Emergency Podcast. I just played in my first
tournament of the year. Will I?
I just smoothed it around for an easy 78.
Like I'm like, I'm just really good at so here I am again.
Here I am again. Another year of frustrating
tournament performances. Starts off in May.
I'm very excited about it, so I thought I'd ask you why are
tournaments so hard? Yeah, so let's start off with
that. So first and foremost, shot 78.
Frustrated. How many rounds of golf have you
played this year in Minnesota? I don't see how that's relevant.
No, it's not at all. I just.
This is my first eighteen of the year.
Yeah, no. So, so first time of the year,
OK. And and how many rounds have you
played? This is my first 18.
OK, first eighteen. OK, cool.
Good, good, good, good, good. So generally the expectations
are low, right? Because you haven't played, it's
been cold, you've got 4 kids, all you've been doing is speed
training, but you choose 78 and that's bad, correct?
OK, no, it's not. I mean, like, it's fine, it's
it's fine, but it's just, it's like it's so different.
It's not like I feel like I haven't.
Why did I practice all winter? What was I doing?
Like what? Yeah, but, but, but, but think
of it this way. It starts off with the
expectations, right? It starts off with the
expectations of I should play well in a tournament.
So point being is if you don't want to just go and play the few
holes with your friends today, you'd have probably played
pretty decent golf because there's no stress.
There's nothing even playing little skins game, a little
money game and say, whoa, I've got a ton of competency.
So what's really important about this is exactly that is like
when you try and compete and you're not used to competing, it
feels completely different. So part of this is, you know,
the solution to it is, you know, how do you go ahead and compete
and not feel like you're competing?
And when you train, how do you feel like you're actually
competing? So you've got 2 elements to it.
One is you've been doing a ton of speed training, which is
awesome, but you haven't been doing a ton of yardage, gapping
of wages, playing golf, working on short game, making ten in a
row from 4 feet. You haven't been doing a lot of
that right? Yeah, I think I've gotten out
for like I don't know, four times I've been able to go do
like the four foot circle and lag putting.
So four times is. I mean, it was good, but.
What time is good? So, so the first part is the
expectations are aligned with what we've been doing.
Second part is you go into a tournament, everything feels
completely different. So why is that is?
Because number one, you've gone ahead and thought like I should
shoot 72 and qualify. So the expectations go up.
Your name's going to be on a leaderboard.
So the expectations are up. You're playing with better
players. You don't get to drag another
ball out or drag a putt back. You've got to finish everything.
So you're just completely out of your comfort zone.
And what people don't realize is how different that comfort zone
is. I mean, it's just tournaments
are just not most of us are not used to them and we play the
club championship once a year, have the worst round we've ever
had in history on the first day, shoot in 96 and then second day
shoot at 77 and go, oh man, I know I'm capable of this.
I wish I could have done it the first day, but you weren't
because you weren't in the first day, you were in the
competition. The second day you were
completely out of the competition.
So there's no stress. I had one of my players just
yesterday, Barry, he just texted me in the first round, shot in
80, didn't play good Second round went out with his buddies.
He knew every guy in the group and he just had a good time, had
fun and shot a 73. And it's like, OK, I think I'm
starting to get it. Like I was more comfortable that
second day. The first day I wasn't
comfortable. So it's like, how do I learn how
to get more uncomfortable in my training and my practice and
when I get on the golf course, I'm going to say it again, how
do I try and get myself into a comfort zone that I don't need
to worry about things, right? I don't need to worry about
outcome. I don't need to be worried about
school. I just need to play.
So I don't think people realize the difference between the two
that they they think that they're ready to go and compete
in a tournament and then they're blown away when they go and
shoot 10 shots higher than normal.
It's like, no, that is the standard now we have to train
for that. Yeah, it's just so it's just so
weird though, Like I don't understand why it feels so
different. Like I, I played on Monday, I
played, went out and played nine holes with a friend and hit it
great. And then like it literally felt
like I. A which means Jack nothing.
I played night owls, which is I played with a friend, so I was
comfortable and I played good. Let me give you the best, the
best example that I told my players about and I've been
sharing this this year quite a lot with them.
OK, you have a wooden plank. It is 2 1/2 feet wide and it's
30 feet long and you walk across and go boom.
I have the skill set. I can do that.
And then you look at somebody else who walks across the plank
and goes look at that like you walked across that plank, like
you can do that too. I'm as good as you and it felt
totally comfortable. Now if I then go and put that up
on top of a four foot table, you go, OK, I can do this.
But as you walk across it, you're a little bit more, you
know, better focus in on this a little bit more because if I do
fall, I just have to jump off and I'd be OK.
But you know, let's just make sure I'm OK.
And your buddy walks across and go, you see, I'm the same as
him. Like, I know he's a + 3 and he
just won the big state amateur tournament, but I can do what he
does. Now.
You put it up at 50 feet. You put it up above your house
and you start to look in that same 3 feet.
I mean, you're freaking out. It's the same 3 feet, though.
It's still golf. It's still a wooden board, and
you're grabbing onto it. OK, well now you put it up at
2000 feet, you put it up above a skyscraper and you are hugging
the board, vomiting, not able to move across the board.
But your buddy just says it's a 2 1/2 foot wide board.
It's 30 feet long, I'm going to walk across it.
They've learned how to do it under a situation that we
haven't trained for yet, so it isn't that scary for them.
So in your training, what you're trying to do is level up.
So it's 15 feet above 30 feet above 60 feet above 100 feet
above. So a point, once you have a cup
above 200 feet, well, I'm going to die from a 200 feet, I'm
going to die from a 2000 feet. You, you can shift into a
mindset of like, stick to what you know what to do.
And that's really the best analogy I can give you right now
of like, but I know it's the same thing.
It's not it's, it's a completely different thing because the, the
drop off, the fall is bigger than you want to fall, right.
And so that's really the analogy I would give.
So your thoughts and feedback on that.
That's. A great that's a really good
analogy, actually like that. That makes a lot of sense.
So how do I make the board? I feel like it's on the ground
then when it's. Exactly.
So if you've ever done this, I mean, have you ever done a rope
course? Have you ever done?
Yeah, when I was a kid, I remember doing on.
OK, I'm going to go and show you a picture right here.
Totally random. Totally.
Here we go like this, OK? See this picture right there?
OK. OK, so I'm on top of a however,
however tall a Telegraph pole is a phone call.
It is high. I mean, it's, I don't know, 50
feet. Maybe it's, it's high and you've
got to climb up the side of it and then you've got to stand on
the top of it and then you've got to jump off it and grab a
rope that goes across. All I remember is as I went up,
my body was shaking, violently shaking.
And all I looked at was this one piece above it and there was a,
there was a I could see something right in front of me.
So I was climbing up the pole here and I could look up and I
just stared intently. And I just told myself, just put
your left foot up, put your river.
My hands are shaking. My no, I was tied to a rope.
So if I fell, nothing was going to happen.
I was just going to bounce. You know, I was just going to
drop 15 feet and I was 60 feet up.
I was going to be totally fine. So if you make a triple and you
miss the cut, nothing's going to happen.
Your wife, she'll probably let you back in the house.
Your kids, I mean, they'll look at you a little bit differently,
but it's never going to it's, you're not going to completely
scratch and die. But I was violently shaking in
my legs. And I, I mean, I was telling
myself, lift your right leg up and it was like, no, I'm not
going to do anything. And so the point being is you
start to lift, lift it up and you have to act under your body
is not doing what you want it to do.
So I would challenge you, if you're afraid of heights, go and
do a rope course and, and focus on what you do.
You don't look down. What, what, what, what happens.
You focus in front of you, you makes you, you focus on your
breathing. So my point is like, the more
you can do to get completely uncomfortable and see what your
body does, you then start to realize like this is a normal
human reaction because we're trying to avoid pain, right?
You know, like we're trying to avoid being killed or dying.
Now go ahead and grab a Golf Club and see what you can do
with a Golf Club when this is happening.
The point being is, is that yes, you have to start to understand
that that happens and then learn how do I go ahead and focus on
what I want? How do I get my bereavement in a
lot in alignment so my body can actually work the right way?
And then how do I go ahead and start to look at my expectations
or what I would say is my belief system and say this is just
another golf shot and having to really, truly believe that.
Because in the big scheme of things for Aaron Rye last
weekend, it was just another golf shot.
It was just another. It was another driver off the T
box. It was another iron into the
green. It was another 768 foot putt.
Like it wasn't when you truly look at it wasn't anything apart
from that. But then we had a championship
and a trophy and $15 million in FedEx Cup points and all this
and it becomes difficult. And so I mean, that is the R and
we continue to fail at it over and over again.
But each time we fail, the ladder goes up a little higher
and we get more and more comfortable to the point where,
you know, the, the guy that works at that park runs up the
pole and goes look, oh, you look, who is this?
Because he's done it 10,000 times.
We do. I bet you if I put him on a 700
foot pole or 80 foot pole or 250 football, he'd be freaking out,
right? And so I always look at Alex
Tunnel, you know, when that when he climbed El Capitan with no
rope, to him it was just another grab this, grab this, do this.
It wasn't, oh, you're now 2040 feet and you're now 2050 feet.
You're not, you know, so that's really The thing is that like
these are human reactions that are going to happen in whatever
sport when we get out of our comfort zone.
But that's where we grow. We grow when we're outside of
our comfort zone. OK, so that's why I, I didn't
like this is a qualifier that I just kind of threw on because I
wanted a early season Rep because I, I know from my past
experiences that like for me, like I got to get reps in under
this just because like it just you get going like this couldn't
have been a less stressful event.
Let's be very clear, right? There is no one around.
It was not a big deal. It was like a qualifier for
something and, and but like still like things go so fast.
Like I made a double on the 1st hole because I3 putted from 4
1/2 feet, which was sick. And it, it was just like, but
that little like those reps and things are going fast and I'm
trying to do 334. I'm trying to trying to
visualize, trying to rehearse, trying to let go.
But if things just start going right and they're just moving
and it took me like 5 holes to kind of like chill out.
And then I was like fine air after that.
You know, for you, they speed up.
And this is the big part about journaling afterwards because
lots of people will slow down so much and they're like, oh, I'm
going to back off the shot. I'm going to slow down.
I'm going to do it all right. That they're so overwhelmed that
they play terribly and other people ramp up and go too quick.
Other people's mind drops away and they don't think at all.
And they just randomly hit shots and go, oops, what did I do
versus I was overthinking. So what I would want you to do
is journal like crazy. But OK, so here's what happened.
Things started to go quickly for me.
OK, so in the future. Oh, look at that.
Thumbs up. Thumbs up.
Yeah. We've got to work on slowing
everything down. So let me ask you this.
How quickly were you in a rush to get to the golf course on the
way over there? No, I planned.
I was good on time. Good in your warm up, take me
through your warm up. Once your body was warmed up,
did you start to pick specific shots and targets and start to
get orientated on the target or were you still thinking swing?
I did, I I did the last part. I did go into shot like shot and
work on routine. Did you hit two drivers or two
irons or the two of the same clubs in a row in your last 20
balls? Probably in the last I didn't
hit that many balls, so I'm sure I did.
But I probably played. I probably tried to play like, I
don't know, four holes. Before did you get a driver that
even like and dragged up another driver or did you you
disciplined and then you hit a 7 iron or wedged out?
OK did you do any up and downs before you teed off around the
green? Did you make 3 or 4 up and
downs? No, OK.
Did you put out, you know, a 30 footer and put it all the way
out? No.
So look at this is like, so the body was warmed up, the emotions
once, right, So you didn't ship onto the green, read the lie,
slow everything down, walk out, pace out the rule of 12,
whatever you want to use at aim point, you know, go through it,
line it up, make the it's now slowing everything down into how
you would play tournament golf, right.
So as you head to the first tee, it's like, all right, OK, I've
just focused in on this. I just played the first three
holes. I did 2 up and downs.
I made an 8 footer. I hit a lag put to a foot from
60 feet. I'm heading to the tee box and
my breathing is in a good place. So do you see like there's a
lesson to you is you're going to learn a lot more from failure
than actual success because in success is like always what he
did right? And failure, you start to idea
what you did wrong and how you fix it.
And sometimes it's hard to repeat success because you have
luck, right? You're not meant to make a 68
foot part on the 17th hole of the PGA Championship that has
like 6 feet of break in or 8 feet of break in it.
If you only have a two shot lead going into the last, you've only
got to hit one into that right bunker and then hit the tree and
drop down and vomit all over yourself and you lose, right.
So point being is, is that when you have those breakdowns,
that's when you're going to learn.
So for me to be journaling and starting to realize like, hey, I
didn't fully commit to the to the shot that, you know, sorry
to the to the process right before I teed off, I then teed
off right? And then as you said, you got
super quick over 4 1/2 a putt. Well, Ernie missed 5 putts
within 4 feet of the Masters. Remember that.
Right. So then it would be like you
said, Oh, and then I really, I was trying to commit.
Oh no, there's either I try, I did or I didn't.
Like, why are you committing to the golf shot?
And if not, why not? Like what was was visualization
that you struggled with commitment or letting go, which
was the one that you found the hardest to do?
God, I love a good thumbs up from you.
It's still like man, that's awesome.
It's just like the word that I always use is shallow and I use
it when we did there our video on three 3/4 of just like the
the difference between like a really shallow visualization and
like feeling it of like, OK, I'm going to hit a good shot, like
really deep and you know, it versus like it's just kind of
like surface level. And like I find it really hard
to get beyond the surface level of just like, OK, I kind of see
it and back in my old routine of just like, oh, like I'm just
waving the club around, taking all these practice swings all of
a sudden and then I'm hitting the shot and I was like, whoa,
that's not what I'm trying to do.
Like that was not what it that was not my goal.
And so when you've got deep into the shots, when we've worked
together, you've hit great shots, pulled off shots, and you
realize that's where you want to get to correct.
Yes. So think about it, it's not a
mental game, it's an emotional game.
We've got to change our Physiology.
So you see Bryson do this before he hits the shot at Bay Hill.
You see Rory bushing, you know, you know, you've got to get your
body into it. So I would challenge you to
start to use more Physiology when you get out, like come on,
see the shot. And then that's why I'll tell a
lot. Or talk yourself through it.
You have to say it out loud to other people, like a nice high
draw for that right tree, high draw off the right tree, boom
right there. So then you can't be like, well,
maybe I'll fade it. It's like, no, it's a right
drawer. Look at shot tracer.
See if you can visualize shot tracer going out there.
Some people can be really good general.
They actually get worse when they get too specific because
they're like, I panic, what if I don't hit the shot?
So I would work the visualization, but then on the
emotion, how good would it feel? Come on, how good would it?
And like ramp the body up like really?
Because I'd see you and this is what we did the other week when
we did the speed training at the show.
And I'm like, come on, hit it like you're pumping yourself up
like that all winter long. And then you get on a golf
course and say, OK, be calm. And now see the shot that's not
calling. Like Cody's like I'm going to
pound the life out of this thing and a rivet.
I'd like to see that and then get over it because I've never
seen you guide it when you've been doing speed train.
You're just letting it go. I would prefer you to play with
reckless abandoned and be like, I'm just going to RIP.
I'm going to make some double S. I'm going to.
But I could make 7 burdens, right?
I might like 7 birdies and two double s and shoot 69.
So I would be saying that. And then obviously the last part
is the commitment. And once you're fully
visualizing the shot, you feel good.
It's easy to commit. So that's again, the journaling
I would say is like, I've got to get more into my, who I am as a
player, more commitment. I, I'm guaranteed to make 2
double s in a round, but I think I can make 7 birdies.
And then at least you're accepting that and you're going
after it rather than trying to be calm, quiet, slow.
You know, I'm not saying slow process, but it's like, you
know, like guiding versus fully committed.
I what? I like the word that I'm going
to remember is like intensity is bringing maybe intensity to the
the pre shot routine. Yeah, maybe I bring too much of
like all right, I'm just I'm chilled out.
I'm getting you know, I'm just going to be in my head and like
Zen, Maybe it's like I like that maybe a bit more intensity
because like, yeah, I I need to like it's let's talk about the
body a little bit too, right, Like my golf ball was for the
first six holes was just going like right.
It's like I couldn't turn through the ball, so there's no
option, but that thing just shot to the right and it.
Was like technique. What's that?
Everyone's going to screen technique.
Oh, my technique was off. I'm like, no.
So let me ask you this down in the hitting zone, did you did
you see as that? Was there a cut?
Like if I was to give you a color of what it looked like,
felt like sounded like what, what would you say down there?
Was it grayed out? Was it black?
Was it, was it was there a color to it?
Was there a feeling to the bottom of the Gulf?
Swing through to through to the turn as you exit.
Was it just felt like, yeah, it was, it was just like a Gray
swing because it was I, I couldn't get, I couldn't turn
through. Like I just couldn't rotate
through. I just stuck and it was going
and it was like we're holding on.
Yeah, so it's just like Gray at the bottom, like almost like I
don't even like unawareness. There was no it was just like,
you know my thing to you would be like, I know that tends to
happen to me. So I will get up over shots.
I'll tear it down low and I'll be like, I'm going to RIP a 75
yard power slice down this fairway, pull slice and I'll sit
up there and I'm like, as long as I'm fully committed at the
end of it, I feel like I've done my job and I'll sit there and
what about this? And I'll be hitting a power
slice, I'll tow it and hit a 5 yard draw.
And I'm like, do you imagine if I was trying to get it straight
right now? Because I hope that one all the
way to another country. So the idea here is, is like,
you've got to start to be like, you're right.
Next time I play, I'm getting up on that first tee and I'm going
for 190 ball speed because it would be better to get 190 ball
speed and pump it out of bounds and be like, yeah, but I fully
committed to that. Then guide it into the junk.
And we still made a double. And you, you breakthrough that
initial power like fear because I'm sure towards the back nine
you started to free up a bit, right?
And the driver started to work OK.
And if it was technique, you couldn't do it on the back 9 if
you if you didn't have it on the back 9, if you had all the back
nine, we could have been on the front 9 if you'd never had the
technique. So the tension was higher, the
shoulders were tighter, the body didn't turn through.
So it's like now you're really learning golf.
You're learning like, OK, I, I got to get into another
competition. Like your goal is getting a
competition in the next week. As soon as you put, even if it
was a a money game against three good players at your club and
you said, listen, guys, I want to throw in 200 bucks.
So it was like, this is uncomfortable.
I don't lose this, but you need to get back into the heat of
battle because the minute you get back into your right, I'm
going to go and do this today and boom, what's the next
lesson? Boom, what's the next lesson?
And what you're really trying to do is realize the 1st 10
tournaments you play error, mistake, error, mistake.
Oh, it's four under for one nine and then seven over on the back
right was a had a stretch of 500 or 200 or whatever.
And you're going to start to figure, OK, and you're going to
piece it together and all these pieces, but it just you can't do
it once and think, oh, I'll probably do another torment in
six weeks from now. And now, because you'll be back
to fresh your even if you journal this stuff, it won't be
in you, you know, I'm saying. So you've got to get back the
fire and get after that. This I'm such a big proponent of
people go sign up for something to put something on the
calendar, like get something on the calendar so you can go like
you have a reason to practice, you have a reason to train.
And then you like go experience all this stuff, this different
sport of golf that you you haven't experienced.
It's different. It's like it.
It's so different. Well, I, I tell my players so
like we'll have been priced and I didn't play good.
I'm like, OK, so for a year and a half you've been going to the
track and you've been running and you've been doing 110 meter
hurdles and that is running. And then you showed up to the
Boston Marathon. So it's still running it.
You just are not prepared for what's about to happen.
Like you're going to Sprint the 1st 100 meters and 800 meters.
You're like, why am I feeling like I'm going to die?
It's like it looks the same but it isn't the same.
And this is where again, the more I think the better the
golfer. 1G ball consequences on every shot.
Do nine holes up and down. Go and play worst ball golf.
Go and have to make 10A row from 4 feet.
Don't have block practice. I tell people it's like doing
scales. If you are a world class
musician, you don't just sit there and do scales all day.
You got to get out on stage. But what we do is we do scales
all day and go, I'm not ready to go on stage.
I'm not ready. What a certain point You just
got to get on stage in front of three people and mess it up, but
then free it up and then you got in front of 30 people.
You don't just go from scales to being world class.
And so to me, it is like getting off of the scales, getting off
doing the right thing and go and make some mistakes, you know,
and get out there, but journal like crazy and get honest with
yourself because this whole, well, I didn't feel, you know, I
was sharing with you, Cody, you have one of my students.
Well, I, I, you know, I didn't feel any nerves.
I didn't feel any pressure. But you couldn't feel the weight
of the club head and had no idea where the ball was going.
No, that is called nerves, right.
So at the top of that pole when my body was shaking like crazy,
that's just called nerves, anxiety, worry, tension.
I don't care what you call it, it's my body wasn't doing what
it normally does. You're going to say, OK, it was
different. So what is that difference?
And then you have to start to get honest on like, I've got to
train to a point where I want that gut feeling.
I want my stomach to be tight when I train.
Because if not, you're going to the gym and you're doing your
curls with 5 LB weights, you're not tearing any muscle.
You're not going to get stronger.
You got to go and lift your Max and the next day you're sore and
hurting. But now instead of 35 lbs, you
get a 40 lbs or whatever that number might be for you.
And most of us aren't allowing that muscle to happen.
But twice a year, play a tournament, go I suck.
And then I'll go back to giving myself 4 footers.
I'll go back to not having the proper penalty strokes.
I'll bump my lies. I'm not putting it down.
You're just having fun playing golf.
But that's not tournament golf. That is just fun golf.
And that is not the same. It's completely different.
Tournament golf is great and it's terrible.
Why do we do it? OK, So what were you saying?
You're saying the journaling thing like is the idea like
journal some of these things that worked and didn't work and
then so next time remember like hey, on the the first three
holes and things like start going fast.
Like this is the thing to remember was like that, that the
idea. Like if you think about this
Cordy's playbook and this would be an awesome thing I think you
for you to do with golf. Well would be Cordy's playbook
and for everybody. It's like my playbook is before
tournaments. I will always start to think
technique and put myself on video and I'm screwed if I do it
because I go oh right, I'm dipping underneath it again.
I have. Do you want to see you want to
see a video of me during the warm up, of how my swing is
looking then during the warm up? So I have to go to, hey, I've
got to play power cuts. I've got to tear it down low.
I've got to play worst ball golf a lot.
I've got to go ahead and focus on 334.
I have to talk my way into the shots.
Like I want you to literally have a playbook that you read
the week before this. Hey, do you remember that movie
51st Dates with Adam Sandler? Vaguely.
The the the girl has a crash, has a car crash as a kid and she
forgets everything every morning.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He dates her and every morning
she has to watch a video. By the way, we're married and we
have kids and we live on a boat now and like literally have to
plug in and go, hey, Will, you're a golfer.
And guess what? When you're playing tournaments,
you suck because you know what you do?
You worry about school. You worry about what people are
going to think about you. You try to hit a draw.
You try and affect your golf swing.
By the way, this doesn't work. But we do have a formula over
here. And what this formula is is warm
come up this way the first three holes, focus on this did it did
that when you get under par and you're not feeling it, back off
of shots, pick easier shots, take extra club like and you
basically only figure it out by messing it up right.
And then you go up. Don't do that again.
And this is the difference
between when you hit a conversations after the round,
you hear Shane Lowry after he finished double bogey bogey and
lost the tournament. And I, you know, I wanted my
daughters see me and I didn't happen.
And and he was just heartbroken because he had put it on that
rather the process of Matt Fitzpatrick or Tommy Fleetwood.
Oh, I'm just getting close every week.
I know I'm trending in the right way.
I'm feeling good about it. This isn't positive self talk
because it's just logic is like everything's trending in a good
direction. Like I feel it's coming
together. I know I didn't get it today,
but my goodness, it's getting close.
And I think that the breakout player, I think for the next 18
months is going to be Goberg because he just keeps on getting
in a position to win and doesn't right?
But he keeps he's right around it.
What every time you do that, you get more and more comfortable
and go yet don't rush that shot. Don't do that.
Don't do this. Well, then you have all that
information. Then you start winning like
crazy. And so like that to me is like,
we have to have a playbook. So I'd love you to work on your
playbook, share it with everyone to golf well and be like, look
like, here's what I'm learning about me and I've got to apply
that when I go and play, go and play that when I go and train.
How like the one thing I do know is like, boy, I hit some skanky
iron shots like in tournament golf, but they work out because
I like I don't hit him pure and flush them, but they go pretty
straight and like decent. And I know it's just because
like, well, I, it goes back to technique of like I can feel my
body like handle going up, handle going up and like I'm
just not rotating early, extending and doing this.
Like I feel it happened and like, oh God, that was rough.
But I'll get away with it. And like I just, I, there are a
few swings around where I'll like, OK, I actually rotated
through that one and like made it through.
And man, I just would love to freaking be able to commit
enough to rotate through every time.
And. That's what exaggerate.
That's what you have to exaggerate, right?
So if you know my tendency, right, is up and under the ball.
So I have to feel. Like this when?
I worked on video and it looks like this.
You've got to massively exaggerate.
So if your tendency is not to rotate, you know, you see guys
swinging Graham McDowell across the ball, you see all these
crazy swing positions and they're just calibrating what
feel is versus what real is, right?
So I would be you is massively exaggerate it until my ball
starts power fading. Then I can be like, oh, I could
tee it up a little bit higher and I can start to let it go a
little bit. But if I do that a couple holes
in a row now I've also got to be worried if there's trouble on
the left in a bit, I might slow the hips down, stall the
shoulders and snap a thing into the water or pull it even.
I have both shots. So I would just be saying to
you, you've got to massively exaggerate that in training and
way overdo it when you're playing.
It's just it, it's so impressive to to watch pros play and, and
how they maintain their golf swings in the highest amount of
pressure and don't just revert back to, you know.
But think about it realistically, OK, listening.
Everybody has put 10,000 hours into something, right?
And they're an expert at something.
And so you might be sitting at a card table playing with a
$15,000 hand, or you might have a stock trade that's a 50,000 or
$5,000,000 trade, or you might be driving a $600,000 car.
But you're like, it isn't for them the same as what it is in
terms of like their ladder is so high up, their, their piece of
their plank is so high up. They're so used to it.
It's only when they get outside of that.
So when you're hitting 500 balls a day, seven days a week with a
pro watching you, you have a personal trainer and you've been
doing this for 2020 years for most of them.
Like you don't understand like then very rarely feeling that
it's only when it comes down to the stretch a couple times a
year we're in the very final because they're so good.
They're just a couple putts here and there doesn't get them into
the final group and but they still make 275,000 or 700,000.
So I would just be challenged just to realize like each and
every one of this listening here can do stuff, even if it's
playing video games where you're on level 27 and you it's just,
how are you doing that? Well, I'm just not thinking like
I'm just, I'm just doing it instinctively because I've
trained it. But then we play golf once a
week, hit balls once a month, get a lesson once a year.
And we think we should be instinctive.
It's like we all drive a car texting to listen to music, one
handed knee on the wheel driving when you first learn how to
drive your freaking out, making sure it's like because it's
begin to have instinctive. So understand like it's we
cannot look at those players and think we're anywhere even close
to that because for them, they literally hit 500 balls a day on
track, man on quad with their pro standing behind them and
they're getting the refinements of a of a Formula One car or a
fighter jet. You know, I mean, and we are,
we're a crappy blue Chevy Nova 1987 with a bus transmission and
an old exhaust, so. I'm just so tired of shooting
between, I don't know, 75 and 82 in tournaments for Frick's sake.
Yeah, but you're getting close. You're getting close.
This is the year guarantee it guarantees of you.
You break 70, I'll put money on it.
You tell me the amount. I'll bet it.
How much money? Oh, wait.
You tell me, we'll do $100 bill, $100 bill for. $100 bill.
Yeah, otherwise it is 10 grand. You're just intentionally going
to shoot 80 twos every day. Yeah, yeah.
OK. Well, that was fun.
Thanks for helping me cope after after another classic Cordy
tournament round of golf, my wife always asked me.
Now at this point she's like, So what?
Like why don't you play good in these?
Like I'm going to call will do what he says.
Exactly, man, let's keep doing this, let's keep sharing the
knowledge, and that's good stuff.
Thank you for your help. See you will.
Oh yeah.