June 2, 2026

How To Hit It Long with Monte Scheinblum

How To Hit It Long with Monte Scheinblum
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Monte Scheinblum is a former long drive world champion who has the keys for helping any golfer hit the ball further. Monte joins host Josh Karp to discuss his path from son of an MLB All Star, to the world’s longest hitter and his deep data-backed analysis for what it takes to hit the ball far.

If you want to hit it long check out Monte's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MonteScheinblumRebellionGolf

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As I've studied the golf seling in the last fifteen years,

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everything that has been said that creates clubhead speed is

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pretty much wrong. If you talk to the right people,

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the smart guys that actually study the data, they will

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absolutely agree with this. What has been taught for a

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century is at best misleading and at worst the opposite

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of what's supposed to happen. And the people that actually

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taken the time to study it are immensely successful at

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making people hit it farther and straighter.

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I'm talking to Machi schein Bloom, who is a long

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driving champion and golf instructor, and I want to first

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of all, thank you for being here today. And it's

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you know, everybody wants to hit the ball crazy far right,

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and now statistics are showing that that is a huge,

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uh huge factor.

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And yet and yet you still hear the old school

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people argue drive for show and putt for dough and

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actually get angry if you say, well I don't know

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about that, you know.

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Right, Well, why don't we start there talk a little

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bit about, you know, the advantages of you know, why

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hitting it long is so important these days. I mean,

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obviously you see Bryce and Rory, can you know, just

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massacre the ball.

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Well, I mean, let's be honest, at every skill level,

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you're going to hit a wedge closer to the hole

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more often than you're gonna hit a seven or an

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eight iron. It's not more complicated than that. And with

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the advent of the new equipment, unless it's the US Open,

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you know, I mean, obviously you don't want to hit

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them all fifty yards offline into someone's yard. But but

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not just statistically, but empirically, hitting fairways is vastly overrated. Okay,

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so just you know, good, I mean missing the fairway

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by forty or fifty yards, yeah, no good. But you know,

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the number of golfers who are going to hit it

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closer from one seventy from the fairway versus one forty

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from the light rough is zero, you know.

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H no, absolutely, So well let's start so, you know,

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just go back for a second. You know, So your

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dad was richiesh Eein bloom right, who was a professional

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professional baseball player.

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Yeah, I mean the league baseball player for about ten years.

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Is it all Star too, right?

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One? Y'ar? Yeah? In seventy two, was that the year

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of like.

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That famous All Star Game or was it could there

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There's like a really famous one of Tiger Stadium.

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I was seventy one they before that was the one

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where Reggie Jackson hit the home run out of the

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stadium and where Pete Rose and Ray Fossey had the

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Collie right. However, there was an excellent event at the

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seventy two All Star Game as well, the one my

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dad played it. And that's one of my memories as

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a child that being definitely afraid of when this happened.

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So it was an old Atlanta Fulton County Stadium and

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Hank Aaron was at the end of his career and

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he had home run and the crowd went so crazy

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the stadium shook, and I was afraid. I was only

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five years old at the time.

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Wow, wow, God that Yeah. I mean I remember watching,

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you know, I think they all you know when he

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hit his you know, seven hundred and you know, fourteenth

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or whatever, and I remember the watching it on TV

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and you could kind of feel how intense that experience

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was for the people in the stadium.

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Yeah. So as a side note onto both of these things,

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I've played golf with Al Downing sometimes. Yeah. Really nice

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guy has a really good sense of humor, you know,

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unlike Eric Shao who was bitter about giving up Pete

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Rose's record breaking Yet you know, Al has a really

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good sense of humor about He's like, look, man, you

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know pictures give up home runs all the time. How

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many give up a home run? That's baseball history. He

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goes a lot more people know who Al Downing is

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because of that home run than had I just given

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up home run number seven twelve? Right, So he has

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a really really nice guy, has a really good attitude

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about it.

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And then you know, nineteen seventy two, I was five, that's.

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You know where some of my first memories are coming

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from as a child, and I remember my dad giving

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me three baseballs and say, see those three guys over there,

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ask them if you can have your autographs? So I

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walk over and I go, uh, you know, can I

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have your autograph? And I had the three baseballs and

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they're like, you know, what is your dad playing it again?

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And yeah, asked my dad over there. And the three.

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Guys were Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Carli Strat And

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my dad's hero growing up was Willie Yes. And I

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don't remember this part. It was relayed to me later on,

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but apparently Willie Mays told me that my dad was

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to go back and tell my dad that he was

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a great hitter, and you know, said some good things.

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So you can imagine me coming back and said, Dad

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that that guy said that you were a great you know,

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having your childhood hero telling your son that you're a

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great hitter. You know, it's like, you know, absolutely, you know. Yeah,

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So that was you know the number of things I

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got to experience because my dad got traded a lot,

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so I got to experience more things than you could

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possibly imagine. Like, you know, when I was the following year,

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he was with the Reds and he got traded into

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the Reds because he was making twelve thousand, the league minimum.

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He made the All Star Team, almost beat out Carew

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for the batting title and beat out Reggie Jackson for

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the Sporting News All Star Team. Asked for a raise

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from twelve to twenty four thousand, and the Royal said,

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you know, forget that, and they traded him. You imagine, right,

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So now you know, it's the following year in May,

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a month into the season, and my dad brings me

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into the locker room. He says, yeah, it's my son's birthday.

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Joe Morgan called me over, gave me an autograph ball.

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Johnny Bench came over, gave me an autograph ball, and

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then Rose called me over to his locker and gave

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me his glove that he used the first month of

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the season. Right, So then it gets better. So he

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was only there for a couple of months. He didn't

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get along with Sparky Anderson very well, so then he

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got traded to the Angels a couple of months into

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the season. And at the end of that season, the

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seventy three season, that was the year that Nolan Ryan

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broke Sandy Kofax's single season strikeout record that still stands today.

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And my dad was a fraternity brother in college with

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Ed Louder. Huh, if you don't recognize everybody has seen

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twenty movies with Ede.

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Yeah, he's in the what's it called, He's one of

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the guards and uh, yeah.

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No, he's Captain Knauer in the Long Yard. Yeah, but

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you know he's in every single movie, it seems like

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in the seventies and eighties. So Ed was asked by

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young Ron Howard.

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Who was just a teenager at the time.

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You know, you know, Richie, can you get me tickets

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to the game, because because Nolan Ryan's my hero? So

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I watched. I'm sitting in Annah, I'm stadium watching Nolan

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Ryan break Sandy Kofax's record with teenage Ron Howard sitting

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next and and you know, I could literally go on

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for hours on the Yeah, these stories.

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So well, okay, so you were you were a baseball player,

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and then you had an entry, right.

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Yeah, and I was pretty good, you know, to this day.

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You know, I was the world long driving champion. I

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almost got my tour card a couple of times, had

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a couple the chances where I could have gotten my

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tour card, almost one on the Cornferry Tour. And I

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was a much better baseball player than golfer. But I

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you know, I injured my elbow and the doctor said

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it was pretty serious and I shouldn't throw anymore until

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I was full grown, which turned out to be about

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five or six years later. And I just got into

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golf before before that. Yeah.

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So and then you plea you you were good enough.

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You played in college, right, played golf in college? Yes,

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So how quickly did you become because you know, what

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do you hurt your elbow and you're like fifteen or

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something like that.

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Yes, yes, so I was not very big. I was

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only about five six or five seven when I graduated

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in high school when I was eighteen, and then I

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grew like six inches in the next three or four

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months and couldn't hit a wedge on the green from

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eddy eighty yards and actually got short or off the

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tee because I was awkward right from growing so quickly.

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And then it took a couple of years for me

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to kind of, you know, grow into that height. And

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then all of a sudden, when I was about twenty

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one twenty two, I went from being you know, above

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average off the tea to being longer than everybody I knew,

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to being the longest in the world in like a

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two or three year stretch.

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Now I explain how I mean. Was that just all

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physical acclamation in your body or was what were you

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doing that got you to hit the ball like that?

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Think nothing, I just I mean, this sounds ridiculous and

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it sounds cliche, but when I look back on it,

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it wasn't like, all right, I hit it two seventy,

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then I hit it too ninety, Then I hit it

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three ten and blah blah blah blah. You know, looking

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back on it, I'm sure it was a little more,

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a little more extensive than but it's like I went

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from hitting it two seventy to three point fifty in

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a week. I mean it was obviously longer. Yeah, time

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on that, but it literally happened, like you know, I mean,

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so like when I was twenty one years old, I

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was pretty long, longer than most of the people that

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I played in amateur tournaments with and college tournaments with,

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longer than most people. Then when I was twenty two

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and twenty three, I'm like, wow, you know, when I

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go to the charity baseball games, uh, golf tournaments, I

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hit it longer than all the baseball players. And then

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all of a sudden, when I was twenty four, it

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was like, I mean, I'm out driving everybody by fifty sixty.

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Yards and it just it just happened.

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It was just yeah, I didn't I didn't do any training,

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any speed training, any weight work, and again I was

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I was pretty weak as a high schooler. It's I mean,

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it's not a joke to say I probably couldn't bench

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press one hundred pounds when I graduated from high school.

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And then when I was around twenty three or twenty four,

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you know.

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I could lift up the condo I lifted lived in

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and move it next door.

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So okay, So so you started doing long driving stuff

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when you were in your mid twenties, right.

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Yeah, twenty three was when I started.

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Yeah, and what you know, what was it about? I mean,

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you know what you know obviously, you know you got

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big and he got strong, But you know, was there

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anything about the way you swung the club that you

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felt like was make no? Just pure pure power and speed.

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You know, there's a there's there's a line from the

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movie Days of Thunder where Tom Cruise plays a stock

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card yeah, and he goes, I don't know anything about cars,

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and he goes that that you know, Robert duval Assi, Well,

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how can that? He goes, I don't know. They put

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me in a car and said drive. Then I could drive,

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you know, and it was kind of like that, you know,

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you know, they said, yeah, swing hard, let's see how

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far you can hit it.

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And I could hit it really far. Now, So okay,

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so you just said swing hard. I always am fascinated

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by the idea of is it swinging hard or is

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it swinging fast? And is there a difference?

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Well, okay, this is this is gonna sound like double talk.

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If you know how to swing fast, you can swing hard.

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If you don't know how to swing fast the right way,

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you can't swing hard.

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So trying, can you try to break that down a

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little bit, because I'd love to.

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Absolutely I just learned it naturally for by luck. I

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don't know what else to say. But as I've studied

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the golf swing in the last fifteen years, everything that

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has been said that creates clubheads is pretty much wrong.

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And that's the thing. And if you talk to the

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right people, the Chris Comos, the Mike Granados, Sean Webb,

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Dana Dahlquist, the smart guys that actually study the data,

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they will absolutely agree with this. What has been taught

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for a century is at best misleading and at worse,

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the opposite of what's supposed to happen. And in the

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last ten or fifteen years, they've been able to objectively

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measure what happens in a good swing, what happens in

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a fast swing, and the people that actually take in

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the time to study it are immensely successful at making

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people hit it farther and straighter. But the problem is

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that's maybe ten percent or less of the instructors out there.

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And that's the reason why when you watch it, like

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when you watch the tour of the seventies and eighties,

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the swings were vastly different, and no two swings are

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the same. All of the young guys coming out, ninety

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percent of them look like robots. They all look the

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same because the young guys coming out have gone to

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instructors that have the benefit of what actually is happening.

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And the old cliche is it doesn't matter how you swing.

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Impact is all that matters, because there are vastly different swings,

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but the impacts are all the same. The irony is,

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the more they study it, the more they find all

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good swings are doing three or four the same things

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and impact is vastly different.

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So what are the three or four things that they're doing?

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So proper shifting of pressures in the feet which used

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to be load up the right side at the top

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and then push off the right side to get left,

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and they found that essentially nobody good does that. Guys

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are starting to move left as they reach the top of.

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The spring, their hips are turning while the club is

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still back.

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No no, no, no, no, no, no, not turning. Okay, Amateur

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golfers tend to turn their hips way too early. Okay, Yes,

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there's a split second where the hips turn before the

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chest in the arms, but the gap is only ten milliseconds.

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Okay, it's about shit, It's not about rotation.

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As a matter of fact, I just put I put

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three videos up on Instagram within the last couple of weeks.

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It was Rory Rose and JJ Spahn, and I'm like,

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watch how and these are individually, but I said the

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same thing. I go watch how as they reach the

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top of the swing, they're starting to shift their weight

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into the left side, and they're not rushing their hips open.

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They're waiting for the backswing to complete and the pressure

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to get into the lead side, and waiting for their

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arms to sequence with their body before they turn. The

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rotational speed, which is another one of the things that

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creates speed proper sequencing of the body parts. So when

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the hips wrote accelerate and when the torso accelerates, that's

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only a ten millisecond difference. When the torso accelerates and

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when the arms accelerate, that's only a ten millisecond difference,

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So between when the hips start to rotate and the

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arms accelerate, it's twenty milliseconds. The blink of an eye

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is three hundred and thirty three milliseconds, so you can see. Okay.

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The other thing that they've measured is elite golfers and

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long hitters accelerate their arms and hands and reach maximum

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acceleration very early in the down.

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Sol Okay.

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Amateurs do that very late in the downsall right, Okay,

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so the whole fire, the body and the arms and

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hands are behind and along for the ride that is produced. Literally,

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ninety to ninety five percent of amateur golfers accelerate their

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hips early and their arms late because they're actively doing

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something that only has the real small.

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Gap, right, I mean, is you know, in terms of

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how easy would it be for an amateur to do

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the things you're talking about, I mean, obviously you very

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very easy. Okay.

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The only road there are two roadblocks to amateur golfers

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making their swings better. Number one is the narrative that

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they've been living by. Is objectively all this stuff. I'm

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telling you, these are not my opinions, these have been

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These are objective measurements that can be found by anybody, and.

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So, first of all, their narrative has been incorrect.

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So the lead with the lower body thing, there's two

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facts about a couple of facts about this that are important.

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Number one, it is physically impossible to not lead with

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the lower body when you start the downswing if there's

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gravity and your feet are connected to the ground. Okay,

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it takes. And then fact number two is it takes

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the human brain two hundred and fifty milliseconds to actively

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do something. So the gap between the hips and the

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arms is twenty milliseconds, the brain takes two hundred and

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fifty milliseconds. So if you're actively trying to lead the

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hips away from the arms, you're doing something redundant that's

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increasing the gap, and that throws off clubhead speed because

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if the arms don't excel and hands don't accelerate early

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in the bat in the down swing, they can't decelerate

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late in the down swing, and deceleration of the arms

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and hands is what accelerates the club.

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Explain how that works. I'm trying. I'm just for me

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because I'm trying trying to understand how Because deceleration right

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I mean just in general. You know, you're always been

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taught right that you don't want to decelerate, and ear

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least I've always everybody's like, oh, you're decelerating, you're decelerating,

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you know.

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Right, And and I'm sorry, And you know what, I

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just had this conversation with a student this morning. I

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never want to sound like I know everything. Everybody knows

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nothing every day.

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But I mean, that's why you're here, you know, you know.

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Okay, but it this is that this is and again

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an objective fact, not even with golf, it's it's physics.

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When there's rotation of multiple segments, what causes acceleration is

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deceleration of the previous segment. Okay, So the hips decelerate,

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that accelerates the torso, the torriso decelerates, that accelerates the

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lead arm. The lead arm decelerates, that accelerates the club.

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Okay, I get it.

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Yeah, Okay, that proper sequencing is what creates maximum club.

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That's feed. So going back to the previous thing. I

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know this is super technical, but if your arms and

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hands accelerate late early, they can decelerate late and accelerate

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the club. If they accelerate late, then they have to

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speed up at the bottom to get the club to

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the ball, and you're not getting the benefit of the

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of the deceleration. And again, the reason why I know

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this is because when I post some of these objective

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measured facts on social media, everybody calls me an idiot,

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and I'm like, well, you're probably right. My ex wife agrees.

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But all of this stuff I've said in the last

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five minutes, these are not my theories, my opinions, whatever, whatever.

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These are things that multiple you know, biomechanics specialists, scientists,

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guys with three D systems. It all says the same thing.

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You know, right, well, and there's a benefit of all

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this data now too, right, I mean that's right.

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Right, And mean, like I said, there's a I mean, yeah,

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people get bigger and stronger, there's evolution, training is better,

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people in better shape, blah blah blah blah. But this

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is why you're seeing all of these like not physically

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like I wasn't physically imposing when I won the World

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Long Drive. I was six to one hundred and eighty pounds,

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you know, and you see all these guys coming out

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of college, they're five to nine, one hundred and fifty

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pounds and they're swinging one hundred and twenty miles an

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hour because they've had the benefit of all of this data.

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That and the data is not for the golfer. The

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data is for the instructor. So then the instructor can

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just look at the golfer and say, Okay, do this

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one thing differently and you'll hit it far right right.

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You know, I would never give a lesson and spout

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all of this nonsense unless happens all the time. My

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client's an engineer and wants to know, well, Monty, is

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this your opinion or is this like factual? So then

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I you know, have to bring the data out to

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prove it. But during a lesson, you know, for me,

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you'll get you know what, your setups a little off here,

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and you know you kind of need to have the

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Jack Nicholas feel here of keeping your back to the

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target a little bit longer because you're opening up a

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little bit too quickly. That's about as complicated is my lessons?

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Get Okay, Yeah.

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Well, so now I talk about yeah, I mean because

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I I know I heard you talk about this on

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on you know, another interview. Being able to obtain accuracy

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with distance. You know, you were saying, how that those

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are not so mutually exclusive as people think.

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No, And that was the point that I didn't make

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before because I go off on tangents because I'm a

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nerd and I but swinging correctly is physically easier to

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do than the stupidity that most end up doing. That's

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why you see guys like Ernie El's and Fred Couples

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and Jake Knapp look so effortless and they hit the

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ball so far. You're not seeing smooth You're seeing efficiency, okay,

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And and that that's what this is all about, is

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these movements are actually easier to do movements that the

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proper Like you can increase clubhead speed.

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The wrong way and then you're gonna hit it all

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over creation and.

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Hurt your back. But but if you do things the

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right way to increase your clubheed speed, not only do

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you put less pressure on your body, you get a

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more consistent path and face angle on the club face.

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So how okay? So yeah, it's funny. I mean I

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took a less from a guy who teaches basically Mike Austin,

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the Mike Austin swing, you know, the guy who hit

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the ball five hundred and fifteen yards and I actually

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found and I had it going for about a month

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and that I lost it. But it was interesting because

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you know, I was like really hung up on you know,

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like my previous swing was very much, you know, focused

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on controlling the you know, the illusion that I could

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control the ballflight right. And the guy who was taking

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the lessons from me said, you know, you'll hit it straighter,

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and I thought, oh, you know, bullshit. You know, like

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this feels so out of control to get the club

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back this far and to move this way. And I

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was so worried about the club out getting through it.

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And once I turned that off, I was hitting the

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ball so much. I was hitting it about thirty yards

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further and way straighter. So yeah, and I can't do

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it anymore.

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But you know, well, okay, let's let's let's you know,

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let's be transparent and honest. There is not one field

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that has kept its narrative the same in the last

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fifty years that are science based, okay, So like teaching

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a pure Mike Austen system, or teaching the golf machine,

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or any of those things that were invented fifty sixty

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years ago. Okay, those were innovative fifty or sixty years ago,

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but those ideas are antiquated now.

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Right right.

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But I mean, it doesn't mean you should. It doesn't

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mean it's not educational to learn about those things. And

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there aren't some nuggets in those things, you know, like

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there's some good stuff from the golf. But you know,

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the joke I always make is is I go You know,

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you don't go to the doctor and let him feel

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your knee and put a leech on it to make

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it better.

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You know, you have an X ray and an.

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MRI and and and and you know a new a

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new panel of a range of motion tests that are

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you know, recent discovers. It's the same way with the

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golf swing, because you know, uh I did. Chris Como

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asked me to speak at his national symposium, the Open Forum,

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two years ago at the Golf Show, and they wanted

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me to get up there and basically say everything that's

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ever been said about the golf swing is wrong, you know,

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because they know I'm not afraid to say anything and

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hear the backlash and every single tried and true cliche

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that has been said about the golf swing in the

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last ten years has either been proven to be at

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best misleading and at worst the opposite of what good

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players did.

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Okay, so just you know, for give me, like you know,

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two examples of things that we've been told all these

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years that.

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Are now the the three that I disproved, I go,

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I had forty up on my display. One of them

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was dry for show, putt for doe, very misleading. Okay,

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you gotta make putts to win, but but you gotta

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get there, okay, right, So the three that I disproved

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were slow, smooth tempo, lean with the lower body, and

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hold the leg. Okay, and all three of those, there's

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still seventy eighty ninety percent of the golfing public trying

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to put those three ideas into play on a regular basis.

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And all three of them are just plain horrible.

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So what so what do you replace that with? You know,

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what's what's the what? What would what would you say?

475
00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:03.119
You know is the so, so I'll go through all

476
00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:08.160
three of them. Slow smooth tempo is awful for your golf, soel,

477
00:30:09.279 --> 00:30:12.799
because if you go back slow, your two choices are

478
00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:20.480
come down slow or rush the transition. Any musician will

479
00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:24.799
will agree with what I say here you don't want

480
00:30:24.839 --> 00:30:28.160
slow smooth tempo. You want slow smooth rhythm.

481
00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:30.960
Right, talking about rhythm real quick?

482
00:30:31.079 --> 00:30:37.640
Just okay. So, so like Stairway to Heaven is a

483
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:44.400
slow tempoed song early and a fast tempoed song later. Okay,

484
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:50.319
the the rate at which they play the notes speeds up,

485
00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:52.680
but the rhythm of.

486
00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:56.519
The music is spot on the whole way through.

487
00:30:57.599 --> 00:31:02.960
So so if you if you have a slow backswing,

488
00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:08.240
which almost every amateur does, it's almost impossible to have

489
00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:12.400
a smooth rhythm and hit the ball anywhere. So you're

490
00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:15.599
actually and people say, ooh, I got quick in transition,

491
00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:18.519
I need to slow my tempo down. You just made

492
00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:24.079
it worse. Okay, lead with the lower body. We already

493
00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:28.640
kind of touched on that sum. The lower body leads automatically,

494
00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:32.519
and if you are actively trying to have the arms

495
00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:37.480
and hands trail the lower body, you are making you

496
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.000
you are creating a gap that you can't recover from casting,

497
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:44.920
flipping over the top, all that good stuff. So the

498
00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:48.839
problem whenever I hear someone say, you know, I have

499
00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.799
an arm driven swing. I lead the downswing with my arms,

500
00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:58.759
I'm like, what you just said is impossible to do.

501
00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:04.480
It's a misinterpretation of feel. So what happens is and

502
00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:06.799
this is where they get the feel from. They get

503
00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:11.160
up there, they fire the hips really hard, the arms

504
00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:14.839
trail behind, they run out of range of motion, their

505
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:18.799
lower body stalls, and their arms take up and accelerate

506
00:32:18.839 --> 00:32:21.559
at the bottom. And everyone goes, oh, that was all

507
00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:24.759
arms at the bottom. Yeah, it feels like all arms. Yeah,

508
00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:27.400
you got to get that lower body to start the downswing,

509
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:32.359
and you just made it worse, right. And so these

510
00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:35.079
are the kinds of things that I proved to people

511
00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:37.039
every day. I just had a guy just a couple

512
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:41.160
of weeks ago. He goes, Monte, I'm working on slowing

513
00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:44.599
down my tempo and he makes a swing and I go, yeah,

514
00:32:44.599 --> 00:32:47.039
that's your problem. He goes, yeah, I knew it was. Yeah,

515
00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:50.680
I tempo is way too slow, way too slow. And

516
00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:52.680
he goes, what are you talking about. He goes, I

517
00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:55.240
need to slow it down. I said, okay, bear with me.

518
00:32:56.279 --> 00:32:58.440
I took a video of his swing and they put

519
00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:02.440
it next to Ernie El's be easy, mister smooth tempo.

520
00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:08.039
And Ernie Els was literally in his finish when this

521
00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:14.400
client was at left arm parallel in the backswee okay,

522
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:18.839
and so he would everything would like durt in transition,

523
00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:22.680
trying to create some speed with his uber slow backswing.

524
00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:26.400
So I said, you know what, And he was swinging

525
00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:30.920
a seven iron in the fifties miles an hour, and

526
00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:34.720
I said, you know what, just humor me. Take it

527
00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:37.079
back as fast as you can and swing your arms

528
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:39.799
down as fast as you can. In one swing, he

529
00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:44.519
went from like fifty six to seventy five and he

530
00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:48.480
was still he still got to the finish later than Elsby.

531
00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:56.640
So these are the kinds of things, and you know, yeah,

532
00:33:56.839 --> 00:34:01.920
it's it's people believe. You know, I'm not athletic enough,

533
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:05.200
I'm not in good enough shade, I'm not flexible enough.

534
00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:08.239
My core is not strong enough. I don't practice enough.

535
00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:12.400
You know, I'm this, I'm that, I'm terrible, I'm a loser,

536
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:16.800
blah blah blah. And I'm like, well, those are the

537
00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:21.480
reasons you're not a PGA Tour player, right, The reason

538
00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:25.440
why you're not a better golfer is you're trying to

539
00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:30.639
do the wrong things. You're prioritizing the wrong things. So

540
00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:32.280
it talked a.

541
00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:36.840
Little bit because I mean you you you went on

542
00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:41.360
a search right for yeah, talk about tell that I

543
00:34:41.400 --> 00:34:44.079
would like to hear about the search and the resolution.

544
00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:48.599
Okay, So to get back to you know, I was

545
00:34:48.639 --> 00:34:51.400
the longest hitter in the world in the early nineties,

546
00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:56.960
early in mid nineties, no debate. I had the lead

547
00:34:57.079 --> 00:34:59.800
in corn Ferry Tour events the back ninth Sunday if

548
00:34:59.800 --> 00:35:03.519
you times, Okay, a couple of times. I was at

549
00:35:03.519 --> 00:35:07.559
second stage at Q school and I was one swing

550
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:14.000
away from making my move, okay. So I was a

551
00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:19.800
great player, just not quite PG tour level. So I

552
00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:24.079
started taking lessons from a lot of the big names

553
00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:27.320
at the time, and I got worse and worse and

554
00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:32.159
worse and worse and worse and worse. So like nineteen

555
00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:37.119
ninety four was probably the year that I was the

556
00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:40.400
best I was. And if you ask me to swing

557
00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:42.960
a driver one hundred and fifty miles an hour, I could.

558
00:35:44.239 --> 00:35:47.199
I was probably one hundred and thirty five. You know,

559
00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:50.880
with modern technology, i'd be in mid one nineties, maybe

560
00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:54.559
even a few two hundreds ball speed during a round

561
00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:58.920
of golf, and you know, my handicap was probably plus

562
00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:03.480
six or plus seven and whatever that matter, way into

563
00:36:03.519 --> 00:36:09.480
the pluses. Fast forward to two thousand and eight, when

564
00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:13.880
I was forty years old. My clubhead speed was down,

565
00:36:14.440 --> 00:36:18.920
and I was probably physically stronger at age forty, and

566
00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:22.000
I was in good shape still. I was probably one

567
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:27.159
hundred and ninety pounds, maybe two hundred pounds, and my

568
00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:29.199
clubhead speed was all the way down to one hundred

569
00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:31.960
and ten miles an hour, and I was a five

570
00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:34.639
handicap who could shoot sixty five once in a while.

571
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:38.000
I was awful. I was awful. So I lost forty

572
00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:40.199
miles an hour, thirty miles an hour club at speed,

573
00:36:40.679 --> 00:36:45.039
and I couldn't work regularly anymore. So I quit. I

574
00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:49.440
quit golf, not pro golf. I quit golf, and I

575
00:36:49.480 --> 00:36:51.920
didn't know what I wanted to go into because being

576
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:54.840
a pro golfer is all I knew. So while I

577
00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:59.199
was figuring out what I wanted to do next, I

578
00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:02.800
spent the entire higher year two thousand and eight watching

579
00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:06.920
golf swings on the internet, okay from like I would

580
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:10.480
go into YouTube and say, this is the worst golf

581
00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:14.039
swing ever, and then those would come up, and then

582
00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:16.800
I'd be like, you know, scratch golfer swing, and those

583
00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:20.440
would come up, and then I'd study. I'd pick videos

584
00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:24.039
of this because my DVR at the time, I could

585
00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:28.079
do frame by frame of a So I film all

586
00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:31.599
the PGA tour events and study everybody's swing on the tour.

587
00:37:33.519 --> 00:37:36.679
So then I said, I started to notice patterns, and

588
00:37:36.719 --> 00:37:46.119
I said, Okay, all of the prevalent ideas are not

589
00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:51.679
really matching what I'm saying here. All the quote unquote fixes.

590
00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:55.480
You know, people that are over the top dropping in

591
00:37:55.559 --> 00:37:58.199
the slot and swinging the right field, people that are

592
00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:02.039
casting hold the lag, people that are stalling an impact,

593
00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:05.880
get those hips more open. And I'm watching and I'm

594
00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:08.920
not seeing any of this stuff. So I did something

595
00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:13.000
that I'm guessing nobody else has ever done before or since.

596
00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:16.320
When I was a long drive champion, I was also

597
00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:19.119
a trick shot artist, and I became really good at

598
00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:23.320
copying people's golf swings. So I spend all of two

599
00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:27.800
thousand and nine, I probably three hundred and sixty five days.

600
00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:30.519
I probably went to the driving range three hundred and

601
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:33.760
twenty days that year. And all I did was I

602
00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:35.800
would go to the range. I'd look up and down

603
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:37.840
the range, and I'd find the guy that was the

604
00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:42.840
most frustrated, and I'd go over there and live, you know,

605
00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:47.000
gorilla style. I'd video his swing, and then I'd go

606
00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:49.519
back over to my stall and it take me about

607
00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:53.159
five minutes. I'd start copying his swing and his ballfly okay,

608
00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:56.320
and then I'd spend the next four or five hours

609
00:38:56.360 --> 00:39:01.760
trying to fix it. And I did that essentially every

610
00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:05.679
day for a year, and I started to find out

611
00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:12.920
that the common fixes for common swing faults were often

612
00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:15.360
the opposite of what you should be doing. And I

613
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:18.599
started to also figure out the common swing faults were

614
00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:22.559
not false at all, but necessary compensations to get the

615
00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:24.679
club to the ball when you were out a position.

616
00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:26.199
Okay, so.

617
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:31.800
Early extension is like the dirty word right now. If

618
00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:35.519
you snapped your fingers and eliminated someone's early extension, they'd

619
00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:40.599
hit it worse because they're early extending, because their club

620
00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:43.119
face is too open, the pitch of the shaft is

621
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:47.519
too steep, they had poor pelvis rotation in the backswing,

622
00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:52.800
they're standing too close to the ball. So if you

623
00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:56.039
keep all of those things I just mentioned and just

624
00:39:56.320 --> 00:39:58.880
keep your butt back on the wall, you're going to

625
00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:03.559
hit the ball significant le worse. Whereas if you solve

626
00:40:03.639 --> 00:40:07.679
that problem, your starting body starts to react and starts

627
00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:10.119
to rotate instead, of thrusting right.

628
00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:14.639
Right, So how did you sort your swing out from

629
00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:16.039
fixing the other swings?

630
00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:20.639
The yeah? So then I said, okay, And then here's

631
00:40:20.679 --> 00:40:24.119
what was really funny is starting in around two and

632
00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:29.960
ten twenty and eleven, I started posting my crazy ideas

633
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:38.199
on YouTube and it was the reaction was seventy five percent. Wow,

634
00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:41.920
this is interesting. I've never heard this before. I went

635
00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:46.480
and tried this. It actually is helpful. You might think

636
00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:51.199
about teaching golf. And then twenty five percent is you're

637
00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:55.199
a moron, you're an idiot. Nobody good does what you're saying.

638
00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:57.639
Well, that's pretty good. That's a pretty good percent. I've

639
00:40:57.679 --> 00:41:02.119
just given this the internet because everybody thinks that half

640
00:41:02.119 --> 00:41:04.320
of the world thinks everybody's an ideot on the internet.

641
00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:08.800
So fair enough, fair enough. But most of the people

642
00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:13.239
were willing to listen and give some credence to what

643
00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:16.360
I was saying because I was fact a near tour

644
00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:20.280
level player and a world long driving champion. Okay, so

645
00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:26.480
they're like, well, this guy wouldn't be where he wouldn't

646
00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:28.960
have accomplished what he accomplished at these eyes, which is

647
00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:33.199
these diadems, which is completely ridiculous. So if you fast

648
00:41:33.280 --> 00:41:39.639
forward from like twenty ten twenty and thirteen, I went

649
00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:43.000
back and started competing and long driving again. I was

650
00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:45.480
forty six years old and I was getting up to

651
00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:49.280
one forty again. And I finished sixth in the World

652
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:53.760
Long Driving Championship in twenty thirteen when I was forty six,

653
00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:59.639
and then in twenty sixteen, I made it to the

654
00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:04.760
Fine the champions Tour Q School and then you know,

655
00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:08.280
disaster struck. I blew my knee out the week before

656
00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:10.360
I left for finals, and I didn't play very well.

657
00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:13.320
And you know, and I've qualified for a few US

658
00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:18.960
Senior Opens and stuff. So I hit a valley in

659
00:42:19.079 --> 00:42:22.920
my clubhead speed in my game. And now I'm fifty

660
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:26.840
eight years old, I've gained a ton of weight. I'm

661
00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:34.000
like fifty pounds overweight. I play golf once a month maybe,

662
00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:36.760
and I still break part pretty much every time I play.

663
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:39.119
And I can still swing one hundred and twenty miles

664
00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:39.760
an hour when I.

665
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:42.840
Fill the need to. And it's because even at my

666
00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:49.000
advanced age and my really poor conditioning, because I understand

667
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:53.760
what's actually supposed to happen, it allows me to still

668
00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:56.440
hit the ball pretty far and play some good golf

669
00:42:56.800 --> 00:43:04.079
despite my age and physical limitations.

670
00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:08.920
For the average golfer, So you know somebody who's a

671
00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:12.599
fourteen handicap, right, which is probably not average. I'm sure

672
00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:16.920
that's that's about above average. Ouah, right, So what's what's average? Twenty?

673
00:43:18.880 --> 00:43:21.519
Yeah? I mean they say that, you know, if you

674
00:43:21.599 --> 00:43:23.239
break a hundred year above average.

675
00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:27.119
Okay, So for for the average, you know, the average player,

676
00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:30.719
what what are the you know, two or three things

677
00:43:31.239 --> 00:43:33.000
you know? I mean, obviously you're not seeing these people's

678
00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:35.119
swings and you're not, you know, less of sure, what

679
00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:40.280
are the things both you know to improve you know,

680
00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:42.760
to improve their swing and also to hit the ball further?

681
00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:48.280
Absolutely? Okay. So and this is going to sound really

682
00:43:48.360 --> 00:43:51.159
snide and it's not meant to be, but you have

683
00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:54.920
to stop listening to what you think and what your

684
00:43:54.920 --> 00:44:00.239
friends say. Okay. The running joke I have is I've

685
00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:06.760
never been even charged with a misdemeanor. And I've seen

686
00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:09.960
all thirty seasons, every episode of Law and Order, and

687
00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:14.880
if you got arrested, you wouldn't want my legal So

688
00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:20.559
so honestly, you know, I know I come off really

689
00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:23.400
poorly when I say things like this, but I want

690
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:27.039
I'm very passionate about golfer having more fun and getting better.

691
00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:32.320
But in the last fifteen years, well, let me back up.

692
00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:35.719
In two thousand and eight, I was the longest hitter

693
00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:38.039
in the world, and I had nearly made the tour,

694
00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:45.199
and I wasn't qualified to teach someone grip. Okay, So

695
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:50.519
the average eight handicap giving advice to his brother in

696
00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:54.320
law who's a fifteen. I'm sorry, guys, it's a disaster.

697
00:44:54.639 --> 00:44:59.480
Don't be mad at me. That's a disaster, okay, because

698
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:03.039
the root causes they're not being addressed. And when I

699
00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:05.440
go to golf courses, I just hear and I'm like,

700
00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:08.320
and I'm not one of the guys that want it

701
00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:11.079
starts giving unsolicited advice. I just kind of go like

702
00:45:11.159 --> 00:45:13.639
this and go, well, they're having fun, so who cares.

703
00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:20.159
So Number one, these are the three most common mistakes

704
00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:26.480
that golfers of all skill levels make, even even two handicaps.

705
00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:30.639
Number one, they get the grip too much in the

706
00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:33.159
palm of their hand and not enough at the end

707
00:45:33.159 --> 00:45:33.559
of their.

708
00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:38.440
Fingers okay at the end, yeah, okay, okay.

709
00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:42.679
Number two, and this is the one that I get

710
00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:46.360
the most heat on social media, is they move the

711
00:45:46.440 --> 00:45:51.960
wrong hip when they rotate, So you can draw a

712
00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:54.360
line in the sand and you're going to be right

713
00:45:55.039 --> 00:45:58.199
more than ninety five percent of the time. If people

714
00:45:58.239 --> 00:46:02.159
move the right hip, they'll probably scratch you better. If

715
00:46:02.199 --> 00:46:05.679
people move the wrong hip, they're worse than scratch. And

716
00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:11.239
what it is is elite golfers rotate. So I'm a

717
00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:15.119
right handed golfer. Here, they rotate by bringing the right

718
00:46:15.239 --> 00:46:19.920
hip back and behind them. Then they shift and they bring,

719
00:46:20.079 --> 00:46:23.119
then they bring the left hip around and behind them,

720
00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:28.000
and that pushes the right hip forward. Okay, that's what

721
00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:32.320
you see in every the AMG guys put up. If

722
00:46:32.360 --> 00:46:37.400
you do a Google search, a YouTube search for athletic

723
00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:41.480
Motion golf how to clear the hips. It's a Joe's

724
00:46:41.599 --> 00:46:45.000
versus pros. It's pink on one side, blue on the

725
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:49.079
other side, and the angle of the gears read out

726
00:46:49.239 --> 00:46:55.000
is from above looking straight down on the golfer. Pretty much.

727
00:46:55.679 --> 00:46:58.280
They made it like six or seven years ago, and

728
00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:01.960
pretty much. I still think it's the greatest technical video

729
00:47:02.119 --> 00:47:05.920
ever made on the swing in my opinion. And and

730
00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:09.639
so so here here's the right hip, here's the left hip.

731
00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:14.400
So good players rotate, they have a little shift to

732
00:47:14.440 --> 00:47:17.719
the right and then the rotate right hip works behind.

733
00:47:18.440 --> 00:47:21.280
Then there's a little shift back to the left. Then

734
00:47:21.320 --> 00:47:23.800
the left hip works behind and that pushes the right

735
00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:28.599
hip forward. Okay, what the average golfer does is literally

736
00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:33.320
the exact opposite. They they bring the left hip out

737
00:47:33.760 --> 00:47:38.760
to rotate, then they bring the right hip out to rotate. Well,

738
00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:41.280
that's both of those are going to bring the center

739
00:47:41.320 --> 00:47:44.840
of your pelvis toward the ball. You won't rotate, you

740
00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:49.039
won't shift correctly. You're going to cut off everything, and

741
00:47:49.079 --> 00:47:52.079
you're basically gonna have to stand up, stall and throw

742
00:47:52.119 --> 00:47:53.360
your arms in the hands at it.

743
00:47:53.639 --> 00:47:58.400
Right, Okay, And how do I do I? How does

744
00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:01.239
somebody learn? I mean, obviously you're describing what to do.

745
00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:04.639
How do you learn to do that? Because I'm thinking

746
00:48:04.679 --> 00:48:06.400
about it right now, and I'm thinking.

747
00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:10.159
It is literally as simple as I said it. When

748
00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:15.719
you just stand up, just stand up straight and move

749
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:20.000
your right pocket behind you, Okay, then move your left

750
00:48:20.039 --> 00:48:23.920
pocket behind you. It's it's actually easier to do than

751
00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:25.920
doing it the wrong way, right, No, it it?

752
00:48:26.119 --> 00:48:30.199
I mean it makes total sense physically, but mentally, I

753
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:32.800
mean I think that's you know, the biggest thing, right

754
00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:35.679
is how do you get yourself thinking about.

755
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:39.440
That's and you know what people say, well, these things

756
00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:42.440
should you know, risk movements and this this should happen naturally.

757
00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:45.800
Well, yeah, if you're doing it right already, they happen naturally.

758
00:48:46.039 --> 00:48:49.159
If you're doing it wrong. You know, like a pitcher

759
00:48:49.159 --> 00:48:52.559
in baseball is release points starts getting too low. The

760
00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:55.719
pitching coach says, got to get the release point up here. Well,

761
00:48:55.719 --> 00:48:57.599
what's more natural than throwing a ball.

762
00:48:58.280 --> 00:49:00.840
But you got to work on your plant foot in

763
00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:04.360
the right place and your release point right. And literally

764
00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:06.599
it is as simple as just stand straight up and

765
00:49:06.639 --> 00:49:11.400
down and move your right hip to rotate. That's the

766
00:49:11.480 --> 00:49:14.800
right way. But just so you know what you're doing,

767
00:49:15.039 --> 00:49:20.559
move the left hip out you'll fall down. Okay. So

768
00:49:21.559 --> 00:49:26.119
it's nothing more complicated than changing a bad habit, okay,

769
00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:30.199
because it's easier to do it the right way right.

770
00:49:32.639 --> 00:49:35.920
And then the third one, this might be the biggest one,

771
00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:41.159
even more important, Like I've seen people with crappy grips

772
00:49:41.800 --> 00:49:45.480
and bad hip rotation in the backswing still make a

773
00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:48.719
good golf swing by doing number three correctly. And this

774
00:49:48.800 --> 00:49:53.280
is one that's super, super subtle. And again, the number

775
00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:56.000
of people that do this right is such a small number.

776
00:49:57.400 --> 00:50:01.119
The shift to the lead side is the last move

777
00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:05.639
of the backswing, not the first move of the downswing. Okay,

778
00:50:08.679 --> 00:50:13.920
almost everybody does this wrong. I did it wrong, okay,

779
00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:15.480
and it was one of the reasons why it was

780
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:16.480
so inconsistent.

781
00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:19.920
It's okay, So taga, how do how do? How does

782
00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:23.400
somebody work on that? How does somebody just going again?

783
00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:23.800
You know?

784
00:50:24.280 --> 00:50:26.719
You know, I have something called the Nike drill.

785
00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:31.079
Just do it. There are drills that are helpful, but

786
00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:34.679
it's just it's it's just being like on a teeter totter,

787
00:50:35.039 --> 00:50:37.480
So you teeter to the right and you totter back

788
00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:41.679
to the left as you reach the top. Right really

789
00:50:41.760 --> 00:50:47.320
is simple. So when it's measured, elite golfers reach their

790
00:50:47.400 --> 00:50:50.480
maximum right side pressure, like their shift to the right,

791
00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:55.719
very early in the backs room. Dis Chambeau and Scheffler

792
00:50:55.760 --> 00:50:59.480
are right around cheft parallel. Most great players are around

793
00:50:59.559 --> 00:51:03.920
left on parallel, whereas the average golfer reaches maximum right

794
00:51:04.039 --> 00:51:06.800
side pressure at the top of the swede. And that's

795
00:51:06.840 --> 00:51:09.159
why you see a lot of hips way, a lot

796
00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:13.360
of upper bodies way. Whereas so whereas you'll see elite

797
00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:16.440
golfers they'll shift to the right as they take it away,

798
00:51:17.079 --> 00:51:19.480
they'll go right and then write them out here.

799
00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:24.639
You'll see them do this, and you see them settle

800
00:51:24.719 --> 00:51:28.159
down into the left side as they reach the top.

801
00:51:29.480 --> 00:51:30.960
For anybody listening.

802
00:51:32.440 --> 00:51:37.079
Go to it's much easier to see it than it

803
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:40.679
is for me to describe it. So just like three

804
00:51:40.760 --> 00:51:44.320
four days ago, I got a great picture of Rory

805
00:51:44.360 --> 00:51:46.199
at the Ryder Cup. I was at the Ryder Cup.

806
00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:51.800
Got a great video and it's from behind, so we're

807
00:51:51.840 --> 00:51:54.039
looking at his rear end. The women all like that,

808
00:51:55.880 --> 00:51:59.679
and you can see clear as day. So I draw

809
00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:03.440
a lot line on the seam on his trousers. So

810
00:52:03.960 --> 00:52:06.840
here's the seam of his trousers and you'll see clear

811
00:52:06.840 --> 00:52:10.119
as day, there's a little movement to the right and

812
00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:14.760
then a rotation and back to the left, and as

813
00:52:14.800 --> 00:52:20.079
clear as day. And it's only awkward because you've never

814
00:52:20.199 --> 00:52:25.719
done it before. It's literally the same thing as because

815
00:52:25.840 --> 00:52:28.199
and I'm experienced with this, because I got a sixteen

816
00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:31.800
year old and a fifteen year old. It's literally like

817
00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:35.159
putting someone in a car for the first time. All

818
00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:38.079
of us that have been driving for years and decades,

819
00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:43.920
we could almost drive blindfolded. Okay, but when we first

820
00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:47.039
got in the car, it was scary and awkward, and

821
00:52:47.079 --> 00:52:49.239
you gave too much gas and you hit the brake

822
00:52:49.320 --> 00:52:52.519
too hard and you turn the steering wheel too much,

823
00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:57.039
and it was all a mess. Okay, these three the

824
00:52:57.519 --> 00:53:00.960
grip is the grip. These other two moves are the

825
00:53:01.039 --> 00:53:05.159
same exact thing. It's super easy to do once you'll

826
00:53:05.239 --> 00:53:07.800
learn how to do it, but learning how to do

827
00:53:07.880 --> 00:53:12.559
it is very awkward and difficult, and we run into

828
00:53:12.719 --> 00:53:17.119
the biggest hurdle. The golfer is getting better. It's not

829
00:53:17.320 --> 00:53:20.599
lack of fitness, lack of talent, lack of iye and coordination,

830
00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:25.280
or even lack of practice. The biggest hurdle is this

831
00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:26.559
feels weird.

832
00:53:27.320 --> 00:53:29.519
Right, and how do you? How do you? And that's

833
00:53:29.559 --> 00:53:30.880
just a practice thing, right.

834
00:53:32.239 --> 00:53:37.239
If you know, If if you are sitting watching this

835
00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:43.079
and you can't get past this feels weird, never mess

836
00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:46.039
with your golf swing again. Just go there, have a

837
00:53:46.039 --> 00:53:49.800
good time. You're a solid golfer already. Don't try and

838
00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:56.440
fix anything, because if it feels good, you're not doing

839
00:53:56.480 --> 00:54:01.159
it right. You're just doing what you normally right. If

840
00:54:01.199 --> 00:54:04.599
it doesn't feel weird or strange, or awkward. You're not

841
00:54:04.719 --> 00:54:12.480
doing something different, and don't listen to me. Tiger put

842
00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:17.079
the the best bit of golf instruction ever in history

843
00:54:18.239 --> 00:54:24.599
was Tiger put up six simple phrases on social media

844
00:54:24.599 --> 00:54:28.440
about two years of huh, and this is the six

845
00:54:28.480 --> 00:54:34.000
steps to making your golf swing better. Step one, figure

846
00:54:34.039 --> 00:54:37.119
out the problem. And you really need to go to

847
00:54:37.159 --> 00:54:40.079
someone who knows what they're talking about to figure out

848
00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:45.119
your actual problem, not the you know the effect. Okay.

849
00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:49.880
Step number two, make it look better, just moving away

850
00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:52.599
that it looks better. You look like a better golf right.

851
00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:57.480
Step three, then it feels better. That's a long step right.

852
00:54:58.760 --> 00:55:02.679
Then step four they you start hitting it better. Step five,

853
00:55:02.800 --> 00:55:05.480
you hit it better on the golf course. Step six,

854
00:55:05.559 --> 00:55:05.920
you hit.

855
00:55:05.840 --> 00:55:08.559
It better during a tournament or you know, your.

856
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:12.039
Golf trip or whatever. And you're if you're and I

857
00:55:12.119 --> 00:55:15.639
say this sincerely, if you're not willing to be patient

858
00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:20.239
with yourself as you're going through all six of those steps,

859
00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:23.920
forget about improving. Just have a good time and go

860
00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:24.519
play right.

861
00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:26.159
Well, I mean, because I mean that's you know, I

862
00:55:26.159 --> 00:55:28.159
mean what you know. I haven't learned a lot, but

863
00:55:28.239 --> 00:55:30.920
one thing I've learned is when you decide to make

864
00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:35.719
a change, don't take it out on the course, right

865
00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:39.480
and you know, just go play. But when you practice,

866
00:55:39.840 --> 00:55:42.800
do it on the range, but don't start trying to

867
00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:45.320
you know, do everything different on the court.

868
00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:50.360
And people hate that because they're like, Monty, if I

869
00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:52.800
don't take it to the course, aren't I going to

870
00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:56.360
revert back to the bad habit. I'm like, yeah, but

871
00:55:57.639 --> 00:56:01.519
you'll only revert back ninety five ninety five percent of

872
00:56:01.559 --> 00:56:04.599
the time, ninety five percent of the way. Then there

873
00:56:04.599 --> 00:56:07.079
will be eighty seven percent of the way, there'll be

874
00:56:07.159 --> 00:56:12.639
eighty and and after an amount of time and you'll improve.

875
00:56:12.760 --> 00:56:17.480
You'll you'll have incremental improvement. After amount of time, your

876
00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:20.880
golf course swing will look like your ringing, right.

877
00:56:21.239 --> 00:56:24.000
Yeah, no, absolutely, And I think you know like it

878
00:56:24.039 --> 00:56:25.880
because I mean I see so many people, you know,

879
00:56:25.960 --> 00:56:29.480
you're they're so miserable out on the course because oh

880
00:56:29.559 --> 00:56:32.320
I just changed my swing, you know, and they're and

881
00:56:32.360 --> 00:56:34.440
they're trying to do and they're trying, and that it

882
00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:35.639
gets you so in your head.

883
00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:40.519
So let's talk about that. That's actually extremely important.

884
00:56:40.840 --> 00:56:46.320
So you know this, this this should be taken at

885
00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:50.920
face value because what I'm about to say discounts my

886
00:56:51.159 --> 00:56:58.280
value as an instruction when you're trying to improve your swing,

887
00:56:58.440 --> 00:57:02.880
and when you're trying to improve your game, the mechanical

888
00:57:03.039 --> 00:57:10.199
change is actually down the list of importance. Okay, so

889
00:57:10.360 --> 00:57:14.760
like people will do this and everybody does this. When

890
00:57:14.800 --> 00:57:18.199
I say everybody, everybody does this, whether it's on the

891
00:57:18.280 --> 00:57:22.039
range of the course. Oh I pushed that one to

892
00:57:22.079 --> 00:57:24.000
the right. I need to roll my wrists a little

893
00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:26.280
bit to close the club face. Oh I hit that

894
00:57:26.320 --> 00:57:28.599
one a little fat. I need to like shift my

895
00:57:28.679 --> 00:57:31.280
weight harder. Oh I hit that one thin. I need

896
00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:33.880
to stay down longer. Oh I hooked that one. I

897
00:57:33.920 --> 00:57:38.480
need to hold the face open longer. That is insane

898
00:57:38.760 --> 00:57:42.920
for a number of reasons. Reason number one, who's going

899
00:57:42.960 --> 00:57:46.599
to be successful making forty five different swings during a

900
00:57:46.719 --> 00:57:50.639
ring session or a round of golf? Okay, but even

901
00:57:50.719 --> 00:57:53.800
more insane, what are the odds that all three of

902
00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:59.440
these things are true? Ay, that you were a fud

903
00:57:59.599 --> 00:58:06.960
enough to diagnose from one bad golf shot, what the

904
00:58:07.079 --> 00:58:12.400
exact root cause problem was? You come out with the

905
00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:19.360
absolute correct solution for that root cause, And can you

906
00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:23.719
put that completely different narrative into play on the very

907
00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:31.320
next swing. The answer is zero, you know, so you

908
00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:33.920
got to get the work done on the range. And

909
00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:36.400
you know, I once had a client who I was

910
00:58:36.400 --> 00:58:38.880
trying to get him just do one small thing differently

911
00:58:38.920 --> 00:58:42.440
to hit the ball better. There's this first lesson and

912
00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:45.000
he goes, Man, Monte, this is just so much to

913
00:58:45.039 --> 00:58:47.840
think about it. I go, I asked you to do

914
00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:49.960
one thing different. He goes, yeah, but on top of

915
00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:52.559
my twelve step swing checklist. This is a lot to

916
00:58:52.599 --> 00:58:56.679
think about. And that's the reaction I had. I laughed

917
00:58:56.800 --> 00:58:58.639
and he goes, why are you laughing? And I go,

918
00:58:58.760 --> 00:59:02.519
that's pretty funny. He goes, why is that funny? And

919
00:59:02.559 --> 00:59:07.440
he goes into his bag. It was laminated and it

920
00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:11.320
was his twelve swing thoughts that he had on every shot.

921
00:59:13.599 --> 00:59:14.039
Wow.

922
00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:20.119
And here was the sad part. All twelve of them

923
00:59:20.159 --> 00:59:25.079
were horrended. All none of those twelve were going to

924
00:59:25.159 --> 00:59:29.880
help him with what his issue was. So I know

925
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:34.400
that's an extreme and that's ridiculous, but but people do

926
00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:41.119
that completely, you know, And and honestly it's I have

927
00:59:41.239 --> 00:59:44.559
people do a demonstration where I say, okay, count backwards

928
00:59:44.559 --> 00:59:47.400
from one hundred, one hundred, ninety nine, ninety eight, ninety seven,

929
00:59:47.440 --> 00:59:50.719
ninety six ninety five. Okay, good, Now take two golf

930
00:59:50.760 --> 00:59:54.360
balls and toss them back and forth between your hands.

931
00:59:55.440 --> 00:59:57.480
No problem, I say, now do them both at the

932
00:59:57.519 --> 01:00:00.760
same time. They drop the balls and they stuttered the

933
01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:05.400
counting back right. So that's just two swing things, right.

934
01:00:06.800 --> 01:00:08.719
Imagine what three or four are doing to you.

935
01:00:08.760 --> 01:00:10.880
No, it's it's fine. I mean, I you know, and

936
01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:12.880
I actually I'm going to ask you for some personal

937
01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:16.280
advice here. So I played yesterday, and I'm about eighty

938
01:00:16.280 --> 01:00:18.840
percent of the time. I'm really consistent off the tea

939
01:00:19.760 --> 01:00:22.760
and that and and the rest of my game is

940
01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:24.760
not as good as my game off the tea. Yesterday,

941
01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:29.360
I could hit everything except for a drive. I could

942
01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:32.440
not hit a straight drive or a drive anywhere near

943
01:00:33.440 --> 01:00:35.559
you know where I I mean, I hit a couple

944
01:00:35.599 --> 01:00:38.320
in the fairway, but I didn't hit him. Well, so

945
01:00:38.480 --> 01:00:44.920
what's the difference, you know, between a driver swinging a driver,

946
01:00:45.320 --> 01:00:47.960
you know, because it was really disconnected. I hit everything great,

947
01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:50.880
except for the driver. I couldn't hit the driver. What

948
01:00:51.199 --> 01:00:52.559
is that a psychological thing?

949
01:00:52.920 --> 01:00:56.199
Or is that No? No, it's it's it's it's actually

950
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very simple and it's going to make sense to everybody.

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What ever, your root cause problem is whatever it may be.

952
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Different sections of the bag are easier to manage, right.

953
01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:14.000
Obviously, the shorter of the club the easier.

954
01:01:15.440 --> 01:01:20.679
Well, not necessarily, not necessarily so, Like let's say you're

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01:01:20.760 --> 01:01:25.719
really vertical with the shaft and transition right, most of

956
01:01:25.760 --> 01:01:28.800
the people that do that pretty good with the wedges,

957
01:01:29.559 --> 01:01:32.400
not too bad with seven iron. Once they get to

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01:01:32.480 --> 01:01:35.199
about five iron through driver, they can't do anything right

959
01:01:37.159 --> 01:01:41.280
then staying on the right side too long. Those people

960
01:01:41.280 --> 01:01:44.239
are going to be okay with the driver, not too

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01:01:44.280 --> 01:01:47.280
bad with the three wooden hybrids, and they'll be miserable

962
01:01:47.320 --> 01:01:55.440
with wedges. Right, So your individual setup issue, major primary

963
01:01:55.519 --> 01:01:59.559
sling fault is always going to be more manageable with

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a section of the bag.

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Got it, Okay?

966
01:02:04.079 --> 01:02:09.559
I can. Oh, so it doesn't matter at all because

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I get people all the time coming mantie. I'm really

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01:02:11.840 --> 01:02:14.800
good with the wedges, but I need a driver lesson.

969
01:02:14.840 --> 01:02:16.760
I said, Now, you don't need a driver lesson. I go,

970
01:02:17.199 --> 01:02:19.119
it's there on the wedge too, But I'm good with

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01:02:19.199 --> 01:02:21.360
the wedges. I'm like, not as good as you should be.

972
01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:25.079
Your sight and so we solve the issue on the

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01:02:25.119 --> 01:02:27.639
wedge or the eight and nine iron, I said, Okay,

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pull out driver, do the same thing, little five yard

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draw right down the middle.

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Yeah, I know. I mean I've tried. It's funny. I

977
01:02:34.760 --> 01:02:36.480
mean I've tried where I'm like, you know, oh, I

978
01:02:36.519 --> 01:02:37.800
just hit it like I hit my eight iron.

979
01:02:38.480 --> 01:02:41.280
Well, you know, in theory, that's what you should, right.

980
01:02:42.679 --> 01:02:47.199
But the problem is is whatever made your fault, your

981
01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:51.440
primary swing fault, just makes it harder to hit the

982
01:02:51.480 --> 01:02:53.760
eight or harder to hit the driver, depending on what

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it is.

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Last question, what is your favorite if anybody pre modern sweat?

985
01:03:00.480 --> 01:03:03.360
So of the people who played on the tour in

986
01:03:03.440 --> 01:03:05.760
the seventies or the sixties or the fifties, you know,

987
01:03:05.800 --> 01:03:08.239
who's swing do you really admire most?

988
01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:12.639
Well, this is I'll give you a more specific answer,

989
01:03:13.559 --> 01:03:15.639
but the cop out answer is all of.

990
01:03:15.559 --> 01:03:16.199
Them, okay.

991
01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:21.760
And the reason why is is despite not quite doing

992
01:03:21.840 --> 01:03:26.760
this or that right, they matched it up correctly. Okay.

993
01:03:27.400 --> 01:03:30.159
But if you pin me down and you're like, okay,

994
01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:35.920
who's swing you like the most? I probably say snead. Okay,

995
01:03:36.480 --> 01:03:40.679
don't get me wrong. I mean Jack Nicholas's swing people

996
01:03:41.239 --> 01:03:43.440
all flying right elbow and he does this and that

997
01:03:44.599 --> 01:03:49.239
an amazing golf swing where he matched the parts perfect right.

998
01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:55.000
You know, you know people would always like people will

999
01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:57.760
always like troll me and say, Monty, you know you're

1000
01:03:57.800 --> 01:04:00.920
saying people should do this, this and this. So you

1001
01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:04.840
would have changed Jim Furick, Jack Nicholas and Hubert Green.

1002
01:04:04.920 --> 01:04:09.079
I'm like, absolutely not. But but but I'm like, no, no, But.

1003
01:04:09.599 --> 01:04:12.280
They don't have a problem.

1004
01:04:12.440 --> 01:04:16.480
If those three guys came to me, well, I would

1005
01:04:16.519 --> 01:04:18.719
have the same discussion with them that I have with

1006
01:04:18.760 --> 01:04:21.719
the average golfer. I just don't say, oh, you do

1007
01:04:21.840 --> 01:04:24.760
this and this wrong. Let's fix it. I say to

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01:04:24.800 --> 01:04:27.880
each golfer, and I would say this to Furick or

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01:04:27.960 --> 01:04:31.119
Nicholas or Green. Okay, when you hit a bad shot,

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01:04:31.159 --> 01:04:34.639
what's its doing? Oh? Well, you know I tend to

1011
01:04:34.719 --> 01:04:38.480
hit it in Matteau and you know it's a weak

1012
01:04:38.639 --> 01:04:42.880
hit and it overdraws a lot. So then I put

1013
01:04:42.920 --> 01:04:45.159
their swing up on the thing and I say, see

1014
01:04:45.159 --> 01:04:47.840
this right here, this is why you're hitting it in

1015
01:04:47.920 --> 01:04:52.400
matew So, like if Urick came to me and he's like,

1016
01:04:52.440 --> 01:04:54.719
you know what, Monty, I'm a real consistent driver of

1017
01:04:54.760 --> 01:04:59.440
the ball, great wedge player, but when I'm playing bad,

1018
01:04:59.599 --> 01:05:04.039
everything kind of bleeds off. To the right, and I'd say, okay, Jim,

1019
01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:09.119
you are much earlier with your hips compared to your

1020
01:05:09.199 --> 01:05:12.519
right elbow then everybody else on the tour. And when

1021
01:05:12.559 --> 01:05:15.599
you've got that light to the right, that disparity just

1022
01:05:15.639 --> 01:05:18.320
gets a little bit too much for you to overcome.

1023
01:05:19.119 --> 01:05:23.119
So just be careful that your hips are not leading

1024
01:05:23.159 --> 01:05:29.199
your right elbow too much. So that's what every lesson

1025
01:05:29.239 --> 01:05:33.360
should be about, not what's going to make you look pretty,

1026
01:05:33.360 --> 01:05:38.559
but why you mishitting them all? You know, And it's

1027
01:05:38.800 --> 01:05:42.280
and where well, you know, I hit a big slice

1028
01:05:42.320 --> 01:05:45.119
because I come over the top of it, and I'm like, right,

1029
01:05:45.400 --> 01:05:47.119
but you have to come over the top of it.

1030
01:05:47.360 --> 01:05:50.719
What do you mean, Well, you sway into the right

1031
01:05:50.840 --> 01:05:53.920
side because you don't rotate your hips properly. If you

1032
01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:56.480
didn't come over the top of it, you'd hit eight

1033
01:05:56.519 --> 01:05:59.800
inches behind the ball on every shot you come over

1034
01:05:59.880 --> 01:06:01.960
the top of it to get the club foote right.

1035
01:06:03.159 --> 01:06:05.199
So if they dropped it in the slot and swung

1036
01:06:05.239 --> 01:06:08.000
the right field, they'd hit the ball eighteen inches fat

1037
01:06:08.039 --> 01:06:09.199
every time in quick.

1038
01:06:09.800 --> 01:06:15.639
Right right right, Absolutely well, Cole Manty, thank you for

1039
01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:17.920
doing this, and tell everybody you know just quickly you

1040
01:06:17.960 --> 01:06:20.039
know where they can find you, you know, on your

1041
01:06:20.039 --> 01:06:23.920
website and and and on your social media and everything.

1042
01:06:25.559 --> 01:06:29.039
Yeah, my website is Rebellion goolf dot com and you

1043
01:06:29.079 --> 01:06:32.559
know the shameless plug. I have a new video coming

1044
01:06:32.599 --> 01:06:35.920
out and it's a it's a how to manage your

1045
01:06:36.039 --> 01:06:40.760
club face control while increasing your clubhead speed and you know,

1046
01:06:40.760 --> 01:06:43.960
because those speed sticks they're great, but they don't help

1047
01:06:44.000 --> 01:06:46.079
you manage the club right. That's going to be on

1048
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Rebellion golf dot com. And then my Instagram channel, which

1049
01:06:50.079 --> 01:06:52.760
I pretty much the only time I don't post every

1050
01:06:52.840 --> 01:06:55.480
day is when I put something up there that's so

1051
01:06:55.679 --> 01:06:58.960
popular that I want to let it run its course.

1052
01:06:59.320 --> 01:07:03.920
And that's at Monty Shine Bloom and all the golfers

1053
01:07:03.920 --> 01:07:07.800
that want to get better fery Fleet. If you think

1054
01:07:07.920 --> 01:07:10.760
everything I said is full of crap and you don't

1055
01:07:10.800 --> 01:07:13.599
want to buy my video and you think everything I

1056
01:07:13.599 --> 01:07:18.039
said was nonsense, please go to my Instagram channel and

1057
01:07:18.079 --> 01:07:20.280
look at the video from three or four days ago

1058
01:07:20.960 --> 01:07:24.519
of how Rory moves his pelvis looking at his rear rate.

1059
01:07:25.079 --> 01:07:28.880
You watch that video, understand that concept. You will get

1060
01:07:28.880 --> 01:07:31.199
better at golf and hit it farther. Awesome.

1061
01:07:31.519 --> 01:07:33.280
Thank you for taking the time to do this, Monty

1062
01:07:33.360 --> 01:07:34.239
really appreciate it.

1063
01:07:34.559 --> 01:07:35.440
Thank you very much.