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My name is Corey Walker, and I'm 33 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,400 on a mission. Figure out how to improve the 34 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:40,500 way that we learn and get better at golf. 35 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:42,700 I've been able to travel all over the world, talking to the 36 00:01:42,700 --> 00:01:45,800 leaders in the industry from instructors, to researchers, to 37 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,100 Golfers themselves learning how they're getting better at golf 38 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:57,900 and what that means for you. Hey everyone, welcome back to 39 00:01:57,900 --> 00:02:02,300 another episode in our, how to At or Pro Series this week. 40 00:02:02,300 --> 00:02:04,600 We are sitting down with Scott Stallings. 41 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:08,300 I was able to catch up with him at the 3M open in Minneapolis 42 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,500 and really have a conversation. All about like how did he keep 43 00:02:11,500 --> 00:02:15,900 jumping from 2 or 22 or and level 2 level consistently 44 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:19,700 getting better and growing. It's an awesome conversation in 45 00:02:19,700 --> 00:02:23,300 great insights into the specific tactics, how we practice is how 46 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:27,000 he thinks about things in all of that before you get to it, a 47 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,800 quick overview. So you can just kind of have 48 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:32,200 Exxon his career. As a college golfer at Tennessee 49 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,600 Tech, he won seven times and is made and All-American in 2006 50 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,100 and 2008. 2009 he played on the Tar, Heel and Hooters tours. 51 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,800 Keeping the Nationwide tour in 2010 earned his card. 52 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:48,100 When to the PGA tour in 2011, one, The Greenbrier in 2011, one 53 00:02:48,100 --> 00:02:49,900 a second time at the true South classic. 54 00:02:49,900 --> 00:02:53,200 Now, Sanderson Farms championship in 2014, he won the 55 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:57,000 Farmers Insurance so he's had a fantastic career and he's right 56 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,300 in the heart of it playing some really good golf but let's Go 57 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:02,400 back. Let's go back to the start. 58 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:06,000 Where does this journey begin for Scott? 59 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:14,900 I played every sport growing up as a kid baseball basketball 60 00:03:14,900 --> 00:03:17,300 soccer. And basically anything you can 61 00:03:17,300 --> 00:03:20,100 think of. And yeah, I was decently 62 00:03:20,100 --> 00:03:24,300 competitive in everything and I was but baseball is kind of my 63 00:03:24,300 --> 00:03:28,000 first love and I was on a traveling baseball team and golf 64 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,400 is kind of something I did when the seat was Just kind of in the 65 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:35,200 middle of the seasons and when tiger win The Masters in 97, 66 00:03:35,700 --> 00:03:38,000 that was the week. My birthday's last week in 67 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:42,000 March, and I've made my first ever hole-in-one nice, and then 68 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,500 tiger won the Masters and sausages on a golf high. 69 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,500 And we're getting ready to start spring practice to get ready for 70 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:49,800 this travel baseball team. And so Monday. 71 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,800 After tiger one, I remember calling my coach, we're getting 72 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,400 ready to have our first, like, we're gonna go throw or when, 73 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,800 you know, pretty low-key that I called my coach. 74 00:03:59,900 --> 00:04:04,300 Yeah, we're on a team that is probably 60 games a year at that 75 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:08,400 point, which is nothing. Now for how baseball is but, you 76 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,200 know, for at that point in my life that was a lot and called 77 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:16,300 them and said I was done one going to play and I was going to 78 00:04:16,308 --> 00:04:21,100 pursue Golf and by no means was golf the sport that I was best 79 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:25,200 at but it was just something that I just fell in love with 80 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:29,200 and of course of a couple weeks and happy that I feel like I 81 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,300 made the right choice. Choice, I think you did where 82 00:04:31,300 --> 00:04:32,800 you better at baseball re better golf. 83 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,600 Now, this wave as golf was my worst sport, really? 84 00:04:35,700 --> 00:04:39,300 But I mean I looked up a bladed, a 9-iron from like 140 yards and 85 00:04:39,300 --> 00:04:42,900 it went in and then I watch this 21 year old kid just blow away 86 00:04:42,900 --> 00:04:45,900 the field at the Masters and it was just like I want to do that. 87 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,400 That's awesome. How old are you that as 12, 88 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:56,800 right? Wrong or indifferent? 89 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,200 Like I was going to figure it out my way and you know, I Super 90 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,200 strong grip. I hit a big high draw. 91 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:05,300 My wedge is sucked. Yeah, my short game was average, 92 00:05:05,300 --> 00:05:07,400 but I could hit a really long way, and I was a good ball 93 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,700 Striker. So I kind of, you know, looking 94 00:05:09,700 --> 00:05:11,200 back. If I could teach myself how to 95 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,500 play, like, I know now I work from the Greenback, and it's 96 00:05:14,500 --> 00:05:15,900 crazy. Like you see these programs, 97 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:18,000 like, I'm getting right play the front, this afternoon, like, I 98 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,200 could take your 20 handicapper and just go around and caddy for 99 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,300 my not change a single shot, or how they play. 100 00:05:24,300 --> 00:05:27,700 But just tell them, what, like, where they need to be from 101 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,900 situational awareness from Certain sides of the golf 102 00:05:30,900 --> 00:05:33,500 course. Me saves 10 shots off around 103 00:05:33,500 --> 00:05:35,900 just by like a learning how to play better. 104 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,300 Not necessarily like, oh, you need to swing better, you need 105 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:40,100 to putt better. Obviously, all those things are 106 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:43,400 goes without saying that can lower score, but just from a 107 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:48,000 mentality standpoint of learning how to manipulate your way 108 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,100 around the golf course especially when you don't have 109 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:53,200 it and kind of just trying to figure out the best version of 110 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,800 what that day looks like, and it's pretty crazy if I like I 111 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:59,700 would love to go back to myself at, you know, that 12. 112 00:05:59,900 --> 00:06:03,600 Old kid and like, man, your short game just keep getting 113 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:12,300 better at it. I think something really 114 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:14,100 interesting is like the basic question. 115 00:06:14,100 --> 00:06:16,700 Like, what did you do to practice and get good? 116 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:20,000 Were you playing all day where you hitting balls where you with 117 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,300 an instructor? Like what did a day look like as 118 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:25,700 a junior golfer play golf? As much as you possibly can and 119 00:06:25,700 --> 00:06:27,600 figure it out. Like, figure out how to dig it 120 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,600 out of the dirt figure out, how to put yourself in situations 121 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,500 and get out of it. Like, the, the way golf is now 122 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:35,700 from a performance standpoint of track. 123 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:40,100 Man and functional movement and you know, just the way the Body 124 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:43,500 Works and everything. I mean, obviously there's a time 125 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:48,300 and a place where that comes in but also I think that it kind of 126 00:06:48,300 --> 00:06:52,400 takes the you know, a lot of people need to kind of focus 127 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,600 more on getting outside and figuring out. 128 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,500 My score is based on how I go from the T to get it in the hall 129 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:01,000 as fast as possible. All the other stuff happens off 130 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,300 the golf course. And like I struggle with that to 131 00:07:03,300 --> 00:07:05,700 now especially with technology and what we have available to 132 00:07:05,700 --> 00:07:09,300 us. us on tour, you know, you're talking about real small margins 133 00:07:09,300 --> 00:07:12,900 and how to get better and just real incremental ways, I think, 134 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:16,100 you know, even myself is susceptible that from time to 135 00:07:16,100 --> 00:07:23,600 time I was a pretty late bloomer. 136 00:07:23,700 --> 00:07:27,000 I didn't get a ton of looks from college ended up playing in a 137 00:07:27,008 --> 00:07:29,400 small School Division. 1 School, Tennessee, Tech. 138 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,300 And ultimately man that was probably the best thing that 139 00:07:31,300 --> 00:07:34,500 ever happened to me. I had and as my career 140 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:38,600 progressed into freshman sophomore year at College, my 141 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,100 college coach had played on tour for a few years, and kind of 142 00:07:42,108 --> 00:07:45,100 pulled me aside and said, man, I feel like you have the talent 143 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:47,600 and ability to make a run at it, you know? 144 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,400 He was always handing on me, make sure I did a little bit 145 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,400 more than everyone else and was willing to put the time and 146 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,300 effort into it and and still I mean I didn't know how to work 147 00:07:56,300 --> 00:07:58,900 at it. I just thought time and volume 148 00:07:58,900 --> 00:08:03,500 and just keep stacking hours. I mean looking at it now like I 149 00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:06,500 had no clue what I was doing. I mean I feel like I have a 150 00:08:06,500 --> 00:08:10,200 decent idea now but you know still my time management is the 151 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,900 key especially if you're going to be out here for a long time, 152 00:08:13,100 --> 00:08:16,000 understanding, when you can put the hammer down and and really 153 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,800 grind it out and also understanding That, you know, 154 00:08:19,300 --> 00:08:21,600 from a mindset perspective and how to kind of get away from the 155 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,700 game. And so when you show up, like, 156 00:08:23,700 --> 00:08:26,000 you're ready to work instead of, ah, crap, I got to do this 157 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,500 again, you know, I enjoy the process. 158 00:08:28,500 --> 00:08:32,000 I enjoy the, the trial and error of getting better and kind of 159 00:08:32,008 --> 00:08:33,600 everything that goes along with that. 160 00:08:33,700 --> 00:08:36,500 But, you know, there's definitely a give-and-take and 161 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:41,400 and there's a lot, a lot of poor decisions that hopefully lead to 162 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,000 better outcomes and better processes through the course of 163 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:52,300 a career. Why do you think you're able to 164 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,500 keep chugging along even though? Like you said, you'd do 165 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:56,900 differently now? I did a lot of things really. 166 00:08:56,900 --> 00:09:00,900 Well, I was always a good ball Striker and I was able to kind 167 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:03,400 of get it around the whole, my length helped. 168 00:09:03,500 --> 00:09:06,400 I mean, I hit it significantly shorter now than I did when I 169 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:10,400 first got on tour, but I do not hit it out of play near as much. 170 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,500 So there's it, I definitely give and take there. 171 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:14,600 I mean, I don't hit it short by any means. 172 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,400 But I've made some sacrifices equipment wise. 173 00:09:17,500 --> 00:09:20,500 Body-wise and stuff like that, to make sure that I can, you 174 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:22,400 know, be able to do this for the Long Haul. 175 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:24,200 I mean, my back don't bother me anymore. 176 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,100 I don't hit the 30 yard hook with my wedge, you know, stuff 177 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:30,100 like everything that goes into being a more efficient and a 178 00:09:30,108 --> 00:09:32,500 more productive golfer week in week out. 179 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:35,900 And, you know, I think people have to kind of figure out what 180 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:38,500 does that version. I know this is what I'm capable 181 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:41,800 of but is that actually feasible over the course of a 30-week 182 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,600 season? You know, instead of being the 183 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,600 flash in the pan like how can I be a relevant weekend with Get 184 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,900 out instead of just once every now and then. 185 00:09:58,100 --> 00:10:00,200 How do you make that jump? Then you said, high school, 186 00:10:00,300 --> 00:10:01,800 maybe not so much and then College. 187 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,700 You just it just kind of started working with a coach my 188 00:10:04,700 --> 00:10:06,900 sophomore year of college, Brad Rose. 189 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:11,500 And the first thing he had kind of a very manufactured putting 190 00:10:11,500 --> 00:10:14,400 grip held the putter to the way that I swung. 191 00:10:14,700 --> 00:10:17,600 Like, I interlocked, I never anything, any different that's 192 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,500 just kind of what I did. And I had a really funky the way 193 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:25,200 my Left hand was sit on the putter was super strong, and I 194 00:10:25,208 --> 00:10:28,300 remember the first thing he said, he's like, how's that 195 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:30,500 Honda? Like, I didn't know what that 196 00:10:30,500 --> 00:10:34,500 meant and he said, you're a said, you drive a car like this. 197 00:10:34,500 --> 00:10:36,600 And he put his hand up, like, you would put your on the 198 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,400 steering wheel of a car. He said, this is how you put, 199 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,100 and he changed my putting grip. And the next week, I won my 200 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:46,800 first college tournament and at Jacksonville State in Gadsden 201 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,500 Alabama. And it's just kind of, like, of 202 00:10:50,500 --> 00:10:53,500 all from there, as far. Understanding what you do this? 203 00:10:53,500 --> 00:10:55,300 Well, how can we make it a little bit better? 204 00:10:55,500 --> 00:11:00,400 And, you know, that kind of, you know, working with him and kind 205 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:04,300 of figuring out ways to consistently get better and, and 206 00:11:04,300 --> 00:11:09,500 making it where I knew what the go like, the long-term goal in 207 00:11:09,500 --> 00:11:13,100 the short-term going, kind of how that met throughout was 208 00:11:13,100 --> 00:11:17,500 something that we tried to work for tried to work for all the 209 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:20,600 time and it just kind of went from there, man, but that was 210 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:32,200 the first lesson I ever, Got. Learn how to travel learn, how 211 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,200 to be professional, everything that kind of goes along between 212 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,100 making a paycheck, learn how to manage sponsors, learn how to 213 00:11:38,100 --> 00:11:42,200 manage, you know, your time and resources to be able to, you 214 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,300 know, fulfill a certain outcome. I mean, any kind of business 215 00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:48,600 mindset. I mean, my business was golf and 216 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:52,200 you know, and 2010 I missed my tour card by shot and everyone 217 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:54,700 thought that was like this huge detriment that happened to me 218 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:57,300 but ultimately was the probably the best thing ever. 219 00:11:57,300 --> 00:11:59,500 I mean, I spent my first basically Thunder. 220 00:12:00,100 --> 00:12:03,500 Now, Korn Ferry web.com. When I played it was Nationwide. 221 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,300 Spent basically the first four events were out of the country. 222 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,700 I've never traveled out of the country to play golf anywhere, 223 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,000 let alone for my job. And I mean, that was like early 224 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,500 as December and second week of January, I was in New Zealand, 225 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:19,300 and trying to figure it out, man. 226 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,600 And Australia, Colombia Panama kind of everything that went 227 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:25,900 along with the schedule, that it was at the time. 228 00:12:26,300 --> 00:12:28,900 And I mean, that was a huge time. 229 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,800 Matured a lot as a man. My wife was have, is very 230 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,700 fortunate to have my wife. Feel to go with me and and kind 231 00:12:34,700 --> 00:12:38,500 of learn that process of being a husband and had a professional 232 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:42,600 golfer and and a man all at the same time and this is a lot of 233 00:12:42,608 --> 00:12:45,700 maturity that happened and kind of progressed from there. 234 00:12:45,700 --> 00:12:48,200 I played many tours out of college for about 18 months. 235 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:52,800 Went to q-school missed played a full year, q-school. 236 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,100 Miss my car by shot web.com or Nationwide. 237 00:12:57,700 --> 00:13:00,700 Didn't get my card but it The time if you placed high enough 238 00:13:00,700 --> 00:13:05,800 in the money list you basically got a free run at finals and I 239 00:13:05,808 --> 00:13:08,000 played a practice round Scott, Brown and Orange County 240 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,900 nationally told me on the fourth hole and he said, buddy, I don't 241 00:13:11,900 --> 00:13:13,300 know. He said, if you don't get your 242 00:13:13,300 --> 00:13:15,200 card this week, you're never going to get. 243 00:13:15,900 --> 00:13:20,100 And I mean, I was a guy, hit a huge draw with my driver and 244 00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:22,700 just bombed it and or it was long. 245 00:13:22,700 --> 00:13:26,200 It was wet. And I finished, I think I 246 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,900 finished like, 6 in the tournament and he literally, 247 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,900 Told me on the 4th hole of the practice round. 248 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:32,800 He said, if you don't get your card this week, you're never 249 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:36,100 going to get it. Pressure is on so I'll never 250 00:13:36,100 --> 00:13:43,300 forget that. So we've heard a bit of his 251 00:13:43,300 --> 00:13:45,500 story. Kind of what are the actions 252 00:13:45,500 --> 00:13:47,000 that took? One of the things that happened 253 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,200 along his career? Let's shift gears in our next 254 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:52,500 segment. Let's look at the tactics and 255 00:13:52,500 --> 00:13:56,200 routines and the habits and the practices and the games in 256 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,700 particular, actually discusses a game that he's using Right now 257 00:13:59,700 --> 00:14:02,200 to go out and practice and I thought it was so good that we 258 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,100 made this cheat sheet for the game. 259 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:07,200 We transcribe, what he what he says and kind of gave you a 260 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,200 little game plan so you can go out and test yourself but it's 261 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,000 on the show notes along with this golf stance live.com /. 262 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,800 Scott you'll see a button in link to download that. 263 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,000 All right, let's get into these strategies. 264 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:24,300 I've never really been a range guy. 265 00:14:24,300 --> 00:14:28,700 I will play in practice a lot on the golf course like my I do a 266 00:14:28,700 --> 00:14:31,300 lot now at home. I'll get up super early in the 267 00:14:31,300 --> 00:14:33,000 morning. Go first off and play a couple 268 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,500 balls or I go like really late in the day and play a few balls 269 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,600 and play a couple different games on the course between 270 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,900 myself from what can games you play in proximity to holes. 271 00:14:41,900 --> 00:14:46,900 When I do you take scoring averages and especially with the 272 00:14:46,900 --> 00:14:49,500 data that we have, you know, like strong areas and weak 273 00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:52,400 areas. But the biggest thing is As I do 274 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,800 one with his wedge game you break it up into four. 25-yard 275 00:14:55,800 --> 00:15:02,700 segments, 50, 75 75 100, 100 125 125 to 150 and you go for balls 276 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:07,100 in that general area, you never hit a ball from the same yardage 277 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:11,200 you never because in golf you can't drop one and hit it again. 278 00:15:11,300 --> 00:15:13,700 You always go through your process routine and everything. 279 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:18,400 And so basically the stats that we've gone off in the last 10 280 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:23,000 years, what was the closest proximity to In that generalized 281 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,100 25-yard area. So in 2013, when Justin Rose won 282 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:32,100 the US, Open his proximity to haul from 50. 75 yards with 6 283 00:15:32,100 --> 00:15:34,100 feet, 8 inches. That was his average. 284 00:15:34,300 --> 00:15:37,300 Wow. From 50 to 75 that is 285 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:38,200 ridiculous. Yeah. 286 00:15:38,500 --> 00:15:41,400 And and the numbers obviously, get further and further away the 287 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:45,400 further you go from the whole but we found over the course of 288 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,900 shotlink data. We picked the best and over the 289 00:15:48,900 --> 00:15:51,000 ten-year period that they've been able to keep the data. 290 00:15:51,700 --> 00:15:56,400 And that's the number we use. So two of the four balls from 291 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:02,300 that, you know, 25-yard segments have to be inside the best. 292 00:16:02,500 --> 00:16:07,600 The other two can go wherever, but if you get more than two, it 293 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,600 adds up. So say you went to 125 to 150 294 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,900 only got one. If you carry one over it Kyle 295 00:16:13,900 --> 00:16:16,700 allows the game to continue and you do it over and on whole 296 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:19,500 period and you kind of bounce back and forth and you start to 297 00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:20,900 see your strengths and weaknesses. 298 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,200 Using one Club using multiple clubs and just trying to figure 299 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,900 out how to, you know, I'm in the situation like how to deal with 300 00:16:28,900 --> 00:16:31,600 it. And your kind of, I do way 301 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,400 better with games like that sitting on the, on the Range 302 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,100 hitting balls, like my coach Scott Hamilton and tell you that 303 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:39,700 I've definitely got driving range. 304 00:16:39,700 --> 00:16:43,600 Add golf is very counterintuitive to my 305 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:48,600 personality and so any anything that involves like getting into 306 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,000 it and kind of figuring out how to make a score, make a shot 307 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,200 like that. That way more intrigues me than 308 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:55,500 sitting in a bay hitting balls on a track, man. 309 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,599 The range is more a technical thing. 310 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,099 Like, how I do on the Range is completely irrelevant to my 311 00:17:13,099 --> 00:17:15,400 score on the course because I feel like. 312 00:17:15,700 --> 00:17:19,500 So, for instance, testing the driver shaft here on Monday in 313 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:22,900 Minnesota and, you know, messing with some spin numbers and just 314 00:17:22,900 --> 00:17:26,500 trying to find a more optimal version to cut down a couple 315 00:17:26,700 --> 00:17:29,800 hundred RPMs and just try to make hey driving it nice. 316 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:31,900 But it could we make it a little bit better? 317 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,700 And you kind of get that give and take and and kind of deal 318 00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:36,500 with it. You're basically dealing with 319 00:17:36,500 --> 00:17:40,100 Monday afternoon numbers and trying to extrapolate and 320 00:17:40,100 --> 00:17:43,100 compare it to what it be Sunday afternoon coming under the gun 321 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:47,000 where your swing speed, you know, is in that, you know, some 322 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,000 guys. Three some guys, seven miles an 323 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,500 hour. You know, if I'm swinging it 114 324 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:56,900 116 on Monday like it's going to be significantly higher Sunday 325 00:17:56,900 --> 00:18:00,600 afternoon under the pump. And I just think that so many 326 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:02,700 people like, well, you know, it goes so much further in 327 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:05,500 tournaments, like, yeah, everything attention to Tail 328 00:18:05,500 --> 00:18:07,800 focus. And so just with that mindset, 329 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:09,300 understanding that this is a process. 330 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:11,400 I'm going to be technical here. Well I'm gonna go on the golf 331 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:13,700 course. I got to go execute and learning 332 00:18:13,700 --> 00:18:16,400 kind of the differences. Similarities between the two is 333 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,100 something that I think people struggle with. 334 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:23,900 Let's say your son decides to play golf, right? 335 00:18:23,900 --> 00:18:25,800 He's trying to do it. What do you think would be the 336 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,300 biggest advice or things that you would help him with down the 337 00:18:29,300 --> 00:18:32,900 road here if you if he chooses to go after but make him work on 338 00:18:32,900 --> 00:18:35,000 his fundamentals and make them work from the Greenback? 339 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,200 Yeah. And ultimately let him give as 340 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,300 many opportunities as I possibly can to let them play. 341 00:18:39,700 --> 00:18:45,000 And I think as a dad and a professional golfer and whether 342 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,400 is my son or one of my friends kids cows, like I want to be a 343 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:50,900 good golfer. That's I would tell them the 344 00:18:50,900 --> 00:18:54,600 exact same thing whether he was my son or not and you see so 345 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,000 many people make mistakes of the perfect swinger. 346 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:58,400 I mean, you go up and down this range. 347 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,000 There's not many with perfect swings. 348 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,300 There's a lot of funky looking action out there but they know 349 00:19:02,300 --> 00:19:06,200 how to get it done. And you know, There's more than 350 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,900 one way to do it and but just figuring out how to be that 351 00:19:09,900 --> 00:19:13,000 version of yourself, more often than not, and come out here day 352 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,400 in day out with purpose and a plan. 353 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,100 And go out there and figure out how to execute. 354 00:19:16,100 --> 00:19:22,100 Hey, thank you so much for listening to this episode. 355 00:19:22,100 --> 00:19:25,600 Scott had so many good insights, and I just really appreciate him 356 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,300 sharing his story and a lot of the stuff that he is doing. 357 00:19:28,300 --> 00:19:31,400 Now, the stuff that Heath, you know, thinks helped him achieve 358 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:35,000 the success that he has and all that good stuff is just a really 359 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,100 cool. Insights. 360 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:40,000 If you want to learn more about Scott, he is a really cool story 361 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,600 about some of the things that have happened in his health, and 362 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,900 his journeys, a professional golfer over the last few years. 363 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,600 The no laying up Podcast interview that he did was 364 00:19:49,700 --> 00:19:52,200 fantastic. I would recommend going back to 365 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:53,200 that. If you haven't listened, to it 366 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,400 already and listen to that interview that they did with 367 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,400 him. Super, super good. 368 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,000 If you enjoyed this, as always, make sure to subscribe. 369 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,700 We have podcast coming out on a regular basis here on a podcast 370 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:06,300 Spotify. 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