00:00And just a list of players, just for folks that are just getting to know Butch is, you know, he's,
00:06of course, Coach Tiger Woods, Greg Norman, Fred Couples, Darren Clark, Jose, Marie Alathabal, Dustin Johnson, Adam Scott, Gary Woodland,
00:13Ricky Fowler, and now, of course, Tommy Fleetwood.
00:15And all of these players are in different generations.
00:19And you mentioned hitting it pin high and how important that is.
00:22So you see these players now and they have all the technology at their disposal to where they can legitimately
00:27put work on hitting it pin high every single day on the range.
00:32But you've also coached, you know, however many years ago, it's where players didn't have the technology at their disposal.
00:39How how were you able to coach a player to hit it pin high back in the day?
00:45Was it something that just getting a little bit more old school?
00:48Did y'all do more practice rounds or was it just something that all innate, just that all good players
00:55had instinctively in them?
00:57Well, I think for me, if you look at all the guys I've worked with, there's only two of them
01:02look alike.
01:03And that would be Adam and Tiger.
01:05And when Adam Scott came to me when he was an 18 year old freshman at UNLV, that's the way
01:09he swung because his dad idolized Tiger Woods to swing and he taught him how to swing.
01:14So all the other guys you look at swing differently.
01:17My philosophy is really simple.
01:19I don't want to take away what you do naturally.
01:20I just want to make it better.
01:22I'm not trying to build a swing.
01:25For the 10 years I worked with Tiger, everyone who came to one of my golf schools where I was
01:29said, I want to swing like Tiger Woods.
01:31I said, no kidding.
01:32So do I.
01:33But if we don't jump in that body, if we're not in that body, we can't play that well.
01:37So first of all, what I've tried to do is get the best out of every one of them.
01:42And they all had different abilities, different strengths.
01:45Greg Norman was probably the best driver I'd ever seen with a wooden driver.
01:49Wow.
01:49This unbelievable, huge distances, controlled it left to right, right to left.
01:56Then Tiger comes along who did everything well.
01:59He wasn't a very good wedge player.
02:00He didn't spin the ball very well.
02:02When he was younger, playing in majors because he had won the amateur a few times, I would always have
02:07him play with Jose Maria and Seve and Raymond Ford and these guys, Greg.
02:13And so he could ask them questions.
02:15And he learned and watched how they did things.
02:18The beauty of Tiger's golf swing was it was so repeatable.
02:22And he controlled his trajectory so well through the air.
02:26That's the secret to hitting the ball the proper distance.
02:29You know that.
02:29But guys that hit the ball way off here are not going to control the golf ball as well as
02:33the guys can take it out of the sky when they need to, especially with short irons, especially with eight,
02:38nine irons and wedges, which are the scoring ones.
02:41Even the front pins, you'll see these guys send that ball in their low with a little bit of spin,
02:45one bounce and stop because they have control of their golf swing.
02:50I would say the closest one that I work with now is Tommy Fleetwood.
02:55Tommy Fleetwood has beautiful control of his iron game.
02:58I mean, he really controls his ball through the air well.
03:02He can hit it both ways.
03:03His normal shot is a draw, but he has the ability to say that if he asks you.
03:08So for me, in the modern time, he's the one that I think that, I mean, Tiger Woods is a
03:13class for himself.
03:14I think that Tommy really controls his ball through the air beautifully.
03:17And finally, it's really tough force.
03:17So, thank you for, for your attention, obviously.
03:18Yeah.
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