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Speaker 1: Golf Smarter number four hundred and forty seven, originally published

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on July twenty ninth, twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain

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insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the

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Golf Smarter podcast. Great Golf Instruction Never gets Old. Our

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interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations

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like this that are no longer available in any podcast app.

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Speaker 3: It goes from the realm of yes, I could make

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a home one too, how's it going to happen? What

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do you do? Is what I call shrinking the green. Well,

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let's say you're playing to a green that is circle

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and the flag is in the back left of the green.

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If you were to draw a little cross on that

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green to making four quadrants, and that pin happens to

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be in the upper left quadrant, I want you to

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shrink the green as if it's just that quadrant. And

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what that does is it takes your focus from being

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a very wide area to a more specific area around

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the whole. And with practice, that area can get smaller

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and smaller, and so you're focusing on a very small

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part of the green. Eventually just the.

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Speaker 1: Whole the Frustrated Golfer's Handbook with Darren Gee.

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Speaker 3: This is Golf Smarter.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Golf Smarter, Darren.

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Speaker 3: Aloha for Red. How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm fine and happy to hear aloha again.

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Speaker 3: I wish you were here in Hawaii with me. I

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could say it in person, but well, that's clear, you're

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only twenty five hundred miles away, so pop skipping a.

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Speaker 1: Jump my fore would I think that would be just sufficient?

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Would be the forewood on that one?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: No, I yes, I would love to be there with you,

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and hopefully someday we will. I would always love to

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get a group of Golf Smarter listeners to meet me

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in Hawaii and do the academy with you, and then

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to go see you know, we have other golf instructors there,

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and it would just be so much fun to just

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kind of bounce around taking lessons and playing golf together.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's let's plan on it.

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Speaker 1: All right. Send you letters, click on the hey Fred

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button if you want to meet me in Hawaii, and

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we'll figure out a date. Sometimes in twenty fifteen, maybe

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we'll do episode number five hundred. Ooh, maybe we'll do

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episode number five hundred and two thousand right island on

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the Big Island. That would be a trip. Awesome. Oh wow, okay,

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that's a great idea. Anyway, yeah please, Okay, So folks

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start writing to me. Now. Episode number five hundred is

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going to be on August. We're now just about hit August,

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August fourth, twenty fifteen. It's on a Tuesday. We can

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record it, we can record it before then, but we'll

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publish it as number five hundred. And I would love

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to celebrate with you because it's my birthday. But it

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would love to celebrate that with you. So start writing

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to me and see if we can get a couple

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of people interested in going to Hawaii together in next summer. Awesome,

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great idea. Thank you Darren for the invitation. You know

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you committed to, don't you.

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Speaker 3: I better put that on my calendar somewhere around.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, and we'll get Jim Waldron out there too. So congratulations,

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you have a new book. We've we've featured the first

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two books on our in our golfers martt golf smarter

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dot com. The uh the seven Personalities, the various seven

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Personalities of golf right the first two, yep, and now

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you have a new one, which after buzzing through it,

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and that's the best part about it. You can buzz

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through this book. It belongs, it really does belong in

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every golfer's golf bag and in their bathroom. But and

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I'll tell you why, because so like these, it's a

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lot of chapters. It's called the Frustrated Golfer's Handbook, which

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is perfect, and there's a lot of very short chapters

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and goes directly to the issue. And I I was

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playing last weekend, I was really struggling. I was upset

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with myself. And then I got your book that night

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off of Amazon, and I opened it up and I

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saw the chapters and wait, wait, that's my problem today.

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And so I read that chapter in you know, thirty

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five seconds type thing, and then all of a sudden,

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the next two rounds, I was back to like, okay,

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all good again, Thank you, Darren. It was great. So yeah,

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I talk about the book.

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Speaker 3: Well, the title the kind of sums up the life

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of a golfer, The Frustrated Golfer's Handbook. And I think

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every golfer, whether you are the number one player in

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the world or you've just picked up a club for

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the very first time, experiences a bit of rush with

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this game.

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Speaker 1: At some point, Oh, how generous of you to say a.

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Speaker 3: I've been very kind there. At some point. It might

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be from the very first swing or so. But you know,

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I thought to myself, and you know, after working with

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thousands of golfers at the golf academy, at my golf

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academy here in Hois, I realize that there is a gap,

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a gap between what you know you're capable of doing

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and what you're actually doing. And so the key there

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is what you're capable of because you've done it before,

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you've hit that shot, you know your body can do it,

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but you don't do it every time. So that gap

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is where the frustration lies. And usually that gap is

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caused not by the equipment or your actual swing. It's

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usually a mental thing, a mental error, something that's causing

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you to tighten that something that's distracting you, something that's

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causing this turmoil within. And you know, golf is a

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funny game. It's the one game where there's really no

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opponent that's trying to do anything to you in terms

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of guarding you or distracting you. It's really yourself. And

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so that's what was the impetus for writing this, And

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I thought, okay, I love books that explain a lot

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of detail, but I also like books that can give

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you the quick fix, you know, something that you can

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look at and glance and, like you said, in thirty

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five seconds or less, see what the analyze your issue,

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say yeah, that's that's what it is, and give you

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a solution. And that's what this is all about. So

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it's really designed, like you said to you know, flip

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through the table of contents front through a book, you

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can actually just kind of flip through the pages and

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go to one of the fifty mental golf tricks and

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see how it impacts your game. And again it's for

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low handicappers, it's for pure beginners and everyone in between.

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Speaker 1: And it's two sections, Part one, part two each are

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twenty five chapters, so it really there's fifty different issues

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that you really you just look at it and go, yep,

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that's what I had a problem with and and go

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right to it and read it. And it's calming, it's helpful,

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it's direct. It's so direct and to the point, and

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you just sit there and go oh.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, and a lot of the things are. Some

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of them are. It will be like a big aha,

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it's like, oh, I never really thought about that, but

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that's that applies to me. And for some it's just

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a really something you forget about, something that you take

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for granted, and you're like, oh, yeah, that makes a

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whole lot of sense. And I think that's what makes

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it so great is that. And that's the feedback we're

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getting from people who've picked up the book and people

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that have come to the Golf Academy and have used

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a lot of the mental golf trips, they say, you

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know that one really just applied to me at that

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given moment when I was playing the round. Another say, yet,

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and then another one was really helpful when I was

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in the club championship. So it really is about giving

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you all the different tools. And that's something that I

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talk a lot about with folks that I work with

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on their golf game, is that you want to have

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a bag of tricks, you know, a tool bag of

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tricks that you can just pull out when you need it.

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It's just like your tool bag at home. You know,

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sometimes you'll need one tool to do certain thing, and

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another one, and it's nice to have them all accessible.

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And that's what this is all about. And you mentioning

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that it's something you can throw in your in your

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golf bag, and that's that's why I called it a handbook.

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It's something that you you know, hopefully by the time

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you you grab the book, it's going to be all

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kind of tattered and warned because you've been using it constantly.

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right into your in your bag.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's even either. I wanted to mend after I

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said it and started listening to you, I was like, no, no, no,

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you don't need to put it in your golf bag.

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Just put it on your phone.

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Speaker 3: That's right, you know.

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Speaker 1: It's it's downloadable, it's a there's an e book version

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of it. I have it on my phone and now

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because of the kindleap, I have it now on my iPad.

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I have it on my phone, and so like the

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other day, as I was flipping through it, I went

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directly to chapter forty three. Okay, I just I mean,

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I read the introduction, you know, find out more because

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I knew I wanted to talk to you again. But

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I was like, okay, how to finish in balance. I

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was having trouble that day and I found myself, you know,

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falling away after my shots and just not being on

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my feet after I finished. So I went directly to

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that chapter. Okay, I read it, now I want to

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hear it from you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So basically chapter forty three is about how to

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finish a balance And it's a concept that I use

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that's helpful for a lot of things. And it's starting

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with the end in mind. And you've heard that before

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in a lot of different programs. Stephen Covey talked about

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it in the seventh Habits of Successful Peak. Well, is

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that if you start in your mind with how you

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want to finish, that helps you actually get through the

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emotion emotion to get there. So what I tell people,

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instead of starting, you know, setting up to the ball,

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start with your finish. How would you finish a perfect swing.

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fair way at where your ball ends up. And so

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if you start with that in mind and then you

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actually do it, what should What it does is it

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sets a trigger a series of events that helps you

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create that. So if you start with that finish. Then

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you start your back swing and then finish and go

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all the way through to the finish again, you'll find

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your balance in much much better shape. And the way

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I look at it, if someone finishes their swing and balance,

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then they had the balance throughout the entire swing and

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they probably struck the ball pretty darn well.

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saying mentally a mental picture in your head, or as

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you're taking your warm up swings, start out by being

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in a finished position and realize what you want to

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feel like there.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's a little it's both actually, So a lot

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of these exercises are equally powerful sitting at home reading

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about as actually doing so I talk a lot about

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this with again with people, is the actual reading of

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the book and visualizing yourself doing it is almost as

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powerful as doing it itself. Okay, so this is a

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very strong concept to use, and you know, they've done

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a lot of tests. They've done it actually with a

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lot of Olympic athletes where they have them do their

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exercise and they hook them up to you know, all

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the they read their brain, their heart rate and so forth,

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blood pressure and when they're doing their their actual you know,

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activity or event. They measure all those those different areas

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and then they have them sit in a dark room,

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close their eyes. They hook them up again, and then

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they have them visualized doing that same event, start to finish,

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and then when they match up the data, it's almost

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exactly the same. So there's power in just visualizing and

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reading it and doing it as as equal as powerful

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as doing it itself. So I say do both. And

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for a lot of folks, you know, you don't get

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to play golf year round. You know you're maybe in

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a winter area. Fortunately, here in Hawaii we don't have winter,

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so that's quite nice. But so if you're if you

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do live in a place where there is winter, come

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join us out here and during your dark months. But

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you could just by by visualizing doing this. It's equally

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powerful because it triggers the same types of feelings and

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muscle twinges, if you will, in your body. So that

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being said, if you are on the range or even

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at home, you know, take a club and get in

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that finished position like you said, and feel that balance

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as if you just struck a perfect shot down the fairway.

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And then from that finished position you can actually start

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your golf swing. So normally you would set up to

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the ball and start your golf swing and your backswing

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from a finished position, you can start your back swing

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and then finish again and getting in that same balance position,

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it's equally powerful.

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Speaker 1: The chapter before forty two is how to keep your balance.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so a lot of people this whole full

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section here on balance, and you know, there's a little

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subsection within these fifty in which I talk about how

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important balance is. And I think that is something that

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people take for granted in the game of golf. So

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a lot of people may have, you know, a beautiful swing.

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They you know, they might have the right the right

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equipment that fits them and so forth. But if they're

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all centered, even by a hair, that causes them to

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mishit the ball. And as we know, golf is about

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hitting that sweet spot. So even if you're off by

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a fraction of an inch here and there, that's probably

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causing you know, mishits and so forth. So we talk

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about being in balance and being centered throughout the golf swing.

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So number forty two talks about how do you do that.

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A lot of people are out there and there you

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see them kind of swaying and moving in all different directions.

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One little trick that I like to do is there's

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the center of your body that right in the aftom

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and right below the belly button. And if you've ever

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done any martial arts, they talk a lot about that

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area of your body right below your belly button. That's

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where your powers emanates from. You talk to a boxer,

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that's where they actually punch from right there, and that

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is where you also can keep your center during the

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golf swing. So what I tell people is imagine a

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bungee cord connected from your belt buckle down to the

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tee or the area right below the ball. Now, with

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a bungee cord, it stretches, but it also keeps. You know,

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there's a little spring to it, so as you turn,

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you're still connected to that sweet to that point where

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the ball is through the bungee cord. But with the

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with the whoa, hey, there's our friend. Okay, there's our mascot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, exactly, that's the dog. That's my dog. Tea

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green tree. I'm sorry to interrupt.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, yep, Well, I beg your dog liked this one.

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So that's it. That was the gallery of plotting. So yeah,

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so basically the budget, but the bungee cord does it.

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It keeps you centered, keeps you connected, keeps you balanced

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throughout the entire swing, even through your backswing and the

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follow through. So it's a very powerful tool because if

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a lot of people say, well how can I keep centered?

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And if you if you're too richid you you say, oh,

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it's just like you know, a pole holding you, then

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you you're not you'd lose the flexibility. But the nice

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thing about a bunch of cord you can use that

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imagery of it's being flexible for you to make your turn,

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but also keeps you connected at the same time. It's

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a great tool to maintain balance. And again the goal

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is strike that ball in the sweet spot. You know

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when I get there, and then it goes where you

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want it to go.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to dispute you. You said golf is

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about hitting the sweet spot. I think golf is more

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about recovering from your mistakes in your errors. Well, it's

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funny because a series of disasters, like life, golf is

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just a series of disasters, and it's it's about how

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you handle it. I mean, you talk about the metal

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game all the time. I mean, isn't it really how

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you handle it, because you're going to have more I

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mean people at you know, players at my level and

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what you know, like like this that are amateurs and

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out for fun. I think it's more we have more

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shots that were frustrated over than that we're really happy about.

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But thankfully there are four or five shots around that,

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especially in the eighteenth hole always it makes it go okay,

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I want to come back, but the rest but the

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rest of the day is being a frustrated golfer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that sums it up for any level.

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I mean even you know, the top guys on tour

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when they go and they play around, even when they

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play a great, great round, it's not one hundred percent perfect.

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Oftentimes they'll say, you hear the interviews and from the

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guys and gals after it around, they'll say, you know,

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I struck the ball pretty well, but you know, there's

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this theory I can work on in that area that

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can work on and like you said, and the same

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goes for the weekend golfer. You might hit two or

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three really great shots and the rest are not, as

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you know, not to your desire. So really it's all

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about how you handle that. I agree with you one

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hundred percent, Fred, It's about managing your your yourself around

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the golf course and recovering from each shot. And the

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way you do it is you just focus on one shot,

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that next shot. You can't dwell on the past too much.

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I tell people learn from what you've done, the good

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and the bad and unfortunately sometimes the ugly. But when

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you get to the next shot, it's a new, brand,

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new beginning and that one could be the best. So

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I kind of tell people you got a blank the slate,

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blank the slate every time you step up to the

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next shot and start fresh from there and again then

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you move on to the next one. So it's a

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series of really handling those different ups and downs of

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around and the people that can do that actually end

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up playing the best. It's funny. Sometimes you'll go out

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and you'll get matched up with someone you don't know,

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and and you know you played around the golf and

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the really really good players you don't really notice them.

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You know, they hit a shot and then they if

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it's not a great shot, then they don't make a

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big fuss about it, and then they you know they

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they treat the next one and recover, but they're not

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always tee to green, hitting every fairway every green, but

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how they handle themselves and that is the major difference

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between you know, playing to your potential and being frustrated,

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is that you handle those different situations and the adversity

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that you face similar to like life. I agree with

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you on that on too, Fred.

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Speaker 1: So do you mind if we I just pick random

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chapters throughout the book and we can get your take

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on each of these and why you choose to put

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that in the book.

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Speaker 3: You bet, you bet awesome.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So then tell me first, what is it that

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separates part one from part two? What's the content difference

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that you decided you needed twenty five chapters on this

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in twenty five chapters on that?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think golfers look for ways to improve their

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game in many different ways. And you think about it.

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We spend part of our golf seeing time on the

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golf course, but we spend a lot of it on

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the range as well. So I divided it into two sections.

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One is what you could do while you're playing, because

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that's when you need it in the heat of battle,

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if you will, And what you can do to improve

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your game when you're not playing and you're off the

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golf course, and that includes actually, you know, being on

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the drive having range, but also what do you do

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in preparation other than being on the driving range. So

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one of the exercises I talk about is is how

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can you play you know, a great round of golf

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is before you even get up there. And I say, well,

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it's got to sleep, And people like, what a what

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are you talking about? Well, the night before, when before

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you play around the golf while you're going to sleep,

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just you know, close your eyes and visualize yourself playing

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that round, that great round the next morning. And something

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that all great athletes do is they visualize themselves in

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that heat of battle, if you will, playing the great game,

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doing great you know, making great shots, great passes, everything clicking,

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and they see where they want to be. So going

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to sleep is one of the exercises that you can

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do off the golf course and visualize yourself hitting great

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shot after great shot, and it actually sets the tone

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for the next morning. Number four get I divided it

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on the golf course and off the golf course.

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Speaker 1: Okay, no, no, that makes sense. But then I want

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to say, you know, you talk about the visualization Number

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fourteen is how to visualize what you can't see? What

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does that mean? And where are you driving at here? H?

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I get it.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is in reference to reading greens. So my

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golf academy, a lot of folks come up and say,

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you know, I really have a hard time reading greens.

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I can't see the breaks. In fact, I just worked

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with a woman a week ago Tuesday, and she says,

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you know, I really don't see all the subtleties that

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are out here. And so what I teach people is

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that it really is all just a guessing game. So

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the people that read the greens, they're guessing as to

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how the ball might get from A to B where

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the ball is now and into the hole. And so

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what I tell people is that even if you can't see,

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if you don't visualize a line, or if you're very

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good at usually but you're not sure, you can trick

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yourself into actually creating a line. And so what I

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tell people is, this is like if I was to

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give you, let's say, a thousand bucks, to come up

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with a path that you think the ball will follow

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from A to B, A being where your ball is

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and B being the hole. I'll give you a thousand

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bucks and I just want you to, you know, take

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a take, take your putter and trace a line, you know,

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any line. What would you do? Okay, And just that

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little impetus of saying, you know, don't try to you know,

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don't overread it. You're not trying to read a green

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and get the ball, mall. Just draw a line. And

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literally people will go up there who have no idea

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what it's going to do, and they draw a path

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and they might draw a straight line or a curve line,

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depending on what they think it's going to do. That

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in their mind says, oh, I get it. Now there's

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a connection between where I am and where I want

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to be. And so that's why I tell people, if

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you can't see a line, fake it. Draw a line

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in your mind. And I often like to talk about,

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you know, it's imagine if you had a marker, you

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could draw a line, or you had talk and you

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could drop a chalk line to from from the ball

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to the hole. What would that look like? And just

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by doing that, that gives you the confidence to step

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up and hit that ball along that path. And even

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if you know you're great at reading greens and experience

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that it. You know, nothing is saying that what you

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read is going to be a science because the green's uneven. Uh,

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you know, the grass doesn't grow evenly. There's moisture, there's

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all these different things. There's you know, sand that specs

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of dust on there. So even if you hit the

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ball along your path, no guarantee it's going to go

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in the hole. But what it does is it sets

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a direction. So it's sort of like when you get

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in a boat, you set your course. And when you're

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in the boat, you're on the ocean or on the lake,

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you know you don't follow it exactly. If you look

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at the minute details of how a boat goes, it

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kind of zigzags. It's always making a little course correction

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along its path, but it has a goal to get

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from A to B. Otherwise they would kind of move

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about randomly. So that's what you're trying to do here

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is set a set a path from where you where

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you are with your shot and where you wanted to go,

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and then you you you see that you draw that line,

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it provides you with the path, and then that's half

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the battle right there, and you step up and knock

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the ball along your path and and you know it

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doesn't go in every time. But if you can say

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with confidence that you had that goal in mind to

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get the ball in the hole, you saw that line,

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or you drew that line, and you went for it,

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then that's a good shot. And that's that's what that

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fe's all about, Okay, really about how to do something

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that you're not necessarily confident about, you're not sure about.

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It puts a confidence in your game right away.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're familiar with the ame point putting system

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which we talked to Mark Sweeney about and trying to

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find the fall line, which has helped me like where

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is where is the line that is going to be

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a straight line to the hole if you walk around

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the hole and see where the ball is just going

476
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to go very straight to go into the hole, which

477
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is also complicated for a lot of people. So I

478
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guess what you want to remind people? And the thing

479
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that helped me the most in the very beginning with

480
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reading the Putts was thinking about gravity. I mean, greens

481
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are designed to not be flat because the water's got

482
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to roll off of it.

483
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Speaker 3: Well, where that's right?

484
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Speaker 1: What is the direction the water's going to go. Use

485
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gravity and try to make the line that.

486
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Speaker 3: Way right, and then that's a perfect that's actually the

487
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twelfth chapter. It's called you know, going going with the flow.

488
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If you were to if the green was cement, if

489
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you will, and you poured a bucket of water, where

490
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would the water flow. The water flows with the hill

491
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or with gravity, and that's where the ball is going

492
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to go. So that's a very helpful tool, I think

493
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for a lot of folks that say, you know, I

494
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don't know how to read the green, and that kind

495
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of puts it in perspective for them.

496
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Speaker 1: Obviously one I like that, But I got to say

497
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that obviously the editor got a hold of the book

498
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,720
after you wrote it, because number twelve is actually called

499
00:26:06,759 --> 00:26:09,079
how to see the Break, not go with the flow.

500
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Speaker 3: Well, it's how to see the break and go with

501
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the flow, and.

502
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Speaker 1: That's exactly what you just did. Very nice recovery, sir,

503
00:26:18,319 --> 00:26:21,400
you bet what were you about to? I'm sorry for interrupting.

504
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:22,200
What were you gonna say?

505
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Speaker 3: No, it's another tool that we we like to use

506
00:26:26,559 --> 00:26:28,799
on how to read the greens, and it's mentioned in

507
00:26:28,839 --> 00:26:30,839
the book as well as as you know you imagine

508
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,880
you're you're you're looking at you're on the bank of

509
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a river, and the water is flowing obviously in one direction.

510
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If you were to throw a leaf in there into

511
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the river, the river, the leaf would go with the

512
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flow of the water. So same type of thing. If

513
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you were to hit a putt, it would go with

514
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the flow of the water. And that helps people again

515
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,920
visualize and see the break and go with the flow.

516
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Speaker 1: Can go with the flow. Dude, you're from Hawaii. Got

517
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to give the sign. That's it. So all right, I'm

518
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,839
bounce to another chapter. And this is actually relevant to around.

519
00:27:02,839 --> 00:27:07,039
I was playing yesterday friend and I and it was

520
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an incredibly hot day and I and I like this course.

521
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,160
I like walking this course that I was playing Foxtail

522
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,880
North Open Rohnert Park. But it's like a six and

523
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,759
a half seven mile walk. It's a really long walk,

524
00:27:22,799 --> 00:27:25,000
fair fairly flat, so I don't have a problem with that,

525
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,519
But that long of a walk in ninety plus degree heat,

526
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I really wasn't in the mood for walking because we

527
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were entertaining that day. So so I, a friend and

528
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,079
I were in a golf cart and the two other

529
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,400
people that were with us one got matched with us,

530
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and this guy was walking carrying his bag. And then

531
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the third guy was a newbie, someone who really knew

532
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,880
to the point where he didn't know that you can't

533
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,559
grind your club in a bunker, that you know that

534
00:27:56,039 --> 00:27:57,519
you don't walk up. I mean, there was a lot

535
00:27:57,559 --> 00:27:59,640
of the new stuff that iway was had to, you know,

536
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give him some instruction. I said, do you mind if

537
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,680
I share something? No, no, please help me. All right.

538
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:06,759
First of all, if you're going to talk to the guy,

539
00:28:06,759 --> 00:28:09,000
you can't stand there and talk. You got to keep moving,

540
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,119
pick up the pace, let's go. Huh. So by the

541
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,759
end of the round, so these two guys, the walking

542
00:28:15,799 --> 00:28:18,799
guy and the newbie, were really slow and it was

543
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,480
driving us crazy. And when we were done with the round,

544
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:26,200
my playing partner was getting so frustrated he was like

545
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,319
he practically he just gave up. He said, you know

546
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,119
what this, I'm feeling rushed all the time because these

547
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,079
people behind us are on our butts and we can't

548
00:28:36,519 --> 00:28:38,599
get these guys to move faster. And he was so

549
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,960
frustrated he just said, stop scoring for me. I don't

550
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,319
care anymore. And when we were done with the round,

551
00:28:43,559 --> 00:28:47,160
it took us four hours and we were both so

552
00:28:47,359 --> 00:28:50,400
surprised because I've played that course in over five because

553
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,799
of the long walk. So your chapter number nine, I

554
00:28:54,839 --> 00:28:59,880
want to give to him how to relax when being rushed? Please,

555
00:29:00,079 --> 00:29:01,079
we need to tip on that one.

556
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 3: Well, it's I think that's one of the biggest frustrations

557
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,039
for golfers is when you know, you look behind you

558
00:29:10,119 --> 00:29:13,039
and there's four people standing there, one of them with

559
00:29:13,119 --> 00:29:15,799
his his or hair, hands on the hips, you know,

560
00:29:15,839 --> 00:29:18,680
the other wave in the club, and they're just always

561
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,920
on your tail. So they want to finish their round

562
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,440
in two hours and you want to enjoy your round

563
00:29:23,519 --> 00:29:28,279
and sub four. So to me, that is is really frustrating,

564
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,240
and I think it's for everybody. I mean, whenever there's

565
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,680
a group behind you, you feel like there's a tension.

566
00:29:35,359 --> 00:29:39,880
And so what I tell people is to be ready. Okay,

567
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,680
when it's your turn to hit your shot, be ready,

568
00:29:42,279 --> 00:29:46,559
and you can rush, but rush in between your shots.

569
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,359
So what that means is when after you hit, you know,

570
00:29:50,759 --> 00:29:53,759
and you're moving as a group, you can rush all

571
00:29:53,799 --> 00:29:57,920
you want, Okay, you can sprint if you want to

572
00:29:58,039 --> 00:30:00,839
between your shots, but once it's time to hit your ball,

573
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,920
that's your time, okay, so that's when you slow down.

574
00:30:05,039 --> 00:30:08,279
So it's really the chapter title is called how to

575
00:30:08,319 --> 00:30:12,279
Relax when being Rushed and the sub is subtitle is

576
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,839
be ready and then slow down. So when it's your turn,

577
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,880
have your club that you want to hit, you know,

578
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,920
select that club ahead of time while your brother playing

579
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,759
partners are hitting, think through your shot, and then once

580
00:30:21,799 --> 00:30:25,519
it's your turn, that's when you slow down to your

581
00:30:25,559 --> 00:30:28,799
regular paces if you're playing by yourself with no one

582
00:30:28,839 --> 00:30:31,759
else around, because that's your time. And what that's gonna

583
00:30:31,759 --> 00:30:33,640
do is one or one of two things. One is

584
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,640
it's gonna get you back into playing mode, because in

585
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,880
between shots, you're not in playing mode, you're in being

586
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,079
on the golf course mode. When it's time to hit

587
00:30:42,119 --> 00:30:44,960
your shot, you slow down, you get into your pace

588
00:30:45,039 --> 00:30:48,440
and rhythm even though you're being rushed from behind, and

589
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,400
you make a great shot, and that's going to save

590
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,559
time more than anything else. A lot of times people

591
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,279
they might have happened to your buddy, is you're rushing

592
00:30:57,319 --> 00:31:00,839
to stay ahead of you know, the group behind. You're rushing, rushing, rushing,

593
00:31:00,839 --> 00:31:02,720
in between shots, and then you rush your shot and

594
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,759
what happens you don't hit a great shot, and then

595
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,480
you have to do it all over again, and so

596
00:31:06,559 --> 00:31:09,680
you add shots to year round, which then slows the

597
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,160
game more than anything else. So I tell people be

598
00:31:12,279 --> 00:31:14,799
ready when it's your turn to hit, have your club selected,

599
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,799
and then once it's your turn, that's your time. You

600
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,720
honor it. You slow down to your regular pace as

601
00:31:20,759 --> 00:31:22,559
if there's no one else on the golf course to

602
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,519
make your best shot, and then you're playing great golf.

603
00:31:26,279 --> 00:31:28,319
And I think that's the advice that I would give

604
00:31:28,359 --> 00:31:32,799
to any golfer out there, whether they be a PGA

605
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,359
pro playing in a tournament and if they're on the clock,

606
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,400
rush in between your shots. But once it's time to

607
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,200
be hit your shot, you go back into your regular pace.

608
00:31:43,079 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: As one of the things I learned from one of

609
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:49,400
the very first episodes of Golf Smarter, which is walk fast,

610
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:53,680
swing slow. There you go, Okay, I want to go

611
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,960
to number twenty three. This is all in part one

612
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,559
still twenty three. How to play business golf? What do

613
00:32:00,599 --> 00:32:00,880
you mean?

614
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 3: Well, you know, you often hear that there's no better

615
00:32:07,519 --> 00:32:10,680
golf than business golf. But for a lot of people

616
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:14,640
though that that's not the case, because business golf is

617
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,960
when you're going out with a purpose other than just

618
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,799
playing golf. If you're going out with your buddies on

619
00:32:19,839 --> 00:32:22,200
the weekend, it's it's to play out, play golf and have,

620
00:32:22,279 --> 00:32:25,880
you know, have a good time. Business golf usually means

621
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,720
that you're taking out a client, maybe you're playing with

622
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,200
your boss, you're playing with another colleague, and there's a

623
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:36,200
purpose other than just playing golf. And for a lot

624
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,039
of folks that is very hard for them to juggle

625
00:32:39,079 --> 00:32:42,599
between the two. They see it as as something that

626
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,519
they can they stress out at. So either one of

627
00:32:44,559 --> 00:32:47,400
two things happens for them. Either they play terrible golf

628
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,000
because they're just so focused on, you know, trying to

629
00:32:50,039 --> 00:32:53,400
manage the business side of the of the event, or

630
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,279
vice versa. They play great golf, but then they totally

631
00:32:56,319 --> 00:32:58,720
forget about, you know, the business side. So what I

632
00:32:58,759 --> 00:33:01,680
tell people is you need to be able to flip

633
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,559
the switch when you're playing business golf. So flipping the

634
00:33:04,599 --> 00:33:08,240
switch means that there's two different things happening out there.

635
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,920
One is you're there for a purpose of you know,

636
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,400
for business of some sort, and the other purpose is golf.

637
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,279
So I switched. I tell people to create two different

638
00:33:17,519 --> 00:33:21,000
separate events. Event one is playing golf. Event two is

639
00:33:21,039 --> 00:33:24,039
the business interaction that you have. And when it's your

640
00:33:24,079 --> 00:33:26,759
turn to hit your shot, you think, okay, Event one,

641
00:33:26,839 --> 00:33:30,400
I'm playing golf. You move into golf mode. You strike,

642
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,359
you strike the ball, and after you strike the ball,

643
00:33:33,519 --> 00:33:36,359
then you switch back to event two business, which is,

644
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,920
you know, talking about whatever you may be talking about

645
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,839
with your your playing partners. And just by having that,

646
00:33:43,799 --> 00:33:46,359
you know, that switch, if you will, to turn it

647
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:51,680
on and off, allows you to realize what mode you're

648
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,720
in and it frees you up so that you can

649
00:33:54,799 --> 00:33:58,759
separate the two while they're happening out there. And for

650
00:33:58,759 --> 00:34:00,440
a lot of folks that get kind of they get

651
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,559
stuck in between it's this business is this golf as

652
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,079
businesses is golf, and then that's what they get. They

653
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:10,480
kind of get that mediocre reaction and mediocre results. So

654
00:34:10,559 --> 00:34:15,199
by switching it to on and off on for event

655
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:20,199
one golf, on for event too, business and vice versa,

656
00:34:20,559 --> 00:34:23,400
that allows them the freedom to actually do one or

657
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,880
the other at the same time. And what they'll find

658
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,159
is that they'll have great they'll play great golf, and

659
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:29,920
the business will take care of itself.

660
00:34:30,079 --> 00:34:32,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, but be careful you if you're going out with

661
00:34:32,559 --> 00:34:36,360
a potential client or potential boss, you don't necessarily want

662
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,199
to play great golf, right, you want to play to

663
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:40,679
their level of golf.

664
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Speaker 3: Right. Well, it's funny because that's another one. I have

665
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,719
to write a whole other book on that one, how

666
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:52,079
to how to play well but not too well.

667
00:34:52,280 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 1: Exactly how to hold back. As everybody is well aware,

668
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,960
golf exposes character in so many ways that you don't

669
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:13,320
see in normal life, how a person handles themselves in situations.

670
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,320
And one of the best pieces of advice I've ever

671
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:21,559
received about the business golf aspect is that you don't

672
00:35:21,639 --> 00:35:25,880
do business on the course. You learn if you want

673
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,480
to do business with that person while on the course,

674
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,760
and then you you know, you see, do they swear?

675
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,719
Do they throw their club? Do they take things in stride?

676
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:36,519
Do they you know, do they cheat?

677
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:37,039
Speaker 3: Right?

678
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,559
Speaker 1: These are things you really need to know before you

679
00:35:39,599 --> 00:35:43,800
go into a business situation with somebody. So then if

680
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,199
you've decided, Okay, this guy's all right, I think that

681
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,880
we could work together, then you do the business in

682
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:54,920
the nineteenth hole and sitting down and having whether you're

683
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,440
having some iced tea or you're having a beer or

684
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,880
you're having mixed drinks. Sitting down at a round of

685
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:06,599
golf with people after the round is so interesting. How

686
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,639
you get people to open up quickly.

687
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 3: Wow, yeah, and it's fun. This is for all the

688
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,480
folks that have been reluctant to take up the game

689
00:36:15,519 --> 00:36:21,119
of golf and because they're fearful of embarrassment or so

690
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,840
forth not being as good as their fellow colleagues. But

691
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,480
what we teach people is that it doesn't have to

692
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,519
be that way. You can separate it into two separate events.

693
00:36:30,599 --> 00:36:33,639
When you're playing quote unquote business golf, and I call

694
00:36:33,679 --> 00:36:37,159
it event one golf and event two business. So when

695
00:36:37,159 --> 00:36:39,519
it's time to hit your shot, that's the event one.

696
00:36:39,639 --> 00:36:43,400
Focus on playing the best golf, hitting the best shot possible.

697
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,159
Once you hit your shot, the SHOT's done, then you

698
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,199
go back to event two, which is business. And then

699
00:36:49,199 --> 00:36:51,320
you can go back to just you know, talking with

700
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,800
your client or with your boss about whatever may be

701
00:36:55,119 --> 00:36:58,039
the topic at hand. And that way it separates the two.

702
00:36:58,119 --> 00:36:59,559
You don't feel like you have to mess it, and

703
00:36:59,559 --> 00:37:02,920
you can separate actually playing some pretty good golf and

704
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,639
having fun and separate that and still have a good business.

705
00:37:06,679 --> 00:37:08,280
Event while you're on the golf course.

706
00:37:08,599 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: All right, let's go part two. All right, yeah yeah,

707
00:37:11,559 --> 00:37:13,840
let's move to part two. Now we're talking about your

708
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,119
play on the course. And again this is all from

709
00:37:16,119 --> 00:37:19,280
the Frustrated Golfer's Handbook, which is available in the Golfers

710
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:25,800
Mart number thirty. How to Sink Putts from any distance.

711
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 4: Yeah right, Well it's funny because this is the one

712
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:36,320
This is the the part of the game where I

713
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:37,360
tell people.

714
00:37:37,639 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 3: That technically you can make a shot from any distance.

715
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: Technically, not if you're trying.

716
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:51,159
Speaker 3: That's the problem. That's the problem. You try too are

717
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,880
that you kind of start putting walls up, So even

718
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,719
if you have a hundred foot putt, technically the ball

719
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,400
could go in the hole. So that around that possibility

720
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,119
is what people need to keep, you know, that inkling

721
00:38:04,119 --> 00:38:06,960
of possibility is what people need to be open to.

722
00:38:07,519 --> 00:38:09,880
And one of the most important things that you know,

723
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,159
and I work with people on this all the time,

724
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,079
is so you know, I often ask them before they

725
00:38:14,159 --> 00:38:17,000
hit a putt, you know, what do you want? And

726
00:38:17,679 --> 00:38:20,360
I get the funniest answers. A lot of people say, well,

727
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,039
I just want to you know, hit it in the

728
00:38:23,079 --> 00:38:25,119
general in that direction, or they'll say I don't want

729
00:38:25,119 --> 00:38:26,440
a three putt, or I just want to get it

730
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,719
within ten feet of the hole or five feet a

731
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,079
hole or three feet of the hole. I go, why

732
00:38:31,079 --> 00:38:32,840
don't you just want to get the ball in the hole.

733
00:38:33,639 --> 00:38:36,119
That's the whole point of the game, right, isn't that

734
00:38:36,159 --> 00:38:37,760
a thrill? They go, and then they think about it,

735
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,000
and I go, yeah, I want to get the ball

736
00:38:40,039 --> 00:38:42,039
in the hole. So that's what we started with, is like,

737
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,199
you can make any putt from any distance. And that's

738
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:52,000
the big revelation that I want people to understand or experience,

739
00:38:52,119 --> 00:38:55,559
just that the possibility that you can make any putt

740
00:38:55,599 --> 00:38:58,960
from any distance. So this exercise starts with that premise,

741
00:38:59,599 --> 00:39:02,719
and this this mental golf trick, and it's how to

742
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,119
sing putts from any distances. And it's what I call

743
00:39:05,199 --> 00:39:08,320
the spiral exercise. So a lot of times when I

744
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,960
see people warm up for around, you know, they hit

745
00:39:11,039 --> 00:39:12,880
maybe hit a few balls, or they'll just go to

746
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,719
the putting green and sometimes they'll drop the ball and

747
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,039
they'll be, you know, fifty feet from the hole and

748
00:39:19,039 --> 00:39:22,519
they'll start blackened putts. And I say, if you want

749
00:39:22,599 --> 00:39:27,000
to build the confidence that you want when you're on

750
00:39:27,039 --> 00:39:31,320
the golf course. Start small, okay, So start your first

751
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:35,920
putt from about six inches okay, and step up and

752
00:39:36,079 --> 00:39:39,400
knock that ball in the hole. Then with this exercise,

753
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,280
you're going to spiral your way out, so you're going

754
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,280
to move it out to a foot, but move it

755
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,920
over to the side, okay. So you're going to be

756
00:39:47,119 --> 00:39:52,920
making sort of like a conk shell, making a nautilus shell,

757
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,760
if you will, around the hole. So you'll hit one

758
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:57,320
from a foot and then you'll move it out to

759
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,280
a foot and a half moving around the hole, then

760
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,039
to two feet two and a half. And you'll find

761
00:40:03,079 --> 00:40:06,719
that by doing this exercise, by starting with a six

762
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,760
inch putt and then working your way up gradually, before

763
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,440
you'll know it, you'll be hitting putts from any distance.

764
00:40:14,039 --> 00:40:17,800
And this is an excellent, excellent exercise to number one,

765
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,840
build your confidence, but realize that you can strike a

766
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,840
putt from any distance and do well. This is also

767
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:27,039
a great exercise for those people. And when I say

768
00:40:27,039 --> 00:40:30,519
those people, I mean everybody. Every golfer. Is that everybody

769
00:40:30,599 --> 00:40:34,440
has what we call that, for lack of a better term,

770
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:38,000
the burp zone, that zone of putts in which we

771
00:40:38,199 --> 00:40:41,159
have some type of mental hurdles. So for a lot

772
00:40:41,199 --> 00:40:43,880
of people, it's that four to six foot range. Anything

773
00:40:44,039 --> 00:40:46,000
inside four feet they can just go ahead and step

774
00:40:46,079 --> 00:40:49,039
up and they feel pretty confidence. Anything beyond that six

775
00:40:49,079 --> 00:40:53,079
foot range, you know, they hit And I think why

776
00:40:53,119 --> 00:40:56,920
they have this burp zone, if you will, is it

777
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,840
has to do with expectations. So for a lot of

778
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,760
peop anything inside four feet they're like, yeah, that's close enough,

779
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,639
I know I can make that. And then anything beyond

780
00:41:05,679 --> 00:41:08,039
six feet they say, well, I'm just going to go

781
00:41:08,119 --> 00:41:10,840
for it because there's really no it could go in.

782
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:12,760
It could not. But then at four to six they

783
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:14,679
start to get, you know, kind of hazy. They're like,

784
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,280
I should make this, I should be making this, and

785
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,159
they get a little tense and a little nervous. So

786
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,199
this spiral exercise, by just going in six engines increments

787
00:41:23,199 --> 00:41:27,079
around the hole will shatter that little bourb zone of yours.

788
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,039
So try it out there. I know a lot of

789
00:41:29,039 --> 00:41:31,760
people will experience that on the golf course. Try this

790
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,679
on the putting green and you'll see how how amazing

791
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,280
it is for you to hit puts from again any distance.

792
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,360
So when you see this thing puts from any distance,

793
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,960
I mean I don't mean just long distances. I mean

794
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,440
also in that little burb zone as well, and that

795
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:47,760
is really powerful for the you know, the low to

796
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,199
mid handicapper that experiences that a few times every round

797
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:51,599
the golf.

798
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: Okay, now I got it. I'm not going to go

799
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:59,000
on to a chapter forty eight how to go from

800
00:41:59,079 --> 00:42:01,800
ranged course. We just did an episode, whole episode with

801
00:42:02,159 --> 00:42:06,840
Ken Doherty on that, but I you know, talking about

802
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,880
going from the range to the course and on hitting

803
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:13,320
every putt from any distance. I did something this weekend

804
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:15,599
that I've never done before that worked, I thought worked

805
00:42:15,679 --> 00:42:18,159
very well for me. And the testimony of that is

806
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,239
this round that I played the other day. I had

807
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,559
thirty putts in a round and I was very happy.

808
00:42:25,599 --> 00:42:28,480
That's a really good round of putting for me. And

809
00:42:28,519 --> 00:42:31,440
I shot in eighty four. But the round before that,

810
00:42:31,559 --> 00:42:34,239
I shot in eighty eight and I had forty putts,

811
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,079
and I was really upset with myself. There was too

812
00:42:37,119 --> 00:42:39,960
many three putts going on, and you know, no one putts,

813
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:44,119
no up and downs. So before this round that I

814
00:42:44,159 --> 00:42:47,039
had the thirty putts, I was on the putting green

815
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,119
warming up before the round, and my playing partner came

816
00:42:51,119 --> 00:42:52,679
over and I said, and he took a couple and

817
00:42:52,679 --> 00:42:55,000
I said, all right, you know what, it's so hard

818
00:42:55,119 --> 00:42:59,000
to really focus on what it feels like to putt

819
00:42:59,039 --> 00:43:00,760
here on the putting green when you got four balls.

820
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,800
So here's what I want to do. Putting on the

821
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,920
putting green. There's always pressure to try to get it in.

822
00:43:07,119 --> 00:43:09,800
So let's have some pressure. So let's just pick a hole.

823
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,920
We each get three balls. You shot, shoot, I'll shoot,

824
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,800
you shoot, but make a competition out of it. Put

825
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,679
some pressure on it on the practice putting green. And

826
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,239
boy did that translate to for me on the on

827
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:21,719
the course.

828
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,559
Speaker 3: Well, it's one of those it's one of the exercise

829
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,440
practice the way you want to play. Yeah, yeah, practice

830
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,679
way you want to play. So a lot of times

831
00:43:31,679 --> 00:43:34,639
you'll see folks, you know, on the driving range. They'll grab,

832
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,400
you know, that that big megabucket of one hundred and

833
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,400
fifty ball and they'll just start whacking away like a

834
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,079
machine gun. And I'm like, you know, how often do

835
00:43:43,119 --> 00:43:46,800
you get to hit balls on the golf course like that? Right? Never? Right?

836
00:43:47,079 --> 00:43:49,239
So I say every now and then, you know, there's

837
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:52,960
tients start doing drills and working on different skills. Step

838
00:43:53,039 --> 00:43:55,679
back behind a ball on the driving range and imagine

839
00:43:55,679 --> 00:43:58,159
you're on the golf course. Put yourself, you know, in

840
00:43:58,159 --> 00:44:00,000
your frame of mind as if you're on the golf

841
00:44:00,079 --> 00:44:03,239
of course, and go through your pre shot ritual and

842
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,719
strike that ball as if you're playing same thing on

843
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:09,719
the putting green, saying, you know, the the biggest thing

844
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,559
that you hear these little kids, you know, they say,

845
00:44:11,679 --> 00:44:14,119
you know, they talk themselves as if they're in a situation.

846
00:44:14,199 --> 00:44:16,639
Here I am on the seventy second hole at the

847
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,800
Augusta Nasenaal. You know, the whole Bill Murray thing, right,

848
00:44:21,519 --> 00:44:24,119
But there is a certain element of putting yourself in

849
00:44:24,159 --> 00:44:27,800
those situations. And and you know, I think if you

850
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:31,559
ask every great athlete, the top athletes of all time,

851
00:44:32,639 --> 00:44:35,960
if you interview them in any sport, you say, you know,

852
00:44:36,199 --> 00:44:38,679
what did you do as a kid? Did you and

853
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,960
they'll eat Everyone will probably have a story of I

854
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:46,679
imagine myself I was the broadcaster explaining, you know, creating

855
00:44:46,679 --> 00:44:49,360
the situation, and they put themselves in this situation. A

856
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,039
five seconds left on the clock, down by two, going down,

857
00:44:53,119 --> 00:44:55,320
dribbling down in the corner, hid putting up to you know,

858
00:44:56,039 --> 00:44:59,280
the three pointer as the buzzer is going off swiss.

859
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,639
You know, you put yourself in those situations and that's

860
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:05,119
yeah exactly, the crowd goes off same being in golf.

861
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,320
So creating those situations on the putting green, whether you're

862
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,079
when you're with a buddy, you can you know play,

863
00:45:10,199 --> 00:45:12,719
you know match just like you said, hit three balls,

864
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:17,000
put a little pressure, you bet against yourself and that

865
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:22,559
that kind of helps you experience what you would experience

866
00:45:22,559 --> 00:45:25,480
on the golf course before getting out there. And then

867
00:45:25,559 --> 00:45:26,920
that's one of the things that I think a lot

868
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,559
of people do, uh that that throws them off, is

869
00:45:29,559 --> 00:45:33,559
they don't get in those situations prior or in practice,

870
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:37,400
and so they're experiencing it for the first time on

871
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,280
the golf course. So what you talked about there with

872
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,159
your buddy is perfect. It kind of sets you up

873
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,119
to actually practice the way you want to play, and

874
00:45:47,159 --> 00:45:48,519
it gives you the tools to do it.

875
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:57,800
Speaker 1: How can you actually get away with writing a chapter

876
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:02,440
called how to shoot your best score? You know, it's like, oh,

877
00:46:02,639 --> 00:46:05,000
today was my best score. I didn't even realize it

878
00:46:05,079 --> 00:46:06,960
until I looked at my scorecard. Because if I look

879
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,800
at my scorecard, I'll never hit my best score.

880
00:46:11,599 --> 00:46:13,639
Speaker 3: Well, It's funny because you know, how to show your

881
00:46:13,639 --> 00:46:17,159
best score is all about being in the moment for

882
00:46:17,199 --> 00:46:20,320
each and every shot, and I think that's really powerful.

883
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:25,000
And how you do it is a lot of times

884
00:46:25,519 --> 00:46:28,760
that best score is already there. You know. The old

885
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:32,440
at is. I had a teacher once we all showed

886
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,559
up the first day and and and she said, Okay,

887
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:41,440
everybody here right now has an A. Everyone has a hundred, right,

888
00:46:42,079 --> 00:46:47,000
and everyone starts that way, and now it's your your

889
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,679
goal to keep it right. And that's what I tell

890
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:54,000
people when they play golf is think about that best

891
00:46:54,079 --> 00:46:59,039
round you've ever played. Think about that best hole you've played,

892
00:46:59,119 --> 00:47:01,280
or that playing a real good hole, or hitting that

893
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:05,239
great shot. You've already done it. You have that in

894
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:09,760
your hip pockets. Okay, it's now just allowing it to

895
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:13,880
happen again, because if you did it once, that to

896
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,880
me shows that you're capable of doing it again. So

897
00:47:17,119 --> 00:47:19,719
how to shoot your best round is realizing that you

898
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,639
are you can already do it, and you've already done it.

899
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:25,559
So that one is number forty nine. I believe it is.

900
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,039
And it's like the go to sleep. And that's that's

901
00:47:28,039 --> 00:47:32,079
what I talked about earlier today, isn't that if you're

902
00:47:32,119 --> 00:47:35,000
playing around the next day, when you go to bed

903
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:38,840
the night before, imagine that you've already shot that that

904
00:47:39,039 --> 00:47:43,639
great roalm that you're capable of shooting. So visualization is

905
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,800
all it is, is simply imagining yourself doing something. So

906
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,199
imagine yourself on the first t if it's of course

907
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:52,039
you've played, if it's your home course, or you're familiar

908
00:47:52,039 --> 00:47:54,800
with it, getting on that first tee teeing it up,

909
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,480
seeing where you want that ball to end up, hitting

910
00:47:57,519 --> 00:48:00,639
that perfect drive and then going to know your where

911
00:48:00,679 --> 00:48:03,320
you're fall ends up grabbing that eight iron and hitting

912
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,840
that perfect shot right to the to the to the

913
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,280
green and making the putt. So go through each and

914
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:13,400
every shot one by one in your mind, and what

915
00:48:13,519 --> 00:48:15,880
it does is you realize that, yeah, I can do this,

916
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,559
I can hit good shots, I can play great golf,

917
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:20,840
and it's already there. I just need to go out

918
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:23,440
and let myself do it. And that's what I mean

919
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,519
by how to get you know, shoot your best score well.

920
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:31,519
Speaker 1: Playing with confidence. It's the It's the I found to

921
00:48:31,559 --> 00:48:34,280
be the greatest thing for any round of golf if

922
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:39,599
you're playing with confidence. And what Jim Waldron calls positive indifference.

923
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:43,599
You know, it's like if you put pressure on it.

924
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,719
You know you're confident, but if you put pressure on it,

925
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:48,559
it's not going to go in. It's those shots where

926
00:48:48,559 --> 00:48:50,400
you're just like, I don't care anymore, and of course

927
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,599
it drops in. So the positive but the confidence is huge,

928
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:55,599
and it is sport.

929
00:48:56,760 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 3: And I think it's it's confidence in that because sometimes

930
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:04,039
it's one of those things where you show up the

931
00:49:04,039 --> 00:49:07,360
golf course one day and first whatever reason, your muscles,

932
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,840
your coordination, it's not firing on all cylinders. Okay, maybe

933
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,679
it just didn't have a great night's sleep, maybe you're

934
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,199
sore from you know, working out a couple of days ago,

935
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:20,199
or maybe just you know, it's one of those days

936
00:49:20,199 --> 00:49:22,440
things just aren't in sync. But you can go out

937
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:26,519
there with the right mental frame, Like you said, confidence

938
00:49:26,559 --> 00:49:30,199
in your game. That is what keeps you going until

939
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:33,440
everything starts to sagnight. So a lot of times when

940
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,360
you're playing golf, you might be kind of just puttering along,

941
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:40,000
no pun intended there, and you're not striking the ball

942
00:49:40,039 --> 00:49:45,760
too well, you're not scoring great, but knowing knowing that

943
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:52,119
you're capable of in any moment everything. Switching with one

944
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:59,639
swing is a huge, huge confidence builder. So again, let's

945
00:49:59,639 --> 00:50:02,719
say you're playing on a Saturday and you're really excited

946
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:04,760
about your round. You've done all you know you want

947
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,480
to do, you visualize, you do the practice, you're really

948
00:50:07,559 --> 00:50:10,760
pumped up, but you're just not scoring or you're not

949
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,960
hitting the ball as well as you'd like. Have the

950
00:50:14,039 --> 00:50:17,480
confidence to realize that with just one shot and it

951
00:50:17,519 --> 00:50:20,880
could be the next shot, it could all change. Because

952
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,920
eighteen holes over a four hour period, or you know,

953
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,119
one shot is just one shot, You're going to have

954
00:50:26,119 --> 00:50:29,039
a lot of opportunities. So be confident in that and

955
00:50:29,079 --> 00:50:32,719
trust your game that and be patient and it will come.

956
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:37,440
And if you have that patience, and I think that's

957
00:50:37,519 --> 00:50:42,480
what a lot of the season players on tour, you know,

958
00:50:42,519 --> 00:50:45,039
they have that patience that if they're not striking the

959
00:50:45,039 --> 00:50:48,119
ball great and they're not scoring great, that if they

960
00:50:48,159 --> 00:50:51,159
stay with their game plan, it will all fall into

961
00:50:51,199 --> 00:50:53,280
place eventually. And that's the one Those are the ones

962
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,920
that succeed. And the same thing goes for the weekend golfer.

963
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,400
If you can just know that with that one swing

964
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,000
that it could be the next one, you could change everything.

965
00:51:03,079 --> 00:51:05,960
Just like that snap of a finger. That's enough to

966
00:51:06,119 --> 00:51:08,360
keep people coming back, I think, and staying on their

967
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:08,840
game plan.

968
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:13,159
Speaker 1: You mentioned that when you start with a new student,

969
00:51:13,199 --> 00:51:17,320
you ask them what they want to accomplish. What are

970
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:18,719
the answers that you generally get?

971
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:24,519
Speaker 3: Oh, within the game or within a shot? No. No.

972
00:51:24,639 --> 00:51:27,159
Speaker 1: For a new student, when you ask them, what is

973
00:51:27,199 --> 00:51:30,119
it that you want to accomplish by taking a lesson

974
00:51:30,159 --> 00:51:34,039
with me, Yeah, you'll probably hear the same answers over

975
00:51:34,079 --> 00:51:35,079
and over, I'm sure.

976
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 3: Well, a lot of people, it depends on their level

977
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,920
of play. If they're a beginner and they just started

978
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:48,719
a lot of them just want to feel confidence. You know,

979
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,719
you've talked about confidence. They want to feel that they

980
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:56,079
can go up there and enjoy the game and feel

981
00:51:56,119 --> 00:51:59,239
comfortable in what they're doing. So for them, what we

982
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,119
do for beginners we teach.

983
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,800
Speaker 1: Them Yeah, sorry, it ain't gonna happen.

984
00:52:07,119 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 3: Well, I think you know, acknowledging what what you want

985
00:52:10,679 --> 00:52:12,559
is have to battle because a lot of people don't

986
00:52:12,599 --> 00:52:15,199
know what they want and they're just kind of floating about.

987
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,280
And I'm not talking about just golf and just life

988
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:19,639
in general. So if someone says, you know, they come

989
00:52:19,679 --> 00:52:21,960
to me, and I asked that question and they haven't

990
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,440
answered that. I know they're halfway there because they have

991
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,559
an idea of where they want to go. So if

992
00:52:26,599 --> 00:52:28,400
they say, you know, I just want to feel comfortable

993
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,000
out there. I want to go out and play with

994
00:52:30,039 --> 00:52:32,000
friends and not embarrass myself. I want to be able

995
00:52:32,039 --> 00:52:34,239
to go out and play, you know, those tournaments at

996
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:37,280
work and have a good time and not feel nervous

997
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:41,159
and so forth. I tell those folks that you already

998
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:44,000
own your game. And this is the big thing, is

999
00:52:44,039 --> 00:52:47,440
that you own your swing. And those swings are no

1000
00:52:47,519 --> 00:52:50,400
two swings in the world are like. So the key

1001
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:53,239
to you and enjoying this game for you know, and

1002
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:56,519
developing the confidence is to realize that is that this

1003
00:52:56,639 --> 00:52:59,239
is your game, this is how you experience it, and

1004
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:03,960
that is aasketball. It sets the tone. So people oftentimes

1005
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:06,880
when they take a lesson and whatever, they often look

1006
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:12,159
to the coach instructor to tell them what to do.

1007
00:53:13,159 --> 00:53:16,039
And our philosophy is different. We don't tell you what

1008
00:53:16,159 --> 00:53:19,199
to do. We are there to guide you. We see

1009
00:53:19,199 --> 00:53:22,079
ourselves as coaches, and what great coaches do is they

1010
00:53:22,079 --> 00:53:25,599
bring out the potential in their players or in their students.

1011
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,760
They don't tell them what to do per se. They

1012
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:31,280
just bring out their potential. And that's what our goal is.

1013
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:33,559
And when I say potentially, it means what are you

1014
00:53:33,679 --> 00:53:37,519
capable of achieving and finding the way that gets you

1015
00:53:38,039 --> 00:53:41,679
from where you are now your level to that is

1016
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:45,679
all about giving you that motivation, the belief that you

1017
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:50,239
can achieve it, and to realize that this is your game,

1018
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:54,639
this is your experience when you're out there, so you

1019
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,320
get to create what you want to create. And so

1020
00:53:57,559 --> 00:54:01,199
we don't get fundamental in terms of telling you exactly

1021
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:03,920
how to do things. It's all about creating what works

1022
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,880
best for you. And I oftentimes bring up you know,

1023
00:54:07,039 --> 00:54:11,679
certain individuals out there with swings that are unorthodox quote unquote.

1024
00:54:11,679 --> 00:54:13,239
If you look at the you know, if you put

1025
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:16,480
hook people up to a computer and Jim Furick, you

1026
00:54:16,519 --> 00:54:19,239
go back to Arnold Palmer. You know, a lot of

1027
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:22,679
these swings are not quote unquote technically sound, but they

1028
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:25,719
work for the individual. So I tell people, find your

1029
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:29,119
swing that fits you, own the game, and you're going

1030
00:54:29,159 --> 00:54:31,119
to have fun with this for the rest of your life.

1031
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:33,440
So that's one of the questions that I often get

1032
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:37,920
from the beginners, from the lower handicaps are more more

1033
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:42,559
established players that are you know, stuck at their kind

1034
00:54:42,559 --> 00:54:46,920
of that barrier, that one ninety eighty seventy barrier. They

1035
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,800
asked me, I really want to get you know, what

1036
00:54:49,559 --> 00:54:50,920
do you what do you want? And they say, well,

1037
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,480
I want to break through those those barriers. And a

1038
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:57,199
lot of times those are our mental barriers. And so

1039
00:54:57,239 --> 00:54:59,679
what I tell people is that don't think about it

1040
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:03,440
as I'm going to break through the seventy or the

1041
00:55:03,519 --> 00:55:07,239
eighty or the ninety mark. Just focus on what your

1042
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:09,440
end goal is. And your end goal is to play

1043
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:13,039
spectacular golf, to have fun out there, to hit great shots,

1044
00:55:13,599 --> 00:55:16,079
and then the scorers will take care of themselves. I

1045
00:55:16,079 --> 00:55:18,039
think when people get hung up, you know, they maybe

1046
00:55:18,079 --> 00:55:20,920
have that great front front nine, they're you know, and

1047
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:22,719
they go, oh, I'm going to do it, and then

1048
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:27,039
they start to self sabotage. And how many times have

1049
00:55:27,159 --> 00:55:29,119
people have we all done that? You know, I'm not

1050
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:30,920
just in golf, but in life. It's like we get

1051
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,039
in a momentum and we're going and then we say, oh,

1052
00:55:33,199 --> 00:55:35,360
wait a minute, this is not supposed to be happening, right.

1053
00:55:35,559 --> 00:55:38,679
So I tell people just focus on you know, the

1054
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:42,199
goal in mind is there. It's always there to shoot

1055
00:55:42,199 --> 00:55:43,920
that personal best score. But a lot of people shoot

1056
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:45,639
that best score when they're not thinking about the score.

1057
00:55:45,679 --> 00:55:48,920
They're just gone, they're hitting great shots. And you know,

1058
00:55:49,039 --> 00:55:55,280
Rory at the British Open talked about it inner peace right.

1059
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:57,400
He wasn't even thinking about the score. He's just going

1060
00:55:57,679 --> 00:56:01,000
enjoying his time out there and everything was falling apart.

1061
00:56:01,079 --> 00:56:03,239
And a lot of the great golfers when they play

1062
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:06,760
those great rounds or great tournaments, talk about that rather

1063
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:07,960
than how they're striking the ball.

1064
00:56:08,079 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: Well, no, everything was falling into place, not falling apart.

1065
00:56:11,599 --> 00:56:13,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, the strike falling in play, Yeah.

1066
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:14,280
Speaker 1: Exactly, exactly.

1067
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:14,440
Speaker 3: No.

1068
00:56:14,599 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 1: I was thinking that most people, and it brought me

1069
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:19,880
to chapter twenty six, is that most people would come

1070
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,840
to you and say I want more distance, And.

1071
00:56:24,159 --> 00:56:29,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's this is obsession with distance, and I think

1072
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:33,840
it's it's funny because whether you know you hit a

1073
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:36,519
shot two hundred and eighty yards or you hit a

1074
00:56:36,559 --> 00:56:41,079
putt two inches, it still counts as one stroke. It

1075
00:56:41,079 --> 00:56:43,079
doesn't matter how you end up with the strokes on

1076
00:56:43,119 --> 00:56:47,239
your score scorecard. You know, they're all the same. So

1077
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:50,599
I tell people that if you want distance, and distance

1078
00:56:50,679 --> 00:56:52,159
is a part of the game, no doubt. You know,

1079
00:56:52,199 --> 00:56:53,920
you need to get it from you know A to

1080
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:56,559
B and often sometimes it's you know, for three, four

1081
00:56:56,599 --> 00:56:59,519
or five hundred yards now six hundred yard long hold.

1082
00:57:00,119 --> 00:57:05,199
So how to get more distance is by establishing this

1083
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:09,440
really strong foundation. And it relates to the balance that

1084
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,239
we talked about earlier today. But I tell people that

1085
00:57:12,599 --> 00:57:16,000
a lot of times they think, oh, to get more,

1086
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:19,960
I have to swing harder, and sometimes when you swing harder,

1087
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,920
you don't get the same connection with the ball. And

1088
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:26,079
so you can swing as hard as you want, you

1089
00:57:26,079 --> 00:57:29,000
can get maximum clubhead speeds for you. But if you

1090
00:57:29,079 --> 00:57:32,519
hit the toe of the club the ball, you know,

1091
00:57:32,519 --> 00:57:34,159
with the toe of the club, it's not going to

1092
00:57:34,239 --> 00:57:35,960
go where you want it to go and certainly not

1093
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:37,840
going to have the distance you want. So all I

1094
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,639
tell people is that instead of trying to swing a

1095
00:57:40,679 --> 00:57:45,639
certain way or do anything other that you know that

1096
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:48,639
tightens you up ortenses you up. I just tell people

1097
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:51,960
simple thing, batter up. And if you're familiar with baseball

1098
00:57:52,079 --> 00:57:55,199
or softball, whenever you watch a batter go to the plate,

1099
00:57:55,639 --> 00:57:59,360
you see them really establishing a really strong foundation. You

1100
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,119
see them kind of kicking their feet into the dirt,

1101
00:58:02,159 --> 00:58:05,760
digging in, really getting a strong foundation, and that sets

1102
00:58:06,079 --> 00:58:09,199
the stage for them to make a good swing. So

1103
00:58:09,239 --> 00:58:12,000
I tell people when they're setting up, imagine as you're

1104
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:14,320
setting up to the near shot, if you're right handed,

1105
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:17,639
you know, planting that right foot in the ground like

1106
00:58:17,679 --> 00:58:20,840
you're like a batter in a batter's box and really

1107
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,320
getting that strong foundation, and vice versa for a lefty

1108
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:26,000
planning in that left foot, and just by doing that,

1109
00:58:26,119 --> 00:58:32,239
you're establishing a really strong foundation, a very strong set.

1110
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:35,440
If you will set point where you're really strong from

1111
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:39,880
the waist down, and that will generate a lot of

1112
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:44,039
power for you. Another example is why do we need that?

1113
00:58:44,159 --> 00:58:48,199
People ask, well, if you didn't use your lower body

1114
00:58:48,239 --> 00:58:51,079
and you just swung, you know, with your upper body,

1115
00:58:51,599 --> 00:58:53,400
and try to sometimes where you just set your from

1116
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:55,480
your waist down, don't move your body and just swing

1117
00:58:55,519 --> 00:58:57,960
with at your upper body, you'll realize, Wow, I don't

1118
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,760
really have a whole lot of moment them going here,

1119
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:02,519
I don't really have a whole lot of power. If

1120
00:59:02,559 --> 00:59:06,400
you will, if you're just using your arms, where most

1121
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:09,280
of your power emanates is from the lower part of

1122
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:13,840
your body, and so that foundation is everything. It goes

1123
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:15,639
back to, you know, the house is only as strong

1124
00:59:15,679 --> 00:59:18,280
as it foundation. Same thing for the golf swing. So

1125
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:20,800
if you want to get more distanced, don't worry about

1126
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:25,239
swinging harder anything like that. Just establish that stronger foundation

1127
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:28,199
by matching your batter in the batter's box. And it

1128
00:59:28,239 --> 00:59:30,480
has a really powerful effect just by doing that.

1129
00:59:36,679 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 1: We've gone through eleven chapters of the fifty chapter book,

1130
00:59:41,039 --> 00:59:46,800
and again it's The Frustrated Golfer's Handbook by Darren g

1131
00:59:47,639 --> 00:59:51,400
And I need to ask you to wrap up this one.

1132
00:59:52,039 --> 00:59:59,119
I can't imagine how big your golf balls are. To

1133
00:59:59,159 --> 01:00:02,880
make a statement an invitation like this, chapter number five

1134
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:07,440
how to shoot a hole in one? Really, you're really

1135
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:10,440
going to ice on how to shoot a hole in one? Yeah?

1136
01:00:10,679 --> 01:00:17,760
It is like so totally lucky. Yeah, it's so random.

1137
01:00:18,079 --> 01:00:20,280
Oh yeah, but I'm talking a hole in one from

1138
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:23,400
tea to the hole, not just is hitting the butt.

1139
01:00:25,239 --> 01:00:28,920
Explain yourself, sir, what do you mean by chapter number

1140
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:31,360
five how to make a hole and how to shoot

1141
01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:31,960
a hole in one?

1142
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 3: Well, I think a lot of folks, it's it's really

1143
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:39,079
two things that we're looking at, is it goes back

1144
01:00:39,119 --> 01:00:44,119
to the realm of what's possible and what you're capable

1145
01:00:44,159 --> 01:00:48,880
of doing. And so number one is to realize that, yes,

1146
01:00:49,199 --> 01:00:52,480
you can shoot a hole in one. Okay, a lot

1147
01:00:52,519 --> 01:00:54,679
of people say, oh never, I can and I can't

1148
01:00:54,679 --> 01:00:56,679
make that. But I can't make that shot. I go

1149
01:00:56,800 --> 01:00:58,719
there is a possibility when you step up to the

1150
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:02,039
tee on a par three that you can shoot a

1151
01:01:02,039 --> 01:01:05,239
hole one. So that's number one, is to realize that, yes,

1152
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:07,199
I can do it. And you know, I bring up

1153
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:10,519
my uncle. He has I think thirteen holes in one.

1154
01:01:10,679 --> 01:01:14,480
Oh my god, and yeah, he might be on fourteen

1155
01:01:14,519 --> 01:01:16,760
by now. So if you're out there, let me know

1156
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:20,360
if you've hit number fourteen. He's probably playing golf right now.

1157
01:01:21,239 --> 01:01:24,000
So you know, I asked him, was what do you do?

1158
01:01:24,079 --> 01:01:25,760
He goes, well, you know, there's a lot of luck.

1159
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:29,679
But I don't think that's true because what makes my

1160
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:33,599
uncle so so successful I think in life and in

1161
01:01:33,639 --> 01:01:36,480
golf is that when he steps up to the ball

1162
01:01:36,519 --> 01:01:38,960
and I've played with him, I've watched him, there's a

1163
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:45,079
certain level of focus that he believes that he could

1164
01:01:45,239 --> 01:01:47,840
get the ball in the hole. I mean you could

1165
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:50,000
see it in him, in his body language and how

1166
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:52,119
he looked at the hole. I mean, he's not just

1167
01:01:52,119 --> 01:01:53,679
stepping up there and swinging. A lot of times we

1168
01:01:53,719 --> 01:01:55,320
step up and go I just want to hit, I

1169
01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:57,039
just want to get good contact. I just want to swing.

1170
01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:01,119
He actually says. I believe he says to him when

1171
01:02:01,119 --> 01:02:04,840
I look at him in the way his body language speaks,

1172
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:07,280
is this ball is going to go in the hole.

1173
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:10,559
So that's part of it right there. And then how

1174
01:02:10,599 --> 01:02:12,920
do you actually do it? So it goes from the

1175
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:16,880
realm of yes, I could make a home one too,

1176
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:20,159
how is it going to happen? So what do you do?

1177
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:23,400
Is what I call shrinking the green. Okay, you look

1178
01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:27,119
at a green. It's a big, big space that you

1179
01:02:27,159 --> 01:02:28,880
could land the ball in. And a lot of times

1180
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:30,360
people say, I just want to get out on the green.

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I tell him, let's get more specific. Okay, Shrinking that

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green means that they move the flag to different parts

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of a putting green, if you will, or of a

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green on a golf course. So wherever that pin is,

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wherever the hole is located, I want you to shrink

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the green so that it is a relative part of

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the game. So that means the area surrounding that hole. Okay,

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And if you were just let's I'll give you a

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more simple exit. Let's say you're playing to a green

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that is basically you know, circle, and the flag is

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in the back left of the green. I would tell

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people to take if you were to take a ten,

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if you will, and draw a line, draw a little

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cross on that green to making four quadrants, if you will,

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and that ten happens to be in the upper left quadrant.

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When you're looking at the whole, I want you to

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shrink the green as if it's just that quadrant, okay.

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And what that does is it takes your focus from

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being a very wide area to a more specific area,

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the area around the whole. And with practice, that area

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can get smaller and smaller until you're focusing on a

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very small part of the green. Eventually, even if you're

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really good at this and we practice just the whole,

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and if you talk to you know, again, a lot

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of the pro players, a lot of the single digit

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haandic capains, that's what they're doing when they're out there,

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when they're talking to their caddies, they're not talking about

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hitting the green. They're talking about the specific areas that

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they want to land that ball, and they're creating quadrants

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and some are actually making even smaller spots. So when

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I say how to shoot a whole one, what I'm

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talking about is shrinking your green from wide, a wide

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01:04:24,199 --> 01:04:27,719
area of possibilities to a more focused area of where

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that ball could go. And what that does is it

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allows you to really start to emphasize in your mind

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as well as when you're hitting your shots. It's getting

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the ball where you ultimately want it to go, and

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that's in the hole. And I want everyone who shoots

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the hole in one after listening to this to email

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me and let me know, because I'm trying to keep

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track of who's who's doing it and who's not.

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Speaker 1: Oh awesome, Yeah, I'm right to me. I'd love to

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hear about your I mean, I have people writing for

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me all the time reporting on how their game's going.

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But yeah, you get a whole in one, Definitely want

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to hear about it. Definitely want to hear about it. Well, well, Darren,

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it's been great to have you back on the show again.

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If for Golf Smarter members who want to hear more

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01:05:07,719 --> 01:05:11,559
about your writing and your teaching, Episode number eighty four

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01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:14,440
and then a two parter episode number two hundred twenty

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01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:17,000
three and two hundred and twenty four. Those are from

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01:05:17,039 --> 01:05:20,599
twenty ten and the other one was two thousand and seven.

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But it is great to have you back on the.

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Speaker 3: Show, really so wonderful, Fret, and I look forward to

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seeing I look forward to seeing you and and all

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01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:33,480
the listeners out here on the Big Island. August fourth,

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twenty fifteen, we'll meet at our two locations here on

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the Big Island, one at the Monicaya Resort, another at

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01:05:41,119 --> 01:05:43,639
the Big Island Country Club, and that's where we'll do

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the fifth five hundred episode of Golf Smarter. Looking forward

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01:05:48,039 --> 01:05:48,280
to it.