This week on Pivot The Path, we’re riding a wave of winners—starting with Scottie Scheffler, who claimed his third major with a wire-to-wire performance at the PGA Championship. Calm, focused, and totally unflappable, Scheffler’s mindset was just as powerful as his game. Scott reflects on a recent Joe Rogan episode about rumination—how overthinking problems often creates more of them—and connects it to Scheffler’s ability to stay positive, trust his process, and keep moving forward with clarity and purpose.
This week’s Improvement Pivot Point: Stay positive and keep moving forward. Whether you’re chasing a major, grinding through a training block, or dealing with pressure in business or life—progress comes when you trust your preparation and Own Your SSWING.
Over on the Korn Ferry Tour, S.H. Kim of South Korea delivered a breakout win at the AdventHealth Championship in Kansas City, going 20-under and showing he’s ready, in the Show Me state, to take the next step.
Scott also takes a moment to celebrate the energy in NYC: the Knicks are heading to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in 25 years, squaring off against the Pacers with momentum and belief. Go Knicks!
From major moments to mental mastery—it’s all about confidence, clarity, and closing the deal.
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Good day golfers. Ever found yourself redirecting blame and making excuses after having an absolute shocker on a golf course? I know that I have. Range was closed. I was a little cold. Didn’t warm up. I hit it in those three old divots. Then we have the podcast for you. We focus on how to fundamentally own your swing. Strike it pure and consistently shoot in the 70s. Be it if you’re a weekend hack, retired and playing daily, a school phenom, or a tour professional, we present and discuss facts and physics pertaining to golf, trying to keep our ego and opinion at bay. We dispel myths such as keep your head down, bend your knees, or my all-time favorite, game improvement irons. So, stop drinking that mythical Kool-Aid and have a sip of ours. I think you’ll find it both inspiring and refreshing. I’m Scott Young, founder of Swing, PGA professional and exour player. Welcome to Pivot the Path. Good day golfers and welcome to Pivot the Path, the 107th PGA Championship at Quail Hollow. What an amazing week. I thought the tournament proper was just brilliant, positive. The golf course was amazing. We’ll get into that in a second. Our improvement pivot point comes from watching these guys, specifically Scotty Sheffller. Tony’s third major. Obviously, I I believe him to then come on for a run the next 10 10 12 15 years. He is going to be an absolute powerhouse. We’ll get into why in a little bit. Uh but just suffice to say, I hope you caught some of the the PGA down there. It was just amazing. All right, let’s get into it. News from the fairway. We had the young South Korean Kim Xiong Yong won his first US-based uh tournament which was phenomenal uh down the corn ferry event 26 year old. So it’s nice that cornfair is bumping in a little bit of international players there. The F1 we had a wonderful return to M Maxappen winning the Italian Grand Prix. McLaren two and three with Lando and Oscar. McLaren they have put some something special in their fuel this year. So, that was terrific to see. And then big news from our local community is the New York Knicks. First time since 1999, they’re making it through to the semis for the NBA playoffs. Uh so they play the Indiana Pacers uh this coming week. Uh so we’ll see if they get through. So huge news. Spike Lee must be just going absolutely ballistic. I find the whole kind of NBA courtside, all the celebrities a bit of but uh fantastic for the Knicks and and it would be lovely to see those guys win. This place will go ballistic if they do. It’s the first time in 25 years. So, let’s get back to the PGA Championship. 107th running of the PGA Championship. And my takeaway, how do I start? I thought the major coming from a such a kind of faltering win by Rory at the Masters and they blew it up into whatever it wasn’t. Scotty Sheffller was just stoic and how a major should be won. Led from the start. He was kind of in and around the mix up until day three where he finished with a with an absolute blast to get ahead by four or five and then no one faltered right up until the squeeze that Scottish Sheffller was or is knowing that he’s not going to falter. Uh and he just made Ram hit a couple of shots that again weren’t bad shots but the course was so high and tight and fast. I don’t know if you guys saw it, but the greens looked absolutely like this tabletop. The course was faultless. And considering how much rain they had, I thought the actual way they presented that golf course to be absolutely phenomenal. So, Quail Hollow is a place I’ve never played, so it’s certainly on my bucket list. Uh the golf course just looked it looked hard, it looked firm. Some of the 500 par fours, the whole golf course was superb. So, shout out to all the tournament committee who put that on. I thought it was magnificent. The greens, the pin placements. I I thought it was a faultless event. Where do we start for Sheffller to turn up wearing the orange to remind the kind of the the the marketing machine that it was a year ago that he got arrested uh in wearing that orange jumpsuit in in jail there, which is just bizarre. That that’s a whole pivot the path episode onto its own. the way he handled that uh press conference leading up to he’s just a very stoic man. So what I got from that was how Scotty Sheffller could just come in and out of present time. And what I mean by that is it didn’t matter how big the event was, whether he’d made a little bogey here, maybe missed a putt there, or maybe he went birdie eagle, he could bring himself back to the present. And that’s what I took from the PGA Championship was how levelheaded this guy is. He’s unflapable would be the would be the name. So when all the world’s best are coming at him, he just stays in his bubble. And I think that’s the biggest thing that I took from the PGA Championship. And just the way Bryson handled himself, I mean, it’s ridiculous that he’s world number 10. He’s got to be the second best player in the world right now. uh another another tire second place in a major tournament. Bryson’s got some interesting interesting things to think about because his clubs are very upright and he hits the ball so high and so far. It’s going to be interesting to me to look at how he’s going to play in the British Open. So one thing that made his him winning this tournament very difficult was there was a fair bit of breeze around which was uncharacteristic and he does hit the ball so high. So one thing I think he’ll be looking at in the next couple of weeks is the US Open he’ll be fine. We want to hit that ball high to stop to stop the ball on those greens. But come British Open time he’s almost playing himself out of the event with the height with which he hits the golf ball which I love. But in the British Open, and it showed at Quail Hollow, when he couldn’t control that flight in the air, he hit some beautiful golf shots, but unfortunately they were the wrong shot at the wrong time. So, it’ll be really interesting to see what he does in the next couple of weeks leading up to the Open, British Open. um just to see whether he brings that flight down because I think the height with which he hits the ball which is unbelievably brilliant and I certainly love watching Bryson because he hits shots that I simply can’t hit. Uh I I don’t know if that’s going to actually be a deterrent over the next couple of years to win to win lots of majors. So it’ll be interesting. He’s certainly a mathematician. We know he’s precise. The way he handled himself was just exemplary. I I just love everything about Bryson. how he’s interviewed. When that lady who was interviewing said, “Oh, you know, you hit some uncharacteristic shots.” He said, “No, they were perfect shots. They were just the wrong shot.” He knows his game. He takes ownership of his game. And I love that because our podcast is about being high and tight on facts and figures. And there is a guy who’s high and tight on his facts and figures. So, just getting back to Bryson, one thing that it still strikes me that people don’t realize how far he flies the golf ball. Rory flies it a long way but also runs it. Whereas Bryson hits the ball so high. Trevor Immelman’s commentating on the Sunday and Bryson hits one and Trevor’s like, “Oh, I hope it’s left of the bunker.” And he flew the bunker by 30 yards. And Trevor was like, “Oh, that’s right. It’s Bryson.” I still think he’s bringing a new dimension to the golf game, how far he hits his golf ball. And so, and whilst Rory hits it far as well, Rory got into a lot of stink this week, and I’ve said this for over 12 months now, the golf industry is dictated to by the manufacturers, not the other way around. And I know the manufacturers have been creating a trampoline effect in their drivers, which I’ve said for over 12 months should be banned. And Rory’s in a little bit of hot water, and it I think it showed in his scoring that someone pulled him up on his driver. I have no idea how the RNA choose who to test and who not to test, but certainly his driver face appears to be a little more trampolini. So, what does that mean? Actually, we’ve got a face right here. This is the twist face carbon copy of of Tailor Made. Now what the twist face does, it twists the face further right so that when a golfer hits the ball in the toe, the more right toe is hit, the more the ball will curve back to center line. That’s one thing. I think this should be not banned, but I think it should be minimized. I don’t know how the regulations are on this twist face, and you’ll see it here. As we hit the toe, the face clockwise rotates for a right-handed golfer. And as the face clockw clockwise rotates the ball spins in the opposite direction. So what manufacturers have done by pointing the toe further right gear effect will hook the ball back to the midline. Whereas if the face was square, the ball starts right edge curving to left edge of trees. By twisting the face further right, the ball is started more right. Therefore, when the ball hooks, it will be in the middle of the fairway as opposed to starting the ball right edge, hooking into left tree. So, that’s part one, twist face. I personally think it should be banned. Part two is because they have now they’ve got an alloy and and mainly of titanium. The faces are so thin. I built that Titalist 905S and I had the exact same length of shaft, shaft, and grip. And yet the difference in carry was 60 yards. Why? Because the faces now have a trampoline effect. So as the ball hits the face, because it’s a thin metal, it concaves and then trampolines out. The hard part about why I think it should be banned is cuz it’s very hard to regulate. I don’t know how they would actually test that. My gut feeling obviously we’ve just built our own irons and we’re about to release those. So I’m pretty up up to with all the technology here and manufacturing and how we do it. The only way I could see that happens is with a highdefinition camera in slow motion actually watching the face trampoline. Now how they measure that trampoline must be very difficult. So my point is because it carries and I’ve we’ve proven it. It’s a trampoline effect can carry a driver 60 yards further and that’s not a taken out of my backside. No, the actual trampoline effect can be 50 to 60 yards. If it’s so difficult to measure, then why don’t we just take it off the table? Because it’s starting to get like the uh cyclists when they used to have the motors for the uh tour to France. When things are hard to measure, then all of a sudden ambiguity comes and Rory certainly refuse any comments and he’s he probably doesn’t even know what the trampoline effect that he’s using. They just give it to him and say, “Here, use this.” So, my point is, let’s just get rid of it. Let’s just get back the playing to have a have a a club face that doesn’t trampoline. ERC Callaway was a driver launched probably back in about 95 and that was banned by the ARNA because of the trampoline effect but because the club manufacturers, you know, Tidalist, Tailor Made, Mazuno, Callaway, Cobra, because they’re the juggernauts, they are ruling golf, I think they actually predetermine what is acceptable and what is not. Let’s just have a level playing field and let’s just have a normal driver. So, I think Rory had a bit of a uh bit of an interesting PGA. I think that really upset him. Obviously, he’s not the most mentally strong and couldn’t compartmentalize. And that’s where Scotty Sheffller, it doesn’t matter whether the guy’s thrown in jail, whether he’s interviewed, whether he’s made double, his ability to compartmentalize. And when he raised the WMaker, I saw that he had a Whoop band on, and I would love that data. And I found it very high up on his left bicep. If you watch him raise it, you just see this little black strap. So to get his So he’s obviously tracking his heart rate and how his heart rate, you know, pumps up under under certain conditions. Let’s get back to Tiger Woods versus Scotty Sheffller. Why do we love Tiger Woods? And it appears, why don’t we also have the same love of Scotty Sheffller is because Tiger took us on a journey of emotion. He’d pump up, he’d fist pump. Scotty doesn’t do that. And my guess is, and here’s one of our improvement pivot points. My guess is his team has realized very quickly that for every up there’s a trough. And we talk about this for years. For the up trough of emotion, there’s a down trough. And that’s where Tiger, obviously we know now, off the golf course, he really laid in that down trough of of dominance. And Scotty Sheffller doesn’t seem to be that guy. I mean, the guy has the same car since he got out on tour. He’s earning 70 million a year and just bought himself a new a new car after having his 180 mi clunker, which I just love. I mean, the more I dive into this guy, the more I love him. And it’s not for me to it’s just my comment. I I think he’s brilliant. But the reason the community haven’t embraced him is because he doesn’t take us on the emotional journey like Tiger. When I saw that whoop high up on his arm, that data would be phenomenal to get our hands on because I think what they’re working on is to be a Stefan Edber. And one of the commentators, it could have been Illeman or it could have been Frank Nobel, said how much they remind him of of uh Pete Sampas. And what uh Stephan Eggbird used to be as a as a great player was a ve on in the ATP tennis Ivan Lendle was a very even killed arousal emotional level. And that’s what I think they’re really working on with Scotty Sheffller is they’re working on the fact that Scotty Sheffller just stays on this even emotional kill. So Alex Norin came tied 17th. Another great story to come out of the PGA. The guy just had eight months off, 31 or 32 weeks off with injury, tore his right hamstring, hamstring tendon. And so this is his second event of 2025. And to come tied 17th in a major and right up until absolutely superb. So and he’s 42. He’s no spring chicken. So I that’s what I loved watching him get back into the throws of of playing some great golf. So moving into the improvement pivot point, let’s get it back to Scotty Sheffller. And I I think Scotty doesn’t get the rewards that he deserves because as we’ve talked about, he’s just not a flashy guy. What’s important to him? Religion and his family. And parents were there, his wife was there, his little boy was there. And it’s just an awesome message to say you don’t need all the bling in the flash. You need to set parameters and goals for yourself. So, bringing it back to the high and tight of improvement pivot point, we love how unflapable and how positive Scotty Sheffller is in whatever situation, it doesn’t matter whether he’s made double bogey, whether he’s been thrown in jail, he knows where he lives. And as my father-in-law, Pop always tells our kids, we know what we’re doing and just let all the circles swirl around you. And I think we talk about that a lot with our kids. And certainly the inspiration that I’ve got from Scotty Sheffller over the last couple of weeks was, “Hey, this is where we live in our lane.” It reminds me of a Joe Rogan interview where they were talking about how if you ruminate in negativity and how if you continue to to swirl in this negative world, how that gains momentum. And what we’ve found at swing, we had a uh one of our videos go viral about this lob wedge that I was talking about. And I said, “Oh, the lob wedge he, you know, you’ve got to have a high bounce and a low bounce.” And the low bounce is like zero. And I said, “It’s not actually zero. It’s like two, you know, two, three degrees.” There are a few naysayers who are really negative. And we’re trying to present a new brand about golf improvement. We’re the only vertically integrated golf improvement business who will have their own clubs, movement, PT, and direction of golf other than Tidalist. And yet, it’s so easy for a couple of individuals just to be viscerally negative. And what we try to do is say, you know what, we stay in our lang. We know we keep it high and tight on facts. I might have a blurb my up in a in a video here and there, but the group message is one of positivity, inclusion, and we just try to say, right, the the focal point of our podcast was high and tight on facts. So, one thing that I took from Scotty this week was really be positive when those keyboard commandos come out and be so nasty. And we’re doing our best here. We might, it’s 5:30 in the morning. I might make a make a mess up on on labeling a lob wedge of having two degrees of bounce. Give us a break. We’re trying to present a high and tight facts on improvement and own your golf swing. And we take that from Scotty Sheffller and how positive he is and how absolutely in the moment he stood for that four rounds of golf. He ended up winning by six, but it was a lot closer to that. So the message with all this the improvement pivot point stay positive keep moving forward know what you have to do to keep going in your lane and our lane is keeping it high and tight on facts and figures on owning your golf swing. So when you come into your practice this week make sure you know exactly what you’re about to work on. We know that with our community here at swing, we want them to leave better than they started, right? So you can absolutely own your swing. So we’ve just launched the new website. jump on this, share it out. We’re about to jump into our uh group training. Everyone’s waiting outside, so we’re going to get get going here. But remember, you can absolutely own your swing with the work you put into your game off the golf course. Know what your direction is, stick to the lane, and let all the noise just swirl around you, but make sure you adhere to what you’re trying to achieve for that specific goal. We’re about to do it in group training. Look, thanks for listening, and we’ll see you next week. Cheers. [Music]
