WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:04.200 Hi, this is Fred Green of Golf Smarter with our 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:07.400 spring back into Golf season with the late Tony Manzoni. 3 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:11.320 In previous years of replaying these episodes as part of 4 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:14.919 our archived content, we kept it to a hand picked 5 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:18.519 selection of nine. But this time and for the future, 6 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:22.839 because of your response, we're going to feature every episode 7 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:26.600 in order that Tony discussed his single pivot swing method, 8 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:30.719 his incredible College of the Desert Golf Team's success, his 9 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:34.840 book and video, and stories about his relationship with the 10 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:38.960 rich and famous from Palm Springs, including the godfather of 11 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:43.679 his daughter, Frank Sinatra. Last episode from July twenty eleven 12 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:47.119 was just after he released his book The Loss Fundamental, 13 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:50.840 One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever. We recorded this just 14 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:53.960 after his video of the same name was published on DVD. 15 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:58.359 After he passed away in twenty eighteen, both the book 16 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:02.000 and the DVD were out of so we were instrumental 17 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:04.959 in getting his widow to agree to republish the book 18 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:08.920 on Amazon, including the Kindle format, and allowing us to 19 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:13.359 distribute the video online. All this was with the promise 20 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:17.439 to create a tax deductible fund created in his memory 21 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:21.040 to benefit the first t of Coachella Valley. For more 22 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:23.840 on Tony and everything we were able to find on him, 23 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:27.879 please go to Golfsmarter dot com. If you'd like access 24 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:30.799 to the video, please write to me directly golf Smarter 25 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.519 podcast at gmail dot com, or click on the Heyfred 26 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.640 button when you visit golfsmarter dot com. 27 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:39.640 For members only. 28 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:42.920 Golf Smarter number three hundred and twenty eight published on 29 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:48.439 April tenh twenty twelve. Stop Topping the Ball Forever with 30 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:49.560 Tony Mantoni. 31 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:51.480 This is golf. 32 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:56.239 Smarter sharing tips and insights from golfers and golf professionals 33 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:59.879 to help lower your score. It's worked for your host, Fred. 34 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:03.439 Welcome back to golf Smarter for members only. Tony. 35 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:04.519 How you doing. 36 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:07.159 I'm doing well and I'm so glad to have you 37 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:09.960 back on the show. You are such a fan favorite, 38 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:13.639 a listener favorite on golf Smarter. I'm just so pleased 39 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:17.319 that you've gotten such nice reaction from the Golf Smarter audience. 40 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:21.319 Well, I do appreciate that, Fred, And you know this 41 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:24.120 is a labor of love for me and I'm sure 42 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:26.919 it is for YouTube. Oh yeah. We have a passion 43 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:30.159 about golf and golf instruction and you know, I'm just 44 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:32.919 trying to get something out there that helps people. It's 45 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:36.000 not an ego basis. I've done a lot of reading 46 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:39.479 and I believe every day that I listen to people teach, 47 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:42.800 I learned something and I'm just trying to get this 48 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:45.039 down to where it's great for the consumer, that they 49 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:47.039 can understand it and do it well. 50 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:49.719 That's what's so special about your teaching is that you 51 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:55.120 are able to communicate it in a fashion that the average, 52 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:00.719 the average golfer, the just the lay person understands what 53 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:04.400 you're saying. And it's not so technical, but it is concise. 54 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:09.120 And I think that that also is true to a 55 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:12.400 testimony to how well your teams do at College of 56 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:12.919 the Desert. 57 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:16.840 Yeah, we do have a great record, and we're off 58 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:18.759 to a good start again with four and zero in 59 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:21.439 league playing and we've played three in vacationals one, two 60 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:25.240 and and that was the second place in one, so 61 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:29.319 we're off and running. We're going after our twenty fourth 62 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:32.680 consecutive year to win the conference, which is kind of crazy, 63 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:35.599 but yeah, it is what it is. And you know, 64 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:37.879 we have a new team every two years, so it's 65 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:40.000 not like we have this dynasty that we're building here. 66 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:44.719 But well, I mean, the weather, the weather doesn't certainly 67 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:47.039 doesn't hurt. So we draw some nice young men and 68 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:50.439 so far we've been lucky. Keep drawing them and we're 69 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:52.919 saying the right things and they're producing. 70 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:57.000 Well, that's what's so interesting is you say that these 71 00:03:57.159 --> 00:03:58.840 these kids only play for two years. 72 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:03.000 What age are your team members? What are they raised? 73 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:07.000 Right out of high school? You know, it's eighteen nineteen 74 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:10.159 years old, So they're all yet man, and they all 75 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:13.039 have a dream of, you know, playing this game professionally, 76 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:16.120 So we try to put them on that track. Obviously 77 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:19.360 they all can make it. We show them the work 78 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:20.360 ethic that's needed. 79 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:23.480 Okay, so I know that I know that you don't 80 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:25.439 have much of an issue talking about your age. 81 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:28.160 How old are you again, I'm seventy five. 82 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:31.399 You're seventy five, and you're dealing with eighteen and nineteen 83 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:34.480 year old which could easily be grandchildren or even great 84 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:36.160 grandchildren at some point. 85 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:40.680 Well, yeah, they really might. They become my children, There's 86 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:43.600 no question about that. Yeah, And I love it, I 87 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:47.279 really do. I learned from them in some ways. It 88 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:49.800 keeps me from getting caught in the gap, you know, 89 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:53.720 and staying segments. So it's a win win for both 90 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:55.600 of us well, and. 91 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:58.199 It goes back to what we were just speaking on 92 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:02.959 that you're a ability to communicate with eighteen and nineteen 93 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:07.720 year olds and clearly to have going on your twenty 94 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:12.920 fourth consecutive regional championship, you must be doing something to 95 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:16.480 gain their respect, to not have attitude from these kids, 96 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:18.959 because that's an age where they can really have a 97 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:22.160 lot of attitude when they come in and tell you that, 98 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:25.560 what do you know, old man? You know, it's I'm 99 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:26.399 just so impressed. 100 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:31.920 Well, you know, it's not easy at times. I'm not 101 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:34.639 going to say that it's always simple. We get a 102 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:37.480 few kids. But you know, as I tell all the 103 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:39.800 boys on my team, I don't care if you're a 104 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:43.600 plus five. If you're a jerk and you want to 105 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:45.040 stay a jerk, then you're not going to be part 106 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:48.920 of my team because winning championships is important, but a 107 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:52.360 billion character is much more important. And that's what I'm 108 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:55.240 really here for. A lot of these young people haven't 109 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:58.519 had a lot of parenting for whatever reason, and that's 110 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:01.360 part of my responsibility is as a golf coach, is 111 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:05.720 to help them on that. Part of it because the 112 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:08.160 majority of them are going to go on to work 113 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:11.240 in the golf business or do something, and it's my 114 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:13.920 responsibility to show them what they need to do to 115 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:16.959 be successful. And you know, that's just how it goes. 116 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:19.800 And I love the kids, and you know, I learned 117 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:21.480 a little bit. I mean, I'm not really crazy about 118 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:24.519 their music, but they're not crazy about Frank Sinatra either. 119 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:26.759 So they have a lot to learn. 120 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:27.600 You know. 121 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:29.519 You know, I'll tell you something. 122 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:33.040 I can almost guarantee you that it's going to be 123 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:37.639 faster for them to appreciate Sinatra than it will be 124 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:39.920 for you to appreciate their music, because I know when 125 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.639 my when my younger kid came out of college and 126 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:48.720 started telling me about Frank Sinatra, discovered Frank Sinatra and 127 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:52.439 how cool he was. I'm like, oh my gosh, you're kidding. Really, 128 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:54.439 that doesn't mean I have to listen. I don't have 129 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:57.439 to listen now all cool jay do I. 130 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:03.040 That's funny to popular, But you know, every you know, 131 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:05.600 when we were kids, we had our own little fashions 132 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:07.639 and some of the things. And I try not to 133 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:11.480 be too you know, judgmental about some of the things 134 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:13.120 they do, but some of the things that I can 135 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:16.040 see that it's a determ from them and people are 136 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:18.680 going to misjudge them. But where their pants down and 137 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:22.879 all that sag and stuff, And I don't want to 138 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:25.519 jump on them being critical pull your pants and that 139 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:28.720 kind of thing, because that just makes them resist more. 140 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:31.560 So I try to explain to them, you know, what 141 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:36.959 they're projecting and how that hurts them financially and also 142 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:40.279 people draw conclusions about them that aren't true, and a 143 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:42.519 little by little by little bartipulate way and just trying 144 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:47.759 to make sense without saying don't it starts changing and 145 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:48.920 that's always. 146 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:49.079 For the better. 147 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:51.279 That's a nice approach. 148 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:55.040 I tell them you got choices in life. You can 149 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:58.680 be common or you can be special, and I really 150 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:02.040 really hope you choose specially. And when you talk like that, 151 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:05.439 their eyes open up a little bit, you know, so 152 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:06.759 their minds. 153 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:09.199 Well, that was a great piece of That's a great 154 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:13.800 golf tip right there for any parent and any teacher. 155 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:16.399 That's that's a great piece of advice. Thank you very much. 156 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:20.519 Well, as we dole out these congratulations, let me also 157 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:24.959 throw out that the DVD, the Lost Fundamental DVD has 158 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:29.920 been created, published and released and It will be available 159 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:34.480 on the Golf Smarter website. Thank you very much, as 160 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:37.639 well as the loost Fundamental dot com. Talk to me 161 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:41.399 about your new DVD, The Lost Fundamental, that supports the 162 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:44.960 book The Lost Fundamental, One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever. 163 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:47.960 Well, I was lucky enough to meet the young man 164 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:51.679 by the Adrian Hertze, and he really helped me put 165 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:56.639 this together. When we're trying to do a DVD, it's 166 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:00.559 really easy to talk too much and trying to get 167 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:03.080 your point across, so we edit it down to her. 168 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:07.519 It's almost almost too simple, but that's the way I 169 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:10.320 wanted it, and I think it's going to be very 170 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:12.120 effective if people watch it. You have to watch it 171 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:15.240 a couple of times. Is the only downside to it. 172 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:18.600 You realize how old I really am. I've got a 173 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:23.879 young voice. But anyway, all kidding aside, I'm very happy 174 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:27.240 with the DVD. It's just a reflection of the book 175 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:30.320 and for those of us that learn better by watching, 176 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:32.399 I think it shures the purpose. 177 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:34.039 M hmm. 178 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:38.759 Tell me about where you start on the DV. Well, 179 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:40.559 how is the DVD different than the book. 180 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:46.600 Well, it's just visual. The concept is there. It's the 181 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:50.440 same it's the same concept. But you see I use 182 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:54.039 three different age groups and teach them basically the same thing. 183 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:58.159 You can see their flexibility issues are different. But again, 184 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:01.840 what I primarily say is, look, this works for everybody, 185 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:04.000 and this is an easy way to play the game. 186 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:06.639 And you're not to injure your back. Uh. That's that's 187 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:10.639 the message. And I promise you that if you look 188 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:14.000 at so many of the young players on tour, they're 189 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:16.600 they're staying centered over that golf ball. They're not moving 190 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:19.759 their head to the right anymore. Uh. And and and 191 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:22.200 it's not something new, it's something that they're going they're 192 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:25.279 going back to. It's what It's what Hogan did, It's 193 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:28.320 what Nicholas did, it's what Palmer did, it's what Trevino did. 194 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.600 None of those guys swayed off the ball, and and 195 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:35.240 their careers lasted a long time. As we hit a 196 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.399 certain age, it's really hard to move off the ball 197 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:40.559 and back onto it while you're trying to hit that 198 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:42.279 thing in the back of the back of it. You know, 199 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:46.039 it's really hard to do that. It's it's it's doable, 200 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:49.960 but the older you get, it becomes impossible. So that's 201 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:53.279 what that's what my DVD's But you can actually see 202 00:10:53.639 --> 00:10:56.600 the person doing this, and that's that's the proof of 203 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:57.039 the pudding. 204 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:03.039 Uh yeah, I noticed that as well, and I think 205 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:06.799 that the thing that came across in our multiple conversations 206 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:09.799 before even that you have the pictures in the book, 207 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.360 but you talk about this way and how that's just 208 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:14.960 deadly to your swing. 209 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:19.279 Right. It's just you know, there's been some great players, 210 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:21.320 Curtis Strang, who's a big swayer off the ball. There's 211 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:24.519 some great players that were but I don't think you 212 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:27.360 can continue that, especially as you get into your senior years. 213 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:30.320 And so what I think, I think it becomes almost impossible. 214 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:32.759 Most of the people you see on the driveway and 215 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:35.320 you see them get off their right foot and their 216 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:39.159 body swings back. They're going in the opposite direction, and 217 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:40.879 then they say, well, I guess I'm getting older and 218 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:42.759 I can't hit anywhere. Well, you can't hit anywhere with 219 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:45.159 your arms, but if you learn how to use your 220 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:47.960 core properly and get your body in the right position 221 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:50.159 relative to the ball and impact, you can hit it 222 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.320 a lot farther than you think you can. And that's 223 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:54.799 what I'm finding. That's the thing that I hear more 224 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:58.320 than anything else. I'm hitting the father, and that's from 225 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:02.120 people that are fifty sixty seven, even eighty six years 226 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:05.159 old taking a lesson from me, and he claims is 227 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:07.039 farther than he did when he was twenty and twenty 228 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:09.039 years old. I'm not twenty years old and twenty years ago. 229 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.000 So because he's hitting more square, and that's the whole thing. 230 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.000 You don't mishit it when you're on the ball, when 231 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.399 you're moving back and forth, it's just so hard to 232 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:25.840 catch a flush. 233 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:29.159 I recently took a trip with my buddies. I talk 234 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:31.120 about this every year we go on this golf trip, 235 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:34.000 and I noticed one of the things in looking at 236 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:37.000 photographs of us at the end of the weekend. I 237 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:40.440 have one friend who just he has no distance. 238 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:41.000 He has a. 239 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:44.399 Really tough time hitting the ball farther than one hundred 240 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:47.440 and fifty hundred and sixty yards. And I notice that 241 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:51.639 not only is he most of his weight is on 242 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:55.840 his back foot throughout the swing and definitely at the 243 00:12:55.919 --> 00:13:00.240 end of his swing, but he also does not help 244 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:02.440 me on this one. He doesn't pivot his back foot 245 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:05.000 at all. He's right handed, so it's his right foot. 246 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:08.240 But when he's done with the swing, not only is 247 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:13.080 he leaning far back, but his right foot, his back 248 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:16.039 foot is still pointed to where the ball was tied up. 249 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:19.559 Sure, sure, and as it must be, because if you 250 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:21.679 put any any weight at all on the right side 251 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:24.639 and then try to turn your body left or it 252 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:28.679 has to go gets stuck. And and I'll tell you 253 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:31.039 put a lot of pressure on your lower back. So 254 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:34.519 for the listeners out there that are doing that, just 255 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:37.279 put all your weight on your left foot to lift 256 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:40.120 your heel of your right foot off off the ground 257 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:42.840 so that you're just on the till and barely weight there. 258 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:44.720 And then just turn your chest and shoulders. You'll see 259 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:47.879 that you can turn left quide a ways. Then if 260 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:49.919 you put some weight on that right foot, try the 261 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:52.840 same thing and you'll see that you'll stop midweight. And 262 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:55.039 that's where most people are, so they don't get the 263 00:13:55.080 --> 00:14:00.279 full force of the body driving through that golf ball. Actually, 264 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:03.159 a good boxer, you know, it isn't in our motion. 265 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:06.840 It's a body motion, and and everything throwing the ball, 266 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:10.440 whatever the body has to be, has to be in 267 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:13.480 position for the throw. It has to be in position 268 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:15.600 for the punch. So if it's not a position you're 269 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:17.480 going to, it's going to be a weak motion. And 270 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:19.279 that's what this is all about. I'm not trying to 271 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:22.720 reinvent the wheel here and then Holding discover this as 272 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:26.440 have a lot of players. But the closer you're the 273 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:28.399 center of gravity of the body is about four or 274 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:30.879 five inches below the naval The closer that center of 275 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:34.399 gravity is during the backswing to a pivot lake, the 276 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:37.519 faster you're gonna pivot, and the freer you're gonna pivot. 277 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:40.279 That's just that's just a scientific fact. That's not that's 278 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:42.919 not Tony Manzoni's theory or anybody else's theory. That's just 279 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:45.639 how it is. And Holding the smart enough to discover this. 280 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:49.960 In a book called Maximum Gulf Uh with one of 281 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:54.000 his students, John Sleeve, he said, I find that the 282 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:56.080 more I'm on the left side of the top of 283 00:14:56.120 --> 00:15:00.360 the slane, I can pivot my shoulders faster on my 284 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:05.200 left my left axis, consequently hitting the ball farther. So 285 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:08.080 Hogan made the statement a often time ago. It's just 286 00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:11.879 that there's as so many people caught this thing. Well, 287 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:14.679 isn't that reverse weightship? No? I had nothing to do 288 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:17.639 with reverse wayship reverse weight ships is on the on 289 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:20.200 the dolls wing where your body is going backwards towards 290 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:22.320 the right foot. You can put all the weight you 291 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:23.919 want on the left side at the top as long 292 00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:26.919 as you move forward with the second move. So you know, 293 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:29.919 I mean, you know, when you try to hit the 294 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:34.840 ball low, you're you're moving forward, then the club closes 295 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:37.519 a little bit. Well, in a sense, we're just centering 296 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:40.120 ourselves on the golf ball instead of putting our heads 297 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:43.360 behind the golf ball, and we make contact as we're 298 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:46.720 turning through the ball. We're not We're not making contact 299 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:49.399 as we face the ball. We're making contact as our 300 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:52.200 body has rotated towards the target. If you think about 301 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:55.600 Alaka Sorensen, she had only one of the best moves 302 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:57.919 I've ever seen except for Hogan, because she looked like 303 00:15:57.919 --> 00:15:59.639 she was looking at the target when she hit the ball. 304 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:03.200 But that just because she was moving through prior to impact, 305 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:07.120 and that's where all that power came from. 306 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:12.440 At the very beginning of this answer, you mentioned lifting 307 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:16.879 the heel of your right foot. Now, is that just 308 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:20.120 as a test or in your setup, as a. 309 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:22.799 Test as a test, but one of the things that 310 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:27.600 I do to ensure. As I put my right foot, 311 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:30.279 I kicked my knee in and I put I really 312 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.360 feel my weight on the inside edge of my right foot, 313 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:36.399 and as I coil, I try not to gather any 314 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:39.000 more weight than that position. And then when my hip 315 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:42.200 turns behind me, my shoulder turns behind me, I'm actually 316 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:46.080 displacing weight more towards the left side. If I was 317 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:48.240 in a cylinder and I turned my right shoulder, my 318 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:50.279 weight would be going towards my left side. There's no 319 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:52.720 question about that, and no one could argue with that. 320 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:59.080 And so what I'm doing is I'm bracing between the 321 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:02.320 instep of the right foot and and the and the 322 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:04.680 instep of the left foot. So I embraced there, but 323 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:09.079 primarily the majority of my weight is left, okay, because 324 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:11.440 that's where I have to have that impact. So I'm 325 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:13.119 just kind of cheating a little bit. I'm getting it 326 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:15.640 over there sooner. See. Now, all I have to do 327 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:19.039 is to rotate hard rotator around that axis and the 328 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:21.839 club head comes the last. My body is first and 329 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:24.319 I get I get terrific compression on the ball. You know, 330 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:26.799 for our old guy, I can still hit the ball. 331 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.319 They're pretty good. Uh, shockingly Uh. And I'm certainly not 332 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:33.279 a physical specimen, but I'm in the position to hit 333 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:36.759 it as destiny with as much power that I have. 334 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:42.559 And I think everybody out there probably hasn't reached that 335 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:46.359 position unless they've read my book and been practicing. Uh. 336 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:48.119 If they're in the middle of their stands or on 337 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:49.799 that right side where they're hitting the golf ball in, 338 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:52.039 there's no way that they're compressing the golf ball like 339 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:52.440 they can. 340 00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:54.359 Uh. 341 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:58.960 And then of course there's the the sweeping of the 342 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:01.720 ball versus the compress of the ball, you know, or 343 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:03.400 trying to lift the ball. That's the other thing I 344 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:05.519 found that the same player did. Not only is he 345 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:08.640 not turning, but he's with all that weight going backwards. 346 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:10.920 It looks as if he's trying to lift the ball. 347 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:13.319 He's not letting the club do its job well. 348 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:15.519 With your way going backwards, your arms skill only goes 349 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:18.000 so far and then they start going up. So, as 350 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:19.839 I tell people, when you hit a ball fat or 351 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:22.319 he hit the ball thin, it's because you're behind the ball. 352 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:26.559 That's that's the reason. I mean, you know, it shows 353 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:29.279 itself in a different forms, but you're behind the ball. 354 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:32.720 When you're loving through the ball, the club is still 355 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:36.519 it's actually shallowing out. But when you stay way behind it, 356 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:38.759 the club that is going up, it has to go 357 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:42.160 up because your center of your swing is a foot 358 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:45.240 or two behind that golf ball. So so the forward 359 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:48.000 arc starts way too early. And that's why a lot 360 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:50.359 of people can't get an iron in the air because 361 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:51.799 they're too far behind the ball. 362 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:57.359 Oh well, actually, now that we're going to cont I 363 00:18:57.400 --> 00:18:59.319 know this friend is not listening to this, so I'm 364 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:00.960 going to keep in. I'm not even to use his name, 365 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:02.839 So I'm going to keep talking about this because I 366 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:05.839 noticed so many things after talking with you so many times. 367 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:10.839 I'm now looking at at other people so differently than 368 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:13.039 I had in the past, because basically I wasn't looking 369 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:16.480 at them, I was looking at their ball. But he 370 00:19:16.599 --> 00:19:19.000 tops the ball a lot, I mean, there's there. It's 371 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:22.440 frequent that the ball is rolling off off the tee. 372 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:23.440 I mean he rarely. 373 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:25.160 We get all excited when he hits the ball in 374 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:27.799 the air. Woo, great hit. Whether it goes right or left, 375 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:29.359 it doesn't matter. It's like, oh you got it, you 376 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:31.640 make great contact. Do you hit the ball in the air. 377 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:34.880 Well, there's two things that cause topping. I've always believed 378 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:38.680 when people say you looked up, that's just infanity because 379 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:42.200 nobody's looking up. But what if you tighten up prior 380 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:45.119 to impact where everything stops. When you tighten your hands, 381 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:49.359 and in the anticipation of impact, your arms pulled back, 382 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:53.000 your muscles contract so the club comes up a little bit. 383 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:55.400 That's one way to top it. That's how most people. 384 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:57.480 I always tell people, you top it because you're tight, 385 00:19:57.599 --> 00:19:58.400 not look up. 386 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:01.519 But wait, and how how can we notice? 387 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:03.359 Because I noticed that he when he's about to hit 388 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:06.640 the ball, even when he pulls his club back, his 389 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:10.920 whole face just turns into as if he's he's trying 390 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:13.960 to How do I be kind about that? 391 00:20:13.960 --> 00:20:16.759 He's got to look it's because he's he's he has 392 00:20:16.759 --> 00:20:20.039 a hit thought. He's absolutely doing it perfect. He's telling 393 00:20:20.119 --> 00:20:22.039 his body that he's going to hit something. The body 394 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:25.559 FLEs it up, getting ready for that blow. Uh. That's 395 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:29.359 why everyone talks about swinging through the ball, swinging past 396 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:31.559 the ball, using the ball as a point of reference 397 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:34.400 to line line the body, but not not as a 398 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:37.359 target once When you when you do that, your instincts 399 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:38.799 are going to jump right in and you're going to 400 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:40.799 tighten up your hands and you're going to do it now. 401 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:43.480