1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,879 Hey, Fred, this is David from New Bruns with Canada and my favorite 2 00:00:04,919 --> 00:00:11,880 course is mac kleck Provincial Parts and this is episode nine fifty one. I 3 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:16,280 feel like I taught so much like him and didn't know exist. But Tony 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,839 talks about what matters, and what really matters. He boils it down to 5 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,079 is how do you strike this ball? Well? Everything is built around hitting 6 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,559 the ball first and having a good strike point. His whole process of building 7 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,480 up of being more over the ball, a little more centered over it instead 8 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,119 of feeling this big shift off of it and then big shift back. Let's 9 00:00:34,119 --> 00:00:38,280 separate differencetween mass and pressure movements. The pros are moving more pressure, not 10 00:00:38,359 --> 00:00:41,679 a lot of mass, and the amateurs move a lot of mass and not 11 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,399 much pressure. So they're moving their mass way over their right foot than trying 12 00:00:45,399 --> 00:00:47,920 to get it back over left. They never get it back front. So 13 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,560 most golfers are going to be way better off by figuring out how do I 14 00:00:51,679 --> 00:00:55,960 rotate much more right over the ball, and I'm going to figure out how 15 00:00:56,039 --> 00:00:59,520 to hit in front of this ball and strike the ball much better. Everything 16 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:11,079 Tony did was based on that golf is hard, but it doesn't have to 17 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:15,799 be if you know what you're looking to improve. With Eric Sholberg, this 18 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:22,200 is Golf Smarter, sharing stories, tips and insights from great golf minds to 19 00:01:22,239 --> 00:01:26,879 help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ. Here's your host, 20 00:01:26,239 --> 00:01:33,079 Fred Green. Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast. Eric right, thank 21 00:01:33,079 --> 00:01:36,159 you for having me on. It's a pleasure to be back in an honor 22 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:38,280 once again. Oh dude, you know you were my go to guy. 23 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:42,359 It's like, oh, I need I haven't talked to Eric in four months. 24 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,640 It's time to get him back on the show. We've got to get 25 00:01:45,719 --> 00:01:51,719 him back because you always have some really great insights about teaching and about methods 26 00:01:52,239 --> 00:01:56,680 and about simple mistakes that people make that they don't realize they're doing. So 27 00:01:57,359 --> 00:01:59,760 I always learned so much to when I have you on the show. So 28 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:01,280 thank you, thank you. I feel like I get a lot of that 29 00:02:01,359 --> 00:02:05,519 with golf. I do teach a lot of people that are like in my 30 00:02:05,599 --> 00:02:07,199 year lone programs where I'm seeing weekly, but a lot of people are like, 31 00:02:07,199 --> 00:02:09,719 hey, Eric, what I got this going on? You know tomorrow? 32 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,759 What am I going to do? And I've been doing this and so 33 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:15,960 I feel like I do it for a lot of golfers to what you're a 34 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:20,599 golfer to give me an example that's really interesting, Like what was the most 35 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:23,520 recent one that you heard. Hey, Eric, I need help because well, 36 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:29,000 so I really feel like it's something usually around how they're striking the ball. 37 00:02:29,439 --> 00:02:32,280 You know, it's just it's not and usually how they analyze it is 38 00:02:32,319 --> 00:02:38,439 typically wrong. So Eric, I've been recently doing this or doing this, 39 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:42,159 but and I think my hips are doing this, my shoulder is doing this. 40 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,960 And I get down to talking to more about it, and you find 41 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:47,400 out their strike points are really bad. They're hitting it behind it or they're 42 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:51,520 topping it or something, and we talk about really like a lot of times, 43 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,719 I'll just give them a good routine, a good free shot routine. 44 00:02:53,719 --> 00:02:55,360 So I usually obviously had notes people first, So we talked about, hey, 45 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,919 do you remember that drill we did do this drill before you hit and 46 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:02,039 then change your focus when you're hitting the ball to just hitting in front and 47 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:06,639 pick that spot in front of the ball. And it's very rare. They 48 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:08,439 don't call me back and let me know they had a great round, and 49 00:03:08,479 --> 00:03:12,360 you know it wasn't because probably maybe the advice was so great it's just that 50 00:03:12,439 --> 00:03:15,960 they changed their mental thought too. Instead of like, oh, I'm gonna 51 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:17,919 go out tomorrow and focus on turning my hips more or doing this on my 52 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,639 shoulder, they're going to change their whole thought process to hey, I'm going 53 00:03:21,719 --> 00:03:24,680 to hit four inches in front of this ball with my irons, and they 54 00:03:24,719 --> 00:03:29,400 have a great round. But it was just their mindset had changed off hitting 55 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,639 two more swinging, you know. Yeah. So I think we've learned many 56 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:38,080 times from a lot of different people, from coaches to doctors to psychologists, 57 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:43,439 that when you focus on your physical space, when you focus on what you're 58 00:03:43,479 --> 00:03:46,560 doing, you're not going to have success. Oh you're done. It's just 59 00:03:46,639 --> 00:03:50,240 our body does a really good job, which I'm sure a lot of your 60 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,599 listeners have already heard of organizing the self and we just screw it up. 61 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,080 Now. I do tell everybody on your practice wing you can think about fifty 62 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,400 two things if you want, yeah, and go through that process because that's 63 00:04:00,439 --> 00:04:03,400 your To me, I really believe this. Our body gets a chance to 64 00:04:03,439 --> 00:04:06,439 move the way we want it to, and our practice swing it says, 65 00:04:06,439 --> 00:04:09,560 hey, I want to do this. Then when we get up to hit, 66 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,479 hopefully it kind of repeats that body movement if we're giving it a good 67 00:04:12,479 --> 00:04:15,000 one to do, and then we can focus on that strike point. Or 68 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 I usually say you think of one backswing movement if you have a little backswing, 69 00:04:17,319 --> 00:04:19,959 or a takeaway thought. But after that takeaway thought or something, you 70 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:26,879 better focus on something ahead of the ball. Yeah, And I feel that 71 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:32,439 way myself. It's I'm always wondering, you know. I can go through 72 00:04:32,439 --> 00:04:39,240 all these different thought processes when I'm setting up and I'm taking my practice swings. 73 00:04:39,759 --> 00:04:42,360 But once I step up to the ball, you know, and we've 74 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:46,439 heard this so many times, it's just focus on something external, whether it 75 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:53,680 be the mark in front of the ball, of centering myself over the front 76 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:58,480 edge of the ball. Right, Yeah, But once I start thinking about 77 00:04:58,759 --> 00:05:06,560 my swing mechanics, everything goes to hell in a handbasket. And what I 78 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:12,040 I've had this thought in my head twice now and it's disappeared both times that 79 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,920 I don't know. Well, you know you've had You've had Gabriel wolf On. 80 00:05:18,959 --> 00:05:24,160 That's okay, Well you've had Gabriel wolf On and with the external thoughts 81 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:30,079 and I can't remember who our partners that, but they've It's funny since that 82 00:05:30,399 --> 00:05:31,759 there has been a paper that came out and I think it was in the 83 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:38,839 last year that disputed that somewhat. And it's kind of funny because, yeah, 84 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:43,639 because it's it's funny because I think I don't. I think there's so 85 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,160 much validity to the external thoughts for people having them. But I think what 86 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:49,680 people take away from it where it can go wrong is I can just be 87 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:54,399 external. You have to have some form and function right, And I think 88 00:05:54,399 --> 00:05:56,800 that's where some of that gets thrown off as someone goes, oh, I 89 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,319 can just think external about this and think external about that. Yes you want 90 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:01,560 to, but there still has to be Golf is such a game. There 91 00:06:01,639 --> 00:06:05,120 has to be pretty, there has to be some good sequencing at certain times 92 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,879 in your golf swing, right, there has to be a good impact to 93 00:06:08,959 --> 00:06:12,360 hit it well. There just are some certain things that we have to and 94 00:06:12,399 --> 00:06:15,040 maybe that can be part of our external focus, but there's quite a few 95 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,480 things in golf that we have to do and I think it has to be 96 00:06:18,519 --> 00:06:21,279 done right. But there's still some form and function that has to be done 97 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,480 and how do we get that in and then add in the external thoughts and 98 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,600 how it was worded I think was a little weird in the in the study. 99 00:06:30,639 --> 00:06:33,120 But I just feel like I still think there's huge I think a lot 100 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,759 of pe coaches like going, oh hey, this proves it now, you 101 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,639 know, external is not the only answer. It's like, no, it's 102 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,319 like life really, and it's all it's usually about balance. There's something in 103 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,319 there that it's not all one way. It's usually some of both. But 104 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,920 we all everybody knows that thinking about too much in your swing never help. 105 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,079 Has never helped anybody. No, it doesn't help. And I remember what 106 00:06:54,199 --> 00:06:57,079 I was going to say, and I wrote it down. So like when 107 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:01,360 I you play with people and they're like tweaky and making adjustments all through the 108 00:07:01,439 --> 00:07:04,439 round. Oh I can't hit this today. I'm gonna start doing this now. 109 00:07:04,439 --> 00:07:06,959 And I'm gonna start doing this now. No, it's like I just 110 00:07:08,079 --> 00:07:14,240 remind myself, you just because you had a bad may bad contact this time, 111 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,839 not even say a bad shot, because once the ball leaves the club 112 00:07:16,839 --> 00:07:20,879 face, you have no control whatsoever. So all you really can control is 113 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:28,240 what you can do. And yeah, so often if I have bad contact, 114 00:07:28,319 --> 00:07:30,680 instead of trying to like what I do what I do, I just 115 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,120 try to remind myself, you know, you've hit this club properly before. 116 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:38,879 You know, you've had success with this before. Yeah, just let it 117 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,680 go in. It'll happen again. It's not gonna happen every single time. 118 00:07:42,759 --> 00:07:45,360 It doesn't. You watch it on TV. It doesn't for them either. 119 00:07:45,959 --> 00:07:48,759 No, it's right, But that's golf. That's why we get sucked in. 120 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:53,040 We do get sucked in. I do think we need to have a 121 00:07:53,079 --> 00:07:57,160 priority on striking the ball well, and I think I think pretty much anybody 122 00:07:57,199 --> 00:07:59,600 can do that. And by what I mean striking ball well is hitting in 123 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:01,720 front of it with anything that's on the ground, not a driver, but 124 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:05,560 I think anybody can get to that point. Now you have the balls going 125 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:07,800 right and left a little bit and may have too much curvature because of pathing 126 00:08:07,879 --> 00:08:11,120 that. But I think it should be everybody's goal to strike the ball first, 127 00:08:11,319 --> 00:08:13,399 and that's my goal. If anybody come and sees me, I think 128 00:08:13,399 --> 00:08:18,519 anybody should walk around the course and the fat and then topping it. That's 129 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,800 all low point issues, and I don't I think that's just you have low 130 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,399 point issues. You shouldn't be working on something with your shoulders or your hips 131 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:28,519 or thing about that you should be thinking about what do I have to do 132 00:08:28,519 --> 00:08:30,680 to get in front of the ball? Now? Could the shoulder and hips 133 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,120 be part of it with what you're doing, Sure, but your first thing 134 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:37,159 should be to find a really good coach who understands how to get you hitting 135 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,799 the ball better that day and doesn't tell you something like, hey, you 136 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,360 got to get worse to get better. You should get better right away when 137 00:08:43,399 --> 00:08:46,600 you go see somebody, and that should be learning to hit the ball better, 138 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,240 like better strikes. So yeah, I have friend like it, and 139 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:56,360 people that I know is like they'll take a lesson and they won't necessarily work 140 00:08:56,399 --> 00:09:00,720 on it, right, They'll take the lessons like, oh great, how 141 00:09:00,759 --> 00:09:03,080 was your lesson? Oh my lesson was really good? So what are you 142 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,960 doing to work on that? Yeah, I went out and played golf when 143 00:09:07,039 --> 00:09:11,279 about a couple weeks later, So you didn't practice anything that you learned for 144 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,679 those couple of weeks, and then you thought it was just going to come 145 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,600 back when you walked into the golf course and to play around, like, 146 00:09:16,799 --> 00:09:20,320 yeah, it doesn't work that way, man, It usually doesn't work that 147 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:24,639 way, doesn't it. You got to practice it, and I know it's 148 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:26,320 hard to practice. I know, life gets in the way of practice. 149 00:09:26,879 --> 00:09:33,559 So don't take lessons and no, I stay away from YouTube sick. Well 150 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,320 there's a bigger one. I think YouTube is a bigger problem. Like you 151 00:09:35,399 --> 00:09:41,120 said earlier, how they analyze themselves And it's like I wanted to ask you, 152 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,600 I wrote it down, how do they analyze it? Well, they 153 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:48,000 saw a video on YouTube? Right, Yeah. Well the fundamental problem is 154 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,440 is you're analyzing if I even if I were to analyze my swing and if 155 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,840 I didn't have it on video, and I don't know, I'm going off 156 00:09:56,879 --> 00:09:58,279 some feel I have and say, okay, I'm going to change my swing 157 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,320 based on this, Like how do I know? And then the other thing, 158 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,960 you're taking a lot of amateurs who don't understand the golf sum well, 159 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,279 and they're saying, oh, I'm doing this with my shoulder, hips or 160 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,159 legs or whatever, and it's like, well, first of all, you 161 00:10:09,159 --> 00:10:11,759 don't even see that you're really doing that. You're going off some feel that 162 00:10:11,799 --> 00:10:16,000 you're feeling or somebody. Guy, somebody told you that you're you're playing with. 163 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,759 I gave a lesson to a guy recently. His buddy told him that 164 00:10:20,799 --> 00:10:22,759 the club was going like this all over the place when he's getting ready to 165 00:10:22,799 --> 00:10:26,360 hit it. Within the last foot, the guy was moving the club fase 166 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:28,840 up and like just it was moving all over the place right before he's getting 167 00:10:28,879 --> 00:10:31,759 hit it, and he's just stop that. I was going, Well, 168 00:10:31,759 --> 00:10:37,320 that guy's got some really good eyes and there. It would be impossible for 169 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:39,279 the club to have any kind of movement like that before it hit the ball, 170 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,240 But he was hitting some of them toes on the heel. It's because 171 00:10:43,279 --> 00:10:45,960 he was not He didn't have the club coming through straight. He was moving 172 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,039 his hands all up and down right before impact, and it's making the club 173 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:52,120 go up and down like this way. So he couldn't hit a square that 174 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:56,039 was going and that's what he thought he was doing wrong. So it's a 175 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:58,480 lot of perception. And the problem is you go to YouTube and you're trying 176 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:03,720 to fix a that you may not even have, or you're going about something's 177 00:11:03,759 --> 00:11:07,600 built for somebody else and like me, and you shouldn't fix problems the same 178 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,559 way. We're different age, we move different, we're physical, we're different 179 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:16,600 as far as athletically. You know, my shoulder hurts, your neck may 180 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:20,840 hurt your elbow, so we all we move different. So there's not this 181 00:11:20,879 --> 00:11:24,159 one swing for anybody that there's a lot of good coaches on YouTube. I 182 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,000 do some stuff on YouTube, but you have to know what you're going there 183 00:11:26,039 --> 00:11:31,159 for. And I tell people the best stuff on YouTube is if you go 184 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,440 to a coach and let's say he says you're working on takeaway whatever, right, 185 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,799 maybe even that first part just to P two, just to club parallel. 186 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,720 Well, let's say he gave you three or four drills and you're like, 187 00:11:39,799 --> 00:11:41,639 man, I just can't figure it out from this. Well, then 188 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:46,679 go look up maybe some more drills for the takeaway just from that part, 189 00:11:46,759 --> 00:11:50,360 and maybe that will go oh okay, because I mean there's so many drills 190 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:54,200 out there, you know, like there's hundreds for stuff like that. So 191 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:58,960 maybe something somebody else clicks with you more than what that guy said. But 192 00:11:58,039 --> 00:12:03,240 at least you know something and exactly specific to what you know you have a 193 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,519 problem with. Right, And a lot of times just getting on that really 194 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:07,799 quick, we're talking about striking is. I hear a lot of times, 195 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:09,440 well why are you hitting a bet? And I asked them they go, 196 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:11,399 oh, they go, oh, my takeaway is killing me, Like, 197 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:18,240 oh, that's why you're not here. So it's really interesting so with stuff 198 00:12:18,279 --> 00:12:26,639 I hear, I love it. How you know? It all starts PGA 199 00:12:26,759 --> 00:12:31,519 right position, grip and alignment. How often is it that maybe they're not 200 00:12:33,519 --> 00:12:37,080 aligned properly, or they're not holding the club properly, or even if their 201 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:43,159 shoulders are offline right, maybe their hips are are parallel and I don't know 202 00:12:43,279 --> 00:12:46,840 what like, And they do it at address of the ball. They try 203 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:50,120 to line themselves up while they're addressing the ball as opposed to standing behind the 204 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,720 ball and looking down the fairway. This one I really really don't understand. 205 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:58,639 It's like you got to line that up from behind the ball and see where 206 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:03,840 you're going on, because when you're twisting your head and looking over to the 207 00:13:03,919 --> 00:13:09,320 side, you're out of alignment already. Huge, I would say at close 208 00:13:09,399 --> 00:13:13,960 to is a huge number. But I really believe about eighty percent of faults 209 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:18,120 I think, well, they start for sure from address, but you can 210 00:13:18,159 --> 00:13:24,279 fix most people. Most people from address can be fixed for whatever issues, 211 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:26,080 especially when you get to the better player. And i'm talking better from maybe 212 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:30,080 fifteen under I mean a new golfer. Obviously they just they don't have any 213 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:35,240 swing motion. But yeah, but most golfers, it's what they do at 214 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:39,639 impact that or at address it causes most of their issues and how wrong they're 215 00:13:39,639 --> 00:13:41,480 so many could be. Their grip is just brutal, in which most people 216 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:45,440 are. You know, they don't have it in you know, they don't 217 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,000 have that called a meeting part on top of their hand is not on top 218 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,799 of the grip. They have it more just running up the palm, so 219 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,559 at a very weak grip right, and they wonder why they can't close the 220 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:58,279 club face. That's one issue. But also, like you said, alignment 221 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,039 is horrible. They're the way they're staying ball position maybe horrible, too far 222 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:05,879 away from it to you know, their posture maybe se foster S posture. 223 00:14:05,159 --> 00:14:07,919 There's so many things that go wrong, and even how we set up our 224 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,279 forearms and our arms to it, like how we when we set up to 225 00:14:11,279 --> 00:14:16,440 the ball, Like if I have my arm rotated externally internally, I can 226 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:18,360 set it the right way if I have a problem rotating the clip based so 227 00:14:18,639 --> 00:14:22,519 if I'm not supinating enough, and I call it like if you think of 228 00:14:22,519 --> 00:14:24,559 supernating with your left arms and cup of soup, if you like, rotate 229 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,159 it over cup of souper, send it. That means I supinated it. 230 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,200 If you're not doing that, then you're you're most likely have a litatrol rotating 231 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,559 the cloud based through an impact. Right, we have to have a little 232 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:37,639 bit of supernation in our forearm to hit it. And depending on how we 233 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:41,840 set up, if we set up with it already turned over like this way, 234 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:46,240 then how am I turn it over anymore? I can't, but you 235 00:14:46,279 --> 00:14:50,799 and I are the only one. If I set it in more internally. 236 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,679 If I just rotated in more internally and rotate my wrist over when I'm taking 237 00:14:54,679 --> 00:14:58,840 the grip, then I have a lot of room to rotate my arm over 238 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:03,200 to supinate. So a lot of stuff can be fixed right at address. 239 00:15:03,279 --> 00:15:05,679 And it's hugely important, but not many people want to work on that part. 240 00:15:05,799 --> 00:15:09,679 That's not a sexy part. But in my lessons, we do work 241 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:16,120 on it because it's just it's you're just making up for problems that are right 242 00:15:16,159 --> 00:15:18,720 there for the and the rest of swings, so you might as well take 243 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:20,799 care at the very beginning. And I want to talk more about low point 244 00:15:20,879 --> 00:15:26,559 issues because you know a lot of people who are new to the game or 245 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:33,120 just can't get past can't even break ninety or struggling with that, and I 246 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:37,600 totally understand that and the frustration that goes with that. But when you quiz 247 00:15:37,639 --> 00:15:41,960 them on where should be if if you consider the golf swing a circle, 248 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,840 yeah, there's going to be a low point. Where is the low point 249 00:15:46,919 --> 00:15:48,919 in relationship to the ball. And a lot of time they'll tell you at 250 00:15:48,919 --> 00:15:54,879 the ball or behind the ball, and it's like, wrong, Yeah, 251 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:56,480 you got to get in front at low point has to be in front. 252 00:15:56,759 --> 00:16:00,200 I heard. I don't get to watch golf much. I heard this on 253 00:16:00,559 --> 00:16:04,240 broadcasts the other day. The guy chipped the ball and he said that was 254 00:16:04,279 --> 00:16:07,159 great. He really got under the ball nicely. On that one. I 255 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:11,840 was like, oh my gosh, you're killing golfers out there. We're not 256 00:16:11,879 --> 00:16:14,799 trying to slide the club underneath. Like if we come down with the descending 257 00:16:14,799 --> 00:16:18,120 an angle of attack, even in chipping, which we should, we're not 258 00:16:18,159 --> 00:16:22,120 sliding the club underneath. We can't by the nature of it. You're getting 259 00:16:22,159 --> 00:16:25,039 in front. So low point, like you said, for you describe it, 260 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:26,559 well, we all have a low point to our swing in the circle. 261 00:16:26,919 --> 00:16:30,639 Most peoples are behind him, anybody behind the golf ball, people who 262 00:16:30,759 --> 00:16:34,039 topped the ball. It's most likely the reason you're doing it over ninety percent 263 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,759 is because your low point is behind, which means your angled attack will start 264 00:16:37,759 --> 00:16:41,960 coming up right after a low point, and then you're going to top it 265 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,919 because your club's coming upwards at that point. It's not that you aren't keeping. 266 00:16:44,919 --> 00:16:47,639 It's not that you peeked or lifted your head up right. Well, 267 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:49,559 we're going to say it's been late and they you'll hear him screaming, oh 268 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:55,720 I lifted my head. I peaked you You didn't, you know? Did 269 00:16:55,759 --> 00:16:59,480 your back not your head? And you have to lift your head? Yeah? 270 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:03,240 Eventually, yeah. I mean, I don't show it to Spike people, 271 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:04,960 but I love it when when they say that in lessons so I can 272 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,240 show them on video and that way they and I always tell them, I 273 00:17:08,319 --> 00:17:11,880 go, you're I joke with him, and I laughed. I said, 274 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,119 you'll be my first person in thirty years that I've seen do it. Come 275 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:17,440 on watch, I want to see this together, so we can watch this 276 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:19,599 famous moment together and you picking your headup because I haven't seen it yet. 277 00:17:19,759 --> 00:17:23,480 And they watched like, oh whoa, that's what my husband tells me. 278 00:17:23,799 --> 00:17:26,440 He won't, he yells us at me. The whole time. That's what 279 00:17:26,559 --> 00:17:29,759 every partner tells me, every friend, They all tell me to keep my 280 00:17:29,799 --> 00:17:32,559 head down. My dad told me that for years, they say, and 281 00:17:32,559 --> 00:17:34,240 I'm like, going, well, they just they did their best from what 282 00:17:34,279 --> 00:17:38,640 they knew. And it's one of those things got somehow got really big in 283 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:45,240 golf. And it just as it's spread like wildfire. And and we haven't 284 00:17:45,279 --> 00:17:49,240 killed it yet, Fred, it's still is still out there a lot. 285 00:17:49,559 --> 00:17:55,799 And while we're at it, if if you play golf with the spouse, 286 00:17:56,559 --> 00:18:00,519 don't give lessons on the course, no, I see, I teach women 287 00:18:00,599 --> 00:18:04,920 and my wife and I run out golf leave for women together. And yeah, 288 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:07,640 and the biggest can play ab all of women is the men. Men 289 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,039 don't leave them alone. Like they're at the range, try and hit balls, 290 00:18:11,079 --> 00:18:15,759 and some man everything to them, and they it really bothers them. 291 00:18:15,759 --> 00:18:18,640 It's one of the reasons they'll play. And it's just they're always getting advice 292 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,440 from other men. Husbands do it to them to the point where the wise 293 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:25,279 don't want to go play with their husbands anymore. And here's the thing and 294 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:30,599 the kids and at the core, oh huge, I think at the core 295 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:33,759 of it is we're trying. Men are trying to be helpful, right, 296 00:18:33,839 --> 00:18:37,799 and so it's not coming from a bad place. I understand that. But 297 00:18:37,519 --> 00:18:40,839 I saw this poor girl the other day and my wife and I were driving. 298 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:42,519 She came to the course to see me and help me grab some stuff 299 00:18:42,599 --> 00:18:45,039 leaving, and we were driving the cart out of there, we saw somebody 300 00:18:45,039 --> 00:18:48,079 teen off. It was a guy sitting in his cart and his wife or 301 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:52,200 girlfriend teen off, and he said, honey, watch that ball. I 302 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:53,680 promise I'll watch it for you. Don't take your head off the ball. 303 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:56,559 Okay, So she's she's off, she has an iron or something and she 304 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:00,279 hits it, tops it. He goes, yeah, you picked up, 305 00:19:00,319 --> 00:19:04,200 and we watched like this poor girl looks like she she didn't even shouldn't even 306 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,720 move her body. She was so stuck over that ball, staring at it, 307 00:19:08,839 --> 00:19:11,920 and she still did it because she's not moving it. How are you 308 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:14,240 going to get your low point if you're not moving forward at all? We 309 00:19:14,599 --> 00:19:18,799 got to move a lot forward. So you telling somebody who tops keep your 310 00:19:18,799 --> 00:19:21,680 head down is making it worse. But I would say, if you to 311 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:26,079 a survey of your listener's fred very high percent of the jum if not all 312 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,240 of them already know that or or are well aware of that, and they're 313 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:30,920 helps spreading the news. You have a lot of I think a lot of 314 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:36,160 listeners that are very keen on a lot of this stuff because they hear it 315 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,960 weekly. Yeah, through a lot of good guests. So yeah, I 316 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:45,279 mean Josh Xander recently we were talking about bunker play and he talked about how 317 00:19:45,319 --> 00:19:48,640 people think that you have to hit behind the ball, you know. He 318 00:19:48,759 --> 00:19:52,799 said, no, you don't hit behind the ball. You got your low 319 00:19:52,839 --> 00:19:56,559 point should still be in front of the ball. You just enter the sand 320 00:19:56,839 --> 00:20:02,640 behind the ball. Yeah. It's like, oh wow, that's a revelation 321 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:06,680 because we always hear the wrong advice on that always. It makes it hard. 322 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:11,079 It makes it really hard to do well when you're get bad advice, 323 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,920 real bad. What is golf but not a lot of bad advice? Oh 324 00:20:18,039 --> 00:20:19,880 I feel. I grew up playing and this is you know, I'm old 325 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,400 enough to where we had any science or knew anything. And I was always 326 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:27,319 told that the chipping is just a short version of full swing. And I 327 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,240 was always a terrible chipper because I was always catching the ground first, I 328 00:20:30,279 --> 00:20:33,000 was catching it heavy, and if I was in rough I'd catch it really 329 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:37,279 heavy, and I wasn't intuitive enough to know, hey, bring it out 330 00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:40,240 a little more outside and maybe like come a little bit outside, and I 331 00:20:40,279 --> 00:20:42,480 had to get the low point up front. I wasn't intuitive enough to know 332 00:20:42,519 --> 00:20:47,079 that, and so my chipping was awful growing up because nobody told me that. 333 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:49,680 And once I once I was told it how you're actually supposed to do 334 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,400 it, you know, I excelled at it, and you know, it's 335 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:56,240 just getting the word out of a lot of these things. Golf. I 336 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,400 think golf is a hard sport. I think it's a very hard sport. 337 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,240 But there's things that golfers do to make it much much harder on themselves, 338 00:21:03,279 --> 00:21:08,440 and a lot of this misperception. I mean, most people don't take lessons. 339 00:21:08,839 --> 00:21:12,480 I think the numbers around three percent that they say that take lessons. 340 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,799 And I get it too, because if you go to a coach and they 341 00:21:17,799 --> 00:21:21,079 tell you that you're gonna get worse before you get better, I wouldn't go 342 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:22,880 either, you know, I wouldn't go get lessons. To me, that 343 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,680 makes no sense, like where would you? What if you want to your 344 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,440 go take piano lessons and then the piano teacher goes you know what, bread, 345 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,119 You're gonna get worse where you get better. Or you go take cooking 346 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:34,799 lessons and the cook goes, well, Fred, you got you gotta get 347 00:21:34,839 --> 00:21:38,000 much worse where you get better? At this? You'd go what. But 348 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:44,119 in golf coaches get away with saying it. Yeah, I mean it's crazy 349 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,319 and that it should never happen. You should get better immediately. Now the 350 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,799 thing is like there's a big charge of how do you do it? And 351 00:21:49,839 --> 00:21:53,680 I think that's the big differentiator. How do you get better immediately? And 352 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,880 how do you not get worse while improving? And that is the key. 353 00:21:57,039 --> 00:22:02,480 And there has to be a big separation between practice and play and a big 354 00:22:02,599 --> 00:22:06,039 understand of how do we perform on the golf course. And I always tell 355 00:22:06,039 --> 00:22:10,000 people it's this. You you have to look at practice and play as two 356 00:22:10,039 --> 00:22:12,519 different things. And then you have to look as when you're playing golf as 357 00:22:12,559 --> 00:22:17,319 as big as an art as it is of striking the ball well. And 358 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:19,440 I know they come together. But when you're working on your game, you 359 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,240 shouldn't get worse. You should still get better. And maybe you are working 360 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:26,039 in your irons that let's say, it makes it a little struggle because of 361 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:27,960 something, but it still shouldn't if you're thinking properly. If you're not letting 362 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:32,160 that stuff get into your thoughts while you're playing, you should still be getting 363 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,119 better. But if something's going on, well, then you're chipping should get 364 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:37,759 better if you're focused on that, like, don't give in, don't give 365 00:22:37,799 --> 00:22:41,160 into it, like your working get better all the time, and it can, 366 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:42,839 it can be done if you're not. It's always a mental issue. 367 00:22:42,839 --> 00:22:47,079 And that's what I find out from my golfers and in my year long program 368 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:48,640 that it's like six months we focus on swing, six months on playing, 369 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,599 and anybody is struggling playing, it's always boils down to you know, what 370 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,119 they're thinking about this move or this move and I'm like, well, are 371 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:59,599 you thinking about that anymore? They're like, oh no, I completely forgot 372 00:22:59,599 --> 00:23:02,440 about that part. It's like, well, you're not focused on the swing, 373 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,759 you're just hitting it now. So there's always there's always something that are 374 00:23:04,799 --> 00:23:08,000 mentally and that's what's so good about golf. It's so beautiful I think about 375 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:12,759 it is the mental part of just checking yourself, learning about it and how 376 00:23:12,799 --> 00:23:15,799 we can grow every day from it and be like, man, I knew 377 00:23:15,799 --> 00:23:18,920 that and I just did it, and yeah, I gotta get better at 378 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:29,640 that. We all can get better. I frequently will remind myself and anybody 379 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,279 who will listen to me that, you know, playing golf and hitting golf 380 00:23:33,319 --> 00:23:37,720 balls are really two different things. Yeah right, I mean you're hitting, 381 00:23:37,759 --> 00:23:40,000 you going to the range, you're hitting golf balls, you're hitting golf balls, 382 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,599 you're hitting one hundred. You can did two buckets, three buckets, 383 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:48,000 spend hours doing this. That's not going to improve playing golf. There's so 384 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:53,240 much more, you know, and like the whole the little concept of I 385 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,680 just want to be consistent, Well, you never have the same shot twice. 386 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,359 How in the heck are you going to be consistent if you never have 387 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,200 the same shot two times in a row, And if you go and play 388 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,319 the same course four times a week, you're never gonna have except off the 389 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:11,319 t box, maybe you're never gonna have the same shot. No, I 390 00:24:11,319 --> 00:24:17,319 think the consistency is Yeah, well it's what is consistency. I think it 391 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:21,400 is consistency. I think the problem is is there's drive. I think it's 392 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,680 really the definition of consistency is wrong by most in golf of what it is 393 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,400 and what they it depends on who they are for what it means. But 394 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,200 I think most golfers, unless they're an elite golfer, consistency means to hit 395 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:37,960 the ball better. I really think that's all it means for them. Yeah, 396 00:24:38,039 --> 00:24:41,839 Now when you come higher level, consistency is what it truly is. 397 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,880 I think it's you know, we have dispersion. You know how far right 398 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,480 or left or short or long you are based on your shots. If you 399 00:24:47,519 --> 00:24:49,240 look at it. Let's just say you take an iron shot to par three 400 00:24:49,559 --> 00:24:52,000 and amateur, it's not good. It's gonna have some short, some long, 401 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:56,359 some left, some right. The better you get, you don't have 402 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,440 short and long anymore. You get really because you're striking the ball well, 403 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,319 but you're have right and left always right our face angle, we're never gonna 404 00:25:03,319 --> 00:25:07,480 be perfect on the face angle. It's moving too fast, especially the longer 405 00:25:07,519 --> 00:25:11,000 we hit it. It's harder to control. So you're always gonna have dispersion. 406 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,079 But you want to learn to get your dispersion left and right, not 407 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,480 short and long. And then after that you're trying to just make it closer. 408 00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:22,200 If you're fifteen feet left and right on a one hundred and twenty yard 409 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,440 shot. Well, then you're trying to get to thirteen feet left and right, 410 00:25:25,559 --> 00:25:27,640 you know, twenty six feet, that's total twenty sixth it's a lot. 411 00:25:29,039 --> 00:25:33,680 And that's also a testimonial and an argument for getting fitted for clubs. 412 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:38,720 If your dispersion is way off, maybe it's also the clubs. But then 413 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,200 people are like, no, no, I'm gonna I want to get better 414 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,400 before I get fitted. Yeah, oh yeah, that's putting the cart before 415 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:49,200 the horse, before the cart, the cart before the horse the horse. 416 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:55,240 Yeah, it's definitely, yeah, you gotta it'll help you getting fitted. 417 00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:02,160 I've been playing ping irons for over a decade and I just got fitted a 418 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:07,920 couple of weeks ago, and we I tested a lot of the ping clubs 419 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,759 and found one that worked okay, and I said, no, let's keep 420 00:26:11,799 --> 00:26:15,640 going, Let's keep trying this, and ended up with these tailor made QI 421 00:26:17,759 --> 00:26:23,759 irons, And so I went to pick up the irons. I took a 422 00:26:23,799 --> 00:26:27,319 couple of weeks to get them back, and they're putting. You know, 423 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:32,920 my buddy neck is that the club fitter at this local retailer. And that's 424 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,880 why I like to go to retailer as opposed to going to a guy who's 425 00:26:36,039 --> 00:26:38,559 a fitter for a brand. It's like, I want to try a lot 426 00:26:38,559 --> 00:26:41,960 of different brands, right. So, hey going, he's putting, he's 427 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,960 putting the grips on. I said, can I go hit a couple? 428 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:45,880 He goes, yeah, yeah, I get here. So I take the 429 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:51,359 five iron and I'm hitting, and I'm like, is not I had one 430 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,880 good shot and it's my low point and I'm definitely no. I've always struggled 431 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,960 with the five iron as it is. And then I hit seven iron a 432 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,799 couple and then I said, now that I've hit the five iron and the 433 00:27:02,799 --> 00:27:07,079 seven iron, I'm really curious on the distance difference. Does the six iron 434 00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:11,240 fit right in between that? So I pull out the six iron and I 435 00:27:11,319 --> 00:27:15,000 hit you know, one, two three. On the fourth swing, the 436 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:21,079 head flew off the club. We looked at each other. We looked at 437 00:27:21,079 --> 00:27:29,200 each other like and it's like, person had happen. I've never had that 438 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:34,640 happen before. It's so strange. And then I went up and I went 439 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:40,119 home and I looked up these these irons online because I wanted to see what 440 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:44,599 the difference in each of the lofts was for each club. You know, 441 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,759 with the difference you know is a four degree five degree? What and where 442 00:27:48,799 --> 00:27:52,000 does it work down to the the wedges and do my wedges fit in that? 443 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,440 Yeah? And the second review on the Tailor Made website is a guy 444 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,279 going, I've always loved Tailor Made the right his clubs. I got these 445 00:28:00,279 --> 00:28:04,599 and they're great, except the first time I played, I hit my five 446 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:10,079 iron and the head flew down the way, Like, oh my gosh, 447 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:15,319 this is something that's happened cutting back on glue there or something. Yeah, 448 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:21,519 I don't know, No, it's like snapped right, So that not the 449 00:28:21,519 --> 00:28:25,720 shaft, the little plastic piece between the shaft and the oh, so it 450 00:28:25,759 --> 00:28:30,559 could be an issue with the actual head. Yeah, So what did you 451 00:28:30,599 --> 00:28:32,440 do? You are you stay? Did you stay with them though? Or 452 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,640 do you say yeah, no, No. They gave me another one and 453 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,480 they said go play with these for a couple of weeks because they have this 454 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,640 nice ninety day return policy, but you know, for store credit, and 455 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,880 and so I like, okay, let me go play these, and they 456 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,359 gave they pulled another six iron from a different set of the same club. 457 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,920 And then I played the other day and it's like, how come I can't 458 00:28:53,039 --> 00:28:56,559 hit Oh, it's not the club that I ordered. I mean, like 459 00:28:56,599 --> 00:29:00,519 I'm supposed to make two degrees up right, and so it's like I couldn't 460 00:29:00,559 --> 00:29:04,640 hit the six iron, so just don't touch it, don't. But I'm 461 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:10,839 excited about these irons. I'm really It's interesting because after taking almost six months 462 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:15,240 off, you know, for to heal, I come back to play and 463 00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:18,039 I've got a new set of irons. I've got a new driver, I've 464 00:29:18,079 --> 00:29:22,240 got my new putter, I've swapped out one of my wedges, and I'm 465 00:29:22,279 --> 00:29:26,920 like, okay, so I'm starting from brown zero here and I'm really excited 466 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,559 to do this. So I don't have any preconceived notions of what I'm doing, 467 00:29:32,359 --> 00:29:34,079 yeah, right or not. But I want to go back to when 468 00:29:34,119 --> 00:29:38,799 you talked about getting better, and I wanted to find that when you talk 469 00:29:38,839 --> 00:29:41,079 about you know, you should get better. You take a lesson, you 470 00:29:41,079 --> 00:29:47,400 should get better. You should be always get That's not by looking at the 471 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:52,480 scorecard though, are not going to go down every single round. No, 472 00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:57,759 I think there's to find getting better by striking. Your striking the ball gets 473 00:29:57,759 --> 00:30:02,559 better. You should strike the ball better. Yeah, and depending what your 474 00:30:02,559 --> 00:30:06,319 issue is when you go see somebody, but you know striking the ball should 475 00:30:06,359 --> 00:30:08,839 be better. If you bait it you should or slice it. You should 476 00:30:08,839 --> 00:30:14,319 be slicing it less. You know, everything is it comes in. I 477 00:30:14,319 --> 00:30:18,640 always say this, and I've heard this quite a bit, but just recently 478 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:19,759 a guy told me, I think that's time was Saturday, and he said, 479 00:30:19,839 --> 00:30:23,519 Eric, he goes. I always tell people you work on this and 480 00:30:23,559 --> 00:30:26,960 it leaks into your swing, is what I say. Okay, so you 481 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,319 practice this, meaning let's just say you slice it. Okay, You're not 482 00:30:30,359 --> 00:30:34,359 going to start being a drawer of the ball hitting these perfect draws the next 483 00:30:34,359 --> 00:30:37,160 time you go play. What's going to happen is you're going to have it 484 00:30:37,319 --> 00:30:40,960 leak into your system where you're going to get a little bit more of each 485 00:30:41,039 --> 00:30:44,240 time. Now, so if you're a big favor of the ball, you 486 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:45,880 probably have to learn to move it more right to left, kind of like 487 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,720 almost a hook. So you're kind of learning just to do a little bit 488 00:30:48,759 --> 00:30:53,240 of that. But leaking into your game, meaning all these little parts leak 489 00:30:53,319 --> 00:30:59,039 in. So if I am horrendous at hitting behind the ball always, well, 490 00:30:59,039 --> 00:31:02,160 I'm going to give you more more forward each time. Okay, So 491 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,880 maybe I hit behind it twenty five times in a round next by working on 492 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,920 it, maybe then I only hit behind it fifteen or or if my low 493 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,680 points four inches behind it moves to two inches to one inch, and then 494 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,920 it starts getting forward whatever it is. You know. So that is leaking 495 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:19,799 in a game. By practicing these things, you get better at all these 496 00:31:21,039 --> 00:31:23,799 Usually there are instant fixes where you go, oh, boom, and here 497 00:31:23,839 --> 00:31:26,480 we do this. It instantly fixes this issue, right, I mean that 498 00:31:26,559 --> 00:31:30,319 happens all the time. But most big changes, when you're really changing a 499 00:31:30,319 --> 00:31:34,000 golfer, that's where I say it leaks into your game. You'll start seeing 500 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,079 these effects by practicing it little by little. So this guy's talking to he 501 00:31:37,079 --> 00:31:38,960 said, Eric, I thought you were nuts when you told me that. 502 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:41,880 He goes, I had no idea what you're talking about. But he goes, 503 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,160 six months after we were together, he goes, I was playing golf, 504 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,160 and I go, oh, I get it. And he started looking 505 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:49,960 back at his other rounds and you know, the prior four or five six 506 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,839 months. He's like, oh, now I can see what he was talking 507 00:31:52,839 --> 00:31:56,839 about. How I started doing doing this a little bit more each time he 508 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,039 goes, well, now I have it completely. He had a major major 509 00:32:00,079 --> 00:32:04,680 swing change he had to make. So it's just those like when you're making 510 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,599 big swing changes. That's why I mean leaking into your game. Those things 511 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,119 I now strike point. I feel like when you're striking front of the ball, 512 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,319 we're hoping to get in front of it immediately, right. But there's 513 00:32:15,359 --> 00:32:16,759 a lot of things that you know, go into it. And I just 514 00:32:16,799 --> 00:32:22,960 think scoring is another thing that's hard. You know, It's like I sucking 515 00:32:23,039 --> 00:32:27,759 Julie Buss today, my wife that it takes a long time for people to 516 00:32:27,839 --> 00:32:31,519 understand that you have to like, you know, someone shooting that told me 517 00:32:31,519 --> 00:32:35,119 the other day they shot there. They were one under after twelve holes, 518 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,279 right, and then shooting eighty two. And I talked to him one under 519 00:32:39,319 --> 00:32:44,680 after twelve holes and then went ten over on the next six and I got 520 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:49,079 into why and I started finding out why they were thinking about scores, right, 521 00:32:49,759 --> 00:32:52,559 Yeah, and that takes Oh I'm one under, this can be a 522 00:32:52,559 --> 00:32:57,519 pass round in my life. Oh you're doomed. You are doomed. The 523 00:32:57,559 --> 00:32:59,759 part of the friends started for saying something. Guy right in the car was 524 00:32:59,799 --> 00:33:01,319 like, hey, you only got a double bugget Oh you're still only one 525 00:33:01,359 --> 00:33:05,440 over. Okay, you can still do what it all became about what you're 526 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,480 doing here with the score. Shooting your best round of your life is what 527 00:33:07,519 --> 00:33:10,000 it came about. And he told me. At first it was oh, 528 00:33:10,039 --> 00:33:13,279 I did this, I did this. This is what happened. And when 529 00:33:13,279 --> 00:33:15,720 I started talking to him, it was it was so score related, right, 530 00:33:15,759 --> 00:33:21,000 and his whole mindset had changed. Outcome right, bas you lost. 531 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,279 You lost the idea of process and when to outcome, and when you do 532 00:33:23,359 --> 00:33:28,440 that, you're going to lose. Yeah, and that takes like I mean, 533 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,720 I always say, look thankfully, I'm a golfer too, and I 534 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,039 played at high level I was younger. That process takes a whole long time 535 00:33:34,079 --> 00:33:37,480 to get through to learn under. You don't learn that and understand it. 536 00:33:37,559 --> 00:33:39,279 Yeah, I can tell you today, go don't don't do that. This 537 00:33:39,319 --> 00:33:43,720 is what we want to think about. But you have to experience it one 538 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,920 time of having your lowest round at one under at twelve holes and and fail 539 00:33:47,519 --> 00:33:51,359 and go oh, that's what Eric said or that's what somebody else said, 540 00:33:51,559 --> 00:33:52,799 and go okay, I'm going to work on this. And that's why you 541 00:33:52,799 --> 00:33:54,720 need to be working with a good coach, because they are going to help 542 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:59,319 you get through those things and understanding. You know, most people think, 543 00:33:59,359 --> 00:34:01,960 and I guess in my year long program, I do. They're hitting the 544 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,000 ball really well after six months, and a lot of them say, Eric, 545 00:34:05,039 --> 00:34:06,920 I think we don't need to do the next six months. I'm okay, 546 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:08,760 And I say okay, and they they'll go play a couple rounds. 547 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:13,159 They come back to me and I'm like, oh, well, I'm sorry, 548 00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:19,280 yeah, please take me back the break up with you. Yeah, 549 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,119 they find out the battle is much different right out there, and it's it's 550 00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:28,840 mental, but it's also I mean it's mental and it's also physical. It's 551 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,519 hitting the ball in different lies, you know, like that's it's a total 552 00:34:31,519 --> 00:34:36,599 different it's a different ballgame. But if you can strike the ball well off 553 00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:38,840 a flat lie, you can learn to make adjustments elsewhere. So a lot 554 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,280 of people say, oh, it doesn't transfer at all from the range to 555 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,519 that. It's like there are things that transfer. It depends how you do 556 00:34:45,559 --> 00:34:55,159 it. No, I've been playing golf now for like twenty five years ish 557 00:34:55,639 --> 00:35:00,400 right, doing the podcast in the nineteenth year of doing this, so I've 558 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:06,159 learned a tremendous amount and probably more than most average golfers learn. You know, 559 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,280 when they're just out there playing for twenty eight years or something, and 560 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:15,519 I'm still getting to places that the nuance of golf, I'm starting to go, 561 00:35:15,599 --> 00:35:20,039 oh, now I understand what that means. I mean, I've I've 562 00:35:20,079 --> 00:35:23,079 heard it so many times, I've repeated it many times, but it's still 563 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:30,280 it has to click in you in a way that it's like now it's starting 564 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:34,800 to make sense. And that's not always easy to do. No, it's 565 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,039 the right mindset. And then, like you said, playing the game a 566 00:35:38,079 --> 00:35:43,199 lot, wanting to learn it, want to understand it. I always say, 567 00:35:43,199 --> 00:35:46,039 golf is like life, you know, we have to go through those 568 00:35:46,079 --> 00:35:51,159 downs to get the ups we don't and golf is the same thing. We 569 00:35:51,159 --> 00:35:53,840 don't learn anything from great rounds. We learn a lot. Well, we 570 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:58,079 can learn a lot from poor rounds. A lot of people don't because they 571 00:35:58,119 --> 00:36:00,639 just they just throw it away as oh, just a bad day or whatever. 572 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,079 So like, well, let's learn from it. You know, I 573 00:36:02,079 --> 00:36:05,679 always say, I'm a doctor. I don't care about your bad shots or 574 00:36:05,679 --> 00:36:07,599 good shots when you come see me. I want to know about your bad 575 00:36:07,639 --> 00:36:09,800 ones. Let's fix those, right. So, but like you said, 576 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,920 the dances, they're so huge, and it's like yeah, you know, 577 00:36:14,079 --> 00:36:16,760 if you don't play often, you forget about maybe, Okay, if I 578 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,960 have the ball up on my feet, I'm probably going to maybe hit this 579 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,840 a little bit left, or you don't know how much further to start that 580 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,599 to the right if you're right hander. It's just those little things you forget 581 00:36:24,599 --> 00:36:28,840 about or don't think about. Oh man, that ball moves quite a bit 582 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,159 more on me when it's above my feet, or you know, it's like 583 00:36:31,199 --> 00:36:34,800 all those little nunces are great. And I think that's the fun thing about 584 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:38,679 golf is that is that weekly or how off you play, But remembering those 585 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:43,559 and doing them, it's just it's a great learning experience. I love it. 586 00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,199 A line that I've probably repeated multiple times that I keep it right here 587 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:52,719 on my desk about golf is like life. Golf is an endless series of 588 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:58,280 tragedies obscured by an occasional miracle. Oh it's beautiful, beautiful. That's life, 589 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,280 man, that's life. That's exactly life, isn't it. Yeah, 590 00:37:00,639 --> 00:37:07,440 it's exactly life. It's a life isn't easy. And if you make plans, 591 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,760 yeah it's not going to work out, right. And if you're looking 592 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:15,039 for your scorecard, right, if you're looking at your scorecard and you're thinking 593 00:37:15,079 --> 00:37:16,519 about what you need to do to finish, Yeah, it's not going to 594 00:37:16,559 --> 00:37:21,159 work out. I think the other big one freend is driving range before you 595 00:37:21,199 --> 00:37:24,079 play. So I hear us all the time, like people go and play 596 00:37:24,079 --> 00:37:28,440 and they have their worst rounds when they have good range sessions. What happened? 597 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,320 Oh? All the time? Expectations right, yeah? Oh, And 598 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,719 to me, it's like when I'm having a bad round on a bad practice 599 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,119 warm up session, not practice, but a warm up session before a round, 600 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:42,000 it's not good like, oh, I'm going to do really well today 601 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,480 because actually you really got to bear down, how you got to really focus, 602 00:37:45,519 --> 00:37:47,440 how you got to stay you know, in it. Where if you're 603 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:52,440 feeling like, oh, that was a great session for my warm up, 604 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,280 I'm nice and loose and easy, and it's like I'm not focused at all. 605 00:37:55,800 --> 00:38:00,239 You're not focused, and your expectations go through the roof. And then 606 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,440 what happens when you throw that double bogie out there in the first Then you're 607 00:38:02,519 --> 00:38:06,320 just you're you're so upset because it's going to have this great round. I 608 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,559 hit the ball great, What happened? I don't you know what happened between 609 00:38:08,559 --> 00:38:13,079 now and then. You have to change your You go to the range before 610 00:38:13,079 --> 00:38:15,920 you play to loosen up and warm up, and I like to see good 611 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,679 striking, that's it. But do you know, don't any full swings. 612 00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:21,760 But you aren't there to set the basis of how you're going to play that 613 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,440 day. But how you hit the ball there no how it's going to feel. 614 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,960 Are you loose? You know, loose? You got to get loose, 615 00:38:29,039 --> 00:38:31,079 man, because you don't want to get loose by the ninth hole, 616 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:35,920 you know, because that's what's going to happen. If you don't warm up, 617 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:37,199 You're going to get loose by the ninth hole, and then you'll maybe 618 00:38:37,199 --> 00:38:42,159 start hitting well, but you're probably beating yourself up so much by that point 619 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:50,480 that it's that's like you're being painful. So just last last week, we 620 00:38:50,639 --> 00:38:55,760 concluded our annual Tony Manzoni yeah, replaying his episodes, and in the past 621 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,440 we've only done like, not eight or nine episodes, and this year we 622 00:38:59,519 --> 00:39:05,679 played every single one that Tony did with us. And if I remember correctly, 623 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,840 that's how you and I met. You. You reached out to me 624 00:39:09,039 --> 00:39:15,360 because you heard Tony Manzoni on the podcast, and you're like, I love 625 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:19,599 listening to other teachers and I've never heard of this guy and he's so good. 626 00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,599 Yeah, I wanted his book in the video from you. Yeah, 627 00:39:23,679 --> 00:39:28,840 can people still get that from writing you? Absolutely? Absolutely, the book 628 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,800 is. The book is available on Amazon in a kindle format or paperback, 629 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,679 and the video that he created, which was a DVD at the time, 630 00:39:37,079 --> 00:39:40,159 we have that available to listeners if they want, they can write to me 631 00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:43,960 and I'll let them know how they can get it and get it for free. 632 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,519 You can buy it whatever it is, but yeah, you can write 633 00:39:46,519 --> 00:39:51,239 to me directly and always give the the email address at the end. But 634 00:39:51,519 --> 00:39:54,280 OK, yeah, I mean he's been gone since twenty eighteen, and yet 635 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,840 every year, like this year more than ever, because I've played so many 636 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,840 more episodes that I've never played replayed before, people are like, oh my 637 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,440 god, this guy is so good. I wish I would have known about 638 00:40:05,519 --> 00:40:07,760 him. Nobody knew about him. Yeah, I did. I did meet 639 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,159 a teacher last week that knew him, So I'm going to try to get 640 00:40:10,199 --> 00:40:13,920 him on the show. I knew him. I wish I wish I would 641 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:15,840 have, you know, like when I heard him, like, oh my 642 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,119 gosh, what this is? This is my guy? Like this? I 643 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,880 feel like I taught so much like him and didn't know exists. I love 644 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:27,559 going around to me other coaches. I'll go watch them talk to him. 645 00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,079 That's why I'll be out in San Francisco to see you there. Next week 646 00:40:30,119 --> 00:40:32,360 he is meeting with a bunch of other coaches to you know, just learn 647 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:36,960 from each other and go over some stuff. But Tony, I think, 648 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:42,000 really, I think what people like listening him because he talks about what matters 649 00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,039 and what really matters. He boils it down to is how do you strike 650 00:40:45,079 --> 00:40:47,880 this ball well? Like everything is built around hitting the ball first and having 651 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:52,000 a good strike point. It's not like that is secondary. Third, his 652 00:40:52,079 --> 00:40:54,840 whole process of building up of being more over the ball, a little more 653 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:59,719 centered over it, like instead of feeling this big shift off of it and 654 00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,920 then big shift back to where if you don't play a lot or if it's 655 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:07,320 not your job. It's very hard. And first off, it's not a 656 00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,679 separate differencetween mass and pressure movements, Like the pros are moving more pressure, 657 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:15,400 not a lot of mass, and the amateurs move a lot of mass and 658 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:19,239 not much pressure, so they're moving their pressure, their mass way over over 659 00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,960 their right foot, then trying to get it back over left. They never 660 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,400 get it back front. So most golfers are going to be way better off 661 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:30,119 by figuring out how do I rotate much more right over the ball, And 662 00:41:30,199 --> 00:41:32,800 I'm going to figure out how to hit in front of this ball and strike 663 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,800 the ball much better. And that's everything Tony did was based on that, 664 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,159 and it's a lot of what I do in my coaching. It was that. 665 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,800 So hearing him, I was like man, and and well, plus 666 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:47,800 hear out well he did with his college students and just an unbelievable record, 667 00:41:49,039 --> 00:41:51,960 And then you find out the personality and you hear about the people he hung 668 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,400 out with with Sinatra and some of his stories back in the day, And 669 00:41:54,519 --> 00:41:58,559 like man, I love listening to his stories. I got to meet one 670 00:41:58,599 --> 00:42:01,480 of another guy I knows all through you too, and that helped write the 671 00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:07,599 book. And yeah, yeah, yeah, Faulso he's told me some stories 672 00:42:07,639 --> 00:42:12,199 you have too of him. Neat guy, really neat guy. Great coach, 673 00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:16,239 so great coach, great coach, great communicator, a lovely person. 674 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:20,239 We miss him so much, but I'm so glad that we're able to bring 675 00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,719 him back every year. That is incredible that you have this library of them 676 00:42:23,039 --> 00:42:27,920 to listen to. I encourage everybody to listen to it. I think for 677 00:42:28,039 --> 00:42:31,280 most golfers it's a great way to play, which talks about we just rotating 678 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,840 more of the ball so we can get more in front of it. Single 679 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:40,320 single pivot swings a little bit more balanced, more weight on your left side, 680 00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:45,159 and keep keeping the elbows in, keeping the arms attached to your body. 681 00:42:45,639 --> 00:42:49,559 Most golfers they are stuck on their back foot when they start their downswing 682 00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,639 and you're they're dead from there. Most you're just dead. So if you 683 00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,599 pivot more right over the ball, you're going to be loaded up to start 684 00:42:55,639 --> 00:42:59,960 your down swing right there, you're ready to go. It's a simpler swing. 685 00:43:00,119 --> 00:43:01,679 People are like, oh, it's going to lose power. Most people 686 00:43:01,679 --> 00:43:05,960 don't have power anyways. By striking the ball and getting a good strike point, 687 00:43:06,159 --> 00:43:07,559 you're going to get a lot more power and hit a lot further. 688 00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:13,559 So it's a great technique I've been doing forever. I love it and great 689 00:43:13,599 --> 00:43:17,519 coach, so thank you for having it on My pleasure. Absolutely is an 690 00:43:17,519 --> 00:43:22,559 honor. So you mentioned briefly that in the week or so you and are 691 00:43:22,559 --> 00:43:25,239 going to get together and play some golf. You're coming to the San Francisco 692 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:29,760 area, And again I always encourage listeners, if you're in the San Francisco 693 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:32,320 area visiting or you live here, rechat to me. I love to play 694 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,880 golf with you. I would love to play so you and are going to. 695 00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,719 I've seen you at you know, I was in Arizona and you were 696 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:43,360 there, you were working HI. You know, we waved. But I've 697 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,519 never been on the golf course with you, and I'm a little bit intimidated. 698 00:43:45,559 --> 00:43:49,719 My friend. Oh, we'll have a lot of fun. No, 699 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,559 it's not fun. Again, well probably you know what. I'll bring a 700 00:43:53,599 --> 00:43:58,599 couple of microphones. We'll wear them and we'll just chat and and we'll and 701 00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,679 you'll be able to comment. You know, I don't want you to give 702 00:44:01,679 --> 00:44:05,639 me a lesson while we're playing. We just talked about never do that. 703 00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:08,519 Don't man explain that to me. But I would love to have your insights 704 00:44:08,559 --> 00:44:13,159 to playing golf with me and what you see and just you know, just 705 00:44:13,199 --> 00:44:16,880 get your take on. And we're gonna be playing a very very special course. 706 00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:20,559 We're gonna be playing at the Olympic Club in San Francis Way course. 707 00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:22,760 I'm looking I'm looking forward to I haven't played there. I love I love 708 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:28,679 your area where you live in. I'm excited it's going to be we're leaving 709 00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:30,199 here, it's gonna be one hundred and I think ten is getting up to 710 00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:34,360 So the heat's finally What is it going to be there Friday or Saturday? 711 00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:39,559 Okay, so at my house it could easily be ninety five degrees, right, 712 00:44:39,679 --> 00:44:44,400 I live twenty two miles from San Francisco. I drive south, I 713 00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,599 cross the Golden Gate Bridge, I go to the area where the Olympic Club 714 00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:52,239 is. Yeah, and I can almost assure you, yeah, it's going 715 00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:59,840 to be sixty two degrees, overcast, moist, fog blowing through through. 716 00:45:00,079 --> 00:45:05,000 Can't wait if it's just going to be it's it is micro climates is this 717 00:45:05,159 --> 00:45:09,800 area so we don't breathe, don't be wearing shorts, don't be one shortly, 718 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:14,599 bring warm clothes, bring options. That's how you have to live in 719 00:45:15,119 --> 00:45:22,000 layers, layers. I can't wait, difference, it will beautiful, great, 720 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,639 see great to play with your wife, right, yeah, she'll be 721 00:45:24,679 --> 00:45:29,079 there too. I can't meet I can't wait to meet Torulie. Dude, 722 00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:32,559 it's uh, tell everyone how to find you online, Oh, e j 723 00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:37,280 S golf dot com, e j S golf dot com. And I just 724 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,400 started, i think on the school app s k o o L, which 725 00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:44,000 you can find e JS Golf Academy going there. I have a ton of 726 00:45:44,119 --> 00:45:47,039 cool free stuff there. I'm putting together a bunch of programs for how to 727 00:45:47,039 --> 00:45:52,239 stop slicing shaft lean, a bunch of really stool confidents, cool stuff, 728 00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:53,360 and they'll allow me to reach a lot more people around the world. So 729 00:45:53,599 --> 00:45:59,400 really, social media, you're you're e j S Golf. Yeah, Instagram, 730 00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,559 e j S Academy. You can find all of that on my web 731 00:46:01,559 --> 00:46:05,639 page, the links to a ejskult dot com bottle that we'll have all those 732 00:46:05,679 --> 00:46:09,360 links, dude. So much fun, always lesson, always get to learn 733 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:14,199 something new. Uh and really excited to see you in a couple weeks me 734 00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:20,599 too, Thanks Bred. Well, hopefully we'll feature Eric again soon, maybe 735 00:46:20,679 --> 00:46:24,119 even next week, because as he mentioned, he's in San Francisco this week 736 00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:30,719 and he's invited me to join him and his wife tomorrow to play eighteen at 737 00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:37,400 the Historic and I might add intimidating Championship lake Course at the Olympic Club, 738 00:46:37,679 --> 00:46:42,559 host of five US opens. I'll bring my gear and if it works out, 739 00:46:42,599 --> 00:46:46,079 we'll record a conversation during the round about the strategy of making it through 740 00:46:46,119 --> 00:46:52,239 a course that has six sets of tees, including four sets of combo teas, 741 00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,239 with the men's slope rating from a one to twenty one from the green 742 00:46:55,320 --> 00:47:01,519 teas to a one forty three from the championship tees. Hopefully I won't embarrass 743 00:47:01,559 --> 00:47:06,679 myself by playing the whites, which are still a one p thirty slope rating, 744 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,679 and that is significantly higher than what I'm accustomed to. So please stay 745 00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:16,480 tuned and wish me luck. If you're in or coming to San Francisco this 746 00:47:16,599 --> 00:47:21,639 summer's like Eric is doing. Let me know so that we can set up 747 00:47:21,679 --> 00:47:25,159 time to play together. Or why don't you and your partner join me and 748 00:47:25,199 --> 00:47:31,760 my non golfing wife for an incredible adventure to Portugal this coming September fifth through 749 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:37,440 the thirteenth, twenty twenty four. We'll be playing golf while there, with 750 00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,960 three round scheduled, and if you'd prefer, you can play golf every day 751 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:45,360 while we're on the coast at Villemora. There's lots of flexibility in our schedule, 752 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:51,840 non golfers will experience optional spa visits, sight seeing and time to relax 753 00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,360 on the beach, and you'll have time to yourselves to make this probably one 754 00:47:55,400 --> 00:48:00,599 of the most memorable and romantic trips of your life. So clear your calendar 755 00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:06,400 and join me. To get all the information pricing and download a detailed pdf, 756 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,920 please visit tmi goolf dot com slash golf Smarter. You can write to 757 00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:15,360 me directly if you have any other questions, or just check the show notes 758 00:48:15,519 --> 00:48:21,559 and click on the link to tmi goolf dot com slash golf Smarter. I 759 00:48:21,639 --> 00:48:25,639 want to thank this week's Golf Smarter Ambassador, David from New Brunswick, Canada. 760 00:48:27,519 --> 00:48:31,880 David clearly wants more from Tonymansoni instruction, so he requested a free copy 761 00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:37,159 of the Loss Fundamental video. If you'd like to get Tony's video for free, 762 00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,400 then all you have to do is create an intro for an upcoming Golf 763 00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:45,599 Smarter episode. But we also have a couple of other gifts that I want 764 00:48:45,639 --> 00:48:50,039 you to try out too. There's a glove and glove storage compartment from redroostergolf 765 00:48:50,079 --> 00:48:53,840 dot com. The online glove subscription service that has high quality gloves delivered to 766 00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:58,880 your door as often as you'd like, or get a box of premium Flightpath 767 00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:04,400 golf teas, my favorite tea of all time. So I just saw a 768 00:49:04,559 --> 00:49:09,199 video talking I think it was Jim Venettos talked about tilting the tee forward so 769 00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:14,840 you don't have a lot of resistance or friction when the ball comes off the 770 00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,719 tea. Well, that's how the flight Path golf teys were designed, so 771 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:22,039 there is no friction on the front end and it does impact the ballflight. 772 00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:29,119 I'm telling you from my own testimonial anyway. Uh So, please become a 773 00:49:29,159 --> 00:49:31,599 Golf Smarter Ambassador, get your free gift, and all you need to do 774 00:49:31,679 --> 00:49:36,480 is write to golf Smarter podcast at gmail dot com and I'll get back to 775 00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:39,400 you with some simple instructions on what to do and what to say. And 776 00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:44,280 let me give you an update about this week's Golf Smarter mulligans, which will 777 00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,679 be released this Friday on this very golf Smarter feed. But we're still going 778 00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:52,639 back into the archives. Now that we finished our Tony Manzoni series for twenty 779 00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:57,599 twenty four, we pick right back up where we left before, and this 780 00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:02,719 time We've got two episodes with Jim Waller talking about if a swing change can 781 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:07,559 really lower your score. It's really good. I'm really excited about getting back 782 00:50:07,599 --> 00:50:12,800 into the archives. This will be going back to twenty twelve. So if 783 00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:16,039 you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for upcoming episodes, or you 784 00:50:16,039 --> 00:50:21,480 want more information and want to discuss our September Portugal adventure, please write to 785 00:50:21,519 --> 00:50:27,079 Golf Smarter Podcast at gmail dot com or click on the Heyfred button when you 786 00:50:27,199 --> 00:50:29,920 visit golfsmarter dot com