WEBVTT - Q&A: Taylor Gooch, Brooks, Game Improvement & Learning 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:08.280 It's the Son of a Butch podcast. We come to 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.640 you every Wednesday solo edition of the pod. This week, 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:17.800 I just got back from two weeks Adelaide in Australia, 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:22.120 was down there for the live tournaments. I think it 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:27.200 was a really really interesting week for Live at Adelaide. 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.920 I don't care what side of this debate that you're on, 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:36.960 and I'll keep saying this, I just don't know why 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.239 there is this debate. We are seeing great golf. We 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.279 see great golf on the PGA Tour, and if you're 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.519 watching live, if you're trying to say that you're not 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.639 seeing great golf, I don't know what you're looking at 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.000 because I work with players on live and I see 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.120 them doing the exact same thing that they did there 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.760 that they did when they played the PGA Tour. I 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:08.480 fundamentally don't understand why there seems to be this choice 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:12.280 that you have to make between the PGA Tour and Live. 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.200 At the end of the day, it's golf, and if 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.200 you are a fan of golf, you can watch golf 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.280 wherever you want to. You can see great golf on 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.480 the PGA Tour. You can see great golf on the 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.240 LPGA Tour. You can see great golf on the DP 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.559 World Tour, and you can see great golf on Live. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:30.280 And I think if you look at the caliber of 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:36.959 players that are playing on live, I think it's naive 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.480 to say that they're not great players because that's where 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.039 they chose to go to. I think the way that 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.640 the live guys performed at the Masters went a long 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:49.000 way to debunking this myth that everybody that went to 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.680 live their careers were over, that they were washed up. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.280 I think after the Masters, the narrative that a lot 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.120 of people that are anti live were trying to portray 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.720 that the players were at war with each other and 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.360 they didn't like each other. I think everybody saw that 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.960 that was not the case, and I think you're seeing 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:12.560 great golf. I think brooks Kepka, I'm currently working with 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:14.760 Brooks Kepka. Brooks is playing some of the best golf 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.280 I've seen him play. The way his golf swing is working, 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.520 the way his body is working, the caliber of golf 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.280 he is playing right now is very, very similar to 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.720 the golf that he was playing in twenty nineteen when 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.240 he was the number one player in the world and 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:33.520 win in majors. At a pretty steady click. I think 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.639 Phil Mickelson the resurgence of the way Phil Mickelson is 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.600 playing after playing the way he played in the Masters 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.000 at his age, the way he played over the last 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.919 couple of weeks. And my issue with the anti live 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:51.640 people are I would say the majority of them have 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.160 never come to an event. They don't watch any of 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.520 the events, they don't come to any of the events, 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:01.520 and everything they hear is rumor or hearsay. They are 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.960 not part of the live ecosystem. They're not in the 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.359 locker room, they're not talking to the players. They've chosen 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.560 to make up their own mind. And there seems to 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.760 me to be more of a push from the PGA 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.320 Tour side to choose between the PGA Tour and Live 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.520 than the live guys. And I just fundamentally don't understand 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.400 why you have to make a choice. If you are 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.720 a fan of golf, you can choose to watch your 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:32.639 golf wherever you want to watch it, and you can 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.040 choose to watch the players that you like wherever you 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:40.200 want to watch them. So I just don't get what 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:46.640 the beef is to me this this current state of 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.560 Live versus the PGA tour and this choice that in 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.240 my opinion, Jay Monahan and the Boys and Pana Vidral 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.360 wants you to have to make is we don't see 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:00.480 that in other sports. And you know the easy to me. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:05.280 There's NASCAR and there's Formula one, right, And if you 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:10.080 haven't watched the Drive to Survive Netflix documentary on Formula One, 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.320 check it out. I've been a huge fan of Formula 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.920 one for a long time and I think it's growing 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.720 and growing in popularity. But if you look at NASCAR 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.400 and you look at F one, it's motor racing. The 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:24.120 drivers that drive on NASCAR and the drivers that drive 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.040 on Formula One basically all kind of started doing the 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.200 same thing. They were started in kart racing and they 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.120 did it at a young age and that's how they 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:37.880 got into motor racing. And if you look at the product, 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.640 one goes around in a circle. Yeah, there's a couple 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.120 of NASCAR events that are road tracks, but the majority 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.520 of the NASCAR events are in an oval track and 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.520 they just go round in circles and there is a massive, 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:52.159 massive following for that. And then you have F one 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.520 that is kind of through street racing and different. So 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:03.000 motor racing, different product, maybe different demographic, definitely different sponsors. 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:12.320 NASCAR you've got for Chevrolet, Toyota, F one, you've got Ferrari, 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:16.760 you've got Mercedes, You've got Asked and Martin. And maybe 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.480 the fans are different, Maybe the fans are from a 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:23.200 different socioeconomic background. I don't know. But what I do 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.480 know is all of the best drivers in NASCAR and 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.480 Formula One are all flying to every race on their 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.960 own private jet. They all live in mansions, they're all making, 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:38.720 you know, scary money, and nobody in those sports are 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.720 asking you to make a choice between one or the other. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.760 So to me, all of this is just golf. And 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.919 if you like golf, you can watch golf anywhere you 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.720 choose to watch. You don't have to make a choice. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.840 If you're making a choice for your own personal reasons, 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.680 that's I guess that's your choice. And but you don't 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:05.200 have to And I think the products aren't really that 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.800 difficult different, you know, Yeah, fifty four holes versus seventy 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.919 two holes. There are people that some people that like that, 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:18.279 and listen, I think we're seeing good golf everywhere. I 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.720 think it's unbelievable to see the rise of Tony for 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.239 Now on the PGA Tour. I think you know Tony 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.479 for Now winning yet again. He won a bunch of times. 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.800 At the end of last year. He hadn't figured out 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.159 how to win. Before he's figured out how to win. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.480 That's an unbelievable story. That's a great, great story. That's 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.479 good for golf. And one of the things that I 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:44.159 wanted to talk about Taylor Gooch, the golf that he 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.680 is playing. He's won two tournaments back to back on 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:52.120 Live and I'm telling you, this kid, the game that 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:57.160 Taylor Gooch has, he's so so impressive. He's an old 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:01.760 school shot maker. Whatever the hole kind of tells you 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.159 it needs to, if it's a right to left or 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.760 it's a left to right, he hits that shot. He 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.000 can hit it high, he can hit it low. I 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.520 was lucky enough to spend a lot of time last 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.720 year with Taylor Goodchi was on DJ's four Aces team, 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.960 and the guy is just so so impressive, and I 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.800 didn't realize how good of a player he was. I 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:25.120 didn't realize all these different shots that he had. And 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.840 in an era where a lot of the top players 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:32.040 are kind of going to one shot and becoming one 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:36.160 dimensional and having tremendous success doing it. Taylor's a little 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.280 bit of a throwback, a throwback to a guy that 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.360 if it's a dog leg from left to right, he's 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.400 gonna hit that shot. If it's a dog leg from 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.240 right to left, he's gonna hit that shot. If you 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.160 have to hit it high to a backpin, he's gonna 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:50.840 hit that one. If you're gonna have to hit it low, 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.120 he can hit that one. So it has been unbelievably 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:59.320 impressive to watch him play the two rounds. The Friday 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.600 Saturday round he played down in Australia. I mean it 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.679 was like he was playing a different golf course. The score, 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:07.800 I mean, he was a million under. He took a 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.960 ten shot lead into the final round, had a little 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:12.480 bit of a wobble, a bunch of guys made a 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.720 run at him and ends up winning. And it was 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:19.720 a dominant, dominant performance. And then we went to Singapore 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.400 last week Sunday he was in a duel with Sergio 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.960 Garcia and Brooks Keepka down the stretch and was able 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:31.400 to win in a playoff with against Sergio Garcia eight 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.760 million dollars in six rounds. I'll go ahead and say 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.240 that again. Eight million dollars in six rounds, and anybody 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.840 that's listening that says, it's not about the money, it's 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.679 not about the money. It's not about the money. If 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.760 it's not about the money, right, and if golfers are 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.680 just playing and it's not about the money, then why 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.760 does everybody have an agent? Rory McElroy has an agent, 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.319 Justin Thomas has an agent, Jordan Speith has an agent, 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.320 Scotty Scheffler has an agent. Everybody in professional golf has 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.120 an agent. Why do we know who Mark Steinberg is. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.360 He's an agent, He's Tiger's agent. The reason all these 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:10.160 players have agents is, to newsflash, to try and make money. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:15.000 They're trying to make as much money as possible as 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:19.320 a professional athlete. That is what every professional athlete is 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:23.160 trying to do. It will come across I guess to 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.200 a lot of people listening that I am pro live. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.480 I'm not pro live. I want Live to succeed because 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.960 I am pro athlete. I have never I'm not a 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.280 part of an organization, right. I am a golf instructor, 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:40.800 employed by professional golfers, employed by professional athletes, and I 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:45.560 don't work for the USGA, the RNA, the PGA of America, 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.360 the PGA Tour. I don't work for those organizations. I 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.960 work for athletes. I work for professional golfers, and I 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:57.120 believe that professional golfers should be like everybody else. They 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.480 should have the opportunity to make as much money as 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.920 their talent allows them to make. I think Rory McElroy 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.440 should be able to go anywhere in the world and 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.200 play golf and be paid to show up. I think 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.960 Scotti Scheffler should be able to go anywhere in the 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.760 world and play golf, and if an organizer, if a 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.959 sponsor of a tournament wants to pay him to show up, 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.080 I think he's earned that right by the talent that 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:27.440 he has. So it's about the money. The tour tried 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.720 to put out this thing about legacy and trophies, and 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.120 I think everybody kind of knows that that's not the case, 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.720 given the choices that the PGA Tour has chosen to 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:44.000 make with designated events, no cut events, upping the purse. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.600 If it's just about legacy and trophies, there would be 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.000 no prize money. Everybody on the PGA Tour would play 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:53.040 for free, so you don't have to choose. You can 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.640 watch golf wherever you want it, but as someone that 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.920 is part of the live ecosystem, and listen, that's not 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.679 a choice that I'm make. All of my players just 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.400 went to live and because I'm employed by them, that's 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.880 where they go. I think, I don't know, And you know, 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:11.040 I've talked to Brooks extensively about this, you know, at 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.640 the PG or at the at the Masters. You know, 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.760 Brooks was leading for three rounds and a lot of 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.840 the media tried to portray that Brooks wasn't a live 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.480 guy and that he was a guy that was looking 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.040 to come back. Brooks is not looking to come back. 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.760 Brooks just doesn't have any animosity towards the PGA Tour. 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.360 He doesn't have any animosity towards j Monahan. He invited 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:37.120 J Monahan to his wedding. He doesn't have any animosity 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.800 to the guys. He doesn't think that the PGA Tour 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.199 is bad. He just has made a choice to go 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:49.200 play somewhere else. And you know, players in other sports 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:55.640 make choices to leave other teams for financial reasons, and 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.240 maybe it's just that we've never seen that before in golf, 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:04.000 but it's here. I think the caliber of play. I 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.160 worked with PGA Tour players and I was on the 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.600 European Tour. Started my career on the European Tour in 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.720 two thousand and two, and since two thousand and two, 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:16.560 I've basically been coaching professional golfers on the PGA Tour 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.840 except for the last year and a half. The golf 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.080 that's being played on live is no different than the 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.160 golf that was being played on the PGA Tour. Everybody 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:30.839 still has coaches, everybody still has trainers, everybody still has physios. 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:35.280 So if they just took the money and nobody cared, 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.559 then nobody would have a coach, nobody would have a trainer, 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.079 nobody would have a physio. They'd all just be showing 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.760 up zero practice, not working on their body, not working 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:45.760 on their golf swing, because they'd all got in the 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:49.880 bag and they'd all been paid. So this narrative that 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:52.840 you know you have to choose between the PGA Tour 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:57.560 or live is crazy. I mean, it's gotten so crazy 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.960 that Chase Keepka makes a hole in one at a 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:04.120 live tournament in Australia, and I heard some clowns on 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.760 a podcast trying to say that it was staged, that 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:10.559 it was fake, that it was It was a coincidence 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.400 that all of a sudden, a bunch of people had 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.960 the footage and they all posted at the same time. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.360 When somebody makes a hole in one and you're at 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:21.840 the tournament, you're going to post the video. My wife 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.240 came down to Adelaide to Australia and was on the 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.000 twelfth hole with her brother and my brother in law 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.480 when Chase made the hole of one. She immediately sent 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.960 the video. You've got these clowns doing podcasts going, look 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.400 like it was stage. Maybe a drone flew in the ball, 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.520 and because it wasn't live, and because it was tape delayed, 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.119 and because it was in Australia, it wasn't live in America, 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.160 these clowns are saying, yeah, it seems like it's stage. 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.000 So if it doesn't happen live on American television, that 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.320 means that it's not real and it didn't happen. I mean, 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:56.520 that's where we're at. And if you need an example 0:13:56.559 --> 0:14:01.400 of how crazy this whole thing has become, that to 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:06.440 me is a seminal moment. You've got people that think 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.080 somebody making a hole in one on a whole kind 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:14.839 of like the sixteenth pole at Waste Management, thinking that 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.720 that was staged and rigged. If that's how far the 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.240 rabbit down the rabbit hole you are with the PGA 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.920 Tour and all of their paid media and all the 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.200 people that are trying to discredit Live, then you know, 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.000 I don't even know what to tell you. But what 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.920 I can tell you is the golf being played on 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:39.200 Live is the same golf that's being played on the 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:45.960 PGA Tour. And Taylor Gooch is a legit in my opinion, 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:50.680 He's a legit top twenty five, top fifteen player in 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.720 the world. I think Taylor Gooch will have legit chances 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.040 the rest of the year in the three remaining majors. 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.800 I would not be surprised if he has a chance 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.480 to and I wouldn't be surprised if he winned one. 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.560 He has the type of game that suits every type 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.640 of golf course. He has the type of game that 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.680 suits regular tournaments. He has the type of game that 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.960 suits major turnment. And the best part about Taylor is 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:22.680 he believes so much in himself. He's one of those 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:28.160 players that quietly has this inner confidence of he believes 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.160 in his own ability. He believes in what he's doing. 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:36.640 And don't be surprised if ce Taylor Gooch on the 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:41.200 leader board in a major sometime this summer, because and 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.280 he's going for three live tournaments in a row, three 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.400 live tournaments in a row. If he were to win 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.040 Tulsa next week, I mean, he's getting close to twenty 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:55.800 million dollars this year in prize money. And again, anyone 0:15:55.840 --> 0:16:00.240 that tries to tell you that golf professional golf is 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:04.560 just about legacy and just about trophies, you're drinking the 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:09.240 kool aid, because everybody playing professional golf is playing professional 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.000 golf for money. The guys on the Live Tour are 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.160 doing that, guys on the PGA Tour are doing that. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:18.000 And I'm gonna keep saying this. You don't have to choose. 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.560 If you're a fan of golf, you can watch your 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:28.080 golf wherever you want to watch it. The tournament down 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.000 in Adelaide was one of the coolest tournaments I've been to. 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.080 You can tell that the Australian golf public is starved 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.360 for professional golf. Yes they have tournaments, yes they used 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.880 to have a tour, but they've never seen that many 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:46.440 great players in one place at one time, and it 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:52.080 was fun Fisher, the DJ. He flew in from Coachella 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.840 for thirteen hours. He was in Australia for thirteen hours, 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:58.120 played a DJ set. I think Saturday night after the round, 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.440 almost twenty thousand people showed up to watch a DJ 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.680 at a golf tournament. I met a lot of people. 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.080 I asked people why they were there. They said, Hey, 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.479 we never get an opportunity to see these great players. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.679 We want to come out and see the best players 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.800 in the world. I had people say, Hey, any chance 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:16.679 that we can see the best players in the world, 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.040 we're going to take advantage of that. And I think 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:24.359 the best players of the world are players playing professional golf, 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:28.520 not which tour they're playing on the PGA Tour. They 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.520 want you to think that all of the best players 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:34.600 in the world play there, and that's just not the case. 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.840 There are great players playing golf all over the world. 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:42.560 And I think one of the things that's come out 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:48.040 really since the Masters is, you know, Taylor Goots Shoots 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.520 plays a great tournament in Adelaide. He goes down in 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:56.239 the world rankings, beats a bunch of players that are 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:01.320 higher ranked than him. In the world rankings, and it's 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.920 just it's crazy to me that we still have this 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.920 kind of debate. If you go to a live tournament 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.280 and don't like it, that's okay. If you watch a 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:16.080 live tournament and don't like what you see, that's okay too. 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:20.359 But you can like both. I believe the PGA Tour 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.399 and live can both be true at the same time. 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:27.200 But I am seeing the same calid. I've been saying 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.159 this for months now. I've never seen Brooks kept goa 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.160 work harder than he's working right now. He didn't work 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.119 this hard in twenty nineteen on his game because he 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:40.119 didn't have to. He went through a bad couple of years. 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.399 He's trying to get back to being the best player 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.399 in the world. He's trying to get back to winning 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.360 major championships. He had a legit chance to win the Masters. 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.480 I think Brooks is going to have legit chances to 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.920 win all three of the next majors. And I wouldn't 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:58.000 be surprised at all if Brooks kept Go won one 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:01.120 of those. And yeah, I'm biased. You know the reason 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.639 I'm biased is because I coach him, and I watch 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.280 what he does, and I watch how he plays golf, 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.200 and I look at the rest of the players playing 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.640 professional golf and I don't see any difference. And all 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.399 these people that thought he was washed up and just 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.400 took the bag and went to live and was going 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.960 to be insignificant, I promise you that's not going to 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.240 be the case. And if you look at the golf 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:29.960 that Phil Mickelson has been playing recently, it's it's pretty 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:33.879 impressive if you look at the way Phil looked twelve 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:36.760 months ago versus the way he looks now, the dedication 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.520 and the work that he's put into getting himself in shape, 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:44.600 and I think he is. He is flourishing on Live 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:46.679 in the role that he's got. I think he loves 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.639 having a team. And I'm here to tell you, guys, 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:54.760 the team concept on Live is real. It really is. 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:59.280 The guys like playing for the team. The teams that 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.200 I work with, You Brooks's on his team, Team Smash 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:04.919 DJ and Pat Perez who I work with, are on teammatess. 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:08.240 Pretty much every single time we all get to the 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:12.000 golf course at the same time. We breakfast together, we 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:16.959 practice together, we play practice rounds together. The teams eat 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:22.840 and play practice rounds together. It's very much a team concept. 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:26.480 So anyone that thinks all of this team stuff isn't real, 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:32.719 I promise you it is. And looking at the players 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.840 and looking at how much they've embraced that, but also 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:39.400 looking at the fans. I couldn't believe how many people 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.800 were buying merchandise in Adelaide. And you know, we were 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:46.240 staying in downtown Adelaide in Australia and on the weekend 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:48.719 we're going out to dinner and you just see people 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:53.320 in town walking around with live merch and live team 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:57.120 merch and there are loads of people that are telling 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:01.000 you they have no fan base, nobody cares, and nobody's interested. 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:05.080 And I've been to every live event and that's just 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:11.280 not the case. So you can watch golf and choose golf, 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:17.560 and there are some great golf being played. Boyd Summer 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:22.600 hates coaches, both Tony Finow and Taylor Gooch. He's been 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:24.560 on the pod before. If you get a chance, go 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:26.640 back and listen. I think Boyd's one of the best 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:30.760 coaches out there, but two really really good young players, 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:33.400 and I think the game is in a very very 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:37.600 good place because I think the caliber of golf that's 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:40.840 being played is just phenomenal. I mean, you've got John 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:44.359 Rahm again with a chance to win. That's great for golf. 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:48.920 Sergio Garcia playing great last week. Whether a Sergio fan 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:52.119 or not, I don't care. Sergio is a great golfer 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:54.199 and it was great to see Sergio win again or 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:56.800 have a chance to win again. And Brooks right there 0:21:56.840 --> 0:22:00.520 in the mix, missed the playoffs by one shot. If 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:03.679 you look at the caliber of golf he's playing, he 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:06.960 won in Orlando the week before, the week before the Masters, 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:12.080 finished second at the Masters, and just finished second again. 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:15.760 So the litmus test for me for professional golf, I 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:18.520 don't care where you play. If you're winning tournaments and 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:23.560 have chances to win tournaments, you're playing good. So let's 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:27.120 get to the questions. I put out questions yesterday on 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:30.240 my Instagram and got a bunch of people, a lot 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:34.880 of Brooks questions, obviously, you know, kind of asking kind 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:37.640 of what we've been working on and what he's been 0:22:37.680 --> 0:22:41.440 working on. I think the big changes set and I've 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:44.520 talked about this, but a lot of the stuff that 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:48.320 we've done with Brooks's game is set up related. And 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:50.800 last week it's funny Brooks had a chance to win 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:54.159 the tournament last week and the range at Sintosa, the 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:57.160 golf course in Singapore. The tea was at the top 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:01.160 and then it was a very very steep dive down 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:03.400 and then there was a bottom part of the range. 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:09.560 And Tuesday, I've never seen Brooks hit it worse. Wednesday, 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:12.760 I've never seen Brooks hit it worse. And finally he 0:23:12.920 --> 0:23:16.800 was just like, I hate downhill ranges because the ball 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:19.600 comes out it looks like it's going too high. He 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:22.160 was trying to flight the golf ball down. So from 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:24.960 Thursday onward, Brooks did all of his warm ups at 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:27.760 the bottom of the range so he could hit uphill. 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:31.119 But a lot of what we've been working on with 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:37.240 Brooks is set up related ball position, set up alignment. 0:23:37.920 --> 0:23:39.560 Every now and again, if you see Brooks on TV 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:42.680 warming up, you'll see him kind of have his caddy, 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:46.400 Ricky Elliott stand in to where he's set up, and 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:50.040 Brooks wants to know where he's lining up. So I 0:23:50.080 --> 0:23:52.200