Swing Thoughts 328 for August 28, 2026

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Oh, and welcome everybody to another episode of Swing Thoughts.
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I just found out something yesterday that I don't know
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what kind of shocks.
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Me a little bit. Tim.
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I was in a golf retail store for it doesn't
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matter for reasons that I a whole open up in
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my schedule, but I was talking to a young sales
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attendant there and he said, oh, blah blah blah blah blah,
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right now, we're in mid season. I went, mid season?
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Is that what this is? That we mid season?
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Yeah? Well, I wondered, because last week you said we're
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at the.
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Tail end, and it went, we still, that's September to
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get We got September, we got October.
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I like the idea that it's mid season.
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And this is golf Spiritual Leader, along with the voice
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of reason that is coach Tim O'Connor O'Connor Golf dot
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ca and of course the author of many many books
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I trust your Well.
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Yeah, yeah, I just I've had a full morning. I've
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been up for hours and hours doing all kinds of
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good things and just busted into the house but four
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minutes before this podcast. So yeah, it's been a good day.
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How about you, sir, Well, I want to tell.
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You a little story later after we speak with our
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guests that day already too, Partner.
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Sir, you've had a full day already.
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Oh no, not not so much the full days. Some
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things have been happening to me the last couple of weeks.
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I mean we're shadowing.
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Yeah, I mean I have a lot of golf tournaments
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on my schedule. People ask me how many events I play. Well,
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I have played twenty five tournament rounds of golf already,
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and I have fifteen more to go. If I qualify
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for a couple of things, I'll end up playing forty
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rounds of just tournament golf.
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That doesn't mean men's night. It's all the events that
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I play.
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And so there's a couple of things I've had trouble
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keeping track of and I will well.
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No wonder with you, not only as your mental performance consultant,
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but your dear friend. You play too many golf darn tournaments. No, no,
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I love it this.
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It feeds my soul. But some things have a lot
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of feeding. So anyway, I do have a little story
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for you that affects you by the way. Ooh. In
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the meantime, I guess about a month and a bit ago.
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My middle brother. We often talk about my older brother David,
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who's been on the show a few times. He's a
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psychologist and he has an interesting view about the way
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that golf impacts human beings. My other brother I call
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on the Humble and Fred show. He's known as Edmonton's
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to even. He's a long time television producer CBC at
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first and then independently. For the last decade or so,
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he's been one of the producers of the comedy festival
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known as Just for Laughs. He produced a bunch of
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television programs for them, but like everyone else in my family,
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he was suckled at the teat how do you like that?
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Well of the great golf guru who now lives in
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the sky, Lou Glassman, and we all grew up with
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the same father and we all have a very similar
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golf grip, and golf gripped us early and has taken
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hold for most of our lives. And Steven is an
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avid player, recently got both of his hips replaced. And
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he says, here's the thing, Like I talk about David,
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but Steven sends me videos of his all winter long.
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I'm doing Steve analysis videos from his basement lab.
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You're Peter Costas of them exactly.
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I'm like I said to my girlfriend, I gotta go
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upstairs because I'm why I go because Stephen wants to
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show me his swing in February. Anyway, So a few
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weeks ago Stephen called and well, first of all, here
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he is Edmonton.
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Steve.
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Hey, buddy, Hi guys, Hi Steve.
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Thanks for having me on.
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So your idea, and it was an interesting one, is
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that the LPGA Championship. What is the Canadian event known
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as the this.
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Steve, that's a good question.
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Cz Okay, wait a minute, you don't know what the name.
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Of the tourney p KC Women's Open, all right, CPKC.
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So Steve says, it's in Edmonton, and i'd like to
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cover it, and I'd like to cover it for swing
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thoughts like.
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This sounds like the call letters for an AM radio
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station in Lethbridge. That's great. By the way, it probably is.
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And Stephen's idea was to cover the tournament on R behalf.
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And you know, in the eleven years we've been doing this,
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Tim we I've never employed a cover reporter. So I
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said to Tim, by the way, Steve and I had
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the conversation, and then I said to Tim weeks later,
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I went, oh, by the way, my Kaka Maimi brother
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is going to Covey and wants to cover this thing
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for us. Is that okay? Yeah, I guess so Steve,
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maybe you can pick it up from there. We were
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the what did you have to do to actually get accreditation?
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And what is accreditation?
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Well, I, uh, you have to go online and uh
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I looked at their online website, which is very good,
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and you put in the information that your that your
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you want to you're a reporter for a particular organization.
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So I went through all of that and then it
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never worked because I found out later that I was
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doing it on on Chrome and then I had to
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Then about a week later, I realized I had to
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do it through Safari and then it went through. So
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they finally got my application and I got a note
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from the senior manager excuse me the senior manager of communications,
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a nice fellow by the name of Mike Maso, who
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asked me a little bit about the show and.
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What I want to do. When you made me story?
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Did ja make?
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I said exactly what it was. I said, you know,
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gave him the press release or the information Howard given
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me to president. I said, I was going to do
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two things.
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I was going to stay when we remember, you know
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about one sheet, Well, we have a couple of documents.
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We have the one, we have the sales document.
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But I sent him our kind of our press document
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outlying we did this a couple of years ago, you
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may remember, but we kind of had.
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A logo on it and everything.
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I don't think there was a logo, but it was
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definitely outlying our ten year history or whatever. Okay, it
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looks on you know what, tim On paper, the show
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seems impressive ten years.
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And all those episodes, and I mean it was I
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thought it's pretty good. And then I sent them that
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and then I said, very briefly, said I want to
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do two things. I wanted to cover Brooke Henderson and
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talk about what she's doing and how she's done at
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the at the tournament, and I want to sort of
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talk about the experience of being at the tournament. And
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it was like three or four lines. And he sent
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me a note back the other day the next day
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and said you're approved.
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Wow, that was it, and so.
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I I thought, I got all excited, and and so
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I went. I was there for four of the days
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part four of the days. I was there on the
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like the tournament's Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I was there
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on the Wednesday. I went for some of the practice rounds.
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I watched the practice rounds I did. I went to
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the press conference on the Wednesday, and then I watched
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Brooke play nine holes on the Thursday, and I watched
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her playing nine nine holes on the Friday. I didn't
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go with Saturday, but I went for a couple hours
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on Sunday just to see what the clouds are like.
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And I did that, and I talked to a bunch
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of people. I talked to.
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The general manager of the course, a nice fellow. The
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name of a general manager of the event, Mike Johnson
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out of Toronto. Uh no, actually j Mike was the
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general manager of the course.
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It's the Royal Mayfair, beautiful course. And I talked to
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the tournament director, fellow by the name of Brian Newton.
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He was out of Toronto. And then I talked to
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a bunch of people on the you know, like the volunteers.
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I talked to a guy named Don McDonald.
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I'm gonna jump in here. You're hired. I mean you are,
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wait an enterprising reporter. You do the you do the
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leg work. Careful to him, because he's already asked me
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if we'll send him to Ottawa. I'm like, what do
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you mean, will send you to Ottawa?
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Ottawa is going to be big. It's Brooks hometown.
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Yeah, it's going to be This is something to jump
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back like, you know, you got to cover your own expenses.
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Like everybody we talked, you can go want Tim like
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you know, and I've talked a little bit of Tim
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has covered golf for many, many years, writing for numerous publications,
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and we've had this conversation a little bit, like I've
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had opportunity.
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To be a couple of big tournaments and had access,
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but it's not really my favorite way to watch a
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golf tournament. I mean, it's a great experience and people
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are always saying, Hey, are you going to go to
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the Open this year or that, because you don't here
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in Toronto. It's been you know, many many times in
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our lives. But tim, let me just quickly before we
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get back to Steve's experience, what about your experience in
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terms of covering it and what are your thoughts versus
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watching it on television?
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Well, you do both when you first get there. It
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depends on if you're doing some broadcast stuff too, But
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even as as a print journalist, before the tournament really
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gets started and the leaders get out, it's nice to
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walk around, see the holes, you know, enjoy golf like
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a fan, absorb a lot of the atmosphere, get a
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sense of what, you know, what the greens are really doing,
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et cetera. But then once the tournament gets started, you're
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in you're watching on TV like the folks at home,
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like in a press center. Yeah, because you can't be everywhere,
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you know, on the golf course. That's the one thing
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about golf. You just you can only see where you are.
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If you're the fourteenth toll, you can't see that. Yeah. Yeah,
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you know, someone made a run from sixteen through.
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My experience, I was at the Scottish Open. This is
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the most access i'd ever had. It's about ten years ago,
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and I was inside the Ropes and this is where
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I wanted to sort of bring back Steve because I
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had that press. I had the Inside the Ropes Press
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CDENT credentials where I could walk and I walked nine
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holes with Stenson, McElroy and Ricky Fowler. I mean, there's
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a great picture and one of my buddies sent me.
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It was a Thursday morning coverage on the Golf Channel
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and he sends me a picture. It's those three guys
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and me and Jeff Shackelford.
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On one of the tea boxes.
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Like I'm standing next to McElroy's caddy at the time.
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So it was pretty cool from that point of view.
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But as far as what you just said, as far
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as being kind of what's going on in the tournament's
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it's weird because you're on the golf course, but you
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don't really get the sense of the actual tournament. So Steve,
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you finagled inside the Ropes access as well.
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Right, Yeah, on on Thursday, I didn't have that. I
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walked nine holes with Brooks group and it was it
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was crazy. The crowds were huge. It was hard to
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get into a position where I could see her and
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see what was going on. Although what was cool about
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Thursday was being part of the crowd and talking to people.
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And every time i'd stop, you know, it was like
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talking to my buds and discussing a shot. And Brooke
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would do something and we would talk about it, and
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we talk about her putt and all the rest. So
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that was kind of cool. And then on the Friday morning,
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I went to Mike and I asked if I could
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get inside the groups. In fact, I said to him,
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I said, you know, my kind of reporting really doesn't
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require me to be inside the ropes, but I said
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it would be great if I could, and he and
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he was so nice. He gave me that little sticker
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that said inside the rope. So Friday, on the back nine,
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I was inside the ropes and that was cool because
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I was right there. I was on the tea box,
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I was walking along. I made friends with the security guys.
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And when you're there for nine holes, it's like playing
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with again, playing with your friends. Everybody knows you. They
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got to know me. The golfers would recognize me, and
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I was very careful, except on one hole. I was
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very careful to stay out of the way and be
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quiet and stand still. And you know, I play golf
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enough to know where not to be. And that was cool,
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just watching how consistent they were and how they moved
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from hole to hole and how like Brooke is. She's
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like I called her the clean of the ball. I mean,
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she's she's so focused. And so that was cool. And except,
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like I say, except in the ninth hole, I got it.
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I got somehow I got confused. I was probably twenty
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feet from a from a from a ball, and even
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within twenty feet, the security guy and the caddy were
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on me, right somehow I knew were too close. I
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was too close. But that but that was cool, like
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just to be there and be a mon and that's
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all I and that's all I did inside the ropes.
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Okay, but I want to ask you, like, and Steven's
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a nice golfer. You're probably I don't know what you are,
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a fifteen sixteen handicap. You shoot in the high eighties,
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low nineties.
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I am now before my hips were done, I was
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a high nineties now. But but you played golf over nineties,
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the high eighties.
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Yeah, okay, but my point is your golf enough and
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you've golf long enough.
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What was your Do you have an appreciation.
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And I want to get Tim's thoughts too, an appreciation
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as a golfer for just how good you said that
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she's the queen of the ball, but how consistent and
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how good they did you get a sense of it?
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It was incredible. I came away with a number of thoughts.
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First of all, all of these golfers are incredible, the
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way they not just hit their longer drives, but you
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know around the green, they're so accurate. They're putting is accurate. Like, honestly,
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I wasn't. I didn't watch Like I watch a lot
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of golf. I watch every weekend, but it's always man's
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golf and and and if Brooks, you know, playing, and
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she's doing while I watched brook But I can tell
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you in twenty eighteen when she won in Regina, my
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friend Wayne and I almost jumped in the car in
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Edmonton and drove to Regina to see her playing. We didn't,
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but so I follow a brook a lot. But honestly,
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now that I've seen these great women's women's golfer, I'm
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gonna I'm gonna start watching them on TV as well.
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As well.
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Yeah, absolutely, Well, it's often said that the average male
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golf first should watch the women in terms of like
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their rhythm, because we hit it, our ball speed is
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more like them. But what was the sense you got
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in terms of the crowd and how much it was
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like go Brook? From a Canadian fan perspective, it.
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Was pretty obvious. I mean one of the things is
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the size of the crowd that followed her versus the
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size of the crowd that followed everybody else. I mean,
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there were people following Nelly Korda and Lexi was there
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and she didn't make the cut, but they were following her.
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But the crowds around everybody else were nowhere near as
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big as Brooks. And also so much respect for her,
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you know, And that's the other thing you look at
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you you walk onto those grounds. Her face is everywhere
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on all the billboards, on the golf town truck, on
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the first tee, everywhere, and she really like she was
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the star. I mean I think she ended up uh
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you know, you know, she was about tanther or so back.
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She did okay, but people didn't care. I mean they
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were following Brooke everywhere she went.
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So what did you think so you got to see
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some pretty darn golf, great golf, like like Nellie Corda.
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A lot of people think that she has one of
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the best golf swings in all of golf right now.
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So what was it? Were the things that impressed you
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about their swings in just terms of what swing, speed, balance, athleticism.
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What was it that you went like, wow?
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Just just the consistency. I mean, you know, they all
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they all have a beautiful swing. Nelly's was the.
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Best, had something to.
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Oh, it was unbelievable, But just the consistency. And also
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it's funny, I was saying, I listened to your previous
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episode and and talking about how uh you know when
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you're when you're when you're when you can when the
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club Championship comes, people are on the on the practice
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on the practice tour for the first time ever for
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the year. I can tell you just watching them hit
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chip shots just off the green and how close to
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the cup they are, those little on those side green
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chip shots. Unbelievable. Of course, I went to the driving
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range on Saturday and I've got I've got my first
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tournament on Tuesday tomorrow. So for the first time in
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about three years, I was practicing my chipping and my pussy.
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Well, there you go, there you go. I'll tell you
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a quick story from that same time. Like I've been
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on the range at a bunch of tournaments. One of
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my favorite things to do when I've had access is
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to go and watch them warm up. But that day
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I walked around with Stenson speaking of the range. All
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that week in Scotland, I would watch Stenson hit balls
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and it was almost universal Tim Stephen. As players would
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walk by, it was just kind of most I was
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just keep walking, except when players got to Stenson, almost
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universally they'd stop just for a second because just the
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sound of his impact was different than everyone else's even there.
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But the most impressive thing I saw was it was
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in they were in Scotland. It's kind of overcast, raining
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and a little bit of wind into us, and on
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a par five, Stenson te's off, then Fowler te's off.
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This is a par five and they're all hitting drivers,
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and then rory T's off, and even Stenson and Fowler
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were kind of like, holy shit, because it was forty
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yards past them, Like it was kind of cool to see,
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like those guys be impressed by something. But what Stephen
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said about the consistency, it's just how much more of
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the face of the club that they're hitting than we are,
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how much more often they do.
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And the other thing I was gonna say about Brooke
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is that watching her tee off oftentimes, especially I was
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watching on the Thursday when they were in threes, her
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drive was often forty yards yards farther than the other
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two people.
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Oh yeah, she hits it a long one.
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She bangs its unbelievable. But I say, what really impressed
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me was when you know, you'd see somebody, you know,
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twenty yards off the green on a bad lie and
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they would and they would chip it, probably with a
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fifty fifty six degree wedge, and just put it close
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and you take holy cow.
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So our Cuver reporter Stephen Glasswan he was there for
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one of the press conferences, and in preparation for this,
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Steven sent me, you know, and said, well, what should
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I ask? And so I you know, we brainstormed a
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few questions and then Stephen was kind enough to supply
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the audio tim of this press conference. I'm sorry, did
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you want to say something else?
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I was going to say that, but it was kind
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of cool the way they ran their communications. Is that
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I was all set to had my iPhone sixteen and
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I actually got a mic on Amazon. I thought I
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was going to have to record the press conferences and
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get on mist spent money. Well, no, I took it back.
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I sent it back yesterday. But but but the way
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they have it set up, they have the camera, they
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have the offer cup. So at the end of the day,
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all I do is go online and there there was.
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So exactly so TIMU and STDs. Here's our very first
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press conference, our very first reporter who is speaking.
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On behalf of Swing Thoughts.
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And when you hear every time I hear this, when
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he gets to the part where he identifies himself, it
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makes me laugh. Okay, have a listen. Oh that's not it.
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Hang on, where's Steven.
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Here's Steve Brookers, Steve Glassman from Swing Parts.
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It's Steve, Steve Glassman from Swing Thoughts.
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Brookers, Steve Glassman from Swing Parts. There just want to
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ask you about your mental approach to the game and
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how it's changed over the years.
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Yeah.
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I mean sometimes I look back to the seventeen year
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old self and I was thinking it. She had it
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figured out pretty well. And sometimes I kind of just
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think back to the mindsets that I approached the tournaments
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with when I was that age and when I was
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her and I try to use it now because I
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feel like there wasn't a lot of fear. There was
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just a lot of determination and you know, I guess
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trying to prove myself in a way and just trying
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to be the best I could. I'm not really worried
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about too much outside noise, so I can really appreciate that,
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and I definitely think back on it in other ways.
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I think in patients on the course, I've definitely grown
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a lot and just being able to handle poor rounds better.
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So I feel like it's been a bit of a
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mix of learning from the past and then also just
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like leaning into what worked really well in the past
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as well.
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Who do you like to watch in golf? When you
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watch golfers.
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I mean, I'd like to watch people that are playing
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really well. So anytime you tune in when you're when
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you're not playing, I love to see how the leaders
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are playing the course, and you know, what I could
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have done differently, or if I was there, what I've
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approached it the same way, So kind of looking at
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different strategies and just seeing how the best players in
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the world are doing it.
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What would you say to the average amateur to to
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practice more would what would you suggest?
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Definitely short game, probably inside one hundred yards. It's usually
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where you can lose or gain a lot of strokes,
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especially around the putting green too. I mean, I'm still
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working on both those things too.
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Great job, Steve, great job, and.
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Steven, I was just going to say that concise questions
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elicit nice long answers. There you go.
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I've been I've had a couple of shows in my
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day where I've had to do literally hundreds of interviews
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and the less I hear of me, the better.
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Well, we had an interesting discussion, Tim, I wanted to
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sort of throw this to you because Steven and I
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were talking. I called him immediately after he sent me
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the audio. I loved it, and then Steve and I
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were talking. He said, you know, it's kind of weird
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because there's Brooke Kennerson this big press conference and at
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the end nobody applauded. And I said, generally, my experience
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has been in sports situations, the reporters are asking questions
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and there really isn't isn't a lot of applause that
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doesn't really happen And what was your experience.
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Tom, Yeah, it's jenery kind of unprofessional. You don't want
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to come off like a little fan, you know, ooh,
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I'm so happy to be here.
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You know.
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No, that it only happens when someone says something like
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particularly funny or really like endearing, like it's something that's
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really happened personally for them. That's a big deal, right, No, No,
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it's kind of like an unwritten rule.
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You don't clap not to be too fanboy or fangirl
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in these.
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Exactly, because yeah, you don't want to come off Yeah.
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So Steve and I had this discussion, and then Stephen
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sent me the winner's press conference from I guess this
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is yesterday, and I did.
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I can't remember who.
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It's uh Maya Tamashita Japan.
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Yeahm Ashita. And at the very end of Maya's press conference,
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have a.
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Listen to play my usual game perfect thank you for you,
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thank you so much. They applaud So there you go,
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just made sense. I mean it's for the winner, for
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the winner exactly. Yeah, for the winner at the end
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of it.
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Yeah, you know, I but even at the on the time.
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Like I've again, I've been around a lot of press
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conferences and such. I felt that at the even at
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the press conference that Brooke did on on Wednesday, I
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just well, we should have applauded. That's all I mean.
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I listen, I didn't apply because nobody else did, but
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I was ready to applot.
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No, I get it totally. Yeah, yeah, I guess I
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gave us her time.
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She talked with us. I thought that the least we
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could do is applaud I know.
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But that's because you're not a cynical bastard exactly. Well
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he is, Well, okay, well listen, do you have.
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Any final thoughts from your reporting from the kp MC
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LPGA Canadian Championship.
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You know it was honestly, I would do it again,
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and just thinking about what you were saying before, the
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whole concept of watching it live on the course versus
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watching it on TV. I enjoyed being on the course
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on the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, but on Thursday, Friday,
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Saturday and Sunday I went home and watched all three
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hours on TV. Because once I had a sense of
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the holes, had a sense of the place, I wanted
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to see what was going on, and so I watched
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and again I watched all all the all the coverage
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that they did. And I also wish there was more coverage.
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I mean, I was so enthralled with all of the
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well the activity that I saw. I wanted more than
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three hours of coverage. I mean Golf Channel had two.
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I think TSN added another hour, but I went home
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and watched it.
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Okay, well, listen, great work. When you sign off, though,
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do you have any final questions for a reporter, Tim.
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No, I was just gonna say, yeah, I'm watching it
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with a reclient or and a beer at home, way
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comfortable and a hard plastic chair.
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Well, I'll tell you I went to her. My only
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time to the Masters was a Saturday around the year
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that we're won, and then being home on the Sunday,
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excuse me, and watching it just as you arrived, Stephen.
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Once you had a sense of the grounds and what
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it looks like in person, it almost it really enhanced
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the experience of watching it on TV.
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But plus also, I mean we had good weather. Manminton's
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had very iffy weather all season. Right, We've had a
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lot of rain. I mean, talking to the folks on
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the course. They said, you know, about two weeks three
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weeks out, they were trying to get the course ready
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just for the members, right, they had all kinds of
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problems with water. Mosquitoes were bad, it was glyft, it
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was lyft, clean in place all we can Yeah, because
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they couldn't they couldn't properly cordon off the ground under
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repair and stuff. So it was it was. And then
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it was just just hot and stuff. So I enjoyed
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being there when I was there, but I say, getting
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a sense of what was going on at home was cool.
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So would you finish this segment by saying, reporting for
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swing thoughts, I'm Stephen Glassman.
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This is Steve glass for sweet thoughts.
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Thank you, Steven, very well done. That's that's a real
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veteran move and I'm glad that you got to enjoy it.
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And no, we will not be sending you to Ottawa
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at our expense. See you.
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Thanks Stevie.
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Hi, guys, it's one of my favorite brothers right there.
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Just let yourself up, all right.
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I didn't. I talked to him. He loved it.
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We were talking about the experience of having press credentials
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and you've had this before. But what people don't realize
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is that they feed you.
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So much.
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That yes, it's very nice to be fad every meal.
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He said to me he was there because he was
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there quite a bit as you could hear him, and
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he got like breakfast, lunch, at dinner.
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Oh it's quite great. Yeah, that's that's great. That's key
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part of it. One thing I wanted to mention was
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that's one of the wonderful things about covering an LPGA
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tournament event. The women are just particularly today, is maybe
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the men I don't know. Earlier men were a bit
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more accommodating, but the women have always been just very gracious,
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willing to talk about what goes on, relate to people,
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even on the course that type of thing. The guy's
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a bit more taciturn, you know, kind of closed off.
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Particularly now they all a lot of them seem to
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be like taken kind of training, you know, media training,
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and you just don't just one word answers and that
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kind of stuff. So the women are great. But just
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being in the press room when you can really engage
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it can really be fun. You can get some some
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great moments, like you'll often see some things that come
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across Instagram some funny exchanges between reporters and players. It
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could be that part of it is really as one
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of the best parts of it. It's just being in
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the press room.
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I think the women John I'm generalizing, but I think
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they actually appreciate it because they they're they're they've been
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sort of the second, you know, behind the men's tour.
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There there's no getting around that they're not second rate,
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but the you know, the way they're held in terms
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of the sports fans esteem. So I think they have
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a I've always had a sense of being more accommodating
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for that reason, because they want their their they appreciate
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you being there to cover their event. But women are
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just nicer than men generally, generally. Years ago, I played
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in the LPGA. I forgotten about this until just this second,
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which is going to be the theme of this next segment.
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But I forgot I played with Sandra Palmer.
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Is Sandra Palmer? Oh yes, Sandra Palmer yep in a
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program she would get yeah, she'd get confused with CenTra
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posts and then people she related to aren't. No.
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So it was the whatever the event was here in Toronto,
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and I got to play with her in a pro am.
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This was early on in my experience here in probably
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ninety one, two or three, and couldn't have been nicer. Now,
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my only other pro am experience was playing with David
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howell ohe at the Scottish Open in twenty seventeen when
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I was hanging out there, and that guy couldn't have
592
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been nicer. This guy was at one time number ten
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in the world and as I as we documented on
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swing thoughts at the time, and I'm telling you, he
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couldn't have been a better guy for me to play with.
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Just stories and Ryder Cup moments and swing stuff, and
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he had his mental performance coach there, so I was
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all over it.
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It was just it was almost too much for a
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nerd like me. Well, the Europeans tend to be a
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little bit more loquacious American counterparts.
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I love that. No, I know, I'm working with a writer.
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I read books and shit, yeah, yeah you do. So,
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speaking of forgetting things. A couple of weeks ago, I
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went to visit our mutual friend Mark Evershed and we've
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all been friends. Yeah, we've been friend with Sheds for
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a long time. I've known him for most of the time.
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I've lived here in Toronto. I met him through Martin
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Chuck introduced me to him back in the day in
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the nineteen nineties, and I hadn't seen Mark for a
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couple of summers, and he sent me a note and
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we went back and forth and it's you know, been
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a busy.
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Tournament schedule on the lines, and so I said.
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Hey, Mark, I've got a day this Friday. I'd love
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to come and see you. And we arranged to meet
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each other, have hit balls together for a couple an
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hour and then have lunch, and just to not go
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for a lesson. But you know, whenever you're around Mark,
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it's always a lesson. But I said to him, I said,
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my swing's in great shape. I said, I'm just coming
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out really just a visit with you. I said, we
623
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don't even have to hit balls, let's just hang out
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for a couple hours. But he insisted we were you know,
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we wanted to see me hit a golf ball. And
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he's very very kind. So I drive out to where
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he he has been living for the last few years,
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and I get in my car and drive to Port
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Colburn and I, yeah, wait, wait. I get to Port Colburn,
630
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which is about an hour and fifty minutes from where
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I live. And as I'm driving into the golf course,
632
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I'm like, this is not where Mark teaches. This is
633
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not where Mark lives, because Mark lives in Port Dover Howard,
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which is an hour and ten minutes from Port Culvern.
635
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So I call Mark. I go, hey, you'll never guess
636
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where I am. I'm in Port Colburn. He's like, what
637
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are you doing there? I go, I am no wrong port.
638
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What's the wrong port?
639
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Oh? My god? So I uh that was so.
640
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I took another hour and ten together, So I was
641
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like three hours to get there where he actually is
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working and living. Port Dover is only an hour and
643
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fifty ish minutes from me. So I drove five hours
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that day to have hit balls for twenty minutes and
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have a sandwich, I know, some old guy stuff.
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00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:01.799
It was worth it, though we've all done that, my goodness,
647
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have we?
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Oh?
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I remember showing up at I remember showing up at
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Credit Valley and I was at the wrong valley. I
651
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:17.199
forget it was. I'm not sure if it was Dundas
652
00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:20.079
Valley or whateverybody went to a different It was like
653
00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:22.360
supposed to be for like a tournament. I came in there, like,
654
00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:25.840
where's the banners? Really do this? Low key? Low key
655
00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:29.480
this year? Well they're like, whoa, you got the wrong
656
00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:30.840
valley pal. Oh shit.
657
00:34:31.239 --> 00:34:33.079
So, and what you just said is going to be
658
00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:35.440
a perfect segue, because you don't usually you show up
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at a tournament, especially a big charity event, and there's
660
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banners everywhere, and there's people greeting you, and so Tim
661
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and I, uh, you know, we rarely get to hang
662
00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:48.920
out with each other in person. Probably once a year
663
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:51.719
something will happen we played a tournament together, or will
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conspire to golf together. And a month ago you graciously
665
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invited me to play at Grace Own with some friends
666
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of ours, friends of yours.
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It's a client and his dad, a client and his dad. Yeah,
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that's that's that's this Sunday coming up.
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That is this.
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And then you send me a note.
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Interestingly enough, last week, a few days ago, you send
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me you know, I'm saying, don't forget you know, we're
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playing on Sunday, and I'm like, you know, not this Sunday.
674
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Went oh yeah, yeah, Sunday.
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The thirty first or the thirtieth, right right, yeah? And
676
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I got all excited this week because I got a
677
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bunch of tournaments coming up, but this weekend, the twenty
678
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fourth Sunday, sorry that the twenty third Sunday, the twenty
679
00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:36.920
fourth Monday being today when we're taping. I got all
680
00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:38.800
excited because for the fourth year in a row, I
681
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was going to host the Ben Kern Invitational at the National.
682
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Oh.
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Nice, it's a pro am for two days.
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You know, I've talked, I've told stories about, you know,
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hanging out with Rocko Media and Chris DeMarco and watching
686
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Ernie Elle's play. And it's a fantastic event and I
687
00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:56.840
rarely get to play in it because it's a big
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money event. They raised one million dollars in twenty four
689
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hours between two events for Princess Margaret prostate cancer research
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and development stuff. Anyway, so I get all excited. I
691
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get up and oh and even weirder, two things happened.
692
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The general manager of the National called me a few
693
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five four or five days ago, early last week, saying, hey, Howard,
694
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just want to touch base about the tournament. You know,
695
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we're trying to get you into the Sunday round. If
696
00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:25.199
it looks like we're going to get you to play,
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and that's amazing you know, any chance I get to
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play the golf course is fantastic, and so i'ment great.
699
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Then Saturday, like two days ago, I get the itinerary
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for the tournament and it's a thirty four slide PDF
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00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:43.920
document as only the National can do, with all the
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00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:47.880
events and the players and the itinerary and the auction items,
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and it's amazing. So I get up Sunday morning and
704
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I get all excited. I drive to the golf course.
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This is yesterday now, and it's a shitty rainy day
706
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here in Toronto, and I was like, oh, I hope
707
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we get to play, and looking at the forecast just
708
00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:03.039
like a kid, right, and I'm oh, I've got my
709
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long pants songs.
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I think it's going to be cool.
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And I get to the golf course and the gates
712
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down like so, I hit the buzzer there and I go, hey,
713
00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:15.360
it's toward Glassman here for the tournament.
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So I drive into the parking.
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Lot as I have thousands of times, and I'm like,
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there's no banners, there's nothing, and there's like no one
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there to greet me. So I get my clubs and
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00:37:26.679 --> 00:37:28.760
then pretty soon a kid drives up in a car
719
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like he seems bewildered by me.
720
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Couldn't figure out why.
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And I said, and it's ten like the tournament's supposed
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to start at noon. It's ten thirty. I go, hey,
723
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it seems a bit quiet this morning. He goes, yeah,
724
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it's been quite so far. I go, it seems a
725
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bit quiet for a tournament that's going to start in
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ninety minutes. He just looks at me, like what Anyway,
727
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I go into the washroom and when I come out
728
00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:51.360
of the washroom there's the head pro, Mike, Mike McMahon,
729
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:54.000
and he goes, hey, how you doing. I go, great,
730
00:37:54.599 --> 00:37:58.480
where's everybody? He says, Well, he says, I don't know
731
00:37:58.519 --> 00:38:00.719
how to tell you this, but everybody be here one
732
00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:02.400
week from today.
733
00:38:03.559 --> 00:38:08.880
I said what he said, yeah, one week from today, Howard.
734
00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:11.679
Yeah.
735
00:38:11.719 --> 00:38:15.880
So I had a nice chat with Mike McMahon and
736
00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:18.119
uh we he.
737
00:38:18.239 --> 00:38:20.159
Sort of have a coffee. Did you have a coffee
738
00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:22.280
all that or no? He was busy.
739
00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:25.280
He had tough to it's tough to do, as did everyone.
740
00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:28.079
And that's what he got the when when when I arrived,
741
00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:31.440
he got the Noah saying some Howard's here for some reason.
742
00:38:33.599 --> 00:38:37.880
Hits the balls well, it was it was raining, I said.
743
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:40.480
He says, that's why I said, I can't even hit balls.
744
00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:42.519
He goes, yeah, it's like shit outside.
745
00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:46.199
Oh anyway, and.
746
00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:47.519
Then when I then you know the weird thing is
747
00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:49.599
then I would go back and look at the PDF
748
00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:52.679
document they'd sent with the itinerary for the tournament, and
749
00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:56.800
clearly it says August thirtieth and thirty first, So all
750
00:38:56.840 --> 00:38:59.039
of those things, like I had put in my my
751
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:01.480
my calendar because last year it was the twenty fourth
752
00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:04.360
and twenty fifth, so I assumed it was the twenty
753
00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:05.360
fourth again this year.
754
00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:07.960
Well, part of it, I think is that Labor Day
755
00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:09.880
is later this year. I think a lot of people
756
00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:11.920
are getting a lot of people getting screwed up with that.
757
00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:17.199
And because yeah, labor days the end of August beginning
758
00:39:17.199 --> 00:39:21.000
of September, but no, it's two weeks in. No I'm kidding,
759
00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:22.039
but no, you're right.
760
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:24.960
I think you're absolutely right to him that because of that,
761
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:28.159
because the long weekend now is the first week of
762
00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:29.960
September here.
763
00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:35.360
Right, So that means we're scuppered for that that that
764
00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:37.760
round with the client. We don't worries, we'll get that,
765
00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:40.000
we'll get that done that's no worries.
766
00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:41.800
I almost send you a no yesterday, but I thought
767
00:39:41.800 --> 00:39:43.760
I would tell you now because that's better.
768
00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:47.960
Yeah, that is better. But everybody has done that, or
769
00:39:48.360 --> 00:39:51.840
like I remember our good friend Mike Bondi, or things
770
00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:55.159
like that. You drive to the golf course and you
771
00:39:55.199 --> 00:39:56.960
get there and you go like, oh my god, I
772
00:39:56.960 --> 00:40:00.239
have to play in my Sparris you forget your golf show. Yeah,
773
00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:02.320
Or I'm every Mike Bondi going up to a tournament
774
00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:08.880
in Muskoka Stony Lake tournament. There, drives up, you know,
775
00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:14.360
opens up the trunk, shit, no clubs. We've all done
776
00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:15.360
that kind of whatever.
777
00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:18.119
Well, speaking of Bondi, he was he was the captain
778
00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:20.880
of our Niagara Cup team, which is kind of like
779
00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:23.559
the Ryder Cup when when you're not old. And I
780
00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:25.480
was in my early fifties and Mike had asked me
781
00:40:25.519 --> 00:40:28.760
to play, and I was hitting balls at Rattlesnake and
782
00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:31.800
so I had I had an older car and something
783
00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:35.000
happened where I couldn't I couldn't get my clubs out
784
00:40:35.039 --> 00:40:39.440
of the trunk. The trunk mechanism broke. Oh, so I'm
785
00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:41.440
called I'm in the parking lot on my because the
786
00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:43.960
course we were going to didn't have a range, so
787
00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:45.519
I was going to stop there and hit balls and
788
00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:48.760
then continue on to Niagara. And I'm calling Bondi from
789
00:40:48.800 --> 00:40:51.280
the parking lot. He's like, what tell me again, you
790
00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:54.320
can't get your golf clubs. I go, buddy, I'm sorry,
791
00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:55.400
I'm screwed here.
792
00:40:55.440 --> 00:40:59.519
I can't get in my car. But this go ahead.
793
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:03.519
I was just gonna say, while we're talking about stupid things, yes,
794
00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:07.639
I played. So today's Monday of twenty a week aldgo Today.
795
00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:12.559
I played with Mike Bondi, Mike Alderman, and Greg Pacenti
796
00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:15.679
at Blue Springs. But a little bit of a detail here.
797
00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:19.880
Mike wasn't playing because he had a shoulder thing. But
798
00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:23.559
the way that the clubs are put on, so I
799
00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:28.159
was driving, but Mike's clubs were right behind me, and
800
00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:30.760
Mike was in the passenger sitt and mike clubs are
801
00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:34.800
on the right side. So usually the driver has his
802
00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:41.519
clubs right behind on the driver. So anyways, so on
803
00:41:41.559 --> 00:41:46.760
the sixth hole, I grabbed my headcover for my QI
804
00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:49.679
four D driver and I go up on the tee
805
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:52.639
and I take the head cover off and I looked down.
806
00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:57.119
It's like, what what's happened? Did I somehow break my
807
00:41:57.239 --> 00:42:04.840
club or whatever backwards? It's yes, exactly. Just the guy's
808
00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:08.679
just howl laughing because the look on my face is
809
00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:12.280
complete bewilderment. And then it goes like, oh shit, this
810
00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:15.280
is Bondy's club. He's a left hander, that's right. It
811
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:17.760
was just the weirdest thing. It was just like I
812
00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:20.719
was in this altered state for about two seconds of
813
00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:24.079
just like what planet am I on? That this club
814
00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:26.199
outside backwards? Exactly?
815
00:42:26.840 --> 00:42:29.760
I will tell you, I know again, continuing on the
816
00:42:29.800 --> 00:42:33.159
old man theme in golf, I can't tell you how
817
00:42:33.199 --> 00:42:36.440
many I have a uh A.
818
00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:37.239
Putter cover.
819
00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:42.320
And if I don't put that putter cover in the
820
00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:44.719
same place every time, you know I've had it happens
821
00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:47.239
a couple of times around where I panic and I
822
00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:48.000
can't fight.
823
00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:51.360
My putter cover. You check the dashboards, say check the mask,
824
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:58.840
and in between the clubs gets drive. You gotta fight.
825
00:42:58.920 --> 00:42:59.880
You got early in the round.
826
00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:03.360
You have to establish establish a theme the same place.
827
00:43:03.199 --> 00:43:05.320
That you're gonna put your fucking putter.
828
00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:08.159
And my senior Ryder Cup partner, Don Comming is a
829
00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:11.559
very very very good player. He has the system down
830
00:43:11.559 --> 00:43:13.199
because we both laugh about the fact that we can
831
00:43:13.239 --> 00:43:16.199
ever find these fucking things. So what I do now,
832
00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:19.199
little little pro tip, is I don't leave it on
833
00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:21.679
the cart. As I'm walking away from the cart. I
834
00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:24.840
put it near the cart, or if I'm walking, which
835
00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:27.480
I did the other day, I just put it on
836
00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:29.199
the ground so I know that I'm going to walk,
837
00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:31.880
I'm going to walk to it. And then because if
838
00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:34.679
I put it somewhere in my clubs, I can't find it.
839
00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:35.360
It's black.
840
00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:39.880
Well, you know this is like another installment of Chris
841
00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:42.119
Power's Stupid Golf. Stupid golf.
842
00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:44.280
Well, and I wanted to say again apologize that I
843
00:43:44.519 --> 00:43:46.519
know to your client and his son. But you know,
844
00:43:46.679 --> 00:43:49.920
when I got there yesterday, it was this weird twilight
845
00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:52.800
zone moment where because I'll tell you I've been doing
846
00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:55.280
this is the fourth year I've hosted this tournament, and
847
00:43:55.880 --> 00:43:58.719
I should have known when I drove in because normally
848
00:43:59.079 --> 00:44:02.679
on tournament day that that gate is up. But the
849
00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:06.079
other thing is there's banners and sponsor stuff everywhere. There's
850
00:44:06.519 --> 00:44:10.719
dozens of people helping, and you know, it's it's teeming
851
00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:15.079
with volunteers, and so in retrospect, as I was leaving,
852
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:19.599
I was like, oh yeah, Like, look, there's nobody here
853
00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:23.599
but you. Howie, you're by yourself. So I actually worked
854
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:27.360
out grey because I called my youngest daughter. I said, hey,
855
00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:30.519
I know it is his last minute, but daddy's found
856
00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:32.519
himself with a hole in his schedule.
857
00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:35.760
I want to do a couple of go ahead. I
858
00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:38.800
just wanted to a quick shout out. Yeah. So we
859
00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:44.440
were scheduled to play golf this upcoming Sunday with Peter
860
00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:49.440
and Paul. Uh, I'm probably gonna massacre the pronunciation, so
861
00:44:49.599 --> 00:44:52.639
the blastvik or blazefik, and I just a little shout
862
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:56.039
out to Peter, who is a client of mine. Uh.
863
00:44:56.280 --> 00:45:00.360
He played a scholarship golfer in the United States and
864
00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:05.320
just around we're talking about pressure. So he's still an amateur.
865
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:07.480
He's going to turn pro, but he played in his
866
00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:11.599
club c so everyone at his club expects him to win, right,
867
00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:14.599
and two weeks leading up to it, everyone's going, hey,
868
00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:17.119
look forward to your host and the trophy, you know,
869
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:22.239
at Greystone. At Greystone, and so this was like a
870
00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:24.159
lot of he felt a lot of pressure with all
871
00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:27.320
these people talking. So anyways, Uh, just a shout out
872
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:31.800
to Peter. He won. Mike Alderman good friend of both
873
00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:35.679
of us. Yeah, my second Peter won by nine strokes.
874
00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:39.360
How old is Peter ah, golly, I would say he's
875
00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:39.960
about twenty one.
876
00:45:40.119 --> 00:45:43.880
Yeah, Mike Alderman is seventy years older than him. Yeah,
877
00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:46.639
I know, but Mike's such a good piece, so good
878
00:45:46.679 --> 00:45:48.039
and all. By the way, I'm going to see Alderman
879
00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:49.360
this week. I'm going to tell him, I say that,
880
00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:51.840
I'm gonna say, yeah, yeah, he's twenty one and you're
881
00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:52.480
ninety one.
882
00:45:53.159 --> 00:45:56.239
Yes, yeah, well exactly. So it ended up it got
883
00:45:56.400 --> 00:45:59.480
relatively close. I think they got within four strokes, wow,
884
00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:03.119
after after the second round, which is you know that
885
00:46:03.280 --> 00:46:07.400
speaks to Peter's ability to play well, but also Mike Alderman's.
886
00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:10.000
But in the rain, the wind and the cold yesterday,
887
00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:12.199
Peter just ran away with it.
888
00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:12.480
Yeah.
889
00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:14.480
It was a terrible you know, back to the irony
890
00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:17.719
of the going to the National on the wrong day.
891
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:21.400
It was it just it was horrible here yesterday. But
892
00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:23.920
I want to say about Alderman. I played some tournament
893
00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:28.039
golf with him, and you know, he and I I
894
00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:32.920
he's a very good player airp swing and I was
895
00:46:33.360 --> 00:46:36.199
at my Senior Am qualifier this year Mike was in
896
00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:40.400
the group ahead of me, and I learned something from Mike.
897
00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:44.239
He didn't inadvertently, but I, you know, it reminded me
898
00:46:44.400 --> 00:46:46.719
that golf is hard, and that no matter how good
899
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:49.320
you are, and he's very good. No matter how good
900
00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:52.719
you are, you're you're not You're not good on every day,
901
00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:56.719
you know, like and and he didn't qualify that day,
902
00:46:56.719 --> 00:46:59.599
and it was interesting for me because I hadn't qualified
903
00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:02.800
for a couple years prior, and I know that Michael did.
904
00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:05.239
And I had played some golf with Michael the last
905
00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:07.000
couple of summers, and I was like trying to figure out, like,
906
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:09.239
what am I doing wrong? Well, you're not doing The
907
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:12.360
truth is, on any given day, Michael Alderman can shoot
908
00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:15.599
even par or under par, but on also any given
909
00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:18.039
day he can also shoot eighty two or eighty three,
910
00:47:19.000 --> 00:47:21.280
and as good a player as he is, and no
911
00:47:21.400 --> 00:47:23.519
matter how good you are, there are going to be
912
00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:26.599
days where this game is just going to beat you.
913
00:47:27.880 --> 00:47:31.280
And looking forward to this week, I've got a qualifier
914
00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:35.920
tomorrow for the Ontario Senior Veteran Ball But Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
915
00:47:35.960 --> 00:47:38.880
I'm playing in the Canadian Senior Golf Association abably spending
916
00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:41.840
three days at Asprey and Mike's part of that.
917
00:47:41.920 --> 00:47:46.039
Oh, you can play each of those three.
918
00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:47.639
I think we only played the two. I think we
919
00:47:47.719 --> 00:47:49.920
played the Hoot and the North Course. We played the
920
00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:53.000
Canadian Open Course, which is the North Course. But the
921
00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:54.639
first day is kind of a better but it's just
922
00:47:54.760 --> 00:47:57.280
a fun, little better ball. It doesn't count towards your
923
00:47:57.320 --> 00:48:00.039
three day score, and then the second two days. It
924
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:03.519
was a tournament last year that I it wassk my
925
00:48:03.599 --> 00:48:05.199
best tournament of the year last year is the one
926
00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:08.280
where I shot I shot under par and for the
927
00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:10.000
first time in a well, I shot in the sixties
928
00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:11.679
for the first time in a tournament, So it was
929
00:48:11.719 --> 00:48:14.639
kind of cool. Wow, nice good memory. Just to yeah,
930
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:16.920
with very good memory. So just to finish up today
931
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:21.320
with some swing thoughts stuff, I wanted to get coach
932
00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:24.400
Tim's thoughts about this is a theme for many years
933
00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:29.599
about stories and how how having a story or creating
934
00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:32.159
a story in golf is an impediment to playing well.
935
00:48:32.199 --> 00:48:35.760
And you know, it'll all be very similar to being grounded,
936
00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:39.840
being in the present and not linking every shot to
937
00:48:39.960 --> 00:48:43.079
every round and anyway, so I've been playing very well
938
00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:45.280
haven't been putting very well.
939
00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:48.440
As often happens, the better. I'm a good ball striker.
940
00:48:48.440 --> 00:48:48.760
I just down.
941
00:48:48.800 --> 00:48:50.960
I had a lot of greens and regulations, so I
942
00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:53.360
have a lot of birdie putts. And so when you
943
00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:55.480
I think I can't remember it was this show or
944
00:48:55.559 --> 00:48:59.320
last show. I played with my older brother and his partner,
945
00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:02.039
my sister. I played around in golf with them. I
946
00:49:02.119 --> 00:49:04.239
hit fifteen greens and shot three over pars, so I
947
00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:08.679
sank nothing. And I've been having but if you hit
948
00:49:08.760 --> 00:49:11.199
fifteen greens, you're gonna have a lot of putts for
949
00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:15.119
birth and not all. Some days they go in, but
950
00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:19.199
that day and some days like it, they're not going in.
951
00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:21.320
So I'm playing with Kent as you call. I told
952
00:49:21.400 --> 00:49:23.880
him you call in the oracleague love that We were
953
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:27.280
playing a practice round on Thursday of last week, I
954
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:30.559
think for this better ball thing. And again I hit
955
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:35.360
the ball great. I made one birdie and he made four.
956
00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:39.039
But he also sank a few longish par savers and
957
00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:42.880
I sank nothing. Shoot I think he shot seventy two
958
00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:45.440
or seventy three and I shot seventy five. But ball
959
00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:47.960
striking wise, you know, again, I was hitting the ball,
960
00:49:48.079 --> 00:49:49.800
hitting a lot of greens and making nothing.
961
00:49:50.119 --> 00:49:51.320
But here's the thing I want to get to.
962
00:49:51.480 --> 00:49:53.559
So the very first hole of the round, I've got
963
00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:55.400
about an eight foot putt for birdie and maybe ten
964
00:49:55.480 --> 00:49:59.039
feet and it doesn't touch the hole. And I swear
965
00:49:59.079 --> 00:49:59.960
to God, here's what I say.
966
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It out loud. And it continues.
967
00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:08.679
And he left like I literally went, and it continues
968
00:50:08.760 --> 00:50:11.480
the first hole of the round. What continues, Thank you,
969
00:50:11.599 --> 00:50:16.960
mister announcer. Yeah, what continues exactly, Howard on the first
970
00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:21.599
whole of a round of golf. So how do we Uh,
971
00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:25.599
I'm getting some free advice here, so maybe talk about
972
00:50:26.119 --> 00:50:30.440
that and the idea that you know, if we drag
973
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:34.679
every round with us, it can start to wear down.
974
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:42.480
Wear us. We're wear on us. Yeah, absolutely, And it continues. Well,
975
00:50:42.559 --> 00:50:45.559
that's a great line, and of course it's funny, but
976
00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:48.679
it's also there's a degree of truth to it. Yeah,
977
00:50:48.920 --> 00:50:51.000
you have been making puts. They're not going in, so
978
00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:56.280
it continues. So it's good. I liked stuff like that
979
00:50:56.440 --> 00:50:58.519
because you can if you use it as sort of
980
00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:03.360
not necessary an icebreaker, but just as something funny. You know.
981
00:51:03.440 --> 00:51:05.880
It's like I quote you all the time when someone
982
00:51:05.960 --> 00:51:07.760
hits a bad shot and it goes well, it's my
983
00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:12.320
pat podcast partner says, You're still a good person. You're
984
00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:16.119
still a good person, you know. So, but it just
985
00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:18.599
sort of you see it, it's just like another thing
986
00:51:18.719 --> 00:51:21.280
that just happened. It goes along because it just as
987
00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:25.119
you said originally, where we get into a problem is
988
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:29.000
when when it becomes a story, and then it becomes
989
00:51:29.039 --> 00:51:32.199
a self fulfilling prophecy, and then it becomes who we are.
990
00:51:32.719 --> 00:51:37.840
So there's there's an arm of psychology called positive psychology,
991
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:42.039
and it's not about saying things in a you know,
992
00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:45.239
like oh, this this drive is going to go straight
993
00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:47.159
down the middle. It's there's no way it's going to
994
00:51:47.199 --> 00:51:48.480
go out of bounds, and then it goes out of
995
00:51:48.519 --> 00:51:52.239
bounds and then what No, it's a school of thought
996
00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:55.760
of looking at how do we speak to ourselves? Because
997
00:51:55.960 --> 00:51:58.559
what happens is we have we have all kinds of
998
00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:02.599
different experiences and then it's we interpret them, and so
999
00:52:02.760 --> 00:52:07.320
we use language to interpret them. And so if we
1000
00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:10.880
take the view that oh, I'm not making but that
1001
00:52:10.920 --> 00:52:14.639
means I'm a lousy putter, well that just seeps into
1002
00:52:14.880 --> 00:52:17.519
all parts of sort of your being in the way
1003
00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:20.039
you go against things. So you know, why would you
1004
00:52:20.079 --> 00:52:25.320
take your time reading a putt? Why would you you know,
1005
00:52:25.639 --> 00:52:29.000
why would you take you know, why would you take
1006
00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:31.119
time in your process? If you're a lousy putt, it's
1007
00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:33.559
just get this fucking thing over with. And I think
1008
00:52:33.599 --> 00:52:34.760
I'm just a stupid example.
1009
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:36.480
No, No, it's a good example actually, because I think
1010
00:52:36.559 --> 00:52:38.920
what you're saying, and I kind of wanted to just
1011
00:52:39.039 --> 00:52:41.599
kind of harken back to the idea that your brain is,
1012
00:52:42.760 --> 00:52:44.360
you know, whether you think you can or you think
1013
00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:48.400
you can't, you're right. Your brain's looking for evidence, right,
1014
00:52:48.480 --> 00:52:51.480
Your brain is, it's looking to make sense of your experience,
1015
00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:53.719
and it makes sense of your experience and looking for
1016
00:52:53.880 --> 00:52:57.920
evidence for the information you give it. So I think
1017
00:52:57.960 --> 00:52:59.840
I'm a good ball striker, So my brain is always
1018
00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:01.840
like for evidence that I am a good ball striker.
1019
00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:05.239
So even if I hit a poor shot, it doesn't
1020
00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:07.320
I don't go and it continues. I just go, oh,
1021
00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:10.519
that's a poor shot. A good friend of ours, Al Martin,
1022
00:53:10.519 --> 00:53:12.519
who has spent the last couple of years doing a
1023
00:53:12.559 --> 00:53:16.280
deep dive into the phil Kenyon school of putting. And
1024
00:53:16.360 --> 00:53:20.159
Al's a very very smart guy and a very good teacher.
1025
00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:23.159
Of the putting method. He's studied Kenyon and he's taken
1026
00:53:23.239 --> 00:53:25.119
some courses and he's really made himself into a bit
1027
00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:28.760
of an expert. And his thoughts about this, and I
1028
00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:32.639
thought was very interesting, is that is to just interpret
1029
00:53:33.159 --> 00:53:38.039
the putt for what it was from a mechanical aspect,
1030
00:53:38.119 --> 00:53:41.599
not a philosophical I suck at putting. But how is
1031
00:53:41.679 --> 00:53:44.800
my pace? Did I get it started online? Did I
1032
00:53:44.920 --> 00:53:48.320
mishit it? Did I misread it? Because that's actual facts,
1033
00:53:49.039 --> 00:53:53.000
that's factual, not fantasy. And again, you know the fantasies.
1034
00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:54.920
And he and I spoke about this yesterday about the
1035
00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:58.199
idea that you know, if we go into our fantasy
1036
00:53:58.320 --> 00:54:00.239
world of I'm a man putter, I haven't made a
1037
00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:02.000
putt in weeks and then it goes in the hole,
1038
00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:04.840
Oh woe is me? Well, then again your brain's kind
1039
00:54:04.840 --> 00:54:07.639
of looking for evidence of that. But he said, the
1040
00:54:07.679 --> 00:54:10.159
way he looks at Andterrpert's putt is just that did
1041
00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:12.599
I start it online? Did I hit it hard enough?
1042
00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:15.199
And how is my read because those are things you
1043
00:54:15.320 --> 00:54:18.199
can because if you go to the end of a round,
1044
00:54:18.239 --> 00:54:20.239
you think, wow, man, it was really I was kind
1045
00:54:20.280 --> 00:54:23.599
of low below the whole almost all day, So I
1046
00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:26.119
need to go work on my pace. Then you can
1047
00:54:26.199 --> 00:54:30.599
go and actually to adjudicate it correctly and then find
1048
00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:34.679
then correct that not Oh well, I guess I shouldn't
1049
00:54:34.679 --> 00:54:38.159
practice because the good money, you know, yeah, yeah, well, you.
1050
00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:40.800
Know, speaking of hearkening, our favorite verb parking on the
1051
00:54:41.760 --> 00:54:46.039
sweet thoughts is going back to our good pelotic local
1052
00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:48.280
who talks about when you hit a shot, the two
1053
00:54:48.360 --> 00:54:54.039
crucial elements are assessment and execution. And so what I'm
1054
00:54:54.039 --> 00:54:57.079
also going to quote someone else who's pretty interesting, dude,
1055
00:54:57.280 --> 00:55:00.599
Rick Rubin, the producer. He says that in patience is
1056
00:55:00.639 --> 00:55:04.000
an argument with reality, and so what happens is is
1057
00:55:04.039 --> 00:55:06.519
that what we need to assess, what's what's going on?
1058
00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:10.039
If you're hitting your putts below the hole all day, well,
1059
00:55:10.079 --> 00:55:14.079
then yeah, there's something in your reality that's that's not
1060
00:55:14.239 --> 00:55:17.920
going well. You know, there's something happening in terms of
1061
00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:21.880
your reads, or you're just like not giving you're not
1062
00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:25.199
going enough to the high side, or maybe it's something
1063
00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:27.199
in your mechanics. But on the golf course is not
1064
00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:30.159
the place to fix it. But if you're not making putts,
1065
00:55:30.159 --> 00:55:33.280
I mean that shows you, well, maybe you need to
1066
00:55:33.320 --> 00:55:33.880
work on putt.
1067
00:55:34.800 --> 00:55:36.519
But what you said about the Ruben thing is kind
1068
00:55:36.519 --> 00:55:39.800
of what I'm saying. Those are factual, that's those are facts.
1069
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:43.760
When I miss that data, that's data exactly, that's absolutely data.
1070
00:55:44.039 --> 00:55:47.079
When I missed that putt on the first hole, because
1071
00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:49.079
I had just played a match the night before where
1072
00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:52.960
I also hit the hit it decent, didn't make a
1073
00:55:53.039 --> 00:55:56.000
lot of putts, and when I don't make a lot again,
1074
00:55:56.079 --> 00:55:58.480
it's it's so weird because in my ball striking, when
1075
00:55:58.480 --> 00:56:01.920
I miss hit a six iron, I don't I don't
1076
00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:02.599
think anything of it.
1077
00:56:02.719 --> 00:56:04.280
I just go, well, I look at it.
1078
00:56:04.400 --> 00:56:07.239
Factually, I was a little bit fast, or my fate
1079
00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:09.400
in the club face was slightly open, whatever it was,
1080
00:56:09.880 --> 00:56:12.599
I assess it factually, as opposed to, well, there goes
1081
00:56:12.760 --> 00:56:15.760
the bad sticks, aren't so? And funny you said about
1082
00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:18.039
working on your putting. I worked on my putting quite
1083
00:56:18.039 --> 00:56:19.719
a bit the last couple of weeks because I realized,
1084
00:56:19.760 --> 00:56:21.960
you know, hey, you need to you need to take
1085
00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:24.639
some time doing this because I hadn't playing as many
1086
00:56:24.679 --> 00:56:26.400
events as I do. You don't always get a chance
1087
00:56:26.679 --> 00:56:29.000
to spend a couple of hours over the course of
1088
00:56:29.079 --> 00:56:31.039
a couple of days doing some nice you.
1089
00:56:31.079 --> 00:56:33.880
Know, work on it. So I feel like there's nothing
1090
00:56:33.960 --> 00:56:37.360
mechanically wrong. But this doesn't make you laugh.
1091
00:56:38.039 --> 00:56:39.880
So when I when I found out I had nothing
1092
00:56:39.920 --> 00:56:43.960
to do yesterday tournament wise, I'm like, I'll just stop
1093
00:56:44.039 --> 00:56:45.800
in a golf town and see if maybe they went
1094
00:56:45.880 --> 00:56:49.719
look at some new putters. So, and this is a
1095
00:56:49.760 --> 00:56:52.000
true story. If you go on Facebook right now, I
1096
00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:54.719
put my putter up for sale just to teach it
1097
00:56:54.800 --> 00:56:55.239
a lesson.
1098
00:56:56.519 --> 00:56:57.920
Like I'm not sure I'm going to sell it, but
1099
00:56:58.079 --> 00:57:00.639
there's there's the palty box in your basement, and then
1100
00:57:00.679 --> 00:57:04.480
it's being put it on face Facebook a lesson.
1101
00:57:04.599 --> 00:57:06.440
If you want to buy a lab you can go
1102
00:57:06.559 --> 00:57:09.119
and check me out on Facebook marketplace that I've already
1103
00:57:09.159 --> 00:57:09.840
marked it down.
1104
00:57:10.119 --> 00:57:14.000
I'm getting rid of it. Is your potter feeling shame
1105
00:57:14.119 --> 00:57:14.440
right now?
1106
00:57:16.599 --> 00:57:17.440
Let Howard down.
1107
00:57:17.719 --> 00:57:20.000
It's over here. It's like, why am I? It's so funny.
1108
00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:20.280
I brought it.
1109
00:57:20.440 --> 00:57:21.840
I brought it in the house, take pictures of it.
1110
00:57:21.920 --> 00:57:23.239
It's like, what am I doing in the house. Oh
1111
00:57:23.280 --> 00:57:25.719
you'll find out. You'll find out butter.
1112
00:57:26.599 --> 00:57:28.679
Anyway, Uh, that's our show.
1113
00:57:28.719 --> 00:57:32.920
Tim O'Connor can be uh can be had for U
1114
00:57:33.639 --> 00:57:38.360
can be contacted a small fie and O'Connor got O'Connor
1115
00:57:38.519 --> 00:57:42.440
uh Coconnor dots is that right, O'Connor golf dots, Connor
1116
00:57:42.519 --> 00:57:46.280
golf dot cee O'Connor dot substack dot com where you
1117
00:57:46.360 --> 00:57:47.119
go to read.
1118
00:57:48.559 --> 00:57:50.840
Blogs of some degree of interest.
1119
00:57:50.920 --> 00:57:53.199
I think, i'm i'm I'm I'm thinking of Reeve Kindling,
1120
00:57:53.719 --> 00:57:56.559
a site I created years ago with a very fine
1121
00:57:57.760 --> 00:58:00.199
pro named Ken Trowbridge that we all know here in
1122
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:03.679
the Toronto area, really really good guy, Ken the Lake King.
1123
00:58:03.800 --> 00:58:06.360
And I spent a lot of time at the National
1124
00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:09.920
uh hitting balls with Kent Ken because he was going
1125
00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:14.119
to try out for the senior Tour and they gave
1126
00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:17.559
him practice privileges and so I and he got you know,
1127
00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:18.920
he and I sort of hit it off.
1128
00:58:18.960 --> 00:58:19.920
He's a bit of a kid bitzer.
1129
00:58:19.960 --> 00:58:22.719
And actually Ken was one of the people that started
1130
00:58:23.400 --> 00:58:27.119
what's that range north of the city target this outdoor
1131
00:58:27.199 --> 00:58:30.360
It was a range with like it was not like
1132
00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:37.719
it was like a prede processor, predecessor, predecessor to Top Golf.
1133
00:58:38.320 --> 00:58:40.719
It was like this, you know, this weird range they
1134
00:58:40.760 --> 00:58:44.800
had that wasn't the one that Shed and Tom Jackson
1135
00:58:44.880 --> 00:58:47.039
were No, no, no, it was this was the golf
1136
00:58:47.079 --> 00:58:49.800
field at Vaughn that way. It was out that way.
1137
00:58:49.840 --> 00:58:51.480
It is north of the city. Anyway, Ken was one
1138
00:58:51.480 --> 00:58:53.920
of the partners in that and anyway, we used to
1139
00:58:54.079 --> 00:58:55.719
hit a lot of golf balls together. So we thought
1140
00:58:55.760 --> 00:58:58.559
it would be funny to start a website called Rangebuddies
1141
00:58:58.599 --> 00:59:02.239
dot com because we range buddies, because we were range buddies.
1142
00:59:02.840 --> 00:59:03.480
So I was thinking this.
1143
00:59:03.559 --> 00:59:05.639
The other day I had a chance to put on
1144
00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:09.559
a clinic for one of my clients' clients, and I
1145
00:59:09.639 --> 00:59:11.719
spent the morning helping people with their swing. And I
1146
00:59:11.800 --> 00:59:13.599
had sort of five students at a time, and I
1147
00:59:13.719 --> 00:59:16.440
put on a little fun and I thought, after, you know,
1148
00:59:17.320 --> 00:59:19.440
that's what I should do. I should if you're looking
1149
00:59:19.559 --> 00:59:23.360
for a range buddy, I'm a good range buddy. And
1150
00:59:24.039 --> 00:59:26.760
you know, I guess I don't have any credentials CPGA,
1151
00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:29.599
but I know enough about the golf swing that I
1152
00:59:29.599 --> 00:59:31.039
would be a good range buddy.
1153
00:59:31.599 --> 00:59:34.239
So what are the qualities of arrangement?
1154
00:59:34.400 --> 00:59:38.679
Well, I mean, first of all, I my qualities are
1155
00:59:38.719 --> 00:59:43.800
I'm very encouraging, I'm very enthusiastic. I know quite a
1156
00:59:43.880 --> 00:59:47.719
bit about a few things, and rather than change your swing,
1157
00:59:48.360 --> 00:59:50.880
I can help you on the range as your buddy,
1158
00:59:51.400 --> 00:59:53.960
find your form that day before you go and play
1159
00:59:54.360 --> 00:59:57.519
like I'm not someone like you or shads or someone
1160
00:59:57.519 --> 01:00:01.400
I'm not going to change your golf swing over time golfing. Well,
1161
01:00:01.400 --> 01:00:04.400
but if you're looking for a range buddy, I'm a
1162
01:00:04.440 --> 01:00:06.639
good range buddy, So get a hold of me at
1163
01:00:06.760 --> 01:00:07.760
range buddies dot com.
1164
01:00:08.559 --> 01:00:11.440
Anyway, what was the name of that fucking thing he had?
1165
01:00:12.199 --> 01:00:12.320
Oh?
1166
01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:16.519
I remember it? Yeah, I almost, Oh, yeah, I remember.
1167
01:00:16.639 --> 01:00:20.079
It had about two or three levels. Yeah, it was
1168
01:00:20.360 --> 01:00:25.800
like a concrete It was launch. Launch started with an L.
1169
01:00:25.960 --> 01:00:28.480
There you go, and it was like old people trying
1170
01:00:28.519 --> 01:00:33.239
to remember what was the word I was trying to say, predecessor. Predecessor. Well, well,
1171
01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:37.280
I'm literally falling apart in real time right now. I
1172
01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:41.440
appreciating up at golf courses where they're not anyone where
1173
01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:43.000
tournament's not being held.
1174
01:00:43.320 --> 01:00:45.079
No, it's it's really altociations.
1175
01:00:45.159 --> 01:00:47.320
So by the time we tape again, I will.
1176
01:00:47.239 --> 01:00:49.800
Have actually hosted the tournament, I'll have some, hopefully some
1177
01:00:49.880 --> 01:00:53.719
good stories. Thanks again to our reporter Steve Glassman. Thanks
1178
01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:57.000
again as always to tailor made the q I four
1179
01:00:57.079 --> 01:01:00.440
D drivers, telling you I'm hitting this driver better than
1180
01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:02.440
I am not just saying this. I am hitting this
1181
01:01:02.599 --> 01:01:04.920
driver better than I've hit a driver in a long time.
1182
01:01:06.480 --> 01:01:08.239
Oh yeah, yeah, I played in it. I'll be quick.
1183
01:01:08.440 --> 01:01:11.760
I played in a charity thing on Saturday. Yes, we
1184
01:01:11.840 --> 01:01:16.719
played from the silver teas like the hair were silver men. Yes, exactly,
1185
01:01:17.159 --> 01:01:19.519
we were. With the way I was driving it with
1186
01:01:19.639 --> 01:01:23.960
my tailor bake Qi forty driver. We were hitting chip
1187
01:01:24.039 --> 01:01:25.519
shots into part four. Nice.
1188
01:01:26.280 --> 01:01:29.880
Well, yes, I played a gross match and it was gross.
1189
01:01:30.079 --> 01:01:33.679
I lost four and three to Doug Brophy, who is
1190
01:01:33.760 --> 01:01:37.559
the oh top four. I think he's fourth ranked senior
1191
01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:38.960
in Ontario. He's quite good.
1192
01:01:39.320 --> 01:01:39.840
I'll tell you what.
1193
01:01:39.960 --> 01:01:42.639
That's a guy at sixty four. He's about six two
1194
01:01:42.760 --> 01:01:45.639
sixty three, six y two strong, strong guy and hits
1195
01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:50.000
it so far like it's ridiculous. We played from the
1196
01:01:50.039 --> 01:01:53.360
tips because it's the gross match, played no strokes and uh,
1197
01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:56.960
you know, I hit it pretty good that day. Didn't
1198
01:01:56.960 --> 01:02:01.320
score a great shot seventy Oh I see, we just
1199
01:02:01.440 --> 01:02:03.199
had a power outage in my house.
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Well this is weird. Let me see.
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So Tim is gone. I'll just end the show, That's
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what I'll do. Okay, Well, this has happened a couple
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of times. In my place where the power has gone
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out because there's a bunch of construction in my neighborhood here,
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so we've already given the given the plugs. Anyway, Thanks
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everybody for listening to Swing Thoughts, and we'll be back.
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