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And um full disclosure my 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.040 body is not great at back surgery out of micro 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.240 di sect to me in two thousand eleven, UM I 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:39.280 have almost zero internal hip rotation on both my left 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.600 and my right hip. UM. Dave Phillips, who has been 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:46.400 on the podcast before, and Greg Rows, the co founders 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.080 of the Titles Performance Institute, UM I'm I'm on the 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.680 tp I advisory board. But when they started doing their 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.560 t p I seminars, you know, level one and really 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.720 started to introduce back in I guess probably two thousand 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.840 four or two thousand five started to introduce their movement screen. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:06.160 UM testing your ability to internally rotate on both hips 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.680 is part of their Big twelve right, the Big twelve 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:13.080 M things that they test and and clauses main issues. 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.480 So they used to pull me up on stage and 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.640 UM I would get down and they would check my 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:21.280 internal hip rotation and everybody in the crowd would laugh 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:27.079 because it was basically zero. UM. I have very little 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.560 internal hip rotation. So if you think about what we're 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.160 asking your lower body to do when you're hitting golf balls, 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.480 is if you're a right handed golfer, as you make 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.840 your back swing, as your hips turn, you're going to 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:41.800 internally rotate into that right hip. You're internally rotating into 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.080 the right hip. You're externally rotating on the left hip. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.720 Then on the down swing, you're going to internally rotate 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.720 into that left hip and the right hip is going 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.920 to externally rotate. That's very, very difficult for me to 0:03:56.000 --> 0:04:00.120 do physically. So as a result of that, I have 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:05.640 the classic issue with limited hip rotation, which is early 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.880 extension or what we call thrust. Your lower body is 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:13.440 getting closer to the golf ball on the backswing and 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:18.880 probably more so on the down swing. That's my swing issue. So, um, 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.320 I can't get a lot of rotation. I don't have 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.919 a lot of speed. Um, I had a lot of 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.799 balls thin. I had a lot of balls fat because 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:31.240 as I start my downswing, my pelvis gets moving closer 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.719 to the golf ball, then my upper body has to 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.120 back out. You always want to remember that when you're 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.840 hitting golf balls, whichever direction your hips are going, your 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.640 upper body is going to tend to go in the 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:45.440 opposite direction to keep you balanced. So if you're setting 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.040 up in your golf posture and you move your lower 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.840 body closer to the golf ball without stepping closer to golf, 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.360 but just move your lower body closer to the golf ball. 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.680 The upper body has to go back to try and 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.359 keep you some balance. And that's the issue that I 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:03.479 have in my golf swing. Physically, Um, it's very very 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.839 difficult for me to do a lot of the things 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.279 that I know that I need to do, which is 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.680 keep my hips back on the downswing that kind of 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:13.960 push back, I get a lot of weight up into 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.359 my toes because as much as I know what I 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:21.080 need to do, um, physically I just can't do any 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:25.600 of it. So whenever I'm contemplating hitting golf balls or 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:30.080 playing golf, UM, I always come at it from, Okay, 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.400 what am I going to do to try and offset 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.120 the issues that I have with my body? Because the 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.360 majority of the bad shots that I hid in my 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.760 golf swing, they're not concept issues, right you know, someone 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:46.839 that gives you know, thousands upon thousands of golf lessons 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:53.000 for the last years, I know how to fix my problem, 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.040 but physically it's really really tough for me to do that. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.640 So it's frustrating because, um, I can't hit a lot 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.880 of golf balls because my back hurts, and I was 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.200 in back pain for so long. Anybody listening that's been 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.120 in back pain, that has had back surgery, you know, um, 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.640 you'll do anything to not have to feel that way again. 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.560 It was debilitating. Um I got to wear in two 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:18.200 thousand eleven, in the kind of spring summer, I I 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.919 couldn't walk, and so that's what made me, you know, 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.600 go in for surgery so my back doesn't hurt if 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:28.080 I don't do a lot of rotational stuff. Golf inherently, unfortunately, 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.279 just isn't great for for my body because my lower body. 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.560 Um So, I have to stretch, i have to do 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.400 a lot of body preps. Um, I've got a you know, 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:43.560 phone role, I've got to um theragon, I've got the 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.640 hyper ice that the heat thing that you put around 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.280 your back. So I've got to do all of that 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.039 before I hit golf balls. Um So, like I said, 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.640 when I play golf, my misses. It's really it's it's 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.839 incredibly frustrating for me because I fundamentally know what my 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.000 problem is, and I fundamentally know how to fix the 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:06.320 problem technique wise, but physically, my body just doesn't want 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.720 to do that. So when I think about building my 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.480 golf swing and trying to figure out, you know how 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.960 to hit a golf ball. I don't hit a lot 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:20.720 of golf balls. Um so I went. Um I went 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.520 to one lengths from Cobra about four or five years 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.080 ago when they first came out, UH and a huge 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.360 shout out to Ben Showman. He got me all the 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.440 new UH. He got me new Cobrat one length irons. 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:32.760 Um we got the l a golf chafts in those 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.120 which I was trying out for the first time in 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.600 the irons and and really really liked the Marina Alex 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.520 who I played with in in the Floridian Pro member 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.360 this weekend this past weekend, she uses that iron shaft. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.200 Pat Perez, who I work with, uses that iron shaft. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:50.080 Um So I'm a one length guy. They built me 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.040 the new ones. I got the new UH Cobra driver, 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.640 which UM, I can't wait for everybody to get an 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:59.200 opportunity to hit that next year. Um it's really really 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:04.400 really good it And um so the one length irons 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:08.040 really really helped me because everything, as if you don't know, 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:09.880 everything's kind of the length of a seven iron. So 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.680 all the irons not my wedges. Um, I can't. I 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.200 can't go that militant like Bryson does. So my sand wedge, 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.040 my lob wedge, my my gap wedge, those are just 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.880 regular length. But all the rest of my irons are 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:27.280 the length of a seven iron. So um, again, because 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.280 my body isn't great, because I don't have a lot 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:33.680 of speed. Um the long the last iron I actually have, 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.480 and my golf bag is a six iron, and then 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.600 I've got a five hybrid, a four hybrid, and then 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.640 a three hybrid. I don't carry a three would because 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.120 I can I can never get three was off the 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:49.000 ground in the air and um a driver. So but 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.679 one likes really helped me because um, everything is the 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.880 length of a seven iron, so they're a little bit 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:58.199 easier for me to control. When I in the past, um, 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.440 regular length golf clubs, I start to bend over too much. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.280 Um it starts to you know, get a little bit 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.440 of of of grief to my lower back. But really, um, 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.800 it's hard for me to take divots with regular length 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.600 golf clubs because I get so much thrust, so much 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.160 early extension. So the one lengths helped me. I feel 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.520 like I can compress it. I feel like I can, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.679 you know somewhat get down to the golf ball. So 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.240 I thought, Okay, I'm I've got to go play, and 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.960 I've got to figure out a swing that that I 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.160 can repeat and that can I can make somewhat work. 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.240 I would love to be able to draw the golf ball. 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:38.280 UM It's it's the holy grail for me. But every 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.960 time I try and draw hit draws, I just get 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.079 more of the lower body going to the to the 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.640 golf ball. I get a ton of thin shots. I 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.880 get a tremendous amount of hand rotation because my lower 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.560 body is going closer to the ball. It's stalls out, 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.800 my chest stalls out, my feet get moving around. I 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.480 get a lot of weight on my toes. UM. And 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.960 I don't really um, like I said, I don't take 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.440 a lot of divots and UM, I don't compress the 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.480 golf ball a lot specs, especially when I'm trying to 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.280 hit draws. So UM and then the other thing. I 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:12.360 posted a video on on Instagram, UM of me hitting 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:13.959 a shot on the eighteenth hole at for Ready and 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.440 with the driver. And UM, I play left handed, I 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.360 can play golf both directions. UM, I can play golf 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.800 left handed and right handed. I have two sets of everything. UM, 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.840 I played golf right handed until life is about eighteen. 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.880 And then my grandfather, um I was asking me some 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.360 questions about my golf. And I played hockey, and I 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.800 played hockey as a kid, and I played UM, I 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:38.400 hit a hockey puck left handed, and I had a 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.200 baseball left handed. So he asked me one day to 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.360 watch me. He said, Hey, let's let's find a left 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.760 handed club and watch you hit someone. I have a 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.280 lot more speed left handed, I have a lot more power, 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.680 and I have a lot more consistency. So UM, for 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:56.240 demo purposes, if I'm doing um demoing golf lessons or 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.680 doing anything you know, media wise, I'll do it right handed. 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.679 But when I do play golf, I play golf left handed. UM. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:06.280 So I thought, all right, let me figure out what 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.200 I can do to first and foremost, just hit the 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.200 golf ball solid um. And I think you've heard me 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.520 on the pod talk about this for a long time. UM, 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.719 the average golfer. And I am an average golfer, right, 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:23.520 I'm just like everybody listening. Um, you know, golf is 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.880 not easy. UM. I hit a lot of bad shots. Um, 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.000 I hit some good shots, but you know, I don't 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.040 even know what my handicap would be because you know, 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.160 I never play golf. Um, if I was to guess, 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:39.560 I'd probably say I'd probably be somewhere around, you know, 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:44.800 an eight or ten. Let's take a quick break and 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:49.880 we are back. So I was thinking, what can I 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:54.720 do to hit the golf ball? Solid um? So fading 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:59.640 the golf ball is is is the the shot that 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.920 can hit and the reason why I can hit it is. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.120 My tendency with my golf swing is my backswing is 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.120 always historically gotten really really on the inside and then 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.840 it gets really really stuck and underneath behind me. On 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.719 the down swing, my lower body gets closer to the 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.079 golf ball, my upper body backs out, get a lot 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.080 of weight up on my toes, my footwork my lead 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.560 foot for me, my right foot, the heels always sliding around, 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:25.480 and I have a lot of backup. That's where I 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:27.600 get the thin shots, That's where I get the heavy shots. 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.880 So um, I was thinking, Okay, what can I do? 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:32.400 I mean, my angle of attack when I get on 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.160 a launch monitor with with a seven iron is what 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.560 most people's are that play the PJ. I mean, I'm 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.119 hitting up on a seven iron, which is just it's horrendous. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.560 And again I know that I know that I need 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.960 to hit down on the golf ball with my irons. Right. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:49.800 I give you know, thousands, thousands of golf lessons telling 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:51.719 people you've got to hit down on the golf ball, 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:53.280 you've got to take a divot, you've got to cover. 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.319 So I know all of this stuff, right, I know 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.920 how to teach it, I know how to explain it. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.680 But when I hit golf balls and when I play golf, 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:11.400 it's just it's it's so frustrating because I just at 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.280 times can't get my body to do what my mind 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:18.160 is telling it to do. Um. So I thought to myself, 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.440 all right, I'm gonna hit some faith. So gave myself 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.480 about three weeks and what I just started doing every 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.840 single day, sometimes for fifteen minutes, sometimes it was only 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.720 for five minutes. Sometimes it was for half hour, half hours, 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.720 about as much as I could, you know, hit golf 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.960 balls with with my back. Um. I just said to myself, listen, 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.720 I'm going to try and just hit golf balls every 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.200 day for the next three weeks. Um. I think it 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.920 took a couple of days off on on the weekend. Um. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.040 But I said, you know, if it's five minutes, if 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.800 it's ten minutes, it's fifteen. Thirty minutes is the cap 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.080 for me. Um, And a lot of this was with 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.000 really really short iron. So UM I went out, having 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.360 not hit a golf ball and really almost two years. 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.040 UM I went out, got my sand wedge and said, Okay, 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.280 I am just gonna try and hit slices with my sandwich. 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:06.840 So I'm going to feel like I take the golf 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.000 club straight outside, I feel like I come over the 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.280 top of it. Again, I'm right handed, so I'm gonna 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.400 try and feel like I swing down into the right 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.320 as much as I can. And UM I had some 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:22.680 decent success with that with the sandwich. UM on day one, Um, yeah, 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.400 I mean listen, I hit a couple of shanks, hit 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.920 a couple then uh laid the salt over a couple 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.560 you know, hit behind it. But um hit balls for 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.720 about fifteen minutes and said, okay, I'm just going to 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.440 try and feel like I make a really exaggerated cut move, 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:40.160 an exaggerated slice move. I was able to get someone video. 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.400 I was able to get some on swing catalyst to 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.400 kind of see you know what it looked like, see 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.920 what my body was doing. Um, like everybody listening, feel 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.120 and real are two completely different things. When I feel 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.160 like I'm taking the golf club straight outside, it's actually 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:58.520 somewhat neutral. Um. And then what I feel like is 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.640 massively right with a path, feel like I'm coming over it. 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:06.560 Actually most of the time isn't UM. But I just 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.320 wanted to get that feeling. Um. You know, I kind 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.360 of laid a club down on the ground that was 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.040 on an angle to where I was able to angle 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:16.840 it to where I felt like I was taking it, 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.360 you know, very much on the outside, and then you know, 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.840 angle it and feel like I'm swinging across my body. Um. 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:24.800 And then I kind of went to hitting some sand 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.800 wedges and it was a drill um that I kind 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:32.480 of liked. So I just started doing like exaggerated chip shots, 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:37.400 big exaggerated cut chip shot swings, and you know, got 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.040 the feeling. And again I picked out a target and 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.120 I just started out and said, Okay, the first thing 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.160 I'm going to work on, same thing I I talked 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.600 about a lot UM. I said to myself, Okay, give 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.040 myself a target. I'm not really worried about how far 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:50.600 the ball goes, but what I'm going to try and 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.040 do is just consistently start for this this practice session, 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.240 how long, however long it is. If I'm able to 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.200 balls for five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen, I'm just gonna 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.080 try and feel like I start the golf ball right 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.760 and feel like I'm making a big cut swing. And 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.280 if I can get to where I can consistently start 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.520 the golf ball to the right, I think it's it's 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.320 somewhat of a win. Um And I was able to 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.320 do that. I was able to really get the feeling 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:17.800 of a big slice. Because my body, um doesn't have 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.240 a tremendous amount of rotation. The hard thing for me 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.720 in my golf swing is is to try and minimize 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.240 my hand action. UM. I catch a lot of balls 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.880 in the neck, catch a lot of balls, you know, 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.440 off the toe, and um, I have a lot of 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.280 face rotation. And again this is something that I that 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:37.160 I try and coach out of players you know, all 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:41.520 the time. UM, I know all of the things, and 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.640 I'm working through when I'm hitting balls on my own, 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.840 I'm working through some of these theories and some of 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:50.760 these ideas. But again, just sticking with one specific swing 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:56.200 thought and the goal was just to you know, keep practicing. UM, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.200 not these marathon practice sessions, but just you know, ten 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.280 fifteen minutes day and UM, I got to where, you know, 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.280 the irons got to be a pretty solid. Um. You 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.200 know I was catching. Yeah, I still catch some bad 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.600 bad ones in the neck, get some off the toe. 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:16.320 But UM, I really felt like these half three quarter 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.800 like chip shot practice swings really gave me the feeling 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.160 of what I was trying to do with my takeaway 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.240 and really gave me the feeling of what I was 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.639 trying to do with my downswing. And then you know, 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.760 the thought is trying to feel like the heel is 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:36.560 leading the toe into impact. That isn't what happens in reality. 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.240 I'm able to get on a launch monitor and see that. UM. 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:40.719 I can see what the path is doing. I can 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.119 see what the face is doing. UM. But for me, 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:48.480 it's more about trying to match up, um some feelings 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.840 to these swing thoughts that I had. UH. And I 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.160 made a promise to myself, UM, you know in these 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.400 three weeks in the run up up to the tournament, 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:04.640 that I was going to stick with one thought, one shape, 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:10.320 one you know, just try and hit fades with everything. UM. 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.000 Sometimes they fade a lot. Sometimes they don't fade a lot, 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.240 but UM, just kind of stick to one kind of 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:21.760 specific idea. UM. And you know I had, you know, 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.639 the swing thought in the back swing was take the 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.080 golf club as outside as you can take it. And 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.760 then the swing thought on the down swing is swing 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.879 as far to the right as you can. UM. The 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:34.800 other thing that helps me is if I get to 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:39.400 square with my setup. UM. I don't have any rotation 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.159 or very little rotation anyway in my golf swing, so 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:47.359 getting set up square just makes my internal rotation even worse. 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:51.119 It shuts it off even more so. UM. I have 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.320 to get really kind of open um flare my right 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.560 foot out, which helps me clear a little bit better, 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.520 but kind of a left handed version of the lee 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.200 Trevina set up. UM. More so with the long stop, 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.359 specifically with the driver, UM, I have to feel like 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:10.080 I'm aiming, you know, way way to the right and 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.359 then feel like I'm cutting it back online. Once the 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.040 tournament started on the first hole, UM, I've never played 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:19.520 golf before with Marina alex um, even though I coach her. UM, 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:21.240 I spent all my time watching her hit golf ball. 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.560 So it was fun. We've never played together before, and 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.560 we've never she'd never seen me really play golf or 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.120 hit golf ball. So the first hole she was like, man, 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:31.840 you were aiming in the in the right trees, you're 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.040 aiming in the cart path. But then you were able 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.160 to cut it back in And I said, listen, that's 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:40.520 what I have to do to UM, you know, hit 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:44.280 a golf ball to to hit it solid. UM. I 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:48.159 also have been experimenting and have gone to UM a 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:52.040 version of these Jumbo Max scripts that Um Bryson uses. 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.120 I don't use the model that he's got, but their 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.840 oversized grip, but there's no taper, so they're the same 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.800 size at the top as they are at the bottom. Again, 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:03.159 I did that and I messed around with it a 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.600 couple of years ago, just hitting wedges with it, because 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:09.160 I do get a lot of hand manipulation and face 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:13.360 closure and all those things, and my left hand, when 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:15.920 the grip is the same size at the top as 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.560 it is at the bottom, it gives me a little 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:23.280 bit more feeling of control UM with my hands. UM. 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.080 When I have a normal grip in my hand, I 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.280 get a lot of a lot of hand action. So 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:35.600 oversized grips, UM, and then putting arm lock. So what 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:40.000 I'm basically saying is I'm trying to do everything I 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:44.800 can possibly do to help myself. Right. UM. You know 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:50.600 I've got big, oversized, big cavity back irons. UM, I've 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:53.720 got big grips, I've got a graphite, UM. I've got 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.440 a bag full of hybrids. UM. I've got a ship 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:59.560 tunnel loft on my driver UM, and all of it 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.399 is just designed to try and make playing golf as 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:07.000 easy as possible. So let's take a short break and 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:10.840 we will be back right after this. All right, let's 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:15.440 get back to the interview. Because I didn't play a 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:19.320 lot of golf growing up, UM, somewhat when I do 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:23.320 play golf, UM, I'll be honest, I somewhat have imposter syndrome, 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:30.080 right because, UM, I'm not good UM, and at times 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:31.760 I don't. The other reason why I don't like to 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:33.920 play a lot of golf is sometimes it's it's it's 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:36.480 pretty embarrassing because I mean, you know, I work with 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:38.000 some of the best players in the world. I've worked 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:40.160