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Speaker 1: actually played golf episode. I haven't played golf in two
Speaker 1: years and played Golf of the Weekend in the Floridian
Speaker 1: Pro Member and UM, yeah, it takes a village to
Speaker 1: get me to to play golf. UM. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of moving parts. UM, but I think that's basically what
Speaker 1: everybody that a lot of people that are listening kind
Speaker 1: of go through the same thing. And you know, as
Speaker 1: someone that UM works with good players and works with
Speaker 1: people that you watch on TV, UM, golf is never
Speaker 1: easy for me. So UM talked a little bit about that.
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Speaker 1: dot Com backslash Podcast. I've played golf in two years?
Speaker 1: Haven you know? Teed it up? Played any golf in
Speaker 1: in two years? That's that's by design. Um. My entire
Speaker 1: life is golf, and so if I can get any
Speaker 1: chance to get away from playing golf, I try and
Speaker 1: take it because it can just be kind of all
Speaker 1: consuming and overwhelming at times. And um full disclosure my
Speaker 1: body is not great at back surgery out of micro
Speaker 1: di sect to me in two thousand eleven, UM I
Speaker 1: have almost zero internal hip rotation on both my left
Speaker 1: and my right hip. UM. Dave Phillips, who has been
Speaker 1: on the podcast before, and Greg Rows, the co founders
Speaker 1: of the Titles Performance Institute, UM I'm I'm on the
Speaker 1: tp I advisory board. But when they started doing their
Speaker 1: t p I seminars, you know, level one and really
Speaker 1: started to introduce back in I guess probably two thousand
Speaker 1: four or two thousand five started to introduce their movement screen.
Speaker 1: UM testing your ability to internally rotate on both hips
Speaker 1: is part of their Big twelve right, the Big twelve
Speaker 1: M things that they test and and clauses main issues.
Speaker 1: So they used to pull me up on stage and
Speaker 1: UM I would get down and they would check my
Speaker 1: internal hip rotation and everybody in the crowd would laugh
Speaker 1: because it was basically zero. UM. I have very little
Speaker 1: internal hip rotation. So if you think about what we're
Speaker 1: asking your lower body to do when you're hitting golf balls,
Speaker 1: is if you're a right handed golfer, as you make
Speaker 1: your back swing, as your hips turn, you're going to
Speaker 1: internally rotate into that right hip. You're internally rotating into
Speaker 1: the right hip. You're externally rotating on the left hip.
Speaker 1: Then on the down swing, you're going to internally rotate
Speaker 1: into that left hip and the right hip is going
Speaker 1: to externally rotate. That's very, very difficult for me to
Speaker 1: do physically. So as a result of that, I have
Speaker 1: the classic issue with limited hip rotation, which is early
Speaker 1: extension or what we call thrust. Your lower body is
Speaker 1: getting closer to the golf ball on the backswing and
Speaker 1: probably more so on the down swing. That's my swing issue. So, um,
Speaker 1: I can't get a lot of rotation. I don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of speed. Um, I had a lot of
Speaker 1: balls thin. I had a lot of balls fat because
Speaker 1: as I start my downswing, my pelvis gets moving closer
Speaker 1: to the golf ball, then my upper body has to
Speaker 1: back out. You always want to remember that when you're
Speaker 1: hitting golf balls, whichever direction your hips are going, your
Speaker 1: upper body is going to tend to go in the
Speaker 1: opposite direction to keep you balanced. So if you're setting
Speaker 1: up in your golf posture and you move your lower
Speaker 1: body closer to the golf ball without stepping closer to golf,
Speaker 1: but just move your lower body closer to the golf ball.
Speaker 1: The upper body has to go back to try and
Speaker 1: keep you some balance. And that's the issue that I
Speaker 1: have in my golf swing. Physically, Um, it's very very
Speaker 1: difficult for me to do a lot of the things
Speaker 1: that I know that I need to do, which is
Speaker 1: keep my hips back on the downswing that kind of
Speaker 1: push back, I get a lot of weight up into
Speaker 1: my toes because as much as I know what I
Speaker 1: need to do, um, physically I just can't do any
Speaker 1: of it. So whenever I'm contemplating hitting golf balls or
Speaker 1: playing golf, UM, I always come at it from, Okay,
Speaker 1: what am I going to do to try and offset
Speaker 1: the issues that I have with my body? Because the
Speaker 1: majority of the bad shots that I hid in my
Speaker 1: golf swing, they're not concept issues, right you know, someone
Speaker 1: that gives you know, thousands upon thousands of golf lessons
Speaker 1: for the last years, I know how to fix my problem,
Speaker 1: but physically it's really really tough for me to do that.
Speaker 1: So it's frustrating because, um, I can't hit a lot
Speaker 1: of golf balls because my back hurts, and I was
Speaker 1: in back pain for so long. Anybody listening that's been
Speaker 1: in back pain, that has had back surgery, you know, um,
Speaker 1: you'll do anything to not have to feel that way again.
Speaker 1: It was debilitating. Um I got to wear in two
Speaker 1: thousand eleven, in the kind of spring summer, I I
Speaker 1: couldn't walk, and so that's what made me, you know,
Speaker 1: go in for surgery so my back doesn't hurt if
Speaker 1: I don't do a lot of rotational stuff. Golf inherently, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: just isn't great for for my body because my lower body.
Speaker 1: Um So, I have to stretch, i have to do
Speaker 1: a lot of body preps. Um, I've got a you know,
Speaker 1: phone role, I've got to um theragon, I've got the
Speaker 1: hyper ice that the heat thing that you put around
Speaker 1: your back. So I've got to do all of that
Speaker 1: before I hit golf balls. Um So, like I said,
Speaker 1: when I play golf, my misses. It's really it's it's
Speaker 1: incredibly frustrating for me because I fundamentally know what my
Speaker 1: problem is, and I fundamentally know how to fix the
Speaker 1: problem technique wise, but physically, my body just doesn't want
Speaker 1: to do that. So when I think about building my
Speaker 1: golf swing and trying to figure out, you know how
Speaker 1: to hit a golf ball. I don't hit a lot
Speaker 1: of golf balls. Um so I went. Um I went
Speaker 1: to one lengths from Cobra about four or five years
Speaker 1: ago when they first came out, UH and a huge
Speaker 1: shout out to Ben Showman. He got me all the
Speaker 1: new UH. He got me new Cobrat one length irons.
Speaker 1: Um we got the l a golf chafts in those
Speaker 1: which I was trying out for the first time in
Speaker 1: the irons and and really really liked the Marina Alex
Speaker 1: who I played with in in the Floridian Pro member
Speaker 1: this weekend this past weekend, she uses that iron shaft.
Speaker 1: Pat Perez, who I work with, uses that iron shaft.
Speaker 1: Um So I'm a one length guy. They built me
Speaker 1: the new ones. I got the new UH Cobra driver,
Speaker 1: which UM, I can't wait for everybody to get an
Speaker 1: opportunity to hit that next year. Um it's really really
Speaker 1: really good it And um so the one length irons
Speaker 1: really really helped me because everything, as if you don't know,
Speaker 1: everything's kind of the length of a seven iron. So
Speaker 1: all the irons not my wedges. Um, I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't go that militant like Bryson does. So my sand wedge,
Speaker 1: my lob wedge, my my gap wedge, those are just
Speaker 1: regular length. But all the rest of my irons are
Speaker 1: the length of a seven iron. So um, again, because
Speaker 1: my body isn't great, because I don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of speed. Um the long the last iron I actually have,
Speaker 1: and my golf bag is a six iron, and then
Speaker 1: I've got a five hybrid, a four hybrid, and then
Speaker 1: a three hybrid. I don't carry a three would because
Speaker 1: I can I can never get three was off the
Speaker 1: ground in the air and um a driver. So but
Speaker 1: one likes really helped me because um, everything is the
Speaker 1: length of a seven iron, so they're a little bit
Speaker 1: easier for me to control. When I in the past, um,
Speaker 1: regular length golf clubs, I start to bend over too much.
Speaker 1: Um it starts to you know, get a little bit
Speaker 1: of of of grief to my lower back. But really, um,
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to take divots with regular length
Speaker 1: golf clubs because I get so much thrust, so much
Speaker 1: early extension. So the one lengths helped me. I feel
Speaker 1: like I can compress it. I feel like I can,
Speaker 1: you know somewhat get down to the golf ball. So
Speaker 1: I thought, Okay, I'm I've got to go play, and
Speaker 1: I've got to figure out a swing that that I
Speaker 1: can repeat and that can I can make somewhat work.
Speaker 1: I would love to be able to draw the golf ball.
Speaker 1: UM It's it's the holy grail for me. But every
Speaker 1: time I try and draw hit draws, I just get
Speaker 1: more of the lower body going to the to the
Speaker 1: golf ball. I get a ton of thin shots. I
Speaker 1: get a tremendous amount of hand rotation because my lower
Speaker 1: body is going closer to the ball. It's stalls out,
Speaker 1: my chest stalls out, my feet get moving around. I
Speaker 1: get a lot of weight on my toes. UM. And
Speaker 1: I don't really um, like I said, I don't take
Speaker 1: a lot of divots and UM, I don't compress the
Speaker 1: golf ball a lot specs, especially when I'm trying to
Speaker 1: hit draws. So UM and then the other thing. I
Speaker 1: posted a video on on Instagram, UM of me hitting
Speaker 1: a shot on the eighteenth hole at for Ready and
Speaker 1: with the driver. And UM, I play left handed, I
Speaker 1: can play golf both directions. UM, I can play golf
Speaker 1: left handed and right handed. I have two sets of everything. UM,
Speaker 1: I played golf right handed until life is about eighteen.
Speaker 1: And then my grandfather, um I was asking me some
Speaker 1: questions about my golf. And I played hockey, and I
Speaker 1: played hockey as a kid, and I played UM, I
Speaker 1: hit a hockey puck left handed, and I had a
Speaker 1: baseball left handed. So he asked me one day to
Speaker 1: watch me. He said, Hey, let's let's find a left
Speaker 1: handed club and watch you hit someone. I have a
Speaker 1: lot more speed left handed, I have a lot more power,
Speaker 1: and I have a lot more consistency. So UM, for
Speaker 1: demo purposes, if I'm doing um demoing golf lessons or
Speaker 1: doing anything you know, media wise, I'll do it right handed.
Speaker 1: But when I do play golf, I play golf left handed. UM.
Speaker 1: So I thought, all right, let me figure out what
Speaker 1: I can do to first and foremost, just hit the
Speaker 1: golf ball solid um. And I think you've heard me
Speaker 1: on the pod talk about this for a long time. UM,
Speaker 1: the average golfer. And I am an average golfer, right,
Speaker 1: I'm just like everybody listening. Um, you know, golf is
Speaker 1: not easy. UM. I hit a lot of bad shots. Um,
Speaker 1: I hit some good shots, but you know, I don't
Speaker 1: even know what my handicap would be because you know,
Speaker 1: I never play golf. Um, if I was to guess,
Speaker 1: I'd probably say I'd probably be somewhere around, you know,
Speaker 1: an eight or ten. Let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we are back. So I was thinking, what can I
Speaker 1: do to hit the golf ball? Solid um? So fading
Speaker 1: the golf ball is is is the the shot that
Speaker 1: can hit and the reason why I can hit it is.
Speaker 1: My tendency with my golf swing is my backswing is
Speaker 1: always historically gotten really really on the inside and then
Speaker 1: it gets really really stuck and underneath behind me. On
Speaker 1: the down swing, my lower body gets closer to the
Speaker 1: golf ball, my upper body backs out, get a lot
Speaker 1: of weight up on my toes, my footwork my lead
Speaker 1: foot for me, my right foot, the heels always sliding around,
Speaker 1: and I have a lot of backup. That's where I
Speaker 1: get the thin shots, That's where I get the heavy shots.
Speaker 1: So um, I was thinking, Okay, what can I do?
Speaker 1: I mean, my angle of attack when I get on
Speaker 1: a launch monitor with with a seven iron is what
Speaker 1: most people's are that play the PJ. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: hitting up on a seven iron, which is just it's horrendous.
Speaker 1: And again I know that I know that I need
Speaker 1: to hit down on the golf ball with my irons. Right.
Speaker 1: I give you know, thousands, thousands of golf lessons telling
Speaker 1: people you've got to hit down on the golf ball,
Speaker 1: you've got to take a divot, you've got to cover.
Speaker 1: So I know all of this stuff, right, I know
Speaker 1: how to teach it, I know how to explain it.
Speaker 1: But when I hit golf balls and when I play golf,
Speaker 1: it's just it's it's so frustrating because I just at
Speaker 1: times can't get my body to do what my mind
Speaker 1: is telling it to do. Um. So I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna hit some faith. So gave myself
Speaker 1: about three weeks and what I just started doing every
Speaker 1: single day, sometimes for fifteen minutes, sometimes it was only
Speaker 1: for five minutes. Sometimes it was for half hour, half hours,
Speaker 1: about as much as I could, you know, hit golf
Speaker 1: balls with with my back. Um. I just said to myself, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm going to try and just hit golf balls every
Speaker 1: day for the next three weeks. Um. I think it
Speaker 1: took a couple of days off on on the weekend. Um.
Speaker 1: But I said, you know, if it's five minutes, if
Speaker 1: it's ten minutes, it's fifteen. Thirty minutes is the cap
Speaker 1: for me. Um, And a lot of this was with
Speaker 1: really really short iron. So UM I went out, having
Speaker 1: not hit a golf ball and really almost two years.
Speaker 1: UM I went out, got my sand wedge and said, Okay,
Speaker 1: I am just gonna try and hit slices with my sandwich.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to feel like I take the golf
Speaker 1: club straight outside, I feel like I come over the
Speaker 1: top of it. Again, I'm right handed, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try and feel like I swing down into the right
Speaker 1: as much as I can. And UM I had some
Speaker 1: decent success with that with the sandwich. UM on day one, Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean listen, I hit a couple of shanks, hit
Speaker 1: a couple then uh laid the salt over a couple
Speaker 1: you know, hit behind it. But um hit balls for
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes and said, okay, I'm just going to
Speaker 1: try and feel like I make a really exaggerated cut move,
Speaker 1: an exaggerated slice move. I was able to get someone video.
Speaker 1: I was able to get some on swing catalyst to
Speaker 1: kind of see you know what it looked like, see
Speaker 1: what my body was doing. Um, like everybody listening, feel
Speaker 1: and real are two completely different things. When I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm taking the golf club straight outside, it's actually
Speaker 1: somewhat neutral. Um. And then what I feel like is
Speaker 1: massively right with a path, feel like I'm coming over it.
Speaker 1: Actually most of the time isn't UM. But I just
Speaker 1: wanted to get that feeling. Um. You know, I kind
Speaker 1: of laid a club down on the ground that was
Speaker 1: on an angle to where I was able to angle
Speaker 1: it to where I felt like I was taking it,
Speaker 1: you know, very much on the outside, and then you know,
Speaker 1: angle it and feel like I'm swinging across my body. Um.
Speaker 1: And then I kind of went to hitting some sand
Speaker 1: wedges and it was a drill um that I kind
Speaker 1: of liked. So I just started doing like exaggerated chip shots,
Speaker 1: big exaggerated cut chip shot swings, and you know, got
Speaker 1: the feeling. And again I picked out a target and
Speaker 1: I just started out and said, Okay, the first thing
Speaker 1: I'm going to work on, same thing I I talked
Speaker 1: about a lot UM. I said to myself, Okay, give
Speaker 1: myself a target. I'm not really worried about how far
Speaker 1: the ball goes, but what I'm going to try and
Speaker 1: do is just consistently start for this this practice session,
Speaker 1: how long, however long it is. If I'm able to
Speaker 1: balls for five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: try and feel like I start the golf ball right
Speaker 1: and feel like I'm making a big cut swing. And
Speaker 1: if I can get to where I can consistently start
Speaker 1: the golf ball to the right, I think it's it's
Speaker 1: somewhat of a win. Um And I was able to
Speaker 1: do that. I was able to really get the feeling
Speaker 1: of a big slice. Because my body, um doesn't have
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of rotation. The hard thing for me
Speaker 1: in my golf swing is is to try and minimize
Speaker 1: my hand action. UM. I catch a lot of balls
Speaker 1: in the neck, catch a lot of balls, you know,
Speaker 1: off the toe, and um, I have a lot of
Speaker 1: face rotation. And again this is something that I that
Speaker 1: I try and coach out of players you know, all
Speaker 1: the time. UM, I know all of the things, and
Speaker 1: I'm working through when I'm hitting balls on my own,
Speaker 1: I'm working through some of these theories and some of
Speaker 1: these ideas. But again, just sticking with one specific swing
Speaker 1: thought and the goal was just to you know, keep practicing. UM,
Speaker 1: not these marathon practice sessions, but just you know, ten
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes day and UM, I got to where, you know,
Speaker 1: the irons got to be a pretty solid. Um. You
Speaker 1: know I was catching. Yeah, I still catch some bad
Speaker 1: bad ones in the neck, get some off the toe.
Speaker 1: But UM, I really felt like these half three quarter
Speaker 1: like chip shot practice swings really gave me the feeling
Speaker 1: of what I was trying to do with my takeaway
Speaker 1: and really gave me the feeling of what I was
Speaker 1: trying to do with my downswing. And then you know,
Speaker 1: the thought is trying to feel like the heel is
Speaker 1: leading the toe into impact. That isn't what happens in reality.
Speaker 1: I'm able to get on a launch monitor and see that. UM.
Speaker 1: I can see what the path is doing. I can
Speaker 1: see what the face is doing. UM. But for me,
Speaker 1: it's more about trying to match up, um some feelings
Speaker 1: to these swing thoughts that I had. UH. And I
Speaker 1: made a promise to myself, UM, you know in these
Speaker 1: three weeks in the run up up to the tournament,
Speaker 1: that I was going to stick with one thought, one shape,
Speaker 1: one you know, just try and hit fades with everything. UM.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they fade a lot. Sometimes they don't fade a lot,
Speaker 1: but UM, just kind of stick to one kind of
Speaker 1: specific idea. UM. And you know I had, you know,
Speaker 1: the swing thought in the back swing was take the
Speaker 1: golf club as outside as you can take it. And
Speaker 1: then the swing thought on the down swing is swing
Speaker 1: as far to the right as you can. UM. The
Speaker 1: other thing that helps me is if I get to
Speaker 1: square with my setup. UM. I don't have any rotation
Speaker 1: or very little rotation anyway in my golf swing, so
Speaker 1: getting set up square just makes my internal rotation even worse.
Speaker 1: It shuts it off even more so. UM. I have
Speaker 1: to get really kind of open um flare my right
Speaker 1: foot out, which helps me clear a little bit better,
Speaker 1: but kind of a left handed version of the lee
Speaker 1: Trevina set up. UM. More so with the long stop,
Speaker 1: specifically with the driver, UM, I have to feel like
Speaker 1: I'm aiming, you know, way way to the right and
Speaker 1: then feel like I'm cutting it back online. Once the
Speaker 1: tournament started on the first hole, UM, I've never played
Speaker 1: golf before with Marina alex um, even though I coach her. UM,
Speaker 1: I spent all my time watching her hit golf ball.
Speaker 1: So it was fun. We've never played together before, and
Speaker 1: we've never she'd never seen me really play golf or
Speaker 1: hit golf ball. So the first hole she was like, man,
Speaker 1: you were aiming in the in the right trees, you're
Speaker 1: aiming in the cart path. But then you were able
Speaker 1: to cut it back in And I said, listen, that's
Speaker 1: what I have to do to UM, you know, hit
Speaker 1: a golf ball to to hit it solid. UM. I
Speaker 1: also have been experimenting and have gone to UM a
Speaker 1: version of these Jumbo Max scripts that Um Bryson uses.
Speaker 1: I don't use the model that he's got, but their
Speaker 1: oversized grip, but there's no taper, so they're the same
Speaker 1: size at the top as they are at the bottom. Again,
Speaker 1: I did that and I messed around with it a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, just hitting wedges with it, because
Speaker 1: I do get a lot of hand manipulation and face
Speaker 1: closure and all those things, and my left hand, when
Speaker 1: the grip is the same size at the top as
Speaker 1: it is at the bottom, it gives me a little
Speaker 1: bit more feeling of control UM with my hands. UM.
Speaker 1: When I have a normal grip in my hand, I
Speaker 1: get a lot of a lot of hand action. So
Speaker 1: oversized grips, UM, and then putting arm lock. So what
Speaker 1: I'm basically saying is I'm trying to do everything I
Speaker 1: can possibly do to help myself. Right. UM. You know
Speaker 1: I've got big, oversized, big cavity back irons. UM, I've
Speaker 1: got big grips, I've got a graphite, UM. I've got
Speaker 1: a bag full of hybrids. UM. I've got a ship
Speaker 1: tunnel loft on my driver UM, and all of it
Speaker 1: is just designed to try and make playing golf as
Speaker 1: easy as possible. So let's take a short break and
Speaker 1: we will be back right after this. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get back to the interview. Because I didn't play a
Speaker 1: lot of golf growing up, UM, somewhat when I do
Speaker 1: play golf, UM, I'll be honest, I somewhat have imposter syndrome,
Speaker 1: right because, UM, I'm not good UM, and at times
Speaker 1: I don't. The other reason why I don't like to
Speaker 1: play a lot of golf is sometimes it's it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty embarrassing because I mean, you know, I work with
Speaker 1: some of the best players in the world. I've worked
Speaker 1: with players that have won majors and gotten to number
Speaker 1: one in the world, and then people go out and
Speaker 1: play golf with me, and you know, I hit him,
Speaker 1: I hit I'll hit a shot fat, I'll top one,
Speaker 1: I'll shank one. I wish. I'd love to tell you
Speaker 1: that you know everything's flush city, Um it ain't. And
Speaker 1: so but everything that I'm trying to do, UM is
Speaker 1: to try and make the playing of the game easier. UM.
Speaker 1: So we played in a tournament. It was best ball
Speaker 1: and like I said, my partner was Marine Alex. We
Speaker 1: got paired with one of our members, Bruce Reddit and
Speaker 1: then um Mel Reid UM huge fan of Mels. She's
Speaker 1: been on the pod. She was the first UM episode
Speaker 1: of the pod back and you know when we first started. Uh.
Speaker 1: I love her game, I like her as a person. Um,
Speaker 1: I've done some work in the past, So for me,
Speaker 1: I mean it was a home run. Right. Also, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make playing golf as easy as possible, so
Speaker 1: I'm actually playing with people that I know and people
Speaker 1: that I like. Golf for me has always been about
Speaker 1: people and places. When people ask me what my favorite
Speaker 1: golf courses are, UM, they're not ones that I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people would think, UM, But for me,
Speaker 1: golf is about spending time with people that you really
Speaker 1: really like, UM, and so we had an absolute blast.
Speaker 1: We played eighteen the first day, which was Saturday's eighteen
Speaker 1: on the main course at Floridian, and then nine on
Speaker 1: the Part three and then Sunday we played UM eighteen.
Speaker 1: So UM again trying to make it as fun as possible. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, we got the music going in the cart. UM.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. There were there was there was
Speaker 1: more than one cocktail on the golf course. UM. And
Speaker 1: again I'm just trying to make things as as fun
Speaker 1: and as easy as possible so that golf doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like a grind, because it can feel like that at
Speaker 1: times for me playing golf. UM. So the first day,
Speaker 1: UM front nine shot thirty eight, didn't lose a ball,
Speaker 1: and UM, I was pretty happy with that. UM, I
Speaker 1: actually drove it with Historically, UM, golf for me is
Speaker 1: troublesome because I can't drive the golf ball for ship.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's awful how bad I drive the
Speaker 1: golf ball. UM. And it tends when I do play
Speaker 1: for there to be no in between. I either hit
Speaker 1: a good drive or I don't find the golf course.
Speaker 1: And when I tell you, I can hit the golf
Speaker 1: ball a long way offline. I can hit it a
Speaker 1: hundred yards offline because when I do try and put
Speaker 1: any sort of speed into my golf swing, instead of
Speaker 1: my hips rotating, instead of my lower body um staying
Speaker 1: underneath me, instead of my weight getting to my lead foot, UM,
Speaker 1: it does the opposite. So with the driver, I can
Speaker 1: get a lot of early extension, a lot of thrust,
Speaker 1: get that club coming crazy from the inside and just
Speaker 1: hit it snaphook it off the planet or you know,
Speaker 1: push cut, slice it off the planet. But um, I
Speaker 1: said to myself, teeing off, Okay, you've got to play
Speaker 1: twenty seven holes today and you've got to play eighteen tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And I made a promise with myself that I was
Speaker 1: going to stick with hitting one shape, which was the fade.
Speaker 1: Wasn't going to throw it away. I wasn't gonna try
Speaker 1: and hit any draws. I was gonna stick with aim
Speaker 1: and left, and I was just going to stick with
Speaker 1: trying to hit kind of a chippy weak cut. And um,
Speaker 1: I was actually able to do that. UM, And I
Speaker 1: drove it, believe it or not, for me, I actually
Speaker 1: drove it pretty good for the first nine Uh. The
Speaker 1: second nine. Uh, I lost a couple of balls off
Speaker 1: the tea just you know, I got a lot. I
Speaker 1: think maybe I got a little bit tired, but also
Speaker 1: a couple of the swings, um, the bad driver swings.
Speaker 1: If I'm honest, I think I just kind of went
Speaker 1: to sleep on because I need to have a really
Speaker 1: really clear picture in my head of what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to do. Because if I don't, and if I don't
Speaker 1: say to myself and in in before I hit the
Speaker 1: golf ball, if my practice swings aren't kind of these
Speaker 1: big rehearsals where I feel looks like it feels like
Speaker 1: I'm taking the golf clubs straight outside, trying to hold
Speaker 1: the face open, get the path right, and just make
Speaker 1: a big kind of out too in cut slice practice swing.
Speaker 1: I need a couple of those to kind of get
Speaker 1: the feeling. And a couple of the bad drives I
Speaker 1: hit again, I really didn't do my practice routine and
Speaker 1: and and hit them. You know, the majority of them
Speaker 1: were kind of weak off the toe and to the left. Um,
Speaker 1: but I hit some good shots. Um, I hit some
Speaker 1: decent iron shots. The short game was just absolutely horrendous. UM.
Speaker 1: And that's that's on me. That's down to just zero practice, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you don't do any short game practice,
Speaker 1: you're not going to hit good shots. The courses in
Speaker 1: great shape at Floridian, Um, it's Bermuda. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of runoff areas closely moan um into the grain. And
Speaker 1: you know, I hit a bunch of terrible chips. Actually
Speaker 1: putted pretty good the arm lock. UM. I kind of
Speaker 1: liked the arm lock. I've got the sick um, I've
Speaker 1: got the sick kind of mallet um, I've got the
Speaker 1: l a golf shaft in it, and and I got
Speaker 1: the arm lock on. I got the big flat Brison grip,
Speaker 1: and I actually rolled it pretty good. UM. I was
Speaker 1: pretty surprised, seeing as I haven't really putted um and
Speaker 1: not sure as I'll haven't put any practice in with
Speaker 1: the arm lock. UM. But I said to myself, listen,
Speaker 1: stick with it, even through the bad shots. You're gonna
Speaker 1: hit some bad shots today, Probably gonna hit some shots
Speaker 1: that you know you're embarrassed by. UM. And I did UM,
Speaker 1: but I also had I had some good shots. UM.
Speaker 1: We shot so best ball. We shot sixty eight the
Speaker 1: first day and sixty six the second day and on
Speaker 1: the last hole. Um. We finished the Floridians on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We played the back nine first, and so that means
Speaker 1: we have to finish on the ninth hole at Floridian.
Speaker 1: For anyone listen that's played it, and it's easily one
Speaker 1: of the hardest holes on golf course. I had a really,
Speaker 1: really good drive and it was funny, you know, I
Speaker 1: rode Marina pretty hard because you know, all the birdies,
Speaker 1: the majority of the birdies were coming from her um
Speaker 1: as as the pro and as the person plays golf
Speaker 1: for a living um and and she was definitely sea
Speaker 1: biscuit because I was riding that because I was the
Speaker 1: jockey and she was the horse. But in the last hole,
Speaker 1: I had a really good drive and I said to myself, listen,
Speaker 1: make a good swing and finished strong. I had about
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy yards right in the middle of
Speaker 1: the fairway. Pin was on the front and I stood
Speaker 1: up and made probably the best swing. Um of the weekend,
Speaker 1: UH seven iron, hit it to about i'd say about
Speaker 1: eight ten ft and made the put um. And that's golf, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's golf for everybody. Um, you hit
Speaker 1: a bunch of bad shots, you beat yourself up. You
Speaker 1: hit some good shots, but golf has this way of
Speaker 1: of suckering you in and bringing you back. And I
Speaker 1: birdied the last hole and hit three, hit a great drive,
Speaker 1: hit a great iron shot, and hit a good pot.
Speaker 1: And um, I said to myself afterwards, Yeah, if I
Speaker 1: could do that all the time. And what I mean
Speaker 1: is if I could just control my body. If I
Speaker 1: can control my body, I know I can somewhat control
Speaker 1: what the golf club is doing. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: it was a really fun weekend and um yeah it
Speaker 1: kind of made me. I'm not gonna lie. Um I
Speaker 1: think I hit enough good shots for me to say
Speaker 1: to myself, Okay, maybe I just stick with this whole
Speaker 1: practice routine, right, and I just go out and I
Speaker 1: just maybe hit balls five ten minutes a day, um,
Speaker 1: and and just work on the same stuff. And um yeah,
Speaker 1: that's guys, that's hard for me to do, right because
Speaker 1: I have all the knowledge, right I have. I've got
Speaker 1: as much knowledge as anybody on the golf swing, and
Speaker 1: I know how to fix problems. But um, I have
Speaker 1: to really try when I play golf and not bounce
Speaker 1: around and not go through a bunch of different swing thoughts.
Speaker 1: And that's the same thing I'm asking all my students
Speaker 1: to do right. Practice on the driving range, play golf
Speaker 1: on the golf course. And I said to myself, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with two swing thoughts. Take it outside
Speaker 1: on the back swing, get the path right on the
Speaker 1: down swing. And you know, I said, you have to
Speaker 1: stick with those. You have to stick with where you're aiming.
Speaker 1: You have to stick with if all of the things
Speaker 1: that you're doing. And um, yeah, it was a success
Speaker 1: because I had a couple of good shots. Um. I
Speaker 1: had a couple of really good drives. Um that we're
Speaker 1: right out of the center of the face. And you know,
Speaker 1: when I drive it good, um, I can carry it.
Speaker 1: If I really really catch one, I can carry it
Speaker 1: to eighty in the air. But I'm honestly, I'm one
Speaker 1: of these two thirty to eighty guys. If I don't
Speaker 1: hit it solid, it's going to twenty to two thirty.
Speaker 1: Sometimes goes two hundred fifteen yards um. And then if
Speaker 1: I catch one pretty good, I can get it to
Speaker 1: fifty to sixty. And then if I really get one
Speaker 1: going there was theft hole part five here um or
Speaker 1: at Floridian. Um, there's a I mean, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of room. So UM, I stood up and just absolutely
Speaker 1: flushed it. Um. This was uh Saturday. Uh so we're
Speaker 1: finishing on eighteen. So fifteenth hole. UM, you know, stood
Speaker 1: up and got my my open stance, got it open
Speaker 1: and you know, tried to take it outside and hit
Speaker 1: the ball right in the center of the face, got
Speaker 1: the path right enough, and basically just hit a dead
Speaker 1: straight pole right out of the middle of the club.
Speaker 1: Bas best drive I've hit all day, right into the
Speaker 1: middle of the fourteenth fairway. So there's a lake that
Speaker 1: kind of cuts between the fourteenth hole. So if you're
Speaker 1: playing the fourteenth hole at Floridian, there's water all the
Speaker 1: way down the right hand side, and on the other
Speaker 1: side of that lake is the fifteen hole, the fifteenth fairway.
Speaker 1: I mean, I tell you, I flushed this best drive
Speaker 1: I've hit all day. Hundred yeah, hundred yards offline, but
Speaker 1: I got lucky, got it over the trees, had a
Speaker 1: really good angle, hit a five iron lay up one
Speaker 1: of the hybrid it's back over the water and UM
Speaker 1: had about let's say about seventy about seventy to eighty
Speaker 1: yards and UM took out a sand wedge easy pin
Speaker 1: and pretty much laid the sad over it the sand
Speaker 1: wedge and was trying to hit a little chippy a
Speaker 1: eighty yard one bound spinner and ended up hitting it
Speaker 1: about fifteen yards in front of me, and I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure the dividt went further in the ball. So um,
Speaker 1: that's golf, right. Uh, But stuck with it, and you know,
Speaker 1: we had a blast. And big shout out to Sea Biscuit,
Speaker 1: my partner, Marine Alex for putting up with that ship.
Speaker 1: And Um, we had great music, we had some cocktails.
Speaker 1: The weather was perfect, the golf course was an unbelievable shape,
Speaker 1: and I got to play golf with some people that
Speaker 1: I really really like. And in my world that's a wind. Um.
Speaker 1: In my world, that's golf. Um. You know, listening to
Speaker 1: good music, Um, having a couple of Margarita's laughing, joking, um,
Speaker 1: laughing at the good shots, laughing harder at the bad shots.
Speaker 1: And um, it was a fantastic couple of days. Uh.
Speaker 1: My dad was there. He played with Harold Varner, Um,
Speaker 1: Ricky Fowler played with our club president Giles Kimbie. Uh.
Speaker 1: They won the tournament. Um, I got to watch uh
Speaker 1: my dad. Um another special part of the weekend. Uh
Speaker 1: whenever Butche's in town. Um, it's it's always fun. But
Speaker 1: I got to watch him. Uh. I was doing work
Speaker 1: with Harold Varner and and Ricky Fowler and Gary Woodland
Speaker 1: every day. And you know, he's seventy nine years old,
Speaker 1: and you know, to watch him do what he does
Speaker 1: is is still UM, it's still special for me. UM.
Speaker 1: I still learn a ship ton when I watch him teach. UM.
Speaker 1: And in watching kind of he and Ricky uh Fowler
Speaker 1: kind of get back together, get that band back together
Speaker 1: and get you know, reunited. UM. I don't think I've
Speaker 1: seen Ricky Fowler right now swing the golf club better
Speaker 1: um in the entire time I've known him. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go out on a limb right now, and uh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I don't know how many tournaments Ricky's gonna play,
Speaker 1: um on the West Coast, but I'm gonna put the
Speaker 1: early call now slick. Rick is going to win a
Speaker 1: tournament on the West Coast. He's definitely gonna win a
Speaker 1: tournament for the Masters. Um. That's how positive I am
Speaker 1: about what he's doing with his golf swing. UM. So
Speaker 1: that's my story. Thanks everybody for listening. I'll play golf
Speaker 1: that often, but when I do, I try and make
Speaker 1: it as fun as possible. So that was just, UM,
Speaker 1: a little bit of the process of what it takes
Speaker 1: for me to play golf and listen. I think everybody
Speaker 1: listening has their own process. UM. I think it's important
Speaker 1: to have one. UM. I think it's important to try
Speaker 1: and stick with one as well. And uh that's what
Speaker 1: I tried to do. UM. Like I said, hit some
Speaker 1: good shots, hit some bad shots, but had a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. The podcast is going to take a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks off for the holidays. We will be back
Speaker 1: January four with some really really cool guests. We've got
Speaker 1: some good, good podcasts coming right around the first of
Speaker 1: the year, and uh more stuff to help everyone listening
Speaker 1: improve their golf. Hope everyone has a happy and safe
Speaker 1: holiday season. Son of a Buch comes to you every Wednesday.
Speaker 1: We will see you all in the new year.