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All right, Scott, so the two 
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little bit now. 
How do you think they turned 

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out? 
What? 

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What do you think about him? 
I liked him, yeah. 

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You feel like it like 
communicated you're you're like 

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what you're trying to get across
like, hey, this is decade. 

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This is what to understand and 
showing it. 

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Obviously, typically on those 
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you as possible and then it gets
edited down quite a bit. 

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So I was surprised to see the 
first one was an hour and 15 

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minutes. 
But you're like, there's just so

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much good stuff in it. 
Why not it? 

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It is funny because some of the 
comments where they're like 

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criticizing my or our play at 
all. 

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It's like dude trying to do all 
of this while actually still 

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playing good golf and thinking 
through and everything like 

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that. 
It's like this isn't easy at all

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to pull off. 
I'm more surprised that I ever 

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play good in any of those 
videos. 

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Then OK, we we got off to a 
little bit of a shaky start. 

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Yeah, yeah, no, it's just an 
epic day. 

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Like we had great weather. 
The course that you like, what 

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you lined up was unbelievable. 
So thank you for setting that 

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up. 
Like that was Steve was awesome 

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the the architect that we got to
hang out, like he was so 

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interesting to talk to. 
You get a guy like that, I think

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he's like 73 years old. 
He's just a, a model of health 

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and what you want to be at his 
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energy and fire. 
Like I just he, he is a total 

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role, role model to to aspire to
be, to be one day. 

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Yeah, he's been doing this 
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courses. 
And so like, yeah, he found the 

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land, he said 94 or something, 
and then they built it in 97. 

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It's like, whoa, that is crazy 
to be doing that. 

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So. 
It's a cool spot. 

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Yeah. 
So we've got some comments and 

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and I thought it'd be fun just 
to have you come on and discuss 

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this. 
The the primary, the primary 

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thing that we need to discuss 
is, is Scott, every soccer field

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is not the same size. 
I would I would like. 

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People just nitwit stuff like 
this I really like. 

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I honestly thought every soccer 
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Like they're saying within the 
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different. 
No, like every football field is

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the same. 
I I just assumed every World Cup

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field's. 
Identical I I love we'll start 

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we'll start with some good we'll
start with some good vibes so we

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had a bunch of positive people 
love the course here you go 

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Scott swing makes golf look easy
I agree Scott you have a great 

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golf swing hey just. 
You know, I hate, I hate 

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swinging since it's my golf 
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I really like what it's just 
settled into at 52. 

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It just so repeats Espe. 
Obviously, especially with the 

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driver. 
Yeah, I, I'm, I'm really happy 

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with how I swing the the Golf 
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What have you changed over the 
year? 

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Like compare this to what you're
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What is that 99 that you played 
in or what year was that like? 

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What was it way longer? 
Like what have you changed over 

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the years? 
It was way longer. 

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I mean, again, I still never 
really got it to parallel. 

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I mean, I've always been a great
ball striker. 

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I mean always ever since I've 
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So since college at at a 
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always been my strength. 
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playing professionally in my 
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and the putter were the only two
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I definitely hit the ball top 50
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But like so many other guys on 
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figure the rest of the the game 
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My driver specifically, man, it 
just again, as I put up that one

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video. 
I don't know if you saw the post

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I made on Instagram where I took
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synced it up to my shots in 
practice. 

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I do believe not just to harp 
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just do the exact same thing on 
every single swing on the T box,

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on the range, on everything. 
That's the only way you're going

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to get that repetitiveness. 
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slowing down had a good 
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player yesterday and that's all 
we talked about was slowing down

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in practice, getting behind the 
driver, specifically doing your 

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full pre shot routine to where 
you just owned because that's, 

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that's the timing and the 
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That's the art of golf is that 
timing and triggering to start 

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your swing. 
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what Tiger was just so, so good 
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I I want to go, I want to go 
here, Scott then so talk to me 

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about all of our 15 handicaps 
listening to this. 

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And they watched it and are 
like, dude, Scott, my driver 

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goes 240 at best with with a 
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Like it's a little and I that's 
like on on a good one. 

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Are you reading a 14? 
No because I'm seeing. 

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I like the idea in the 1st hole 
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The clip, the chip shot he 
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Are you reading something? 
He's saying, Hey, this theory 

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makes sense if your driver's 
controllable and you have a 

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short game. 
Unfortunately for most golfers, 

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neither of those things are are 
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So I talk to talk to that 
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reading this, that's like, dude,
like my driver's not great and 

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like my short game. 
I I don't know. 

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Well, I mean, I bet it's five 
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Like, what's the alternative? 
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thing that I I don't think 
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the way from start to the finish
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Like, OK, let's say you're 
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What what's next? 
Three wood or mini driver, but 

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you stripe that of the smaller, 
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Like I just highly doubt that's 
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And also, you know what then 
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shooting in the 90s or hundreds.
You're just learning the game 

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still. 
Just keep learning, having fun 

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hitting driver. 
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eventually, so you might as well
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You're not really out there 
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necessarily. 
You're just trying to learn how 

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to become functional on the golf
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you've got a little bit of of 
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I mean, I do remember the 
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first time and breaking 90 and 
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But you're just in a spot too, 
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to learn the game, you know, as 
an, as an, as an, as a beginner,

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basically. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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So you're saying like, yeah, 
that's great, you should. 

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You got to practice like, let's 
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I don't, I don't. 
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I mean, I don't understand the 
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first hold of the chip shot he 
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eighth than 100 hundred yard, 
which what is he talking about? 

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Like I was 6 yards off the green
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I don't understand. 
I don't understand the point 

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anyways so. 
Yeah, OK, here we go. 

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Scott was down where amateurs 
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think they miss. 
Should be mandatory viewing for 

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any golfer steps on the tee. 
The cognitive gap between I can 

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hit that and my dispersion says 
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handicap lives. 
I like that. 

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That's pretty good. 
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thing I try to tell players is 
just because you can hit a shot 

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That's just so repetitive. 
Like I like if you're in the 

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trees or something, I can see if
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about. 
It's like Nicholson with that 

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one when he's in the fairway 
bonker and puts it up through 

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the hole in the trees and then 
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tell you about the gap I saw. 
That's because what Bones would 

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be saying. 
They're like, I can totally see 

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the shot you're talking about 
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but this is a terrible idea. 
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Phil just wanted to do it 
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there. 
Like I, I totally salute that. 

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And I totally salute the amateur
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hero shot. 
But you're also kidding yourself

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if you think you're optimizing 
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So those two things are at odds 
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totally saluting. 
I mean, again, I, I, the ram 

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that I shot last week where I 
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I was, I was, I was 8 under on 
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into a funky shaped green into 
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Like if this was a golf 
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I'm just kind of punching it 
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There was not a whole lot of 
good outcomes that could come 

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from this 3 iron. 
But we're playing A10150 hammer 

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wolf and my partner's kind of 
looking at me like birdie would 

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be good right here. 
So, you know, I'm going to go 

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for it. 
That doesn't mean that that that

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was a total hero shot to attempt
right there and and luckily. 

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I pulled it off. 
What'd you do? 

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Yeah, I put it in the, I put it 
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hole in the left bunker. 
It was literally the only 

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possible good outcome because I 
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low into the wind. 
There was just no way it was 

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going to stop. 
And anything further left now is

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going to be going downwind with 
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This bunker was literally the 
only place I could put it and it

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happened to go there. 
OK, you, you said a little thing

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in the video. 
It was like if you can't a 

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recovery shot, you need to be 
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Was that 9 out of 10 * 9 out of 
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You basically need to know I'm 
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single time. 
And then just your total mis 

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hits that like you hit a little 
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the tree. 
That needs to be the only way 

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that you don't pull the shot 
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OK, got it. 
That's good. 

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Good advice. 
Here we go. 

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Here's the good on putting there
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There's a comment on a putting 
video but the average 10 plus 

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handicap could probably shave 5 
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practicing distance control. 
I don't know it's that much, but

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I think there's not that much 
but tons of shots to gain from 

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leg putting. 
It's 3 or 4 for sure. 

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I mean, again, this is my my 
wolf game I normally play with. 

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There's there's a couple guys 
that are 2 handicaps and below, 

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but the majority guys are like 
between 3:00 and let's call it 

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10. 
And so I get to watch a lot of 

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these people and they really 
suck at putting. 

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I mean their speed control is 
just absolutely horrific. 

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They never practice it. 
I mean, they hit balls and then 

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they roll 6 putts before we go 
play. 

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And it's not like they ever sit 
on the green and practice. 

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So you, yeah, if you actually 
want those guys, I mean, they 

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could knock three or four shots 
off their game in two months, 

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probably just by doing speed 
drills. 

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Now, I do agree with most and 
it's like, OK, so I just get 3 

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or 4 shots less. 
What difference does it make? 

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Because they're not trying to 
play tournament golf or 

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anything. 
They don't really care. 

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As long as they can get the ball
around the golf course in a 

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functional manner in four hours.
They don't actually care to be 

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better. 
My brain doesn't understand how 

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that works. 
But they are legit just out 

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there to play Wolf and have a 
few drinks with the boys and 

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have fun. 
And I totally salute that. 

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I. 
Don't know, I think a lot of 

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people would have more fun if 
they shot a little better all 

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the time. 
I, I totally think so. 

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I mean, again, it's frustrating 
to be 12 feet and hammer at 5 

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feet by and miss it coming back.
I mean that's that is. 

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Tough. 
OK, so I, I think it's shocking 

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how many people are bad at 
something, say they're bad at 

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something, want to get better at
it, but don't do anything about 

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it. 
So like what's your, I know you 

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have some thoughts on working on
distance control. 

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What's your like 15 minute 
routine? 

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I could do a couple times a week
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better at it. 
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that I've got to get in because 
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do your habits meet, do your 
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Like because if not one of the 
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change your goals or change your
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just going to live in eternal 
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So I really love that quote and 
it's definitely something to do 

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some soul searching on. 
Like do you, do you want to do 

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this? 
But I think that the best way to

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practice your putting is to just
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you're trying to roll it into a,
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So just find the straightest 20,
you know, the straightest 40 

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foot putt you can and you put 2 
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two feet apart and then another 
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window and you start at 20 feet 
and you're trying to lag it into

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that 2 foot zone of distance 
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When you're successful, you move
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not successfully stay at the 
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If you successfully, you keep 
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And once you get to 30 feet, now
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three foot window. 
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until you get to 40 feet. 
And maybe your, your 10 handicap

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starts from 10 to 30 feet. 
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trying to roll it into the 2 
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into the three foot window. 
And you just keep hammering that

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over and over and over again 
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at that. 
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to to 20 to 40 feet. 
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literally exactly how Zaala 
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the way through college early. 
I don't know what he's still 

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doing. 
The last time we talked, he was,

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I asked him what he's doing. 
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set this drill up on the the 
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So I basically just make a three
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Marks and I'm just trying to lag
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And I know if I'm 20 feet, it 
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middle. 
If I'm 30 or 40 feet, just 

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getting it into circles, a good 
result. 

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And he just says that he just 
rolls it all around the green. 

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Because the one thing that I 
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playing in my 20s was I just 
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the green without knowing how 
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I do believe that knowing this 
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little bit of a feel, not not 
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clock system or how Bryson tries
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feel for like, you know, this is
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of. 
Stroke, yeah, No, I agree. 

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I think it's all about like 
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being intentional and knowing 
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giving. 
Intentional for everything. 

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Again, that's circling back to 
the block and random practice 

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debate. 
I think that the main thing the 

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random people get wrong is they 
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brain dead and you can go brain 
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I'll I'll agree that if you're 
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it's probably harder to go brain
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Yeah, but you certainly can. 
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you're hitting the same shot 
over and over doesn't mean you 

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have to go brain dead. 
I certainly don't. 

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But like I say something back to
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mean, it was it was a 90 minute 
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landed on the main things he 
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down in practice in order to 
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dialogue that's going on because
that is what that that was Tiger

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superpower period. 
OK, let's let's keep it going. 

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What do we got? 
OK, middle. 

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We got middle of the Greens. 
A brand new. 

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OK, so you made a comment like 
middle of the green is not a 

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good a good, you know just you 
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question Yeah, depends on skill 
for Bowie ball for middle of the

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green is great for a scratch. 
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crazier because I think a lot of
high handicap golfers aiming 

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middle of the green could be 
putting themselves in too much 

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risk as well, probably 
potentially. 

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So like I I think there is a ton
of variability and aim at middle

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of the the the goal is to hit a 
green, right? 

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Like hitting a green is good, 
but unless it puts too much risk

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of hitting a hazard or something
of those along those lines. 

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Well, this is what brand I've 
This is my Last Post on 

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Instagram. 
Brandel said yesterday on Live 

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from the Masters that all the 
statisticians are basically 

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making this too complicated, 
that Kathy Whitworth and her 

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tiny little book explained 
course management by hit at the 

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middle of the green. 
And that's what Jack said he did

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and Tiger said he did. 
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they said they did, that's not 
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did. 
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did not aim at the middle of the
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absolutely, But with his sand 
wedge and stuff. 

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So there's this inflection point
that's in this, again, what I 

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was just posting about Brando. 
There's, there's an inflection 

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point where aiming at the hole 
is typically not optimal and 

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aiming at the middle of the 
green typically is not optimal. 

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There's an inflection point 
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And if that decision can save 
you 5 hundredths of a shot, that

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doesn't seem like much. 
But if we make that decision 18 

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times in a round, it's literally
nearly a full shot. 

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And the reason that advice falls
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every soccer field is not the 
same. 

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Every golf ball certainly is not
the same. 

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And so the the my canned 2 
examples are always 18. 

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At Saint Andrews, the holes 354 
yards long and the green is 52 

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yards wide. 
I highly doubt you need to aim 

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at the middle of the green when 
the pins on the left and you get

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60 yards. 
Conversely #10 at Pebble Beach 

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is 500 yards from the US Open 
Tees. 

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There's an ocean on the right 
and the green is only 17 yards 

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wide. 
Middle of the green there is way

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too aggressive. 
You need to be aiming almost at 

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the left edge of the green, 
which is why the scoring 

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averages through the roof in the
US Open. 

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So middle of the green just, it 
just isn't good enough advice. 

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And that's where the traditional
playing lesson really falls 

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apart in my opinion is let's 
pretend I just, I took you out 

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for a playing lesson and I gave 
you perfect information. 

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So number six, we're going to 
aim 4 yards left of this pin. 

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But I didn't explain to you why.
I just told you, 4 yards left of

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this pin. 
You would have to see that exact

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same situation in a tournament, 
the same length shot, the same 

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surrounding hazards, the same 
conditions and be like, oh, this

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match is 6. 
But that's again, not to pitch a

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decade too hard here, but that's
what decade accomplishes this 

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for use based on the constraints
of the shots. 

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How long is the shot? 
What are the surrounding 

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hazards? 
Here's how far we need to be 

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aiming. 
And yes, that will be moving 

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towards the middle of the green 
the longer and more difficult 

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the shot becomes, but that 
doesn't mean we're always 

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getting to the middle of the 
green. 

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I mean, again, Mark Brody, the 
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great, I mean, he's way smarter 
and better with programming than

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I am. 
And he's ran a great little 

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study showing that the middle of
the green is just very rarely 

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the correct target on the PJ 
tour. 

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And and so no Brandel or whoever
Dulce golf nut middle of the 

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green is just not good enough 
information. 

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And sure, if we're if you're not
trying to optimize your scoring 

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average, OK, obviously hitting 
the green is better than not, 

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but optimizing your scoring 
average is what I'm all about. 

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And again, like I was saying 
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hey, I'm not your guy and that's
totally cool. 

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I salute you. 
Go try what you want to do, but 

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you're wasting shots. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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What percentage of time? 
I don't even think that's. 

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Yeah, we're going to skip that 
comment. 

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Yeah, all this theory, this was 
back to the high handicap. 

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All this theory is worth nothing
if you can't pull off the shots 

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mainly from the T like your 
comment is. 

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Go go practice, go train. 
Yeah, I mean, it's just, it's, 

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it's just so it's so weird to me
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but that person still has to aim
their shots somewhere. 

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I mean, it's very, very weird to
me when people have that. 

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People either say that or the 
other one. 

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I get a lot of, well, what 
happens when everybody on the 

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tour is playing with perfect 
decade strategy and like then 

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the better players going to win 
more often. 

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We're going to remove some 
variants from results and it 

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should be more uniform. 
But right now the best players 

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are the best strategist. 
They're also the best ball 

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strikers, but they are 
definitely the best strategist. 

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I mean, and Scotty Scheffler is 
a perfect example of that. 

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He he was making a ton of 
birdies his first three years on

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tour. 
He was making way too many 

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bogeys. 
I worked with Ted Scott for a 

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long time while he was with 
Bubba and I texted Ted him when 

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he got hired. 
I'm like, dude, this kids good. 

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He just needs to get his bogey 
rate down. 

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The fact you can he can make 
that many birdies for three 

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straight years shows he can 
control his golf ball. 

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Let him know it's about avoiding
these silly mistakes. 

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And he did. 
He lowered his bogey rate from 

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15% down to 10 or 11%. 
That 4 or 5% reduction in bogey 

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is 3/4 of a shot just by making 
fewer bogeys I mean. 

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Super interesting. 
It it's a big deal, OK. 

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I like this one. 
Here we go Scott's a brilliant 

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guy Dustin is great for single 
digit player Scott's also a 

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salesman. 
Good job Scott. 

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He says something about he's not
going to get an 1824 handicap to

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a single digit if you hit a 
driver 200 and 235 iron, you're 

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going to focus on the short game
consistently face single swing 

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path low point bring to 85 most 
consistently. 

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OK, talk to me. 
Have you helped someone go from 

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that 18 handicap to a single 
digit before? 

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I mean, my members do it all the
time. 

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OK, how do they do it? 
By a understanding strategy and 

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at least having some and then 
focusing on their putting, not 

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trying to hero shot more often. 
Making bogeys from the trees by 

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just removing the big stupid 
scores. 

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I mean, it's just such a I don't
know what, it's just such a 

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limiting belief kind of a 
thought process here. 

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It's it's Raymond Floyd book The
Art of Scoring, which makes me 

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mad because my favorite book is 
the Art of learning. 

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If I was going to write a book, 
it would be called The Art of 

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Scoring. 
So Raymond stole that for me. 

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But on the inside jacket, it 
says even if you and I sort of 

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like to attend handicapped, even
if you and I had the exact same 

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skill set, I would still beat 
you 99 times out of 100 because 

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I understand how to play the 
game more. 

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And that is the truest statement
ever made. 

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I mean, in looking back at 
working with Zala Torres and 

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Bryson and all these guys to be 
able to come in and take these 

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elite players and just instantly
make them better. 

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So I'm, I am just now using 
their same skills and I am just 

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making them a shot or two better
overnight. 

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So like if that happens at that 
level, I can assure you the 10 

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handicap, I mean the, the 18, I 
bet you, if I was thinking for 

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an 18 handicap, they would 
probably be an 11 or 12. 

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I, I don't think it may, the, 
the, the numbers we've run 

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before is that I don't remember 
exactly, it's been years, but 

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basically the vast majority of 
our membership knocks 30 or 40% 

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off of their handicap in the 
first six months. 

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So that 20 comes down to a, you 
know, a 12 or 13 or whatever it 

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is. 
I mean, there's just the vast 

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majority of, like, I would love 
to see if anyone actually 

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doesn't get better. 
We take, what we did on that one

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was I think we took the first 5 
scores they entered and treated 

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that as their baseline and then 
took however many scores after 

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that. 
And, and just, I mean literally 

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100% of people. 
Improve. 

447
00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,560
Yeah. 
Well, I think the reality is 

448
00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:22,120
like, why content with you 
content we've done with coach 

449
00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:25,840
Will Robbins, like on course 
strategy stuff is a lot of these

450
00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,880
these folks in this 15 handicap 
range have been hitting balls at

451
00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,400
the range. 
They have been, you know, trying

452
00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,680
to do stuff for, you know, a 
decade at this decades at this 

453
00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,040
point. 
And so like, when they see this,

454
00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,120
like, OK, maybe there's 
something that I'm doing wrong 

455
00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:44,440
with course management and 
strategy that is going to get me

456
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:48,280
better without having to go 
change my body or do something, 

457
00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,680
you know, on the range and they 
start to, you know, get some 

458
00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,120
results and they pay. 
I think there's a reason this is

459
00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:57,600
gaining this field is gaining so
much more like interest because 

460
00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,160
people are like, OK, I've, I've,
I've been on the range for a 

461
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:04,520
decade and maybe I need to think
about core strategy. 

462
00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:08,080
Maybe there's something there 
for me to get down for my 1516 

463
00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:09,640
and. 
Well, I believe that again, like

464
00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,960
for me personally, I mean, when 
I quit playing Professional Golf

465
00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,520
as a + 6 or something, excuse 
me, I think it was my first 

466
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:18,160
registered handicap and you 
know, over a couple years it 

467
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:22,280
decayed down to a + 4 and then 
it just stayed there for 10 

468
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,200
years at this point. 
I mean, last year was the first 

469
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,640
year that I got all the way 
down, up, whatever you call it 

470
00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,520
to +2. 
You know, I've had four 

471
00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,760
surgeries and missed, you know, 
nine months last year. 

472
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,600
So that makes sense to me that I
struggled. 

473
00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,480
But that's entirely just because
of understanding how to play the

474
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:40,160
game, how the game scored, how 
to score, understanding what to 

475
00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,480
practice, how to practice. 
I mean, I just, I practice 

476
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,400
lagging from 20 to 40 feet. 
I practice the very basic chip 

477
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,640
shots. 
I don't know if I, if I, I don't

478
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,760
need to hit a flop shot if I, if
I have three flop shots in a 

479
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,680
round, The problem is on my 
second shots and strategy that 

480
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,640
wasn't, I don't need to get 
better at a flop shot in order 

481
00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,640
to get back to I think +4 to get
back to +6. 

482
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,520
I would, but I think that I can 
play and that's just by going 

483
00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,200
to, again, just trying to not do
patently stupid stuff and then 

484
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,400
just being good off the tee and 
good at lag putting. 

485
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,600
Yeah, yeah, no, that's, that's a
great point. 

486
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,320
I I love that. 
Yeah, because you are just. 

487
00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:17,200
Yeah, Good off the tee, good leg
putting, good chipping. 

488
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:18,880
Good to go. 
That's the thing to me that 

489
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,800
people didn't even comment about
on the video we shot was every 

490
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,280
putt that I had, I don't really 
remember yours specifically, but

491
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,520
every 20 to 40 foot putt that I 
had just rolled up there to 6 

492
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:30,520
inches. 
Like it just that. 

493
00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,880
That's just from understanding 
how important that is. 

494
00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:35,200
I did. 
I did not. 

495
00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,040
I I think I3 putted one or two 
just I'll go ahead and put my 

496
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,160
hand up on that one here. 
You like this one, Scott, This 

497
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:41,560
one's for you. 
Has anyone actually improved? 

498
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,200
Has this action improved 
anyone's game Decade is the 

499
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,520
Emperor's new close of golf. 
I like that that that's a good 

500
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:48,160
one. 
For I mean, it's it's so wild 

501
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:49,080
how many? 
You gonna put that on the 

502
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,640
website? 
Yeah, I mean. 

503
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,680
It just, it's just incredible 
how many people hate me. 

504
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,320
It's really funny. 
OK, maybe a little coaching for 

505
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:58,280
this guy. 
I like this. 

506
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,880
Something I really struggle with
is aggressiveness off the tee. 

507
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,160
I hear Scott saying that 
distance is important and be 

508
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,880
aggressive off the tee and my 
brain interprets that as 

509
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:07,760
distance is king, swing out of 
your shoes. 

510
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,680
And I lunged the ball sliced 
into the trees. 

511
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,600
I don't know how to stop myself 
from doing that. 

512
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,520
Kind of interesting thought. 
How would you coach this guy? 

513
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,120
Well, I mean, I would say that 
we probably do need to be 

514
00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:20,400
working on speed, but there's a 
difference. 

515
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,240
And this is where I think that 
when you hear old players say, 

516
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,040
you know, I'm only swinging at 
80%, No, you're not. 

517
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,040
You might be swinging at 80% of 
like your effort. 

518
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,600
So, but you're not swinging at 
80% of your Max speed. 

519
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,280
And this is man, there was a guy
who I'm not going to say his 

520
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,800
name, I just thought of who it 
was that was telling me that he 

521
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,200
has multiple tour players and 
high level college players that 

522
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:44,880
leave 20% of their club head 
speed in the tank. 

523
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:49,800
I'm like name 1. 
I mean Tony Finow apparently can

524
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,640
get it into the mid one 30s but 
that's the guy has a. 

525
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:54,240
Video of that on the Internet, 
yes. 

526
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,520
No, no, no, I know that. 
But the reason he can do that is

527
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,760
because his swing is so short. 
Yeah. 

528
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,280
So it all he has to do to get 
that is lengthen his swing and 

529
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,440
yeah, and then he's going to he 
can't find the golf course. 

530
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:09,160
He is swinging hit everyone on 
tours cruising speed is probably

531
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:13,280
within about 3 or 4 miles an 
hour of their Max ball speed. 

532
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,160
Are there a couple of long tail 
anomalies out there? 

533
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:20,720
Sure, But his whole deal was 
like Bryson was it 225 or 

534
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,920
whatever in ball speed? 
I'm like he was training for the

535
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,640
World long drive contest and he 
also realized that wasn't 

536
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,880
working. 
So sure, OK, Bryson can get up 

537
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,240
there, but he can't right now. 
He can't throw them in the mid 

538
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,960
two 20s. 
He's playing a right around what

539
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,920
his current peak is. 
Maybe 5 or 8 miles an hour more 

540
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:38,760
he could get, but he couldn't 
play the game. 

541
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,840
The vast majority guys are 
swinging as fast as they can, 

542
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,400
which is different than swing as
hard as they can. 

543
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,240
This guy's talking about 
swinging as hard as he can, and 

544
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:49,960
that's not what it is. 
Does that make sense to you? 

545
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,120
You know, I'm saying like, you 
can just be like, swing harder, 

546
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,360
but it's just not. 
It's not going to go faster when

547
00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:57,880
you do that. 
Something I've noticed that's 

548
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,560
really important and it's 
probably overlooked by a lot of 

549
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,520
amateurs, is that like the 
amount of rounds you're putting 

550
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,680
in and the amount of swings 
you're putting in make a big 

551
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,880
difference on your speed. 
Like if you haven't been playing

552
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,280
for a month you are not going to
be swinging as fast as you had. 

553
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,320
If you've been playing like 3 * 
a week it there's something 

554
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:20,400
about that I've found of the 
reps you're putting in like. 

555
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,160
Kill a gulf shape, right? 
Are you in Gulf shape or not? 

556
00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:27,080
And so like you got to 
understand, I mean guys 

557
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,480
understand that they're slower 
Monday, Tuesday than they are 

558
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,680
Friday, Saturday, right? 
Like they get faster as they go 

559
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,080
that during the week. 
This corn fair guy was talking 

560
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,360
about playing, talking about 
yesterday he was talking with 

561
00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:40,040
Bryson and asked him about the 
speed training and Bryson told 

562
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,320
him that he was hitting 100 
balls a day at full Max effort. 

563
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,320
I'm like he was, I got to see 
some of it in Como's living 

564
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,000
room. 
But he was also training for the

565
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,360
world long drive contest. 
That wasn't training for the PJ 

566
00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:52,520
tour. 
I do believe, and this is the 

567
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,480
the advice that I gave him, like
Max Grazerman, who picked up 5 

568
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,560
or 6 miles an hour ball speed, 
you know, a couple years ago Max

569
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,040
told me he's like, I just, I was
doing all the speed training and

570
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:03,920
everything. 
You know, I obviously understand

571
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:05,680
RIP sticks. 
I've got my stack right here. 

572
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,720
I I understand speed training, 
but I don't know that it's 

573
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,800
totally necessary versus what 
Matt said. 

574
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,120
He's like, I just end every 
practice session, not before a 

575
00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:17,560
turn around, but every practice 
session with 10 as hard as I can

576
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,480
possibly swing. 
No regard whatsoever for contact

577
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,800
or anything, just but swinging 
driver and hitting a ball, which

578
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,920
Eddie Fernandez agrees with. 
That's more important than just 

579
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:32,160
swinging the speed sticks and 
then two cruisers. 

580
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,840
And he's like, that's, that's 
really, I was doing all the 

581
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:36,800
speed train, but it just, I 
didn't really like it. 

582
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,160
I felt like I was going to hurt 
myself. 

583
00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:40,280
So I just did that. 
Because what you're really doing

584
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,880
is lifting the governor that's 
in your brain because there is 

585
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:46,480
one. 
We are all stronger than our 

586
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,120
brain lets us be. 
You know, we're not quite 

587
00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:51,840
gorillas, but we are all 
stronger than that. 

588
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,920
And like when you get 
electrocuted and jump 15 feet in

589
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,600
the air, that's not the 
electricity shooting you. 

590
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,840
That's your muscles. 
That's how strong your muscles 

591
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,640
actually are. 
They're just typically limited 

592
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,520
from getting to there because 
obviously you're going to hurt 

593
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,080
yourself. 
So you really are just training 

594
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,080
your brain. 
I can go faster than this. 

595
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,440
It's safe, it's safe, it's safe.
And you just kind of keep on 

596
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,680
bumping that governor up. 
And I I think the way Max is 

597
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,520
doing it is the way most people 
can and should do it. 

598
00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:19,240
We got a video of Eddie 
Fernandez coming out shortly, so

599
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:20,960
yeah, I know it's good. 
I've been using his hits here 

600
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,200
testing it out. 
He was he, he was over in John 

601
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,880
Sinclair's place in Fort Worth a
couple years ago and came over 

602
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,480
to my house to to hit some balls
and his first. 

603
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,800
Now granted he'd been hitting 
balls at Sinclair's, but he 

604
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,360
hadn't touched the club in at 
least 90 minutes because he 

605
00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:37,200
drove had lunch. 
He takes my mini driver and just

606
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,880
first swing with a 43 1/2 inch 
mini driver has 210 on it. 

607
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:46,040
I'm like go odd. 
I mean, it's wild when you see 

608
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,080
someone that can really hit it. 
Here we are. 

609
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,520
OK, comments on the Tiger, the 
Tiger five. 

610
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,720
OK, I like this one. 
Tiger recently added a six 

611
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,640
broomstick putters. 
That's a dig at me. 

612
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,880
I do like that one. 
You're gonna have to add. 

613
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:05,400
That's to the list, Scott. 
OK, I like this question on the 

614
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,040
bogey from 1:50 and you kind of 
answered it here, but maybe just

615
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,320
expounded a little bit on the 
bogey from 1:50. 

616
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,720
This would should you amend it 
to your own 9 hour distance? 

617
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,360
Love the system by the way. 
I just chose 150 because this 

618
00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:21,560
was way back in the early 2000s 
before irons were completely 

619
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,240
juiced and Tiger was playing 
whatever blades and the Zunas or

620
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:25,320
whatever he was playing at the 
time. 

621
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,880
I would doubt he hit his nine 
iron much more than 150 back 

622
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,560
then. 
He might have. 

623
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,840
I mean, it wouldn't have been 
much more than 155 or 60. 

624
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,640
I really would believe it's 
around 1:50 that and that's the 

625
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,360
whole reason I chose that. 
Most players, you know, the 

626
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,520
Tiger 5 is definitely geared at 
low single digits for the 

627
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,720
numbers that they are. 
The Tiger 510 handicap might be,

628
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,920
you know, triples or you know, 
whatever, you know, just but 

629
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,800
really the definition of 
improvement is becoming better 

630
00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,080
than yourself. 
Like it's that whole 1% better 

631
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,120
thing. 
So really all you want to be 

632
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,760
doing with the Tiger people like
what should I do this? 

633
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,120
And I just just get the number 
and then just make your smaller.

634
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:13,240
It's like that joke from 
whatever old raunchy comedy 

635
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:14,480
where the girl needed to lose 
weight. 

636
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,120
She was like on the she was like
a newscaster and the lady was 

637
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,920
like, so I want you to stand on 
the scale in the morning and I 

638
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,920
want you to weigh yourself and 
then make that number be 

639
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,920
smaller. 
It's like that's improvement. 

640
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,640
Like I want you to record your 
Tiger fives and then just make 

641
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,400
that number keep being smaller. 
OK, so the next one when 

642
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,760
recording I thought was a good 
technical question, but like if 

643
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:39,360
you're recording one, do you 
record 2 Tiger fives if you had 

644
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,240
a three putt and that made you 
get a double bogey? 

645
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:46,000
Like is that 2 or is it 1? 
You can have all 5 Tiger five 

646
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,600
points on one particularly 
disastrous par 5 God. 

647
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:53,360
That'd be sick. 
I mean, 5th hole of champions to

648
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,640
her final stage. 
I made an 8I, slipped on my 

649
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,240
second shot because these Dang 
golf shoes I was having to wear 

650
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,320
and I slipped and pulled it in 
the desert and just butchered it

651
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,240
from there and walked off with a
snowman and I believe I had 

652
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:11,720
bogey inside. 150, double bogey,
bogey on par, 5I didn't 3 putt 

653
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,840
and I didn't have a blown easy 
save so I had three. 

654
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,080
Put the five on shoot. 
Almost. 

655
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:18,600
Almost. 
There's. 

656
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,480
A great start. 
Some name for next time. 

657
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:27,280
OK, we got some wind questions. 
I'm going to go to this one 

658
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:32,560
first, OK? 
You explained how to judge wind.

659
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,440
You had. 
We were like, you're showing 

660
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,280
like, hey, you should understand
how wind blows. 

661
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:37,400
So you had one of those? 
Yeah. 

662
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,320
And. 
We were kind of talking about 

663
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:46,120
that and then there's a formula 
for judging wind, which is in 

664
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:50,000
the video. 
So somebody was asking here of 

665
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,040
like, OK, if I had a low draw, 
you know, that hat, you know, 

666
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:58,200
it's it's less spin. 
How the question is? 

667
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:04,040
Ball flight and all that. 
So as a concrete example, when I

668
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:08,400
shot that 64 last week, it was 
in a 20 mile an hour wind and my

669
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,200
on the 8th hole I was 100 yards 
straight into the wind and my 

670
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,280
wedges and short irons are just 
terrible. 

671
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,360
They just poof up into the air. 
My pitching wedge goes about 

672
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,960
1:22. 
So if we use that 20%, I'm 120% 

673
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:26,480
is the shots playing 120. 
That theoretically should just 

674
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:27,600
be a perfect pitching wedge for 
me. 

675
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,720
But obviously he's correct. 
I'm not going to just RIP a full

676
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,880
wedge up into the air and just 
cross my fingers. 

677
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:39,280
So my 9 iron is normally 135. 
So I hit my 9 iron 120 in order 

678
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:44,280
to take trajectory and spin and 
everything off the ball and it's

679
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,800
playing 120, which means it's 
going to go 100 yards and I hit 

680
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,520
it to 6 feet. 
Just a chippy, flighty little. 

681
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:55,280
So yes, the the number it boils 
down to is correct. 

682
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,680
Now you need to you need to 
figure out what's the best shot 

683
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,160
for you and your game to get it 
to go that net far. 

684
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,240
Because you're saying even 
though the math said 120, if you

685
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:10,200
had hit your 120 shot normally 
it would have gone shorter than 

686
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,040
one? 
It probably would have gone 

687
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,960
shorter than 120, yeah, because 
of the trajectory. 

688
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:20,040
That's like a result of like 
over 20 mile hour winds as well.

689
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,880
Like, that's like a lot of wind.
It's a lot more than. 

690
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,520
Like a 10 mile an hour. 
I think it's hilarious when 

691
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,320
people say I played in a 35 mile
an hour wind the other day. 

692
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,960
Like no you didn't it was 
probably 2020 is humming. 

693
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,160
I mean 10 miles an hour is is 
actually a decent amount of 

694
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:36,360
wind. 
Like unless you're in Scotland 

695
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,640
or Ireland somewhere. 
I mean, maybe like abandoned 

696
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:44,560
dunes, I have no idea, but 20s, 
20s, pretty Dang windy it it's 

697
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,200
very rare and 1st, you know. 
And again, I shouldn't say I 

698
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,240
highly doubt it because 
obviously people playing 30 plus

699
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,920
mile an hour winds some and that
may be just the anomaly that I 

700
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,360
happen to be interacting with 
right then. 

701
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:58,360
But on average, it's not blowing
as much as people think it is. 

702
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,600
OK, got it. 
But do you think that in the 

703
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:07,480
higher winds that change like 
choosing to hit the 9 iron 120 

704
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,480
for sitting a full pitching 
ledge is more you have to be 

705
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,000
more aware of that than if it's 
like average it's an 8 mile an 

706
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,080
hour wind or something like you 
probably in normal shots. 

707
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,400
Most likely it's like if I was 
110 into an 8 mile an hour wind 

708
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:22,400
so it's playing 120I. 
I would probably hit a pitching 

709
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,840
wedge in that scenario. 
Yeah, yeah. 

710
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:27,680
I mean, and that's just 
probably, again, I'm trying to 

711
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,200
like put myself in that position
as to why I would be making that

712
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:31,520
decision. 
It's hard without actually 

713
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,600
feeling the wind, but I just 
don't feel like the wind would 

714
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:38,200
balloon it quite as much as it 
could when it's 20. 

715
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,760
Yeah. 
So a general thought here about 

716
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,320
wind is like that's this is too 
much math, too much data. 

717
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:48,200
You got to go off feel, which I 
understand, like people thinking

718
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:52,400
that, but you feel so much more 
confident over a golf shot in 

719
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,880
the wind. 
Once you know what number you're

720
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,680
trying to hit it. 
It's not like this shot is 150. 

721
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:02,280
I feel like it's a 2 club win. 
So I'm going to go this no, I I 

722
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,560
think that's you're you are 
guessing at that point, right. 

723
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,360
So like the. 
Video that I did with Rick 

724
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,760
Shields, not to promote someone 
else's YouTube channel here, but

725
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,360
if you go to Rick Shields and 
Scott Fawcett, it's a great, 

726
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,600
great video. 
The 2nd hole, I think the hole 

727
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,679
was playing like 190 ish 
something like that into the 

728
00:34:18,679 --> 00:34:20,239
wind. 
And I said, you know, how much 

729
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:21,960
wind do you think this is? 
And I, I think that was his 

730
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,320
answer, like A1 club wind. 
I'm like, that doesn't really 

731
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,520
mean anything. 
It does historically understand 

732
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,320
that's how we thought about it, 
but that just really doesn't 

733
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:30,360
mean anything. 
How about this instead? 

734
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,159
Let's use this 10% and I can't 
remember exactly how we came up 

735
00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:35,600
with the numbers, but basically 
I took him from wanting to hit a

736
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,960
six iron to just a perfect five 
and he hit it exactly whole 

737
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,800
high. 
And it it's exactly what you 

738
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,320
said there. 
I boiled it down to let's just 

739
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,239
pretend this shot was 205 and I 
told you nothing else. 

740
00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:48,080
What would you be hitting? 
And that was vibrant. 

741
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,639
It was just the perfect club. 
It's easier way to do it. 

742
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,320
Much easier way, OK. 
And then the the last kind of 

743
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,360
question on this was like left 
to right, right to left winds 

744
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,400
like how are you thinking? 
How are you thinking about that?

745
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,240
They're really so all the the 
the Ballistics guy from the FBI 

746
00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:06,520
that did this work. 
You mean you have to just say 

747
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,200
it's a zero spin axis that 
they're doing on left to right 

748
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,360
wind and into the wind like so 
they're just predicting that 

749
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,600
basically the the your shape 
really dictates when it's a 

750
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,120
cross wind. 
So the other day, I mean, this 

751
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:22,640
is really embarrassing. 
I hit a six iron from think it 

752
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:26,600
was 165 and the wind was just 
straight off the right and I hit

753
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,200
this thing and it was right at 
it. 

754
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,760
I'm posing like it looks great 
and it comes up 20 yards short 

755
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,600
in the front bunker. 
It wasn't even close. 

756
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,720
And that's because I I kind of 
flared it up into the wind, 

757
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,120
which was kind of the shot I was
trying to, I mean, I basically 

758
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:42,120
hit the shot I was trying to 
hit. 

759
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,560
I couldn't believe it honestly 
went that short and I definitely

760
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:48,080
was thinking that's a shot I 
need to practice a lot coming up

761
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,520
and try to figure out if I can 
straighten my my fade out a 

762
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,240
little bit in order for it not 
to have so much impact. 

763
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:56,920
Because I did it again a couple 
holes later with the pitching 

764
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,040
wedge with the wind off the 
right from 1:10 again, I just 

765
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,960
don't hit my irons anywhere but 
you really on those shots 

766
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,440
because now if I and now if the 
wind is off the left it, it 

767
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,240
certainly can just ride it a 
heck of a lot easier. 

768
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,560
So those those ones, because the
guy had to do it with a 0 spin 

769
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,000
axis. 
I don't really think the numbers

770
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,280
are that relevant. 
You really need to understand 

771
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,400
how your shape impacts with the 
wind, the distance it's going to

772
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,800
go, and how much the wind's 
going to move it left to right. 

773
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,400
Well, it's understanding your 
stock shot. 

774
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:27,800
What am I likely going to hit 
here? 

775
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,640
What's the spin axis of that? 
And then understanding that, I 

776
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,320
mean you, you'd got to know what
shot you're playing then to. 

777
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,000
Yeah, and it need and that one 
needs to come up. 

778
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,520
That's where the double cross. 
That's where let's pretend. 

779
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,560
So I fade every shot, I fade 
every shot. 

780
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,920
Let's pretend I've got a 10 mile
an hour wind off the left and 

781
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,520
I'm going to hit a little punch,
draw 6 iron and hold it just 

782
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:49,680
that way. 
It's strange the shout out 

783
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,680
rather than riding it with A7 
iron. 

784
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,040
And well, in that scenario, if I
do double cross it, which is 

785
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,120
going to happen a lot, lot more 
than people think because I'm 

786
00:36:58,120 --> 00:36:59,560
going to move the ball back in 
my stance. 

787
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:00,840
I'm going to change my path to 
the right. 

788
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,120
But it's also now I've got to 
get the club on the other side, 

789
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,920
the club base on the other side 
of path even earlier in my 

790
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,440
swing, which is a really 
difficult thing to do. 

791
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:12,280
So now my miss when I double 
cross it is going to be a block 

792
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,320
because the face is left open. 
I've moved my path to the right 

793
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,840
and the wind is off the left. 
Like the double cross in that 

794
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,760
setting is so far off the 
planet, it's just incredible. 

795
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:24,880
And so I am definitely a 
proponent. 

796
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,320
Unless there's a tree in the 
way, just ride the wind and make

797
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,320
sure, you know, make sure the 
shape you're intending to come 

798
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,400
off the club face is what comes 
off the club face. 

799
00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:34,960
And then just get better at 
figuring out, OK, this is going 

800
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:36,680
to move at 15 or 20 yards. 
Cool. 

801
00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:39,840
It's better than it moving 25 
yards the wrong way. 

802
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:45,360
Yep. 
OK, moving on, Scott. 

803
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,240
I got some Flack. 
I did. 

804
00:37:47,240 --> 00:37:49,920
I didn't think you did a bad 
job, did you? 

805
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,520
I argued with you and that was 
wrong with me. 

806
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,760
I don't. 
Remember, where was it? 

807
00:37:56,240 --> 00:38:00,560
OK, so I think they they got 
they got mad at me on the 2nd 

808
00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:03,520
hole. 
On the 1st hole, we argued about

809
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:08,440
what club to hit off the set and
then we also the second into the

810
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:12,280
green. 
So I did, I did like I did like 

811
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,360
that I was, I was a fan and I'm 
going to, I'm going to go ahead 

812
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:20,320
and we're we're going to talk 
about this a little bit, but on 

813
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,600
the 2nd hole, So I'm going to, 
I'm going to share the 2nd hole 

814
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,880
here because I think people 
weren't, weren't, weren't a fan 

815
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,480
of me saying like, oh, I need to
hit the nine. 

816
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:31,960
You're saying hit the eight. 
I hit the nine. 

817
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,520
It came up short and like I hit 
it decently. 

818
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,280
So if I would have missed it, it
would have been way short. 

819
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,160
So. 
The comments were all like, Wong

820
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,000
is dead on that hole. 
I'm like, but if you never get 

821
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,040
the club to the hole, it wasn't 
the right club. 

822
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,520
Well, let's talk about it. 
OK, So I think I was somewhere 

823
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:53,040
over here and I was like 161621 
was 165 to the flag, 2nd hole 

824
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:54,000
today. 
It was cold. 

825
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:56,080
And so I was like, that's kind 
of a nine. 

826
00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:01,600
If I hit it and you're like, I 
think you should hit the 8. 

827
00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:03,800
And I was like, I don't want to 
go long. 

828
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,080
So I ended up hitting the 9. 
And I was, I was well, short. 

829
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,520
I, I was guess I was 40 feet 
short or something like that, 

830
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,360
kind of in here. 
And the flag was back here. 

831
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:13,560
You can see this. 
You can see my screen. 

832
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:15,320
Yeah. 
Yeah, yeah, OK. 

833
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:17,200
Using the dead center of the 
green. 

834
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:23,880
Yeah, yeah. 
So like, and I, yeah, so I was 

835
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,160
afraid of going along. 
I didn't want to go back here, 

836
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:27,600
but I thought that was really 
bad. 

837
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,880
So I was trying to just stay 
short and live, live up in here.

838
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:32,200
So talk talk me through some of 
the same. 

839
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,400
Thing that I would clean up 
there always is just the 

840
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,200
language. 
I didn't want to go long. 

841
00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:38,120
That's that's an irrelevant 
thought. 

842
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,240
Where do we want to go? 
OK, we. 

843
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,760
Want to go roughly pin high? 
I mean I totally agree that it 

844
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,560
was possible the 8 iron. 
And this is the other funny 

845
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,160
thing too. 
Why did you not want to go long?

846
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:50,720
You've never played the course 
before. 

847
00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:52,640
You have no idea what's going on
back there. 

848
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,080
I mean, you have no idea what's 
going on long, but you're like, 

849
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,840
I don't want to go long. 
I mean, well, you don't want to 

850
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,080
meet again. 
What you've got to think of as 

851
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,040
Venn diagrams for both target 
selection directionally and in 

852
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,400
distance control the Venn 
diagram. 

853
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:10,680
The 9 iron portion of it is at 
best probably 5 yards short all 

854
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:12,160
the way to back short of the 
green. 

855
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,360
The Venn diagram of the 8 iron 
might even be centered. 

856
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,120
The the shortest shots are only 
5 yards. 

857
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,960
You know, the the shorter end of
the Venn diagram is 5 yards. 

858
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:23,920
I mean, they're going to 
overlap. 

859
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,960
So let's say that the 9 iron is 
exactly whole high and the 8 

860
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,400
iron is 5 yards short up to 
however long the 9 iron wasn't 

861
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:34,360
going to get to there. 
I mean, it's so one thing that's

862
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,560
interesting to me is how many 
times in a round of golf and 

863
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,520
it's it's to me, it's usually a 
sign you're not playing very 

864
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,600
well, that no club feels right 
for like 18 straight holes. 

865
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,320
You like, you feel like you just
had eighteen straight bad 

866
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,560
numbers. 
It's like it has to be one of 

867
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,560
these two. 
They can't both feel like 

868
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,080
there's no way A9 iron gets 
there and there's no way an 8 

869
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:52,640
iron stays short of the back of 
the green. 

870
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:58,240
Like that can't be the case. 
It has to be one of the two. 

871
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,440
I just, I think that it's a 
really, and again, I'm not 

872
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,120
saying I don't do the same 
thing. 

873
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,720
I mean, one thing I've said a 
few times recently on podcast, I

874
00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:09,560
do think a lot of the winning 
requires luck. 

875
00:41:09,720 --> 00:41:12,120
Qualifying requires luck. 
Idea that I talk about all the 

876
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,960
time is just having some good 
numbers, just more good numbers 

877
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,640
in any given round. 
I my US mid am last year my 

878
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:21,000
practice round, I shot 64 and 
had eighteen straight perfect 

879
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,920
numbers. 
I mean, it was just comical how 

880
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:24,760
it was just if you told me 
you're going to have an 8 iron, 

881
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,360
what number do you want? 
162. 

882
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,880
I mean just every single hole. 
The next day I reverted to the 

883
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,960
mean and I had 18 straight 
tweeners and nothing felt 

884
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:34,320
comfortable. 
That was probably a little 

885
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:35,760
nerves. 
We're in the US mid air 

886
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,400
qualifier, you know, and 
obviously we'd like to qualify. 

887
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,880
And then just, you know, just a 
little bit of doubt in my own 

888
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:43,400
game because I hadn't been 
playing at all. 

889
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,320
I mean, so everything felt 
wrong. 

890
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:47,960
It's hard. 
Yep. 

891
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:52,160
It's got to be one of two. 
OK, well here's a, here's a good

892
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:53,200
question. 
Let's end on this. 

893
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,200
This is very practical for a lot
of us at our at our home clubs, 

894
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,800
a lot of match play, 4 ball 
matches. 

895
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,120
I think it's, you know, pretty 
common for most of us. 

896
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,080
Are you changing your decade 
strategy? 

897
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,200
How do you how do you suggest 
that people handle that? 

898
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:10,800
The one thing that I say you can
do both in stroke play and match

899
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,720
play in order to make more 
birdies is on slightly barely 

900
00:42:14,720 --> 00:42:16,760
reachable par fives. 
You can play that second shot 

901
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,760
really aggressive and slightly 
barely drivable par fours. 

902
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,160
You can play that tee shot very 
aggressive, but I would only be 

903
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,720
doing that if I'm like Dormy or 
close to Dormy 2 down with three

904
00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:28,280
to play. 
I need to make something happen.

905
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,080
I'm probably going to need a 
little bit of help too, but I 

906
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:31,080
also need to make something 
happen. 

907
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:35,120
So those are spots that's where 
I can materially increase my 

908
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,560
birdies, but I'm also going to 
materially increase my bogeys 

909
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,720
most likely. 
So it's going to give me the 

910
00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:44,440
same net scoring average for the
most part. 

911
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,880
When people think I'm three down
to three to go, I need to fire 

912
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,800
at flags. 
I need to, you know, never up, 

913
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,280
never in my 20 footer. 
Like those things don't result 

914
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:53,960
in more birdies. 
It's the variance within your 

915
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,760
shot pattern that's going to 
give you that look from 1:50. 

916
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,120
And it's just making the hole as
big as physically possible on 

917
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,520
that 20 footer. 
I mean, if you hit a putt 4 feet

918
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,320
by you've made the hole about 
10% of the size that it should 

919
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,760
be. 
You just, it sucks when you 

920
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,840
leave a putt short, but you just
have to leave some putt short 

921
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,600
from 20 feet to optimize both 
your make rate and strokes to 

922
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,040
hole out rate. 
So it really is and, and one 

923
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,720
concrete example of this is and,
and where it really was like in 

924
00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:23,000
my face, the idea that three 
feet on tour is 100% make rate, 

925
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,400
basically 99% and 8 feet is 
5050. 

926
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:31,760
So unless your opponent opponent
is inside 8 feet, you really 

927
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:33,960
don't know what they're going to
make on the hole in the 1st 

928
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,880
place. 
And so on the 9th hole in the 

929
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,320
quarterfinals, I'm pretty sure 
it was of the US junior when 

930
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,560
Will won. 
We were out there with like a 

931
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:43,840
nine iron. 
It looked like our opponent had 

932
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:45,640
stuffed at the greens a little 
elevated. 

933
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,640
It looked like this guy was 3 
feet. 

934
00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:50,600
And so I did tell Will like 
we're going to get more 

935
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:54,840
aggressive on this shot. 
Instead of carrying it 4 yards 

936
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:57,400
past the flag and three yards 
left, we're going to really just

937
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:01,160
try to fire right at this flag. 
And he fanned it a little bit 

938
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,240
and he came up in the front 
right bunker. 

939
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,280
He hit the exact shot that if 
we'd played with the proper 

940
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:11,120
target, he would have stuffed. 
The real problem with this is 

941
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:15,240
then when we get up to the 
green, the guy was 15 feet, so 

942
00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:18,120
he had a A-15 footer. 
Is what does that make rated is 

943
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:24,560
what do we got here 20% on tour?
I mean this kids maybe 15% to 

944
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:27,760
make that putt and we just gave 
him a hole. 

945
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:31,520
I mean just straight up gave him
a hole when really if we played 

946
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,280
kept with this proper strategy, 
proper target will might have 

947
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:39,120
even won the hole. 
You just got to golf is unique 

948
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:43,040
because it's, it's also a sport 
where you don't, you don't play 

949
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,760
defense. 
That makes it very unique 

950
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,880
because you can't impact your 
opponent's play. 

951
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,680
I always have somebody when I 
say that like, well, you can 

952
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:52,600
rattle change or do this. 
I'm like, well, that's 

953
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:54,040
gamesmanship and you're an 
asshole. 

954
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:59,600
That's not defense. 
That's you just being psychotic.

955
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,640
It's just you just you can only 
impact your own place. 

956
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,200
So you just, I just largely 
don't even care what my 

957
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:06,680
opponent's doing anymore. 
At this point. 

958
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:10,080
It's it really is irrelevant to 
me trying to take the optimal 

959
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,440
scoring average on this hole for
me right now. 

960
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:17,880
Got it Scott, thanks for thanks 
for answering some comments. 

961
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:21,200
I I love all these two videos. 
Turned out it was so fun to to 

962
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,640
shoot those with you. 
Thanks for your generosity of 

963
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:25,920
sharing and setting it all up 
and, and everything. 

964
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:29,320
So it was what a what a cool 
series to to kick the year off 

965
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,040
here and and publish out there 
for everyone. 

966
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:33,040
So yeah, it was. 
Fun some of the comments like, 

967
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:34,720
Oh my God, is this guy going to 
be on your channel all the time?

968
00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:36,320
And now you're going to hit him 
again with another one. 

969
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:38,120
Boy, you're walking a fine line.
I'll see. 

970
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:40,080
I'll see you in 2027 for our 
next video. 

971
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,720
It's a different it's this is on
the podcast channel. 

972
00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:45,240
You know, it's a different. 
It's the only the real the real 

973
00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:46,760
folks are over here watching 
this. 

974
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,920
That's the commentary. 
But OK, people, if they do want 

975
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,680
to learn how to you teased of 
how to not aim in the middle of 

976
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:53,480
the greens. 
They want to learn. 

977
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:55,200
They should go get the decade 
app. 

978
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:59,320
They can learn all your stuff in
there and. 

979
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:01,320
Go to decade dot golf. 
Use that. 

980
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,120
Use the code. 
Cordy, use the code Cordy, you 

981
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,120
can get a nice discount. 
We do appreciate that. 

982
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,080
And they can use that app. 
Everyone is asking what's that 

983
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,640
app that Scott's using on the on
the T shots? 

984
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:14,000
That was your your decade app as
well. 

985
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,320
So yeah, appreciate it. 
Thanks for hanging out, Scott. 

986
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:17,200
Always.