00:00for you as somebody who also was a golfer did you ever see yourself getting into instruction and
00:05did you did you ever find yourself thinking about instruction at a higher level at an earlier age
00:11yeah it's interesting you say that so obviously I wanted to play golf like I grew up in England
00:17I came to America on a scholarship because my aspiration was to play the European tour
00:20and then once I got to America it was like the PGA tour and I think I'd always had kind
00:25of this
00:26affinity for like the swing and coaching and and teaching and tinkering is probably the best way
00:32to say it I said that's probably which is a dangerous road to go right so I think um my
00:39aspirations to play were probably derailed a little bit by wanting to understand things and I at the
00:45time the information we have now is incredible there's so many different disciplines that all
00:49go into to coaching and teaching and at the time it really wasn't like that and so the problem is
00:55when I was trying to play it was like oh you need to do this you need to do this
00:58and I spent so much
00:58time on the range trying to get this perfect technique I mean it was a bit of a running joke
01:03on the Hooters tour you'd get all these players and I'd still be on the range and have all these
01:07trinkets and props so it's probably within the stars that that was what was going to happen
01:11but I think that also probably helped me in a way because the players I ended up coaching who went
01:18on to
01:19the tour who you know we'd sort of come up through the Hooters tour together they went on to the
01:23buy.com at the time and then the tour they saw that that was my passion early and I was
01:28really
01:28interested in it so I think that created this sort of trust factor and it definitely helped me but no
01:34my aspirations were to play um I got injured and I think that along with not having great information
01:41kind of was this perfect storm for falling into coaching and teaching and I think I was I wanted to
01:48stay in the game my college degree was exercise science and coaching so I kind of had some of
01:53that anyway and then I kind of put some pieces together and it's kind of all it kind of transpired
02:00into teaching and coaching and I love it I mean I think it's a lot of fun pushing people I
02:05really
02:05enjoy the coaching part like try to help people do things they didn't think were possible and that's
02:11kind of where probably my niche is I'm not the guy who's going to work with 50 people and that's
02:17just
02:17not my style I'd rather have you know a handful of guys and really try and push them and develop
02:22them
02:22and get them to be the best players they can be and so it's a lot of fun I really
02:26enjoy it but it
02:26isn't where I saw myself I definitely my aspirations were to be have the name on the bag and be
02:33hitting
02:33the shots not standing in the background watching I tell everyone I have the coldest profession ever
02:39or the hottest depending on where you are I watch divots for a living
02:42you
02:42you
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