WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:07.759 Helloha. This is Richie Peckner, Mali resident, just finished three 2 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:11.160 rounds with Fred Green here on the island. This is 3 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:14.640 Golf Smarter episode nine hundred and ninety six. When you 4 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:16.600 asked me what's more important where I spend my time 5 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:19.679 chipping and putting? There's a lot more variability in chipping 6 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:21.600 because you have different lives. On the putting green, you 7 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:24.000 have a pretty good lie, but there's so much when 8 00:00:24.039 --> 00:00:26.239 a ball is not on a green that you have 9 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:28.760 to understand how your club interacts with the ground, what 10 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:30.719 kind of bounce you have on your wedges? Is it 11 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:32.640 into the grain? Is the down green? The other day 12 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:34.479 I was giving a chipping lesson and I said, you 13 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:36.640 have a couple options here. First look at the grass 14 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:38.359 on the green and part of it was kind of 15 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:40.640 this pale, shiny look to it, and the other one 16 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:42.399 was deep green. I said, well, the deep green is 17 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:44.079 into the grain, and then you have down green. So 18 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:45.159 where are you going to land it? Because if you 19 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:46.600 landed in the grain, it's going to kill it. You 20 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:48.920 landed down green, it's going to skid on you. How 21 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:50.880 are you going to manage this shot? And so a 22 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:52.880 big variability to just get where the ball's going to 23 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:54.759 land on the green, and the person's like, well, I 24 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:56.960 never even thought about that, And sure enough, he hits 25 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:00.600 his first one into the downgrain area, skids, goes about 26 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:02.840 fifteen tet pass. It's his next shot a little shorter, 27 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:05.159 lands into the grain, ends about ten feet short, and 28 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:06.920 he didn't miss it either one of them. But he's 29 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:08.439 not going to make it too. He's going to make 30 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:10.599 a three. So how are we going to manage that? 31 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:21.000 Master your game like it's presented on TV, one shot 32 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.599 at a time. Their old friend, Josh Xander. This is 33 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:29.640 Golf Smarter, sharing stories, tips and insights from great golf 34 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:32.640 minds to help you lower your score and raise your 35 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:33.400 golf IQ. 36 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:36.000 There's your host, Fred Green. 37 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:38.719 Welcome back to the Golf Smarter Podcast. 38 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:41.200 Josh, Oh, thank you for having me again. Fred. It's 39 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:41.920 always a pleasure. 40 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:47.560 Oh it sounds so good. You got a real microphone? Yeah, baby, 41 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:52.640 let's go just in time for episode one for you, Fred, listen, 42 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:55.879 I made a list, not a long list. I made 43 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:58.439 a short list of the people I want to have 44 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:02.599 come back leading up to episode one thousand, or hovering 45 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.560 around episode one thousand, and you are very high on 46 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:09.199 the list, my friend, because every time you're on, my 47 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:12.360 game improves for at least two months. 48 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:15.599 Well then maybe I just need to be on every 49 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:16.199 two months. 50 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:27.120 Okay, no, No, I mean you're you're such a articulate 51 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:31.159 and well thought out coach that everything that comes out 52 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:34.879 of your mouth is like, oh, that's what that means. 53 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:37.879 So I love having you on ever since we first 54 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:40.400 met at a at a clinic. 55 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:43.439 You were a long time ago, long time ago. 56 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:46.879 So anyway, thank you for for being a regular, sure 57 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:50.520 and for sharing all your wisdom with us. But let's 58 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:56.280 have a conversation. Yeah, okay, fine. So I read recently 59 00:02:56.879 --> 00:03:01.280 that different things, but one said is trying to eliminate 60 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:05.719 doubles is easier than trying to make more birdies. What's 61 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:06.479 your thought on that? 62 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:10.800 Yeah, I think it's all about how you're You know, 63 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:13.400 you've got the Golf Smarter podcast how to Play Smarter, 64 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:16.840 And one of the things about trying to make birdies 65 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:20.680 as you're starting to probably take more risks than are necessary. 66 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:24.000 So I tell people, listen, if a tour player makes 67 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.599 half their eight footers once they're outside of eight feet, 68 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:30.280 they're missing more than they make. How often are you 69 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:32.159 hitting an approach shot in the green, say from one 70 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:34.719 even one hundred and fifty yards, and you're going after 71 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:36.080 a pin, you're going to have to get it within 72 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:38.759 ten feet to have a reasonable chance of making a birdie. 73 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:41.400 But it's pretty easy to put from twenty five or 74 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:44.520 thirty feet if you've got reasonable lag you know, lag 75 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:47.759 piting skills. So why take the risk, Because if you 76 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:49.479 try to go for a tuck pin and you end 77 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:52.400 up short sighting yourself, that's where you start making double bogies. 78 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:55.919 So stop trying to make birdies. Hit the hit the 79 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:58.800 I always like, you know, hearing what Tiger and Jack 80 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:02.039 Nicholas have say, make aggressive, swing to a conservative target, 81 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:04.560 hit the correct part of the green, the fat side 82 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:06.360 of the green as we like to call it. And 83 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:08.800 if you you know, if you happen to miss, you 84 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:11.120 might miss on the side that the that the flag's on, 85 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:13.479 and then you have your easy birdie putt. But you've 86 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:16.560 got to understand that every shot has a dispersion pattern, 87 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:20.319 and if you aim in a to a dangerous pin 88 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:23.000 and your dispersion pattern, part of that is in a 89 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:26.120 difficult place. As we start making double bogies. I like 90 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:29.480 Johnny Miller years ago called it. You got your red light, 91 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:32.519 your red light flags, your green light flags, and your yellows, right, 92 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:34.839 so you always go after the greens. Those are the 93 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:36.319 ones that are in the safe parts of the green. 94 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:39.639 You never ever go on the reds, And if you 95 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:43.120 happen to be on, you could do some yellows if 96 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:45.360 you're like, man, I'm dialed in today. That was like 97 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:47.480 Johnny Miller's may have of thinking about it. I would 98 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:49.639 take it a step further and say, if you're really 99 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:53.920 a smart golfer, like like Tiger, you would probably not 100 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:55.680 even go after the yellows. You'd have the kind of 101 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:58.639 discipline to not go after the yellows because it's so 102 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:02.639 hard to recover from a double bogie. So I use 103 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:05.439 this example. I said, listen, let's say you doubled the 104 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:07.800 first hole. Let's say you're a tour player and you 105 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:09.720 double the first hole because you went after a pin 106 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:11.680 you shouldn't have gone after. Okay, now you're two over. 107 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:15.519 Part in order for you to get back to even 108 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:19.759 just by the ninth hole, imagine the next eight holes 109 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:21.879 were four hundred and eighty yard par fours, which are 110 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:24.519 kind of short par fours for the tour players these days. 111 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:31.079 From one hundred yards away, actually, from eighty yards away, 112 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:34.319 a tour player will score two point seventy five. Okay, 113 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:36.759 so a quarter of a shot under part like on 114 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:40.240 a little part three. Right, So imagine the next eight 115 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:42.360 holes were four hundred eighty yards and you could drive 116 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.279 the ball in the fairway four hundred yards. Now you're 117 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:48.319 eighty yards away. Now by the ninth hole you're back 118 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:50.439 to even. So nobody drives it in the fairway four 119 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:53.720 hundred yards anyway. That shows you how horrible a double 120 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:56.879 bogue is for a tour player, right to recover from, 121 00:05:57.199 --> 00:05:59.399 just to get back to even, and usually even after 122 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:03.639 nine yard trailing in the tournament anyway. So as a 123 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:06.800 weekend golfer, if you can stop, if you can start 124 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:08.959 taking some of those doubles off the off the score, 125 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:12.079 off the scorecard, just by playing smarter, not by getting 126 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:14.319 any better at golf, just being a better decision maker. 127 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:16.839 You're going to make your birdies here and there. Don't 128 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:21.680 force the birdies. Just play smart golf. Smarter. 129 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:23.680 He figured it out. 130 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:29.360 It takes you know, it's easy for us if you 131 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:32.480 were going to do it. Yeah, it's easy for us. 132 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:34.839 Here in an office, you know, talking about it and 133 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:39.120 not being emotional about it. But if you could manage 134 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:41.519 yourself as a human being, which is a huge skill 135 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:43.800 on the golf course, and be disciplined enough to say, 136 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:46.639 you know, even though I'd like to make a birdie 137 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:48.480 on this whole, I'm still not going to shoot for it. 138 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:51.600 I'm not going to shoot for that pen. That's just 139 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:55.319 that's just that's being super disciplined. I was listening to 140 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:02.560 Russell Henley talk about his practic sessions and he mentioned 141 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:04.800 that when he gets his track men out there, he'll 142 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:07.319 he'll set a target and then it hit five shots 143 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:09.680 ten yards right of it, five shots ten yards left 144 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:12.279 of it. Because he goes we rarely shoot a pins. 145 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:14.199 We're always shooting to one side of the green or 146 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:17.639 the other based on what the what the appropriate shot is. 147 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:20.519 And there's a guy who's like mister methodical and he 148 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:23.800 plays really smart golf. He's not the most talented guy 149 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:25.240 out there. He's got a heck of a golf swing, 150 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:27.079 but he's not the most powerful. And what he's your 151 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:28.839 ranked top ten in the world now, I mean he's 152 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:32.759 crazy good, but just super smart. So you get these two, 153 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:35.360 you get these two talented players next to each other 154 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:38.160 and one makes a smart decision and one makes an 155 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:41.319 aggressive decision. You can call it it not so golf 156 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:44.480 smarter decision. Then you know that might be the difference 157 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.120 between you know, you're you're winning the tournament or you're 158 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:49.839 missing the cut. Just decision making. So that's a huge 159 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:51.399 part of it. And it's a skill that I think 160 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:54.360 people think, I got to get better golf. I gotta 161 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:56.240 get I got a hit as straighter I go, I 162 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:58.360 gotta chip it better, I get. Yeah, all that stuff 163 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:00.519 is true, but hey, I got to be a better 164 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:05.759 decision maker. And then hold yourself accountable, Like after the round, 165 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:08.519 think to yourself if you could take like five minutes 166 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:10.920 after round and you know, take the emotion out of 167 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:13.560 and say where could I have saved shots? What just 168 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:16.680 my decision making? What could I have done to you know, 169 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:19.439 save save shots? Could I have saved shots on one 170 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:22.319 or two or three whatever the holes that you quote 171 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:24.079 unquote messed up on? It is like what could I 172 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.839 have done differently? There? Just decision making, not talent wise, 173 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:30.399 not better technique, just what could I have done? And 174 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:32.879 and you might save yourself quite a few shots there 175 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:35.559 so there's a long answer to a short, short question. 176 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:38.759 It's okay. I love the long answers because you get 177 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:40.679 into stuff that you you don't even know you were 178 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:43.480 going to get there, and you do. I because I'll 179 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:47.159 never forget that. You once explained that if you if 180 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:51.120 you shoot over the green, if you miss the green behind, 181 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:54.279 you're getting double bogie. Never forget that. 182 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:56.879 Right, it's the worst place to miss the green. I mean, 183 00:08:56.919 --> 00:08:59.279 I'm sure that the story has been told by me 184 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:02.440 on your podcast. But my golf coach in college, wal 185 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:05.240 the Goodwin Rest in peace. He said, you know, if 186 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:10.120 you don't know what to do, please miss short because 187 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:11.600 you can always chip up a hill, you can always 188 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:13.639 hit a bunker shop. But you're over at green. You're 189 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:18.159 in somebody's backyard, a cart path, a flower bed, a downhill, 190 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:20.639 lie going to a green that runs away from you. 191 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:24.600 It's just it's just it's where it's where scores go 192 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:26.240 to die behind the greens. 193 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:32.080 So the most common question for teachers with students when 194 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:34.720 a student comes in, you know, what are you looking for? 195 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:40.159 The question is always either greater distance or more consistency? Right, 196 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:43.679 I mean, after this many interviews, I've heard this numerous 197 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:46.320 times from a variety of coaches. Yeah, they either want 198 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:50.919 more consistency or greater distance, and they're not willing to 199 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:55.919 do the physical workout that require is required to get 200 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:57.759 greater distance. You don't get it from a ball, you 201 00:09:57.759 --> 00:09:59.240 don't get it from a club. You get it from 202 00:09:59.240 --> 00:09:59.759 your body. 203 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:04.519 Right, The most important piece of equipment is you? Is you? Yeah, 204 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:06.519 you can get I mean you can definitely get. You 205 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:09.000 can get clubs that fits you better and clubs that 206 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.320 you can swing faster. But there's a certain point where 207 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:14.960 there's a diminsion return there. And I used to have 208 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:18.639 a fitness professional's name is Chris Thompson come in and 209 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:21.919 help me with my junior clinics, and and he would 210 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:24.000 look at everybody and say, Okay, what's the most important 211 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:26.720 piece of equipment? And they'd be like driver, putter, chip, 212 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:30.120 you know, wedge. He's like, no, it's you, it's you. 213 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:33.200 And then how are you? How are you feeding that 214 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:36.559 piece of equipment during around? Are you? Are you hydrating it? 215 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:40.440 Are you nourishing it? You know all that kind of stuff. 216 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:43.159 It's it's like we we kind of gloss over that 217 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:43.840 pretty quickly. 218 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:48.639 Yeah, So on the consistency part, how many teachers when 219 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:51.200 someone says I want more consistent, how many futures say, 220 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:54.759 all right, then we have to improve your decision making, right, 221 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:57.039 you got to be a better to be a more 222 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:00.240 consistent golfer, You've got to you know, and if you 223 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:03.120 want that to be reflecting your scorecard, then you've got 224 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:06.360 to make better decisions. It's not about hitting the ball, right. 225 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:11.039 Do coaches ever say that there maybe on a playing lesson. 226 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:15.080 But well, yeah, sometimes I'll put it to the The 227 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:17.519 answer is, I'm sure there are plenty of coaches out 228 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:21.440 there that do performance coaches and you know, all around 229 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:25.120 good good golf instructors who are literally coaching their students 230 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:29.039 to be better players. So one of the things I 231 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:31.200 say to people when they first come and see me, 232 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:33.559 and I'm kind of trying to figure out what they want, 233 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:36.200 because really it's about what they want, not about what 234 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:38.559 I want. Yeah, so I want to find that out. 235 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:41.840 But if they want to be a better scorer, right, 236 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:45.480 we have to talk about the decision making. I said, listen, 237 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.679 what if we I'll ask my question like what's your 238 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:51.799 what's your index and CAAMA ten, your average score whatever. 239 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:55.799 Somewhere in the mid mid eighties, and I said, okay, 240 00:11:55.840 --> 00:12:00.679 what if we were doing a reality show? And I said, okay, 241 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:02.559 a year from now, you and I have to go 242 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:04.559 on TV and you have to break eighty and you're 243 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:07.919 counting every shot. How are we going to approach this? 244 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:12.919 My reputation is on the line as a coach. You 245 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:15.200 don't want to embarrass yourself in front of the world. Right, 246 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:18.480 You've got to break eighty and you're ten right now. 247 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:21.039 But a year from now, let's say we get you 248 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:22.600 down to like a five or six and you can 249 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:25.919 go break break eighty, Like, well, how would we go 250 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:28.480 about that? How do we How would we spend our time? 251 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:31.240 Would be would be would we be out here trying 252 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:32.960 to make your five iron and go straight every time? 253 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:35.759 Where would we spend our time? Would be on the 254 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:39.480 golf course? You know, how would we actually go about this? Now? 255 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:42.960 The pressure's on, right performance? How are we going to perform? Right? 256 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:45.840 So one of the biggest things how you manage yourself 257 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:48.559 as a human being on the golf course. Because you 258 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:50.440 might have all the skills, and I think we've talked 259 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:52.840 about this before, but it's like, how are you able 260 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.879 to access your skills when you know when at times 261 00:12:56.919 --> 00:12:59.559 when when it comes time to perform, you know what 262 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:00.879 kind of st date of mind you're going to put 263 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:03.720 yourself in. Are you nervous? Of course you're nervous. How 264 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:06.720 do you manage your nerves? Are you doing breathing exercises? 265 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:10.240 You know? How do you how do you recover from 266 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:14.480 a bad break mentally? Right? How do you stay in 267 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:17.799 the present. I like to tell people, and forgive me 268 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:21.240 if I'm repeating myself, but I think that you should 269 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:23.799 you should play golf more like how we watch golf 270 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:26.799 on TV. You watch golf on TV, You're like, Okay, 271 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:29.399 let's watch Adam Scott hit his drive on number three. Now, 272 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:33.000 let's go watch you know, John Ram chip it on twelve. 273 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:36.399 Let's go watch Jordan Speeth Putt's ball on fourteen. Right, 274 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:38.799 So we're going from individual shot to individual shots. So 275 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:41.279 I read shots like its own little adventure, right, and 276 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:43.279 you get immersed in, oh, this is a left right 277 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:45.000 downhill Pitt. He's going to have to hit it softly, 278 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:48.320 and you know the grain's going this way, and so 279 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:51.399 we're all into that shot. We're present to that moment. 280 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:54.240 We're not saying, oh god, I double buggie the last time. 281 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:55.759 I can't believe I three putted it. Now, it's all 282 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:58.639 this influence is happening on this, on this current shot 283 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:01.080 because you're carrying all this bag. You're not carrying the 284 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.639 baggage when you see, oh, Adam Scott is hitting his 285 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:05.159 drive on three, is he going to try to cut 286 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:06.960 the corner? What's he going to do? What's the wind doing? 287 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:09.279 Your present to that moment. And the more you can 288 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:12.559 play golf like that, like a series of individual golf 289 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:17.919 shots without any emotional baggage, you know, from what's happened 290 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:20.879 before or what you're afraid might happen in the future, 291 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:24.919 which is also not being in the present right. You know. 292 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:27.559 So when we talk about that reality show, it's like, 293 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:29.960 we need to get this person to be a performer, 294 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:32.960 to be somebody who access their skills, somebody who can 295 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:35.480 stay in the present, somebody who, yeah, we're going to 296 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:37.159 work on your skills. We're going to make sure that 297 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:40.200 you don't you don't chip it, you don't scull your chips, 298 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:42.600 and you know, blade your bunker shots or leave it. 299 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:44.600 You know, we got to do all that work too, 300 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:47.559 but ultimately we have to access it because what good 301 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:50.879 is having it. If you don't access this, access access it. 302 00:14:51.240 --> 00:14:54.080 And that's about how you manage yourself as a human being. 303 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:56.679 So I think we would fail on the reality show 304 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:00.679 if we didn't address that. And you know what, these days, 305 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:03.720 there's so many people who specialize in all these different 306 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:07.360 parts of the game. Right. You have like re Accessing 307 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:10.360 House and and and Pian Nielsen and and Lynn marry 308 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:13.039 On people like that who are awesome at helping people 309 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:19.600 access their their skills right, their mental skills, their performance skills. 310 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:21.799 And you have other people who are amazing and helping 311 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:24.799 people technique. And then you have the you know, the 312 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:27.000 the uh you know what do you call the Swiss 313 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:30.039 Army knives coaches that kind of help a little bit 314 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:32.879 with everything, which is what I feel like I can. 315 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:34.639 I can help people with all parts of the game. 316 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:37.279 I do not claim to be the biggest expert on 317 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:41.440 explosive power, the biggest expert on putting. There are there 318 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:46.080 are putting specialists there, they're power specialists. But you know, 319 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:48.559 depending on what you feel you need, you can you can. 320 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:51.919 I think I think of myself when I'm coaching, It's 321 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:53.799 like I can help you with every part of the game. 322 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:56.720 But if there's somebody else who can do something that 323 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:01.120 that helps that, I'm like no ego involved in, Like, hey, 324 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:04.080 let's get that person on our team. If that person's 325 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:05.960 going to help us, you know, win the prize on 326 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.519 the reality show, let's call that person up and bring 327 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:10.919 them in because it's just like, just like it takes 328 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:13.440 a village to raise raise a kid, and we have 329 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:15.200 two of them, so we know we've got a big 330 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:19.120 village around us helping us. I think same thing with 331 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:22.799 with golfers. I think that there are a lot of 332 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:25.399 resources out there, so let's get that. Let's get that 333 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:27.879 sports psychologist, let's get that team. Just because you're not 334 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:29.320 on the tour doesn't mean you can't have a team 335 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:32.320 of people who can help you. And I feel like 336 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:35.200 I feel like we can all kind of chip in 337 00:16:35.240 --> 00:16:36.600 to help you get to where you want to be. 338 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:46.080 And you mentioned a minute ago about how we should 339 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:49.840 be playing to the green, red light, yellow light, green light, 340 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:52.399 to the fat part of the green, and then just 341 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:56.879 getting your two put in. But in our practice sessions, 342 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:01.519 should we spend more time because of being amateur golfers 343 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:07.200 who probably don't have our our distances dialed in the 344 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:10.559 way we should, and so we think we hit the 345 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:13.559 ball farther than we do, so we end up coming 346 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:18.079 up short a lot, right, We're chipping up to get 347 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:21.720 close to try to part of the whole lag putting 348 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:26.039 versus short chips chips around the green. Where should more 349 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:29.359 time be spent working? What is going to be more 350 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:32.000 valuable to us in the long run? 351 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:35.400 So you know the answer to every golf question, right, 352 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:38.599 It is as Mike Adam says, it depends. That's the 353 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:41.920 answer every golf right. So I don't know if are 354 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:44.319 you a really good lag putter but a poor chipper 355 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:47.880 spend more time chipping and vice versa. Right, So they're 356 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:50.519 both important skills. You want to try to get them 357 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:52.039 to be a two shot deal instead of a three 358 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:55.680 shot deal in both cases. Right. So one of my 359 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:58.559 other mentors, Mike Lebove, you know we were talking about 360 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:01.000 years ago, is probably in the early nineties we were 361 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:02.640 talking about this. He's like, you know what a single 362 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:05.440 digit golfer is? And then maybe I've mentioned this on 363 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:07.319 the show again, So I repeat my stories. 364 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:09.559 But a single day, okay, I do it more than 365 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:09.799 you do. 366 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:13.119 A single digit golfer. Somebody who drives their ball in 367 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:15.880 the property at a reasonable distance, so you're not out 368 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:18.599 of play with your t shot gets the second shot 369 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:21.160 somewhere around the green, and as a disaster free short game, 370 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:24.839 So no skulls, no chunks, no three putts you know 371 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:28.160 or few or three putts that somebody can play golf, 372 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:31.680 you know reasonably in play, reasonably somewhere around the green. 373 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:33.920 You don't have to hit ten to twelve greens around 374 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:35.880 to be a single digit golfer. You can hit four 375 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:37.799 or five greens around if you have a reasonable short 376 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:40.359 game and you don't get penalty strokes and drive it 377 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:42.920 out of play. It's really not that tough of a formula. 378 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:45.680 And then but when you add the fact that we're 379 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:47.960 human beings playing golf and we get upset, and we 380 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:49.680 get we have to manage ourselves and all kind of 381 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:55.480 stuff get it gets more difficult. But I definitely want 382 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:59.880 all my students to understand how to make solid con 383 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:02.160 attacked on short game shots and how to be able 384 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:06.119 to read lies. Reading lies is a huge skill. What 385 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:09.079 every lie tells a story, So what story is this? 386 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:11.119 Why telling you? So the other day I'm teaching this 387 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:14.640 little ten year old, this whole ten year old girl 388 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:19.400 who was in from Korea. It was really she's awesome 389 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:23.519 and she would We were talking about uneven lies and 390 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:26.480 weird lies around the greens, and I said, you know, 391 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:28.559 every lie tells a story. So I said, hey, this 392 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:31.119 golf ball is talking to you right now. So I said, 393 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:34.839 I'm the golf ball. I'm talking. Boy. There's so much 394 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:37.440 grass around me right now, it's going to be really 395 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:41.559 hard to get this club to hit me. That player 396 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:43.799 better firm up their wrists so this club doesn't get 397 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:46.599 twisted by this grass. It's all around me, and I 398 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:49.160 better come in that club better come in steeper, because 399 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:50.559 if it doesn't come in steeper, it's not going to 400 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:51.799 get to the bottom of me, and I'm not going 401 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:53.799