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Hey everyone, welcome down to 
this week's quick questions. 

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Episode it's with Scott faucet, 
he joined us on the podcast this

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past week. 
We had an awesome one on course,

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management and diving into some 
myths that you need to learn 

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about. 
So you can figure out where to 

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aim your shots at and just get a
better plan to make it around a 

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golf course. 
After we finish that, we went 

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through a round of quick 
questions. 

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We get to know him a little bit 
better, let's get into it. 

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Your favorite Club in the golf 
bag driver bit more detail, 

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brand shaft like what do you got
going on? 

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You know, I used a cobra lv4, I 
think it was called, for about 

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five years that I got from Mike,
Chisholm, who is the Titleist 

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rep at the time? 
And I freaking love the thing, 

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and then it was in 2012 the 
night. 

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Before first stage was starting,
I broke it on the driving range 

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is the head just flew off and so
I walked around stunned for 

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about 30. 
It's not knowing what to do and 

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then I called Willie, who was 
the atoms rep at the time Adams,

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the only manufacturer here in 
town that I knew I could go get 

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on a launch monitor, and, and 
kind of tweak a club in for Q 

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school, starting the next day. 
And I got to, I don't know what 

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I said, no idea what the drivers
is white-headed Adams, I don't 

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even know what shaft is in it 
but he fit me in that thing. 

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It did in October of 2012 and I 
still have it in the bag and 

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probably time for a new club. 
I hear a lot of good things 

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about the New Ping driver and 
Johnson Claire's doing some 

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great fitting work. 
With some shaft he swears by so 

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he and I've chatted about just 
getting over there. 

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Sometime soon to get me caught 
up with the with the new 

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technology. 
Yes, TPT golf shafts, I had a 

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chance to hang out with John at 
the PGA show and go through the 

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fitting process. 
Pretty cool. 

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Yeah. 
Okay, next question, your best 

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piece of golf gear that you've 
bought or been given. 

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Let's say in the past year could
be anything from a shirt to a 

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You know, unfortunately haven't 
played much golf in the last 

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year so I haven't bought a whole
lot. 

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I would say, man, I have no 
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I would say that the best golf 
gear that I've ever bought in 

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that, I swear by is the yellow 
putting art for working on your 

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putting, but I've had that for 
over a decade now. 

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So that's not within the last 
year, but I still think it's the

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best thing you can buy for your 
golf game. 

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Yeah, that works. 
That works out like that. 

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All right, let's see in the last
five years for you. 

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What like one thing has made the
biggest difference in in your 

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game or your students game 
catting for Wills Outdoors Bar. 

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None is the best thing I've ever
done for my game and it's the 

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best thing that anyone could do 
for their game, is to go out and

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caddy for somebody else. 
You just can't imagine how 

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different how much more clear 
your thoughts are, how your 

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mental game is just so positive 
and upbeat. 

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Your self-talk is nothing but 
encouraging, it's the Single 

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best thing you can do for your 
game and I think that anyone who

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tries to play competitive golf 
would benefit from caddying, at 

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least two weeks a year for 
somebody else. 

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Mmm, I like that. 
That's some good advice. 

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I haven't heard before, but it 
makes a lot of sense. 

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Well, I mean, we'll even it and 
it's not just an end of one 

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will, whenever in just trying to
think what year was weird in 

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2015, probably, he got home from
the NCAA Championship, he's kind

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of struggling. 
He's not, he's not playing very 

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good. 
Usually would get tired by the 

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end of the semester with Blaze 
and you know the clip coursework

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at Wake Forest and he's out on 
the driving range freaking out 

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one day and I'm watching hit 
balls and I'm like dude you're 

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hitting it fine. 
This is you know, this is 

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ridiculous, you're hitting it 
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You're just freaking out because
you're a little tired and one of

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our other buddies a kid named 
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Princeton I was standing there 
and I said to Hill I'm like will

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you do anything? 
I tell you to do if it's what I 

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truly think will help your game 
get better and he's like, yeah. 

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I'm like literally anything 
because I'm going to tell you to

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do something, you're probably 
going to roll your eyes at me. 

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He's like anything, I'm in and I
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Sam in the, in the Byron Nelson.
Junior this week and he could 

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see his face like because he had
the pack coast and the following

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week and he was just like to I 
mean I don't have time I've got 

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to get my game shape. 
I'm like telling you. 

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That will help your game worn. 
Anything Lee went out caddy for 

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Sam. 
Who finished want to say like 

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fifth which was one of his 
better finishes ever. 

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He also shot his career low in 
the second round and round of 65

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or 70. 
And will went out the next week 

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in finished. 
Second in the pack goes down. 

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It's just like here's a kid 
who's completely freaking out? 

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He actually did not play or 
practice for a few days and just

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went out and caddied and thought
help the kid have one of his 

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best finish as ever and then he 
went out and played great golf. 

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The following week, it really is
the best thing you can do for 

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your game. 
Perfect, I love that advice. 

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Another kind of interesting 
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So if you're standing on the 
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they're about to tee off to go 
play around, what would be the 

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one thing that you'd want to 
tell them before they for the go

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patience and discipline may be 
the main thing that I Always 

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come back to. 
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play aggressively to my spots 
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consider conservative, it's 
about picking out good spots 

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towards, you know, somewhere 
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of the green, potentially the 
pain. 

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I mean obviously who knows, 
depending on situation but then 

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aggressively trying to put your 
ball there. 

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I think the biggest mistake that
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pick out decent targets. 
Maybe say 15 feet, right? 

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Of a pin on the left but then 
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consciously, hope to hit the 
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the And the thing that I tell to
or players of all caliber every 

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single day is exactly what tiger
said, I play aggressively to my 

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spots and virtually 100 percent 
of tour players that I've worked

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with. 
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feet to the right and then hope 
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They all laugh and say oh I do 
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Like three or four times a day, 
that's the best players in the 

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world. 
Saying they do that in the 

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greatest player in my opinion of
all times explicitly saying that

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is not what he does. 
Yep, absolutely instructor. 

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Or coach or a mentor that had 
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on your golf game and career and
pick one. 

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I mean, I honestly, my gut 
reaction is go with Tony Robbins

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even though he's not a golf 
instructor but he his teachings 

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and changing the way that I view
a lot of different things and 

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just getting involved in a lot 
of Tony Robbins videos and going

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to some of his life seminars has
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My mental outlook on life and 
golf so much for the better that

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would have to be a pressure. 
And then we will end with this 

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one because you worked with a 
bunch of Really high level 

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Junior players lately. 
What advice would you give to a 

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high school golfer that comes to
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And says, they want to play on 
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I would say to continue working 
on whatever physical skills that

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you're working on. 
And then without trying to 

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upsell it, get the decade apps. 
That way, you can really learn 

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how the best players in the 
world, think how they strategize

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and methodically plot their way 
around a golf course. 

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Because this game really like 
for what I teach, I simply have 

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to assume that you have the 
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And, you know, it sucks. 
Sometimes when I've got a young 

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kid, who's probably not good 
enough to turn professional 

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right out of college but they've
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want to just be like look you're
not good enough but they got to 

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give it a whirl and it's hard 
sometimes because I know what 

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I'm teaching him is correct, but
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Like I'm just not quite 
physically good enough but the 

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main thing is I assume you have 
to assume that you have the 

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physical skill set and from 
there, the game truly is 

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entirely mental. 
I mean, it's just amazing 

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watching Jordan Spieth the last 
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Each year, he's done something 
mentally right or wrong to 

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create his outcome. 
I mean, a couple years ago, he 

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gave a great press conference 
where he said that he's gonna, 

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you know, make great decisions 
this week and then he winds up. 

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Butchering number 12 with a quad
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Then 2016. 
He on Saturday says, in his 

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practice during his post round 
interview Saturday that he was 

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going to go out and play. 
Super aggressive and fired pens,

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because for a guy like him, it 
doesn't matter if he finishes 

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fifth or tenth I shoot 75 and 
finishes 11th and then this year

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he did a great job of just 
staying patient and waiting out 

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a great run of holes and you 
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it's really interesting. 
Once you learn you know some 

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decade strategy some proper 
professional thought processes, 

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how you can learn a lot more 
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tell a high school kid to do is 
learn as much from it as you can

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and then let TV serve to 
reinforce that so that physical 

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skills kind of thing. 
Like, what? 

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You mentioned like you some 
players just don't have it 

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right? 
Like what in your mind means 

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that someone has the physical 
skills like what does that mean?

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I don't know. 
I mean, it's funny just because,

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you know, this is America the 
land of the free and dreams and 

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everything and you can do 
anything, you put your mind to 

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it. 
Like I disagree with that, I 

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couldn't be a Olympic sprinter. 
If I dedicated my entire life 

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from birth to doing that wasn't 
in the cards for me and that and

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that's okay. 
I would also say that to be as 

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physically, gifted as a tour 
player is I mean they just have 

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a certain ability to do 
something. 

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Really interesting? 
You know, I've worked with Fred 

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Funk, son Taylor for for a few 
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always tried to tell him. 
Like man you you unfortunately 

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are the son of a guy who's not 
the biggest most athletic 

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looking person but he's got some
sort of a weird gift to hit a 

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golf ball and he does it really 
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And as a result has printed 
money for 40 years and it just 

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seems like it should be easy. 
And it's W but everyone onto or 

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has some sort of a fingerprint 
of something, they do. 

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Great. 
Now, I'm not saying that I do 

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believe everyone can get to a 
plus handicap, given the right 

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amount of time, but to get to 
the 2 or level of a plus 6 or 7,

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you know, that's the, the 
sprinters of the world there's I

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mean, there's a bit of a 
survivorship bias, there's a bit

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of just, they can just do things
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can't do that. 
Answer that question it does in.

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This is going to be the longest,
find it fine. 

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I'll question because I've got 
another. 

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He said, everyone can get to a 
plus handicap. 

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I can't skip over that. 
What does that mean? 

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Well, I just thought mean I 
don't, I'm not gonna say, I 

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don't think it's that hard but I
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and I mean, okay, maybe I 
shouldn't say everyone. 

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Maybe there's twenty percent of 
people who are just simply so 

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uncoordinated, they can't do it.
I have no idea. 

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But I believe that most people 
when I watch him on a driving 

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range, and again, if you don't 
start the game till you're 40, 

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it's going to be hard unless you
play the correct. 

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He's to get down to that type of
level but I just don't think 

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that Into a scratch or better 
handicap again. 

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I shouldn't say it's not that 
hard but it's doable with a lot 

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of work and again most people 
have jobs and families and you 

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know time constraints that would
that will make that impossible 

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that not given those. 
I do think that everyone has 

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enough basic human coordination 
and function that they could 

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pull it off, you know. 
And this is the other thing too.

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When you see these guys hacker 
to hero and I'm going to go from

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a 22, a scratch and here. 
No you're not. 

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Like it's just that's just not 
the way it works. 

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It requires so many reps and 
golf. 

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Requires so much time, learning 
how to play the game in Reading 

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nuances and wind. 
Like, I don't even care if you 

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knew how to stripe it perfectly,
unless you until you've played a

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ton of actual golf, 
understanding how to read lines 

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and yeah, you just, it's going 
to take time but I do believe 

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everyone could get there given 
the time.