That's Just Golf: Emergency Nine

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Maybe that's my biggest lesson of 20, 26 so far, is there is a gigantic difference between I can and I probably will. And I try to hit a lot of shots that I can hit, but I probably won't. And I know I probably won't. And that's also probably where some of that anxiety comes from. Over the off ball. You kind of. There's a part of you that this is not gonna end well. [00:00:20] Speaker B: Absolutely. Yeah, for sure. I think it's a good, good idea to try. [00:00:28] Speaker A: Let's go ahead and say it one more time, just in case. Welcome already in progress. [00:00:33] Speaker B: Well, the funny thing is, here's the, here's the most hilarious thing about it, right? Two plus two is always four so far as we know. Whether there's pterodactyls chasing you through the jungle or where there's gremlins coming up out of your toilet, right? Two plus two is always four. [00:00:50] Speaker A: Where in the hell are you going with. [00:00:51] Speaker B: Yeah, just listen to me, okay? How many times have you hit 120 yard shot exactly where you wanted to perfect. No issues whatsoever. As if you're a golfer who's played, you know, a decent skill level, yet you throw some water or some hazards or some bunker around, and all of a sudden it's like two plus two doesn't equal four anymore. Now I've got to magically do something different. Now there's all this anxiety and pressure and, and change that happens. And I wish I could say I know what the answer is to overcome that, because it happens to everybody. Look at all the, the major winners or major hopefuls in PGA LPGA who have a six shot lead or something and then just complet it on the final hole or the final six holes or whatever just because of pressure and anxiety and, and, and they've done this a bazillion times to extremely high level. So there's, it's, it's just funny because there's something about the psyche that it just changes everything for some reason, right? It's like I've done this a million times. I can do this blindfolded. [00:01:51] Speaker C: Literally. [00:01:51] Speaker B: I could close my eyes and hit the shot, but all of a sudden it's different. Right? [00:01:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:01:57] Speaker A: Well, speaking of, that's where I was [00:01:58] Speaker B: going with that, Garrett. [00:01:59] Speaker A: Okay, okay. I was, I was really confused about pterodactyls and chasing us. That's where you lost me. [00:02:06] Speaker C: I had pterodactyls in math. How does that. [00:02:09] Speaker B: Listen, listen. I'm a college professor by trade. I have to Engage people. I have to figure out how to explain things to people who are asleep in the back row. [00:02:18] Speaker A: That was. I could not for the life of me figure out how we were going to get from math, pterodactyls and jungles back to something golf related. But you did it. It makes sense. [00:02:27] Speaker B: There's always a plan. There's always a path. Just trust the process. [00:02:31] Speaker A: So, speaking of the fascinating human psyche, this is. This is just an interesting little tidbit here. So the fourth tee box on Deer at Riverwood has. I've just noticed the last couple of times I've played it, the back tee has a fire ant infestation. [00:02:54] Speaker C: Right. [00:02:54] Speaker A: Now, I probably told them about the other day because I don't think they knew about it. And it's weird because they all like, blend in really well with the grass, so you don't really see them that much, but when you're standing over, they are moving. And that kind of creates this weird, like, you think it's like an optical illusion, but it's not. It's really fire ants marching around all over the place. So once I figured out what it was, I'm like terrified to go on that tee box. Cause I actually. I think I told this story. I actually got bit by a fire ant in my backswing on number 17 last year. And I have never, even, for me, I have never hit a ball as far left as I hit that thing, because you just, you know, I hit it. It was almost left of 16 fairway, and I was teeing off on 17. That's how bad lift it was. But anyway, so I'm. I'm terrified of getting bit. And I also just don't want to be bitten by a fire ant. [00:03:44] Speaker C: That sucks. [00:03:45] Speaker A: So the last three times I played it, now, mind you, this hole has given me fits. I was hitting. I. I don't think I hit that fairway a single time. And I've switched to three wood on that hole about the same time that these fire ants showed up. And I have not missed it, nor have even come close to missing. I get up there and I'm in such a hurry to get this shot and get out of here that I'm not on the box 10 seconds, you know? [00:04:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:09] Speaker A: And I strike. I. I don't even have to bother looking to see where it goes. I know where it's going. It's right down the middle every time. But the one, that same hole is where I chunked the two iron in the turn through the day. And what did you Tell me afterwards, you said you were over that ball a lot longer than normal that time. And I was. I was. And I told you it's because I got over the ball and I realized I hadn't finished my routine, so I had to, like, hurry up and finish the rest of my mental process before I. And I just stayed on there too long. But when I just hop up and hit it, never a problem. I don't. So why do I not just hit every shop that way? You know, it's the weirdest. It's such a. The human mind is so weird. [00:04:51] Speaker B: Yep. It's fascinating. It's a scary place and a wonderfully beautiful place all at the same time. [00:05:00] Speaker A: Ain't nothing beautiful about mine ever. [00:05:04] Speaker B: I saw. [00:05:04] Speaker A: So I have to. I'm not. We don't have to go into detail on this one, but I do have to share. Sunday, I played, actually, after the trifecta, I played probably the most mentally disciplined round of golf I've ever played. That's all that needs to be said about that. There's nothing to learn from that. I was actually real pleased with that. Then Tuesday, I go play. I shot 91 with 10 pars, and. No. Do you know how incredibly hard it is to be 20 over par in eight holes of golf? [00:05:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:35] Speaker A: When you were even far from the other 10, he was starting, he texted [00:05:39] Speaker B: me, and I was like. I was like, did I read this right? I'm, like, waiting for the edit to come through. You know, like, you can edit your text messages. I was like, surely this means 81 or something like that. And I was like, nope, that's 91. So I was like, wow, how in the world. I said, there must have been a lot of others or something. [00:05:57] Speaker A: I think it was four triple, and they were all double. I think it was four doubles and four triples. Does that math out? Yeah, that would be right. So. And the bad thing was four of my others didn't even incur a penalty shot. I just hit it that many dag on times. But. But that's. Tony and I were talking about this afternoon. You know, sometimes you have those rounds that get away from you a little bit, and they kind of turn into experimental days where I started to kind of experiment with some different things that maybe I wouldn't have tried if I was playing better. But, you know, that's another thing that we. We were talking about before we started recording the podcast. Like, how do we keep our bad rounds from getting away from us? That's a really tough one for me because I can literally shoot 70. I think the next round I shot 78, so I can go 91 78. But the once I get above about 10, 12 over par, I start to run out of give a crap real quick. And, and yeah, now you. [00:06:51] Speaker C: Yeah, welcome to my world, boys. [00:06:53] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:06:55] Speaker B: after the third hole when you're [00:06:58] Speaker A: 12 over par, give me another eight. [00:07:01] Speaker B: Yeah, well, you know, we were talking about that and maybe you could, this would be a good point to edit it into a, it's, this could be like a five minute long short video or something like that, right? Short form video. But we were talking about it Mike and we were saying, you know, he was like, I'll have 12 holes and I'll be like, well, this round's not going to count for my handicap. It's just going to be a toss away round. That's what happens. You know, eventually this round will get tossed out or it won't ever be counted towards your handicap because he's a sub 5 handicap. So if you shoot a 91, it's just a throwaway, right? But how do you, how do you stay engaged and not waste your time? Because you know, especially if you have family, you have kids, you have people you're responsible for, you're already out there. Why ruin and be miserable for the rest of your hour and a half round of golf? So you could say, hey, okay, I just played 12 holes, terrible, I got six holes left, I'm going to try to shoot the best six holes I possibly can. Or I'm going to work on this five ironed, you know, low stinger shot that hits the fairway and rolls out to 210 if that's something you need to work on. Or I'm going to play old man golf where I put the driver away and I just hit a shot, hit another shot low, it doesn't get above 50ft in the air. And I try to see how I can learn something. How can I take these last six holes and instead of being frustrated and mentally exhausted by how bad I just played, what can I learn? How can I make this a fun, enjoyable experience? So what happens to me a lot of times is if the round is just going miserable, right, you just know it's going to be one of those toss away handicap rounds. I go into what I call creative golf where I'm like, what's the biggest hook I can possibly hit with a pitching wedge into this 140 yard shot or 130 yard shot. And so I change my setup, I change everything. And I'm like. And I end up having the most fun possible and actually starting to play better golf because my brain gets so locked in to this crazy hook or slice or whatever I'm going to. Whatever I'm going to try to do. So, one, it's better to be kind to your playing partners, whoever else, where they get paired with a random or your friends. Not to be a grumpy, sour puss. Yeah. But two, it actually takes that time and turns it into some valuable learning you can do. Working on something, maybe it's mentally working on. How do I overcome adversity? How do I get past when everything is not working the way I planned it to be? Right. How do I make something still positive come from the last six holes I got to play, or whatever the case may be. Lots of ideas, lots of ways you can do it, but that's just one of them. [00:09:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:09:33] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:09:33] Speaker C: That's awesome. I mean, so to your point, I put my driver away probably on 12 or 14. Probably 14. I was okay, but it was like, you know, probably less than 50, 50 that. I mean, I. I only swung my driver once. I. Because I just. I think mentally I don't have confidence. And so I was hitting my three, but eventually I put the three away around 12 or 14 and just pulled out my three or whatever the. You know, if it was a par 3, something else. [00:10:03] Speaker A: But. [00:10:04] Speaker C: And it was fine because I. It was. But it's just your pride, right? You're like, everybody else is pulling their three or their one, and I'm pulling out my three or four wet, you know, or iron. But I could feel myself getting frustrated and slumping. My show, I'm hitting off the tee, I'm slumping my shoulders, and you don't want to be that guy. And so why. Why not just pull an iron? And at least I'm making, you know, better chance of hitting solid contact. And. And the next thing you know, I'm kind of perked up a little bit. And. But, yeah, sometimes you gotta put. Like you said, you gotta put your ego away. And, like, okay, well, let's just work on. And. Oh, my gosh. I worked on so much chipping my. I never found the green. So it's just, oh, my God, I'm chipping on a hill, I'm chipping on a downhill, I'm chipping on an incline. You know, like, I'm on my heels. Next time I'm on my toes, like, oh, I gotta choke down on this one even more. It was like, oh, another Chip. But it's just a reminder, man. Chipping and putting is, you know, where. Where all the scoring happens. [00:11:10] Speaker A: Well, yeah. And so in my 91, [00:11:15] Speaker C: I'd kill from 91. [00:11:16] Speaker B: Mike goes, man, that sounds good. Yeah. [00:11:20] Speaker A: So I warmed up and just hit a, you know, 15, 20 balls to warm up. And every ball was. When I got to the driver, it was liter, literally left, right, left, right. And there's no pattern, like no discernible pattern. The ball starts straight and either hooks 20 yards left or cuts 20 yards right. Which tells me that it's not a path thing, it's a club face thing. If the club face is just a little bit closed, it's going way left. And if it's a little bit open, it's going way right. And how do I play for this? So I don't know if I should play for a draw or a cut. And I get to the first hole and snap hook it so far left it. It was like. Tony knows how bad this means. It crossed the hazard before the bridge on number one. I mean, it's. That's deadlift. [00:12:11] Speaker B: That's one of those. If you were giving a math problem in class for geometry, you'd be like, what angle of error did this go off or have? And the answer is just the ball. [00:12:21] Speaker C: Drop, drop, another ball down. [00:12:23] Speaker A: It was insane. Well, no, I didn't even go far enough to bother doing that. I just had to re tee. So snap, hook it there. I think I made double par number three, par three or par number two? The par three. Number three, snap, hook it left out of bounds, hit my second one down there, make double number four par, the par three. Number five, snap, hook it left, re tee, make double or triple, whatever it was. Number six. I make par, I get to number seven. You know, so number six is a par four that I always hit four iron off of. So I get to number seven and I'm like, okay, let's take some quick inventory here. We've played six holes. We are seven over par when we hit driver, we're even par when we don't hit driver. I don't care if this is a 550 yard par five. I'm thinking I'm going to go two iron here. And I did. I hit two iron three wood gap wedge and made a 15 footer for birdie or something like that. I'm at an apron. [00:13:18] Speaker C: I can't remember. [00:13:18] Speaker A: But anyway, I'm like, okay, that solves that. No more driver. We're done with driver. And. And I didn't hit driver again until 16 and 17, because both of those have, they're parallel to each other, so you can miss it as far left as you want to on either of those holes. So I, I didn't, I didn't do it. My problems came in other places after that, but once I took the driver out of the bag, I said, okay, I can at least eliminate this problem. No, a two iron is not my favorite way to play golf, but neither is hitting three off the tee, so they don't take my chances with the two iron. So sometimes that is what you, maybe you have to do is just, you know, don't play the sexy golf. And another thing Tony and I were talking about too, I think I need to redefine what exactly a hero shot is because I think that I've gotten better at not trying to hit like the 30 yard cuts out of the woods. Just advance it and, you know, take your medicine, whatever. But I think sometimes the 195 yard shot over a hazard to a tucked pin, that I could lay up short of the creek and chip it up. I know 100% that if I played it 10 times, I would, I would average a lower score laying up short of the creek rather than going for that, even though it's 195. But on the golf course, like it's 195 yards, just a five iron. I mean, like, you're not gonna lay that up. Statistically you should, but I'm not going to. [00:14:44] Speaker B: Oh, and that's, that's the interesting thing about the whole strokes gained concept. I've thought about doing this where on every single hole you say, what would a. What, what distance? What club would gain me zero struts and lose me zero shots per shot? So let's say, for example, you're playing a par four and all you have to do is advance the ball 220 yards to neither gain nor lose a stroke. Just hit a scratch golf shot. Okay, For a lot of you, that's a hybrid or a four iron or something. If you hit the ball far enough, hit that. And then it says, okay, from 125 yards in the fairway, what distance should I be from the flag? To neither gain nor lose a stroke, Just hit a scratch golf shot. It's probably going to be something like 35, 40ft, maybe a little bit more. So you choose a target where if you hit a perfect shot, it gets just inside of that or something like that. And I'm wondering, what would your score be right how, how Easy would the game seem if you took all the stress away of hitting driver going for the green on a par 4? Even hitting driver on a par 5 sometimes is not the best play because of out of bounds right, hazard left, something like that. Just depending on your skill level, obviously, and what risk you can or cannot take. But how many times have you seen people you, you've watched, you play with this randomness you get paired with and they have this five wood or the seven wood that they never miss with. It's always just dead straight, 200 yards, something like that. But you watch them top five drivers in a row or slice them off the planet, and you're just like, what is your goal? If your goal is to shoot the lowest score you possibly can shoot? [00:16:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:24] Speaker B: Maybe go get fit for a driver and throw that thing in the trash until you got one that works for you. Oh, but I hit this so far. [00:16:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:31] Speaker B: Out of bounds, you know, but yet I've watched you hit that seven wood, dead straight every single time. Every time you've hit it. [00:16:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:38] Speaker B: You know, so there's different ways to play the game. There's different ways to take double and triple bogeys off the scorecard altogether. And people would score so much better until they develop the skill. Right. Like you don't. Your, your, your high school baseball team, Mike. The, the pitching. The pitching players. The players who are pitchers. [00:16:58] Speaker A: Yep. [00:16:58] Speaker B: They don't go out there in the game and try to throw that curveball for the first time when the bases are loaded and it's bottom of the ninth. They, they throw that. Only after they've developed and got it to a level where they can trust it. They, they stick to their guns. Until then, you don't draw up a play for Dikemi Mutombo to shoot a three pointer to win a game. Because that's not Dikemi Mutombo's skill. Okay. [00:17:24] Speaker C: I have to tell people who that is because he retired about 20 years ago. [00:17:29] Speaker B: He did not retire 20 years ago. He passed away recently. Yeah. [00:17:34] Speaker C: Rest in peace, d'. [00:17:35] Speaker A: Kidimbe. [00:17:36] Speaker B: Yep. Yep. Yeah, I think he passed away. Yeah. But you play to your strengths. You play to what you can do. You don't try to force things just because that's how you're supposed to play golf or you're supposed to play golf, play a hole. Unless you're playing on the PGA or LPGA tour or in a college event where you should be skilled enough to do that anyways. Right. Just a weekend warrior who never plays or practices. I Mean, if you got a 400 yard shot, a 400 yard hole, and it's a par four, which is way too far for most people to be playing par fours. If they are a 20 handicap, they just need to be like, well, what club can I hit? 150 yards most times, eight times out of 10, it's going to go at least this far. Do that two times and then chip and putt really well and make a bogey and get out of there. Yeah, but that's not golf. [00:18:27] Speaker A: That's not. [00:18:28] Speaker C: Garrett's never going to do that. That's so nice for people like me. But what do you. What do you got for Garrett? Garrett. [00:18:36] Speaker A: Garrett's evolving and developing as I. One of the things that I've picked up from playing outside a little bit more. I can't remember I said this on the last one or not, but I was talking to Mike at Solace today. That's Sully. And you know, I hit a six iron probably if. Well, let's, let's use seven iron. So if I just go in there and you tell me to like rip a seven iron as far as you can, it's probably like 185 yards, I'm guessing. Okay, but if I'm 182 yards on the golf course, I'm hitting six iron. I'm gonna take six iron, hit like a nice little controlled three quarter, and I call it my three quarter shot. It's not three quarter at all. It's a completely full swing, but that's what I Play. And my seven iron, I'm not comfortable pushing it more than like 175 on the Golf course, but just taking that and extending it up a little bit further, even to the driver. I mean, Tony, I'm a humble, you know, subtle flex here, I guess a little bit. Tony keeps telling me that at my ball speed, you're gonna just have to deal with some variation and that being one degree offline is going to send it way offline. So I've started to realize, like, all the speed that I've been chasing is just making me hit it far. It's just making it harder for me to hit fairways. I'm only hitting 43% of the fairways that I hit with driver. And this is a really cool thing about having this app and that we've been been working so tirelessly on. But I can break down my fairway sit percentage with each club. I'm 43 with the driver, 75% or better with two iron. And three wood. So dang number one need to figure out if the driver employed. But you know what I mean? It's like all this busting my butt trying to figure out how to hit it 320, it's like dag on it. I can't control 320. If I had it me, I can't control, you know, 280. So yeah, you know, same. The same logic kind of applies there a little bit where you know, I, I think one of the things that I, I may start doing is setting a new rule for myself that I'm going to, you know, take my pitching wedge and start at 125 yards, 30 yards, 135, whatever, and go until I can't hit it eight out of ten times. Once I can't hit the target, a ten yard target, eight out of ten times with it. That's my new ceiling. It's not how hard can I physically swing this club, it's how far can I hit it, how far can I hit it within a 10 yard radius and make the same logic apply to the driver, Maybe give myself a 25 or 30 yard radius, but that's as far as I'm allowed to hit it and that become my new stock yardage. I don't know. But I may spend some time on that this week. See what is my limit there of okay, yes, I can hit it 185, but I can control it at 170. [00:21:29] Speaker B: Yep. So that's a huge mental paradigm shift for you. I'd be curious how long it lasts [00:21:37] Speaker A: because I'm not too friend for a week. So it'll last at least a week. [00:21:41] Speaker B: It's no different than what is in the last episode where you know, you're talking about if I hit it 75% effort, I never miss. But if I go full, I can get an extra 8 yards. And I was like, then that's your problem, right? Is those 8 extra yards mean more. [00:21:56] Speaker A: I realized, by the way, I realized midway through that that I, that we did talk about that last time. That's why I tried to speed it along to something else. [00:22:02] Speaker B: Well, but also too, you're a little misguided in your dispersion window. So you're saying if I can hit a shot within 10 yards left to right total or 10 yards left and 10 yards right, 10 yards all the way around, that's pretty tight for 130 yards. And then if you get up to a 7, 8 iron, 6 iron, it's, [00:22:23] Speaker A: it's quite a Bit wider. My elite skills. [00:22:28] Speaker C: Yeah. You know, the next time he, he strolls up to a, a par 5, he's pulling driver. Let's just be honest. He's pulling driver. [00:22:38] Speaker A: I don't know, man. I'm running low on golf balls. When you, when you, when you, when [00:22:46] Speaker B: you start playing golf every day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:22:50] Speaker C: That's when you, when you, you gotta pull like your, your range balls or your, your, you know, recycled ball special, you know, for the part five, you don't pull the. [00:23:02] Speaker B: There was this video years ago. It was so great back when, like YouTube was just fresh and new and it was like the world's favorite golf ball, the rage. And it's the range ball, right? It's French from rage. But no, like, I have heard of so many stories. This is an anecdotal obviously, of people saying I only had one golf ball left in the bag and I played the best back nine of my life. Because what is your focus? Keep it in play. Find it, hit it again. [00:23:34] Speaker A: All right, look, even Roy McAvoy finally pulled it off when he was down to his last ball. [00:23:38] Speaker B: There's something psychological about it. [00:23:41] Speaker C: There you go. Yeah. [00:23:42] Speaker A: Now I've had that round before where either I'm out of golf balls or I'm just lost so many that I'm just like, I don't care what I'm doing the rest of the day. I'm not losing this golf ball. And I usually shoot like 37 or something in the back when I do that. But no, I really am just starting to, I guess finally, after 30 years in this game, figuring out that control is much more important than how far it goes, I guess. And, you know, it's there. Now. There are some times that, you know, like number five that we talk about so much on the Meadow course at Riverwood. I mean, I don't think I can hit a control two iron and even get it to the fairway, but maybe I need to learn how to hit my control three wood that, you know, instead of trying to carry it 250. I can measure the three wood. It's 230 that I know I can hit it, you know, inside a 30. I'm not going to hit it inside a 10 yard radius with a three wood. I know that, but I'm thinking 10%, I think is my. So from a hundred yards, that's 10 yards. From 150, it's, you know, 15 yards or wherever. But again, I keep, we keep going back to that or I keep going back to number eight. That front right pin, I mean, there's not a 10 yard radius that you can work with to that flag. If it's front right there, you're dealing with about a five yard window that you can hit that ball without it being in trouble. [00:25:00] Speaker B: So which course are you talking about? [00:25:01] Speaker C: Number eight. [00:25:02] Speaker A: Number eight on deer. Where you made the triple or where we made the triple? [00:25:08] Speaker B: Yeah, no, yeah, no, you're right. There's some. Yeah, but there's some holes where again, that's just. You have to play it differently and that's just not the play. I mean, especially not when you're blocked out by trees on a 8 inch above your feet lie. Like, had we been all the way on the left, it would have been a much different shot because you got the whole grain left to right to work with. Garrett just hit such a bad shot that I was forced into a poor decision. [00:25:32] Speaker A: And you had such a bad shot that mom was the best option. We had. [00:25:38] Speaker B: Fair point. [00:25:39] Speaker A: A lot of things that viewers and listeners will never necessarily know about. But one of the apps that we were trying to develop that we'll never see the light of day had an AI coach in it that I had gotten rid of because I didn't like what it was telling me. But one tip that it told me [00:25:57] Speaker B: it was too much like me, it [00:25:58] Speaker A: was too much like Tony. [00:25:59] Speaker B: So I believe I was like it was. [00:26:02] Speaker A: And Tony. That's right, it was exactly Tony. But I don't think it, I don't think you have ever said this necessarily, but it was saying if I didn't have a 70% success rate, I wasn't allowed to hit that shot on the golf course. Would you agree with that logic or did I tell you that when you said no, that was, that was too high? [00:26:21] Speaker B: Uh, no, I don't think it's necessarily too far off. Cause a lot of times the decision making comes down to like, if you're in the trees and there's a window, it's. Could you confidently hit this shot eight times, nine times out of 10? [00:26:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:34] Speaker B: And if you can't, you don't need to hit the shot. So 70% is a lot less. Obviously, if you're trying to get the most consistent results possible. Obviously, yeah. [00:26:43] Speaker A: So I think you could take that simple tip and apply it to just about anything. And. And if I don't feel like there's a. And again, occasionally you're going to run into holes that. That's like, again, number five, that's a 210 yard carry to get to the fairway. But for the most part, if you apply that to. Okay, like me with the. I can. I am incredibly confident trying to hit a nine on 148, 150 yards. I hit it almost that number on the dot. Every single time I try to do that 160 yard nine iron, I can do it, but my confidence level is incredibly low. So never try to hit a nine iron more than 150 yards. [00:27:23] Speaker C: All right? [00:27:24] Speaker A: Or I know that I can get through this window, or I know I can hit the green eight out of ten times with it. If you try to apply that logic all the way around the golf course, it seems like a pretty simple way to solve for course management and club selection, all that kind of stuff. I've just never. I did it one time, so therefore we should try it again, you know? [00:27:43] Speaker B: Yeah, but the problem is taking the human ego under the equation. Just like tin cup, I know I can hit this shot. And he's put three in the water over the course of the tournament so far. He's like, I know I can hit it. And same thing with the golfer, right? They're like, but I know I can because I did it that one or two times. Therefore, my ceiling is I think I can do it 70% of the time when they have no business doing it whatsoever. [00:28:07] Speaker A: Okay? So I'm going to go on record right now while we're, you know, in front of God and everybody, we're gonna go ahead and say this. The next round of golf that I play, I am. That's my vow and my commitment. I am going to play. I'm going to make myself hit every single shot with that. I'm going to say 70% confidence level. We're going to start at 70. We know I'm not mean to 90. [00:28:30] Speaker C: We'll start at 70. [00:28:31] Speaker A: If I don't have a 70% confidence level, I'm not going to hit it. And as a accompanying promise to that, my practice time next week, I'm going to go through every club in my bag and, and do a ladder. Basically where I say, okay, I have to go, I have to hit 7 out of 10 to advance. And if I can't do it 7 out of 10 times and I'm not allowed to hit this club more than that, that's my commitment for the next, the next two weeks. Cool. I promise. I think, I think that's great. [00:29:03] Speaker C: You're gonna have plenty of practice time. [00:29:06] Speaker A: I'll get plenty of practice time and I'll. And I'll do the sim. I'll sim a couple of rounds, too, just so I can test my philosophy before I go out on the real golf course. But I just think that there's a. Maybe that's my biggest lesson in 2026 so far, is there is a gigantic difference between I can and I probably will. And I try to hit a lot of shots that I can hit, but I probably won't. And I know I probably won't. And that's also probably where some of that anxiety comes from over the off ball. You kind of. There's a part of you that this is not going to end well. [00:29:37] Speaker B: Absolutely. Yeah, for sure. I think it's a good. Good idea to try. [00:29:44] Speaker A: Enjoyed it, guys. And, Mike, you got to play more. We got to get you talking more often. [00:29:49] Speaker C: Yeah, you know what? It might be hard to get you guys on at McGregor, just because it's. It's just really busy over there, but I should be able to get us on over at Twelve Oaks, so let's try to make that happen, you know, sooner than that. [00:30:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I've got one of my alumni works there as well. He cool. And, you know, the instructors there. [00:30:13] Speaker C: I have. [00:30:14] Speaker A: Have you played it, Tony? [00:30:15] Speaker C: 12 balls, 12 oaks? [00:30:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I've played 12 oaks before. What is it, like, 15 of the 18 holes? There's a force carry on your approach shot, I think. [00:30:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I added up one day because I. That used to be the course I played every day, and I remember I added up. I think it's something like. It's an insane number of potential penalty areas or out of bounds on that golf course. Like, there's not a single hole, that there's not one or the other, and, like, there's no freebies. And I would. I don't know. A part of me doesn't really want to play Twelve Oaks because. [00:30:46] Speaker C: Well, if you can get me on somewhere, I will try to meet you guys. [00:30:50] Speaker A: I mean, I would love to try to tackle that. That dragon one more time or slay that dragon again, because there's a part of me that's like, I feel so good about my golf game right now, and I'm afraid that I'm gonna go out there and shoot 120, and all of a sudden, all my confidence is gonna be gone. But the other. On the other side, it's like, I kind of want to play it. [00:31:06] Speaker C: So. [00:31:06] Speaker A: Yeah, we gotta get together and play somewhere, though. I think it'd be fun to get out, so. Sounds good. All right, boys, y' all have a good weekend. See y' all okay. Whoa. [00:31:20] Speaker B: We are too juvenile for that. You should know this by now. [00:31:24] Speaker A: I once asked somebody out just to prove to a buddy that he was afraid to talk to girls. I was like, dude, it's fine if you get shot down. Watch. See that girl over there? She's not interested in me at all. Trust me. I've been trying all night. I'm gonna go ask her out just to show you that you can get shot down and you'll survive. And that's exactly what happened. She shot me down. Still living, you know. [00:31:43] Speaker B: Is he gonna turn into. [00:31:44] Speaker A: Does Mike realize that I stuck the record button back in and then we're recording again? I don't know if he saw that. I am so glad that I hit record again on that. [00:31:54] Speaker C: I. [00:31:55] Speaker A: Not all of the last eight minutes are going to be in this in these episodes, but that will. Absolutely. It may go into a permanent intro, man. Love you, Mike. Thanks for your 9.5 ABV fratos. Those are fun, Tony. We'll continue to explore my release patterns.