00:00You know, I want you to talk a little bit about players and feeling like they have to play perfect
00:07golf to to win at the highest level.
00:09And this this extends down to to any level, really junior golf, amateur golf, your local men's club tournament that
00:16they need to go on the range right before you go and try to cram for a test.
00:21And you you want it to be perfect because that's you have to feel that sensation in order to feel
00:27like you can play well the next day or the next week.
00:29You're to hold the trophy. Can you just talk about what that mental feeling that we're trying to grab onto
00:36that sometimes even the best players in the world struggle with?
00:39And I know you've worked on this similar stuff with Cam. Well, let me let me take it to you
00:44from a pitcher mentality.
00:45So I come from the world of being a pitcher a long time ago. But, you know, you go out
00:50there and there's expectations.
00:51You want things to go your way. You want it to work. But, you know, by going against an opponent
00:56that it's not going to like they are going to have good stuff.
00:59They're going to hit you. Sometimes you're going to throw a great pitch and get punished. And there's a there's
01:03a movement.
01:04And that's why guys always say I play better in match play, because in when you're playing out in a
01:10in a stroke play event, who's your opponent?
01:13The 130 guys that you really can't influence at all. Is it yourself? I mean, I've heard that forever, and
01:18that's absolutely wrong.
01:20Um, it's the golf course. And so what happens is, because we don't know how it's going to go, our
01:26mind tries to exert control.
01:28And so it's called that I call it the competitive or the competition paradox. The more risk that we have,
01:34the more we try to control our mechanics, because that's the only thing we can grab into.
01:39Um, and we instead have to understand that the game is not perfect. We want to stack. But our mind
01:45is naturally that way. If I ask gymnasts that I work with, do you start with a 10 and then
01:49have deductions?
01:50And they're like, absolutely. I'm like, but you haven't even done the routine yet. So you actually you actually build
01:56it. And what I want players to do is to to accept that their hard work is not being invalidated
02:05by bad swings.
02:07The environment and the conditions are dictating variance in their swings. That's what pressure does to people. Pressure changes the
02:14way we move. Pressure changes the way we think. Pressure changes our processes. Now some can be good and some
02:20bad, right?
02:21I'm sure when you played your swing speed was lower on a Tuesday and faster on a Thursday. All right.
02:26A major league baseball player had this conversation today. He's 93 in the bullpen and then he's 97 in a
02:31game, right?
02:32Because adrenaline hits, but you've got to understand what that increased pressure does. And if you don't understand that, then
02:39all you can do is blame yourself that you couldn't execute the perfect golf swing.
02:42The problem is, and this is a knock I'll have on the instruction world, not instructors, but in the instruction
02:49world is because we can measure all those things. We think those should all be static and they're not. You
02:55have natural variance in everything you do.
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