Jan. 30, 2026

How to Identify & Eliminate Pressure on the Golf Course with Garrett Jenkinson

How to Identify & Eliminate Pressure on the Golf Course with Garrett Jenkinson
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GS#481 March 24, 2015 Garett Jenkinson, 2014 Alberta Teacher of the Year was suggested by a previous Golf Smarter guest who says that Garett was an inspiration in teaching him a new way to look at teaching and golf. In this episode we identify what kinds of pressure presents itself on the golf course and how to best handle it.    

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Hi, This is Stuart More. Goal is from Glenn Mills, Pennsylvania,

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and I played golf at the highly rating Glen Mills

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Golf Course. Welcome to Golf Smarter number four.

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If you can handle being a little bit uncomfortable at

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the start because we had to change the way you

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were standing or the way you were holding the golf

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club in order to get you to swing differently, then

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you can handle a lesson with me. But that's amazing

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how much you can change where someone's golf club goes

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or how it moves around their body just simp by

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changing how they hold the club and set up to

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the ball.

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Isn't that the easiest thing to correct for you, I

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would think, is just your setup?

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Yeah, and that's not easy. A lot of people just

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get the alignment part wrong all the time. Have to

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know where you're going if you can't get lined up

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to it.

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Their focus is hitting the ball, not where the ball's going.

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Yeah, well, we have a challenge with all my students.

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This is the first thing to hear on the teaching tea.

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If we took a picture of you from the side

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and from the back, and then you go home, and

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then you come back today and you set up again

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to hit a golf ball a day later, you get

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one hundred thousand dollars. If you set up exactly the

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same way two days in a row. How would you

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do it? What would you measure yourself off of? They

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all start figuring out that the target's pretty important after

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that and lining up square to it because you can

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do that every day, day in and day out.

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How to identify and eliminate pressure on the golf course

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With Garrett Jenkinson.

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This is Golf Smarter Premium.

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

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Garrett, Hey Fred, how are you?

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I'm great, So you're in Canada. How's the weather today?

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Oh, we're having a good one today. We're going to

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start golfing early this year.

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Is that a good thing or I mean, we have

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serious drought conditions here in California. We're in the fourth year,

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starting the fourth year of an ugly drought, and I'm

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reading articles that's saying, yeah, California, it's about one year

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of water left. It's like, but that's not a problem

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for you guys. You just hope that the thaws out

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and warms up early.

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Yeah. Well, I don't know. It'd be nice if we

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could go year round, because what happens for us because

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we got the condensed season, everyone just sort of goes

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nuts for a voute four or five months.

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Well to get year round golf, I'm sorry, but you

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have to leave Canada.

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Yeah, I know, and we do, right.

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And where do you go for your winter golf?

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I'm a Phoenix or Palm Springs guy. Yeah?

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Yeah, oh, well, next time you're headed out there, let

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me know. I love going to Palm Springs. I'll drive

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down there, all right, love it, love it. So I

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was introduced to you by listener and former guests of

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the show, Michael Hamill, who was going crazy about your

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teaching philosophy starting on Facebook and then writing to me

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just talking about how he's really changed his perspective based

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on working with you.

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Mike's a fitness guy in town here and I've been

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running golf fitness programs for about fifteen years now in Calgary,

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and it's the way I ended up getting into fitness.

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It wasn't because I thought we should do fitness. It

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was because I thought I could see people couldn't do

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what I was asking him to do on the teaching tea.

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So I've figured out a way to do some fitness

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things and body function things to get people to be

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able to perform the things they needed to do on

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the teaching tea.

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For me, Oh, I want to back right up there

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and pick on that for a second. What are the

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things that we don't do? What can't we do that

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you were noticing that made you change?

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This? All the changes for everybody, I think. And we're

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getting some really good info nowadays. I mean, we've got

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these TPI screens that are going on. The Titleist Performance

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Institute has got guys studying the body and how it

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works and all those things. But most of its flexibility

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issues for people, you know, and the troubles that we

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get is it's body function. Does your body work like

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it did? When you were ten years old. If you

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ask anyone that, everyone will say not really.

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Not really, It's more like, of course not.

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Yeah exactly, and so thank goodness, Yeah yeah maybe maybe. So.

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What we've been able to figure out is that we

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can actually get people's function of their body back just

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hit flexibility, rotational flexibility, strength, posture, balance, even and we

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get people improving at that, and it's amazing how much

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we can impact their game. Everything that I do is

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always I've always said I, if it isn't going to

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improve your game, I'm not going to give it to you,

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and I guarantee the same thing with with the fitness

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program that we do. I tell people, if it doesn't

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help you, don't pay me. Wow, that's what I say

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with my lessons as well. Well.

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How how much time do I get before I decide

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if it's helped me or not?

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Yeah? You only need an hour. I only need to

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prove it to you.

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Yeah yeah, Well how can I tell you if it's

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not working without going on try? Because what I have

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noticed unless is that even with an hour lesson is

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that by the end of the hour, everything's working beautifully.

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But when I get to go back out to either

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the range or the course which is may not be

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for another week or so, it's not there anymore.

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Well, that's that's a shame. We've got to keep on progressing.

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We need to be walking that, you know, going up

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up the staircase, and we don't want to be regressing

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and coming back and forth. We want to continue to

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progress forward, right, But.

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It's not always easy to when you're on your own,

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to make it work like it did when the teacher

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was giving you the nuances.

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Yeah, that's true. Well you can hire us to just

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go golf with you all the time too. I don't mind.

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Sorry, my dollars are going into the playing golf round

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and golf, that's right. So how do we do it?

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I mean, how do we stay on top of it?

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Yeah, you know exactly.

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I don't know. I think I think that's probably my

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challenge too. I look at it and I'm always, you know,

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every year, I'm asking myself, not even every year, it's

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every week, every day, what can I do today to

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help my students get better? What can I change? What

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can I add? Can I you know, if if it's

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if it's video for one person and a track man

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for another, maybe even just duct taping someone another one,

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you know.

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Whatever, Have you ever ductaped somebody?

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No? No, but I certainly certainly tried all the different

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apparatuses out there and had a few on people. But

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you know, I think that people have to come to

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an idea of what they want to see in their

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golf swing and how they want to do it. And

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I that's what I try to do with my students

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is create a team atmosphere of what are we trying

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to do, and where are we going and how we're

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going to get there, and we do We do it together.

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I don't I don't just pass the info and then

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walk away. It's a process that we work through, step

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by step over a series of lessons. I don't I

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don't ever like seeing someone for one lesson. I need

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to see them for a while and we come up

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with those plans together and nail it all down.

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Now, you sent me an email recently and you were

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talking about how the best players in the world have

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many opportunities to improve their game, but the average golfer,

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we don't. So and you put it on your responsibility.

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Yeah, I've got the In the last couple of years,

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I've got a really powerful piece of technology called a

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track Man and it's a Doppler radar that that gives

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you ball and club data. I think a lot of

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guys are using it as a science experiment there, physics guys,

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and they really like it. And I think that a

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lot of those types of guys that get into the

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physics too much, that information can crush people in this game.

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They can take that info and be able to not

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even hit a golf ball after listening to it all.

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So I think it's important to have a machine like

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that to learn more about what's going on. And it

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gives us the situation that's happening with people. And so

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it's factual data of what happens at the moment of

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impact with the ball and the club. And then you

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take it and you know, after a lesson, you'll see

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that here's where I was at the start of the lesson,

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and here's what actually happened with my golf ball and

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the distance different and the flight difference and the things

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that we changed did they actually work in a lesson?

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And it's really interesting with that piece of information and

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how how people do stick with the change then because

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they've seen it and it's factual data. Of if you

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do this, then this will happen, because it's not easy.

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Like you said, it's not easy to stick with what

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you learned in the lesson. You sort of revert to

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your old things. But I find that with this piece

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of machinery that when guys get the information, it just

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it really hits home for them, and they're like, I'm

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gonna I am really going to stick with this because

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I saw it. I added twenty yards to my iron

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I you know, every iron shot I added. I started

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drawing the ball and I've never done that before. I

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used to cut it all the time, and I don't

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want to do that. And so they really stick with

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it because the information is really powerful.

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Right we all believe that. We all think like, oh,

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now now that I got it, I'm just gonna run

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with this all the time. And again you take it

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back out to the course the next week and it's like,

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wait a minute, how did that work? How come it's

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not working today?

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You know, I don't. I don't see. I like to

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think that maybe my students are a little different than that.

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Well congratulations, I wonder fantastic. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead.

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No, So you know, I think that's that's trying to

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find ways. If if I found that my students were

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all having that scenario, then in my packages and things

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just the way that I think I would be adding

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adding in packages that included, hey, okay, we're going to

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do a lesson on the on the range, and then

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we've got another one that we're going to do on

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the golf course. I'd be saying you have to do it.

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Where I'm going on the golf course with you, there's

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no choice. But I'm finding a big success rate in

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a lot of my students.

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Congratulations, thank you. It's a very different lesson going onto

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the golf course with them then working on the range,

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isn't it.

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Uh yeah, it's it gets a little bit more focused

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on what are you thinking rather than what are you doing?

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You know, on the on the teaching tee, everyone wants

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to know what their body is doing and how it's

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supposed to work, and you know, and you get, you

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get I have to get them focused on what the

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golf ball is doing rather than what their body's doing

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all the time. And then you know, I think I

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think there's helping someone think their way around the golf

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course is a big one. One one thing I always

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say to people on the golf course is, on every

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single shot, if I bet you one thousand dollars to

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hit the fairway off the first tee one, what club

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would you hit? Two? And two? How hard would you

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swing at it? If you hit the fairway, you get

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a thousand dollars. So I think that changes it for

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people a lot. And that's probably my my number one

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comment on the golf course is if you just heard

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me in your ear on every single shot saying thousand bucks,

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if you hit the green, what club would you hit?

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What part of the green would you hit to? How

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hard would you swing? And what club would you use?

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Wait? What are you talking about? A par three or

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being able to reach the green on a par four

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on your D shot?

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Everything?

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Everything, well, just being able to reach the green off

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your T shot, no matter where you're hitting from.

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Yeah, yeah, And I think you know yeah, because I

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think you know. So if I gave it to you,

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Fred and I said we were at one fifty, let's say,

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and we've got a green and you go right away,

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you know, you pull your one fifty club, you say, well,

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that's an eight iron for me. Okay, great, Now, all

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of a sudden. If I said, there's a little bit

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of wind in your face, the pin is tucked back

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right corner, and there's a big wide part of the

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green on the left, maybe you would chip a little

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seven iron for a thousand bucks into the big part

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of the green instead of an eight iron. Just it

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makes you think different if you think that the goal

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of the shot is to hit the green, not not

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you know, not hit it within five feet. And if

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you think that way on every shot that you know,

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what is it that you know? What shot? A shot

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at a time means that you're going to hit your shot.

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So the first te you're going to put a t

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in the ground, you're going to put a ball on it,

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and you're going to hit the golf ball in the

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fairway hopefully, and then you're going home. That was golf

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for today. That's one shot at a time, and your

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measure is did I hit the fairway. That's that's that

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you succeeded if you did, and you failed if you

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hit it anywhere else other than there. And so one

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shot at a time means actually one shot at a

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time meaning I'm a success if I hit the fairway

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with that swing, and then my next shot would be

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hitting the green with my next shot or the fair way.

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If it was a part five, do.

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You change that philosophy or that approach depending on the

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level of skill per player. Yeah, I mean, like for

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a single handicap, would you say, all right, your goal

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is not to hit the green, Your goal is to

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get it within five feet of you in your approach

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shot get it within you know, tap in distance on

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that or are you still trying to just keep the

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idea of let's just get it to the green and

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two put.

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It depends on where we're at. If I already had

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a player that I've been working with for a while

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and they've got that figured out that it's more important

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to hit the green than it is to hit it

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to five feet, and then let your potter do a

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little talking for you. If we were just in a

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truly coaching scenario and I said, hey, I noticed you

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had ten shots inside one hundred yards and you're not

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hitting them close enough, then we could have that discussion.

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You're going to lower your scores be if you get

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your hundred yard shots closer to the flag than We

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got to talk about that. And it's a risk reward

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thing from one hundred yards. You might go at any

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flag from one hundred and fifty yards. You might not

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go with the same flag as you would from one

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hundred yards.

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Well you yeah, hopefully you're not. I mean, now we're

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getting into course management, right, right, It's true, that's true. Yeah.

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I'll be at a par three one hundred and eighty

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yards with a friend who, even on his best of days,

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can drive the ball one hundred and fifty yards with

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his driver, and he'll pull out his hybrid and you're like, oh, yeah,

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flags in the back right, I'm going after It's like,

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just try to get to the green. What are you

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doing right?

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Right? Yeah? And I think that's it's it comes down. Yeah,

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So it changes for the level of player. For sure,

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there's people who can't reach par fours and two right,

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But then I'd be saying, well that that's that's a shame.

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Let's go over to the teaching tea and show you

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how to hit it further right, and then we're going

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to get onto the course. So sometimes you don't want

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to get onto the course too early either. I think

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that everyone, everyone should be able to have a chance

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of hitting part fours and two, that that shouldn't be

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a problem unless the golf course is totally unfair.

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And there are those no, yeah, you know that there

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are there are some architects who like to just mess

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with you, and then there are those who you don't

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want to make make it so well, was it? Robert

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Trent Jones Sr. Was a difficult par and easy voguee.

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Yeah. I would love to see a golf course where

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we don't have to have handicaps. There's so many tea

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boxes that what levels you off on a hole is

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if we're on a four hundred yard par four and

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I play it at four hundred yards, what yardage doesn't

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need for you for you? Is it? What yards doesn't

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need to be for you to play me straight up

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on that hole? Well?

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Isn't that the whole tea at forward program?

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Yeah? And I think that I want to see a

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golf course done that way. I'd love to see.

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It really well. The whole point of teer forward, I think,

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is for every course to participate in their own way

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and you just decide, you know, if I want to

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hit an eight iron approach shot like they do on

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the tour, then I need to move my tea box

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up another thirty forty yards, right, So so do it

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that way. Just tee it up farther forward so you

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can get yourself in position for that eight iron shot.

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Yeah, I would love to do it. I'd love to

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go on the course with a few people and just

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say what yardage does everybody need to have this whole

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lot to play straight up? The beginner golfer might play

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the a part for at one hundred yards? Wow?

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Why not?

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Why not?

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I mean it's not tournament play, obviously.

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I'd be more inclined to wager something against you or

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with you if you were getting two shots on a

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hole versus let's play straight up and I don't care

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what your yardage is. I'll play you straight up.

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I like that because my kid Mike, when I go

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out with my son to play, and he's always wanting

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to make bets with me just to keep his head

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in the game. It's like, I don't I don't do that.

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He's like, how many strokes you give me? How many strokes?

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I said, now, I'll give you yardage instead. You can

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you can tee it up right up.

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To one hundred and fifty yards and I'll play you

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straight up.

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That's pretty good. I like that idea. We're going to

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make a note on that.

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Yeah, we might be on the something.

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Yeah, that could be a lot of fun doing it

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that way. Interesting, But you incorporate more than mechanics and

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into your lessons.

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Yeah.

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Well, and well we talked about flexibility already.

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Yeah. Probably my biggest the thing that makes me one

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thing that I learned to do through making mistakes myself.

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I had a lot of golf lessons where people tried

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to change my golf club while it was moving, meaning

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it had to get more inside or more outside, or

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how the toll had to go up, or And my

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belief on the golf swing is that anything that you

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want to change has to be changed standing still. It's

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it's broken before you move it.

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Oh, thank you. I love this idea because the golf

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swing is so fast, there's so much going on that

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it is so hard to be conscious of every nuance

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that's going on while the club is being swung.

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I totally agree. So if you can, if you can

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handle being a little bit uncomfortable at the start, because

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we had to change the way you were standing or

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the way you were holding the golf club in order

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to get you to swing differently then you can handle

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a lesson with me. But it's amazing how much you

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can change where someone's golf club goes or how it

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moved around their body, just simply by changing how they

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hold the club and set up to the ball.

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Right, I mean, isn't that the easiest thing to correct

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for you, I would think is the position, grip, alignment,

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the PGA part of you know, just your setup.

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Yeah, yeah, and that's not easy. A lot of people

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just get the alignment part wrong all the time.

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Mm hmm.

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Tough to know where you're going if you can't get

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lined up to it.

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Mm hmm.

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Yeah.

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Well, and I don't think they understand the concept of

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target golf or aiming at something. They're just they're just

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their focus is hitting the ball, not where the ball

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is going.

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Yeah. Well, we have a challenge with all my students.

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All my students get this. This is the first thing

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to hear on the teaching ta. If we took a

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picture of you down the line and out in the

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front and you set up to the golf ball. So

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you set up, and we take a picture from the

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side and from the back, and then you go home

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and then you come back today and you set up

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again a day later to hit a golf ball, you

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get one hundred thousand dollars. If you set up exactly

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the same way two days in a row, how would

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you do it? What would you measure yourself off of?

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They all start figuring out that the target's pretty important

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after that and lining up square to it, because you

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can do that every day, day in and day out.

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Clearly your incentive as a teacher is financial reward. You

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always like, I'll give you one hundred thousand dollars.

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I might have an imaginary gambling problem.

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Hey that's better than having an actual game.

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Yeah, I just try to get people's attention. I use

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it all the time. I'm like, if someone called you up,

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we use hockey up here. You guys would probably use

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football or something down there.

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But you use hockey for everything we said.

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You know, I always tell them you just got called

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up to the to the Calgary Flames halftime show and

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you got to hit a perfectly straight shot. What are

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you gonna do? You're gonna line up like this, right?

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So yeah, I'll tell you my dirty Canadian joke after

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we're done recording.

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Okay, So.

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Do you have to or do you think it's appropriate

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to warn your students before you start the lesson that

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look the changes that we make today, and I've looked

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at a couple of your swings, and we're going to

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make some changes. Your game is going to digress before

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it progresses. And because you know when you talk to people,

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I had a lesson last week and my game has

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completely fallen apart since then. I'm so frustrated. Well, it's like,

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but if you stay with what they taught you, you

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will improve. It's just going to take some time. And

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you know, we have so many examples on the tour

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of guys who are are tinkering and tinkering with their

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swings and it doesn't work immediately.

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Yeah, it should. It should get them, it should improve,

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you know what. So those are PGA tour players. These

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are the best players in the world. That's not that's

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not the massive of people who land up on the

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teaching team in front of me. And you know, it's

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easy for them to struggle because they are so good.

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Most of the people that I see when you're you know,

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let's say you're anywhere from a a twenty handicap down

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to a five handicap or or even up to a thirty.

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When you make some good and changes in your golfing,

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sure you might struggle. But my what I find my

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favorite struggle for my students is they all come in

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and say, man, I shot so high, I flew it

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over every green. I used to play a cot, now

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I'm playing a dry I have no idea where to aim,

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and I'm hitting the ball way further. Well, that's that's

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a pretty good complaint.

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Yeah, that's great. Stop keeping score for a while.

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Yeah, and it's you know what, it's going to take

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a little time to get used to that. And I

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think that if everybody said, here's my issue in golf,

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you know, like the typical one. I cut the golf

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ball and I don't hit it very far. Okay, so

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we start getting you to draw the golf ball and

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you hit it forty yards further. With everything, the next

481
00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:19.119
round of golf is going to be one of the

482
00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:23.839
hardest rounds of golf you've ever played. Right, everything's fixed,

483
00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:28.880
and you're you're dying out there, and you just have

484
00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:31.440
to learn to play the game in a new way.

485
00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:35.480
But that's the exciting thing is that you start looking

486
00:25:35.480 --> 00:25:37.759
at it and it's it completely changes it, and it

487
00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:40.680
changes it for people and they get excited and get

488
00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:43.400
rolling it. That's so much fun.

489
00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:46.720
And again it's a situation where you need to get

490
00:25:46.799 --> 00:25:50.359
rid of the scorecard and just treat it as a

491
00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:53.720
practice round and not a you know, scoring round, because

492
00:25:53.799 --> 00:25:58.319
you've got new things going on. So don't hurt yourself

493
00:25:58.359 --> 00:26:00.440
doing that, because you'll really get upset with yourself.

494
00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:04.759
Well, or just have a fun short game day rescuing yourself.

495
00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:12.519
Yeah right, right, yeah, it's it seems so entertaining in

496
00:26:12.680 --> 00:26:19.720
some ways that people aren't really sure of the distances

497
00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:21.880
of their clubs, or even if they are, they think

498
00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:25.319
they're sure the distances of their clubs. Say they hit

499
00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:27.960
let's say they hit their six iron one hundred and

500
00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:31.279
eighty yards, but one time they hit it one hundred

501
00:26:31.279 --> 00:26:34.000
and ninety five, and now they're thinking, well, if I

502
00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:35.920
hit it perfectly, I'm going to hit it one hundred

503
00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:38.160
and ninety five. And what happens They come up short.

504
00:26:38.200 --> 00:26:38.960
Most of the time.

505
00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:43.880
There's when I give you the thousand dollars bad or

506
00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:46.519
one thousand dollars, which club would you pull out right

507
00:26:46.559 --> 00:26:48.440
now to hit that green? Yeah?

508
00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:51.160
Yeah, And then and then part of that question you

509
00:26:51.240 --> 00:26:54.319
had was and how hard would you swing? What kind

510
00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:55.559
of response do you get to that?

511
00:26:57.279 --> 00:26:59.480
It's a tough one for people, right, they all come

512
00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:01.400
back and they go, oh my god, you know I

513
00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:04.960
I swing a hundred I swing over one hundred percent

514
00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:09.519
and everything if there is over one hundred percent, you know,

515
00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:13.160
I don't know. I look at it. I look at

516
00:27:13.160 --> 00:27:18.519
any any professional athlete finds their sport easy, and.

517
00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:21.599
Then they become teachers and don't understand people who can't,

518
00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:23.359
who don't get well.

519
00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:27.920
Well. But see, that's that's my My job is to

520
00:27:28.039 --> 00:27:30.839
make the game is how fast can I make the

521
00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:34.880
game easy for people? It's great? How how fast can

522
00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:37.599
I get you to a stage where you go, man,

523
00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:39.559
this is just a lot simpler than I used to

524
00:27:39.559 --> 00:27:41.559
think it was. I used to make it so difficult,

525
00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:43.240
and it was me, you know, it was me making

526
00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:45.319
it difficult. And now I know what I'm supposed to do,

527
00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:48.119
and I know what I'm practicing, and i just got

528
00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:49.920
to go do it a bunch of times and I'm

529
00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:51.720
going to get I'm going to enjoy the game a

530
00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:52.160
lot more.

531
00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:53.240
Yeah.

532
00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:57.160
Yeah, So once it becomes easy, then then the game changes.

533
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:03.240
When does it get easy?

534
00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:07.359
That's your decision. That's up to you. You can make

535
00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:09.119
it easy right now. There's a lot of people who

536
00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:11.039
make it tough. There's a lot of people who have

537
00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:13.079
the tools in the bag right now, they and they

538
00:28:13.119 --> 00:28:15.480
just make it tough because they make everything in life tough.

539
00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:20.079
They just can't. They just can't seem to say, is

540
00:28:20.279 --> 00:28:22.160
this is good the way I'm doing. I like it.

541
00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:25.359
I like what I'm doing. Always I gotta do better.

542
00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:28.920
I gotta do better. There's something that baffles me on

543
00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:32.799
in golf that people think they've always continually got to

544
00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:36.759
change their golf swing. I don't. I don't know any

545
00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:39.640
hockey player who's ever changed the way they shot the

546
00:28:39.680 --> 00:28:44.279
puck over over their career. I don't know any basketball

547
00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:47.200
player who change how they shoot. I don't know any

548
00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:49.759
football player who changes how they throw the ball.

549
00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:53.359
They tweak, they tweak, they work with coaches, they tweak.

550
00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:57.759
But you're right, making making major blanket changes on things

551
00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:00.000
like that, that's that seems unique to golf.

552
00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:03.160
If you're right, we got a situation in the world

553
00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:06.200
of golf right now that might might be because of that.

554
00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:10.240
You might maybe when you're number one, you're just supposed

555
00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:13.119
to say I can just practice this more and get

556
00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:17.599
better at what I do already, don't You don't have

557
00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:19.759
to change it.

558
00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:22.319
Do you get the sense that more golfers want to

559
00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:24.599
be good golfers versus being happy golfers?

560
00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:33.519
I think that if you want to be what it

561
00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:34.960
depends on what good is for you.

562
00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:37.599
Well, I've seen a lot of good golfers that are

563
00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:41.359
not happy. It's like, because the basic nature of golf

564
00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:42.759
is I can do be better. I can be better.

565
00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:45.359
I can do this better. I know I can, right,

566
00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:48.599
And so they're frustrated, they're angy, and you know, you

567
00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:51.079
guys who you have guys who are fifteen to eighteen

568
00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:54.200
handicaps that play with somebody who's a nine and they're like,

569
00:29:54.279 --> 00:29:56.640
oh my god, I fight You're so good and the

570
00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:59.039
nine is going, oh I missed that shot. You know.

571
00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:03.079
It's do you ever get happy when you're playing golf?

572
00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:07.039
What is that? Is that a human nature thing or

573
00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:07.640
a golf thing?

574
00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:13.599
Well, isn't golf like life in so many ways? That

575
00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:17.839
to me, the major similarity between golf and life is

576
00:30:17.960 --> 00:30:20.279
how you handle the problems right.

577
00:30:20.599 --> 00:30:23.480
And and that's that's why, because both.

578
00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:25.720
Life and golf gives you lots of crap to deal with.

579
00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:29.359
Yeah, when I hire, my favorite interview process for a

580
00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:32.039
job when I hire new staff is to take people

581
00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:34.480
for nine holes. I don't I don't need to ask

582
00:30:34.519 --> 00:30:36.039
you a whole bunch of questions. I just need to

583
00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:38.160
see how you handle yourself on a golf course.

584
00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:42.039
Nothing exposes a person's character faster than a round of golf.

585
00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:46.319
Yeah, yeah, so true. You know, so if people aren't happy,

586
00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:51.039
I mean we run into those people everywhere. They're in business,

587
00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:55.240
they're they're in there in life, they're in friendships, they're everywhere.

588
00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:58.200
That just there's just nothing that that. You know, they

589
00:30:58.200 --> 00:31:02.079
can't make enough money, their house is never big enough there,

590
00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:04.240
you know, and that's and then they do the same

591
00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:06.039
in golf. And it was man, life show would be

592
00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:09.960
easier if you're like, man, I'm pretty good at just

593
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:12.240
about everything. If you could just look at yourself and say,

594
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:13.119
I'm pretty good.

595
00:31:14.599 --> 00:31:18.079
And I'm satisfied, I'm happy. Yeah, it works for me.

596
00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:21.359
Yeah. Well, once everyone's figured that out, I think we

597
00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:22.480
got life figured out.

598
00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:24.319
That ain't gonna happen.

599
00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:27.839
No, I'm living you, Yeah.

600
00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:37.279
That ain't gonna happen In twenty fourteen. Congratulations, you were

601
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:41.240
named the Alberta Teacher of the Year. That's yeah, you

602
00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:45.799
should be very pleased and honored by that. And you

603
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:48.599
said that again in a letter to me, you said,

604
00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:52.279
the game is given, taught and transform many of my beliefs,

605
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:55.960
thoughts and values that I have in my life. Let's

606
00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:57.359
talk about that for a minute.

607
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:01.720
I don't know, Well, what.

608
00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:06.400
Is it that golf has taught you that it has

609
00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:10.079
transformed many of your beliefs and your thoughts and your

610
00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:13.680
values that you approach, that you change in the way

611
00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:14.759
you deal with your life.

612
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:18.160
Now, well, some of the things that that we've even

613
00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:21.200
just talked about, just you know, when is enough enough?

614
00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:24.599
When are you satisfied? That's the thirty thousand foot view

615
00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:29.920
of you know. I remember when I played on tour.

616
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.720
I mean, you know, you'd shoot a sixty five and

617
00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:34.480
you come off the course and you could say, yeah,

618
00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:36.440
but I could have shot a sixty two. There was

619
00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:38.759
those three shots that I did. You know, I missed it,

620
00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:41.759
but yeah, yeah, and you got to be at this

621
00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:44.160
stage and you know, and I when I was when

622
00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:46.519
I played on tour, there was also the opposite. I'd

623
00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:49.319
shoot seventy five and couldn't sleep either because I just

624
00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:51.599
I was so angry that I wasn't going to make

625
00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:54.920
the cut, and it was you know, and you just

626
00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:58.680
have to realize that it is. It just is what

627
00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:01.440
it is. And you know, sometimes if you can look

628
00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:04.920
at a seventy five or a difficult situation and say,

629
00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:08.079
you know, here's an opportunity to turn it around now

630
00:33:09.039 --> 00:33:13.160
and do something great with it. Have a great attitude,

631
00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:15.559
and see if you can make something great of something

632
00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:22.160
maybe that isn't that feels not so great, or even

633
00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:26.720
adding to something that is already great, like shooting is

634
00:33:26.759 --> 00:33:30.440
sixty five and shooting another one. Yeah, so I guess

635
00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:35.279
you know, from my perspective, it's it's been. It gives

636
00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:37.880
me just on little things everything in life. It's so

637
00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:41.640
easy to get swallowed up by kids and work and

638
00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:44.920
all your commitments that go on in our lives and

639
00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:47.000
oh my god, and I you know, I can't, I

640
00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:51.319
can't keep up. And sometimes we forget that, you know,

641
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:55.599
it is okay, everything's good, and just focus on the fairway.

642
00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:58.279
Quit thinking about the trees, and quit worrying about the water,

643
00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:01.559
and quit worrying about worry about money, and quit worrying

644
00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:05.920
about these things. Those things will come and just try

645
00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:09.119
to focus on and enjoying yourself strolling down the middle.

646
00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:14.039
How are you able to teach golfers to not worry

647
00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:17.519
about history in this sense that when you said stop

648
00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:20.119
worrying about this tree, stop worrying about the water, It's like,

649
00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:22.320
you know, oh, every time I play this course, I

650
00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:24.760
hit the ball in the water. It's like, yeah, but

651
00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:27.400
that's not relevant to your next shot? Is it?

652
00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:32.519
Being able to let go is a serious skill? Again?

653
00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:35.599
That's why I go back to that silly thousand dollars question.

654
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:39.960
You know, if I stand you there and I bounce

655
00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:42.480
that question off you again, I'm like, say, like, you

656
00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:45.800
get a thousand bucks, why don't you forget about the water. Like, seriously,

657
00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:47.800
if someone was really going to give you a thousand

658
00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:49.599
bucks to hit the green, would you be sitting here

659
00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:51.280
going on, I'm going to hit in the water again,

660
00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:54.800
and it's really hard, you.

661
00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:58.599
Know, I think, yeah, but I actually think that people

662
00:34:58.760 --> 00:35:01.719
would even that kind of pressure. I'll give you a

663
00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:06.800
thousand bucks, which is not necessarily a positive question. I

664
00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:09.559
can see that being a tremendous amount of pressure adds

665
00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:13.119
a lot of tension, adds a lot of you makes

666
00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:16.679
makes the water bigger, makes your hand squeeze tighter, make

667
00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:19.719
your shoulders go up even higher. You know it's not

668
00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:23.559
a relaxed, loose, easy swing. Then there's a lot of

669
00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:24.480
tension behind that.

670
00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:28.760
Well, if you know how to gamble, it is.

671
00:35:33.639 --> 00:35:36.079
I had a clubmaker. I had a clubmaker who once

672
00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:38.800
made me fill out one hundred and ten question survey

673
00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:43.159
before he would discuss making clubs for me. And one

674
00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:45.840
of the questions was do you bet when you play golf?

675
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:49.920
And I said, no, I don't. I don't find gambling entertaining.

676
00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:52.519
And he said, you don't gamble when you play golf.

677
00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:53.760
Why do you play.

678
00:35:56.440 --> 00:35:59.679
That? Now that might be a problem on the other side.

679
00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:05.559
Yeah, you know, this guy wants to take your money exactly.

680
00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:08.000
I don't bet either. I'm just learning. But if you

681
00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:09.039
want to bet, I will know.

682
00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:14.039
And to me, it's more score scorecard watching than anything.

683
00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:16.119
And it's that's what I don't want to do when

684
00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:17.920
I'm playing, is keep looking at the scorecard.

685
00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:22.599
Yeah, you know, And we're just just commenting on on

686
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:26.239
how do you how do you you know? Uh, just

687
00:36:26.360 --> 00:36:28.639
when somebody if you did say a thousand dollars question

688
00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:30.719
with the water, it can work in reverse. As well.

689
00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:32.519
And I think I think that's the key is we

690
00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:38.119
all have to figure out how to live with ourselves

691
00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:44.079
or compete against ourselves and and and succeed. You know,

692
00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:45.920
That's the key is we have to be able to

693
00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:52.599
That's really all we're playing against. Is my thinking going

694
00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:55.800
to take me in a negative direction today or a

695
00:36:55.800 --> 00:36:56.519
positive one?

696
00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:01.199
Interesting? So is my thinking said or is it working

697
00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:01.719
against me?

698
00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:06.719
Yeah? Yeah, And I think that I don't know. I

699
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:09.119
get a chance to golf with a lot of different people,

700
00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:11.760
and I've golfed with some guys who are pretty good golfers,

701
00:37:11.760 --> 00:37:15.239
and you know, they're they go crazy on the golf course,

702
00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:18.800
throwing golf clubs and to the point where I'm like, man,

703
00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:20.519
I don't I got to say something because I don't

704
00:37:20.519 --> 00:37:21.800
want to get hit with a golf club.

705
00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:26.719
You know, Well, the first lesson there is stand behind

706
00:37:26.760 --> 00:37:28.280
the other guy.

707
00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:33.360
And I guess I I abuse my position in golf

708
00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:36.039
a little bit on those scenarios. And I just I

709
00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:38.000
asked them, I said, what are you getting so angry for?

710
00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:41.440
I mean, really, you're you're playing at the level that

711
00:37:42.599 --> 00:37:46.400
you're you that's pretty good for you. I can't play

712
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:49.920
like me or like a PGA Tour player, So why

713
00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:51.800
are you trying to get mad when you don't hit

714
00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:52.599
a shot like one?

715
00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:56.719
I actually got an email from a listener ones who

716
00:37:56.760 --> 00:37:58.519
said that his dad used to say to him when

717
00:37:58.519 --> 00:38:00.960
he was a kid, you know, and he was a

718
00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:03.960
hot headed kid, and he would regularly throw his clubs

719
00:38:03.960 --> 00:38:05.960
and his dad said, you're not good enough to throw

720
00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:06.719
your clubs yet.

721
00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:12.559
Right, that's right. I love I do too. Yeah.

722
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Golf Performancecanada dot com.

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That's right.

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Okay, make sure.

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We're gonna have lots of golf tips coming up there

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too this year. Well, one thing we know today with

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the track man that when people swing a golf club,

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we talk about swing path and club face angle. And

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I ask people all the time, if your face points

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over here and your path goes over there, where's your

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ball end up? And people are pretty sharp when you

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ask him that question. They always tell me that the

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golf ball basically follows the face, which is the truth.

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So wherever your ball goes, it's because that's where your

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face is pointing at the moment of impact.

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Club face, not your face.

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Yeah, exactly, clubface. Yeah. So what happens when people are

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swinging is they don't realize that when they get to impact,

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the faces either open or closed, or very rarely is

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it square. And I find that the best way that

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people can influence their club face because it's a seventy

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five percent influence on the ball. The path of the

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golf club influences the ball twenty five percent, and the

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face of the golf club set is seventy five percent.

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So the best way that you can make an impact

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on your game is to actually work on your grip.

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My saying that I always say is if you're not

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working on your grip, you're not working on your game.

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So what I want to do is try to give

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you some sort of idea of what we can do

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in the left hand. So in the left hand, what

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happens with a lot of people, so this is their

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top hand, what happens to a lot of people is

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they get the golf club too diagonal in their hand

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this way, and what they need to do is get

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the golf club running more across their knuckles this way

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so that it's deeper in their hand. You want to

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be able to hold it with this pinky back here

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and then that gets on this way. So if I

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actually turn that this way for you to have a

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look at my hand gets turned over so that there's

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a bit of a bend in the wrist here as well. Okay,

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so that's in my left hand. I always want to

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do that. The other way I can think of it

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is I want to put the toe of the golf

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club up this way, so when I'm holding it, I

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want to feel like I'm grabbing a motorcycle grip, like

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I'm going to race the motorcycle. And then what that

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should do when I hold the golf club is I

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actually turn the glub face down a little bit and

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close the face. So the big deal is getting the

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golf club deeper in your hand, running more across your knuckles.

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One other way you can think of it is how

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do you hold it? If someone brought you the golf

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club this way? How do you hold it? You just

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grab it in here and it goes right across your knuckles.

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So you can see how it goes across my knuckles

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this way, And that's how you want to grip it. Lefetime,

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you want to get it more across your knuckles, less

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diagonal in your hand, clay around with your grip, make

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it either close or open and watch what happens with

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your golf ball.

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Awesome. That was an amazing tip and the video is

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so important on that. So people are just listening from

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this one, you've got to go check out on golf

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Smarter TV the YouTube channel so you can see what

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he just explained because it's going to have an impact

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on the results of your ball flight and your swing.

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Awesome.

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Yeah, that's great, Garrett, thanks so much, Buddy.

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Hey, thank you, bred I appreciate it.