WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.639 --> 00:00:04.559 Hey, this is Fredgreen of golf Smarter with our sixth 2 00:00:04.599 --> 00:00:07.559 installment of spring Back into Golf Season with the late 3 00:00:07.639 --> 00:00:11.679 Tony Manzoni. This episode was part two of our conversation 4 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:16.199 originally number four hundred and nine for members only from 5 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:21.000 November twenty thirteen. 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This is golf Smarter. 16 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:02.280 Welcome back to golf Smarter for members only. 17 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:02.640 Tony. 18 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:06.640 Thank you, Fred, Thank you again for sticking around and 19 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:11.000 recording forget the recording, for sticking around and answering more 20 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:12.120 of my questions. 21 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:13.359 I just love it. Fred. 22 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:18.319 Oh, that's very kind of you. There's many things that 23 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:21.159 you said in our last conversation that I want to 24 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:25.280 bring back and get more detail from you out of that. 25 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:30.239 Like when you talked about being under pressure and hooking 26 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:33.079 the ball. You said, when you were playing competitively when 27 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:35.280 you were young, whenever you were under pressure, you would 28 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:40.239 hook the ball. Now forty to fifty years later and 29 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:42.760 you look back on that, do you know what that was? 30 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:48.079 Sure? I know what it was. As I got into 31 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:51.719 learning to be more of a connected rotating or having 32 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:56.319 a connected rotating swing, I realized that the moving of 33 00:01:56.359 --> 00:02:01.000 the of the left arm the right arm for that matter, 34 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:02.280 but to the left round when you go back in 35 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:03.959 the back swing, no matter how you take it back 36 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.519 to your left round goes somewhat across your chest, okay, and 37 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:10.680 it connects somewhere near the left arm pit and the 38 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:13.439 right arm pit. So that's why you see a lot 39 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:15.719 of tour players will put a towel across their chest 40 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:17.080 and then put their arms on the top of the 41 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:21.000 toe and hit shots that way. What they're doing, you know, 42 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:23.840 it's it's restrictive in a way, but they're teaching themselves 43 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:26.280 that the body moves the arms, the arms will move 44 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:29.800 off the body and then back on the body. It's 45 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:31.919 not to say that you can't do that, and there 46 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:34.360 have been some good players that did that, but I 47 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:37.479 don't think they had very long careers. Without naming a 48 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:39.080 lot of guys, there's a lot of guys on the 49 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:41.080 senior tour now that can't play a lit that were 50 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:44.080 champions on the regular tour, and it's because their game 51 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:48.680 was based on disconnecting and connecting, swaying to the right 52 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:51.280 and swaying to the left and so forth. But in 53 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:56.039 my swing, what I realize is that when my arms 54 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:01.680 get to impact before my left side is clear, then 55 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:05.039 my because the head is hairier than the handle. If 56 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:07.960 you swing the arms away from the body and just 57 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:09.840 swing a golf club, you'll see that the club head 58 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:14.879 turns over prior to impact because because of the weight, 59 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:17.240 the weight of the handle way to the head. The 60 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:20.280 head weight will roll the clubhead. So these people that 61 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:23.560 try to teach people to roll the clubhead, if you 62 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:25.800 just swing your arms ahead of your body, it's gonna roll. 63 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:27.479 If I want to hook a ball around a corner, 64 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:29.360 I just keep my back of the target and throw 65 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:32.199 my arm forward and that clubcase is closed. A foot 66 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:35.560 from the ball, so I'm gonna I'm gonna snipe of it. Okay, 67 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.000 well that's what I did under pressure, because under pressure 68 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:41.039 we all get a little fast on the down. Can't 69 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:44.759 help it. And I didn't realize that the faster my 70 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:49.039 arms went, the slower my body went. So they didn't 71 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:51.759 correspond and they won't. You throw your arms ahead of 72 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:55.319 your body, and there's a saying the good golfer's arms 73 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:59.199 never passed the body, never passed the body. And you say, 74 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:01.639 wait a minute, I see the club, but it's not 75 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.560 because if you follow the turning of the bottom, the 76 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:06.759 club is standing in front of the body, but it's 77 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:10.240 not going past it. So this is how it works, 78 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:14.039 real simple. You stand up to the ball. I like 79 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.480 you to set up sixty forty. You take the club back. 80 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:19.000 It goes across your chest and it connects somewhere high 81 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:22.600 on the left tectoral muscle. Okay, when you get to 82 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:26.319 the top, instead of letting the arms come free of 83 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:29.160 the body and pulling the arms down, keep the position 84 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:33.279 that you have at the top and rotate your chest area. 85 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:35.600 And now I'm not gonna say hips, because if you're 86 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:37.199 on that left side, you don't have to throw your 87 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:42.959 legs first or any of that craziness. Unwind which wound up. 88 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.439 Unwind your chest and shoulders around your pivot leg, pulling 89 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:49.519 your arm through, and if you'll unwind properly, you'll be 90 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:52.480 unwinding to the left, just like on the backswing you 91 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:55.240 had to unwind to the right. So when you unwind, 92 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:57.560 your body's going to turn to the left. So when 93 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.319 you finish your golf swing, your right shoulder should pointing 94 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:02.519 at the target. The center of your chest should be 95 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:05.160 pointing quite a bit left of the target. And if 96 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:08.519 you watch the tour ladies or men's you'll see that 97 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:11.279 that's how most of the players are finishing. No one's 98 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:15.439 jilted back with high hands. Everything is around because players 99 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:17.959 are finding that's a more effective way to play. So 100 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:21.439 when we're connected, and and I mentioned that at the 101 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.959 right arm, sure, because the right arm can't come loose 102 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:28.240 and go out away from the body on the downswing 103 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:31.839 because the elbow will be out of position. So that 104 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:35.720 closed armpit of the right side is just as important 105 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:38.000 as a closed armpit on the left side. So with 106 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:41.079 both of them closed, the right with the right arm 107 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:42.920 does in the backswing is you turn the right arm 108 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:46.240 folds to a position and that's and that's your position. 109 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:47.720 But that's how you get the club back. You don't 110 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:51.160 do it with your wrist cock. You do the arm fold, okay, 111 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:53.959 and it sets the wrist so that the club head 112 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:56.480 or the chef, the shaft in your left arm four 113 00:05:57.240 --> 00:05:59.839 form kind of an l position. Okay, we want to 114 00:05:59.879 --> 00:06:02.120 be position. That's too much risk. We want this elow 115 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:05.399 position the club. Your back is to the target. The 116 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:07.639 club looks three quarters and if you look at the 117 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:10.319 tour today, you'll see most everybody like that. You don't 118 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:13.040 see that past parallel look except for a few out there. 119 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:17.439 And they have one commonality. They get wild with the driver. 120 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:20.600 They don't know if it's going right or left under pressure. Okay, 121 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:23.439 the ones that are compact, they're popping it in the 122 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:27.040 center all the time. Louis lusehavn just a bunch of 123 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:29.879 them that are rotators. But anyway, so we're at the 124 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:32.319 top of the swing. The left arm is connected high 125 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:35.560 in the pectoral the right arm you can be holding 126 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:38.879 a handkerchief under the armpit. The elbow is not touching 127 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:41.079 the bout it just the armpit is closed. You just 128 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:43.560 take that and you rotate to the left around the 129 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:45.920 pivot leg, which is your left leg if you're right handed, 130 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:48.800 and you just keep rotating and the club comes last. 131 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:51.319 And it's kind of like a hockey player. That the 132 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:53.160 action of a hockey player with a stick to a puck. 133 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:56.439 It's a one piece action. It's not a throw of 134 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:59.720 the arms, is a rotation of the body. On my video, 135 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:03.319 you can see that little exercise I do that makes 136 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:07.360 you instantly feel this. And if there's any one thing 137 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:11.839 that you must do, it's fats. And you know, Ben 138 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:14.360 Hogan said, you take all your natural instincts and do 139 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:16.439 the opposite, you'll have a pretty good golf swing. And 140 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:18.639 he's absolutely right, because when the ball is down on 141 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:20.519 the ground and we've got the club in our hands, 142 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:23.319 the tendency for us is to hit down on that 143 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:25.439 golf ball to throw those arms. And we've been told 144 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:29.279 hit down on the ball. If you have the club, 145 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:32.439 let's say a shoal or heighth, and you swing it 146 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:34.560 to the other side, the club has to come down 147 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:37.319 to go up, so there's no need to try to 148 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:39.439 hit down because all you're going to do is you're 149 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:41.399 going to great tension, and you're going and you're going 150 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:44.199 to get steeper than you should. The swing has a 151 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:46.360 shape to it. It's it's kind of a U shape, 152 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:48.040 so there is a bottom to it, but you don't 153 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:50.279 need to do anything to get there. It has to 154 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:52.160 get there for it to go back up on the 155 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:55.639 other side. So I never advocate hitting down on a 156 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:59.279 golf ball because then you're thinking about impact too much. 157 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:02.839 And then what we get into anticipating impact, which causes 158 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:06.800 a tension. And that's why all the beginners. You see 159 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:09.480 beginners top the ball and the guy says, you looked up, okay, 160 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:11.720 And then you got their faces glued to the ground 161 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:13.360 and glued to the ball, and they still top it 162 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:15.680 that you looked up. That's such a bunch of beloging. 163 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:19.079 It's just you tighten up. And so when you anticipate impact, 164 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:23.160 you're grabbing that handle tighter, you're getting ready to hit something. Okay. 165 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:26.319 That shortens the muscle, pulls the club to the to 166 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:28.000 the center or top of the ball, and you roll 167 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.160 it on the ground. So when we're playing golf, and 168 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:34.519 as I teach all my students, I'm teaching you where 169 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:36.679 your body is a relationship with that golf ball on 170 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:39.159 the back swinging on the through swing, and that body 171 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:42.279 has to be on the ball on the coil, and 172 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:45.320 then the whole right side goes past the ball on 173 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:47.240 the through swing and the ball is in the way 174 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:49.720 of that action. If you focus on that back of 175 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:51.919 that ball or hit down on that ball, try to 176 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.080 keep your head down on that ball. You don't hit 177 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.480 a lot of shots behind the ball because when we start, 178 00:08:56.919 --> 00:08:59.080 when we put that golf club behind the ball, if 179 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:00.960 we bring it right back that spot, we're going to 180 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:02.720 go divot ball, and we don't want to do that. 181 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:05.559 We want to go ball divt. So there has to 182 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:07.600 be a forward and is somewhere in that motion to 183 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:11.200 hit the ball first and then take the divot. That's 184 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:13.840 the through motion. So when for all of you out 185 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:16.919 there that hit the ball thin or hit behind it, 186 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:19.799 that's because you are behind it. You're not supposed to 187 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:22.000 be behind it when you hit it. It's supposed to 188 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:23.759 be moving through it. You're supposed to be on the 189 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:27.039 left side. So don't buy into that crap here all 190 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:29.240 the time. Stay behind it, keep your head back behind it. 191 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:32.159 That's nuts. There's no sport that you do that you 192 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:34.200 hit a tennis ball, you move forward. You throw a punch, 193 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:36.000 you move forward. You throw a baseball, you move forward. 194 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:38.320 You got to move forward. You got to move through 195 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:41.200 it with a Now I'm not saying that your heads 196 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:43.799 go way forward, but that's not the golf sing. If 197 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:46.759 you rotate past that golf ball, that club has come 198 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:48.360 and last, and it's going to hit the ball with 199 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:50.919 all the force of your core. When you try to 200 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:53.200 stay behind the ball, all you're using assuming your arms 201 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:55.080 forward of your body, which is the worst thing you 202 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:57.320 can do if you're going to try to not only 203 00:09:57.360 --> 00:09:58.600 hit it far, but hit it straight. 204 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:05.559 The golf swing is supposedly a circular like if you draw, 205 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:07.679 If you follow the club head around, it's a circle 206 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:08.879 correct around your body. 207 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:11.440 It's a rotational it's a rotational move. That's the only 208 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:14.200 way that our body moves. When you walk, you rotates, 209 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:17.320 so it's a rotation live in. Rotation doesn't mean straight 210 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:19.159 back and straight through. That's why when people say take 211 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:23.480 the club straight back, you know that's really not that's 212 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:26.440 really not correct. Because the body's turning, the club has 213 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:28.679 to stay in front of you relative to where the 214 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.639 body is, So when the body's turning if the club's 215 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:34.039 in front of you, but it'll be inside the line 216 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:36.399 of the It'll be inside the ball line. Is it 217 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:38.679 must be. You can't take the club back on the 218 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:40.360 ball line and swing it down the ball line. And 219 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:42.320 I hear that all the time. Oh yeah, you kept 220 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:44.799 that club going right down the ball, lie Boloni. You 221 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:46.559 can't do that. The club the toll has to be 222 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:51.320 turning because you're turning. Okay, you got to trap that 223 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:54.000 golf ball. The more you push that club down the line, 224 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:56.679 than what's going to happen just out of the construction 225 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:00.120 of the club the neck, because that's where the shaft is. 226 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:02.320 The neck is going to lead that club and the 227 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:03.519 toad is going to be back and you're going to 228 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:06.000 hit everything right, you know, or slice the ball, and 229 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:07.720 the blade's going to open up. The more you push 230 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:10.000 it straight back at the target, the more the blade 231 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:11.759 is can open up. That club has to come back. 232 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:14.480 You know. The path of the swing is from square, 233 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:17.960 It goes inside, back to square, back to inside. So 234 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:20.480 that's the shape of the golf swing, and that's that's 235 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:23.639 what your body is doing. It's like a hub and 236 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:26.639 a spoke. Your body is rotating and the club is 237 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:30.559 rotating relative to what your body's doing. That's why good 238 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:33.159 players connect the arms of the body, and the arms 239 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:35.759 move where the body takes them. They're not trying to 240 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:37.799 take the club back and put it in a position 241 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.240 because it's then it becomes disconnected to the body and 242 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:43.919 then they've got to re rout the arms back to 243 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:47.080 where the elbow hits that inside of the hip area 244 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:49.240 to hit the golf ball. Oh well, that can do 245 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:56.120 that on a consistent basis. Am I making you crazy? Yeah? 246 00:11:56.279 --> 00:11:56.879 Absolutely? 247 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:04.440 Am I making you crazy? Uh? 248 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:09.720 Yeah, absolutely. There's so much going on right now in 249 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:11.879 my head. It's like there's. 250 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:14.879 If I if you were in front of me and 251 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:18.120 I set you up and you had some idea of 252 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:20.200 the golf thing you've been playing a while, Okay, but 253 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:23.240 you know I slice everything, all right, okay everything or whatever. 254 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:26.279 I show you that when your arms go three of 255 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:28.240 the body on the downs and the club is either 256 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:30.159 going to roll over or you're going to hang on 257 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:31.960 to it and it's going to stay open. And that's 258 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:33.879 why you can get up and hook one ball and 259 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:35.200 then you guard the next one and. 260 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:37.960 You pull it. Yeah. So when when you're when you're 261 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:41.919 addressing the ball, and you're you're setting up with the 262 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:46.399 ball with the club face. You're look, you're staring at 263 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:48.879 the ball. Your club face is sitting just behind it 264 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:53.919 when you're coming So, but when you come through on 265 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:58.000 your swing, that is not the base of your swing, right, 266 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:00.960 that's the base of it would be in front of 267 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:04.879 the ball, right, the bottom part of yours, the bottom 268 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:07.559 part of the swing would be. You know, when you're 269 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:09.120 falling through, because you want to hit the ball and 270 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:10.320 then hit the ground. Do you want to make the 271 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:11.639 divot after you hit the ball. 272 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:19.200 Yes, Well, it's that turning through impact that brings the 273 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:22.399 club so that the ball is being struck on the 274 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:25.039 down swing, so it hits the ball, hits the turf 275 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:30.559 when you're in the proper position, just prior to impact. Okay, 276 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:32.840 the club is coming down, it strikes the ball, and 277 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:34.919 it takes a little bit of divot when you get 278 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:36.840 behind the ball, when you have too much weight on 279 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:38.480 the right side. It is trying to hit the golf ball. 280 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:40.559 You're going to come down in behind the ball. You're 281 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:42.480 going to bring the club kinda where you have it 282 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:44.519 to start with, so you're going to go div it ball. 283 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:46.600 And that's how most people hit it. They take real 284 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:48.600 deep dits, and even when they hit a good shot, 285 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:51.960 they still hit them a little flabby because they're in 286 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:55.799 the wrong position. They're behind the golf ball. If you 287 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:58.080 look at a picture at impact of a good player, 288 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:02.120 you'll see that his chest area is not in the 289 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:04.279 same position he was at a dress. Like some people 290 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:06.799 try to say, get back to the dress. His left 291 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:10.679 side is open, it's turned to open, okay, and the 292 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:14.120 right side is now driving past the golf ball. If 293 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:15.519 you look at it you want to see a great swing, 294 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:19.120 Look at anakis or instant. That girl had more birdies 295 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:21.080 of two and three inches because she hit is so 296 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:24.399 dead at the hole because she was turning towards the 297 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:26.720 target and that arms were being pulled, so she was 298 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:30.480 trapping that club dead square. So she unwolmed properly. The 299 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:33.039 ball went right where she unwelmed to. And that's what 300 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:36.159 we're looking for to learn to hit the ball without 301 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:38.519 a lot of side spin. Now, when I want to 302 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:42.720 cut it or draw it, I do it by memory. 303 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:44.159 I just set up to the ball and feel like 304 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:46.399 I'm going to do it. But there is a process 305 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:48.519 of doing it that I practiced for a lot of 306 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:52.399 hours as a young man, but I primarily hit the 307 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:56.360 ball with very little movement on it, especially with my irons. 308 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:00.919 Because of this action, I could remain in the past. 309 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:02.919 To hit it near the pin, I had to aim 310 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:05.320 at a club or two to the right of the 311 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:07.679 of the green and draw it in. I don't do 312 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:12.240 that anymore. I can. I can got pin hunting because 313 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:14.440 of this action. I know. I'm not gonna put very 314 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:16.600 much side spin on the ball. Side's beIN comes from 315 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:19.759 the club face closing and opening and impact. That's all 316 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:21.840 it is. I mean, it's not a big secret. So 317 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:24.639 when you swing a free arm swing, that club is 318 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:27.200 going to roll. I mean, anybody that's listening to me, 319 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:28.559 you know, I'll just take a golf club out and 320 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:30.679 swing it with your arms a little bit away from you, 321 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:32.159 and you see that the weight of the club will 322 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:34.159 turn the club over, and it's going to turn it 323 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:37.559 over generally before you hit the golf ball. And then 324 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:39.679 the next time, because you're scared of death that's gonna happen, 325 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:41.600 you're gonna hang on to it tight, so you're gonna 326 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:43.440 hold the blade open. So neither one of them are 327 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:45.679 any good. You can't come off. So you've got to 328 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:48.759 have a golf swing that if it's it's tight as 329 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:51.840 heck and you got trouble right and trouble left, that 330 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:53.559 you can get up there and free swinging and know 331 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:58.240 absolutely no that you're not going to touch either bad area, 332 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:00.480 that you're going to carve it into the into the 333 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:03.559 free into the fairway one way or another. You're gonna 334 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.480 power slice it or a soft draw, but you're gonna 335 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:09.360 put it in the fairway. And I can still do that. 336 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:11.240 I just can't, you know, I just can't hit it 337 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:14.639 far enough to really really compete. If they put me 338 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:18.600 up on that Ladies teas or or old iyed teas, 339 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:19.759 I'll play with anybody. 340 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:23.080 You just told me in the last episode that you're 341 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:24.960 hitting the ball to sixty five on your drives. 342 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:27.840 What do you mean, Yeah, that's short compared to what 343 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:28.639 people hit it now. 344 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:35.159 I mean, I'm well, yeah, yeah, if you're playing. 345 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:39.279 With l they played blue cheese, I play white cheese, 346 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:42.240 and so I'm I'm at least a little bit up 347 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:45.279 with them, or sometimes it will past them with the drive. 348 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:48.840 You know, when I created the Mixed Team Championship that 349 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:51.919 was on television for what sixty years. What we did 350 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:56.559 is we we figured out what women would need. Professional 351 00:16:56.600 --> 00:16:58.879 women would need to compete against men. They need seventy 352 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:02.360 five yards because they not only needed distance on the drive, 353 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:04.519 but they needed on the second shot so that they 354 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:08.119 could hit into a par four a drive in seven 355 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:12.279 or eight iron, because most men are hitting those kind 356 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:14.880 of clubs. Prior to that, Prior to that, the gals 357 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:17.960 were playing the club. The course is so long that 358 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:20.480 no one was reaching par fives and two, and they 359 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:23.160 were hitting long irons into par fours. And when we 360 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:25.359 came up with this concept, this is many many years ago, 361 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:28.920 that tournament kind of changed the way the girls perceived 362 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:31.480 the golf course should be because a hard liner said, no, no, 363 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:33.319 you're making it too easy. And I said, look, men 364 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:36.359 are shooting nineteen or twenty hunder par every tournament the 365 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:39.319 winners are, and you're shooting six and seven. The perception 366 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:41.599 then from the general public is, well, you're not playing 367 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:44.759 as good because you're shooting higher scores, but you're playing 368 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:48.279 a lot tougher golf course. You know, they were set 369 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:51.680 up like it was like setting up a men's golf 370 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:54.000 course of seventy eight hundred yards that's the kind of 371 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:57.319 golf the women playing it for a long time, and 372 00:17:57.359 --> 00:18:00.000 we changed that. But we found that the average guy 373 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:04.519 off that pops the ball out there, they need about 374 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:06.880 seventy five yards and then then they can compete. Well, 375 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:09.279 that's the same by going up. You know when I 376 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:11.599 go up on a tee, you know, I go up 377 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:14.119 about thirty yards. Well that makes it that that has 378 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:16.680 thirty yards of my t shirt. Now I'm in the 379 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:20.720 game now. So in the history, we don't play. We 380 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:24.519 don't play championship teas. You play to have a. 381 00:18:24.440 --> 00:18:26.319 Good time, right, you play the white teas, and it's 382 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:30.000 like so proud, Yeah, I'm proud to play up. 383 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:32.559 I mean, I love it. If some sometimes I play 384 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:34.160 with clients, they say, well, look we're going to play 385 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:37.079 the senior teas. I love it, can't can't wait. You know, 386 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:39.160 I don't have any ego about that. Good for you, 387 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:41.240 because I know what my limitations are. But if you 388 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:42.920 put me one hundred and fifty yards from the green 389 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:45.559 every very hole, I'm going to make a lot of birdies. 390 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:53.440 M In the history of golf, are are different sets 391 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:54.960 of tea is a relatively new thing. 392 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:59.920 No, no, no, They're always most golf courses have ladies. 393 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:02.000 He's the men's ties, but most golf course now they're 394 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.440 in a lot. I've been on a lot of golf 395 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:06.680 courses where the ladies seas were twenty yards further than 396 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:10.400 the men's that's just that's a joke, to be honest 397 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:12.119 with you. They should be pretty close to one hundred 398 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:16.119 yards on every single hole for the ladies to enjoy 399 00:19:16.200 --> 00:19:19.119 the game like men. Do you see gals out there 400 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:21.519 with a driver on a par three? Well, you you 401 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:24.519