WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:03.319 Golf Smarter number four hundred and fifty four. 2 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:08.519 Welcome to golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain 3 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:12.160 insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the 4 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:18.199 Golf Smarter podcast. Great Golf Instruction Never gets old. Our 5 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:23.079 interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations 6 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:26.719 like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. 7 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:29.640 So the favor of the slicer, why do they slice? 8 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:31.640 Are you going to get a difference of opinion? Some 9 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:34.799 people would say, well, I'm hitting across the ball, that's 10 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:38.359 going to slice. Well, in reality, the face of the 11 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:41.880 golf club, if it's open to the swing pack, the 12 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:44.840 ball will fade. You are actually hitting at a glance 13 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:47.320 in blow. So that's what causes a slide. 14 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:48.479 People don't understand that. 15 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:51.320 Let me tell you. The ball slice is when the 16 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:54.359 space is owned. So just get your mind wrapped around. 17 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:55.600 It's about the club plase. 18 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:57.920 So if the face is open, you. 19 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:02.799 Will align your arms and your shoulders to the left 20 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:06.959 to compensate fall out slide. When you align your arms 21 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:10.319 and shoulders to the left, you will produce an outside 22 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:13.120 in swing. So it's like walk came to the chicken 23 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:16.120 of the egg. Well, on day one you hit with 24 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:20.599 the face open the balf slide. So you learn over 25 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:24.439 a period of time one year, two years, fifty years 26 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:26.959 to line your arms and shoulders to the left, and 27 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:29.319 now you've groove an outside in. 28 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:38.400 Swing golf simplified with Director of Instruction for the Boulders, 29 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:43.719 Donald Crawley, this is Golf Smarter. Welcome to the Golf 30 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:44.680 Smarter podcast. 31 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:47.400 Donald, Hey, Fred, how are you. 32 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:50.040 I'm doing well. Thank you for joining me on the 33 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:50.599 show today. 34 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:53.040 Great to be leaders right. 35 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:54.879 Tell me you're down. 36 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:57.920 At the Boulders in one of my favorite not necessarily 37 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.920 my favorite cities, but my favorite name for city, Carefree Arizona. 38 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:07.120 It's a great place, just right at the very north 39 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:12.560 end of Scottsdale, forty minutes from the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. 40 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:14.919 So we're in Arizona. It's in what we call the 41 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:21.479 desert foothills, twenty three feet elevation, breeze blowing through, always sunshine. 42 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:22.520 It's a great place. 43 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:25.159 Scottsdale is golf mecca. 44 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:26.960 Yeah it is. 45 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:29.319 Boy, We've got so many golf courses at one time. 46 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:31.879 I think the last count is one hundred and eighty 47 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:34.520 eight golf courses in this what we'll call it our 48 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:37.240 county in a very very small area, so there's lots 49 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:38.800 of golf to be had. 50 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:40.759 There's a lot of golf to be had. 51 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:43.360 And I have played at a number of the courses, 52 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:46.319 not all of them down in the Scottsdale area, and 53 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:49.039 was down at the Boulders are in the spring this 54 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:53.000 year and just loved playing there. 55 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:56.039 It was a fun track. 56 00:02:57.080 --> 00:02:57.719 Yeah, it's great. 57 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:01.120 I mean, we've got two golf courses in nineteen eighty 58 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:05.039 four and nineteen eighty five. J Morrish designed, who was 59 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:08.639 the old partner with Tom Wistoff, designed golf courses together. 60 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:12.039 Very good desert golf, target golf they call it. But 61 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:16.039 the North Coast places quite differently than the South Coast. 62 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:19.199 The South Coast gets all the publicity because it's all 63 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:23.360 the beautiful three million year old boulders and you're hitting 64 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:27.639 off of cheese elevation and it's really quite pretty. The 65 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:31.520 North Coast is challenging in a different way, a lot 66 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:34.759 of dog legs and middle elevation change, so it's really 67 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:36.639 quite fun. I enjoy both courses. 68 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:39.360 I got a chance to play the South course and 69 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:43.680 I was just on fire. It was the third round 70 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:45.879 in three days that my friends and I had played, 71 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:48.439 and we came out to the you know, we came 72 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:50.599 out to the South course. We warmed up early in 73 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:54.319 the morning and I just lit it up. I had 74 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:57.800 a great round. I broke eighty, which is at the time, 75 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:00.560 well it still is. It's rare for me to. 76 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:03.759 Break haiti, But yeah, that's a good start a golf course. 77 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:06.639 The South course is a little shorter. 78 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:07.400 But it's narrow. 79 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:09.759 You must go straight here to break eadya out of there. 80 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:12.840 I was that day, Yeah. 81 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:13.639 I was that day. 82 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:19.319 But the views of the course, it's unlike other courses 83 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:23.959 in the Phoenix Scottsdale area because you are up in 84 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:28.480 the foothills. These boulders that surround the course are really 85 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:30.959 dramatic and kind of distracting. 86 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:34.800 It's quite amazing. I've had a couple of funny comments. 87 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:37.560 People says, well, how did you how did you truck 88 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:38.600 in those boulders? 89 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:39.519 And I just laughed. 90 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:42.279 They were half serious. I says, no, I said, believe 91 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:44.879 it or not. The geologists tell you it's like thirty 92 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:47.959 million years ago. This was the bottom of an ocean 93 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:52.319 and these granite rock croppings are just from the bottom 94 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:54.600 of the floor of the ocean, and of course all 95 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:57.439 the sand around it's got washed away, which has left 96 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:04.040 this sandy Dooney kind of golf calls around these dramatic boulders. 97 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:08.720 Yeah, you'd wonder why, because you know, golf course architects 98 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:11.279 are notorious for moving things around and changing things, but 99 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:15.959 this one, seriously, Mourrish definitely had to work around the 100 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:17.240 topography that was there. 101 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:21.720 Yeah, and you play through some rocks and definitely down 102 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:24.759 some ravines and around particular number one. I mean, if 103 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:27.360 you remember, the first soil is dramatic. It's a very 104 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:30.079 very narrow t shot and you hit to a plateau 105 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:33.360 and then you're going downhill to a very narrow shoot 106 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:37.160 and then one of the boulders rock crop and it's 107 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:39.839 sitting right behind the first green, and then people just 108 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:43.240 stop and hold up play and start taking photos. So 109 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:46.040 it's really it's spectacular. 110 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:47.600 Thank you for reminding me. 111 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:50.279 I do remember that first haul, and I think it's 112 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:52.480 because we started early. I didn't want to take out 113 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:54.800 the driver and I hit my forward right in the 114 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:59.360 middle of the fairway and was just so that downhill 115 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:02.600 shot I bogied the whole because of a three putt. 116 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:04.920 I made it under the green. 117 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.560 Well, you did it into a very wise thing, you know, 118 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:12.639 to drive the ball straight out. The first thing a 119 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:13.800 what I call. 120 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:15.399 A weekend golfer. 121 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:19.000 Or a traveling recreational golfer can do is to hit 122 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:23.040 a wood with mall loft. So what you did, whether 123 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:26.319 you did it consciously or subconsciously, or you weren't warmed up, 124 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:30.240 when you take that forward with about eighteen twenty degrees 125 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:33.360 of loft, you've given yourself a better chance of driving 126 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:35.920 the ball in the fairway. And that's one of the 127 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:43.079 strategic points that the amateur recreational golfer should consider, unless 128 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:45.240 they're a very straight driver of the ball. 129 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:48.000 Why is it so much easier to hit the ball 130 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:50.160 straight with the forward than with the driver. 131 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:54.680 Let's say a driver and average is ten point five 132 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:59.319 degrees of loft, so your contact point on the back. 133 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:01.079 Of a golf ball is pretty much. 134 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:04.120 On the equator, meaning a ten degree driver is going 135 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:05.959 to be hitting right in the back of the ball, 136 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:11.360 which minimizes the backspin. That's one reason drivers are going 137 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:15.639 farther because we want the trajectory to be high that 138 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.759 have no spin on the ball, rather like a knuckleball 139 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:23.519 from baseball. But if the face is open or clothes, 140 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:26.560 you're going to impart side spin on the ball and 141 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:30.439 the ball's going to slice our hook dramatically. But when 142 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:34.839 you use a twenty degree lofted club, you're hitting underneath 143 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:37.879 the equator. You're getting a little bit more backspin, which 144 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:43.000 counteracts the side spin, which is why even the great 145 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:47.439 players like Tiger Woods will sometimes drive with his five wood, 146 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:49.399 hit what you call his. 147 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:52.120 Stinger, and he hits the thing much straighter. 148 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:56.920 Phil Nicholson is driving with a thirteen degree club. He's 149 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.759 driving with more loss so that you can hit it straighter. 150 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.920 So interesting, and I just, yeah, I thought it was 151 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:07.279 just because of the amount of the power of the 152 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:09.240 swing that I would put behind it or something, but 153 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:12.680 it really is. The smaller club face allows you to 154 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:13.759 get below the equator. 155 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:18.519 Yeah, it's two with lost. So the short answer is 156 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:22.480 with mall loft, you're going to hit the ball straighter, 157 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:28.439 and then the backspin is counteracting the side spin. That's 158 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:32.519 why you hit your nine irons straighter and you can 159 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:37.159 hit your five iron mall. It's more forgiving, which is 160 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:41.080 a big part of golf strategy. Chat Nicholas was terrific. 161 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:45.039 People didn't realize as strong as long as Jack was, 162 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:48.519 he drove with a free wood most of his career. 163 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:52.039 People just didn't know it. You know, he just smashed 164 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:53.960 it a mile and of course it could is the 165 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:54.480 off line. 166 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:57.840 He didn't go as far off line. We went through 167 00:08:57.879 --> 00:08:58.559 an era. 168 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.519 Where they were making drivers with seven and eight degrees 169 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:05.639 loft was It was crazy because people just they can 170 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:07.480 get the ball in the air and b when they 171 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:12.039 did it when sideways. But now you'll see it's become 172 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:15.559 more progressive, more and more loft on the driver to 173 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:20.440 hit a higher launch angle with less backspin, and that's 174 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:22.480 the key. That's why the ball goes further now. 175 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:25.399 Well, also the materials are a lot different now that 176 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:27.000 they're making the club heads. 177 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:30.320 With well, no question, the material too, with the tetanic 178 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:34.399 shafts and the titanium faces and the gold you know 179 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:38.639 covered golf balls. All of that helps for sure. But 180 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:42.759 you've done a great job with the technology in if 181 00:09:42.759 --> 00:09:44.919 you've ever have you ever hit fred ever hit golf 182 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:48.879 balls on a machine that that measures your impact? The 183 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:51.679 famous one at the moment is either track man or 184 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:54.399 flight scope. Have you ever had the opportunity to do that. 185 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:54.960 Yes, I have. 186 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:58.279 Yeah, it's pretty exciting because what it does it really 187 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:02.200 measures the impact and it tells you to launch angle, 188 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:04.960 the spin rate and your plud face as well as 189 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:08.200 your angle of attack. These are all things that I 190 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:12.679 call what I call the impact factors that effect how 191 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:16.759 the ball performs. And golf is a gain to control 192 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:19.480 the golf ball. So back to our start where we 193 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:22.240 started the story, or on number one, it's a type 194 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:24.360 fair way, he says, I don't if I can hit 195 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:28.240 my driver and squeeze it through that bottleneck, which is 196 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.679 the bowl of south courses, a lot of driving holes 197 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:33.960 that you hit a forward, a little bit more offt 198 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:37.080 a little bit more spin. You gave up two yards 199 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:40.120 of distance and gained a lot of avacacy, so you 200 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:44.200 improved your impact. Made a great strategic decision on that 201 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:44.919 first team. 202 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:46.200 Well thank you, But. 203 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:51.440 Why is it you just said I get two yards difference? 204 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:54.759 Now, come on, people are all excited. 205 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:56.919 I think that the driver is going to go like 206 00:10:57.159 --> 00:11:01.679 thirty yards different. Well, it often doesn't because of this 207 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:05.039 side skin factor. So just think some simple numbers. You 208 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:08.000 could drive the ball two hundred yards that you're hitting 209 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:11.480 with your face two degrees open. That's two hundred yards 210 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:15.360 and twenty four yards of slice. So the end result 211 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:19.879 isn't over two hundred yards is spinning sideways as well 212 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:22.919 as going forward. You make the same mistake with a 213 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:26.279 three wood that say, sixteen degrees a block, You're only 214 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:29.360 going to be giving up eight yards of distance from 215 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:31.919 the fact that the ball isn't spinning as much sideway. 216 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:34.320 So people think, well, no, I thought my driver was 217 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:37.279 going to go thirty yards further than my three wood, 218 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:39.720 And the answer is no, Maybe seven or eight yards 219 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:43.480 is about all it ends up for. Again, I'm talking 220 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.799 about the recreational golf who is not hitting the perfect impact. 221 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:48.960 So what I do when I teach. 222 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:51.039 Is I'm always trying to improve the impact. 223 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:53.360 If I can get the club to hit the ball better, 224 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:59.799 then the result is better. I did not just blow 225 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:01.559 your wait for about all that A lot of good 226 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:03.679 stuff about ballistics, It just bleweat away. 227 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:13.840 I'm trying to take notes and absorb it all. I 228 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:16.200 think that a lot of people would be willing to 229 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:22.320 take the chance to sacrifice the slice if they can 230 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:26.440 end up hitting their approach shot with a seven iron 231 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:29.440 versus hitting with their hybrid. 232 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:30.440 You know? 233 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:32.200 Or is it just because we like it? 234 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:34.320 Or does it we just like to see things fly 235 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:35.440 as far as they can. 236 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:39.440 Yeah, typically, I mean when I say you know, and 237 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:43.919 I give it a lot of golf lessons, and the 238 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:47.679 guys in particular, men in particular, but even women say, 239 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:49.759 what was the one thing you want to do? The 240 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:54.039 number one thing that dolphers want is consistency. So I 241 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:58.159 asked the question, Explain to me what consistency is. Well, 242 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:01.759 humans as we are, I think distancy is hitting every 243 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:05.480 shot perfect. So that's not consistent. That's perfection and you're 244 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:08.639 not going to achieve it. So okay, so let's move 245 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:11.120 on from consistency. What you really mean is I want 246 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:15.120 to hit more good shots and less bad shots. Right, 247 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:18.000 how do I do that? Well, that's probably on the 248 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:23.039 swing mechanics. But let's tie in the game of golf 249 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:26.240 and the strategy of hitting a little bit more loft 250 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:30.279 than you thought necessary in order to keep the ball 251 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:34.039 in play. So when we talk about this desert golf, 252 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:37.639 this target golf, you've got to get what we call 253 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:40.879 the white on green. That's the white ball on the 254 00:13:40.919 --> 00:13:44.240 green fairway. So we're back to the story of let's 255 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:46.879 hit the forward off the tee and to make sure 256 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:48.879 you're driving it in the fairway. So you give in 257 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:51.519 up back to my little story, seven or eight yards 258 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:54.039 of distance, but you've got the thing in the fairway 259 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:57.639 rather than chopping it out of the desert scrub. 260 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:02.879 You know, not being a teacher, but by getting the 261 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:05.919 opportunity to talk to a lot of teachers. I think 262 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:09.240 one of the things that I've learned most important about 263 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:14.080 how to improve my game was this quest for consistency. 264 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:16.639 I think needs to be there needs to be a 265 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:22.440 mindset shift on how do you deal with adversity because 266 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:27.840 nobody and with anyone who watches the tour, consistency is 267 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:30.000 elusive at best. 268 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:32.519 And oh, you're absolutely right, and you're. 269 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:34.639 Going to get yourself in trouble more often than not. 270 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:37.440 The key is how do you deal with that trouble? 271 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:42.519 Great thing, I think the quote I used that I 272 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:45.759 just gither day and the lesson is the consistency story. 273 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:51.879 Kevin Sutherland Champions Tour player shot sixty nine on the 274 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:55.480 Senior Tour sometime this year and his first round is 275 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:58.480 shot fifty nine. You're always shot in his second round 276 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:05.480 seventy five, all that's fifteen strokes worse in one round. 277 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:08.200 That we're talking a world past player. 278 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:11.080 On the same golf course, on the same. 279 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:14.519 Golf course, the same guy one day later, with more experience, 280 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:17.559 and you still fifteen stross worse. So that I think 281 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:19.720 is a good story. Al always remembers, you know, can't 282 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:23.200 always be consistent. But but you're right back. What can 283 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:28.480 you do to handle adversity? Adversity is really learning to 284 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:33.759 control your mishits, and that's a physical thing and an 285 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:37.240 emotional thing. So for example, I go out and I'll 286 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:38.320 whack it out of bounds. 287 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:43.039 I here this premise shot. Okay. So now there's a 288 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:44.679 couple of choices. I've got one. 289 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:49.039 I could get mad, I could get frustrated or worse, 290 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:51.720 which a lot of people listening to this would be 291 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:55.000 doing this would start to beat themselves up. Oh I'm 292 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:58.480 such a terrible driver, I am halpless. I you know, 293 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:01.120 I'm no good again to this. Now it is self talk, 294 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:04.559 and before you know it, you dig yourself a big 295 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:09.919 hole and you fall in it. Where the champion mind 296 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:13.399 is to say, don it, just houte it. Never mind, 297 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:15.279 I'm going to reap to it, and I'm going to 298 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:18.159 drive this one down the fairway, knock it on the green, 299 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:20.480 make a burden with my second ball, and end up 300 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:23.200 on in end up making a bogie. So as a 301 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:29.240 mindset involved in how you play the game very important. 302 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.279 And when you're out on the course with some of 303 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:37.080 your students and you do a playing lesson, which I 304 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:41.879 think is so incredibly valuable as opposed to just working 305 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:46.399 on somebody's swing. Are these the kind of things that 306 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:49.519 you try to walk them through. Is how to handle 307 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:52.720 mishits no question. 308 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:54.399 I mean I'm doing more and more of that. 309 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:58.080 I mean lesson that's mechanical lessons and more and more 310 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:01.320 on the golf cost. And you have to have a 311 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:04.759 pretty good handle of your own mechanics. So it's important 312 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:08.920 that perhaps you can't fix everything. But one thing I 313 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:11.839 stress is I want everyone to know is what is 314 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:16.680 your natural tendency. So I'd use myself as an example. 315 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:20.000 I tend to swing a little flat. I tend to 316 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:23.559 hook the ball. I know that, so I work on 317 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:26.160 trying to control how much I hook it. 318 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:27.880 And when I. 319 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:30.200 Get on the golf course, if I do hook it, 320 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:34.319 I've got to know what can I do, not necessarily 321 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:37.200 to fix everything, but to at least give myself a 322 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:40.519 chance to get around the golf cost. So thread you 323 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:42.799 and I haven't played the golf together yet, hopefully on 324 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:44.440 your next visit to the ball as we'll get a 325 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:46.960 chance to do that that I would look at you 326 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:48.400 and say, here's your tendency. 327 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:49.720 So you tend to. 328 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:53.000 Do da da da da dad. Therefore, this is what 329 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:55.920 I want you thinking. This is what I want you 330 00:17:56.319 --> 00:17:57.920 where I want you to aim on. 331 00:17:57.880 --> 00:17:58.519 The golf course. 332 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:01.519 So let's say you tend to fade ball, which nine 333 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:04.920 golfers tend to fade the driver. So the first thing 334 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:06.640 to do is don't aim. 335 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:07.480 It down the fairway. 336 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:11.519 Aim it down the left side, because if you if 337 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:13.799 you don't fade it, you've just got a little pull 338 00:18:13.839 --> 00:18:16.720 in a semi rough on the left side of the fairway. 339 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:18.240 If you do fade it, you're in the middle of 340 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:21.240 the fairway. So a lot of people who faded the 341 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:25.119 ball don't haven't fixed the fad. But they can't telling me, well, 342 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:28.680 I'm going to I've been working on a closed stance. 343 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:31.559 I said, why on earth if you fade the ball, 344 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:33.079 would you aim to the right. 345 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:34.839 What do you think? 346 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:37.400 Because they want to be able to want to be 347 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:38.319 able to draw the ball. 348 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:43.720 Yeah, you see, that's absolutely niche. Closing your stands has 349 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:47.119 no influence on the golf ball whatsoever. 350 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:50.160 It's the absolute big smith. 351 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:52.480 Do you know what that comes from closing your stands? 352 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:55.119 No, I was going to ask you then why would 353 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:56.200 they possibly do that? 354 00:18:56.960 --> 00:18:59.359 Okay, So here's it's all the golfers listen to this. 355 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:01.079 Thank you golfs for listening to this. 356 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:01.799 Okay. 357 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:04.960 So this is Donald Crawley. I'm a brit I grew 358 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:08.279 up playing golf in Britain, so and I studied under 359 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:12.559 some of these old krusty golf prowls from way back length. 360 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:17.000 So let's just go back one hundred years ago. One 361 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:19.880 hundred years ago were the great players. There were all 362 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:25.759 these Scottish guys, you know, Harry Varden, Braid, J. H. Taylor, 363 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:30.119 then this and then bringing Bobby Jones this era. Okay, 364 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:33.839 So they played with hickory shafted golf clubs. They played 365 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:36.759 with a rock used to be called a good percher 366 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:41.000 ball or the feathery terrible old golf balls. They couldn't 367 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:43.319 get that thing to go one hundred and fifty yards. 368 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:51.359 So between the conditions, windy Sandy golf courses, crappy equipment. 369 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:56.519 They had to stand closed, have a very strong grip, 370 00:19:57.240 --> 00:20:00.960 swim flat around the body, used their risks a lot 371 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:03.680 and turn over to make the ball hit these low 372 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:08.119 running hooks. That's what they did, and they shot probably 373 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:12.000 a great player in those years with the conditions and 374 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:12.640 the equipment. 375 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:13.559 If they shot. 376 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:18.839 Eighty, they were a world champion. Okay, so now fast forward. 377 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:22.519 That gets passed down. So Tommy Ama, whatever, Bobby Jones 378 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:26.559 in particular, let's close the stance and look how Bobby 379 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:32.119 hits this beautiful draw from a close stance. Okay, Now 380 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:37.279 they've worked the swing coming way from the inside, fast 381 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:40.720 forward a hundred years. You don't need to close your 382 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:43.240 stands and start the ball out to the right and 383 00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:47.640 hit a low hook to come around. With the equipment 384 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:49.359 you have now you can get the ball up in 385 00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:51.960 there and hit it over one hundred and fifty yards anyway. 386 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:55.599 So let's just try this in Why doesn't the close 387 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:57.759 stance work in. 388 00:20:57.200 --> 00:20:58.119 The modern golfer. 389 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:01.119 Fred's going to go ahead and just close closes stands 390 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:05.720 and not let the closing of the stands influence the 391 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:09.000 swing path and allow the golf club to hit from 392 00:21:09.039 --> 00:21:12.759 the inside and close the face. All Fred does is 393 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:16.359 closest stands and goes ahead, swinging outside and hitting a 394 00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:17.000 pull face. 395 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:21.319 Well, let's make sure that we understand what you mean 396 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:22.359 by closing the stands. 397 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:25.440 That means that your front foot is. 398 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:32.759 Forward forward right, your back foot, the back foot, the 399 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:35.480 one away from the target, is pulled back versus. An 400 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:38.200 open stance is opening your body to the target. 401 00:21:39.319 --> 00:21:41.240