March 13, 2026

Stop Topping The Ball….FOREVER with Tony Manzoni (RIP)

Stop Topping The Ball….FOREVER with Tony Manzoni (RIP)
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GS#328 April 10, 2012 Tony Manzoni, author of The Lost Fundamental, and longtime favorite of the GOLF SMARTER Audience returns to discuss how weight shift and position can be the root of topping the ball. It's also the key to increased distance. Tony’s book "The Lost Fundamental: One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever", is available on Amazon in paperback or Kindle format. His video, originally a DVD, is only available through our website.

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

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Hi, this is Fred Green of Golf Smarter with our

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spring back into Golf season with the late Tony Manzoni.

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In previous years of replaying these episodes as part of

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our archived content, we kept it to a hand picked

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selection of nine. But this time and for the future,

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because of your response, we're going to feature every episode

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in order that Tony discussed his single pivot swing method,

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his incredible College of the Desert Golf Team's success, his

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book and video, and stories about his relationship with the

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rich and famous from Palm Springs, including the godfather of

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his daughter, Frank Sinatra. Last episode from July twenty eleven

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was just after he released his book The Loss Fundamental,

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One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever. We recorded this just

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after his video of the same name was published on DVD.

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After he passed away in twenty eighteen, both the book

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and the DVD were out of so we were instrumental

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in getting his widow to agree to republish the book

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on Amazon, including the Kindle format, and allowing us to

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distribute the video online. All this was with the promise

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to create a tax deductible fund created in his memory

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to benefit the first t of Coachella Valley. For more

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on Tony and everything we were able to find on him,

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please go to Golfsmarter dot com. If you'd like access

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to the video, please write to me directly golf Smarter

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podcast at gmail dot com, or click on the Heyfred

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button when you visit golfsmarter dot com.

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For members only.

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Golf Smarter number three hundred and twenty eight published on

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April tenh twenty twelve. Stop Topping the Ball Forever with

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Tony Mantoni.

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This is golf.

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Smarter sharing tips and insights from golfers and golf professionals

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to help lower your score. It's worked for your host, Fred.

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Welcome back to golf Smarter for members only. Tony.

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How you doing.

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I'm doing well and I'm so glad to have you

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back on the show. You are such a fan favorite,

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a listener favorite on golf Smarter. I'm just so pleased

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that you've gotten such nice reaction from the Golf Smarter audience.

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Well, I do appreciate that, Fred, And you know this

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is a labor of love for me and I'm sure

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it is for YouTube. Oh yeah. We have a passion

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about golf and golf instruction and you know, I'm just

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trying to get something out there that helps people. It's

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not an ego basis. I've done a lot of reading

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and I believe every day that I listen to people teach,

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I learned something and I'm just trying to get this

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down to where it's great for the consumer, that they

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can understand it and do it well.

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That's what's so special about your teaching is that you

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are able to communicate it in a fashion that the average,

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the average golfer, the just the lay person understands what

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you're saying. And it's not so technical, but it is concise.

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And I think that that also is true to a

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testimony to how well your teams do at College of

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the Desert.

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Yeah, we do have a great record, and we're off

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to a good start again with four and zero in

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league playing and we've played three in vacationals one, two

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and and that was the second place in one, so

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we're off and running. We're going after our twenty fourth

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consecutive year to win the conference, which is kind of crazy,

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but yeah, it is what it is. And you know,

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we have a new team every two years, so it's

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not like we have this dynasty that we're building here.

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But well, I mean, the weather, the weather doesn't certainly

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doesn't hurt. So we draw some nice young men and

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so far we've been lucky. Keep drawing them and we're

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saying the right things and they're producing.

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Well, that's what's so interesting is you say that these

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these kids only play for two years.

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What age are your team members? What are they raised?

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Right out of high school? You know, it's eighteen nineteen

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years old, So they're all yet man, and they all

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have a dream of, you know, playing this game professionally,

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So we try to put them on that track. Obviously

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they all can make it. We show them the work

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ethic that's needed.

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Okay, so I know that I know that you don't

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have much of an issue talking about your age.

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How old are you again, I'm seventy five.

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You're seventy five, and you're dealing with eighteen and nineteen

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year old which could easily be grandchildren or even great

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grandchildren at some point.

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Well, yeah, they really might. They become my children, There's

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no question about that. Yeah, And I love it, I

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really do. I learned from them in some ways. It

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keeps me from getting caught in the gap, you know,

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and staying segments. So it's a win win for both

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of us well, and.

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It goes back to what we were just speaking on

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that you're a ability to communicate with eighteen and nineteen

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year olds and clearly to have going on your twenty

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fourth consecutive regional championship, you must be doing something to

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gain their respect, to not have attitude from these kids,

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because that's an age where they can really have a

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lot of attitude when they come in and tell you that,

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what do you know, old man? You know, it's I'm

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just so impressed.

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Well, you know, it's not easy at times. I'm not

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going to say that it's always simple. We get a

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few kids. But you know, as I tell all the

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boys on my team, I don't care if you're a

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plus five. If you're a jerk and you want to

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stay a jerk, then you're not going to be part

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of my team because winning championships is important, but a

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billion character is much more important. And that's what I'm

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really here for. A lot of these young people haven't

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had a lot of parenting for whatever reason, and that's

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part of my responsibility is as a golf coach, is

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to help them on that. Part of it because the

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majority of them are going to go on to work

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in the golf business or do something, and it's my

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responsibility to show them what they need to do to

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be successful. And you know, that's just how it goes.

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And I love the kids, and you know, I learned

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a little bit. I mean, I'm not really crazy about

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their music, but they're not crazy about Frank Sinatra either.

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So they have a lot to learn.

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You know.

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You know, I'll tell you something.

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I can almost guarantee you that it's going to be

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faster for them to appreciate Sinatra than it will be

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for you to appreciate their music, because I know when

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my when my younger kid came out of college and

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started telling me about Frank Sinatra, discovered Frank Sinatra and

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how cool he was. I'm like, oh my gosh, you're kidding. Really,

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that doesn't mean I have to listen. I don't have

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to listen now all cool jay do I.

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That's funny to popular, But you know, every you know,

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when we were kids, we had our own little fashions

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and some of the things. And I try not to

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be too you know, judgmental about some of the things

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they do, but some of the things that I can

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see that it's a determ from them and people are

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going to misjudge them. But where their pants down and

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all that sag and stuff, And I don't want to

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jump on them being critical pull your pants and that

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kind of thing, because that just makes them resist more.

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So I try to explain to them, you know, what

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they're projecting and how that hurts them financially and also

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people draw conclusions about them that aren't true, and a

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little by little by little bartipulate way and just trying

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to make sense without saying don't it starts changing and

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that's always.

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For the better.

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That's a nice approach.

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I tell them you got choices in life. You can

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be common or you can be special, and I really

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really hope you choose specially. And when you talk like that,

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their eyes open up a little bit, you know, so

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their minds.

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Well, that was a great piece of That's a great

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golf tip right there for any parent and any teacher.

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That's that's a great piece of advice. Thank you very much.

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Well, as we dole out these congratulations, let me also

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throw out that the DVD, the Lost Fundamental DVD has

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been created, published and released and It will be available

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on the Golf Smarter website. Thank you very much, as

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well as the loost Fundamental dot com. Talk to me

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about your new DVD, The Lost Fundamental, that supports the

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book The Lost Fundamental, One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever.

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Well, I was lucky enough to meet the young man

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by the Adrian Hertze, and he really helped me put

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this together. When we're trying to do a DVD, it's

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really easy to talk too much and trying to get

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your point across, so we edit it down to her.

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It's almost almost too simple, but that's the way I

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wanted it, and I think it's going to be very

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effective if people watch it. You have to watch it

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a couple of times. Is the only downside to it.

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You realize how old I really am. I've got a

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young voice. But anyway, all kidding aside, I'm very happy

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with the DVD. It's just a reflection of the book

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and for those of us that learn better by watching,

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I think it shures the purpose.

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M hmm.

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Tell me about where you start on the DV. Well,

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how is the DVD different than the book.

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Well, it's just visual. The concept is there. It's the

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same it's the same concept. But you see I use

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three different age groups and teach them basically the same thing.

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You can see their flexibility issues are different. But again,

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what I primarily say is, look, this works for everybody,

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and this is an easy way to play the game.

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And you're not to injure your back. Uh. That's that's

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the message. And I promise you that if you look

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at so many of the young players on tour, they're

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they're staying centered over that golf ball. They're not moving

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their head to the right anymore. Uh. And and and

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it's not something new, it's something that they're going they're

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going back to. It's what It's what Hogan did, It's

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what Nicholas did, it's what Palmer did, it's what Trevino did.

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None of those guys swayed off the ball, and and

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their careers lasted a long time. As we hit a

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certain age, it's really hard to move off the ball

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and back onto it while you're trying to hit that

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thing in the back of the back of it. You know,

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it's really hard to do that. It's it's it's doable,

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but the older you get, it becomes impossible. So that's

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what that's what my DVD's But you can actually see

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the person doing this, and that's that's the proof of

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the pudding.

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Uh yeah, I noticed that as well, and I think

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that the thing that came across in our multiple conversations

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before even that you have the pictures in the book,

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but you talk about this way and how that's just

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deadly to your swing.

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Right. It's just you know, there's been some great players,

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Curtis Strang, who's a big swayer off the ball. There's

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some great players that were but I don't think you

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can continue that, especially as you get into your senior years.

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And so what I think, I think it becomes almost impossible.

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Most of the people you see on the driveway and

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you see them get off their right foot and their

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body swings back. They're going in the opposite direction, and

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then they say, well, I guess I'm getting older and

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I can't hit anywhere. Well, you can't hit anywhere with

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your arms, but if you learn how to use your

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core properly and get your body in the right position

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relative to the ball and impact, you can hit it

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a lot farther than you think you can. And that's

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what I'm finding. That's the thing that I hear more

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than anything else. I'm hitting the father, and that's from

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people that are fifty sixty seven, even eighty six years

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old taking a lesson from me, and he claims is

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farther than he did when he was twenty and twenty

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years old. I'm not twenty years old and twenty years ago.

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So because he's hitting more square, and that's the whole thing.

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You don't mishit it when you're on the ball, when

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you're moving back and forth, it's just so hard to

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catch a flush.

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I recently took a trip with my buddies. I talk

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about this every year we go on this golf trip,

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and I noticed one of the things in looking at

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photographs of us at the end of the weekend. I

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have one friend who just he has no distance.

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He has a.

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Really tough time hitting the ball farther than one hundred

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and fifty hundred and sixty yards. And I notice that

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not only is he most of his weight is on

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his back foot throughout the swing and definitely at the

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end of his swing, but he also does not help

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me on this one. He doesn't pivot his back foot

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at all. He's right handed, so it's his right foot.

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But when he's done with the swing, not only is

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he leaning far back, but his right foot, his back

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foot is still pointed to where the ball was tied up.

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Sure, sure, and as it must be, because if you

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put any any weight at all on the right side

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and then try to turn your body left or it

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has to go gets stuck. And and I'll tell you

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put a lot of pressure on your lower back. So

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for the listeners out there that are doing that, just

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put all your weight on your left foot to lift

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your heel of your right foot off off the ground

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so that you're just on the till and barely weight there.

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And then just turn your chest and shoulders. You'll see

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that you can turn left quide a ways. Then if

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you put some weight on that right foot, try the

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same thing and you'll see that you'll stop midweight. And

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that's where most people are, so they don't get the

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full force of the body driving through that golf ball. Actually,

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a good boxer, you know, it isn't in our motion.

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It's a body motion, and and everything throwing the ball,

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whatever the body has to be, has to be in

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position for the throw. It has to be in position

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for the punch. So if it's not a position you're

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going to, it's going to be a weak motion. And

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that's what this is all about. I'm not trying to

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reinvent the wheel here and then Holding discover this as

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have a lot of players. But the closer you're the

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center of gravity of the body is about four or

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five inches below the naval The closer that center of

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gravity is during the backswing to a pivot lake, the

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faster you're gonna pivot, and the freer you're gonna pivot.

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That's just that's just a scientific fact. That's not that's

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not Tony Manzoni's theory or anybody else's theory. That's just

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how it is. And Holding the smart enough to discover this.

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In a book called Maximum Gulf Uh with one of

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his students, John Sleeve, he said, I find that the

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more I'm on the left side of the top of

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the slane, I can pivot my shoulders faster on my

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left my left axis, consequently hitting the ball farther. So

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Hogan made the statement a often time ago. It's just

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that there's as so many people caught this thing. Well,

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isn't that reverse weightship? No? I had nothing to do

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with reverse wayship reverse weight ships is on the on

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the dolls wing where your body is going backwards towards

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the right foot. You can put all the weight you

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want on the left side at the top as long

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as you move forward with the second move. So you know,

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I mean, you know, when you try to hit the

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ball low, you're you're moving forward, then the club closes

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a little bit. Well, in a sense, we're just centering

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ourselves on the golf ball instead of putting our heads

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behind the golf ball, and we make contact as we're

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turning through the ball. We're not We're not making contact

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as we face the ball. We're making contact as our

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body has rotated towards the target. If you think about

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Alaka Sorensen, she had only one of the best moves

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I've ever seen except for Hogan, because she looked like

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she was looking at the target when she hit the ball.

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But that just because she was moving through prior to impact,

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and that's where all that power came from.

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At the very beginning of this answer, you mentioned lifting

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the heel of your right foot. Now, is that just

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as a test or in your setup, as a.

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Test as a test, but one of the things that

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I do to ensure. As I put my right foot,

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I kicked my knee in and I put I really

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feel my weight on the inside edge of my right foot,

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and as I coil, I try not to gather any

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more weight than that position. And then when my hip

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turns behind me, my shoulder turns behind me, I'm actually

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displacing weight more towards the left side. If I was

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in a cylinder and I turned my right shoulder, my

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weight would be going towards my left side. There's no

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question about that, and no one could argue with that.

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And so what I'm doing is I'm bracing between the

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instep of the right foot and and the and the

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instep of the left foot. So I embraced there, but

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primarily the majority of my weight is left, okay, because

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that's where I have to have that impact. So I'm

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just kind of cheating a little bit. I'm getting it

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over there sooner. See. Now, all I have to do

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is to rotate hard rotator around that axis and the

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club head comes the last. My body is first and

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I get I get terrific compression on the ball. You know,

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for our old guy, I can still hit the ball.

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They're pretty good. Uh, shockingly Uh. And I'm certainly not

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a physical specimen, but I'm in the position to hit

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it as destiny with as much power that I have.

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And I think everybody out there probably hasn't reached that

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position unless they've read my book and been practicing. Uh.

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If they're in the middle of their stands or on

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that right side where they're hitting the golf ball in,

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there's no way that they're compressing the golf ball like

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they can.

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Uh.

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And then of course there's the the sweeping of the

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ball versus the compress of the ball, you know, or

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trying to lift the ball. That's the other thing I

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found that the same player did. Not only is he

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not turning, but he's with all that weight going backwards.

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It looks as if he's trying to lift the ball.

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He's not letting the club do its job well.

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With your way going backwards, your arms skill only goes

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so far and then they start going up. So, as

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I tell people, when you hit a ball fat or

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he hit the ball thin, it's because you're behind the ball.

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That's that's the reason. I mean, you know, it shows

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itself in a different forms, but you're behind the ball.

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When you're loving through the ball, the club is still

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it's actually shallowing out. But when you stay way behind it,

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the club that is going up, it has to go

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up because your center of your swing is a foot

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or two behind that golf ball. So so the forward

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arc starts way too early. And that's why a lot

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of people can't get an iron in the air because

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they're too far behind the ball.

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Oh well, actually, now that we're going to cont I

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know this friend is not listening to this, so I'm

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going to keep in. I'm not even to use his name,

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So I'm going to keep talking about this because I

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noticed so many things after talking with you so many times.

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I'm now looking at at other people so differently than

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I had in the past, because basically I wasn't looking

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at them, I was looking at their ball. But he

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tops the ball a lot, I mean, there's there. It's

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frequent that the ball is rolling off off the tee.

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I mean he rarely.

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We get all excited when he hits the ball in

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the air. Woo, great hit. Whether it goes right or left,

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it doesn't matter. It's like, oh you got it, you

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make great contact. Do you hit the ball in the air.

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Well, there's two things that cause topping. I've always believed

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when people say you looked up, that's just infanity because

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nobody's looking up. But what if you tighten up prior

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to impact where everything stops. When you tighten your hands,

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and in the anticipation of impact, your arms pulled back,

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your muscles contract so the club comes up a little bit.

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That's one way to top it. That's how most people.

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I always tell people, you top it because you're tight,

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not look up.

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But wait, and how how can we notice?

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Because I noticed that he when he's about to hit

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the ball, even when he pulls his club back, his

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whole face just turns into as if he's he's trying

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to How do I be kind about that?

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He's got to look it's because he's he's he has

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a hit thought. He's absolutely doing it perfect. He's telling

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his body that he's going to hit something. The body

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FLEs it up, getting ready for that blow. Uh. That's

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why everyone talks about swinging through the ball, swinging past

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the ball, using the ball as a point of reference

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to line line the body, but not not as a

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target once When you when you do that, your instincts

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are going to jump right in and you're going to

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tighten up your hands and you're going to do it now.

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Some great players can purposely try to hit it a

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little harder, but I promise you we've all done this.

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We take one more thub on a hole because we think, well,

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I'll hit an easy five instead of a six, and

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you blow it right over the green. Well, that's because

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you're swung. You were trying to hear anything. You're swinging smooth,

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so you're you get you get maximal flexibility to get

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maximum uh thrust. You get everything nothing scrolling down at impact.

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And when we topped the ball, it's an accelerating move. Uh.

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That's why I say when you when you stay behind

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the golf ball and you're gonna you're gonna you're never

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gonna get fairly loose up. I can tell you that

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you forget about hitting the three wood in the air.

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It's just not gonna happen. Uh. You've got to be

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moving through that golf ball so that club can shallow

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out and catch that ball a little bit on the down.

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If you're hanging back, it's that club's coming up too

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soon and you're gonna hit. You're gonna hit the middle

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or top of the ball.

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So for somebody who's been playing the game for twenty

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thirty years and has all these issues, it's not going

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to be very easy for them to make some some

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changes into their swing, into their into their basic mechanics.

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And I don't did after all lesson it's it's still

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he's going to forget it next in two weeks if

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he doesn't.

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Well, I don't really teach swing so much as I

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teach uh the relationship of the body to the golf ball.

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If I can get your body at address in the

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right position, and if I can get you to move

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your if you're right hand and get your right side

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past that ball prior to impact or at impact, I

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don't care what your hands do. If they're somewhat connected

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to the body there to they're going to react on

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their own. You can't purposely square the club of your hands.

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And that's just crazy. I get these guys say your

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risk has to be flat at impact. That's that's because

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of momentum. You can't put them there. The club's moving

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seventy eighty miles an hour depending on how strong you are.

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There's no way to do that. But if your body's

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in the right position, that will happen. You know, there's

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if you're rotating through that golf ball and you're and

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that club has last and your hands are going to

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be your hands are going to be flat in impact,

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they're not going to be cuffed. But once you stop

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that body, then the momentum of the arms going forward

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are going to cut the wrist. That's why that happens.

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It's just that people don't go through the ball. When

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you're hanging a golf ball, you have few mind. Has

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to be a position A, position B, and the balls

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in the way of you going to those positions. If

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you target the golf ball, you're never going to get

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the position B. And consequently you're going to cup your wrist,

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You're going to swing up prematurely, you're going to hang back.

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All those things are going to happen just because you

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didn't get through the ball. I mean, I have women

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that I teach and I say, look, when you get

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at the top of the swing, oh, I want you

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to do one thing. Get past the ball with a

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turning motion. And they're always so shocked when they see

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they hit so much farther and hit the ball up

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in the air. But that's I mean, that's that's the

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core thing here that has to happen. No matter what

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you do with your hands at the top of your swing,

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they can be cup flat. I don't I don't care

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about that doesn't mean anything. Then a cup wrist at

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the top tier with his flat wrist, who cares? What

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matters is at the bottom. And the only way you're

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going to go through impact properly is that the big

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muscles have to be pulled in the little muscles. Once

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the big muscles stopped and the little muscles move forward,

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00:23:59.799 --> 00:24:03.559
all hell breaks loose. I'll let you're lucky you time it,

473
00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:06.720
you know, And you hear more and more players talking

474
00:24:06.759 --> 00:24:09.799
about I want to eliminate the timing action of the

475
00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:12.559
golf swing because there's just too much pressure out there.

476
00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:14.559
You can't get it out there and be timing the

477
00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:17.039
rolling of your hands and things like that. And that's

478
00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:18.640
been taught for years. I mean, that's how I was

479
00:24:18.680 --> 00:24:21.200
taught to play. You can't do that now now if

480
00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:22.319
you're going to play at that level.

481
00:24:28.599 --> 00:24:31.880
On our third and last round of the weekend, in

482
00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:35.319
the back nine, he was my friend was so frustrated.

483
00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:38.799
He said, what am I what am I doing? What

484
00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:39.400
can I do?

485
00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:41.839
I keep, you know, rolling the ball, and I'm like,

486
00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:44.799
are you asking me for advice? Because I kept my

487
00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:47.599
mouth shut all weekend and I'll be And all I

488
00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:49.039
said was, try.

489
00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:53.559
Moving the ball back about an inch in your stands.

490
00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:55.799
Just move the ball back a little bit and see

491
00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:58.519
what happens. Because if you're continuing to hit the ball,

492
00:24:58.599 --> 00:25:01.519
that must mean that you're you're you're you're on your

493
00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:03.920
upswing a little too early. Because I didn't want to

494
00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:06.039
say yeah, because you're leaning on your back foot because

495
00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:08.839
you're getting no rotation, because in the middle of a round.

496
00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:09.519
That's not going to help.

497
00:25:09.960 --> 00:25:10.920
Oh yeah, there's no way to do.

498
00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:13.079
So I just said, just move the ball back and

499
00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:14.599
see what happens.

500
00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:17.279
And his next three shots were the best shots of

501
00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:18.319
the weekend.

502
00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:21.480
And he kind of looked at me, like, what where.

503
00:25:21.319 --> 00:25:25.920
What the essence? In essence, you move he moves his

504
00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:29.519
head more forward by moving the ball back. You see

505
00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:31.359
what I mean, I'm moving the ball back in the stands.

506
00:25:31.359 --> 00:25:33.519
The head position now is more forward of the ball

507
00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:36.880
than it was when the ball was forward. So in essence,

508
00:25:36.920 --> 00:25:38.519
you did kind.

509
00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:42.359
Of that hmm. Interesting, And I didn't even know I

510
00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:42.680
did that.

511
00:25:43.519 --> 00:25:45.200
Yeah, that's that's what that's what you did, you.

512
00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:47.880
See, because I read the Lost Fundamental.

513
00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:53.240
Well, look, you know absolutely notall. There's a lot there's

514
00:25:53.240 --> 00:25:54.920
a lot of great teachers out there, but I know

515
00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:58.000
that this concept is is based in the science, and

516
00:25:58.079 --> 00:25:59.920
I know that when the body is in the right position,

517
00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:05.279
you can get your best. Everybody has a best. Some

518
00:26:05.359 --> 00:26:08.119
of us are limited because we're not athletics, some of

519
00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:10.720
us are weak, whatever, But everybody can play this game

520
00:26:10.759 --> 00:26:12.960
and everybody can enjoy it, and everybody can get the

521
00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:15.759
ball up in the air that has never been, that

522
00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:17.680
has never been. I've never had a lesson, and of

523
00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:20.359
thousands and thousands of lessons that I've give, I've never

524
00:26:20.359 --> 00:26:22.079
had anyone not be able to get it in the

525
00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:24.599
air once they understand what they're supposed to be.

526
00:26:24.680 --> 00:26:29.519
Right, right? And what about is the hip rotation?

527
00:26:29.960 --> 00:26:32.079
You know, as we get older, we get into our

528
00:26:32.160 --> 00:26:36.240
late fifties, our sixties, and god bless you in your seventies,

529
00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:40.119
the hip rotation. Some people just don't have that kind

530
00:26:40.119 --> 00:26:42.880
of flexibility. I don't know what kind of workout regimen

531
00:26:42.920 --> 00:26:44.240
that you have or if I have.

532
00:26:44.279 --> 00:26:47.559
No flexibility, No, I don't do any of that. I

533
00:26:47.559 --> 00:26:50.720
don't have any flexibility. But when my weight is on

534
00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:56.400
my left access and I turn my chest left, my

535
00:26:56.480 --> 00:27:00.880
hips turn left. Everything works when my when the center

536
00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:04.160
of my chest is to the right of my legs,

537
00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:06.640
like I was taught, take it back to put the

538
00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:09.359
stern them on top of the right leg. Okay, so

539
00:27:09.400 --> 00:27:13.319
there's a leaning of the upper body back behind the

540
00:27:13.359 --> 00:27:15.839
lower body. Then the legs have to go forward because

541
00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:19.119
the legs, the left hip has to align itself to

542
00:27:19.160 --> 00:27:21.200
the outside of the left footed impact. So there's that

543
00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:23.920
little sliding move that you had to make. But with

544
00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:27.440
this concept, what you're doing as you're coiling, as you're

545
00:27:27.480 --> 00:27:30.319
turning in your backs, when you're actually putting, you're actually

546
00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:35.680
getting to that position where you align that hip leg thing. Okay,

547
00:27:35.839 --> 00:27:38.279
so now you have a forward access. Now all you

548
00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:40.759
do is turn the top around the axis. The lower

549
00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:43.160
body works right with it. When you throw a ball.

550
00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:46.039
Did you ever think about shifting your legs or moving anything.

551
00:27:46.599 --> 00:27:50.160
I mean, your body, your top part is connect to

552
00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:52.759
the lower part. But if you chilt your top part

553
00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:55.119
over to the right, of course, the lower part has

554
00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:57.960
to go forward to bring the top part back. But

555
00:27:58.119 --> 00:28:00.920
when you're more centered to the ball, you're I hate

556
00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:03.480
to use this word stacked, but you're stacked on top

557
00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:05.279
of each other. So if you turn, the top of

558
00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:07.680
the lower part turns too, as long as there isn't

559
00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:10.799
wait on the right foot, and again for the for

560
00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:14.640
the listeners, just stand up, put primarily most of your

561
00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:16.640
weight on your right foot, and just take your left

562
00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:19.559
shoulder and turn it as left as you can. You'll

563
00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:22.400
see that you're hips and belly turn with it, so

564
00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:25.759
you don't have to worry about hip rotation. See, And

565
00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:28.720
that's that's one of the beautiful things about this is

566
00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:31.279
that you can control. And in my video I show

567
00:28:31.319 --> 00:28:33.240
you that. I show you that when you're at the

568
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:34.720
top of that position, all you have to do is

569
00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:37.119
just clear your chest. Everything else will turn with it,

570
00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:39.440
so you don't have to get your legs out ahead

571
00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:42.240
of the you know, like say legs first, then top. No,

572
00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:46.279
you don't have to do that. So we're eliminating all

573
00:28:46.319 --> 00:28:49.720
these little timing things that we had to do. Hm.

574
00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:55.720
I have so many more questions, but we don't have

575
00:28:55.880 --> 00:28:56.720
time today.

576
00:28:57.359 --> 00:28:59.039
I want to talk to you, I.

577
00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:01.240
Want to talk to the pros off, So I'm just

578
00:29:01.240 --> 00:29:02.759
going to say. I'm sure there's some golf goes out

579
00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:05.440
there that are saying that guy's nuts, But all I

580
00:29:05.480 --> 00:29:06.559
asked you to do is try it.

581
00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:08.119
Okay, well you're not.

582
00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:10.240
You know.

583
00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:12.400
I came out there last year with a friend of

584
00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:14.559
mine and you spent an hour with him.

585
00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:16.480
And the video is up on YouTube.

586
00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:19.759
It's on the golf Smarter TV channel of your you know,

587
00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:22.559
the highlights of the lesson that you gave my friend Neil.

588
00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:26.200
And I'm telling you, ever since that lesson, he has

589
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:29.599
been a maniac on the golf course. He says that

590
00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:32.799
he continues to do what you taught him in less

591
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:35.319
than an hour, and his game has just gotten so

592
00:29:35.480 --> 00:29:39.079
much better. He's so much more confident. So, yeah, you

593
00:29:39.160 --> 00:29:41.599
may be out of your mind, but it works.

594
00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:47.200
Well. Yeah, everyone says that anyway, But I think that

595
00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:50.039
I think that this is just an easier way to play.

596
00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:52.039
It's not the only way to play. You can be

597
00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:54.119
a handfer. You can fan that club open and close

598
00:29:54.160 --> 00:29:56.799
it on the dollsling if you choose. You just you

599
00:29:56.920 --> 00:29:58.599
just weigh all your way to the right and try

600
00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:00.400
to get it all going back to the left. You

601
00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:03.559
can do that too, It's been done. I only say

602
00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:06.880
that I say this confidently. This is an easier way

603
00:30:06.920 --> 00:30:07.319
to do it.

604
00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:09.400
Well.

605
00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:11.240
Next time we get together, I want to talk about

606
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:14.000
your tempo and the swing rhythm, and I want to

607
00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:17.559
talk about ballflight. We've never really talked about ballflight. I'd

608
00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:21.160
like to get your theories and ideas on that. But

609
00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:25.359
also my friends and I, you know, we travel every year,

610
00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:27.160
and you and I talked about this before, but I'm

611
00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:29.519
going to throw this out here right now. So we're

612
00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:33.079
talking about coming down to the Palm Springs area next

613
00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:39.480
April twenty thirteen and on. I want you to put

614
00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:42.599
on your calendar right now the morning of April sixth,

615
00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:47.240
Saturday morning. I'm hoping that you're available that you can

616
00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:51.039
meet with me and my three buddies. And I'm going

617
00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:53.279
to throw this out here to the Golf Smarter audience.

618
00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:56.039
If you want to be Tony. Do you do clinics?

619
00:30:57.160 --> 00:30:57.400
Yeah?

620
00:30:57.519 --> 00:31:02.559
Sure, okay, So Monday is Saturday morning, April sixth, twenty thirteen.

621
00:31:02.920 --> 00:31:07.599
If you have any interest in joining Tony Manzoni and

622
00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:12.359
myself on a one maybe two hour clinic, a Golf

623
00:31:12.359 --> 00:31:16.160
Smarter clinic one on one with Tony, you start sending

624
00:31:16.200 --> 00:31:18.440
me emails you let me know if your calendar. I'm

625
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:21.000
giving you a year to think about this, right, I'm

626
00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:22.599
not going to keep mentioning it. I'm just going to

627
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:25.839
throw it out here this one time, and maybe Tony

628
00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:28.880
Will will get something together and bring a group of

629
00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:30.240
people instead of just my foursome.

630
00:31:31.079 --> 00:31:32.839
That would be great fun, I really would do. It

631
00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:33.599
would be great fun.

632
00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:34.920
Yeah, that would be a lot of fun.

633
00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:38.240
Because I know that some people, some Golf Smarter Listeners,

634
00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:41.559
have traveled across the United States to come and have

635
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:42.799
one on one sessions with you.

636
00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:47.079
Yes they have. I've had a ton of them, and

637
00:31:47.640 --> 00:31:50.839
as far away as New York. And there's a one

638
00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:53.960
fellow in France that is coming down on late.

639
00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:55.559
And he's a Golf Smarter listener.

640
00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:57.480
He's a Golf Smarter listener.

641
00:31:57.519 --> 00:32:00.119
Wow, in France. How cool is that?

642
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:04.720
I Well, you know, when I first did the first

643
00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:06.799
interview with you, I thought this was a sum in

644
00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:10.200
cal kind of a deal, and I had no idea

645
00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:13.960
that you were worldwide. And I started getting emails from

646
00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:16.640
people from Switzerland and I heard of the golf maner

647
00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:18.599
blah blah blah, not what in the heck?

648
00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:21.599
Well, yeah, you know you were thinking radio when the

649
00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:23.359
first time we talked, and I think it was about

650
00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:25.240
the shot watch, right, it was shot watch.

651
00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:27.720
Yeah, it was about shot watch. That's exactly right. So

652
00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:32.839
I had no idea. You know how important you're You're

653
00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:35.519
what you're doing is I mean, it's fantastic.

654
00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:38.720
Really, I don't know that important. I'm just saying that

655
00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:40.519
it's important. No, we have a we have a far

656
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:43.000
reach because we're on the internet. You know, it's it's

657
00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:45.839
a global idea. I don't know if it's important, but

658
00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:49.279
what you're saying is important. I'm just giving you the soapbox.

659
00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:53.640
Well, I mean fellows like me that that have something

660
00:32:53.640 --> 00:32:56.440
to say about the golf swing, you know, whether you

661
00:32:56.680 --> 00:32:58.880
whether you agree or not. At least it's an opinion,

662
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:02.440
that's all there, and it's people thinking. And how would

663
00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:05.359
I do that if it wasn't for your company? You know,

664
00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:09.039
I'm surely not a household name in golf. I mean,

665
00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:10.759
you should be family.

666
00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:14.000
But we don't want to hear what they.

667
00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:19.720
Say about you at home, all right, So let's let

668
00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:23.240
everybody know. Now, please come to golf smarter dot com

669
00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:26.599
and pick up if you haven't already picked up Tony's book,

670
00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:30.759
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671
00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:33.279
one of the few who have not in the Golf

672
00:33:33.319 --> 00:33:38.440
Smarter audience. The book is only twenty dollars and plus shipping.

673
00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:41.000
Now we have to mention that they're shipping different shipping

674
00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:45.519
fees for overseas, for Canada and for the United States.

675
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:47.720
I think the United States it's like five bucks or something.

676
00:33:48.039 --> 00:33:51.119
But so the book is twenty dollars now. The DVD

677
00:33:51.400 --> 00:33:56.039
is available again. It's only available at Golfsmarter dot com

678
00:33:56.119 --> 00:33:59.640
or at the Loss Fundamental dot com. But you know

679
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:02.920
it's it's also lets Tony know where they're hearing about

680
00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:04.960
it when you buy it from us.

681
00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:06.559
And the DVD is.

682
00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:10.519
Well, you say, twenty nine ninety five thirty dollars plus

683
00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:14.360
the shipping. And the shipping comes from Tony, not for me,

684
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:17.599
but I just help him handle all the orders and

685
00:34:17.639 --> 00:34:20.320
it's an easier way to come. So please come to

686
00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:23.519
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687
00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:29.199
there and pick up one or both of Tony's latest

688
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689
00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:37.840
Tony Manzoni, you are a hero, my friend.

690
00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:40.719
I really enjoy talking to you and you are coming

691
00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:41.480
back soon right.

692
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:43.159
We're not sure.

693
00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:45.599
You may be back in next episode or two weeks,

694
00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:49.559
but we can't record anything today but because our schedules

695
00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:52.039
won't allow. But we will get you back on very

696
00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:54.519
soon because I still have more questions.

697
00:34:54.559 --> 00:34:57.320
fALS great to me, Tony, and thank you so much

698
00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:00.679
for the opportunity to tell you what might series are about.

699
00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:01.119
It also