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And welcome back to the Golf Intervention Podcast.
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glad you're tuning in with us this evening.
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I'm here in Richmond, Virginia, waiting on the impending snow and ice storm, Snowmageddon, as they call it, don't they name storms?
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I was thinking of this on my way home.
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I thought they named storms, but I haven't heard a name for this
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Hmm.
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We need to, we need to come up with a name for this storm.
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What is it gonna be?
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it.
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can't
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it.
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No, it's gotta have a name, right?
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Like a, like, you know, like a legit name.
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they female It's like Annabelle.
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Annabelle What?
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It's like a vicious blizzard called Annabelle.
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I don't know.
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I don't know if there's a name for this but I do know this.
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I'm hoping that we can get this episode out.
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If people are stuck at home, they can listen to it.
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that's what I
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Yeah.
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can do.
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So we are so glad to be back.
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with you.
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an episode out, um, a couple weeks ago detailing why we hadn't put some out, but promising and here we are back at it again are gonna use tonight's episode to introduce, know, what we've ta taken time to reflect on a little bit about what we've liked, about what we've done how we're gonna format it forward future episodes of the golf intervention.
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I think also.
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Covering things that we think we know about the golf intervention, things that are sort of the, the foundational of
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Yeah.
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to convey to the listener.
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Um, As a, been a, it's been a great study for me kinda really go through teaching principles and things that we've done
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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25 years of teaching golf and, um.
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why it works and why it doesn't and what's important and what isn't.
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And being on the ride with my friend
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my friend
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has been really fun.
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So I'm ready for, I don't know, we've put episodes.
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I'm ready for 50 more.
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Rob, we were talking
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do it.
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we were talking about
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Talking about how
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we're going to
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gonna,
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kind of next,
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yes.
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chapter, it, of the golf
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A hundred percent.
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so through kind of what we were talking about, what we're
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Yes.
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excited for.
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Yeah.
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So we have absolutely listened to our listeners, you all, and what you all have enjoyed the most about the way that we've done it in the past.
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So we are gonna be bringing back episode series, right?
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This is one of the big things that you all really enjoy, is like, okay, we're gonna do.
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A short game series, a long game series A, you know, like have it be a focused topic that we really delve into deeply over the course of three to four episodes.
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So we're starting with basically like four episode series is gonna be the, the starting point.
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Some might be five, some might be three.
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Um, but within that, right, each episode is gonna have the following things that you, the listener have said that you enjoy.
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Uh, discussions on levels 1, 2, 3, and four golfers, right?
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So one of the big things that differentiates us is that we start with a context first, who you are as a golfer.
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Are you a level one golfer shooting higher than 88 on average?
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Are you a level two golfer shooting between 88 and 76 on average, are you a level three golfer?
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Basically like 76 down to like.
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72 or are you a level four like Tour Pro, right?
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Shooting below par on average.
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So based off of who you are, what are the essential elements to the main three things that we can do to improve, which we call strategy, skill, and swing, right?
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So each episode is gonna have a level 1, 2, 3, or four discussion on strategy or skill or swing.
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And then we'll fi finally for that fourth episode.
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Uh, we're gonna hope to bring as many guest interviews as possible, so depending on the series that we have, we're gonna hope to bring in an expert, um, pertaining to that series title.
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Alright.
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Um, aside from that, each episode is gonna have, uh, one of the most popular things that we have introduced is the lessons from our lessons, right?
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This is where we tell a story about.
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Since the last time we recorded to now a lesson that we had, obviously keeping anonymous if they prefer, um, about something that, uh, that we think would be valuable for you all to hear as a listener, right?
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So lessons from our lessons was a huge hit and we're gonna keep that coming for you.
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And then finally, a mailbag, right?
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So submitting questions that either Eric and I hear on the lesson T'cause we get literally, I don't know how many questions every single day we get.
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But from time to time we will like text each other and say like, here, here's a question that I got from a student today, I think would be, uh, great to have on the podcast.
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This can also be questions that you all submit to us, right?
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We have our substack, we have our email addresses, and many of y'all have our, our have our phone numbers, right?
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You can Instagram, right?
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Any way that you want to get in touch with us and ask us questions you want us to cover on the podcast.
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We are gonna spend that dedicated time to do that.
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Um, so those are really the main three main aspects of what we're calling like TGI 2.0.
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Again, we're gonna have lesson series.
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Each episode is gonna have a level 1, 2, 3, 4 discussion on strategy, skill, and swing.
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Uh, we're gonna have one episode that is an interview with, uh, again, lessons from our lessons and, uh, and some mail back time.
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So, should be a lot of fun.
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We're really excited about it.
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This, it's gonna be like the best version of us, uh, that we've, we've been able to put out so far.
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So we're really excited for it, for sure.
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helps the listener organize their.
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Thoughts about how to improve and that's where, that's where we
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where we started
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there's so much stuff out there, there's so much the ethos, so to speak, about performance and it's hard to sort through it.
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know, we're mailbag section and I'll, I will send you, things I see on different like forums.
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Oh yeah.
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And so I think that.
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You know, someone will, will ask a a forum online about like, should I play a 12 degree driver question mark?
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And there's so much lacking to that question,
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Yep.
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And so and so then some of the answers that come back mean, they're just wild, right?
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And
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Mm-hmm.
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what we're trying to do is help make a clear and way to sift through.
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What really matters,
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Yeah.
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the big things that I think that we do on this show is sort it out and you mentioned
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You mentioned
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a bigger thing than, and so I want to kind of highlight it, is we discuss which can improve your golf game, right?
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Strategy, and swing.
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Now, would contend they're
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That they're
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in probably the order of most effectiveness.
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And least in that order.
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And I would say
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Yes.
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that everything you see and read on the all about the golf swing.
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Swing And yep.
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A hundred percent.
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it takes out skill or,'cause I just don't think people understand
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They don't.
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even people that teach golf donors.
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So this is one of the things that, as I mentor which I do as part of my job just at the country club Plus with with other local pros in the area or in the middle Atlantic.
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It's like trying to convey that conversation like, know, you can't see
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Yeah.
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eng golf through the lens of swing.
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It just can't work that way.
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to be able to understand skill.
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You have to be able to understand strategy, you have to be able to communicate it.
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And I think on our show, we work really, really hard to do that.
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Now what I would say is don't misinterpret that for us saying.
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Swing doesn't matter.
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'cause swing, absolutely 100% matters.
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And I teach swing and Rob teaches swing single day.
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Right.
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But
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Yeah.
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more to developing your game sort of what you call the geometry of the swing.
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Mm-hmm.
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And although that is very important, so this is not,
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Not
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just.
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just,
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You know, swing your swing and then if you know, if you're you'll shoot better scores.
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Or, you know, if you, if you pick conservative targets for strategy, you'll be the best version of yourself.
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Like
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Mm-hmm.
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And that's what we're trying to convey with this show.
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That's why we put it out.
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I'm most proud of too, which I wanna bring up just for a second, I was looking at the year end, um, podcasting charts like worldwide charts.
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And we're still at the golf intervention are little lowly independent.
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We're still in the top 10% of most listened to podcasts in the world out of like
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That's wild.
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And it's funny
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because
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you and
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you and I neither want
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media presence at basically
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not much.
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Yep.
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we don't like it.
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We don't use it.
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really.
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I mean, very little.
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Maybe that, maybe we will get into that a little bit more.
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But what we've
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Yeah, we've been talking about that.
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Yeah.
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I think that putting
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just really, really
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solid, helpful, you know,
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Yeah.
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That's.
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beatty information is what we're about.
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And
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That's.
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all we're trying to do.
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you could
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Yeah.
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if you've been through the catalog.
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That's all promote so you, as the listener, we just thank you for tuning in and if you share this with your friends or share it on your social media, like, Hey, y'all should check this out.
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If you play golf, that's really helpful.
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But at the end of the day, we don't even do it for that.
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Like we don't make money off this.
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No,
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just a
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no.
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we lose money on it.
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Uh, we're just a
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No, we're definitely not in the black.
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just a couple of guys like To, you know, like, we're up late tonight after the kids are in bed.
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Doing a show because we, we think that we're helping, So, this is what we're doing.
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So, um, going back
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Going back to
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skill, and swing, in that invasive, most easily.
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Um, importantly effective for your game.
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How do you
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How do you feel like
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students have absorbed that this past and what have
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what have you seen as far as like, is there any
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man, they're really getting that, or This person's
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yeah.
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Yeah, I think the, a couple aha moments, I think for, for me personally, kind as I'm, as I've been working through this is understanding that from the strategy aspect, it really is.
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You can think of it as more of like the conscious prediction, right?
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So like, what can you say out loud?
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What can you say in words to other people?
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So like if I'm playing golf and I'm maybe doing a playing lesson with someone else.
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Oftentimes I'll have them think out loud, like as they're preparing for the shot.
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So strategy is, as we define it, is really that very conscious prediction of like, Hey, what are you trying to do and how are you trying to do it right?
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Which has to deal a lot with your decision tree.
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So like your priorities for this given shot, as well as your shot process in terms of how you're predicting the lie, the slope and the wind are gonna influence the golf ball.
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Right, because as you're going through that, you can make a balance sheet, if you will.
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Like, hey, here's the, here's the real yardage.
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Right?
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Well, I'm gonna, I'm be downhill, so it's gonna subtract and then, oh, well I'm into the wind.
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I'm gonna add, so like you're playing this, this prediction game of like, how is the environment gonna influence my golf ball?
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The skill is more the subconscious prediction.
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It's not the very, things that you can.
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Put into words, it's the very micro elements of what is creating the ball flight, the strike that you're noticing.
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Right.
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And getting golfers.
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And this is something that we both are trying to get better at communicating and getting golfers to understand that it's a prediction, it's a subconscious prediction.
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You don't know where the club sweet, like where the sweet spot is going to be in space when it gets down around the golf ball.
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Right.
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You're also making a subconscious prediction about where the ball is in space too.
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Like when the ball's in the rough and it's sitting way up or sitting way down,, and the ball's above your feet a little bit, ball's below your feet.
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You're making these subconscious predictions about where the ball is, where the bottom of your swing is, where the club face the path is gonna be.
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The speed of the club head, what, how much it's, it's gonna have when it hits the ball,.
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You cannot control this stuff.
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So you have to have strategies in place.
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I say strategies, but we're talking about skill here.
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Um, you have to have processes in place that intentionally build and improve your prediction, that subconscious prediction process, right?
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So understanding that I think is just so huge.
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Because when I'm talking about like the aha moment, it's when golfers can say.
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Alright.
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I produced the skill that I wanted, I just made the wrong prediction, right?