00:00When I'm asking, hey, what's the deal with this coach? Who did he learn from? What tree does he fall from? For you, you came from the Hank Johnson tree. So what type of stuff did Hank instill in you as far as teaching and just overall coaching that you still carry with you today?
00:18Well, he was, you know, I always tell people he saw something in me 20 some years ago. I probably didn't see it myself. Right. I never got into this thinking I would teach people as good as you or the guys that I teach. I just wanted to. I love golf. I love hanging out with people and I love teaching. And, you know, he helped me have the ability to do that.
00:42And I think that's one reason I just still like, heck, we were in Montgomery, whatever, a few days ago. And I'm teaching, you know, good player. You know, I taught a bunch of regular golfers and good players. I love teaching players of all ability. But yeah, Hank was, you know, Hank and Wayne Flint were two just very strong influences in my teaching career and to be part of their tree.
01:07And I've tried to pass that along to Morgan and Jackson, who do a great job. But, you know, Hank was, I think he was ahead of his time on the biomechanics and the TPI stuff that like everybody does now, like you can't go on Instagram without somebody posting a TPI or a biomechanics thing.
01:28But, you know, Hank, you know, Hank, in the early days, when I had started working for him, had just done a bunch of stuff with Alabama Sports Medicine Institute downtown.
01:36And they had, he had all these videos and pictures he would show me of him and, you know, golfers in jumpsuits with these wires all over them and they're hitting into a bay.
01:47And, you know, he wrote a book called How to Win the Three Games of Golf, which I still tell young teachers is great.
01:53Like it was very much about the process of how you learn and biomechanics and how you teach body movements and body mechanics that was.
02:02So this thing's 30 some years old. Right. And so he was ahead of his time.
02:06So I always tell folks that the info that I learned and from him and the base of information I learned from him was just such a good base that kind of what I teach hasn't necessarily changed.
02:18Maybe how I approach it, how I dispense it, things I say.
02:22I certainly am way less professional at times than he would be.
02:27But the people that work for me would probably say that I'm equally as hard on.
02:32He was incredibly hard on me, but and at the time I didn't understand it, but I'm very grateful for it now because it's it's turned out OK.
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