March 17, 2026

Take Ownership of Your Swing. Now Repeat It! with Tony Manzoni (RIP)

Take Ownership of Your Swing. Now Repeat It! with Tony Manzoni (RIP)
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GS#408 October 29, 2013 - Tony Manzoni is 77 years old and is still shooting par. Lucky for us, he’s also an amazing teacher who has been a listener favorite on Golf Smarter for a long time. Outside of teaching, his instructional book, and DVD, he’s coached the College of the Desert Golf team to 27 Conference championships. His book “The Lost Fundamental - One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever” is available on Amazon. His video, originally a DVD, is only available through our website.  Each have received rave reviews. This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation with Tony. We get into more detail on swing mechanics in part 2.

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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Hey, 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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This episode, originally number four hundred eight, published in October

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of twenty thirteen, was the fifth time that Tony blessed

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us with his wisdom and insights to the effectiveness of

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his single pivot swing. Now, at this point we hadn't

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spoken to Tony in about eighteen months, so we brought

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him back to pick his brain for two weeks in

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a row. His book, The Loss Fundamental is available on Amazon,

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and his DVD, which we converted to a private link online,

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is also available when you write to me. For the

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most comprehensive information ever collected about Tony Manzoni, please go

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to Golfsmarter dot com. If you'd like access to the video,

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please write to me directly golf Smarter podcast at gmail

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dot com or click on the Heyfred button at golfsmarter

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dot com.

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Golf Smarter number four hundred eight published on October twenty nine,

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twenty thirteen. Take ownership of your swing, now repeat it

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with Tony Manzoni.

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This is golf Smarter sharing tips and insights from golfers

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and golf professionals to help lower your score.

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It's worked for your host, Fred Green. Welcome back to

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Golf Smarter, Tony.

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Thank you, Fred. It's great to be back.

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It has been way too long and since you know's

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it feels to me like recent history, but it's really

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not anymore. But we just surpassed four hundred episodes on

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Golf Smarter, and I've been looking for those instructors who've

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been on the show numerous times over the last eight

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years and said, who can I bring back to help

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celebrate four hundred episodes? You know, having the four hundred

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episode was kind of like a hole in one, or

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maybe even like when the Red Sox won the World

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Series the first time. It's like you just an dissipating

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it so much and then it happens. You can go,

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that's it.

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Yes, you want a duck to drop dollars.

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And guess as a grog, get it right exactly. But

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it's amazing to me the response that we've always had

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when when you come on the show, because people just

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love the loss fundamental, Well, I'm.

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Glad to hear that and and I get kind of

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the same results. The great thing that happens is when

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I give a golf lesson to someone and then I

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get a note maybe a month or two later saying

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I'm playing so much better and blah blah blah, or

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someone buys my book and calls me or sends me

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no saying I'm gonna stay enjoyed. Now. You know, that's

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every professionals dream that that you made some sense and

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you help them, And that's what that's what we're all

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trying to do, is we're trying to take somebody and

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improve their game. I think the majority of guys like

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me are really in it for the passion of watching

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someone grow in the game and get a little better

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and maybe even want to play the game more than

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than the money that we make.

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Well, it's kind of yeah, yeah, I mean it's kind

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of like where we come from in the podcast world.

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It's all about engagement, right, engaging engaging with your people,

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whether your customers, your clients, your patients, your listeners, whatever,

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it's engaging with them and getting that feedback it's incredible

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that you've earned it.

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Well, I like to think so. I've put a lot

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of years studying the game, and I made a lot

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of drastic changes in the way the way I present

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the information and hopefully it's getting better and more succinct. Uh.

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It's typical to talk too much when you're giving a

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golf lesson, but then you can't talk too little, so

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you can't have any dead spots like on the air

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when you're when you're broadcasting. Uh. And as I teach

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to my golf management students how to teach this game,

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it's really important that you create an atmosphere of learning

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and allow the person to be relaxed and not worry

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too much about hitting a bad job in front of you. Uh.

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Yeah, I think that a lot of people walk away

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from lessons, uh overloaded with information.

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It feels like on a lesson, especially, most people go

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in for one or two lessons and they're like, I'm

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going on vacation, fix my swing right, And so there's

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this information dump that comes from an instructor, especially that

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once to change everything that you do. And you're saying,

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I just want to hit my irons better, and you're like,

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well you've got to, You've got to change your swing.

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Yeah. If anyone's been played for any length of time,

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what you really want to do is take what they have,

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maybe set them up a little bit better the ball,

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but make sure that you can get them to repeat

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their action, because in the final analysis, you've got own

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your own swing. No matter what the concept you're trying

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to do, you've got to be able to repeat that.

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I mean, you know when you look at Trevino or

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the guys that ain't quite a bit left and blocked

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it right, or Furic that has that very loopy swing,

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but they repeat it, and that's the key. And that's

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definitely the key. Now. I think by not shifting a

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lot of weight to the right and then having to

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shift it all the way back, that eliminates that big

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timing element that most people can't do, especially after you

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get passed for it becomes almost impossible. So those kind

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of things you need to know. You need to know

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where your body is relative to the ball. But if

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you hoist it or you take it a little flat,

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I really don't think that means much as long as

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you do it every time.

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And I can't tell you how much impact that little

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piece that you just tossed away had on me, not

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just when I came down and played with you and

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had a friend of mine take a lesson from you

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as we videotaped it, and the golf Smarter TV video

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that we put on called Ben Hogan's Secret revealed that

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is just short one. It's received more views of any

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video that we've ever done here. It's it's so incredible

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that it's it's not about Oh, I'm talking about the

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hips way and that the slide to the right. Once

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I started keeping my lower body quiet, I was making

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much better contact and my back ache, my back aches

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at the end of a round were gone.

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Sure, because you're not indianping to reverse city. You're ended

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up what we call posted up in the swing. And

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you know, it's really nothing new. I mean the old

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times to stay stay in the barrel, Well, there's a

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lot to that. There really is a lot to say

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staying center to the ball. And if you look at

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film of Sneed or Hogan or Palmer or Nicholas or

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the guys that had long careers, they didn't move off

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the golf ball. They stayed on the ball, and they

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didn't purposely try to stay on it. It was the

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way they moved that kept them on the ball. And

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that's the key. You can't tell somebody don't move your

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head in the swing. That that's counterintuitive. What you want

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to say is, Okay, if that right side goes behind you,

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then the head can't move right if you if you're

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turning from the left side, you're going to you're gonna

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push back a little bit away from the ball, and

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then you have to get back to that starting position

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and get a little open and hit the ball. That's

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a lot to do in that millisecond. The down swing cakes.

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So uh, I hope it was just he figured this out,

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and I know he took it to his grave. But

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there is film that you could look at and if you,

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if you're a crazy person like me that will sit

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in front of a camera video and watch it over

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and over and over and slow it down and keep

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looking at it, you'll start seeing little nuances of the

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things that that man did. And he for sure played

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off the left side.

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Well, if you're a crazy person, then we're all crazy.

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I think.

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You got to really want to learn, you know, because

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as I tell my students, there's never a day that

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I don't I don't learn something about the golf swing,

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some little thing. I'll be teaching someone and I'll say

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something and I'll think to myself, I got to keep

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that as a mental note, and as soon as I'm

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done with this lesson, I got to grab a ball

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in a club and try that, because it's it's like

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it's like jazz singers. You know, you're improvising constantly. You're

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not hitting that same note you're on the melody, but

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you're hitting a bunch of different notes. Teaching is kind

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of that way, because that light bulb goes on with

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a phrase, but that phrase could be totally different for

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each and every person, even though you mean the same thing.

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I've had people take lessons from me for four or

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five lessons and I and I am repeating the same

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thing over and over again, and they'll say, oh, you've

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never told me that before, And I said to them, well,

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I guess I'm gonna have to tell you to you

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in another language because we've been speaking English most of

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the time and have been saying it over and over.

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But people here at times and don't. And as a teacher,

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you have to really be cognizant of that. That you

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have to be really clear, and you have to even

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ask the question you understand what I mean. And not

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only do you understand what I mean, I want you

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to show me what I'm trying to get you to do.

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When you can get on that kind of a basis

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with someone, then they're learning and you're teaching.

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Well, I want to do a quick recap for people

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who are just being introduced to you to the first time,

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because you know, there are always new people discovering golf

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smarter and I greatly appreciate that. And you have been

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on so many times. We've been face to face, we've

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been on the phone. But I'll give me a brief

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history of when you started playing golf and what your

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golf career was and where you are today.

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Well, I started as a caddy like most people from

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my era. I was about eleven years old, went through

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the caddy ranks, borrowed clubs from the pro that he discarded,

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got a mixed bag of club to start playing the game.

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I was a pretty good baseball player, so I had

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good eye hand coordination, so I immediately hit the ball

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pretty far from my size and that carried on through

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my golf life until now. I'm a little older, so

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get along the two that don't hit it as far

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as I work on my shirt gain. But during that

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period of time, I came up with what I saw

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and what I heard is how to deliver the golf

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club to the ball, and not knowing that the majority

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of what I saw and what I heard were cliches

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that had been passed on through the years and not

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really based on any real truth fact. There was really

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more theory or what someone felt they were doing. And

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we know that a lot of terrain pros will write

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a book and they'll say this is what I do,

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but then when you watch them in film, they're not

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doing that. It's just that's the sensation they have. So

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you have to be careful about words. Are they actually

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are they actually the motor that drives a swing? And

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as I continue my education, you know I was a

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very handsy arm swing player free arm swing. I bought

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it into that and I played pretty good, but under pressure,

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I always hooked the golf ball. I always hooked it

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and got myself in trouble. And through the years, you

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know I played, I was good enough to play by

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qualifying to play the tour, and that we didn't have

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the right to qualifying systems that they have today. You

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just went on Monday and like they call us rabbits,

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and you try to qualify and I did on a

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number of occasions, and I got to play, but I

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always hit that wall. I was. I was quick out

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of the gate two three hundred, real quick, and then

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whip one out of bounds and then blocked the next

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one right because I'm trying not to ofk the next

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one and so forth. So that fought that, and I

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realized that I didn't have you know, and and not

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rightly so, because I felt like, well, I just don't

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have the talent for this. But the truth was I

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didn't have the information, and unfortunately for me, I got

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the information too late to do anything about it. So

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I decided, you know, I'm going to give this information

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to people that have had the dream of being a player,

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to have the dream of playing, or somebody that just

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wants to play better and not have to practice so much.

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So as I evolved as a teacher, one lucky day,

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a gentleman came in my office and said, I've got

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a letter copy of a letter written by Ben Hogan

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about the golf swing, and also video that really wasn't authorized,

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was kind of home video, and you know, Hogan didn't

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like his swing video. After I read the letter, you know,

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it said something in there that was read flag to me.

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He said, when I'm at the top of the swing,

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I'm on the instep of my left foot, and I thought, well,

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doesn't he mean right foot? And then I watched the

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video and it was exactly that. And I went out

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and I started hitting balls that way because in my

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mind I was thinking, well, am I going to reverse

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my wight shift? But I didn't. I got more on

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the ball and address, and I moved through the ball

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during the impact, and all of a sudden, my iron

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play got real crisp. I quit it in a thin

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and fat and I started. I started using some students

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of minus guinea pigs, trying to set them up more

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left sided, and so that they because you know, no

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matter how you take the club back, you've got to

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be on the left side of where you're hitting the

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golf ball. So I got them a little bit more

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on the left side, I say, sixty forty, and I

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did that, and this thing started evolving. I thought, Holy Macro,

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I got lightning in the jar. And a bunch of

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my students said, you've got to write a book. You've

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got to get this information out. And in the process

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of writing the book, stack until came out, which is

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it's similar and so out of but not in the

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action action because they they really finished in kind of

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a reverse sea and I don't believe in that. I

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think that creates a lot of strain on the on

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the body, and I think that's actually an unnatural way

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to finish. I think posted up as better. Uh, and

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my elderly players who never get off the right side

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found that they could get to the left side for

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the first time in many, many years. And that's the

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proof of the pudding for me.

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Amazing. And then you went on and started coaching on

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the college level after you know how.

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Yeah, as I told you, I got involved. I got

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involved with Callowey Golf. It wasn't Callowey Golf and I

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was involved with it was called Hickory Stick and I

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made the cold call to Elee Calloway to get him

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involved with increased the golf club company. In the first call,

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he came down to look at him, walked away and said,

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I wish you could luck. And then about two weeks later,

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because we couldn't make payroll, I called him again and

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he said, it's funny that you call. I've been thinking

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about being involved with you, and he bought up partners

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out and then made myself, Richard Parrenti and Elie Calloway.

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We were all thirty three and third partners in a

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new company called Callawai Stick and then it became Calallei Golf,

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And of course the story is a beautiful story because

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it's a billion dollar company. And I think I made

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one of the great cool calls in golf, for sure.

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And then from that point after I left, Calloway cashed

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out in my stock and so forth, I wanted to

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do something in golf give back. College of the Den

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had a piece of property that I raised the money

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to build a golf facility on a driving range, classrooms

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and a little museum, and it's continued to evolve. I

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got lucky and got the golf team, and this is

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our twenty seventh year in a row. We won the

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conference championship. That's going to be a record somewhere.

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Twenty seven years in a row. You've won the conference championship.

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Twenty seven years in early and we're going to try

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to win it this year, the twenty eighth. We won

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the state championship a number of times under my tutelage

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and we won. We won what we call the Southern

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California Regional Championship a number of times, and I've you know,

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I've been blessed. We're in a wonderful area. We were

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one of the few campuses that as a driving range

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in a golf academy on campus, so that helps. I'd

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like to think that a percentage of the success came

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from me, from my teaching. But it's been a win

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win for me. And as I tell everyone, this is

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the best thing I ever did in golf. And I

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mean I qualified for the Senior Masters, and the day

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I qualified, I think I probably called everyone I ever

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met to tell them that I qualified. And I've had

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some moments in golf, but nothing has fulfilled me like

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working with young people and teaching them golf and teaching

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them what how they're supposed to act when they win

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and lose, teaching them, you know, character and some of

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the things that I've seen from the greats how they acted.

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Arnold Palmer is a perfect example of a guy that

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conducts himself so well. Everyone loves Arnie. You can't help

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but love him. He's just a great man. And I

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try to pass those things on to the especially in

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today's world where you got kids with their pants down,

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you see their underwear, all that stuff like that, And

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I try to explain to them why that's to turn.

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I understand. When I was a kid, my folks hated

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the music I listened to, and I think that's with

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every generation. But I try to tell them, you know,

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how you have to prioritize and how you have to

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have a goal now and you have to start working

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towards that goal and these other things like music and style,

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those are okay, but that can't be unless you're a

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hip hop artist or you're a music artist or something.

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You can't go well looking like that because everyone's judged

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the first cliance, know so, So I found my niche.

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I really like mentoring and I love coaching, and I

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love to watch some of these kids hit that ball

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farther than I ever dreamed.

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Wow. All right, and you've you've revealed a couple of

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things here, but I hope you don't mind me asking

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how old are you.

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I'm a seventy seven as of July Tause when you.

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Said from my era, no one says that unless you're

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from that era.

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Yeah, Well there was there was big animals walking the land.

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Oh well, that's because you're in the Palm Springs area

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and it's just everyone's away.

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Well, I'm very lucky. I I want to say, knock

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on wood, but it's hard to find wood nowadays, but

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knock on plastic. I am in really good shape and

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I work at it. I have to work at it.

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And being around young people helps me work at it

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because typically they're all pretty fit these days, and so

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we can of about nutrition and doing all the right things.

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And you know, I love to hear Gary Player talk

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about put Kouman on everything you eat. You know, he's

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a marvel that guy. And more people that would copy

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him and some of these other artists, they'd be better

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off for it.

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And at seventy seven years old, I'm sure you know,

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like this is going to enhance credibility for you, Like crazy,

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what are you shooting these days?

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I still shoot far?

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And how far do you drive the ball.

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To sixty five? Well? I pop it. I can get

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it off for about to ead. I don't know.

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Yeah, but everybody gets really well downhill. I mean, when

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you're on a normal drive, is that really what you're

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doing on normal.

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Di My normal drive is in the it's over to fifty,

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you know. With me, I'm in that to sixty range.

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Like I say, every now and then, I cook one

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and you know, you get a turnover a little bit

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and it'll get out there. I can get out there

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pretty good still. You know, I can still reach par

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fives and stuff. I used to hit it well over

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three hundred yards and I was just a skinny kid,

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but I was very flippy wristed, and you know, and

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that was with a percimon would. But I can still

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move it a little bit, you know. I mean my

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golf team, everybody hits the three hundred yards. They got

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arms three inches around and they hit a three hundred yards.

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It's just crazy.

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So what kind of new things have you discovered with

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your recent crop of young studs over at College of

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the Desert.

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Well, you know what, I'm finding, they're not so reluctant

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to listen. They're more curious about the golf. So again,

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part of it is because they see the record we've compiled.

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And I'm not going to say that every player that

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plays for me plays off the left side, but a

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lot of them have changed to it. And when I

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explained it to them, they realize that mathematically it could

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makes sense. It's not very It's just that, look, if

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we got to get to the left side, and when

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we hit the golf ball, the farther we get to

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the right, the harder is to get to the left.

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There's a whole bunch of things happening on that downsling

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that you've got a time and we want to eliminate

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timing as much as we can in the golfling. And

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so if we can rotate on a axis instead of

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two but one, if we can trap the club against

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our body via the connection of our arms to our body,

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then as we rotate, the club face stays square through impact.

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And it's easy to do physically. So you know, for

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the older generation out there, they say, yeah, but that

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you've got to be young to do that. Know, it's

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the opposite. The older you are, you know, you're going

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to find it much more efficient. And the key here

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is that you can square the club to the ball easier,

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so you get a lot of square hits.

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You know.

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I've got clients, believe me, late in their eighties that

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are said, tell me, they're hitting the ball farther now

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than they did fifteen twenty years ago because for the

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first time in their life, they know they they're hitting

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the sweet spot. When you're throwing that club from the top,

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they're trying to roll your hands over. Good luck, Charlie,

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because you may hit on a year, or if you're

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practicing out eight hours a day, then maybe you can

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do that. But who practices over a half hour a day,

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you know, So it's a godsend. I was very lucky

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that someone walked in my office and gave me a

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letter in a video because it changed the way I teach,

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and consequently it's helped everyone I work with, whether they're

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I've got a girl that I worked with two years,

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player of the Year last year. Her name is June Jangs.

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She's on my video and she's winning everything and she's

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now going on to the regionals of the state. And

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I mean, you watch you hit a ball, you just

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go crazy. I mean, she's a fifteen year old girl

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that can hit it to sixty two seventy. And that's

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not an exaggeration because when we play, she keeps it

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up with me. When she busts, when she's got to

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ride by her buy me and I tell her don't

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do that anymore. But it's it's wonderful. And I just

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took on a seven year old Korean boy that I'm

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going to tell you. I'm gonna tell you something. I'm

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going to film. I'm going to take a film of

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the Indian golf ball and I'm going to send it

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to you, and it's going to shock you.

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Seventies are seventeen seven years old, seven years old, seven

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years old and clocks.

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I mean, I mean, he hits an out there where

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you say that's not possible, and he puts like a madman.

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And I can't take a lot of credit for this.

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His dad came to me and I watched this little

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boy on the on the driving range, and it was

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like watching a little Ben Hogan. And his dad came.

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He said, which you take give my boy lessons? And

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I said, well, yeah, but you know you've done a

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really good job. He says he won't listen to me.

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He won't listen to me anymore, which is cracked up.

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So I took him on. And of course I don't

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charge kids. I'm you know, it's for me. I get

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such a reward by teaching him and watch him. And

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the first thing I found is when I talked to him.

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He was really shy all I. He was a top

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of his head. So I said, you know, you have

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to look at me and I talked to you. So

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at the end of the lesson, I said, sim, okay, Ivan,

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what have you learned today? He said, well, you told

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me I have to set up a little better at

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the ball and take it back a little bit more

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with the bigger should return. And I have to look

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at you when you talk to me. And you know,

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I just I just thought, oh, man, you know that's

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00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:26.319
that's really cool that he was listening.

472
00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:28.960
Wow, And can you share his name?

473
00:24:31.079 --> 00:24:33.039
I don't even know the last name. His name is Ivan,

474
00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:36.319
and he's a he's a I said, Korean. He's a

475
00:24:36.319 --> 00:24:39.000
little Japanese. I excuse me, a little Chinese boy, okay.

476
00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:41.079
And the next time I talked to I'll tell you

477
00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:44.839
that the girl June Jang and she's Korean uh, and

478
00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:49.079
she's going to be you watch. You will see her

479
00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:50.680
on the tour and not only will she make the tour,

480
00:24:50.759 --> 00:24:52.319
she will win on the tour. She's that good.

481
00:24:52.599 --> 00:24:52.839
Wow.

482
00:24:53.640 --> 00:24:53.960
Wow.

483
00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:56.640
Yeah, Well, please send me video. I want to see

484
00:24:56.680 --> 00:24:58.440
this and we'll definitely put it up on the website

485
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and let people see it.

486
00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:02.839
If you've got to see this, I got to just

487
00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:06.039
give you a quick little story. After a lesson of

488
00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:08.920
this last Tuesday, I brought him over back to the

489
00:25:09.079 --> 00:25:10.799
We were on the turf way back, and I brought

490
00:25:10.839 --> 00:25:12.400
him back to the front of the range where a

491
00:25:12.519 --> 00:25:14.359
lot of my golf team, where I said, okay, guys,

492
00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:16.799
I'm going to show you how's supposed hit a T ball.

493
00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:19.319
He teed that ball up and he hit it. I

494
00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:20.920
don't know how far he hit it, but it was

495
00:25:21.079 --> 00:25:24.960
crazy far for a kid that and he's a small seven,

496
00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:27.240
but he's got this lag right at the bottom that

497
00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:30.680
God gave him. Okay, and he busted it, and I said,

498
00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:32.519
I just want to show you that that wasn't luck.

499
00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:34.319
I pied another one up and get this a little farther.

500
00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:37.200
I mean, he's got you know, he just can't wait

501
00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:40.400
to show off. So it's it's a beautiful thing.

502
00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:42.960
Yeah, he's seven, of course old. He wanted to show

503
00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:43.720
people what he can do.

504
00:25:44.119 --> 00:25:44.279
Well.

505
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You know, it's so interesting because I've had many conversations

506
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with people and have asked this question of many instructors

507
00:25:51.559 --> 00:25:54.680
and you know, about getting young people started, because I

508
00:25:54.759 --> 00:25:56.720
you know, people go hi, how much my ten year

509
00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:59.200
old practice? Or how when should I? What should I?

510
00:25:59.400 --> 00:26:01.519
How do I get get interested in golf? And I

511
00:26:01.559 --> 00:26:04.000
always talk about just start at the putting green, the

512
00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:08.440
practice putting green. It's it's free, it's easy to figure out.

513
00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:11.119
It's a way to compete with the kid that lets

514
00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:13.319
them do it. Because hitting a golf ball is so

515
00:26:13.480 --> 00:26:17.319
difficult for anybody, and and you know, it's so easy

516
00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:20.039
to get discouraged by hitting a golf ball. But if putting,

517
00:26:20.119 --> 00:26:22.000
if you can fall in love with putting as a

518
00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:25.599
little kid and it just becomes a second nature to you,

519
00:26:26.039 --> 00:26:27.880
then everything else opens up for you.

520
00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:32.000
That's right. And then when you search for an instruct instructor,

521
00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:37.519
find someone that really really enjoys teaching young people that

522
00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:40.640
that's that they have a passion for it, because they'll

523
00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:44.000
be patient and they won't overload them, and they won't

524
00:26:44.279 --> 00:26:46.119
it won't be don't do that and don't do this,

525
00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:53.000
It'll be it'll be taught positively. Most PGA professionals have

526
00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:55.799
some idea about this, but there's a lot of people

527
00:26:55.839 --> 00:27:00.279
that are not PGA professionals that are wonderful teachers. You've

528
00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:02.119
got to be real careful with that first one. And

529
00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:05.519
the reason I say this with June, her parents came

530
00:27:05.559 --> 00:27:08.599
to me and said, will you teach her daughter? And

531
00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:11.759
by the way, she hates golf. And I said, why

532
00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:14.160
doesn't she hate golf? Well, she had a lesson and

533
00:27:14.680 --> 00:27:16.799
she just couldn't do it. She couldn't hold the club,

534
00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:19.440
she just couldn't do it. So I sat her down

535
00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:21.359
and I said, I understand you really don't like golf.

536
00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:23.920
She says, no, it's too hard. I said, well, how

537
00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:26.599
about if I give you a lesson and then you

538
00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:28.720
make a determination if you want to continue, and she

539
00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:32.799
said okay, and we hit it off. And I knew

540
00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:35.119
what to do with her because I've done this enough

541
00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:39.000
to know what to do. And now if you ask

542
00:27:39.079 --> 00:27:41.359
her the question, what do you think about golf, she says,

543
00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:46.359
I love golf. And so it's, you know, it's that

544
00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:51.680
initial moment when someone is helping them that they understand

545
00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:54.599
that this is such a great game and you can

546
00:27:54.759 --> 00:27:58.440
really do this, and you have to instill those feelings.

547
00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:03.039
And it can't be penal, especially in the SOTY. I

548
00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:07.400
should never be penal number one. But you just can't.

549
00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:12.119
You can't make them worry about performance. Initially, it's like

550
00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:14.279
a dance. I'm teaching you a dance, and we all

551
00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:16.319
look a little funnier, and we dance, and I always

552
00:28:16.519 --> 00:28:19.000
do a little dance and they laugh and and we

553
00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:23.400
break the eye sole. I really caution people this. First

554
00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:25.279
of all, this is one of the greatest games a

555
00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:29.680
young person could learn. For business, for pleasure, for a

556
00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:33.480
social you meet quality people. So get your kids on

557
00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:36.200
the golf course, get them playing this great game. But

558
00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:39.480
make sure that, like going to a doctor, pickoff someone

559
00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:42.920
that that that knows what they're doing. Don't be looking

560
00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:46.640
for a bargain basement deal. If you're if you're in

561
00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:49.920
palm desert, and the deal's real good because it doesn't

562
00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:50.599
cost you anything.

563
00:28:51.319 --> 00:28:51.960
Go to donuts.

564
00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:54.920
You know a thousand kids are going. But no, I

565
00:28:55.240 --> 00:28:57.079
you know, I have a rule. I always have had

566
00:28:57.119 --> 00:29:00.160
that rule. I won't charge up until about six ten

567
00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:05.160
years old, and really sixteen, I can't. I just can't

568
00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:05.400
do it.

569
00:29:05.680 --> 00:29:07.680
I mean, I, well, it's very generous with you.

570
00:29:08.440 --> 00:29:11.559
Well, you know that's it's my time. I can do

571
00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:13.119
what I want with it. Really, that's how I feel

572
00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:15.960
about it. And I promise you I get as much

573
00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:18.480
out of as they do. You know. You know, as

574
00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.559
I tell my students, when you're generous, you get a

575
00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:25.440
lot more than the person you're giving to. And that's

576
00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:28.039
what I can tell you. That should be written in stone.

577
00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:33.119
And I really believe that. And when I even comes

578
00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:35.759
as shows Up or June or whoever I'm teaching, and

579
00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:40.119
I can't wait, I'm chomping at the bit. And that's

580
00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:43.519
how you should be. I'm not special. That's the way

581
00:29:43.559 --> 00:29:44.200
you're supposed to be.

582
00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:47.599
Well, if anybody ever is considering taking a lesson from

583
00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:49.759
Tony or wanted to take him up on this offer

584
00:29:49.839 --> 00:29:54.279
about you're under sixteen years old, do me the favor.

585
00:29:54.599 --> 00:29:56.480
If you're going to book time for your child with

586
00:29:56.839 --> 00:29:59.200
book an hour for yourself too. I mean, give the

587
00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:03.119
guy something, throw a bone. You can both go out

588
00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:04.720
and get a lesson. He's not going to charge you

589
00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:05.799
for your kid, but let him.

590
00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:06.440
You know.

591
00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:12.559
Anyway that you should know is that Tony has a

592
00:30:13.119 --> 00:30:17.359
book and an accompanying DVD that the only place you

593
00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:20.400
can find these are on Tony's website and at golfsmarter

594
00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:20.880
dot com.

595
00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:22.079
It really is?

596
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:23.640
Is that still true?

597
00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:25.160
Yes?

598
00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:25.680
Okay?

599
00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:29.759
So the book is called The Loss Fundamental One Simple

600
00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:33.440
Move Better Golf Forever. And then there's a complimentary DVD

601
00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:37.359
called The Lost Fundamental. You can buy as a combo

602
00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:39.759
or you can buy individually whatever you'd like, but please

603
00:30:39.839 --> 00:30:41.880
go to golf Smarter dot com or go to the

604
00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:44.000
golf Smarter app. You can purchase it right off of

605
00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:46.400
the app, the free app that we now have for

606
00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:48.640
both Apple and Android, and you can buy it from

607
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:52.039
there and Tony will send it to you directly. Order

608
00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:53.519
comes to me, but I send it to Tony and

609
00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:55.960
he sends it out. I don't fulfill it, but you

610
00:30:56.160 --> 00:31:00.279
should really consider it's not a thick book. It's an

611
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:04.759
effective book and it's same with the DVD and check

612
00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.480
out on our When you're in the app, go into

613
00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:11.079
videos and find Ben Hogan's Secret Revealed to find the

614
00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:14.599
video that Tony and I did together. Tony, I have

615
00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:17.359
based on the things that we've already discussed. I had

616
00:31:17.559 --> 00:31:20.640
so many more questions that I want to get into

617
00:31:20.759 --> 00:31:24.039
details on swing mechanics, which I don't do a lot,

618
00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:26.960
but I trust you there's some questions that I have

619
00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:29.079
and some things that you said, you know, like when

620
00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:31.880
you talked about when you were under pressure you hooked

621
00:31:31.880 --> 00:31:35.000
the ball that to me is absolutely fascinating. So can

622
00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:37.839
we spend some more time doing a member's only episode?

623
00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:42.920
Absolutely awesome. All right, Tony, we're going to do this

624
00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:46.839
again for at least another thirty minutes, starting in just

625
00:31:46.920 --> 00:31:49.000
a moment. All right, thank you very much. I really

626
00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:51.079
I really enjoy talking to you, and I'm so glad

627
00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:51.839
you're back on the show.