Hey everyone, welcome down to this week's quick questions.
Episode it's with Scott faucet, he joined us on the podcast this
past week. We had an awesome one on course,
management and diving into some myths that you need to learn
about. So you can figure out where to
aim your shots at and just get a better plan to make it around a
golf course. After we finish that, we went
through a round of quick questions.
We get to know him a little bit better, let's get into it.
Your favorite Club in the golf bag driver bit more detail,
brand shaft like what do you got going on?
You know, I used a cobra lv4, I think it was called, for about
five years that I got from Mike, Chisholm, who is the Titleist
rep at the time? And I freaking love the thing,
and then it was in 2012 the night.
Before first stage was starting, I broke it on the driving range
is the head just flew off and so I walked around stunned for
about 30. It's not knowing what to do and
then I called Willie, who was the atoms rep at the time Adams,
the only manufacturer here in town that I knew I could go get
on a launch monitor, and, and kind of tweak a club in for Q
school, starting the next day. And I got to, I don't know what
I said, no idea what the drivers is white-headed Adams, I don't
even know what shaft is in it but he fit me in that thing.
It did in October of 2012 and I still have it in the bag and
probably time for a new club. I hear a lot of good things
about the New Ping driver and Johnson Claire's doing some
great fitting work. With some shaft he swears by so
he and I've chatted about just getting over there.
Sometime soon to get me caught up with the with the new
technology. Yes, TPT golf shafts, I had a
chance to hang out with John at the PGA show and go through the
fitting process. Pretty cool.
Yeah. Okay, next question, your best
piece of golf gear that you've bought or been given.
Let's say in the past year could be anything from a shirt to a
You know, unfortunately haven't played much golf in the last
year so I haven't bought a whole lot.
I would say, man, I have no idea.
I would say that the best golf gear that I've ever bought in
that, I swear by is the yellow putting art for working on your
putting, but I've had that for over a decade now.
So that's not within the last year, but I still think it's the
best thing you can buy for your golf game.
Yeah, that works. That works out like that.
All right, let's see in the last five years for you.
What like one thing has made the biggest difference in in your
game or your students game catting for Wills Outdoors Bar.
None is the best thing I've ever done for my game and it's the
best thing that anyone could do for their game, is to go out and
caddy for somebody else. You just can't imagine how
different how much more clear your thoughts are, how your
mental game is just so positive and upbeat.
Your self-talk is nothing but encouraging, it's the Single
best thing you can do for your game and I think that anyone who
tries to play competitive golf would benefit from caddying, at
least two weeks a year for somebody else.
Mmm, I like that. That's some good advice.
I haven't heard before, but it makes a lot of sense.
Well, I mean, we'll even it and it's not just an end of one
will, whenever in just trying to think what year was weird in
2015, probably, he got home from the NCAA Championship, he's kind
of struggling. He's not, he's not playing very
good. Usually would get tired by the
end of the semester with Blaze and you know the clip coursework
at Wake Forest and he's out on the driving range freaking out
one day and I'm watching hit balls and I'm like dude you're
hitting it fine. This is you know, this is
ridiculous, you're hitting it perfectly fine.
You're just freaking out because you're a little tired and one of
our other buddies a kid named Sam claimant, who plays for
Princeton I was standing there and I said to Hill I'm like will
you do anything? I tell you to do if it's what I
truly think will help your game get better and he's like, yeah.
I'm like literally anything because I'm going to tell you to
do something, you're probably going to roll your eyes at me.
He's like anything, I'm in and I said, I want you to caddy for
Sam in the, in the Byron Nelson. Junior this week and he could
see his face like because he had the pack coast and the following
week and he was just like to I mean I don't have time I've got
to get my game shape. I'm like telling you.
That will help your game worn. Anything Lee went out caddy for
Sam. Who finished want to say like
fifth which was one of his better finishes ever.
He also shot his career low in the second round and round of 65
or 70. And will went out the next week
in finished. Second in the pack goes down.
It's just like here's a kid who's completely freaking out?
He actually did not play or practice for a few days and just
went out and caddied and thought help the kid have one of his
best finish as ever and then he went out and played great golf.
The following week, it really is the best thing you can do for
your game. Perfect, I love that advice.
Another kind of interesting thing.
So if you're standing on the First Tee with someone and
they're about to tee off to go play around, what would be the
one thing that you'd want to tell them before they for the go
patience and discipline may be the main thing that I Always
come back to. And you know, tiger saying if I
play aggressively to my spots which both most people would
consider conservative, it's about picking out good spots
towards, you know, somewhere between the pain in the middle
of the green, potentially the pain.
I mean obviously who knows, depending on situation but then
aggressively trying to put your ball there.
I think the biggest mistake that players make is they probably
pick out decent targets. Maybe say 15 feet, right?
Of a pin on the left but then they subconsciously or fully
consciously, hope to hit the ball over there to the left by
the And the thing that I tell to or players of all caliber every
single day is exactly what tiger said, I play aggressively to my
spots and virtually 100 percent of tour players that I've worked
with. When I say, I used to aim at 15
feet to the right and then hope I hit it over there to the left.
They all laugh and say oh I do that.
Like three or four times a day, that's the best players in the
world. Saying they do that in the
greatest player in my opinion of all times explicitly saying that
is not what he does. Yep, absolutely instructor.
Or coach or a mentor that had the biggest influence, kind of
on your golf game and career and pick one.
I mean, I honestly, my gut reaction is go with Tony Robbins
even though he's not a golf instructor but he his teachings
and changing the way that I view a lot of different things and
just getting involved in a lot of Tony Robbins videos and going
to some of his life seminars has changed.
My mental outlook on life and golf so much for the better that
would have to be a pressure. And then we will end with this
one because you worked with a bunch of Really high level
Junior players lately. What advice would you give to a
high school golfer that comes to you?
And says, they want to play on tour?
I would say to continue working on whatever physical skills that
you're working on. And then without trying to
upsell it, get the decade apps. That way, you can really learn
how the best players in the world, think how they strategize
and methodically plot their way around a golf course.
Because this game really like for what I teach, I simply have
to assume that you have the physical skills.
And, you know, it sucks. Sometimes when I've got a young
kid, who's probably not good enough to turn professional
right out of college but they've got to go give it a whirl and I
want to just be like look you're not good enough but they got to
give it a whirl and it's hard sometimes because I know what
I'm teaching him is correct, but it's hard to see.
Like I'm just not quite physically good enough but the
main thing is I assume you have to assume that you have the
physical skill set and from there, the game truly is
entirely mental. I mean, it's just amazing
watching Jordan Spieth the last couple of years in the Masters,
Each year, he's done something mentally right or wrong to
create his outcome. I mean, a couple years ago, he
gave a great press conference where he said that he's gonna,
you know, make great decisions this week and then he winds up.
Butchering number 12 with a quad in the final round.
Then 2016. He on Saturday says, in his
practice during his post round interview Saturday that he was
going to go out and play. Super aggressive and fired pens,
because for a guy like him, it doesn't matter if he finishes
fifth or tenth I shoot 75 and finishes 11th and then this year
he did a great job of just staying patient and waiting out
a great run of holes and you know made a little run at it so
it's really interesting. Once you learn you know some
decade strategy some proper professional thought processes,
how you can learn a lot more from TV and that's what I would
tell a high school kid to do is learn as much from it as you can
and then let TV serve to reinforce that so that physical
skills kind of thing. Like, what?
You mentioned like you some players just don't have it
right? Like what in your mind means
that someone has the physical skills like what does that mean?
I don't know. I mean, it's funny just because,
you know, this is America the land of the free and dreams and
everything and you can do anything, you put your mind to
it. Like I disagree with that, I
couldn't be a Olympic sprinter. If I dedicated my entire life
from birth to doing that wasn't in the cards for me and that and
that's okay. I would also say that to be as
physically, gifted as a tour player is I mean they just have
a certain ability to do something.
Really interesting? You know, I've worked with Fred
Funk, son Taylor for for a few years now and that's what I've
always tried to tell him. Like man you you unfortunately
are the son of a guy who's not the biggest most athletic
looking person but he's got some sort of a weird gift to hit a
golf ball and he does it really well.
And as a result has printed money for 40 years and it just
seems like it should be easy. And it's W but everyone onto or
has some sort of a fingerprint of something, they do.
Great. Now, I'm not saying that I do
believe everyone can get to a plus handicap, given the right
amount of time, but to get to the 2 or level of a plus 6 or 7,
you know, that's the, the sprinters of the world there's I
mean, there's a bit of a survivorship bias, there's a bit
of just, they can just do things at certain people, other people
can't do that. Answer that question it does in.
This is going to be the longest, find it fine.
I'll question because I've got another.
He said, everyone can get to a plus handicap.
I can't skip over that. What does that mean?
Well, I just thought mean I don't, I'm not gonna say, I
don't think it's that hard but I do believe that the human body
and I mean, okay, maybe I shouldn't say everyone.
Maybe there's twenty percent of people who are just simply so
uncoordinated, they can't do it. I have no idea.
But I believe that most people when I watch him on a driving
range, and again, if you don't start the game till you're 40,
it's going to be hard unless you play the correct.
He's to get down to that type of level but I just don't think
that Into a scratch or better handicap again.
I shouldn't say it's not that hard but it's doable with a lot
of work and again most people have jobs and families and you
know time constraints that would that will make that impossible
that not given those. I do think that everyone has
enough basic human coordination and function that they could
pull it off, you know. And this is the other thing too.
When you see these guys hacker to hero and I'm going to go from
a 22, a scratch and here. No you're not.
Like it's just that's just not the way it works.
It requires so many reps and golf.
Requires so much time, learning how to play the game in Reading
nuances and wind. Like, I don't even care if you
knew how to stripe it perfectly, unless you until you've played a
ton of actual golf, understanding how to read lines
and yeah, you just, it's going to take time but I do believe
everyone could get there given the time.