WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.560 --> 00:00:04.000 Hey, this is Fred Green of Golf Smarter with the 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:07.799 ninth appearance that Tony made on Golf Smarter episode four 3 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:11.119 hundred and fifty seven that was recorded back in October 4 00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:15.279 of twenty fourteen, one week after last week's episode. This 5 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:17.920 was a lot of fun because at the time in history, 6 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:21.679 Tiger was struggling with his game and his life. So 7 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:24.760 I asked Tony what he would say to Tiger if 8 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:27.760 he got a call from his camp asking for advice 9 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:31.359 from a community college golf coach with an incredible record. 10 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:34.920 After this week, there are three more episodes with Tony 11 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:37.960 as we approach the end of our annual series. 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Any other questions or if 24 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:25.159 you'd like to pay the twenty dollars, please write to 25 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:29.680 me directly golf Smarter podcast at gmail dot com, or 26 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:35.000 click on the Heyfred button when you visit golfsmarter dot com. 27 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:37.959 Part two of our conversation that picks up right where 28 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:42.359 last week's episode ended for members only, Golf Smarter number 29 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:47.000 four hundred and fifty seven, published on October seven, twenty fourteen. 30 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:51.040 If Tiger asked Tony Manzoni for help, what would he say? 31 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:53.120 This is golf Smarter. 32 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:59.359 If just so happens Tiger Woods was listening to this, 33 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:03.920 it's it's I know it's not happening, but he's like, 34 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:07.400 you know what, I'm going to give Tony Manzoni a call. 35 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:12.599 Tiger Woods calls you and says, I could really use 36 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:14.479 your help. I listened to what you had to say. 37 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:16.960 It makes a lot of sense. What would you do 38 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:21.120 for me if Tiger called you and asked for your help? 39 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:21.800 What would you do? 40 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:23.360 Well? 41 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:28.080 After I got up off the floor, no, I mean, 42 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:31.439 I mean what I have to say, The Tiger would 43 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:32.520 take fifteen minutes. 44 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:33.879 I just think, I. 45 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:35.719 Just you better charge a lot of money, man. 46 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:39.960 You know I would, I would, I would. If I 47 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:40.759 did it, I would do. 48 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:45.479 It anonymously, and I wouldn't want anything for it, because Tiger. 49 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:46.560 Is really important for the game. 50 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:49.439 You know, we're losing a lot of players, and Tigers 51 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:52.599 is like the Beatles. He's like he's an icon and 52 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:56.840 whether you like what he did socially really doesn't matter. 53 00:02:57.039 --> 00:02:58.759 He's got a huge following. 54 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:01.560 And if he he gets back to playing, which I predict, 55 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:03.280 he's going to come back stronger than ever. 56 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:03.960 Do you really? 57 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:05.479 I do? I really really? 58 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:08.000 Because I think he's on the right track physically. The 59 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:10.840 guy's eighteen years old. I don't care what his number is. 60 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:13.960 He's in unbelievable shape, and he's the kind of guy 61 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:15.080 that will always. 62 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:15.560 Be in good shape. 63 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:17.919 And if he just figures out his golf swing, and 64 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:20.599 if he figures out how to stay connected through impact 65 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:23.240 and keep that left arm high on the chest as 66 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:26.280 he rotates his body, which he does on his irons, 67 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:29.039 that's what blows my mind. It's like he's got two 68 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:31.680 different swings. If he does that with the driver and 69 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:33.439 he gets the ball in play, what is that? 70 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:34.639 What is he going to shoot? 71 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:37.840 Because he's a great putter, he's a great wedge player, 72 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:39.800 and he's a great iron player. But the thing that 73 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:42.120 has always killed him is that getting that first shot 74 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:44.759 in play. And I think part of it is that, 75 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:48.319 you know, he lost distance, but he lost distance because 76 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:51.360 he bulked up so much. Do you remember when he 77 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:53.439 was first on the tour, he had a forty three 78 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:55.960 and a half in titlest driver with a steel shaft, 79 00:03:55.960 --> 00:03:58.719 and he was literally killing it. But as he got 80 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:01.960 bigger and bigger and bigger, I think that it affected 81 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:06.120 his flexibility and speed and then and then, you know, 82 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:08.319 when you start losing a little distance, then you try 83 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:10.120 to start picking it up, so now you get fast 84 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:13.479 from the top and all, you know, because everybody's human 85 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:14.199 in that respect. 86 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:16.439 I mean, I used to be considered. 87 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:19.040 A long hitter, and now you know I have I 88 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:21.040 can't see well, but I can see my ball stop, 89 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:23.720 which is a nightmare because I'm not hitting it very far. 90 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:26.560 I can hit it square. But listen, when you get 91 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:28.319 to a certain age, that's going to happen. So work 92 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:30.839 on your short game. But I think that's what happened 93 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.720 with Tiger. Everybody started blowing him past, it past him, 94 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:34.399 so he felt like. 95 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:36.920 He was doing something wrong. I think it's just his. 96 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:40.040 Physicality changed so much. Said, you know, he kind of 97 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:42.920 got in the way of his speed. He's leaned down 98 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:46.199 a little bit more and he looks like he's fast again. 99 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:48.120 When I watched him a few terms, he came back 100 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:51.319 before he got back off because of his injury, started 101 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:55.839 bothering him again. He looked his swing looked really really aggressive, 102 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:59.319 but not out of control. He used to look like 103 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:00.920 it was a little lot of control with the driver. 104 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:04.800 And if he were to bulk after bulking up the 105 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:07.759 way he did, would you suggest that he go to 106 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:12.120 a shorter shaft driver or are a longer one, or 107 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:13.319 stay with the forty three? 108 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:17.600 No, I wouldn't listen. Tiger has experts telling them what 109 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:21.360 to do physically. I think that what I have my 110 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:24.120 guys doing, we're doing. We're doing weights, but we're doing 111 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:30.680 low weights and high intensive exercises with very little time 112 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:34.439 between the exercises, where we try to do one hundred 113 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:39.879 one hundred bicep at ten at a time, but with 114 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:45.439 only thirty seconds between each each rep or each each grouping, 115 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:48.720 and we're trying to get it down at thirty. We're 116 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.120 get it down to nothing so that you can do 117 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:55.439 one hundred in a row. Now, will we reach that goal? 118 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:57.920 I don't think so, but we're going to get close. 119 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:00.040 But as we progress each week. 120 00:05:59.879 --> 00:06:04.160 I can see that everyone is getting faster and we're 121 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:07.680 taking less time. So the fatigue factor is high, and 122 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:09.839 I think that's the new trend. 123 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:10.399 In working out. 124 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:12.519 If you're an athlete, you're not trying to get big, 125 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:15.040 pop by muscles. You're just trying to get lean and mean, 126 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:18.879 and this kind of exercise really shreds you, gets the 127 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:22.519 fat off you, and it keeps and you keep your flexibility. 128 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:24.920 And I know the Tiger knows all about this stuff. 129 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:27.199 This guy is he knows a lot about a lot 130 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:28.720 of things when it comes to sports. 131 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:29.879 He did go to Stanford. 132 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:34.360 So this is interesting to me because you've seen the 133 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:38.079 eras of athletes, not just golfers, but a lot of 134 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:41.839 athletes who didn't pay that much attention to physical fitness. 135 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.800 And now we're in an era where it's you know, 136 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:48.519 even if you're only playing six to eight months a year, 137 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:51.439 you're working out all year long because of competition, so 138 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:55.920 stiff and it's a long season for everybody, no matter 139 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:58.079 what sport you're playing, So you have to be in 140 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:03.000 top physical shape. For golfers today, what would you recommend 141 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:07.600 be the workout regimen and what areas of focus would 142 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:09.319 you put on the body? Would you focus on the 143 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:11.879 lower part of the body, the legs, the arms, would 144 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:15.160 you work on stamina, would you work on you know, muscle. 145 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:18.680 Building or core strength? And where would you go with this? 146 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.040 Well, I think I think the trend today and I 147 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:23.920 and I agree with it is that they're working more 148 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:24.360 on the core. 149 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:29.360 They're working on arms and chest and back along. 150 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:32.959 With the legs, you know, because we don't we don't 151 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:36.199 drive the legs through the ball like we used to 152 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:39.800 because we're because we're our body's in a little different position. 153 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:41.959 When when you were tilted way. 154 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:44.519 Back, your head was way behind the ball. Yeah, you 155 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:46.279 had to drive your legs to get to the left 156 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:48.639 side and then you had to rotate, but you had 157 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:49.839 to make a little sliding move. 158 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:53.519 Well, no one, no one's, no one is doing that. 159 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:58.319 You don't see any sliders like like in days gone by. 160 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:01.639 So so the top part is just as important as 161 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.319 the bottom part. But you have to be careful. You 162 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:05.839 have to know what you're doing, or you have to 163 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:08.319 have someone help you in that regard so that you 164 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:13.319 don't use the wrong type of exercises. Again, golf is 165 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:15.240 not a game where you need to be bulked up. 166 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:16.319 It's a game where you need to. 167 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:20.399 Be with what we call cut or you're shredded. 168 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:23.600 That's the kind of body type you want. No, so 169 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:26.360 there are some people that are bulky and they have 170 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:27.879 to swing the club a different way. 171 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:30.399 But Tiger was a very thin kid. 172 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:32.799 I had him in a tournament years and years ago 173 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:35.840 called Kids were Kids, and he was sixteen years old 174 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:38.960 and he was on the thin side. But he hit 175 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.279 it out there two miles. He hit it out there. 176 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:43.679 I remember that day. He was sixteen years old. He 177 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:45.799 hit as far as he already did on tour. Now 178 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:48.559 he had a longer swing. But his thing was speed. 179 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:53.679 Tire runs fast. He's a speed person. Okay, He's not 180 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:57.440 a guy that he's not structurally built to be lifting 181 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:00.879 heavy weight. He's structurally built to be like a cat, 182 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:03.120 and I think he got away from that. 183 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:04.960 I think maybe being. 184 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:08.440 Around guys like Michael Jordan everything or workout freaks. I 185 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:11.480 think he got into body building, and I think he 186 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:14.240 I think a mistake was made there. 187 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:16.600 And I've seen he looks a little bit more. He's 188 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:19.360 a little bit more cut looking now, as you should be. 189 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:23.600 And I you know, everyone needs to get into things 190 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:26.120 like yoga, anything, stretching. 191 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:28.919 If you're really interested in golf, it's range of motion 192 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:30.240 that's really important. 193 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:37.320 What do you do. 194 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:40.519 I've been doing a lot of stretching. 195 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:45.519 I've been doing the high intensive exercises, interval exercises, like 196 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:47.960 I go on the net and look for anything that 197 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:51.559 is related to golf and getting more flexibility so I 198 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:53.440 can get the club back a little bit farther, which 199 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:56.399 gives me more time to build momentum. 200 00:09:57.120 --> 00:09:57.279 You know. 201 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:00.120 I used to run a lot of ten k's on 202 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:02.240 the golf course every night. I used to go at 203 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:05.279 the football field here at the college and I'd run 204 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:09.200 twenty thirty laps around them, you know, so it's four 205 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:09.799 or five miles. 206 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:13.320 So I was running probably every day a good ten miles. 207 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:14.799 I don't have the. 208 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:20.440 Inclination, the time and the stamina to do it, but 209 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:23.360 I'm still I still try to move. I'm always I'm 210 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:25.840 always active. I think I think you've got to do that, 211 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:28.919 just forget golf, just for your overall health. 212 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:30.480 Yeah. 213 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:32.279 I'm not a runner, never have been. 214 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:35.360 If you run on grass, it's not too bad, but 215 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:35.879 it tears you. 216 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:40.240 Yeah, you know, you know. I'm a swimmer. You're what swimmer? 217 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:41.600 I go swimming. 218 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:45.159 Fantastic because you have resistance in every action. 219 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:48.480 You make and it's zero and zero impact. 220 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:48.919 Yeah. 221 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:51.440 The only problem is is that a lot of swimming 222 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:53.279 pools have a lot of chemicals in it, so you're 223 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:56.159 absorbing those chemicals. So that's you know, if you if 224 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:58.159 you're going to do optimum things, then you'd be swimming 225 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:02.240 in a saltwater pool and not a typical pool. 226 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:02.639 Yeah. 227 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:05.440 Es, Actually the public pool that I swim in is 228 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:10.360 is half salt water half chlorine. Okay, Yeah, I love 229 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:14.399 and I just love a I love the zero impact 230 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:18.840 and and I love the complete resistance. But I also 231 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:21.799 love just getting lost in my head, which I do. 232 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:23.600 I'm sure you do with any kind of endurance thing. 233 00:11:23.720 --> 00:11:26.480 Well, sure, and I think I think every man, uh 234 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:28.559 and well for that matter, woman, but I can only 235 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:30.960 speak from the man's point of view. I think every 236 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:34.639 man should stay strong. There's no reason to be weak. 237 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:39.799 There's no reason, there's no reason to get feeble. You 238 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:42.200 can use light weights, but you can keep your muscle 239 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:45.200 tone and you can keep your strength factor. I think 240 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:48.919 a lot of people die too early because they get weak, 241 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:52.200 and consequently so does their immune system. And I think 242 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:58.360 there is a correlation to that. I know people that 243 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:03.120 you know, they were good athletes, worked hard, worked out 244 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:05.120 all the time, and then they got to a certain 245 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:07.200 point in time and then they turned into a seal. 246 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:10.919 They just blow up and all of a sudden they die. 247 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:16.480 Cholesterol balls up, everything, everything malfunctions. Well that's because everything stopped, 248 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:17.279 you know. 249 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:19.720 So I really I you know. 250 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.679 I'm an old guy, but I don't feel old, and 251 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:24.440 I'm still strong. And when I go out and work 252 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:27.120 on with in the gym with the boys, I can 253 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:29.799 still keep up with them. But that's because I've always 254 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:33.919 done that. And I highly recommend to anyone that's listening 255 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:37.720 that get into a stretching program and get into some 256 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:41.639 form of weight training, because even at one hundred years old, 257 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:44.720 if you can last that long, you can get stronger 258 00:12:44.759 --> 00:12:48.200 by resistance, by lifting weights. 259 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:50.799 You know, all the rubber band stuff. Yeah, yeah, Okay, 260 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:52.840 that's a little bit. But you got to put a 261 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:54.440 weight in your hand and move it up and down. 262 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:56.840 You're gonna get your you're gonna get your muscle tone back, 263 00:12:56.840 --> 00:12:58.519 and you're gonna feel a hell of a lot better. 264 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:03.240 One of the comments you made earlier on you said, 265 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:05.320 take the compensations out of the game. 266 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:07.919 Well, a compensation would be if I moved to the 267 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:10.759 right from my original starting. 268 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:12.799 Position and I've got to move back to the left. 269 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:17.519 If I if I overwork my hands going back where 270 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:20.480 I cock the club back to where it shaft in 271 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:22.960 my left arm, don't don't create an L, but they 272 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:26.799 create a V because because my wrist is cocked so 273 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:30.480 far that the club is kind of hanging down past parallel, 274 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:32.919 then I have to I have to make a compensation 275 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:35.120 to get it back into that position where I can just. 276 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:38.840 Turn and just hang on. I don't have to do 277 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:40.039 anything with my hands. 278 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:44.559 So any anything like that, any any timing element that 279 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:46.600 you're putting in or you're trying to you know, I 280 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:49.000 hear these teachers say you got to roll your hands through. 281 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:50.440 To hit the ball. 282 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:52.639 Well, you know, if you're slicing the ball, that's a 283 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:55.120 quick fix. But that's not the way to play golf. 284 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:55.919 And that's hard to do. 285 00:13:57.320 --> 00:14:02.440 Yeah, it's amazing to me how people these compensations that 286 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:03.159 they try to make. 287 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:04.320 They do it during the round. 288 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:07.440 I mean, how many times have I heard someone say, oh, 289 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:10.159 I lifted my head. Oh I know exactly what I'm 290 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:13.200 doing wrong, and they really think that they're changing something. 291 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:16.519 But the lifting the head is the most common one. 292 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:17.519 Oh I lifted my head. 293 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:19.960 Yeah, you lifted your head, or I didn't get under it. 294 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:23.159 That's another beauty. You don't get under a ball. You 295 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:25.720 head down on it to make it go up, and 296 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:29.519 in most cases your head went up or you lost 297 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:32.559 your spine angle because it's called body propulsion. You're trying 298 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:35.799 to propel an object up, so the body kind of 299 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:39.080 lifts to do it again. That goes right back to 300 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:42.200 trying to do something to the golf ball instead of 301 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:44.559 letting that golf club in the loft and the lie 302 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.240 angle dictate what that ball is going to do. And 303 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:49.279 all you've got to do is swing that club from 304 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:53.320 station one to station two and that all that's. 305 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:53.759 Going to happen. 306 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.639 Certainly, you have to have some kind of coordination. I'm 307 00:14:57.639 --> 00:14:59.360 not saying that you just do that, and you're going 308 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:03.240 to play perfect golf. But the more compensations that you 309 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:06.399 put in your golf swing, fanning the club open, then 310 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:08.279 you got a fan it that close. The more you 311 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:10.320 do that, you're just making the game harder. 312 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:16.360 Yep, yep, it's so true. It's so sad, it's so true. 313 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:21.480 Tell me, I mean the last one on the on 314 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:26.639 the golf side, before we wrap this up. How can 315 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:31.559 we eliminate that dreaded forty yard shot? Why are we 316 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:35.000 coming up forty yard short of a hole when we 317 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:37.840 don't want to have a forty yard shot in our 318 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:40.080 game and we don't have one in our bag. 319 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:44.200 Well, the only place that that should happen would be 320 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:47.519 in my estimations on a part five unless you just 321 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:49.879 don't have the strength to get to the green in two. 322 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:51.720 And a lot of people are in that position. 323 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:53.279 Then they're playing the wrong tea box. 324 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:55.360 Then they're playing the wrong tea box. 325 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:59.240 Correct, And even though I say that, there's a lot 326 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:01.519 of people that are not going to move up, stay 327 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:03.799 where they are because that's just what they want. 328 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:05.240 That's the ego party golf. 329 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:08.399 And then in that case, get your wedge and be 330 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:10.879 like Lee Trevino you know, hit five hundred wedges a day, 331 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:13.399 and then you'll hit that forty yard shot. 332 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:15.799 Okay, you know, the four yard shots not a hard shot. 333 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:18.720 It's just it's one of those in between shots where 334 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.320 it's you're not taking it back really far, so you 335 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:24.000 have to you know, I've got a couple of juniors 336 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:26.840 that I teach and we work on those shots a lot. 337 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:27.320 Yeah. 338 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:31.600 Yeah, you know, I have a friend every time, whether 339 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:34.240 you're hitting from thirty forty to fifty or eighty or 340 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:36.720 one hundred and twenty, if you land the ball on 341 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:39.960 the green, he's gonna go, nice shot. And it's like 342 00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:42.720 to me, that's like, no, if I'm inside one hundred 343 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:44.879 yards or one hundred and twenty yards anywhere there and 344 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:48.919 I I A, I expect to be on the green 345 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:51.679 on the next shot. But if I'm going to be 346 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:54.360 that close, I want to be within ten fifteen feet 347 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:56.799 of the hole. If not closer, I don't want to 348 00:16:56.879 --> 00:16:59.360 just be on the green and have a sixty foot putt. 349 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:01.960 Yeah, and you have to determine. 350 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:03.639 I mean, good players know how far they hit a 351 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:05.480 ball and you know how to If they have one 352 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:07.839 hundred and fifty yard shot, they're not going to hit 353 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:09.640 it one hundred and ninety unless they catch a fly 354 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:12.519 or maybe they're maybe they're a little excited because they 355 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:14.160 made two or three birdies in a row or something. 356 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:17.200 But generally they can control distance. And if you can control. 357 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:19.119 Distance, and first of all, you have to know how 358 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:20.000 far you hit your club. 359 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:22.759 So when you go through, especially your irons, when you 360 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:24.559 go through your irons, you have to know, well, how 361 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:26.759 far do I hit a seven iron? And then you 362 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:29.440 have to determine, Okay, if I can max out a 363 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:32.880 seven iron, let's say one hundred and fifty yards, and 364 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:35.319 I have one hundred and fifty yard shot, certainly would 365 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:38.759 be smart to hit a six iron because I'm not 366 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:40.480 going to max out every shot and I'm going to 367 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:42.799 mishit it a little bit. So you know, Ken Venturrey 368 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:45.240 told me that long time ago when I work with him, 369 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:49.119 and he said, you're better served to take one more 370 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:51.640 club than you think. It is almost every single time, 371 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:54.680 and he said, I think in terms of all the 372 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:56.200 rounds you played, how many times. 373 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:59.240 Will you pass the pin? And it's so true, it's 374 00:17:59.240 --> 00:17:59.680 so true. 375 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:02.559 So those are those are little elements that we have 376 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:05.960 to deal with when we play. But distance control is 377 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:08.279 very important, so you have to establish. 378 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:08.559 Where you hit a ball. 379 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:10.839 But when getting back to that forty yard shot, look, 380 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:13.680 the forty yard shot, you're connected. You rotate your body 381 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:16.440 in such a fashion that you hit it forty yards, 382 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:19.079 you rotate a little bit more. You hit it sixty 383 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:22.319 or seventy, you rotate a little less. You hit a thirty. 384 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:24.640 But if you're trying to do that with hand action, 385 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:28.960 now you got a problem. Now you got a real problem, 386 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:32.079 because especially when you hit that forty yard shot, there's 387 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:34.720 a little voice in your head, don't thin it, you know, 388 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:38.279 don't scull it, don't do this. So you need you 389 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:42.160 need a fail safe action in your swing that is 390 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:44.680 going to give you that shot or somewhere near that 391 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:48.279 without any fear. When we start working those hands, especially 392 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:51.440 if you get a tight lie or maybe a funky lie, 393 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:54.880 that's when all hell breaks lose and you end up 394 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:57.640 you're near the green in regulation and you end up 395 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:01.279 with a triple bogie because because you're trying. 396 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:03.160 To do it a harder way than you need to. 397 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:06.880 And that's when the metal game gets really large because 398 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:08.599 you start freaking out about that shot. 399 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:11.279 Well, yeah, but if you're a rotary player and you 400 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:16.519 rotate from driver to wedge, it's not going to be 401 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:19.559