WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:05.000 Golf Smarter number four hundred and forty seven, originally published 2 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:07.559 on July twenty ninth, twenty fourteen. 3 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:12.800 Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain 4 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:16.399 insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the 5 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:22.440 Golf Smarter podcast. Great Golf Instruction Never gets Old. Our 6 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:27.320 interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations 7 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:31.000 like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. 8 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:33.679 It goes from the realm of yes, I could make 9 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:36.520 a home one too, how's it going to happen? What 10 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:38.920 do you do? Is what I call shrinking the green. Well, 11 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.079 let's say you're playing to a green that is circle 12 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:45.960 and the flag is in the back left of the green. 13 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:48.320 If you were to draw a little cross on that 14 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:51.560 green to making four quadrants, and that pin happens to 15 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:53.600 be in the upper left quadrant, I want you to 16 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:57.359 shrink the green as if it's just that quadrant. And 17 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:00.600 what that does is it takes your focus from being 18 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:05.560 a very wide area to a more specific area around 19 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:10.120 the whole. And with practice, that area can get smaller 20 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:12.640 and smaller, and so you're focusing on a very small 21 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:14.719 part of the green. Eventually just the. 22 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:23.400 Whole the Frustrated Golfer's Handbook with Darren Gee. 23 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:26.000 This is Golf Smarter. 24 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:29.040 Welcome back to Golf Smarter, Darren. 25 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:30.840 Aloha for Red. How are you? 26 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:34.120 I'm fine and happy to hear aloha again. 27 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:37.840 I wish you were here in Hawaii with me. I 28 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:41.480 could say it in person, but well, that's clear, you're 29 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:44.599 only twenty five hundred miles away, so pop skipping a. 30 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:48.040 Jump my fore would I think that would be just sufficient? 31 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:49.439 Would be the forewood on that one? 32 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:49.799 Yeah? 33 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:52.439 No, I yes, I would love to be there with you, 34 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:55.359 and hopefully someday we will. I would always love to 35 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:58.319 get a group of Golf Smarter listeners to meet me 36 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:01.400 in Hawaii and do the academy with you, and then 37 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:06.359 to go see you know, we have other golf instructors there, 38 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:08.039 and it would just be so much fun to just 39 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:11.000 kind of bounce around taking lessons and playing golf together. 40 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:13.159 All right, let's let's plan on it. 41 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:16.120 All right. Send you letters, click on the hey Fred 42 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:17.919 button if you want to meet me in Hawaii, and 43 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:20.879 we'll figure out a date. Sometimes in twenty fifteen, maybe 44 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:24.759 we'll do episode number five hundred. Ooh, maybe we'll do 45 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:28.960 episode number five hundred and two thousand right island on 46 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:34.199 the Big Island. That would be a trip. Awesome. Oh wow, okay, 47 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:38.560 that's a great idea. Anyway, yeah please, Okay, So folks 48 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:41.879 start writing to me. Now. Episode number five hundred is 49 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:44.639 going to be on August. We're now just about hit August, 50 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:48.120 August fourth, twenty fifteen. It's on a Tuesday. We can 51 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:50.759 record it, we can record it before then, but we'll 52 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:53.840 publish it as number five hundred. And I would love 53 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:57.199 to celebrate with you because it's my birthday. But it 54 00:02:57.199 --> 00:02:59.800 would love to celebrate that with you. So start writing 55 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:01.120 to me and see if we can get a couple 56 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:05.759 of people interested in going to Hawaii together in next summer. Awesome, 57 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:09.840 great idea. Thank you Darren for the invitation. You know 58 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:11.080 you committed to, don't you. 59 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:14.639 I better put that on my calendar somewhere around. 60 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:20.840 Exactly, and we'll get Jim Waldron out there too. So congratulations, 61 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:25.039 you have a new book. We've we've featured the first 62 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:28.240 two books on our in our golfers martt golf smarter 63 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:32.360 dot com. The uh the seven Personalities, the various seven 64 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:36.960 Personalities of golf right the first two, yep, and now 65 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:41.960 you have a new one, which after buzzing through it, 66 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:44.080 and that's the best part about it. You can buzz 67 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:48.479 through this book. It belongs, it really does belong in 68 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:55.560 every golfer's golf bag and in their bathroom. But and 69 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:58.599 I'll tell you why, because so like these, it's a 70 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:02.800 lot of chapters. It's called the Frustrated Golfer's Handbook, which 71 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:06.439 is perfect, and there's a lot of very short chapters 72 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:12.479 and goes directly to the issue. And I I was 73 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:14.800 playing last weekend, I was really struggling. I was upset 74 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:17.800 with myself. And then I got your book that night 75 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:23.560 off of Amazon, and I opened it up and I 76 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:26.279 saw the chapters and wait, wait, that's my problem today. 77 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:29.199 And so I read that chapter in you know, thirty 78 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:31.720 five seconds type thing, and then all of a sudden, 79 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:34.279 the next two rounds, I was back to like, okay, 80 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:40.040 all good again, Thank you, Darren. It was great. So yeah, 81 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:42.639 I talk about the book. 82 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:46.959 Well, the title the kind of sums up the life 83 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.480 of a golfer, The Frustrated Golfer's Handbook. And I think 84 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:54.240 every golfer, whether you are the number one player in 85 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:56.639 the world or you've just picked up a club for 86 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:00.519 the very first time, experiences a bit of rush with 87 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:01.079 this game. 88 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:03.920 At some point, Oh, how generous of you to say a. 89 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:07.720 I've been very kind there. At some point. It might 90 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:10.759 be from the very first swing or so. But you know, 91 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:13.800 I thought to myself, and you know, after working with 92 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:16.279 thousands of golfers at the golf academy, at my golf 93 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:20.399 academy here in Hois, I realize that there is a gap, 94 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:24.399 a gap between what you know you're capable of doing 95 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:29.360 and what you're actually doing. And so the key there 96 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:31.680 is what you're capable of because you've done it before, 97 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:34.639 you've hit that shot, you know your body can do it, 98 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:37.680 but you don't do it every time. So that gap 99 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:41.480 is where the frustration lies. And usually that gap is 100 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:46.240 caused not by the equipment or your actual swing. It's 101 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:49.439 usually a mental thing, a mental error, something that's causing 102 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:53.600 you to tighten that something that's distracting you, something that's 103 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:58.160 causing this turmoil within. And you know, golf is a 104 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.000 funny game. It's the one game where there's really no 105 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:03.720 opponent that's trying to do anything to you in terms 106 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:07.560 of guarding you or distracting you. It's really yourself. And 107 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:10.839 so that's what was the impetus for writing this, And 108 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:14.439 I thought, okay, I love books that explain a lot 109 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:18.560 of detail, but I also like books that can give 110 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:20.600 you the quick fix, you know, something that you can 111 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:23.240 look at and glance and, like you said, in thirty 112 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:27.199 five seconds or less, see what the analyze your issue, 113 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:29.560 say yeah, that's that's what it is, and give you 114 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:33.000 a solution. And that's what this is all about. So 115 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:36.639 it's really designed, like you said to you know, flip 116 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:38.839 through the table of contents front through a book, you 117 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:40.600 can actually just kind of flip through the pages and 118 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:43.279 go to one of the fifty mental golf tricks and 119 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.600 see how it impacts your game. And again it's for 120 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:51.040 low handicappers, it's for pure beginners and everyone in between. 121 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:56.920 And it's two sections, Part one, part two each are 122 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:02.000 twenty five chapters, so it really there's fifty different issues 123 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:05.759 that you really you just look at it and go, yep, 124 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.839 that's what I had a problem with and and go 125 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:12.160 right to it and read it. And it's calming, it's helpful, 126 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:16.160 it's direct. It's so direct and to the point, and 127 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:25.199 you just sit there and go oh. 128 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:24.639 And yeah, and a lot of the things are. Some 129 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:26.399 of them are. It will be like a big aha, 130 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:28.680 it's like, oh, I never really thought about that, but 131 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:31.600 that's that applies to me. And for some it's just 132 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:35.000 a really something you forget about, something that you take 133 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:38.680 for granted, and you're like, oh, yeah, that makes a 134 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:43.120 whole lot of sense. And I think that's what makes 135 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:45.839 it so great is that. And that's the feedback we're 136 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:49.079 getting from people who've picked up the book and people 137 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:51.879 that have come to the Golf Academy and have used 138 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:53.560 a lot of the mental golf trips, they say, you 139 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:55.439 know that one really just applied to me at that 140 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:58.920 given moment when I was playing the round. Another say, yet, 141 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:00.959 and then another one was really helpful when I was 142 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:04.680 in the club championship. So it really is about giving 143 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:07.240 you all the different tools. And that's something that I 144 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:10.399 talk a lot about with folks that I work with 145 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:11.920 on their golf game, is that you want to have 146 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:14.439 a bag of tricks, you know, a tool bag of 147 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:17.120 tricks that you can just pull out when you need it. 148 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:19.680 It's just like your tool bag at home. You know, 149 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:21.879 sometimes you'll need one tool to do certain thing, and 150 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:24.480 another one, and it's nice to have them all accessible. 151 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:27.199 And that's what this is all about. And you mentioning 152 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:29.639 that it's something you can throw in your in your 153 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:32.200 golf bag, and that's that's why I called it a handbook. 154 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:34.919 It's something that you you know, hopefully by the time 155 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:37.600 you you grab the book, it's going to be all 156 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:42.919 kind of tattered and warned because you've been using it constantly. 157 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:44.759 And it's nice and light and you can throw it 158 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:46.840 right into your in your bag. 159 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:50.519 Well, it's even either. I wanted to mend after I 160 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:53.159 said it and started listening to you, I was like, no, no, no, 161 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:55.559 you don't need to put it in your golf bag. 162 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:57.480 Just put it on your phone. 163 00:08:58.240 --> 00:08:59.200 That's right, you know. 164 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:02.960 It's it's downloadable, it's a there's an e book version 165 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:05.399 of it. I have it on my phone and now 166 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.720 because of the kindleap, I have it now on my iPad. 167 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:11.200 I have it on my phone, and so like the 168 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:13.559 other day, as I was flipping through it, I went 169 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:17.159 directly to chapter forty three. Okay, I just I mean, 170 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:19.279 I read the introduction, you know, find out more because 171 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:20.919 I knew I wanted to talk to you again. But 172 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:23.559 I was like, okay, how to finish in balance. I 173 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:28.080 was having trouble that day and I found myself, you know, 174 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:31.840 falling away after my shots and just not being on 175 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:34.600 my feet after I finished. So I went directly to 176 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:37.759 that chapter. Okay, I read it, now I want to 177 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:38.360 hear it from you. 178 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:42.879 Yeah. So basically chapter forty three is about how to 179 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:46.720 finish a balance And it's a concept that I use 180 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:51.360 that's helpful for a lot of things. And it's starting 181 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:53.279 with the end in mind. And you've heard that before 182 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:56.720 in a lot of different programs. Stephen Covey talked about 183 00:09:56.759 --> 00:10:00.919 it in the seventh Habits of Successful Peak. Well, is 184 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:04.720 that if you start in your mind with how you 185 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:09.039 want to finish, that helps you actually get through the 186 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:12.039 emotion emotion to get there. So what I tell people, 187 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:14.360 instead of starting, you know, setting up to the ball, 188 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:17.480 start with your finish. How would you finish a perfect swing. 189 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:21.720 You'd be in balance, you'd be looking straight down the 190 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:24.639 fair way at where your ball ends up. And so 191 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:27.600 if you start with that in mind and then you 192 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.759 actually do it, what should What it does is it 193 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:34.799 sets a trigger a series of events that helps you 194 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:37.600 create that. So if you start with that finish. Then 195 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:40.639 you start your back swing and then finish and go 196 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:42.639 all the way through to the finish again, you'll find 197 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:46.639 your balance in much much better shape. And the way 198 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:49.159 I look at it, if someone finishes their swing and balance, 199 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:51.279 then they had the balance throughout the entire swing and 200 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:53.159 they probably struck the ball pretty darn well. 201 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:56.919 So when you're saying start with your finish, are you 202 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:00.559 saying mentally a mental picture in your head, or as 203 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:04.080 you're taking your warm up swings, start out by being 204 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:06.639 in a finished position and realize what you want to 205 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:07.399 feel like there. 206 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:11.000 Well, it's a little it's both actually, So a lot 207 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:15.720 of these exercises are equally powerful sitting at home reading 208 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:19.399 about as actually doing so I talk a lot about 209 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:23.159 this with again with people, is the actual reading of 210 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:27.960 the book and visualizing yourself doing it is almost as 211 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:30.960 powerful as doing it itself. Okay, so this is a 212 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:34.320 very strong concept to use, and you know, they've done 213 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:36.840 a lot of tests. They've done it actually with a 214 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:39.919 lot of Olympic athletes where they have them do their 215 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:42.080 exercise and they hook them up to you know, all 216 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:45.000 the they read their brain, their heart rate and so forth, 217 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:48.559 blood pressure and when they're doing their their actual you know, 218 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:52.000 activity or event. They measure all those those different areas 219 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:53.639 and then they have them sit in a dark room, 220 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:56.200 close their eyes. They hook them up again, and then 221 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:59.279 they have them visualized doing that same event, start to finish, 222 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:01.600 and then when they match up the data, it's almost 223 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:06.440 exactly the same. So there's power in just visualizing and 224 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:09.879 reading it and doing it as as equal as powerful 225 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:13.240 as doing it itself. So I say do both. And 226 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:15.519 for a lot of folks, you know, you don't get 227 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:18.320 to play golf year round. You know you're maybe in 228 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:22.240 a winter area. Fortunately, here in Hawaii we don't have winter, 229 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:25.600 so that's quite nice. But so if you're if you 230 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:27.159 do live in a place where there is winter, come 231 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:30.840 join us out here and during your dark months. But 232 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.840 you could just by by visualizing doing this. It's equally 233 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:37.360 powerful because it triggers the same types of feelings and 234 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:41.600 muscle twinges, if you will, in your body. So that 235 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:43.759 being said, if you are on the range or even 236 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:46.840 at home, you know, take a club and get in 237 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:51.720 that finished position like you said, and feel that balance 238 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:54.960 as if you just struck a perfect shot down the fairway. 239 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:59.799 And then from that finished position you can actually start 240 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:02.720 your golf swing. So normally you would set up to 241 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:04.960 the ball and start your golf swing and your backswing 242 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:07.240 from a finished position, you can start your back swing 243 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:11.600 and then finish again and getting in that same balance position, 244 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:12.799 it's equally powerful. 245 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:22.639 The chapter before forty two is how to keep your balance. 246 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:28.240 Yeah, and so a lot of people this whole full 247 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:31.720 section here on balance, and you know, there's a little 248 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:35.639 subsection within these fifty in which I talk about how 249 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:39.279 important balance is. And I think that is something that 250 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:41.240 people take for granted in the game of golf. So 251 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.840 a lot of people may have, you know, a beautiful swing. 252 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:47.679 They you know, they might have the right the right 253 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:50.759 equipment that fits them and so forth. But if they're 254 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:54.399 all centered, even by a hair, that causes them to 255 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:57.440 mishit the ball. And as we know, golf is about 256 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:00.320 hitting that sweet spot. So even if you're off by 257 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:02.399 a fraction of an inch here and there, that's probably 258 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:05.000 causing you know, mishits and so forth. So we talk 259 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:08.519 about being in balance and being centered throughout the golf swing. 260 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:11.360 So number forty two talks about how do you do that. 261 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:13.840 A lot of people are out there and there you 262 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:17.639 see them kind of swaying and moving in all different directions. 263 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:21.120 One little trick that I like to do is there's 264 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:23.559 the center of your body that right in the aftom 265 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:25.759 and right below the belly button. And if you've ever 266 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:28.639 done any martial arts, they talk a lot about that 267 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:30.960 area of your body right below your belly button. That's 268 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:34.720 where your powers emanates from. You talk to a boxer, 269 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:39.480 that's where they actually punch from right there, and that 270 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:41.720 is where you also can keep your center during the 271 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:44.559 golf swing. So what I tell people is imagine a 272 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:49.840 bungee cord connected from your belt buckle down to the 273 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:52.399 tee or the area right below the ball. Now, with 274 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:55.559 a bungee cord, it stretches, but it also keeps. You know, 275 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:57.639 there's a little spring to it, so as you turn, 276 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:01.320 you're still connected to that sweet to that point where 277 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:04.679 the ball is through the bungee cord. But with the 278 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:12.279 with the whoa, hey, there's our friend. Okay, there's our mascot. 279 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:14.799 Yeah, right, exactly, that's the dog. That's my dog. Tea 280 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:19.600 green tree. I'm sorry to interrupt. 281 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:23.559 Go ahead, yep, Well, I beg your dog liked this one. 282 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:27.480 So that's it. That was the gallery of plotting. So yeah, 283 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:29.440 so basically the budget, but the bungee cord does it. 284 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:32.120 It keeps you centered, keeps you connected, keeps you balanced 285 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:34.440 throughout the entire swing, even through your backswing and the 286 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:37.159 follow through. So it's a very powerful tool because if 287 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:39.720 a lot of people say, well how can I keep centered? 288 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:42.360 And if you if you're too richid you you say, oh, 289 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:45.080 it's just like you know, a pole holding you, then 290 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:47.000 you you're not you'd lose the flexibility. But the nice 291 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:48.360 thing about a bunch of cord you can use that 292 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:51.279 imagery of it's being flexible for you to make your turn, 293 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:54.159 but also keeps you connected at the same time. It's 294 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:58.320 a great tool to maintain balance. And again the goal 295 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:01.159 is strike that ball in the sweet spot. You know 296 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:03.519 when I get there, and then it goes where you 297 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:04.039 want it to go. 298 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:06.240 I don't want to dispute you. You said golf is 299 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:09.799 about hitting the sweet spot. I think golf is more 300 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:14.720 about recovering from your mistakes in your errors. Well, it's 301 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:17.799 funny because a series of disasters, like life, golf is 302 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:20.600 just a series of disasters, and it's it's about how 303 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:23.360 you handle it. I mean, you talk about the metal 304 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:25.639 game all the time. I mean, isn't it really how 305 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:28.480 you handle it, because you're going to have more I 306 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:31.559 mean people at you know, players at my level and 307 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:34.639 what you know, like like this that are amateurs and 308 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:37.399 out for fun. I think it's more we have more 309 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:41.799 shots that were frustrated over than that we're really happy about. 310 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:44.559 But thankfully there are four or five shots around that, 311 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:47.240 especially in the eighteenth hole always it makes it go okay, 312 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:50.360 I want to come back, but the rest but the 313 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:53.600 rest of the day is being a frustrated golfer. 314 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:57.879 Yeah, And I think that sums it up for any level. 315 00:16:57.919 --> 00:17:00.600 I mean even you know, the top guys on tour 316 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:03.519 when they go and they play around, even when they 317 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:08.359 play a great, great round, it's not one hundred percent perfect. 318 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:13.119 Oftentimes they'll say, you hear the interviews and from the 319 00:17:13.160 --> 00:17:14.920 guys and gals after it around, they'll say, you know, 320 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:17.400 I struck the ball pretty well, but you know, there's 321 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:19.240 this theory I can work on in that area that 322 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:22.279 can work on and like you said, and the same 323 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:24.559 goes for the weekend golfer. You might hit two or 324 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:28.119 three really great shots and the rest are not, as 325 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:31.079 you know, not to your desire. So really it's all 326 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:33.720 about how you handle that. I agree with you one 327 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:37.440 hundred percent, Fred, It's about managing your your yourself around 328 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:40.200 the golf course and recovering from each shot. And the 329 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:42.680 way you do it is you just focus on one shot, 330 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:46.960 that next shot. You can't dwell on the past too much. 331 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.839 I tell people learn from what you've done, the good 332 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:53.359 and the bad and unfortunately sometimes the ugly. But when 333 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:55.480 you get to the next shot, it's a new, brand, 334 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:58.279 new beginning and that one could be the best. So 335 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:00.599 I kind of tell people you got a blank the slate, 336 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:03.680 blank the slate every time you step up to the 337 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:07.960 next shot and start fresh from there and again then 338 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:10.200 you move on to the next one. So it's a 339 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:14.200 series of really handling those different ups and downs of 340 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:17.440 around and the people that can do that actually end 341 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:20.039 up playing the best. It's funny. Sometimes you'll go out 342 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:22.200 and you'll get matched up with someone you don't know, 343 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:24.880 and and you know you played around the golf and 344 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:29.920 the really really good players you don't really notice them. 345 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:33.680 You know, they hit a shot and then they if 346 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:35.559 it's not a great shot, then they don't make a 347 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:37.920 big fuss about it, and then they you know they 348 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:41.559 they treat the next one and recover, but they're not 349 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:45.440 always tee to green, hitting every fairway every green, but 350 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.559 how they handle themselves and that is the major difference 351 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:53.559 between you know, playing to your potential and being frustrated, 352 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:57.519 is that you handle those different situations and the adversity 353 00:18:57.559 --> 00:18:59.680 that you face similar to like life. I agree with 354 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:00.720 you on that on too, Fred. 355 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:06.400 So do you mind if we I just pick random 356 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:09.319 chapters throughout the book and we can get your take 357 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:11.240 on each of these and why you choose to put 358 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:11.920 that in the book. 359 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:14.519 You bet, you bet awesome. 360 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:19.920 Okay, So then tell me first, what is it that 361 00:19:20.119 --> 00:19:23.839 separates part one from part two? What's the content difference 362 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:26.400 that you decided you needed twenty five chapters on this 363 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:27.799 in twenty five chapters on that? 364 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:32.960 Well, I think golfers look for ways to improve their 365 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:35.880 game in many different ways. And you think about it. 366 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:39.160 We spend part of our golf seeing time on the 367 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:40.799 golf course, but we spend a lot of it on 368 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:45.160 the range as well. So I divided it into two sections. 369 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.119 One is what you could do while you're playing, because 370 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:49.960 that's when you need it in the heat of battle, 371 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:52.720 if you will, And what you can do to improve 372 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:55.079 your game when you're not playing and you're off the 373 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:59.599 golf course, and that includes actually, you know, being on 374 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:01.759 the drive having range, but also what do you do 375 00:20:01.799 --> 00:20:04.400 in preparation other than being on the driving range. So 376 00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:08.839 one of the exercises I talk about is is how 377 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:11.160 can you play you know, a great round of golf 378 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:14.160 is before you even get up there. And I say, well, 379 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:16.680 it's got to sleep, And people like, what a what 380 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:18.839 are you talking about? Well, the night before, when before 381 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:21.359 you play around the golf while you're going to sleep, 382 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:24.400 just you know, close your eyes and visualize yourself playing 383 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:29.240 that round, that great round the next morning. And something 384 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:32.839 that all great athletes do is they visualize themselves in 385 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:36.200 that heat of battle, if you will, playing the great game, 386 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:41.039 doing great you know, making great shots, great passes, everything clicking, 387 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:44.519 and they see where they want to be. So going 388 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:46.319 to sleep is one of the exercises that you can 389 00:20:46.359 --> 00:20:49.119 do off the golf course and visualize yourself hitting great 390 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:51.960 shot after great shot, and it actually sets the tone 391 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:55.440 for the next morning. Number four get I divided it 392 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:57.240 on the golf course and off the golf course. 393 00:20:57.279 --> 00:20:59.400 Okay, no, no, that makes sense. But then I want 394 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:01.359 to say, you know, you talk about the visualization Number 395 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:04.640 fourteen is how to visualize what you can't see? What 396 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:08.240 does that mean? And where are you driving at here? H? 397 00:21:08.359 --> 00:21:08.799 I get it. 398 00:21:08.920 --> 00:21:14.400 Well, this is in reference to reading greens. So my 399 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:16.359 golf academy, a lot of folks come up and say, 400 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:19.480 you know, I really have a hard time reading greens. 401 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:21.880