WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:07.160 I asked the student as they stand behind the ball and they get prepared to 2 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:11.279 take their shot, that they spell the word trust. And on the very 3 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:16.679 first letter T they start their motion forward to address the ball, they spell 4 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:21.359 the word trust. And on the very last T they swing the club, 5 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:27.359 so it's t r U S T and then they pull the trigger and swing 6 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:31.000 the club. And what that does and what it did for me as a 7 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:36.520 student and a player as well as now as a teacher, is it allows 8 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:42.039 myself and my students to kind of take that breath, focus on what we're 9 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:46.719 trying to do, and trust that we're going to do it. Hi, 10 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:52.799 this is Herb Strachman from Tampa, Florida, and I play a cheeky Rodrigue 11 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:59.759 country club. This is Golfsmater number eight nine four. Amen. Well did 12 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:06.719 a Tory's student proudly continues his teaching legacy with Trish Future. This is Golf 13 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:11.280 Smarter, sharing stories, tips and insights from great golf mines to help you 14 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:17.560 lower your score and raise your golf IQ. Here's your host, Fred Green. 15 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:22.560 Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast. Trish. Hi, thank you Fred. 16 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:26.599 How are you good? How are you? I'm doing well? You 17 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:33.920 come highly recommended. A long time Golf Smarter listener and ambassador Rick Petrick suggested 18 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:37.000 that I give you a call. That's wonderful. He's taken lessons with you. 19 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:41.760 He is not. He's actually just part of my YouTube channel. He's 20 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:45.280 one of my followers. Oh so he follows you in Yeah, awesome. 21 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:49.200 Yeah, how's that working out? It's good, it's good. I started 22 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:53.640 my YouTube channel about I don't know four years ago and it was literally intended 23 00:01:53.799 --> 00:02:00.680 for my students as reminders of what I did every day with them in their 24 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:05.599 lessons, and then it just kind of from there. So he is one 25 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:10.199 of my followers, so I ate the well, please please publicize it. 26 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:14.199 It's eight fifteen tea time, right, yes, it is eight fifteen tea 27 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:25.360 time, one et tim And it actually started off as a date. So 28 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:31.360 I went to my attorney's office when I wanted to incorporate my golf business and 29 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:34.199 he said, well, what do you want to call it? And I'm 30 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:38.439 like, yeah, I got nothing, so golf business. And he handed 31 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:42.039 me a piece of paper and he said, well, try coming up with 32 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:46.000 some names, and you know, think of something creative. And I dated 33 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:51.439 the piece of paper and it was August fifteenth of nineteen ninety nine, and 34 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:53.240 I was like, oh, eight fifteen, that's a good time to play. 35 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:59.319 Ha ha ha, And that's how it started. So, oh, 36 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:05.280 that's so fun because I actually thought you meant the clock eight fifteen. It 37 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:10.319 is converted to the clock, but it is actually the Yeah, okay, 38 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:15.719 as an eight oh four birthday. Oh yeah, I relate, all right, 39 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:21.039 I love it. Yeah in August birthday. So you grew up Chicago, 40 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:27.159 moved to Milwaukee, never lived Florida, never lived in Milwaukee. You 41 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:30.240 never lived in Milwaukee. Nope, nope. I commuted from Chicago to Milwaukee 42 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:37.120 to Seemanuel. Oh okay, well that's what I wanted to bring up. 43 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:42.159 Manuel de la Torre. Yes, who you got to work with and take 44 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:46.560 lessons from or tell me your history with him, because he's We've had many, 45 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:52.840 many people who've worked with him on the show, and including Manuel before 46 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:55.080 he passed away, was also featured on this pie. I've listened to that 47 00:03:55.159 --> 00:04:00.520 podcast many times. Actually, oh thank you, oh wow, thank you 48 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:06.840 all. Let we'll talk about that absolutely. So I actually I was a 49 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:11.199 very young professional. I had just started in the business. I was all 50 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:15.839 of twenty years old and so it was a long time ago, so people 51 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:19.319 are going to start doing the math. Yes, I'm old, but darn 52 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:26.600 so not. So I was. I was an assistant professional at a golf 53 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:30.040 course outside of Chicago, and I'm hitting balls on the range one day and 54 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:34.279 this woman came up to me and she said, Hi, I'm Pat Kimball. 55 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:38.160 I'm the new teaching pro and I went, Hi, I'm Trash, 56 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:41.879 I'm one of the teaching pros too. And she looked at me and she 57 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:46.120 said, you're going to teach golf with that golf swing? Wow? And 58 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:50.639 I was like, Ah, what are you talking about? And so she 59 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:59.639 introduced me to a concept and from that moment forward, I knew that she 60 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:03.920 had something there. And about a month later, she invited me to go 61 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:11.079 to Milwaukee with her to meet Manuel and I never looked back. I met 62 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:13.920 him, I spoke to him. I didn't have a lesson that day, 63 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:16.160 but I met him, I spoke with him, I observed him, and 64 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:21.920 from that moment forward, I never ever looked back, and my career with 65 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:30.519 him began. So it was pretty cool. And what was it that? 66 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:35.240 Yeah, what was it that that just clicked for you? Well, so 67 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:41.279 my whole history and at that point I knew I wanted to teach. So 68 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:46.959 you could say my vocation in my life was to teach. Whether it would 69 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.720 be somebody teaching somebody how to tie their shoes, I didn't care. I 70 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:55.560 knew that I wanted to teach, and I haven't had to teach junior so 71 00:05:55.560 --> 00:06:00.759 how to tie their shoes. But so well, it's because of Velcrow and 72 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:06.519 now slip on, you don't need to tie your shoes. But I observed 73 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:13.199 him teaching, and I and I observed Pat teaching, and Pat was manual 74 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:17.920 student for almost fifty years, and I observed both of them teaching, and 75 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:25.000 I I got a sense of calm. It's for lack of a better way 76 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:30.240 to put it. And it was just so cathartic the way they both communicated, 77 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:33.519 The way Manuel communicated, and how precise he was in the words he 78 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:42.480 used and the images he projected to his students that I knew I wanted to 79 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:47.439 emulate that. And then I started to learn about the concept that he taught 80 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:54.800 and how basic and fundamental the physics and the geometry were that it just fascinated 81 00:06:54.839 --> 00:07:00.519 me and I never looked back. So unbelievable. Yeah, you say, 82 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:05.720 how precise he was with his words. Flesh that out a little bit. 83 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:12.240 What what was it? Manuel used to tell a story about the fact that 84 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:16.240 he was not born in this country and that Spanish was his first language. 85 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:21.639 And he told a story about being in school at a very young age, 86 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:27.560 and I can't remember the word that he said, but there was a double 87 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:30.959 on tendre on the word, and it was something like, you know, 88 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:33.879 how are you feeling today, Manuel, And he said, I feel very 89 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:40.079 gay or whatever it was, and the word had a double lundra. And 90 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:46.959 he learned very quickly that the words he used had to matter because in English 91 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:53.319 there could be dual meanings of a single word. So he was super super 92 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:58.519 specific about what he said and how he said it, so he never made 93 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:05.439 most mistakes again, so wow, now, let's let's take it back even 94 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:13.079 farther because growing up in Spain Um he his father was also a very famous 95 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:22.199 instructor and Angel yes I'm sorry that's Hispanic pronunciation, but yeah, or Angel 96 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:28.079 Delatorre, who was a great instructor in his own right, Yes, yes 97 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:33.320 he was he And did Manuel follow his father's um methods or just his footsteps? 98 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:41.000 So a little bit of both. So Manuel told the story that from 99 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:46.360 the time of his you know, toddler years, his father put a golf 100 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:54.200 club in his hands, and he his father and Ernest Jones were very close 101 00:08:54.399 --> 00:09:01.960 and had a very good relationship, and everything that Ernest Shawn in Angel Dilatory 102 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:07.120 taught they taught to Manuel, who was this receptive little sponge at you know, 103 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:11.799 two, three years old, and literally for his entire life he lived 104 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:18.200 to his mid nineties. He never turned away from any of that, and 105 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:24.080 he absorbed all of that information, expanded upon it, and that was his 106 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:31.919 life and his mindset. It was pretty amazing. It's pretty amazing. So 107 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:39.200 even he's been gone now since I think you passed away in twenty sixteen. 108 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:45.200 Yeah, and he was featured on Golf Smarter back in two thousand and nine. 109 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:46.840 I had him on the show, Yeah, episode one eighty seven, 110 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.720 which was rerun as Golf Smarter Mulligan's nineties. So people just go back and 111 00:09:50.759 --> 00:10:01.039 listen to that. He Why is it even today that his lessons, his 112 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:07.759 methods are so embraced by golf instructors. Well, I wish it were embraced 113 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:16.240 by more golf instructors, but I think truthfully, because there is nothing in 114 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:22.919 the concept, and we refer to it as the concept, but there's nothing 115 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:31.840 in the concept that can be disproven through physics and geometry. So everything that 116 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:37.720 I strive to teach my students that I was taught by manual or by pat 117 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:45.879 is proven through the physics and geometry and science and physics don't lie and math 118 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:54.080 doesn't lie. So there's no simpler way to learn how to use a tool 119 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:58.279 than use the tool the way it was designed, if that makes sense. 120 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:05.279 And what is the tool? The golf club? It's that simple, it's 121 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:11.559 the golf club. We use tools every single day, works knives, pens, 122 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:18.360 computers, bones, glasses. Nobody teaches us how to use them. 123 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:20.279 They teach us what to do with them, not how to do it. 124 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:26.120 Wow. All right, we're gonna go deeper with that, but we're gonna 125 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:35.519 take a time out right now. We'll be right back. All right, 126 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:39.480 let's go into the concept. Okay, let's talk about the concept. Let's 127 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:45.600 explain it from the ground level up. Okay, So, in the game 128 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:50.279 that we call golf, we are given a full set of golf clubs, 129 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:58.200 which include fourteen tools in our bag. And each of those fourteen tools have 130 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:03.519 a specific purpose, and that's to propel a golf ball forward in a direction 131 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:11.960 presumably our target. And if we use that tool, each of those fourteen 132 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:18.879 tools are designed to do different things more loft, less loft, longer, 133 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:24.159 shorter, things like that. But if we use that tool in the same 134 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:33.840 way for a basic shot, we swing it in the direction of our target, 135 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:39.519 and a golf ball is propelled forward. And the biggest word I just 136 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:45.840 use beside tool is swing. And the definition of the word swing, if 137 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:48.720 you were to look in a dictionary, or for your listeners that are a 138 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:52.360 little younger, if you were to google it, you would see that the 139 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:58.759 word is defined as a backward forward motion from a fixed point or a two 140 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:07.080 fromotion from a fulcrum. We become that fulcrum in the golf swing. We 141 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:13.200 our bodies are the fulcrum that the golf club swings around. It's that simple. 142 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:26.279 Literally, that's simple. So the takeaway that I always get when we 143 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:33.240 have these conversations about him is the center point, the spine right, and 144 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:41.759 that you're working from there correct correct, specifically your sternum. So if if 145 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:46.399 we take we as human beings, have a spine that keeps us upright, 146 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:52.480 our skeletal system. Spine keeps us upright as human beings. And our sternum 147 00:13:52.759 --> 00:14:00.799 is what is the focal point or the center of that swinging motion, because 148 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:09.759 we swing the club with our hands and our arms around that sternum. Okay, 149 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:18.320 so does that make sense? You want to keep going? So we 150 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:22.240 hold the golf club with our hands, and we swing the club back to 151 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:26.799 our trail shoulder with our hands, and we swing the club forward in the 152 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:33.440 direction of the target with our arms. And our arms are defined as the 153 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:39.559 part of our appendage from our elbow to our shoulder. And so I ask 154 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:43.519 my students all the time, I say our fingers, our hand, our 155 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:50.159 wrist, our forearm or elbow, upper arm, which is our tricept bicept, 156 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:54.039 and then our shoulder. So I give each of my students a tennis 157 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:58.879 ball in a string, which if you've ever heard or seen anything about Manu 158 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:05.440 and the club focus instruction and the concept that I teach, we use it 159 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:09.679 a ball on a string all the time. Ernest Jones used to tie a 160 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:15.720 pocket knife to his handkerchief. So Manuel gave me my first tennis ball on 161 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:24.600 a string, and we swing that ball and string with our arm our forearms 162 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:28.480 create a lever motion, but our arms, our upper arms, triceps, 163 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:33.519 biceps can create a swinging motion. So we swing the golf club backward and 164 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:39.759 forward with our hands and arms, and the full crumb between our tricep bicep 165 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:48.159 each shoulder to our elbow is our sternum. So specifically, in my humble 166 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:54.879 opinion, the center of your golf swing is your sternum. Makes sense now 167 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:58.639 there, Yeah, it does, It does to me. But there are 168 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:03.960 so many many different methods, concepts. There are so many different ways that 169 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:10.039 golf is being taught from, so many different instructors that we have things like 170 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:18.000 Manuel delatrees swing. We have stack and tilt, we have single pivot, 171 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:25.840 we have stillness, weight up on the front, weight up in the back. 172 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:29.240 We have so many different ways of going. Why does now, I 173 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:36.039 know you were saying math doesn't lie, but do these get incorporated into that 174 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:41.200 or are they separate? How do you feel about these? So in my 175 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:45.320 humble opinion, and again, I'm just a local golf bro. You know, 176 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:48.600 I'm a nobody so to speak. I'm a somebody to my fing. 177 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:52.159 No you're not. You're featured on golf Smarter. You're an important person right 178 00:16:52.159 --> 00:17:00.679 now. But so I would say that most golf instruction, most people that 179 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:12.559 teach goal teach pieces and fixes, and what's the word I would like to 180 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:22.279 use. They teach pieces of a puzzle. We that teach club focus instruction 181 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:30.640 in this concept with manual or from manual, teach a philosophy, and it's 182 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:37.400 a completely different way to look at it. We teach an entire system or 183 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:45.799 concept that incorporates every single person. So if I were to take a teacher 184 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:52.559 that say, teaches stack until what, and I specifically teach special Olympics, 185 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:59.359 I teach wounded warriors, I teach veterans, and I teach people with physical 186 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:06.359 limitations. Thank you, Thank you. I love doing it. Thank you 187 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:10.440 for doing I love doing it. That's awesome. It's probably the most rewarding 188 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:14.799 part of my job. But we'll talk about that then more later. When 189 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:22.119 I encounter somebody that is missing a leg or a person that is paralyzed from 190 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:29.920 the waist down, how could I possibly teach that person stack until? I 191 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:36.519 can't? But I can teach that person to swing an object, which in 192 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:41.680 this case would be a golf club around their center, which in my humble 193 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:51.079 opinion is their sternum. However, that person's ubility to do that, the 194 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:56.079 concept remains the same. A swing is a backward forward motion from a fixed 195 00:18:56.119 --> 00:19:00.720 point. It is a to and fro motion from a fulcrum. So, 196 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:07.079 however that can be accomplished with that particular person and their body is how you 197 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:11.799 get it accomplished. But I can't teach them to put their weight on their 198 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:14.839 front foot. I can't teach them to forward press. I can't teach them 199 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:18.240 to keep their left arm straight because what if they don't have a left arm, 200 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:22.319 if they're a right handed player. What if? What if I myself 201 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:26.200 personally happen to be blind in one eye and legally blind in the other. 202 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:32.880 How can I teach somebody to focus on the dimple of the golf ball? 203 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:36.319 Why? I can't because I don't see the dimple of the golf ball. 204 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:41.079 So how could I possibly teach somebody to do that? I myself, personally 205 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:48.000 don't use an intermediary target like a lot of teachers teach, because I can't 206 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:51.960 see it. So how could I possibly teach you to do it if you 207 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:57.839 can't see it? Can't? So the concept of swinging a tool, in 208 00:19:57.880 --> 00:20:03.880 this case, a golf club backward and forward from a fixed point can be 209 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:08.880 accomplished any way. Your body can physically do it, and you can still 210 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:18.720 accomplish a great golf swing and be very successful at the game. Wow, 211 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:25.960 Yes you can, and you are and we'll be back right after this. 212 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:40.720 Your visual impairment, yes, does it? How severe is it to impact 213 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:47.960 your game and your instruction? It's not it really. I I actually have 214 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:52.640 no way to answer that because I've never known any other way to be because 215 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:56.960 I was born Is this something that came on? Well, I you were 216 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:59.799 born this way. I was born this way, So I have no concept 217 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:03.960 of what it is to see out of my right eye, and I don't 218 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:08.400 know what it's like. Um. I mean, I have I have contacts 219 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:11.839 where I can I can drive a car. You might not want to be 220 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:15.279 on the road when I'm around, Oh okay, So I I mean I 221 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:23.559 can fluction on a day to day basis, But I don't see what other 222 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:29.079 people see, so I have no way of knowing what they interpret. You 223 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:34.200 never never have, Yeah, and it Likewise, I can't tell you if 224 00:21:34.200 --> 00:21:37.240 I were to work with you on your golf swing, I can't possibly tell 225 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:42.240 you how to feel something because I'm not you, So how could I possibly 226 00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:48.359 interpret what you feel? And I think that's the thing that frustrates me as 227 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:56.039 a teacher is when I observe other teachers trying to teach this game and they're 228 00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:59.359 doing the best they can. I'm not dissing any other teachers. I'm really 229 00:21:59.400 --> 00:22:04.559 not. But when a teacher says, well, you've got to feel like 230 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:11.039 you're doing X, well, how could you possibly tell me how to feel 231 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:18.680 something? I can't. So I think that's my biggest frustration watching other teachers 232 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:27.000 is they have to use words that means something. Going back to Manuel's words 233 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:33.759 matter, I can't tell you how to feel because I'm not you. I 234 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:40.119 can tell you what to picture. I can't picture it for you. I 235 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:44.359 can give you an idea of what to picture, and that will make your 236 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:59.640 brain send synapses to your body, which will interpret you word movement. A 237 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:02.319 number of years ago, when I was first starting to play golf, and 238 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:07.960 I picked the game up when I was in my early forties and golf school, 239 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:17.400 Yeah sure you're talking about you're getting old. Bit okay. So so 240 00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:22.960 there was a female instructor that I was working with, and she kept saying 241 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:25.799 to me, do you feel that? And I'm like, what are you 242 00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:27.440 talking about? Exactly? I had no idea what she was saying, and 243 00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:33.519 she said, no, feel how this is? And I she kept repeating 244 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:36.079 it, and I kept saying, I'm sorry, I don't understand what that 245 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:38.920 means. I'm new to this game and I really don't understand what you're trying 246 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:41.359 to explain to me. She goes, no, but listen, just do 247 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:47.200 and she would just All she did was repeat the same words over and over, 248 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:49.400 and it was not connecting. I was getting very frustrated. And now, 249 00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:56.480 unfortunately that's more common than I care to admit. Oh yeah, it's 250 00:23:56.519 --> 00:24:00.519 so sad. That's why one of my mottos in golf is a break am 251 00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:07.799 I fix him? Well, thank you for taking on that role. UM 252 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:12.839 how did you? Um? I? Actually? You know one time I 253 00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:19.119 was reached out to by a listener who was visually impaired that he developed as 254 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:23.240 an adult and but he's playing golf regularly and says, you want to go 255 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:26.240 out and play golf with the blind guy? And I love it? You 256 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:29.000 kidding? Of course I do. I love it. I love it. 257 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:32.000 And he had he had a handler. I mean, as as you do 258 00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:36.119 and he plays competitively now and he's you know, his handlers lining them up 259 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:40.480 and telling him which direction to go with club to hit. You know, 260 00:24:40.519 --> 00:24:44.920 they discussed the hole in everything, but it was oh, I hate to 261 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:48.160 pun, use this pun, but it was so eye opening for me to 262 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:52.960 be able to just trust the feel. That's trust the feel, trust the 263 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:59.640 observation and not Yeah. So I wouldn't say trust the field because our fields 264 00:24:59.720 --> 00:25:04.960 changed. I would say trust your observation or trust your awareness. So and 265 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:08.799 that was yeah, I would go with awareness because he definitely had that, 266 00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:14.119 definitely. And that's That's another one where I talked to my students all the 267 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:19.880 time. I try very hard not to ask them how something felt. I 268 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:27.359 tried to ask them what they were aware of because a feel can only happen 269 00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:33.519 after something takes place. So if I'm in a touch something, I only 270 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:41.039 feel it after I've made the action of touching it. So I can't create 271 00:25:41.079 --> 00:25:48.680 a feel, but I can be aware of the feel after it's happened. 272 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:59.960 So fabulous. How did you get involved with UM Special Olympics, PGA, 273 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:03.160 Hope, Wounded Warriors, these groups and tell me, just give me a 274 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:07.400 story, but first tell me about how you got involved asking too many things 275 00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:14.920 about So that's okay. So I form in nineteen ninety nine when I when 276 00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:18.240 I came up with an ame eight fifteen tea time, I opened the first 277 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:22.920 ever indoor golf learning center in the state of Florida. And I was basically 278 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:27.839 golf tech before golf tech existed. I had a simulator and three knew back 279 00:26:27.880 --> 00:26:34.359 then, and so my parents got ill. I ended up helping take care 280 00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:40.640 of my parents and I closed my golf shop. So I went out back 281 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:47.920 to the green Grass Facility to teach because I no longer had my indoor facility. 282 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:52.799 Whatever. Long story short, fast forward. I was at a facility 283 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:59.839 that ended up selling and close their doors. So I was looking for a 284 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:07.920 job teaching, and I was hired by the former LPGA tour professional Donna White, 285 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:11.799 if you've ever heard that name, kind of a pretty popular name in 286 00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:18.839 women's golf. And Donna hired me to teach at her facility, which was 287 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:23.880 local here in South Florida. It was Okay Hilly Golf Course in Lake Worth, 288 00:27:25.720 --> 00:27:33.039 and she kind of plunged me into Oh, by the way, we 289 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:37.720 have this group coming. It's called PGA Hope and you're going to teach it. 290 00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:45.920 Oh okay, whatever. And the PGA Hope Program is helping our patriots, 291 00:27:45.160 --> 00:27:51.160 patriots everywhere, and it's a it's a program offered by the PGA of 292 00:27:51.160 --> 00:27:56.920 America and it is specifically for veterans. It's an eight week program and it's 293 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:03.680 no charge to the veterans whatsoever. And you're certified in adaptive golf, so 294 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:11.240 in case veterans are wounded or have limitations, we are trained how to teach 295 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:18.480 them. So Hope, the PGA Hope and Wounded Warriors started because of Donna 296 00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:23.559 and her just throwing me into this program, which was awesome. And then 297 00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:26.759 about two months later she said, oh, by the way, Tris, 298 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:32.799 you're taking over the Special Olympics program here at Okiheely, Palm Beach County, 299 00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:37.839 Florida. This our golf courses, their home for the Special Olympics in Palm 300 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:41.480 Beach County. And by the way, you're doing the program. It's like, 301 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:48.000 oh okay. And there I went, and I walked out and there 302 00:28:48.000 --> 00:29:00.200 were about thirty five Special Olympic athlete everything from physical to autist day to physical 303 00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:04.599 limitations, to everything under the sun, to blind to deaf, to everything 304 00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:10.599 else. And I just kind of got thrown into it and figured it out 305 00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:17.720 the first couple times, and then started researching about adaptive golf. I got 306 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:23.559 hooked up with a woman named Judy Alvarez, who for the PGA of America 307 00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:30.279 is the woman who created and was one of the founding people that created PGA 308 00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:36.480 Hope and Wounded Warriors and adaptive golf. And Judy and I have been friends 309 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:42.160 ever since, and I'm certified with her instruction and mentorship on how to work 310 00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:48.640 with people with adaptive needs. So that's kind of how it started. And 311 00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:52.160 I'm telling you to this day, eight or nine years later, I can't 312 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:57.680 even remember when I started it with them. It is probably the most rewarding 313 00:29:57.839 --> 00:30:03.640 part of my job. Truly. I can imagine. Oh, I can 314 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:10.160 imagine. Is adaptive golf growing Absolutely, They're really pursuing it. Absolutely. 315 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:14.960 Is it growing on just organically? Yea, it is. Um, There's 316 00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:21.920 there's adaptive golf tournaments there throughout the country. There's I was actually just reading 317 00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:29.359 a whole article about um somebody was somebody made a comment on Facebook about Tiger 318 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:34.839 playing and the Masters and about how he this person that wrote the article or 319 00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:41.599 the question, how he had his leg amputated, and he thinks that if 320 00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:45.880 Tiger had gone through amputation, he wouldn't be suffering as badlan if he is 321 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:52.000 now. And so it was. It was really cool. But adaptive golf 322 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:57.279 is really growing because golf is a sport. Like I said before, if 323 00:30:57.319 --> 00:31:04.559 you use the tool, if you have the concept in your mind that it 324 00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:11.079 is a swinging motion around a center, and you use the tool the way 325 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:15.799 it was intended, anybody can play it. Missing limbs, paralyzed, blind, 326 00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:21.519 deaf, doesn't matter. Anybody can play it, which is cool. 327 00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:26.359 It's very cool. Yeah, it's it's wonderful. I love that about golf. 328 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.920 Is Judy Alvarez still around? She is doing this, Yes she is. 329 00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:33.559 She's MALPJ. And you got to get her on the show. Oh 330 00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:37.119 she would love it, she would love it. Oh yeah, all right, 331 00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:42.279 all right, we're gonna talk after the show to to get me introduced 332 00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:45.359 so we can get her on the show. But we're going to take another 333 00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:48.000 time out right now and find out what's happening golf Smarter mulligans. And maybe 334 00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:52.559 even while we're talking about golf Smarter Mulligans, let's bring in a clip from 335 00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:59.359 and we'll come back with a clip from Manuel Delatoria's show. As I announced 336 00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:02.720 last week, we're following up on our nine Lessons from the late Tony Manzoni 337 00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:08.799 with six episodes from the Golf Smarter Archives that featured doctor Glenn Alba, who 338 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:14.000 passed away earlier this year at the age of ninety one. Glenn was a 339 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:17.880 mental game pioneer along with being a professor and the golf coach at the University 340 00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:23.440 of Pacific for nearly three decades. In our second episode that was originally published 341 00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:29.599 on November twenty nine, twenty eleven, we continue to discuss Glenn's first book, 342 00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:32.960 Winning the Battle Within When we develop a strategy, you're going to pick 343 00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:37.559 a strategy that fits your game. SIT's a situation and when you can totally 344 00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:40.079 commit to So if we only had a cut shot in about a month, 345 00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:45.880 please don't try it out here or go back to that lob shot. And 346 00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:47.519 so if you don't have a lob shot and you have a tight line, 347 00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:51.559 just get it on a green. You might have a thirty footer, but 348 00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:53.319 it's a lot better than trying to do something you don't know how to do 349 00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:59.680 and they say you're in the trees and instead of attempting a miracle shot, 350 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.519 punch it down on the fairway. Another words, do something you can do. 351 00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:06.720 And one of my players I work with for a long time, Kirk 352 00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:12.519 Triplett, says conservative strategy in aggressive swing only do what you're prepared to do 353 00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:15.160 and prepare yourself to do as many things as you can. That's our sister 354 00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:21.519 podcast, Golf Smarter Mulligan's episode two hundred ten, the second of six in 355 00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:27.960 our series featuring another incredible mental game coach whom we recently lost but allow his 356 00:33:28.119 --> 00:33:31.960 legacy to live on. This episode is called the Perfect Swing is the one 357 00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:37.559 you Trust. Check the show notes or our blog post to learn more about 358 00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:40.039 Glenn, how to get either of his books, Winning the Battle Within and 359 00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:47.160 The Clutch Golfer Formula, and information about donations in his memory. Please subscribe 360 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:52.839 to both of our golf podcasts, Golf Smarter, published every Tuesday, and 361 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:58.000 the podcast that revisits the best of the Golf Smarter podcast that's just no longer 362 00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:02.720 available on any podcast app, called Golf Smarter Mulligans, being released every Friday 363 00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:10.519 from wherever you're listening right now. The club is designed to give you a 364 00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:15.760 certain height for certain distances and the other thing that people don't understand of the 365 00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:19.960 loss of trajectory. The loss of trajectory are very simple. The further you 366 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:22.440 propel an object, the higher it goes. The shorter you propel it, 367 00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:25.880 the lower it goes. So when you're hitting a shot, for instance, 368 00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:29.880 if you say five yards off to the left of a bunker that's on the 369 00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:31.440 left side of the green, and you have to say it to the green, 370 00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:35.400 that ball is not going to go very high. But everybody has this 371 00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:38.320 tremendous picture of the ball going high, and they hit it right in the 372 00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:42.880 middle and knock it right in the bunker. So the mental picture is always 373 00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:45.480 the ball going forward, so that the club gets a chance to meet the 374 00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:47.639 ball in the face of the club, and then the face of the clock, 375 00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:51.800 which has the waft, gets the ball in the air well. From 376 00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:57.920 an interview in two thousand and nine, episode one hundred eighty seven, that 377 00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:01.800 was Manuel Delatore, and it was also you can go back and find it 378 00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:10.320 on episode ninety of Golf Smarter Mulligans. You got any stories from adaptive golf, 379 00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:15.079 from the programs you work with that just you love to repeat. I 380 00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:20.280 would love to hear it. I have one, and it's it's not even 381 00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:28.960 so much about a physical limitation. But the first PGA Hope program that I 382 00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:37.360 did that Donna White threw me into with no preparation. There were about fifteen 383 00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:44.880 veterans in this program, one of whom was at the time a ninety two 384 00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:49.920 year old World War two VET, and unfortunately this week he has just gone 385 00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:55.679 into hospice, which breaks my heart. But anyway, I digress. There 386 00:35:55.679 --> 00:36:05.039 was a woman at at this program and she suffered pretty strongly from PTSD, 387 00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:09.000 and so the first it was an eight week program. In the first week 388 00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:13.480 she kind of sat on a bench and took stock of what was going on 389 00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:17.719 and didn't participate. And the second week she was sitting on the bench again, 390 00:36:17.800 --> 00:36:22.320 and I walked over to her and I asked her if I could say 391 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:25.800 and she said yeah. So I said, you know, there's no pressure, 392 00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:30.679 there's no need to feel like you need to participate, but if you 393 00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:36.480 ever want to, just jump in whenever you're ready. And I went on, 394 00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:38.840 and I left, and I went on and I continued teaching it with 395 00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:44.960 the other teachers. There were more teachers there than just me, And at 396 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:49.199 the end of the eight and she ended up starting to participate, and at 397 00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:52.360 the end of the eight week program, we all sat in our little food 398 00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:58.519 court area at the golf course and we were having pizza, and I asked 399 00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:02.239 everybody to just give me a summary of what they thought of the program and 400 00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:07.800 if there was anything we could do as teachers and as a facility to make 401 00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:13.599 it better. And this woman stood up, and we went around the room 402 00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:16.840 and everybody talked, and Bob talked about being in World War Two, and 403 00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:22.239 then this woman, Christina came up and she said. She looked at all 404 00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:27.719 the other veterans and she said, you know, I know you're going to 405 00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:32.840 understand what this means. But eight weeks ago, I was dragged here against 406 00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:46.679 my will because I wouldn't have been available after that day, so she said, 407 00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:52.840 because I would have made myself unavailable permanently. And so we all kind 408 00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:57.719 of took stock of that, and then she looked over at me and she 409 00:37:57.840 --> 00:38:02.719 pointed to me, and I'm a big I'm usually wearing loudmouth shorts or you 410 00:38:02.760 --> 00:38:07.400 know, tied eye and bright colors and knee on it. And she pointed 411 00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:12.920 to mend she said, and you with your goofy clothes and your goofy personality, 412 00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:16.360 that you got more sunshine coming out of your eyeballs than anybody I know. 413 00:38:17.320 --> 00:38:21.880 She walked over, she put her hand on my shoulder and she said, 414 00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:25.280 because of what you did and how you did it, you saved my 415 00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:31.199 life. And I started to cry and I was like, you know what, 416 00:38:32.679 --> 00:38:38.119 this is why I do it every day. I don't care if you 417 00:38:38.119 --> 00:38:43.000 ever hit a golf ball. Oh, a's the golf club hits the golf 418 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.840 ball, you don't hit one. I don't care if you're ever good about 419 00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:50.039 yourself, right, I don't care if you're ever good at this game. 420 00:38:50.960 --> 00:38:55.360 I care about whether or not you take pleasure in the time that we spend 421 00:38:55.400 --> 00:38:59.280 together on the lesson tea and in the time you spend on the golf. 422 00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:07.559 That's all I care. That's it. It's literally, it's it's pretty awesome. 423 00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:15.000 That's so awesome. Yeah, you know, thank you. That's why 424 00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:17.480 you do what you do. And you know, eight years later, seven 425 00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:23.039 years later, or whatever it is, she is now a national ambassador for 426 00:39:23.079 --> 00:39:30.519 the PGA Hope Program, and she travels the country talking about how this program 427 00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:37.000 saved her life and gave her hope. So that's it. That's why I 428 00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:40.480 do what I do. That's why I do when I go thank you. 429 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:45.840 Yeah, it's pretty cool. She's pretty awesome. All right, let's talk 430 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:52.079 about golf for a second. Yeah right, I'm gonna I'll gather myself here. 431 00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:57.719 Um. So I was playing golf this week with um a foursome that 432 00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:04.039 Will I one of the guys I've met before, but I hadn't played with 433 00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:07.599 them for years, and the other guys I didn't know, and they knew 434 00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:10.480 that I do this podcast, so you know, they're asking me about the 435 00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:15.000 podcast and like, and always the question is who's the most famous person? 436 00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:16.480 Even it's like, I don't do famous people. This is not what this 437 00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:23.519 podcast is about. That count. Yeah, well, I actually like to 438 00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:29.800 say that this podcast features the unsung heroes of game improvement, and so you 439 00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:35.760 are definitely one of those heroes and clearly a hero. Thank you, Thank 440 00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:39.719 you. And so I was, you know, watching and I don't, 441 00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:45.400 you know, like, even though I feel like I have this master's degree 442 00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:50.199 in game improvement just because of speaking to hundreds of golf instructors, I don't 443 00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:53.400 like to give out tips and lessons. I like to ask somebody if they 444 00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:59.519 want an observation and one of these guys. My observation was, you know 445 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:02.719 you're alignment. You hit the ball exactly where you were pointing, so I 446 00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:06.800 don't know why you're surprised it went so far right your body was where. 447 00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:09.159 He goes, well, I said, show me how you line this up. 448 00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:13.679 And he steps up to the ball and he looks over. You know, 449 00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:16.039 he's right handed, so he looks. He turns his head and looks 450 00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:20.960 over his left shoulder and he's like looking down the line. And I'm like, 451 00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:24.119 really, did you ever play any other sports as a kid. He 452 00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:27.159 goes, yeah, I played basketball in high school. I said, show 453 00:41:27.159 --> 00:41:30.320 me how you shook a free throw and he, you know, stands right 454 00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:32.559 there in front of it and he shows the motion. I said, oh, 455 00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:36.920 you don't look over your left shoulder and push the ball after the ses 456 00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:38.480 No, that's ridiculous. I said, why do you do that? I 457 00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:43.880 said, show me, you know your preshot routine. Maybe you should stand 458 00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:47.199 behind the ball and look and pick a spot. I said, make three 459 00:41:47.239 --> 00:41:52.159 points the ball the target, and something about twelve to fifteen inches in front 460 00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:57.679 of the ball. Make that your line, and then then step up to 461 00:41:57.719 --> 00:42:01.000 the ball and focus lining up with that little spot in front. So with 462 00:42:01.079 --> 00:42:04.599 that said, he's like, WHOA, I've never heard of that. It's 463 00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:07.760 like, yeah, well, I'm glad I was able to share it with 464 00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:15.079 you. Jack Arnold Palmer, tell me, tell me about your preshot routine 465 00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:21.239 and how important you feel it is. So my preshot routine for myself personally 466 00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:28.000 is basically the same preshot routine I have used my entire career that was taught 467 00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:35.199 to me by Manuel and by his student Pat Kimmel. And we used to 468 00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:42.199 go through a process and we would say to ourselves if we were practicing, 469 00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:44.480 it was out loud, if it was in a tournament or something, it 470 00:42:44.559 --> 00:42:49.880 was to ourselves, and we would say, I will swing the whole club 471 00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:57.239 from the top to the finish in the direction of the target in one uninterrupted 472 00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:04.119 motion. I have translated that over the years to bring it to my students 473 00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:09.599 as what I call the trust drill. And I ask my students in a 474 00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:16.920 lesson, what do you swing and their answer is the club And then I 475 00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:23.280 say, we swing it around are and they say center, and we swing 476 00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:29.239 it in the direction of the and they say target, and we swing the 477 00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:36.400 club to the finish and then I asked them what they swing the club with, 478 00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:43.199 and they say their hands and arms. So after I ask those series 479 00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:47.360 of questions, in a lesson, I ask the student as they stand behind 480 00:43:47.400 --> 00:43:52.039 the ball and they get prepared to take their shot, that they spell the 481 00:43:52.119 --> 00:44:00.960 word trust. And on the very first letter T, they start their motion 482 00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:07.519 forward to address the ball and they spell the word trust. And on the 483 00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:17.159 very last T they swing the club, so it's t R you s T 484 00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:22.840 and then they pull the trigger and swing the club. And what that does 485 00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:27.360 and what it did for me as a student and a player as well as 486 00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:32.880 now as a teacher, is it allows myself and my students to kind of 487 00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:38.840 take that breath, focus on what we're trying to do, and trust that 488 00:44:38.920 --> 00:44:43.800 we're going to do in if that kind of makes sense. Is it a 489 00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:49.039 distraction? Are you trying to get them to not think about the body parts, 490 00:44:49.079 --> 00:44:52.360 about what they should be doing or what they want to do during the 491 00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:59.679 swing? Oh? Absolutely absolutely it's a distraction, but it's also a calming. 492 00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:05.079 Just kind of take a breath and trust the fact that you have learned 493 00:45:05.119 --> 00:45:09.679 what you're trying to do. So I've always said that there's four basic fundamentals 494 00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:14.760 in the game of golf. And it's not grip, dance, posture alignment 495 00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:20.639 like everybody thinks it is. WHOA, I say, those more fundamentals are 496 00:45:21.760 --> 00:45:24.800 we will hit the ball in the center of the club base, or the 497 00:45:24.840 --> 00:45:30.440 ball will be struck in the center of the club base. We will swing 498 00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:37.280 the club in the direction of the target. We will choose the correct club 499 00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:47.199 for the shot at hand, and we will trust those decisions. So if 500 00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:53.840 I can instill those four things centeredness of contact, swing in the direction of 501 00:45:53.880 --> 00:46:00.039 the target, choose the correct tool for the project at hand, and trust, 502 00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:07.480 my job is done. I don't want to be a that's disturber here, 503 00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:14.159 but shouldn't choose the club? Be first? Choose the club. It's 504 00:46:14.239 --> 00:46:16.360 one of the four. It's one of those four phenomenal Okay, it's not 505 00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:23.199 a sequential four. Okay, noose, yeah, yeah, okay. Those 506 00:46:23.199 --> 00:46:29.599 are the four things that we're trying to accomplish, and those things will produce 507 00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:32.800 the trust. So now we stand behind the ball, we spell the word 508 00:46:32.840 --> 00:46:38.000 trust as we address it and pull the trigger. So we've already done all 509 00:46:38.039 --> 00:46:45.400 of our work, already taken right right, And trust is a huge word 510 00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:50.440 here because there is so much self doubt. There's so much self sabotage. 511 00:46:51.039 --> 00:47:00.119 There's so much um doubt, you know, lack of trust in almost every 512 00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:07.599 swing that an amateur golfer makes, and maybe even on the Yeah, I 513 00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:14.039 mean absolutely, they're questioning everything you're doing while you're standing there. So trust 514 00:47:14.599 --> 00:47:20.039 is an important word to remember, but maybe the hardest thing to execute. 515 00:47:21.079 --> 00:47:29.599 Absolutely. I remember Manual telling us in every lesson, or just about every 516 00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:35.119 lesson, and I bring it to my students now, is that once you 517 00:47:35.960 --> 00:47:40.159 quote unquote pull the trigger to start the motion of the golf swing, you 518 00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:45.079 have to leave it alone. You have to allow it and trust the fact 519 00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:51.039 that the club is designed to do its job. Golf club manufacturers spent a 520 00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:54.960 heck of a lot of money designing and researching equipment to a job, and 521 00:47:55.119 --> 00:47:59.239 we don't trust the fact that those clubs are designed to do a job. 522 00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:02.599 So we got to help it right, leave it alone, trust it right, 523 00:48:04.599 --> 00:48:07.880 right, that's it. That's simple. That's simple, all right. 524 00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:13.639 So tell me. I'm not hard enough to make it, but Manuel was 525 00:48:14.840 --> 00:48:20.239 absolutely, um so much. Tell tell me one more time. Tell everyone 526 00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:22.159 how to get in touch with you, where to find your website? Um 527 00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:29.440 and where they can follow you and your your teachings online. All right, 528 00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:34.079 so it's pretty simple. It's a really good tea time to have every morning. 529 00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:39.239 It's eight fifteen teatime dot com eight one five T E E T I 530 00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:45.400 M E dot com eight fifteen tea time. And it's pretty simple from there. 531 00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:50.199 If you type in a fifteen tea time, you can type in my 532 00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:52.559 name. You could do whatever. I'm on YouTube, Instagram, all those 533 00:48:53.039 --> 00:48:58.800 fun social media stuff and all of my information is listed. Pretty simple. 534 00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:02.800 Well, thank you so much for your time, and thank Rick Petrick for 535 00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:08.159 turning me onto because we've learned a lot. I've learned a lot and I'm 536 00:49:08.199 --> 00:49:12.880 going to do everything I can't take that trust with me to the next teat 537 00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:20.440 box. Absolutely, thank you so much. So I really want to give 538 00:49:20.440 --> 00:49:23.559 you a quick update on the hidden gem of a course I played last week. 539 00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:30.199 Northwood Golf Course is tucked away in a grove of massive redwoods in Sonoma 540 00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:35.760 County, designed in nineteen twenty eight by Alistair mackenzie, with a very rich 541 00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:40.199 and riddled history. But it's only a nine hole course and we played through 542 00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:45.320 twice, which was kind of a dream come true because whenever I play a 543 00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:49.760 new course, I frequently think about how I can't wait to play it again 544 00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:53.079 with a little more course knowledge under my belt. Well it's now May, 545 00:49:53.440 --> 00:49:59.480 yet we still had three separate downpours during the round. It was so strange 546 00:49:59.519 --> 00:50:02.239 for northern California to get rain that late in the year, but clearly this 547 00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:07.400 has been one of the strangest and wettest winters that I can remember. But 548 00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:12.159 the rain served its purpose as I'm training for ninety holes in three days this 549 00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:15.079 coming June a Bandoned Dunes. As a matter of fact, I've just scheduled 550 00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:19.679 an episode with Bandoned Dudes to get a history and overview of each of the 551 00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:24.639 courses on that incredible destination property, So stay tuned for that now. Over 552 00:50:24.679 --> 00:50:30.079 the weekend, again, in preparation from you know, I'm in training, 553 00:50:30.480 --> 00:50:35.599 I played at Bedega Bay Golf Links, which again it was perfect training because 554 00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:38.800 we were on the coast of the Pacific Ocean with strong winds throughout the round 555 00:50:39.719 --> 00:50:45.199 no rain, think goodness. But it also included an eight plus mile walk 556 00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:51.960 and nearly three hundred forty feet of elevation change. The marshals thought I was 557 00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:55.559 crazy for not only walking the entire round, but for pushing a golf cart 558 00:50:55.639 --> 00:51:00.079 up these hills too. 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