earlier with Pat Perez and 0:32:59.640 --> 0:33:01.400 all we is think about where we don't want to 0:33:01.440 --> 0:33:03.320 hit the golf ball, right, don't want to hit it 0:33:03.360 --> 0:33:04.840 in this direction, and we don't want to hit it 0:33:04.880 --> 0:33:06.480 in that direction. We don't want to hit it in 0:33:06.480 --> 0:33:10.080 the water, we don't want to hit it into um 0:33:10.160 --> 0:33:13.400 the bunkers. How about doing the opposite. How about standing 0:33:13.520 --> 0:33:15.960 up on the first hole and saying, this is where 0:33:16.000 --> 0:33:18.800 I want to hit the golf ball. Obviously you're not 0:33:18.840 --> 0:33:22.440 going to do that every time. Right, we're not tour players, 0:33:22.480 --> 0:33:26.000 were not tiger Woods. We're not justin Thomas Ruory McIlroy. Right. 0:33:26.520 --> 0:33:29.920 We may not have the command and control that the 0:33:29.960 --> 0:33:32.000 best players in the world do well. One of the 0:33:32.040 --> 0:33:34.400 things that we do have command and control over is 0:33:34.440 --> 0:33:37.520 the way that we think about the shots that we're hitting. 0:33:37.560 --> 0:33:40.880 So stand up and say, okay, this is where I 0:33:40.920 --> 0:33:43.360 want and I'm going to try and hit the golf ball. 0:33:43.880 --> 0:33:47.719 And if you don't do that, keep trying to do that, 0:33:47.800 --> 0:33:49.840 because I think what so many golfers do. I heard 0:33:49.880 --> 0:33:53.160 Bob Rotella wants um, Bob Rotella, the great you know 0:33:53.200 --> 0:33:55.400 golf sports psychologists would love players to go to the 0:33:55.440 --> 0:33:58.800 golf course with no swing thoughts, none, which is very, 0:33:58.880 --> 0:34:03.400 very difficult to do, and but he will. And I 0:34:03.440 --> 0:34:05.120 was I was working with Trevor Immelman, who has been 0:34:05.120 --> 0:34:07.400 on the pod before. UM. I was worrying with Trevor 0:34:07.440 --> 0:34:09.640 and Trevor was working with Rotela, and Rotella said, listen, 0:34:09.880 --> 0:34:11.200 I want you to go to the golf course with 0:34:11.320 --> 0:34:13.200 one swing thought. And Trevor was like, man, I just 0:34:13.280 --> 0:34:15.600 I can't do that. I need I need, I need 0:34:15.640 --> 0:34:18.319 at least two maybe even three. I just can't go 0:34:18.400 --> 0:34:22.280 to the golf course with one swing thought. And Rotelo 0:34:22.400 --> 0:34:25.520 was like, I want you to go with one swing thought, 0:34:25.600 --> 0:34:29.000 but I want you to keep that one swing thought 0:34:29.120 --> 0:34:31.719 for the entire round. So if you hit a bad shot, 0:34:31.760 --> 0:34:33.759 you can't throw it out. Because I think that's what 0:34:33.800 --> 0:34:36.160 a lot of us do, right, we have a even 0:34:36.160 --> 0:34:38.520 if we even if we are going to plan, and 0:34:38.560 --> 0:34:40.120 even if we are going to have a game plan 0:34:40.160 --> 0:34:42.880 and and and go to the golf course and and 0:34:43.000 --> 0:34:45.920 try and and stay positive. Yet one bad shot and 0:34:46.000 --> 0:34:48.359 you just we all do it. We throw it out 0:34:48.480 --> 0:34:50.440 and I'm gonna try something different. Now that didn't work. 0:34:50.480 --> 0:34:54.320 I didn't know. So taking one swing thought to the 0:34:54.320 --> 0:34:58.280 golf course and keeping it for eighteen holes because Rotella 0:34:58.320 --> 0:35:01.239 would say, if you're take king swing thoughts, which he 0:35:01.280 --> 0:35:03.840 doesn't want players to do, I think their minds shouldn't 0:35:03.840 --> 0:35:06.800 be thinking about technique. Their mind should be thinking about 0:35:07.160 --> 0:35:10.680 scoring an execution. But he'll let players take the one 0:35:10.719 --> 0:35:13.319 swing thought to the course, but he wants you to 0:35:13.400 --> 0:35:16.759 keep it for all eighteen holes because his theory is, 0:35:16.800 --> 0:35:18.960 if you take it to the golf course and you 0:35:19.000 --> 0:35:22.160 make one bad swing and you throw it out, what 0:35:22.239 --> 0:35:23.920 the hell was the point of taking the swing to 0:35:23.960 --> 0:35:25.759 the golf course in the first place if you're just 0:35:25.840 --> 0:35:27.840 going to throw it out, if you're not going to 0:35:27.920 --> 0:35:31.279 stick with it. So that's another thing. That getting for 0:35:31.360 --> 0:35:35.719 amateur golfers, getting to that next level mentally is saying, Okay, 0:35:35.760 --> 0:35:37.520 what is what is the key thing I need to 0:35:37.920 --> 0:35:40.000 do today on the golf course? Right? What is my 0:35:40.080 --> 0:35:42.640 one swing thought? And then I'm going to take that 0:35:42.719 --> 0:35:44.680 one swing thought and I'm going to keep that one 0:35:44.719 --> 0:35:49.120 swing thought for eighteen holes, regardless of what the outcome in. 0:35:49.520 --> 0:35:52.640 I'm going to stand on every t box, on every 0:35:52.640 --> 0:35:55.359 part four, every part five, every part three, and I'm 0:35:55.360 --> 0:35:59.880 going to have intent intention. I'm going to have an 0:36:00.080 --> 0:36:03.200 idea of what I try. I'm trying to do. Okay, 0:36:03.200 --> 0:36:06.120 I'm gonna pick a club, I'm gonna pick a shot, 0:36:06.400 --> 0:36:09.200 I'm gonna pick a shape, and I'm going to focus 0:36:09.200 --> 0:36:11.480 on trying to hit that. And if I don't do that, 0:36:11.840 --> 0:36:14.880 I'm gonna pick up where I left off on the 0:36:14.920 --> 0:36:17.600 next hole and try and do the exact same thing. 0:36:18.000 --> 0:36:21.520 And I think that is a huge, huge mental shift 0:36:22.200 --> 0:36:26.640 in in going to the golf course with positive thoughts, 0:36:27.120 --> 0:36:29.800 positive intention as opposed to go on the golf course 0:36:29.840 --> 0:36:33.279 and just kind of winging it and if it doesn't work, 0:36:33.320 --> 0:36:35.040 you try something else, and if it doesn't work, you 0:36:35.080 --> 0:36:37.439 try something else. And by the back nine you've tried 0:36:37.480 --> 0:36:39.440 four or five things, and let's be honest, it's not 0:36:39.480 --> 0:36:42.200 a surprise I'm not working because you're not giving them 0:36:42.200 --> 0:36:45.279 a long enough time to do it. UM. So I 0:36:45.320 --> 0:36:48.520 think that mental frame of mind on trying to stay positive, 0:36:48.600 --> 0:36:52.760 trying to stay in the present, focusing on each shot 0:36:53.840 --> 0:36:56.479 as they come, as opposed to thinking about the past 0:36:56.600 --> 0:36:59.160 or thinking about the future. UM, because I think that's 0:36:59.200 --> 0:37:05.880 really really hard to do. UM. Lastly, listen tons of 0:37:05.960 --> 0:37:09.600 questions about Live. I mean, obviously, UM, I work with 0:37:09.640 --> 0:37:12.520 three players on Live at the moment. I don't currently 0:37:12.560 --> 0:37:14.520 work with any players on the PGA tour. That's not 0:37:14.560 --> 0:37:17.480 because I don't want to be on the PJ tour. UM. 0:37:17.800 --> 0:37:20.160 I go where the players are, and currently the players 0:37:20.200 --> 0:37:22.800 I work with UM are on live. UM. It was 0:37:22.840 --> 0:37:27.680 a really really interesting UM. There are eight tournaments and 0:37:28.640 --> 0:37:31.120 it was it was a new experience. I mean, one 0:37:31.160 --> 0:37:33.719 of the questions I asked I got asked, UM. We've 0:37:33.719 --> 0:37:38.719 heard from live players and caddies, UM as to the 0:37:38.760 --> 0:37:41.799 differences of of being on live. What's the differences on 0:37:42.239 --> 0:37:45.959 coaching on live? UM, And a lot of the things 0:37:45.960 --> 0:37:50.799 that I've seen about UM. You know what's happening on live. UM. 0:37:50.840 --> 0:37:52.600 A lot of stuff that you see on Golf Channel, 0:37:52.640 --> 0:37:55.680 that you see on TV that you see reported, are 0:37:55.719 --> 0:37:58.319 are being reported and comments being made by people that 0:37:58.360 --> 0:38:02.799 have never experienced any of the term eaments. UM. So UM, 0:38:02.800 --> 0:38:07.000 My experience has been really really positive. UM. It's been 0:38:07.040 --> 0:38:10.040 a really interesting working environment, and it's been a very 0:38:10.200 --> 0:38:14.360 very different working environment as a coach UM than it 0:38:14.560 --> 0:38:18.680 than it has been in the past. On the PGA Tour, UM, 0:38:18.719 --> 0:38:21.000 I get to spend a lot more time with the 0:38:21.080 --> 0:38:26.000 player and the players UM during practice rounds from start 0:38:26.040 --> 0:38:29.839 to finish. UM. We have tended to kind of UM, 0:38:30.280 --> 0:38:32.600 stay in the same hotels. We're driving to the golf 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:36.080 course at the same time. One of the game changers is, UM, 0:38:36.200 --> 0:38:39.239 we get to the golf course in the morning, UM, 0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:42.719 and we can eat breakfast together. I can actually sit 0:38:42.760 --> 0:38:46.440 down with a player and a caddy and eat breakfast 0:38:46.520 --> 0:38:49.120 with him. Never been able to do that on the 0:38:49.120 --> 0:38:51.719 PGA Tour. The players go one place, the caddies go 0:38:51.800 --> 0:38:55.960 somewhere else. The coaches sometimes they let coaches in with 0:38:56.000 --> 0:38:58.120 what the caddies are doing. But then there have been 0:38:58.160 --> 0:39:01.399 many tournaments UM that I've worked on the PGA Tour 0:39:01.520 --> 0:39:04.839 where you're not allowed to sit with the caddies, you're 0:39:04.880 --> 0:39:07.839 not allowed to sit with the players. So that interaction, 0:39:07.920 --> 0:39:10.279 that team interaction of being able to sit down with 0:39:10.320 --> 0:39:14.239 the player and the caddy you know before around the 0:39:14.280 --> 0:39:16.239 interaction that you're able to have with a player and 0:39:16.280 --> 0:39:18.880 a caddy to sit down with them, you know, and 0:39:18.920 --> 0:39:23.400 have lunch after around. UM, that has been really really different, UM, 0:39:23.440 --> 0:39:27.920 and it has been, in my opinion, you're very UM 0:39:28.440 --> 0:39:32.480 kind of game changing. UM. It's it's it's made I 0:39:32.520 --> 0:39:34.960 think all of us feel a little bit more like 0:39:35.000 --> 0:39:38.720 we're part of the team. UM. And then the team 0:39:38.719 --> 0:39:41.520 concept that UM. A lot of people I don't think 0:39:41.640 --> 0:39:45.239 understand or get UM. But as someone that has been 0:39:45.280 --> 0:39:47.560 to all of the live events, as as someone that 0:39:47.640 --> 0:39:52.600 has coached UM and been a part of it was 0:39:53.120 --> 0:39:57.160 six winning teams, the team concept for the live guys 0:39:57.280 --> 0:40:03.360 is real. UM. Dustin Books their team captains. UM, they 0:40:03.600 --> 0:40:06.960 are looking at this UM in a very different way 0:40:07.000 --> 0:40:09.640 than I think they've ever looked at golf before. UM. 0:40:09.680 --> 0:40:11.959 They're looking at what the players are doing when they're 0:40:11.960 --> 0:40:15.360 on the golf course. UM. They're conscious of what the 0:40:15.440 --> 0:40:21.400 guys on their team are doing. UM. It's funny after 0:40:21.560 --> 0:40:24.920 some of the rounds when the guys get off. Everybody 0:40:24.920 --> 0:40:26.960 finished this at the same time because of the shotgun starts, 0:40:26.960 --> 0:40:30.440 So guys are finishing and you know DJ, who everybody 0:40:30.480 --> 0:40:32.640 thinks is kind of out there and doesn't even think, 0:40:33.040 --> 0:40:35.560 you know, he'll get out of scoring. He'll be coming 0:40:35.560 --> 0:40:38.920 out of scoring, and and Pat Perez or Taylor Gooch 0:40:39.040 --> 0:40:41.919 or Patrick Read the guys that are on his team, 0:40:42.000 --> 0:40:44.880 he'll say you finished on four under, you finished on 0:40:44.920 --> 0:40:48.560 three under, meaning he knows what they're doing. He's watching 0:40:48.600 --> 0:40:51.680 what their scores are doing on the golf course. Um, 0:40:51.760 --> 0:40:54.040 half the time, you know, we'd get back to the 0:40:54.120 --> 0:40:55.920 range and uh, you know when we were on on 0:40:55.960 --> 0:40:58.239 the PGA Tour, somebody be hit and balls, Hey what'd 0:40:58.239 --> 0:41:00.560 you shoot today? You know, he wouldn't have a clue. 0:41:00.960 --> 0:41:03.800 So the fact that he's got guys, and each of 0:41:04.200 --> 0:41:08.000 these teams have guys on their team, Um, that part 0:41:08.040 --> 0:41:10.680 of it has been I didn't expect that to be 0:41:11.600 --> 0:41:14.000 as real and I sure as hell didn't expect it 0:41:14.040 --> 0:41:16.120 to be as fun as it's been. Um, it has 0:41:16.120 --> 0:41:19.960 made everybody. I mean, that's the cool thing. Um, you 0:41:20.000 --> 0:41:24.319 know DJ's team, the four races we breakfast together, we 0:41:24.560 --> 0:41:27.960 go to the range together, we play practice rounds together, 0:41:28.120 --> 0:41:32.319 we lunched together. Um, we go out to dinner together. Um. 0:41:32.440 --> 0:41:35.520 The caddies are doing team dinners. UM, the players are 0:41:35.520 --> 0:41:37.799 doing team dinners. And then you know, at least once 0:41:37.800 --> 0:41:44.480 a week, the entire team, players, coaches, caddies, everybody associated 0:41:44.520 --> 0:41:47.960 with these teams all get together and go out. Um. 0:41:48.120 --> 0:41:50.400 We never did that on the PGA Tour. UM. So 0:41:50.560 --> 0:41:56.560 that has been really really unique and refreshing and UM 0:41:56.600 --> 0:41:59.640 a lot of fun. And UM, Listen, I know this 0:41:59.680 --> 0:42:02.359 whole thing, you know, between Live and the PGA Tour 0:42:02.520 --> 0:42:06.600 is very very political. It's very polarizing, and I know 0:42:06.680 --> 0:42:12.320 it there. It's like there's a line in the sand. Um. 0:42:12.360 --> 0:42:15.399 All I know is my experience on Live was great 0:42:15.440 --> 0:42:18.719 this year. UM. And I think the frustrating thing for 0:42:18.800 --> 0:42:24.560 me is, UM, I saw some unbelievable golf being played. Um, 0:42:24.600 --> 0:42:27.719 I really really did. UM. And I don't listen. I 0:42:27.800 --> 0:42:31.560 have seen, I've I've I've been a part of seven 0:42:31.560 --> 0:42:36.600 major championship teams. I have worked with and helped on 0:42:36.680 --> 0:42:39.560 a team to get two separate players to number one 0:42:39.560 --> 0:42:43.000 in the world. And I've probably helped players win over 0:42:43.160 --> 0:42:46.600 fifty tournaments. Um, I know what good golf is. I 0:42:46.640 --> 0:42:50.960 know what good golf shots are. UM. And I saw 0:42:51.760 --> 0:42:55.719 some unbelievable golf this year on Live. Um, I saw 0:42:55.760 --> 0:42:58.839 some unbelievable golf this year on the PGA Tour. And 0:42:59.400 --> 0:43:03.080 I I love golf, right. I love watching golf swings, 0:43:03.440 --> 0:43:06.200 I love watching players. I love watching players stand up 0:43:06.600 --> 0:43:11.000 and hit shots. UM. And I've seen that this year. UM. 0:43:11.040 --> 0:43:14.359 And I've I've been impressed with the golf that I've seen. UM. 0:43:14.440 --> 0:43:18.040 I've been so impressed in being able to watch Cam 0:43:18.120 --> 0:43:22.319 Smith play up close. Um, it's been a lot of fun. 0:43:22.360 --> 0:43:24.640 It's been a lot of fun to watch some of 0:43:24.640 --> 0:43:27.480 the players that Yeah, okay, it's easy to look at 0:43:27.840 --> 0:43:29.640 a guy like Peter you Line. Mean every time Peter 0:43:29.680 --> 0:43:32.640 you Line plays good now and live everybody just as well. 0:43:32.680 --> 0:43:34.720 He couldn't win on the PGA Tour, and he couldn't 0:43:34.760 --> 0:43:37.000 do this, and he couldn't do that. Okay, fine, if 0:43:37.040 --> 0:43:40.200 that's the narrative you've got, fine. But the way Peter 0:43:40.320 --> 0:43:44.440 u Line has played this year and the confidence he's taken, UM, 0:43:44.480 --> 0:43:46.920 it's been fun to watch. UM. I got to watch 0:43:47.160 --> 0:43:50.240 you know, a bunch of players who's you know, names 0:43:50.280 --> 0:43:53.040 that I struggle to pronounce. I got to watch them, 0:43:53.080 --> 0:43:56.799 you know from Asia. Um that aren't household names that 0:43:56.880 --> 0:43:59.520 maybe everybody doesn't know. But I've gotten to watch these 0:43:59.600 --> 0:44:02.920 kids a golf um, watch them, watch their golf swings, 0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:07.239 watch them practice. UM. And that's what turns me on. 0:44:07.280 --> 0:44:10.520 I'm I'm a fan of golf. I'm a fan of golfers. UM, 0:44:10.560 --> 0:44:13.840 I'm a fan of golf swings and UM, you know, 0:44:13.880 --> 0:44:15.320 I don't. I had a lot of people ask me 0:44:15.400 --> 0:44:18.120 questions where all is play out? You know, what happens 0:44:18.239 --> 0:44:21.320 moving forward? Listen. I wish I knew the answer to 0:44:21.320 --> 0:44:24.440 that question. I don't know, UM, But what I do 0:44:24.520 --> 0:44:28.320 know is, UM, I think Live is here to stay. UM. 0:44:28.360 --> 0:44:30.400 I think the PGA Tour is not going anywhere. I 0:44:30.400 --> 0:44:33.600 think the new schedule, the elevated events, and all the 0:44:33.640 --> 0:44:37.240 things that have changed this year in this crazy, crazy 0:44:37.320 --> 0:44:40.319 year of of of professional golf. UM, I think we're 0:44:40.320 --> 0:44:45.280 going to see a very very strong PGA Tour next year. UM. 0:44:45.320 --> 0:44:48.080 I think you know, the PGA Tour has so many 0:44:48.120 --> 0:44:52.600 good players playing on it. You know, Rory McElroy, Justin, Thomas, 0:44:53.200 --> 0:44:55.920 John rom You know, if you look at the players 0:44:55.920 --> 0:44:57.799 that play on the PGA Tour right now. I mean, 0:44:58.320 --> 0:44:59.960 they've got some of the best players in the world. 0:45:00.360 --> 0:45:02.280 I believe that Live has some of the best players 0:45:02.280 --> 0:45:06.120 in the world as well, And I personally believe that 0:45:06.360 --> 0:45:08.360 they can both be true at the same time. The 0:45:08.400 --> 0:45:11.000 PGA Tour can do what it does, Live can do 0:45:11.040 --> 0:45:14.200 what it does. And if you're a fan of one, 0:45:15.360 --> 0:45:17.879 that's fine. If you're not a fan of the other, 0:45:18.920 --> 0:45:21.560 that's okay too. I mean, that's I don't have a 0:45:21.560 --> 0:45:24.000 problem with that. There are people that don't like Live 0:45:24.160 --> 0:45:27.239 for whatever the reasons are. That's that's your choice. That 0:45:27.320 --> 0:45:29.880 you're prerogative. If you are a fan of what's happening 0:45:29.880 --> 0:45:31.840 on Live and you like it and you're watching and 0:45:31.880 --> 0:45:36.520 it appeals to you, that's cool too. But UM, I 0:45:36.560 --> 0:45:41.320 hope that in three we see UM I'd like to 0:45:41.320 --> 0:45:45.680 see less animosity between the players. UM because to me, 0:45:46.560 --> 0:45:52.920 I support players, I support players competing playing, and I 0:45:53.200 --> 0:46:01.759 also also massively support every professional golfer and professional athlete 0:46:02.120 --> 0:46:05.960 making money. I have no problem with it because when 0:46:05.960 --> 0:46:08.680 you're in sports at the highest level as a coach 0:46:08.760 --> 0:46:12.560 like I am, you realize that you can't fake it 0:46:12.640 --> 0:46:16.000 and phone it in you. It just it just doesn't happen. 0:46:16.480 --> 0:46:19.400 You have to stand up and hit shots when it counts, 0:46:19.920 --> 0:46:24.520 and you have to play good, right, And yeah, the 0:46:24.560 --> 0:46:27.120 money they're playing on at Live is more than they're 0:46:27.120 --> 0:46:29.160 playing on at the PGA Tour. So there are some 0:46:29.200 --> 0:46:32.080 guys that made a lot of money, um, but they 0:46:32.080 --> 0:46:37.239 didn't make a lot of money because they can't play. UM. 0:46:37.280 --> 0:46:42.440 And that no Joe, that goes towards the the anti 0:46:42.480 --> 0:46:46.120 liv pinata. You know, Pat Perez, Yeah, Pat wishes he 0:46:46.160 --> 0:46:49.000 would have played better in some tournaments this this year, 0:46:49.120 --> 0:46:51.600 for sure. But to make out like this guy's a 0:46:51.640 --> 0:46:54.920 bum and he's got no talent and he's just riding 0:46:55.000 --> 0:46:59.640 DJ's coattails, I think if that's your opinion, UM, I 0:46:59.640 --> 0:47:04.280 think you're misinformed as to what's actually happening UM, because 0:47:04.840 --> 0:47:08.520 I just don't see that. Um. And like I said, 0:47:08.520 --> 0:47:11.120 I'm a fan of golf, and UM, I'll continue to 0:47:11.160 --> 0:47:13.080 be a fan of golf, whether it's on the PGA Tour, 0:47:13.680 --> 0:47:16.640 whether it's on Live, whether it's on the DP World Tour, 0:47:16.719 --> 0:47:19.080 whether it's in Asia, whether it's on the l p 0:47:19.239 --> 0:47:21.480 g A, whether it's on the Champce Tour, I'm a 0:47:21.480 --> 0:47:24.799 fan of golf, and I am a fan of golfers 0:47:24.960 --> 0:47:29.120 first and foremost, and hopefully in three UM, some of 0:47:29.160 --> 0:47:34.160 the the aggressive um us against them, them against us, 0:47:34.440 --> 0:47:36.520 maybe some of that changes, maybe it doesn't. Maybe I'm 0:47:36.600 --> 0:47:39.839 naive and thinking that. I don't know, but I saw 0:47:39.880 --> 0:47:43.160 some great golf um on all the tours this year. 0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:45.440 And you know, as we're going into offseason now, the 0:47:45.440 --> 0:47:47.800 PGA Tour has got a couple of weeks left, LPG 0:47:48.040 --> 0:47:51.640 not long and lives off until next year. Hopefully in 0:47:51.640 --> 0:47:56.799 this offseason, you know, everybody takes step back and UM, 0:47:56.920 --> 0:47:59.320 hopefully we can get talk get back to talking about 0:47:59.360 --> 0:48:03.560 players hitting great shots and winning tournaments, regardless of where 0:48:03.600 --> 0:48:06.200 that is. Because like I said, I'm a fan of golf. 0:48:06.600 --> 0:48:11.600 I know everybody is, and hopefully cooler heads will prevail. 0:48:12.920 --> 0:48:15.560 So I want to thank everyone for listening. UM, if 0:48:15.560 --> 0:48:19.440 you like the the questions shows, UM, let me know 0:48:19.480 --> 0:48:21.200 on social because I'm happy to do more of these 0:48:21.239 --> 0:48:24.120 and I'm happy to devote some you know, maybe some 0:48:24.160 --> 0:48:28.239 shorter episodes to just questions UM, no guests, and you 0:48:28.239 --> 0:48:30.760 guys get an opportunity to hear what I think about golf. 0:48:30.880 --> 0:48:34.000 So UM, thanks everyone for listening. Son of a Bunch 0:48:34.080 --> 0:48:37.719 comes to you every Wednesday. We'll see you next week.