Challenges of Coaching Pro Golfers & Finding Success

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00:00how challenging it can be to teach a touring pro you know we have our own ideas of our golf swing

00:05we have our own ideas of ball flight and you know sometimes it works out great where you know there's

00:11a player that gets matched up with the coach he calls them they have all the success and the next

00:16thing you know all these players are going to call this coach and next thing you know it's you know

00:21it's not working out for all these players and um you know it's a really interesting business because

00:27a lot of these players are always just looking to find success and they look at the players who have

00:32the success and it's just sometimes very very challenging for players to find the right coach

00:39especially when they didn't make it you know when they make it to the professional game the most

00:43time it's with somebody and then after that it just it turns into pinball i have a hypothesis i think

00:49that's the word i'm trying to use here okay but you know i think that people in the golf world

00:56teachers players mirror what the best player in the world does okay and you know for tiger tiger

01:02always you know tiger was one of those that always you know he was the best in the world at one thing

01:09and then he had to have a challenge and go change but you look at scott he's clearly the best in the

01:14right and what he's doing amazing and he's been with the same person randy who's brilliant and is a

01:21genius and by the way loves cord's light and uh and i've had a couple with him um

01:28been with him forever i think that maybe and hopefully we see a trend because of scotty's success

01:36where young players coming up understand that change isn't always good and bouncing around isn't always

01:44good and having somebody that understands you your golf swing and has been there for you for a long time

01:50will be good and i and i'm seeing that actually in in some younger players like and i think that would

01:56be good for the game i really do has there been any other high level coaches that you took advice from

02:03when either you had myself coming up or any other good players that you uh you know got a piece of

02:09advice that you still carry with you today you know i've been lucky bunches of the great teachers took

02:14an interest in me and liked me and i but i remember one time talking on the phone it was about you

02:20cam cam mccormick and i were talking on the phone and he's uh jordan spease coach for anybody that's

02:26great guy right gallus texas great guy for uh yeah and uh uh and he said chip shots going nuts by the

02:33way he's still kicking by the way chip shots 15 years old i just found out 15 years um we ought to do a

02:40birthday celebration but uh but cam said it's always better to underreact than overreact right and

02:47i'll never forget to to anything to everything in golf right this is on the range just anything i think

02:53like as a player i always use that with a player i had a young player today this freshman year at duke

03:00super good player good recruit got his first year at duke didn't play great in qualifying this is like

03:07his first stretch away from home where he can't just go get a lesson whenever he needs it like

03:11and i said like don't overreact and start trying to change that you just played a bad

03:15qualifying right doesn't mean what you're doing is wrong just means you didn't do it great or there's

03:20other factors but i think that in this world that we're in now with all the social media and i'm

03:25certainly i mean i contribute to it too with all the shit stuff i put out there on uh on instagram um

03:32you know everybody's looking for the piece of information that's going to make them

03:38a master's champion or get a tour card