Hank Haney

And I want you to go And even just do some of the half swings and the slow swings out on the golf course, hitting to a pin or hitting to a fairway or whatever it is, I guess trying to engage the brain to, okay, we do this out here now as well.

And then just over time, everything starts to mesh so that it's like the other week I spoke about the Hank Haney thing.

We have to start somewhere and work our way up and I had a client it's kind of what made me do this this week I had a client who rang me and you know he he's been seeing me for a while but sporadically he might have two lessons a month and then I don't see him for eight months and then he comes back again and he also sees a physio that I golf physio that I refer people to and You know, basically I said to him at the last lesson, I think we need to get more time on this task over the next month or two and you need to sacrifice your three comp rounds a week that you play.

And I know it's fun.

And she came to me as a complete beginner.

And I just been to the US to learn from people like Hank Haney, David Ledbetter.

They were wonderful and hospitable.

And I said, now this woman just I put a T under her ball.

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was that one Randy called Hank Haney he's calling him the Hank Haney show

another fork in the road there Hank pretty big fan of what was what was his

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But still, you have those guys that are I mean, if you've got a top level guy, you're talking about recruiting.

If Chris recruits some top 10 players around the country, they're guaranteed to have a Cameron McCormick, a Steve Johnson, you know, and the old Hank Haney work with them.

And it's got to be a little bit tough, Chris, to kind of be the coach and be the one who wants to help them, but at the same time not step on toes.

Well, let me ask you this, Chris, though.

And and then from there, all we're really looking for is that one that one starting point.

Hank Haney calls it the big miss.

We're looking for what that big miss is.

And that's all we focus on at the beginning of our relationship.

So and I think the.

The work that, you know, TrackMan at the end of the gold standard, if you would, has put in and the data that that we have now, again, getting back to what I said a couple of minutes ago, there is nothing that's subjective anymore.

And, you know, John Jacobs, you know, the guy that taught Hank Haney and taught a bunch of millions of golfers through his schools, you know, in the 50s and 60s, you know, golf is what the ball does.

Right.

I came as an intern, and then after probably a year or so, was moved into more of a teaching role, just with my background in California.

I'd watched Jim Hardy teach quite a bit, and Hank Haney was here at the time, and Hank hired me as an intern.

So it just kind of fit into the background I had working with Jim Hardy.

So you've had some pretty amazing mentors.

Bryson, weakest grip you can imagine and works because of everything else he does with his body.

I worked with one of Haney's guys when I was playing professionally in my 20s.

And, you know, I'm a six foot, 190 pound air quotes professional athlete.

And I'm out there working with them at the Four Seasons one time where they used to host the Nelson.

And we're doing the exact same lesson we always do.

We all know what the Hank Haney lesson is.

And I went inside to chill out 105 degrees and I'm watching him give this five foot seven, 240 pound dude the exact same swing.

And I'm just sitting there like, there's no way this dude needs to be doing the same thing I'm doing.

My sister is a PGA member.

She taught with Hank Haney down in Carolina.

And those guys were all down in Carolina, Bill Haas and all those guys,

right?

I have spent the last 45 minutes on AI trying to find an excerpt from a book that I read called The Big Miss.

Hank Haney, who coached Tiger Woods for a, a pretty successful part of his career, wrote a book, The Big Miss.

I loved it.

I learnt so much from reading it.

So I think I've loaned it to someone over the years, and it hasn't made its way back.

So I-- What I had, you know, in my mind thought I would talk about today, I couldn't find the actual word for word how he wrote it.

So I went to AI and I said, "Hey, you know, Hank Haney's book, The Big Miss, he talks about the stages of making a transfer from driving range, like say you're learning a new technique, to tournament play." And I could have swore that it was five stages that he referenced.

ChatGPT gave me seven and Google AI gave me four.