From Ground Forces To Better Routines, Here’s How Golf Actually Improves

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Welcome to the My Golf Source Podcast.
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Well, good morning.
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Good morning.
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It's go time.
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Changing it up a little bit.
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Instead of drinking whiskey, we're drinking coffee.
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Yeah.
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Mocha's excited.
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What we have both.
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I don't know.
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It's a little early for whiskey.
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Yeah, but luckily we have coffee.
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And we do have some awesome coffee from a local company because we support local here at Golf Garage.
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What company is it?
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Rogue Roasters out of Grants Pass, Oregon.
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Okay.
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Super good.
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We've tested a bunch of it.
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Um and we've gone back and forth between a few brands.
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And you know, we we still use Royal from time to time as well.
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Um looked into if Dutch Bros is ever gonna go more into this realm.
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Um, but it's nice, it tastes different.
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Um, you know, I think that's the thing is I don't know if people actually notice because they put so much sugar and milk in there and stuff in there, yeah.
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So, but for for me, I drink Americanos usually, so I can tell right away if it's good or not.
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I would like a little better coffee with my milk and chocolate.
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Yeah.
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It's a sugar industry, isn't it?
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It sure is.
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I wonder what would happen.
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Um I don't put any sugar in my coffee at home, though.
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You don't?
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No.
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What about when you're putting?
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You drink like an espresso and then you get a little jittery.
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Yeah.
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Then swing yips all of a sudden with the buttons.
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You see the ball ball jitter the whole way to the hole.
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It's only supposed to skid a little bit, like you know, 13% of the way.
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On your 40-foot putts.
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Yeah, then it's true roll after that if you know what you're doing.
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Otherwise, you gotta come get fit.
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That's right.
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For your putter.
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You fit me for my putter.
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No, we're actually fitting days are happening soon.
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All the new equipment's coming in.
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PGA show happened.
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We talked a little bit about that.
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But um, we're getting everything in right now, which is huge for the golf industry in general.
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Um, everyone's coming out with something new, obviously, balls, clubs, wedges.
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Um, there's so many things that are super exciting right now going on.
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Um, and uh, we're gonna talk more about that with a good friend of ours here, the national LPGA Teacher of the Year top 50 coach Janine Murphy's on with us today.
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Welcome, Janine.
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Good morning.
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Good morning.
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Hey Janine, how are you?
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I'm great.
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I'm great.
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I'm uh taking my dog out for a second walk.
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Oh my gosh.
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The second walk.
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What time are you up this morning?
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I got to six, but um, I took both dogs for earlier walk, and then my younger guy, um I was like, well while I'm on this podcast, I might as well walk and walk and talk.
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So I thought I'd take my uh my younger boy out for a second walk.
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So you had some method to that madness, not just being an overachiever by starting your second walk by 6 a.m.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Get up, uh, work out, walk the dogs, and then it's time to start the day with teaching after that.
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How many hours do you think you work a week?
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And I don't just mean teaching the game, but follow-up calls, um, everything that has to do with a director of instruction at a private club, because obviously you never sleep.
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You uh you get paid for what you do, essentially, instead of a big salary, right?
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So can you walk us through a given day in the life of Janine Murphy?
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Because obviously you're um killing it in our industry.
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You just got your PGA credential on top of your LPGA credential.
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Congratulations, by the way.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, I'm glad I did that.
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Unfortunately, they don't let us get the LPGA credential, but you know, that's okay.
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So I can never I can never do what you're doing.
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But uh yeah, please, please walk us through.
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It'd be great to hear.
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Yeah, in um busy season, it's like we're still in off season a little bit, so it's a little bit slower pace for me.
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But I do I try to get up at 5 45, 6 o'clock and kind of do the stuff that I need to do for me.
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So that's working out and walking the dogs.
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Um that's a priority because I think if I saved it for the back end, I probably wouldn't do it, you know, especially in the summer, coming home sweaty.
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You cannot buy them.
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So uh I try to work for like 10 to seven as far as the hours I'm available to teach.
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Um, that way I can work with more of my juniors after school.
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Uh, have a lot of adult clients that are still working.
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So it's convenient for them.
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And it works for me since I chose not to have children.
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So that way it just works.
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So yeah, I kind of shifts my day to work later in the evening to accommodate people in the afternoons.
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But you're right, Noah.
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Um, I do try to take an hour lunch break so that way I can eat and respond to emails and calls and texts as much as possible.
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But just there's not enough time.
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You still have to do it.
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I typically take Mondays to do a lot of my planning, whether it's a lesson plan or a long-term program.
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And um I'm always trying to sign up for as much online education as I can because it's hard to take time out of your schedule to fly somewhere to stay current in industry trends, whether it's technology or teaching or programming ideas.
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So I try to schedule as many online classes throughout the week.
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And then I serve on um a couple committees for the LPGA.
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I'm chair of the National Professional Development Committee.
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So I have those calls once a month, and then I just got on the PGA for our local section, the teaching and coaching committee.
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So we have monthly calls for that.
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So yeah, it's a lot.
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Oh yeah.
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So you know, trying to find ways to give back too.
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That's that's amazing.
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Yeah.
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I mean, there is not enough time in the day.
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And I I wanted to ask you real quick, you said something about trends.
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So, what are you seeing as some of the the new trends in our industry, whether it be at the PGA show or just with the education?
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Because you you definitely do stay up on your education.
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Um, a couple things.
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One would be thinking of the driving range as a as a little bit different, like it's a destination of choice for your facility and how to center programming around the driving range.
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So it's not just, oh, I'm gonna go warm up and hit Tim Balls or I'm gonna hit these this practice session, but there's really no really good intent or purpose to it.
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So whether that's club fitting, clinics, doing something with your um food and beverage, just you know, just to get the the driving range, I think is more of a place people at the club want to go to.
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And how's that working so far?
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Stop by yeah, how's that working so far at your club?
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And and you can tell the listeners where you're at.
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You know, obviously we're you're not here in Southern Oregon.
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Right.
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I'm in uh it's Meadowbrook Country Club and I'm in Balma, Missouri.
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It's a nice private member-owned club, and um yeah, so I'm just obviously being off season and we've had a lot of snow.
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It's just now melting.
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This is our first week to get members on the course in probably three or four weeks.
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So uh we we've been using the indoor studio as our destination of choice more than the driving range.
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But yeah, so that's what I'm working on right now is programming, club fitting days, um, like I said, ideas, trying to find more ways to have members enjoy being out on the range, not just a quick stop and go.
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Yeah.
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Do you obviously our facility is different than a greengrass facility because we have 10 driving ranges essentially built into it along with the short game area.
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So we're like 50 feet from everything.
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Um, with that being said, we can crank music up anytime we want and create an experience.
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So we have the bar, we can bring service out.
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We have some of those weird things where private clubs are starting to actually bring, you know, uh modular bars out on the range and um really create that experience time, or whether they try to do a top golf type of experience, um, that they buy the equipment to do it.
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You know, I mean, there's so many cool things out there.
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Um is there anything that you're looking forward to this year with the range or dressing it up or collaborating with the rest of the club?
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So uh our director, golf, and I, and then we have a Corn Fairy player tour.
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The three of us have been talking about ideas for improving the practice facility, you know, like maybe having an area where it has more like moguls so you can practice uneven lies, and then like a wedge work station so you can work on 10, 20, 30, you know, all the way up to a hundred-yard wedges and 10 yard increments.
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And then the other thing that I want to do, I don't know if it's possible, but we do have five target greens.
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And I said, is there any way we could shut it down early, have the guys pick it, and then do a short course for the younger kids, like a parent, junior, you know, have it 25 to 50 yard length course that the families got and play late in the day.
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So that's what be obviously when the time changes, and we could maybe start at five late in the day.
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So that way we're not taking the driving range away for too much for the members wanting to practice.
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I've been to some driving range.
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I've I've been to some driving ranges where it's frustrating because you're out in the driving range, you got a nice lie, you got tight grass, you're you're you you warm up with your with your irons, your your woods, and then you go to the practice screen to practice chipping and putting, but there's signs all over the place saying no chipping.
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It's like, where am I gonna get my chipping practice?
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There's nowhere where you can hit out a rough for practice.
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Yeah, Janine, what you're saying too, um Spurwing Country Club up in Meridian, Idaho, you should look it up.
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Um, a good friend of mine and student is a member there, and they have um these really cool target greens.
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So out on the range, and they're in that 10-yard increment like you're talking about, and they're 10-foot circles.
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So it's it's amazing.
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It's almost more of a landing target to see if you can get your distances right, if you can keep it on that green.
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Um, I think I took a picture of it.
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I'll try to see if I can find it and send it over, but you should talk to their director of instruction.
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Um, you know, and and again, I think that the more that we can adapt a range into a short course, um, I know a lot of facilities have actually had architects come in and create that where they close down it on Sundays at two, and all of a sudden that whole area is now a family area.
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Um, and it really does drive a lot of traffic.
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So it'd be a unique thing there.
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And whether it's, you know, picnic in the park or whatever you're calling it, you know, ha get those families out for and then it ties right into your op 36.
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So 15-minute class or something, and go.
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It's uh it's a great experience and it just keeps members at your club longer and it grows the game.
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Yeah.
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So those are just some ideas, and I love talking with other pros because y'all have ideas that I didn't think of, or you've that you've seen that idea put into practice, and so you can see how somebody else has actually executed it.
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So it's always great.
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Um, the only other trend I would say I'm seeing is AI.
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Uh I went to a class by Proponent Group just on AI, listening to three different people, how they're using AI and their um business, their golf business.
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So uh yeah, that's that's another industry taking advantage of that.
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What's the most intriguing thing you've seen with AI in your industry?
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Well, one that I didn't realize, um, because I'm not super like techie on that side, I am with the gadgets, the you know, the teaching aids, but not in that.
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But I didn't realize there's an AI, y'all probably already know this, but I didn't, that's just for editing video.
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So somebody could record a little 10-minute lesson with somebody and then ask the AI to break it up into five-minute segments, or maybe they did a a three-minute little you know, video to post online and they're like, okay, take this and I'll make it into however many 30-second, you know, segments for me that I can use in my social media.
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And then the AI just goes through and finds the best pieces and edits it.
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Yeah, it's amazing what's out there for that.
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Yeah, so uh I know with Ian Heifeld, um, who was talking about it, he said he used to spend$35,000 a year on a editor for somebody to come out and record, and he goes, now I pay$130 a year for this AI, and it does it all for me.
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That's amazing.
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Darren, you're in you're in that industry.
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I was wondering, obviously, you have an editor of your own in another country that helps out and gets some stuff back, and then you do editing yourself.
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Um, are you starting to use AI on all your video?
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Not on all of it, on some of it.
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Um I don't use AI to completely edit photos and completely edit video.
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I use AI in components in the editing to kind of spruce things up a little bit.
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But I'm the the editing is still being done by by a person.
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In my industry, um there's AIs out there that do complete photo editing now, and they're actually quite good.
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Um, they are not as good as my human editor.
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It's not there yet.
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Um and the AI is about a quarter to a third of the cost of my human editor.
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But the way my business is structured and the and the way that I budget my business, I'm not gonna go away from a human editor.
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I'm not gonna put this guy out of a job.
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And but this is what I do for a full-time living.
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Um, so it's it's it's not like I'm I'm trying to cut small costs here and there.
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Um, my biggest overhead in my entire business is my editor.
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And I I I'm not gonna go away from that because just because we have a really, really good relationship and I want to keep him keep him employed.
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Janine, from from a professional perspective, um, you have come up so quickly um since you and I met in Texas.
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Yeah, from 2018.
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I know.
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So we're going on you know, six years, I guess.
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Uh because yeah, it would have been December, though, I think, right?
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Um wasn't that where Cowboys were.
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November, December, when the proponent group summit was that year.
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Exactly.
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So, you know, five years, six years, and in that time, you have won numerous top 50 awards, you have won national awards, and um, you know, you just keep going and you keep learning.
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And, you know, I think, you know, you don't give yourself enough credit half the time when we're together, and you're an incredible instructor.
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And when we had you out and you're working with a few of the girls using sports box AI, teaching me how to use sports box AI, because I hadn't jumped on the bandwagon yet with it, and just how easy it was to use and how good you were at teaching me too on how to use it, like that is a gift.
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And you know, how how much mentoring are you able to do?
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Um, you know, where you're at in your section, um, you know, where it's like one-on-one.
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Do you allow other coaches to come and watch you, or how are you getting involved that way?
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Well, first of all, thank you.
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What a nice compliment, Noah.
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Um, yes, um, I'm always available.
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I've had one coach take me up on the offer and actually take the time to drive over and watch me teach and um talked and I had them give me a lesson.
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There was a little downtime.
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I gave them a lesson and they watched me teach, and so that was a great fun day.
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I talked to a lot of people, and um, but you know, I know people's schedules are busy, so hopefully more people will take me up on it.
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I'm always happy to take a call.
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There's been a couple people that I've just done phone calls with, so I'm always happy to give back because people help me.
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I wouldn't be here without my mentors and just asking other top professionals like how'd you do that?
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You know, yeah.
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So what do you think the toughest thing is um like for you right now to teach?
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Is there anything that you feel like you haven't seen, or are there sometimes if you get stuck, like do you have some of those other?
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I know we talk sometimes, not necessarily about swing, but are there are there some people out there that you call and you know talk to us a little bit about your mentors and what you look at?
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Yeah, so I'm very interested in ground forces.
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I don't have force plates, I want them, but um obviously I don't want to personally invest that much money, so I have to wait when the club is ready to to make that investment.
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Um, so I I am always taking as many classes as I can.
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I don't have swing panelists, but I take their online classes when I can.
00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:54.559
Um, you know, obviously Mike Adams Terry Rolls are a big influence on my personal teaching philosophy.
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And I I just came from spending two days with them in Florida at the end of the PGA show.
00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:09.119
So yeah, I'm just I would say that's an area I still want to grow and get better at is our ground reaction forces.
00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:18.079
What do you, I mean, that is a that is a very technologically advanced thought, like ground forced reaction.
00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:18.799
What is that?
00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:19.119
Yeah.
00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:33.680
So from is there a a way that you can sum it up simply for the listeners, or how do you, how would you, if I was off the street and I'm a new golfer, you're probably not talking about that so much as calling it that, because that might scare your student away.
00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:41.279
But you know, when somebody's ready for it, they're there, you know, you're you may say this is what it is, but how would you describe it?
00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:50.559
Well, just how we use the ground, like right now I'm walking, so I'm putting pressure on the ground to move me forward.
00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:55.119
And so how I'm using the ground to create power in my golf speak, golf swing.
00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:55.680
Perfect.
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Um, that's so simple.
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Would be the simplest way.
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Yeah.
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Um, just yeah, how you apply pressure to the ground and it has a reaction to that pressure and helps you create speed more efficiently.
00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:07.519
Love it.
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If used in the right way.
00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:10.240
You know what's funny?
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It's like what's connected to the ground in the golf swing?
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Your feet.
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It's the only thing, right?
00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:19.359
The fact that we need to wear cleats says it all.
00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:30.400
So, Janine, you know what's fun too is to to Darren, right?
00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:36.480
Darren's our amateur golfer, and he can shoot, he can shoot in the 70s if he gets hot, he's getting there.
00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:44.640
Um, but how many people, if you put too much cleat and it holds them down and they lose their power, right?
00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:47.039
And so some people need a lot less.
00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:57.759
It's amazing to me how the foot works and how it drives the ship essentially into what the rest of the body can do when you're making a golf swing.
00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:00.960
And how balance allows you to have power.
00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:09.119
And if you lose the balance because the shoe you have, all of a sudden something else is going to happen and it won't be good, most likely.
00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:10.000
Right.
00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:11.920
That's simple terms.
00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:14.160
It's fun for yeah, it's fun for me.
00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:15.200
I'm sure you do it too.
00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:23.359
All I have is sports box to kind of give me feedback on how the players interacting with the ground through rotation, sway, and lift.
00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:35.680
Uh, but to ask them to make a change, and you can tell if you're stealing power from how they create power or if you're actually making a good change, you know, that helps them be more efficient and create more speed.
00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:45.200
So sports box, sports box is something I I I'm just guessing here, something people stand on and it shows you their transfer of weight, their weight distribution.
00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:50.240
No, uh it's uh it's just a 3D motion capture, but it's wireless.
00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:52.400
Oh that's what I put you on, Darren.
00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:57.839
Teaching, our teacher training, and then there was an avatar of you if I wanted to do that, and then it's amazing.
00:20:58.400 --> 00:20:59.119
It made me look skinny.
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I like that.
00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:00.319
Exactly.
00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:01.759
Yeah, you looked great.
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You still do.
00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:07.440
Janine, I have a question then, since we're talking about speed before we move on to the PGA show.
00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:13.440
Um, what have you found is the best training aid to create speed for junior golfers?
00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:20.400
Gosh, I would almost just say let's get them swinging an alignment rod and trying to hear the whoosh.
00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:21.519
Keep it simple.
00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:23.920
It's not, you know, it's affordable.
00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:32.640
Most private clubs have on, you know, uh the alignment sticks already on the range for the members, but if you had to go out and buy one, you're not breaking the bank.
00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:35.759
What, two bucks, dollar fifty for an alignment rod?
00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:40.160
So I would go something simple like that and have them listen for the whoosh.
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Yeah, it's kind of fun.
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And try to make it faster pitched.
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Try to get, okay, you made it that fast.
00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:46.720
Can you make it higher pitched?
00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:51.279
You know, can you move it to more to your lead side instead of it whooshing on your trail side?
00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:53.839
That's that's how I would I would say.
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So simple.
00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:58.640
You you could teach 50 kids at the same time that drill as long as they were spaced out.
00:21:58.720 --> 00:21:59.359
That's that's awesome.
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Yeah.
00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:02.559
Um, and that's what you need to do this year.
00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:05.039
Get get those 50 kids on the range and send me a picture.
00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:07.039
We'll put it on our our podcast Facebook.
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Be sweet.
00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:10.799
Uh so Janine, PGA show.
00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:12.000
We got to spend some time together.
00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:12.640
We had dinner.
00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:14.240
We actually got to catch up as friends.
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That was cool.
00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:19.599
Um, but you were crushing it in education.
00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:21.039
You walked the floor.
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Anything new and exciting?
00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:25.680
Or what what was kind of some of your highlights from the show?
00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:33.519
Um well, as far as the floor, I didn't go down there but probably a total of an hour, and I went for very specific things.
00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:39.759
So I had been introduced to the creator of CAFPAL by Brian Jacobs.
00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:44.880
So I had a call with him the week before the PGA show, so I made sure I went down to his booth.
00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:53.599
And he has basically, he's not even a golf ro, he's a student, but he wanted to improve his indoor practice.
00:22:53.839 --> 00:23:01.200
So basically he took the bluebrick but then kind of expanded on the concept.
00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:20.240
So instead of just having a hole for the um the wedge, the six iron, and the driver, he has holes from 20 degrees all the way to 90 degrees, and they're in five-yard or five degree increments.
00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:31.440
So you can really get the exact shaft angle for each individual, whether it's a short person, a tall person, long arms, short arms, it doesn't matter.
00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:37.200
Um, and really set up some nice drills, and then just like lubric, you can use it for alignment.
00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:46.880
But he took on one side and made it flat, kind of like the eye line, um, where you it has tick marks so that way you can work on your stroke for putting.
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He's done a lot of stuff with it.
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So that was something cool.
00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:52.319
Um he 3D prints them.
00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:53.599
Yeah, I'm looking at that right now.
00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:55.279
I guess awesome.
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Yeah, PathPal.
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They're not as expensive.
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And um I feel like it's just a touch more versatile.
00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:04.240
I don't want to take away anything from blue brick.
00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:05.200
I've recommended it.
00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:08.319
I have several members who've gone out and bought the blue brick and I loved it.
00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:17.759
But once I saw the PathPal, I finally invested in that instead of the blue brick, and I've loved teaching with it since I've come back from the show.
00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:24.160
Now, the blue brick is heavy because it's got that big metal plate on the bottom of it to help keep it stable.
00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:27.680
What what is this one doing to stabilize itself?
00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:30.000
Uh it's pretty weighty.
00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:33.119
I don't know how many pounds, but it breaks into two parts.
00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:41.359
And that's the other thing I like about it because I can have maybe one marking the shaft lane on the trail side.
00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:46.319
I could put one on the target side, or I could lay one down for a line.
00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:58.720
It's just very versatile and it's not super heavy, but it's just the the length and width, his dimensions, he was very thorough and creating this product.
00:24:58.799 --> 00:25:01.039
And yeah, it doesn't tilt over.
00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:07.839
Um, and it comes in different the holes are in different sizes depending on the size of alignment rod you have.
00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:16.720
So if you have the alignment rods that kind of go into a point at the bottom, you would get one size, the smaller size, which is what I have.
00:25:16.880 --> 00:25:25.680
And then if all your alignment rods are the same exact width and they don't taper at the bottom, then you need one with a little bit larger hole to hold your alignment rod.
00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:30.799
So I mean he's he's been very thoughtful in his process in creating this product.
00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:33.200
Yeah, pathpalgolf.com.
00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:34.400
Um, just looking it up.
00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:36.400
It it definitely looks like a great product.
00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:45.519
And I'm surprised I missed that one, but that looks like something we definitely need in all of our bays that would help our c our uh students a ton.
00:25:46.079 --> 00:25:51.759
Well, I can get you his phone number, and then obviously he does some deals for instructors.
00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:52.880
Nice, that's awesome.
00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:54.559
You know, to get the product out there.
00:25:54.720 --> 00:25:59.599
So yeah, it looks like he's got some endorsements from a few of our friends on there, so that's cool.
00:25:59.920 --> 00:26:00.480
Right on.
00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:01.839
Well, thanks for sharing that one.
00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:04.799
Is there anything else that you noticed that was pretty fun at the show?
00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:15.759
On the floor, um, I mean, uh, it's just always fun to go, you know, as I was walking to his booth or something like pickleball was huge this year.
00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:16.559
And Padel.
00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:26.160
And a lot of yeah, and then the um the pressure, not the pressure plates, the shape plates um that you stand on and vibrate the vibration plates.
00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:35.359
I happen to have just bought one at the end of December off Amazon um just for myself um to use in my workouts and for recovery.
00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:41.440
And then I happen to see so many booths have different versions of the vibration plates.
00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:43.920
So yeah, there's just a lot going on.
00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:49.599
Uh I got it for more like recovery, it's supposed to help with lymphatic drainage.
00:26:49.839 --> 00:26:54.160
Um, and then it vibrates, you know, kind of like if you put a pherogun on your muscles.
00:26:54.640 --> 00:27:00.000
It just kind of helps um, you know, get the lactic acid out.
00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:02.559
Um, but I also do it like today.
00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:07.279
I did it while I did some squats and some deadlifts and stuff.
00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:09.200
Um and it just shakes.
00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:15.839
So if you're trying to do any balance moves, one-legged stuff, uh, you can control what level it shakes at.
00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:22.720
And um so it adds some you know, difficulty if you're trying to do any balance moves.
00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:27.440
Um but yeah, I use it a little bit probably more for recovery than anything.
00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:36.880
But I've been on I've been on one one time, and and stepping off of it and walking without shaking is one of the oddest things.
00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:39.759
And it feels like your brain's still shaking for a second.
00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:42.160
Your body's trying to shake to make up for it.
00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:44.640
Yeah, it it's it's super interesting.
00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:55.599
And Janine, real quick on that, not to get off topic, but what how long do you think it took you to notice any difference, or do you notice a difference on how you feel after you do it?
00:27:56.160 --> 00:27:59.599
I feel like I do recovery-wise.
00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:07.680
Like it helps, um, like I said, just move get my blood circulating and moving stuff around so I'm not quite as sore.
00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:23.119
So if I want to lift a little bit heavier, um yeah, I I can just I feel like it's it's a recovery tool for me, but it does help, you know, like I said, with the workouts, it just can add an extra level of difficulty if you want it to.
00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:35.279
Well, I bring that up because have you seen Justin Rose's recent share of his trailer that he has his own basically um recovery center in his I don't I think it's where he's sleeping.
00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:37.680
I didn't see that.
00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:38.960
Yeah, I was reading about it.
00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:42.880
So I believe he has one of those, but then he also has infrared sauna.
00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:47.440
Uh he has a cold uh I wouldn't call it a cold plunge.
00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:51.920
It would be like a bath, if you will, um a very nice one.
00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:53.599
And I think it also does hot.
00:28:53.839 --> 00:28:56.880
So I mean he has all these things for rest and recovery.
00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:00.960
So when he's done golfing, he's going in and then he can work out and do his cooldown workout.
00:29:01.119 --> 00:29:08.000
And what people don't realize on tour, you know, again, even in the 70s and 80s, they were going to the bar, right?
00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:11.599
That's just what golfers did at some level, except for the best ones.
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:14.799
And that's just part of the social side of golf.
00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:25.519
And now they're literally doing cooldown like workouts after they're done practicing to recover better for the next day.
00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:26.799
Yeah.
00:29:27.119 --> 00:29:29.759
Just calming your nervous system down.
00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:31.359
Um, that's a big deal.
00:29:31.599 --> 00:29:34.880
Well, and sleep, I mean, the recovery of sleep is so underrated.
00:29:35.200 --> 00:29:43.759
I mean, you look at people that get sick and the people that don't, the people that don't are getting that eight hours of sleep that they need, and it's good quality sleep.
00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:55.279
And a lot of people are so addicted to their phones at this point that they're not able to learn as fast or as well because they're thinking about being on that even at night.
00:29:55.440 --> 00:30:03.039
So we have to make some changes in our instruction, even like with our juniors and with my SOU team particular when I'm coaching.
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:08.880
There's a lot of I'm gonna call you out on this because I'll see you at 10 o'clock at night and then get a text from you at 4 30 in the morning.
00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:09.359
Yeah.
00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:11.839
And so how much do you sleep?
00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:12.480
I don't.
00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:13.039
I don't.
00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:17.680
So what I right now, I have a six-hour sleep cycle, which is not enough.
00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:20.960
And then twice a month, I usually need eight.
00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:23.759
Okay, but that's because I'm grinding on the business.
00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:27.839
My ultimate goal is eight hours, and I feel better after two or three days.
00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:42.480
So if I go on vacation, and even if I'm not fully asleep yet, but I'm in, you know, resting off my phone with no distraction, no TV, and I get that eight hours, two to three days in, I am bouncing off the walls with energy.
00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:43.599
It's like that's awesome.
00:30:43.839 --> 00:30:44.480
It's a cool thing.
00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:49.519
And so one of my main goals in 26 is to do that because I know how important it is.
00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:52.079
And then it also shows my family that that's important.
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:56.640
Also, if I'm coaching players, they need to know I'm doing that too, right?
00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:59.119
Don't just talk the talk, you know, you got to walk the walk.
00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:02.319
And so, Janine, that's kind of what you are doing, right?
00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:08.000
You're you're getting up, you have your routine, and you just you just do your routine, which is which is huge.
00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:11.119
And I do try to get eight hours of sleep.
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:21.599
I try to sometimes just be in bed 10 hours and sleep as much of that as I can, but because like we're on the go, we're on our feet, we're processing data.
00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:23.359
Each student is somebody new.
00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:30.559
My brain is active all day, and I have to like really recover and at night and just shut down.
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:34.960
So I put my phone in the in the um bathroom and it's on silent.
00:31:35.039 --> 00:31:38.960
I don't want to if it dings, my mom, my brother, my family, they all know.
00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:52.640
Like, if I don't answer, that means I'm already down for the night, and you'll just leave me a message and I'll respond in the morning because I don't respond at 4 30, Noah, but I will respond like before six or before 6 30 to people, you know.
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:58.079
So I I put my phone on silent and then put it face down so it's not a distraction.
00:31:58.400 --> 00:32:10.799
But but I like but my mind goes constantly and often I'm having to take some kind of natural supplement to help, you know, help those thoughts ease a little bit to go to sleep.
00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:11.519
Yeah.
00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:16.960
You know, I guess going into like the training side of it, routine is kind of what I was getting at with all of that.
00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:25.200
It's like if you want to be the best, you train to be the best and you have the same routine, and a lot of people can't do it because they can't keep the routine.
00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:28.400
They got get caught up in, oh man, I won my first tournament.
00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:30.480
Now I can go buy all this stuff, now I can do that.
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:33.599
One of the things like when you win the lottery, what are you supposed to do?
00:32:33.839 --> 00:32:37.359
You're not supposed to change your lifestyle for a little bit of time.
00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:43.119
Just go low-key, just talk to the same people, don't do anything different.
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:45.680
Don't go buy another house, don't do because you you change.
00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:48.799
I want to know what that's like, but well, I'm just saying that's that's what I've heard.
00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:50.160
I've been told, right?
00:32:50.559 --> 00:33:04.640
Well, I'm just thinking in terms of like, look at these actors and actresses that, you know, at a young age are super, super famous and make all this money and their lives just go downhill at 22, 23 when they don't make it because they're put on this pedestal.
00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:07.920
Look at Tiger Woods when he finally got caught.
00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:14.960
Look at, you know, all these guys of where something's not to the way the media shows it.
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:22.720
And so the ones that are doing the best are the ones that put their nose down, don't worry about anything else, which is impossible with all the interviews they're having.
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:24.880
But for some reason, they can block it out.
00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:26.000
And that's why they do good.
00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:27.119
Look at Scotty Scheffler.
00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:28.720
His goals are with God.
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:31.599
His goals are I don't care that you know that.
00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:37.680
And because he's faith-based, he can figure out that all this is just a show and I'm playing golf because I love it.
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:38.559
Well, and that's for my family.
00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:45.680
I think the one thing we missed here, and and we we talked about routines being important, but also setting boundaries.
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:49.200
That's a huge, huge part of allowing yourself to rest.
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:50.640
Well, Janine just said that, right?
00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:53.759
Janine, you you have your phone in the bathroom and you do that.
00:33:53.920 --> 00:34:09.679
I mean, yeah, that is that would be a cool topic for an education for our golf professionals, is not so much technology training, not so much the other, but it's literally training their habit to do what they're supposed to do to be a good player.
00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:17.840
Because if you're practicing, you can practice a hundred hours, but if your mind isn't in it for that hundred hours, then you gave up all of it.
00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:19.599
And what if only 20 minutes of it was good?
00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:23.679
Now you've created all these other bad habits, and then you get frustrated because you're not good.
00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:35.360
So I think one of the things going into that again, yesterday, we just got done with qualifying for Southern Oregon University first, nine holes back uh because of daylight.
00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:40.400
And I asked four of the players to their face, I'm like, Are you tired today?
00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:42.960
And one said no, and the other three said yes.
00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:46.239
And I said, Because I can see it from across the fairway.
00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:51.360
And if I can see it, we've got to figure out how to do something different with you and we're conversation.
00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:53.599
Everything.
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:55.440
And and everyone's different, right?
00:34:55.599 --> 00:34:57.679
So just even how they talk to you.
00:34:57.840 --> 00:34:58.079
Right.
00:34:58.239 --> 00:34:59.440
Maybe not eye contact.
00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:01.039
It's the little things, right?
00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:06.320
So, you know, I think Janine, as coaches, you know, and I know this about you too.
00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:11.199
Like, we're not just swing coaches, we are life coaches, and that's what makes a great instructor like you.
00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:18.880
So is there uh anyone you want to give a shout-out to today on the show or anything that you're uh gosh, you're excited about, like a student progressing?
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:21.280
We'd love to hear that uh to wrap up.
00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:24.719
Um gosh, gosh, put me on the spot.
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:34.079
I can't think of anything uh off the top of my head, but I I'm just excited about the 2026 season and getting to see my juniors.
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:35.039
They're starting to come back.
00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:42.079
I started my winter program um where I see them for eight weeks and we train indoors um once a week.
00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:53.599
So I have a Thursday class and a Saturday class, and we use the GS Pro so that we can do the ops 36 um to get them ready for the spring because I don't want them to just start coming out in May.
00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:56.880
I need them to start coming out in February and thinking about golf.
00:35:57.199 --> 00:36:01.679
So um, yeah, I'm just excited to see all the juniors and get them back.
00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:03.440
That's awesome, Janine.
00:36:03.519 --> 00:36:05.440
I wanted to share with you something we're doing here.
00:36:05.519 --> 00:36:15.440
Um, I asked our director of instruction, Ryan, who you know, um, to put together 52 um different practices for the week.
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:18.239
So it's like a challenge, it's a 52-week challenge.
00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:24.960
So it's uh we're all gonna get together and split up these videos, and it'll be like a tip of the week or a challenge of the week.
00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:28.000
Um and we're gonna start putting that on our Instagram and social media.
00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:31.840
So if you get a chance, um, I would think by March, those will be going up.
00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:33.440
So there'll be a lot of good feedback there.
00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:44.559
Happy to share with you the whole list because that's a really cool way to also engage your um your players in proper practice methods instead of them just showing up and you're like, what are you doing today?
00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:47.119
Oh, I'm gonna hit balls on the range, and that's all they got for you.
00:36:47.199 --> 00:36:48.400
And you're like, okay, what are you working on?
00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:50.000
Oh, I'm just gonna hit balls on the range.
00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:51.840
Okay, gotcha.
00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:54.159
So we need to sit down and talk about that one, right?
00:36:54.239 --> 00:36:55.679
And get them to what they should be doing.
00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:57.760
I have that talk with my son every week.
00:36:57.920 --> 00:36:58.400
Yeah.
00:36:58.639 --> 00:36:59.599
It's pretty good.
00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:00.960
Well, awesome, Jeanine.
00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:05.519
We appreciate you being on from Missouri, and good luck this season.
00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:07.199
I know we'll be talking a lot more.
00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:09.679
All right, awesome, thank you.
00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:10.800
Thanks, Janine.
00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:11.599
Bye-bye.
00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:13.119
Okay, bye.
00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:14.079
And you know what?
00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:21.840
Speaking about speaking of sleep and stuff, every time my alarm goes off at 5 30 in the morning.
00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:22.960
It's not every day.
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This morning I set my alarm for 5 30.
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I'm like, it's pitch black outside, I don't want to get up.
00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:38.559
But I get up, I get in the shower, I go start getting my work done, and I'm driving down here to the golf garage as the sun's starting to rise up over the over the mountains.
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:40.960
And I'm like, I don't regret this.
00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:41.679
Oh, good.
00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:42.960
This is amazing.
00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:43.440
Yep.
00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:52.400
I I every time I wake up early and I discipline myself to do it because nobody wants to do it, your day just starts out better.
00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:58.079
What I've learned is I don't need an alarm most of the time because it's in there.
00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:01.599
So I only need an alarm if it's before about 5 45, 6 o'clock.
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:18.000
Look, and I don't know all the details or study on this, but I just read something about um showering at night and how it's supposed to actually help you sleep better because you you have a hot shower, then you get out and it cools you down, and that's that actually gives your body more melatonin.
00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:20.159
So the natural drug that people take.
00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:21.199
I'm gonna test it.
00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:24.320
My dad used to always shower at night, and I was like, why are you showering at night?
00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:25.360
Oh, I gotta get up early, you know.
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:35.119
And so I always thought it was that, but he trained himself to do it that way because he was up at three o'clock in the morning going to do construction jobs, driving an hour and working by five.
00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:37.920
So I'm gonna test that method a little bit.
00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:40.880
Definitely wouldn't replace my morning shower.
00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:41.119
Sure.
00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:42.239
It would be an addition to that.
00:38:42.480 --> 00:38:42.880
There you go.
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Two.
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But yes, yeah, yeah.
00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:46.800
You don't have to do as much laundry that way, you know.
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:47.039
Right.
00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:48.559
Sheets are always clean.
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I love that.
00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:51.119
No, it's it's good stuff, man.
00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:58.639
And um, Toby uh went and played golf, I heard, at the country club, and that was one of our little deals with a little 42.
00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:00.000
That's what he said, yeah.
00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:02.320
And so going into that, it was it was great.
00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:06.559
Uh he comes in, yells at me, and he's like, Hey, I'm going to play nine today.
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:07.199
I'm like, perfect.
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:08.400
Now I can give you a lesson again.
00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:09.039
That was our deal.
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I'm not teaching you till you go play.
00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:13.599
So he goes, and uh, I was just hoping for a good score.
00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:18.480
And the club right now's greens are super fast and super firm, and they're just like summertime.
00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:21.519
He said that the fairways were very wet.
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:25.280
He was getting no rollout, his ball would plug sometimes in the fairways.
00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:28.559
Um, but he said he did well from the T-boxes.
00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:29.199
Awesome.
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Um, and so I'm going all the time.
00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:32.000
Which has been his Achilles heel.
00:39:32.159 --> 00:39:32.320
Right.
00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:34.400
I said, so you shot a 42.
00:39:35.119 --> 00:39:37.360
How many greens in regulation did you hit?
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:39.360
And he said, three or four.
00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:40.800
I said, okay.
00:39:41.280 --> 00:39:47.440
I said, on those ones that you didn't hit the green in regulation, I'm assuming you were really close to the green.
00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:48.719
Did you go up and down?
00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:50.320
No, up and two putt.
00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:50.800
Yeah.
00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:53.199
And so it comes down to putting.
00:39:53.519 --> 00:40:03.679
Yeah, you're either not chipping it close enough to make the putt, you're not hitting the approach in the in the manageable miss to chip it close, or like you said, you're just needing to work better on putting.
00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:15.280
And and it is funny because um I talked a lot to the golfers yesterday again, where the inside nine, which is what Toby played, is the toughest nine holes in the valley.
00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:22.320
It's like an original 1920s green complexes, you know, they're all sloping tough except two of them.
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:27.280
And I was talking to the team about why they struggle so much on the inside nine.
00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:29.599
It's a pitch and putt course for a college player.
00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:34.559
I have wedge into all the holes except for par three, and I don't hit it as far as my college team does.
00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:37.920
So I go into this and and it came down to one thing.
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:40.079
I said, You guys need to drive the ball better.
00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:49.119
I said, It comes down to when you miss, you need to miss in the appropriate place off the T to give yourself a chance to hit a wedge closer because they're talking about their wedges.
00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:50.719
And I'm like, it's not the wedge game.
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:54.159
The the person who hit the most fairways was four out of seven.
00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:57.119
That's still higher than 50%, which is great.
00:40:57.360 --> 00:41:02.400
But most of them were two, one, two, there was a couple that were at three.
00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:10.880
So out of 15 golfers, if nobody is higher than four, that's an issue for me.
00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:11.519
Right.
00:41:11.679 --> 00:41:18.480
And then you look at it as the rough's not tough, but if you're missing it in the wrong place, you're behind trees, and the greens are too slopey to miss in the wrong place.
00:41:18.960 --> 00:41:24.639
I came in the day before yesterday, played nine holes, and I shot even par.
00:41:26.239 --> 00:41:30.320
And I'm like, wow, I don't think I've ever shot even par.
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:34.320
And so I was looking back, I was looking at my game, looking at what I was doing.
00:41:34.400 --> 00:41:38.800
I had two birdies and the first few holes, and then I ended with a par.
00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:41.119
I ended with two bogies and a par.
00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:45.440
Um which kind of crushed me a little bit.
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:52.239
But I was looking at my game and going, what was I doing really good during this game to shoot even par.
00:41:53.119 --> 00:41:56.159
I was smacking my driver really well.
00:41:56.719 --> 00:41:57.039
Yeah.
00:41:57.199 --> 00:42:10.559
I was getting my ball closer to the hole to be more of a wedge shot in, which set me up for a much easier two putt than being a long iron into the green, you know.
00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:13.599
Well, I mean, it is the same thing on tour, right?
00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:16.639
The guys that hit it the farthest still have an advantage.
00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:17.679
Statistically score.
00:42:18.079 --> 00:42:30.000
Statistically score the score the best because the rough is deep, but if you're hitting a wedge out of the rough versus hitting a seven iron out of the rough, you might not even get the seven iron to the green if it's the US Open or the PGA Championship.
00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:31.119
It's just too thick.
00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:37.519
So I think ultimately what it comes down to in this game is if you don't hit it far enough, you've got to find the fairway.
00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:42.400
And for us, if you're not finding the fairway, you've got to have the right angle in from the rough.
00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:46.960
And that's what we're getting after here because it builds confidence to look up and see your ball off the T.
00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:51.760
You can mishit a wedge, and that wedge is only going to fall offline 10 yards.
00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:56.960
But if you mishit a driver, it's going to fall offline to 50, 60 yards if you swing hard enough.
00:42:57.119 --> 00:42:57.280
Yeah.
00:42:57.440 --> 00:42:58.400
Even yeah, absolutely.
00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:00.000
It's the next fairway over.
00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:03.519
So unfortunately, those are the things that the players need to see.
00:43:03.599 --> 00:43:11.360
And then even if they hit it offline, but they hit it offline in the right place, they can brush that off because they know they have a chance to still hit the green in regulation.
00:43:11.519 --> 00:43:13.280
And then what if they make Birdie from there?
00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:14.559
Boy, they're running now.
00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:16.159
They're like, man, mentally, I'm going.
00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:22.559
So I've told them, I said, it's about driving, but more importantly, it's about the mental game because it's allowing you to be successful.
00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:24.559
And then you build confidence off that.
00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:26.159
So I love that.
00:43:26.960 --> 00:43:28.239
Hey, thanks for the show, man.
00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:29.599
Just got a text from Janine.
00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:30.400
She was excited.
00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:34.400
Looking forward to sending that to her so she can uh forward it on to her friends.
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:35.519
Absolutely.
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:38.800
Until next week.