00:00So we talked about how good of an athlete you are, and I imagine you're somebody, too, that's got great
00:05hand-eye coordination and somebody that might be able to make a motor pattern change, maybe a little bit easier
00:12than somebody else.
00:13But what I want to get into at this part is, you know, talking about, you know, you said you
00:19wanted to make some swing changes. First, I want to know kind of what they are, and they also want
00:24to hear just about the process that you've kind of gone through over the last, let's say, month as you
00:28kind of lead up into the final stage of Q School, trying to get that PGA Tour card.
00:32What have you noticed in just, like, your practice and your prep and being able to take it to the
00:37golf course, knowing that, hey, this is a time where I want to be able to think about it, but
00:41then try to get to the golf course and just try to play and just be an athlete?
00:45Is that something that is challenging for you, or is it something that kind of comes natural to you making
00:51a quote-unquote swing change?
00:53I think it's a blessing and a curse. It comes naturally, but it's a blessing and a curse because I
00:57can overdo things very, very quickly.
00:59And I also have trust issues when it comes to listening to coaches and or myself.
01:06Information? Is it more just, like, making sure that, like, the matchups are going to be in the right place
01:10for, like, how you deliver the golf club?
01:12Yeah, I think it's like if somebody tells me, like, right now I'm working on my wrist singles on top
01:15of my swing.
01:16Like, if I'm laid off and the club base is wide open, then that weight of my hands is going
01:20to kick that club steep, come down, and it's all timing at the bottom.
01:23So, right now I'm working on getting my hands.
01:25And, you know, Jeff Smith actually posted a really cool Instagram about a screwdriver technique where if you bow your
01:31wrist, now that club lays directly off.
01:34But if you bow the wrist and rotate in, I think it's, I don't know if it's pronation or supination.
01:39You should probably know that with my medical background, but then it's not laid off.
01:44So I think it's getting myself into a position where then I can make an athletic move.
01:47I was reading a book by, it's right over there, and I forget it, Dr. Bob Bertella.
01:54I think it's like every shot is a, no, it's a, golf's not going to be perfect.
01:58Yeah, but I've read that one.
01:59I read too many books.
01:59It's been a while, but I have read it.
02:01He talks about the three stages of making a swing change or golf.
02:05When you start off at unconscious incompetent, then you go to conscious competent,
02:11and then you need to get to unconscious competent.
02:15So right now I'm in this, I'm in this conscious competent stage where I'm making a swing change.
02:21It looks great.
02:23It's producing the right flight.
02:24But when I get on the golf course, you can't be consciously thinking about swing.
02:29You need to let it happen and let that unconscious mind control the competent shots.
02:34So that's sort of the next phase for me right now.
02:36It's more get reps, trust your coach, trust your swing change, make it look pretty.
02:41Or whatever, you know, make all the Instagram people happy that your swing looks pretty.
02:45And then I've never missed a shot on Instagram.
02:48I don't know about you, James.
02:48It's impossible.
02:49I've seen you on TV.
02:51You get a couple of shots.
02:52I've missed a couple of shots on TV.
02:53I can tell you that.
02:55But I think getting to that unconscious part where you can go out and play golf is the tricky part.
03:00And that's where like the disconnect comes from some people, most people I'd say.
03:04But I am a believer if I do enough reps, it'll just bleed in and I can go out there
03:07and just play golf.
03:09Can you trick the brain?
03:10Can you trick the brain to becoming in this unconscious mode?
03:14Or do you think it literally takes rep after rep after rep?
03:18Like, do you think there's a rep amount for you to get into that unconscious mode?
03:22I think we all think about Tiger Woods and the amount of time he would spend.
03:26I mean, this is a guy that didn't swing the golf club the same over the course of his career,
03:30made multiple swing changes and became number one in the world.
03:33And with about every single motion, which I think is what a professional golfer like myself and you might be
03:38able to say,
03:39I don't know how he did it.
03:40Because when I go from one field to another that especially feels kind of dramatically different,
03:46it takes a while for me to get on the golf course.
03:49First off, like knowing where to aim, because aiming and the adjustments that you make sometimes of what you might
03:55manipulate in your golf swing,
03:57whether you're a right aimer, you're going to get the face looking at the ball early,
04:00or you're somebody that all of a sudden now you're holding it with your wrist angles and rotating.
04:05You're thinking like, okay, am I a draw or am I a fader?
04:09What shots do I have?
