When's the best time to think about lessons?

Thanks for having me, Andrew.

Nice to be back.

Interesting question.

Not one that I get very often, but well worth discussing and thinking about.

I think it's good to have a lesson when you're playing well if you're a certain type of personality in that trying to better understand what it is you do and the patterns or the behaviors you're engaging in when you're playing well and then obviously trying to replicate those and I say to people, ride the wave for as long as you can and enjoy that purple patch of playing well.

When it comes to not playing well and having a lesson, I think people often leave it too long in the process.

And I wonder if as a teacher that, you know, are we sort of moving into more of a robot sort of thing as opposed to a feely, handsy... thing of playing the golf to try and work it out at that last second save this or save that it doesn't always work obviously

... of what they're doing?

Yeah, look, abs- it's, it's huge.

Um, I think, you know, understanding people's expectations, particularly not only of the s- of themselves, but also of the lesson, it's really important as a teacher grow- trying to grow a teaching business.

Um, you gotta be delivering according to people's expectations, understanding the player's expectations and what they're trying to achieve, and hopefully meeting them.

Um, being able to recognize that very few people that you coach or teach or instruct are one-ball wonders.

[laughs] So in other words, they're, you know, most people will find it difficult to actually execute the skill with one ball-

Okay.

Yeah.

Did you say that was Wisconsin?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

So I, uh, again, this comes from Harrison.

Uh, him and his buddies, uh, he had a cabin.

Um, he lived in l- the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, and then he had a cabin in the Upper Peninsula.

And he would have his, uh, his literary buddies come, and they would go, uh, you know, hunt, um, rouse some woodcock and then cook.

What's been some of your favorite memories and, and why?