Sept. 5, 2025

OWN YOUR GAME! 2 full episodes with Dave Stockton

OWN YOUR GAME! 2 full episodes with Dave Stockton
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GS#430 & #431 April 1 & 8, 2014 Dave Stockton has won 5 Majors on the PGA and Champions Tour. He's one of the Pro Tour’s hottest coaches working with Rory McIlroy, Phil Mickleson and Annika Sorenstam. This full hour+ interview about his new book is two episodes along with some bonus material that's never been shared publicly before in this format.


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Hey, it's Fred. You know I regularly get asked about

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my all time favorite episodes, and this one comes to

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mind because our guest is Dave Stockton. Over thirty years

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as a touring professional, Dave won eleven times on the

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PGA Tour, including two PGA Championships in nineteen seventy and

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nineteen seventy six. After that, he joined the Champions Tour

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in nineteen ninety two and won fourteen times through nineteen

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ninety seven, including two Senior PGA Championships and the US

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Senior Open. Later, he went on to become one of

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the most sought after short game instructors in the world.

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So in this episode we tried something different as it

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was two complete episodes in one conversation that was presented

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at one time to Golf Smarter members behind our paywall

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and has never been shared publicly before. I know you'll

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agree with me that there's a lot of really helpful

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insights and instruction from one of the best. So here's

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Golf Smarter episode's number four hundred thirty and four hundred

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and thirty one from April one, twenty fourteen.

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Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain

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insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the

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Golf Smarter podcast Great Golf Instruction Never gets Old. Our

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interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations

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like this that are no longer available in any podcast app.

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I was never the most gifted physically, but I'm going

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to beat you mentally. If seventy five or six was

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the best I could do, has certainly made the sixty seven.

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I was going to need to shoot the next day

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to make the cut a much more viable approach rather

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than getting all mad and happy about it. It's like

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the two things with Rory, the one I alluded to

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for he won the opening where I basically had him

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use monitoring how he played the secondment, which is his

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PGA Atkiwa where I saw in the leak before. And

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he had a terrible year so far, up and down.

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He wasn't consistent, he hadn't defended a US opened very

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well at the Olympic Club in San Francisco and miss

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and cuts. As we were leaving Actor in the week

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before and I said, I want you to do me

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a favor, and he looked right at me, which he

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always does, and I said to him, I am getting

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really tired of turning on a TV and telling whether

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you burdied or both be the last hole. And I

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don't know why you're giving your opponents an opportunity to

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get you. I said, you got to forget the bad shots,

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and he did.

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Own your game. How to use your mind to play

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winning golf with Dave Stockton. This is Golf Smarter, and

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now we bring you the full unedited seventy minute interview

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with Dave Stockton, including about five minutes before we actually

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started the show. Dave, let me give you little background here.

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The purpose of Golf Smarter. The way I started it was,

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you know, I'm not a golf professional. I'm not a

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PGA instructor, just a guy who likes to play on

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the weekends and I like to ask a lot of questions.

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But when I started doing this show, my thought was

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that if you have a strong mental game and you

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understand strategy, you're going to lower your scores a lot

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faster than if you were just trying to work on

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your swing mechanics.

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Wow, boy, you you're You're way ahead of a whole

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lot of people. As far as.

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I'm concerned, so it's so I've developed this following, which

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amazing because it's unlike radio, it's worldwide, and we've built

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this community on this whole concept and it's worked very well.

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According to you know, iTunes and Google online, it's the

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most popular golf podcast. So wow, I must have done

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something right.

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It's amazing because what you're doing is not not normal

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really because so many people they get so wrapped up

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on the physical part of it. Do you let me

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ask you a question if you talk to Deborah Graham, no,

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John for John Stabler.

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No, I'm always looking for new people to talk to

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as well.

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Well. There it was interesting because Golf World ran an

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article about the brain in November, and Ritella and Julie

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Ellian and Coop and there were three or four and

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they ended the whole thing by saying, you know, they

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got a track man for the for the metal game,

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for the physical game, but they don't have anything for

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the brain, right, and John Stabler and Deborah Graham actually do.

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I mean, you can be fifty foot away from somebody

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and you can tell exactly when they make their decision

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to hit a shot or if they changed their mind.

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You can you can literally read it and know immediately

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this person is not not confident, or this person is

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not hasn't pictured what they're trying to do. It blows

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you away. I mean, she was a psychologist that I

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used at the Ryder Cup at Kiowa and in ninety

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one to profile my players so i'd get them to

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play better.

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That was such a fascinating story. I love that. I

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didn't mind the name dropping. It added credibility to the book.

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But I but there were parts of it, like I

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was even while I was reading it, and we'll get

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into this when we do the interview, but there were

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two paragraphs in there that I said to my wife,

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I said, I can do at least a half hour

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on just these two paragraphs alone, right, because the nuance

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of what you were talking about, and I'm not going

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to tell you what it is because we'll do it

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during the show, but the nuance was like, we can

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pick into that so much, and I'd have so many

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questions about that. So yeah, I love that kind of stuff.

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To me, that's what makes the most sense.

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That's interesting because most people they have no clue. And

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the reason is funny. I wrote the Putting Book and

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I thought, well, okay, that's because everybody consider themselves bad putters,

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and everybody thinks I know how to teach putting, so

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this will be a natural. And then I realized, after

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I work with the people, how many people were not

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good chippers. So we did the Chipping book, and as

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I'm doing that, I'm coming to realize this last book

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and on your Game is basically the most important one,

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because if I have somebody really good that I'm going

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to get paid to have them played better, I am

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literally going to have them call Debra and have him

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take her test because I want to find out and

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I want them to see how, you know, how mentally

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they're weak in different places and it makes all the

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difference in the world.

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Yeah, I actually have. There was another woman in Florida.

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I'm blanking on her name right now, but I did

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do a show with her and we talked about the

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four different personality styles right of golfers and how to

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figure out how to play with them. And I think

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the thing that I learned mostly from her was you

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never conduct business on the golf course. You learn if

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you want to do business with that person by the

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way that person plays golf. Sure, yeah, I thought that

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was absolutely fascinating and really valuable.

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Right, yeah, no, no doubt.

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Have you have you noticed lately on the tour where

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they talk about strokes gained putting this new stat that

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they're talking about and strokes gained driving. Right, So the

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guy who came up with golf metrics, Mark Brodie, Yeah,

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he was just on the show two weeks ago.

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Yeah, he's written the book. I you know, again, I

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have not gotten into that, so I don't you know,

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and I don't I know they've changed it in everything,

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but I you know, And it was interesting to hear

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him say that. You know, he basically thinks the other

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part of the game is more important, So it was

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kind of surprising.

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Well, what I found out from him was that what

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he was saying is they everyone beats themselves up on putts,

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and I know that like if I three putt, I

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carry that with me, right, that if I start putting poorly,

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doesn't matter how the rest of my game is going,

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that that will impact my mood for that day. And

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yet what he's saying is actually putting you know, you

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should look at the rest of your game because putting

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only accounts for about twenty seven percent of your scoring.

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The way the way he had it, so it was fascinating.

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Yeah.

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So all right, so this is how we'll do it.

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I'll say, Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Dave. You

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say hi, Fred, and then we'll see where it goes

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from there.

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You got it, Fred, that's fine.

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Okay, here we go. Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Dave.

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Thank you, Fred, good to be with you.

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Well, thank you very much. I loved reading your book.

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It didn't take me a long time, but I consumed

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every word of the new book Own Your Game, and

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it spoke to me in so many ways. Is because

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I'm a big believer in the mental game and strategy,

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not necessarily course management, but strategy. And I love the

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way that you actually discussed strategy as a very different

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approach than just talking about the metal game.

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Right. I mean, the people you talk about routines, and

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everybody thinks their routine is okay, what's happening just before

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the ball? And I tried to explain in the book.

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You know, you play a hole like the twelfth hole

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in Augusta under the pressure of playing in the Masters,

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your routine starts to minute you the second you drop

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the ball. The hole on eleven, because immediately you're looking

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to see what the trees behind twelve are doing, because

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once you get up on the twelfth p it's blocked

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by a giant grand stan of people and you really

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can't tell. So you're automatically already starting to think about

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the next hole. You're shetting, and as a good golfer

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will do, or most of the time, you know the eleventh

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hole is buying you anyway, so you might will start

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getting your mind and your routine ready to go on

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the next one. It's not and it's not just your

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physical routine. And for me, the metal side.

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Is so important to it, absolutely, And I love the

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line here strategies about tilting the odds in your favor

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as much as you can exactly exactly.

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I mean, that's like going by a certain hole I

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keep picking on on Augusta. But you know you watch

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different courses. Well, let's say the let's say the Phoenix

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open that has the sixteenth toll with a million people

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sitting around yelling at you. You know you better, you

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better realize what the wind's doing and the conditions as

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you go down fifteen, because when you get inside that enclosure,

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you can't tell. And you know, so many people are

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affected by the next shot they're going to hit or

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the last shot they did hit that they're you know,

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they're not getting the whole idea, they're not getting the

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whole thing that could make it an easy day for them.

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They just have these series of blips that I don't

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they're not conscious of, and they don't they don't gain

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the perspective you know, when we all have when we

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have our days, we all play good. It happens so

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so easily that there's not a whole lot of thought,

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and then all of a sudden you get going bad.

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And if you don't have the wherewithal the get get

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it behind you and get get it turned around. Uh,

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you're in trouble. I mean, one of the things I

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asked when I'm working with people, I said, Okay, if

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you're only going to be given six one puts today,

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what is your reaction when you're over the first twelve

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holes and you make one? I'm thirteen so now, but

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you don't know you're going to make the next five

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no matter if they're two foot or fifty, you're going

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to make all of them. What was your reaction? Was it? Well,

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I'm a that that figures I've getting that I found

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an acorn or you know, something kind of negative and

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said instead of being in meaning it saying oh boy,

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here we go. Now I got it, Here we go

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and it's I don't know it. To me, it's fun

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and I'm glad to hear you, you know, talk about

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what you're doing out there, because you're you've tapped to

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exactly what I think is the key to having people

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play a lot better, a lot faster, and much easier

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on themselves.

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When you say play a lot faster, you know, you

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talked a lot about pre shot routine, and I think

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we can do There were two paragraphs in the book

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that talk about pre shot routine that to me, we

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can do the entire episode on. And I'm just going

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to pick your brain on that because I feel like

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I have a good pre shot routine, but after reading

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your book, I feel like it's a very mechanical pre

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shot routine and I do the same things over and over,

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but I'm not thinking about or noticing the same things.

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Well, did you remember my little story about January in there?

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Please tell it? Because I've read the book. Not everybody has, Okay,

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but did you remember it, the January story about January.

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Before I talked about January stopping me as I was

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going off the first team playing with he and Arnold Palmer.

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Oh right, Oh, I thought you meant the month.

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Yes. Yes, it was probably one of the most unbelievable

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things to me because I had never I've been on

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twury a year and a half. Of course I didn't

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I didn't make the cuts most of the time, and

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I was you know, I'd never met Arnold until that

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faithful day at the LA Open at Ranchell. And He's

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got me by seven, He's got January by four. January's

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and third, and I'm in fifth, and I get introduced

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to him, and you know, Heat's off and everybody roars.

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And then January' is the PGA champion. Heat's off. Everybody roars.

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It's my turn. And as January hits, I'm looking at

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my feet and my toes are just bouncing up down

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because I'm nervous as heck. But uh, and I'm heavy enough.

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I looked at my my shoes aren't moving. I'm going

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that's good. Nobody can tell I'm petrified. So I get

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my ball, stays on the tee. I give it a

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whack right down the middle, and I grabbed the tea

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and I'm not a foot away from have to grabbing

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my tea on a dead run to catch Arnold. I

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hear this voice, goes son Son and basically it's January

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and asked me. He said, what do you see out there?

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And I said, well, I see twenty thousand people. He said, no, no, no,

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watch Arnold. Arnold's now got us by fifty yards because

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January walks really slow. And he said, I just want

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to let you know that you have a problem today.

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And I said, what's that. He says, well, now Arnold's

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almost to where my ball is, and they're both like

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forty yards behind and pass me, and he says, you

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notice how far we're by you. I said, yes, sir,

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And he says, well, we're going to do that all

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day except when we can't putt like you, so we're

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going to be even. He said, but the problem you have.

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And now now Palmer's at his ball looking back at us,

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and we're still fifty yards for me to get to

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my ball, taking these little bitty steps, and he he

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looks to me, he says, you know the problem you

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have is if you go Arnold's pace, this is my pace.

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We're walking right now, and you're going to see me

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walking up your backside all day. And he said, but

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on the other side, Arnold can't hit till you hit Kenny.

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And I said no, sir. He said, well, you go

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my face and it's going to be very difficult on

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mister Palmer today. And I go, that's different. And so

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the second and we all parted. One. We go to

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the second hall and I can't walk that slow. In fact,

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I was sore and taking a little step. So I

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went to the left. Then I crossed to the right

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and there was nobody there, but I just made this

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big X and I came back to my ball. January

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walked by and he winked at me, and so we

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all parted the second. The third hole is a part

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of three. I only walked to one side and the

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fourth hole of my wife Kathy walks up and she says,

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what are you doing? And I said well, and I

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pulled her under the rose, put my arm around her,

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and I said, mister January said this about you know

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my pace of play. He knows I play fast, he

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knows I don't take practice swings, and he said, and

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he just said that I'm going to get derailed by

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him walking out of my backside, and I ought to

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think about my pace of play. I had never in

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two and a half years or two years on tour,

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I ever thought about playing slower faster. And consequently she said,

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what sounds like I'm a good idea to me. I'm

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on the eighteenth tee, I am. I walked twenty miles,

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I am dead tired. I'm five under for the day

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and I've picked up five shots on Palmer. I'm within

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two shots he Birdi's the last hole to win the tournament.

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I finished fourth, and I really learned something well. I

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passed the same same thing on to McElroy insomuch as

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when he blew the Masters, and I met him three

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weeks later for the first time because his caddie wanted

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me to work with him. And his opening question to

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me at Charlotte, my son Ronnie was with me. He says,

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what what do you What did you see me at

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the Masters? And I said yeah, he said, what'd you think?

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I said, I thought you had a terrible pairing and

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he looks at me like I had four eyes you know,

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I said, well, I saw you pair with Cabrera, and

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Cabret is the world's nicest guy, but unfortunately he plays

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just as fast as you. And I said, you ask

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me what I saw. I saw two guys that played

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stand around and wait and wait, and it was their

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turn to hit. They hurt. They hit really fast because

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you're both fast players, and they'd walk fast. Now they

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got to stand around there and wait and wait to

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wait again. And basically I said, you had no rhythm.

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I mean it was almost you should have realized that

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you were the last ones out and nobody you know,

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you can't. You can't go through the in front of you,

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so you might as well just take your time. Well,

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he bought into that. We looked at his putting physically.

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There was nothing wrong. In fact, he had great routine

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and stuff as far as the physical part of it,

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and I see him it wentworth three weeks later in

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London and then comes up to Congressional where I won

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my second PGA, and that was the US Open, and

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again or the lesson lasted maybe a minute or two.

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Everything looked fine, so I wasn't going to tell him

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anything else. We'd go to the last round the seventh

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to ten toll. The part three, he had two hundred

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yard shower. I'd be hitting the seven wood and he's

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hitting the seven aron hit at about six inches and

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then it gave him a five or six shot lead

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at that point. But the eleventh toll congressionals are really tough.

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Part four, water down the right, big trap on the left,

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and Rory walked off. But within a minute he was

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back up on the green with his putter, just one

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putting with his left hand, no ball, just you know,

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making him looking or the eighteenth green, enjoying the people

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and his kame must have been there seven eight minutes

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since Caddy finally walked up. Whatstled at him? He went

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back down. He hit the t shirt and I thought,

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this kid learns pretty fast, because he didn't want to

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stand down there on that tee like he did at

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the Masters, and stood there and let the pressure build.

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And so what would you know. It's a long answer

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to your question, but basically, that one thing that January

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did for me made me aware of the surroundings around me,

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whether I was going to play slower that day or

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faster that day, and it changes. It's not anything consistent

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but you got to do something that's going to make

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you feel comfortable.

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I love that story. And please, any question I ask

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you can take as long as you'd like to answer.

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And I have no issue with that, No problem, okay.

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And you know I tend to be a fast walker

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when I play, but my preshot routine is very deliberate,

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and my putting routine is very deliberate. Maybe that slows

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me down, that changes my rhythm based on the rest

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of my life, which is fairly quick. Is that am

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I working against myself by doing that?

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Absolutely, we don't have a method. I say, Wade, Ronnie

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or Dave Junior, myself, Stock and golf. We use our

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eyes and our job looking at you is to make

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you comfortable. Well, what I tell you would be something different.

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I'd tell your neighbor or if you're a for handicap

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and they're at thirty, you're gonna tell them something different

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because and yet everybody is into this mechanical thing. But

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I'm here to tell you. I mean, I've I played

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golf too many years, over forty years on a two

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tour combined, and I have never seen anybody yet the

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normal routine is people slow down, I'll never forget watching

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Faldo beat beat Scott Holk and a playoff on ten

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in Augusta when Scott's got a two foot putt to

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win and he backed off and then came back in.

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I'm screaming at the TV because I knew he was

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gonna miss him. Another one at the Masters with Ed

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Snead had a three shot lead with three holes to go,

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and all of a sudden it looked like his body

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had been taken over by an alien the last three

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because his routine went twice as long as what had

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been doing. And just because you want to throw a

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dart in the center of a bullseye, if I make

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you stand there and stare at this thing and slow down,

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it isn't gonna work as good. He can't. And that's

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why what we call what we do the signature approach

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is first lesson whether you're your Michaelson or Mceilroy or

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the girl next door, I'm gonna have you sign your signature.

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There's no right or wrong way, but you're certainly going

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to have a reasonable pace to signing your own signature.

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Some people, like Billy Casper, would be very deliberate. Other

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people are going to be very very fast. Okay, but

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you're gonna be comfortable with what you do. But now

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I'm gonna throw you out of your comfort zone because

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I'm gonna have you. I want you to give it

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to me again, only this time, I want you to

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look at your signature. I want you to picture what's

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there and right below it, I want you to duplicate

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that same signature. But you've got to do it slowly.

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You got no chance. I can't do the D and Dave.

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I can literally not do my first and if I

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go slow, I can't do it. And that's because if

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it's something that should be in your subconscious and yet

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you try to do it. You can. If you practice

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and you hit a zillion balls, yeah, you get to

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a proficient level, but you'll never be great at what

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you're doing. And because it's a constantly changing thing. And

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so yeah, I mean I again. You'd have to watch

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you and say, Okay, what's the normal routine would Fred

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feel comfortable with? And then I would want it to

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be slightly faster rather than slightly slower because when you

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take more time and I ask people, do you take

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practice strokes? Can you put red?

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Yes?

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I do. Well. Do you do you play pool at all?

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Yes?

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I do, okay, and I relate pool shooting to being

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a good cutter. So do I? Oh my god, why don't.

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I'm willing to bet you that you don't stand a

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foot to the side of your cue ball and practice

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your stroke you're going to make before you step behind it.

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No.

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And I don't stand to the side of my golf

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ball either. I stand behind it, looking at the line,

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feeling like what my stroke will be there?

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Okay, Well, that's that's what Annica Sorenstan had to do

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because she'd bound and the termine she had to have

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a stroke. Uh. Just talk work with Mike Wheer. He

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feels the same way. He has to have that practice stroke. Uh.

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But I find it humorous that most people shoot pool

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just put the custick up behind it and now they

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leave it still. No, they go it back and fourth.

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But the average person takes their practice stroke up by

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the ball, okay, not behind it. If you're gonna take

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a practice stroke, you should be at right angles to

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your line, looking straight over the ball toward the hole

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to feel what you're doing. If that's what you need

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to do, I have a hard time believing people need

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to do that. But a lot of people do it.

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But the ones that come up beside the ball parallel

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to it, take a couple of strokes, put the club

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behind the ball, look at the hall briefly, then look down,

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set their feet. They're looking basically at the ball. And

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00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:35.400
yet that'd be just the same amount as smart. So

460
00:23:35.400 --> 00:23:37.799
that would use to throw a dart at something. You're

461
00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:40.200
focusing on the number or the bullseye that you're going

462
00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:42.640
to try to put the dart into. You're not looking

463
00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:47.559
at your hand, and it literally blows me away that people.

464
00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:50.240
I mean, I'll the first thing I'll do is I'll

465
00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:54.119
not let people take a practice stroke. Get up closer

466
00:23:54.119 --> 00:23:56.039
to the ball, set their right foot if their right

467
00:23:56.039 --> 00:23:58.759
hand is set their right foot, put the putter on

468
00:23:58.799 --> 00:24:03.200
the ground. Now look at the hole. Now set your feet,

469
00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:06.799
which means bringing your left foot up online and look

470
00:24:06.799 --> 00:24:08.720
at the hole. Get self comfortable. And I ask them,

471
00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:10.519
and I'm holding onto their head, I said, you see

472
00:24:10.519 --> 00:24:13.000
your line, You see where the ball's going in yep, Okay,

473
00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:15.200
I won't let them come back. I said, go ahead

474
00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:17.599
and stroke it. You can't imagine how many times these

475
00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:21.119
people without even looking down at the ball, since they're

476
00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:23.640
looking out at the target, same thing they would be

477
00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:26.680
if they were throwing a dart. You cannot believe how

478
00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:30.000
fast these people improve. And that the other thing, like

479
00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:34.640
Hope missing that two footer to lose the masters. I mean,

480
00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:37.160
if he just set his right foot, put the club down, now,

481
00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:39.519
look at the hole and set his feet. There's no

482
00:24:39.720 --> 00:24:44.160
reason to ever think that this line's not right because

483
00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:47.039
you line yourself up with your eyes. But if you

484
00:24:47.079 --> 00:24:49.880
take practice strokes and come in, there is all types

485
00:24:49.880 --> 00:24:52.119
of things that you go flying through your mind and

486
00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:54.960
keep you unsettled instead of being settled in what you're

487
00:24:55.039 --> 00:24:55.640
trying to do.

488
00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:05.519
I have noticed that putting on the practice putting green

489
00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:10.400
is not the same routine and is generally more successful.

490
00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:15.400
Yes, yeah, well there's a reason. There's a reason why

491
00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:21.039
you're you're your is more successful. That's why you make

492
00:25:21.079 --> 00:25:23.319
the second butt you try after you miss the first one,

493
00:25:24.039 --> 00:25:27.200
because that's so much time this first one. You're with

494
00:25:27.319 --> 00:25:29.319
it and you pull the other ball up. You don't

495
00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:31.440
take nearly asmuns of the time, and you'll probably make

496
00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:35.880
it again. The two words two words we don't we

497
00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:38.839
do not want to use. The first is the word try.

498
00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:43.319
We want you to feel it. Second word we don't

499
00:25:43.319 --> 00:25:46.279
want to use is hit. I mean to me, if

500
00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:47.599
you tell me I'm going to try to hit this

501
00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:50.599
ball in the hole, that constant puts in my mind

502
00:25:50.640 --> 00:25:53.519
the thought of putting a nail against a wall and

503
00:25:53.720 --> 00:25:56.519
beating it with a hammer. Okay, I'm hitting that sucker

504
00:25:56.599 --> 00:25:59.599
right into the wall, whereas to me, putting would be

505
00:25:59.680 --> 00:26:04.720
like making a paint brush and making one stripe down

506
00:26:04.759 --> 00:26:08.119
the wall with a paintbrush. I want to feel. I

507
00:26:08.200 --> 00:26:11.039
want to feel the stroke. I don't want to hit it.

508
00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:14.799
I want to feel the role. So we substitute roll

509
00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:18.920
for hit, and we substitute feel for try, and it

510
00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:21.039
makes a huge psychological difference.

511
00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:25.359
Yeah. And I also noticed in one part of the

512
00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:30.079
book where you talked about how professionals hit through the

513
00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:32.880
ball where amateurs hit at the ball.

514
00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:36.880
Oh yeah, very definitely. I mean you want. I mean

515
00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:41.000
you'll practice and practice, and everybody's practice swing is really

516
00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:43.240
pretty good, especially if they're not a ball there, but

517
00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:44.720
you put a ball there and all of a sudden

518
00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:46.920
they focus on that ball. They might as well get

519
00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:49.400
them an ax at the top of the swing, Whereas

520
00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:51.839
in reality, you want to go through the ball, You

521
00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:54.319
want to go go to a draw finish, go to

522
00:26:54.359 --> 00:26:56.640
a fade finish. All of a sudden, the club went

523
00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:59.200
through where the ball was without you thinking about it,

524
00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:01.400
and as much more natural, and you'll get much more

525
00:27:01.559 --> 00:27:03.119
you get a lot more power doing them.

526
00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:06.519
So explain to me a little further what you mean

527
00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:09.359
by through the ball I'm picturing.

528
00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:13.039
I'm picturing that. Let's say it's the driver. I'm picturing

529
00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:16.079
about the first twelve to sixteen inches through the ball

530
00:27:16.279 --> 00:27:18.839
where that driver is gonna go. I mean, there's gonna

531
00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:21.200
be no reaction to the ball. I'm powering this driver

532
00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:24.279
right on through that area. In other words, it's not

533
00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:27.000
at it, it's not hit down, it's you know, obviously

534
00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:30.000
most people would realize the woods you're sweeping the ball

535
00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:32.480
off rather than hitting down like you would be within

536
00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:35.240
an iron. But both of them, the follow through is

537
00:27:35.319 --> 00:27:39.000
highly important. How how important is why can't a quarterback

538
00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:43.359
throw a football off his foot as good as one is?

539
00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:46.119
They say he steps into it, or what's the most

540
00:27:46.119 --> 00:27:48.920
important thing on the free throw? It's the follow through.

541
00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:51.839
It's not our preparation before and how we take it back,

542
00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:55.400
but it's how good. Our follow through is that makes

543
00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:57.680
the thing have the correct line. So the follow through

544
00:27:57.759 --> 00:27:59.960
is really really important in golf.

545
00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:04.000
M And you just use the word picture. And I

546
00:28:04.119 --> 00:28:09.160
noticed during the throughout the book that you know, I mean,

547
00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:13.720
you have a stellar resume, your your career has been

548
00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:18.240
fantastic on the tour and Ryder Cup champion and Ryder

549
00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:22.680
Cup Captain and Champions Tour, phenomenal, amazing, And I appreciate

550
00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.440
your time talking to me about this, but you kept

551
00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:32.079
talking about seeing and picture. You know what your swing is.

552
00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:35.119
It like one of one of the lines that I

553
00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:37.119
pulled from the book, it's not how you hit the shot,

554
00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:39.599
it's how you use your mind to picture them.

555
00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:45.960
Yes, yep, it's to me, it's the difference between somebody

556
00:28:46.039 --> 00:28:49.759
that hits one over in the trees and now you've

557
00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:52.440
got a tree in front of you, at a big tree,

558
00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:54.440
and so you're looking at the hall you're it's on

559
00:28:54.440 --> 00:28:56.880
the left or right side, wherever it might be. The

560
00:28:57.000 --> 00:29:00.680
tree tells you, Okay, I'm gonna go up over the

561
00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:02.559
right side, or I'm going to go under the left,

562
00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:04.759
or I'm gonna do this because of how the ball's

563
00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:06.799
gonna roll the fair away and you picture the shot

564
00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:09.920
and you hit it. Oh well, the same next day

565
00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:12.039
you make him the same hole and drive it thirty

566
00:29:12.119 --> 00:29:14.440
yards further dead down the middle. The pin could be

567
00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:16.680
right in the middle of the green and your miss

568
00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:19.720
is about to occur. Because you're so proud of this

569
00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:23.119
fantastic t shot you hit that you don't give the

570
00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:26.519
picturing element to what the ball, what you're going to

571
00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:28.759
do to this ball. You did it really good when

572
00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:30.880
you're behind the tree, and it forced you to do it.

573
00:29:31.319 --> 00:29:34.400
But are you smart enough in picturing the middle side

574
00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:37.920
of the game to be able to picture something when

575
00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:40.599
there's no obvious trouble the pins in the middle. It's

576
00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:43.920
the simple a shot. But in reality, you know, you

577
00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:46.160
gotta think, Okay, do I leave it short? If I

578
00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:48.319
don't make it, am I gonna leave it short or long?

579
00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:50.960
You know, I love to watch people practice on a range.

580
00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:52.680
So say we're in Texas and it's kind of a

581
00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:56.079
cloudy day and fluffy white clouds going through the sky.

582
00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:58.160
I mean, I'm trying to go over a cloud or

583
00:29:58.240 --> 00:29:59.960
keep it under another one. I'm trying to do it

584
00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:02.440
all these things picturing, because that then I've got it.

585
00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:04.279
Most people go out to the rains. All they're doing

586
00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:06.480
is hitting the ball, and as soon as the ball

587
00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:10.000
struck they're reaching for the next ball, and they don't

588
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:13.559
even watch the ball roll out, when in reality, when

589
00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:16.000
you practice, you should hit it and the ball goes

590
00:30:16.079 --> 00:30:18.039
up in the air, you should be holding your finish

591
00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:21.240
until the ball's coming it starts its downward flight. Then

592
00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:24.359
you can cut in your club halfway and then once

593
00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:26.799
the ball hits the ground and you can trol your

594
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:29.079
club and move on to the next shot. But you've

595
00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:33.960
had four or five seconds to pick up information about

596
00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:37.599
what that shot you just hit. Whereas most people, I mean,

597
00:30:38.839 --> 00:30:41.599
how many, well do you watch it as soon as

598
00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:43.680
they hit the ball and they don't like it, they're

599
00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:46.480
reaching for the next ball, and that they don't learn

600
00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:49.839
anything from the last one, and pretty soon here that's

601
00:30:50.640 --> 00:30:52.839
a lot when you you'll go in cycles like the

602
00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:55.160
ocean waves come in, you get it for a while

603
00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:57.920
and then it leaves you. That's why you know when

604
00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:00.480
you're out there practicing you do well in it. I

605
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:04.480
would move on to something else, but you know, there's

606
00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:06.480
a lot to be said for the routines people used

607
00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:07.599
to practice, that's for sure.

608
00:31:09.559 --> 00:31:12.319
But the routines that use for practice are not necessarily

609
00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:14.599
the routine routines that use when they're on the course.

610
00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.039
There are. They almost never are. They almost never are,

611
00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:20.799
because that's why my dad when he was taught me,

612
00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:22.839
I mean, I never got the put with more than

613
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:25.160
two balls in the long game. He used to have

614
00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:27.640
me hit five balls, little piles of five balls, let's

615
00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:30.240
say with the nine iron, and then that's the nine er,

616
00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:32.519
And he might be might have me hit a five iron,

617
00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:35.039
might have me hit a four wood, might me have

618
00:31:35.160 --> 00:31:37.960
me hit a wedge. But if he saw three shots

619
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:39.960
come out and they're all high draws, he would say,

620
00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:42.240
let's see it, let's see a low fade, or let's

621
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:45.960
see something else to make me do the imagery work

622
00:31:46.279 --> 00:31:48.240
to be able to picture the shot and feel it

623
00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:50.559
of the shot I was going to hit, rather than

624
00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:54.359
just one after another hitting the same shot. And we

625
00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:56.279
can get really good doing that on the range, but

626
00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:57.799
it ain't going to help you on the on the

627
00:31:57.799 --> 00:32:00.880
golf course because the range generally is dead at your

628
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:03.240
first shot. Now you got a ball three inches above

629
00:32:03.279 --> 00:32:06.000
your feet or below your feet, whatever it might be.

630
00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:08.680
And all that practice you warmed up, but all that

631
00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:10.559
practice didn't do you a whole heck of a lot

632
00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:12.359
of good because you weren't picturing stuff.

633
00:32:14.119 --> 00:32:17.640
And to you, that is the key is picturing what

634
00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:19.240
the shot is before you take it.

635
00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:23.359
Well before that, I mean you get out of your cart.

636
00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:27.279
Most people will go to the closest side of the

637
00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:29.519
tee to where the cart is because I know we're

638
00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:33.039
all in fantastic physical shape. Most kind of go to

639
00:32:33.079 --> 00:32:36.480
the short side instead of if the t is ten

640
00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:40.680
yards wide, the optics on the left side looking down

641
00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:43.960
the fairway are totally different than looking on the right

642
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:46.240
side of the tee. Every step you take the left

643
00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:49.480
makes your optic go to the right. So consequently, did

644
00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:51.480
the T cause call you to tee off on the

645
00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:55.519
right side or left side? For starters? Okay, and how

646
00:32:55.559 --> 00:32:57.039
do you want the ball? It's the ball going to

647
00:32:57.119 --> 00:32:59.079
come You want to picture the line you want the

648
00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:00.720
ball to end, but is going to come in with

649
00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:03.279
a fade or a draw, all these different things that

650
00:33:03.359 --> 00:33:05.599
come into it. And if you do it right and

651
00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:08.359
you learn to do it, it just happens naturally. But

652
00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:11.640
you almost never ever have a shot you're not comfortable

653
00:33:11.720 --> 00:33:15.359
with hitting. Instead of the normal person gets up there

654
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:17.759
and they see the shot and they go, oh, yeah, okay,

655
00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:19.759
I can carry it over that water. I can do this,

656
00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:22.200
I can do that, but they don't picture. I mean,

657
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:23.759
I had a guy last summer. They got up on

658
00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:26.279
a part three. There's a lake on the left. I'm

659
00:33:26.279 --> 00:33:27.880
going to say it's one hundred and eighty yards, and

660
00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:30.400
I knew right where this ball was going. He took

661
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:32.880
two or three really good practice swings, and everything got

662
00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:35.759
up made of just a terrible swing at it. It

663
00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:38.200
barely didn't get it, almost didn't get to the water.

664
00:33:38.359 --> 00:33:41.000
I mean he had a maybe fifty yards something like that.

665
00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:44.240
He said, they do me a favorite, hit me another ball,

666
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:46.440
and so he gets the ball tea that starts to

667
00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:48.079
take practice and he said, no, I don't want to

668
00:33:48.119 --> 00:33:50.480
practice swing. I said, I want you to stand behind

669
00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:52.759
the ball and I want you to look at that pin.

670
00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:54.279
That's where you're aiming. And then he said, yeah, I'm

671
00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:56.440
aiming at the pin. I said, how do you see

672
00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:58.480
it getting to that pin? He said, well, I'm an

673
00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:00.519
aim It just left. I said, how am I just left?

674
00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:02.319
He said, its full four or five feet. I said,

675
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:05.759
see that trap, that's about fifteen yards left of it.

676
00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:08.960
I want you to aim right in the center of

677
00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:12.159
that bunker. And because I'm picturing you're gonna fade it

678
00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:15.719
that much, he hits a shot. He hit it. I'm

679
00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:17.800
going in the air. I say, action, we've made a

680
00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:19.199
hole in one. He said, though, and I said, well

681
00:34:19.239 --> 00:34:21.599
you may have us now. He put it about two

682
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:22.760
and a half feet in the hole.

683
00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:31.039
I'm so glad you're finishing the story because in the

684
00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:33.679
book you just ask I saw it. It was like

685
00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:35.519
it stood out to me. I was screaming at the

686
00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:37.679
book where you say, have you ever seen a hole

687
00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:39.639
in one? He said no, and you and in the

688
00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:41.840
book you say you're about to and then you don't

689
00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:42.880
give the results.

690
00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:46.599
No, no, and he didn't exactly did I did that

691
00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:49.079
on purpose? I mean, it's funny. And that happened in Chicago.

692
00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:51.639
I had two inches in Chicago. One of my first

693
00:34:51.760 --> 00:34:54.440
years on tour, I was doing a corporate outing and

694
00:34:54.519 --> 00:34:55.920
I don't know why. I was on a little bitty

695
00:34:55.960 --> 00:34:58.000
par three to start the Dave. This guy gets up

696
00:34:58.000 --> 00:34:59.880
and it was all Carrie one hundred and twenty five

697
00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:03.320
arts and I watched him swing and he was okay

698
00:35:03.400 --> 00:35:06.960
but not great. Cold, you know, morning, and I said,

699
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:08.280
what are you hit and he said, I'm going to

700
00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:10.639
hit a nine air. I said, why don't you hit

701
00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:12.400
an eight? Depends right on the front of the green.

702
00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:15.360
I said, you got a little bit over one twenty

703
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:16.679
five to the hall. He said, no, I can get

704
00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:19.760
a nine there. I said, now watch you and he says, no,

705
00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:21.280
I know I hit a nine. I said, I'll tell

706
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:23.559
you what I'll do. I said, you take you hit

707
00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:25.039
an eight for me, and if you don't like it,

708
00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:27.199
then I'll let you hit the nine, get a free shot.

709
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.599
He hold it. He hold it with the eight there

710
00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:32.519
and I said, okay, now you want to try the

711
00:35:32.599 --> 00:35:34.079
nine for me and see if you can do? Is

712
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:39.920
this is good? He was so excited, you know, But

713
00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:44.639
that's again it's you know, people, I don't want to

714
00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:50.119
just blindly spendions billions of hours hitting balls without you know,

715
00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:52.559
jumping in. And that's why I was exciting to listen

716
00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:54.239
to you say you've had a lot of the psychological

717
00:35:54.599 --> 00:35:57.400
psychology type people out there that work on the middle

718
00:35:57.440 --> 00:36:01.000
side of this game, because I promise you and I'm

719
00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:04.760
dealing with a lot of pros and I'm talking about

720
00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:07.000
in the top fifty in the world on the Men's

721
00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:09.760
Tour in the top fifteen in the win on the

722
00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:13.480
LPG eight, and you end up working with them in

723
00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:16.679
their mental side. That's where they can make the biggest rides.

724
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:19.199
And if they can make the biggest strides there the

725
00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:22.800
average you know, it really jumps for the for the normal,

726
00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:24.719
you know, and a normal amateur doing that.

727
00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:28.960
I find it fascinating that so many of these young

728
00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:32.440
guns that are coming up. You know, the people on

729
00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:34.920
the tour seem to be younger and younger every year,

730
00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:41.079
but they hit the ball a ton, but they don't

731
00:36:41.119 --> 00:36:44.119
necessarily have the mental game or the mental capacity to

732
00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:47.639
play that quality of golf, do they?

733
00:36:48.719 --> 00:36:52.000
No, I mean it's different. Mcelroyal, come on here once

734
00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:53.880
in a while. I mean. Another girl I'm working with

735
00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:56.760
is is Lydia Coe, which I started with her last

736
00:36:56.760 --> 00:36:59.199
summer and I just laughed. She shows up here at

737
00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:04.280
Redlands and I congratulators. She had played twelve pro tournaments

738
00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:06.199
and she'd won three of them as a fifteen year

739
00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:09.320
old amateur. And I'm coming for a lesson. I'm going

740
00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:13.599
this out. I said, I'm not, but it certainly you're

741
00:37:13.639 --> 00:37:15.920
not going to take me very long. And she's just

742
00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:22.400
a delight. But you know, most of the people you get,

743
00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:24.480
you know, they're not wired that way. It just takes

744
00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:27.320
longer for them to be able to figure out. But

745
00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:30.559
I'm here to tell you that the caddies today are

746
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:33.159
in better shape than the players were when I played.

747
00:37:33.679 --> 00:37:38.159
I mean, I was working with McElroy last week down

748
00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:44.199
in West Palm Beach and we started nine o'clock and

749
00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:46.239
he got I had him bend down to line up

750
00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:48.400
this putt to go through his routine because I'm in

751
00:37:48.679 --> 00:37:50.840
at the other again, you cause you well can imagine

752
00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:54.000
now I'm not necessarily into watching what he you know,

753
00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:56.400
the mechanical aspect. I want to see his routine. Well,

754
00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:57.800
he goes to bend down. He had a hell of

755
00:37:57.840 --> 00:38:00.960
a time getting down. I said, what's the matter. He

756
00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:03.119
looked at me, he says, oh, he said, this is

757
00:38:03.159 --> 00:38:05.360
one of my training mornings. He said, I started five

758
00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:08.320
forty five, so he had had two and a half

759
00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:11.480
hours of lifting weights and doing all this stuff. And

760
00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:13.360
then so we worked for two hours and go and

761
00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:16.679
to eat lunch, and I don't know, it's like a

762
00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:23.199
chicken wrap and the cottage cheese and fresh fruit. I mean,

763
00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:26.360
you know, well I'm having a cheeseburger. You know, sees

764
00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:28.400
I wonder why this kid's in better shape than I am,

765
00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:32.119
you know, and they just I mean from the stretching

766
00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:37.320
to the I mean, it's it's amazing how they treat

767
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:39.960
their body. I mean, in my day I'm a coach,

768
00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:42.119
could I drink around a golf course. Now they're you know,

769
00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:45.559
they're you know, they they they they treated like it's

770
00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:48.280
a million dollar business, which is exactly what it is.

771
00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:50.280
I mean when I played, I mean, you made a

772
00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:53.760
lot of your money playing corporate outings. They're betting money

773
00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:56.639
on the side because the purses weren't that big, and

774
00:38:56.679 --> 00:38:59.679
these kids, it's well worth their time to invest in

775
00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:02.039
a turn and invest in all these other things. And

776
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:04.360
you know, I'm lucky enough with a lot of people

777
00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:06.360
who've invested in having a short game coach.

778
00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:11.199
Yes, yes, and apparently with a tremendous amount of success

779
00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:13.079
when they when they come to Stockton Golf.

780
00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:15.800
Well, it's been I tell you what for it's been

781
00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:18.639
a hoot. I mean, started it heasy, and I can't

782
00:39:18.679 --> 00:39:21.679
remember one thing after another, but I had rotator cuff

783
00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:26.639
surgery in September nine, which basically is that that ended

784
00:39:26.679 --> 00:39:28.880
my playing, although my swing is a heck a lot

785
00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:31.280
better because I can't raise my left shoulder up anymore.

786
00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:33.800
And within nine months I had the other shoulder done,

787
00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:36.239
so I had both shoulders done, and we you know,

788
00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:39.159
I wasn't gonna sit still, so you know, it started

789
00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:42.119
with Michelle Lee briefly and then went to Michelson, and

790
00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:44.599
then the phone never stopped ringing. I mean, I looked

791
00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:46.639
here on the wall where I'm sitting, I'm looking at

792
00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:50.480
the Grand Slam in four years, two by Michelson, two

793
00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:52.679
by McElroy, and I got all four of the flags

794
00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:56.679
from the four majors. Wow, and Ronnie and Junior and myself.

795
00:39:56.719 --> 00:39:59.960
We have one hundred and twenty wins and counting worldwide

796
00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:03.360
in four years. It's just, you know, it's it's mind

797
00:40:03.400 --> 00:40:07.039
boggling to me. You know how much success and how

798
00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:10.039
fast you can have it if you just give somebody

799
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:12.480
a mental picture. I mean, I could list the guys.

800
00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:17.079
Michelson won. We worked with him Thursday and Friday, and

801
00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:19.559
he won the Tour Championship the next week. Michelle Wee

802
00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:21.840
we worked with her Thursday and Friday two weeks prior

803
00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:24.719
to that, and she went to Solheim Cup. In Chicago,

804
00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:29.320
and she had an unbelievable time. Adam Scott, who Mickleson

805
00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:31.800
wanted me to help, thought he had the worst stroke

806
00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:35.280
in the world, won the very next week after David

807
00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:38.480
worked with him at the Players Championship using a short putter,

808
00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:42.159
by the way, and Justin Rose, I mean David Start

809
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:45.119
helped him at Colonial. All he did was win two

810
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:47.320
out of three and if he hadn't blown Hartford, he

811
00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:50.280
would have won three out of three. So it doesn't

812
00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:53.039
take that long. It's not and we're in the easy part,

813
00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:55.480
let's face it. I mean the short game. You're moving

814
00:40:55.519 --> 00:40:58.199
the putter maybe a foot, so there's not at least

815
00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:00.960
your hands are only going afoot. It's a very simple

816
00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:02.559
thing to do, and you can be helping quite a

817
00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:05.079
few people at one time because you're not getting immersed

818
00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:05.800
in the long game.

819
00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:08.639
But it's not that simple, or they wouldn't be coming

820
00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:11.000
to you and having such success. And these are people

821
00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:12.800
who are at the very peak of the game.

822
00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:16.400
Yeah, but they just had the wrong teacher to start with.

823
00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:19.199
I mean, my dad in the forties, I mean he

824
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:21.920
learned from Alex Morrison, who was a brilliant teacher in

825
00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:25.119
the thirties, and he taught Henry Piccard, who won the

826
00:41:25.159 --> 00:41:28.239
Masters in thirty eight, won the PGA in thirty nine.

827
00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:30.800
And I did not know who had taught my dad

828
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:33.719
until I was inducted into the California got all of fame,

829
00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:39.639
I don't know, five years ago or something. And you

830
00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:42.159
know the guy that I introduced was another tom self

831
00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:44.039
was going to introduce me. He was another one of theirs.

832
00:41:44.119 --> 00:41:46.760
Five guys my dad, taw All went on tour. I

833
00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:48.519
was the only one that made it, but all five

834
00:41:48.519 --> 00:41:53.480
of us went out. And he started talking about Alex Morrison. Well,

835
00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:56.800
when I'm writing the first book with Matt Rudy, you know,

836
00:41:57.239 --> 00:42:04.039
I'm subconscious cutting I. He started talking about Alex Morrison.

837
00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:06.079
He said, well, yeah, he wrote a book. Well, my

838
00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:08.280
dad never let me read GoF books, so I wouldn't

839
00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:09.840
know one than another. But he had a book in

840
00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:13.360
nineteen forty called Better Golf Without Practice, and it showed

841
00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:18.079
a guy sitting in an armchair thinking about what he

842
00:42:18.159 --> 00:42:20.400
wanted to do. He's sitting in a chair, no clubs

843
00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:23.920
in his hand, nothing, you know. And so Matt Rudi

844
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:26.760
gets me an original copy of this book. But seventy

845
00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:30.159
years prior to this us writing the Putting book in

846
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:33.039
seventy and I read the I look at the book.

847
00:42:33.079 --> 00:42:36.719
The long game is worth about two percent. That's how

848
00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:41.159
much has changed the short game. I'd say it's ninety

849
00:42:41.199 --> 00:42:44.199
five percent viable. It explains why I use loft on

850
00:42:44.239 --> 00:42:46.920
a putter, explains why I ford press, explains why my

851
00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:50.000
left hands my direction hand. It explains why I put

852
00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:52.119
the putter ahead of the ball when I addressed the ball.

853
00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:55.280
All these different things that I learned in the late forties.

854
00:42:56.039 --> 00:42:59.000
That you know, something I went sixty some years, never

855
00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:04.440
never had change, never had well nineteen forty. This book's

856
00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:07.880
out right. Tell me if there's something else that's been

857
00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:12.519
devised for the stroke in seventy years. I mean, the

858
00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:16.199
agronomy is better, okay, the grasses are much better, easier

859
00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:19.760
to put their smoother, no matter, you know, the clubs themselves,

860
00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:22.639
especially like the groove faces on the on the putters.

861
00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:27.440
Now you can just unbelievable, you know, bigger grips if

862
00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:29.800
you want it now, for softer feel with your hands,

863
00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:33.639
all these things. But there's never been and there never

864
00:43:33.880 --> 00:43:39.480
will be, a new stroke developed because it's too individualistic

865
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:44.800
and so for somebody for a teacher that says, Okay,

866
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:47.760
I'm gonna teach all my students to put this way.

867
00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:51.800
I'm just gonna. I'm laughing. I mean, I was at

868
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:57.559
the match play this year and I had Castagno from Spain.

869
00:43:57.840 --> 00:44:02.239
Gonzo he petted with the claw. I had Molinari, who's

870
00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:07.719
putting conventional. I had Stephen Gallagher who came and he

871
00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:10.559
just beaten McElroy a couple of months agoing to buy.

872
00:44:11.400 --> 00:44:15.800
He was putting left hand low. And I had Kevin Stadler,

873
00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:19.280
who was using the long putter. I got five putters,

874
00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:24.719
I got five different types of strokes and everyone I'm successful.

875
00:44:26.519 --> 00:44:30.079
So to me, that says, and that's why we're successful

876
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:34.159
is that we fit the people with what feels comfortable.

877
00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:37.079
Inn I mean, I'm watching Gallagher. He shot sixty two

878
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:39.079
when he won and beat Macawy and third ground and

879
00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:42.960
she sixty two made everything, made ten birdies, and I'm

880
00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:45.599
watching him. He's cross handed, and I'm going I know

881
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:47.639
he wasn't cross handed here, So I go back in

882
00:44:47.719 --> 00:44:49.599
my phone and I pick it up and no, here

883
00:44:49.599 --> 00:44:55.880
he is putting conventional. So he came over U la open.

884
00:44:56.599 --> 00:44:58.639
I guess it was la and no, it was at

885
00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:01.440
Phoenix and so I'm there and I said to him,

886
00:45:01.480 --> 00:45:04.440
I said, what are you doing? He said, it's unbelievable

887
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:06.559
because you explained the left hand led, and I just

888
00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:08.639
I had much better feel of it with the left

889
00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:11.800
hand being low. And I'm going, how cool was that?

890
00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:14.880
I mean, that was really good. And well, you know

891
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:18.199
If and Fred, they're all different. I mean, one of

892
00:45:18.199 --> 00:45:20.320
the biggest things. Usually I get the one eighty to

893
00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:24.400
two hundred putters, you know, in the ranking. A few

894
00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:27.360
years ago now, Matt Coocher came and he asked the

895
00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:29.679
three of us. We were doing an exhibition down at

896
00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:32.079
the Vintage, and he asked me if I'd look at

897
00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:33.920
his game or we would look at his game, and

898
00:45:33.960 --> 00:45:36.800
we said sure. I said, I don't understand why you

899
00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:38.480
need to help you. All you did last year was

900
00:45:38.519 --> 00:45:40.559
you were leading money and you won the Barclays and

901
00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:42.760
you were fifth and putting, so there can't be that

902
00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:45.199
much wrong except he putted left hand low, and I

903
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:48.320
know he flipped his hand, and so I asked him,

904
00:45:48.360 --> 00:45:49.320
I said, what's your direction?

905
00:45:49.400 --> 00:45:49.559
Hand?

906
00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:52.239
He says left. I said, make me a one handed stroke. Well,

907
00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:56.440
the left hand never broke down and so I said, okay,

908
00:45:56.440 --> 00:45:58.960
now this is what you do. You're telling me your

909
00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:01.159
left hands your direction hand, but you're flipping it. You're

910
00:46:01.199 --> 00:46:03.239
just letting your right hand just flip this thing up.

911
00:46:03.639 --> 00:46:06.960
I said, I don't understand that. Well, five days later

912
00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:10.320
I samitely open. Now his putter's got three more degrees

913
00:46:10.360 --> 00:46:12.800
a lot, and the putter is probably six inches longer.

914
00:46:13.079 --> 00:46:15.679
And if stuff is left arm. By the next week,

915
00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:19.119
the putter came out behind his left arm, you know,

916
00:46:19.159 --> 00:46:21.679
and he's gone from two degrees a lot to eight

917
00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:23.960
degrees because he's ford pressed his hand and in the

918
00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:27.559
present styl of he uses now in what I'm trying

919
00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:31.559
to reiterate is again, it's not my method, it's what

920
00:46:31.719 --> 00:46:36.920
method makes you feel comfortable. And basically the parameters again

921
00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:40.119
are we We don't care. They They asked me if

922
00:46:40.119 --> 00:46:42.480
I think along putter or something should be banned and

923
00:46:42.519 --> 00:46:44.840
all this stuff. He said, I don't care, you know,

924
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:49.159
in my own opinion, because basically, I want you to visualize.

925
00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:51.119
No matter what your method is going to be, you

926
00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:52.480
got to be able to see what you're doing. But

927
00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:55.599
most people that do the mechanical method don't have a

928
00:46:56.239 --> 00:46:57.920
metal method. That's worth of darn.

929
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:06.280
So what do you think of the long putters.

930
00:47:08.039 --> 00:47:10.119
I'll be glad. I'll be glad when they ban it,

931
00:47:11.320 --> 00:47:16.000
only because when I grew up, you know, Tiddley Winks

932
00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:19.199
is probably more popular than golf. And we truly have

933
00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:25.119
athletes now. Dustin Johnson McElroy is just a phenomenal physical specimen.

934
00:47:25.400 --> 00:47:28.239
This Nicholas Cole Stark's another guy who worked with in Belgium,

935
00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:33.320
is just unbelievable. They're athletes, and I just don't think

936
00:47:33.679 --> 00:47:37.800
you should have an arm anchored to your body as

937
00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:39.239
long as they want. I don't care if they use

938
00:47:39.239 --> 00:47:42.920
a putter ten feet long, provided is not anchored to

939
00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:47.119
a body part that's not moving. I can see where Coocher.

940
00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:49.000
Probably a lot of people are gonna do like Coucher does,

941
00:47:49.000 --> 00:47:52.639
because's on your arm, it's susceptible to you know, making mistakes.

942
00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:56.079
But I personally just don't like the looks of the

943
00:47:56.119 --> 00:47:58.599
one on the chest. I mean, I'm you gotta understand

944
00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:00.519
where I came from. I came out of the when

945
00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:03.280
they made a ruling for one person person. That's one

946
00:48:03.280 --> 00:48:07.000
of the most tournaments temporarily on our tour. Sam Snead,

947
00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:11.599
you know they outlawed his croquette because they look goofy. Well,

948
00:48:13.079 --> 00:48:15.559
I mean that they got under that saying you can't

949
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:18.320
step across your line when your putts. And now, you know,

950
00:48:18.519 --> 00:48:21.320
I think sites that will may come back. I would think,

951
00:48:21.559 --> 00:48:23.559
I don't know, I mean, people are going to figure

952
00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:25.360
out a way to do it. I just don't think

953
00:48:25.400 --> 00:48:26.199
it would be anchored.

954
00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:29.840
And what about the equipment today. I mean, obviously, if

955
00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:32.400
you grew up with Tiddley wings being more popular than golf,

956
00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:36.960
the golf clubs were very different. Technology was not what

957
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:44.880
it is today. Has has all this technology change helped

958
00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:46.440
the average golfer?

959
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:47.679
Oh?

960
00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:48.719
Let alone the game?

961
00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:51.719
Well, let's say, I mean we start out, I always

962
00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:55.119
use foot Joys shoes. Okay, now I'm with Nike my

963
00:48:55.199 --> 00:48:57.239
foot Joys shoes, the leather shoes. I used to wear

964
00:48:57.280 --> 00:48:59.440
a weight about two and a half pounds between the

965
00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:02.280
two shoes. My Nike with the two shoes. Now that

966
00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:06.920
I'd play in their less than eight ounces, yeah, I mean, yeah,

967
00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:10.320
just I mean it's mind boggling what it is. And

968
00:49:10.920 --> 00:49:14.920
the equipment, I mean each part. You know, Carson had

969
00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:18.440
the first you know, the things which they had to

970
00:49:18.480 --> 00:49:22.159
be great clubs because they looked so bad, yet they

971
00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:25.039
felt so good to everybody. I mean, Carson was way

972
00:49:25.079 --> 00:49:27.599
ahead of the game. So now they have, you know,

973
00:49:27.639 --> 00:49:29.840
the composite heads. I mean, I was the third one,

974
00:49:29.880 --> 00:49:32.800
I think, to start using metal woods when Taylor made

975
00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:35.119
started with him, and I thought, well, I'm gonna use

976
00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:36.800
them to they ban them, because I know they're gonna

977
00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:39.159
ban them because somebody's gonna get killed. I mean, you're

978
00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:41.840
never gonna You're never gonna see an aluminum baseball bat

979
00:49:41.840 --> 00:49:44.639
in the big leagues, I'll promise you or else the pitcher,

980
00:49:44.679 --> 00:49:47.199
they're gonna be pictured behind cages because the ball comes

981
00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:50.800
off it's so fast. And I think this has tremendously

982
00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:53.679
helped the average person because in the old days, I

983
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:55.679
mean we'd play the clubs, I mean, did pick up

984
00:49:55.719 --> 00:49:57.840
weight if it was if it was raining, you literally

985
00:49:57.880 --> 00:50:01.320
your club would get heavier. I mean it's you know,

986
00:50:01.639 --> 00:50:04.280
it's not the same, but it's it. You know, we've

987
00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:07.039
gained from you know, the technology to put people on

988
00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:09.400
the moon, and they now have you know, they know

989
00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:11.960
whether the bigger heads are better. They know they're finding

990
00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:14.719
Now the loft makes sense because you're you can tell

991
00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:17.400
from the track man that you're watching, you know how

992
00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:19.920
much spin you're putting on the ball relative to your

993
00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:23.119
flight pattern. I mean there's so much stuff. I mean,

994
00:50:23.159 --> 00:50:25.760
it's in I think that's one reason why for the

995
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:29.000
average game. I just gave a women's clinic today for

996
00:50:29.079 --> 00:50:32.360
the ladies here, and I just grabbed their different wedges,

997
00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:35.599
and it's amazing to me. I think putter is highly important.

998
00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:39.199
I think the sand wedges are important, and I think

999
00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:43.800
drivers are very important as you especially clubs, And I

1000
00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:46.320
mean I'm grabbing these ladies wedges. Some are some of

1001
00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:50.280
them are very very light. Almost everybody in the grip

1002
00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:54.639
was either old and slick or you know, just didn't

1003
00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:57.559
feel right. And here's these ladies, some of them in

1004
00:50:57.639 --> 00:51:01.599
their sixties, a couple in their and I can hand

1005
00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:03.800
them my wedge. It's obviously too heavy for them, but

1006
00:51:03.840 --> 00:51:06.519
they can get out with my wedge better than theirs.

1007
00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:09.480
So there's there's for the people out there, and that's

1008
00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:12.159
why we need to have good professionals and have you

1009
00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:15.199
have it. Hopefully wherever you're at, have an opportunity to

1010
00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:18.559
get to a fitting center that the people understand and

1011
00:51:18.599 --> 00:51:20.840
aren't just trying to sell you clubs, but literally fit

1012
00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:23.079
something that and I don't want to get off the

1013
00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:26.320
first tea or on the first hold. I wanted something

1014
00:51:26.360 --> 00:51:29.400
to work on about fourteen or fifteen. When you get tired,

1015
00:51:29.480 --> 00:51:31.119
I want the club to still work for you.

1016
00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:35.440
Yeah, it's another thing that I try to advocate as

1017
00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:39.159
much as you know from what I've learned that buying

1018
00:51:39.199 --> 00:51:42.400
clubs off the rack is not to your advantage just

1019
00:51:42.440 --> 00:51:45.760
because your friend hits it well. But getting fitted, especially

1020
00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:48.400
with this technology today, getting fitted is the right way

1021
00:51:48.440 --> 00:51:48.679
to go.

1022
00:51:49.960 --> 00:51:53.599
Yes, yeah, there's there's there's no question, and I do

1023
00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:57.440
not try to even think I'm an expert when it

1024
00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:01.960
comes to the club fitting. I am with putter. I mean,

1025
00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:05.239
I'm I'm here to tell you I've you know, I

1026
00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:07.119
was with Tailor Made for a long time and now

1027
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:09.840
I've been with Nike for just almost a year now,

1028
00:52:10.519 --> 00:52:14.840
and I am really large into putting loft on a

1029
00:52:14.880 --> 00:52:18.519
putter because it lets you ford press your hands. And

1030
00:52:19.320 --> 00:52:22.719
I've had some of the most unbelievable statistics when somebody

1031
00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:27.119
measures how soon my ball stops bouncing and skidding, generally

1032
00:52:27.159 --> 00:52:30.519
it's with under an inch. My ball has got it's rolling,

1033
00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:33.480
It's already rolling because of the loft and being able

1034
00:52:33.480 --> 00:52:36.639
to ford press my hands, and yet I'm in the minority.

1035
00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:39.480
Most putters are made with two degrees one to two

1036
00:52:39.559 --> 00:52:42.480
degrees aloft. And they tell you, well, if you know,

1037
00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:44.719
if you you know, if you get more off that

1038
00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:46.599
you're gonna chip it. Well, not if you put your

1039
00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:49.559
hands ahead. And any of your listeners can go out

1040
00:52:49.559 --> 00:52:53.039
there and they can put there, they can put again

1041
00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:55.400
the stripe on the wall with a paint brush. What

1042
00:52:55.559 --> 00:52:57.519
do you want leading coming down the wall? Do you

1043
00:52:57.519 --> 00:52:59.880
want the brush leading or do you want the butter

1044
00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:02.480
and the handle of the handle of the brush leading?

1045
00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:05.639
You want to handle the brush because that way you control,

1046
00:53:06.199 --> 00:53:08.599
you control the field as you come down the wall.

1047
00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:12.159
And that's why you want your hands ahead. And if

1048
00:53:12.199 --> 00:53:14.280
you don't have loft time I played against Lee Elder

1049
00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:17.400
for years and he had negative loft, so he set

1050
00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:21.960
his hands back, very similar to what Zach Johnson does.

1051
00:53:23.119 --> 00:53:25.880
And again Zach Johnson will be a poster cow for

1052
00:53:26.360 --> 00:53:29.119
there's no right way to do this. You gotta fit

1053
00:53:29.239 --> 00:53:31.760
your eyes, you gotta you know, the speed you play's

1054
00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:35.559
got to fit you. Your clubs have to fit you. Uh,

1055
00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:38.760
And everybody's different, Yes we.

1056
00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:43.840
Are and that's why everybody's looking for an answer and

1057
00:53:43.880 --> 00:53:47.440
there isn't an answer. Clearly, that's what you're saying. No,

1058
00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:56.000
it's what makes you comfortable, exactly. It's it's about confidence, Yeah, exactly. Confidence.

1059
00:53:58.679 --> 00:54:02.920
So interesting. So I'm curious about something you were talking about.

1060
00:54:02.960 --> 00:54:08.000
Your dad was a teaching professional and you grew up

1061
00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:13.559
in that environment. Your two sons are teaching professionals, and

1062
00:54:13.599 --> 00:54:15.880
you right in the middle here you were the tour professional.

1063
00:54:17.079 --> 00:54:20.400
Is it was it harder for you growing up with

1064
00:54:20.440 --> 00:54:22.960
a teaching professional dad, or was it harder for your

1065
00:54:23.039 --> 00:54:26.159
children growing up growing up with a touring dad, tour

1066
00:54:26.280 --> 00:54:30.800
professional dad? And when I say harder, I'm saying growing

1067
00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:32.440
up in the Gulf world.

1068
00:54:33.800 --> 00:54:37.559
Well, I mean, first of all, my dad when he

1069
00:54:37.639 --> 00:54:40.639
came up, there was no tour. In fact, my right

1070
00:54:40.639 --> 00:54:43.000
here on the wall, my most favorite pictures my dad

1071
00:54:43.119 --> 00:54:46.679
standing with Walter Hagen. When Dad had an exhibition with

1072
00:54:46.719 --> 00:54:51.880
Walter Hagen in nineteen thirty seven. We are the first

1073
00:54:51.880 --> 00:54:55.840
all Americans of Southern cal in the same sport. We

1074
00:54:55.960 --> 00:54:59.760
both won the pack ten individual titles. But there are

1075
00:55:00.039 --> 00:55:02.159
I have changed. I mean World War Two, my dad

1076
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:04.920
ran a bomb plan and when he got through in

1077
00:55:05.039 --> 00:55:09.440
nineteen forty four, he went into the sporting his business.

1078
00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:12.719
He still kept his PGA card and he would still

1079
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:16.440
teach the kids around and you know all that the

1080
00:55:16.480 --> 00:55:18.360
five of us I said went out on tour. He

1081
00:55:18.440 --> 00:55:21.639
taught all that, but he's basically working in the sporting store.

1082
00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:28.280
My life was such that, you know, I wasn't kidding

1083
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:31.119
about the Tidley Winks, but I mean I played basketball

1084
00:55:31.159 --> 00:55:33.320
and baseball till I broke my back when I was

1085
00:55:33.320 --> 00:55:36.719
fifteen and I became a I couldn't do the other sports.

1086
00:55:36.760 --> 00:55:38.440
So the only way I was going to be able

1087
00:55:38.519 --> 00:55:40.559
for to go to college to get a golf scholarship. Well,

1088
00:55:40.639 --> 00:55:42.599
Dad would let me you know, when work, I started

1089
00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:46.239
working on my game, saying, working on my game. The

1090
00:55:46.280 --> 00:55:48.639
most tournaments I ever played in a summer as a

1091
00:55:48.719 --> 00:55:52.639
junior was three, and that was seventeen. I was trying

1092
00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:55.400
to get my scholarship to go to Southern cal And

1093
00:55:55.480 --> 00:55:57.719
I played in the National Junior and I played in

1094
00:55:57.719 --> 00:56:02.920
the Hurst Championship and the Arrowhead which is my hometown tournament.

1095
00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:05.039
And it was the only three tournaments I got to play,

1096
00:56:05.880 --> 00:56:08.320
and they wanted me. I went to USC as a

1097
00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:10.159
pre law major. I was going to be a lawyer

1098
00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:14.079
because my grandfather, who lived in Tucson, was a mining attorney,

1099
00:56:14.119 --> 00:56:16.039
and that's what my parents wanted me to be. They

1100
00:56:16.079 --> 00:56:20.519
had no desire to push me toward golf, and a

1101
00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:22.440
year at SC convinced me that I was going to

1102
00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:25.199
be hard pressed the last four years, let alone seven,

1103
00:56:25.519 --> 00:56:28.880
And in the end, I wanted to try this, you know,

1104
00:56:29.239 --> 00:56:31.440
this type of lifestyle and see if I was good

1105
00:56:31.480 --> 00:56:35.079
at it. When you get to the kids. Junior played

1106
00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:38.599
on tour almost ten years, and I think he would

1107
00:56:38.599 --> 00:56:41.880
have made it. He was close. I mean two different

1108
00:56:41.920 --> 00:56:44.679
times we both led tournaments. I was leading the Tournament

1109
00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:47.360
Players Championship on the Champions Tour when he was leading

1110
00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:50.679
Hartford and he finished second third. Norman beat him the

1111
00:56:50.719 --> 00:56:53.840
one year. But Ronnie had always had a bad back

1112
00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:56.199
and never really played, and so consequently Ronnie's been teaching

1113
00:56:56.239 --> 00:57:00.800
over twenty years. But David played to ten years. And

1114
00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:02.599
it was real estate a few years ago. And then

1115
00:57:02.639 --> 00:57:05.239
when I went into this rotator cuff surgery and O nine,

1116
00:57:06.280 --> 00:57:07.960
Junior is looking around for what to do, and he'd

1117
00:57:07.960 --> 00:57:10.320
getting ready to go back to tour school, and I thought,

1118
00:57:10.360 --> 00:57:13.400
I thought Kathy, his mother was going to kill him,

1119
00:57:14.119 --> 00:57:16.719
and he started the teaching and David has always been

1120
00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:19.880
good with people, and so it's come full circle, but

1121
00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:24.280
from a whole different perspective. I mean, David's first child, Serena,

1122
00:57:24.599 --> 00:57:30.039
was a twin and complicated pregnancy. She was premature, born

1123
00:57:30.239 --> 00:57:33.199
just over two pounds ten ounces, and right now she's

1124
00:57:33.199 --> 00:57:37.440
a volleyball star at almost sixteen. So it nailed him

1125
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:40.400
from being out on tour. And that's one thing about boy.

1126
00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:42.559
Kathy and I were lucky, is that we traveled the

1127
00:57:42.679 --> 00:57:44.760
entire time together. The kids had always come out during

1128
00:57:44.760 --> 00:57:47.519
the summertime. I would have said it was easier for

1129
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:50.840
them to make it with me being a pro because he,

1130
00:57:50.960 --> 00:57:53.519
you know, while Junior is when he's playing the Mini Tour,

1131
00:57:53.599 --> 00:57:56.559
the Nike Tour, he was ready to come home. I said, no,

1132
00:57:56.599 --> 00:57:58.119
he's back East, and I said, I tell you what,

1133
00:57:58.199 --> 00:57:59.679
I'm gonna call you back. And what I did. I've

1134
00:57:59.719 --> 00:58:02.920
never got anybody else sins on AUGUSTA, but I got

1135
00:58:03.000 --> 00:58:05.800
Junior on. Junior played thirty six holes on August and

1136
00:58:05.840 --> 00:58:07.000
he won the very next week.

1137
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:08.320
Wow.

1138
00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:10.960
So it's just it's it's the mental stuff that you

1139
00:58:11.039 --> 00:58:17.119
get into. I mean, it's I mean I'll tell you

1140
00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:17.760
a quick story.

1141
00:58:18.639 --> 00:58:19.280
Tell me stories.

1142
00:58:19.360 --> 00:58:22.760
I don't have many quick stories. But Byron Nelson and

1143
00:58:22.760 --> 00:58:26.599
I are having lunch together and he literally told me

1144
00:58:26.800 --> 00:58:28.639
that in forty five, I asked him about when he

1145
00:58:28.679 --> 00:58:30.960
won eleven in a row, which is an unbelievable feet

1146
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:33.599
and he actually won eighteen out of thirty five events entered,

1147
00:58:33.880 --> 00:58:36.039
so he won more than half the time. And I

1148
00:58:36.079 --> 00:58:37.480
asked him what he was thinking about. He got a

1149
00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:40.159
big smile, he said, said, basically, I found something before

1150
00:58:40.159 --> 00:58:43.760
I went to the West Coast swing that felt comfortable

1151
00:58:43.800 --> 00:58:46.159
to me, and that was the swing thought I used

1152
00:58:46.199 --> 00:58:50.039
for the entire year, the only swing thought. Well, I'm

1153
00:58:50.119 --> 00:58:54.159
here to tell you your listeners out there, most people

1154
00:58:54.280 --> 00:58:56.599
have they can't even remember the swing thoughts they had

1155
00:58:56.599 --> 00:58:57.400
the previous month.

1156
00:58:58.000 --> 00:58:59.400
You know who had the previous hole.

1157
00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:04.480
Yeah, yeah, So because tips generally don't last very long,

1158
00:59:04.559 --> 00:59:06.639
they have a very short shelf life.

1159
00:59:12.840 --> 00:59:15.920
Are you surprised that that Ronnie went into golf instruction

1160
00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:18.679
as well, since he had struggling with his back and

1161
00:59:18.800 --> 00:59:22.320
couldn't play. Are you surprised that both of you boys

1162
00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:22.599
did this?

1163
00:59:23.760 --> 00:59:27.440
Well? Not well? First of all, if I hadn't been

1164
00:59:27.440 --> 00:59:32.000
a pro goffer, Ronnie would have been something else. I

1165
00:59:32.039 --> 00:59:35.159
don't know. I mean, he basically got his pilot's license.

1166
00:59:35.719 --> 00:59:38.199
The reason he's good in teaching is that he was

1167
00:59:38.239 --> 00:59:41.599
a psychology major at the University of Redlands here, but

1168
00:59:41.639 --> 00:59:44.079
his was a different course and he went to see

1169
00:59:44.079 --> 00:59:47.960
he got mug sophomore year going back to Trinity Row

1170
00:59:48.039 --> 00:59:49.960
and he came out transfer to the u of R

1171
00:59:50.519 --> 00:59:53.000
and he actually had Division III, ended up leading the

1172
00:59:53.079 --> 00:59:56.440
nation and scoring two time All American here, And I mean,

1173
00:59:56.559 --> 00:59:58.800
just to it fit his you know, he could live

1174
00:59:58.840 --> 01:00:02.280
at home and we worked out really good. But Ronnie

1175
01:00:02.639 --> 01:00:09.159
can fix anything. I mean, he guy dives. Uh, he's

1176
01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:11.239
you know, like I say, he's got pilot's license and

1177
01:00:11.280 --> 01:00:13.840
all this stuff. So yeah, I am surprised he did

1178
01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:17.400
that because just because he could do anything, really and

1179
01:00:18.039 --> 01:00:20.360
just because golf was easy. The only hard part for

1180
01:00:20.480 --> 01:00:25.000
Ronnie is that Ronnie is left handed. And I explained

1181
01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:27.039
to Ronnie when I opened the closet door and showed

1182
01:00:27.079 --> 01:00:29.800
him the five thousand clubs sitting in the closet, none

1183
01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:32.000
of which were left handed, that if he was going

1184
01:00:32.079 --> 01:00:34.880
to play, he was gonna have to use to learn

1185
01:00:34.920 --> 01:00:39.360
to use these. So he's completely amidexterous, And you know,

1186
01:00:39.840 --> 01:00:42.880
I just I did not suspect that he would end

1187
01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:45.239
up being the golfer because I knew he was going

1188
01:00:45.320 --> 01:00:48.199
to find something else because everything he touches turns the gold.

1189
01:00:48.199 --> 01:00:49.480
He's good at almost anything.

1190
01:00:51.159 --> 01:00:57.159
Spoken like a proud papa. Yep, and I understand it completely.

1191
01:00:57.760 --> 01:01:03.440
Now you're listed is sixteenth on the America's list of

1192
01:01:04.280 --> 01:01:08.360
top instructors. You're a competitive person. Does that frustrate you

1193
01:01:08.360 --> 01:01:09.800
who are like, no, I want to be fifteen, I

1194
01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:11.800
want to get up to ten. I want to I

1195
01:01:11.800 --> 01:01:13.920
want to get into single digits or.

1196
01:01:13.880 --> 01:01:16.480
Do you I think I think I'm pushing my luck

1197
01:01:16.519 --> 01:01:20.760
because I'm a short game instructor that you know most

1198
01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:25.199
of those people, you know, this is how they make

1199
01:01:25.239 --> 01:01:26.920
a living. I mean, yeah, I guess I'm making a

1200
01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:30.119
very good living doing what I'm doing. But it's not

1201
01:01:30.360 --> 01:01:33.360
I'm not trying to build my name up or anything.

1202
01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:38.239
I last year, I think I was thirteenth two years ago.

1203
01:01:38.320 --> 01:01:41.679
Whatever it was, it was the largest largest first time

1204
01:01:41.880 --> 01:01:45.039
jump onto a survey that they've ever had of somebody

1205
01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:48.320
that had never been ranked before. So no, I'm very

1206
01:01:48.320 --> 01:01:50.840
proud that it's there. I'm glad you know, I'm like,

1207
01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:53.840
I'm number one in California and only because Jim Flick

1208
01:01:53.880 --> 01:01:58.679
passed away unfortunately. But you know that's I think that's more.

1209
01:01:58.760 --> 01:02:01.119
That's kind of incredible, just you know, being a short

1210
01:02:01.159 --> 01:02:06.880
game known as a short game instructor. I'm very prideful

1211
01:02:06.880 --> 01:02:09.039
of that. I mean, I think that's phenomenal. I have

1212
01:02:09.280 --> 01:02:11.599
no I'm not setting my goal, you know, Okay, I'm

1213
01:02:11.599 --> 01:02:13.280
gonna try to get in the top ten next year.

1214
01:02:13.840 --> 01:02:16.800
I can't change anything I'm doing. I couldn't handle more people.

1215
01:02:17.239 --> 01:02:19.280
I mean, I had a week here a month ago

1216
01:02:19.320 --> 01:02:24.239
where I had nyon Joy, I had Gallagher from Scotland.

1217
01:02:24.280 --> 01:02:29.559
I had Francesco Molinari from Italy. I had Cole Starts

1218
01:02:29.599 --> 01:02:33.519
in Belgium. I had Johnny Vegas from Venzuela. I told

1219
01:02:33.599 --> 01:02:36.679
my wife Cathy, I said, how cool the five days

1220
01:02:36.719 --> 01:02:40.519
has this been. I mean, let's face it. I mean

1221
01:02:40.559 --> 01:02:42.679
it keeps me young. I mean two weeks from now,

1222
01:02:42.679 --> 01:02:45.079
I'll be down in Augusta and I'll be walking in

1223
01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:47.360
out of the clubhouse, talking with guys and everything and

1224
01:02:47.400 --> 01:02:50.639
feeling not anywhere, feeling nearly as old as a seventy

1225
01:02:50.639 --> 01:02:54.159
two year old than I am and feeling relevant because

1226
01:02:54.159 --> 01:02:56.599
I know that I can pass on stuff that's going

1227
01:02:56.679 --> 01:02:57.320
to help them.

1228
01:02:57.760 --> 01:03:02.000
Oh that's fabulous. Feeling relevant is what a great way

1229
01:03:02.039 --> 01:03:04.960
to put it. That's that will make you want to

1230
01:03:04.960 --> 01:03:05.840
wake up in the morning.

1231
01:03:07.440 --> 01:03:10.760
Yeah, it's good. No, it it's great. And you never

1232
01:03:10.800 --> 01:03:12.760
know what's coming. And since I don't teach the same

1233
01:03:12.800 --> 01:03:16.400
thing to everybody, I mean, every everything is like it.

1234
01:03:16.400 --> 01:03:19.119
It's like an open book and I'm still learning. It's

1235
01:03:19.199 --> 01:03:20.119
it's neat.

1236
01:03:20.199 --> 01:03:22.199
And clearly very passionate about what you're doing.

1237
01:03:23.800 --> 01:03:25.800
Yeah, there's a need for what we're doing. I think

1238
01:03:25.840 --> 01:03:28.599
we've opened up a lot of eyes and I you know,

1239
01:03:28.679 --> 01:03:31.119
and the success is there. I mean, nobody can argue

1240
01:03:31.119 --> 01:03:33.400
with what we've had, you know. And the best thing

1241
01:03:33.440 --> 01:03:35.480
I like about it is we don't have an approach

1242
01:03:36.239 --> 01:03:38.480
other than the fact it's a lot more metal than

1243
01:03:38.480 --> 01:03:40.599
most people realize. Hence this last book.

1244
01:03:41.159 --> 01:03:43.679
Well, and the book is called Own Your Game, How

1245
01:03:43.719 --> 01:03:47.159
to Use your Mind to play Winning Golf, And it's

1246
01:03:47.199 --> 01:03:49.760
going to be listed in in our golfers Mart on

1247
01:03:49.800 --> 01:03:51.639
our website. And as a matter of fact, I'll put

1248
01:03:51.679 --> 01:03:54.639
all three of your books available in our in our

1249
01:03:54.679 --> 01:03:57.719
store on our website at Golfsmarter dot com. The books

1250
01:03:57.719 --> 01:04:02.519
are Unconscious Putting and Unconscious along with Own Your Game,

1251
01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:05.679
the brand new one which I just loved. Why do

1252
01:04:05.679 --> 01:04:08.400
you call them unconscious putting and unconscious scoring?

1253
01:04:09.719 --> 01:04:11.639
Well, I think it's just again, we don't want you

1254
01:04:11.679 --> 01:04:15.360
to try. I mean, you you do your signature and

1255
01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:21.039
you don't think about anything, and it's beautiful, pretty close

1256
01:04:21.079 --> 01:04:23.480
to the same every time. But now you try to

1257
01:04:23.519 --> 01:04:26.280
do it, and I promise you it's gonna feel terrible,

1258
01:04:26.320 --> 01:04:30.400
it's gonna look terrible, and you're not gonna enjoy the process.

1259
01:04:31.079 --> 01:04:34.800
So it's that's the whole purpose. I mean, we want

1260
01:04:34.840 --> 01:04:37.239
you just let it go. There's a whole I mean,

1261
01:04:37.280 --> 01:04:40.119
how many things do you think about when you're throwing

1262
01:04:40.119 --> 01:04:43.599
a dart at a bullseye? I mean you're thinking about

1263
01:04:43.599 --> 01:04:45.639
where your weight is, or you're thinking about where your

1264
01:04:45.679 --> 01:04:48.480
eyes are looking. Are you thinking about your left shoulder

1265
01:04:48.480 --> 01:04:50.440
going up or down or whatever? I mean, you're not

1266
01:04:50.599 --> 01:04:51.159
thinking of that.

1267
01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:55.400
But what about shooting a free throw? Yeah, well, I'm

1268
01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:58.000
sure that there's things that you're gonna be thinking about.

1269
01:04:59.239 --> 01:05:01.760
Well, they're better concentrated on the front of the rim

1270
01:05:01.920 --> 01:05:05.920
and you're follow through. I mean, let's face at the

1271
01:05:05.960 --> 01:05:08.280
Mayor Brothers years ago in the eighties and the Olympics.

1272
01:05:08.480 --> 01:05:10.239
I was a little kid. I was not a little kid.

1273
01:05:10.280 --> 01:05:14.519
I'm watching them stand there outside the starting gee with

1274
01:05:14.679 --> 01:05:17.000
their eyes closed, and you can see him running the

1275
01:05:17.079 --> 01:05:19.800
course in their minds. You can see him going the

1276
01:05:19.840 --> 01:05:25.199
tight turns in long slooping, sloping turn to the left maybe,

1277
01:05:25.519 --> 01:05:27.360
and you can just see him going through this in

1278
01:05:27.400 --> 01:05:29.559
their mind and they step up and they do it,

1279
01:05:29.760 --> 01:05:32.719
just like the person that has this shot under the

1280
01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:35.440
trees that you've got to do something too, versus the

1281
01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:37.320
poor devil that stands in the middle of the fairway

1282
01:05:37.360 --> 01:05:38.800
and has no clue and I'm so proud of this

1283
01:05:38.920 --> 01:05:42.559
wonderful tea shot. He's just it and he doesn't realize

1284
01:05:42.599 --> 01:05:44.039
the disaster that's going to happen.

1285
01:05:45.639 --> 01:05:50.559
Did you always use visualization even before it became, you know,

1286
01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:53.440
popular to do so or to talk about it. Did

1287
01:05:53.480 --> 01:05:56.360
you know that you were doing that before it was instructed?

1288
01:05:58.400 --> 01:06:00.840
Well, just by the way my dad taught me, mm hmm.

1289
01:06:01.679 --> 01:06:03.280
You see that tree there, Okay, I want you to

1290
01:06:03.320 --> 01:06:06.480
hit it just under the top of that tree. Or

1291
01:06:06.480 --> 01:06:07.840
he'd have me go out and I'd do this with

1292
01:06:07.880 --> 01:06:09.679
my kids. I'd have him take every other club out

1293
01:06:09.719 --> 01:06:12.840
of their banks, so instead of having a you know, three,

1294
01:06:12.880 --> 01:06:15.039
four five six seventy eighty nine, they'd have a three

1295
01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:18.400
five seven nine. You'd be surprised how good you get

1296
01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:21.320
when you got like thirty yard increments or fifteen twenty

1297
01:06:21.400 --> 01:06:24.239
yard increments between two clubs. You have to learn how

1298
01:06:24.320 --> 01:06:25.760
to hit different shots.

1299
01:06:25.920 --> 01:06:28.519
I loved one of the things that you also mentioned

1300
01:06:28.519 --> 01:06:31.320
in the book about taking two clubs with you to

1301
01:06:31.400 --> 01:06:35.000
the ball before you know, before your shot. Don't just say, oh,

1302
01:06:35.000 --> 01:06:36.599
it's one hundred and fifty yards, I'm just going to

1303
01:06:36.639 --> 01:06:41.480
take out my six iron or whatever. Take take two clubs.

1304
01:06:41.639 --> 01:06:43.280
Yeah. I mean I worked with one of the LPGA

1305
01:06:43.400 --> 01:06:46.760
girls yesterday and I know she's going to be better

1306
01:06:46.800 --> 01:06:49.400
of it. I said, what do you ask your caddy?

1307
01:06:50.119 --> 01:06:52.960
I mean, your caddy's standing there. You know, I'm assuming,

1308
01:06:53.039 --> 01:06:55.480
hopefully I know what you do because everybody else does it.

1309
01:06:55.719 --> 01:06:57.119
Let's say you think it's the same he says, one

1310
01:06:57.159 --> 01:06:58.519
hundred and fify yards, I'll say, you're gonna got a

1311
01:06:58.559 --> 01:07:01.280
seven arn kids a day it wedge. But let's pretend

1312
01:07:01.320 --> 01:07:03.880
my school, so we're hitting seven. Are you put your

1313
01:07:03.880 --> 01:07:05.639
hand on your seven you get it halfway out of

1314
01:07:05.639 --> 01:07:07.039
the bag and you turn to your caddy and say,

1315
01:07:07.039 --> 01:07:10.199
what do you think seven? Well, since you've already started

1316
01:07:10.199 --> 01:07:11.960
the club coming out of the bag, what's the caddy

1317
01:07:12.079 --> 01:07:14.920
gonna say? He knows it should be an eight, so

1318
01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:18.039
he'd say just yeah, nice and smooth, fine, okay, which

1319
01:07:18.360 --> 01:07:20.760
tells you then, hum, he doesn't think I have to

1320
01:07:20.800 --> 01:07:24.280
hit this very big, or he says, now go ahead,

1321
01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:27.000
just hit a good one. That'll be good, meaning you

1322
01:07:27.079 --> 01:07:30.039
better nail this thing, because I was thinking six iron.

1323
01:07:30.800 --> 01:07:32.679
So what I do is I go past it. And

1324
01:07:32.719 --> 01:07:34.960
the way my dad taught me was that every club

1325
01:07:35.000 --> 01:07:39.400
I have, it's between two clubs. So in fact, he

1326
01:07:39.440 --> 01:07:41.039
would do a drill. We'd go out on a course

1327
01:07:41.079 --> 01:07:43.199
and he'd make me hit two or three clubs to

1328
01:07:43.280 --> 01:07:47.480
one pin, and I'd have to hit different shots. And

1329
01:07:47.559 --> 01:07:50.719
I got the creativity to come that way. So consequently,

1330
01:07:51.079 --> 01:07:54.000
what I told the girl yesterday is basically I want you,

1331
01:07:54.039 --> 01:07:55.920
and I brought the caddy over. I said, she's not

1332
01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:58.400
going to ask you what you think seven aron. The

1333
01:07:58.440 --> 01:08:00.360
new question is going to be you're gonna tell her

1334
01:08:00.360 --> 01:08:01.719
of the yard? If you're gonna tell her one point

1335
01:08:01.679 --> 01:08:05.360
fifty she's gonna ask you, what two clubs do you think?

1336
01:08:06.559 --> 01:08:10.000
So you're either gonna say six seven or you're gonna

1337
01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:15.119
say seven eight. Now she's quietly thinking seven eight, okay.

1338
01:08:15.480 --> 01:08:21.039
He says, uh, six seven okay, perfect, it's a seven

1339
01:08:21.079 --> 01:08:23.399
are even though she thought seven eight and he thought

1340
01:08:23.439 --> 01:08:27.000
six seven. But it's already let her know that he's

1341
01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:30.880
thinking this whole plan slightly longer than she thinks. Now

1342
01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:33.520
you may both come up with the same club seven eight.

1343
01:08:34.039 --> 01:08:36.680
That's fine. It's up to her to decide or him

1344
01:08:36.720 --> 01:08:39.960
to decide when you hit the shot, how high it's

1345
01:08:39.960 --> 01:08:42.039
gonna go, where it's gonna land. You know, this sort

1346
01:08:42.079 --> 01:08:44.560
of thing, But it makes it. It's just another step

1347
01:08:44.600 --> 01:08:47.359
in the process of giving you a chance to hit

1348
01:08:47.399 --> 01:08:50.520
the correct shot at something right right.

1349
01:08:51.079 --> 01:08:54.279
So you told a great story about your interaction with

1350
01:08:54.359 --> 01:08:57.279
January when you're a young man on the tour bright,

1351
01:08:57.399 --> 01:08:59.520
But can you tell me what do you think is

1352
01:08:59.560 --> 01:09:03.840
the best advice you've ever received as a golfer, Not

1353
01:09:03.960 --> 01:09:06.840
as an instructor, not as a touring player, but as

1354
01:09:06.880 --> 01:09:09.560
a golfer. What's the best advice you've ever received?

1355
01:09:11.920 --> 01:09:14.119
Probably the way I've lived my life. I told people

1356
01:09:14.159 --> 01:09:18.920
I've gone through life with basically not having anything bad

1357
01:09:19.000 --> 01:09:22.119
happen to me, although I've had some health problems, you know,

1358
01:09:22.319 --> 01:09:25.880
recently with my shoulders and stuff. But even breaking my

1359
01:09:26.000 --> 01:09:28.239
back was a good positive thing because it kept me

1360
01:09:28.239 --> 01:09:31.119
out of Vietnam. Now, they had five hundred some kids

1361
01:09:31.199 --> 01:09:34.199
went in here in nineteen sixty seven, and only two

1362
01:09:34.199 --> 01:09:38.720
of us out of five hundred were four f And consequently,

1363
01:09:39.039 --> 01:09:43.840
I would guess that my feelings were the fact that

1364
01:09:44.680 --> 01:09:47.920
I was never the most gifted physically, but I'm going

1365
01:09:48.000 --> 01:09:50.520
to beat you mentally, and so you never give up.

1366
01:09:50.560 --> 01:09:53.079
If seventy five or six was the best I could do,

1367
01:09:53.520 --> 01:09:55.479
it certainly made the sixty seven. I was going to

1368
01:09:55.520 --> 01:09:57.159
need to shoot the next day to make the cut

1369
01:09:57.720 --> 01:10:01.800
a much more viable approach rather than getting all mad

1370
01:10:01.800 --> 01:10:05.119
and huffy about it because he just you know. It's

1371
01:10:05.199 --> 01:10:08.039
like the two things with Rory, the one I alluded

1372
01:10:08.079 --> 01:10:11.079
to where he won the Open, where I basically had him.

1373
01:10:11.119 --> 01:10:15.039
He was monitoring how he played the secondman one, which

1374
01:10:15.119 --> 01:10:17.840
is his PGA at Kiowa, where I saw in the

1375
01:10:17.840 --> 01:10:19.920
week before, and he had a terrible year so far.

1376
01:10:20.000 --> 01:10:22.319
He'd been up and down. His girlfriend, who's now a

1377
01:10:22.399 --> 01:10:26.399
fiance was an Aki, the tennis player. Uh me, he

1378
01:10:26.560 --> 01:10:29.680
just he wasn't consistent. He missed, he hadn't defended his

1379
01:10:29.840 --> 01:10:32.920
US opened very well at Olympic Club in San Francisco.

1380
01:10:33.039 --> 01:10:35.680
He missed and cuts me as we were leaving Akron

1381
01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:38.399
the week before, I'm leaving to go play Minnesota, and

1382
01:10:38.439 --> 01:10:41.439
he's so I'm getting on Wednesday, and I said, I

1383
01:10:41.439 --> 01:10:43.000
want you to do me a favor. And he looks

1384
01:10:43.079 --> 01:10:45.039
right at me, which he always does, and I said

1385
01:10:45.039 --> 01:10:48.079
to him, I said, you know, I am getting really

1386
01:10:48.119 --> 01:10:50.439
tired of turning on a TV and telling whether you

1387
01:10:50.560 --> 01:10:53.000
burdy or bowie the last hole. And I don't know

1388
01:10:53.039 --> 01:10:57.319
why you're giving these people, your opponents, an opportunity.

1389
01:10:56.760 --> 01:10:57.199
To get you.

1390
01:10:58.119 --> 01:11:00.880
I said, you just you just have to, uh you

1391
01:11:00.920 --> 01:11:05.079
got to forget the bad shots, and he did. I

1392
01:11:05.119 --> 01:11:09.119
mean literally, he won the PGA QUBA by eight shots.

1393
01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:12.359
He won both these majors by eight but it was

1394
01:11:13.319 --> 01:11:14.800
it was kind of neat from the fact that he

1395
01:11:14.840 --> 01:11:19.079
shot seventy six in the second round. Seventy six is

1396
01:11:19.199 --> 01:11:23.880
still one by eight eight. Yeah, So I mean there's

1397
01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:27.000
you know, there's again. I'll go back and back to that,

1398
01:11:27.119 --> 01:11:29.680
but that's basically I guess if he asked my blessing.

1399
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I learned one of the cutest things for me. I

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was fishing in Seattle and this older gentleman. I went

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out on this boat with him. He had an old boat,

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01:11:37.760 --> 01:11:40.359
had both kids with me. I'd been going for years

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01:11:40.359 --> 01:11:42.800
and these fancy cabin cruiser and couldn't catch a salmon.

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01:11:43.199 --> 01:11:46.520
This guy caught five in the first hour fishing this thing,

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and he's got the lure's name. It's really cute. So

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01:11:49.760 --> 01:11:52.079
I left the kids overnight. I went to Plague, went back,

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01:11:52.119 --> 01:11:54.439
played the pro am, came back out where in the

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01:11:54.479 --> 01:11:56.439
boat and his name was Mike Hunt. And he turned

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01:11:56.439 --> 01:11:57.600
to me and he says, how old do you think

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01:11:57.680 --> 01:12:01.119
I am. I'm looking at him. He's Norwegian, big hands.

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01:12:01.439 --> 01:12:02.920
I said, I don't know, Mike. You got to be

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sixty eight or nine. Somebody says, yeah, I'm seventy nine.

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Said I don't look at do And I said no.

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He says, you know why, I said no, not exactly.

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He said, if God didn't count, the day's just spent fishing.

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And I'm thinking about that. I'm thinking and because he

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is getting toward, you know, September is getting toward the

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01:12:21.359 --> 01:12:23.279
end of the year, you're starting to lose patience. It's

1419
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not quite heading season. It was like a twilight zone

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for me. And I went out to play an ever

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01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:32.760
at this tournament, and if I hadn't invited Bobby Cole,

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I would have won it. I finished second, but I

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01:12:34.880 --> 01:12:38.319
spent the entire four days thinking about how God didn't

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01:12:38.359 --> 01:12:41.640
count the days I spent golfing, and I couldn't believe

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01:12:41.680 --> 01:12:45.439
how relaxed that made me instead of getting all tensed

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up and everything else. You know, so I'm always finding

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01:12:48.600 --> 01:12:51.199
stuff like that. Well, Fred, I've got to be running here.

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This has been an enjoyable time.

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01:12:53.159 --> 01:12:56.359
Oh Davey, thank you for saying that, because it's been

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01:12:56.479 --> 01:12:59.479
amazing for me too. I really enjoyed speaking to you

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and wish you best of luck in the world. And

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let everyone know it's Stockton Goolf dot com if you

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want to get lessons with Dave or either of his sons,

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and the book Own Your Game by Dave Stockton and

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01:13:11.199 --> 01:13:14.920
the other two books Unconscious Putting, Unconscious Scoring. Dave, thank

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01:13:14.960 --> 01:13:17.600
you so much for your time. I really appreciate it.

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Okay, good Bred, Let's do it again.

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01:13:19.640 --> 01:13:22.119
Okay, I'll hold you to that one

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Okay, you got it.