1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:07,240 Hi. This is Jim Amquist, longtime Golf Smarter listener and teaching professional at 2 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:11,599 Sell Paula Golf Club in Sell Paula, Brazil. This is Golf Smarter number 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,919 nine fifty two. What do you have on at home? You said something 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:18,640 me a few minutes ago about a piece of advice that an instructor gave you 5 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,239 once that I thought was brilliant. Oh that's funny. So a long time 6 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:25,039 ago coaching of this, and I do playing lessons and I won't play. 7 00:00:25,039 --> 00:00:27,280 And the guy told you, the old coach, he goes Eric. Whatever 8 00:00:27,359 --> 00:00:29,719 you do when you go play, you can never impress anybody. All you 9 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:33,280 can do is hurt your reputation because everybody you play with expects you to shoot 10 00:00:33,359 --> 00:00:36,399 great scores. They expect you at perfect shots, and if you don't hit 11 00:00:36,439 --> 00:00:39,079 them, they're very disappointed. So all you do is hurt your reputation as 12 00:00:39,079 --> 00:00:42,479 a player. And so it's one reasons I don't play because of that. 13 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,039 But the other is just injuries and stuff. And you know, like most 14 00:00:45,079 --> 00:00:48,679 people don't know that, we have most coaches at zero time to practice right 15 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:58,960 place. So you're trying to run a business playing around at the historic Olympic 16 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:04,239 Clubs Championship lake Course with teaching professional Eric Shoulberg. This is Golf Smarter, 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:10,959 sharing stories, tips and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your 18 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:15,439 score and raise your golf IQ. There's your host, Fred Green. This 19 00:01:15,599 --> 00:01:21,400 episode needs a little setup. After last week with Eric Scholberg, he informed 20 00:01:21,439 --> 00:01:23,799 me he would be in San Francisco and asked me to join him at the 21 00:01:23,879 --> 00:01:30,519 lake course of the Olympic Club. Host of five historic US opens the twenty 22 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,879 twenty eight PGA Championship and the twenty thirty two Ryder Cup. I've never played 23 00:01:34,879 --> 00:01:41,560 the Championship late course before, so you can imagine my intimidation on the range. 24 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:46,000 The cold, hard winds blowing in from the Pacific were similar to my 25 00:01:46,079 --> 00:01:51,560 experience Abandon Dunes. Joining us were Eric's friend Gareth, who I mistakenly called 26 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,959 Garth, and Eric's wife Julie. Eric and Julie rode in a cart while 27 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,359 Gareth and I brave the long, challenging walk. After we teach off on 28 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:04,519 number fourteen, I miked up both Eric and myself. Yet, since Eric 29 00:02:04,519 --> 00:02:08,039 and I weren't always together, it recorded everything, whether we were talking to 30 00:02:08,159 --> 00:02:13,199 you each other or someone else. So to keep the episode moving, I 31 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:17,919 focused on conversations around Eric's and my shots. Earlier, Eric gave me one 32 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:23,719 tip on how to hit a draw that was easy to understand and simple to 33 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:28,000 institute in my swing. Now, let's pick it up just after our t 34 00:02:28,199 --> 00:02:31,000 shots on number fourteen and take it all the way through the end of the 35 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:35,400 round. We've been very lucky. It's a beautiful day here, beautiful day. 36 00:02:35,439 --> 00:02:38,039 And I'd say not Scottsdale. Not Scottsdale, because we're about forty five 37 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,280 degrees cooler. I think it'll be hard to get me back. I think 38 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,639 it's thirty degrees cooler than Marin County. This is awesome. This is awesome. 39 00:02:47,039 --> 00:02:50,479 Oh, it's been phenomenal. So, Frett, let me ask you 40 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,319 this question. Sure, how many? How many? How many draws? 41 00:02:53,599 --> 00:02:54,599 How many draws off the tea? If you were hit in your life? 42 00:02:54,879 --> 00:03:00,080 Oh? Few? How many? If you hit today? A couple more. 43 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:05,759 But the difference is the few that I've hit. Yeah, I never 44 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:07,039 knew that I was about to hit a draw. I never tried. It 45 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,840 was just it happened. So it happened because you're closing your club face now, 46 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,840 right, that's right. That's why I told you the magic move, 47 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:16,960 right, you taught me something pretty special. It's a magic move. And 48 00:03:17,159 --> 00:03:21,960 just now my drive here on fourteen, Yeah, crushed it. Yeah, 49 00:03:22,479 --> 00:03:24,879 I'm not in the bunker, which is a rarity so far. Well, 50 00:03:25,159 --> 00:03:28,479 it's it's the reason I teach because it's like, you know, Fred, 51 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:30,159 Fred's a good You're a good player, thank you. You really are a 52 00:03:30,199 --> 00:03:34,400 good player. But you you can and your bad shots they leak out right, 53 00:03:34,439 --> 00:03:36,960 and I'm watching you hit it. I'm like, if Fred just knew 54 00:03:37,479 --> 00:03:39,680 how to twist the grip and close it, I show you how to do 55 00:03:39,719 --> 00:03:43,639 it. You're not even thinking about it, and you're hitting baby draws and 56 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,479 you you're gaining power. Yeah, that's why I coach, because it's like, 57 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:47,879 you have a nice things. We don't need to overhaul to get a 58 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:53,479 draw. Doing it good. It's beautiful, right, So that's what's wonderful 59 00:03:53,599 --> 00:03:59,280 golf. So you're off the tea. Uh I wonder I've got one seventy 60 00:03:59,319 --> 00:04:03,879 three to the cent am I shot scope watch here, been long all day, 61 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,639 haven't we? These greens were hard. They are hard. They they 62 00:04:06,719 --> 00:04:12,319 land and they just explode off the back. I'm here, little little it's 63 00:04:12,319 --> 00:04:14,520 a little above my feet. Someone playing on it, coming a little left. 64 00:04:14,719 --> 00:04:18,120 Okay, if everybody could play golf and just just worry about hitting in 65 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:27,160 front of the ball, be a different game. It striped it, so 66 00:04:27,199 --> 00:04:30,879 it's going right into the pen. Let's see the distance. Boom landing on 67 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,720 the front of the green. Oh, so it ends up about what do 68 00:04:34,759 --> 00:04:39,120 you say, ten twelve? Yeah? Bet wautiful shot, thank you, 69 00:04:39,439 --> 00:04:43,199 beautiful shot. All right, So I'm gonna go a couple more steps ahead 70 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:47,879 of him. Now he's just hitting irons off the tee but I'm hitting driver. 71 00:04:48,079 --> 00:04:53,360 So right now, let's see. Let me take the scope out here, 72 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,399 playing one with the wind behind us, I think you got some in 73 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:03,040 and don't lay this this way. So it's going right to left, so 74 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:08,120 and it's above your feet and it's above my feet. So I want to 75 00:05:08,199 --> 00:05:11,839 hit less than the one forty six because it'll roll off. If I make 76 00:05:11,879 --> 00:05:16,800 that, it wouldn't hurting you a little bit. Yeah, so let's go 77 00:05:16,879 --> 00:05:21,920 with a m. I'll go with a seven. Iron might be too long, 78 00:05:23,439 --> 00:05:27,839 but I'd rather come up short on this. It looks like it's I'm 79 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,600 not sure what to do here. Yeah, whatever, you can hit solid. 80 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:34,079 Yeah. If I can hit a solid seven or eight eight, then 81 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:40,720 nail it yet with the eight iron here and nail it. One thing I 82 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,959 say all the time is never try sean. Of course you don't practice right, 83 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,240 absolutely right. But I saw it on TV. Oh yeah, yeah, 84 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:49,920 yeah, yeah. Sometimes we've got to have fun and do it though, 85 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:55,959 right, yep. Fun. Wait a minute, this is golf fun. 86 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,480 Uh Oh? Did not hit that well? And it's head right for 87 00:06:00,639 --> 00:06:05,879 the bunker? Hit it thin and it didn't any then we would have had 88 00:06:05,879 --> 00:06:11,120 to cover the long bunker shot, which yeah, I would have been terrified 89 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,199 of doing. So, Fred, if you well, let me ask you 90 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,079 a question. Okay, you when you play with Yeah, well, I 91 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:21,720 find you have you in person, so I'm taking over here. What would 92 00:06:21,759 --> 00:06:25,800 you say if you when you see amateur golfers, if you say the number 93 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:31,240 one problem they have is what if you break down one thing? What do 94 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:36,680 they not do? Correct? Well, I'm an amateur golfer, so and 95 00:06:36,759 --> 00:06:41,959 I've never want to uh although I'm working at the first T I'm not a 96 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,879 teacher. What do I see them doing? They don't hit in front of 97 00:06:46,879 --> 00:06:50,439 the ball, behind the ball and so and then they go I lifted my 98 00:06:50,519 --> 00:06:55,040 head. So what percent of practice do you think is focused on that? 99 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:59,000 When you go see coaches and other stuff. It's not. Everything should be 100 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,240 focused on here who you are, brand new golfer to whatever, on striking 101 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:03,959 the ball in front, and so if everybody just focused on that, the 102 00:07:03,959 --> 00:07:08,639 whole game would be different. Yeah. Maybe had a job though, But 103 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:10,959 that's why I guarantee when you come see me that you're gonna get better, 104 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,399 because what do we do. We focus on hitting the ball first, which 105 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:16,639 become a good ball striker. That's fun. Okay, So I'm just sure 106 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:23,079 to the I'm green side bunker. The bunker's actually in front of the green. 107 00:07:23,279 --> 00:07:28,120 You got this shot, and I've been hitting these pretty well today. 108 00:07:29,519 --> 00:07:33,360 It's running away from you from first tons of pressure because I'm recording now. 109 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:40,839 If they don't do nice and easy, don't don't grip the ball. See 110 00:07:40,839 --> 00:07:46,519 that's the other thing is don't grip it so hard, which really helps. 111 00:07:47,079 --> 00:07:54,360 Okay, nice bounce once it hits on the green, but a bounce left 112 00:07:54,399 --> 00:07:57,360 of the pin. It was headed right for the pin to the bounce, 113 00:07:57,399 --> 00:08:01,480 mat goat went to the left on in three, which is basically what I've 114 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:05,480 been doing all days. My driving has been really good. I've been in 115 00:08:05,519 --> 00:08:09,800 the fairway a lot, but I come up short. These are long holes. 116 00:08:09,839 --> 00:08:13,439 I'm not used to playing holes this long. This is uphill. See 117 00:08:13,439 --> 00:08:20,560 if I can roll it down here, easy to put even one. Eric's 118 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:26,399 putting out going downhill. Came up short, about eight feet short, and 119 00:08:26,519 --> 00:08:30,560 he's picking it up. Yeah, thank you, appreciate it all right, 120 00:08:30,639 --> 00:08:37,559 tell me about twenty two feet away uphill left right, probably about three inches 121 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,600 outside the cup. Watch him knock this in. He is deadly with this 122 00:08:41,639 --> 00:08:46,720 putter. Just turn. Oh great, very good. Okay, two, 123 00:08:46,799 --> 00:08:58,519 but just a way picking it up. Okay, we're going to a par 124 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:05,320 three here, Jeff just two four, give myself two. Fut Garth has 125 00:09:05,639 --> 00:09:09,799 had back nine. He's even or one another no on the back nine. 126 00:09:09,879 --> 00:09:15,879 He's hard everything. Garrison probably a scratch. He's a guy like if if 127 00:09:15,879 --> 00:09:18,200 he could practice, like he's one of his students, like he'd be a 128 00:09:18,279 --> 00:09:20,759 plus two or three. Oh sure, yeah, just doesn't have time. 129 00:09:20,159 --> 00:09:22,720 Okay, so let's get one of those people have to earn a living still. 130 00:09:24,759 --> 00:09:28,919 Work is just an excuse to pay for golf. Right, Okay, 131 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,799 I got one twenty nine playing one thirty four with a wind. This is 132 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,799 like home though of Ireland for him. Yeah, yeah, this wind is 133 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:39,759 okay, and the wind is cutting right to left hard, hard, So 134 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:43,480 I'm gonna go ahead with the eight iron. Fred's got one hundred and twenty 135 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:48,039 five here, big wind against him. It's funny because this pen's kind of 136 00:09:48,039 --> 00:09:50,679 surrounded. It's not even moving, but you can feel it and you look 137 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:52,799 up with the trees is moving. So tell you guys, don't just look 138 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,919 at the pen. Doesn't tell you enough. Okay, Wow, I don't 139 00:09:56,919 --> 00:10:00,720 know if you can hear that wind, but it is and right in my 140 00:10:00,759 --> 00:10:03,240 face. Hope, I don't come to short with this because it's a huge 141 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:13,000 bunker right in front of that green drawing a little bit and it's in a 142 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:18,080 huge bunker on the left side. So it did draw, but it didn't 143 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,480 get enough. The wind held it back and I'm the big bunker. I 144 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:24,759 was working with a guy the other day from Scotland. He's on the west 145 00:10:24,799 --> 00:10:28,879 side. He said, it's so very windy. He was he was hard 146 00:10:28,879 --> 00:10:31,960 to He had his low point like twelve inches ahead. Everything was so down 147 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,679 he couldn't get like his landing angles are so low. He just couldn't get 148 00:10:35,759 --> 00:10:37,799 height, and I'm just trying to get this guy to release it, and 149 00:10:37,799 --> 00:10:43,720 he's like, oh yeah, yeah. They could, Like if they just 150 00:10:43,759 --> 00:10:46,600 see someone hit a ball, they could probably guess where they grew up based 151 00:10:46,639 --> 00:10:54,200 on their Oh yeah you can't. Yeah forgot what Yeah a decent player. 152 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,080 In a second, it's so it's so in you. Oh wait, that 153 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:03,600 wind really thirty where the person grew up just on how they strike the ball. 154 00:11:03,759 --> 00:11:09,279 Yeah, because of the lower ball place in your pa Oh okay, 155 00:11:09,279 --> 00:11:13,960 sure conditions are higher. More targe more more. All right, Eric, 156 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,320 talk to me. What are you doing? So I got about one hundred 157 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:22,759 and thirty win massively against me, So I'm gonna take twenty four. Oh 158 00:11:22,759 --> 00:11:24,480 it was one twenty four there, Yeah, okay, so I'm actually one 159 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:28,519 twenty. I'm gonna hit this low and I'm hitting like a punch shot, 160 00:11:28,799 --> 00:11:31,679 so it's gonna be three quarter. You'll see this stay pretty low. I 161 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,600 wasn't key with this club. It's probably gonna draw a bit into it. 162 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,120 Has a shoulder problem, so he really can't swing big clubs. So I 163 00:11:39,159 --> 00:11:43,000 make sure I get my handle through first and get the body rotating. He 164 00:11:43,039 --> 00:11:48,759 has a short back swing. Like John wrong, and that's gonna ride the 165 00:11:48,799 --> 00:11:52,399 win. Too much left probably and a bounce, oh no, bounce left 166 00:11:52,399 --> 00:11:54,120 of the green and went. It was a perfect distance, just a little 167 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:58,960 left, yeah, too much close face yep? Oh is that what it 168 00:11:58,039 --> 00:12:03,960 was? Yeah? It's got another bunker shot, another bunker shot. Let's 169 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,799 see if I can do better this time. Put some good juju on the 170 00:12:05,879 --> 00:12:11,320 last one, though. We'll see here. Got a nice little probably fifteen 171 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:16,320 twelve feet above them. Short sighted it, leaning forward, face open, 172 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:20,720 See how he does? Oh? I did it? Oh? So he 173 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,960 is, uh five six feet away? Beautiful shot, Fred, nice beautiful 174 00:12:24,039 --> 00:12:28,519 cue. I'm just using my sixty. I'm sure sight too. I just 175 00:12:28,519 --> 00:12:33,279 got to PLoP on the green. So I'm going I'm looking like three inches 176 00:12:33,279 --> 00:12:37,080 ahead of it, and I think I can hit it a little too yeah, 177 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,639 little too much landed beyond the flag. But you know, when you're 178 00:12:39,639 --> 00:12:43,039 in these kind of wins, and this is really my fourth round in probably 179 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,039 seven or eight years i'm playing golf. I just don't have time and I 180 00:12:46,039 --> 00:12:50,919 have injuries for me, and for most of this way, just get on 181 00:12:50,919 --> 00:12:52,519 the green. But you know what I mean, you're trying to avoid double 182 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:56,240 bogies, and you never know puts will start following. We don't need to 183 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:01,600 get cute. Good contract about five way short. Here you go. Now 184 00:13:01,799 --> 00:13:09,039 Eric's got about thirty. It's coming up way short. Just pick it up. 185 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,919 I'm done. You don't play a lot of golf, right Eric, 186 00:13:13,159 --> 00:13:16,799 No, I should say my fourth round and probably seven or eight years being 187 00:13:16,799 --> 00:13:20,639 out. Here's a treat though today. Yeah, I'm loving it playing with 188 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,399 you, dude. So yeah, it's a funny thing, both short sided 189 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:30,240 and all that win. Though it's hard with bogie, it's okay. Now, 190 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:31,799 if you guys are trying to get your scores down, what kills you 191 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:37,000 the most double bogies. There's a great MIT study that was done. So 192 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:41,879 you take greens in regulation, double it minus ninety five. That's your score 193 00:13:41,159 --> 00:13:43,879 and they're pretty right on all the time. Say it again. So let's 194 00:13:43,879 --> 00:13:48,000 say you hit ten greens in regulation, that would be times two twenty minus 195 00:13:48,039 --> 00:13:52,279 that from ninety five. You should be abound seventy five shooter. So most 196 00:13:52,279 --> 00:13:56,039 people are six or eight. You take six times two is twelve minus ninety 197 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:03,559 five? What is that? Yeah, So basically it boils down. If 198 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:05,559 you want to get better, increase your greens in regulation. You said something 199 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:11,159 a few minutes ago about a piece of advice that instructor gave you once that 200 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,720 I thought was brilliant. What do you have on that whole? Boy? 201 00:14:15,039 --> 00:14:20,159 Okay about playing golf with students, Oh, I just oh, it's funny. 202 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:24,159 So a long time ago coaching of this, and I do playing lessons 203 00:14:24,159 --> 00:14:26,399 and I won't play any The guy told you, the old coach, he 204 00:14:26,399 --> 00:14:28,600 goes, Eric, whatever you do when you go play, you can never 205 00:14:28,639 --> 00:14:31,960 impress anybody. All you can do is hurt your reputation because everybody you play 206 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,159 with expects you to shoot great scores. They expect you at perfect shots, 207 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:37,840 and if you don't hit them, they're very disappointed. So all you do 208 00:14:37,919 --> 00:14:39,799 is hurt your reputation as a player. And so it's it's one of the 209 00:14:39,799 --> 00:14:43,519 reasons I don't play because of that. But the other is just injuries and 210 00:14:43,519 --> 00:14:46,240 stuff. And you know, like most people don't know that, we have 211 00:14:46,279 --> 00:14:48,840 no most coaches at zero time to practice right and places you're trying to run 212 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:58,080 a business. So Guard is playing from the blue tea's I'm playing from the 213 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:03,519 whites, and Eric and his wife are playing I don't even know what color. 214 00:15:03,519 --> 00:15:07,360 It is whatever color up front. But here here's kind of funny thing. 215 00:15:07,399 --> 00:15:09,840 So guys, I'm out here with the torn rotator cuff playing golf. 216 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,639 So I'm playing the same tea as my wife, just hitting irons. I 217 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:15,120 have you out here and have fun, right, and you're doing a heck 218 00:15:15,159 --> 00:15:16,840 of a job. Thanks, But it's just I see most people playing too 219 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:22,480 far back like three woods every second shot, have fun. Dead bunker is 220 00:15:22,639 --> 00:15:26,879 kind of in my range. Beautiful draw around the corner. Okay, so 221 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,440 you're saying I need to hit my draw right now. Yeah, you started 222 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:33,080 the bunker and draw drawn demand, So started at the bunker and let it 223 00:15:33,159 --> 00:15:37,360 come around. Yeah, start with the club face open. Well, when 224 00:15:37,399 --> 00:15:41,559 Fret says open, that's for him open. That's standard. Oh really they 225 00:15:41,639 --> 00:15:45,240 used to close it. Wow. You see Fred's new shot here. If 226 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,799 people call this like voodoo magic, But all I did was show Fred how 227 00:15:48,799 --> 00:15:54,039 to close his club face, which you know some show sixty five percent golfers 228 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,399 can't do and others have it near ninety. So that's why he flies, 229 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:02,519 folks. Yeah, face is open, twist the grip. You have full 230 00:16:02,559 --> 00:16:06,200 control of that face. Okay, let's see what happens. Here, twist 231 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:08,759 it, twist this ship out? Hey, hey, hey watching? Oh 232 00:16:08,799 --> 00:16:11,600 that's right, this is a kid should family show? It is? I 233 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,480 can't ruin my reputation on here at Canley Show. What do you think this 234 00:16:15,639 --> 00:16:23,759 is? Manolo? On Instagram? Here goes Fred aiming up perfect, look 235 00:16:23,759 --> 00:16:26,080 at that thing, plays a little draw in there, started a little right, 236 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:30,440 but he's drawing it. Yep, beauty, fairway towards the bunk. 237 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:34,720 How much? That's great, beautiful, good shot? Thank you. It's 238 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:38,080 fun to play it, isn't it? The fun thing is now you have 239 00:16:38,159 --> 00:16:41,440 that pleasure at your cut? Yes, I do that I have Yeah, 240 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:47,559 you got both? You call it a cut? Thank you. If I 241 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:49,879 can get this draw to work, then I do have a draw and a 242 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:56,879 cut. But you know, it's really remarkable how little I had to do, 243 00:16:57,679 --> 00:17:03,159 you know, with just little inside from Eric be able to draw the 244 00:17:03,159 --> 00:17:06,920 ball. And I just gotta remember to do it. But I plan on 245 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:14,079 practicing this swing a lot. It is windy and I am walking walking this 246 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:18,559 whole course. Okay, so I'm gonna try to draw this around here. 247 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:22,480 Which club you hit? I'm into two iron, two iron, and I'm 248 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:26,359 gonna try to draw this around the corner. So I threw set through setup, 249 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,400 my face closed, and I sweat to the right and I will draw 250 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:34,680 it doing that. It's sorry not to And there goes the draw. There 251 00:17:34,759 --> 00:17:38,200 comes perfect draw. Folks. Once you understand the d plane, you understand 252 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:41,400 cluck, base and path, you can hit any shot you want. What 253 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,039 do they say about the two iron? What's the classic line about a two 254 00:17:45,079 --> 00:17:48,160 iron? Oh, don't tell me, God, this is it. When 255 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:49,400 I grew up playing, I grew up playing one and two iron, they 256 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,279 were butter blades, butter knives. These things are not like that, but 257 00:17:56,079 --> 00:17:59,000 I love it. Yeah, if it starts, if the lightning starts, 258 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,559 go ahead and take you two hours, because god, it can't even hit 259 00:18:00,599 --> 00:18:03,319 a two iron, right, you see me crushing. I love these things, 260 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:07,359 this thing. Now, I would say this, I'm not. I'm 261 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:11,440 another distance I used to but as fun back in the day with those ones 262 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:14,079 and two as that were blades like that. Tell me why you were in 263 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:17,160 San Francisco. What's going on? Oh? It came out here for a 264 00:18:17,519 --> 00:18:22,440 coaches camp, so probably like eight coaches got together. Hu Mar came in 265 00:18:22,519 --> 00:18:29,640 from Europe, has some people from Scotland here to the Olympic Club. At 266 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:30,559 the Olympic Club. Yeah, so we spent a couple of days over in 267 00:18:30,599 --> 00:18:33,880 the teaching center and what's cool is we just talked about processes, like how 268 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:37,519 other coaches like what do they do from the start, Like what's their processes? 269 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:41,559 You know, not so much about what drills you do or whatever that 270 00:18:41,559 --> 00:18:42,680 It's like, okay, I see this, this is how I start my 271 00:18:42,839 --> 00:18:45,599 lesson. This is what I do. So it's always funny, fun to 272 00:18:45,599 --> 00:18:48,759 get the different take because you're always in your own world. But see, 273 00:18:48,799 --> 00:18:52,400 okay, this guy, this is how he starts is this is what his 274 00:18:52,599 --> 00:18:55,440 processes. You gotta have a process as a coach, Like where do I 275 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:57,720 go boom boom boom boom boom boom and then cause an effect? If I 276 00:18:57,759 --> 00:19:02,319 tell somebody to to do this, what is that going to change? And 277 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:06,480 it always better be around impact, Like I don't change takeaway to look pretty. 278 00:19:06,799 --> 00:19:10,160 It better affect impact in some way. If not, don't do it. 279 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:12,119 Let's see Fred, he's got a long shot here. He's just trying 280 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:15,359 to get it up there. But yeah, I'd love to get it within 281 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:19,440 about one hundred and thirty forty yards. It's okay, long par five's three 282 00:19:19,519 --> 00:19:23,480 or three wood? Pulled out my three wood, and I'm gonna try to 283 00:19:23,559 --> 00:19:26,960 see if I can get some draw out of this because that would really be 284 00:19:26,079 --> 00:19:29,920 nice. Plus the wind is going to help me a little bit. I 285 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:30,680 don't know. Fred will put this on it, folks, don't look. 286 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,720 Fred's pretty impressive. He won't take any credit on the show. He's got 287 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:38,640 impressive game. Yeah that's okay, you're up there. You moved it along, 288 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:42,160 No, I hit it straight? Yeah, well well you did a 289 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,880 little behind it yeah. Falling backwards? Yeah, oh that's right. I 290 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,720 did fall backwards, didn't I? Yep. Interesting, And here's here's a 291 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:52,920 good question. Why do we fall backwards to help close the club? Dase? 292 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:56,079 But you know how to close it now like this, twisting the handle 293 00:19:56,599 --> 00:20:00,759 so you don't have to fall back anymore. Right, we fall back to 294 00:20:00,799 --> 00:20:07,680 ourself more time. This is not a flat golf course. You know. 295 00:20:07,839 --> 00:20:10,960 That's the kind of thing that you don't really get the sense when you're watching 296 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:17,839 TV of how much undulation that you have on golf course. I think the 297 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:22,839 Gusta Nationalists perfect example of that. So we're two fifty out. So Fred 298 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:27,119 just toldly on two fifty This is two fifty right there. I'm just grabbing 299 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:32,279 my four iron here. Okay, it's way back there. If you know, 300 00:20:32,279 --> 00:20:34,640 if I didn't have a bachel, I would be hitting probably five and 301 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,319 going for it. Okay, And how far do you hit this foreign? 302 00:20:37,519 --> 00:20:41,400 Four for me should probably carry two ten. I'm downhill a little bit though, 303 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,640 so I probably won't get that, So probably four two hundred carry about 304 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:48,559 if I get it started, uh like I want If I hit left low, 305 00:20:48,599 --> 00:20:52,519 I won't get that. So we'll see. I just got to get 306 00:20:52,519 --> 00:20:59,559 this thing running, lean left, going downhill, hands ahead. So that's 307 00:20:59,599 --> 00:21:03,759 the batch. Shot left and running. That could be trouble. Yep, 308 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:07,039 that could be trouble. Is not a draw, buddy, it's a lot 309 00:21:07,079 --> 00:21:10,880 more than a draw. That that's a hook. That was a hook. 310 00:21:11,759 --> 00:21:14,839 Okay. I'm in the middle of the fairway now though. That's the good 311 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,680 news. But I'm probably pretty far out. And there are three bunkers protecting 312 00:21:18,759 --> 00:21:26,720 the screen with the flag right in between going left to right, the number 313 00:21:26,759 --> 00:21:30,920 one number two bunkers. But if you get it on the green, you 314 00:21:32,079 --> 00:21:34,559 have been a tendency to just if you hit the green, they just roll 315 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:41,319 off. You gotta come up a little bit short flirting. So I'm at 316 00:21:41,319 --> 00:21:45,640 one seventy three to the center. You guys are in a prime real estate. 317 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:55,839 Yeah, except there's up front and it's got a false front there with 318 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:59,039 the two bunkers. If you can make it, if you can get some 319 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:06,519 great height on this fly at one seventy five, no height, no five 320 00:22:06,599 --> 00:22:08,400 height. Definitely you're just gonna run it. Are you gonna get something running 321 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:14,960 and trying to run it up the creasor yeah? Yeah, but I'll probably 322 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,839 come up short because if I take my hybrid it I'll go along. Yeah. 323 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,759 It's a good mess here, Yeah right, I think So we're gonna 324 00:22:22,759 --> 00:22:27,559 get Fred on video here. Oh oh pressure, he's shooting this now. 325 00:22:27,759 --> 00:22:33,079 Fred doesn't use a coach because he's got nine and fifty one on a show. 326 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,960 But if I was his coach, I would get his low point, 327 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:45,480 more forward, beautiful shot. This this thing may be perfect between them and 328 00:22:45,519 --> 00:22:48,759 it's bounced up on the green, bounce up and over like great shot. 329 00:22:49,799 --> 00:22:53,240 That was great. That was great. I love that was beautiful. That's 330 00:22:53,279 --> 00:23:00,640 fifth fifth buff worthy. That was beautiful. Beautiful you are yeah again, 331 00:23:00,759 --> 00:23:07,400 I'm playing with new irons. He's the tailor made qi five iron or something 332 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,160 with my last irons that I just know I was allergic to it. Some 333 00:23:11,279 --> 00:23:15,160 days work, some days it didn't. But I'll take a long two putt 334 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,880 from there, you bet I'll take a long two putt. I was one 335 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:25,359 seventy out and with wind hurting me, and I still went over the go. 336 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:29,279 Okay, that was like nuts. That was so good. I loved 337 00:23:29,279 --> 00:23:32,759 it. But am I gonna start thinking, Oh, I can hit this 338 00:23:32,839 --> 00:23:36,160 five iron one eighty all the time. Now, that's not where I'm gonna 339 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:41,839 go. Eric's gonna try to go find the ball that he did hard left. 340 00:23:41,519 --> 00:23:45,640 Okay, Wow, I'm in trouble here. I'm borrowing one of gear 341 00:23:45,799 --> 00:23:49,200 six iron a six irons. When he found the ball, I gotta keep 342 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:53,079 this so low. I'm just off the back edge of the green. I 343 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,480 really got to punch this thing out. I can putt from there. I'm 344 00:23:56,519 --> 00:24:00,279 sure that's left. Hey, Eric, this guy he's riding between trees. 345 00:24:00,839 --> 00:24:03,400 He's got to keep it low and he's got those bunkers. See how he 346 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:12,240 plays through the trees and it stops right in between the two bunkers leading up 347 00:24:12,279 --> 00:24:17,359 to the green. Nice shot, playing it smart. I'm good, Yeah, 348 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:22,319 I'm gonna put this even though I'm on the fringe and i'm far, 349 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:27,200 you know what, I'm gonna bring my pitching wage with me, So I 350 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,319 had to punch out here in front. Let's see if I get up and 351 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:34,079 down. Nice shot, dude, Thank you smart right every once in a 352 00:24:34,079 --> 00:24:37,960 while. Let's see if I get up and down. I gotta click this 353 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:41,480 nicely. Put some spin on it, which means, make sure I get 354 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:48,759 this club down in front of it. Get some good dynamic loft spin it, 355 00:24:48,279 --> 00:24:52,640 because I can do like that clip hard boom, Look that spin. 356 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:59,039 Okay, nice, I'll take it. It's fun when you can spin him 357 00:24:59,519 --> 00:25:03,759 and and you can run him to when you understand dynamic loft attack angle and 358 00:25:03,799 --> 00:25:08,759 spin loft downhill two inches off the back of the green, looks like it's 359 00:25:08,759 --> 00:25:12,640 gonna go right to the left. They feel good. I say that. 360 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:22,039 Okay, let's see what happens. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't go 361 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:26,519 in the opposite direction that I read it. Oh that was really The distance 362 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:33,599 was really good, but I did not read that well at all. No 363 00:25:33,759 --> 00:25:36,279 good speed again though, as Yeah, my speed was real good, but 364 00:25:36,319 --> 00:25:38,519 I did not read the green at all. The red has been a speed 365 00:25:38,599 --> 00:25:47,200 king all over putting today. Though, Well, here's your happy face I 366 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:48,000 gave. Oh, I gave him the smiley face. I meant to get 367 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:53,559 in the USC one. What do you say? Left to right? Where 368 00:25:53,559 --> 00:25:59,920 are you starting it? So? I'm gonna start it probably about three inches 369 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,119 outside the hole? Okay, no, probably I'm going to start it right 370 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,960 over with this mark right there you go. Okay, he's got a shot 371 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:15,920 line. Looks really good with this new putter, real good short. Yeah 372 00:26:15,039 --> 00:26:18,079 you started on your line though, didn't you? I did? Yeah, 373 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,799 I did, but I just didn't hit it hard. Not an easy putt, 374 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,839 no, so but what your chances from ten feet for the pros? 375 00:26:26,039 --> 00:26:32,119 Forty? That's all you know, folks. That was It's how hard puttiness? 376 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,119 Where the best and world can only make forty percent from ten feet and 377 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,440 they start the ball where they want? What does that tell you? Green 378 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,720 readings? Very hard? I was there in three right, yeah, you 379 00:26:40,839 --> 00:26:44,680 part you know you went three? Four? Oh becaumes that putt? Yeah? 380 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:51,000 Shoot yeah, three and then three yeah. So the greens other bogey, 381 00:26:51,279 --> 00:26:56,039 Well it's your first three putt? Oh yeah, no one, yes, 382 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,200 I have had another one today, but that wasn't the three part because 383 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,160 that was often green. Oh you were okay officially yeah, so and with 384 00:27:03,279 --> 00:27:04,319 the range you were because when you look at the tour or the pros, 385 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:08,079 don't three put till about thirty two feet. I was over. I was 386 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,920 close to sixty feet fifty seven. Yeah, and yeah, so trankically a 387 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:15,599 two putt, but still so you know, folks, thirty two that was 388 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,680 I'll see what you'll see there go to two point oh one at that point. 389 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,480 Oh, this is gorgeous. Oh it's so beautiful this whole. You 390 00:27:30,519 --> 00:27:36,000 know, we're very lucky that the sky cleared up, the skies just fog. 391 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,079 You wouldn't expect us, No, no, no, absolutely, so 392 00:27:38,079 --> 00:27:41,160 we got a treat. Gareth hit like the middle of the fairway, it's 393 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:45,519 probably on the right edge or off what did we're mid June in this round? 394 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:49,440 Great shot this course, Like what I say, well, this is 395 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,559 really called for more of a draw all these whole seats to be going downhill. 396 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:59,160 Yeah, but I mean get away with if you have one or the 397 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:00,640 other. Yeah, better to have a drawer on the faith, I would 398 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,319 say. So, it's just so many of these landings are downhill. Garth 399 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:08,880 parted. Huh yeah at Bogue hit another part five two in a row? 400 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,400 Wow in a row? Yeah, this is par five and then a part 401 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,680 four. That's strange. Two par fives in a row. Oh, run 402 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:22,440 seventeen huh wow, it's kind of sad. I don't want to be done. 403 00:28:22,559 --> 00:28:27,079 I'm gonna just hit mine. No normal shot here because then joined the 404 00:28:27,079 --> 00:28:33,920 sam Suisco Olympic Club tree. Just two more to go. I guess all 405 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,680 things good things come do. Man. I guess it's called the lake course 406 00:28:37,799 --> 00:28:41,920 because of lake we're said out there, But have we had any water on 407 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,799 this course at all? I haven't seen any? Yeah. The lake is 408 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,279 lake, we're said out there, we haven't seen called the lake course. 409 00:28:48,519 --> 00:28:53,720 And the other one is which done? Yeah? Which did you see it 410 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,440 when you played it? No? I guess you can from me one spot 411 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,920 barely, but it's not like really into it, right, Yeah, the 412 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:07,599 terminology don't really fit. These are something else. So man, whoa I 413 00:29:07,599 --> 00:29:11,559 had some worm burner. That's okay, you're moving it far five? Yeah? 414 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,759 Yeah, I fell back on it too, right, Yeah, you 415 00:29:15,799 --> 00:29:18,640 know this is why do we fall back? Because this if I fall back, 416 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,240 I have more time to close the face like this. This is how 417 00:29:22,359 --> 00:29:26,359 pros closed faces with their left hand. Yeah, they motorcycle move. Like 418 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,240 see how my face closes. Yeah. Yeah, So you're cam in too 419 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,799 open. You try to wait and click like that instead of like I showed 420 00:29:32,799 --> 00:29:34,240 you the trick to do here, it's a motorcycle move. So instead you're 421 00:29:34,279 --> 00:29:40,039 twisting the handle, you're saving all the power and twisting the face, which 422 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,519 allows you to close the club face, which is a proper way. You're 423 00:29:42,559 --> 00:29:45,599 just doing it a different way by staying back, trying falling back. That's 424 00:29:45,599 --> 00:29:49,200 another way, but this is the right way. So basically what he's saying 425 00:29:49,279 --> 00:29:52,799 is I need a lot of work. Like when you fully understand the handle 426 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:56,160 right, your whole life, the whole game changes. Oh wow, okay, 427 00:29:56,359 --> 00:29:59,119 It's just that's how much control we have of everything. Like I told 428 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,079 you, like the face, we have so much control of in the handle. 429 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,440 A long way to go here, and I did not hit that. 430 00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:10,599 Well, that's right here. Let him go first, right here to eight. 431 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:19,359 I'll just take the three wood one friend fading, whoa, whoa, 432 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,480 Hang on, y'all, you're in another fairway. I think the walk is 433 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:29,599 getting to me. Man, what was over going uphill? Now it's so 434 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,720 pretty. Yeah, fascinating. It's a great course. It's amazing. The 435 00:30:33,759 --> 00:30:37,200 condition is remark you see that one hanging down upside down one on the other 436 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:41,160 hole, like it'd be like it took one of these trees like tipped it 437 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,920 over and it is upside down. That's so wild looking. It's like the 438 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,119 thing went one point. There were four grounds keepers on one fairway, twenty 439 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:55,480 two up the fairway and I hit a ball left a divid so I took 440 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,519 out the sand bottle here and I sprinkled, and guy came up and goes 441 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:04,279 turn take my job. I'm a hit of four or something. All right, 442 00:31:04,359 --> 00:31:07,519 Eric, what's your we got approach here? What are you doing? 443 00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:11,799 Well, I'm just gonna get it out there because we got two thirty uphill, 444 00:31:11,839 --> 00:31:14,000 so it's really probably two forty five, just in another four iron, 445 00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:17,559 trying to get it up there somewhere near it. With my shoulder, I 446 00:31:17,599 --> 00:31:22,480 can't hit any woods, so this ball's wave below my feet. I'm gonna 447 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,839 make sure I stay on my front side and just get good contact, which 448 00:31:27,039 --> 00:31:30,359 I may have gone a little too far leup, but kicked out nicely. 449 00:31:30,799 --> 00:31:33,640 Thatun's right, Bunce right, Okay, I think I'll be Okay, yeah, 450 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,400 you will be. I gotta fight my ball, turn it over a 451 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,079 little bit too much, but okay, all right, that's a tough shot. 452 00:31:41,079 --> 00:31:45,400 In it your feet. What did you hit back there? Fred? 453 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,640 You striped it three wood five wood, three wood killed. It didn't go 454 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,880 in the direction I was hoping, didn't end in the direction I was hoping. 455 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:56,759 Okay, Yeah, I did find the flat spot on this hole. 456 00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:01,359 What'll break? And in the rough? It only like eighteen inches into the 457 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:09,240 rough. My shot scope says eight to the flag. Playing one fifteen with 458 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:14,880 that? When I'm gonna play it like one twenty five. Okay, I'll 459 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:16,880 pull it my nine. It's a fun one. Okay. Eric's gonna take 460 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:22,920 your shot. He's downhill. Lie looks like he's on the green from here. 461 00:32:22,279 --> 00:32:25,200 I can't really see it anymore. Get in. Oh my god, 462 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:32,400 I thought they go in. Oh my godness, I thought I went in. 463 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:37,000 It was gonna go in it, shot Bred? Oh it did? 464 00:32:37,759 --> 00:32:40,640 Am I on the grain in regulation? Nice chance at a birdy here? 465 00:32:42,359 --> 00:32:46,200 Eric? Am I putting? No, you're about this far off? Okay, 466 00:32:46,559 --> 00:32:52,720 so about arm's length? A good shot? Yeah? Happy with it? 467 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,519 Beautiful you know a lot of nice shots. Say this is a score 468 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,480 course where you're gonna look at it, and the score isn't gonna look like 469 00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:01,720 as good as you hit it, you know what I mean? Yeah, 470 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,960 yeah, because you had a lot of good shots where you walk it. 471 00:33:05,039 --> 00:33:07,839 I mean, it's just plus I don't know the course and we don't know 472 00:33:07,839 --> 00:33:10,000 how it's playing with these new greens. It's hard hard, I mean hard 473 00:33:10,079 --> 00:33:15,759 hard greens that are hitting hard, and yeah we're just barely over. It's 474 00:33:15,799 --> 00:33:20,240 a beautiful shot, though I can't putt from there. No, So I'm 475 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:24,160 gonna take this into that putting motion, which is it Tony Mansoni instruction? 476 00:33:25,319 --> 00:33:31,880 So what two four six seven to the edge of the green, ninth to 477 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:38,000 the ten nine steps of twenty seven feet right in between the two sprinkle hends 478 00:33:40,599 --> 00:33:47,079 tcchen double hit, double hard. Right, you're okay? That's legal that 479 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,519 I mean, like they don't penalyze you to that anymore? Right? Eighty 480 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,039 was that? Eighty two? TC? Chat? Was it? I'm not 481 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:57,880 the person to ask. Okay, it seems like can make a bird all 482 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,920 right. Well I'm putting for the part which one thing, but I still 483 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:06,880 have some work to do. Let me just go Yeah, nope, I 484 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:10,880 just couldn't let my eye see that much part the whole. Yeah, okay, 485 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:16,480 this looks like he's gonna go left or right. No, that's the 486 00:34:16,519 --> 00:34:23,719 line. Beautiful layout. I mean they built this and they got the length 487 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:28,119 to build a monster with it. Do you think like Ryder Cup people all 488 00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:30,480 up in there. I went to a President's Cup at Harding Park. It's 489 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:37,199 Tiger play. Oh really? Like when was that ten finish? Colin Won 490 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:43,159 went there? Didn't? Yeah? Yeah he did like eighteen Okay, well 491 00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:45,000 they go they'll go back there. It was during COVID, so maybe twenty 492 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:50,800 okay. And you know, I mean he was very familiar with the chorus 493 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,119 because he played at cal at Berkeley. Yeah, do you have my club? 494 00:34:54,320 --> 00:35:00,480 I do? Thank you? Garth Park. That is his eight secutive 495 00:35:00,519 --> 00:35:06,840 car in the back nine a boogie and Eric had a car and we're going 496 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:17,079 to number eight. Wow, we're just finishing the whole. I mean to 497 00:35:17,119 --> 00:35:22,599 take a photo the brisk Why how come it's not driver talk through that one? 498 00:35:22,599 --> 00:35:25,639 Because I think it's uh two sixty can run Night of Fairway like into 499 00:35:25,639 --> 00:35:30,519 a bunker on the right guy there? That thing yeah, up going up 500 00:35:30,559 --> 00:35:31,880 on the uphill. Yeah, that's only two sixty. Yeah, so I 501 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,519 think it's kind of like a two thirty shot and then like a hundred yard 502 00:35:35,559 --> 00:35:37,800 up the hill. Are you strategizing over here? Well, you said it's 503 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:43,719 two sixty that bunker and okay, so he's gonna go short of us the 504 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:50,239 three would or seven instead of trying to that's the thing that you hear people 505 00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,039 now that like you're hearing about just vomit and go for it. Yeah, 506 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,760 you gotta be so smart about it, yeah, of course, Yeah, 507 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:59,760 like we we know that if you're the risk, it would mitigate risk and 508 00:36:00,039 --> 00:36:02,639 try to figure out what what kind of problems you can have if you don't 509 00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:06,960 hit it with Yeah. What I think is amazing stat though, is the 510 00:36:07,039 --> 00:36:12,440 three wood is only one percent less left and right than the driver in Arcos 511 00:36:12,519 --> 00:36:15,719 millions of shots. Wow, So when people if you go the three wood 512 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:16,639 just to say okay, I'm going to get in the fairway, Yeah, 513 00:36:16,639 --> 00:36:21,679 it's only one percent difference as far as how much dispersion is that's it? 514 00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,280 And you lose twe yards? Yeah, yeah, so it's a negative and 515 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:28,239 he what are you gonna play it here? Driver? Which what are you 516 00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,679 gonna do. What's the ball gonna do. That's why I'm I'm just gonna 517 00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:36,119 hit my normal shot. Baby cut. Yeah, and I'm going to aim 518 00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,519 for the left side of the fairway where that bunker is, but just to 519 00:36:38,599 --> 00:36:42,360 the right of it. So just in the fairway, leak it in. 520 00:36:42,519 --> 00:36:47,159 Yep, perfect, Okay. Here we are on eighteen one, last opportunity 521 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:57,599 to get a decent drive here, and it's going for that bunker's hanging kick 522 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,559 kick a little right. Oh oh, bounced. I think it stayed short 523 00:37:00,559 --> 00:37:04,519 of the bunker. I headed for the left of it, which is where 524 00:37:04,559 --> 00:37:07,119 the trees are. I couldn't follow it, but I didn't reach it. 525 00:37:07,199 --> 00:37:09,119 I didn't get it far enough to reach the trees. That ball get right 526 00:37:09,199 --> 00:37:14,400 or stay left? Did I end up in the bunker? Got shore? 527 00:37:15,519 --> 00:37:16,920 Hopefully it bounced right into the fairway. Yeah, I'm in the bunker, 528 00:37:17,559 --> 00:37:21,519 right in the center of it. In a long walk. There's something to 529 00:37:21,519 --> 00:37:24,480 be said about how cooped we are. Yeah. Yeah, I'm definitely tiring 530 00:37:24,519 --> 00:37:29,719 out here. Tough finishing hole. I'm seeing one, two, three, 531 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,760 four or five six bunkers. If you go, oh, it just stays 532 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:37,920 up on the bank. It's like an amphitheater behind in downhill, and probably 533 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:45,920 the green is running downhill too, right, Oh boy, Eric had no 534 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:50,440 idea. That's how Eric went right over the trees. That's okay. I'm 535 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,559 good with that. I'm ready. I mean, I said, I don't 536 00:37:52,559 --> 00:37:55,400 want it to end, so I just need to get out of that bunker. 537 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:59,440 I can't. I mean physically, I don't want to try to get 538 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,519 to the green from where I am because I don't have the confidence to hit 539 00:38:04,639 --> 00:38:08,719 good distance on a fairway bunker, and there's so much trouble up there. 540 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:13,239 I just need to get out of it. Ah, boy, I'm due, 541 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:19,199 just nice easy swing. That's the third bunker on the back nine, 542 00:38:20,119 --> 00:38:24,320 two or three on the front nine. How far is that? I'm one 543 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:30,000 hundred and eleven yards away up hill. It's a tough shot. You got 544 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:35,159 to clear those bunkers. Yeah, lots of trouble. Small little green surrounded 545 00:38:35,199 --> 00:38:39,119 by bunkers. Don't be a hero jerk, Just get it out. Never 546 00:38:39,199 --> 00:38:46,360 follow a bad shot with a stupid shot. Eric, you're going for go, 547 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:51,360 go, go go go stopped. Oh and it's not going on. 548 00:38:51,679 --> 00:38:59,639 I can't. I think it's really short though. All right, did exactly 549 00:38:59,639 --> 00:39:00,519 what I want to do, which is just get out of the bunker. 550 00:39:00,599 --> 00:39:06,320 Get it certainly, that's fine. Now I'm going straight up hill. The 551 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:12,440 flag is in the front, so I have room to play with seventy five 552 00:39:12,519 --> 00:39:21,199 playing eighty five some of go'll playing ninety a growing wind uphill. I like 553 00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:24,760 it, go go go? Oh nice? Did it? Good shot, 554 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:30,159 buddy, Thank you, good shot, he says. Stand in my face 555 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:35,719 twice in this hole walking up the final hill, and I am tired. 556 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:40,920 Shot right, thank you? Pretty Oh my legs are done. Oh yeah, 557 00:39:42,199 --> 00:39:47,199 I got about twelve feet. It's a small green considering what you were 558 00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:57,159 dealing with, but there's a huge amphitheater all the way around it. Our 559 00:39:57,199 --> 00:40:00,239 puts are down hill right, yeah, my, I definitely am on that 560 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:07,920 range. It looks like, oh oh, pick it up. Yeah, 561 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:13,360 dude, this has been an incredible day. I really appreciate the invitation. 562 00:40:13,519 --> 00:40:16,159 Oh, thank you, brod I forget it. Yeah, we'll do it 563 00:40:16,199 --> 00:40:21,760 again sometime. It would be nice. Oh, it may not be at 564 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:27,559 the Olympic Club the weekend of the US Open. Hey, if I come 565 00:40:27,599 --> 00:40:30,599 back up this way, we gotta do a hardy Yeah, absolutely, I'd 566 00:40:30,599 --> 00:40:34,880 love to. Yeah, I'll come up this way at some point. Okay, 567 00:40:35,039 --> 00:40:39,320 so it's gonna break. It's fifteen feet downhill, left to right, 568 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:49,679 right there, I've got this turn turn, turn, turn drop man one 569 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:54,599 this in an inch, goodt and he finishes with another bogey. It's a 570 00:40:54,639 --> 00:40:59,039 lot of good shots today. Golf smarter. All right, Eric, tell 571 00:40:59,079 --> 00:41:00,760 us one more time. How to find you online? You can find me 572 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,360 on Oh this is the cool thing, Fred, I've just opened up start 573 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,199 a new community in school s k O L. I have so much free 574 00:41:07,199 --> 00:41:09,800 stuff. I'm putting their online courses, how curious size, how to hit 575 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:14,079 the ball first, everything, it's all gonna be free. But look for 576 00:41:14,119 --> 00:41:16,239 me e. JS Golf Academy is what it is. It is the coolest 577 00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:24,119 app. Also go to egs golf dot com. Went to ah good Garth 578 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:30,679 boring Pars, boring pars nine consecutives. Thank you. That's fine, man, 579 00:41:30,679 --> 00:41:32,840 And that was so much fun watching you play. What a place, 580 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,360 s k o L. And then look for JS Golf Academy and that's you're 581 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,760 to find so much cool stuff there. Just started up a couple of weeks 582 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:43,039 ago, so it's growing. But everybody's getting in free right now. So 583 00:41:43,039 --> 00:41:45,119 now it's time to do it. Awesome, I'll send you. Also got 584 00:41:45,159 --> 00:41:50,639 EJS golf dot com to find the address. My goal was hoping to break 585 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,679 ninety get it eighty seven, good way to go. Good for you, 586 00:41:54,679 --> 00:42:00,280 forty forty three, forty four, good for you. Yes, it's like 587 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:05,239 you got a lot of good shots you want to write up or no, 588 00:42:05,559 --> 00:42:10,079 I feel like this old man. He played eighteen. But I made it 589 00:42:10,159 --> 00:42:14,119 and I'm gonna keep walking. There's a big walk there at the end. 590 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:19,000 Yes, I can do one more in a straight up at the end of 591 00:42:19,039 --> 00:42:23,800 finish. Well. I hope you enjoyed that, and would really like to 592 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:28,440 know if you'd like me to do that with others as well, whether they're 593 00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:34,519 teachers or manufacturers. Would really appreciate your feedback on if it was compelling, 594 00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,599 entertaining, or even educational. It was a bold experiment, but I'd be 595 00:42:38,679 --> 00:42:43,760 happy to try it again if you think it's worthwhile again. Eric is at 596 00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:50,000 ejsgolf dot com and I've already signed up at school dot com slash EJS golf. 597 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,840 Just go to s k O O L school dot com and search for 598 00:42:55,079 --> 00:43:00,159 EJS Golf Academy. Lots going on there, and for now it's all three. 599 00:43:00,639 --> 00:43:06,159 I'll include some photos from our round, including that crazy tree he was 600 00:43:06,199 --> 00:43:08,360 referring to. It stopped me in my tracks. I had to pull out 601 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:12,400 my phone and take a picture of that, and that'll all be found. 602 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:16,400 You can see those at our blog post at golfsmarter dot com. From today's 603 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:20,960 episode. And by the way, after the round, my shot Scope V 604 00:43:21,039 --> 00:43:25,719 five watch said that I had walked more than thirteen thousand steps. Other courses 605 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:30,559 I've played with that watch are usually in the eight thousand step range, so 606 00:43:30,679 --> 00:43:36,000 I wasn't kidding on how tough the walk was, and it wasn't level. 607 00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:40,199 There was a lot of elevation change throughout the round. And lastly, I've 608 00:43:40,199 --> 00:43:45,480 been working on that small swing change that Eric introduced me to and shot us 609 00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:49,519 seventy nine this weekend in Indian Valley, a course that usually eats me up. 610 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,480 So I'm going to keep working on it as much as I can because 611 00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:58,320 it doesn't feel that uncomfortable and it makes a lot of sense. I hate 612 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,880 to report that the response to our Portugal adventure has been dare I say, 613 00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:07,599 underwhelming, so we've decided to move the deadline to register up to July first, 614 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:12,320 twenty twenty four. What is encouraging though, is that we've had a 615 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,840 lot of interest in playing the Robert Trent Jones Trail next spring, so I'll 616 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:20,119 keep you post it on when it's time to register. Right now, the 617 00:44:20,119 --> 00:44:23,960 plan is to make the journey to Alabama the week following the Masters of twenty 618 00:44:24,119 --> 00:44:29,880 twenty five, so mark your calendars and be ready when we announce registration is 619 00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,960 open because space will be limited and you will want to sign up as quickly 620 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:38,639 as possible. For more information, please go to tmigolf dot com slash golf 621 00:44:38,639 --> 00:44:44,199 Smarter. I need to make a big shout out of thanks to this week's 622 00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:50,239 Golf Smarter Ambassador, Jim Almquist, teaching professional at Salpolo Golf Club in Salpolo, 623 00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:52,760 Brazil. As he said, Jim's been a longtime listener. 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