Feb. 3, 2026

3 Step Approach to Play Your Best Golf EVER with Greg Liberto

3 Step Approach to Play Your Best Golf EVER with Greg Liberto
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GS#482 March 31, 2015 Greg Liberto calls himself The HEAD Coach because of the work he's doing to help golfers with their mental approach to better golf. His "18 Holes Book" covers a variety of helpful topics that cut right to the core issues that hurts so many pro and amateur players. He claims that in less than 10 minutes, you can learn what is holding you back from playing your best golf ever. Obviously, we take a little longer to discuss it. 

If you have a question about whether or not Fred is using any of the methods, equipment or apps we’ve discussed, or if you’d like to share a comment about what you’ve heard in this or any other episode, please write because Fred will get back to you. Either write to golfsmarterpodcast@gmail.com or click on the Hey Fred button, at golfsmarter.com

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Hi, This is Lisa THOMASO from Mystic, Connecticut and I

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play Attnyton Country Club.

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BAFF Smarter number.

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Four hundred and eighty two published on March thirty one,

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twenty fifteen.

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The only person that's possibly thinking about your three point

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in the world is you, So it's history.

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It doesn't even exist anymore. So you have to.

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Physically stop moving, take your four second time out a

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couple seconds, in, a couple seconds out, eyes closed, and

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then just revert back to what is my strategy for today?

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In my strategy for today's relax or my strategy today

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is quiet mind, or my strategy today is just total

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or my strategy to say is calm, or my strategy say.

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Is just have fun.

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So that's why having a strategy and being highly cognizant

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and aware of your and traps both on and off

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the golf course is going to help you get through

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those situations. And Fred, I'm not sitting here saying it's

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going to work every single time guaranteed.

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There might be a day.

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Where you're just not allowing yourself to really buy into it,

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or you're not totally committed to your strategy. So maybe

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you're not one hundred percent there, maybe you're seventy eighty

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percent of the way there, or you just haven't done

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it enough so you're not conditioned enough to really be

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effective at this.

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It takes time, it takes practice, it takes.

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Discipline, and like physical conditioning, it's thought conditioning. You have

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to condition yourself to think better. And I have students

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who start with me and say, Hey, Greg, you know what,

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I'm getting so much out of your coaching, but I

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feel like I'm thinking more. And it's not that you're

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thinking more, you're just thinking differently.

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Three step approach to play your best golf ever with

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the head coach Greg Loberto.

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This is Golf Smarter Premium.

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Here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast. Greg.

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Hi, Fred, how are you? I am excited?

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How are you tell me why you're excited?

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Well, I'm talking to you number one, and I know

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that we're going to be talking about an innovative three

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step approach to help golfers play their best golf ever.

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So this is what I do, this is what I love.

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To do, and there's really nothing else I'd rather be

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talking about today.

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Awesome. I'm glad that you're excited because I went through

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your book. I really enjoyed it. It reinforced so many

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things that I think about that I want to accomplish,

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and to me, it really supported everything that Golf Smarter

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has been about since episode number one.

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Great, great, So let's.

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Talk about it. Yeah, go ahead.

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You know, can we reverse the table so real quick?

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Can I ask you? Can I to start by asking

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you a question?

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Oh?

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No, all right, let's hey later.

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I asked the questions you, buddy. I gotta tell you

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you're in New York, right, I gotta talk to you

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like yo, I gotta ask ask. I got to ask the.

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Questions, just trying to throw you off a game a

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little bit that.

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I'll go ahead, congratulations, No, go ahead, all right, I'll

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let you. I'll let you ask the first one and

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we'll see where it goes from there.

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And then I'm done asking questions for the rest of

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the rest of the time. What what What was your

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biggest takeaway from the book.

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Hm, I knew I don't like having tests. My biggest

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takeaway from the book was, uh, I'm reviewing right now

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my notes here to uh not not worry about what

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your playing partners are doing. Nice, you know. I I

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have an ongoing issue with my friends who want to

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play from money, and I'm like, you know what, sure,

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I'll play for money. I don't care. Tell me at

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the end of the game what we're doing, right, tell

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me what I owe you, and I'm fine, but let's

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not talk about it the entire time. I don't like

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to focus on the scorecard. I don't want to talk

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about the scorecard. I don't want to hear oh this

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is for Birdie. No, this is for my next shot,

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you know. I mean it's like and if it's a part,

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it's a par great so to me, it reinforced that.

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Awesome, awesome, good stuff, good stuff.

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Yeah, it's I think it's an area that a lot

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of players and I was just doing a webinar with

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with a beta group for our Mental Game Assessment and

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Learning app on Friday and one of the guys was

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talking about how when he plays for money with his buddies,

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which is pretty much every time he plays golf, that

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he really allows them to get into their head and

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he does better when he's chasing as opposed to in

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the league. But he said, there's no question that playing

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for money, especially in guys that are you know, like

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to talk while they're playing, you know, so to speak

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and try to get into his head, it really impacts

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how he performs. So I think it's it's there's no question,

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you know, whether it's for five dollars or five hundred

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dollars or five million dollars, the dollar amount is almost irrelevant.

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It's the fact that you're playing for something other than

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maybe just you know, for trying to just play your

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best on your own. It's amazing how that little, that

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little nugget can really not only transform the way that

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you think in a negative way, but really impact the

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performance as well.

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What does it say about people or what do you

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learn from people? When there are those who excel when

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the pressure is on, you know, the guys who are like,

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give me the ball type of guy, and then they

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are the people who the pressure is just too much.

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And they completely collapse.

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And I'm sorry for what we're asking specifically about it.

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Well, what how do you identify if you're which one

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of those people? It's pretty obvious to yourself, But how

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do you get past the fact that if you're one

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of those people that crumbles under the pressure? How do

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you get past that?

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Sure? I think you know.

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I think the first step is is golf is so

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much like life, and you can your perspective on it

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is everything. So let's say that you know, you go

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out and you play in a tournament, whether it's against

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your friends or if it's in competition at whatever level.

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And you allow that round where.

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You think you had a very poor performance, maybe based

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on one particular swing that may have cost you the

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match at the end of the round to really impact

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how you view yourself as as a player. And I

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think a really good example is remember when Billy Horses

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showed before he won the FedEx Cup last year, he

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had put that one ball in the water and he

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lost one of the tournaments prior to that, and then

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I think it was literally the next week he bounces

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back or maybe two weeks later and he ends up

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winning the FedEx Cup. Those are the types of shots

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where you could really allow that to define yourself as

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a player, or you can say, okay, if that's my

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weakest link is not being able to perform, And that

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particular shot on the eighteenth hole, when the quote unquote

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pressure was really on, what can I do to get

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better and how can I get started? To make that happen,

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you have to put yourself in those situations, number one,

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to allow yourself to perform. And everybody knows about all

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of the game winning baskets that Michael Jordan hit, but

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there's also the ones that he missed.

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Okay, so how many times are you missing? How many

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times are you performing?

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Sure that's relative to the whole conversation, but you're going

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to learn way more the times where you quote unquote

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failed to perform or you let your ants or automatic

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negative thoughts get in your own way and negatively impact

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your performance. So I'm just going to sum it up

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by saying, take that as an opportunity to improve yourself.

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Recognize that what I call an ant trap or a

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specific situation where you know you're going to have those

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negative thoughts and negative emotions, and just figure out what

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you need to do to get.

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Better the next time. And that's what we're going to

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talk about today.

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Yeah, you know, it's you talk about Michael Jordan making

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the shot or missing the shot, or anybody on the tour.

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But when Michael Jordan misses the shot on game thirty

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seven of the season, no big deal. When he makes

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the shot on game forty two to win the game,

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no big deal. It's doing it in playoff time. It's

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doing it when the shot is the end of the

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season or not. Which There's guys who like, give me

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the ball. I'm going to do this. The Lebron James

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characters right now, Steph Curry of the Warriors, it's like,

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just give me the ball. You can see it in

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their eyes. They want the ball absolutely.

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And I think you hit a key point here is.

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In golf or in any sport, when you're in that

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pressure situation, you have to want it. You really have

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to welcome that opportunity because that's all it is. It's

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an opportunity to escalate your game to the next level

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and win, lose your draw, whatever the outcome is. It's

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it is, But you have to put yourself in a

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situation where number one, you want to be there and

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then you have to put yourself in a position mentally

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and emotionally where you're allowing yourself to perform in your

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in your most natural state. So very true of everything

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of what we're talking about here. But number one is

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you have to want it. And number two, if you

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do not get the outcome that you desire, it as

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a learning opportunity to improve.

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Okay, you mentioned ants. Let's you talk about ants throughout

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your book, and you just brought it up, So let's

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let's clarify that and get into depth on that.

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Sure, Yeah, where would you Where would you like to

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start with that one? Because it's a it's a it's

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a pretty broad broad concept, Fred, and I think if

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we talk, well, let's let's do this.

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Let's talk about your game specifically.

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What are the one or two or maybe three whatever whatever,

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What are those situations within your game where you know

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you're going to have that negative energy you always you

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already talked about, you know, playing against certain opponents, But

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what else, and maybe it's maybe it's off the course.

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Are there certain things that you think about a certain

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ways that you feel in certain situations where you know

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you're going to have negative energy? What what comes to

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mind when you think about that for your game.

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Well, I really try to avoid the negative energy, so

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I'm trying to focus on where would it be in

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my game during my round that I just you know,

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the obvious one I guess for me and for so

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many people is, oh, I have this hole always gives

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me problems. Yeah, walking up to a t box of

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a hole that I remember some of the good shots

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that I had, but of course I'll remember most of

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the bad shots, including the last time I was here.

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And I always always try to remind myself that history

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has nothing to do with those shot. It really is

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irrelevant to the next shot, So you know, and I

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think what happens to me is I think so hard

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about what what happened last time that that that is

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I'm overcompensating it and it introduces pressure and tension into

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my swing, which recreates the problem absolutely.

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So we'll we'll.

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You know a lot of a lot of players like

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determine as their their nemesis hole, you know that one

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that one course that you know just gets their number

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every single time. So yes, there's absolutely specific holes are

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certainly one of those. I think some other common and

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traps for golfers are the first t you know, you're

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standing on the first tea and maybe you know whether

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you're whether there's people there or it's just your foursome.

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Especially again if you're playing, you know, for in competition

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of any of any sort, you have that your hands

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might be shaking, you might have that pit in your stomach,

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or that you know, that tension in your shoulders or

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your grip wherever it might be, and you know, you

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have a tendency to think about all the wrong things

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in the same time. So your thoughts are a direct

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link to your emotions, and they're they're literally committing petty

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larcy on your game because the impact your performance directly.

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If you're you know, if you're standing on the first

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team and you're thinking about your opponent, or you're thinking

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about the ball going out of bounds or in the

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water or maybe missing it depending on your skill set,

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those are obviously all the wrong thoughts. So you want

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to basically put yourself in a position where I call

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being one hundred percent ready, not only on the first tea,

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but on every single shot right.

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And you know, the.

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Way that you do that is a process that we

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talk about in the book but the very first step

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to becoming one hundred percent ready is you have to

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you have to eliminate your ants or your automatic negative thoughts,

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because there's you hear a lot of times golfers talk

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about how there's really uh, you know, Matt every talked

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about it after his when on Sunday at the Bayhill.

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He said, there's just really no room for for negative

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thoughts or negative emotions out on the golf course.

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And it's so true. It's so true.

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And you know, I like to talk to my golfing

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students about you know, compare this game to being a

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Formula one race car driver or you know, maybe you're

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doing what you know, maybe you're you're walking across a

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rope or a cable like nik We Lenda does over

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a canyon or over Niagara Falls, and he has to

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be totally focused and calm and confident for two to

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three minutes. You know, an F one driver is doing

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it for a couple of hours at a time. I mean,

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their focus level is at a level that is obviously,

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you know, higher than what most people can even conceive of,

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and they're doing it for an extended period of time. Now,

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golf is you're talking about seconds of time where you're

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actually swinging the golf club, and all you need to do,

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or what you really need to do first and foremost

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is you need to eliminate those conscious thought or those

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negative thoughts and just allow yourself to swing. Just swing

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the golf club. If you if you, if you have

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a repeatable swing that works on the range, the only

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reason it's not working on the golf course is because

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you're getting in your own way or you're allowing your

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own conscious thought to directly and negatively impact your swing.

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I'm so conscious of the the the jitters and the

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situations like the first t jitters, which is how you

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open your book. I'm so conscious of that that I

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embrace it and even like if I hit a ball

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in the bunker, I'll embrace that. I'll like, oh, this

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is going to be fun, And I know that helps

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me as opposed to freaking out like oh my god,

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there's people watching.

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Sure, absolutely, And that's that's where you know.

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One of the things that that you know is in

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the book is having a mental game strategy. And if

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you have a mental game strategy going into the round

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of relax or have fun or take it easy, that

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way when you're in that and trap or you hit

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that Aaron shot, and you can.

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Just say to yourself, Hey, you know what, relax.

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Just relax, just like what you're talking about, Fred, because

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it can mean the difference between number one enjoying your

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round of golf at much higher level, but not allowing

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one ant to cascade into another, and all of a

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sudden you have an entire colony of ants and your

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entire round is ruined. And then what you focus on

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in the nineteenth hole is how that one shot and

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that one hole really started to allow the wheels to

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start falling. So you're basically making excuses for yourself before

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you round, during your round, and after your round as

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to why you didn't play as well as you should have.

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Oh, the word should have cut us absolutely.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, And why is it that when we get to

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the nineteenth hole, And I'm not sure that's exactly what

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you're referring to in your book when you're talking about

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when you get to the nineteenth hole, everybody wants to

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talk about all the crap that went on. No one

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wants to go. I had said, you know, you didn't

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want to see the going Boy, did I have a

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great put on seventeen? Boy was I good? No, it's

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like I screwed that up. Okay? Are we allowed to

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brag it all? Or is it just taking the guy's

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money at the bar? This is all you need to do?

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Yeah, it's about listening to how you talk.

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I think it would be good to actually and I'm

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going to devn meaning to do this, but I'm going

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to do this now that we're having this conversation. I

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think if golfers were to just videotape themselves and they're

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playing partners talking on the nineteenth hole about their game,

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and then actually watching it and listening to themselves, I

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think that might be their first sign that they need

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to change their communication post round. But you know, and

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I ask the same question all the time, like why

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are golfers constantly focusing?

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Think about it.

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If you just let's say you just scored, or let's

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just say you shot the best round of your life, right,

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what are you going to do after the.

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Round is over. You're going to tell your score and

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you're gonna go, hey, I.

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Shot a you know, a seventy eight or a sixty

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two or a ninety eight, whatever the number is for you,

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it's totally irrelevant and then you're going to immediately go.

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But it could have been a yep, right, three or

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four or five strokes better. Now, I don't think Michael

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Jordan or any other great athlete, if they have a

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phenomenal performance, is going wow, you know what could have

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scored four more points or you know what, I not

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only I could have had a hat trick plus, or

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you know what, I could have pitched even a little

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bit better than that perfect game.

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Oh yes, they do. Yeah, no, I think that everybody.

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But I think that's what draws us back to golf,

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is that you can always do better. That is why

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we don't quit, even though you know, we've been shooting

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in the low eighties and all of a sudden we

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shoot ninety two and it's like, that's it. I quit.

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I'm going to leave the game. No, No, you like,

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I'm going back because I know I'm better than that. Sure,

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And so I think that even when when I think

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about the time that I shot my lowest round and

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I had a great round there, I still there was

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a ooh if I only you know hmm. Yeah. I try.

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I try to remain calm and not get too excited

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and let other people talk about my score then, you know,

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than me talking about it. And I think that I

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don't know, Humility's got to come in at some point.

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You just want people to patch you on the back,

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but you don't want to walk up to them and say, hey,

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pat me on the back.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah, it's uh, it's communication is is such a big

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part of life, and it's it's a major part of golf.

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And you know, that's I think if I were to

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sum up, you know, the book is eighteen game Changing

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Tips to Play your Best Golf Ever is a subtitle,

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but it's really about improving your communication both internally and

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externally on and.

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Off the golf course.

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Because that's really what we need to do, is we

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just need to really clean up the way that that

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we communicate about our game.

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Yeah. Yeah, and I'm again I want to pick stuff

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out of the book. What do you do about playing

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to the competition? You have a chapter about playing if

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you're playing partners horrible and it's interesting how sometimes you

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step up to the game when you're playing partners better

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than you and you can get maybe you do get

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more focused or do you just kind of let it

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go when you're playing with somebody that you know, you know,

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you can give him a stroke a hole and still

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beat them.

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Yeah, you know, that's a great question, because this is

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just this could certainly be a very in depth conversation,

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but we'll keep it relatively short. Let's let's think about

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again what happened this past weekend at Bayhill. Hendrick Stenson

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was in the lead after fifty four holes, and he

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was in the zone and he was just firing, just

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firing at pins on Saturday and making all of his putts,

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and you know, things changed a little bit on Sunday

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and then we all found out after the round that

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he was put on the clock.

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I think it was on the fifteenth hole.

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He ended up i think three putting three of the

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last four holes, and he really talked about how being

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put on the clock, you know.

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It threw him off his game.

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Oh yeah, well, you know again, I'm just going to

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go back to you have to use these opportunities as

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learning opportunities as well as an opportunity to really improve

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your mental toughness, because I think playing with a difficult

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or slow or angry player is really one of the

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most challenging areas in golf. I think from a mental perspective,

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because you can really allow their negativity to cascade into

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your own game.

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It's very very easy to do.

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And you know, I talked in the book about how

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one of my students, Patrick had, you know, he had

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gone through my coaching with me, and he was, you know,

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he had identified his top ten and traps. You know,

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what are the situations that are going to bring me

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the most negative energy in my game. And he was

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on a part three and he hit his t shot

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into the bunker and he knew that if he jumped

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into it, into the cart, that his playing partner was

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going to fill his head with all kinds of negativity.

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So he said, you know what, on this whole, I'm

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going to just I'm going to grab my sand wedge,

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my putter, and I'm just going to walk up and

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I'm just going to allow myself to stay in my

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own little world here. He ended up getting up in

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down and saving it for a power. But the key

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story there was he had taken the time to now

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really become aware of the fact that these an traps

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were negatively impacting his game, and he put them on

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high alert. So this was a very specific situation where

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he said, you know what, I know what I need

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to do. I also know that I need to stay

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awake from my playing part or in this particular shot,

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because I want to go and do what I'm supposed

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to do.

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When he did it, you know, he got up and

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down for his power.

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So part of it is really number one again identifying

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the fact that, okay, that this is just an ant trap.

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This person is just going to make things a little

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bit more challenging for me today. So maybe my strategy

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for today is just to have fun because I know

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that when I play with this particular individual, a lot

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of times I do not have fun. Or maybe my

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strategy is just to focus on me, do not allow

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them to fill to let their negativity cascade into my

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own game, but really use it as an opportunity to

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test and challenge yourself. Because think about it, that the time,

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the only time that really matters is when you're in

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your your preshot routine and you're standing over the golf

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ball getting ready to hit. Everything else that happens outside

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of that is irrelevant to what happens when you're hitting

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the golf ball.

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So again I go back.

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To you know, allowing yourself to put yourself in a

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situation where you're you're totally calm, you're free of negative thought,

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and just just swing, just swing, because you can still

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perform even though you're playing with the difficult playing partner.

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I'm going to take you back to the beginning of

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that that rant, that beginning of your answer there when

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you're talking about Hendrick Stenson and right that we were

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talking about how he was put on the clock.

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Yes, isn't that.

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Interesting, how even at that level that something like that

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which to me if we have to equate it to

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our game. And I don't like to sit here and

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compare what we're doing to what they're doing on the tour,

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but if there's a way to compare it, it will

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take me to the thing that fries me on the

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golf course more than anything, and that is a marshal

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coming up to me to tell me to pick up

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the pace when you know we've spent two of the

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last three holes with one or two guys trying to

481
00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:25.559
find their ball right. And I go on about this forever,

482
00:23:25.640 --> 00:23:28.079
but I think that marshals, if they're sitting at the

483
00:23:28.160 --> 00:23:30.400
end of the fair way and they see the ball

484
00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:34.680
going errant, they should run over, put their hat where

485
00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:36.960
the ball is and help us pick up the pace

486
00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:39.480
we're picking up. We're losing time on it because we're

487
00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:41.680
looking for balls, and we lose balls on a regular

488
00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:44.240
basis on the tour, they don't because there's people standing

489
00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:47.799
around going it's right here, right. So yeah, getting put

490
00:23:47.880 --> 00:23:51.079
on the clock being told to hurry up, that's gonna

491
00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:53.799
throw off even some of the best players at the

492
00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:55.079
moment in the world.

493
00:23:56.880 --> 00:23:58.599
Absolutely, absolutely, yeah.

494
00:23:58.640 --> 00:24:00.839
And there's so many things in golf that are just

495
00:24:01.519 --> 00:24:04.319
completely out of our control and that that is certainly

496
00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:05.960
a great example of one of them.

497
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And you just have to know sometimes you just have

498
00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:09.559
to accept it. Fred As.

499
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I know that sounds really really simple as we're sitting

500
00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:13.839
here talk about it, but when you're in you know,

501
00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:16.599
when you're in that environment and in that situation, I

502
00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:19.720
know how frustrating it is and I know how challenging

503
00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:22.279
it can be to really just stay focused on your game.

504
00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:25.480
But you just also have to realize that there are

505
00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:28.799
rules to the game. You know, most sports play with

506
00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:31.599
a clock or some kind of a timer, so you know,

507
00:24:31.680 --> 00:24:34.799
most sports are timed as well. And again I'm just

508
00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:39.759
going to you know, just reconfirm here that there's just

509
00:24:39.799 --> 00:24:42.640
there's just things that are out of our control. The

510
00:24:42.680 --> 00:24:45.279
only thing that we really have control of is how

511
00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:48.559
we think standing over the golf ball and our ability

512
00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:51.279
to put a nice swing on it. Everything else, you know,

513
00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:55.319
a bad balance, augusta wind, you know, an unlucky break

514
00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:58.519
or what a sprinklert had anything, those are just you know,

515
00:24:58.559 --> 00:25:01.319
the marshal that somebody can coughing and your back swing.

516
00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:04.400
There's so many things that are just completely out of

517
00:25:04.440 --> 00:25:09.039
our control. And playing with a mental game strategy, constantly

518
00:25:09.079 --> 00:25:14.240
focusing on identifying and crushing your stopping those ants whenever,

519
00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:17.119
whenever they crop up is what's going to bring you

520
00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:19.640
back and get you focused and allow yourself to play

521
00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:20.880
in the zone in every shot.

522
00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:28.960
How do we get to that zone? And do we

523
00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:30.599
need to be in the zone? Who I hate asking

524
00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:32.960
two questions at once. Let me just ask this then.

525
00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:35.400
Do we need to be in the zone the entire round?

526
00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:39.200
Absolutely not, No, It's it's impossible to be.

527
00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:41.759
The time in between your shots is when you want to,

528
00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:43.599
you know, really just kind of let your mind go

529
00:25:43.920 --> 00:25:46.880
and relax, enjoy the walk or enjoy the ride, depending

530
00:25:46.920 --> 00:25:49.519
on you know what your preference was for transportation for

531
00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:51.519
the day, but you know, you want to use that

532
00:25:51.640 --> 00:25:55.160
time to really enjoy just being out there and enjoying

533
00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:56.880
the fact that you're healthy enough to play a great

534
00:25:56.920 --> 00:25:59.039
game that you love. But now the time, the time

535
00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:01.880
to get you know, to clear yourself of that conscious

536
00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:04.839
thought is you know, we're talking about seconds of time

537
00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:07.039
here when you're when you're standing over the golf ball.

538
00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:09.799
So you know, once you the process really starts when

539
00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:11.480
you take your club out of the bag and you

540
00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:14.000
you know, in your preshot routine, you want to visualize

541
00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:16.599
the type of shot that you're going to hit, pick

542
00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:19.440
the specific target, and take what I call a four

543
00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:24.000
second time out. And what that is is just closing

544
00:26:24.039 --> 00:26:27.000
your eyes for four seconds, taking a nice deep breath

545
00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:29.759
in through your nose, breathing from your belly or from

546
00:26:29.799 --> 00:26:33.359
your diaphragm, and then two seconds in and then two

547
00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:36.640
seconds out through your mouth with your eyes closed while

548
00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:41.359
you are physically stopped. When you physically stop moving, it

549
00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:45.079
stops your thought process, it changes your physiology. And when

550
00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:48.400
you take literally four seconds to a couple couple seconds in,

551
00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:52.480
a couple seconds out to just breathe and relax, it

552
00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:55.799
is the most calming feeling that that you can imagine.

553
00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:59.440
It literally takes four seconds. Now, if you're getting further

554
00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:01.119
and further on in the match, and you know what,

555
00:27:01.160 --> 00:27:03.720
my hands are still shaking, I'm still feeling that anxiety

556
00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:06.599
that four seconds didn't do it. Well, Just you do

557
00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:08.440
it again, and do it a third time. If you

558
00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:11.160
need to do it behind the ball, do it away

559
00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:13.319
from the ball, do it in between shots, do it

560
00:27:13.359 --> 00:27:15.880
prior to your round, do it off the course, do

561
00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:17.960
it throughout the day. I do it all the time, Fred.

562
00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:23.160
It is the most simplistic, relaxing, calming thing that you

563
00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:26.680
can do for yourself, and it completely completely changes your

564
00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:29.400
physiology immediately and changes your perspective.

565
00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:30.400
So now that.

566
00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:33.599
You've taken that time behind the ball, you visualize your shot,

567
00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:36.559
you've identified your target. As you walk up to the ball,

568
00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:39.000
you let all of that go. Now all you're going

569
00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:41.240
to do. You already rehearse your swing. So now all

570
00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:43.039
you're going to do is just step up to the ball,

571
00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:47.319
make sure that you're aligned properly, and swing, just swing.

572
00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:51.359
You want to swing free of any conscious thought. And

573
00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:56.000
it takes time, It takes practice, it takes conditioning. But

574
00:27:56.039 --> 00:27:59.319
if you're doing it at the range. It's so much

575
00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:01.359
easier to do on the golf course because what do

576
00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:02.000
we do with the range.

577
00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:03.680
We fire golf balls or golf balls or.

578
00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:06.279
Golf ball we feel great, we're hitting the same club

579
00:28:06.359 --> 00:28:10.400
over and over. Why not practice this pre shot routine

580
00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:12.759
every single time at the range. Now, what you're doing

581
00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:16.240
is you're balancing the scale between play and practice, and

582
00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:18.519
you're going through the same process and the same pre

583
00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:21.319
shot routine to get into the zone every time you

584
00:28:21.359 --> 00:28:22.680
practice and every time you play.

585
00:28:24.079 --> 00:28:26.480
You know, we've been talking for almost a half hour

586
00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:30.400
now and you opened up with and we've never followed

587
00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:34.960
up on your three step approach, So let's start talking

588
00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:36.359
about the three step approach.

589
00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:40.640
That sounds great, yeah, and from an on course perspective,

590
00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:43.160
but it's really simple. It's showing up to the course

591
00:28:43.599 --> 00:28:45.799
feeling one hundred percent ready. And the way that that

592
00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:48.440
happens is with the mental game strategy. That step one

593
00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:52.960
is playing one hundred percent ready. Step two is getting

594
00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:54.920
in the zone and every shot, and we talked about

595
00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:58.440
the process to do that, and then step three is

596
00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:01.680
focusing on three positives. Is at the end of every

597
00:29:01.799 --> 00:29:04.240
round in every practice session. Again, we talked about all

598
00:29:04.279 --> 00:29:06.519
the would have, could have, should have is that golfers

599
00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:11.079
like to focus on. But let's transform that communication process

600
00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:15.039
and that thought process post round, post practice session and

601
00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:18.319
immediately identify, Okay, what are three positives from today? Because

602
00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:21.200
what that does it allows you not only allows you

603
00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:24.480
to enjoy the game better, but really identify some good

604
00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:26.319
things that happened today even though you feel like maybe

605
00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:27.240
nothing really did.

606
00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:29.200
But it also allows you to view your.

607
00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:31.640
Game more objectively, so you're not getting so caught up

608
00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:33.839
and man, what happened with my swing today? I was

609
00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:35.960
great on the range. Yesterday I was great on the range.

610
00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:38.359
Before my round I fell apart on the course again.

611
00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:41.799
So if you're constantly focusing on the positives, you're not

612
00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:44.079
going to put so much focus on your swing. So

613
00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:45.920
step one is to show up one hundred percent ready.

614
00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:47.640
Step two is to get in the zone in every shot,

615
00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:50.079
and then step three is to always focus on the

616
00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:53.000
positives that's on the course, off of the golf course.

617
00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:57.319
We put together a process that is backed by science.

618
00:29:57.319 --> 00:30:01.240
So we've developed a mental game assessment with PhD. Jonathan

619
00:30:01.319 --> 00:30:05.200
Rich that assesses you in eight key mental and emotional

620
00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:08.119
traits and Once you complete the assessment, you go through

621
00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:10.599
a review session with me where I can allow you

622
00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:13.920
to understand what all this information means to you and

623
00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:16.599
your game, but also give you a custom learning path

624
00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:19.079
that's going to allow you to play your best golf ever.

625
00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:21.480
So step one off of the golf course is to

626
00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:23.920
take the mental game assessment, go through the review.

627
00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:24.240
Session with me.

628
00:30:24.920 --> 00:30:27.640
Step two is to go into our one hundred percent

629
00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:29.000
Ready coaching program.

630
00:30:28.680 --> 00:30:31.519
Whether that be one on one with me or our live.

631
00:30:31.319 --> 00:30:34.720
Group sessions that are going to be held via Google

632
00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:38.000
Hangout and they're also recorded, allowing you to have this

633
00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:41.200
information forever. That's done in the group format. And then

634
00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:43.960
step three is to use one of the most what

635
00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:48.559
I think are innovative coaching tools as well as playing

636
00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:51.240
tools for the mental and emotional game, which is called

637
00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:54.240
our Head Coach Learning App. And what that is Fred,

638
00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:58.680
It's an opportunity for you to track some mental and

639
00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:02.880
emotional data from your round. Have you identify what your

640
00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:05.920
mental game strategy was prior to your round, how effective

641
00:31:05.960 --> 00:31:08.440
it was, how committed you were to it, what was

642
00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:11.440
your confidence level today? What percentage of shots were you

643
00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:14.519
one hundred percent ready? What were your three positives from

644
00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:17.359
the round. So now what you're doing is you're starting

645
00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:21.640
to track that intangible information from the mental and emotional

646
00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:24.240
game and not only do it on a daily basis,

647
00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:27.680
but allow yourself to use it as a learning tool

648
00:31:28.039 --> 00:31:30.160
to go back and say, Okay, I'm not going to

649
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:33.400
use my swing as my benchmark for performance today. Let

650
00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:36.319
me start with what I was thinking about, what I

651
00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:39.279
was feeling, Did I fall into any specific and traps.

652
00:31:39.319 --> 00:31:41.240
What was my confidence level on a scale of one

653
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:45.039
to ten going into today's round. Now you're allowing yourself

654
00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:49.119
to view some really critical data with an objective perspective.

655
00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:51.319
So it allows you to become your own coach, so

656
00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:54.960
to speak. But if you're a coach working with a player,

657
00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:57.039
whether it be a high school team or a collegiate team,

658
00:31:57.160 --> 00:32:00.240
or a PGA teaching pro working with your student, this

659
00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:03.599
gives you a whole new perspective on your player's game

660
00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:07.359
or your own game, because now you're able to tangibly

661
00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:10.559
identify some key data points on the mental and emotional

662
00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:14.000
side of the game, and the way that you perceive

663
00:32:14.039 --> 00:32:15.880
your game is totally different. The way that you view

664
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:18.519
your game is completely different. The way you approach the

665
00:32:18.559 --> 00:32:21.480
game becomes completely different and you have data that you

666
00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:24.640
can use to constantly learn from every single time you

667
00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:25.480
go to the golf course.

668
00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:28.240
You mentioned an app.

669
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:30.839
Did you yes?

670
00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:32.680
Tell me more about the app and how we can

671
00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:33.160
find it.

672
00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:37.079
Excellent question. We are in a beta phase with it

673
00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:39.400
right now. We're in phase two of the beta phase

674
00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:42.680
with it currently fed. We're looking for ten golfers actually

675
00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:45.599
we're down to nine currently that want to participate in

676
00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:48.359
the beta of the product, and it's going to become

677
00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:51.960
a mobile app within the next ninety days. But right now,

678
00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:55.359
what we have is a way for you to gather

679
00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:58.200
all this information online and the best part about it

680
00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:00.640
is it takes about ninety seconds to two minutes to

681
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:03.880
complete after the round. So we've got a couple of

682
00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:06.160
PhDs that we're working with on the front end with

683
00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:08.880
the mental game Assessment with PhD Jonathan Rich and now

684
00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:12.039
we're working with PhD Casey Debrian to further develop the

685
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:14.599
head Coach learning app and making a mobile tool that

686
00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:16.559
you can that you can bring to the golf course

687
00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:16.839
with you.

688
00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:19.480
You only want ten people.

689
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:21.640
That's what we're looking for currently.

690
00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:25.319
Okay, so you're gonna get that from this audience. That

691
00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:27.720
sounds great, So how do they get in touch with you?

692
00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:29.960
How do they get to be the first ten? And

693
00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:36.240
what if they're number eleven, we'll have well thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, we'll.

694
00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:37.599
Have to set up beta group number two.

695
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:39.839
But now it's a great question, Fred, and the best

696
00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:44.240
way to contact me is Greg Jerg at my Mental

697
00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:47.759
game coach dot com and let me know that you're

698
00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:51.000
interested in participating in the beta. It really is everybody

699
00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:52.839
talks about all I have a revolutionary product for the

700
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:56.279
game and innovative product. This is something that I'm not

701
00:33:56.319 --> 00:33:58.039
saying it doesn't exist anywhere else.

702
00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:00.400
I just we haven't seen it anywhere else.

703
00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:03.079
And what we're doing is we were taking a very

704
00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:05.079
very good product and we're going to make it great.

705
00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:08.000
So if anybody wants to take control of their game

706
00:34:08.199 --> 00:34:13.519
and be part of a very innovative mental and emotional

707
00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:17.159
coaching tool, please contact us to get started with it.

708
00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:20.800
And please, if you do contact Greg to be part

709
00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:22.800
of this study, let him know that you heard about

710
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:27.119
it on Golf Smarter. Absolutely yeah, And if you don't,

711
00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:37.079
he's going to ask how'd you hear about this? I'm

712
00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:38.880
want to go back into the book and pick on

713
00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:42.239
some more things that you talk about in there, and

714
00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:44.599
I want to know what you mean by being an

715
00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:48.360
emotional mess and how that we can get past that.

716
00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:52.440
Sure, yeah, and we're gonna we'll go back to the ends.

717
00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:55.679
But you know, again, it's it's a mentally having a

718
00:34:55.719 --> 00:34:57.760
mental game strategy is such a big part of this.

719
00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:00.239
And we'll use this as a quick exam both.

720
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:02.280
You know, let's say you're going out to play in

721
00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:05.559
a pro am, for example, and you know there's going

722
00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:07.800
to be a gallery there, and there's going to be

723
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:10.800
cameras there, and you're not used to playing in this environment,

724
00:35:11.159 --> 00:35:12.440
and you know you've played in front.

725
00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:14.480
Of people before, but this is this is at a

726
00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:15.320
whole other level.

727
00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:18.639
So now you know, it's very easy to be an

728
00:35:18.639 --> 00:35:21.360
emotional mess going into that situation because you're going to

729
00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:23.320
start to think about all the wrong things of you know,

730
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:25.360
I hope I don't embarrass myself, and you know, I

731
00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:26.880
hope I don't play as bad as I did the

732
00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:30.280
last time I played at that particular course, or all

733
00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:32.280
of these things are going to go through your head.

734
00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:35.039
And I can relate to being an emotional mess because

735
00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:38.159
I carried a crippling fear of public speaking with me

736
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:42.239
for many, many years, and every time that I found

737
00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:44.639
out that I had to speak, my heart would raise immediately,

738
00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:47.480
my hands would start to sweat. Almost It's almost like

739
00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:50.719
having a shot of adrenaline pumped into you immediately knowing

740
00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:53.000
that I had to go speak somewhere. I just it

741
00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:55.840
was my greatest weakness, and I really abhorred the thought

742
00:35:55.840 --> 00:35:57.880
of speaking in front of others. Well, when I finally

743
00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:03.000
had the the courage to join an organization called Toastmasters

744
00:36:03.039 --> 00:36:06.199
and overcome this faces fear and overcome it and now

745
00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:09.199
use it as one of my strengths. You know, it

746
00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:12.239
wasn't until then that I was really able to take

747
00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:16.440
my whole emotional mess of how I perceive myself as

748
00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:19.239
a public speaker, in my own self image and really

749
00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:22.079
transform it. And now it's it's one of my strengths.

750
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:24.360
So it's the same thing with your golf game. You

751
00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:27.199
have to change your perception of who you are as

752
00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:30.559
a golfer, but you have to start practicing and playing

753
00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:33.039
with a mental game strategy that's going to allow you

754
00:36:33.079 --> 00:36:35.159
to focus on playing your best. So going back to

755
00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:37.880
playing in this pro am, there's a lot of different

756
00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:40.239
strategies that you can have. But what you want to

757
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:44.440
do is put yourself in a situation where you're totally calm,

758
00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:46.639
totally confident, you're excited.

759
00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:48.440
Let's reverse that fear.

760
00:36:48.159 --> 00:36:51.079
Because it's it's the same chemical that's going through your body.

761
00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:54.079
You're just sending it down the wrong track basically, So

762
00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:57.320
let's take that adrenaline that's in your body, that excitement

763
00:36:57.360 --> 00:36:59.119
that's in your body. I talk about it in chapter

764
00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:03.320
one where your mind says, your mind sets stop, but

765
00:37:03.400 --> 00:37:06.360
your body is saying, oh, so you're feeling excited, but

766
00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:08.519
your mind is telling you all the wrong things.

767
00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:11.360
So there's a conflict that occurs. So now if you

768
00:37:11.440 --> 00:37:12.159
just change.

769
00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:13.599
Your thought process and say, hey, this is what an

770
00:37:13.639 --> 00:37:15.880
exciting opportunity to play in this program.

771
00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:18.159
I'm going to meet some great people. I'm going to

772
00:37:18.199 --> 00:37:19.800
go out and play the best I can play.

773
00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:22.639
Whatever happens happens, but you know what, I'm just going

774
00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:26.119
to go out and have a great time today. So again,

775
00:37:26.159 --> 00:37:29.599
it's it's changing your perspective. It's having a mental game strategy.

776
00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:32.840
It's conditioning yourself to think this way both on and

777
00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:35.840
off the golf course. So it all goes back to communication.

778
00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:39.199
But it's really about putting yourself in a situation where

779
00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:41.639
you're feeling one hundred percent ready going to the course

780
00:37:42.039 --> 00:37:45.320
on the first he standing over the golf ball every

781
00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:48.519
single golf shot. So playing with the mental game strategy

782
00:37:48.639 --> 00:37:51.920
is by far and away the most powerful concept that

783
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:53.960
I teach, and it's one that can really level the

784
00:37:53.960 --> 00:37:55.880
playing field between practice and play.

785
00:37:56.519 --> 00:38:02.480
Absolutely, and it's so helps to get past those first

786
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:06.039
tee issues. I can't tell you how many times I've

787
00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:09.679
played with people who after their first t shot, they're like, Oh,

788
00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:11.519
this is gonna be a long day. And it's like, really,

789
00:38:11.559 --> 00:38:14.400
you're gonna let that shot dictate what's going to happen

790
00:38:14.440 --> 00:38:15.960
the rest of the four hours here?

791
00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:20.000
Oh, isn't an amazing Absolutely.

792
00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:23.199
Yes it is. It's like what And then, of course

793
00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:26.199
the front nine to the back nine always two completely

794
00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:29.880
different rounds of golf, and you're still talking about that

795
00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:32.639
first the first shot that you had, come on, Get

796
00:38:32.639 --> 00:38:37.599
past it, Get past it. How lastly, because we're gonna

797
00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:42.320
break soon. But increasing confidence. I know that playing with

798
00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:45.719
confidence is so huge. I mean when you are out

799
00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:47.840
there going I got it. I got this shot. Again,

800
00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:50.360
as we talked about early, give me the ball. But

801
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:54.679
when you're playing with that kind of confidence, it really

802
00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:58.920
it really lowers your scores. But it only takes a

803
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:02.280
three put It only takes one ball in the water

804
00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:05.719
to have it all come crumbling.

805
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:10.559
Down, no question, no question about that one. And you know,

806
00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:13.480
you you you it. It happens at every level or

807
00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:16.400
that that that one shot, that one three putt, it

808
00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:19.320
can it can absolutely throw your game off. And and again,

809
00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:21.760
not to sound like a broken record, but that's you know,

810
00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:24.480
that's why playing with the mental game strategy is so important.

811
00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:27.880
We didn't really talk about the specific three step process

812
00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:30.800
to stop your answer your automatic negative thoughts, but this

813
00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:32.800
is a perfect example, I think to talk about it.

814
00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:34.360
So you know, let's say you have that three button.

815
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:37.119
You're just you're cruising, You're on the fifteenth hole. You're

816
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:39.840
you're just unconscious, you're not even you're not keeping track

817
00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:41.920
of your score, which is the proper way to play golf,

818
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:43.880
by the way, you know, you're just you're just you're

819
00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:46.199
on cruise control and you're not thinking about the wheels

820
00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:48.920
falling off, and you're you are you're just beaming with confidence.

821
00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:49.880
You're just enjoying it.

822
00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:53.760
You're relaxed, you're calm, you're not getting overly excited, You're

823
00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:55.639
just playing right. And then all of a sudden that

824
00:39:55.639 --> 00:39:59.119
three button. Then you go ooh, and then maybe a

825
00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:02.599
thought of score might creep in and you might go, well,

826
00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:04.960
you know what if I can just par out here still,

827
00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:06.920
I know I'm going to have a great round. So

828
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:10.440
now you start thinking about score, right, So it's it's

829
00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:15.199
interesting how that one little that one little nugget, that

830
00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:18.400
one little window of opportunity of a three put can

831
00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:21.440
cascade into another ant in another and another. So what

832
00:40:21.480 --> 00:40:23.400
you need to do is to what I call stop

833
00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:25.960
the ants dead in their tracks. And the way that

834
00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:28.840
you physically do it is by being aware of the

835
00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:32.159
fact that, Okay, hold on, this is just a trap.

836
00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:34.320
This is just an ant trap that I'm falling into

837
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:38.400
right now. That hole is over. It never even it's

838
00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:41.360
it's history. The only person that's possibly thinking about your

839
00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:43.320
three put in the world is you.

840
00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:46.880
Okay, So it's history. It doesn't even exist anymore.

841
00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:50.840
So you have to physically stop, stop moving, take your

842
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:53.480
four second time out a couple of seconds, in, couple

843
00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:56.599
seconds out, eyes closed, and then just revert back to

844
00:40:56.639 --> 00:40:59.199
what is my strategy for today? And my strategy for

845
00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:02.400
today's relaxed, or my strategy today is quiet mind, or

846
00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:05.159
my strategy today is just total focus, or my strategy

847
00:41:05.199 --> 00:41:07.960
today is calm, or my strategy today is.

848
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:08.599
Just have fun.

849
00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:12.760
So that's why having a strategy and being highly cognizant

850
00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:15.719
and aware of your and traps both on and off

851
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:17.880
the golf course, is going to help you get through

852
00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:20.679
those situations. And Fred, I'm not sitting here saying it's

853
00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:22.760
going to work every single time guaranteed.

854
00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:24.480
If there might be a day.

855
00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:28.760
Where you're just not allowing yourself to really buy into it,

856
00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:31.320
or you're not totally committed to your strategy, so maybe

857
00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:34.280
you're not one hundred percent there, maybe you're seventy eighty

858
00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:36.599
percent of the way there, or you just haven't done

859
00:41:36.599 --> 00:41:38.280
it enough so you're not conditioned enough.

860
00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:40.039
To really be effective at this.

861
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:43.599
It takes time, it takes practice, it takes discipline, and

862
00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:47.920
like anything else, physical conditioning is is like thought. It's

863
00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:51.519
like physical conditioning. It's thought conditioning. You have to condition

864
00:41:51.639 --> 00:41:54.400
yourself to think better. And I have students who start

865
00:41:54.440 --> 00:41:56.360
with me and say, hey, Greg, you know what, I'm

866
00:41:56.360 --> 00:41:58.639
getting so much out of your coaching, But this is

867
00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:00.840
very very early on, maybe the first one or two

868
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:03.320
times out on the course, somebody might say, you know,

869
00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:06.599
but I feel like I'm thinking more. And it's not

870
00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:09.119
that you're thinking more, you're just thinking differently.

871
00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:10.440
Okay.

872
00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:13.079
So it's like when you when you hear that song

873
00:42:13.199 --> 00:42:15.800
by your favorite artists for the first time and you go, oh, yeah,

874
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:17.960
you know what that's it's it's pretty good. You know,

875
00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:19.280
I kind of like not it's not like it as

876
00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:21.199
much as the other stuff, but I kind of like it.

877
00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:23.159
And then you hear three, four or five times and

878
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:27.239
you go, wow, you know what want Because what happens is,

879
00:42:27.239 --> 00:42:29.079
you know there was there was new pathways that were

880
00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:31.039
being created in your brain the first time that you

881
00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:33.000
heard it, so it was a little bit foreign, but

882
00:42:33.280 --> 00:42:35.039
the more that you listen to it, the more that

883
00:42:35.079 --> 00:42:37.719
you liked it because now now as familiar. It's the

884
00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:41.159
same thing with conditioning yourself to overcome your ants or

885
00:42:41.599 --> 00:42:43.920
overcome these ant traps, is maybe you aren't great at

886
00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:46.000
it the first time out or the second or the third,

887
00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:49.719
but if you're constantly working at conditioning yourself to stop

888
00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:53.159
those ants on and off the golf course, that particular

889
00:42:53.239 --> 00:42:55.159
situation and maybe you know maybe it's in that that

890
00:42:55.159 --> 00:42:58.800
that that pressure pack situation, that's when it might really

891
00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:01.400
pay off because you've been working at it for so

892
00:43:01.559 --> 00:43:04.320
long and you've conditioned yourself to become very adept at it.

893
00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:07.239
So it definitely takes time, it takes practice, and it

894
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:08.760
absolutely takes conditioning.

895
00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:09.239
Okay.

896
00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:13.239
I have a suggestion for everybody, including you, that when

897
00:43:13.239 --> 00:43:16.239
you start to get into your aunt traps, if you

898
00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:18.159
need a visual to help you remind you to get

899
00:43:18.159 --> 00:43:21.119
out of it, just think of the duck right and trapped,

900
00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:28.000
the flex duck and traps and traps.

901
00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:32.840
I love it. I thought I thought, you know, I

902
00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:33.679
thought you were gonna have to.

903
00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:38.320
Take take take take your ant spray out of your

904
00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:39.840
golf bag and spray yourself with.

905
00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:40.800
No no, do do that.

906
00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:44.519
I love the traps trap.

907
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:47.039
I'm sorry it's your accent that got me there, but

908
00:43:48.119 --> 00:43:50.639
it's the upstate New York accent.

909
00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:54.840
Uh. It worked, But we just get we just with

910
00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:57.280
something that's going to work for something for everybody.

911
00:43:57.320 --> 00:43:58.480
I love it exactly.

912
00:43:58.679 --> 00:43:59.000
Great.

913
00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:06.119
Tell us how to get the book.

914
00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:09.320
Sure, it's either at our website at my Metal gamecoach

915
00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:11.400
dot com. You can you can find it there on

916
00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:14.239
the blog page and feel free to subscribe to our blog.

917
00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:17.920
We're doing two video blog posts every single week.

918
00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:21.079
Now and they're they're fun, they're creative, they're innovative, they're

919
00:44:21.119 --> 00:44:23.679
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920
00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:25.760
a minute or two in length, so they're they're very

921
00:44:25.800 --> 00:44:28.159
short and very direct to the point, and they will

922
00:44:28.199 --> 00:44:30.840
definitely help transform the way you think about your game

923
00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:32.719
on and off the golf course. So that the book

924
00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:35.719
is definitely available through the website, but it's also available

925
00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:39.280
on Amazon. It's just if you just type in eighteen holes.

926
00:44:40.039 --> 00:44:41.480
I think it might come up first. I don't know,

927
00:44:41.480 --> 00:44:43.840
I Fred it comes up first on my left the.

928
00:44:43.960 --> 00:44:47.519
Search because exactly you typed it in many times.

929
00:44:48.239 --> 00:44:50.920
Eighteen holes. Greg Loberto l I B E r t O.

930
00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:53.280
Will absolutely help you find it on Amazon. So you

931
00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:56.039
can get the print version on Amazon or the Kindo version.

932
00:44:56.159 --> 00:44:59.440
It's a little bit less than eighteen dollars. Eighteen Holes

933
00:44:59.480 --> 00:45:02.360
is eighteen game changing tips to play your best golf ever.

934
00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:04.559
It's literally, as you probably saw, Fred, it's about an

935
00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:07.000
eighteen minute read, it's about a minute per chapter, and

936
00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:09.840
it really is the bestest way to improve your game.

937
00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:14.079
Great how about a quick tip here on the three

938
00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:16.679
step approach from your book Eighteen Holes.

939
00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:17.800
Sounds great.

940
00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:20.760
So step one is to definitely play with the mental

941
00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:22.760
game strategy, and we want you to be one hundred

942
00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:25.400
percent ready arriving to the golf course on the first

943
00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:28.920
tee and every te elsewhere. And step two is to

944
00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:31.000
get in the zone in every single shot. And one

945
00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:32.840
of the ways that we talked about doing that is

946
00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:35.800
to take a four second timeout, which is to demonstrate

947
00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:38.920
very quickly here Fred, it's to close your eyes and

948
00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:40.760
you're going to breathe in from the belly or from

949
00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:44.679
the diaphragm for two seconds, so it's in through the nose.

950
00:45:50.280 --> 00:45:53.199
And two seconds out. Okay. So I know it's hard

951
00:45:53.199 --> 00:45:54.199
for most people to do that.

952
00:45:54.239 --> 00:45:55.960
They think, Oh, I don't want to embarrass myself in

953
00:45:55.960 --> 00:45:58.360
front of other players or especially in front of my opponent.

954
00:45:58.400 --> 00:45:59.760
It feels kind of weird.

955
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:04.480
Practice it on the range, practice it away from your shot,

956
00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:09.000
but allow yourself to be totally calm, totally confident, and

957
00:46:09.119 --> 00:46:13.639
just eliminate those ants or those automatic negative thoughts that

958
00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:15.559
are going to creep in the way when you're playing

959
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:18.159
in competition or whenever it might be out on the

960
00:46:18.159 --> 00:46:21.320
golf course and just allow yourself to perform in your

961
00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:23.719
most natural state and just swing. So that's step two

962
00:46:23.800 --> 00:46:25.039
is to get in the zone. And then step three

963
00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:28.000
is to focus on three positives at the end of

964
00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:29.880
your round or the end of your practice session. What

965
00:46:29.880 --> 00:46:32.280
do we talk about earlier today every golfer likes to

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focus on that would have, could have, should have? Is

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how about the three things that went well today? You

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probably made a putt if you played eighteen holes of golf,

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maybe somewhere along the way you got a lucky bouncer,

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you made a great par saving put or maybe you

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know what, you had that one t shot on that

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one hole that you usually have a tendency to go

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out and bounds in that hole, but for some reason,

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I striped it right down the middle. Okay, So three

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positives after every single round, every single every single practice session.

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And you said, simple three step approach to allow yourself

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to transform the way that you communicate from start to

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finish and go out and play your best golf ever.