On this episode, Wally goes back a few weeks to an exciting Masters Tournament and talks about the good, the bad, and even the ugly we all saw that week. Highlighting certain players (Scheffle, Homa, Aberg, DeChambeau, Tiger, and amateur Shipley) that shined in different ways during the Masters. Also, the conditions we saw either in person or on tv that the players had to battle through, especially the first two days. Wally also goes back a month or so to a comment Wyndham Clark makes about the state of golf and the format he would like to see it go towards. See if Wally agrees with Wyndham or not! You know we had to circle back to our favorite Korn Ferry caddy, JP Burke, and check in how him and Austin Hitt have been doing lately. Wally rounds out the episode with changes amatuer/weekend golfers try to make during a round that they should not try to do until they can work on them on the range. He also does mention a couple minor tweaks to make when a swing may not be going well during the round that won’t hurt the game. Wally covers what his four quick adjustments/tips are. Hopefully they may help your next round of golf! Cause at the end of the day we all want TO GO LOW!
That’s Too Bad
Episode 4
May 8, 2024
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[Music] powered by Riverside on everyone another episode of that’s too bad been away for quite some time I understand that I know that uh traveling weddings family functions so forth but uh glad to be back recoring and uh talking our favorite subject our only subject it’s game golf here uh and let’s let’s be honest here since the last time we’ve chatt and since I’ve chatted a lot has happened we’ve had the first major uh happen and uh I mean I just want to Let’s Dive Right into that the master was definitely an interesting tournament this year and it’s always interesting and exciting and there’s always drama and different story lines it’s you know year after year uh I think the biggest storyline here is Scot to be Scotty shot play you know kind of uh beating a dead horse I’m sure with the media the Golf Channel social media across the board all these other podcasts I’ve already probably talked about Scotty Shu right um here’s the thing I think my last episode or two episodes ago I think I had mentioned you know Scotty is he’s not on tiger woods’ trajectory yes but I see glimpses of an early Tiger Woods as far as more of like the success and really peer dominance I mean you know I mentioned before and I think I’ve tweeted it out and that’s you know the switch from the blade putter to his now Mal putter has really made a huge difference not in just his putting but the overall course of his game he’s been one of the best ball Strikers on tour everybody knows that that’s going back over a year and a half now and the missing piece especially from last year was his putting and he makes this dramatic switch to a mallet putter which I think for the pros when you play with one style putter for so long and you make a switch an equipment switch I mean you usually think there’s a little bit of lag time to get acclimated get the feel of it for Scotty that had to been like 24 hours because right out the gate he started playing extremely well we started seeing Scotty from uh over a year and a half half ago and and we’re continuing to see it it’s pure dominance um and I mean we saw it at the Masters the Masters this year was quite I mean it it’s a it’s going to be difficult because it’s amazing and Augusta National I’ve never played it you can only read and listen to what the pros talk about and all the golf handles and it’s a tough course this year especially the wins on Thursday Friday I think really posed a huge challenge for the golfers uh you saw a lot of guys ending up short of the green or you know clearing the green completely and that was due to just the wind taking the ball really not so much the yardage Factor themselves but uh either miscalculated the win or didn’t calculate the wind at all for some of them and we saw a lot of high higher scores and was looking at the scoreboard at the end of Sunday we only had eight offers in the entire field and for a major that’s wild to me it almost brings me back to like some of those uh open championships over in uh in Europe there where you know a few years ago I think it was where it was playing so difficult because of wild in conditions that um I think the winner at one point again this could be even longer than a few years ago and it really I think was like 6 700 something like that uh so it was you know kind of a wild Masters just from that aspect uh watching it throughout the four days and um even like the part three contest you know I I noticed that the greens were very slick and and again you know that’s to be expected of a major championship but for some reason it just it just kind of stuck out to me this year was even quicker greens and I don’t know if that had anything to do with weather or conditions out there uh you could definitely tell though it was playing a major factor a lot of butts were missed you know and now and not missed you know drastically they were missed it was missed slightly um you know they would miss on the high side or the low side and what was crazy is when you know greens are that quick it’s how they just continue to run and keep going you barely touch the ball you think it’s barely going to make it to the hole and yeah here it goes it just continues going going going and we definitely saw a couple of those throughout the tourn um overall though I mean this Masters was exciting I mean we definitely had again like every major like every year we got storylines Scotty definitely is one of the big story lines with his wife soon you know there’s about to have their first child you kept hearing the rumors that he was kind of ping a Phil Mickelson from years ago where he had somebody walking with his grou cell phone on standby INE something we’ve heard that he could potentially leave early if she did go into labor even though you I think I read or saw on Twitter or something that uh you know she she’s not due for a while or I want to say a while but it’s definitely at least another month or month and a half so but you never know I guess pry so you know that that really I think would became a bigger storyline than I think it really needed to be I think Scotty you saw in press conferences and everything else after each round it kept getting brought up you could tell he was kind of just getting sick of the same question over and over again and to be honest I think that happens a lot in golf it’s the same damn questions from the media over and over again you’ve seen it time to time Brooks Cal kind of rolls his eyes Tiger Woods has done it before you can tell but I don’t blame him either after about the fifth six different time you know what it’s like they’re just hoping you slip up or give you to um the other storyline though I thought was huge not even a storyline just overall performance in the whole Masters was the guy that finished second place and that’s lug big Ober um I was just watching his highlights through the last round of the Masters not too long ago here this guy’s got such anous it really just seems like he’s just kind of I don’t want to say going through the motions but it’s kind of what it looks like he’s just he brings the club back great back back swing comes through F through and it’s almost like you know he’s not trying to be like roran and drive his knee and hip into the ground his left leg and you know overpower the ball yet this guy could hit it a m and what I noticed too in the final round was his control with his wedges and his low irons there were some of the best shots throughout the tournament and his putting too was you know above average for that tournament at least when you’re comparing it to the rest of the field this guy’s got a lot of T and you could definitely see why um Luke Donald had him on the right this guy this guy’s a gamer and uh I definitely am GNA predict that he he is going to be contending for not just you know regular tournaments throughout the season we’re going to see him again and the BGA in the US Open I guarantee he’ll be up there contending and if not potentially winning his first uh but yeah it it was you know great to see him and how he perform there I I’m looking forward to seeing how he plays it definitely I’ve never really seen what he his style of play is we’ll really even know too much about him until the Masters weekend I mean I remember watching him during the rider that’s about it I love what I saw from him and he’s definitely going to be one of these guys that will be kind of tuning in throughout the season moving forward to seeing how he’s been doing these tournaments here on now um another big story and I think it’s a story that it’s not even a Story one of the bigger topics or whatever you want to call it is uh the performance of Bry and D um goes out and I mean he’s looking like he’s out there on a Miss man on a mission first two days really first two and a half days plays extremely well I mean typical Bryson he’s pounding the ball he’s getting it close and he’s making it I mean say what you want about the guy and His science background and everything else that I think trash people know about him when he gets on the greens he is definitely one of the better Putters in all his reading of greens and understanding the speeds and the slopes um he’s definitely got a you know patent down for what he’s doing now he does take a little bit longer on the greens to do so which I know frustrates other golfers and it really does kill the kind of speed of play a little bit you know is I’m I mean I’ve generally been known as a quick Speedy golfer I get frustrated when I’m playing with you know someone that might be a little bit slower at least if it’s not something I’m well aware of going into that round who I’m paired up with or so forth you I can see why it’s it’s frustrating you know he he walks around the whole putting green looks at all the Angles and the math and science starts kicking it he’s calculating it to a degree and speed and it’s uh when you’re not playing it’s a little F it’s it’s fascinating but it’s something I’ll never try to replicate or understand I’m not smarter enough to probably understand it and that’s why he it’s worked for him really since he’s been on tour and they why’s been one of top Butters live EJ or whatever you want to call it both sides of it he’s always been a pretty good butter and you know people might you know put an asteris because he he does the arm lock butter listen I’ve been one of these people for a long time that says arm lock belly butter you know the broomstick the claw whatever your style is doesn’t mean [ __ ] I I I still never understood why we ban uh the belly putter so much and why golfers are trying to get rid of the arm lock Putters golfers are going to find different ways to change up putting because putting really at the end of the day is a feel and if you’re feeling uncomfortable over the ball when you’re trying to but you’re not going to make it that’s just how I’ve always viewed putting uh and he’s you know has that arm lock butter down again it’s just because you arm lock it doesn’t guarantee it’s going in the hole every time you still have to get a feel for it there’s different styles of arm lock R and is very stiff you know his left arm is very straight to his shoulder his right arm is pretty close to being the same he’s very upright you could see like Matt Coo’s been doing the arm loock butter as long as you know Jesus Christ has been alive it seems like you know exaggerating here but he’s done now two different versions of the arm traditional where it’s up against his left forearm I he’s more crouched than Bryson D Shambo and over the last two years he’s gone what I I guess you would call it a reverse it’s now on his right arm I tried dumbing uh sha here once to see how that would feel I don’t understand how he does that on a consistent basis it just feels odd to me like you want the shaft to almost come off your forearm before you make contact I don’t know but you know I’ve seen him interview and say that this is this works and that you know he would encourage people to try it again it’s it’s all a feel of what you’re what you’re comfortable on you go traditional BL Butters male Butters Etc uh and that’s why I’ve never understood why the belly putter got got banned from from the tour it just I mean realistically here I think what the blessing in disguise was is that it brought us the arm but circling back to D shampo in the Masters and that Saturday after afternoon that back nine especially really ate him up ended Saturday on a high note what was he like 12 something out dunks it one hops it in under the 18 you think he’s kind of salvaged going into Sunday he’s only a couple behind you know uh Scott’s again putting a lot of pressure because he played phenomenal Saturday go into Sunday Max hom another guy he just kind of like just kept hanging around a guy that I just kept begging to try to get more birdies and one of these guys it just just was par after par after and you can’t make up round which is hard especially the M he didn’t play bad but he didn’t play great is how I viewed Max home and he is a great guy’s GNA win major down the road I really thought going into Saturday this was going to be Max’s first major and I thought at least going into Saturday and Sunday the winds tying down um so the conditions were more favorable for the golfers and I was expecting maybe some lower scores and I mean I was wrong on that part and the other part that Max H was gonna come in essentially try to light it up to win his first major and it it just didn’t happen he just got just kept making pars I think he had a couple Bogies here and there from Sunday where he ended up dropping a couple spots but again just by the time he finally started kind of getting I think one or two birdies it was just too and again to when Scotty’s out here you know finishes the Master’s Min minus 11 to win that’s you got to make a lot of birdies to keep up it you know I’m looking back at I mean o Berg was seven under to finish the tournament so I mean Scotty really pulled away and when you look at the final round I mean Scotty shot four under oldberg shot three under Fleetwood was three under you know there was a lot of three under rounds here not even a lot just a couple more zour other than that it was a lot of even plus one minus one Maxa finished plus one for round four I mean he finished tied for third at minus four you know tied for third in the majors outstanding um when the leader finishes minus 11 though and you finish plus one for that round I mean even if he sh minus four he still is taking third place probably solo that point if not he’s tied for second he he really needed to do a lot of damage Saturday and Sunday to stick with Scotty and just didn’t have and you know nothing that I think going into the PGA though he needs to change it’s just got to drain the putts gotta Gotta Sink when they count when you’re on in two and Par fives and birdies and pars part fours you’re on and you got to make the birdies you got to get it close and then really it’s the part 3es if you can get close on certain part 3es uh in s birdies you you start pulling away from the field which is what’s got and U so I mean between D Shambo really who blew up Sunday you know was back and forth Saturday again the guy thought hey this this guy he’s out for Revenge heer last year who again you know D Shambo was up there with Brooks K Phil Mickelson fell short I thought Brooks and D Shambo were going to go into this year’s Masters Out For Blood D Shambo came out firing Ty it didn’t get to Saturday and the wheels just started Sunday was just uh not good for D Shambo at all but I mean that’s what makes the Masters fun watch really all the majors in general okay um so I wrote this down part of my notes do I really do I want to bring it up and talk about it yes and no and that’s Tiger Woods at the Masters uh now everybody’s got their own opinion on Tiger Woods on how did it go and I’ve agreed with what I’ve read from some go golf analysts and I’ve disagreed with others same with some of these social media people out there you know I think some of the [ __ ] that’s been said about how he was during the tournament was to just get likes and Views and what ever I think some stuff is out of proportion but anyways I tiger was the version that we saw the Masters is not that you’re typical Tiger Woods who’s now got many multiple Master’s green Jack Green Jackets we saw glimpses of tiger ws and really here for Tiger it’s yes will it be awesome to see him win another major uh of course but this year I think mainly and I think he’s got this set as his goal because I mean his his goal has been to play what one tournament a month because I mean he’s still his body is still not 100% from all the fusion surgeries Physical Therapy you know just overall wear and tear mean he even said to a reporter during the Masters you know everything but the guy still waking up at 4:00 a.m. he’s still working out he’s still going for his room I mean the guy’s still doing his routine I’m sure it’s altered now at his age and with all his taking body parts guy is still doing what he’s been doing for a long time and what I noticed during the Masters was off the tea you know I saw glimpses of good drives some That Got Away obviously you know Tiger Woods I think has always been known for you know aggressive off the tea and sometimes puts him in danger it’s what made has made him quite the uh artist to get out of dangerous and interesting situations on the golf course the the biggest thing I think I noticed from Tiger Woods the whole Masters though was his short game was if he could get it close with his 56 60 degree whether he was in the rough in the Fairway in the bunkers you know he put him self in position to succeed with his W the putting again just wasn’t 100% there like I mentioned before kind of the whole field putting really wasn’t um so I mean that’s definitely something for Tiger Woods to build off of I would you know anticipate that’s what we’re going to see if he decides to play in the upcoming BGA Championship I think I personally think he’s going to give that one a go but you know time will tell in a couple weeks we’ll find out um and we’ll see what happens at uh um the PJ Championship here but overall I mean Tiger Woods definitely you could definitely tell it’s just not not what we all want to see you know we want to see him dominate but it’s just you know maybe he’s got one more in him I I hope he does it’d be awesome to see again this year I don’t know if that’s going to happen I think this is a year of just trying to get through the whole year without ending the season with more Fusion surgeries ETA I think the coolest part and the funniest part was playing Sunday U playing with amateur from Ohio State uh Neil Shipley I it was um and I’m was reading this I’m right before my or right after I got flew back to Chicago here and there was an interview uh after his round and one of the guys reporters trying to get to just I think get to know him a little bit better and you know typical question who did you look up to you know to get you and I think everybody’s always anticipating anybody’s going to really say tiger Woods at least if you’re going to give multiple names Tiger Woods is in the mix and which would have led into probably I’m sure oh well then you got to play with them in your final round of the match BL and I think what was kind of comical was he did not say Tiger Woods the guy he’s to was VJ S I mean another great go too uh I think that one through that rep off there wasn’t really a followup question after that think think the B was semi stunn there I found it kind of comical you’re playing with Tiger Woods and your first ever Masters in amateur and you’re in Sunday route and here you are paired with one of the greatest golfers in uh in the history of the game and the guy that got you into the golf that you looked up to that you were probably watching all these tournaments looking out for him as BJ sing who was in the field just didn’t play well either so yeah so that’s my take on Tiger Woods the Masters um in that whole little story there uh so let’s let’s shift gears here a little bit and let’s talk um really let’s get let’s I would like to just talk first about live golf and the big announcement recently which is and big announcement I guess really for me because I I’m in so this is and I’m not far from where the individual Championship uh tournament’s going to be at now which is at Bowling Brook Golf Club here a lot of interesting takes I’ve seen this week on social media about Bowling Brook why Liv decided to go there Etc I I got opinions on why other coures are probably not in the mix I’m sure it has to be PGA Pro U what’s what I’m looking for kind of uh influence there uh I’m sure there are PGA Pros who still do not respect or appreciate or favor or support live golf which is fine that’s their freedom to do so and I’m sure there’s courses in Illinois that would love to host professional golf tournaments whether it’s live or the BGA tour and gears live trying to stay in Illinois they’re not at a Rich Harvest like they were the last two years they’re going to they’re trying they’re looking for a different venue I don’t know Rich Harvest just didn’t want them anymore or something whatever the case may be there but they end up at Bowling Brook and for someone who’s lived grew up five minutes less than 10 minutes from Bowling Brook gol Club there uh I’ve played it numerous times year year after year after year it’s not a bad hor to have a tournament at and this isn’t me being biased because it’s it’s not one of my top hor syst like that I enjoy playing it’s it’s a very challenging course it’s one of these courses where if you live in the area you play there and it’s always windy no matter what the weather is uh the wind definitely plays a huge factor in that course makes it a little bit longer definitely makes it tougher the greens are quick already for public go so you can imagine for the live tournament they’re going to be even quicker and the condition of the course is always extremely well and uh I think it was bar stool one of those guys posted a video of the driving range and again they’re you know they’re not from the area so they don’t understand that driving picture that they posted is from the other side of the range where a lot of the public will go just hit balls not playing the range that they’re going to use is the range is on the other side of the field where the clubhouse is where you hit balls before you go and play your 18 um and it’s a nicer setup it’s not math and a little [ __ ] so you know I think a lot of people are trying to downplay it a little bit that it’s not going to be that great the is not great for a professional golf tournament I disagree I mean they they have the tea boxes to make the horse longer for row and there’s a lot of challenging and fun holes out there um it will be interesting to see how they do this with parking and stuff is a true native of Chicago you gota wonder the parking scenario for anything but I mean the clubhouse is you know really nice the bar restaurant is always good and the area overall is very is very good too you know if you’re looking for stuff around the bowling BG area before go the tournament and overall I think I mean the hes if you don’t got your bad with you you’re just a spectator I’m sure walking 18 18 won’t be that bad so I I’m intrigued I you know I’m planning on trying to go one of the days to the lift tournament there in Bowling Brook I mean I would be stupid to basically right in my backyard at this point gotta go see AK everybody knows in the podcast big supporter but also a lot of my favorite golfers went from the DJ to live which was Works Cal Ian Bolter um I’ve always been a big fan of papz and uh and so forth so and I would like to just see what the Liv tournament brings I’ve been to BJ tournaments before onway farms cville uh WGC events out in Ohio so it’ be nice to see a live golf tournament so I again here for the for people that are not from the area it’s not a shitty course uh yes there are I think nicer hor not even nicer I think there are better courses out there in also in the general area that they could play at but this is not it’s not like they’re going to play at some you know dog track here in Illinois the course is always pristine and I would anticipate it would be a fun tournament and I’m very intrigued to see how the Ros from to end up playing it is Ry gonna obliterate the course or is the course going to get windy and tough and we’re going to see uh see some high scores there I mean we we’ll definitely see what happens there um all right so not not live I guess it is live related and BGA related something that I’ve been I’ve noticed I read uh might have saw it on the go Channel this goes back maybe a month month and a half it’s comments that wind now after last year’s you US Open win and kind of the Netflix show i’ I’ve been a supporter of windar I’ve liked his style play and what he brings to professional golf here what I don’t appreciate or I guess what I I just didn’t really like is his recent comments and not so much recent anymore but his comments a couple months ago that he would like to see the PGA go to a style where it’s the top 100 in I guess the world at this point or I guess or maybe just the BGA and he said he would like to see the bottom 10 or 20 relegated going in you know at the end of each season so basically you’re at the bottom 20 you’re relegated to I would assume the corn fairy unless he’s thinking of another tour that would have to take place or go and work with the corn fairy and then you bring another which I mean at that point means you lose your tour card you go down you got to earn back the next 20 come up I mean so why don’t I have a hard time I have a hard time with this for a couple reasons one is the guy has just recently won last year Uso he ends up on the rider cup as we all know USA doesn’t win the r um not saying that this was specifically on him but I’m just saying you know he he’s on the team and the team did not perform well so he’s a part of it and then this year so far in 2024 he’s played I think in some of the smaller tournaments fairly well the Masters he did not play well at all so I guess my take where I’m getting at is like he just recently became a big name in professional from last year’s Uso but and now he’s kind of like it’s you know it’s almost like he’s like trying to phase out the guys that are trying to take the same route as h i mean there’s guys that um are trying to make you know trying to win a tournament here to to make their you know their name and presence known in professional golf like he did and it’s almost like he you know he’s I guess he’s just like you know stay hum like don’t don’t phase out these guys that have the same dream as that he did into making professional golf making a lot of money winning tournaments winning Majors Etc and saying here we’re going to just only have top 100 golfers and every year 20 drop and then we get a new 20 like for me a like because it came from him guy that just recently has become kind of a superstar in the PJ tour after last year’s US Open win I’m just like you know knock that [ __ ] now if it was someone like Rory mroy who I think also has kind of set comments similar but just not to the exact um degree with the Hun golfers and so forth or maybe even a Jordan spe spe maybe I don’t know I would still be you know it’s just why are we trying to phase out the guys that have a dream the same dream that they have you know we got guys in the corn fairy tour who are working their asses off just to get in the top 30 to get their tour card show up in 2025 to start playing in tournaments and seeing you know if they can make their name so why are we trying to make that real I just don’t get that from professional we’re talking about sport where we’re trying to expand the presence worldwide from different Generations um both from the men’s and women’s side you know and my issue is when Winden CLK and a couple other these guys the PJ tour made these [ __ ] comments that to me it just sounds like we’re trying to make this more difficult for guys to get to the BG because we want to play the best for me that’s wor I mean it just you know and people can argue me with this one it’s fine I mean I’m sure there’s valid Reasons from the other side of it for someone that I you know I like seeing these guys you know like an ash um who’s really trying to you know he wins a tournament this year he’s one of those up and cominging golfers that I get excited to see tournament you know for him in tournaments and you know it’s just I I don’t get that from why these certain Pros are again trying to make it difficult who or Bor fairy guys or guys that are aspiring to become professional golfers out of college and so for I just don’t get it um my other take is like hey w why are you doing that um you know every year corn faery top 30 get their tour carts and they go up to the PGA and you know and there’s guys that do get relegated down I mean there’s guys on that went to live I think they lost their tour cards uh we all knew Ricky fer a couple years ago was about to lose his tour card and you know so I mean golfers do lose their tour card and guys from the corn fairy get come up it’s a system we’ve been doing for like you know you know for a while now and so it’s like you know wind par like you’re we this right like again it’s not 100 golfers and we’re moving up 20 and dropping 20 but it’s it’s the same same damn process unless I’m missing something or I’m not aware of something um you know I don’t I don’t know but it again it’s just a comments that just didn’t really sit well for me and mainly May from him just because again he’s fairly new as far as being a bigger name in professional golf mainly because of his US Open win last year he didn’t win that I think he’s known but he’s his startom is not as high as it is right now um and again if this came from the other golfers too I would have the same issue you know other than maybe like aor maoy who’s resume blows Windam Clark’s resume out of the water right and uh and I would still have an issue with it even if Roy said it I would just kind of maybe respect it a tad more than what wind said again wind hasn’t really done much so far in 2024 so I mean I we’ll see how this year goes but if you’re going to make those comments and then we look at the at the end of the year and you’re in the bottom 20 like you’re going to be eatting your own damn words there so I mean that’s just in general those kind of comments piss me off is for you know just again staying humble enjoying being a star in the DGA tour because again it’s it’s luxury that not everybody gets he gets it good for him he’s earned it but there’s guys that are working towards that let’s not make the road any harder than it is it’s already difficult enough to become a BGA bro why are we trying to make this even so that’s just my take here um okay so last episode got to interview uh awesome caddy on the Cor fairy tour JP and you know he’s uh canning for GU the born fairy Austin hit and so I’ve been kind of following along uh what they’ve been doing the last few weeks I got excited I I uh this was a couple weeks ago um so Austin hit he was sitting 27th at the time in the points 219 points so far going very like I met mention the top 30 get their tour card so Austin hit a long season ahead of us sting was sitting at 27 and he started off the year real well recently since the after their break he had a couple of slow starts but I got excited at the I believe it was the leom sun Co classic he was going in uh going into Saturday he was high four for the message JP where I I DM him said hey you and off doing big things uh root for you guys Saturday Sunday let’s finish let’s finish strong here JP give me a thumbs up unfortunately that did not happen um but hey you know looking at what Austin’s done and JB have done together this year so far and against the long season ahead of them um were definitely room for these two and you know we mentioned on the last episode when I was talking with JB hope we can get Austin on here both of them at the same time maybe towards the end of the season and kind of recap how the year went hopefully by that point he’s got his tour guard maybe you know wave it on the screen here in front of us to to show off here but uh we’re g to definitely keep keep tabs on these two and really keep tabs look I’m going to start trying to get more in depth on the corn fairy site because I think there are a lot of good golfers that are going to make their way to the tour very soon and getting to know their who’s out there right now in the corn fairy and watching some of these tournaments you know that’s kind of like my game plan moving forward I do want to get more in touch from very side to share with everybody here all right so I think you know we’ve talked quite a bit of really the Masters several different golfers live going to Bowling Brook oh I guess there’s another thing I guess before I wrap it up here I forgot to mention the the other big news of live office the uh the news that they’re going to possibly go to four rounds starting possibly next year I think it’s still under it’s still under consideration now listen I I do not I think this [Music] is um how do I want to say this I think this move is really mainly to just shut people I think people have really have [ __ ] on the the guys that went to live they’re only playing three rounds so they can’t figure out how to play four rounds a golf win a tournament listen Brooks C goes to live gets healthy because he gets all that time up which I think I’ve mentioned before on one one of my episodes here and we saw Liv guys play four rounds of golf last year one of them ends up winning a major they all played well Tech R wins a major too but he wanted while he was still EJ EJ member not a Live member um so the it has nothing to do with these guys don’t have the stamina to play Four round well I mean whoever pushes that narrative or whoever started the narrative is you know again kind of an idiot to be honest with I mean these guys are playing practice rounds thrams and before the tournament start I mean these guys are playing almost every God blessed day so I don’t understand where someone pushed the narrative that these guys can’t play four rounds and G they’ve been playing four rounds of golfs four Liv no issues a lot all of them had won no issues biggest croca [ __ ] comment that anybody’s ever pushed again I think that maybe it was just to stir up stuff I don’t know it definitely works you can even see like again I’m circling back to wind park because I know he’s done it before but he’s not the only one there’s other PJ golfers that kind of [ __ ] on some of the live guys that they can’t compete to this level anymore because their stamina is only for uh three rounds AG go not four again I think that’s just a stupid ass um so there there’s moves to potentially four rounds I think even the last week when I was watching one of the one of the days forget which day of the tournament might have been Friday David far even said there’s consideration that they might go five days and I think that was more of just a um comment shot back at all the haters saying yeah we go from three to five because we’re gonna prove you guys that these golfers do have the S I think realistically they’re gonna end and I think it’s realist you know just really to shut people up I think once it goes to four this those stupid comets go go away and then at the end of the day it’s you you take all this the variables from Liv and PJ out of it and it’s then four rounds of golf against four rounds people don’t like the team concept with live I’ve grown to starting like it because it’s not really a Ridder Cup team style per se you’re playing individual and you’re collectively putting your your scores together with the team so even if you’re down at the bottom of the tournament you have really no reason to withdraw or really not try because your team could be at the top so it be in your best interest for your team to play that third round at a high level to see if your team can then overall win if you guys are not in the individual winners so I I kind of grown to like that because we see in the PJ tour some guys that at least not some of the older golfers or I should say more seasoned experienc golfers we’ve seen it time to time they make up a bogus [ __ ] reason they don’t make the cut or they barely make the cut they’re Nowhere In Contention and then you see WD next oh I got an know oh this I think truly that they’re just they [ __ ] that because they go why do I want to be here I’m not gonna win and make the big money I made the cut so I’ll just take my little check and get out of here early I think that’s kind of stup you know I think that’s just kind of BS I mean it’s your job it’s your profession if I try to do that my job I’m pretty sure I get better the next day um you know I put in my my effort every day um so that’s that’s reason why I’ve kind of enjoyed the team concept part of live it just it keeps everybody from the top to the bottom in in the tournaments um but other than that I mean like I said it’s it’s it would be four rounds of golf at a golf course versus four rounds you had to live versus four rounds at a golf course and PGA Tour L and at the end of the day I think that’s all people care about is and then you know hopefully at some point we’re going to merge and really put all the noise to a r I think that at some point is going to be here in the next year or two we’ll see it but until then we do still have live versus PJ and before they merge maybe we’ll see a live GGA Rider cup style tournament well who knows we’ll see okay now let’s get towards what I think how I’ve always ended majority of my episodes here uh I say majority I only got three so far um so you know got a lot here uh you know I don’t want to say there might tips for amateur golfers but stuff that I think amateur golfers can work on uh to help them improve and stuff that’s I’ve worked on I work on at home whether it’s in my office in the backyard I go to the range whatever the case is and um you know again I’m not a profession I’m not a pro here I’m not a certified teacher here so you you take what I say with a great Rin of salt here if you do it and it helps awesome you know let me know if you do it and you consistently try and something that’s not cooking reach out to me in the DMS maybe we can try to figure it out not tell me my tips suck and that’s that’s okay um one of the biggest things that you see on Saturdays and Sundays with amateur golfers your weekend golfers is trying to make different changes throughout the round and I think we see this a lot because again I think my last episode I talked about you know everyday golfers have everyday you know potentially nine to five jobs office jobs whatever it is golf is not our profession golf is what we like to do for fun and it’s um so we just you know not everybody has the time to put in 10 hours into our shipping and driving and cutting and so I think we all wish we had the time and the money to do so but we we don’t and we see a lot of guys on hor trying to make swing changes which in general for me I’ve always try to tell people to don’t do it get through the round and what you’re doing right now at least don’t make the drastic changes because it’s really it’s not the time or place the drastic changes have to happen on the Range where you can just beat balls work on the mechanics um if the mechanic change is what you know you’re currently working but there are minor changes on the course to kind of help us along at least get through the round when certain things aren’t going right and one of my my biggest things and changes I like to say that can try to do on the course without practicing is um really it’s the ball placement in your stance and I think certain level amateurs don’t understand or grasp the concept of where the ball placement in your stance has to be for certain shots I mean in general the ball towards your front foot if you’re right e towards your left do the Opposites towards your right you know if the ball is further up in your stance in enal the basic science around it at least with your irons and stuff the ball’s going to go higher up in the air and the further back in your stance you know the lower the J and what we see too it’s like guys will consistently have the ball further up their stance for all their shots even their wedges and and so forth you know you get like an eight iron and the ball is closer to their front foot than their middle of the stance or even their back foot and and what do we see we see guys top it we see him kind of you know do the P tug a little bit and why do we see that is because by the time that they had grazed the grass they haven’t made any contact with the ball as as they’re finally the club is coming up is when they’re making cont simple changes like that just moving the ball back in your stance I think really does make a difference and also will help amateur golfers understand because there will be times where you got to put the ball low or hit the ball high and so forth and making that change in the in the ball position really does make a huge difference uh a couple other just little tidbits here that I you know stuff that you can do as amateurs holding off your follow through to kind of get like a lower lower trajectory swing there basically it’s like you know just soon as you make contact almost like try to hold it off your swing it’s not finished all the way through that is you know the way to especially in these windy days you know you’re least in the midwest you know in the springtime right now we get windy rounds I mean real one um and the what I you know I like to call the saw off foul through really will help in those certain rounds is keep keeping the ball low I mean lower you can keep the ball in windy conditions especially playing horse where you’re got some tree coverage too the ball won’t be as affected by the wind now if you’re going to hit the ball in the air the wind will start right so I mean and and that’s again the saw off follow through something that I think you should try to work on at the range but it’s definitely something where I don’t think it hurt you if you all of a sudden did that on horse mid if you’ve never done uh another tidbit again this is you know I think I wrote this down after I just plays and should have been like a freaking tornado like the times CU all M I’m looking at my right now written down like they’re all wind related um when you’re on the TX with your driver maybe your 3-wood or even like a you know four IR three three hybrid whatever your case is um everybody always teas up their balls really high you see a lot of people do that in general teeing up your ball high you know you see the long drive guys do it because that’s going to help them get the ball up in the air and stay in the air hopefully longer windy days I don’t think you really want to do that you’re trying to hit them low you want balls to roll dry out and uh Team the ball low will definitely help do that another thing but this is again not something I would try’ never done drivers or not clubs that we hit generally down hit up the air Tiger Woods is one of the few golfers still on tour this day that I believe still hits down on his driver which is a concept in my head I still can’t wrap my uh mind around it but I started trying that last year and I’m know known as a guy that hits the ball pretty high up in the air most of my club so when I started getting down on this driver last year on a windy day it was night and day for me ball was extremely low shot out there I got it to draw a little bit and ball ran out was Midsummer so it was dry out a shot that I never thought I would have in my repertoire now I kind of do it will get me in trouble here in there but in general just teeing up your ball low with your same swinging dust wonders especially on Windy days and again like I said I must have written this down after playing or practicing on a windy day because my last key is here understanding what the wind’s going to do to your ball throughout the round when it is over 10 miles hour with that Ball’s going to move whether it’s on the putting rain you’re in the Fairway the rough or on the t- box the wind will Factor your ball move and I think understanding you know direction of the wind understanding you know what this could do while you’re on the putting green so forth I think in general will help you you know get better scores lower scores hopefully again if they don’t DM me tell me I’m piece of [ __ ] tell me I’m wrong if it works out DM me and tell me I’m awesome I’m just kidding but it would be good to know if anybody out there does follow some of these tips I do provide again these are tips that I get from my own swing coach and from other uh just watching golf golf channel um all the different shows and stuff so stuff that I also I mean I like practicing I like one of the raid so I do practice a lot of these different shots too um so if you ever do get the chance and you do get to go to the range it’s not a bad idea to try to practice a shot you know you might only need to use once in a round but knowing that you have that in your bag just in case because you never know when you’re going to need it that always worse and that’s kind of what I do I go through a routine myself just to get ready and then I go through my what I call my [ __ ] swings [ __ ] that I hope doesn’t haveen around but it does I’m prepared I’m ready so yes that’s all I got for you guys today um you know we talked a lot we got the DGA Championship coming up here so hopefully I’ll this time around I’ll I’ll Rec and I’ll have an episode ready for you guys shortly right after the BJ tournament uh let me know what you guys think about those tips if you guys take them and uh as always let’s go low powered by Riverside
