1 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:04,960 If a person breaks one hundred, there would be a golfer for life, 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:08,119 essentially, and that's research based done by the proponent group. It's like a 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,759 hockey stick effect where people breaking one hundred they play more golf. It's not 4 00:00:11,759 --> 00:00:14,199 necessarily how they any hit the ball, bat evasion and get up and down 5 00:00:14,199 --> 00:00:17,000 around the greens little more. They need to keep the ball in play, 6 00:00:17,199 --> 00:00:20,120 make less bad decisions. That's the name of the game. And the way 7 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,320 they go from eighty to seventy, they're already probably hitting eight nine greens regulation. 8 00:00:24,559 --> 00:00:28,039 The PGA two averages eleven and a half on green relations, or if 9 00:00:28,039 --> 00:00:30,359 you include the fridge, it's twelve and a half. So if you kind 10 00:00:30,359 --> 00:00:33,759 of just promote those stats and give them a clear indication that it's not necessarily 11 00:00:33,799 --> 00:00:36,799 just a golf swing, it's a part of the process. But I would 12 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:41,880 say it's manage their time more effectively. Hi, this is Ken Greenberg from 13 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:46,439 Dallas, Texas, and I played golf frequently at the courses at waters Creek. 14 00:00:47,079 --> 00:00:52,280 This is called smarter number nine hundred one. Breaking one hundred is more 15 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:57,000 than just working on the range with so Cal PGA Teacher of the Year Blake 16 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:03,679 Jerks This is Golf Smarter, sharing stories, tips and insights from great golf 17 00:01:03,719 --> 00:01:07,760 mines to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ. Here's your 18 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:14,680 host, Fred Green. Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast. Blake, Hello, 19 00:01:14,719 --> 00:01:18,040 Fred, How you doing, Bud? I'm doing good. Thanks thanks 20 00:01:18,079 --> 00:01:21,159 for having me on. I appreciate it. Oh. Absolutely, you know 21 00:01:21,239 --> 00:01:23,920 people are gonna think, oh, I can hear Blake. He's outside, 22 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:26,159 he's, you know, a golf instructor. He's about to give a letting. 23 00:01:26,159 --> 00:01:29,920 You know, he's at Starbucks. So we're just kidding. He's got 24 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,640 two little kids. You got two little kids at home. You cannot be 25 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,879 doing your interviews at home. Absolutely not. No, it's it's a little 26 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:41,439 shoe box. It's like a fourteen square foot free bedroom house. It's my 27 00:01:41,519 --> 00:01:45,640 girls take up one room and then my wife and I. Pretty much that's 28 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,680 about it. And they're probably playing toys and playing dress up, playing tea 29 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,519 party whatever. Maybe so defitable last right now, so I can back say 30 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:57,680 put myself for at Starbucks. Okay, well good, well, thank you 31 00:01:57,719 --> 00:02:01,640 for doing that. I really appreciate it. Uh, congratulations are in order. 32 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:07,120 You've been named the twenty twenty two Southern California PGA Teacher of the Year. 33 00:02:07,319 --> 00:02:10,919 Thank you. I appreciate it yet an absolute honor. It's a it's 34 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:15,240 a team effort in my in my opinion, honestly, just with the people 35 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,199 in my corner, the people that supported me and helped me along my journey. 36 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:23,360 And um, I appreciate just the recognition for the opportunity just to be 37 00:02:23,439 --> 00:02:29,240 award of this and just be recognized as that teacher of the year. How 38 00:02:29,319 --> 00:02:31,599 does the process work? Do they submit your name or did all of a 39 00:02:31,599 --> 00:02:37,199 sudden you've got a phone call saying congratulations. What's the process? I'm curious. 40 00:02:37,199 --> 00:02:42,360 So yeah, Sill in California, they's a it's a recognize So PGAs 41 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,240 ore PGA professionals are putting it names in the hat for who they believe is 42 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:51,199 maybe the best teacher teacher of the year. Me player Development Golf pfessional the 43 00:02:51,319 --> 00:02:54,800 year, whe I d beb. I was nominated for the Teacher of the 44 00:02:54,879 --> 00:03:00,800 Year for the first on California section. I won our chapter Teacher of the 45 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:07,319 Year as well the previous year. So once they had about I think fifteen 46 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:12,039 or twenty people in the in the hat, they knocked it down down to 47 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,319 three I believe or five. And then they interviewed us about half hour to 48 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:21,439 quarter five minutes, asking us questions of maybe our teaching and what our philosophy 49 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,800 as and what we why we believe it, maybe the why we should be 50 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:27,639 the teacher of the year, And um, I guess my answers were I 51 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:32,319 guess good enough to nominate my startup, be nominated and be awarded the opportunity. 52 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,960 So I was really cool, really cool opportunity. Well, I'm sure 53 00:03:37,039 --> 00:03:40,800 that that interview was far more intimidating than this one will be not one, 54 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:46,840 not one, but oh well, I'm curious when they like ask you tell 55 00:03:46,919 --> 00:03:51,199 us why you should be teacher of the year, how do you let humility 56 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,639 you know, take over there but still brag about yourself that yeah, I'm 57 00:03:54,639 --> 00:04:01,879 a great teacher. Yeah. I mean the big thing for me, like 58 00:04:01,919 --> 00:04:06,759 when I think about a teacher of the year in the section or even national 59 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:10,960 Teacher of the Year, it's it's not just like who you teach or how 60 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,680 you teach. It's I think it's just so much more components to that. 61 00:04:15,759 --> 00:04:18,079 It's like, are you are you helping out other teachers actually teach? Are 62 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:24,879 you maybe helping the teachers below you get more business, Are you getting the 63 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:29,639 results from your students? Are you giving back to the game when it comes 64 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:35,199 to maybe part of the foundation or donations, or just giving your time and 65 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:42,560 effort into into the into the section in the PGA. And I believe that 66 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,040 teaching everyone. There's so many good instructors out there in the country, There's 67 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:51,319 so much good knowledge out there, and if we base off of that, 68 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:56,240 I think everybody deserves that. But I think there's so many more layers to 69 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:00,360 the teacher of the year. And I think for me, like when I 70 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,680 when I look back in my journey over the past two years or three years, 71 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:11,519 because that's where I feel like my my journey has gone, I think 72 00:05:11,639 --> 00:05:15,199 propelled over the last few years, and just with my my mindset and how 73 00:05:15,199 --> 00:05:18,720 I think about things and how I think about coaching. It's like I've been 74 00:05:18,759 --> 00:05:21,720 the golf instructor where I talked about golf swing. I've been the golf instructor 75 00:05:21,759 --> 00:05:29,000 that has gone through working on the technique and I figured out and just kind 76 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,399 of just and buy my mentor is not just from for myself, but just 77 00:05:31,439 --> 00:05:35,240 my mentors that have helped me along the journey that it's the relationships, it's 78 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:41,040 the it's the being able to coach a player from A to Z. It's 79 00:05:41,079 --> 00:05:45,319 not just that one off lesson. It's the long term journey. It's getting 80 00:05:45,319 --> 00:05:48,800 the results that they want to they want to achieve, and if you're able 81 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:53,439 to kind of track that, maybe able to kind of see that with UM 82 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,600 all of my students that I've been coaching over the last few years at the 83 00:05:57,639 --> 00:06:03,000 facility of ANAT It's been a really cool process and just the idea of being 84 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:09,079 able to be more of a more of a coach and more of a I 85 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:11,360 know the golf swing. I feel like I'm a family doctor, but I 86 00:06:11,399 --> 00:06:14,839 specialize in UM. In a coaching world, you know, I could. 87 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:19,079 I want to make my players better and m half the time it's maybe it's 88 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:23,839 the technique is a small piece of the pie, but there's so many more 89 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:28,920 components. And I know that Fred, you're this this podcast is what you 90 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,000 preach. It's not just the technical parts. It's the mental and emotional aspect 91 00:06:32,079 --> 00:06:38,360 of golf. There's so much golf such an emotional game, and I think 92 00:06:39,399 --> 00:06:42,160 again, like teachers and instructors know the golf swing, they know how the 93 00:06:42,199 --> 00:06:46,759 golf ball moves from right to left and left to right. But it's the 94 00:06:46,759 --> 00:06:49,839 bigger, bigger components that are the reasons why I think people want to get 95 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:57,199 better and the people love hanging out their PJ professional It's interesting you say, 96 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,519 um, how peachers and teachers know how to at the ball so ball goes 97 00:07:00,639 --> 00:07:04,720 right to left or the ball goes left to right. But you know, 98 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,600 lots of times I feel, and I've talked to a lot of teachers, 99 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:16,199 that teachers become golf instructors because they were good golfers as kids, and that 100 00:07:16,279 --> 00:07:19,560 they just love to be around the golf course, not knowing what it really 101 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,800 means to be a golf instructor, of what kind of dedication it takes, 102 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:28,079 and how little you get to play golf once you become an instructor. Yeah, 103 00:07:28,199 --> 00:07:31,519 right, Yeah, it's actually funny actually on that point, Fred, 104 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:35,319 like, honestly, the last year and this has got on a stoot, 105 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:42,079 I probably played fifty rounds last year, maybe seventy rounds last year with my 106 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,680 students. I may I played golf with my students. I got to play 107 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:46,720 with them on a whether we're traveling out to another golf course, whether I'm 108 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,959 on the golf course teaching with them, and I do most of my stuff 109 00:07:50,199 --> 00:07:54,199 in group settings already, and so I actually played golf with my students. 110 00:07:55,439 --> 00:07:59,480 And so like the model of you getting this business to not play golf, 111 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:03,680 it's such a I think that's such an almost like a bad termed a way 112 00:08:03,879 --> 00:08:07,480 back in the day of like you worked sixty hours, eighty hours a week, 113 00:08:07,519 --> 00:08:09,759 and you grind that, you taught every lesson you could. You're sitting 114 00:08:09,759 --> 00:08:13,360 on the driving range getting burnt out, and I just like flipped it on 115 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,319 his head. And again, my mentors helped me along this journey, but 116 00:08:16,319 --> 00:08:18,920 I took him on the golf course. I played golf with my students. 117 00:08:18,959 --> 00:08:24,160 I um, I was able to kind of see how they play and helped 118 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:28,519 them out on that end more than I did on teaching on the driving range. 119 00:08:28,399 --> 00:08:31,799 So I played more golf now than I've ever had my ultire life by 120 00:08:31,879 --> 00:08:35,679 far. But are you playing golf or you just out on the golf course 121 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:43,039 with your students? Yeah, so yeah, I'll play. Yeah, I'll 122 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:46,279 play nine holes of my students, honestly, like i'll play in some money 123 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:50,399 games, eighteen holes. I'll play my actually played my first section event last 124 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,639 year for a three day tournament, and I've I felt almost guilty to ever 125 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:58,639 play in a tournament back in the day because I feel like I had to 126 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:01,559 work, I had to give golf lessons to make money because if I didn't, 127 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:05,559 then I wouldn't make money. Now at a point where my life is 128 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:11,360 I have I changed my mindset and how I believe, and I'm like, 129 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:13,519 know what, I'm gonna go play these terms. I'm gonna go test it 130 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,480 out there and and have more fun. Honestly, Like, that's why we 131 00:09:16,519 --> 00:09:20,879 got on the business, is to play more golf and be around the business 132 00:09:20,879 --> 00:09:28,000 and be able to coach our students. That's fascinating that you get to play 133 00:09:28,039 --> 00:09:33,200 that much golf. But I was starting to talk about how teachers know how 134 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,679 to hit the ball right to left, hit the ball left right, but 135 00:09:37,759 --> 00:09:43,639 not all of them know how to communicate that. There's a probably a huge 136 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:48,080 gap there of knowing how to do it and then being able to teach it. 137 00:09:48,639 --> 00:09:52,639 So, as someone who's been named a teacher of the Year, how 138 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,559 have you been able to make that transition from being a probably a pretty good 139 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:03,399 golfer to being a really good tea teacher? Yeah, I mean I had 140 00:10:03,399 --> 00:10:07,320 to. I had to know the the ins and outs of instruction part of 141 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:11,120 it, like how the club moves, how the body moves, and UM, 142 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:15,200 I've seeked all those, all the swing instructor help, I've I've gone 143 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:20,159 through a ton of education, um in my earlier years where I wanted to 144 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:26,080 know as much information as possible within the instructor realm of how the golf swing 145 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,440 moves and how the golf ball moves. And for me, like I wasn't 146 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:33,200 necessarily the best player, like I would get thirty minute lessons every two weeks 147 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,960 and I thought I was getting better and I really wasn't getting better at all, 148 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:41,519 and it was um. But I knew at an early age, at 149 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:43,320 sixteen seventeen years old, I wanted to be a golf instructor and I knew 150 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:48,320 I wanted to be helping people play better golf. So I kind of had 151 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,240 with that, with that vision and that goal, that goal in mind, 152 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:56,240 I knew I wanted to kind of follow that pathway and UM, I knew 153 00:10:56,279 --> 00:10:58,159 I wanted. I knew I had to know the golf swing and I had 154 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,399 to know why the ball does what it does. And then being able to 155 00:11:01,399 --> 00:11:07,240 communicate that was just kind of again, people that have helped me out just 156 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,240 has shadowed me a rive shadowed them on how much communication is necessary to provide 157 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:16,399 a student I'm all about less is more. I'm actually more on the side 158 00:11:16,399 --> 00:11:22,200 of mental and emotional game than I am on the technical game. So I 159 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,799 feel like I can get better people, better results just by communicating with them, 160 00:11:26,879 --> 00:11:31,519 with being able to build that relationship up and keeping them accountable for their 161 00:11:31,519 --> 00:11:37,960 golf games. Awesome, Hey listen, Well we'll find out because we have 162 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,919 some more time to flesh it out, and we'll do that after this break. 163 00:11:48,519 --> 00:11:50,440 You said a moment ago that you knew that you wanted to be an 164 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:56,799 instructor when you were a teenager. You were not saying I'm going to be 165 00:11:56,919 --> 00:11:58,919 on the PGA tour. You were saying I want to be a teacher. 166 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:07,559 Where did that come from? Where? How did that practical knowledge sink into 167 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:11,720 you as a teenager. Yeah, it's it's it's it's pretty interesting. I 168 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:15,440 mean, for me, my parents don't play golf, none of my of 169 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,039 my family members play golf. I just I love the game and I played 170 00:12:18,039 --> 00:12:22,399 other sports as a kid, and I fell in love with golf at thirteen 171 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,399 fourty years old, and UM, and I wanted to be an almost an 172 00:12:26,399 --> 00:12:30,080 elementary school teacher back in the day where I wanted to teach like third grade, 173 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,919 fourth grade, UM, just as a teacher when I was a third 174 00:12:33,919 --> 00:12:37,559 and fourth grader really, and so I kind of I knew at UM. 175 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:41,279 As sixteen came along, seventeen came along, I was like, you know 176 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:45,679 what, I love teaching kids. I love teaching people, like just like 177 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,120 helping people out. And I was just kind of gravitated towards added um. 178 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:54,519 I put put two and two together of teaching kids and juniors too, like 179 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,440 as a farm it. I was like an how much school teacher to teach 180 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:00,240 me how to play golf in the game I love. So it was kind 181 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,960 of it. It was I think I caught it on earlier than I think 182 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,639 others, and I knew I wasn't good enough to play at at a high 183 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:09,360 level. I played one of your pend college golf and I wasn't posting to 184 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:13,240 the scores. That wasn't necessary. My mental emotional game was probably the weakest 185 00:13:13,279 --> 00:13:18,480 part. And nobody actually taught me what that even looked like exactly. So 186 00:13:18,799 --> 00:13:22,720 I kind of had to figure on my own and I knew at that like 187 00:13:22,799 --> 00:13:24,960 that age, it was definitely not going to happen. I knew I wasn't 188 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:28,480 gonna make the two where I knew I wasn't gonna I didn't have the driver 189 00:13:28,639 --> 00:13:31,360 the want to do it. So I kind of just fell in love with 190 00:13:31,399 --> 00:13:35,200 golf and fell love with teaching, and I kind of made my career based 191 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:39,399 on that and made the moves that I did to go from it's just a 192 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:45,720 professional to a full time instructor to now a director of instruction. So they 193 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:50,039 kind of was a m The pathway was was seamless for me and I the 194 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:54,519 moves that I made was always just get to the goals I wanted to get 195 00:13:54,559 --> 00:14:01,559 to. Did you play competitively growing up? I played junior tournaments. I 196 00:14:01,639 --> 00:14:05,679 played in our local section events for SOUN California PGA. I was I did 197 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:11,399 a little bit of a j GA, but again was not nearly good enough 198 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:15,559 to ever play at a collegiate level at a D one, D two or 199 00:14:15,639 --> 00:14:18,320 D three or maybe I didn't know about it, honestly, like nobody kind 200 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:20,480 of really helped me out. My parents had no idea about it because they 201 00:14:20,519 --> 00:14:26,559 were just goldful parents that didn't have any sort of people that were helping them 202 00:14:26,559 --> 00:14:28,600 out, and I kind of figured out I had to figure out my golferents 203 00:14:28,639 --> 00:14:31,720 on my own in it, and they just financially supported me and took me 204 00:14:31,759 --> 00:14:35,759 to the golf course when I needed to, and they were super impactful on 205 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,960 that front. But yeah, like I like, I played at a community 206 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:41,840 college just because I knew the coach and I was like the fourth best or 207 00:14:41,879 --> 00:14:43,960 fifth best player in the team for the one year. I was like, 208 00:14:45,039 --> 00:14:48,080 you know what, I'm not I'm gonna go to I went to Golf County 209 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:52,159 America and Carl's Bad actually for some schooling, and I knew I wanted to 210 00:14:52,159 --> 00:14:56,200 get in the golf business right away. It was kind of like just the 211 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:00,200 passion I knew I had, and it wasn't gonna playing competitively wasn't going to 212 00:15:00,279 --> 00:15:05,240 be the thing that was gonna hold me back. But there were there people 213 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,159 that you were playing against that were you were like, oh, Okay, 214 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:11,519 this guy is so much better than me. And if he's this much better 215 00:15:11,639 --> 00:15:15,360 and we keep getting up to the higher levels, I just know that there's 216 00:15:15,399 --> 00:15:18,080 no way I can compete. And I'm not that you said, I'm not 217 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,639 that hungry for it. You weren't driven for it. Yeah, I mean 218 00:15:20,639 --> 00:15:26,039 we had so many good juniors in our team. Like I went to UM 219 00:15:26,279 --> 00:15:30,000 we played against a program and my best friend at the time, UM, 220 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,879 his name's Chris, and Chris is actually was Patrick Hanley's caddy and we would 221 00:15:33,879 --> 00:15:37,200 hang out with Patrick Hanley all the time when we were kids, and UM 222 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,639 and seeing him play golf and playing in matches against him in high school, 223 00:15:41,639 --> 00:15:45,240 I'm like, yeah, there's no there's no chance. You know. We 224 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,840 had a guy named Shea Kim who is playing a live tour right now, 225 00:15:48,879 --> 00:15:52,519 and he was I used to practice around him and he was he went to 226 00:15:52,559 --> 00:15:56,519 Stanford. You had Alex Kim went to UCLA. I mean, we had 227 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,879 so many good juniors that were we would all practice with. I'm like, 228 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,320 yeah, you guys are so much better. You guys practice here nine hours 229 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,679 a day, grinding it out, and I'm like, yeah, there's Uh. 230 00:16:07,799 --> 00:16:11,279 I like hanging out with you guys. It's a it's been a blast. 231 00:16:11,039 --> 00:16:15,440 It's fun to just to compete and uh, that's all. That's that's 232 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:18,320 all I got better, honest who was competing and playing with better players and 233 00:16:18,919 --> 00:16:22,279 UM, my buddy Chris, Uh, he uh him and I would go 234 00:16:22,279 --> 00:16:25,960 out and play golf literally every day, and we went on the golf course 235 00:16:26,039 --> 00:16:29,720 all the time. And that was kind of like our biggest um, like 236 00:16:29,759 --> 00:16:33,039 my biggest past member with him just with his development and and and he got 237 00:16:33,159 --> 00:16:37,360 way better as in his junior and senior year, so that was really cool 238 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,639 to see. And um. But yeah, it's just the kids that were 239 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:44,320 just so good back in the day. That's fast. You were so good, 240 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:49,159 so good, and like I'm not they're so good. I mean, 241 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:53,279 and I see Patrick exactly, and I see Patrick Hanley at top five in 242 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:57,480 the world, right, and like, I mean, we it's just crazies 243 00:16:57,559 --> 00:17:03,720 see the development that these players have. And in Southern California has some of 244 00:17:03,759 --> 00:17:07,480 the best players in the world. Right, you have Colin Morricaw, we 245 00:17:07,519 --> 00:17:11,759 have Max Homa. I mean, there are some top ten players in Southern 246 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:14,480 California. I played on the GA Tour. I mean, I mean think 247 00:17:14,559 --> 00:17:17,680 on the woman's side, you have Rosang, who's the number one player in 248 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:22,319 the world right now in the amateur circuit. You know you have so they're 249 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:26,799 just it's just crazy how many players we have here. You know. Strangely 250 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:32,640 enough, I completely get where you're coming from on that, Because when I 251 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:37,880 was growing up, I was playing in rock and roll bands. I was 252 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,880 a drummer and the kids and I grew up in southern California, the San 253 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,920 Fernando Valley, and I was playing drums with all these different guys, all 254 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:48,039 these different bands, and it's at one point I'm like, Okay, these 255 00:17:48,079 --> 00:17:53,519 guys are really good and I'm not keeping up with them at all. I'm 256 00:17:53,559 --> 00:17:57,359 just yeah, I'm not gonna do it. So I went from playing drums 257 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:02,599 to playing records and became a district hockey. But but those guys that I 258 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:07,880 played with all became professional musicians, touring musicians, you know, with with 259 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:11,519 some big name bands touring the world. I'm like, okay, I was 260 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:15,319 at least I caught that early on. It wasn't necessarily me. It was 261 00:18:15,319 --> 00:18:23,440 just these guys are so good. Oh my gosh. Um. I want 262 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:32,039 to talk a little more about you. You're playing lessons and why you think 263 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:34,880 that adds value, and we're going to talk about it more. We'll take 264 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:37,960 a break in a few minutes, but I want to get a first answer 265 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,640 from you about what you can learn and how quickly you can learn it. 266 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:48,240 When you're out on a playing lesson with the student. Like as far as 267 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,319 like from a teaching standpoint or from like a coaching like from a like me 268 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:56,319 as a teacher of me coaching that the players on the golf course, Well, 269 00:18:56,839 --> 00:18:59,440 you're going out on the golf course with him, going out as a 270 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:03,279 teacher, going out there to coach them. Yeah, so I'm coaching them 271 00:19:03,279 --> 00:19:07,359 for sure, And I'm I'm out there just watch them how they play, 272 00:19:07,559 --> 00:19:11,799 right, I'm watching them, observing them and finding coachable moments. Honestly, 273 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,720 it's not like on the drive range to get so comfortable, you know, 274 00:19:15,799 --> 00:19:18,319 it's your You have all these groups golf balls, you have a big driving 275 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,440 range. It's so easy to kind of get comfortable on the on the drive 276 00:19:22,519 --> 00:19:26,200 range. But on the golf course, it's that's reality. And I put 277 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,160 my players in group settings because that's what you most likely do with golf. 278 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:33,400 You actually play with the group of two or three or four others and you 279 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,200 compete and you play. And so being able to provide that environment and I 280 00:19:37,279 --> 00:19:41,000 kind of give them some games or some some thought process or this ideas like 281 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:45,359 kind of kind of give them the row. Overall lesson of the day we'll 282 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,519 say, but like we'll tee off on the very red teas and we'll give 283 00:19:48,559 --> 00:19:53,400 them and see how low they can go. You know, we'll play having 284 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:59,079 to disagree on purpose because I'm trying to asess their short game. I'm having 285 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:00,920 them tee off with the with an iron instead of a driver because they can't 286 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,400 the ball and play off the tea box and so being able to kind of 287 00:20:04,599 --> 00:20:11,160 put them in that life situation and that that environment and seeing how they actually 288 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,559 deal with it. Um, there's so many, so many moments out there 289 00:20:14,559 --> 00:20:17,960 where you where you get them out there and you see him hit a great 290 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,559 shot and it's like, man, that was a great golf shot. How 291 00:20:19,599 --> 00:20:22,400 did that feel? And it's like, yeah, it felt great, felt 292 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,960 smooth, Like how is your routine? How is your thought process? How 293 00:20:26,039 --> 00:20:29,279 is how are you thinking during the golf shot? Like all those things you 294 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:34,880 kind of want to kind of emphasize in their um. And they're playing and 295 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:38,000 then when you hit bad shots, because they all hit bad shots, it's 296 00:20:38,039 --> 00:20:41,400 just it's not like it we don't. I don't coach them on every shot 297 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:45,480 they hit. I just find a moment where I can kind of plug in 298 00:20:45,519 --> 00:20:48,400 and maybe it's a few holes later. Honestly, like I sometimes I won't 299 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,720 even speak to them for two or three holes because I don't need to speak 300 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:56,160 to them for free holes. It's so often like an instructor or teacher can 301 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:03,559 kind of talk a lotted and be able to kind of overcoach. I'm the 302 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:07,480 complete opposite. I give them a framework and then I kind of let them 303 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,960 go on the on the journey and I just watch them play with them and 304 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:12,319 see how they do, and at the end of the day we'll have a 305 00:21:12,759 --> 00:21:17,200 lesson learned and we'll have an idea of what we need to this and how 306 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,640 we're going to get better and what that. And me my job is as 307 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,839 a coach to keep them accountable for their for their golf games, because at 308 00:21:22,839 --> 00:21:26,119 the end of the day, they're looking for the results and they're looking for 309 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:30,440 to get better at golf. Um some say they want it to more consistency, 310 00:21:30,519 --> 00:21:33,559 some say they want to hit their irons better. But when I ask 311 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,440 them, you keep you ask them why why why they want to shoot Laure's 312 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:38,960 course, they want to get better the game, they want to play better, 313 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,759 and as a coach, you want to tend to help them out on 314 00:21:41,799 --> 00:21:45,680 that journey to get there. Yeah, all right, that's only part one 315 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,599 of your answer. We're going to take a time out. We're going to 316 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:59,079 get more of that, like we'll be back after this commercial message. All 317 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:06,519 right. I definitely only want to talk more about the idea of of your 318 00:22:06,559 --> 00:22:10,680 playing lessons. I love this idea of playing lessons. And you even mentioned 319 00:22:10,759 --> 00:22:14,680 you like, I won't even and I won't even talk to them for three 320 00:22:14,759 --> 00:22:18,079 or four holes. And it's like, make sure that you remember that as 321 00:22:18,079 --> 00:22:23,680 a parent, because silence is painful. The hardest thing you can do and 322 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:30,200 someone's waiting for you to talk is to not talk right. And and I 323 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:36,119 can imagine that the student, when you're not saying anything, must be just 324 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:38,200 beating themselves up like crazy, like oh my god, what's he thinking? 325 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:42,759 What's he doing? What are you doing? So U use that silence. 326 00:22:44,039 --> 00:22:49,880 It's a very powerful tool in your in your toolbox. But let's talk about 327 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,920 thought process. Let's talk about off the first tea. When you're with somebody 328 00:22:56,599 --> 00:23:00,599 and they you know they're going out to play with you, there's a little 329 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,559 bit of nerves there. And as you said, being on the golf course 330 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:11,960 is the real thing. So tell me how how you start that round of 331 00:23:11,079 --> 00:23:15,880 playing of a playing lesson with them? Um, what are you looking for? 332 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:19,759 And you know, do you have to let's just start there, We'll 333 00:23:19,759 --> 00:23:23,759 ask that question. What are you looking for? Yeah, so I'm looking 334 00:23:23,799 --> 00:23:27,920 at how they I mean just from a from a from just so washing them 335 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,880 standpoint of just seeing like even how they enter the golf ball, like how 336 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,079 are they walking? How are they do they actually warm up and hit the 337 00:23:34,079 --> 00:23:37,200 golf like DoD they actually warm a hit golf shots. They get there early 338 00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:40,640 enough even prior to them hitting that first tea shot, you know, and 339 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,839 then once it get to the first tea I'm thinking, Okay, what kind 340 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,680 of decision making they're doing, m maybe what kind of club choice, maybe 341 00:23:48,799 --> 00:23:52,279 the direction that they're they're going for. And then see how the routine is 342 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:56,680 honestly like the things that we I focused on the things that we can control. 343 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,440 So a lot of it's like how are what our processes is, So 344 00:24:00,519 --> 00:24:03,880 it would be a presche routine. Um, how engaged are we with a 345 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,880 golf shot? And then what we're doing dealing with it afterwards? So especially 346 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,680 like that first and then and when I do a lot of on course game 347 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,599 assessments. Actually, so my very first session that I take people out, 348 00:24:14,599 --> 00:24:17,039 because on the golf course, I literally take them out for nine holes. 349 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,480 I'll watch them play golf. I actually don't say words. I talk with 350 00:24:19,519 --> 00:24:22,160 them, I get to know them, build a relationship, but I don't 351 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:26,000 really talk about their golf game or what they're doing right or wrong. When 352 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,839 it comes into that assessment period, I'm actually just watching again the routines, 353 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,400 like club decision. I'm looking at how they deal with good shots or bad 354 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:38,759 shots, how their their skill sets are, whether it's off the tea or 355 00:24:38,839 --> 00:24:45,400 in um side, holies, fairways, rough, Korean side, whatever, 356 00:24:45,519 --> 00:24:49,599 putting like, I'll check all that stuff out. And so that first hole 357 00:24:49,599 --> 00:24:52,880 and that that where I kind of I set the stage up in the very 358 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,599 beginning, especially in a game assessment, where I'll say, hey, I'm 359 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,559 just watching them observing. I'm just wanting to get to know you a little 360 00:24:59,559 --> 00:25:03,240 bit more. IM want to see kind of how you um manage up on 361 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,000 the golf course. I'm gonna keep tracking my stats and then afterwards going to 362 00:25:06,079 --> 00:25:10,599 hang out and have a conversation and so prepasent that way kind of gives them 363 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,000 a little bit at ease that it's not really much of a they're not gonna 364 00:25:14,039 --> 00:25:17,839 getting a golf lesson, They're getting an assessment so that I can build them 365 00:25:17,839 --> 00:25:21,440 a game plan. And then after that we kind of build that game plan. 366 00:25:21,519 --> 00:25:23,440 That's where we have groups of three or four that will go out on 367 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,880 the golf course and uh, like every other week we'll do like an encore 368 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:33,039 session and an off course session and on the encorese sessions, like my guys 369 00:25:33,079 --> 00:25:38,559 and are kind of already prepared to deal with that pressure and then more that 370 00:25:38,599 --> 00:25:42,440 they're able to kind of practice that environment like where they're in a group, 371 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:47,079 they're kind of they do struggle a little bit. They um, they learn 372 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:52,599 from their lessons that when they do struggle kind of why and be able to 373 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,559 use that for the next time they go out, like, Okay, I've 374 00:25:55,559 --> 00:25:57,200 been here before, I've done this, Let's not do that again. Let's 375 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:02,039 try to have a better process into hit in this next maybe this first t 376 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:07,200 shot. H Well, you also said that on a first lesson you'll go 377 00:26:07,319 --> 00:26:11,599 right to the to the course and take them out. But then you have 378 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,720 mentioned about having a lesson of the day. Do you have a lesson of 379 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,440 the day idea before you go out, or do you need to know about 380 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,640 this person's game a bit more before you decide? Okay, this is what 381 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,880 we're going to focus on today. Yeah, So, like I'll from an 382 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:30,599 assessment protocol, I'll they'll find out more about me and a lot of that. 383 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:36,039 My students come from PJ dot coach, which is a free probile for 384 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:40,799 PJA professionals, So I'll find out information from there, and then I'll have 385 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,160 a conversation with them, whether it's through text, messure calling. I'll have 386 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,400 them fill out a Google form where I get to another golf game prior to 387 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,440 actually be having conversation with them, so I get to know kind of what 388 00:26:49,519 --> 00:26:53,119 their skill sets are already. I'll have a phone call with them for ten 389 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,480 to fifteen minutes, set the stage up for an encourse game assessment. They 390 00:26:56,519 --> 00:27:02,519 go play an holes with me and UM and that assessment, I'm just watching, 391 00:27:02,519 --> 00:27:04,119 observing. I'm keeping track of the stats that I want to see and 392 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:08,119 then being able to afterwards kind of talk them through it and what I observed 393 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,160 and then kind of build my game plan from there. And majority of the 394 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:17,599 time they're they're already bought into the process. Just because they they and by 395 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,240 the way, in the assessment protocol, like I'll usually have two or three 396 00:27:21,279 --> 00:27:26,319 others with us, and it just provide them more of a live experience. 397 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:30,319 And I haven't had one person say that that doesn't sound good where they said, 398 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,400 I know I want to our private when I want to work in my 399 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,680 golf swing. People that come to me are already kind of knowing that I 400 00:27:34,759 --> 00:27:41,920 take people on the golf course right away in that assessment. But that's kind 401 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,359 of like and once we kind of manage that way. I called my provos 402 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:52,200 called the Biggest Loser and U it's basically a whether you can lose strokes off 403 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:56,200 their game rather than losing weight off their bodies. Um, there was there 404 00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:00,960 was laugh about that one, but I I the results that they want to 405 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,720 see, we kind of guarantee them getting twenty percent better in a six month 406 00:28:03,759 --> 00:28:10,039 period. And and then we and when we're on the golf course, will 407 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:14,440 like I said, we'll preface the session based on kind of what we you 408 00:28:14,559 --> 00:28:15,839 asked me earlier, is like what kind of things you work on or is 409 00:28:15,839 --> 00:28:21,920 there a preset plan? And honestly, there's no preset planned because kind of 410 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,880 each week may be different. There's some of the guys may struggle they're potting, 411 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,279 or maybe they struggle with they're off the tea game, and so we'll 412 00:28:27,319 --> 00:28:33,440 kind of manage the on course sessions based on kind of what's been going on 413 00:28:33,519 --> 00:28:37,960 for that week, honestly, and kind of tailor the practice based on what 414 00:28:38,039 --> 00:28:41,359 their needs are and what I think their needs are, not what they think 415 00:28:41,359 --> 00:28:47,079 their needs are, which that's an important thing, Yeah, very important thing. 416 00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:51,279 So it recently did an interview with a guy who's in the San Diego 417 00:28:51,319 --> 00:28:57,640 area right now who started a YouTube channel called from Scratch to Scratch. And 418 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:04,119 this is a guy who knew basically knew nothing about golf, absolutely nothing, 419 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:12,559 that wanted to do a video every day and become a scratch golfer. And 420 00:29:14,079 --> 00:29:17,640 you know, we all can roll our eyes a bit about that concept. 421 00:29:18,279 --> 00:29:22,960 But it was a fascinating conversation and his determination is unbelievable. But there's so 422 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:27,880 many things he just doesn't understand about golf and that it's like, oh, 423 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,880 you got a long way to go. And I'm like asking him, how 424 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,160 long do you think it's going to take for you to become scratch? He 425 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,839 goes, I think we in the five year range. I can be pretty 426 00:29:37,839 --> 00:29:41,880 good. I'm like, oh, okay, do you understand that what handicap 427 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:47,759 is for? No? Okay, So if somebody came to you, if 428 00:29:47,839 --> 00:29:49,519 a student came to you and said, look, I've never played golf. 429 00:29:49,559 --> 00:29:52,839 I have not even played golf video games as a kid, but I want 430 00:29:52,839 --> 00:29:57,720 to be a scratch golfer soon, how do you approach something like that? 431 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,160 The bold, bold, bold statements, And I don't I love I love 432 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:08,079 audacious goals. I asked every one of my clients what's the most audacious goal 433 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,519 that they have? Oh, yeah, one hundred percent and and some I 434 00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:15,240 mean being realistic, right, And like when we set goals, we've got 435 00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:17,640 it. I always like, whether it's my junior, my elite juniors, 436 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:21,839 out of coach and then we do a lot of smart goals setting UM specific, 437 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:27,039 measurable, attainable, realistic and timely goals, and um so we we 438 00:30:27,079 --> 00:30:30,839 always wanted those audacious goals like hey, I want to shoot even part by 439 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,960 the end of the year and the lowest scores seventy eight. You know, 440 00:30:33,039 --> 00:30:36,799 it's like I love that. I love that they want to do that. 441 00:30:37,079 --> 00:30:40,400 Well, here's once it's gonna take you and I need this much practice and 442 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:44,440 this much effort, UM, this much coaching needs to be going on as 443 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,640 well. I may be watching you play and watching you, um, they 444 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,160 watch how you practice as well and teach you how to practice. UM. 445 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:56,000 But if somebody's like those those bold statements have going from from A depends on 446 00:30:56,039 --> 00:31:00,920 how much time and honestly how much time resources and um they want to put 447 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,559 it into the game. Honestly, that's the that's the way I would look 448 00:31:04,599 --> 00:31:08,720 at it from A From that standpoint, it's as it possible. Absolutely, 449 00:31:08,839 --> 00:31:12,559 I think it's one hundred percent possible. It just takes again a ton of 450 00:31:12,559 --> 00:31:17,799 time, a ton of help. UM. I've I've learned a lot with 451 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:23,799 U with doctor Rick Jensen, UM and how people develop skills and um, 452 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:30,039 how long it really takes to really play under pressure and to go through the 453 00:31:30,079 --> 00:31:34,640 pathway to to getting better. And it takes a definitely does take a journey, 454 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,680 and it takes a lot of people to to help out that. So, 455 00:31:38,839 --> 00:31:42,440 like I, like I always say, it just depends depends on what 456 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:47,000 what. If that's the goal, then they have all the money and the 457 00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:49,480 resources possible, and they have all the time in the world. Absolutely it's 458 00:31:49,519 --> 00:31:53,519 possible. Why not? And this guy did I mention? This guy has 459 00:31:53,559 --> 00:32:00,519 a full time job. Yeah you' look yeah, but I'd love I love 460 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,119 I love the effort though, and and maybe it's like the the idea of 461 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,839 being a scratch golfer in the head, whether it's in five years, ten 462 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:12,839 years, twenty years. Um, it's that people. People's goals are always 463 00:32:12,839 --> 00:32:16,240 different, right, and people when people want to achieve something, it's got 464 00:32:16,359 --> 00:32:20,720 to um, it's gotta match. It's got to match kind of their time 465 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:27,279 and their efforts, you know. And sometimes like I've got players that want 466 00:32:27,279 --> 00:32:30,200 to get better, yet I see them once a week or once every other 467 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:34,839 week, and they're just not practicing in between. That's the unfortunate part sometimes 468 00:32:34,839 --> 00:32:37,759 And because jobs get the way, and um, life happens and we go 469 00:32:37,759 --> 00:32:45,119 on vacations, we have kids, and um it's uh sometimes gets challenging for 470 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:49,920 sure. UM. So it's about like again, just goal setting, being 471 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,000 able to manage a good schedule that is effective, and being able to have 472 00:32:53,039 --> 00:32:58,079 a coach that's going to kind of support that that vision that you have and 473 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,440 keep you accountable. If that's what it's looking like. Because when you think 474 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:07,960 about like achievement goal and say, for instance, UM, my daughter wants 475 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:13,240 to get my daughter gets married and hopefully thirty years from now, whatever it 476 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,920 may be. Well, and I I need to lose fifteen pounds in a 477 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:22,200 six week period. Well, I can't be telling my trainer I want to 478 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,440 get I want to eat cheeseburgers every day, and that I only want to 479 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:28,480 work out once a week, and and I really don't want to run. 480 00:33:28,519 --> 00:33:32,400 Actually I just want to m I. Yeah, I just want to lose 481 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:37,039 fifteen pounds. So they're like, shoot me straight, and we all know 482 00:33:37,119 --> 00:33:40,119 that's not never gonna work. And the trainers are ways going to say, 483 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,200 hey, you gotta be in the gym three years a week. You've got 484 00:33:43,319 --> 00:33:45,680 to eat this way, You've got to and if you want to look good 485 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:46,720 in that suit at the end of the day, at the six week period, 486 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:52,319 you're gonna look real damn good at the end of it. And being 487 00:33:52,359 --> 00:33:55,039 able to have like that vision, And that's how golf instructors are. Golf 488 00:33:55,240 --> 00:34:00,799 coaches really need to kind of visualize their their students, you know, not 489 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:05,200 just to take money and just give a swing lesson, but kind of get 490 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,119 this student to where they want to go to and keep them accountable for where 491 00:34:07,159 --> 00:34:10,159 they were, for how they want to get there, and you're the job 492 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:15,840 is to lead them there. Wow. All right, Oh boy, you're 493 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:17,079 kind of teacher I would love to work with. All Right, listen, 494 00:34:17,079 --> 00:34:20,880 we're gonna take another time out. We'll be back. Find out what's going 495 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,360 on in Golf Smarter Mulligans this week. Well, this week on Golf Smarter 496 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:28,920 Mulligans, we'll feature one of the early episodes with a Golf Smarter regular, 497 00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:32,119 the wedge guy, Terry Kaylor. In an episode from twenty eleven, we 498 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:37,320 call give me ten feet closer over ten yards farther any day, And ain't 499 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:42,880 that the truth? The industry R and D guys they'll design a six iron 500 00:34:43,119 --> 00:34:45,599 and they'll tist it and they'll tweak it. They'll tist it and they'll tweak 501 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:47,639 it. When they have that sixth iron really doing what they're after. The 502 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:52,239 conventional wisdom is the match that of irons all has to look just to like 503 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,280 well. The difference between a six iron at twenty seven or twenty eight, 504 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,639 twenty nine degrees and a pitching wedge or what I call a peat club in 505 00:34:59,679 --> 00:35:01,920 today set, which is a forty four to forty five six degree golf club. 506 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:07,679 This is seventeen sixteen fifteen degrees difference. That's the difference between a six 507 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,559 iron and a driver. Nobody would ask for their three aren't even to look 508 00:35:10,599 --> 00:35:14,920 like they're six iron. Why would your pitching wedge and nine aren't look like 509 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:20,000 a sixth airn They're totally different golf clubs. They're used a totally different way, 510 00:35:20,039 --> 00:35:22,559 and so we broke out of this idea of said, you know, 511 00:35:22,639 --> 00:35:27,400 realistically, rather than my pitching wedge and nine aren't match my sixth, an't 512 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,960 they really ought to match my wedges? These are scoring clubs too. That's 513 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:36,239 golf Smarter Mulligan's episode two hundred and seventeen featuring the wedge Guy when his company 514 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:40,159 was called Idolon, which we now know as Edison Wedges. Please subscribe for 515 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:45,360 free to both of our golf podcast, Golf Smarter, published every Tuesday, 516 00:35:45,679 --> 00:35:50,920 and our sister podcast that revisits the best of the evergreen content from the Golf 517 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:55,800 Smarter podcast, called Golf Smarter Mulligans, being released every Friday from wherever you're 518 00:35:55,800 --> 00:36:04,440 listening right now. So if somebody has an audacious goal of becoming a scratch 519 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:08,760 golfer or even breaking eighty or becoming a mid seventy shooter regularly, do you 520 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:16,039 feel that it's more of their energy should be put on being at the range 521 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:21,880 powering balls, just you know, striking balls, or more time on the 522 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:27,519 course playing situational golf, you know, being in various situations and learning from 523 00:36:27,559 --> 00:36:30,480 that. Where do you find the greatest value? Is it playing golf or 524 00:36:30,559 --> 00:36:36,039 hitting balls, which I think are two completely different things. Yeah, it's 525 00:36:36,079 --> 00:36:40,159 it's it's it's appends honestly on the per se. Usually people if they're if 526 00:36:40,159 --> 00:36:43,599 they're shooting ninety and they want to break eighty, it's gonna take that's. 527 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,840 Yeah, they have to maybe be a better ball striker. But at the 528 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,840 end of the day, like what I see a lot of times is their 529 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,880 short game of potty need a ton of work. Honestly, It's like their 530 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,159 golf strings are fine, they're manageable. You can kind of teach them how 531 00:36:55,159 --> 00:37:00,800 to maybe play different golf golf club, maybe play more club, or play 532 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:07,079 smarter, thank you very much. Yeah, nice, exactly, not play 533 00:37:07,159 --> 00:37:14,480 smarter. It's golf exactly the U. But like there's but like if you're 534 00:37:14,559 --> 00:37:15,760 if you're talking like a person that shoots one hundred, they want to break 535 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:20,880 a hundred for the first time. Which is probably the most important number for 536 00:37:21,039 --> 00:37:23,880 golfers and golf coaches to realize, is that if a person breaks a hundred 537 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:30,079 and they're going to be more inclined to play more golf, there would be 538 00:37:30,079 --> 00:37:32,760 a golfer for life, essentially. And that's research base um done by the 539 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:38,119 proponent group, And it's like a hockey stick effect where people breaking a hundred 540 00:37:38,159 --> 00:37:44,360 they play more golf, um. And it's not necessarily how they don't hit 541 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,840 the ball batter aasition, get up and down around the greens little bit more. 542 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:51,920 They need to keep the ball in play, make less bad decisions and 543 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:58,519 um, I mean that's the name of the game and the way to go 544 00:37:58,679 --> 00:38:02,360 from even from eighties seventy's, it's not the any if they're already probably hitting 545 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:07,000 eight nine greens regulation the PGA two ur averages eleven and a half on green 546 00:38:07,079 --> 00:38:09,360 relations, or if you include the fringe, it's twelve and a half. 547 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:14,199 So if you kind of just promote those stats and give him a clear indication 548 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,559 that it's not necessarily just the golf swing and so the driving range is not 549 00:38:17,679 --> 00:38:23,199 necessarily it's it's a part of the process. But I would say it's manage 550 00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,880 to their time more effectively. Like I have a junior right now that just 551 00:38:27,039 --> 00:38:30,639 came to me. He wants to be a D one college golfer. And 552 00:38:30,039 --> 00:38:35,159 he practice on the range for three hours a day, and he puts a 553 00:38:35,199 --> 00:38:37,360 little bit for half hour, he chips for half hour, and is in 554 00:38:37,039 --> 00:38:40,039 he three puts every time. He doesn't play on the golf course enough, 555 00:38:40,079 --> 00:38:45,440 and and so now his whole practice sessions. Now, hey, you're only 556 00:38:45,519 --> 00:38:47,360 going to practice on the golf course, and if you do practice outside of 557 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,440 the golf course, you're just putting it chipping, you're not hitting any golf 558 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,039 balls. And so it all depends on the person and where they're at and 559 00:38:54,280 --> 00:39:00,599 where there what their goals are. So sometimes people don't hit a golf balls 560 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:05,480 if they're trying to go from nine to eighty or eighty five to seventy five, 561 00:39:05,519 --> 00:39:08,000 whatever it may be. So they probably need it hit some hit some 562 00:39:08,079 --> 00:39:14,440 golf balls or but it's more about how they practice is probably the better question. 563 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:19,280 Because people just majority of people that don't get coaching, they kind of 564 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,440 just hit the seven iron or the eight iron, and they just hit the 565 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:25,960 same shot over and over again. A lot of block practice and research based. 566 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:30,239 Again, it's it's not how people get better. Faster, more variable, 567 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:36,119 more random practice is a lot more effective and it may be a short 568 00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,280 term that the results up might be as good in the short term, but 569 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:44,519 the long term effects are a lot greater. So it's more about how they 570 00:39:44,559 --> 00:39:49,000 practice as well, and having that the accountability partner, the coach to kind 571 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,400 of guide them for that processes. Isn't a fourth part of that to person's 572 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:59,960 journey? Is it harder to break a hundred or is it harder to break 573 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:08,480 eighty? Uh? Because once you break one hundred, breaking ninety isn't that 574 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:15,480 out of reach? But right? But once but getting to break one hundred 575 00:40:15,159 --> 00:40:19,239 for a lot of people, that's just physical, right, that's just skill 576 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,599 set. But then when breaking eighty, I think is more almost more mindset. 577 00:40:23,559 --> 00:40:27,760 Yeah, I think it's I think it's more. I think from a 578 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,360 I'm more of a I call myself more of a strategy coach from even from 579 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:35,199 a swing perspective too, like how to swim the club or maybe different strategy 580 00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:42,119 to promote a different ball shot rather than changing a technical change. So like 581 00:40:42,199 --> 00:40:44,599 breaking from a hunt, breaking one hundred is going to be, especially if 582 00:40:44,639 --> 00:40:46,519 they're playing a little bit. You can kind of get if they can hit 583 00:40:46,559 --> 00:40:50,920 the ball somewhat decently, Like they don't need to hit any greens regulation pretty 584 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,320 much to break a hundred, Right, if they just like literally chipped the 585 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:58,199 ball around the greens and made then started to pop more, I mean, 586 00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,440 they're gonna break a hundred easily. But from from breaking eighty, it's definitely 587 00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:06,599 an emotional aspect of it too, because it is a huge barrier, just 588 00:41:06,679 --> 00:41:09,880 like one hundred. But you do have to Green's regulation, you do have 589 00:41:10,079 --> 00:41:14,840 to have a decent short game, you do have to make some puts um 590 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:21,000 and so it's definitely like going from eighty five to breaking eighty. I think 591 00:41:21,079 --> 00:41:24,880 the mindset barriers a little bits a little challenging for sure, but if you 592 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:29,800 just kind of stick to the process and stick to I think more of a 593 00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:32,679 game plan. One I always hear this a lot is like, um, 594 00:41:34,039 --> 00:41:37,360 it's such an emotional game, but we sometimes make it too emotional, right, 595 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,239 We make it like we almost attach our our emotions to each and every 596 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:45,000 golf shot. And if we just kind of stick to a strategy that kind 597 00:41:45,039 --> 00:41:47,559 of detaches us from a golf shot and more it makes it more of a 598 00:41:50,519 --> 00:41:52,320 less emotional. It kind of takes or takes emotions out of golf shots. 599 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:57,519 So kind of having a game plan set forward and being able to hit one 600 00:41:57,559 --> 00:42:00,559 shot at a time and focus on that one shot and just like seeing where 601 00:42:00,559 --> 00:42:04,000 it goes and they're kind of moving on. That's where breaking eighty is a 602 00:42:04,039 --> 00:42:12,159 lot more effectives than is the technical stuff. Because we look at a study 603 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:16,840 based on MT that they did about golf scores. It's ninety five minus two 604 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:22,599 times a number of greens, so meaning that if you shoot if you hit 605 00:42:23,079 --> 00:42:30,880 say eight greens regulation, that's sixteen. The ninety five sixteen would equal seventy 606 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:35,599 nine. So you really need to hit eight greens regulation to really shoot, 607 00:42:35,679 --> 00:42:40,559 like have a good chance of breaking eighty. Wow. Wow, that's an 608 00:42:40,599 --> 00:42:45,639 interesting way to look at it, and I think that's where I think people 609 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:47,880 shoot like eighty five, Like, oh I hit nine ten eleven greens regulation. 610 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,800 I'm like, okay, sounds great. So what do you do do 611 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,320 you how many times you three hut in the round and golf and how many 612 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:58,679 times do you can't chip the ball in the green? From twenty five yards 613 00:42:59,679 --> 00:43:02,239 right, and you're you're hitting the green in regulation except the flags in the 614 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:07,000 back, and you're barely getting it's barely making it over the fringe into the 615 00:43:07,159 --> 00:43:10,679 into the green and the very start of the green. It's like your placement 616 00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:15,199 on the green may not be that good. And then you're not practicing your 617 00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:19,960 lag putting. You just pick exactly, You just go out there and practice. 618 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,039 You're eighteen to twenty foot puts. Why are you? Yeah, exactly? 619 00:43:23,039 --> 00:43:27,360 And people pact their eighteen They don't mean practice those pots, honestly, 620 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,280 Like they don't be practice putting whatsoever. If you talk about the average golfers, 621 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:34,280 they're practicing very little in short game, very little on putting, and 622 00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:37,360 spending eighty percent of their their time nipes and the time on the driving range. 623 00:43:37,559 --> 00:43:40,639 And they think they're getting better and they just it's funny. I'll see 624 00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:45,719 players get a golf shot, they hit one bad shot, then they're folks 625 00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:47,760 on fixing their golf swing. Then they spend a whole hour and fixing their 626 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:51,280 golf swing. Hit one shot at the very end like oh I'm fixed, 627 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,159 I'm solved, good to go, and yeah, this freaking hanks your wheel 628 00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:00,599 and they spend seventy percent of the time a driving, rain hitting driver. 629 00:44:00,639 --> 00:44:06,800 Yeah, it's like it's kind of humorous. Um, So tell me about 630 00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,960 the property that you work at. Codadakaza Golf and Racquet Club. I'm sure 631 00:44:12,079 --> 00:44:16,800 racket includes a lot of pickleball these days, but it's kind of taking over. 632 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:21,920 I was at the PGA show this year and they had racquetball and they 633 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:28,119 had pickleball going on a court and lessons and it's like, wait, I 634 00:44:28,199 --> 00:44:30,679 thought, this is a golf show and you got pickleball going on it. 635 00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:34,920 It's that hot. But tell me about this property and how long you've been 636 00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:39,039 there and what kind of services and amenities that they offer. Yeah, so 637 00:44:39,079 --> 00:44:44,920 I've been there for about two and a half years now and we were a 638 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:50,039 thirty six whole property. It's two amazing golf courses, um North course in 639 00:44:50,079 --> 00:44:54,000 the South course that sits in the in the kind of the bottom of Codadakaza. 640 00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:58,639 It's like a city outsource of like Mission Viejo or ranch of Santa marc 641 00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:05,639 Rita where a real Housewives of Orange County started. But it's a phenomenal track. 642 00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:09,400 It's a massive we have a huge driving range, two great practice screens. 643 00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:15,559 We have gym and tennis and pool and it's just a it's a phenomenal 644 00:45:15,639 --> 00:45:20,719 facility and I'm able to from a teaching perspective like we've got. When I 645 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:24,400 first started there, we didn't really have much going on as far as you 646 00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:28,920 know, there's not much teaching going on at the facility. And we actually 647 00:45:29,039 --> 00:45:32,719 increase our revenues by over four hundred percent in my two years of being there. 648 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,320 Actually a first year we did by three hundred and a little over three 649 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,360 hundred percent in my very first year. And now we have a team up 650 00:45:39,559 --> 00:45:45,639 four other instructors that support the academy. We have about one hundred and ten 651 00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:52,639 juniors that are in the monthly programs. We see about three hundred kids during 652 00:45:52,639 --> 00:46:00,559 the summertime. We have about safety, adults and programming right now that are 653 00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:06,960 members and we I mean, are the facilities just gracious for us and that 654 00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,519 they trust us to to build this academy, And I mean in the world 655 00:46:10,519 --> 00:46:14,480 of golf course all the time. Now it's like our golf courses. We 656 00:46:14,559 --> 00:46:16,159 have access to the golf course, which is nice and luckily have two golf 657 00:46:16,199 --> 00:46:20,039 courses and when one's kind of booked up, we kind of can utilize the 658 00:46:20,159 --> 00:46:24,320 other one, which is nice and I mean and there, I mean, 659 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,679 we have a one golf course that's a little bit longer. It's like seventy 660 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:34,599 one hundred yards and seventy five rating from the tips and huge undulated greens, 661 00:46:34,599 --> 00:46:39,039 and the other courses it's about sixty nine hundred and a little bit more narrow 662 00:46:39,119 --> 00:46:45,079 and smaller greens. So it's kind of a different challenge. Kind yeah, 663 00:46:45,159 --> 00:46:47,840 different challenges which has been it's really cool to teach, Yeah, I bet, 664 00:46:49,119 --> 00:46:52,719 I bet. Is it a private club, Yeah, private facility, 665 00:46:53,880 --> 00:47:02,599 so we were it's an invited club and it's a it's ah, so we 666 00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:08,679 have other properties around obviously the country and it's uh, we're so we're able 667 00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:12,960 to kind of access some other golf courses in Orange County or San Diego or 668 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:16,199 Alla as well. So do you have students from the outside of the club 669 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:20,719 that you work with or are you just keeping it to the people who are 670 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:27,559 members. Yeah, so I teach um people at our members at the property. 671 00:47:27,679 --> 00:47:30,800 We I do a little bit of outside. It's more of like a 672 00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:36,079 recommended person too that comes and sees us. Our juniors were able to kind 673 00:47:36,119 --> 00:47:40,599 of utilize um the city and be able to have other kids a part of 674 00:47:40,639 --> 00:47:47,519 the part of our academy. So that's part. It's really cool too to 675 00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:52,880 have at the property there. But whenever wherever we have we have ton Sie. 676 00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,519 We do everything in group settings. Most of our coaching is done in 677 00:47:55,599 --> 00:48:00,159 groups and we see more people. It's we think it's more effective for so 678 00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:06,280 we're able to kind of coach more people essentially for the amount of time number 679 00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:09,719 there. Awesome. Well, dude, it was great to talk to you. 680 00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:15,000 Congratulations again on the award and for being recognized. That's pretty amazing, 681 00:48:15,519 --> 00:48:20,639 and also for having two daughters, because that's going to take a lot of 682 00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:23,559 your time in your life. But I really enjoyed the conversation. Thanks so 683 00:48:23,679 --> 00:48:30,079 much for joining us. Thanks right, I appreciate it. So this week 684 00:48:30,119 --> 00:48:36,400 I received this great email from Golf Smarter ambassador Eric Emil, who found a 685 00:48:36,599 --> 00:48:40,480 video on social media that shows Gary Player, a golfer who competed in one 686 00:48:40,559 --> 00:48:46,880 hundred and sixty five worldwide tournaments, describing a move that was taught to him 687 00:48:47,559 --> 00:48:54,519 by Ben Hogan in nineteen fifty seven. Yet Player admits that he didn't realize 688 00:48:54,559 --> 00:49:00,679 its value until he was seventy years old. Now. The reason are excited 689 00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:06,519 to me is that it's exactly what Tony Manzoni told us over and over and 690 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:13,000 over about keeping your left bicep attached to your chest. Obviously I can't play 691 00:49:13,039 --> 00:49:16,039 the video here, but I can share what he said. This I only 692 00:49:16,159 --> 00:49:20,639 lent when I was seventy years old, when all those majors one hundred and 693 00:49:20,679 --> 00:49:23,639 sixty five tournaments, eighteen majors, nine on both to us trigging the wrong 694 00:49:23,679 --> 00:49:27,840 way. And he found this out when I was seventeen, and its suddenly 695 00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,639 twigged on me what the greatest player of the world had ever seen, Ben 696 00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:34,519 Hogan did and but he wouldn't tell you, but he mentioned it Jimmy, 697 00:49:34,519 --> 00:49:37,119 though I was too damp dumb to understand what he was saying. When you 698 00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:39,679 go back and you're there, I always always talked straight back, straight back. 699 00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:46,559 Now, when you're playing under pressure, you can be there. What's 700 00:49:46,599 --> 00:49:52,480 the difference thee there there? If you're that far out, when you're playing 701 00:49:52,519 --> 00:49:55,480 tournaments, you're intro, you've got to be able to swing the exact same 702 00:49:55,559 --> 00:50:00,639 way, and even then it's tough. So now if you go back when 703 00:50:00,639 --> 00:50:07,320 your left arm across your chest. Why there see that You've been the same 704 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:13,079 every single time. So when Gary player refers to the position of the left 705 00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:16,800 arm and you hear a slapping sound, that's showing how much room there was 706 00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:22,639 between his left arm and his chest. And when he says there, there, 707 00:50:22,199 --> 00:50:27,519 there, he's referring to the position of his left arm in relation to 708 00:50:27,639 --> 00:50:31,360 his chest. It's so good. I mean, we all know how great 709 00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:36,960 a teacher Tony was, but as with anything in golf, it's really not 710 00:50:37,199 --> 00:50:42,159 validated till you see or hear it from a PGA Tour player, let alone 711 00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:46,280 someone who won eighteen worldwide majors. Now if you go to today's blog post, 712 00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:51,639 you'll see that video link. I want to give thanks to Ken Greenberg, 713 00:50:51,679 --> 00:50:55,079 who plays at Waters Creek in Dallas, Texas, and he is our 714 00:50:55,280 --> 00:51:00,320 newest Golf Smarter Ambassador. 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