1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,600 All right, welcome back to the golf ball podcast. 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,240 My name is Cordy Walker. I'm your host for this 3 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:06,880 conversation. This is fun. 4 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:10,920 We had Nico Darius back on. He's just really interesting 5 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:15,560 guys got some good insights into tour life and practice and he is 6 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:19,640 a true golf sicko. So we had a wide-ranging 7 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:21,960 conversation. We we we had the intention of 8 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:25,280 talking about golf trips here today, like how to prep for him, 9 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:27,320 how to think about him, a lot of fun stuff. 10 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,920 But we ended up covering everything from like the open 11 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,560 gear that's happening this week talked about like should you, 12 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,960 what should you buy from a club and like what can you put in 13 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:43,680 your bag or where responsibly? It was just a great chat. 14 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,200 Anyways, enjoy this with nicogolfblueprint.com is where 15 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:49,600 you can find him. He's always a good fall on 16 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:51,360 Instagram too. You can see what's up to there. 17 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:53,640 Let's get into it. Well, let's get into it. 18 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,800 It's open week. Yeah, we got here. 19 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,320 We are, man. Open week it is, I think a lot 20 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,400 of ways to go with this. And I think it's going to segue 21 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,480 probably into what we're going to talk about for, for the 22 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:04,640 people who are not playing in the open but are going to go on 23 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:06,680 a golf trip this summer, like open week. 24 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,560 And it seems like every year that the draw is, is kind of the 25 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,800 conversation topic. I know amongst, you know, my, my 26 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,200 guys and my players and my friends, it's it's very much the 27 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,120 elephant in the room. Which side of the drawer are you 28 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:19,640 on? I know data golf does some 29 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,360 amazing work every year. And I just like, by the way, 30 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:24,960 shout out to those guys, like love, love reading their stuff 31 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:28,440 as they go on how much the wave matters. 32 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:32,000 I mean, it's a crazy thing in, you know, Northern Ireland golf, 33 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,800 Scottish golf, whatever it is where, you know, you go off at 34 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,760 7:00 AM, let's say whatever time it is versus 3:00 PM there. 35 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:40,880 And it could be a completely different golf course. 36 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,360 So I know that that's going to be a big one coming into the 37 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:44,520 week. What do you guys got? 38 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:47,720 Like the guys you have, are they training differently? 39 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:50,440 Do you have them playing weird games of like hitting different 40 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:52,360 shots like? Dude, it's an interesting one. 41 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:54,400 What do you got? I think it ties into the amateur 42 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,040 side too. Like, do you go into it with 43 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,360 your game, right. Do you go into it and say, I'm 44 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,160 going to play my game? And this is open information. 45 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,560 Like Cam, Cam Smith when he won and I think it was Saint 46 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:06,240 Andrews. Was it? 47 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:08,120 Yeah, Saint Andrews. He talked about that. 48 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,080 He like really talked about that openly where he was like, dude, 49 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,680 I hit my normal ball flight and I just flushed it all week. 50 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,280 Whereas some guys try to flight it. 51 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:15,720 They might try to change their ball flight. 52 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:18,200 You know, I know you did the the pod recently about which way, 53 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:20,240 you know, one way or two ways you should work it. 54 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,440 This is such a cool topic for that. 55 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:26,200 Like we know with the wind, the ball's going to curve like it's 56 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:30,280 it's going to inevitably happen. But do you bring your game or do 57 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,960 you try to say, hey, I'm going to, you know, hit low flighters 58 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:34,680 all day. I'm going to hit stingers off 59 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,400 the tee. Or if you're a regular PGA Tour 60 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,800 pro who's just trying to nuke the ball as high as they can 61 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,400 every day, do you bring that and just say, all right, I'm going 62 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,760 to hit the number. I think the wind is going to do 63 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:46,000 X. Well, I think about you going to 64 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,360 get Tiger just hitting. Did he hit no drivers that one? 65 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,200 Week I think I yeah I want to say hit no drivers that. 66 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,200 Right. So obviously adapted to like the 67 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:57,320 environment was like, hey, I'm going to do something different. 68 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,720 Has the game changed since then? Where like just everybody just 69 00:03:00,920 --> 00:03:03,080 doesn't do that anymore, right? I would imagine, I mean, I don't 70 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:05,520 think anyone's not going to hit a driver right this week. 71 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,200 Like that would be a a weird anomaly. 72 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,000 Maybe someone does it, you know, but there's always like cool 73 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:12,640 gear things. I know there's a lot of guys who 74 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:16,040 cover gear leading up to the open because it's so 75 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,160 fascinating. Like some guys will put in a 2 76 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,400 iron, they'll take out a 5 wood, some guys will add a wedge. 77 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,120 Like that's where I think the club equipment set up side of 78 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,920 the science is so cool. Like there's OEM's doing it, 79 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:31,240 there's individual players doing it, and it's so unique to what 80 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,120 you think you need for your game, which I think is the 81 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,320 coolest thing. Like there's probably No2 bags 82 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,240 alike out there on the range this week. 83 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:39,960 Yeah. Does Scotty drop the seven wood? 84 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:41,560 Yeah, right. That's a great question. 85 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:45,320 Like although on some holes like a 7 wood might be beneficial 86 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,640 because he could hit it into the wind and theoretically like stop 87 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:51,880 it on a par 3 or he could hit it downwind on a par 5, get there 88 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:53,240 in 2. Does he put a 2? 89 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:55,720 I don't, you know, I mean, those are the things that I'd be 90 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,440 fascinated to see. I know there's a couple really 91 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,160 good guys who covered the gear, especially in Europe. 92 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,960 By the way, like I know SMS on Tour is like a great resource 93 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,760 for European Tour gear. Like great follow on Insta 94 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:08,720 shameless plug to them. Yeah. 95 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:10,360 So I mean, are you a fan? What's your opinion? 96 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:12,200 Do you want your guys to change ball flights? 97 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,360 And like, we're gonna work on hitting flighted shots? 98 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,760 We're gonna like work on that 2 iron Stinger off the tee. 99 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:20,160 Like are are you a fan? So I'll use a completely 100 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,560 different one because obviously this is going into the week 101 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,720 like, you know, for their sake, we'll leave this out. 102 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,520 Let's talk about we went to live Mexico. 103 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,080 That's just like a like polar opposite side of the country. 104 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,880 Let's talk about that one because it also presented a huge 105 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,480 dilemma with the altitude. So a lot of guys were tinkering 106 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:37,320 with their ball. I know pretty much every one of 107 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,520 our guys was tinkering with driver settings and we we were 108 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:44,120 pretty strongly advising against any ball changes. 109 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,680 It's so hard for like week to week to be like, oh, I'm just 110 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:51,160 going to put in a, you know, one of the 19 different Titleist Pro 111 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:55,240 V1 variations that I play. It's guys are pretty dialed with 112 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,600 their ball. And I was, I'm not really vocal, 113 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,640 truthfully. I'm more of like a sounding 114 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,320 board for these guys like, Hey, what do you think about this? 115 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,120 And I'll kind of let them lead themselves to the answer. 116 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,600 But on the ball one, I consulted a buddy, Chris Brody, and I was 117 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:10,520 like, Hey, what do you think? And it was kind of the same, But 118 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:14,320 we're like, dude, one week like not worth changing it. 119 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,120 I think a lot of guys just gave themselves a little more loft, 120 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:18,960 honestly, on their driver at elevation. 121 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,320 That's a whole different entity versus let's go to Northern 122 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,560 Ireland where I think everyone wants to hit, you know, the 123 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,760 missile. So you tell me, right? 124 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,360 Like this is one of those guy to guy, I think everyone's going to 125 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,680 be tinkering a little bit. I don't know necessarily what 126 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,280 the whole field is doing, but yeah, boots on the ground say 127 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:38,960 there's a lot of tinkering on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. 128 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:40,920 Are you changing up practice games? 129 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:42,280 You having guys practice differently? 130 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:43,200 At all. Yeah, it's the chipping. 131 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,480 OK, so here's a weird one. Chipping in Scotland. 132 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,560 I actually learned this from a friend who was a Scottish 133 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,280 golfer, and he was talking about it when I went over there and it 134 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,040 basically changed everything. He goes, oh, you hit an into the 135 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,280 wind chip downwind. I was like, wait, what do you 136 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:56,560 mean? Like what is that concept? 137 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,280 He's like, dude, wind is very different chipping here. 138 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:02,280 He goes depending on which way because we think about grain a 139 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:05,160 lot in Florida, in the states even like grains everything. 140 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,200 But if you think about it, you hit a chest high chip and you're 141 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,360 trying to hit it 30 yards into the wind. 142 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,160 That's very different than downwind. 143 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,680 So those are huge variances of learning and that just takes 144 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,360 experience, right? Like I think the Open is so cool 145 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,440 because older guys can contend because they can get themselves 146 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,160 around the golf course and they know how to, you know, they know 147 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,760 how to golf their ball. And I think the chipping aspect 148 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,120 is a really cool one to see. Are you going to see guys putt? 149 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,760 Because you're going to see tons of dudes putting from let's say 150 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:36,000 60 yards where normally like you would never chip that or you'd 151 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,200 never putt that on the PGA Tour from 60 yards. 152 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,480 But there some of those greens are so spicy. 153 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:42,720 It's a better play. So those are the kinds of 154 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:45,160 decision making conversations that guys will be playing this 155 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,560 week on the range on their practice rounds, hitting tons of 156 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,160 chips and tons of putts. Those fifty 50s where they leave 157 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,440 indecision, right? Those are the hardest calls 158 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,080 because it's easy when the ball's sitting up in the rough. 159 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,080 There's there's, there's one play, right? 160 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:00,400 You slide it under it, you pop it up. 161 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,160 But if it's all of a sudden I could hit this five different 162 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:05,560 ways. Now it's like, oh man, then did 163 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:07,280 I make the right call, right? You make a birdie. 164 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:08,240 Of course you made the right call. 165 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,520 You're a genius. But you know, you dump 1 to 12 166 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,360 feet, miss the putt, and now you're like, oh man, those are 167 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,320 the fun ones. Yeah, I mean also conversation, 168 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:17,920 I mean it goes back to stock shot kind of it's the same thing 169 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:19,800 with the chipping. Do you stick with your stock 170 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,760 chip and you just do what you do or do you try to learn kind of 171 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,040 adapt with a new, do you just stick with it? 172 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,480 I mean, those are tough decisions to make. 173 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,240 Not even mentioning the pressure that comes along with it. 174 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:32,760 That obviously changes the whole situation too. 175 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,360 So I mean a lot to figure out. Imagine some long practice 176 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:38,880 rounds trying trying to get. Around there, yeah. 177 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,000 I mean, the practice round thing, this goes to amateur 178 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:41,840 golf. I know you've played in 179 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,160 tournaments. I played in one relatively 180 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,280 recently. Like the practice round thing 181 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,360 for amateurs. Like, please don't watch the way 182 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,720 pros are going about it and like, try to copy that. 183 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,800 Like, chances are you have one practice round at this golf of 184 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,480 course you've never seen before. I know we're gonna talk about 185 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,720 travel golf and things you've never seen, but yeah, please do 186 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,440 not hit 67 chips around every green. 187 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,520 It's just they're doing it for a reason because they know where 188 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,360 the pins are. They have historical missed 189 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,480 data. There's entire companies who 190 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,480 literally just plot guys projected shot dispersion 191 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,520 patterns before they get there, and these are looking at that. 192 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,840 I'm standing over A7 iron from, you know, 190 yards and just 193 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:23,400 like praying I hit the center of the face. 194 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:25,160 We are not the same. I don't know about that. 195 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:26,400 Probably users don't know as well. 196 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,920 What's the shot pattern? Thing OK, so there's yeah so 197 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,880 this is really cool that there are guys on tour who are data 198 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:36,679 guys like mega super smart dudes that will take players they work 199 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,280 for individual players and they sell them basically there's a 200 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:41,600 million different business strategies. 201 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:42,520 They're not going to get into that. 202 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,280 But let's assume I'm a player that that signs up for this 203 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,640 service. They'll give me all the data on 204 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,560 the whole historically and then they'll tell me a lot of times 205 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:52,880 my own patterns. So for example, I'm a 206 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,640 right-handed player. I tend to miss right I should 207 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:59,600 start my T-ball right here and 20% of my balls are going to end 208 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,320 up in the right header. But I'm OK with that because 209 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,320 there's out of bounds left. So they'll literally overlay it 210 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:08,640 looks like a like a launch monitor data graph of all of 211 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,920 their projected shots with aiming patterns on where they 212 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:13,920 should be. And then they'll show them up 213 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:16,280 and down percentages all the way around the greens. 214 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,120 So say for example, let's just use a like visualizing your 215 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,200 head, a very basic circular green with a bunker on the left, 216 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:24,960 bunker on the right, pin in the middle. 217 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:27,520 Well, it doesn't really matter which bunker you hit it in. 218 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,080 You're probably going to get it up and down 40% of the time from 219 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,520 either one. But say that pin is short, 220 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:34,800 right? And you miss it in the right 221 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:36,280 bunker, you're now short sighted. 222 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:37,920 They'll show you all of that data. 223 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,600 So these guys are going into practice rounds going OK Round 224 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,360 one, it's likely going to be a pin in this this area. 225 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:46,920 I know that I can miss it in the left bunker. 226 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:48,840 I can't miss it in the right bunker. 227 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:53,360 That's again, a very, very niche level of tour golf. 228 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:55,560 But yeah, there's some really cool companies out there that 229 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,680 that work for players. Interesting, is that like every 230 00:09:57,680 --> 00:09:59,880 pro pretty much has? That no, I mean, some, some of 231 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:02,160 our guys use it, some of our guys don't a lot of the caddies 232 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,280 use it. That's that's I would say the 233 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,400 biggest value is within the caddy, because you, as the caddy 234 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,680 is able to kind of guide your player and say, all right, man, 235 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:13,360 like we're going to start our fade, you know, here and we're 236 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,840 going to end it there. You're never telling the player 237 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:17,280 don't miss it here. That's not true. 238 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,120 There are terrible caddies, I'm sure on tour that have very 239 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,240 short careers that tell them, don't hit it here. 240 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:24,960 But for the most part, you're, you're guiding your players 241 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,400 saying, all right, let's make sure we, we start that ball here 242 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,840 and end it here. So the caddies know that they 243 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,680 the caddies, by the way, on tour work so hard. 244 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,920 I think people, you know, sometimes don't give them the 245 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,920 proper do of how much they're doing behind the scenes. 246 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,480 Like they're not just carrying the bag, they're not giving them 247 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:42,680 water. They're A-Team. 248 00:10:42,680 --> 00:10:45,120 They're they're an amazing, amazing team, especially in 249 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,080 major championships. Is that one of the things you 250 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,240 think that most people don't realize, that they're looking at 251 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:50,520 all that down and like thinking about? 252 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:52,720 That good caddies are, Yeah. Yeah, good, good caddies are. 253 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:54,040 And. And ultimately, at the end of 254 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,680 the day, like the players should be freed up to play the game, 255 00:10:57,680 --> 00:10:59,720 right? It's not their job to be 256 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,560 wondering about the 12 percentage different points if I 257 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:05,680 hit it here or there. At the end of the day, like, I 258 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:08,800 don't know many good golfers on tour that are playing the 259 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:10,440 percentages. Now, there's a few that are 260 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,360 amazing at it, but for the most part, you want to be locked into 261 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,560 a zone. All the sports psychologists 262 00:11:15,560 --> 00:11:17,880 talk about that, where you're reacting, you're playing the 263 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,280 sport. You're not like God, I hope I 264 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:24,560 don't hit it over there, which I'm far too familiar with for 265 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:28,520 the record of my own game. Yeah, I'm good at that. 266 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,320 Don't go over. There, I can do that. 267 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:33,000 I'll hit it over there. Watch me. 268 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:35,240 Well, it is. Yeah. 269 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:36,600 This is the best week of the year. 270 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:38,640 I got my little. I got a little trophy here. 271 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,040 Remnet from. I went to 2016. 272 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,160 Nice. You have the Phil. 273 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:45,680 True. Amazing. 274 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,920 Which Phil Henrik at True. It's just like the coolest 275 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:49,200 thing. Ever. 276 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:50,840 What about SO? It's one of the best weeks of 277 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:52,360 the year. Doesn't get much better. 278 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:54,960 Coffee golf is, I mean, it's as good as it gets. 279 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,360 Like we have a couple guys who work with who play Europe and 280 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:59,920 like I love waking up and just watching a little coffee golf 281 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,040 and you know, being able to check in with the boys. 282 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,240 It's this, this, I'm with you. I think this is probably my 283 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,680 favorite major of the year. If I was going to, you know, as 284 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:12,640 like a pure golf fan, man, like, and I love Sky Sports by the 285 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:14,200 way, like the commentary is electric. 286 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:16,600 Like those guys are great. They're always just like they 287 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:18,160 they cut it loose. I don't know if they have like 288 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,760 less restrictions, but if you could like log into a Sky Sports 289 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,960 broadcast, like they they kind of cut it loose on there. 290 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:27,920 They they definitely let their opinions be known all. 291 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:29,720 Right. So you want to talk a little bit 292 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,000 about getting ready for golf? Yes, which is yes, as Greer 293 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,120 talking about Northern Ireland, one of the questions that I get 294 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:37,680 a ton, I'm sure you get this too. 295 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:42,880 Like I am going on a golf trip in let's just say a month and 296 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,120 I'm so excited. I'm going with my buddies. 297 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:49,080 What should I do to prepare? So this is I think one of the 298 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,920 most hotly contested things that my my golf blueprint partner and 299 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,280 I discuss of how to prepare, what you should do. 300 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:59,040 And I think just kind of talking through it with you as as best 301 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:03,240 practices for your buddy's annual golf trip, like, OK, 302 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:04,840 you've been on a million golf trips. 303 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,160 Like what? What did you do before you went 304 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:08,360 on them? If anything? 305 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:10,960 You know where you're going, you know where you're playing. 306 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,400 Start from there. This is a great question. 307 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,640 I think one of the first mistakes that I've often made is 308 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:17,240 just not hitting. Any golf balls? 309 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:20,760 Prior to going and expecting that, you know, I took a month 310 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:24,280 off, I'll be fine. So I would start with like maybe 311 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:25,920 trying to hit a golf. Ball before you go. 312 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:27,640 Is that, is that a good suggestion? 313 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:31,080 Like, that's kind of kind of a wild thought. 314 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,520 Who would have thought? Maybe mix in a driving range 315 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:37,720 session before you go. And just by the way, when you do 316 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:40,440 that, that's not the time to try out that new move you saw on 317 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,360 YouTube. Just try to hit the center of 318 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,160 the face. That's probably probably the 319 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:47,040 time. But yeah, that's number one. 320 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:49,160 So fire away. I mean, what did you do? 321 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:53,160 Speed training, like heavy speed training sessions beforehand, we 322 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:56,120 just want to go as fast as possible when we get there, so 323 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:57,440 we're going. I love that for you. 324 00:13:57,640 --> 00:13:59,440 Can we hit a personal best? No, I'm just kidding. 325 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:02,280 Your first team hands are shaking. 326 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,040 This is the one. Yeah, yeah, I know. 327 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,360 Honestly, I I have a super fun band and trip that I've been 328 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,680 doing every December here last couple years and it's always 329 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:15,600 like it's in December. So for me, that's in Minnesota. 330 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:18,240 So we shut down a little bit, play a lot of golf by December. 331 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:20,600 So it's like, all right, I gotta get back to be able to play 332 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,240 golf. And so it's just kind of like 1 333 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:28,080 scheduling some time in the in the simulator, just like, OK, 334 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:29,320 I'm gonna, I'm gonna hit some balls here. 335 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,160 I'm gonna hit some balls here, gonna hit some balls here and 336 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:33,640 just make sure that I can swing a Golf Club. 337 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:36,080 The body's not gonna fall apart. I think that's like what you 338 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,080 forget. Dude, I don't know if you know 339 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,240 this. I mean, you're, you're the, 340 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:42,120 you're the guy out there playing all the time. 341 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:47,200 We watch the stories, we see it, but like, yeah, you take you 342 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,360 take a few weeks off from golf and you try to play two days in 343 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:51,400 a row. Golf shape's a real thing, Like 344 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:55,720 I I think as I've I've unfortunately become an adult 345 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:57,720 and like have I have the fakest real job. 346 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:59,160 I always laugh about that. I play golf. 347 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:02,800 I understand, but like you know, I went from playing 350 rounds a 348 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:08,000 year to like 275 rounds a year, which, like I hear you in the 349 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,400 comments, right, Oh, poor guy, But it is less and like you do 350 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:13,560 get out of golf shape. It's very much a thing. 351 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:15,240 Interesting. One of the old school coaches 352 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:17,960 that I work with a ton. And when guys will come to him, 353 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,640 he'll look at their hands. Because your hands tell the 354 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:24,000 story of a golfer and your calluses will tell him basically 355 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,200 how many balls a day you're hitting. 356 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:27,920 Because you'll tell him that you work hard, but he looks at your 357 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:32,120 hands and your hands don't lie. So, you know, you got some, some 358 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,640 bare real you're looking at. Everyone's looking at their 359 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:38,840 hands now, like, oh man. Man, these these hands have been 360 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:39,960 on a computer. Way too much. 361 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:42,120 These hands are corporate weapons over here. 362 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,040 Just type it away. But that's one of the that's one 363 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:46,360 of the things that that they'll talk about. 364 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,440 So you can't fake golf shape. Yeah. 365 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,000 I mean, just swinging a club every day, right. 366 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,680 Getting, you know, putting that in your house. 367 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:53,120 Those are the little kinds of things. 368 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:57,640 I think some do's on my end. Definitely do Go to the range, 369 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:58,720 schedule it out. Right. 370 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:00,640 You're a dad, guys. Listen to this podcast. 371 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:02,720 Probably have jobs like plan it out. 372 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,400 Hey, I'm gonna go to the range twice a week for the month 373 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,680 leading up to it. You don't need to reinvent the 374 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,240 wheel when you're there. You you don't need to try, you 375 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:12,520 know, to buy a new driver. Definitely. 376 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:15,600 Let's go into the don't. This is a do and a don't like 377 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,560 don't buy new equipment for this trip. 378 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:23,080 And I will say that because here's why I do it every single 379 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,360 freaking time. Like if I am going on a trip, 380 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,600 I'm like, dude, I'm getting that new driver. 381 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,320 I'm getting my new wedges. But here's here's why it's a do 382 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,320 and here's why it's a don't like do it because you love doing it 383 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,480 and you're just going to get you to go practice like don't buy it 384 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,360 thinking that it's going to solve whatever problem that you 385 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:41,080 have. Like be realistic with your 386 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:44,120 expectations of like, hey, this new driver's probably not going 387 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:48,800 to cure my 12° path from the, you know, outside in slice, 388 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,000 whatever. Like that's where I always like 389 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,960 temper your expectations. But absolutely, if it's going to 390 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:57,840 get you excited, like I am a gear sicko, buy that new putter 391 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:59,800 man go. That's going to get you excited 392 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,640 to the golf course. So that's like a a do and a 393 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:03,720 don't. I mean, what? 394 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:05,560 What do you got? You're going to love this. 395 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,800 My first like qualifier of the year, it was on a Monday I 396 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:13,319 think. And so on Saturday I decided 397 00:17:13,319 --> 00:17:15,359 that I was going to crank my driver down a little bit because 398 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,599 it helped me fade the ball more. And I think I hit product 5 399 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:20,680 balls with it. And I was like, yeah, this is 400 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:24,160 we're good to go. So guess who double crossed it 401 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:27,680 left? You know, on the 2nd and the 6th 402 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:29,440 and you know the 9th hole? This guy. 403 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,440 I like the like. This is literally like Golfers 404 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:35,080 Anonymous. I got one for you. 405 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:37,240 I haven't played a qualifier in three years. 406 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:38,920 This is this is how real this is. 407 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,440 I'm not playing a golf qualifier in anything in three years. 408 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,400 I get an e-mail from the Florida State Golf Association that says 409 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:46,640 congratulations on signing up for this qualifier. 410 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,720 And I looked at my e-mail like, this has to be like a spam, Like 411 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,240 I didn't sign up for this. Like I would never like come on. 412 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,080 And I get a text about 20 seconds later from my buddy goes 413 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:57,960 to get an e-mail and I go, yeah, he goes, I signed you up for a 414 00:17:57,960 --> 00:17:59,320 qualifier. We're playing a four ball 415 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,720 together and I lose it. He goes, I paid for your 416 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:04,280 registration. We're doing this. 417 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:08,680 Mind you, the day before I go to I text my club builder. 418 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:10,320 I haven't build me a mini driver. 419 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,680 I've never used it. Guess who teed it up with that 420 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,200 in the tournament? This guy we shopper. 421 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:16,920 We didn't qualify, but I had a ton of fun. 422 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:21,080 So so I always say to this people like I am the cautionary 423 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:25,000 tale, like do as I say, not not clearly as I'm doing. 424 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,720 My body is a is not a temple. It's an amusement park in my own 425 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:33,040 golf game. Yeah, yeah. 426 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,120 Well, I mean, it kind of brings up an interesting thing like I 427 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:39,240 depends on the attitude you want to bring into like a trip. 428 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:42,000 Or something like Yeah, yeah. Are we tinkering? 429 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:43,960 Are we going with a new swing thought and you're just going to 430 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:47,000 go let it RIP and have fun? Or will that you know when you 431 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,520 shoot more than you think you should shoot, will that piss you 432 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:51,360 off? Like what? 433 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,520 Dude, what is the vibe of your buddies trip? 434 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:57,400 Like are you going with seven of your buddies and you guys are 435 00:18:57,400 --> 00:18:59,240 going to have a hoot, you're going to laugh, you're going to 436 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:02,080 have beers and like you know, you're going to play best ball 437 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:05,520 and have a ton of fun? Or are you going with like three 438 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:08,680 other sickos and you guys just like only care about beating 439 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:10,720 each other? That's the conversation. 440 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,840 And I will always say like die on this hill, like read the 441 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,880 room. Do not be the guy grinding for 442 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,600 your score if like the other, every dudes in your group are 443 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,960 just like having fun and you know, like you don't want to be 444 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,280 the dude ruining the vibe of the trip. 445 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,160 If you guys are all having fun and you're all having a good 446 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,840 time and you're having the best day ever, like I bet everyone 447 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,520 would be stoked for you. But on the flip side, like say 448 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:35,560 they're all having fun and you're hitting it terribly. 449 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:39,080 Like don't, don't be that guy. Like read the room, have fun 450 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:41,120 with your buddies. At the end of the day, this is 451 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:43,760 like the philosophical question that that I always ask myself, 452 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:48,480 like, is shooting my lowest score worth like ruining the day 453 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:50,840 for everyone else? And like, maybe depending on 454 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,440 where you're at, like it's probably not one or the other, 455 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,360 but it's that kind of read the room vibe where, hey, man, we're 456 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:58,200 all having a blast here. We're all here. 457 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,400 We paid to be here. We're excited to be here. 458 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,120 I don't get to see my friends that often on trips like this. 459 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:06,760 You know what, going into it, there should be some designated 460 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:08,000 rounds. We're like, yeah, we're having a 461 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,800 competition. We're going to play a Ryder Cup. 462 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,240 And then everyone's kind of on the same page. 463 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:16,400 To me it gets weird when like. One person is grinding and three 464 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,720 dudes are just like hitting the booze really hard. 465 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:22,000 It's like a weird weird. Yeah, no, you got to have a 466 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,040 competition. You got it. 467 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,600 You got to be playing something otherwise, yeah, it just turns 468 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:29,280 into, you know, a disaster. Like play a Ryder Cup, play a a 469 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:33,480 scramble, a best ball, like 18 holes of individual stroke play 470 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,040 like that's, you know, that's for the sickos. 471 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,160 Like I love that. But yeah, play something fun 472 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:38,360 all. Right. 473 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:40,120 I want to go back to the practice side of like get 474 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,440 getting ready for this, because I think a lot of people will go 475 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,560 hit balls maybe and that's good like golf shape, you know, 476 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:49,120 hitting a golf ball, useful things. 477 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:53,200 But they start doing that and then they just kind of like 478 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,240 start tweaking like I'm hitting a big hook. 479 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,200 We're going to try to fix this and and whatnot. 480 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:00,880 So like that's where I think this time should be skill based 481 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:02,640 games. Like we did an awesome video 482 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,760 where you put together like a practice plan is, is mainly 483 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:07,880 skill based, right? So like working in wedge 484 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:11,400 distances and shot shape control and like all this kind of stuff. 485 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,440 It's like you should, you shouldn't be like do do some of 486 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,240 that stuff like work on your skills with what you have. 487 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,400 Like that's going to help you actually like have more fun 488 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:21,880 because you have worked on some of this. 489 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,560 Stuff dude 100% no matter what this is. 490 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:28,760 This is like the book of Genesis, the 1st sentence. 491 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,080 I would say in practice we're always trying to get a better 492 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:32,960 swing. Like it doesn't matter who you 493 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,360 are. Everyone wants to have a better 494 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:38,600 and more consistent swing. Now that we all can like table 495 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,880 set and agree with that, Yeah, like you're going to have way 496 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,320 more fun. Say you play a hook like getting 497 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,680 on the T and being like, dude, I know this ball is going to come 498 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,120 back. I know I can start it outright, 499 00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:52,320 sling it and come back. Golf gets really not fun, 500 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,120 especially at a golf course you've never been to where you 501 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:56,320 don't know where it's gone. Like the two way miss. 502 00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:00,200 It keeps me up at night like I think everyone out there at home 503 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,960 is like, you know, has the hand jitters of standing on the box 504 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,600 and being like, man, I don't know where this is going to go 505 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,440 or one of my favorite golf goals of 2025. 506 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,360 I do have to shout out my friend Will Knights. 507 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,640 His goal was to commit to the double cross. 508 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,480 So when he gets on the box, like he's fully committing to the 509 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,960 double cross, which has been a great goal for him this year. 510 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,760 Don't be that guy either. Knowing which way the ball is 511 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:25,360 going to go is so much more fun. Creating some skill based games 512 00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:29,040 where you can visualize, you know, hey, I got water right. 513 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,040 I got a little bit more fairway left. 514 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:32,520 It doesn't matter what shot ship you hit. 515 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,040 I always say this like I don't care. 516 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,040 I don't care personally if you hit it one way, if you hit it 517 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,720 both ways, but you've got to know where the ball is going to 518 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:42,000 start. That's like professional G1 O1. 519 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,360 And then this ties into another thing like you play a lot of 520 00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:47,000 indoor SIM golf. Do you play the golf courses 521 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,360 that you are going to travel to or not? 522 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,920 This has been like weirdly contested in our in in like our 523 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,680 inner golf blueprint membership group where they have a lot of 524 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,680 SIM access. A lot of guys play on Sims 525 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:00,640 everyday. So I, I don't know the answer to 526 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,200 this. Like you tell me you're the SIM 527 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:03,960 guy. Why would you not? 528 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,880 Because some guys say they want to see it for the first time. 529 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:10,560 Some guys enjoy going there. And just like, it's like 530 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,080 watching a movie for the first time to them is how one of them 531 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,840 described it. Versus like, you read about the 532 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,960 plot before you go. They just get to, like, 533 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,880 experience it more as a experience than like, hey, I'm 534 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,120 trying to shoot my lowest score at, you know, whatever golf 535 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:26,440 course. Yeah, those. 536 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:28,720 I don't know. No, I disagree. 537 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,280 Yeah, no, that, that was the discourse. 538 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,200 It was so. It was so interesting. 539 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,400 So I'd never thought of it. I mean, in person is so 540 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,440 different than on a SIM. Is it even the same? 541 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,920 The same thing? Yeah. 542 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,160 No, go ahead, RIP away. Why not? 543 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:42,480 Yeah, see it. Have an idea? 544 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,240 That's that's my opinion. I would I would love I would 545 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,720 love to do that. Yeah, you just get get going. 546 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,840 Yeah, The the. Architectural guys were like, 547 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,040 no, I want to experience it for the first time. 548 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,240 Like I don't want to see it. I just want to have it like 549 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,640 revealed to me. And I was like, Dang, that's 550 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:02,960 like a pretty thought provoking concept of these guys also are 551 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:04,680 not necessarily playing for score. 552 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,720 It's not like their thing. Their side of the house is more 553 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,040 of the enjoyment of golf, architecture, the day with their 554 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:15,640 friends versus, oh, hey, I want to go shoot my best score I can 555 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,680 today. But yeah, as a SIM guy, I know 556 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,160 you play a lot of SIM Goal. Yeah, Excuse me, That's like an 557 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,000 interesting you play it before you go, you have an idea. 558 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,040 Yeah, I would say why not? Yeah, but that would be my 559 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,720 honestly, what I would do is I would do all my practice like 560 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,960 there's. So I use the sky track a lot. 561 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,520 So you can just drop yourself. Yeah, if you want to practice, 562 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,600 you can just go drop yourself. Very cool from wherever. 563 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,520 And it's the best. It's really fun to just like, 564 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,400 hit wedge shots on a golf course. 565 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,200 Yeah, it's a very cool. Thinking of this I would love I 566 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,600 need to pick your brain on this. I practiced so much this winter 567 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,800 on wedges, the Richard Bland like wedge drill I heard from 568 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,120 Claude. The best? 569 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,400 I worked on it at a time. I got OK with it. 570 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,480 I my scores like tracked him. I got better this summer. 571 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,200 Terrible. I have no idea where the golf 572 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,040 balls go with wedge distance control. 573 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,320 It like didn't transfer like that practice. 574 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,160 I wonder why. I don't know just the the 575 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,560 weirdest thing ever. I was like, I'm going to work on 576 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:09,520 this all winter. OK. 577 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,360 Two questions. Were you doing speed training 578 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:13,880 when you did it in the winter? Yes, that's the biggest 579 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,080 difference that like that's my hypothesis and then you've 580 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:18,920 probably done less now. Yeah. 581 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,160 So, so think about speed training and wedges. 582 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,000 They're like whenever any of our guys are doing speed training, 583 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,000 it's like the first thing it's like if this then that like your 584 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,920 wedge distances and your wedge feels will be completely 585 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,240 different doing it versus not doing it. 586 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,200 So that makes total sense. Interesting. 587 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,040 Yeah, because like every time I get on the course, wedges just 588 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,880 got like 5 to 10 yards. Yeah, it's a completely 589 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:40,880 different. It's dude, I always say this 590 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,880 like wedge numbers are sacred and they're the most important 591 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,440 thing for like pro guys to keep feels consistent. 592 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,360 No different than if you gain weight, lose weight, you're 593 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:52,400 playing, you have the flu. Like guys that are playing sick 594 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,280 at altitude, like that's one of those things that, you know, a 595 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,080 lot of our guys do wedge tests every Monday when they get to a 596 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,080 location. That's like a really easy way to 597 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,840 do it for that exact reason of it can never really get like off 598 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,920 the guardrails. You know, I know my 56° this 599 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:11,600 week is going 107 yards. Well, if last week it went 111, 600 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,040 like what is the difference? Like am I sick? 601 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,200 Am I, you know, am I hitting it further? 602 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:17,800 Am I tired, whatever that might be. 603 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,960 So yeah, good question. Like super pumped you asked 604 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:21,880 that. And yeah, that would be my, my. 605 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,080 As soon as you said I was like, I bet it was speed training 606 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,000 like, and that's not bad, right? Like speed training again, like 607 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,520 you will always hear me say is amazing. 608 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:32,080 Like you want to hit it further but as soon as you stop or do 609 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,120 less of it, your numbers are going to change and they will 610 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:37,120 equalize eventually. Equal out. 611 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,360 Dang, all right, well, I guess I got to get back to that. 612 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:41,200 Playing that game more. I've honestly probably 613 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,120 practiced. I have stopped practicing the 614 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:43,960 wedge. Distance dude. 615 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,680 Blandy's wedge game that that Claude always talks about is so 616 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,560 hard, and when you hear how good those guys are at it, it's 617 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,880 honestly a little depressing. Like you see your score, this 618 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,640 guy, this guy a real person. My playing is an AI here. 619 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,600 There's no way I got a question for you on On the Golf Trip 620 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,040 related because because I think this is another one. 621 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:10,040 I have two questions for you #1 we had this like very spicy, 622 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,000 contentious debate. So don't let me forget about 623 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,240 golf bags. But what do you buy when you go 624 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,640 to play courses? Like do you buy anything? 625 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,800 What's what's on your like purchase list? 626 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,440 Yeah, I think, well, I mean, as I've gotten older, I've enjoyed 627 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,160 like buying stuff more. Like now it's essential. 628 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,320 And what I just realized actually this is this weekend I 629 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,080 was having a chat about this. I was like digging through my 630 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,080 bag trying to find a ball mark. And I was like, I keep all my 631 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,240 cool ball marks that I've bought in a vase like on my desk at 632 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,640 home and I like never use it because I don't want to lose. 633 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,480 It yes, yes, like. You're an idiot. 634 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,200 Just use the. Eventually it's just going to 635 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,760 rot away, so like, why don't you just use it? 636 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,840 The car guys that never drive their car, Yeah, the same type 637 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,000 of thing. I'm with you. 638 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:49,920 I get you. It's a recent revelation that 639 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,440 I've had is so I'm going to use, I'm going to go find my cool 640 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,040 ball marks, which I've probably lost anyways by trying not to 641 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,400 lose them. So no, I, yeah, I think it's 642 00:27:58,400 --> 00:27:59,840 essentially you got to bring home something. 643 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,600 So that's why I like this is my office at my office and then my 644 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,160 Home Office. So like I, I just put stuff 645 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:07,200 everywhere. I love that. 646 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,000 Like this was, this is from 2016. 647 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,080 I actually, I did use the crap out of this for a few years. 648 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,800 Well, like this is great. I can, yeah, you know, have have 649 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:21,480 stuff to to remember. Yeah, I I'm all for. 650 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,280 It yeah, you gotta you gotta get stuff. 651 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:26,360 My, my partner Kev, he buys flags that's like his thing, his 652 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:30,000 office behind like his, his murals, all the flags of places 653 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,240 that he's played. And he'll bring flags from his 654 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:33,840 club too. If he, if they're doing like a, 655 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,680 a member exchange somewhere, like he'll bring one from his 656 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,080 club. I think that's a really cool 657 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,760 thing. I know guys will buy shirts, 658 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,200 guys will buy hats all like the basic merch stuff. 659 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,880 One thing that I've done that I really, really love, and boy is 660 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:50,120 it a terrible way out of my budget thing is buying like 661 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,920 needlepoint belts at like sick clubs. 662 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,520 My credit card gets assaulted when I walk in there and I see 663 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,920 like a smathers bell. I'm like, I need that one. 664 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,800 I do like I, I am not a wealthy enough man to have that kind of 665 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,640 hobby. Let me tell you, I should have 666 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,120 started with ball markers should have done that. 667 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:12,240 Like what a what a terrible thing that I've given myself the 668 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:16,240 opportunity, but I I justify it when I wear them, you know, once 669 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:16,720 a year. Well. 670 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,120 This is a good question. You OK, So you go, you go to 671 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,360 this. This is a good debate. 672 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,480 I don't know if it is a debate, but you go to a nice club, 673 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,080 right? You're invited and you do you 674 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,200 buy like a driver head. Cover and then you literally 675 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,520 segued you segued into my point. OK, so in delay in our 676 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,600 tournament the other day and we were having this like it was us 677 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:37,720 and the guys we were playing with. 678 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,680 They were like cool older guys as well. 679 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:43,240 And we were having this like 2 hole conversation and I swear it 680 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,720 was like cart split like they were 100% team. 681 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,640 You can, you know, do it. And the other it was like it was 682 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,960 it was a hot back and forth take of like, are you a guest? 683 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,720 And the one guy said he was like, Hey, man, like I caddy at 684 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,000 the club. Is that acceptable percent? 685 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,960 If you are a caddy of that club, you work there? 686 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,400 Like hell yeah. Like when I caddied at a club in 687 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,400 Scottsdale, like I loved repping the merch. 688 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,840 I was proud of being a caddy there, like caddy 100%. 689 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,480 But if you're like a one time guest, you walk in the pro shop. 690 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,680 Yeah, I don't think I think the comment we got to let the 691 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:20,280 comment section like run on this one because I man, like these 692 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,240 guys were entrenched on either side of it. 693 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,720 Like one of them was like, you can rock that bag 100%. 694 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,360 And the other one was like, if you wear, if you, if you, you 695 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,600 walk up to a range and you have a bag not from a club you 696 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,240 remember at, and I talked to you about it. 697 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,520 He's like, I hate you. Like I don't want to talk to you 698 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,000 anymore. The other guy was like, no, it's 699 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,040 cool. I played there. 700 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:40,480 What's the difference between a head cover? 701 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,960 What's the difference between a belt, a shirt, a hat? 702 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:43,920 That's. These are good. 703 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,840 These are good questions. Well, I guess what, what is your 704 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,040 golf bag? Do you have a head? 705 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:49,040 What do you have? Any head covers? 706 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,240 Yeah. So, so I will say I learned 707 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,800 this. This is this is on the other end 708 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,440 of OK. This is on the other end of 709 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,760 spectrum and I was very fortunate to work with 710 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,800 incredibly successful client who's a member of the first time 711 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,200 I met him, we were at a dinner or group dinner and we're 712 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:06,720 chatting about the clubs he was a member at. 713 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,720 And finally one of my tour pros looks at me and he goes enough 714 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,760 he goes. He's a member of every club. 715 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,600 Ask him where he's not a member of and then it'll be that. 716 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,160 But it was, it was fascinating because I learned a lot from 717 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,040 him. So when I went to his house, he 718 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:24,160 had five bags of identical sets lined up with five different of 719 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,320 the nicest clubs in America. I will just start. 720 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,080 They're one through 5 and they're lined up at his house in 721 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,160 Palm Beach. And I said, why do you have 5 722 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:32,880 sets of clubs? He said because I don't want to 723 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,480 show anyone up at the club that I'm at of another bag. 724 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:40,400 So he brings an entire outfit head to toe of the club that 725 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,520 he's at as a respect thing, which I thought was one of the 726 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,520 coolest things in the world. So I'm very proud of the clubs 727 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,560 that I'm at. When I'm there, I try to wear 728 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,160 the club apparel of the place that I'm at. 729 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,160 That's that's like a cool thing that I learned from him. 730 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,920 I do not have 5 bags. I'm not a member of five clubs, 731 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,240 but I'll wear wear a shirt or a hat of the club like my parents 732 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,000 are at a club in Jupiter. I always try to wear a hat when 733 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,960 I'm there or something like that. 734 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,440 So that's the other end of the spectrum of like what an amazing 735 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,480 successful businessman where he's like, no, I want, I want to 736 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,320 be proud of the club that I'm a member of. 737 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,240 And he also has unlimited money. So he has five identical sets, 738 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,280 which is sick. What about your belts? 739 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:20,760 Where? Oh, I'm rocking, I'm rocking 740 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,240 belts from everywhere. So so yeah, my, my, I'm not, I'm 741 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,440 not that guy. I was giving you like the the 742 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,400 other end of the spectrum. No, I typically I typically wear 743 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,720 some sort of a golf blueprint hat and and you know, a shirt or 744 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,320 belt wherever it's from. The other weird thing is like, 745 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:38,520 as as pros every day I laugh about this, like the guys I play 746 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,400 with, like dress really poorly because we see each other every 747 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,640 day. So like the outfits like aren't 748 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,680 very good and like, no one really like thinks about it. 749 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,600 It's like going to work every day with your colleagues versus 750 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,920 if like you're playing on Saturday with your buddies, like 751 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,120 you got a fresh outfit. I remember when I lived in 752 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,000 Scottsdale, like I always had the Jordans. 753 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,160 I always had like a, you know, fresh golf shirt. 754 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,040 Now half the time it's like, Oh yeah, that blue one's clean. 755 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:02,720 Like I'll wear that one, you know, whatever. 756 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:03,360 So you. You. 757 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,040 What is your line? What do you do? 758 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,120 You have a line in the sand. Will you put any head cover? 759 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:14,480 Yeah, so I've, I have two clubs that I'm a member of that I love 760 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:18,280 more than life itself. And I have those two as my head 761 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,120 covers. Those are those are my places. 762 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,160 And then really cool member of ours made us a golf blueprint 763 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:24,680 putter cover. And I have that. 764 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,480 So that's that's my bag. I have a driver cover from the 765 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,320 place. I have a three wood cover from 766 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,280 the other club and then a golf blueprint putter cover. 767 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,520 My line in the sand. Personally, if you're going to 768 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,360 make me like if you're going to make me choose a side, I hate 769 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,080 choosing sides. As always, I live in the Gray 770 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:42,960 area. I'm gonna say no bag if you're 771 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,600 not a member like that's that's I think everything else is in 772 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,360 play. It's kind of weird if you have 773 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,360 like all your head covers from that place. 774 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,360 I don't know, that's kind of weird. 775 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,760 But like that's my line. I'm gonna say no, no bag. 776 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:58,880 No bag is my my stance. Where are you at? 777 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,880 Give me. I I would go no bag. 778 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:04,520 I do have AI think I've got a sheep branch, cool head cover, 779 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:06,080 cool. So I feel like that that's a, 780 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,080 that's a public. Covers, head covers. 781 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,679 If you've been like my best friend in Jupe, he has like the 782 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:14,159 classic mid am bag. He's like I love. 783 00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:15,760 Shout out to Frank. You're an idiot. 784 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:17,760 I love you. He has a pine valley. 785 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,320 No, he's he has an Augusta head cover. 786 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,679 A pine valley 3 pine valley, 3 wood. 787 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:25,320 He has a Saint Andrews, a hybrid, and I think he has a 788 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,280 Cypress putter cover. And guess what? 789 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,679 He's played them all and he's played them all like multiple 790 00:34:29,679 --> 00:34:31,440 times. Like you go off King. 791 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,719 Like hell yeah, yeah. That's good. 792 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,239 OK, all right. We're so we're, we're good with 793 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,760 that. Yeah, I, I think, I think you 794 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,840 can do a head cover now. And then I, I honestly had some 795 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,120 other head covers on too until I saw some chatter and then I was 796 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,080 like, oh, maybe, maybe I shouldn't. 797 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,719 So then I kind of swapped back to just some normal stuff and 798 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,040 then or else I. Don't know I'm dying. 799 00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:53,679 I'm gonna die on the hill of a bag. 800 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,679 The bag is too much like. Yeah, the bag is probably too 801 00:34:56,679 --> 00:34:58,680 much. Yeah, bag with your name on it. 802 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,960 The other weird thing is in in like tube mini tour golf, this 803 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,760 is like this is like this is for like the deep hits like OK. 804 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,840 I like this I'm I am interested. This is the deep hits like if 805 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:15,040 you carry a staff bag to like a club and you're not a tour pro 806 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:20,080 immediately right to jail like like like straight to jail like 807 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:24,840 that is that is you are going like people are making comments 808 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:28,600 like if you do not play golf for a living, for the love of God, 809 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:32,160 like do not have a staff bag like the assistant pro 1 is kind 810 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,320 of the weird like you're a club pro. 811 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,320 Like that's a weird one too. Like you're a Titleist staffer, 812 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,960 You're a Callaway staffer. You technically can, but you 813 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,040 don't have to. We'll leave that one where it 814 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,000 is. We'll put that in the box, but 815 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,480 God, if you are not a tour pro, you roll up with a staff bag 816 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,200 tough. When are people using staff 817 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,760 bags? Just like psychopaths walk up to 818 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:57,400 like ranges with staff bags and like, what are you doing that in 819 00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,840 the name on the bag? The name on the bag is like, I 820 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,040 wouldn't say it's controversial. I think it's more of a Country 821 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,760 Club thing, but there's there's also like a subculture of the 822 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,080 mini tour players that like don't put their names on their 823 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,160 bag because they don't have status. 824 00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:14,560 They just have like blank bags. That's like kind of a like not 825 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,000 respectful thing, but they're like they're not being posers. 826 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,600 Let's just say that they're like, I'm not I don't have a 827 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,600 contract. I'm not being paid to use this 828 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,360 equipment. I just have a blank bag. 829 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:25,840 Got it. Staff bags you. 830 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,000 Can't You can't put your name on a bag until you're on the Corn 831 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,800 Ferry tour. I have a name on my bag, so you 832 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,520 know, it's yeah, like that. I think it's also like a Country 833 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:35,720 Club thing where like people at country clubs have names on 834 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:37,320 their bags. I have no issue with that. 835 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,000 Like that's not mine. It's the mini tour guys that are 836 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,320 not being paid to use equipment where they're not going to like 837 00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:47,080 advertise a company essentially that they're not being paid for. 838 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,240 I totally understand that. Yeah, put your name on your bag. 839 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,520 I'm not like, I don't care about that. 840 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:56,120 But yeah, the staff bag, like I am like team freaking mini tour. 841 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,440 Like do not use a staff bag if you're not being paid to use 842 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,960 that thing. I love this is like a golf trip 843 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:07,800 like podcast that we have just turned into like a subreddit of 844 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,480 just like. Yeah, I mean, I got a lot of 845 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,000 questions here. I just wanna make sure that none 846 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,880 of us are making fools. Yeah, and now we're all like, Oh 847 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,960 my God, what do I say? There's so many rules. 848 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:19,640 Meanwhile, I'm like the antithesis of what? 849 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:21,800 I saw a comment the other day, this guy was talking about 850 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,960 tattoos at a golf course and he's like, no tattoos at my golf 851 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:26,920 course. I'm like, dude, I gotta sleep. 852 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:28,440 Like, does that mean I'm not welcome there? 853 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,960 I I hate all, I hate the gatekeeping. 854 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:34,280 Like I despise that unless you bring a staff bag that I'm like 855 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,600 bringing my pitchfork as well. Speaking of sleeves hit me. 856 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:41,720 My summer has been dominated by wearing sleeves every time I go 857 00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:42,520 play. It's the best. 858 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,200 The greatest thing? Dude, if you're not wearing sun 859 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,880 sleeves in in the year of our or 2025, like where are you? 860 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:50,640 What are you doing, if there's any? 861 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,600 Why does only it's just is it there's only one tour pro that 862 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,240 that does half of live? Dude half live wears them. 863 00:37:57,240 --> 00:38:00,600 Now if you if probably not tuned in to live all that often I hear 864 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,360 you. But if you watch live like there 865 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,280 are tons of dudes on live on Asian Tour, DP World that wear 866 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,600 on not a lot of tour guys. I don't know why. 867 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,200 Same as sunglasses which is fascinating. 868 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,880 Like, not a lot of guys wear sunglasses when they play. 869 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,080 And I understand they think it has something to do with the 870 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,640 green reading. They've done a lot of research 871 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,480 on that. I mean, I wear them when I play 872 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,400 every day. But yeah, not a lot of guys wear 873 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,880 sunglasses either. It's like a very, very common 874 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:26,880 thing. I have a. 875 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,200 Well, that's just kind of something that I don't heard 876 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:30,760 growing up, but does it actually matter? 877 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,240 Because I wear sunglasses sometimes don't, sometimes I. 878 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:34,120 Don't. Yeah, I don't know. 879 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:35,800 You'd have to ask an ophthalmologist on that one. 880 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,680 I know TPI has done, like a ton of research. 881 00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:39,840 I'll check in with Dave and see what he says. 882 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:45,080 I believe that it slightly changes pudding and it would 883 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,000 make sense. Dude, I don't know. 884 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,920 Again, all I know is that from observing it, not a lot of guys 885 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,440 do it. I do it, but I don't know what 886 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:54,680 their deal is. Yeah, that's. 887 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:56,680 All right, you check in with Dave and report. 888 00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:58,520 I will. I will have an answer for us on 889 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,240 why guys aren't wearing sunglasses. 890 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:01,920 Well, like baseball, everyone wears sunglasses. 891 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,560 That's like tons of other sports, but tennis they don't. 892 00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:09,040 So it's an interesting like sport to sport thing on why some 893 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:10,880 people do and some people don't. Yep. 894 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:12,640 All right. Next time we have you on, we're 895 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,040 gonna do sunglasses and ships. Yeah. 896 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,960 Dave on to do that. He'd be the best for that. 897 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,960 Seriously, that's great. He'd be the best for that. 898 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,560 All right, what are you? So we had golf shirt, we talked 899 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:25,320 about some of the practice. We talked about kind of getting 900 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,960 ready for it. You know, the the most annoying 901 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,480 thing that I'm really bad at is is well, like just in general, 902 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,240 regardless of trip or not, it's just like warm up. 903 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,800 I don't know how you. Like, dude, yeah. 904 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,920 Land on this like I I have I have posted for years like 905 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,520 there's they did a study as like you're three times less likely 906 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:45,320 to get hurt and like all this stuff if you do a 15 minute warm 907 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:51,600 up, which is pretty, pretty reasonable, but I still skip it 908 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:56,840 most of the time because I'm dumb I guess, but that is 909 00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,920 something that is really hard to do on a guy like guys trip. 910 00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:03,040 It's like, hey guys, I'm gonna go warm up here for just. 911 00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:03,640 A second. Hey guys. 912 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,480 You guys enjoy your mimosa. I'm gonna go. 913 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:11,880 I am religious about warming up like in terms of like my body 914 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,880 mostly just because I've seen the guys do it every day. 915 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,360 It's very normalized. I will also take the flip side 916 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,720 of this. I was playing a work around in 917 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:25,520 at a muni at a muni in Utah with like 3 non pros and I was doing 918 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:29,920 like a full Jupiter tour warm up and like the people in the 919 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,440 restaurant were just staring at me and I was like oh I am a 920 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,920 we're not in Kansas anymore. Like, I'm on the first tee at a 921 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,440 muni me in Salt Lake City and like, I am like, you know, 922 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,280 moving and cranking and like, my playing partners are just like, 923 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,240 what the hell is this guy? Like, what are you doing? 924 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,960 I, I, I, I'm big on like 15 minutes of like movement, then I 925 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:50,960 don't need to hit a ton of balls. 926 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,840 But like, yeah, like I, I am. Wait, what's the Jupiter tour? 927 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,800 Warm. Everyone has bands, you know, I 928 00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,440 got bands. I got like activations. 929 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,760 You got to activate the glutes. I'm, I'm doing lunges like you 930 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,560 just it's, it's a 15 minute, you know, kind of little thing that 931 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,680 everyone, everyone takes that part seriously. 932 00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,720 I will say, like pros take that warm up seriously. 933 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:12,560 You don't see it because a lot of times we're doing it in the 934 00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,160 gym before they get to the driving range. 935 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,880 Like that's best case scenario. But that's not me. 936 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,400 I just go to the golf course and and warm up. 937 00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:24,920 Yeah, I mean, I think, I think having a 15 minute total warm 938 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,760 up, like not like 15 minutes of body and like I need 15 minutes 939 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,640 to go to the first tee is what I should say. 940 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:34,320 So that might be like 10 minutes of like dynamic stuff and then 5 941 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,200 minutes of hitting balls. I don't need an hour. 942 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,120 Nobody has an hour. Like that's not dude, you're not 943 00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:39,240 getting to the tee an hour early. 944 00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:42,200 Like this is psychopath move. That's that's insane. 945 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:49,240 Yeah, you definitely get the get the looks when you're doing the 946 00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:51,400 bands. I think I'm, I, I've got some 947 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,800 bands in my bag which I'm doing, doing some of that. 948 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,880 And I found, I found a friend the other day, there you go, who 949 00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,560 was also doing a band, some band stuff to warm up. 950 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,120 And we, you know, we had a nice, we had a nice little moment 951 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,400 there as we were, as we're the only guys there. 952 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:10,520 But I mean it, it's hard to do like genuinely like, I probably 953 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,280 don't do it half the time. You need to which as I'm as I'm 954 00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,760 going this to make sure because I watched it the other day. 955 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,200 You are a part of the 76% of Americans who forgot to stretch 956 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,680 before they before they did physical activity from 957 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:24,960 heavyweights. Don't be don't be a part of 958 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,000 that. There we go. 959 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,080 You need to stretch part. Of the 70. 6% mix in like a 960 00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:33,080 yeah, like I always say to people like a, a 15 minute 961 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:37,240 routine is going to do dividends versus just like getting on the 962 00:42:37,240 --> 00:42:39,360 first tee and trying to swing a driver as hard as you can. 963 00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,280 Hey, like everyone has 15 minutes. 964 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,400 I don't have 30 minutes most of the time like I'm coming from a 965 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,080 meeting or I'm, you know, whatever it is, but like spend 966 00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,440 15 minutes and get loose. I think your buddies on day 967 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,760 three of the golf trip will probably join you. 968 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,160 I know those. Those can be some long nights 969 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:58,680 and quick naps, let's just say. That's true dude, this is fun. 970 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,360 We we travelled a gamut of topics here today. 971 00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,280 I love. This this this was this was I'm. 972 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:09,160 Very excited to see the comments section take on like bags, 973 00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:11,680 apparel, you know, you, you name it. 974 00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:15,400 Like I'm, I'm curious to see where the Internet lies on this. 975 00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:19,320 You know, like where? I'm I'm out on out on bags 976 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:23,000 questionable, unlike if my driver head cover is from a club 977 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,040 that I played at once. OK, I'm, I'm questionable on 978 00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,160 that. I did that for a while and then 979 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,680 I changed because I felt questionable. 980 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:37,200 But yeah, putter head, cover play, whatever kind of God. 981 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,040 I'm excited, I'm pumped. I mean, I'm on the other end of 982 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:41,400 the spectrum. Do what you want. 983 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,560 Unless it's a staff bag then I hate you. 984 00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,360 We will come for you in the comments. 985 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,760 I'm bringing a staff bag to Florida next time I come. 986 00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:50,480 Wait till Claude sees her staff bag. 987 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:54,520 What tour do you play on? Yeah, yeah, many of them, many 988 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,800 of the tours. Shout out, Claude, One of my 989 00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,760 favorite questions. He says about, like, guys who 990 00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,760 play Professional Golf. He goes, what tour do you play 991 00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:02,360 on? And then it gets real quiet. 992 00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,800 That's a tough scene. I'm looking for one. 993 00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:07,960 Yeah. You guys got new local tours. 994 00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,640 So funny. The AM Circle, Yeah, playing the 995 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,400 Golf Channel AM. Terrifying attempts. 996 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:13,600 Hell yeah. Love that. 997 00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:15,520 Yeah. All right, next time, shoes and 998 00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:17,600 sunglasses. Love that we will, we will deep 999 00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:18,880 dive it. This is the best. 1000 00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:20,640 Thanks dude, talk soon.