“Mastering the Art of Golf and Business: A Conversation with John Catlin, Marine, Entrepreneur, and Golf League Innovator”
In this exciting episode of the Dynamic Golf Podcast, hosts Tim and Sean sit down with the remarkable John Catlin, a former marine turned successful business entrepreneur. Join us as we dive into John’s fascinating journey and discover how his experiences in the military have shaped his approach to golf and business. As the mastermind behind a thriving two-man scramble competitive golf league, John shares invaluable insights into building a strong mental checklist for success on and off the course. Get ready to be inspired and motivated by his incredible story and learn the secrets to unleashing your inner champion. Tune in to this episode for an enlightening conversation packed with practical tips and strategies that will take your golf game to the next level.
Sit back and get ready to take off with Dynamic Golf hey Tampa Bay golfers this is Sean clz from One-Stop golf club just want to give you guys a little insight into what we have up here in Wesley Chapel uh we’ve got a great facility it’s called one stop golf club and basically it’s a private man cave or woman cave depending
On what you’re trying to do it’s 24/7 access to trackman which is a $20,000 machine that you see on tour and it’s a private hitting facility so it is member only uh we do offer golf lessons and Club fittings in there as well but basically for $60 a month you book your
Tea time online on our website and you have 24/7 access you can book a half half an hour an hour or 2 hours and we also have a speaker in here and also the TV which has all multiple channels so just a great way to come in practice
Work on your game trackman has so many different apps inside of trackman you can work on specific yardages uh really get your numbers dialed in from a club perspective uh there’s also 65 different golf courses inside trackman so such a good way to work on your game um also if
You decide to have uh some friends that are members as well great way to come in and use it where you can play different golf courses you can do close the pin contests long drives so just a ton of different um ideas inside of trackman that you can use super easy to operate
Very uh user friendly but again think of it as your own private facility $60 a month for the base membership and then if you want the VIP membership where you can bring in your friends that would be $130 a month so we are excited to be in
The Wesley Chapel area we’ve been open since August and uh been had some great support from the community so far look forward to working on your game come down to onetop golf club in Wesley Chapel or go to our website which is onetop golfshop fl.com my name is Sean clz the owner and
Operator of onetop golf club so uh welcome back everybody welcome back to Dynamic podcast uh I’m your co-host Tim mavan here with Sean clz um Sean who do we have today hey Tim I’m really excited about this uh friend of mine I feel like we’re kind of like
The smartless crew now like we start leading up to the guest and I’m going to start giving you Clues on who the person is and stuff yeah but uh this is one of my buddies uh from from the Brandon area his name is John Catlin um he actually
Walked into the golf store probably about 5 years ago first time I met him and we just kind of instantly hit it off um good player he’s going to be humble and say he’s not as good as as me but he knows he can take my money whenever
Whenever so uh anyway was really excited to have John Catlin in hey John how you doing today bud hey I’m good Sean nice to talk to you good man um yeah so basically you know me and you kind of struck up our friendship just based on
Mutual love of the game right you like you’ve been playing for quite a while and um kind of tell us just a little bit of of kind of how you got into golf how long you’ve been playing sort of where you’re at now yeah yeah I’d love to do
That um so I I got into golf um at a a fairly early age I would say I mean if anybody knows much about uh the Brandon valo do area the first golf course I played on was Diamond Hill okay oh yeah and uh very interesting story about that
Is my mom used to run those Hills before it was ever a golf course so uh have quite a bit of History uh there I learned how to play there but with uh my dad actually bought me a set a little half set of um uh Northwestern Bob mer
Classic golf clubs little Forge blades and uh that’s how I learned to play I just went out there in my cowboy boots and figured out how to swing a golf club on my own and kind of uh just fell in love with it right away yeah um you know
Kind of in and out of it uh for a while while I was a Youngster in High School playing sports really got a lot further into golf when I became um a marine because I started playing on inter mural teams in the Marine Corps okay nice
Thank you for your service sir yes thank you yeah I appreciate that and then um and then you know I uh I I I played quite a bit for a number of years and I was a decent player you know probably playing to about a eight or a 10
Handicap and then I kind of got out of it for a while okay and started doing a lot of uh bass fishing actually oh interesting and uh you know about three four years ago I started getting a lot further into it again got getting much more involved in golf and kind of fell
In love with the sport again and and uh you know it kind of took a pit I’m I’m a big competitive type guy so if I’m not competing in something it’s kind of hard for me to kind of maintain my focus gotcha correct yep and
So that’s kind of the way it was with fishing for me you know I mean I was I love to fish but if I wasn’t preparing for a fast tournament it was hard for me to sort of stay in stay in the moment you know actually
Work and so uh all and one of the things that I I I had done in bass fishing was I had led and and and helped run some tournament series of twom man bass fishing team tournaments okay Y and I really liked the concept and I said man
That’s a lot of fun to be out there with a guy that’s your really good friend and you can you can spend some time together but you can actually try to compete and win a tournament and apply your skills against your friends Etc yeah and I said
There’s a way to do that in golf and we need to do this with a Twan scramble and I and I built a uh a Twan golf tour here in Tampa called the Tampa Bay two-man golf tour and uh it’s kind of built on that principle and so since then I’ve been
Really deeply involved with it and just um just falling in love with the game uh working really hard have my ups and downs so so so yeah you’ve been doing the so this would be the the summer coming up because I know your first event is up at Plantation Palms in March
Right yep so is this the fourth year of the Tampa Bay two man tour uh the four I think it’s the third or the fourth season had some split Series right okay um yeah so this will be the um uh we’re we’re running our season the whole year
This year we had run split Seasons before yeah uh so yeah we started march on the 24th uh and then we run six uh events from that point all the way until the end of the year and then our seventh uh series a seventh Tournament of the series is the Tour Championship gotcha
Yeah I think it’s uh from the you know kind of inside and outside perspective meaning that me and teamac have run plenty of golf tournaments and and you know whether it’s the zephal open or just running charity events uh the David Rudman tournament and charity Foundation
Was a big one um it you know some of our listeners know but some of our listeners don’t know how much work goes into behind the scenes behind the scenes and and I mean me and you were on the first tea one day you know like getting ready
And and the guys are either showing up with a different partner or or whatever right but I mean you do such a good job now and it’s also the thing that I’ve seen in the three years that I’ve seen it is that the following is bigger um
The the guys become more um they’re spreading the word for you which is what you want right that’s the whole key uh you can only do so much uh marketing advertising but once they figure out that it’s a good event that it’s I’m going to use these words um reputable
Honest and competitive because there are definitely some events out there that are not those three things um so yeah you you know you’re looking for the guys you know that are are um that and the thing I like about the tour too John is that the with the handicap allocations
That you do and we don’t need to get on the micro part of it but but basically it’s very competitive there’s different winners each week it’s not the same winners right yeah that’s right I mean what we try to do is you know when you first when you first come to the the
Tour you’re G to play off of a calculated initial Index right which we base off of your individual handicaps and some formulas that we apply to it that I won’t dig into yeah okay but after that first event you really are you’re playing off of the handicap that you legitimately earned in our
Competitions right Goa yep so um so it does make it very tight and it it’s not uncommon for a half a dozen teams to be competing for a Podium finish and finish within a stroke of each other yep I’ve seen that almost every event that’s real competitive right there yeah and
Different and different handicaps like those some of those guys are plus twos and some of those guys and because of the the fairness you know equality that you come in um so that’s what I like about it and then me and team ma have talked about this in you
Know other podcasts when you’re playing for yourself there’s one kind of competitive level when you’re missing a putt for another guy much different it’s so much more stressful isn’t it yes you want to play for your team right I think I think we we put that pressure on ourselves I do
With my my buddy Crump all the time and um TX got a good friend of his name is Vos and and we playing some stuff up here but it’s it’s almost like you don’t you just don’t care as much when it’s your own ball right but when you’re when
You’re playing with your partner and I’m sure that’s the same for fishing too it uh it changes it any Amic for sure every cast counts when you’re fishing and every swing counts abs and you don’t want to let your buddy down right right yeah well it’s it’s a um it’s twom man
Best ball is what the what the form scramble sorry scramble you know what’s fun about that you know what’s fun about this format that I figured out is is really one of the most fun Parts about this two-man format you know most of us who play golf uh love the idea or at
Least I don’t know what the right word is but we dream some days about having a caddy right like man let’s let’s go out and play a competitive event let me have a caddy on my bag help yeah all that good stuff right well a fourman scramble
Is kind of a hit and giggle that doesn’t even matter right you’re buying Mulligans and everything else but in a two-man scramble it’s actually quite hard yep and having that buddy next to you who’s not just a partner but almost acts as a caddy to help you know club
And think through things it raises your sense of awareness on the mental game that I think has helped me a lot yeah the strategy of it T-Mac you know playing two-player scramble absolutely right so if me and you are going to go do that you know I might be the guy who
Hits the the the hybrid down the middle and then let you hit driver yeah you know and vice versa because you just want to get a ball in play yeah on the narrow hole and I’m sure that you and Ron have a certain way batting order I
Would say you know I know me and vas always vas always goes first I always go second um and there’s always you know it just there’s always a strategy there’s always a routine for it and uh you’re always talking about what what what the next player needs to be doing they
Helping them out yeah it’s funny too even though like putting so when me and Ron you know when we go through it and typically that’s you know I go first Ron goes second um arguably he’s a better player he’s going to he wouldn’t argue
With that at all but he would say um but but but when you’re putting you know when you when you’re only let’s say two under through the first nine holes you know what you just say hey let’s change it up let’s change up cuz that’s something almost like a good lesson for
Our golfers in general if you keep doing it the same way then do something different didn’t Martin Hall say something like that keep doing the same thing you keep getting what you keep getting or something like that myself personally I’m going to I’m going to go
Left hand low on the putter on the on the back n if I haven’t made any putts on the front whatever right you just so yeah and and just even that mental different approach changes your attitude your mental part of it so you know you were mentioning putting there I thought
I was an interesting lesson I learned uh two days ago on the putting green for myself I have been struggling you know my handicap is is come down quite a bit over the past year but I’ve been struggling of late with uh speed control okay okay and um I decided
The other day to go out on the green and practice and I realized that I made a a change in the actual physical grip on my on my putter a while back oh yeah and it caused me to stop running my index fingers down the shaft okay now some
People will recommend against this some people recommend to do it but I think it’s all an individual doing what you’re comfortable with but correct but what was happening for me was when I stopped doing that the cutter would load on the back swing and caused me to slap at the
Ball at the bottom of the Ark and it would I was inconsistent all of a sudden with my distance control okay and I realized that it’s because I couldn’t you know the way I’m a very handsy player Sean has instructed me before he knows
I a lot of hands in my golf good and bad and so it caused me to to just overload the Putter and and and slap at the ball and once I put that those fingers down the shaft that kept that from happening and my speed control is
Coming back and that’s just because I I decided I had to change something right right it went back to what was not broken before you know so I’m going to ask this question I didn’t have this one planned so T-Mac um if you’re going to teach one of your one of your students
Speed control or try to try to make them not three putut as much just give me one or two of those kind of Swing thoughts or or even approaches to it that you would kind of get your student to work with what I you know typically what I do
For a speed control especially with distance putts is I will putt to the edges I’m not putting to a cup okay um I’m trying to take a result out of it um just trying to get a pace or a feel uh and that’s really what I kind of do for
For Pace control and I’m I’m just three balls and I’m trying to get each one as close to that apron as possible and I just find that once I get the element of hole out of it I start to free myself up I think that’s a huge point is that you
Know people on the practice screen putt two holes yeah period y you go to a Tour event they don’t putt to a hole they put to they throw a disc down they they do you do see a lot of you they put to a te
They you do see a lot of them playing that almost pull like bumper drill which is essentially yeah hit it to the edge but you’re going to get penalized if you hit it to The Fringe correct and that’s just a great way to learn feel and then here’s my here’s my backward reasoning
For asking this question to John I’m glad he brought it up and now you tmac if I teach distance control to my students I tell them to walk the putt off right to to measure the putt take the paces and and go figure out your most of us have you know whatever our
Pace would probably be close to a yard as we walk so if you take eight Paces to the hole then that’s 24t and then if you go to the next hole and you took 10 Paces you got 30 feet great you know you start having a number in your head so
Might my point of this John is like we got three different people three different skill levels and we’re all kind of approaching the game differently talking about it a little differently but we all learn from each other right yeah that’s right you know that’s that’s that’s what you’re saying that’s the
Cool thing about the tour yeah is um is that like you said you got you got a player and B player and there’s going to be sort of that caddy um caddy element um with me and Crump we might be more a Anda players with Mike Sullivan and Carl
Sullivan they might be more A&A players but you know but you definitely in your pairings you definitely see the the A and B player and I think that’s yeah and that’s something I try to do is I try to not pair up uh uh teams that are of uh
Like a a higher handicap team I won’t pair them with another high handicap team right for one reason I don’t want the I don’t want the play to get kind of clogged up dumped up but but it’s also really important that those those um less skilled players or less experienced
Players are seeing really good golfers right move through that hole because and and what you actually see is how much better those guys come over the course of the Year together right by just playing the tournament right and and seeing other players and and you’ll be
On the tea with them and they’ll say you know I I played with Carl and Mike and it was something I noticed about the way they played this was interesting what he did right uh and it does it is help any any kind of competition uh is like that
And I think that a great point to bring up is that I think for me and Sean when we go and watch tour events it’s something Sparks inside of us when we come back out and play and there’s a Tempo a rhythm um you know and I think
There’s a great learning process for everybody there especially for the B player to learn from that that’s great I could just I could just I could just stand on the range at Bay Hill for hours hours you know I don’t even people say you know to the Valar Valar is great
It’s a great tournament it’s a good great finishing last four or five holes but the range is not as good as Bay Hill no you know and and Augusta is amazing just for people that are lucky enough to get to Augusta but but I just love going
To watch the short game area seeing what VJ Singh dating myself a little bit was working on you know I mean he was out there for three hours at Augusta and guess what he only hit 50 yard wed shots for 3 hours like but the tempo was absolutely amazing and you take that
Home with you you know it kind of drips onto your game a little bit too so then John the other thing I this is I’ve encountered in your tour for is and me and T-Mac have this all the time in our events up here so you put me and Crump
With two other players absolutely fine love and all the guys are great right but throughout that throughout that that uh that round it’ll be oh my gosh this is the best we’ve ever played I can’t believe we’re playing that good The Miracle round yeah you hear all that but
You know that but John the reason they’re doing that is because they’re watching other better players they’re focusing they’re not playing with their buddies on the you know like you said four player hitting giggle scramble right they’ve really decided to change the focus and they realiz oh if I take
My little extra time or if I spend a little extra time reading a putt they’re gonna start so I think that’s a good you know side side event of it well I think the mental game is the is is way way understated Sean you and I have talked about this how much that’s
Meant to me over the past year yeah what let our let our listeners know about that a little bit because I think it’s a great story that we were talking about the other day so so um several years ago I I uh was promoted at work to associate
Vice president and as part of that promotion I wanted to yeah I I feel like I’m I’ve always been a pretty good leader being a former Marine and learning all I’ve learned from what I believe is the best leadership School in the world but you know always when you when you reach
Another level you’re always trying to find tune yourself right and it’s just like in golf you’re trying to you know you’re trying to get better at your credit mhm and so I hired uh a not a life coach but an what we would call an executive
Coach okay and uh and you know she really you know when you do something like that it’s it’s it’s a it’s more like a mental game coach in in in golf it’s you got to be willing to do some soul searching right and uh you got to
Be willing to sort of bear your soul and and be vulnerable as she would say yep and uh you know I’m an emotional person right I uh I’m also a fixer and a rescuer I have a lot of different traits in my personality right okay and um she
Said you know um what you need to do is you need to start thinking about becoming a little bit more present and in the moment uh so you can you know kind of communicate in the way that you would want uh and it’s in various different situations maybe it’s a situation where I
Feel um you on not being heard or listened to or whatever it might be and um and so she gave me these three these three uh mental checks and not really mental but their their sort of presence checks I would say and um this was early
In the year last year when I started figuring out how it applied to my golf game okay and um so what you do is is is she would say look before you get into one of these high stress situations uh you need to you need to take a deep
Breath and and and while you’re taking that deep breath let it out and and sort of think about what what is going on in your head at the moment take note of it right take an inventory of what’s happening in your head and then you take
Another deep breath and you clear it out and you think about what you’re feeling physically right what are the physical Sensations that you have in your body at the moment okay and then you take another deep breath and you start thinking about well what are you feeling emotionally right that’s
Different than what’s going on in your head but what are your emotion state right what and take an inventory of those things yep and you can quickly go through this routine of just three deep breaths and and and on the golf course I realized it was things like just feeling
How soft the ground was under my feet or not okay as a physical sensation I may feel like wow I feel a little cool breeze on me or man that that it’s hot in this golf cart and and I and I can think and be present in a moment
Thinking about that the same thing about my mental side is what’s going on in my head right now about what I’m focused on yep do I have a lot of work stress going on how do I Snap and clear that stuff out of there and then trying to check in
Emotionally about well how do I feel about how the day is going what am I feeling about myself in the round and what it caused me to do Sean and Tim is it caused me to get so present in the moment that I got addicted to doing this
While I was playing golf like I would I would get a shot and I would I would either sit in the card or I’d be walking to the next shot and I would just take some time and do one of those presence checks I might not do all of them I
Might just do one of them y right and it’s crazy because early in the year my uh one of my best friends uh Jim proos who I served with years ago uh in the in the military we’re great friends and and we served together over 30 years ago uh
He I was telling him how much I was struggling with my game and he goes man you just need to stop thinking about it and swing go club right and so I started getting present with myself and my handicap I had I I was I was that time I
Was like a 56 it actually climbed up to a seven something and from the point that I started focusing on this on my in my rounds of golf my handicap dropped to at one point a 3.9 wow nice yep with no swing changes right right no equipment changes no ball changes no YouTube
Videos no amazing greatest fix of the month great yeah no yeah it’s just all in the middle game for me and and and to be completely transparent and honest I had gotten away from it right so you start feeling the success you get a little lazy yep yeah and I started
Drifting away from it yep and um and so I recently just recommitted myself to to being president in the moment and once again because Jim told me to stop thinking about it right and uh and when I say stop thinking about it it doesn’t seem like it makes sense to be president
In the moment and stop thinking about it yeah but there’s a difference in the quality of the things that you think about and that you you know thinking about 50 different mechanical thoughts when you’re standing over a golf ball is completely the wrong thing to do right
Yeah it’s get get get in get to a state where you feel good and the only thing you really care about is the target that’s it and and just relax and and let your natural athletic ability and all that work that you do on the Range actually take over yeah so do you
Find yourself in like a a meditation State when you’re doing this basically is that what you’d say it it’s I wouldn’t I would say it’s shy of meditation but it’s just focusing on being present and in the moment uh and it it only takes me maybe 30 seconds to
To go through one of those presence checks and I might do one between each shot but it’s really just focusing on being there yeah right yeah being there not on the Range I feel like we could talk about this for an hour I’ll try to
Keep it to 10 more minutes or 15 more minutes CU I love I love this stuff cuz John and teamac like people come to us all the time like hey I want to break 90 right I want to break 100 well yes there is absolutely some physical things that
Need to happen to break 100 or break 90 the the yardage has to be a certain yardage your you know your your short game has to be a short and short game correct but the way that you go I think the hardest thing is to go from the from
The five handicap to the zero handicap yeah right that that’s that’s the clipping one stroke off per year per six months absolutely and and it’s these little incremental things like you’re talking about like hey you do have the right equipment you do have the right putter length you’ve got the wedges set
Up you like all your all your equipment’s good yeah now you’ve got you know you can’t be changing your swing like you say John so there’s just such a tremendous like almost um void of of this type of thing um I’m going to say personally when I run golf tournaments I I I
Typically um run the golf tournament that I’m working at the golf course okay and then I I usually like to try to play in it oh yeah and I would say I I haven’t played with you in event in an event John yet but to me it takes me two
To three holes to even get close to what I normally do on the golf course before you know what I’m saying John like cuz you get all these questions prior to the oh yeah right to the event so your your mind is total so you get up there on the
First te and it’s not thinking about the ground thinking about the wind thinking about you’re totally thinking about why did that guy ask me that stupid question five minutes ago why couldn’t he even got this money into me earlier I told I set it up on Facebook I’ve seen it
Happen to you like I’ve set it I’ve set the entire thing up on to give them all the information and they don’t read the sign whatever the sign is it’s it’s funny cuz uh my my my tournament partner Greg uh Aken yeah uh he actually taught me a lot about how to
Play years ago when we first started playing I mean he he was a big inspiration to me but we’re tournament Partners now and so we’re on this in the Tour Championship last year and the the online scoring was not working right o and you know and so so I’m getting text
On my phone at the same time this is happening and and and and we we were on the green with a birdie Putt and I’m sitting in the cart trying to fix said get your tail over here I don’t care about that online scoring thing yeah you
Know focus on your game but it is hard when you’re trying to organize an event and also it’s just a testament to not letting things rattle around in your head you know yeah so like getting a phone call about when you’re in the middle of A i i play very poorly at my own Golf Course cuz I can’t I can’t get rid of the eyesight of looking oh my gosh why is this guy driving around the bunker he just drove over the green just all the things so I play way better when I’m
Away from the golf course and then like you said now yeah the phone still Rings we’re still attached to the world unfortunately yeah um but yeah it’s different um so again I think there’s a tremendous amount of talk about there I think the you know the the simple things
That the that the viewers or listeners can take from this would be pre-shot routine we’ talked it figure out what yours is but again the best players that I play with are not not kind of consistent with their pre-shot routine they are perfectly to the to the second with
Their pre-shot routine yeah and and I don’t care if you’re and and again we play in different formats so this afternoon I’m going to play in a little uh four player scramble fun event couples Group whatever it is that’s going to be a totally different Focus
Point than it is when I play on the Tampa B two man tour you know what I’m saying like like we try to think we’re going to step up there and do our pre-shot routine but we’re worried about other things how’s the pace of play radio all that stuff you know all that
Happen so so just that that perspective of you know what have the same pre-shot routine every single time I think I can do that part of it which is probably the way you described it John the physical part but I don’t I don’t do very well at
The mental part because I am preoccupied with the other things going on I’m I’m at work that’s the thing I am at work you know I’m not I’m not just like these other 70 people they’re just coming out here to enjoy their day this is my job
So I’ve got to I’m hoping that they have a good time yeah you know so um emotionally yeah I’ve and then the emotion ins side is I’ll just make this a quick story came in playing in The Zephyr Hills open eight or 10 years ago
Right I just I John I just come in for a drink after nine holes right all the players are out I’m the last group out so I just came in for for a drink uh to get a Gatorade or something hot hot afternoon and one of the players asks me
One of those stupid dumb ruling questions right because I am the tournament committee guy too so but he says hey how come he got this relief when he should have gotten this relief that’s not fair whatever that thing is and I blew I blew up like I literally
Kick the door down I’m like ask me in two hours it doesn’t matter right now I’m in the middle of my round and you know like you you need crazy yeah you want to kind of separate yourself but um anyway so so dealing with the emotions
And you see this on tour all the time right I mean Jason day like his pre-shot routine with his breathing yes closes his eyes too CL his eyes visualization Adam Scott with with putting the hand on the grip same time I I watched him yesterday doing the same thing he’s done
Last 10 years I think yep um how Justin or how um Jordan spe approaches a putt you know he looks Twitchy he looks very Twitchy until until he goes um but there’s a routine there’s a method behind it he’s a he’s a talker right he’s always
Talking to his caddy yeah that’s the way he does it that’s the way he’s always talking but then tiger was more of leave me alone on the Green Well Tiger Tiger I I I picked up on something from him the other day that I he I’d heard him say
This a lot but I never really figured out what he meant and I and I kind of did a little research on it but his routine is sort of a silent one he talks about you’ve heard him talk about putting to the picture right correct and what he’s basically saying there is that
He he stands over his Putt and he and he he looks at his line he looks at the hole and he takes a mental picture of that it’s like a photograph mind yep and when he stands over the putt instead of him chasing the ball with his eyes and
Trying to see if it went he just he putts to the picture and keeps his head there it’s part of his routine yeah and I was actually struggling with so many mechanics you know overthinking my golf swing I started swinging to the picture right just there you go looking out
There at that golf at the hole and where the pin is where my target was and keeping that in my mind while I was making my golf swing and it made all the difference in the world yeah absolutely and and and he was taught that at like
Three four 5 years old by his dad when you read his book that’s something he’s been doing literally since he was four or 5 years old got what Jay Bruner I think to do the meditation at or something like that and that’s an ex marine by the way right Earl Woods is an
Ex- Marine as far as I know well I mean not not SAR leveline yeah exactly but still pretty good yeah exactly exactly but but it goes to the mental approach that you know that you’re talking about like you said you you know you were in the greatest
Training program ever type of thing I mean it it is it’s uh so hey yeah I one last question um how long did it take for you to get comfortable with that routine was it a couple days a month a week an hour oh I I think it’s a
Lifelong journey yeah I’ll be honest with you I I think anything in the mental game and again I I don’t think this is just this whole presence thing is not just about golf it’s a life thing sure and it’s just you know golf is a is
A microcosm of your life yeah right it shows how you handle disappointment and stress and that’s why it’s one of the best places to interview somebody actually but that that is a um it it’s just that I had to say wait a minute this is this is this is part of my life
I’m going to apply this this technique to this and it’s a constant thing like I I I can’t tell you I’m as disciplined at it as I need to be yet but it’s always a work in progress where I’m trying to do more and more of that you know and just
Sort of being in the moment and enjoying what I’m doing and and and trying to be a positive frame of mind but it is not the same as thinking about it that’s that’s the that’s a difference yeah you know being in the moment is not thinking
It’s getting out of the way of yourself is how you hear some some athletes describe it like just get out of the way like just let your natural tendencies take over you’ve done the work you’ve done the practice you’ve put in the effort the people who don’t put in the
Effort put in the work put in the practice those are the people that struggle with the breaking 100 and breaking 90 absolutely you know and and that’s that’s what you know sometimes we talk about with some of our students like you don’t realize how many chip shots I’ve hit in my entire lifetime
Correct it wasn’t I didn’t just become good like we we we put the work into it um so let let just I know the first event I believe is filled up but we kind of give people the the rundown on how to get in touch with it yeah absolutely let
Me do that so uh we have we we run the group off of a a Facebook group but you can get there pretty quickly by I’ve just redirected our URL to that Facebook page and it’s uh TB Tango Bravo in military speak TW man so it’s tb2
Man.com okay the number two yep TB the number TW man.com all one word and uh that’ll take you to our Facebook group and um you’ll see the schedule there and uh a lot of the in the players handbook is there a link to it and uh that’s how
I communicate with the members uh on tea times Etc we we’re trying to expand the first event because it’s full I think we’re at that’s a i limit the fields to 24 teams but we’re at 28 so I I I’m starting to expand that field out a little bit on um
Nice on uh that 20 one on the 24th of March at Plantation Palms that’s good stuff sir yeah I know how good you are on Facebook like you how you keep posting up and you know keep the posts up and stuff so definitely let you know let the golfers know about the dynamic
Golf podcast I know you will please do Cuz now you’re a star veteran of the of the podcast sir exactly we really appreciate you coming on John I think it’s been great great fun and maybe we’ll check in with you during the summer see how the tour is going yeah
Yeah man I appreciate you guys bringing me on and uh Sean I hope to see you soon bye are you looking to elevate your golf game with swing Theory golf.com you will Tim who is a certified PGA professional offers expert instr struction and personal attention to help you Unleash
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