Playing golf: CH3 goes from teacher to student

Published Dec 14, 2022, 10:00 AM

Claude discusses his weekend playing in the Floridian Member-Guest with Marina Alex. It had been nearly 2 years since he'd last played a round but CH prepped and got the same thrills everyone can relate to as well as a reminder that he just needs to practice more!

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It's the son of a Book podcast. We come to you every Wednesday. UM. This week it's the UM I actually played golf episode. I haven't played golf in two years and played Golf of the Weekend in the Floridian Pro Member and UM, yeah, it takes a village to get me to to play golf. UM. There's a lot of moving parts. UM, but I think that's basically what everybody that a lot of people that are listening kind of go through the same thing. And you know, as someone that UM works with good players and works with people that you watch on TV, UM, golf is never easy for me. So UM talked a little bit about that. So we'll get to that in a minute. Before we jump into that, I wanted to tell you about the new Golf Lover's gift Box from our friends at for Wellness. They put it together for the holidays. UM, if you're late to the show in Christmas shopping, like I know a lot of people are, UM, I know I am, well, UM, I think this is really good. UM, it's coming at a good time for UM holiday shopping. 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My entire life is golf, and so if I can get any chance to get away from playing golf, I try and take it because it can just be kind of all consuming and overwhelming at times. And um full disclosure my body is not great at back surgery out of micro di sect to me in two thousand eleven, UM I have almost zero internal hip rotation on both my left and my right hip. UM. Dave Phillips, who has been on the podcast before, and Greg Rows, the co founders of the Titles Performance Institute, UM I'm I'm on the tp I advisory board. But when they started doing their t p I seminars, you know, level one and really started to introduce back in I guess probably two thousand four or two thousand five started to introduce their movement screen. UM testing your ability to internally rotate on both hips is part of their Big twelve right, the Big twelve M things that they test and and clauses main issues. So they used to pull me up on stage and UM I would get down and they would check my internal hip rotation and everybody in the crowd would laugh because it was basically zero. UM. I have very little internal hip rotation. So if you think about what we're asking your lower body to do when you're hitting golf balls, is if you're a right handed golfer, as you make your back swing, as your hips turn, you're going to internally rotate into that right hip. You're internally rotating into the right hip. You're externally rotating on the left hip. Then on the down swing, you're going to internally rotate into that left hip and the right hip is going to externally rotate. That's very, very difficult for me to do physically. So as a result of that, I have the classic issue with limited hip rotation, which is early extension or what we call thrust. Your lower body is getting closer to the golf ball on the backswing and probably more so on the down swing. That's my swing issue. So, um, I can't get a lot of rotation. I don't have a lot of speed. Um, I had a lot of balls thin. I had a lot of balls fat because as I start my downswing, my pelvis gets moving closer to the golf ball, then my upper body has to back out. You always want to remember that when you're hitting golf balls, whichever direction your hips are going, your upper body is going to tend to go in the opposite direction to keep you balanced. So if you're setting up in your golf posture and you move your lower body closer to the golf ball without stepping closer to golf, but just move your lower body closer to the golf ball. The upper body has to go back to try and keep you some balance. And that's the issue that I have in my golf swing. Physically, Um, it's very very difficult for me to do a lot of the things that I know that I need to do, which is keep my hips back on the downswing that kind of push back, I get a lot of weight up into my toes because as much as I know what I need to do, um, physically I just can't do any of it. So whenever I'm contemplating hitting golf balls or playing golf, UM, I always come at it from, Okay, what am I going to do to try and offset the issues that I have with my body? Because the majority of the bad shots that I hid in my golf swing, they're not concept issues, right you know, someone that gives you know, thousands upon thousands of golf lessons for the last years, I know how to fix my problem, but physically it's really really tough for me to do that. So it's frustrating because, um, I can't hit a lot of golf balls because my back hurts, and I was in back pain for so long. Anybody listening that's been in back pain, that has had back surgery, you know, um, you'll do anything to not have to feel that way again. It was debilitating. Um I got to wear in two thousand eleven, in the kind of spring summer, I I couldn't walk, and so that's what made me, you know, go in for surgery so my back doesn't hurt if I don't do a lot of rotational stuff. Golf inherently, unfortunately, just isn't great for for my body because my lower body. Um So, I have to stretch, i have to do a lot of body preps. Um, I've got a you know, phone role, I've got to um theragon, I've got the hyper ice that the heat thing that you put around your back. So I've got to do all of that before I hit golf balls. Um So, like I said, when I play golf, my misses. It's really it's it's incredibly frustrating for me because I fundamentally know what my problem is, and I fundamentally know how to fix the problem technique wise, but physically, my body just doesn't want to do that. So when I think about building my golf swing and trying to figure out, you know how to hit a golf ball. I don't hit a lot of golf balls. Um so I went. Um I went to one lengths from Cobra about four or five years ago when they first came out, UH and a huge shout out to Ben Showman. He got me all the new UH. He got me new Cobrat one length irons. Um we got the l a golf chafts in those which I was trying out for the first time in the irons and and really really liked the Marina Alex who I played with in in the Floridian Pro member this weekend this past weekend, she uses that iron shaft. Pat Perez, who I work with, uses that iron shaft. Um So I'm a one length guy. They built me the new ones. I got the new UH Cobra driver, which UM, I can't wait for everybody to get an opportunity to hit that next year. Um it's really really really good it And um so the one length irons really really helped me because everything, as if you don't know, everything's kind of the length of a seven iron. So all the irons not my wedges. Um, I can't. I can't go that militant like Bryson does. So my sand wedge, my lob wedge, my my gap wedge, those are just regular length. But all the rest of my irons are the length of a seven iron. So um, again, because my body isn't great, because I don't have a lot of speed. Um the long the last iron I actually have, and my golf bag is a six iron, and then I've got a five hybrid, a four hybrid, and then a three hybrid. I don't carry a three would because I can I can never get three was off the ground in the air and um a driver. So but one likes really helped me because um, everything is the length of a seven iron, so they're a little bit easier for me to control. When I in the past, um, regular length golf clubs, I start to bend over too much. Um it starts to you know, get a little bit of of of grief to my lower back. But really, um, it's hard for me to take divots with regular length golf clubs because I get so much thrust, so much early extension. So the one lengths helped me. I feel like I can compress it. I feel like I can, you know somewhat get down to the golf ball. So I thought, Okay, I'm I've got to go play, and I've got to figure out a swing that that I can repeat and that can I can make somewhat work. I would love to be able to draw the golf ball. UM It's it's the holy grail for me. But every time I try and draw hit draws, I just get more of the lower body going to the to the golf ball. I get a ton of thin shots. I get a tremendous amount of hand rotation because my lower body is going closer to the ball. It's stalls out, my chest stalls out, my feet get moving around. I get a lot of weight on my toes. UM. And I don't really um, like I said, I don't take a lot of divots and UM, I don't compress the golf ball a lot specs, especially when I'm trying to hit draws. So UM and then the other thing. I posted a video on on Instagram, UM of me hitting a shot on the eighteenth hole at for Ready and with the driver. And UM, I play left handed, I can play golf both directions. UM, I can play golf left handed and right handed. I have two sets of everything. UM, I played golf right handed until life is about eighteen. And then my grandfather, um I was asking me some questions about my golf. And I played hockey, and I played hockey as a kid, and I played UM, I hit a hockey puck left handed, and I had a baseball left handed. So he asked me one day to watch me. He said, Hey, let's let's find a left handed club and watch you hit someone. I have a lot more speed left handed, I have a lot more power, and I have a lot more consistency. So UM, for demo purposes, if I'm doing um demoing golf lessons or doing anything you know, media wise, I'll do it right handed. But when I do play golf, I play golf left handed. UM. So I thought, all right, let me figure out what I can do to first and foremost, just hit the golf ball solid um. And I think you've heard me on the pod talk about this for a long time. UM, the average golfer. And I am an average golfer, right, I'm just like everybody listening. Um, you know, golf is not easy. UM. I hit a lot of bad shots. Um, I hit some good shots, but you know, I don't even know what my handicap would be because you know, I never play golf. Um, if I was to guess, I'd probably say I'd probably be somewhere around, you know, an eight or ten. Let's take a quick break and we are back. So I was thinking, what can I do to hit the golf ball? Solid um? So fading the golf ball is is is the the shot that can hit and the reason why I can hit it is. My tendency with my golf swing is my backswing is always historically gotten really really on the inside and then it gets really really stuck and underneath behind me. On the down swing, my lower body gets closer to the golf ball, my upper body backs out, get a lot of weight up on my toes, my footwork my lead foot for me, my right foot, the heels always sliding around, and I have a lot of backup. That's where I get the thin shots, That's where I get the heavy shots. So um, I was thinking, Okay, what can I do? I mean, my angle of attack when I get on a launch monitor with with a seven iron is what most people's are that play the PJ. I mean, I'm hitting up on a seven iron, which is just it's horrendous. And again I know that I know that I need to hit down on the golf ball with my irons. Right. I give you know, thousands, thousands of golf lessons telling people you've got to hit down on the golf ball, you've got to take a divot, you've got to cover. So I know all of this stuff, right, I know how to teach it, I know how to explain it. But when I hit golf balls and when I play golf, it's just it's it's so frustrating because I just at times can't get my body to do what my mind is telling it to do. Um. So I thought to myself, all right, I'm gonna hit some faith. So gave myself about three weeks and what I just started doing every single day, sometimes for fifteen minutes, sometimes it was only for five minutes. Sometimes it was for half hour, half hours, about as much as I could, you know, hit golf balls with with my back. Um. I just said to myself, listen, I'm going to try and just hit golf balls every day for the next three weeks. Um. I think it took a couple of days off on on the weekend. Um. But I said, you know, if it's five minutes, if it's ten minutes, it's fifteen. Thirty minutes is the cap for me. Um, And a lot of this was with really really short iron. So UM I went out, having not hit a golf ball and really almost two years. UM I went out, got my sand wedge and said, Okay, I am just gonna try and hit slices with my sandwich. So I'm going to feel like I take the golf club straight outside, I feel like I come over the top of it. Again, I'm right handed, so I'm gonna try and feel like I swing down into the right as much as I can. And UM I had some decent success with that with the sandwich. UM on day one, Um, yeah, I mean listen, I hit a couple of shanks, hit a couple then uh laid the salt over a couple you know, hit behind it. But um hit balls for about fifteen minutes and said, okay, I'm just going to try and feel like I make a really exaggerated cut move, an exaggerated slice move. I was able to get someone video. I was able to get some on swing catalyst to kind of see you know what it looked like, see what my body was doing. Um, like everybody listening, feel and real are two completely different things. When I feel like I'm taking the golf club straight outside, it's actually somewhat neutral. Um. And then what I feel like is massively right with a path, feel like I'm coming over it. Actually most of the time isn't UM. But I just wanted to get that feeling. Um. You know, I kind of laid a club down on the ground that was on an angle to where I was able to angle it to where I felt like I was taking it, you know, very much on the outside, and then you know, angle it and feel like I'm swinging across my body. Um. And then I kind of went to hitting some sand wedges and it was a drill um that I kind of liked. So I just started doing like exaggerated chip shots, big exaggerated cut chip shot swings, and you know, got the feeling. And again I picked out a target and I just started out and said, Okay, the first thing I'm going to work on, same thing I I talked about a lot UM. I said to myself, Okay, give myself a target. I'm not really worried about how far the ball goes, but what I'm going to try and do is just consistently start for this this practice session, how long, however long it is. If I'm able to balls for five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen, I'm just gonna try and feel like I start the golf ball right and feel like I'm making a big cut swing. And if I can get to where I can consistently start the golf ball to the right, I think it's it's somewhat of a win. Um And I was able to do that. I was able to really get the feeling of a big slice. Because my body, um doesn't have a tremendous amount of rotation. The hard thing for me in my golf swing is is to try and minimize my hand action. UM. I catch a lot of balls in the neck, catch a lot of balls, you know, off the toe, and um, I have a lot of face rotation. And again this is something that I that I try and coach out of players you know, all the time. UM, I know all of the things, and I'm working through when I'm hitting balls on my own, I'm working through some of these theories and some of these ideas. But again, just sticking with one specific swing thought and the goal was just to you know, keep practicing. UM, not these marathon practice sessions, but just you know, ten fifteen minutes day and UM, I got to where, you know, the irons got to be a pretty solid. Um. You know I was catching. Yeah, I still catch some bad bad ones in the neck, get some off the toe. But UM, I really felt like these half three quarter like chip shot practice swings really gave me the feeling of what I was trying to do with my takeaway and really gave me the feeling of what I was trying to do with my downswing. And then you know, the thought is trying to feel like the heel is leading the toe into impact. That isn't what happens in reality. I'm able to get on a launch monitor and see that. UM. I can see what the path is doing. I can see what the face is doing. UM. But for me, it's more about trying to match up, um some feelings to these swing thoughts that I had. UH. And I made a promise to myself, UM, you know in these three weeks in the run up up to the tournament, that I was going to stick with one thought, one shape, one you know, just try and hit fades with everything. UM. Sometimes they fade a lot. Sometimes they don't fade a lot, but UM, just kind of stick to one kind of specific idea. UM. And you know I had, you know, the swing thought in the back swing was take the golf club as outside as you can take it. And then the swing thought on the down swing is swing as far to the right as you can. UM. The other thing that helps me is if I get to square with my setup. UM. I don't have any rotation or very little rotation anyway in my golf swing, so getting set up square just makes my internal rotation even worse. It shuts it off even more so. UM. I have to get really kind of open um flare my right foot out, which helps me clear a little bit better, but kind of a left handed version of the lee Trevina set up. UM. More so with the long stop, specifically with the driver, UM, I have to feel like I'm aiming, you know, way way to the right and then feel like I'm cutting it back online. Once the tournament started on the first hole, UM, I've never played golf before with Marina alex um, even though I coach her. UM, I spent all my time watching her hit golf ball. So it was fun. We've never played together before, and we've never she'd never seen me really play golf or hit golf ball. So the first hole she was like, man, you were aiming in the in the right trees, you're aiming in the cart path. But then you were able to cut it back in And I said, listen, that's what I have to do to UM, you know, hit a golf ball to to hit it solid. UM. I also have been experimenting and have gone to UM a version of these Jumbo Max scripts that Um Bryson uses. I don't use the model that he's got, but their oversized grip, but there's no taper, so they're the same size at the top as they are at the bottom. Again, I did that and I messed around with it a couple of years ago, just hitting wedges with it, because I do get a lot of hand manipulation and face closure and all those things, and my left hand, when the grip is the same size at the top as it is at the bottom, it gives me a little bit more feeling of control UM with my hands. UM. When I have a normal grip in my hand, I get a lot of a lot of hand action. So oversized grips, UM, and then putting arm lock. So what I'm basically saying is I'm trying to do everything I can possibly do to help myself. Right. UM. You know I've got big, oversized, big cavity back irons. UM, I've got big grips, I've got a graphite, UM. I've got a bag full of hybrids. UM. I've got a ship tunnel loft on my driver UM, and all of it is just designed to try and make playing golf as easy as possible. So let's take a short break and we will be back right after this. All right, let's get back to the interview. Because I didn't play a lot of golf growing up, UM, somewhat when I do play golf, UM, I'll be honest, I somewhat have imposter syndrome, right because, UM, I'm not good UM, and at times I don't. The other reason why I don't like to play a lot of golf is sometimes it's it's it's pretty embarrassing because I mean, you know, I work with some of the best players in the world. I've worked with players that have won majors and gotten to number one in the world, and then people go out and play golf with me, and you know, I hit him, I hit I'll hit a shot fat, I'll top one, I'll shank one. I wish. I'd love to tell you that you know everything's flush city, Um it ain't. And so but everything that I'm trying to do, UM is to try and make the playing of the game easier. UM. So we played in a tournament. It was best ball and like I said, my partner was Marine Alex. We got paired with one of our members, Bruce Reddit and then um Mel Reid UM huge fan of Mels. She's been on the pod. She was the first UM episode of the pod back and you know when we first started. Uh. I love her game, I like her as a person. Um, I've done some work in the past, So for me, I mean it was a home run. Right. Also, I'm trying to make playing golf as easy as possible, so I'm actually playing with people that I know and people that I like. Golf for me has always been about people and places. When people ask me what my favorite golf courses are, UM, they're not ones that I think a lot of people would think, UM, But for me, golf is about spending time with people that you really really like, UM, and so we had an absolute blast. We played eighteen the first day, which was Saturday's eighteen on the main course at Floridian, and then nine on the Part three and then Sunday we played UM eighteen. So UM again trying to make it as fun as possible. Uh. You know, we got the music going in the cart. UM. I'm not gonna lie. There were there was there was more than one cocktail on the golf course. UM. And again I'm just trying to make things as as fun and as easy as possible so that golf doesn't seem like a grind, because it can feel like that at times for me playing golf. UM. So the first day, UM front nine shot thirty eight, didn't lose a ball, and UM, I was pretty happy with that. UM, I actually drove it with Historically, UM, golf for me is troublesome because I can't drive the golf ball for ship. I mean, it's it's awful how bad I drive the golf ball. UM. And it tends when I do play for there to be no in between. I either hit a good drive or I don't find the golf course. And when I tell you, I can hit the golf ball a long way offline. I can hit it a hundred yards offline because when I do try and put any sort of speed into my golf swing, instead of my hips rotating, instead of my lower body um staying underneath me, instead of my weight getting to my lead foot, UM, it does the opposite. So with the driver, I can get a lot of early extension, a lot of thrust, get that club coming crazy from the inside and just hit it snaphook it off the planet or you know, push cut, slice it off the planet. But um, I said to myself, teeing off, Okay, you've got to play twenty seven holes today and you've got to play eighteen tomorrow. And I made a promise with myself that I was going to stick with hitting one shape, which was the fade. Wasn't going to throw it away. I wasn't gonna try and hit any draws. I was gonna stick with aim and left, and I was just going to stick with trying to hit kind of a chippy weak cut. And um, I was actually able to do that. UM, And I drove it, believe it or not, for me, I actually drove it pretty good for the first nine Uh. The second nine. Uh, I lost a couple of balls off the tea just you know, I got a lot. I think maybe I got a little bit tired, but also a couple of the swings, um, the bad driver swings. If I'm honest, I think I just kind of went to sleep on because I need to have a really really clear picture in my head of what I'm trying to do. Because if I don't, and if I don't say to myself and in in before I hit the golf ball, if my practice swings aren't kind of these big rehearsals where I feel looks like it feels like I'm taking the golf clubs straight outside, trying to hold the face open, get the path right, and just make a big kind of out too in cut slice practice swing. I need a couple of those to kind of get the feeling. And a couple of the bad drives I hit again, I really didn't do my practice routine and and and hit them. You know, the majority of them were kind of weak off the toe and to the left. Um, but I hit some good shots. Um, I hit some decent iron shots. The short game was just absolutely horrendous. UM. And that's that's on me. That's down to just zero practice, right. I mean, if you don't do any short game practice, you're not going to hit good shots. The courses in great shape at Floridian, Um, it's Bermuda. There's a lot of runoff areas closely moan um into the grain. And you know, I hit a bunch of terrible chips. Actually putted pretty good the arm lock. UM. I kind of liked the arm lock. I've got the sick um, I've got the sick kind of mallet um, I've got the l a golf shaft in it, and and I got the arm lock on. I got the big flat Brison grip, and I actually rolled it pretty good. UM. I was pretty surprised, seeing as I haven't really putted um and not sure as I'll haven't put any practice in with the arm lock. UM. But I said to myself, listen, stick with it, even through the bad shots. You're gonna hit some bad shots today, Probably gonna hit some shots that you know you're embarrassed by. UM. And I did UM, but I also had I had some good shots. UM. We shot so best ball. We shot sixty eight the first day and sixty six the second day and on the last hole. Um. We finished the Floridians on Sunday. We played the back nine first, and so that means we have to finish on the ninth hole at Floridian. For anyone listen that's played it, and it's easily one of the hardest holes on golf course. I had a really, really good drive and it was funny, you know, I rode Marina pretty hard because you know, all the birdies, the majority of the birdies were coming from her um as as the pro and as the person plays golf for a living um and and she was definitely sea biscuit because I was riding that because I was the jockey and she was the horse. But in the last hole, I had a really good drive and I said to myself, listen, make a good swing and finished strong. I had about a hundred and seventy yards right in the middle of the fairway. Pin was on the front and I stood up and made probably the best swing. Um of the weekend, UH seven iron, hit it to about i'd say about eight ten ft and made the put um. And that's golf, right, I mean, that's that's golf for everybody. Um, you hit a bunch of bad shots, you beat yourself up. You hit some good shots, but golf has this way of of suckering you in and bringing you back. And I birdied the last hole and hit three, hit a great drive, hit a great iron shot, and hit a good pot. And um, I said to myself afterwards, Yeah, if I could do that all the time. And what I mean is if I could just control my body. If I can control my body, I know I can somewhat control what the golf club is doing. And um, you know, it was a really fun weekend and um yeah it kind of made me. I'm not gonna lie. Um I think I hit enough good shots for me to say to myself, Okay, maybe I just stick with this whole practice routine, right, and I just go out and I just maybe hit balls five ten minutes a day, um, and and just work on the same stuff. And um yeah, that's guys, that's hard for me to do, right because I have all the knowledge, right I have. I've got as much knowledge as anybody on the golf swing, and I know how to fix problems. But um, I have to really try when I play golf and not bounce around and not go through a bunch of different swing thoughts. And that's the same thing I'm asking all my students to do right. Practice on the driving range, play golf on the golf course. And I said to myself, listen, I'm gonna go with two swing thoughts. Take it outside on the back swing, get the path right on the down swing. And you know, I said, you have to stick with those. You have to stick with where you're aiming. You have to stick with if all of the things that you're doing. And um, yeah, it was a success because I had a couple of good shots. Um. I had a couple of really good drives. Um that we're right out of the center of the face. And you know, when I drive it good, um, I can carry it. If I really really catch one, I can carry it to eighty in the air. But I'm honestly, I'm one of these two thirty to eighty guys. If I don't hit it solid, it's going to twenty to two thirty. Sometimes goes two hundred fifteen yards um. And then if I catch one pretty good, I can get it to fifty to sixty. And then if I really get one going there was theft hole part five here um or at Floridian. Um, there's a I mean, there's a lot of room. So UM, I stood up and just absolutely flushed it. Um. This was uh Saturday. Uh so we're finishing on eighteen. So fifteenth hole. UM, you know, stood up and got my my open stance, got it open and you know, tried to take it outside and hit the ball right in the center of the face, got the path right enough, and basically just hit a dead straight pole right out of the middle of the club. Bas best drive I've hit all day, right into the middle of the fourteenth fairway. So there's a lake that kind of cuts between the fourteenth hole. So if you're playing the fourteenth hole at Floridian, there's water all the way down the right hand side, and on the other side of that lake is the fifteen hole, the fifteenth fairway. I mean, I tell you, I flushed this best drive I've hit all day. Hundred yeah, hundred yards offline, but I got lucky, got it over the trees, had a really good angle, hit a five iron lay up one of the hybrid it's back over the water and UM had about let's say about seventy about seventy to eighty yards and UM took out a sand wedge easy pin and pretty much laid the sad over it the sand wedge and was trying to hit a little chippy a eighty yard one bound spinner and ended up hitting it about fifteen yards in front of me, and I'm pretty sure the dividt went further in the ball. So um, that's golf, right. Uh, But stuck with it, and you know, we had a blast. And big shout out to Sea Biscuit, my partner, Marine Alex for putting up with that ship. And Um, we had great music, we had some cocktails. The weather was perfect, the golf course was an unbelievable shape, and I got to play golf with some people that I really really like. And in my world that's a wind. Um. In my world, that's golf. Um. You know, listening to good music, Um, having a couple of Margarita's laughing, joking, um, laughing at the good shots, laughing harder at the bad shots. And um, it was a fantastic couple of days. Uh. My dad was there. He played with Harold Varner, Um, Ricky Fowler played with our club president Giles Kimbie. Uh. They won the tournament. Um, I got to watch uh my dad. Um another special part of the weekend. Uh whenever Butche's in town. Um, it's it's always fun. But I got to watch him. Uh. I was doing work with Harold Varner and and Ricky Fowler and Gary Woodland every day. And you know, he's seventy nine years old, and you know, to watch him do what he does is is still UM, it's still special for me. UM. I still learn a ship ton when I watch him teach. UM. And in watching kind of he and Ricky uh Fowler kind of get back together, get that band back together and get you know, reunited. UM. I don't think I've seen Ricky Fowler right now swing the golf club better um in the entire time I've known him. And I'm gonna go out on a limb right now, and uh, I'm gonna I don't know how many tournaments Ricky's gonna play, um on the West Coast, but I'm gonna put the early call now slick. Rick is going to win a tournament on the West Coast. He's definitely gonna win a tournament for the Masters. Um. That's how positive I am about what he's doing with his golf swing. UM. So that's my story. Thanks everybody for listening. I'll play golf that often, but when I do, I try and make it as fun as possible. So that was just, UM, a little bit of the process of what it takes for me to play golf and listen. I think everybody listening has their own process. UM. I think it's important to have one. UM. I think it's important to try and stick with one as well. And uh that's what I tried to do. UM. Like I said, hit some good shots, hit some bad shots, but had a lot of fun. The podcast is going to take a couple of weeks off for the holidays. We will be back January four with some really really cool guests. We've got some good, good podcasts coming right around the first of the year, and uh more stuff to help everyone listening improve their golf. Hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday season. Son of a Buch comes to you every Wednesday. We will see you all in the new year.

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