WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.480 --> 00:00:04.519 Golf Smarter number three hundred and seventy eight published on 2 00:00:04.599 --> 00:00:08.720 April two, twenty thirteen, and on today's score Zone Short 3 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:11.960 Game Academy, The Wedge Guy explains bounce and what the 4 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:16.039 proprietary score Golf vs. Soul means and why it's going 5 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:17.199 to help your short game. 6 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:22.399 Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain 7 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:26.039 insight and advice from the best instructors. Featured on the 8 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:32.039 Golf Smarter podcast, Great Golf Instruction Never Gets Old. Our 9 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:36.960 interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations 10 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:40.880 like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. 11 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:44.119 Number one predictor of a low score for someone who 12 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:46.560 is shooting like right around one hundred and five or left. 13 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:48.560 So maybe not at beginner, but someone's been playing a 14 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:50.320 little bit. So if you could shoot a hundred and 15 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:53.560 five or better, there's one statistical predictor of a lower 16 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:56.960 than average score for that round of golf. Almost everybody 17 00:00:57.039 --> 00:00:58.280 gets it wrong. What do you think it is? 18 00:00:58.520 --> 00:00:58.640 Uh? 19 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:00.479 Fairways close, because. 20 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:02.880 The answer involves that this is a secondary effect. 21 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:04.840 So then i'd go greens in regulation. 22 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:08.319 Correct, greens and regulation. That's the number one stat It 23 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:10.480 presents a problem though, because to hit a green in 24 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:13.719 regulation or to hit a high percentage the tour pros 25 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:17.159 today average around thirteen out of eighteen, much lower than 26 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:19.560 most people think. When they're playing well, they might be 27 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:22.159 sixteen or seventeen, but I mean the averages around thirteen, 28 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:24.400 thirteen and a half something like that. The problem with 29 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:27.120 that stat for average golfers is to achieve it you 30 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:30.560 have to have a good golf slink. Most average golfers 31 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:33.640 don't spend the money that's required finding a quality teacher, 32 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:35.840 or if they do spend the money, they don't spend 33 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:39.799 the time practicing it long enough to form a fundamentally 34 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:42.079 sung golf swing. But for those people who do, that 35 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:45.239 opens up a whole doorway to much improved scoring. 36 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:55.239 Power of six practice strategies with Jim Waldron. 37 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:59.959 This is Golf Smarter, sharing tips and insights from golf 38 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:03.799 and golf professionals to how flower your score. It's worked 39 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:05.519 for your host, Fred. 40 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:09.000 Green, Welcome back to Golf Smarter, Jim Fred. 41 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:10.120 It's great to be back with you. 42 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:12.280 Where are you in the world these days? 43 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:16.360 I am on the north shore of a wakot The 44 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:20.360 next six weeks of sometime off. Let's from teaching too. 45 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:21.599 I hate you even more. 46 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:24.639 What you kind of do it? 47 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:31.439 And how are things at the Balance Point Golf School. 48 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:37.000 That's actually they've been really good, very busy. The summer 49 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:39.840 season is important. We're already filled up our first school 50 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:44.439 in May and we're starting to fill up our second 51 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:47.319 one in June. Considering how bad the economy has been 52 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:49.919 the last few years it's been, we're looking really good. 53 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:55.080 Yeah, there's no bad economy right now. Stock market's exploding, 54 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:57.680 apples tanking, you know. 55 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.280 Yeah, well good, Well, I'm glad to hear that. 56 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:03.879 And let you know, since we're talking about it right 57 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:06.759 now and classes are filling up, why don't you give 58 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:09.039 the u r L and let people know where they 59 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.439 can find Balance Point Golf Schools and more about it 60 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:11.840 so they. 61 00:03:11.719 --> 00:03:12.360 Can sign up. 62 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:17.120 Yeah, it's Balancepoint Golf dot com. In fact, we're going 63 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:20.599 to get our brand new website online, I think in 64 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:24.319 the next two or three days or for sure next 65 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:25.199 week at the latest. 66 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:27.759 Well, that means by the time this is published, your 67 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:29.719 brand new website is ready to go. 68 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:32.319 That's right, and it's going to have just a lot 69 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:36.039 more well a bit better layout, easier to navigate a 70 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:40.800 lot more content, more photos, some video, link to our 71 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:42.039 new YouTube channel. 72 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:43.080 Good. 73 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:44.759 But you know, we just talked about what a lot 74 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:46.719 of you know, I still don't have one as we speak, 75 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:48.199 but it will be up, but you'll. 76 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:50.439 Have you'll have it chan all ready to go. I 77 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:52.960 just have no content. Yeah, well then you have to 78 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:53.560 come back to. 79 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:55.400 We're gonna have to get together so I can produce 80 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:56.120 some stuff for you. 81 00:03:56.680 --> 00:03:59.879 Yeah, exactly, and uh yeah, we'll have some audio files, 82 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:04.960 some video. You know. It's good. The old website was 83 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:06.599 got it. I don't think it changed much in the 84 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:08.000 last like eight or nine years. 85 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:10.719 Well, you know you said the economy. You know, you 86 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:13.560 mentioned the economy. I think it is better because everybody's 87 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:16.279 redoing their website in two thousands, right, Oh, I'm doing. 88 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:19.399 I'm redoing Golf Smarter right now, and we're going to 89 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:20.439 make it so. 90 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:21.920 You can contribute writing. 91 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:23.759 I mean hopefully you're going to be one of our 92 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:24.959 contributing editors here. 93 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:26.759 Sure, yeah awesome. 94 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:30.160 And then I also Green Creative. I'm redoing that one 95 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:33.480 as well. But anyway, let's talk about golf please, because 96 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:37.519 you've got a fascinating topic that I'm really excited to 97 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:44.560 pursue and that you you termed as practice strategies correct. 98 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:47.560 Tell me more, something, something that isn't talked about a 99 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:52.639 lot in golf instruction circles, to the detriment of average 100 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:55.839 golfers especially, is how do you practice effectively? How do 101 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:59.360 you take you know, because most instructions about what you 102 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:02.519 should be doing with your club or your body or, 103 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:05.920 in the case of mental game, your mind. Okay, so, 104 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:09.600 but but you know, we also know most practice, or 105 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:14.160 most instruction rather is geared toward, hopefully, if it's good instruction, 106 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:16.680 if it's quality instruction, it's geared toward on the physical 107 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:21.800 side of the game, toward forming new and dominant habit patterns, 108 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:26.519 physical movement patterns that they are so habitual that they're automatic, 109 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:29.680 They manifest automatic, and you don't have to think about it. Right, 110 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:31.240 That should be the goal of anytime you try to 111 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:34.279 make a physical change. As much as possible, you want 112 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:38.279 to make that change be a dominant habit pattern i e. 113 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:40.560 Something you don't have to think about, and that means 114 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:43.319 you have to practice. And you know, one of the 115 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:45.240 hard things about golf is is you know, there's so 116 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:49.240 many different types of shots you need to learn to 117 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:52.920 score well and to improve your game. And you know, 118 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:56.279 I've always been an advocate of being very clear about 119 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:58.920 laying out a practice point for every student, whether there 120 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:02.759 are a lesson students or off school student. But it's 121 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:05.160 a complicated topic, and it's only been until the last 122 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:07.079 I don't know year or so I felt I've kind 123 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:09.560 of got a really good handle on it because there's 124 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:11.639 more than one way to do it. There's, you know, 125 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:13.800 I don't know, half a dozen or so major ways 126 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:18.399 you can practice. And so there's some rules for effective practice, 127 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:21.399 and there's some sort of categories of effective practice. I 128 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:22.639 thought we could talk about today. 129 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:25.199 Awesome, So I'm just kidding. I know that we've talked 130 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:29.079 about this before. But does muscle memory fall into that? 131 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:32.639 And do you buy into muscle memories? Some people think 132 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:35.399 it's ridiculous and some people think it's the only way 133 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:35.600 to go. 134 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:39.319 You know, Hogan was actually in the golf world. He 135 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:41.319 coined the term in an interview back I think in 136 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:44.439 the sixties with I think it was a Golf Digest, 137 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:47.560 and then in his last interview with Golf Digest, which 138 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.399 I think was in nineteen eighty seven, he said something 139 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:52.639 like I wish I'd never coined the term in an 140 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:57.839 interview because what people took it to mean was let's 141 00:06:57.839 --> 00:06:59.800 talk to our body parts and try to get them 142 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:01.959 to be behave better, which, of course is that stuff 143 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:05.759 that superstitious nonsense that I've been critical of on your 144 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.680 show on all the previous However, many times I've been 145 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:10.240 on guests, I think I think it was my seventh 146 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.360 pair and something like that. So that so that comton 147 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:16.720 sort of the colloquial definition of it is wrong. You know, 148 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:20.720 muscles don't have memory, and so talking to body parts 149 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:24.199 is worse than useless. In fact, in the future, we're 150 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:25.639 going to do a show on the yips. 151 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:28.000 Right absolutely, and that may we'll get. 152 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:30.399 The yips they talk to body parts, that's the pre 153 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:34.120 gip stage. So that sense muscle memory is a myth. 154 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:36.959 What it really is is that the scientific term is 155 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:40.680 motor memory, and there's different kypes. There's three different kinds. 156 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:43.439 There's working memory, which lasts just a few seconds, there's 157 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.720 short term memory, which lasts you know, hours or a 158 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:50.120 few days, and there's what's called long term motor memory, 159 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:53.480 which basically is a dominant habit, which is as long 160 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:55.720 as the back part of your brain where that motor 161 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:59.120 memory program exists and the cerebellum is stays stays healthy, 162 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:02.000 have that habit pattern to the day you die. And 163 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:03.560 that's that's kind of what we want to have, this 164 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:08.600 long term motor memory right right right, So you couldn't 165 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:09.319 do it wrong if. 166 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:12.839 You tried, well, you know, when you that's just you know, 167 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:14.759 so many people just go out and they don't take lessons. 168 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:16.639 They just start swinging, and then this is what they 169 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:19.360 get ingrained. And then if you get to the point 170 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:22.480 where I am now of trying to take lessons and 171 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:28.600 relearn everything, trying to eliminate all the bad habits and 172 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:34.080 and you know, mishits because of your bad habits, it's 173 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:37.519 it makes it difficult to make that long term memory 174 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:39.919 work when you're you're fighting inside your head. 175 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:43.919 People people often golf, average golfers especially, they have sort 176 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.120 of like all the spinning the wheels sort of syndrome. 177 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:48.960 You mean, they they take a lesson or two or three, 178 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:51.480 or a golf school, or they read a book and 179 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:53.440 they try it and it kind of works for a while, 180 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:55.960 and then after a couple of weeks it doesn't work, 181 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.639 and they move on to the next tip. You know, 182 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:00.799 that just doesn't work, and that literally is like the 183 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:04.559 hamster on the wheel and condemned to eternity spinning on 184 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:09.120 the wheel. So what you need is an intelligent, strategic 185 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:14.279 approach to how you a sort of a portion your time, 186 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:17.320 especially if you're not retired, just still working for a living. 187 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:19.399 You've only got so much time in a given week 188 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.480 you can devote the practice. And my whole thing has 189 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:25.120 been the last couple of years is trying to come 190 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:28.679 up with a way you can sort of cover all 191 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:33.639 the basis of improving or at least maintaining your current 192 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:36.799 skill level in certain the key areas. And this is 193 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:39.639 where the money you know, the Moneyball book and movie 194 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:43.000 we talked about earlier approach kind of kicked in a 195 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:45.720 few years ago for me, which is, you know, not 196 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:48.919 all goll shots are created equal. Some are more important 197 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:51.960 in terms of influence on your score, much more important 198 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:56.360 than others. And so you know, a truly intelligent, an 199 00:09:56.360 --> 00:10:00.320 effective practice plan would would recognize that as being a 200 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:04.039 true fact. So you aren't wasting your time practicing skills 201 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:06.519 so that they are not going to result in significant 202 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:07.320 score improvement. 203 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:17.360 That begs the question, is there a least important shot 204 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:18.720 in regards to your score. 205 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:22.039 You know, that's a good question. I've actually put it 206 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:25.279 in those terms before. I know, if I had to 207 00:10:25.320 --> 00:10:28.879 pick one, especially for average golfer, there's probably more than one. 208 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:32.639 There are people right now. In fact, there are some 209 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:36.320 PGA tour pros or hiring. There's three guys I know of. 210 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:38.519 I don't recall any of these three guys names. Unfortunately 211 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:40.039 it's out in my head. Otherwise I would give him 212 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:43.200 credit that are doing some pretty ground baking research. One 213 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:45.000 guy I know has been He used to write a 214 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:47.360 column for Golf Digest. He's been doing it for over 215 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:51.679 forty years. I would probably guess the least important skill 216 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:55.080 to practice it's gonna be the least productive is pots 217 00:10:55.159 --> 00:11:00.679 between fifteen and roughly thirty feet, because as you're the 218 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:03.120 odds you're going to make a putt between fifteen and 219 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:05.399 thirty feet, even if you're a tour pro is very 220 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:09.320 very much. I'm low on the probability scale, and if 221 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:12.120 you're decent, not great. As long as you're decent at putting, 222 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:15.279 you're not going to three put that often. If you're 223 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:19.080 decent already, from between fifteen and thirty feet it's almost 224 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:21.320 certainly going to be most of the time it's going 225 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:23.120 to be a two putt. So you're not going to 226 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:25.200 gain a stroke in that skill area. You're not you're 227 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:28.399 probably not going to lose any strokes, right, So that's 228 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:32.960 just off the top of my head. But from the yeah, 229 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:35.159 you know, so here's here's what it is I'm going 230 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:38.200 to start. I call this the power of six. There 231 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.480 are six you can call it, you could say shot 232 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:47.519 categories or golf shot skill categories that are extremely important 233 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:51.000 for all skill levels, from tour pros down to beginners. 234 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:55.120 Well maybe not beginners because one of these is driver, 235 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:57.320 and beginner shouldn't be hitting driver because they don't have 236 00:11:57.360 --> 00:11:59.279 the skill. But let's let's say if you can break 237 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:04.120 ninety five and you have at least ninety mile an 238 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:06.759 hour clubhead speed with your driver, because if you're lower 239 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:09.039 than ninety, you're better off hitting a three wood. You'll 240 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:12.879 actually go further hand straighter than the driver. But even 241 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:15.279 if you are using a three woods, it's one of 242 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:19.080 the six categories of highly important shots in terms of 243 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:23.879 influence on your score. Is your driver or again, the 244 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:25.960 people who have slower swinging speeds of their three wood, 245 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:29.480 and that's something that you know, great players historically have 246 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:32.519 all said, I mean, Nicholas said it, Tiger has said 247 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:34.639 the driver's the most important scoring weapon in the bag, 248 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:38.120 Ben Hogan said it, Sam Steve has said it. Byron 249 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:40.720 Nelson said it, Ken Van Turrey said it. And it 250 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:42.480 kind of makes sense when you think about it, because 251 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:45.639 most holes are part four's or part fives. You're going 252 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:48.559 to use that to begin the hole, right. 253 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:52.480 Yeah, it's funny because I was thinking that the driver 254 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:56.159 may be the least important, but because so we're talking 255 00:12:56.200 --> 00:12:58.240 about the T shot. 256 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:00.639 Are we talking about hitting it with your driver? 257 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:02.960 Now we're talking to T shot. And let me go 258 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:06.600 back and back a little bit. One of the three 259 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:08.759 men I mentioned who's done research, and let's call them 260 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:12.120 the golf statisticians, and I think the other two are 261 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:14.360 either agreeing with this or close to agreeing with it. 262 00:13:14.440 --> 00:13:17.200 He said, the number one predictor of a low score 263 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:21.519 for someone who is I think he said, shooting like 264 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:23.879 right around one hundred and five or less. So maybe 265 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:25.720 not a beginner, but someone's been playing a little bit. 266 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:28.320 Who you know those if you can shoot one hundred 267 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:32.200 and five or better, there's one predictor one statistical predictor 268 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:35.759 of a lower than average score for that round of golf. 269 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:39.480 Almost everybody gets it wrong. What do you think it is? 270 00:13:40.919 --> 00:13:41.799 Fair ways? 271 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:47.799 No close, because the answer involves that is a secondary effect. 272 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:49.759 So then go greens in regulation. 273 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:54.440 Correct greens and regulation. That's the number one stature. It 274 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:57.159 presents a problem though, because to hit a green in regulation, 275 00:13:57.399 --> 00:14:00.879 or to hit a high number a high percentage. The 276 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:05.039 tour pros today average around thirteen out of eighteen, much 277 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:08.600 lower than most people think. When they're playing well, it 278 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:10.879 might be sixteen or seventeen, but I mean the average 279 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:13.039 is around thirteen, thirteen and a half something like that. 280 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:17.360 The problem with that stat for average golfers is to 281 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:19.720 achieve it, you have to have a good golf swing. 282 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:22.799 You have to have a fundamentally song golf swing. Most 283 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:26.279 average golfers don't take the time. They don't spend the 284 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:30.200 money that's required on finding a quality teacher to teach 285 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:32.960 them the fundamentals, or if they do spend the money, 286 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:35.919 they don't spend the time practicing it long enough to 287 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:39.639 form a fundamentally sung golf swing. But for those people 288 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:43.919 who do, that opens up a whole doorway to much 289 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:47.080 much improved scoring greens and regulation because greens and regulation 290 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:51.679 secondarily implies hitting the fairway and hitting it pretty long 291 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:54.600 off the t box with your driver, with your three 292 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:58.080 wood and in the fairway. So the second category is 293 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:01.200 fairways like you mentioned, but not just hitting the fairy 294 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:03.159 but hitting it long off the tee is also a 295 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:06.840 big advantage to scoring, meaning would you rather have an 296 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:09.399 eight iron in as your second shot club as opposed 297 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:10.159 to a four iron? 298 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:13.240 Yeah, Which is the whole idea behind T and forward 299 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:16.159 is to give exactly right, yeah, is to give everyone 300 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:19.360 the chance to hit it with an eight iron in, yeah, 301 00:15:19.480 --> 00:15:21.559 as opposed to hitting it from you know, your three 302 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:23.600 wood trying to get it in you know, because you're 303 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:25.960 playing from t's that you shouldn't be playing from. 304 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:29.799 Absolutely so anyhow, so that's the first one of the 305 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:32.919 power of six. If you want to improve your score, 306 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:34.919 you need to learn to hit your t ball club, 307 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:37.000 whether it's a driver, three wood, five or whatever your 308 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:40.519 skill level can handle further than you do. Now. I'm 309 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:43.960 talking twenty thirty forty yards further an average. And I 310 00:15:44.039 --> 00:15:47.600 always tell people that if you're a male and you're 311 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:50.279 between the ages of fourteen, and fifty five, you want 312 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:53.159 to eventually get to the point and you're healthy, obviously 313 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:55.519 it have to be healthy to do this, where your 314 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:58.039 average distance should be at least two hundred and fifty 315 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:00.720 yards carry enrolled, and you want to shoot toward more 316 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:05.080 like toward two sixty with the equipment, because if you're 317 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:07.360 if you're currently hitting at two thirty off the tee, 318 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:10.440 and through a combination of working on your on your 319 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:13.240 swing and maybe getting fit for a new and better driver, 320 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:15.600 if you can get it, if you can make your 321 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:18.320 distance go up thirty yards from two thirty to two sixty, 322 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:22.240 you'll be hitting at least two probably three clubs shorter 323 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:26.720 into the hole into the green, which greatly improves your 324 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:28.879 odds of hitting the green in regulation because it's again 325 00:16:28.919 --> 00:16:31.039 it's an eight iron set of a five iron for example, right, 326 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:35.960 So it's pretty important that driver is I believe, of 327 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:37.960 the of all the clubs in the bag. Once you 328 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:41.440 can break around ninety five. Once, once you're decent enough 329 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:45.200 terms of your physical skills to be hitting a driver 330 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:48.279 to begin with, it's it's more important than your putter. 331 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:49.720 It's more important than your ledge. 332 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:55.240 Oh gosh, you know, you're just crushing me right now, 333 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:58.639 because I keep I keep telling people it's not about 334 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:02.320 how far, it's about how us and I just how 335 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:02.919 accurate you mean? 336 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:05.000 Well, yeah, I mean not how far you hit it, 337 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:06.000 how close you get it to. 338 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:10.119 The pin, right, it's yeah, and that's true. But but 339 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:12.000 again it's it's it's as you know, it's easier to 340 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:13.359 get it closer to the pin if you hit it 341 00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:15.240 in the far way and then out there and down 342 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:15.839 there a long way. 343 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:19.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I just see people practicing with 344 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:21.839 their driver only you know, you go to their driving range. 345 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:24.240 No, no, you don't. That's that I think that's the. 346 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:24.960 Most important thing. 347 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:26.920 I'm like, I don't think it's the most important thing, 348 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:28.519 and here you are telling me it's now the most 349 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:29.880 important thing, lowering. 350 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:32.759 It's it's the most important thing again, if you have 351 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:34.559 the ability to hit it right, if you're if your 352 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:37.319 swing is is decent enough to where you can actually 353 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:40.920 get around ninety five miles or for sure ninety ninety 354 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:42.559 minimum or higher. 355 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:45.880 Okay, so he's got the caveat there, good, good recovery coach. 356 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:48.480 Yeah, no, it's true you because some people don't have 357 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:50.039 the ability to hit it, so they shouldn't be hitting 358 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:52.440 it to begin with, but then you know you had 359 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:54.640 them a three wood, so whatever, whatever, whatever, Whether it's 360 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:57.240 a five wood for the really high handicappers, a three 361 00:17:57.279 --> 00:17:59.680 wood for the sort of the moderately high handicapped players 362 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.440 out there, and a driver for the intermediate advanced players, whatever, 363 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:05.680 whichever those three clubs it is, you have to hit 364 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:09.319 that club with a fairly high degree of consistency in 365 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:13.160 terms of solidness of contact, reasonable clubhead speed. So the 366 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:15.160 ball and you know, being on playing with the square 367 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:17.480 club base, so the ball goes a fairly long way 368 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:20.640 and in the fairway or at the worst the crookedness 369 00:18:20.680 --> 00:18:22.240 is going to be is in the first cut of rough. 370 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:24.720 You can still score well from the first cut cut 371 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:27.519 a rough, right, you can't score well if you're hitting 372 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:29.519 it into the trees, into the fairway, bunkers, into the 373 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:32.480 water or obe. That's why it's not just long, it's 374 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:34.440 long and straight, right, And. 375 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:35.759 That's when we get to golf smarter. 376 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:39.200 Exactly, Yeah, because. 377 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:41.200 Whatever, And it's the other thing I always say to people, 378 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:43.400 you never follow a bad shot with a stupid shot. 379 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:45.519 That's exactly right. Yeah, you never want to have two 380 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:46.440 bad shots in a row. 381 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:50.039 No, especially when you don't have to right check their 382 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:54.759 go and stop it. Yeah, doc gebber your ego a way, 383 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:57.599 you can't get there. You are not tiger Woods. 384 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:01.480 That's right, that's right. Anyhow, So that's one of the 385 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:04.720 six important, you know, in terms of shots that influencer score. 386 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:08.759 Then the second one is and I think from my 387 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:12.079 research from my angle, I'm not so sure these other 388 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:14.920 three the golf the golf wizards would agree with this, 389 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:20.359 but it's pretty obvious to me that the one area 390 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:25.000 that's the second area of and probably in order and 391 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:27.319 it would would be second most important, would be super 392 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:30.720 short pots from two to six feet. If you miss 393 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:32.680 a pot from two to six feet, you're going to 394 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:35.240 be pissed off, and rightfully so, because you just wasted 395 00:19:35.240 --> 00:19:35.640 a stroke. 396 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:36.519 Yep. 397 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:40.279 I mean, let's it's a very fast downhill breaking pott, 398 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:42.599 particularly left the right baking putt for a right handed 399 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:45.599 which are kind of hard to make. Uh, if it's 400 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:47.160 you know, if it's not that kind of pot, it's 401 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:49.119