How’d Joaquin Niemann build his unique golf swing?! Chopping weeds and skipping stones, partly. Niemann’s unique move goes with his unique background and unique perspective. Dive into this episode of ‘Warming Up’ for a half-hour with the best golfer in Chilean history as he talks through his warmup, his mindset and his origin story. Just don’t ask his favorite club — they’re listening.
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All right. That’s like That’s dead straight. That’s cutting one. Yeah, that’s a it’s a good trajectory. Uh do you have a favorite golf club? Uh can’t tell you. They’re here. So they listen. They listen. Oh, they’ll get jealous. [Music] [Music] Next up on the tea, Mr. Walking Nean. Waco, what’s up? It is Waco, right? Yeah, Waggo. I’ve always kind of wanted to confirm that. WGO. Yeah, you guys kind of like all the Americans, they have a tough accent to say J O together. Ha. Hu. Ha. Hako. Waco. Uh, so here’s the deal. You’re going to take us through a little bit of your warmup today. Um, you were just at the gym. Yeah. How long do you go to the gym for before you uh Well, it depends on the day. I mean, today, I mean, I had kind of like a busy day, so I I would not work out today. I just more of a warm up. get moving, get the body to activate, you know, and just get ready to hit balls, go play today, and uh and do my practice. But yeah, I mean, it depends on the weeks. I might do three to four workouts on the week, and today was one of my off day, so I’m pretty happy right now. Nice. All right. So, you’re just a little limbered up. What club do you have? Where do you start? I mean, I always go from from the bottom and go and go building up. I start with the 60. Yeah. Hit us a couple 60s. What are you uh you going to hit some like half shots to start with or what comes first? So at the beginning uh I will go cheap before I go around the green and chip. So once I get here I got I got covered probably like the 30 40 yard range and might start hitting like 50 yard shots and kind of get into those numbers you know like 50 60 70 80 Yeah with my foresight or trackman or or full swing. That’s right. And uh start messing with numbers until like 80 or 90 yards. Do you start thinking about numbers immediately? Like right when you start hitting, you’re already curious. Oh, how far is that going? How far is that going? Or so until like probably 70 yards, 60 yards. Yeah. I got I like more to kind of like see and I feel like I I’m better at hitting the number when I see something like let’s say I want to land it just on the green. I feel like I’ll have a better knowledge to where to land it having that than just a number, you know? So, like I’ll go with my feelings and then I’ll see the feelings how they are and see how far I hit it and kind of like do a combination there. But I’m more I used to be more of a kind of like, you know, I got a 40 yard swing, I got a 50 yard swing. And now it’s more like a little more free and you know I just play with my vision and and trust that you know that’s interesting cuz I feel like some people go the opposite direction where oh when you’re younger you’re freer and for you it’s almost the opposite where now you’ve Yeah. I mean for me it’s like hey go you know throw a boat to to the 50 yard. It’s not like I’m going to calculate how far I’m going to hit. I’m just going to go and you know and I feel like I’m going to do better than That was pretty good thinking about it. You know I was a little right though. Did you uh were you did you play throwing sports growing up? I mean I a little bit I throw they had a we throw balls, you know. We we do a lot of sport like ping pong, tennis, football. So it’s like I I got pretty active when I was young. All right. So what are you trying to do with this shot? Like is anything going through your mind or you’re just swinging, loosening up, trying to hit it at that target? Yeah, I’m loosening up. I mean, that’s the whole idea for me, the warm up. Just warming up, get the the body moving, warm up. Uh maybe after my full warm up, I’ll I’ll hit a few shots that I that I want to see before I get on the course, depending on which course. Yeah. But yeah, it all depends. All right. What club did you go to here? 56. 56. Do you hit every club in your bag on the way down? No, I go 6 60 56 52 wedge. And then from the wedge I go to the eight, then to the six, and then the four iron, and then the older woods. What about the nine? It depends on the day. Sometimes I go I’ll do always every wedge like 60, 56, 52, and then I’ll go to the 975 and like All right. kind of change it around, you know? Want to make sure they’re not getting too neglected. Yeah. I mean, growing up, I used to hit a lot of eight iron like all day, you know, and my eight iron was Oh, man. I would get stuck on the eight iron, too. You like the eight iron? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was an eight iron guy. How far does the 56 go? Uh I’ll use it a lot from 105 to like a one I mean right now with these conditions to like to 120. You haven’t mish hit a single wedge yet, have you? I mean we do this for a living. So I mean if if I miss it, I mean I got to better do something else. You’re a full-time full-time hitter. Full-time hitter. Yeah. Uh how did you learn to play golf? Like how did you get into golf? Did you grow up in a family that was um that played a lot of golf or was it just you? Uh so my dad kind of introduced me to the game. Uh he he played golf at just you know like a 20 handicap. So he wasn’t any good but he was a big basketball player, right? He he play Yeah. He played college basketball in Chile. He kind of like pay his studies playing basketball. He will go and play and then the school will pay for him. So, kind of like a scholarship here in in the US. Mhm. But yeah, he he started playing golf and I was walking with him, messing around, playing with a I mean, I have a US kid club like this big. I think my mom still has it and Oh, no. Just hitting the ball all over everywhere, you know. Yeah. And you liked it. Were you good at it right away? I mean, I don’t remember. I That’s fair. But but yeah, I mean, I was I I I loved it, you I just I was just doing it every every time. Like I I used to I used to live in a house where you know we have a big yard kind of like outside the city. Yeah. And you know what my brother you know was probably playing video games or you know playing football or whatever you know I was working with a club you know just playing with me just myself you know all right I’m going to try to hit it there and I will go and and try to hit it and just we’ll be there for for hours you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you had built-in targets all around your yard. I remember my mom used to pay me, I don’t know, like five bucks to to break every how do you call when when there’s like bad grass growing, you know, like a uh weeds? Yeah. Yeah. So, I would go there and get like really steep and and take them from the root and she would pay me to do that, you know. That’s a just from your lawn or from the garden or what? My garden. Yeah. That’s fantastic. I’ve never heard that. That’s that’s how you got such good uh impact position. Yeah. That’s where all my my shallow, you know. Yeah. Sometimes I I think that’s why I dig so much the ground. I’m like, “Fuck, it goes all the way back.” When you’re four years old, that’s great. And did you have friends that played golf growing up? Yeah, I mean, it was a pretty small world in uh where I live. Yeah, it was just outside Santiago. And I I used to play more with people older than me or or the caddies of the golf course. And uh yeah, I mean there were there were not many kids actually, but I kind of like always like it being by myself playing golf. You know, I can go to school and play football with my friends and all that, but growing golf, I like it kind of being by myself out there. It was it was fun. I mean, it’s kind of weird to say for, you know, a eight-year-old to be by himself practicing. Yeah. But I kind of like it always. I mean, you get bored of this. I’m not going to Oh, of just perfect contact every time. No, it’s nice. Keep going or what? Yeah, keep going. 52. You can always skip if you want to, but you want the full wedge experience. Get a full feeling of it. All right. So, 52. How far does this thing go? So, a full one. This conditions right now. I mean, it’s probably going 130 to 135 kind of. Yeah. Uh, and I’ll use it obviously depending on the chubby. Really? How are you? Good. Yeah. All good. Big guy. They want to be in camera. That’s right. [Laughter] You can blame Bo and not me. Yeah, Gary. Sorry. No, not at all. Who are those guys? Uh, so Gary is my caddy and Glenn is cutting for me though. Oh, fantastic. No, no, cuz I told him I was going to be ready at 9ine. Like what? You’re early trying to Are you an early riser? You have to be to play golf. Does that come naturally? I’d rather come early than than late. Really? I mean, some people like coming in the afternoon. I’m like I want to get their day started early and finish it early, you know? Yeah, it makes sense. Especially right now in the summer. Oh, it’s too hot, you know. Right now, it’s perfect. All right. So then what do you what are you excited to then like do when you finish your work? You’ve done your workout, you’ve played golf, you’ve practiced, you go back to the house. What do you do? What do I do? I mean, uh, video games, reading. Uh, we do, I mean, obviously when I get back to the golf course, I’ll do the therapy with my physio, feel the bike, ride. I I like at my house. I got my sauna and co that I like doing it every every afternoon. I feel like I can kind of giving a a little gift to my body, you know, after all the effort. And I feel like I live a lot better. And yeah, I mean I do a little bit of video games, little bit of reading, too. Um, yeah, all that kind of stuff kind of help me develop my myself better, which I feel like I’m getting to know myself better and I need to kind of like progress on reading, you know, journaling and and all that kind of stuff. Uh, but yeah, it’s fun kind of like I can evaluate myself, you know, how I’m doing in my life on golf and, you know, my relationships, all that. Do you do that? You kind of sit down and think through it. Write write it down. Feel like I’m a a big thinker. I like to be quiet, you know, and just think what’s, you know, what’s going on outside. Yeah. Yeah. I guess you’ve always been that way. If you said you kind of like to hit balls by yourself when you were young, too. That’s interesting. I mean, being like like just going out to the golf course, you know, I can go by myself, hit balls, you know, be on the on the outside. It’s it’s kind of cool. I mean it’s a good kind of therapy to for me to be quiet and you know understand different stuff. Feel like it’s where I have discovered a lot of my my swings, my the way I kind of like manage myself on the golf course. Uh my relationship with my team and all that. So yeah, I mean it’s something that I feel like it never stops, you know? It’s more than than just golf. Yeah. All right. What are you aiming at? Uh I’m going to this flag right here on the right. That that green with the two flags there. Yep. The one on the right. Okay. Must be like a pretty soft 52. Maybe like 115 to 120. You’re just eyeballing that. You can just tell. I think so. Woo. All right. 6 feet for birdie. Here, I’ll trade you in your wedge serving as caddy now. Thank you. Did you ever caddy growing up? Uh, uh, no. too good. Yeah, I know. I trying to remember. Not really. I guess you didn’t have like a big brother that was playing a lot of golf. I remember I was uh when I was I don’t know maybe 12 13 and I live in a in a golf course. Uh I had my my golf cart so I was able to go just get my golf cart and That’s amazing. So wait, did your family move to to like be closer to a golf course? Yeah, we move inside like in a in a golf course for probably 2 3 years. Yeah. So, I mean, for me it was awesome. You know, I go back to school for 3:00 p.m. 400 p.m. and on winter, you know, it gets dark like at 5:30. So, you got like an hour where you can uh get out of school, get on the car. I mean, even be a 12-year-old driving a golf cart. Like, I mean, I did everything, you know, with the sprinkers were there. I was doing driftering. I mean I was I developed my driving talent during the golf card in a early age. That’s fantastic. But yeah, I remember I was uh there was a family that had like a younger kid younger kid and they paid me to kind of like take him around and play with him. So I would just go there uh play by myself and also kind of help him out a little bit and I win some money which he was awesome. See, we’re babysitting but also just stealing from this young golfer. All right, you got your wedge. Uh, tell me about your dominant shot shape. I mean, with wedges, it’s pretty much straight to straight. Are you trying to work the ball at all? Pretty straight. I mean, I can hit a little draw, a little fade, but normally the tendency it will be like a almost straight shot, maybe a little left to right move. Yeah. And then with my irons the same. I like the left to right move. Uh but overall, I mean, it’s always pretty straight shot. Feel like I can from a straight shot, it’s easier to me to cut it a little bit, but I can still hit draw sometimes when I need to, you know. How much do you play with trajectory with your wedges? Yeah, I think it’s everything because feel like more than than having a number, I go more towards the trajectory. Like I feel whenever I have to take a number like the 56. If I had to take a little bit off, I need to kind of like hit it a little bit lower or then you know if the green can release I can land the 10 short and hit something low, skip, skip and spin or you know if the pin is on the front you got to hit something really high. I just I just go more with the windows than than an actual number you know. Interesting. Yeah. All right. So say you’re going to say you’re going to hit a slightly lower wedge. Like what adjustments would you make here in your is it setup stuff? Is it in your mind? Like how do you do it? Yeah. So, let’s say I I hit a wedge one 150 and I want to hit a 140 shot and kind of like release it five to seven yards on the green and I’ll definitely grab it a little bit shorter, a little smaller stance and I’ll go a little bit shorter back swing and then just just really get like my whole body through it and on top of the ball forward. Okay, it’s more like this. A little pull. Definitely lower. But that’s a kind of triactory. Yeah. Just like you’re chopping weeds. Yeah. Yeah. My body moves better when I mean I feel like I hit a lot straighter when I want to hit a little bit lower. So my tendency during the week I’m always trying to launch it, launch it, launch it higher, and then it goes like, you know, that’s funny. All right. You gonna hit the same shot here? I’m gonna go a little higher one. Okay. What do you what do you what are your adjustment changes here? Do you move your ball position a little a little bit farther up and more than position and everything is just trying to get a little bit more extended through the impact, you know, and just just keep moving. Yeah, I know it sounds weird. Everybody is like, “No, I don’t want to get taller, you know.” Yeah. For me, it’s like I get so much of, you know, of this of of shallow. I feel like I got to try to go to the other side and kind of like move hard to the left foot and then with the left foot try to break and kind of get tall and let the the club just go. All right, let’s see now that you’ve thought so hard about it if you can still do it. Yeah. Now I just don’t think that was nice. That was nice. And way higher. Yeah, that’s kind of my Oo, good shot. It’s kind of my thinking right now on the golf swing, try to do more of that, then for me it’s pretty easy to hit it low. Yeah. Yeah. So, if I can get my body naturally, if I can get my my my body, you know, with that memory of trying to hit it higher would be good for me. All right. I just handed you eight iron. We’ll go 180 182. That’s healthy. almost a little fade there. You’re one of the best iron players in the world. Have you Has that always been a big time strength of your game? Yeah, I feel like I have a pretty consistent impact position and I feel like with that is my my misses are kind of pretty pretty small. And yeah, I mean I think it’s something that always I felt like it was the the thing that I most practiced when I was growing up. You know, I practiced a lot of eight irons, wedges. That’s right. The one club you’re holding hitting in between like gates and I was trying to make it through the gate with a fade with a draw and like growing up I did that for not kidding three, four hours a day, you know, and not much chipping and patting. So now I feel like it’s more the other way. I’m trying to focus more on on the short game and all that. Then I feel like I mean it’s not going to go away. You know I my memory my the the memory of my body is already there and you know it knows what to do. Yeah that’s interesting. So would you when you would sit on the range would you try to hit a ton of different types of shots or you were just trying to lock in like one specific Yeah. No, I go more with one shot. But I mean, I feel like whatever the course is asking at the moment, but I try to kind of like visualize myself on that hole on, you know, on a kind of like on that situation and kind of like just get really deep into the shot, you know? I feel like I already put the hours of hitting hitting hitting a balls and, you know, get them the body to move that now it’s more of like seeing the shot, feeling comfortable with it. And yeah, whenever I’m those kind of like uncomfortable situations, I kind of like in a pretty comfort zone in a way, you know. Yeah. Yeah. You’ve already rehearsed it. Yeah. So, it’s I think it’s more of keep doing that, you know, just kind of going through the shot, seeing a situation, and you know, just going to it. That one sounded good. I mean, they all sound really good to be honest. All right, keep moving. Uh, here. Here’s a sixiron. Sixir. Talk to me about working the ball a little bit. All right. When will you hit it left to right verse like will you ever do you ever try to turn it over and hit hit a little draw? Yeah, I mean few different shots that you know some greens are different or whatever. I would like to to move it around. I I’ll normally stick with the with a straight or a little cut shot. Yeah. But if I want to give it like a little extra, sometimes I hit a little draw. All right. Well, let’s start with your stock shot. Like, do you aim uh where’s the ball kind of This is six iron, so it’s kind of like a mid iron. Do you have the ball right in the middle of your stance? Do you uh are your feet pointed directly at the target like normal for you? Let’s say I’m going to the 200. Yep. I when I align myself here, my shaft is always few yards left. I feel like every time that I feel left, I can just rotate as hard as I can and the ball is just going to start left, but it’s going to kind of have that tendency of moving right. So, I feel like every time I’m I’m hitting a shot and want to miss it left, but cutting, you know, that’s kind of my feel. Yeah. So, if I hit it right and cutting is no good, if I hit it left and drawing, terrible. So, yeah, I know when the ball starts a little left and cutting is everything is going to be okay. Oh yeah, there’s that little cut. You’re going to land on that left edge of the 200 and you have the kick and it runs there, you know, so get a little extra yards. You’re right. Well, if you start it left and it goes left, then that’s your Is that your biggest fear as like a Yeah, I mean it’s Does that ever happen? Yeah, it happens quite a lot. I mean, I gota I got to deal with it, you know, and that’s where all the tendencies start happening. you know, you you you’re you don’t want to hit that shot and I start open myself a little bit more. Then I aiming too far left. So, I got to go back and trust, you know, my alignment and go back to that every time. If so, yeah. What happens when something when you’re in the middle of a round and you’re like, say you’ve had two misses in a row, two left misses in a row, what do you go back to? Yeah. I mean, I got to got to kind of focus and say, “All right, if the ball is going left, normally there’s two reasons. is uh is I opening my face a little bit too much on on the down swing and and not moving correctly. So I got to focus on having the face a little bit more square. That way I can just rotate harder. And then there’s the other cuz my when I open the face a little bit, my hands get a little bit more active. So my body gets lazy and my hands get active and I can hit that miss to the left or to the right. So So yeah, for me just just having like this moving correctly and and I’ll be I’ll be having that left to right move. But yeah, then then it changed when I hit a draw. When you hit hit a draw for us. Oh yeah. When I hit a draw, I mean, I aim pretty straight at the target and then I just move all my angles to the right position. Everything from like knees up pretty much to the right. Yeah. And the ball position, I’ll go pretty much in the middle instead of forward like before instead of All right. So normally you have it a little forward. hitting a draw. You got a little I’m going to hit a little forward so I can get a little bit more like this. When I put it more in the middle, I feel like all my angles are from behind and I can kind of like resist the impact like this, you know? It’s it’s not like every everybody tries to hit a draw, you know, just releasing the club. But like for me, it’s more like holding with a good angle with the club face and just keep rotating kind of thing. because you’re a little bit afraid of releasing the club too much because that’s when too many misses. I mean, if I release it, I will hit it there. You know, we’ll try that afterwards. So, yeah, all the angles on the right and then just similar swing it towards the right. Oh yeah, look at that. A little pull. A little pull, but that definitely drew though. Definitely drew. How far is sixiron going? She’s going around 200 to 205 sometimes. Yeah, it depends on the day right now. I stick with the fade. I mean, that’s pretty nice, though. That was a better trajectory. I just got to figure out the impact now. There’s four iron. I know. Well, you had to have like one sort of somewhat mishit at least. Uh, what makes you the most nervous on a golf course? more contention being around the cutline. What’s like the No, if I’m on the cut line, I’m pretty happy to just miss it, you know? It’s because something is not right. See you next week. Yeah. I don’t know. It kind of like changes. I feel like that’s the funny part about this game. Some sometimes it could be the first t-shirt and you know if you hit the first t-shirt you kind of like pretty up but then sometimes it could be the last one and I get nervous kind of like on all of them you know I feel like on the first te through the round last pad you’re just always nervous always. I mean you’ve you’ve won a bunch of these live events. It seems like every time you’re in contention you end up closing it out. Do you feel like you’ve gotten better at playing while like under the gun like that or? Yeah, I felt like I’ve been figuring it out to kind of like enjoy more of that moment and kind of like embrace it, you know, cuz it’s it used to be more of a feeling that or I’m in a uncomfortable situation uncomfortable situation where I don’t want to be but when I don’t have it all I think about it is to be in that situation you know. So now like whenever I’m in that situation, I’m like, “All right, let’s, you know, look around. This is a freaking great opportunity to do something nice and special.” I mean, why not just try and do it? So feel like that’s kind of like me mentality now into those situations. And if I up is what it is, you know? So far so good. Yeah. All right. You got four goes on. It’s getting warm, too. You’re like Yeah. already going to be ready for your cold plunge by 10:00 a.m. here. All right, that’s like that’s dead straight. That’s cutting one. Yeah, that’s a it’s a good trajectory. Uh do you have a favorite golf club? Uh can’t tell you. They’re here. So they listen. They listen. Oh, they’ll get jealous. They’ll get jealous. I noticed you have two putters in here. You’re They’re in the back because they’re all I like them all. They’re all on probation, too. I’m trying this three iron now where I might use it. Oh, yeah. For Europe because you’ve got a five hybrid lurking iron. So, that’s This is your four iron. So, this four You don’t even This is not I know you don’t want to say mean things to your clubs, but that four iron for a while, but sometimes I use it. Depends on the on the course, but that one I love it because you can hit it from anywhere, you know. Here, hit me one of these. You’re going to have a pretty bad lie. Is it five iron length? Like, how does it stack up next to four iron? Uh, same. Pretty much same. Yeah, it’s almost the same. 26 degree. But I love it because, you know, you can hit it from here and I can still have that high trajectory that with the four iron is it’s pretty hard out of that light. So, I feel like some amateurs feel bad about, oh, oh, you’re going to hit it out of the That’s why I’m putting a three iron to be, you know, not be ashamed of myself. I got a four rescue and then I have a three iron. So, it’s like I you like you keep calling that a four. It says five on it. No, it’s four. Four iron distance. Four iron distance. Oh, that’s pretty nice. All right. You just have to prove you can hit it out of a divot, too. That’s right. No one can say anything bad if then you have a three iron. Also, here you go. I mean, I’m You know, when you when you were a kid, you were all thinking about it having a two iron. Yeah. I still have a two iron because I’ve just to give away my childhood dream and I only have a firearm now. Yeah, but now this three changes everything. All right. What’s the best What’s the best golf shot you’ve ever hit in your life? Tough question. Yeah, this club is tough. That was fun. It might work well for you know maybe at the open instead of my seven wood balorama maybe here too. I think here is going to be pretty firm. So just hit something that’s just going to run. Yeah. Firm and windy so it can keep it low and seven would sometimes too much spin. If you’re hitting a long iron off a off uh I was going to say off a T like do you use a T always? Yeah, I use a T. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I always put a with a wedge or we were talking about it. I think it was with Bryson or LACC, you know, for the US Open the whole 650 the par really short par three. We’re talking about it. I think everybody’s trouble because they put a T too high. Ah, and it was such a good hole, but you never get to just hit a 60° on with a T, you know? It’s weird. Never. But I feel like I want to still put a T, you know, just in case. Well, you can get that very perfect lie with the T, but you’re right. 60 off a T feels a little bit like a violation. Wow. Thing goes far. It goes. So, how far is that carrying? I guess we can check. Carrying around 250. And it’s not going with much spin. So, I mean, if it if it gets going, it can run forever. Yeah. Did you always hit the ball far? Cuz you weren’t you weren’t like a super big kid, were you? No, I was pretty small. I mean, I grew up kind of late and I was Yeah, I was in my age when I was a junior. I was pretty short, you know, comparing a few other guys. Yeah. And I and then I had good distance when I was 18. Probably average it was like 175 ball speed kind of. And then on the last three years, I feel like I got it up quite a lot. How how have you done it? How do you pick up distance? I mean, mostly at the gym. Everything at the gym. I feel like I changed the whole way how I work out and lifting more weights, more dynamic, speed, movement, and a good combination. But that’s how I got it. Got it up. Heavier weights. Here’s your sevenwood. Yeah, heavier weights. Heavier weights, man. Sevenwood. What is the sevenwood? Uh, I mean, this is maybe a dumb obvious question, but how is the sevenwood different than the three iron? I mean, it carries the same carries the same, but the seven wood has a lot more spin, so I can hit it into a par five and stop it pretty quick, and I can move it a lot more, you know? So, I mean, with this club, I can hit it low, high, left to right, right to left. Do you Is your stock still a little fade? Baby fade. All right, let’s see one stock and we’ll see you hit something crazy. A little dry that one. Little draw, but still kind of kind of little draw fade there. Yeah, the that was the cork screw. All right, then. Uh what do you do you ever like did a big slice? Big slice. All right. Giant slice. Finish it there at the that flag just left of the 250 there. Okay. Started way left. All right. You started over the parking lot. What are you doing? You’re just aiming way left and then just aiming over these three way left. and you know all the angles to the left and just like when you hit a slice with a racket tennis, you know, starting over the parking lot. See, you’re too you’re too uh pure. You pros forget how to hit the banana. Yeah. Yeah. I just go I need to go back to play with my dad and he will show me. Exactly. He has that shot. Yeah. We go down to the street to the MUN and a lot of guys could hit this shot better than you can, I think. But there we go. That’s pretty nice. That’s got to satis There you go. And it’s kicking right left to right. We got to finish left if it’s cutting. That’s right. Driver, the ground is your friend. Driver. Oh, I skipped threewood, my buddy. Is that all right? Yeah, it’s fine. Do you like your 3-wood? I love it. What’s this head cover? What’s the story here? It’s a Furby. It’s a Furby. I mean, I always wanted to have a a head cover that, you know, just just different than everybody. It is definitely different here. I don’t want to leave this guy behind. She will feel, you know, very left out otherwise. I like that you have a such a close relationship with all your golf clubs here. This is my This is a forward now. I used to have a 3wood. Now I’m using a fourwood. Okay. But I can hit it a little bit higher, more spin, can move it a little bit more. So, I like it a lot. Wow. That’s still like a pretty penetrating. It’s kind of still a bullet, huh? Yeah. Yeah. That would be my trajectory. Yeah. If I I need to hit it higher, it would be more of a second shot kind of thing. But of the tea, my might might go a little more flat. Like if I hit to hit a green, you know, or stop it a little quicker. You just think higher and softer. You stand up. Yeah. Same thing that I we talked about it before. Oh, nothing on the toe. Man, that flew nice though. Can you tell me about the unique move in your swing with your head that everyone kind of talks about and obsesses over? And is is that something that you’ve always had and is it ever something you’ve tried to change? Yeah, I mean I always have kind of like the same tendency on my swing. Uh yeah, I mean I always obviously get my head really low. I open my body quite a lot and my hands are really pacive. I mean uh how do you say it? Not too active like Yeah. passive. Passive. So it’s all about my swing. It’s more about my body just guiding the shot. And I remember I mean growing up my one of my first lessons was try to get on the back swing and just hit your hips as kind of like t turn your hips as fast as you can to the other side. And that kind of like always stood on my on my head. And I think it’s something that I keep doing these days, you know. And I felt like just getting my hips here just makes the whole body kind of like just twist, you know, and open up and and that makes that head drop. And also like we always talk about like we always go to the golf course and there was a big lake and we go and skip rocks because he would say that it was kind of like a similar feeling of the swing kind of like going like this cuz if you go like this you’re not going to skip a rock you know so you got to go kind of like shallow and like kind of start from the low. So we started doing a lot of that exercise. That’s awesome. When I was like talk about therapeutic that’s one of my favorite things in the world is skipping. Oh yeah. You get there every day looking for the right rock. This is it. This is it. You go and you throw it like That’s where your throwing came from is skipping rocks, too. All right, driver. What are you hitting here? A little cut. I’m going to hit a Yeah. Let’s see how it is first. Eh. Okay. So, I’m going to might start with a little draw. Try to hit in between those two poles. Okay. You did it. You did it. Ah, I think. Oh, yeah. Oh, give me that one. Come on. I think so. Bouncing left, too. That’s right. We’re We’re in Texas, so there’s just football fields everywhere. Everywhere. Are you a football fan? Well, the real football with the with the food. American football. Talk about it. Like, why do you guys put football if it’s I don’t know. With their hand, you know. I I was not involved. I mean, the decision. No, I know. But yeah, I don’t follow much no football actually. But yeah, with the driver, I’ll hit I’ll hit the draw one uh kind of like a pretty flat fly. And if I want to hit it higher, it might go pretty straight and with less spin actually, I’ll try to hit the straight one and high one. I need to carry like a, you know, bunker. Yeah, that’s killed. A little downwind, nice warm day, that’s like never going to stop. And then when I want to cut it, I feel like it’s easier for me to hit it low and cut it than high and cut because the way I I turn and move. Feel like whenever I try to hit a high and carry, I feel like I get too much of this and I start having like that mis to the right. So if I can kind of like keep the ball flight lower, feel like my body can just turn more natural. Wow. Really low. Really, really, really low. You like that? I like that when it’s on the fairway. Yeah. All right. Hey, you still haven’t fixed your dad’s slice? No, I always try to help him out, but he don’t listen. So, he’s like, “All right, just do your thing.” You know? What do you tell him? Well, he gets So, he will get on the ball. Yeah. This is how you finish. It’s funny. Like every I feel like everybody has the same mistake. It’s like I’m hitting cuts, you know, I’m missing a right. Yeah. I’m going to aim farther right, you know? I’m going to farther right so I can go and try to miss a left, but then they go and he goes like this. start hitting more more across himself. Yeah. So, I’m trying to tell him to go like don’t be afraid like aim left of the target. Oh, interesting. You know, and just feel like you come from like doing an eight kind of thing. Trying to make him So, aim left but swing right kind of. Yeah. Get the path more like this way. That’s interesting. That’s different than I feel like I’ve heard. All right. Different fix. He doesn’t have that movement there because he goes there and open the face. is don’t hit it too far left because he’s going like this, you know. Yeah. I do feel like a lot of the advice ends up being like, “No, just aim more right and swing into out.” But you’re saying just aim left and then feel like it’s more aiming left and do kind of like an eight feeling. Yeah. From in to out, you know? Is that the most common miss you see with like when you play proams and stuff is a slice? Yeah, most of the time. Uh, all right. And then do you finish your warm-up with a 60 or you hit driver and then you go to the T? I hit a driver and then I go to the putting green, hit two putts and then go two putts. No, not two pass, but like a few a few. I didn’t know if it was a lucky number that you hit. And do you have to hit a good drive before you leave to feel good? Yeah, some it varies. Not really. What’s your thought over your first T- shot now that you’ve warmed up? You go into the first tee, do you visualize? Do you think about Do you go to a happy place? Yeah, I mean I I go back to the shots and obviously when I was warming up with the driver, I kind of like seeing what I have to do on the first TE or seeing where where to miss it, you know, where not to go and kind of like feel the trajectory, but or get the aim of a tree or something. Yeah. And practice that like I’m like if I was on the first te and then just go there and and hit it. All right, you’re ready for it. Thanks for warming up with us. Yeah. Thank you.
