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it a try. I think if you do, it's gonna end up in your bag. So questions this week, and some really good questions Bryson d. Chambeau and Scottie Scheffler. I think right now we're on everyone's mind. A lot of people ask me what I think about this historic run that Scotty's on and Bryson the US Open, Scotti Scheffler. The guy is playing. Listen, the guy's playing. Unbelievable golf man.

There's just no way around it. And lots of comparisons to Tiger Woods, lots of comparisons, I think, a lot of comparisons to the runs that Ernie L's and VJ. Singhs got back got on back in the early two thousands. But it just it just plays great golf. Seems like he shoots in the sixties pretty much every time he tease it up. Didn't play great in the US Open, but didn't I mean, and then in the PGA obviously craziness, but he's a two time Masters champion. He's number one

in the world. If you still believe in the world rankings. I'm not a huge I think the world rankings at this point are massively compromised. But yeah, I mean there is he's the best player in the game right now. Yeah, you make arguments that you know, there are place players that are close to him. Bryson Is is playing great golf, you know, a second at the PGA and then wins the US Open in a duel with Rory McElroy. You make an argument that ry McElroy's one of the best

players in the world. But if we're just looking on results, and you're looking at results on the PGA Tour, and that's the golf that Scotty has playing right now is second to none. Just had a baby. I mean, he's the Tom Hanks to me of our sport. He's someone that I don't know anybody that doesn't like Scotty Scheffler. I don't know anybody that doesn't like his game, that doesn't like his personality, and I think the way he kind of approaches golf. I've talked about it. He's longtime

old school swing mentor instructor in Randy Smith. His agent is Randy Smith's son, Blake Smith. I know Blake very well from he also manages Brooks Koepka, and Scotty's the whole package, University of Texas superstar, and he's just a great, great golfer. I think the comparisons to Tiger are I think they're valid, But I think the one thing that when you are going to make a comparison to Tiger Woods with any player is majors and can they do it for as long as Tiger did. I think Scotty

has the game and the mentality. His superpower is him. It's not his game. He is the superpower. The way that he thinks, the way that he approaches golf, the way that he approaches his life, the way that he approaches his life off the golf course. I think that's his superpower. I think his game. Yeah, he hits great golf shots, he drives it great. He can struggle, maybe has struggled with the putter, but he can't win six times in a major and be struggling with the putter.

So the work that he's done with Phil Kenyan, I think it's been fantastic. He's got a great team of people around him. His father, his coach, Randy Smith, putting, Phil Kenyan, Caddie, Ted, Scott Agent and Blake Smith. The team around Scotty. He's got a great, great wife, young family. He tends to not be on social media. He doesn't you know, you don't see him on vacations doing crazy stuff that you see a lot of athletes doing today. Is a little bit of a throwback. He lets his

clubs do the talking. He's smart, he's curious, he's a great interview. I think he's very genuine. The Scotti Scheffler you see on the golf courses. The Scotti Scheffler that's off the golf course. And like I said, he is the superpower. His approach to the game is the superpower. We've got another major coming up in a couple of weeks, the Open Championship. Yes, Scotty hits the golf ball high, he hits high bombs, but he's the full package and

he's the best player in the game right now. And there are a lot of good golfers out there, but he's the best player in the game right now because he's winning and he's winning a lot, and he's shooting in the sixties a lot, and don't expect it to end any time soon. I think he's going to continue to crush it this year. I don't think. I mean, I would be shocked if he doesn't win the FedEx and then twenty five, I mean, what's he going to do there? Because it doesn't look like he's slowing down

to me. So I'm a fan. I love watching him play, and I'm a fan of him personally as well. A lot of questions about Bryson de Chambeau and you know kind of what he's been doing. Listen, I talked about it. Bryson's figured it out. Bryson is real. Now, this is not a joke. This is not a gimmick. The YouTube stuff that he's been doing, the engagement stuff he's been doing. There are a lot of people that maybe might think that's kind of contrived and kind of I've heard fake.

I see Bryson on a regular basis on Live right, and I think a lot of people that I've seen commenting on Bryson in the press, they're not I never see them in any live tournaments. So I know Bryson. I talked to Bryson. I've watched the maturation of Bryson. I've been with Cobra Puma for a long time now. Bryson was at Cobra Puma for a long time. We did photo shoots and shoots together for stuff. I got

to talk to him. He's changed, he's matured. I think he's a perfectionist in a sport where that doesn't work. But I've said this before. His superpower is he doesn't care what you think about floating the balls, about the equipment, about the way that he goes about things. He does not care, And I think that's his superpower. His superpower is every golfer has a superpower, right. Rory McElroy's superpower

is the driver, the speed, the length. A guy like Patrick Reid, Sevy Biasteros, their superpowers were short game, right, ball striking. Adam Scott's ball striking is his superpower. Guys like that Tiger everything was a superpower, right. Bryson's is he does things his own way. But I've talked to him about this before. He says, everything is weird as it looks to us, as strange as it looks to us.

The one length irons the way that he's using irons now that have a little Bulgian roll to them, nobody's ever done that before, really, And the four degree crank driver that he's using, nobody's really ever done that before. He went on a big kick to change his body to try and be a long driver, and all of that. I think he's taken all of that something. Here's the other thing. Bryceon' is a smart kid. He's a thinker. He's not dumb, and he's just figured it out. And

it's I don't think it's a gimmick. You know, Phil Mickelson in the Phil Tiger era, Tiger didn't give didn't give a lot of interviews, Tiger didn't really interact with, didn't give a lot of back to the to the fans. He he was in the Tiger world. He was stoic, he was driven, he was at times robotic, and Phil would stand there and sign autographs for an hour. Tiger wouldn't. Is that made up? Is that contrived? I don't know, but it's smart and I think what Bryson is doing

is smart. He is engaging with the fans. For all the people that think Bryson is it's contrived by his management team, by his handlers, all that bullshit. Listen, Bryson is taking advantage of the modern age of social media, and it's smart, and the fans are responding. I think right now Bryson moves the needle. Nobody's ever going to move the needle, in my opinion, the way Tiger Woods did.

But I think the way that the golf community embraced his win at the US Open, the way he won, the way he handled the win, what he did after the win, taking the trophy around. Listen, I think Bryson gets a lot out of that. I think Bryson gets more out of that than the fans do. It's an opportunity for him to kind of show off who he is. And listen, I talked to him, I'm around him, I'm around his team. I buy it. It's to me, it's real. And the reason why I think it's real is because

I see it up close in person. I'm not watching it on TV, not commentating on it, and not going to tournaments and seeing it. You know, it was a really cool moment that I got to watch on the range at the Live Nashville tournament Brooks, Brooks and Bryson. I mean they had real beef. I mean, they didn't like each other, and it's been cool to kind of see. One of the things that Live is done is it brought Bryson and Brooks together. It helped them form a

mutual respect for each other. They have a friendship. It's maybe not the friendship that a lot of people, but they they have a mutual respect for each other. Now. I think Brooks definitely respects Bryson way more than he used to. And you thank Live for that. Live brought them together as team captains and it's it's real. I like it. I like Bryson. I'm a fan. I like what he's doing in the game. I like the crossovers with all the stuff that he's doing on YouTube. I

think he's got smart ideas. I think he's got engaging ideas, and I think the fans are responding. Uh so, I'm here for that. Well. Asking about Brooks kind of going back and forth between kind of the blade and the mallet, he went back to the blade last week. He has been using a mallet. I think he's just struggling with a little bit of confidence right now. We see players go through that. See players, I mean Scotty Scheffler went

through that. I mean, Scotty Scheffer always put it with a blade, kind of the tiger Scotty Cameron Newport too. Brooks kind of had that shape too, and Scotty went away from that to try and get some confidence and go to a blade it or go to a mallet. It took him a while to figure it out, to figure out it reacts. So I think Brooks is kind of caught right now, but in just some confidence. He's not seeing a lot of putts go in. He won in Singapore and putted great, and right now he's not

seeing any puts go in. I think that happens to players, right It happens to lots of players. And that's another question that I got asked about one of the players I work with, DJ. What's going on with his game right now? Listen, right now, DJ's he's struggling. He's not able to take what he's doing in practice and put it into play. Yeah, he's missed some cuts in majors.

But I think anytime I tried to, I could easily have because of all my players have gone to live, I could easily use this podcast to just constantly talk about that. I try not to. I try and inform people about Live because that's the tour that I work on. And I think a lot of people make a lot of assumptions on Live, and they will openly tell you they don't watch. They don't they don't watch tournaments, they don't go to the tournaments, and they think it's all

a joke, so they don't watch it. So I try and give my experience on Live. What I think happens just my opinion, but I think it's when somebody on Live that's a superstar plays bad, a lot of people easily go to the narrative that they took the money and they just don't care anymore. Well, Nellie Corter got a ton of money from Nike a couple of years ago. She's won a bunch of tournaments this year, shut eighty

in the US Open. Is that because she doesn't care because she's got money in the bank and doesn't have to worry about majors. No, she played bad. Justin Thomas hasn't won a major since two When you win a major, you cash in. You cash in on the course, you cash in off the course. Is anybody writing articles? I don't see anybody writing articles about JT taking his foot off the gas because you want a major in at Southern Hills. That's not the case. Good players play bad.

Good players don't play good all the time, right, it happens. Good players miscuts in majors. It happens. Doesn't have any other meaning other than the fact that that week they didn't play good. So good players can play bad, and good players can have go through tough times where they're not hitting the ball where they want to. I think the narrative that if you went to live and you play bad, you don't care anymore. I don't see that, But listen, you can make up your own minds on that.

DJ is he just turned forward and the game gets harder the older you get. DJ used to be able to dominate golf through the driver. He could hit the driver in spots and distances nobody else in the world could now the game. Five years ago. That was the case. It's not the case anymore. He's getting older, like everybody, every player currently playing competitive golf is getting older every single year. And in your forties, you know, golf gets harder. I've seen it, I've watched it. He's I think he's

gonna get back to playing good. And here's the other thing. DJ's won already this year, So can't be playing that bad that hasn't played the way he wants to in the majors. It's frustrating for him, it's frustrating for the guys on his team. So I'm one of those. So we're grinding. We're going to do our best to try and get him back to where he wants to be, where I think a lot of people want him to be. So, but I don't think has anything to do with Live

and money. I really don't a lot of people asking about PGA Tour and Live are they going to get a merger? Listen, I don't know anybody on Live that knows what's happening, and I sure as they'll don't nobody on the PGA Tour, you know, at all these majors. Everybody on the PGA Tour side players, Caddie's agents all say to us on the guys that are in the live ecosystem, all the PGA Tour ecosystem guys, every time we're at a major, all ask us the same question,

what are you hearing? We ask them the same question, what are you hearing? I don't know anybody that's got any answers. I think they need to get a deal done quick because the longer the deal takes to be done, I just think the fans are missing out. I think I personally, and maybe this is good to be controversial. I think the game's good right now, meaning from the golf side, there is great golf being played all over the world on all the tours. And yeah, I don't

know if a deal is going to get done. But and then you know a lot of people asking questions about why isn't Bryson on the Olympic team. You got to ask the people that are involved in that. It goes off of the world rankings. I personally think in twenty twenty four in June, the world rankings are compromised. It's just too many good players playing golf that aren't getting world ranked. Yeah. I know the talking points. I know it. You knew this going in. You knew this

going in, you took the money all that. I understand. Yeah, they didn't know that. But the game can change, in the game evolve. If they want a deal, I believe they can get one done. That's my opinion. I think up until this point the reason why a deal hasn't gotten done. It's just just my opinion. I think there are people that don't want to want it to happen, but I do believe that if they want a deal to get done, they can get it done. Would you take the best driver of the ball on tour or

the best putter? And why? That is a very interesting question. You got a pot well to win? I mean, I think we just saw that and Roy McElroy. Roy can't really hit the golf ball any better, and he hit it at the US Open. He sure as hell can't really drive the golf ball anyway any better. I mean, he's just driving the golf ball so good. I mean I'm staying on the driving range the US Open and when he pulls out driver, you just stand there and

just it's so cool to watch up close. It's so cool in the practice rounds that I've been lucky enough over the years to be in with Rory to watch the way he drives the golf ball. He's such a good player, right, but you gotta make putts to win. And for as good as Rory hit it at the US Open, he missed putts when it counted. I will say this to be I believe and again just my opinion.

I think to be a great competitive golfer at the elite elite tour level, to have a chance to be number one in the world, to have a chance to win major championships, you have to be able to drive the golf ball. Scotti Scheffler drives the shit out of the golf ball. John Rahm drives it great right justin Thomas when he plays well, drives it well. Jordan Speed can spray it. But when Jordan is dominating as he has,

he drives it really good. His ball striking's a mazing and he's a great putter, So I think you need a combination of both. It's funny I asked Freddie Jacobson, one Swedish player played on the PGA Tour, played in Europe. One of the best putters on the planet and pure putter, hooped it from everywhere. He was a great putter. And I asked him once, if you could start your career over and be a great ball striker or be a

great putter, which one would you choose? And I was really interested to see what his response would be because he's one of the best putters I've ever seen. He's one of the best putters anybody has ever seen. Right. He said, if he could do it all over again, he'd take great ball striking over great putting because he said in major championships, I can't put great ball strikers off the golf course. If they're great ball strikers, they're going to have more chances. Freddy was never a great

driver of the golf ball. He was never really a great ball striker. Brad Faxon was an unbelievable putter, he was never a amazing driver of the golf ball. So I think you need a combination of both. But I do think that you can have a career if you are a pure, pure, every category great ball striking. Great Patrick Reid is a great example. Patrick Reid's superpower is short game. That's his superpower, right, it's not ball striking. He's got a green jacket. He's been one of the

best players in the world for a long time. Again, a lot of stuff off the golf course. I'm just talking about pure golf there. Adam Scott has been a great ball striker his entire career. He got to number four in the world in two, number three in the world. Maybe yeah, three in the world two thousand and eight, lost his putting and then he goes to the long putter and wins a major the Masters, goes to number one in the world, and what does everybody say? How

goods is ball striking? I'm like, where the hell have you people been for the last twenty years. Guy's been an elite ball striker. Ernie Els was an elite ball striker, an elite elite when it came to hitting the golf ball. He was a great putter too, So I think you need a combination of both. But you can't compete at a high level if you can't get the ball in play off the tee. You just can't. You cannot be a consistent elite player, I believe unless you can drive

it so and especially in the modern game. Now, yeah, everybody hits it far now, but in major championships, you gotta do a combination of both. Bryson didn't drive it that great on Sunday at the US Open, made putts when he needed to, short game bailed him out. I think it's a combo, but it's hard. I think it's hard for the average golfer listening for the rest of us, and to me, the average golfer is non competitive elite. Just for the average handicap golfer, driving the golf ball

in play is paramount to lowering your scores. The more balls you can get in play off the tee, the better you play. Great example is someone I work with on Live Pat Perez, forty eight years old. As a forty eight year old body, doesn't hit it anywhere close to what the guys that he's playing with. He's one of the shortest guys out there. He shot sixty four on Sunday. I think he missed one fair way. He kept the golf ball in play in an effort to

try and hit the golf ball further. At times, Pat tries to swing too hard and an effort to try and get more distance because he's not long and is shorter than some of the other guys. He doesn't hit it good. He hits it offline, he hits makes doubles because he hits the driver in the water, hits the driver out of bounds. I'm trying to get him to buy in. Okay, just get the golf ball in play

off the tee. You get the golf ball in play off the tee, your confidence goes up a lot, and I mean a lot, a lot, and I think it's really really important to drive the golf ball well fix for the dreaded block shots out to the right. Most players that I see in the lessons that I give to regular golfers, the slide is a combination of what I see on a regular basis an extreme path one either over the top where you're out to in or an extre so you're an if you're a slicer of

the golf ball. Most of the time I see an extreme path. The path kind of if you're on a launch monitor in that kind of seven, eight, nine, ten, and it's with a driver, which is the longest club in your bag. It's impossible to control the face from there. You just can't control the face from there. You're not going to control the face. You're just not. And then people that excessively hook the golf ball, that path gets excessively out into out and then you just struggle to

manage the face. But the block shots to the right are a combination of the path and the face, and so the face is going to have where the face is pointing the club face of your driver where that is pointing at the moment of contact is going to

have the largest effect. So when you look at your driver, look at the club face, and if you're hitting a lot of golf balls off the toe, if you're hitting a lot of golf balls and you've got the idiot mark on your skying the golf ball, and you've got a bunch of ball marks on the top of your driver, and then you look at the bottom of your driver and you see these kind of extreme te marks, that's the path, and then that's the face not being able

to catch up, can't square it. So the block to the right, there's always whenever someone says their misses to the right, I'm going to ask them two questions. Does the ball start right and go right or does the ball start left and go right? Two different things. So if it's starting right and going right, that can be the path being too into out in the face being open and right of the path. If it's starting left and then going to the right, that's the path and

then the face combo. So, but look at your golf club and then obviously a lot of block shots to the right, you get steep with the driver. If that path gets to the left. You're hitting down on the driver with the face open. That is a recipe for the ball going to the right. And if you understand that, then when you hit one, you can say okay, and with the driver, I think with all golf clubs, but yeah, I'm just going to say this with all golf clubs.

When you're hitting golf balls on the driving range, put an alignment stick down on your feet, pick a target out, go back, look at where your target is, Look at where you want to set up. Go back, say okay, yeah, let me check this. Okay, that's where I want to set up. That's where I want to get my feet set. So when you hit a bad shot on the driving range, you can eliminate aim as the as the problem, as

the reason. And if you're aimed in the right place and you're setting the club face up square right now, if you're aiming miles to the left and you're opening and the face is open at a dress and you've got a super extreame grip and that face is pointed the right. But if you're aiming square to if you're aiming squarely and the face at a dress with the driver is square, and you hit one offline. You can eliminate two things. One, it's not your aim, and it's not the way you set the club face up at

a dress. It's what you're doing in your golf swing that's causing that. So then when you hit a good shot, you can go back and say, okay, yeah, that's yeah, that's right where I'm aimed. Or you can hit a bad one and say, okay, that ball went forty yards right of where I'm aiming. What would cause That's got to be the face and the path. It's just so I think part of getting better at golf is having an understanding as to what is actually happening when you're

hitting shots. When you're hitting the shots that you're hitting, but eliminate the aim as being a part of it. What do you recommend for someone that hits iron solid, but the driver goes everywhere and okay, iron swings, you're hitting down on your irons, right, you're trying to take a divot, trying to take a divot after the golf ball. So the angle of attack with your irons is you're going to be hitting down on it. That's the death move with the driver, unless you've got a boatload of speed,

like Brooks and DJ. Brooks and DJ can hit down on the driver. They can have you know, Brooks kind of hangs out kind of one and a half degrees down on his driver, but he's over one eighty ball speed, so he can get away with that. So and there are two swings, in my opinion, in golf. There's a driver swing where the ball's on a tee. It's already in the air, so you've got to swing up on it, and then with the irons, you've got to hit down on it. The problem I think for most people is

their iron swing is their driver's swing as well. They're hitting down on the driver. Their angle of attack it's too steep. That works with an iron, doesn't work with a driver. Always remember that the driver is already on a tee, so it's already in the air. When you have an iron in your hand, the ball is on the ground and you've got to get it into the air. The way you get it into the air is by

hitting down on it, which makes it go up. That doesn't work with a driver, and most people struggle with the driver because they're hitting down it. Go to your club at your home course and go look at the par five tea boxes. Look at how many divots are on the par five t boxes. You think anybody' hitting irons off those tea boxes. You got a over five hundred yard five, You think anyone's hitting an iron off

of that as a fifteen handicap. Hell no, they're trying to hit the golf ball as far as they can because they don't hit it very far. So go to a PGA Tour event, go to a major, go to a long par five. There have no divots on t boxes. Everybody's sitting a driver. Hitting down on the iron works. Hitting down on the driver does not work. So if you're someone that's a really really solid iron player, get on a launch monitor and look at your angle of

an attack. See if you're hitting up on it or if you're hitting down on If you're hitting down on it, you're going to struggle with the driver. If you're hitting down on it, it's fact. It's just that's what's going to happen. That's an interesting one. Who's been the toughest tour level coach or tour pro to coach? Why and how did you adapt the two hardest players I've ever worked with, were two very different players. Trevver immlemun I

worked with and currently right now Pat Perez. Trevor was tough to work with because Trevor was too smart, you know his brain. He thought too much, and we were always trying to get Trevor to One of the years I worked with Trevor in the early two thousands before he won the Masters, so I was trying to get Trevor to turn his brain off, to trust the work that he was doing. He was a tinkerer. He was always. I mean, we would back in the old days on the European Tour, would be the first people on the

range in the morning. We'd hit balls for two three hours, grinding on the golf swing. We'd go play eighteen holes and would be the last ones on the range. And I think Trevor would admit this. He destroyed his body and he wore himself out by just practicing too much. He wanted perfection, he wanted more information, and I was always trying to make things as simple as possible. Trevor always didn't like the way his golf swing looked. I thought he had one of the greatest golf swings I've

ever seen. Adam Scott tiger Woods in the early two thousands used to tell me, Man, Trevor's golf swing's so good. Trevor hated his golf swing. So it was hard to work with Trevor because he was never satisfied with the way he was swinging it. And we joke about it now. It's so funny. I think I've said this story of

the pod before, but I'll say it again. You know, a couple of years ago, when Trevor was still trying to play on the European toury, he was like, hey, man, do you have any golf swings from when you and I worked together back in the day. I was like, yeah, sure, so I sent him one from two thousand and four,

the World Cup they'd won, he and Ry Sabatine. He had won the World Cup the year before at kiewhileand in O three we were in Seville somewhere Savilla and we were on the range and I sent him a picture of his golf swing with an iron on the range from Seville and he was like, man, I wish I could swing that way. I was like, that was the week I quit because you told me you had

the worst golf swing on the planet. So Trevor was just really really hard on himself, and it was tough on Neil Wallace's he at the time, and it was tough on me because you know, it didn't really seem like we could. It was never perfect enough for Trevor, and he was so hard on himself. So he was tough to work with because he just was so hard on himself because he hated He always thought his golf swing was terrible, and he had one of the best

golf swings on the planet. And then currently Pat Perez, who I'm working with right now. Pat's forty eight years old. I've talked about this before, was in a car accident, broke his pelvis in three places. His body can do what his body can do, and there were a lot of things that his body can't do. So one of the difficulties in working with someone like Pat is he makes me a better coach because I have to find a way to work around the limitations he has from

a body standpoint. I try and get him to do what Brooks and DJ does. He's gonna have them in the hospital with back issues, hip issues, knee issue. He can't do it. So it's hard at times because we're working around the limitations that he has. But I think it makes me a better coach. People with great golf swings, they're easy to work with. Adam Scott. You know, if you're working with Adam Scott, it's it's an embarrassment of riches of how good that golf swing is? Ry McElroy,

I mean, how good's that golf swing? Yeah, Tommy Fleetwood, how good's that golf swing? But they don't win every week, right, And so I think I've been lucky enough in my career. I've worked with guys that have great, aesthetically looking golf swings. Darren Clark, Adam Scott, Trevor Emmlman. We worked to try and have the golf swings look good, function good, be in great positions. I'm very proud of that. I've also

worked with guys like Graham McDowell. I've also worked with a like DJ and Brooks and Pat and other people that don't have aesthetically perfect golf swings. So I think working with players where you have to work around what they do, I think it forces me to be a better instructor. I think it's it's hard, it's but it makes me think, it makes me focus, it makes me curious into how can I solve this problem around what

this player can do? So yeah, good question. I would love to hear your opinion advice on breaking into instruction Listen. I am lucky enough to work alongside at my dad's academy here at the Floridian. I've got a great team around me, Ryan Chrysler and Matt Gallant. I have two academies under my own brand, Claude Harmon Golf Performance, one in Dubai and one that I just opened up in Thailand. I've got a great team of people around me. I've

got seven instructors in Thailand. We're gonna end up probably with three in Dubai. We're probably gonna end up with three or four in Thailand. And you know, I always say to the young instructors, learn learn as much as you can. I mean, we live in the information age. There are so much stuff online. There are so many seminars you can go to, there are so many books, podcasts like this that you can listen to. But getting into instruction, you just got to give lessons. There's a

girl that I teach who lives in Canada. She tried to play, wanted to play professionally. She's made the decision to trying to get into instruction now, so I'm doing my best to try and help her as much as I can. She's working at an indoor facility in Toronto and she's just given basic golf lessons to basic golfers who are just trying to learn what I do and what I'm lucky enough to do to work with elite professional golfers. I've been doing this for I'm fifty five now.

I've been doing this over twenty years. It wasn't always like this. I can remember going to Portugal. I worked in Portugal at Paneros Altos in the algar southern Portugal, and I gave lessons to German golfers who I remember giving a golf lesson to a woman in her fifties. Once she came in and she had booked me for two hours a day every day for a week, and she had fifteen hundred, two thousand dollars worth of clothes on, you know, all the best golf clothes, the best shoes,

everything like that. She didn't have golf clubs and I will never forget this, she said. I said, where are your golf clubs? She says, I don't have any, but all my friends play golf and I want to learn how to play golf. I said, great, So I gave her a sand wedge. You know, she said, I wondered what one of these would look like. I said, what the sandwich would look like? She said, no, golf club. Never seen a golf club before. That's how I started

nineteen ninety three. I gave golf lessons to people that never even seen a golf club before. So if you want to get into a golf instruction, you know, find a club get into. You could go through the PGA of America route and go through become a PGA pro and go work at a club and do that. You can take TPI, sept all, the Titleist Performance Institute, all their Level one stuff. You learn a lot through there. But becoming a golf instructor is basically like becoming a chef.

How do you get to become a chef? You just don't one day walk into a restaurant and start cooking. You start at the bottom and you work your way up. So's you got to start at the bottom. You got to give golf lessons to people that don't know how to play golf, and that's where I think you learn your craft, your delivery, your philosophy. I think it's very important for anyone out there that's listening to this as

a golf instructor. I'm sure I've said this before on previous pods, but find out what you believe in the golf swing that makes players better, not what I believe, Not what Pete Cowan believes, or Butch Harmon or Dana Dolquiz or mac Mark Blackburn or Sean Foley or any of the people that I've had on the podcast before. I've had some of the best golf instructors on the

planet on the podcast. But I think if you're going to become an instructor, and golf instruction is going to become your life and your life's work and your profession, you've got to figure out what you believe makes golfers better, not what I believe. And that's one of the things that I challenge all of my instructors to do, is

they present their philosophy to me. Every year when I go to my academy in Dubai, I always have my instructors put a presentation together as if they were going to give a teaching coaching summit seminar and they were the keynote speakers. And tell me what you believe in the golf swing, tell me what you believe makes a player better. And I think it's important to do that, But you just got to stand there and give golf lessons. Got to give golf lessons all day, every day. And

that's when I'm not on tour. That's what I do. I teach eight hours a day to regular golfers. Yeah. I'm lucky enough at this point in my career to work with a lot of elite players that are trying to play competitively. But I work at a private club, the Floridian here, and I work with members and their wives and sometimes girlfriends and sons and daughters. And these are not elite golfers. And you know, that's that's something that I hope that I never stopped doing. I enjoy it,

I love it. And if you want to be an instructor, get in the kitchen, start figuring out how to cook, and start figuring out how to give golf lessons and figure out what you believe makes a good good player. I want to thank everyone for the questions. If you like this stuff, I'll try and do a couple of these, you know, at least once a month. I'm happy to do them. Answer your questions. It's kind of cool to hear what you guys want to hear a lot of

questions on getting this player that player on the pod. Listen. I ask players all the time from all the tours to come on the pod. It's hard to work on their schedules and my schedules and stuff, but I've got some. I've got some big players that that have requested to be on the pod, so hopefully and get those recorded soon. We'll get Brooks and DJ on this thing one time. Be fascinating to get their opinion. Trying to pin those two guys down on time is uh yeah, that's that's

always fun. But can't thank everyone enough for listening. When I go to majors and even when I go to the live events, somebody always comes up and says they're they're a fan of the podcast. I continue been doing this now almost three years. We've got over two million downloads. I continue to be amazed at the fact that you know, I'm currently sitting in my office recording a podcast, and we put it out there and people listen. It's it's

amazing to me. I'm so thankful and and I'm honored that people take forty five minutes, half hour, an hour out of their day to listen to me talk about golf with other people. And it really does mean a lot to me. It's really special something I'm very very proud of. And I can't thank all of you, the people that listen on a weekly basis. It means a lot to me. So keep listening. I'll keep trying to come up with different topics, rate reviews, scribe wherever you

get your podcast. Good podcast next week, it's one I'm really really proud of, a really really cool one. You're gonna want to tune in it. It's special to me. And uh, it's a good one. We'll see you next week. Hmmm hmm