WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.560 --> 00:00:04.240 Hi, This is Fredgreen of Golf Smarter with our spring 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:07.759 back into golf season with the late Tony Manzoni. This 3 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:10.720 episode was the third time Tony returned to our show. 4 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:14.199 We're bringing back every conversation we had with Tony in 5 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:18.239 order before he passed away in twenty eighteen. To learn 6 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:21.519 more about Tony and our tax deductible fund created in 7 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:24.519 his memory to benefit the first t of Coachella Valley, 8 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:28.559 please go to golfsmarter dot com. There you'll find as 9 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:32.280 much as we could find about Tony online and links 10 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:35.479 to his book, The Lost Fundamental, One Simple Move Better 11 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:39.520 Golf Forever. It's available on Amazon and paperback and the 12 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:42.960 Kindle format. His DVD of the same name can now 13 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:47.280 also be seen online through our private channel. To gain access, 14 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:50.799 please write to me directly via email golf Smarter podcast 15 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:54.159 at gmail dot com, or click on the Heyfred button 16 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:56.399 at golfsmarter dot com. 17 00:00:56.759 --> 00:01:00.399 Enjoy golf Smarter number two hundred and ninety one on 18 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:05.439 July twenty six, twenty eleven, One Simple Move Better Golf 19 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:07.239 Forever with Tony Manzoni. 20 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:12.760 This is golf Smarter sharing tips and insights from golfers 21 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:15.319 and golf professionals to help lower your score. 22 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:18.040 It's worked for your host, Fred Green. 23 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:21.120 Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast. 24 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:24.319 Tony, Hey, Fred, how are you. 25 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:27.159 I am so glad to hear your voice once again. 26 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:29.359 We had such a great time when we came down 27 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:31.640 to Palm Desert and spent that morning with you. 28 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:33.120 Thank you so much. 29 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:36.920 My buddy Neil and I came down to Palm Desert 30 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:40.640 and played some golf. But before we even started our golf, 31 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:43.079 we got a chance about an hour hour and a 32 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:48.000 half to give Neil a lesson Anil had never had. 33 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:50.159 He's been playing golf most of his life, he's never 34 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:52.120 had a lesson. This is the first time that he'd 35 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:55.200 ever had a lesson, and I was able to capture 36 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:57.719 it on video with two different cameras running at the 37 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:00.719 same time. So I'm very excited to announced that not 38 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:04.879 only is this podcast now available, but a video of 39 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:08.360 Neil's lesson given by Tony Manzoni, the very first lesson 40 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:11.639 on video by Tony Manzoni, has been posted to YouTube 41 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:13.439 and the Golf Smarter TV channel. 42 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:14.719 I'm so excited. Thank you. 43 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:18.280 That was great fun, I'll tell you that, And Neil responded, 44 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:21.439 I wish I could get everyone to do it that quickly. 45 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:23.039 Was It really was terrific. 46 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:26.919 Yeah, And it was funny because all during the round 47 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:29.120 of golf that we had that day in thirty five 48 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:33.000 mile an hour wins, he was like, you know, he 49 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:35.639 was so focused on what he had learned from you 50 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:37.919 that morning, and even after a round it that he 51 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:40.000 didn't say he said, just don't write down my score. 52 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:41.360 I don't want to know about score. I said, good 53 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:44.120 for you because you're working on something. And then after 54 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:46.599 the round of golf we went back to the driving 55 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:49.479 range and he worked even harder on it. And one 56 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:51.719 more thing, he had never gone to the driving range 57 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:53.960 after a round of golf. Is there a lot of 58 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:57.520 value golf for players because we always see the guys 59 00:02:57.520 --> 00:02:59.439 on the tour they go to the driving range after 60 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:00.240 a round of golf. 61 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:02.759 Is that a good thing for us to do? Oh? 62 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:05.960 Sure, because you know, you have a real clear memory 63 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:08.680 of what's just transpired on the golf course and some 64 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:11.039 of the things that didn't worked out, and that's where 65 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:13.719 you work a lot. I mean, Ben Hogan was one 66 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:16.479 of the first props to do that. When he gets 67 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:19.240 through on the golf and shout an incredible score in 68 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:22.800 most cases as fills out there practicing because he had 69 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:24.719 a two iron that he didn't like or so forth. 70 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:28.319 So it's very beneficial for people to do that at 71 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:29.000 any level. 72 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:33.120 Fabulous. Well, let's talk about congratulations. 73 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:37.840 Your book is now available and we have it on 74 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:41.360 our website at golfsmarter dot com and our golfers Mart. 75 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:43.080 We're going to feature it in the golfers martin it's 76 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:47.280 going to be highly visible. It's called The Loss Fundamental, 77 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:51.439 One simple move, Better Golf Forever, and that really is 78 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:54.039 your theory, huh. It's if you understand the move, you 79 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:57.120 can adjust it yourself and it's going to change your game. 80 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:02.280 Well, it's very simple. And when you purchase the book, 81 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:05.000 and I hope you will for a number of reasons, 82 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:09.080 I think you'll be amazed at the brevity of the book. 83 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:13.759 And I did that intentionally. I've only had one negative 84 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:15.800 comment of all the people I've sent this book to 85 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.079 that I've sent you a lot. One fellow that thought 86 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:21.079 it was more of a pamphlet, and it really isn't. 87 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:24.519 But when I was writing the book, it was becoming 88 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.639 a great American novel and Paul Servante's who is very 89 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:31.240 helpful in the writing of this book helped me reduce 90 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:34.800 my thoughts to make them simple. And I can tell 91 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:38.800 you that I've had more people write me and say 92 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:42.199 thank you for making this thing so simple, because most 93 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:44.920 golf books you start following this leap because they get 94 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:48.079 it to such a detail. And I really believe that 95 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:50.639 if you do certain things in the golf swing, there's 96 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:54.040 a domino effect that happens, and we don't have to 97 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:58.439 deal with those pieces. The cause of effect is everything. 98 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:00.319 So if I can set you up to the golf 99 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:04.519 ball properly and you have finished in a position relative 100 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:07.120 to the ball properly, a lot of things are going 101 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:09.160 to occur. And that's what I find is happening. 102 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:09.959 Well. 103 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:12.120 And it's not just that the book is brief, but 104 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:15.680 the descriptions are fairly brief. I mean you can go 105 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:19.199 through two pages and get two or three descriptions of 106 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:22.279 what you're trying to explain, which again I think is 107 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:23.519 incredibly helpful. 108 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:28.040 Well, that was my intention is to say it, say 109 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:31.639 it again, and then say it again, because really there's 110 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:34.600 just a few core moves that you have to learn, 111 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:38.720 and gosh, it's like America and you could see what 112 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:41.759 happened with Neil. I mean, he had some tremendous shots 113 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:45.720 and those sites then with great trajectory after just a 114 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:49.560 few minutes of do this, do that, and he got 115 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:50.319 right into it. 116 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:53.639 Well he did, and when he made a shot when 117 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:56.800 we were playing together, he knew what he did right 118 00:05:56.839 --> 00:05:58.920 and what he did wrong after each shot. It was 119 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:02.360 really fascinating because I've seen people who had taken lessons 120 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:04.519 and were working on so many things at once, but 121 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:08.160 it just seems so simple to him, so clear that 122 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:11.040 with every shot that he took, he got it and 123 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:11.639 he knew. 124 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:15.279 Yeah, as I told him, you can either be a 125 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:18.199 disconnector and rotate the arms, or you can be connected 126 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:22.279 and rotate the body. And and and actually when you 127 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:25.920 pull the arms down in the downswing and detach them 128 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:30.279 from the body, that's when thin fat shots occur because 129 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:34.040 it holds you behind the ball. So you can you 130 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:37.240 can play the game of golf and not blame your 131 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:41.759 swing so much as just one action that you that 132 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:43.839 you're that you're doing that you need to not do, 133 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:46.240 and that would be the stay connected and not drop 134 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:49.920 the arm. Uh. You know, we all played golf. For 135 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:51.639 those of us that have played golf a long time. 136 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:53.800 We were taught to do that, pull the arm down, 137 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:55.680 pull down on the ball, hit down on the ball, 138 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:58.399 all those phrases, and what it does is it just 139 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:01.360 gets one part working, that's arms and hands, where the 140 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:04.600 body just stalls out. So we're losing all the power 141 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:07.399 of the core. And I wish I had just discovered 142 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:09.279 this a little bit earlier in my life than now. 143 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:12.680 But it's improved my game dramatically. I'm hitting the most 144 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:15.240 so much farther than I have in say, thirty years, 145 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:17.480 and I find that with all. 146 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:20.680 My students, that's really unbelievable that you're getting more distance. 147 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:26.360 Neil definitely was getting more distance, although I don't know why. 148 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:28.040 But I was still out driving him that day and 149 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:30.560 he goes, well, how come you're outdriving me? I said, 150 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:34.319 because I'm older than you. It's like, wait a minute, 151 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:40.920 that's so let's go over this. Also, let me just 152 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:42.680 say the other part about the book that I found 153 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:43.199 so much fun. 154 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:45.040 First of all, there's photographs. 155 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:47.879 So you have a really clear description of exactly what 156 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.000 you're talking about. But then at the end you have 157 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:52.839 stories of people that you've come across and people you've 158 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:56.639 met and dedicated the book to so really the book 159 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:02.639 flies right by. It's really really helpful, and that's one 160 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:04.079 of the things that I think that people should be 161 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:04.959 checking this book out. 162 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:06.639 It's it's a worthwhile. 163 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:09.639 It's not an investment, but it's definitely worth coming to 164 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:13.519 golf Smarter dot com and checking out The Lost Fundamental 165 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:14.319 by Tony Manzoni. 166 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:16.160 It's a really helpful book. 167 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:18.519 And there have been a lot of a lot of 168 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:20.680 Golf Smarter listeners who have been in touch with you, 169 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:21.240 haven't they? 170 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:22.560 Oh? 171 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:25.680 Absolutely, I've had a tremendous amount that I that I 172 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:28.680 talked with via email or that have come down physically 173 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:31.399 and taken a golf lesson from me. We had a 174 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:34.519 we had a golf school called the Single Pivot Golf School, 175 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:37.639 and we did five schools and they were really really 176 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:41.960 well received. But I continually get male for folks that 177 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:46.840 have heard about the golf Golf Smarter, I had no 178 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:50.519 idea that you had such a such an audience. It's incredible. 179 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:54.080 Well, it's an active group and they're passionate about their golf, 180 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.559 and that's why I think that they reached out to you, 181 00:08:56.600 --> 00:09:00.240 because you you're pretty clear on what you're taught talking 182 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:03.480 about and it's not too convoluted. There's not a lot 183 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:06.399 going on at once, I hope. 184 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:09.720 So because that's, you know, that's my intention, I was 185 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:13.440 like a lot of instructors for years, just kind of 186 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:18.120 pontificating all this golf dogma, and you know, you can 187 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:21.679 see the people's eyes just glaze over, and no one 188 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:23.399 was going to say. No one was going to tell you, gee, 189 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:25.639 I don't know what you mean. They're just going to 190 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:27.120 let it go over their head and then you'll never 191 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:30.720 see them again. So I realized early on in my 192 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:33.000 golf teaching that there had to be a better way 193 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:36.200 than this. And then, luckily for me, I started looking 194 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:39.159 at Ben Hogan and reading everything I could about the man, 195 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:44.080 and that's how I formed this method because it really 196 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:45.799 is borne out of that period of time. 197 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:50.399 I'll tell you it's interesting because when I'm when I'm 198 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:53.399 directing a video shoot, or when I'm doing the shoot, 199 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:56.399 when I'm the camera person, or i have multiple cameras going, 200 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:58.480 anything like that, and that's that's pretty much what my 201 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.600 career has been, is a recorded engineer, both video and audio. 202 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:05.240 It's very hard for me to concentrate on the content 203 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:09.240 while I'm doing it, so when I'm recording somebody else, 204 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:11.840 I'll miss a lot of what the conversation is because 205 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:14.480 I'm watching the dials and knobs and everything to make 206 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:18.600 sure that the production value is right. I can't believe 207 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.279 that I, as far as I know, I only took 208 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:25.039 away from Nil's lesson. I took away two major points 209 00:10:25.879 --> 00:10:27.799 that when we played golf that weekend. 210 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:29.360 We played two rounds after. 211 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:35.679 That on one day right after the next. How much 212 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:39.799 straighter the ball was the ballflight was For me, I 213 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:42.360 generally have a slight fade to the ball. I was 214 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:45.120 hitting the ball much straighter because of two things that 215 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:48.360 I picked up from the lesson. One is on my backswing. 216 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:52.519 As much as I try to keep my lower body quiet, 217 00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:56.039 I still have a tendency to have my left knee 218 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:01.159 bend in, pointing across my body. But what I got 219 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:06.440 from you was keeping the left knee pointed straight, straight ahead. 220 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:08.679 And that's correct, that's correct. 221 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:10.120 That was huge for me. 222 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:16.000 Yeah, it stabilized the stance and it allows you not 223 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:19.200 to put weight on the right side, which where we 224 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:21.120 really don't want to do. We want to stay on 225 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:24.679 the front side weight wise. In fact, when we set 226 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:27.039 to the ball, we brace left and then as we 227 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:31.559 coil the body, display displace the weight backwards via the 228 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:35.759 right show right hip. We actually put more weight against 229 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:38.039 the brace and steep in the brace of the right leg, 230 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:41.000 and that makes the right leg really light. All you 231 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.320 have to do from that point there, because you're at 232 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:46.080 impact already. From there, you just rotate your upper body. 233 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:49.000 The legs stay because they're underneath you, they stay right 234 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:50.960 with you. And it's just so much simpler to get 235 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:53.159 to the left side totally to the left side where 236 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:58.000 your chest is really left with the target. When you're 237 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:00.159 moving side to side. It's really hard to get to 238 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:02.360 that point for anybody. 239 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:04.000 Really unbelievable. 240 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:13.480 Now you talked about Hogan shooting into the fifties, you 241 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:16.879 actually have shot in You were telling me this one story. 242 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:19.639 I'm still trying to get the full grasp of this. 243 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:21.159 What's your lowest? 244 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:25.960 Round sixty one? And it was on a funny day 245 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:30.279 because the day before the club announced to me that 246 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:33.399 they wanted to put some kind of a biography of 247 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:36.159 myself and my past in the paper, and they were 248 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:39.360 hiring me as they head professional. This is going to 249 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:42.039 be my first job as a head professional. I had 250 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:44.360 a big party the night before and a lot of 251 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:47.320 paths on the back and the next morning the manager 252 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:49.919 told me, well, wait a minute, now, we spoke a 253 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:52.840 little too soon. We have to talk to one more applicant. 254 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:55.440 And as it turned out, they chose the applicant. 255 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:56.799 Why did he shoot a sixty? 256 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:01.240 No, he just had more experience. But not only didn't 257 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:03.039 I get the job, but they announced to me that 258 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:04.759 he was bringing his own staff, and so I was 259 00:13:04.759 --> 00:13:06.480 going to be out of a job in thirty days. 260 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.360 So a couple of them, yeah, I know, it's really 261 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:11.919 I can remember it. A couple of members says, come on, 262 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:14.120 bro let's go out. Let's go play. So we played 263 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:15.600 the golf course and it was kind of a blur 264 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:17.440 to me. And when I put it out on the 265 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:19.000 last hole, he said, you know, you just broke then 266 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:21.559 Cherry's record he shot sixty one. Well, first of all, 267 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:24.879 we mentioned in the same you know category with Kenney 268 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:26.919 and Urry. You know, I should have been fallen to 269 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:30.159 my knees and thank god, but just like all golfers, 270 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:33.600 the first thing that's eaked out of my pea brain 271 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:36.120 was gee, and I didn't burn you a par five, 272 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:37.320 which I hadn't. 273 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:42.000 But you know that was my xt question. You really were? 274 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:43.000 I were satisfied. 275 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:45.840 Is that really true that you were? You like that? 276 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:48.159 Oh there was one hole I should have had. I 277 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:49.200 should have would have could have? 278 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:49.799 Right? 279 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:52.879 Yeah, we all we all do that. I say that 280 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:54.879 to my golf team all the time. You know, no 281 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:57.120 matter what we do out there, we always we always 282 00:13:57.159 --> 00:13:59.000 come back with I could have done this. You know, 283 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:02.840 sometimes we're not really thankful for the blessings we get 284 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:03.720 one of the cups of call? 285 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:06.720 Did you really not realize how you were shooting during 286 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:07.120 the round? 287 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:10.799 I had no idea. In fact, to this day, I 288 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:13.080 have very little memory of it. I was in such 289 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:17.240 a funk about not only in getting losing my job 290 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:19.120 and everything, but the night before, you know, I had 291 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:22.320 all these close friends patting me on the back, tell 292 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:24.360 me a great job and all these things. Now I 293 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:26.240 had to go back and tell them, hey, I'm not 294 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:28.600 working at Alimdade anymore. You know, this is going to 295 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:33.240 be the shortest job career of all time. So you 296 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:35.960 know it really, I mean, now I look back at 297 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:37.799 it and I laugh about it, But then it was 298 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:38.879 it was pretty serious stuff. 299 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:40.960 Wait, now I got to get the timeframe correct. 300 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:43.799 Here you had the big party and the next day 301 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:45.159 you went out and shot at sixty one. 302 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:48.639 Well yeah, the next day, I you know, the next day, 303 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:50.480 I couldn't wait to get to the course. I had 304 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:52.440 all these ideas I was going to do. You know, 305 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:54.919 we just had a shell of the previous protest everything 306 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.080 that I mean almost took the paint off the walls. 307 00:14:57.360 --> 00:14:58.919 But I had an idea all the things I was 308 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:01.200 going to do. And then I was put on hold 309 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.039 until the afternoon. They said, don't worry, We've got one 310 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:06.639 more African. No big deal. And of course when the 311 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:08.919 manager came in about one o'clock in the afternoon, his 312 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:11.679 face was white because I knew and he couldn't even 313 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:13.720 look at me. And when he announced to me that 314 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:15.360 not only didn't I have jobs. 315 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:18.399 So the celebration was not about shooting sixty one. The 316 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:21.639 celebration was because you had you had gotten your first 317 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:22.639 head pro job. 318 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:25.360 That's correct, that's correct, And you went out and. 319 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:28.399 Tried to sixty one after all that celebrating, and it 320 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.440 was a competitive round, No. 321 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:33.759 It was just around A couple of members just felt 322 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:35.720 so bad for me. Okay, they says, come on, pro 323 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:38.120 Let's go out and play because they heard they heard 324 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:40.080 what had happened. You know, a lot of people at 325 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:42.720 the club had said, great job, We're really happy to 326 00:15:42.759 --> 00:15:45.399 have you as our new probe. But the management company, 327 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:48.799 which all in the golf course, had made the decision 328 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:51.440 to hire this fellow that had more experience. And I 329 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:54.399 understood that, but it's still it was like a kick 330 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:56.600 on the growing I can tell you that. So when 331 00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:00.279 I went out to play, and that was on my mind, Uh, 332 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:02.960 what am I going to say? Holly, what am I going? 333 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:04.720 Where am I going to get a job? All these things. 334 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:08.120 So I was kind of playing from my subconscious, which 335 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:11.440 is what we really need to do obviously, And as 336 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:13.240 a turnout, I shot a great score and I think 337 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:16.799 that I'm pretty sure that record is still in place at. 338 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:20.639 The Almaden Almaden Country Club. Is that what it is? 339 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:24.679 So you you don't remember the round? 340 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:26.879 I mean, you can't tell me. Do you know how 341 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:29.799 many pars that you had in that round? 342 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:34.320 Or I wouldn't. I all I know is I was 343 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:37.279 aware that I had not birdie the par five. That's 344 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:39.799 the only thing I was aware about. But you know, 345 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:41.000 I mean, obviously made. 346 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:42.200 A lot of birdies obvious. 347 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:45.840 Yeah, I don't believe I made any bogies. I think 348 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:49.960 I hold out from the fairway ones for two of 349 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:50.480 part four. 350 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:54.399 One eagle you think you had one eagle, right, yeah? 351 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:55.720 And the rest of it, Yeah, the rest of it 352 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:59.879 was birdie's I think. And and really I loved it 353 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:01.759 be able to say, well, I had ten berdies, but 354 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:05.920 I don't remember it because it was It wasn't in 355 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:07.960 my mind or in my heart. While I was doing this, 356 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:10.720 I was just thinking of how embarrassed I felt and 357 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:12.759 how I was going to tell all my friends. Well, 358 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:15.720 I spoke too soon, and I really hadn't spoke too soon. 359 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:20.200 I was told, you got the job, okay, but you know, 360 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:23.759 it was just an awkward position to be in. And 361 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:25.519 then of course, now I'm out of a job in 362 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:29.200 thirty days. I'm a young guy, and he said, be 363 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:31.839 able to go out and have fun time and play 364 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:34.279 golf and do that. And now I'm panicking to you, 365 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:38.119 I don't have a job. So it was just a 366 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:43.440 strange set of circumstances that created this marvels round of golf. 367 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:47.599 I can't say that I was practicing really hard before 368 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:49.960 an event, and I went and did this. Although I 369 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:52.880 played all this, you know, as an assistant pro, I 370 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.559 played almost all the time, so and that was my 371 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:58.160 home course. But sixty one and sixty one I don't 372 00:17:58.160 --> 00:17:59.400 care if you're playing minis your golf. 373 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:04.599 So there's got to be a lesson in there somehow 374 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:08.559 somewhere about not paying attention to your score. 375 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:11.359 Oh, there's no two ways about it. I mean, I'm 376 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:14.599 sure the listening audience will be nodding their head. We 377 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:17.960 sometimes you don't feel real good, or maybe you've been 378 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:20.359 all a little late and had a few too many cocktails, 379 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:21.480 and the next day you go out and shoot a 380 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:24.319 great round. And I think it's because we're not so 381 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:27.279 conscious of what we're doing or trying to do anything. 382 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:29.799 We're just going ahead and swinging and getting it out 383 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:32.519 of the way of ourselves. And I think the touring 384 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:34.799 pros have a way to do that, where they let 385 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:39.079 the subconscious take over. Anytime you do anything consciously, I 386 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:42.440 think you get a little bit awkward. And so when 387 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:44.319 we're learning how to play golf, we've got to do 388 00:18:44.359 --> 00:18:47.000 the learning of it on the driving range, and then 389 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:49.000 we've got to trust the fact that we know what 390 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:50.480 we're doing. And go out of the golf course and 391 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:54.119 just get target oriented and let it go. And that's 392 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:56.759 easier said than done. A question of course. You know. 393 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:59.519 I have a friend John Leland who writes a blog 394 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:03.160 called Joy of Golfing a Joy of Golfing dot com. 395 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:08.000 Not breaking eighty with joy and learning. He's he's never 396 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:10.680 had the ability, He's never broken eighty in any of 397 00:19:10.680 --> 00:19:15.839 his rounds, and just recently he had the round the 398 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:18.279 front nine of his life, and he got he took 399 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:20.759 a peek at a scorecard and started figuring out what 400 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:23.319 he needed to do just to say consistent with this 401 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:26.960