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Speaker 1: Hi, This is Lisa THOMASO from Mystic, Connecticut and I

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play Attnyton Country Club.

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Speaker 2: BAFF Smarter number.

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Speaker 3: Four hundred and eighty two published on March thirty one,

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Speaker 1: The only person that's possibly thinking about your three point

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in the world is you, So it's history.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't even exist anymore. So you have to.

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Speaker 1: Physically stop moving, take your four second time out a

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couple seconds, in, a couple seconds out, eyes closed, and

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then just revert back to what is my strategy for today?

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In my strategy for today's relax or my strategy today

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is quiet mind, or my strategy today is just total

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or my strategy to say is calm, or my strategy say.

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Speaker 4: Is just have fun.

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Speaker 1: So that's why having a strategy and being highly cognizant

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and aware of your and traps both on and off

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the golf course is going to help you get through

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those situations. And Fred, I'm not sitting here saying it's

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going to work every single time guaranteed.

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Speaker 4: There might be a day.

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Speaker 1: Where you're just not allowing yourself to really buy into it,

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or you're not totally committed to your strategy. So maybe

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you're not one hundred percent there, maybe you're seventy eighty

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percent of the way there, or you just haven't done

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it enough so you're not conditioned enough to really be

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effective at this.

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Speaker 4: It takes time, it takes practice, it takes.

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Speaker 1: Discipline, and like physical conditioning, it's thought conditioning. You have

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to condition yourself to think better. And I have students

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who start with me and say, Hey, Greg, you know what,

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I'm getting so much out of your coaching, but I

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feel like I'm thinking more. And it's not that you're

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thinking more, you're just thinking differently.

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Speaker 3: Three step approach to play your best golf ever with

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the head coach Greg Loberto.

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Speaker 2: This is Golf Smarter Premium.

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Speaker 3: Here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast. Greg.

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Speaker 4: Hi, Fred, how are you? I am excited?

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Speaker 3: How are you tell me why you're excited?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm talking to you number one, and I know

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that we're going to be talking about an innovative three

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step approach to help golfers play their best golf ever.

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Speaker 4: So this is what I do, this is what I love.

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Speaker 1: To do, and there's really nothing else I'd rather be

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talking about today.

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Speaker 3: Awesome. I'm glad that you're excited because I went through

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your book. I really enjoyed it. It reinforced so many

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things that I think about that I want to accomplish,

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and to me, it really supported everything that Golf Smarter

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has been about since episode number one.

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Speaker 4: Great, great, So let's.

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Speaker 3: Talk about it. Yeah, go ahead.

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Speaker 4: You know, can we reverse the table so real quick?

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Can I ask you? Can I to start by asking

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you a question?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 4: No, all right, let's hey later.

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Speaker 3: I asked the questions you, buddy. I gotta tell you

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you're in New York, right, I gotta talk to you

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like yo, I gotta ask ask. I got to ask the.

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Speaker 4: Questions, just trying to throw you off a game a

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little bit that.

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Speaker 3: I'll go ahead, congratulations, No, go ahead, all right, I'll

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let you. I'll let you ask the first one and

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we'll see where it goes from there.

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Speaker 1: And then I'm done asking questions for the rest of

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the rest of the time. What what What was your

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biggest takeaway from the book.

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Speaker 3: Hm, I knew I don't like having tests. My biggest

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takeaway from the book was, uh, I'm reviewing right now

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my notes here to uh not not worry about what

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your playing partners are doing. Nice, you know. I I

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have an ongoing issue with my friends who want to

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play from money, and I'm like, you know what, sure,

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I'll play for money. I don't care. Tell me at

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the end of the game what we're doing, right, tell

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me what I owe you, and I'm fine, but let's

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not talk about it the entire time. I don't like

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to focus on the scorecard. I don't want to talk

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about the scorecard. I don't want to hear oh this

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is for Birdie. No, this is for my next shot,

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you know. I mean it's like and if it's a part,

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it's a par great so to me, it reinforced that.

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Speaker 4: Awesome, awesome, good stuff, good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I think it's an area that a lot

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of players and I was just doing a webinar with

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with a beta group for our Mental Game Assessment and

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Learning app on Friday and one of the guys was

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talking about how when he plays for money with his buddies,

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which is pretty much every time he plays golf, that

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he really allows them to get into their head and

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he does better when he's chasing as opposed to in

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the league. But he said, there's no question that playing

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for money, especially in guys that are you know, like

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to talk while they're playing, you know, so to speak

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and try to get into his head, it really impacts

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how he performs. So I think it's it's there's no question,

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you know, whether it's for five dollars or five hundred

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dollars or five million dollars, the dollar amount is almost irrelevant.

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It's the fact that you're playing for something other than

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maybe just you know, for trying to just play your

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best on your own. It's amazing how that little, that

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little nugget can really not only transform the way that

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you think in a negative way, but really impact the

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performance as well.

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Speaker 3: What does it say about people or what do you

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learn from people? When there are those who excel when

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the pressure is on, you know, the guys who are like,

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give me the ball type of guy, and then they

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are the people who the pressure is just too much.

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Speaker 4: And I'm sorry for what we're asking specifically about it.

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Speaker 3: Well, what how do you identify if you're which one

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of those people? It's pretty obvious to yourself, But how

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do you get past the fact that if you're one

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of those people that crumbles under the pressure? How do

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you get past that?

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Speaker 4: Sure? I think you know.

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Speaker 1: I think the first step is is golf is so

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much like life, and you can your perspective on it

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is everything. So let's say that you know, you go

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out and you play in a tournament, whether it's against

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your friends or if it's in competition at whatever level.

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Speaker 4: And you allow that round where.

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Speaker 1: You think you had a very poor performance, maybe based

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on one particular swing that may have cost you the

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match at the end of the round to really impact

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how you view yourself as as a player. And I

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think a really good example is remember when Billy Horses

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showed before he won the FedEx Cup last year, he

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had put that one ball in the water and he

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lost one of the tournaments prior to that, and then

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I think it was literally the next week he bounces

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back or maybe two weeks later and he ends up

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winning the FedEx Cup. Those are the types of shots

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where you could really allow that to define yourself as

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a player, or you can say, okay, if that's my

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weakest link is not being able to perform, And that

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particular shot on the eighteenth hole, when the quote unquote

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pressure was really on, what can I do to get

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better and how can I get started? To make that happen,

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to allow yourself to perform. And everybody knows about all

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of the game winning baskets that Michael Jordan hit, but

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there's also the ones that he missed.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so how many times are you missing? How many

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times are you performing?

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Speaker 1: Sure that's relative to the whole conversation, but you're going

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to learn way more the times where you quote unquote

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failed to perform or you let your ants or automatic

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negative thoughts get in your own way and negatively impact

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your performance. So I'm just going to sum it up

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by saying, take that as an opportunity to improve yourself.

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Recognize that what I call an ant trap or a

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specific situation where you know you're going to have those

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negative thoughts and negative emotions, and just figure out what

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you need to do to get.

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Speaker 4: Better the next time. And that's what we're going to

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talk about today.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's you talk about Michael Jordan making

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the shot or missing the shot, or anybody on the tour.

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But when Michael Jordan misses the shot on game thirty

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seven of the season, no big deal. When he makes

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the shot on game forty two to win the game,

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no big deal. It's doing it in playoff time. It's

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doing it when the shot is the end of the

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season or not. Which There's guys who like, give me

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the ball. I'm going to do this. The Lebron James

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characters right now, Steph Curry of the Warriors, it's like,

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just give me the ball. You can see it in

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their eyes. They want the ball absolutely.

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Speaker 4: And I think you hit a key point here is.

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Speaker 1: In golf or in any sport, when you're in that

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pressure situation, you have to want it. You really have

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to welcome that opportunity because that's all it is. It's

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an opportunity to escalate your game to the next level

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and win, lose your draw, whatever the outcome is. It's

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it is, But you have to put yourself in a

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situation where number one, you want to be there and

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then you have to put yourself in a position mentally

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and emotionally where you're allowing yourself to perform in your

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in your most natural state. So very true of everything

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of what we're talking about here. But number one is

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you have to want it. And number two, if you

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do not get the outcome that you desire, it as

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a learning opportunity to improve.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you mentioned ants. Let's you talk about ants throughout

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your book, and you just brought it up, So let's

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let's clarify that and get into depth on that.

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Speaker 1: Sure, Yeah, where would you Where would you like to

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start with that one? Because it's a it's a it's

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a pretty broad broad concept, Fred, and I think if

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we talk, well, let's let's do this.

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Speaker 4: Let's talk about your game specifically.

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Speaker 1: What are the one or two or maybe three whatever whatever,

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you're going to have that negative energy you always you

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already talked about, you know, playing against certain opponents, But

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what else, and maybe it's maybe it's off the course.

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Are there certain things that you think about a certain

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ways that you feel in certain situations where you know

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you're going to have negative energy? What what comes to

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mind when you think about that for your game.

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Speaker 3: Well, I really try to avoid the negative energy, so

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I'm trying to focus on where would it be in

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my game during my round that I just you know,

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the obvious one I guess for me and for so

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many people is, oh, I have this hole always gives

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me problems. Yeah, walking up to a t box of

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a hole that I remember some of the good shots

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that I had, but of course I'll remember most of

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the bad shots, including the last time I was here.

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has nothing to do with those shot. It really is

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irrelevant to the next shot, So you know, and I

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think what happens to me is I think so hard

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about what what happened last time that that that is

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I'm overcompensating it and it introduces pressure and tension into

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my swing, which recreates the problem absolutely.

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Speaker 4: So we'll we'll.

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Speaker 1: You know a lot of a lot of players like

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determine as their their nemesis hole, you know that one

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that one course that you know just gets their number

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every single time. So yes, there's absolutely specific holes are

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certainly one of those. I think some other common and

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traps for golfers are the first t you know, you're

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standing on the first tea and maybe you know whether

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you're whether there's people there or it's just your foursome.

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of any of any sort, you have that your hands

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might be shaking, you might have that pit in your stomach,

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or that you know, that tension in your shoulders or

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your grip wherever it might be, and you know, you

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have a tendency to think about all the wrong things

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in the same time. So your thoughts are a direct

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link to your emotions, and they're they're literally committing petty

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larcy on your game because the impact your performance directly.

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If you're you know, if you're standing on the first

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team and you're thinking about your opponent, or you're thinking

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about the ball going out of bounds or in the

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water or maybe missing it depending on your skill set,

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those are obviously all the wrong thoughts. So you want

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to basically put yourself in a position where I call

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being one hundred percent ready, not only on the first tea,

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but on every single shot right.

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Speaker 4: And you know, the.

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Speaker 1: Way that you do that is a process that we

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talk about in the book but the very first step

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to becoming one hundred percent ready is you have to

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you have to eliminate your ants or your automatic negative thoughts,

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because there's you hear a lot of times golfers talk

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about how there's really uh, you know, Matt every talked

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about it after his when on Sunday at the Bayhill.

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He said, there's just really no room for for negative

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thoughts or negative emotions out on the golf course.

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Speaker 4: And it's so true. It's so true.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I like to talk to my golfing

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students about you know, compare this game to being a

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Formula one race car driver or you know, maybe you're

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doing what you know, maybe you're you're walking across a

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rope or a cable like nik We Lenda does over

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a canyon or over Niagara Falls, and he has to

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be totally focused and calm and confident for two to

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three minutes. You know, an F one driver is doing

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it for a couple of hours at a time. I mean,

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their focus level is at a level that is obviously,

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you know, higher than what most people can even conceive of,

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and they're doing it for an extended period of time. Now,

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golf is you're talking about seconds of time where you're

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actually swinging the golf club, and all you need to do,

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or what you really need to do first and foremost

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is you need to eliminate those conscious thought or those

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negative thoughts and just allow yourself to swing. Just swing

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the golf club. If you if you, if you have

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a repeatable swing that works on the range, the only

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reason it's not working on the golf course is because

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you're getting in your own way or you're allowing your

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own conscious thought to directly and negatively impact your swing.

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Speaker 3: I'm so conscious of the the the jitters and the

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situations like the first t jitters, which is how you

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open your book. I'm so conscious of that that I

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embrace it and even like if I hit a ball

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in the bunker, I'll embrace that. I'll like, oh, this

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is going to be fun, And I know that helps

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me as opposed to freaking out like oh my god,

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there's people watching.

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Speaker 4: Sure, absolutely, And that's that's where you know.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that that you know is in

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the book is having a mental game strategy. And if

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you have a mental game strategy going into the round

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of relax or have fun or take it easy, that

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way when you're in that and trap or you hit

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that Aaron shot, and you can.

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Speaker 4: Just say to yourself, Hey, you know what, relax.

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Speaker 1: Just relax, just like what you're talking about, Fred, because

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it can mean the difference between number one enjoying your

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round of golf at much higher level, but not allowing

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one ant to cascade into another, and all of a

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sudden you have an entire colony of ants and your

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entire round is ruined. And then what you focus on

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in the nineteenth hole is how that one shot and

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that one hole really started to allow the wheels to

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start falling. So you're basically making excuses for yourself before

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you round, during your round, and after your round as

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to why you didn't play as well as you should have.

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Speaker 4: Oh, the word should have cut us absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And why is it that when we get to

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the nineteenth hole, And I'm not sure that's exactly what

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you're referring to in your book when you're talking about

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when you get to the nineteenth hole, everybody wants to

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talk about all the crap that went on. No one

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wants to go. I had said, you know, you didn't

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want to see the going Boy, did I have a

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great put on seventeen? Boy was I good? No, it's

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like I screwed that up. Okay? Are we allowed to

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brag it all? Or is it just taking the guy's

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money at the bar? This is all you need to do?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's about listening to how you talk.

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Speaker 1: I think it would be good to actually and I'm

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going to devn meaning to do this, but I'm going

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to do this now that we're having this conversation. I

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think if golfers were to just videotape themselves and they're

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playing partners talking on the nineteenth hole about their game,

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and then actually watching it and listening to themselves, I

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think that might be their first sign that they need

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to change their communication post round. But you know, and

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I ask the same question all the time, like why

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are golfers constantly focusing?

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Speaker 4: Think about it.

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Speaker 1: If you just let's say you just scored, or let's

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just say you shot the best round of your life, right,

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what are you going to do after the.

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Speaker 4: Round is over. You're going to tell your score and

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you're gonna go, hey, I.

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Speaker 1: Shot a you know, a seventy eight or a sixty

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two or a ninety eight, whatever the number is for you,

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it's totally irrelevant and then you're going to immediately go.

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But it could have been a yep, right, three or

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four or five strokes better. Now, I don't think Michael

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Jordan or any other great athlete, if they have a

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phenomenal performance, is going wow, you know what could have

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scored four more points or you know what, I not

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only I could have had a hat trick plus, or

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you know what, I could have pitched even a little

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bit better than that perfect game.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, they do. Yeah, no, I think that everybody.

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But I think that's what draws us back to golf,

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is that you can always do better. That is why

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we don't quit, even though you know, we've been shooting

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in the low eighties and all of a sudden we

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shoot ninety two and it's like, that's it. I quit.

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I'm going to leave the game. No, No, you like,

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I'm going back because I know I'm better than that. Sure,

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And so I think that even when when I think

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about the time that I shot my lowest round and

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I had a great round there, I still there was

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a ooh if I only you know hmm. Yeah. I try.

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I try to remain calm and not get too excited

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and let other people talk about my score then, you know,

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than me talking about it. And I think that I

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don't know, Humility's got to come in at some point.

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You just want people to patch you on the back,

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but you don't want to walk up to them and say, hey,

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pat me on the back.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, it's communication is is such a big

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part of life, and it's it's a major part of golf.

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And you know, that's I think if I were to

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sum up, you know, the book is eighteen game Changing

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Tips to Play your Best Golf Ever is a subtitle,

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but it's really about improving your communication both internally and

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externally on and.

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Speaker 4: Off the golf course.

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Speaker 1: Because that's really what we need to do, is we

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just need to really clean up the way that that

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we communicate about our game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, and I'm again I want to pick stuff

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out of the book. What do you do about playing

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to the competition? You have a chapter about playing if

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you're playing partners horrible and it's interesting how sometimes you

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step up to the game when you're playing partners better

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than you and you can get maybe you do get

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more focused or do you just kind of let it

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go when you're playing with somebody that you know, you know,

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you can give him a stroke a hole and still

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beat them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's a great question, because this is

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just this could certainly be a very in depth conversation,

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but we'll keep it relatively short. Let's let's think about

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again what happened this past weekend at Bayhill. Hendrick Stenson

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was in the lead after fifty four holes, and he

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was in the zone and he was just firing, just

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firing at pins on Saturday and making all of his putts,

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and you know, things changed a little bit on Sunday

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and then we all found out after the round that

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he was put on the clock.

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Speaker 4: I think it was on the fifteenth hole.

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Speaker 1: He ended up i think three putting three of the

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last four holes, and he really talked about how being

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put on the clock, you know.

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Speaker 4: It threw him off his game.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, you know again, I'm just going to

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go back to you have to use these opportunities as

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learning opportunities as well as an opportunity to really improve

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your mental toughness, because I think playing with a difficult

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or slow or angry player is really one of the

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most challenging areas in golf. I think from a mental perspective,

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because you can really allow their negativity to cascade into

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your own game.

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Speaker 4: It's very very easy to do.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I talked in the book about how

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one of my students, Patrick had, you know, he had

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gone through my coaching with me, and he was, you know,

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he had identified his top ten and traps. You know,

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what are the situations that are going to bring me

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the most negative energy in my game. And he was

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on a part three and he hit his t shot

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into the bunker and he knew that if he jumped

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into it, into the cart, that his playing partner was

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going to fill his head with all kinds of negativity.

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So he said, you know what, on this whole, I'm

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going to just I'm going to grab my sand wedge,

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my putter, and I'm just going to walk up and

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I'm just going to allow myself to stay in my

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own little world here. He ended up getting up in

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down and saving it for a power. But the key

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story there was he had taken the time to now

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really become aware of the fact that these an traps

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were negatively impacting his game, and he put them on

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high alert. So this was a very specific situation where

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he said, you know what, I know what I need

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to do. I also know that I need to stay

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awake from my playing part or in this particular shot,

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because I want to go and do what I'm supposed

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to do.

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Speaker 4: When he did it, you know, he got up and

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down for his power.

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Speaker 1: So part of it is really number one again identifying

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the fact that, okay, that this is just an ant trap.

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This person is just going to make things a little

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bit more challenging for me today. So maybe my strategy

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for today is just to have fun because I know

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that when I play with this particular individual, a lot

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of times I do not have fun. Or maybe my

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strategy is just to focus on me, do not allow

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them to fill to let their negativity cascade into my

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own game, but really use it as an opportunity to

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test and challenge yourself. Because think about it, that the time,

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the only time that really matters is when you're in

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your your preshot routine and you're standing over the golf

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ball getting ready to hit. Everything else that happens outside

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of that is irrelevant to what happens when you're hitting

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the golf ball.

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Speaker 4: So again I go back.

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Speaker 1: To you know, allowing yourself to put yourself in a

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situation where you're you're totally calm, you're free of negative thought,

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and just just swing, just swing, because you can still

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perform even though you're playing with the difficult playing partner.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to take you back to the beginning of

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that that rant, that beginning of your answer there when

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you're talking about Hendrick Stenson and right that we were

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talking about how he was put on the clock.

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Speaker 4: Yes, isn't that.

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Speaker 3: Interesting, how even at that level that something like that

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which to me if we have to equate it to

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our game. And I don't like to sit here and

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compare what we're doing to what they're doing on the tour,

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but if there's a way to compare it, it will

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take me to the thing that fries me on the

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golf course more than anything, and that is a marshal

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coming up to me to tell me to pick up

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the pace when you know we've spent two of the

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last three holes with one or two guys trying to

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find their ball right. And I go on about this forever,

482
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but I think that marshals, if they're sitting at the

483
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end of the fair way and they see the ball

484
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going errant, they should run over, put their hat where

485
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the ball is and help us pick up the pace

486
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we're picking up. We're losing time on it because we're

487
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looking for balls, and we lose balls on a regular

488
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basis on the tour, they don't because there's people standing

489
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around going it's right here, right. So yeah, getting put

490
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on the clock being told to hurry up, that's gonna

491
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throw off even some of the best players at the

492
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moment in the world.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely, yeah.

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Speaker 1: And there's so many things in golf that are just

495
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completely out of our control and that that is certainly

496
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a great example of one of them.

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Speaker 4: And you just have to know sometimes you just have

498
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to accept it. Fred As.

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Speaker 1: I know that sounds really really simple as we're sitting

500
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here talk about it, but when you're in you know,

501
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when you're in that environment and in that situation, I

502
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know how frustrating it is and I know how challenging

503
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it can be to really just stay focused on your game.

504
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But you just also have to realize that there are

505
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rules to the game. You know, most sports play with

506
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a clock or some kind of a timer, so you know,

507
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most sports are timed as well. And again I'm just

508
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going to you know, just reconfirm here that there's just

509
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there's just things that are out of our control. The

510
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only thing that we really have control of is how

511
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we think standing over the golf ball and our ability

512
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to put a nice swing on it. Everything else, you know,

513
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a bad balance, augusta wind, you know, an unlucky break

514
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or what a sprinklert had anything, those are just you know,

515
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the marshal that somebody can coughing and your back swing.

516
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There's so many things that are just completely out of

517
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our control. And playing with a mental game strategy, constantly

518
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focusing on identifying and crushing your stopping those ants whenever,

519
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,119
whenever they crop up is what's going to bring you

520
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back and get you focused and allow yourself to play

521
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in the zone in every shot.

522
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Speaker 3: How do we get to that zone? And do we

523
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need to be in the zone? Who I hate asking

524
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two questions at once. Let me just ask this then.

525
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Do we need to be in the zone the entire round?

526
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Speaker 4: Absolutely not, No, It's it's impossible to be.

527
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Speaker 1: The time in between your shots is when you want to,

528
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you know, really just kind of let your mind go

529
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and relax, enjoy the walk or enjoy the ride, depending

530
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on you know what your preference was for transportation for

531
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the day, but you know, you want to use that

532
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time to really enjoy just being out there and enjoying

533
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the fact that you're healthy enough to play a great

534
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game that you love. But now the time, the time

535
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to get you know, to clear yourself of that conscious

536
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,839
thought is you know, we're talking about seconds of time

537
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here when you're when you're standing over the golf ball.

538
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So you know, once you the process really starts when

539
00:26:09,839 --> 00:26:11,480
you take your club out of the bag and you

540
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you know, in your preshot routine, you want to visualize

541
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the type of shot that you're going to hit, pick

542
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,440
the specific target, and take what I call a four

543
00:26:19,519 --> 00:26:24,000
second time out. And what that is is just closing

544
00:26:24,039 --> 00:26:27,000
your eyes for four seconds, taking a nice deep breath

545
00:26:27,039 --> 00:26:29,759
in through your nose, breathing from your belly or from

546
00:26:29,799 --> 00:26:33,359
your diaphragm, and then two seconds in and then two

547
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,640
seconds out through your mouth with your eyes closed while

548
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:41,359
you are physically stopped. When you physically stop moving, it

549
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,079
stops your thought process, it changes your physiology. And when

550
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you take literally four seconds to a couple couple seconds in,

551
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,480
a couple seconds out to just breathe and relax, it

552
00:26:52,599 --> 00:26:55,799
is the most calming feeling that that you can imagine.

553
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,440
It literally takes four seconds. Now, if you're getting further

554
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,119
and further on in the match, and you know what,

555
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,720
my hands are still shaking, I'm still feeling that anxiety

556
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,599
that four seconds didn't do it. Well, Just you do

557
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,440
it again, and do it a third time. If you

558
00:27:08,519 --> 00:27:11,160
need to do it behind the ball, do it away

559
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,319
from the ball, do it in between shots, do it

560
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,880
prior to your round, do it off the course, do

561
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,960
it throughout the day. I do it all the time, Fred.

562
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:23,160
It is the most simplistic, relaxing, calming thing that you

563
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,680
can do for yourself, and it completely completely changes your

564
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,400
physiology immediately and changes your perspective.

565
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Speaker 4: So now that.

566
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Speaker 1: You've taken that time behind the ball, you visualize your shot,

567
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you've identified your target. As you walk up to the ball,

568
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you let all of that go. Now all you're going

569
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to do. You already rehearse your swing. So now all

570
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,039
you're going to do is just step up to the ball,

571
00:27:43,759 --> 00:27:47,319
make sure that you're aligned properly, and swing, just swing.

572
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:51,359
You want to swing free of any conscious thought. And

573
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it takes time, It takes practice, it takes conditioning. But

574
00:27:56,039 --> 00:27:59,319
if you're doing it at the range. It's so much

575
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,359
easier to do on the golf course because what do

576
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:02,000
we do with the range.

577
00:28:02,039 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 4: We fire golf balls or golf balls or.

578
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,279
Speaker 1: Golf ball we feel great, we're hitting the same club

579
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,400
over and over. Why not practice this pre shot routine

580
00:28:10,519 --> 00:28:12,759
every single time at the range. Now, what you're doing

581
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is you're balancing the scale between play and practice, and

582
00:28:16,279 --> 00:28:18,519
you're going through the same process and the same pre

583
00:28:18,559 --> 00:28:21,319
shot routine to get into the zone every time you

584
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practice and every time you play.

585
00:28:24,079 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 3: You know, we've been talking for almost a half hour

586
00:28:26,599 --> 00:28:30,400
now and you opened up with and we've never followed

587
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,960
up on your three step approach, So let's start talking

588
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,359
about the three step approach.

589
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Speaker 1: That sounds great, yeah, and from an on course perspective,

590
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,160
but it's really simple. It's showing up to the course

591
00:28:43,599 --> 00:28:45,799
feeling one hundred percent ready. And the way that that

592
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,440
happens is with the mental game strategy. That step one

593
00:28:48,559 --> 00:28:52,960
is playing one hundred percent ready. Step two is getting

594
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in the zone and every shot, and we talked about

595
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,440
the process to do that, and then step three is

596
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focusing on three positives. Is at the end of every

597
00:29:01,799 --> 00:29:04,240
round in every practice session. Again, we talked about all

598
00:29:04,279 --> 00:29:06,519
the would have, could have, should have is that golfers

599
00:29:06,559 --> 00:29:11,079
like to focus on. But let's transform that communication process

600
00:29:11,079 --> 00:29:15,039
and that thought process post round, post practice session and

601
00:29:15,119 --> 00:29:18,319
immediately identify, Okay, what are three positives from today? Because

602
00:29:18,359 --> 00:29:21,200
what that does it allows you not only allows you

603
00:29:21,279 --> 00:29:24,480
to enjoy the game better, but really identify some good

604
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,319
things that happened today even though you feel like maybe

605
00:29:26,319 --> 00:29:27,240
nothing really did.

606
00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 4: But it also allows you to view your.

607
00:29:29,119 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: Game more objectively, so you're not getting so caught up

608
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,839
and man, what happened with my swing today? I was

609
00:29:33,839 --> 00:29:35,960
great on the range. Yesterday I was great on the range.

610
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,359
Before my round I fell apart on the course again.

611
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,799
So if you're constantly focusing on the positives, you're not

612
00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:44,079
going to put so much focus on your swing. So

613
00:29:44,079 --> 00:29:45,920
step one is to show up one hundred percent ready.

614
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:47,640
Step two is to get in the zone in every shot,

615
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,079
and then step three is to always focus on the

616
00:29:50,119 --> 00:29:53,000
positives that's on the course, off of the golf course.

617
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We put together a process that is backed by science.

618
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So we've developed a mental game assessment with PhD. Jonathan

619
00:30:01,319 --> 00:30:05,200
Rich that assesses you in eight key mental and emotional

620
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,119
traits and Once you complete the assessment, you go through

621
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a review session with me where I can allow you

622
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,920
to understand what all this information means to you and

623
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,599
your game, but also give you a custom learning path

624
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,079
that's going to allow you to play your best golf ever.

625
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,480
So step one off of the golf course is to

626
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,920
take the mental game assessment, go through the review.

627
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 4: Session with me.

628
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Speaker 1: Step two is to go into our one hundred percent

629
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Ready coaching program.

630
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,519
Speaker 4: Whether that be one on one with me or our live.

631
00:30:31,319 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: Group sessions that are going to be held via Google

632
00:30:34,759 --> 00:30:38,000
Hangout and they're also recorded, allowing you to have this

633
00:30:38,119 --> 00:30:41,200
information forever. That's done in the group format. And then

634
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,960
step three is to use one of the most what

635
00:30:44,039 --> 00:30:48,559
I think are innovative coaching tools as well as playing

636
00:30:48,599 --> 00:30:51,240
tools for the mental and emotional game, which is called

637
00:30:51,279 --> 00:30:54,240
our Head Coach Learning App. And what that is Fred,

638
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:58,680
It's an opportunity for you to track some mental and

639
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,880
emotional data from your round. Have you identify what your

640
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,920
mental game strategy was prior to your round, how effective

641
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,440
it was, how committed you were to it, what was

642
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,440
your confidence level today? What percentage of shots were you

643
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,519
one hundred percent ready? What were your three positives from

644
00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:17,359
the round. So now what you're doing is you're starting

645
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,640
to track that intangible information from the mental and emotional

646
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,240
game and not only do it on a daily basis,

647
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,680
but allow yourself to use it as a learning tool

648
00:31:28,039 --> 00:31:30,160
to go back and say, Okay, I'm not going to

649
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,400
use my swing as my benchmark for performance today. Let

650
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,319
me start with what I was thinking about, what I

651
00:31:36,359 --> 00:31:39,279
was feeling, Did I fall into any specific and traps.

652
00:31:39,319 --> 00:31:41,240
What was my confidence level on a scale of one

653
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:45,039
to ten going into today's round. Now you're allowing yourself

654
00:31:45,079 --> 00:31:49,119
to view some really critical data with an objective perspective.

655
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,319
So it allows you to become your own coach, so

656
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,960
to speak. But if you're a coach working with a player,

657
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,039
whether it be a high school team or a collegiate team,

658
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,240
or a PGA teaching pro working with your student, this

659
00:32:00,279 --> 00:32:03,599
gives you a whole new perspective on your player's game

660
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,359
or your own game, because now you're able to tangibly

661
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,559
identify some key data points on the mental and emotional

662
00:32:10,599 --> 00:32:14,000
side of the game, and the way that you perceive

663
00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:15,880
your game is totally different. The way that you view

664
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,519
your game is completely different. The way you approach the

665
00:32:18,559 --> 00:32:21,480
game becomes completely different and you have data that you

666
00:32:21,519 --> 00:32:24,640
can use to constantly learn from every single time you

667
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:25,480
go to the golf course.

668
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 3: You mentioned an app.

669
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Speaker 4: Did you yes?

670
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Speaker 3: Tell me more about the app and how we can

671
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:33,160
find it.

672
00:32:33,799 --> 00:32:37,079
Speaker 1: Excellent question. We are in a beta phase with it

673
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,400
right now. We're in phase two of the beta phase

674
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,680
with it currently fed. We're looking for ten golfers actually

675
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,599
we're down to nine currently that want to participate in

676
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,359
the beta of the product, and it's going to become

677
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,960
a mobile app within the next ninety days. But right now,

678
00:32:52,039 --> 00:32:55,359
what we have is a way for you to gather

679
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,200
all this information online and the best part about it

680
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,640
is it takes about ninety seconds to two minutes to

681
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,880
complete after the round. So we've got a couple of

682
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,160
PhDs that we're working with on the front end with

683
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,880
the mental game Assessment with PhD Jonathan Rich and now

684
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,039
we're working with PhD Casey Debrian to further develop the

685
00:33:12,079 --> 00:33:14,599
head Coach learning app and making a mobile tool that

686
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,559
you can that you can bring to the golf course

687
00:33:16,599 --> 00:33:16,839
with you.

688
00:33:17,359 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 3: You only want ten people.

689
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 4: That's what we're looking for currently.

690
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Speaker 3: Okay, so you're gonna get that from this audience. That

691
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,720
sounds great, So how do they get in touch with you?

692
00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:29,960
How do they get to be the first ten? And

693
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:36,240
what if they're number eleven, we'll have well thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, we'll.

694
00:33:36,079 --> 00:33:37,599
Speaker 4: Have to set up beta group number two.

695
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,839
Speaker 1: But now it's a great question, Fred, and the best

696
00:33:39,839 --> 00:33:44,240
way to contact me is Greg Jerg at my Mental

697
00:33:44,319 --> 00:33:47,759
game coach dot com and let me know that you're

698
00:33:47,799 --> 00:33:51,000
interested in participating in the beta. It really is everybody

699
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,839
talks about all I have a revolutionary product for the

700
00:33:52,839 --> 00:33:56,279
game and innovative product. This is something that I'm not

701
00:33:56,319 --> 00:33:58,039
saying it doesn't exist anywhere else.

702
00:33:58,079 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 4: I just we haven't seen it anywhere else.

703
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,079
Speaker 1: And what we're doing is we were taking a very

704
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,079
very good product and we're going to make it great.

705
00:34:05,119 --> 00:34:08,000
So if anybody wants to take control of their game

706
00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:13,519
and be part of a very innovative mental and emotional

707
00:34:14,039 --> 00:34:17,159
coaching tool, please contact us to get started with it.

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Speaker 3: And please, if you do contact Greg to be part

709
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,800
of this study, let him know that you heard about

710
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:27,119
it on Golf Smarter. Absolutely yeah, And if you don't,

711
00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:37,079
he's going to ask how'd you hear about this? I'm

712
00:34:37,079 --> 00:34:38,880
want to go back into the book and pick on

713
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,239
some more things that you talk about in there, and

714
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,599
I want to know what you mean by being an

715
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emotional mess and how that we can get past that.

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Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, and we're gonna we'll go back to the ends.

717
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Speaker 1: But you know, again, it's it's a mentally having a

718
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,760
mental game strategy is such a big part of this.

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Speaker 4: And we'll use this as a quick exam both.

720
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Speaker 1: You know, let's say you're going out to play in

721
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a pro am, for example, and you know there's going

722
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to be a gallery there, and there's going to be

723
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cameras there, and you're not used to playing in this environment,

724
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and you know you've played in front.

725
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Speaker 4: Of people before, but this is this is at a

726
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:15,320
whole other level.

727
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Speaker 1: So now you know, it's very easy to be an

728
00:35:18,639 --> 00:35:21,360
emotional mess going into that situation because you're going to

729
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,320
start to think about all the wrong things of you know,

730
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,360
I hope I don't embarrass myself, and you know, I

731
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:26,880
hope I don't play as bad as I did the

732
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,280
last time I played at that particular course, or all

733
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,280
of these things are going to go through your head.

734
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And I can relate to being an emotional mess because

735
00:35:35,079 --> 00:35:38,159
I carried a crippling fear of public speaking with me

736
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,239
for many, many years, and every time that I found

737
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,639
out that I had to speak, my heart would raise immediately,

738
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,480
my hands would start to sweat. Almost It's almost like

739
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,719
having a shot of adrenaline pumped into you immediately knowing

740
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,000
that I had to go speak somewhere. I just it

741
00:35:53,079 --> 00:35:55,840
was my greatest weakness, and I really abhorred the thought

742
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,880
of speaking in front of others. Well, when I finally

743
00:35:59,199 --> 00:36:03,000
had the the courage to join an organization called Toastmasters

744
00:36:03,039 --> 00:36:06,199
and overcome this faces fear and overcome it and now

745
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,199
use it as one of my strengths. You know, it

746
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,239
wasn't until then that I was really able to take

747
00:36:13,079 --> 00:36:16,440
my whole emotional mess of how I perceive myself as

748
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,239
a public speaker, in my own self image and really

749
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,079
transform it. And now it's it's one of my strengths.

750
00:36:22,079 --> 00:36:24,360
So it's the same thing with your golf game. You

751
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,199
have to change your perception of who you are as

752
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:30,559
a golfer, but you have to start practicing and playing

753
00:36:30,599 --> 00:36:33,039
with a mental game strategy that's going to allow you

754
00:36:33,079 --> 00:36:35,159
to focus on playing your best. So going back to

755
00:36:35,199 --> 00:36:37,880
playing in this pro am, there's a lot of different

756
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,239
strategies that you can have. But what you want to

757
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:44,440
do is put yourself in a situation where you're totally calm,

758
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,639
totally confident, you're excited.

759
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 4: Let's reverse that fear.

760
00:36:48,159 --> 00:36:51,079
Speaker 1: Because it's it's the same chemical that's going through your body.

761
00:36:51,079 --> 00:36:54,079
You're just sending it down the wrong track basically, So

762
00:36:54,159 --> 00:36:57,320
let's take that adrenaline that's in your body, that excitement

763
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,119
that's in your body. I talk about it in chapter

764
00:36:59,159 --> 00:37:03,320
one where your mind says, your mind sets stop, but

765
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,360
your body is saying, oh, so you're feeling excited, but

766
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:08,519
your mind is telling you all the wrong things.

767
00:37:08,519 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 4: So there's a conflict that occurs. So now if you

768
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:12,159
just change.

769
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:13,599
Speaker 1: Your thought process and say, hey, this is what an

770
00:37:13,639 --> 00:37:15,880
exciting opportunity to play in this program.

771
00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:18,159
Speaker 4: I'm going to meet some great people. I'm going to

772
00:37:18,199 --> 00:37:19,800
go out and play the best I can play.

773
00:37:20,119 --> 00:37:22,639
Speaker 1: Whatever happens happens, but you know what, I'm just going

774
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:26,119
to go out and have a great time today. So again,

775
00:37:26,159 --> 00:37:29,599
it's it's changing your perspective. It's having a mental game strategy.

776
00:37:29,639 --> 00:37:32,840
It's conditioning yourself to think this way both on and

777
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,840
off the golf course. So it all goes back to communication.

778
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,199
But it's really about putting yourself in a situation where

779
00:37:39,199 --> 00:37:41,639
you're feeling one hundred percent ready going to the course

780
00:37:42,039 --> 00:37:45,320
on the first he standing over the golf ball every

781
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,519
single golf shot. So playing with the mental game strategy

782
00:37:48,639 --> 00:37:51,920
is by far and away the most powerful concept that

783
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,960
I teach, and it's one that can really level the

784
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:55,880
playing field between practice and play.

785
00:37:56,519 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it's so helps to get past those first

786
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,039
tee issues. I can't tell you how many times I've

787
00:38:06,119 --> 00:38:09,679
played with people who after their first t shot, they're like, Oh,

788
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,519
this is gonna be a long day. And it's like, really,

789
00:38:11,559 --> 00:38:14,400
you're gonna let that shot dictate what's going to happen

790
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:15,960
the rest of the four hours here?

791
00:38:16,679 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 4: Oh, isn't an amazing Absolutely.

792
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,199
Speaker 3: Yes it is. It's like what And then, of course

793
00:38:23,639 --> 00:38:26,199
the front nine to the back nine always two completely

794
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,880
different rounds of golf, and you're still talking about that

795
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,639
first the first shot that you had, come on, Get

796
00:38:32,639 --> 00:38:37,599
past it, Get past it. How lastly, because we're gonna

797
00:38:37,599 --> 00:38:42,320
break soon. But increasing confidence. I know that playing with

798
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,719
confidence is so huge. I mean when you are out

799
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:47,840
there going I got it. I got this shot. Again,

800
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,360
as we talked about early, give me the ball. But

801
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,679
when you're playing with that kind of confidence, it really

802
00:38:55,119 --> 00:38:58,920
it really lowers your scores. But it only takes a

803
00:38:59,039 --> 00:39:02,280
three put It only takes one ball in the water

804
00:39:03,039 --> 00:39:05,719
to have it all come crumbling.

805
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:10,559
Speaker 1: Down, no question, no question about that one. And you know,

806
00:39:10,639 --> 00:39:13,480
you you you it. It happens at every level or

807
00:39:13,519 --> 00:39:16,400
that that that one shot, that one three putt, it

808
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,320
can it can absolutely throw your game off. And and again,

809
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,760
not to sound like a broken record, but that's you know,

810
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,480
that's why playing with the mental game strategy is so important.

811
00:39:24,559 --> 00:39:27,880
We didn't really talk about the specific three step process

812
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,800
to stop your answer your automatic negative thoughts, but this

813
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,800
is a perfect example, I think to talk about it.

814
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,360
So you know, let's say you have that three button.

815
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,119
You're just you're cruising, You're on the fifteenth hole. You're

816
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,840
you're just unconscious, you're not even you're not keeping track

817
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,920
of your score, which is the proper way to play golf,

818
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,880
by the way, you know, you're just you're just you're

819
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,199
on cruise control and you're not thinking about the wheels

820
00:39:46,199 --> 00:39:48,920
falling off, and you're you are you're just beaming with confidence.

821
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 4: You're just enjoying it.

822
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:53,760
Speaker 1: You're relaxed, you're calm, you're not getting overly excited, You're

823
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,639
just playing right. And then all of a sudden that

824
00:39:55,639 --> 00:39:59,119
three button. Then you go ooh, and then maybe a

825
00:39:59,159 --> 00:40:02,599
thought of score might creep in and you might go, well,

826
00:40:02,679 --> 00:40:04,960
you know what if I can just par out here still,

827
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:06,920
I know I'm going to have a great round. So

828
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:10,440
now you start thinking about score, right, So it's it's

829
00:40:10,519 --> 00:40:15,199
interesting how that one little that one little nugget, that

830
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,400
one little window of opportunity of a three put can

831
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,440
cascade into another ant in another and another. So what

832
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,400
you need to do is to what I call stop

833
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,960
the ants dead in their tracks. And the way that

834
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,840
you physically do it is by being aware of the

835
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,159
fact that, Okay, hold on, this is just a trap.

836
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,320
This is just an ant trap that I'm falling into

837
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:38,400
right now. That hole is over. It never even it's

838
00:40:38,559 --> 00:40:41,360
it's history. The only person that's possibly thinking about your

839
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,320
three put in the world is you.

840
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 4: Okay, So it's history. It doesn't even exist anymore.

841
00:40:47,199 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 1: So you have to physically stop, stop moving, take your

842
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,480
four second time out a couple of seconds, in, couple

843
00:40:53,519 --> 00:40:56,599
seconds out, eyes closed, and then just revert back to

844
00:40:56,639 --> 00:40:59,199
what is my strategy for today? And my strategy for

845
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,400
today's relaxed, or my strategy today is quiet mind, or

846
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,159
my strategy today is just total focus, or my strategy

847
00:41:05,199 --> 00:41:07,960
today is calm, or my strategy today is.

848
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:08,599
Speaker 4: Just have fun.

849
00:41:09,079 --> 00:41:12,760
Speaker 1: So that's why having a strategy and being highly cognizant

850
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,719
and aware of your and traps both on and off

851
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,880
the golf course, is going to help you get through

852
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,679
those situations. And Fred, I'm not sitting here saying it's

853
00:41:20,679 --> 00:41:22,760
going to work every single time guaranteed.

854
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 4: If there might be a day.

855
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:28,760
Speaker 1: Where you're just not allowing yourself to really buy into it,

856
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,320
or you're not totally committed to your strategy, so maybe

857
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,280
you're not one hundred percent there, maybe you're seventy eighty

858
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,599
percent of the way there, or you just haven't done

859
00:41:36,599 --> 00:41:38,280
it enough so you're not conditioned enough.

860
00:41:38,119 --> 00:41:40,039
Speaker 4: To really be effective at this.

861
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,599
Speaker 1: It takes time, it takes practice, it takes discipline, and

862
00:41:43,679 --> 00:41:47,920
like anything else, physical conditioning is is like thought. It's

863
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,519
like physical conditioning. It's thought conditioning. You have to condition

864
00:41:51,639 --> 00:41:54,400
yourself to think better. And I have students who start

865
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,360
with me and say, hey, Greg, you know what, I'm

866
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,639
getting so much out of your coaching, But this is

867
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,840
very very early on, maybe the first one or two

868
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,320
times out on the course, somebody might say, you know,

869
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,599
but I feel like I'm thinking more. And it's not

870
00:42:06,679 --> 00:42:09,119
that you're thinking more, you're just thinking differently.

871
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 4: Okay.

872
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,079
Speaker 1: So it's like when you when you hear that song

873
00:42:13,199 --> 00:42:15,800
by your favorite artists for the first time and you go, oh, yeah,

874
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,960
you know what that's it's it's pretty good. You know,

875
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:19,280
I kind of like not it's not like it as

876
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,199
much as the other stuff, but I kind of like it.

877
00:42:21,519 --> 00:42:23,159
And then you hear three, four or five times and

878
00:42:23,199 --> 00:42:27,239
you go, wow, you know what want Because what happens is,

879
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,079
you know there was there was new pathways that were

880
00:42:29,079 --> 00:42:31,039
being created in your brain the first time that you

881
00:42:31,119 --> 00:42:33,000
heard it, so it was a little bit foreign, but

882
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,039
the more that you listen to it, the more that

883
00:42:35,079 --> 00:42:37,719
you liked it because now now as familiar. It's the

884
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:41,159
same thing with conditioning yourself to overcome your ants or

885
00:42:41,599 --> 00:42:43,920
overcome these ant traps, is maybe you aren't great at

886
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,000
it the first time out or the second or the third,

887
00:42:46,039 --> 00:42:49,719
but if you're constantly working at conditioning yourself to stop

888
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:53,159
those ants on and off the golf course, that particular

889
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,159
situation and maybe you know maybe it's in that that

890
00:42:55,159 --> 00:42:58,800
that that pressure pack situation, that's when it might really

891
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,400
pay off because you've been working at it for so

892
00:43:01,559 --> 00:43:04,320
long and you've conditioned yourself to become very adept at it.

893
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,239
So it definitely takes time, it takes practice, and it

894
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:08,760
absolutely takes conditioning.

895
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 4: Okay.

896
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 3: I have a suggestion for everybody, including you, that when

897
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,239
you start to get into your aunt traps, if you

898
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,159
need a visual to help you remind you to get

899
00:43:18,159 --> 00:43:21,119
out of it, just think of the duck right and trapped,

900
00:43:22,639 --> 00:43:28,000
the flex duck and traps and traps.

901
00:43:29,519 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 4: I love it. I thought I thought, you know, I

902
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:33,679
thought you were gonna have to.

903
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 1: Take take take take your ant spray out of your

904
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:39,840
golf bag and spray yourself with.

905
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:40,800
Speaker 3: No no, do do that.

906
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:44,519
Speaker 4: I love the traps trap.

907
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,039
Speaker 3: I'm sorry it's your accent that got me there, but

908
00:43:48,119 --> 00:43:50,639
it's the upstate New York accent.

909
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 1: Uh. It worked, But we just get we just with

910
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,280
something that's going to work for something for everybody.

911
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 3: I love it exactly.

912
00:43:58,679 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 4: Great.

913
00:44:05,079 --> 00:44:06,119
Speaker 3: Tell us how to get the book.

914
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,320
Speaker 1: Sure, it's either at our website at my Metal gamecoach

915
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,400
dot com. You can you can find it there on

916
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,239
the blog page and feel free to subscribe to our blog.

917
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 4: We're doing two video blog posts every single week.

918
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,079
Speaker 1: Now and they're they're fun, they're creative, they're innovative, they're

919
00:44:21,119 --> 00:44:23,679
all unique, and it's it's you know, they're they're about

920
00:44:23,679 --> 00:44:25,760
a minute or two in length, so they're they're very

921
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,159
short and very direct to the point, and they will

922
00:44:28,199 --> 00:44:30,840
definitely help transform the way you think about your game

923
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:32,719
on and off the golf course. So that the book

924
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,719
is definitely available through the website, but it's also available

925
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,280
on Amazon. It's just if you just type in eighteen holes.

926
00:44:40,039 --> 00:44:41,480
I think it might come up first. I don't know,

927
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,840
I Fred it comes up first on my left the.

928
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,519
Speaker 3: Search because exactly you typed it in many times.

929
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: Eighteen holes. Greg Loberto l I B E r t O.

930
00:44:51,039 --> 00:44:53,280
Will absolutely help you find it on Amazon. So you

931
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,039
can get the print version on Amazon or the Kindo version.

932
00:44:56,159 --> 00:44:59,440
It's a little bit less than eighteen dollars. Eighteen Holes

933
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,360
is eighteen game changing tips to play your best golf ever.

934
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,559
It's literally, as you probably saw, Fred, it's about an

935
00:45:04,599 --> 00:45:07,000
eighteen minute read, it's about a minute per chapter, and

936
00:45:07,159 --> 00:45:09,840
it really is the bestest way to improve your game.

937
00:45:10,079 --> 00:45:14,079
Speaker 3: Great how about a quick tip here on the three

938
00:45:14,119 --> 00:45:16,679
step approach from your book Eighteen Holes.

939
00:45:17,159 --> 00:45:17,800
Speaker 4: Sounds great.

940
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,760
Speaker 1: So step one is to definitely play with the mental

941
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,760
game strategy, and we want you to be one hundred

942
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,400
percent ready arriving to the golf course on the first

943
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,920
tee and every te elsewhere. And step two is to

944
00:45:29,079 --> 00:45:31,000
get in the zone in every single shot. And one

945
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,840
of the ways that we talked about doing that is

946
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,800
to take a four second timeout, which is to demonstrate

947
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,920
very quickly here Fred, it's to close your eyes and

948
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:40,760
you're going to breathe in from the belly or from

949
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,679
the diaphragm for two seconds, so it's in through the nose.

950
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,199
Speaker 4: And two seconds out. Okay. So I know it's hard

951
00:45:53,199 --> 00:45:54,199
for most people to do that.

952
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: They think, Oh, I don't want to embarrass myself in

953
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,360
front of other players or especially in front of my opponent.

954
00:45:58,400 --> 00:45:59,760
Speaker 4: It feels kind of weird.

955
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: Practice it on the range, practice it away from your shot,

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but allow yourself to be totally calm, totally confident, and

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just eliminate those ants or those automatic negative thoughts that

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are going to creep in the way when you're playing

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in competition or whenever it might be out on the

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golf course and just allow yourself to perform in your

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most natural state and just swing. So that's step two

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is to get in the zone. And then step three

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is to focus on three positives at the end of

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your round or the end of your practice session. What

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do we talk about earlier today every golfer likes to

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focus on that would have, could have, should have? Is

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how about the three things that went well today? You

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probably made a putt if you played eighteen holes of golf,

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maybe somewhere along the way you got a lucky bouncer,

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you made a great par saving put or maybe you

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know what, you had that one t shot on that

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one hole that you usually have a tendency to go

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out and bounds in that hole, but for some reason,

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I striped it right down the middle. Okay, So three

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positives after every single round, every single every single practice session.

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And you said, simple three step approach to allow yourself

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to transform the way that you communicate from start to

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finish and go out and play your best golf ever.