Off The Fairway with Rich Conwell - September 19th, 2026

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Welcome to Off the Fairway with Rich Conwell. This week
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we are going to, it's going to be a little
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bit of a stream of consciousness this week. We're going
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to talk about, we'll do some instruction stuff. We have
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a lot of good with golf. We're going to try
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a little bit of an interesting little segment for our
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second or third segment. We're going to talk about the
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clinic that just started at Parkersburg Country Club. And I'm
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going to talk about, um, some of the, uh, some
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of the things that's going on that are going on there.
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And then, uh, we just completed another session of a
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veterans clinic and I'll talk about that as well. Um, and, um,
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most of that is, it's all real feel good stuff. It's, uh,
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it's incredibly good feels feel good stuff actually. And it's
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a lot of fun, but As always, we're going to
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start out with a little bit of instruction, and this
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week we are going to talk about what you don't
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know is what you don't know. And I know that
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that's an easy phrase to say, but let's think about this.
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The misconceptions of golf. I know everybody's heard this, hit
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down to make it go up, you know, that fun stuff.
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But that's not really what I want to talk about.
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I was stopped yesterday in the golf shop at Parkersburg
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Country Club and had a very nice discussion with a
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young man that spent about 10 minutes with me, five
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minutes with me, just talking about his friends who are
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good players. And he's this young man's a good player.
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And we talked about some of the misconceptions. So the.
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The misconceptions lead to confusion, okay? If you are not
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sure of something, it will lead to confusion. So let's
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think about this for a minute. First one, okay, clubface
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versus ball flight. And this actually has to do with John.
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This actually, I'll roll this back to Johnny Miller. Johnny
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Miller won the 1960, 1973, excuse me, U.S. Open at Oakmont,
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shooting 63th rate. And I got to talk to him
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about his golf swing one time. It was really interesting.
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He said to me, he said something, and I'll get
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into that, what he said. And I obviously didn't challenge
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him with this, but it was just really interesting. But
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the first misconception is clubface versus ball flight. A lot
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of people say to me, hey, I sliced it, my
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clubface was open. No, well, it may have been. That's
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not what caused it to slice. I hooked it. It's
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a closed clubface. That's not what caused it to hook.
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A golf ball will curve for mainly one reason. And
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it is not the clubface. So in order to put
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this in proper perspective, think about this for a minute.
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If you are lined up at the middle of the
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fairway and you start a golf ball over top of
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the left rough, and you're right-handed, you slice it back
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in the middle of the fairway, right in the middle
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of the fairway. Awesome, right? At that point, at that point,
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you hit a functional slice that is done with a
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closed club face. If that club face were open when
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you made that golf swing, it would have started right
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of the fairway and moved right The misconception is, oh,
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I slice it, I have an open club face. Now, conversely,
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if you watch a really good player who hooks a
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golf ball to play, and there's a lot of them,
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a lot of them, they stand up on a par
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three and they hit it at the right bunker and
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it moves in the middle of the green, it lands
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15 feet, 20 feet, 25 feet, whatever it is, right?
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It's a great shot. It's also hit with an open
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club face to target line. And people have a serious
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misconception of this. It does not hook with a closed
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club face. It can, but it is not. The hook
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is not caused by the club face. So back to
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Johnny Miller. I meet Johnny Miller at the merchandise show
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one year in Orlando, Florida. which if you ever have
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a chance to go to the merchandise show in Orlando, Florida,
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I strongly suggest that you go because it is all
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golf under one roof, and it's phenomenal. It's unbelievable. But anyway,
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that's neither here nor there. So I was speaking to
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Johnny Miller, and I was talking to him about his
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golf swing, and he used to say to me, he
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did say to me, if I needed to cut it,
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I'd just open the clubface at Impact. If I needed
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a hook, I'd close the club, face an impact. That
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is absolutely 1,000% wrong. But there's a guy on the U.S.
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Open who for a long time was a dominant tour player.
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So if he thinks that happens, now think back to
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the movie Bull Durham. If you think you're pitching well
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because you're doing something, you are. So Let's talk about
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this for a second. What's the club face do in
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a golf swing? It starts the ball on a line.
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It starts it on a line. So for the initial direction,
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start point, start line, that's the club face. It slices
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because it's an outside into target line. It hooks because
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it's an inside out to target line. The club face
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just merely tells the golf ball where to start and
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the path or the shaft movement causes it to curve.
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That is, those are facts. Those are not misconceptions. There
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are misconceptions out there. Why does a ball curve? Because
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the path of the golf club in relation to target
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line Why does it start where it starts? Because of
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the club face. That is why the hardest, in my opinion,
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hardest shot to hit is a duck hook. Because that
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club face has to be closed at impact. A duck
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hook starts left, moves left, if you're right-handed. It's closed
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at impact, and it's inside out. That is serious skill.
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Or serious malady. Either way. But it's one or the other.
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So just know what causes it. The misconceptions are that.
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The other thing is there is no hitting. Everybody wants
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to hit a golf ball. You're not hitting a golf ball.
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I'm assuming everybody who's listening has heard I'm sorry, has
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hit a baseball or a softball or a wiffle ball.
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When you're hitting something like a golf ball or a
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baseball or a wiffle ball or a softball, you do
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not stop at impact. That's hitting. You're swinging a bat,
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swing the wiffle ball bat, swing a tennis racket, swing
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a pickleball, I guess they're called rackets, pickleball paddle. Got
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that one right. Golf club. Hockey stick. Cocaine mallet. I
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don't care. That's swinging, not hitting. If you hit it,
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you would stop. So there's no hitting. There's swing, especially
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the short game. Misconception number five. You are not swinging.
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You're playing. playing the golf course you're playing you're not
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oh where's my golf club and i know we talked
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about this you know action versus outcome but the misconception
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is you play golf swing is incorrect extremely incorrect and
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actually if you're doing that it hampers your ability to
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improve period bar none you're paralyzed through analysis so Let's
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morph into the next thing. What else don't we know? Well,
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we all seem to think that we know what PGA
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Tour players do. So let's think about something for a minute.
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A misconception, this is another misconception, how far you hit
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a golf ball. I've had people tell me this is
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a great story. We had a golf outing in Parker
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Park Country Club and we opened the range one hour before.
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We have a sign on the driving range that says
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when the tees are in certain positions, you can't hit
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it further than this because at the end of our
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property is a road. that we don't want the golf
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balls to kind of squeeze through the fence into the road. Period. Done.
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Bar none. That's where we are. So I was setting
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up the range before the outing, and there was a
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guy who was on the range for 40 minutes before
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it opened. I mean, he was... I think the only
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thing he wasn't doing was wind sprints. I mean, he
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was stretching, whatever. So I moved the sign to do
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something before I walked away. And he said, are you
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going to move us back? And I'm like, no, this
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is where you're going to hit from. He goes, well,
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I was hoping you'd move us back because, you know, 230,
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230 yards is, you know, I can hit it in that.
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So I stopped him. I stopped. I said, that's awesome.
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I said, how far can you hit a golf ball?
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I said, do you hit a golf ball? He goes
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pretty consistently about 280. I said, okay, good. I said,
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you do know that you are in the top 3%
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in the world. In the world. And he said, well,
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that's not true. I said, yeah, it is. I said
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to him, I said, how far do you think a
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PGA Tour player hits a golf ball. And he said
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350 yards. And I said, so this is where the
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misconceptions come from. The average PGA Tour player driving distance
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is 306 yards. A guy standing on the range before
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a golf outing on Monday morning, on a Friday morning
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at Parkersburg Country Club told me that he hits a
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golf ball 280 yards. and doesn't understand that he is
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in the top 3% in the world. So that's a misconception.
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You need to know how far you hit a golf ball.
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Another misconception is how many times you putt for birdie
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in a round of golf. PGA Tour player putts for
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birdie 12 times a round. 12 times. I have people
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that have told me, I hit 15 greens. I hit
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16 greens. That's unbelievable. Chris Smith, Ohio State, went 27
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straight holes, hitting 27 straight greens. In 1966 U.S. Open, Mr.
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Hogan hit 30 U.S. Open greens on regulations. And you
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just told me you hit 15. That's a misconception. So
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the reason that I bring all this up, again, it
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cycles back to what I always talk about. We need
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to know what is causing our golf ball to move.
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And then once we understand that, we can understand how
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to correct it. We cannot correct it if we don't
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understand what's causing it. And if we have a misconception
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as to what is causing it, then that misconception is
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going to hamper us for a long time. Okay. You know,
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I know this is kind of crazy, but when I
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was growing up, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood was on TV. And
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one of the best things I ever heard him say is,
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you won't go down the drain. I guess when children
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are first introduced to, you know, taking showers and baths
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by themselves, they're concerned that they could go down the drain.
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I don't know that. It's a misconception. You won't go
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down the drain. If you have a misconception of what's
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causing your golf ball to move one way or another,
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you better fix it. You cannot improve if you're living
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in the world of misconceptions. misperception I was teaching somebody
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yesterday and they hit a shank on a hosel rocket
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good player he goes man that clubface I closed that
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club I'm like no no that clubface came from the
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inside and it's open because the ball went left Club
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face were closed. You hit the hosel and you hit
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the toe. Ball go right. Misconception. Misperception. So in a nutshell,
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what I'm saying to you is understand what causes everything.
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Eliminate your misperceptions and just say to yourself, you know what?
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If I can get this straight in my head, I
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can improve. but I have to know the facts of
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the case. So hopefully that makes some sense and puts
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you in a little bit of a path for improvement.
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In the next segment, we're going to talk about something
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that is very important to your golf game that actually
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is often overlooked. This is Off the Fairway with Rich Conwell.
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Welcome back to Off the Fairway with Rich Conwell. Our
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first segment, we talked about eliminating some misconceptions and misperceptions
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or false perceptions from your golf game or for your
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understanding about your golf game. And once we do that,
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you can then kind of have a fresh slate to
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start to improve and to discuss what's causing what and
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how far you hit golf balls and things like that.
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So it allows you the platform to improve. The platform
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to improve is very important. So the platform has to
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be clean without smoke and gray area and misunderstandings. So
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I just, you know, it's important that you eliminate that.
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It's important you understand what's really happening. It's important to
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understand also actually it's important to appreciate how good PGA
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tour players are. I mean, you know, if you really
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want to, I mean, go hit 12 greens, make four
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birdies around, hit a 306 and you can play the
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PGA tour. Just that easy. Um, I sound like, I
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sound like Billy being a money ball, don't I? So anyway, um,
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next segment, uh, next topic, uh, I've had this on
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the back burner for a couple weeks in talking about things,
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and it's really important that we get through this. Not
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through this, get into this. I'm assuming, I shouldn't say that.
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I'm hoping that a high majority of you and the
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golf clubs that you have, you have that are fitted
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for you, which means they're built for you. So we're
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going to pick a guy, and his name is Joe Watson.
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nobody I know named Joe Watson and hopefully Joe has
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golf clubs that are fit to him if they are
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not it is a struggle so I know I've touched
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on club fitting before but I want to take a
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few minutes of your time and talk about club fitting
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first of all I will not talk about any particular
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brand I will not endorse any particular brand of golf clubs, OEMs,
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original equipment manufacturer. I will not do any of that.
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But there are a couple of things in club fitting
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that hold true across the board, and they're important, and
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if you don't understand them, and if you're not taking
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advantage of that understanding, you are hampering yourself. So the
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first one is iron fitting. I'm from Pittsburgh. I say
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iron funny, iron fitting. People from Philadelphia go iron fitting,
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so I'd say iron fitting. My father also said Washington,
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George Washington. I think that's a Pittsburgh thing too. I
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spent my entire high school career making sure I didn't
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have a Pittsburgh accent, and I don't. I don't. And
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the funny thing is, of course, I grew up in
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suburban Pittsburgh, but I have to tell you that Ian's–
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I heard very few people say yins. I have, I
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heard very few people say it. So anyway, and well,
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since I'm on it, I think the funny thing is,
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is since we are in football season and we were
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talking before about football here in the studio and the
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Steelers are 1-0 and Everybody always says, oh, the Steelers
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have a lunch pail attitude and they go to work and,
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you know, they're just like the city. They're like the
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steel workers. The last active steel plant in Pittsburgh, the
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big ones, been gone for 40 years. Nobody I know
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in Pittsburgh, nobody I know in Pittsburgh worked in a
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steel mill. So. You know, again, I talked about misconceptions
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in the first segment. I'm talking about misconceptions now. But anyway,
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let's talk about club fitting. So, a couple of things
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you need to get when you do your irons. One,
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lie angle. What does that mean? That means the way
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that the sole of your golf club strikes the ground
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when you are swinging. You cannot Think about your lie
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angle as a fingerprint. You cannot change it. You can't.
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So it's yours. So get fitted for it. If you
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are hitting off the toe, if your strike point is
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toe oriented, the ball is going, your golf club is
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too flat, and the ball is going to kind of
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slide right. If you're hitting on the heel, golf club
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is too upright and it's going to pull left. Those
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are facts. Those are physics. The longer the golf club gets,
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you know, that's just physics. I can go in people's
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golf bags and see marks if they practice a decent
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amount where they're hitting golf balls and I can tell
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whether the golf club is too flat or too upright.
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I had a student walk in yesterday to talk to
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me about something, and he has this mat that he
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can actually, it has bristles. My son has it too.
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It's really cool. When you swing, it tells you where,
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it shows you, the bristles that fall down show you
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where the club came from and what's deeper and what's shallower,
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you know, toe dig or heel dig or whatever. And
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he was like, would you, what do you think's causing that?
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I'm like, lie angle. And so we were going to
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fit that. We're going to make sure that we had
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it correct today, but we don't. We had to cancel
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the appointment because that particular individual had to go to
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work and save lives because he's a physician. So, yeah,
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lie angle is very important. And what will start to
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happen if you have very bad lie angle or pretty
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bad lie angle, let's go pretty bad and beyond. you
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will start to manipulate the golf club or your golf
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swing to compensate for it. Now, here's an interesting tidbit.
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When you watch a really good player get fitted for
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golf clubs, and usually what we do when we fit
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people is we hit three or four from one lie angle,
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and then we put another one in, another one in,
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and we keep checking them, and it'll settle. The markings
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on the golf club and the sole of the golf
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club will show up in a certain way. that we
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know we're right. We know that we have the right
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lie angle. If you watch a PGA Tour player, if
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they have the wrong lie angle, the second swing, they'll
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get it in the middle of the golf club. That's
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how good they are. But since we're not PGA Tour
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players and we determined that in the first segment, get
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your lie angle correct. Now, order of process is to
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get your length correct because as I've already said the
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length affects lie so what we do is we fit
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for the longest golf club that we can swing comfortably
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in balance and fluidly that is not swinging us my
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golf club is personally entirely too long entirely too long
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and it starts to swing me which is why I'm
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opening myself up to a staff deal from any company
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out there that wants to talk to me about getting
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me some new golf clubs. So anyway, where was I? Oh, length.
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So get your length correct and then get your lie correct.
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This is irons now. The next one, get your shaft
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type correct. Graphite steel. Shaft type, shaft flex. Is it stiff?
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And that's the other one. Oh my, you don't have misconceptions.
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I hit it this far and I need a stiff shaft. Okay,
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sure you do. No, you don't. Probably don't. Maybe you do.
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I teach some really good players that need a stiff shaft.
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I teach some really good players that need a regular shaft.
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They want the golf ball to move. They want to
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feel things. Okay, what type of player are you? That's
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why it's so important to get golf clubs made for you.
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Probably the most overlooked and probably rightfully so is grip size.
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You know, the larger the grip, that's the other one.
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There's a misconception. I have arthritis. I need bigger grips.
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Wrong way. The thinner grips actually activate muscles. Larger grips
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actually deactivate muscles. So there's no rotation. There's no feel.
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There's no impact. It's like swinging a baseball bat with
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a golf club on the end of it. It just
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doesn't turn. It's really hard. So get your grip size correct.
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But here's a really cool one, and this is kind
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of new, and this isn't new, but this is really important.
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Set makeup. There was a time that we used to
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actually just buy golf clubs that were three through pitching wedge,
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three iron through pitching wedge. Now, once you get fitted,
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You can say, I want 5-iron, 6-iron, 7-iron, 8-iron, 9-iron,
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pitching wedge, gap wedge. And then go back and say, okay,
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now I need a hybrid to fill in here. That's
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the beauty of getting fitted. And there are some great
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club fitters out there. I'm actually pretty good at it.
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I have to get better at it. I have to
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get better at a lot of things. So... So set
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makeup is really cool. I mean, you know, some of
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the senior tour players actually have hybrids up until 600.
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So that's important. Also saves you some money because there
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was a time that you had to buy three through
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pitching wedge. And, you know, regardless of you paid that
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much money. I never use a 300. So what? It
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comes with the set. Why can't I buy a 500 op?
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You can, especially when it gets fitted. And oh, by
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the way, I'm going to say this right now. Anybody
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that charges you a fitting fee to fit you for
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golf clubs, don't go see them. If they do a
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good enough job, the golf clubs sell themselves. Okay, maybe
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you find out it's the, The shaft type you want
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or whatever is way too expensive. Just flat out say it.
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If anybody charges you for fitting, you need to go
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somewhere else. I'm just going to say that. I'm not
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bagging on my fellow PGA professionals. I'm not bagging on fittings.
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I'm not bagging on off course play. I'm not. I'm
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stating a fact. So the last part of your fitting
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would be for drivers. Chef flex is important. Length is important.
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And we talked about chef flex, chef type, and length
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with the irons. But the most overlooked part of fitting
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drivers is loft. I need a 9.5. No, you don't.
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Maybe you do. Again, preconceived notions. Misconceptions. Misconceptions. The most,
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the best, the best fitted driver I ever had in
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my life was 13 degree loft. 13 degree loft. Dynamic
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loft is what your launch angle is when you're hitting it.
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Appropriate dynamic loft will allow the golf ball to reach
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its maximum height based on your swing speed and all
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those fun things. But if you have a 9 degree driver, 9.5
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degree driver, 9 degrees off the floor is where your
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golf ball is designed. to launch. How far does it
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have to travel climbing at that rate? Starting nine degrees
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above the ground to reach its maximum height. All you
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do is work to get it in the air, work
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to get in the air. See anybody hit a driver
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and fall backwards, trying to get the golf ball in
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the air. Put something a little softer in their hand,
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a little higher loft. They start to turn it. Bang.
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People say, well, I hit my three-wood better than my driver.
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No kidding. More loft on there. You're not worried about it.
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You don't have to help in the air. Again, preconceived notions.
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Put yourself in a position where you understand what's going
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on in club fitting. Ask questions. Try to understand. Things
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that we know about club fitting blow your mind. Everybody
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knows who John Daly is. Not everybody knows who Nick
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Price is. Nick Price was the best player in the
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world for a short period, actually a decent period of time.
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Won a couple of majors, won a British Open, won
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a PGA. Great player. And I've had personal interactions with
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him when I was 13 years old. He's a great guy.
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He's super nice to me. Nick Price has stiffer shafts
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in his irons than John Daly does. Yeah, let that
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one sink in. See, the reason that happens is because
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when you're fitted, the proper fitting will put you in
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a shaft that supports your action, not make your action
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support the golf club. We fit golf clubs to people.
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We don't fit people to golf clubs. If you go
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into a shoe store and they try to give you
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an eight and a half size shoe and you're a 10,
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Why would you buy the shoe? I was spending $ 1, 200, $ 1, 500, $ 1, 800
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for a set of golf clubs. Why would I buy
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an eight and a half when I'm a 10? Absolutely
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makes no sense. So fitting is very, very important. It's
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not cost effect. It's not costly, should be free. And
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it's an eye opener and it eliminates misconceptions. When we
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come back, from this segment, from this commercial break, we
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are going to get into good golf, good, good, not good, good.
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Golf is good. And we are going to go from
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there because there's some really exciting news. This is Off
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the Fairway with Rich Conwell. Welcome back to Off the
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Fairway with Rich Conwell. We just went through a bunch
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of fitting, golf club fitting things. And we just, it's
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just really important. Just make sure that you know how
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important it is Make sure you take advantage of the
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opportunities to get fitted for golf clubs. Make sure you
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understand what the important characteristics of fitted golf clubs are.
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And make sure that you take advantage of being able
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to select set makeup to save yourself some money and
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give you maximum amount of return on the investment of
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fitted golf clubs. It's really important. It makes no sense, again,
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like I said, to buy an eight and a half
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size shoe when you're 10. It makes no sense to
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buy a car without test driving it. It makes no
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sense to have a car, to buy a car that
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it's important that you have entertainment in it, which would be,
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you know, every type of port for every type of
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charger and, you know, movies and things like that for
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the kids. And then that's important to you and you
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buy a car that doesn't have it. Why would you
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do that? You have to figure out how to make
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it happen. And that's fitted golf clubs, same thing. All right,
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so section three, I mean segment three, golf is good,
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and it is good. There's a lot of good stuff happening.
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As last week, I went over some of the middle
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school golf, went over the Girls State High School Championship,
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and now, interestingly enough, I do have to say that
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all three of the girls I mentioned last week, Kate
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and Madeline and Ellie, are now over on the boys
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side of the ledger to try to help their boys teams,
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you know, uh, succeed and, and get some state success.
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And that's really cool to see. Uh, it's really, really
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cool to see too, because their confidence now Madeline's done
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it for a long time. Okay. The other two were
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freshmen and sophomore respectively, or sophomore freshmen respectively. So I
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don't think they, um, Ellie in particular, she and I
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talked about this, uh, not really um not really uh
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sure how she fit into the boys segment of this
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and she's okay now but when it first started it
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was it was it was a little unsettling and i
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can understand that your 14 year old girl and you
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know she's a freshman and new school and all that
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stuff so but now she's got it down now and
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and uh she's on a roll uh won ovac yesterday
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uh final match with the with the girls uh even
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par so she's doing really well kate dodson and madeline
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uh we're working on i'll keep you updated everybody updated
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on on madeline uh and her college search and uh
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it's looking like uh she's gonna try to stay in
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the state of west virginia but we'll get into it
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uh and uh we'll do a big reveal maybe i'll
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call her maybe i'll have her maybe i'll call her
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and she can tell everybody where she's going to school
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and and it'll be it'll be fun um i've also
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uh in terms of golf is good I've also decided
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that since the interview with Brian McPherson went so well
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using the technology that we have at our fingertips at
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the WVU Medicine, Cameron Clark Medical Center Studios here in Parkersburg,
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I think we're going to start to do some quick
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calls in certain segments. And so that'll be good. Brian, Mr.
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McPherson was very, very, very happy. He actually was very
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happy with how the interview sounded because obviously he listened
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to himself. And he was very complimentary of us and
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how we did that. And so, yeah, I think our
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access to people and our access to expanding the show
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is kind of unlimited. And so it's really kind of neat.
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But morphing back into golf is good. We just started
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last Tuesday the He Is Wrong Clinic at Parkersburg Country Club.
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The He's Wrong Clinic is a ladies' beginner clinic that
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is designed, obviously, for ladies who are beginning to play.
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And I have ladies who are in it who are
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good players, you know, kind of a brush-up kind of thing.
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But I'm telling you that He's Wrong is true. Everything
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a guy has ever told a girl about golf is
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wrong except for me. It's exactly what I say. And
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it's true. So we go through it. The first thing
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we do is I actually go down the line and
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ask them, tell me what you've been told by a
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guy about golf. And they tell me the misconceptions. And
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they have straight left arm, eye on the ball, head down,
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bend your knees. And when I do all those things,
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I invariably morph into a person who is, I'm six
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foot three. I'm about five foot seven when I'm done
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with it. I have a locked left arm. and my
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neck hurts from keeping my head down. And I show them, see,
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he's wrong. So then we talk about how to actually,
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we just go through, we have a couple of, I
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have a couple of signature statements I make in this.
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My thing is, nobody here, what I tell the ladies is,
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nobody here is going to get a W-2 for playing golf.
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Nobody is. Matter of fact, I told them nobody they
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know will get a W-2 for playing golf. So let's
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not take it seriously. It's not work. And I go
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down the line. I find out what they do. You know,
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we nurse. We have accounting. Interestingly enough, the accountants are
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the most nervous when we get into this. I don't
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know why. I think it's that linear thinking. You know,
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because it should just be two and two is four.
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And now all of a sudden it's a new skill.
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I have doctors. I have mental health professionals. I have
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myriad stay-at-home moms. Hardest job in the world. My mom
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and dad, my mother and father had six children. My
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mom used to kid people that she stayed home and
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did nothing all day. I stayed home one day sick
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from school, and my mother did not stop moving from
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the time that everybody left the house until everybody came back.
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except for the 45 minutes that she took a nap
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in the afternoon while she was watching Guiding Light. Days
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of our lives, I'm sorry, days of our lives. But,
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I mean, that's hard work. So we do that. I
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also promise them that the serious goes down and the
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fun goes up. It's relatively inexpensive. It's just a lot
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of fun. And we hit some shots. We find out
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why things go where they go. And then we go
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on the golf course and we play a scramble and
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we laugh and we do really well. And it is
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absolutely the most amount of fun I have at my job.
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Without a doubt. And it's only because I have several
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ladies that will come and participate. This latest edition of
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the He's Wrong Clinic, we have 10 ladies. And every
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week in the Golf is Good segment, we are going
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to update how we're doing with the He's Wrong Clinic.
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this week we did really, here's your update. We did
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really well. Um, we've, we actually got everybody to grip
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it correctly. We have everybody to stand correctly. There is
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an embarrassing moment in every he's wrong clinic where we
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have to push our hip bones backwards. And, you know,
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for a lady, that's a little embarrassing. I don't know
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if it's embarrassing, unsettling. We'll do it that way. Um,
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you know, we, this week we also, um, We also
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made sure that everybody at the clinic understood what moves
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a golf ball. It's the golf club. What moves the
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golf club is your hands and arms. That's my favorite
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he's wrong part. Invariably, one participant will say, turn your hips. Yeah, great.
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I don't know why. I don't know why guys think
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that's important to tell their wives. Turn your hips. You
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hit a golf ball further. No, you won't. Actually, hit
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it shorter. There's a misconception. So it's a lot of fun.
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It's a lot of fun. And so the update this
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week is we went over grip, we went over stance,
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and we went over just some general setup, and then
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we played a hole. Now next week we'll get into it.
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We'll get into some drivers, some longer golf clubs. We
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will show, I will show the ladies how the ball works,
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gets in the air with a driver, which is absolutely
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a serious misconception. A driver golf ball goes in the
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air not because it's lifted, not because it's hit. It's
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because the driver is swung correctly with proper ball position.
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There is so much to learn when you're starting out
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to play golf. So the goal is to deliver it
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in a non-threatening kind of unserious environment. And obviously when
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I say threatening, I don't mean threatening. I mean, just intimidating.
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And we had a lot of fun with it and
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we'll continue to have a lot of fun with it. And,
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and it's working because now that the, the membership, um, is,
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is now we have more couples in couples events. We
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have more ladies playing golf. It's, it's, it's, you know, it's,
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it's what, it's what PGA professionals do is they grow
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the game and it's, it's doing it. So there's your
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update for he's wrong next week. I'll give you an
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update as to how the drivers went. I'm quite sure
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we hit one from all the way to the parking lot,
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all the way to grand central. We may have hit
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a car cause we flew at 280 yards. Like the
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guy at the beginning of the outing I was talking
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about before. There's a, there's a, I told the ladies
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the other night we're going to hit drivers next week.
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There's a tree on our driving range. It's about 200
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yards out on the left. Big, big, big tree. I
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told them we're all going to hit a driver. I'm
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going to hit the tree. And they all laughed. I said,
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what we'll do is we'll get in a golf cart
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and we'll drive out and tee it up right next
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to the tree and we'll hit the tree with it.
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So that just kind of tells you the unseriousness, but
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the instructional and the improvement concepts that go behind the
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He's Wrong Clinic. so I was really happy that, um,
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that we had 10 ladies and I'm really happy to
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deliver that. It was a lot of fun and we
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learned some stuff and next week we'll learn even more
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and have more fun. So that's the, he's wrong aspect
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of this. Also, I wanted to make mention of something
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that we concluded last night at Parkersburg country club. And
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it was the, the hope program helping our Patriots everywhere.
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It's a veterans clinic. We had nine people in the clinic.
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We had some spotty attendants. This is a PGA of
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America program where the guys come out. This time it
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was guys. There are girls. Guys came out. We did
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five weeks of instruction. We went through driver, irons, short game, putting, chipping, pitching, playing.
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And we just had a lot of fun. It is,
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as I said with the He's Wrong Clinic, we, that is,
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that's the most fun I have. The whole program is
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the most rewarding. It costs them nothing. And they're just
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thankful that somebody wants them to come around, have some fun.
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Now this, this, these, these sessions I had at Parkersburg
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Country Club, um, really, really, really great guys, but I
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have been in some that guys were in a bad way. Um,
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recently honorably discharged from the Army or the Navy or
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the Air Force or the Marines. They have that uncertainty
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of how things are going in their world. You can
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kind of see some stuff. It's great to give them
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something to look forward to every week. I know the
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guys I had this time, these sessions, looked forward to
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it every week. I had one drive 50 minutes 55
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minutes for an hour and 15-minute clinic. So, I mean,
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obviously it's important to them. And that's great because I'm
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happy to deliver. But last night we had our graduation,
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and we'll put some pictures on Facebook. Tri-State PGA put
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some pictures on Facebook. I said I would mention all
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the guys we had on the radio. I do not
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have releases, so I can't say their names. But I
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told them I'd talk about them a little bit. It
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was awesome to hang out with them. And, you know,
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with the current state of the world and the current
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state of, you know, last week was 25 years of 9-11. And,
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you know, there's a lot of dark in the world, unfortunately.
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There's always been a lot of dark in the world.
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We talk about it a lot more now. But these
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guys kind of just happy. You know, it's certainly, certainly not.
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anywhere near the darkest days that they've had in the military.
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Even if they didn't have dark days, they had dark days.
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I have been trained to that. So it was just
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great to have them. And they were genuinely, genuinely grateful
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that I spent time with them. The Tri-State PGA and
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the PGA of America, they all got a gift bag.
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They got a head cover, driver head cover. with the
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Hope logo on it. They got a cup holder, divot
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repair tool, ball marker, some really cool stuff, some really
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cool stuff. And then last night we had a kind
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of a graduation for them. We took a piece of cake.
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We took some pictures. A young lady that works for
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us in the golf shop at Parksburg Country Club, Kayla,
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actually drew them all a picture thanking them for their service.
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It was in their gift bag. It was really kind
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of neat. They got a certificate of accomplishment or completion.
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I'm sorry. And we took some pictures. So it was
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just really neat. So there's a lot of golf is
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good going on. Really, really, really a lot. And I
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think as we progress towards the fall and into next spring,
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you're going to see a lot of really good stuff
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coming from Parkersburg Country Club in particular and regionally a
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lot of good things going with golf. unveil some new
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events and things like that. But I wanted to... Golf
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is Good this week is about the He's Wrong Clinic
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and the Veterans Clinic because they actually made... They make
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my entire week. And so... But so next week, we'll
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get into some instruction and we'll get after some... We're
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going to have a unique part of instruction next week.
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We're going to talk through some golf swing things with
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an in-studio guest. And so... Thank you for tuning in,
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but make sure you're in next week because I think
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a lot of the stuff we talk about next week
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can apply to a lot of people. This is Off
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the Fairway with Rich Conwell.