00:00What would be the best way to simplify the game besides just going to get a basic lesson with fundamentals to really start improving without, you know, all the technology that's that's available?
00:14So what kind of player are you talking about here?
00:16How I would say like a somebody that that plays, you know, 10 to 20 times a year doesn't have the time to necessarily put the work into it, but are, you know, they can go out and shoot mid 80s.
00:30Yeah, I think I think the first thing you ought to do is if you could learn to get balanced at address and set up correctly and then just monitor the things you can control and wherever the ball is, when you hit it good, whatever it whatever that place is like figure that out and practice that.
00:51You know, I think the biggest thing I see, you know, I remember my days at the Country Club of Mobile and I'd be on the back end of the range and I'd drive down and I'd watch folks or at Old Palm, I'll stick my head out of the building and do the same thing.
01:03And you'll see golfers hitting balls in every shot.
01:07Their feet are angled a little different balls in a little different place.
01:10And they're like the swing really doesn't change very much, but they're very haphazard in how they and how they approach it.
01:19And I would tell like, just say somebody that shoots mid to low 80s, you've probably already got some pretty good stuff in there.
01:26If you're if you figured out how to get to that point, especially the folks that get where they shoot low 80s and every now and then throw in a 78 or nine.
01:33I would say, like, figure out what you do and what you're doing when you hit it good.
01:40Like we all have these phones now so you can film yourself when you're hitting good and like figure out, like, what do you look like at address?
01:48Get balanced at address, get the ball in the same spot, fix your aim, those types of things.
01:53I think just taking care of, you know, the details that happen before you swing are the biggest things for golfers that, you know, that are in that range you're talking about.
02:05That's I mean, that's a great piece of advice.
02:07But what about for you when you're going to showing up with a new tour pro that maybe you've seen them have tons and tons of success?
02:15Have you ever showed up to one of these lessons and felt stressed out about, oh, my gosh, what what how is this thing going to go?
02:21I think I recall that you gave was it a lesson to Bill Haas at some point?
02:26I know you work with Bill for a while.
02:27Yeah.
02:27Is his dad Jerry ever around watching?
02:29Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, I mean, is that a brother, his brother, that's Jay's brother.
02:36He's the Wake Forest coach.
02:37That's right, Jerry.
02:38OK, I was like, why am I why did that just come to my brain?
02:41Because I know I gave Bill, I gave Bill a few lessons before, maybe two, three.
02:49And then it was time for RSM down there at Sea Island.
02:53I was at Frederica at the time.
02:55And and Bill came and Jay watched and Bill had Bill had grown up working with his dad, who's in my opinion, this is a side thing.
03:04But like, I think Jay should be a Hall of Famer.
03:06His career making cuts and all those decades.
03:09So many cuts.
03:10It's unbelievable.
03:12And when him and Bill made the cut at Zurich a few years ago, he made it.
03:15I think I think it's like five.
03:17I think it's five decades.
03:19He's made a cut on the PGA Tour.
03:21Insane.
03:21Right.
03:22And, you know, you look at how he's competed in majors over the year and he was a President's Cup captain.
03:28But anyways, you know, Bill, Bill took a lesson.
03:32It came to Frederica and Jay watch.
03:35And Jay had always taught him.
03:37And so had Bill Harmon, who Bill and his brothers, you know, the Harmon family are idols of mine that have been nice to me and I look up to.
03:45But, you know, so I knew I saw Jay sitting back there filming things I was doing.
03:51I'm sure he was texting it to Billy, you know, and I was nervous as hell.
03:55And but it was again, it was like, what's the miss?
03:59And for him, it was the driver.
04:01Driver wasn't very good.
04:02And I'll never forget.
04:03We got to the end and, you know, we got to the end of the lesson and Jay didn't speak the whole hour and a half.
04:10I'm telling you, he never said a word.
04:11And then at the end, he hit like five drivers, kind of piped him right out there.
04:15There was that tree down the left center of the Frederica range and kind of hit it, hit it off him.
04:20And Jay just said, I would do that.
04:23That's all he said.
04:24And I was like, all right, I guess we're OK.
04:26Right.
04:27But, you know, but yeah, that was I was nervous.
04:31That was probably the most nervous I've been during a lesson, because one.
04:37One, he's a gentleman.
04:38He's just like a great guy.
04:40Bill, but Jay.
04:42And I've got his driver, by the way.
04:45That's another story.
04:47And but great guy.
04:52Unbelievable career.
04:53Loves the game.
04:55Knowledgeable about it.
04:56And then he's worked with and been taught by the Harmon family.
04:59Billy, his whole career, you're like, I just don't want to embarrass myself here.
05:03You know, I mean, one of these funky words out, try to dazzle them.
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