WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.480 Hi, this is Ray Brown from Owings, Maryland, and I 2 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:09.880 play golf at swan Point Country Club. Welcome to Golf Smarter. 3 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:10.320 Hi. 4 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:13.560 This is Joe A. Spinoza from Austin, Texas and I 5 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:14.960 play at Mill Creek in. 6 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:16.120 Toledo, Texas. 7 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:20.079 It's a Golf Smarter number one thousand, nineteen. During the 8 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:22.359 pre shot routine, when you're choosing your spot, there is 9 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:26.120 a course management part of playing where you absolutely want 10 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:28.679 to hit it or miss it in a certain area. 11 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:32.079 There's incredible amounts of strokes that can be shaved off 12 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:35.560 your game simply by picking the right place to go. However, 13 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:38.880 there's a moment at which you're thinking has to change 14 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:40.880 from where the ball is going to end up to 15 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:42.840 the task at hand, which is the only thing you 16 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:45.479 can affect, which is the ball that's in front of you. 17 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:48.479 So your target is actually the ball. All of the 18 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:51.600 pre shot routine part is you deciding where you want 19 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:53.960 to try to hit that ball, but you can't affect 20 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:56.399 where it's going to go. You can't affect what's going 21 00:00:56.479 --> 00:00:58.840 to happen over there. You can get it started, but 22 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:00.600 you can only get it started in the two feet 23 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:01.240 on either side. 24 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:03.000 That matters. But is the ball the target? 25 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:05.760 Absolutely it is. By the time you're hitting the ball 26 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:06.480 is the target. 27 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:14.560 It's time to make golf fun again, starting at the 28 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:17.879 ball and moving backwards with David Buck. 29 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:23.359 This is Golf Smarter, sharing stories, tips and insights from 30 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:26.439 great golf minds to help you lower your score and 31 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:30.560 raise your golf IQ. There's your host, Fred Green. 32 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:33.040 Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast. 33 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:34.879 David, thank you very much. 34 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:37.159 It's great to have you on this show. This is 35 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:40.000 going to be a silly conversation. I have a feeling 36 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:42.079 just for our three minutes of prap. 37 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.920 Well, I have two languages. I've got English and I've 38 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:48.760 got sarcasms. So that's that's really all I got to work. 39 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:51.920 With, Bill, Well, I have just by listening to your 40 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:54.200 voice a little bit, I censor your Canadian. 41 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:56.760 I am Canadian, I can Leona. I can put on 42 00:01:56.799 --> 00:01:59.040 the Canadian accident real sharp if you want to e 43 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:00.799 but I need a bit of able to do that. 44 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:06.319 Well, so the English and sarcasm is actually speaking Canadian. 45 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:11.000 It's just natural. We don't even hold a candle towards 46 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:14.439 the Australians. They're just a level higher. 47 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:20.199 So it's so true it's so true. Let's get a 48 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:24.120 little bit of your background in golf so that we 49 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:27.439 can establish the craziness that we're going to learn about 50 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:28.919 from you in a little bit. 51 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:32.840 Sure. So, basically, I used to play baseball, and my 52 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:35.360 brother broke his knee playing baseball, and I really didn't 53 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:37.120 want to do what my brother did. You know, you 54 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:40.520 try to learn from your elders. And I didn't want 55 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:43.879 to play a sport like football or hockey or baseball. 56 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:45.879 I was going to get hurt, so I quit the 57 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:49.280 baseball and a buddy of mine this in the seventh grade, 58 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:51.000 when I was thirteen years old, said well, I got 59 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.319 a junior membership the course of summer. It's three hundred bucks. 60 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:56.759 My mom's driving me out anyways, why don't you come 61 00:02:56.800 --> 00:02:59.479 join me. I never played golf before. I mean, this 62 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:01.520 is going back a few years. This is in the 63 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:04.759 early nineties, and a golf at that point was a 64 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:08.120 you know, it was the nerd game. It's like, nobody 65 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:09.599 plays golf unless you got. 66 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:12.759 Just before Tiger Both at the scene it was. 67 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:17.360 Greg Norman era, right, and it was it was uh yeah, 68 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:19.960 and I mean titleist was was on the forefront. They 69 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:23.719 were just I started still using bellattas and DT wounds. 70 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:25.680 So when the prov came out that was that was 71 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:28.759 quite a thing. But we played all summer, and then 72 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:30.879 we played all summer next summer, and then we thought, hey, 73 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:33.000 well maybe I should, you know, get a coach and 74 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:36.240 start doing this more seriously. And we made some really 75 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:38.759 good decisions in there. And I'm sure I don't know 76 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:41.840 about you. I'm only five seven, and I mean, especially 77 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:44.159 back in the day, we didn't have distance, we didn't 78 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:46.439 have distance clinics teaching you how to hit it further. 79 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:48.759 You had what you had, and you played it. And 80 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:50.560 I hit the ball about two hundred and sixty yards 81 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:54.680 and hit driver everywhere. And my my parents sat down 82 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:55.960 and said, you know what, I you know, I think 83 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:58.840 you've got something here, But don't play tournaments yet, don't 84 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:01.319 don't get in with the guys who are physically bigger 85 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:04.199 than you. And so we took an entire year there 86 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:06.840 at sixteen and played no tournaments and did nothing but 87 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:09.960 practiced some drills and short game and putting and playing. 88 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:13.159 And by the time I was seventeen started playing tournaments. 89 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:15.719 I was I jumped right up into the Canadian junior 90 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:18.319 rankings and was playing the Canadian Juniors and then qualified 91 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:22.279 for the World Juniors for two years or he's going 92 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:25.279 back for you two or three years, played Overseas a 93 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:27.639 little bit over and over in Asia as a junior, 94 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:30.319 even got some invites to some things over there. Went 95 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:33.439 to school in California and had a very short stay 96 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:37.800 at the school due to some disagreements between the coach 97 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:41.279 and I and turn Pro. From there my brother. My 98 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:45.040 brother was out playing chasing mini tours and Monday qualifiers 99 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:46.519 at that point, so I went out and joined him 100 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:49.800 and turn Pro ended up playing for three years and 101 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:53.000 it was absolutely wonderful and learned all sorts of stuff 102 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:57.040 and had incredible heartbreak and incredible triumph and all the 103 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:02.199 things that golf golf gives to you. Uh. Then then 104 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:05.600 I I I left it. I left it and and uh, 105 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:07.680 you know, as I say, I left it in a 106 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:10.639 way that I wasn't, you know, I was. I made 107 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:12.600 the choice. It was my choice, but it was you know, 108 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:14.199 you look back on it and say, ah, what if 109 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:16.560 you could have thin done things differently? And I gave 110 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:21.199 up the game completely for a number of years, and 111 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:24.959 then you know, you get to a point where you're 112 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:27.040 not able to do what you used to be able 113 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:31.399 to do. And so that's just it's just it's just frustration. 114 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:34.079 And so it took me a few years to learn 115 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:39.160 to enjoy the game again, and I did, And long 116 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:43.759 story short, now, I mean there's no place I would 117 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:45.759 rather be than on the first T, not the eighteenth green, 118 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:47.959 because then the rounds over the first T, you know, 119 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:51.319 the with the with the upcoming ground of go. But 120 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:54.560 you know, through my through my teaching, through my experience, 121 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:56.800 you know, I think the things a little bit differently 122 00:05:56.839 --> 00:05:59.600 maybe than some. And I've had I had a few 123 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:02.839 instans is in my career where I got you know, 124 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:05.759 I got a five minute lesson from somebody that changed 125 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:10.639 my golfing life. And well it's not it's not a 126 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:12.600 matter of complicated. It's a matter of being able to 127 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:16.079 understand what has to happen here and allowing our bodies 128 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:18.639 to actually do it. So now I play golf. I 129 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:20.839 raised my kids up there are nine and twelve, and 130 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:23.079 learn how to play pretty well if you ask me. 131 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:27.360 But I am biased, and I coach others and help people, 132 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:30.480 and my main, my main goal is to help people 133 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:33.800 enjoy the game more so if that means enjoying the 134 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:37.120 game more through lower strokes, fantastic. If it means enjoying 135 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:39.240 the game by stopping the shanks or curing the yips, 136 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:42.079 then great, fantastic. If it means that we were talking 137 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:44.879 about before we start, you're the mental hurdle of getting through. 138 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:47.439 You know, Hey, this thing's got to get to there somehow, 139 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:49.800 and I want to do it more joyfully. It's the 140 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:52.800 best place in the world when you have contentment and 141 00:06:52.879 --> 00:06:55.279 joy also, but it can also be the worst place 142 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:59.000 when you're frustrated and shanking it into the woods. Of course, anyways, 143 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:01.079 that gives you, That gives little synopsis. 144 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:05.079 Yeah, so like I, you know, not the eighteenth green. 145 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:08.439 I've always felt like seventeenth t is like, to me, 146 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:12.480 the most depressing thing. We're almost I don't want to 147 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:15.600 I don't want to go home. I like it here. 148 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:16.639 Let me play another eighteen? 149 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:20.759 Yeah exactly, No, not anymore. Cannot do thirty six in 150 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:24.439 a day? What Wait, what happened to you? You went 151 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:27.639 on and became a competitive and good golfer. But what 152 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:31.839 happened to that first friend who invited you out? He 153 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:34.360 got the three hundred dollars and his mom was driving. 154 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:39.920 Yeah, parted ways. We parted ways as at about eighteen. 155 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:42.480 And it's funny. I've reached out to him a couple 156 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:46.399 of times but haven't heard back. He's now a lawyer, 157 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:49.680 and even if you go to his website, he's like, yeah, 158 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:52.720 I do you know, I do laf for for big 159 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:56.680 corporation litigation and in my off time, I'm working on 160 00:07:56.680 --> 00:07:57.240 my golf game. 161 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:00.040 Still he's still working on it. 162 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:02.680 The most entertaining thing about the whole thing is it 163 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:05.079 does not matter what level of golf you're at. If 164 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:07.879 you're a beginner junior year in two, three, four, or 165 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:11.160 you're a seasoned pro or you know, I've had a 166 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:14.560 lifetime of golf. You hear something and you're like, I 167 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:16.800 gotta go try it out. And I remember one time 168 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:19.079 this guy, this guy, we were seventeen years old, and 169 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:20.639 we were on the first tea and he had read 170 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:23.360 somewhere in Golf Digest or something that you should have 171 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:26.639 your your feet open a little bit more. And he's like, guys, 172 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:29.000 I finally figured out how to cure my hook. I've 173 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:31.319 got it. I've figured it out. And he stands up 174 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:34.440 on the first tee and his feet were splayed almost 175 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:36.200 fully open right down. 176 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:39.440 Balat position, ballets first position. 177 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:42.080 I mean, we're laughing before he's even started, just kind 178 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:45.039 of chuckling underneath our breath. And he stands up on 179 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:48.320 the tee there and he rope hooks one like sixty 180 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:50.919 yards to the left, out of bounds into the driving right. 181 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:53.360 He's like, oh, maybe i'n't fixed it yet. 182 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:59.240 You talked about the lows and the highs, but you 183 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:02.799 said in edible triumphs, share that. 184 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:06.240 I got to share the first one with you. And 185 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:08.960 the first one happened when I was sixteen years old 186 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:13.440 and I was playing shally they paid played the ninety 187 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:15.440 seven PGA Championship there there was I was. This was 188 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:18.759 nineteen ninety eight and we were playing a pro am 189 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:23.039 there and I was an am obviously, I was a 190 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:26.720 junior at the time, and I double bogie the first 191 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:30.519 hole after hitting just a beautiful shot right over the flagstick, 192 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:33.080 pried in the back bunker, and you know, didn't get 193 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:36.360 a long story, short part of the second hole, bogie 194 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:38.919 the third hole, I'm three over part. From then on 195 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:42.480 went on to make seven birdies in an albatross, won 196 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:45.559 the tournament by four strokes. 197 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:46.759 And that which hole. 198 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:51.240 Part It was fifteen number number fifteen, Part five. I 199 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:53.879 went driver, Driver, Driver into the cup. 200 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:57.919 Driver driver. You had driver into the cup from how 201 00:09:57.960 --> 00:09:58.799 far away. 202 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:02.200 I'm I'm gonna say it was probably two sixty five 203 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:06.639 low off hill, front left pin pulass placement. I watched 204 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:08.240 it go in, and you know, I watched it go 205 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:11.399 in and it's like your eyes, you don't believe it. 206 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:14.279 And so the guys are back there in the fairway, 207 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:16.480 you know, hit, I said, guys, I think that went in. 208 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:18.320 I just start running up to the. 209 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:21.679 Hole and driver off the deck right. 210 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:26.720 I'm playing. I found one online. I found on an 211 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:29.039 eBay an old driver, the one that I had, and 212 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:31.600 it was called a speed slot and it was. 213 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:34.120 Great driver. 214 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:34.840 It was fantastic. 215 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:36.559 I had a little bit heard about it. 216 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:38.720 Yeah, I had this little like low point on it. It 217 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:41.240 was really easy to hit off the deck. I watched 218 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:43.799 it go in, ran up there, I'm by myself, there's 219 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:45.799 nobody around, looked down into the cup there and is 220 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:48.919 sitting right there the next hole. And my dad was 221 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:50.519 in the same group that because it was a pro 222 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:51.919 am thing. So it was a group of us from 223 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:55.360 one club coming up to play, and so in the 224 00:10:55.399 --> 00:10:58.480 sixteenth hole is a downhill dog leg right. I had 225 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:01.000 one hundred and sixty five yards left, which was a 226 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:03.360 six iron for me at that point, and pen was 227 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:06.360 back right on the next hole, and my dad whispered, assuming, 228 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:09.279 let's see what you really made of now, And I 229 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:11.919 remember standing over that ball still is one of the 230 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:14.919 best shots I've ever hit. Yeah, I just made albatrosses hole. 231 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:17.519 But that next I piped it down the middle. I 232 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:19.080 had one hundred and sixty five left. I had a 233 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:22.759 little choke down punch cut six iron. Just it was 234 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:24.879 I knew it. I mean even when he was said it, 235 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:26.480 he's like, I said, no, it's this is going to 236 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:28.039 be perfect. I'm not going to miss this. This is 237 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.159 and those moments, those moments when you're on the course 238 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:36.159 and everything's just easy. Oh so anyways, that was my 239 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:38.799 first professional win, even though I wasn't professional at the time, 240 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:41.039 and I had Yeah, I had twelve professional wins over 241 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:45.639 the time, usually small events. But the you know, the 242 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:49.039 joy of winning never never ceases. Where there's whether there's 243 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:50.519 three hundred people in the field or ten. 244 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:54.600 So is it an amazing how one shot can just 245 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:56.480 lock into your memory forever? 246 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:00.240 Yep, yep, and and and unfortunately it goes the other 247 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:03.039 way too. There's some some shots that have locked in 248 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:08.519 the wrong way to do there was let me give 249 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:11.279 you the flip side of that. For whatever reason, and 250 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:14.200 tournament play me teeing off of the three wood never worked. 251 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:17.440 I couldn't hit the tea the three wood just in 252 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:19.519 the first hole, whatever the pressure was. I could hit 253 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:21.399 an iron, I could hit I could hit it, I 254 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:23.159 get hit it in a part of three I hit driver, 255 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:26.200 but I couldn't hit three wood. I always top it, Okay, 256 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:31.000 And I'm planning this event down in Louisiana, and sure enough, 257 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:33.360 I'm like, no, the play is of three wood. I'll 258 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:35.320 play the three wood. I got to get over this thing. 259 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:37.480 It's not a big deal. It was a titleist nine 260 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:40.279 to seventy two, the little red, gray and red lined 261 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:43.639 title of three wood. And I hit it, and of 262 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:45.159 course I topped it. Didn't even get to the white 263 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:49.320 teas like. It was just awful. And the tournament organizer 264 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:52.120 says to the guy. There's a guy standing next to 265 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:54.879 the tournament organizer, and he says, why do you like, 266 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:57.360 why do you let guys like this play in these events? 267 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:01.440 Like this is, this is, this is kind of embarrassing, 268 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:04.080 and the tournament organizer says to him, you just watch, 269 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:05.919 he'll come in with the sixty seven. I'm sure I 270 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:08.600 came in with the sixty seventh, but yes, I can 271 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:11.639 still feel all of those tops off the first team. 272 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:13.960 It's probably only five times I took a three foot 273 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:19.799 off the tee because of that. But they burn both ways. 274 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:29.159 The great shots are always worth talking about. The bad 275 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:33.559 shots linger in your head and terrify you when you're 276 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:36.799 coming up to a similar shot or something, and people 277 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:39.840 are always oh, I, always oh I every time you 278 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:41.759 know my three? Would I top it? And you know, 279 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:44.919 you get that stuff going in your head. And I'm 280 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:48.600 always trying to remind my friends, hey, history has nothing 281 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:51.919 to do with your next shot. Just you do your 282 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:56.679 swing the way you do you and don't think about that. 283 00:13:57.080 --> 00:14:00.720 How do we prevent that? How do we keep our 284 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:04.639 minds straight without getting nuts about that stuff? 285 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:07.559 I could probably touch on that now a few years later. 286 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:08.600 Please do. 287 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:13.080 One of the greats. And this I cannot I can't 288 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:16.320 find who said it, but it was not me said 289 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:20.919 when pressure picks up, the process takes over. I don't 290 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:29.440 know if you've heard that over the years. Bytimes, pressure 291 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:33.360 is a fear of the unknown. It's either we haven't 292 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:37.320 been in that situation before, we haven't prepared for that situation. 293 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:41.720 There's unknowns that we don't know. And I relate it 294 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.639 back to skydiving. First time you go skydiving I've ever been, 295 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:48.200 it's really scary. I mean, you're jumping out of a plane, 296 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:50.279 trusting a parachute to take you to the ground. But 297 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:52.360 the hundredth time that you've done it, and you've learned 298 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:54.039 how to pack your shoot, and you know where all 299 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:55.720 the cords are, and you know what it's going to 300 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:57.200 feel like when you jump out of the plane and 301 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:58.519 how long you're going to be in the air, and 302 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:00.600 how to breathe with the wind coming in your face, 303 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:05.519 and there's no more unknowns, there's no fear. So that 304 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:10.320 knowledge actually conquers the fear and it is able to 305 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:13.039 take over to the point where you can do crazy 306 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:17.279 stuff not being afraid because you have enough knowledge to 307 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:20.039 take over. But you see these guys that are seasoned 308 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:22.600 pros in the Ryder Cup coming down the stretch at 309 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:26.279 Majors in an unknown position that they hadn't prepared for. 310 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:30.039 That they have questions that haven't answered. Maybe the question 311 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:32.200 is am I going to hit at a club further 312 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:36.000 because I'm jew straight now? Or is it? You know, 313 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:38.799 there's there's unknowns. But if you get there enough times 314 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:41.120 and you and you do the same thing over and 315 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:44.200 over enough, that allows you to overcome the fear and 316 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:46.200 the pressure and be able to focus on the thing 317 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:48.879 they actually have focused on. So for me, when I 318 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:52.320 when I explain this to people, which is strangely quite 319 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:55.159 often because the mental game is such a huge part 320 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:58.600 of golf. It comes in the pre shot routine and 321 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:01.559 the repetition of that pre shout routine over and over 322 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:03.679 and over, and you're trusting the process of getting the 323 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:06.120 ball so that when you're over the ball, all you're 324 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:07.960 thinking is center of the ball, center to club face, 325 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:11.879 hit them. I can do that. What I can't do 326 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:16.360 is listen to the crowd and the situation. And you know, 327 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:18.559 I've got a I've got a putt for If I 328 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.320 make this putt, I will. Oh. Now you've added more 329 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:24.159 stuff into your mind. You've added more details that you 330 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:26.919 have don't have answers for, and that causes stress, which 331 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:28.519 causes pressure, and as you know, at tension is the 332 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:33.799 killer of the golf game. So with the knowledge of 333 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:37.320 being able to answer all of your questions before you 334 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:39.559 get up there where club wind, where you want to 335 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:41.600 hit it, where it's going to land, what you're trying 336 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:43.399 to do, make those decisions. You don't have to think 337 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:45.919 about them anymore. Then you go through your process of 338 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.159 lining up, which all happens very quickly as you're going 339 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:50.399 through your pre shot routine. I know I'm lined up, 340 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:52.399 I know my club face is square, I know what 341 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:54.600 shot I'm hitting. There's no more questions I have. All 342 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:58.279 I have to do is center of ball, center of face. 343 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:03.440 We don't doubt our process. What gets into our head 344 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:08.920 is results right, and that's what gets in the way 345 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:11.680 of process. Well we have we do all our process, 346 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:13.200 and we do it right, and all of a sudden 347 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:16.480 you're shanking it or you're you know, it's gone in 348 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:19.880 the way. It can do any number of things. And 349 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:25.799 I also have a yabbut for your skydiver. Okay, with golf, 350 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:28.599 there's a lot of mistakes that can be in your 351 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:32.599 memory bank about what's going to happen next. But the 352 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:36.680 yabbo for the sky driver, the skydiver is one bat 353 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:39.039 one mistake, and he's not going to remember what he's 354 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:43.599 doing because he ain't doing it again. So let's let's 355 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:47.519 leave the skydiving to someone else. It's not Golf is 356 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:54.400 worrisome and stressful, but it's not hopefully not dangerous to 357 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:55.599 hope not. 358 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:59.160 But I'm pretty sure a few of us have been 359 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:01.319 hit by arron golf balls over the years. 360 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:04.480 But knock on wood, so far not yet. 361 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:07.640 Oh good for you. 362 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:10.960 You mean you have Oh yeah. 363 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:12.000 Yeah, there's a few people in my family who have 364 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:12.759 been hit by golf. 365 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:15.480 I live next to a I have a golf hole 366 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:17.759 right here, I'm right in driving range, and I get 367 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:21.440 balls all the time. And luckily, in the thirteen years 368 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:24.559 we've lived here, only one person's been hit and it 369 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:27.599 was just a brush off of a bounce, so brush 370 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:30.359 on their arm off the bount So so far, so 371 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:30.960 good on that. 372 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:35.279 Yeah, but yes, you're right, there are yabbuts, and it's 373 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:37.519 hard because we're human. We get stuff in our minds, 374 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:41.279 we get we want to win, and then we change 375 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:43.200 our target. We change our target from the ball that's 376 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:44.839 in front of us to the pin that's over there, 377 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:50.000 or I haven't forbid the water that's left of that 378 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:50.799 that's typically where. 379 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:58.119 So you're really big on making golf fun again, right, 380 00:18:58.519 --> 00:19:02.160 and many methods to do that. But I need some 381 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:04.640 advice and I'm glad you're here to help me out 382 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:08.920 on this because just today my wife, who doesn't play golf, 383 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:17.680 she's she's taken a golf lesson for twelve she's played 384 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:23.359 nine holes a couple times, but she doesn't really have 385 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:25.720 a lot of interest in playing golf. She likes to 386 00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:28.200 hike and I like, and I say all the time, 387 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:30.680 I like to hike too, just every so often I 388 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:34.240 want to hit something right, so I walk when I 389 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:39.839 play golf today and is she listening now? Okay, today 390 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:43.359 she announces to me, I want to play golf with 391 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:45.759 you again. I would like to go back now. I'm 392 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:47.799 interested in going back out and playing with you again. 393 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:51.440 I'm like, but you know, we've got a net back here. 394 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.039 We can we can work a little bit on the net, 395 00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:56.279 and you know, have you take a call? No, no, no, 396 00:19:56.279 --> 00:19:58.640 I just want to go out. It's just to have fun. 397 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:01.039 I don't want lessons. I just and I'm happy to 398 00:20:01.079 --> 00:20:08.039 pick up the ball. How do I make that fun 399 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:13.079 for me? How to give me some advice of what 400 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:15.880 I can do to not get caught up because I'm 401 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.559