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