July 30, 2019 • 45 mins
Matt Wolff's swing may look unorthodox to the average guy...but his swing coach George Gankas is here to tell us why it works so well! George also talks about other swings on the PGA Tour and why they work. Are you working on certain "fundamentals" in your swing that might be hurting you?? He's also just launched a website where he can help you swing the club better...and understand what it is that makes your swing work. We also recap Brooks' victory at the WGC FedEx St. Jude...the upcoming FedEx Cup playoffs...the new PGA Tour schedule...and Sergio being Sergio once again!!! It's a busy podcast...we are PLAYING THROUGH!!!
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Through Golf. So Brian freshback from Memphis. But this morning
we are talking to somebody who has been one of
the hottest teachers on tour, somebody we've all watched a
lot about Instagram YouTube we talked about Matt Wolf. George
gankis giving us this time this morning. Welcome to the podcast. George,
thank you for having good morning guys. Tell us a
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little bit about how did you get started in this
crazy world of golf. I know that social media has
played a huge part in what you do, but how
do you, you know, get started and run up with
Matt Wolf and some other tour pros that you've coached. Um,
great question. I mean, if you wanted to start teaching
or I got started, it was was basically, I just
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want to be a player. So when you're not good enough,
you actually go into coaching. So that's how I got
snuck into coaching. But um, obviously I was a better
coach than than a player, and I saw a passion
to play. You know, when you have that passion, you
always want to help somebody, And when you want to
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help somebody, it transfers into players. And that's how I
got lucky enough to be with some of the players
I'm at with right now. So what part of your
game held you back from being able to able to play?
Because when I watch you teach, you seem to have
the answers. And I know that, Yes, I've heard the
those who can't teach, but you seem to have a
lot of answers and seemed to really understand the golf swing.
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So what part held you back from being able to
play professionally? Um? You know what, it was just considered.
I'm forty eight years old right now. At the time,
I didn't have all the answers. Um. I was already
way deep into teaching, um fully booked. Um by the
time I had a clue what I was doing, you
know what I mean? I can always get somebody better
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at golf managing their game, mentally, understanding what parts put together,
what was weak? Um. You know, stuff like that was
always easy for me to get somebody hits solid was easy.
Ball patterns were easy. But to really understand the whole picture,
you know, that took a long time and we're all
still learning that. Nobody has it perfect. So um that
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that's the truth. So you know, where did I personally
go wrong? I mean, I didn't have the info that
I have now. I didn't you know, I didn't study
the swings. I didn't look at the things the way
I do now. I just listened to other people rather
than you know, making my own opinion and going you know,
I've tried everything, you know, and I know where the
matchups are at now where I didn't before. And you
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know a lot of times I try and fix things
that I didn't need to fix, and now I have
a much better picture on it. But I wish you
know that then I would have known and the kids
so that it is what it is. George, of course, uh,
you really hit the spotlight here with Matt Wolf and
the success he had of course winning the three M
Open last month. So give us the quick backstory how
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you got connected with Wolf and maybe why his swing
works because it is unusual. But when you were working
with him, Unlike a lot of golf coaches who might
have changed various things about it because it's so unorthodox,
you did not change it and tell us why that
is and and you know sort of why his swing
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works so well. Well, I've been a huge fan of
you know, all the old swings. Um. You know Bobby Jones,
Sam Sneing, uh Hogan, Um, all a lot of the
older players back in the day ture be now. Um.
They all had their own unique look. And and that
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being said, they all lifted their foot up, you know,
very player. They all had, you know, a posture that
made sense to me rather than this athletic posture. You know,
I was a wrestler and I never got in an
athletic posture where I was arching my back. Um, so
I was much more relaxed. Uh. And I knew that
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I couldn't, like get into the ground a lot quicker
when I was relaxed than I could if I was
you know, my back was you know what we call
anterior public tilt and really arched, and um, I felt
like I could really move into those positions a lot better.
So when I look at Matt Wolf and he comes
to me, his foot's up he's got a huge turn,
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his trail legs extended, his lead legs really like an
in reflection arms flying clubs across the line. I'd seen
it before. It wasn't anything that was like abnormal to me,
So I it wasn't something that really made me want
to change. The whole thing when I saw it is
most people would react by you know, slide or dumping under.
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But he had such a huge turn that he would
still go in as so much front ben as he
got around the corner before he started to extend. And
and most players in that position don't have enough turn
that they're trying to stand up or kilt or pull
their arms down to get the club back inside, and
he didn't. And so for me, my job was to
get him more you know, rotated through the shot and
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leave some of the other stuff alone and create ball
patterns and teach him how to play better golf um
and take certain sides out and play smarter and mentally.
You know, I've helped him a lot. But physically, you know,
he's one of the better ball strikers on the planet.
And you know, he wasn't always the best contact, but
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he was a very repeatable player. Because he's got such
a repeated, repeatable mind. He's not thinking all the time
over the ball. It's more he sees visual patterns and goes.
So that's a cool part about Matt Wolf that a
lot of people don't know. Now you've worked with the
other guys, plenty of guys actually, um some high profile
ones as well, of course Adam Scott briefly last year,
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Patrick Harrington, Danny Lee. What is your approach when you
work with with these guys who obviously all have different swings,
you know, talking with you mentioned posture. You know Adam
Scott obviously the guy who who had that very sort
of athletic upright posture, and and I know that was
one of the things that you worked on with him
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last year. So what is your approach when you either
get approached by you know, a variety of players or
just in general, you know, every player look at you know.
First off, let's get something straight. These guys are so
talented to be a tour coach doesn't take a lot.
In my opinion, UM, I know a lot of people
are gonna still disrescus I feel a lot of people
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are gonna be disrespected by that comment. But I'm I'm
one of them. So the fact is is to get
a tour player, they can already hit the ball, they
already have you know, all the things, all the qualities
to score the mental game. That that's easy, you know
what I mean? Um to me? To me, it's about
not It's more about how can I get this guy
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to create better ball patterns? How can I get him
to hit more solid um? And if they don't already
hit it so solid um, how do I take a
side out or how do I give him more speed?
How do I make them more consistent? So that isn't
always technique, but most people out there come out comfort technique. Um.
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And when you look at a guy like and Adam
Scott who was bent over, he has a phenomenal matchup. Um.
He plays the ball off the hazzle. Um. So as
he sticks his butt back and gets into the posture
he did. If you want to call that an athletic posture,
you can call an athlete. I wouldn't call an athletic
posture at all to me, um. But if you want
to get into that posture and then you want to
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suck your butt back under you or stand your upper
spine back into extension. Um. When you do something like that,
most people are gonna throw their arms at it because
they're moving further away from the ball. But Adam Scott
plays it off the heel, so as he backs away
from it with his upper body, whether he's actually you know,
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extending his his spine or you know he's extending some
of his his his telvis or his hips um are
going into some form of extension. You know, he's moving
further away from the ball. So most people, like I said,
would throw it or change swing directions just to get
to the ball um or made contact. But he had
a phenomenal matchup so his was not mandatory at all.
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So when you look at a player, I look at
things like, okay, does this guy have to change um?
But there's nothing really that difficult for me when I
when I get on a mat in the morning, I
got a towny handicapper on my map. That's to me,
that's where to work with the tour players. Easy. The
guy is on tour, Like you know, everybody talks about
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DJ swing and his is his Bode Risk or are
Brooks are Tiger or Rory? What are some of the
swings on tour? That you see that you do like,
or maybe there's little things you would change to make
some of these players better. Oh yeah, absolutely, but you know,
I never You know, it's funny because I just did
this thing called matched Up on on YouTube on my channel,
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and the guys that worked for me, they were like
begging for me to do it. And and I don't
like commenting on another players swings that I don't teach
because it's disrespectful the coaches, and I don't want to
come off that way like I know it all. It's just,
you know, that's their business. But there are swings out there.
Someone asked who I'd like to teach, and I said,
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you know, I'm not gonna, you know, comment on that
because they'll most likely hear about it. And it's it's
it's not cool being a coach and hearing that, you know,
some other guy wants to work with your guys, you
know what I mean. So I love to answer your question.
I love DJ swing. It's so matched up as far
as his rotation through the ball, his trail arms so
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externally rotated, his handles so lean, but those that's a
matchup to where his face is at and most people
can't do stuff like that because they don't have his speed.
They'd hit the ball dick high. Um. So when you
look at things like that, you know, Brooks has a
cool matchup. You know, he has very little turn in
the back swing and he starts to rotate. He gets
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his hand path out as he starts to kill to
get back inside. As he's rotated, he's gonna hit a
cut but most people hit it fat. But because he
pushes his handles so far forward from that tilted position. Um,
most people have the face offen, but his face is
up one on the shut side. So all these little
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small things match up with each other. Um, you look
at Rory. Rory gets his arms super deep in transition,
slows his legs down, but most people flip it way
out to the right, but his chest keeps moving. Some
some really cool things that players do that I love
that match up that you know why I mess with
things that work? Um. And And a lot of people
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disagree with that and say, oh, everybody should throw be
thrown in this cookie cutter, But you're taking some of
their natural athletic ability things that they've been doing for
twenty years. I don't I don't think that's very smart, right,
that makes sense. As far as like Tiger in the
spinal fusion is that do you think that's limiting his
ability to do some things he would like to do
versus maybe what he could do three years ago, or
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even say ten or fifteen years ago. I just think
if Tiger turned his turned his hips back, you'd be fine.
I don't think he would have hurt his back. You know,
when when you don't turn and in your backswing and
your legs don't extend, your trail leg doesn't extend, your
femer bone doesn't turn, you don't turn, you're putting stress
on your back. And we instinctly know that if we
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don't turn the back swing, we're gonna dig a trench.
And so what we start to do is early extent
to take off that dig and shout out or close
their body out or tilt and all those things are
messing up your back. So if you look at Matt
Wolf's legwork, it's phenomenal. His backswing, his trail leg extends um,
his steamer bone turns when I say steamers, you know
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as quad turns um. And so that that allows you
to get enough depth enough turn to where now you're
not going to react by not having a depth by
standing up or tilting or pulling down. You can really
get into the ground and turn and use it rather
than trying to actually stand up or tilt. And that's
that's where Tigers hurt himself is because he never finished
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his hip turn. Um. So that that's exactly why his
shoulders are so back, but his hips are not. And
he's always felt like he was stuck. Um. So I
think that's originally where he heard his back, in my opinion,
is from restriction of the hip turn. So nobody in
the old days did that right. And you know what,
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I've actually worked on it myself. Or I try and
restrict my hip turn but yet kind of keep my
right leg flexed, which just sounds like that is completely
the opposite of what you would teach no range of
motion first off, So you you actually, you know, restrict
your hip turn or your you take your whole right
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leg and you keep inflection. Your arms are gonna left
or they're not gonna have enough depths. So how are
you going to get the club back inside? You're gonna
extend with your trail leg right away. Um to get
it back inside. Just to make room. So the cool
thing about it, if you extend the trail leg and
turn it, you have enough depth to be able to
move back into the ground and open back up. But
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then the cool thing is it extends, it reflexes, and
then you can push off it again so you get
more speed out of it, rather than flex it in
the back and extend immediately and then not be able
to turn, not be able to use it again, and
now have no face control because you've jumped up through
the ball immediately, And transition makes no sense. It's like
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trying to actually make a try and try and jump
and get in the ground right away and then then
jump from there, or stand up like if you're in
a combine, like any anybody in the NFL, stand flex
your knees and then jump. That's how you jump. You
don't starting to jump. I don't know anybody who does up. Absolutely,
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So why are we doing that in golf because someone
made some bullshit up. I mean, it doesn't even make sense.
It doesn't make anything, never will. So some of us
can't can't turn our hips at all. So who know?
You know you can turn your hips, You just don't
know how. That's the problem. I no, no, I know
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you believe me. It would be work if I were
just spend a couple of hours on your map. But anyhow,
who if we were, I'm gonna put you on the spot,
who is your favorite swing in the game right now?
To watch? Uh swing? And why god, that's a good
crash and uh, you know, I don't even have a model,
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to be honest, so to say that would be pretty strong.
I mean, that's a great question. I I you know,
I if I was gonna say, one person in your mind,
Rory Rory, and the reason is he good to love
his chest, herd. Well, there's some things that that I'm
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not in love within his golf swing, but there's a
it I am. So the fact is is it's it's
pretty impressive, and he hits it impressive. I've seen him
in person. It's one of my you know, one of
my favorite swings for sure, and and and some of
the best contact you've seen. Um. I would also I
love DJ. I love watching him hit balls. UM look
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not freaking yeah, I mean he really does. I would say,
you know, probably the most surprising guy out there that
I saw hit balls was pressed was Keikan Bradley. He
he thumps the ball. Um. I mean I don't even
know Keenan Bradley. I just watched them hit it. Um.
Also one of my favorites is uh Fleetwood. I like
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it a lot. It's not like you've got a beautiful
called an absolute flusher. Yeah, great ball strikers. A lot
of those guys you mentioned, of course hit it a mile. Um.
Your guy, you know, one of your guys, Matt Wolf
obviously has incredible clubhead speed, hits it a mile. How important, um,
is that in today's game? Um? And how important is
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it in your in your teaching or when you're working
with these guys, because certainly at the pro level we've
seen just how important uh distance has become. Well, they
did a statistic on distance to amount of money being
made and it's it's obvious, um, And it always has
been to me. Um. And that doesn't mean you're swinging
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as hard as you can. And I think that's the
that's the stuff that people. You know, if there was
any trash talking going on, it was you know, Georgia
is getting these guys to swing it fast, but they
can't keep it on the planet. Um. That was never
my plan to get people to be long drivers and
hit one out of six and the grid, or one
out of six and the or one out of whatever fairway,
however many fairways you're you're playing that day. Uh. And
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in play, it wasn't anything that I was trying to do.
I was just trying to maximize players. It's kind of
like what Padreck told me a couple of years ago.
He says, I'm just trying to swing it one thirty
so when I chip it, I can swing it one um.
But that that's been pretty much my philosophy on it.
My you know, my whole career of teaching is getting players,
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whether they're juniors or or you know, older players to
max out and then go back to their old swing.
And basically what I'm doing is I'm stretching them out.
I'm I'm getting them to extend in the back swing
and finish their turn um. And because of that, they
can really want to get into the ground and you
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is it rather than standing up um also maxing out
their structure, getting their face in a good position where
they can optimize their dynamical loft um things like that.
If you don't turn in the back swing, you're gonna
you're not gonna use the ground. You're gonna stand up,
which means you have no force into the ground, which
equals very little little speed unless you're a big person,
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a big, big strong player, uh, with natural you know,
god given strength. Otherwise you have to finish your turn.
You have to move into the body. But if I
said you have to, you don't because some people can
swing just with their arms without turning and prove me wrong.
But those are also players that are you know, like
I said, god given athletes that that have natural strength.
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You can't you can't give that to everyone. But I
can't tell you I can't get everybody to hit it
way further than they've ever hit it. And I've proven
it for a long time, and I follow you on Instagram.
I see the things where I've seen the tracking and information.
If somebody who comes to you in the getting and
they're hitting and they're eight iron forty five yards when
they leave you, they're hitting their eight on a hundred
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and sixty eight yards, I mean, it's it's it's all
numbers and it's all facts. So if I am a
regular guy listening to the podcast, and I don't live
in California, I hear there is a new way that
I can learn to swing it from George Genkis. That
is the new website. It launched overnight midnight last night.
It is George Genkis dot golf. Can you tell us
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a little bit about your website and what makes it
different than any other website that's out there? Appreciate it? Yeah,
thank you. Um, what what's different about it is, it's
it's taken me two years to build with you know,
with some help, a lot of help. Um. And it's
it's taken me a long long time to actually develop
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what you know I wanted to do, and it's always
going to change. So you know, of thirty years of
me studying this game, UM, it's all in there. I
didn't leave anything out. Um. The only thing I've left
out is what I'm gonna learn today and tomorrow the
next day. UM. And and I'll keep putting in all
my information that that I'll ever have. I'm not holding
out on anything. Um. But what it really is, it's
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that there's an academy on there. There's you know, faults
and fixes for the academy skills. Drills teach you how
to practice mental game. Um. There there's a lot of
stuff that's gonna help. There's there's forms for people to
engage with each other. Um, there's short game, there's you know,
there's uh creating speed, there's everything you could want. Every
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part of the game will be on their putting, chipping, pitching,
flop shots, short sided bunker, everything will be on there.
But the coolest part about it is you know you'll
be able to engage with other players, ask questions, um,
and I'll constantly be updating new information on there. So UM,
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it's basically just gonna be years and years of showing
there's not one way to do it, but here's a
way to structure it. There's a platform, and there's a
there's a way to go about learning, um, an easier way,
And that's basically, you know what what, I put my
basic heart and soul into this thing, so it should
be pretty. It is. It's it's it's a million times
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better than anything I've done before, right, which is great.
So it's George Genkis dot golf. Instead of going out
and spending five dollars in buying a new driver that
I'm let me tell you, you're going to hit it
exactly the same way as you hit the one, you
have spend the money to get better, and you'll get
better with all of your clubs and you won't have
to go buy new ship just because you're not hitting
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the good. Get lessons, understand that you can get better
through instruction, and you don't have to Now you don't
have to fly all the way to California and put
yourself up in the hotel and try and cram it
all in in one. You can do the academy. George
Genkis dot Golf. Yes, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
So we appreciate your time. Thank you very much, appreciate
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your candidness, and we wish you the best. Hopefully Matt
Wolf will get some more victories under his belt. And
if there's anything we can do for you ever here
at the at the podcast, please let us know. Yeah,
thank you. So you gotta have a good one. George,
thank you. I appreciate it. Well, what a really really
candid guy, right, you know, he's he's sort of very
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anti establishment is the way I put it. It's very
non traditional way he approaches golf. And look, I mean
that's what this generation is, right, this is the YouTube generation.
And a different way to go about it. And George
seems to embrace that and you know, capitalize and that's
a success with it. And clearly, look, you know he
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knows what he's talking about in terms of the golf swing.
I remember Adam Scott telling me that he's he's a
golf tragic. He just loves the golf swing. So, um,
you know, the guy studies it and uh is a
student of the game, a student the swing. Um, you
heard some of that in the podcast. So it's cool
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to see because it's it's different. It's not everything that's
his point has to be the same. There's not one
way to go about it. That's that's always been the
beauty to me in golf, or one of the beauties
is that you can go about hitting the ball so
many different ways and have success with it. And that's
what we're seeing with guys like Matt Wolfe all the
way to a guy like Rory who he mentioned, Um,
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you know, sort of a more a much more classic
swing there, and of course Adam Scott would be maybe
the ultimate example of that. But um, there's all sorts
of ways to go about it. And you know, credit
to George for embracing that and not, you know, trying
to fit into a box. Yeah, I mean it's really
awesome that you mean. You think about if you showed
up to your local muni on a weekend you saw
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a guy standing on the range and you didn't see
him hit the ball, you saw him his practice wing
look like Matt Wolfe. You would want to go take
that guy on for some money because you think you're
gonna whoop his ass. But the truth is is there
are are so many different ways and he's not teaching
any one way. He's not a formula guy. He's got
a couple of things he wants you to do to
help put you in a better position to swing the
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golf club. But it doesn't sound like he's a formula
guy where everything's got to be based upon what Matt
wolf does. And I know I'm meant to ask him,
he didn't get a chance to. One of the things
Matt Wolfe is famous for is that is that little
twitch he has before the swing that he does. And
I've seen George explain that that is the feeling of
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Matt getting into the impact position. So he feels himself
getting into the impact position, then he takes the club
away and hits, and that's just something that he's done.
It's something that he feels comfortable doing and that works
for him. It's not something that every single Ganga student
is going to do. It's not something he's going to
require you to do because Matt Wolf does it. But
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he's able to teach in a different manner. And so
I enjoyed it. I think he was awesome. And yet
his website again is uh George genkis dot golf. So
you fresh back from memphisis week um, pretty incredible tournament,
right first, Kapka just continues to impress really um so much.
Further fact that he doesn't care about a regular tour event. Yeah, well,
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well let's you know, the w g C is not
a regular tour event. It's it's it's elevated a bid.
But um, you know to that point, I mean, look, uh,
you know, people would talk about that sort of being
a whole in his resume and so forth. And sure
he doesn't have the consistency of doing it weekend in
week out uh as of yet. But look, it's hard
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to be critical of a guy who has won four
major championships who uh this year finished uh second and
two of them and fourth in another. I mean, this
is a guy who really could have won the Grand Slam. Uh.
He had a chance in every one of those tournaments
to win. And so, you know, just another impressive performance
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for me, and really it highlighted, you know, it really
came down to sort of a showdown. But mean him
and Rory of course playing together in the final pairing
for the first time on a Sunday, and you really,
to me it stood out in the differences between these
two guys, at least right now. Because Rory, you know,
as as good as a season as he's had, it's
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been incredibly consistent. He's once twice, including the players, there
have been some moments where the pressure has seem to
have gotten to him. We can go back to Port Rush. Obviously,
on the first tea they're hitting it out of bounds
and making the group quadruple bogi eight and just sort
of the almost looked like he had a panic attack
in some sense um on that first hole, all the
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build up and pressure there. And then you look at
how he played Sunday in Memphis, where really the turning
point was that third hole at par five where he's
got a five footer for Bertie and Brooks. You know,
Brooks pours into the ter for Bertie and then and
then Rory trying to match that doesn't even touch the holes.
You said, so to me, that was a huge turning point.
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Um know. And at one point deep into the round,
I think through his first twelve or thirteen holes, he's
the only guy in the field who had made a
birdie all day, which is sort of unimaginable with the
type of game that Rory has. It's me that was
another case. Uh, And look, you know, I think Rory
was just clearly disappointed with the way he played, didn't
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speak to the media afterwards. It's got to be frustrating.
It's got to be in his head at some point
because physically, look, he's got all the tools physically. You
just wonder where he's at mentally right now. And um,
if these can if these moments like this continue to happen,
you know, he's too talented for it to continue to happen.
At some point it will flip the other way. But
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but right now it seems, uh, there might be a
bit of scar tissue there that's built up, but that's it. Look,
Brooks shot five underplayed a terrific round, would have been
hard to you know, Birdie three his first six holes.
It's hard to keep pace with that. But you know,
just an impressive, impressive performance by Brooks, who's clearly to
me the best player in the world at the moment.
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And you know, I caught a lot of grief on
Twitter about this, but to me, he is the closest
thing to Tiger since Tiger. That doesn't mean I'm comparing
him to Tiger. It just simply means that he reminds
me the most of Tiger. He's just dominant. He's absolutely dominant,
and when he shows up, no matter where it is,
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he's probably going to be a force to be reckoned with.
And now, does he not care about a regular tour event?
I don't know, it's that's something he would have to answer.
But when when all the chips are down and it's
an important event. He's got seven wins to his credit,
seven total wins, four of them are majors and one
is a w g C. Of his seven victories, five
are majors or large tournaments. I know he won Player
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of the Year last year. Is there anybody that's even
close for winning Player of the Year again this year
other than Brooks Kopka. No, you could have made an
argument for Rory. Certainly had Rory one on Sunday or
uh if neither of those player said one and Rory
made a charge through the playoffs and won the FedEx Cup.
Actually wrote a piece about this for golf I just
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dot com. You can read it there. You look at
the other guys who've had good seasons or successful seasons.
Rory's got a couple of wains Dandil Shoffley, Matt Kucher
has played some of the best golf of his career
despite uh, you know, more than his share of controversies
this year amazingly. But me, no, it's now it's really
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a closed case because you give Brooks had another win,
another big victory. No, it's it's not close, and nor
should it be. I can't see how anybody else could
garner Player of the Year consideration. It's basically done. Uh
And you know Brooks probably isn't done winning. You haven't
played great in the playoffs in the past. Apparently those
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aren't big enough events for him. But but no, I'm
sure he's got his I'm sure he would like to
set his sights on the FedEx Cup. You know, look,
Sunday was a big day for him, one nearly five
million dollars because he wrapped up the Window Rewards Challenge
a week early, took home the A On Risk Award
Challenge as well, So that was a big payday for Brooks.
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Um he knew that going in. I'm sure to that
final round and it's hard not to be impressed with
the level of golf he's playing right now. And I
talked to his coach actually, you know, on Sunday before
and after the round, and you know, two things stood
out that he said to me is one, Books is efficient.
Everything he does is efficient, and you can see that
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from showing up forty five minutes before his tea time
on Sunday ready to go to just the manner in
which he went out and made three birdies in his
first six holes. You know holes that you can make
birdie on. Uh. He did just that and that was
a huge advantage to be able to do that. And
then really just Brooks his his mentality, his approach going
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back even at the beginning of his career, was that
players are measured by their success in major championships. He
takes a very um general sports fan approach to the game,
if you will. You know, his kid, who grew up
playing baseball, played other sports, has that sort of jock mentality,
So it's not surprising that he would come to golf
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and say, look, major championships are how players are ultimately remembered.
So that's going to be my focus, and so far
it's worked out pretty well. Yeah. You know, lot has
been made of him showing up to the golf course
forty five minutes before his tea time, hitting a couple
of balls, rolling a couple of puts, and then going
out and shooting sixty five. Now, when I first spoke
to you this morning before we started the pod, you
said that that's really not a big deal. I know,
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I know Rory showed up two hours before the tea time.
Is it not a big deal that he showed up,
you know and almost basically just walked to the first team. Well,
different guys have different routines, right, and some uh, these
guys are all creatures that happen, and that includes Brooks
and that's just you know, that's the m oh. He
shows up, certainly, No more than you know, I would
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say an hour before, particularly at a regular tournament, Uh,
you know, a major, there might be some more logistics
to deal with, there might be some different preparation he
wants to go through. Well, no, you know, I mean,
I'm sure he'd already worked out Sunday morning. I'm sure
he'd already gotten loose and and simply just needed to
go through the routine of hitting some balls and hitting
some pots and where you go. I mean, that's that's
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just how he goes about it. I mean, look, when
you're playing that well, let's let's remin that, when you're
playing as well as he's been playing, Why show up
two hours before your teatime? What's the point? You know,
you've already done your work At that point, you really
just are trying to get loose and trying to get
in a rhythm. And you know, he was already in
a rhythm. Uh, in my opinion, So that was it was.
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It was a fun story, but to me, not really
a big story, because this is just who he is,
and uh not the first time won't be the last
time he does that, Right, that makes sense. Just two
more things I want to get to before we wrap
this up. One, Uh, the PGA Tour put out the
scheduled change. There are some changes next year. I know
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we changed a lot this year and they're still tweaking
it and making some changes next year because the Olympics
are involved. What are the big changes next year that
will be different from this year? Right, So I'll do
that chronologically and you look at the fall portion of
the schedule. There's eleven events. Two events back on the
schedule announced Greenbrier in the Houston Open. Greenbrier will kick
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off the season UH September nine. That will be the
first event of eleven in the fall fall portion of
the schedule. We've also got two new events. You've got
a tournament in Japan UH, the Zozo Championship, and you've
got a tournament in Bermuda, the Bermuda Championship. The other
significant change comes later in the schedule. The tournament we
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just had w g C FedEx St Juwed Invitational that
actually moves from UH it's spot the week after the
after the Open Championship, which, let's be honest, that was
a terrible, terrible spot for that tournament to be in. UH.
They're fortunate they really drew as good at field as
they did probably um, although there were a few guys
that skipped it, Tiger Woods among them. Um. That tournament
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will now move in between the two Opens, two weeks
after the US Open, in two weeks before the Open Championship.
Then you'll have the three M tournament moving uh later
in the schedule uh to the end of July post
Olympics or sorry pre Olympics, rather the week before the Olympics.
Then you'll have the Olympics, the end of July being
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in August, which will actually be an off week on tour,
and then the return to close the season at the
windhom You've also got the Rocket Mortgage Classic moving in
the schedule up to May. Um. So a couple of
changes there that you know should affect the schedule, probably
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in a positive way for the most part. Um. So
those are the significant differences. And of course three playoff
events again with the Northern Trust, which will be played
in New York. That rotates back to Boston next year,
so we'll be back at TPC Boston, that event, of course,
rotating every year between Boston and New York, right, And
they're going to stick with the three playoff events every
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year now, yes, Yeah, for the foreseevil future. That seems
to be like, you know, look, those are big, expensive
events at the end of the year. Sort of makes
sense they want to wrap it before we get into
football season. So the season next year will conclude similarly
to this year and last week of August with the
Tour championship, So a few moves will still have a
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big event, if you will, we'll still have it. We'll
still have a major once every four weeks, which has
become a bit of a hot topic among players this year.
So they've had to learn how to sort of adjust
for that. There's no longer that big gap between the
Masters UH and the US Open. And also, if you
just look at the way the schedule breaks down, one
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of the tours goals is basically to try to have
a quote unquote big in every couple of weeks throughout
the course of the season, and they've mostly accomplished that,
I think. So that is your schedule. Speaking of the
FedEx Cup playoffs, I see, so the Northern Trust is
going to cut the field, will be a cut there
that will cut down to seventy will be a hundred
and twenty five players. We get the winho this week,
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then we'll start the Northern Trust, so we get a
hundred and twenty five players the tee off in the
top the FedEx Cup. Then we drop it down to
seventy after two rounds, the Thursday and Friday rounds. Then
they'll finish out the BMW and the Tour Championship will
now be no cut events. Is that correct? Right? Well,
the BMW always was because it was at that point
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it was you you're talking seventy players, so um, but
one one change, uh, you know, speaking of changes that
that came up. This happened actually a couple of weeks
ago at the latest pack meeting. Is that next year
we will also move from top seventy and ties to
top sixty five and ties for making the cut on
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a week The big basis on tour that was done
in large part to avoid threesomes and two tea starts
on the weekends. There still be intermediate cuts because you know,
sometimes they get they do a cut on Saturday, right,
So the secondary cut goes away because of that, because
effectively that would only be in place when you had
seventy eight players or more make the cut. Now with
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the tied uh, you know, the cut down is sixty
five times. That really is not going to be an issue.
Just no secondary cut there. Uh, and then the again
goes from seventy to sixty five, so that will help
alleviate at least in a few events. You know, they
need to have split teas on the weekends and playing
in threesomes because of daylight issues and so forth. So
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not everybody in favor of that, because we've seen it
in the past, although rare. You can go back to
two thousand ten, Carl Peterson coming front, he would have
the rule had been put into place with the secondary
cut in two thousand eight and two thousand ten, you
would have missed the cut. How that will not been
in place, ends up making it on the number, and
then on that second you know, on the number he
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would have otherwise missed um and then ended up going
on to win the Canadian Open. So that worked out
for him. But it's pretty rare when that happened. So
I don't think there's a huge feeling that this is
taking away chances for guys, but it will be a
difference moving forward. In right. One last thing I do
want to cover, so as you know last time, at
the end of the podcast, we got into the fact
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that we have spoken many times about the issues with
Sergio Garcia, and that was we spoke to Brooks Brooks
Kepta after the tantrument was thrown he was destroying the
greens overseas, and then we got into he apologized. And
then last week or two weeks ago we spoke about
at the Open Championship when he threw a driver at
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his caddy who happened to be his brother. Uh. And
then now this week another video has surfaced of Sergio
hitting an errant drive at the w g C St
Jude Fedak and smashing the tea box and destroying the
tea box. When will this stop? Apparently never? Maybe when
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Sergio stops playing golf. I I don't know, Uh, why
doesn't the tour do something? Why don't they put their
foot down and make this stop? How does he keep
picking up sponsorships? How does he? I don't understand how
it keeps happening. They I don't feel like they would
let anybody else act this way. Well, you know, it
looks Sergios. He's a star player, and and uh, you know,
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he's certainly had his share of incidents over the years,
and and he's had multiple incidents this year. I mean,
we can just go back to Saudi Arabia and him
apologizing thing that's not who he is when he damaged
some greens and through a fit in the bunker. Yet
here we are a few months later, and and you know, look,
I get it. You know, players are going to get upset,
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they're gonna get angry, they're going to throw a club,
they're gonna do something. You'd like to not see it happen. Um.
It's certainly understandable if it does happen on occasion, but
it seems to happen too far too often with Sergio,
where he goes on these apology tours, uh, for behavior
that's you know, pretty much unbecoming of the game. And
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it's it's it's just reeks of uh you know, it's
it's a petulant um behavior and and uh, there's really
no other way to put it. I don't know when
it stops, because it's been going on his entire career. Yeah,
I mean, I don't have an issue like, for example,
when Hendrick Stenson got upset in the open and he
snapped the club over his over his knee. I'm not
saying that for young fans that are watching the game,
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that's a good thing. I'm not I'm not saying it's good. However,
it does not affect his playing opponent. Something he did
to himself. He has to play the rest of the
round without that club. It only affects him. But what
Sergio is doing is affecting other people, the following groups.
Whether it's destroying a green, destroying a bunker, slamming your
club into the tea box, it affects the playing You're
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playing partners behind you, your competitors are now affected because
of your anger to me. That's the problem, and that's
what has to be stopped. Yeah, and and until somebody
steps up and and does something and you know, you
can find them all you want. Um, that's really not
going to impact these guys to make so much money. Um,
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But until someone steps up and really level Levi's uh
you know, um, something severe. I mean, we saw it
in Saudi right that he was disqualified from the tournament.
So until those sorts of things continue to happen, I'm
not sure we're going to see a change. Right, So
we get the winning this week and then we will
start the FedEx Cup playoffs. You've got a lot of golf,
a lot of important golf coming up. As you know,
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we've got the playoffs, You've got the President's Cup that's
coming up. I know that. I think Tiger's event in
December and the President's cover back to back weeks. Correct,
they are. Tiger's event will end the day early to
allow the host and captain to get from the Mohammas
who ut earlier. But yes, you'll have probably a fair
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number of players on the US team uh at Tigers
event and they'll make their way from there to Australia. So, um,
it'll be interesting to see if Tiger, you know, ends
up picking himself to be on the team or works
his way onto the team. And he still worked his
way onto the team, he would need to play really
well in the playoffs. Is there a cutoff is at
the end of the playoffs? Yes? Correct, so he would
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he still has some time to do that. But uh,
you know, I wouldn't be shocked if he picked himself
to be on the team. I think he would have
some fun with that. And let's be honest, this is
this is a tournament where the Americans are are going
to be the heavy favorites again. They've you know, they've
long dominated this event and uh, you know, it'll sell
a lot of tickets Tiger being there, so it will
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be interesting to see how that plays out and really
how he plays again. He can limit how much he
plays in that event, only put himself in a couple
of matches, you know. But it'll be warm, it'll be
a summertime there, so we don't have to worry about
the cold affecting him as much. Of course, coming up
with Bahamas as well, so it'll be a busy couple
of weeks, but that's really not until you know, we're
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still a few months off and that right, So as
we look right now, just to recap the President Cup standings,
you've got Brooks, Dustin, Justin, Thomas, Xander Shoffley, Matt Coucher,
Bryson De Shambo, Patrick Kentley, Gary Woodland, Tony fene Now
and Webb Simpson are your top ten. Ricky Fowler is eleven,
Tiger twelve, CHESB thirteen, Phil fourteen, and Charles Howell fifteen.
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So only the top ten get in, is that correct? Yeah,
so he's two spots out right now. Obviously, could play
his way in or if somebody were to uh drop
out or something could happen. So he's not terribly far out,
but he would need to play his way in so
FedEx Cup playoffs. We'll be back obviously recapping that. Want
to say a big thank you to George Genkis Golf
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for his time once again. He launched a website if
you would like George to take a look at your swing.
It's very simple to do. Just go to George Genkis
dot Golf. So Whacker and I will be back in
a couple of weeks. Gonna let Whacker recover from all
this travel. Do you even remember where you live? Because
you were gone for so long over in the UK
and then you were home for two days and then
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back in Memphis. Have you found your way back home?
I have and it's and it's nice to finally have
kicked the jet lag. And by the way, uh um, yeah,
you could not have to desparit locations. Um comparing uh
Northern Ireland to Memphis. If nothing against Memphis, by the way,
(44:37):
they're just extremely different. No, but your food choices in
Northern Ireland. Listen, you've gotta follow Whacker on Instagram. It's
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(44:57):
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is also great, and he does play some pretty nice
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podcast at Playing Through Podcast on Instagram. Whacker. We'll be
back here again in a couple of weeks after round
number one of the FedEx Cup playoffs. We could be
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talking about another Brooks TEK victory, or hopefully, just to
break it up a little bit, we'll get another winner
in uh, you know, in in a couple of weeks.
I know he's not playing the winning this week.
Don't mind us where playing through there and Whacker walking
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Through Golf. So Brian freshback from Memphis. But this morning
we are talking to somebody who has been one of
the hottest teachers on tour, somebody we've all watched a
lot about Instagram YouTube we talked about Matt Wolf. George
gankis giving us this time this morning. Welcome to the podcast. George,
thank you for having good morning guys. Tell us a
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little bit about how did you get started in this
crazy world of golf. I know that social media has
played a huge part in what you do, but how
do you, you know, get started and run up with
Matt Wolf and some other tour pros that you've coached. Um,
great question. I mean, if you wanted to start teaching
or I got started, it was was basically, I just
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want to be a player. So when you're not good enough,
you actually go into coaching. So that's how I got
snuck into coaching. But um, obviously I was a better
coach than than a player, and I saw a passion
to play. You know, when you have that passion, you
always want to help somebody, And when you want to
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help somebody, it transfers into players. And that's how I
got lucky enough to be with some of the players
I'm at with right now. So what part of your
game held you back from being able to able to play?
Because when I watch you teach, you seem to have
the answers. And I know that, Yes, I've heard the
those who can't teach, but you seem to have a
lot of answers and seemed to really understand the golf swing.
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So what part held you back from being able to
play professionally? Um? You know what, it was just considered.
I'm forty eight years old right now. At the time,
I didn't have all the answers. Um. I was already
way deep into teaching, um fully booked. Um by the
time I had a clue what I was doing, you
know what I mean? I can always get somebody better
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at golf managing their game, mentally, understanding what parts put together,
what was weak? Um. You know, stuff like that was
always easy for me to get somebody hits solid was easy.
Ball patterns were easy. But to really understand the whole picture,
you know, that took a long time and we're all
still learning that. Nobody has it perfect. So um that
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that's the truth. So you know, where did I personally
go wrong? I mean, I didn't have the info that
I have now. I didn't you know, I didn't study
the swings. I didn't look at the things the way
I do now. I just listened to other people rather
than you know, making my own opinion and going you know,
I've tried everything, you know, and I know where the
matchups are at now where I didn't before. And you
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know a lot of times I try and fix things
that I didn't need to fix, and now I have
a much better picture on it. But I wish you
know that then I would have known and the kids
so that it is what it is. George, of course, uh,
you really hit the spotlight here with Matt Wolf and
the success he had of course winning the three M
Open last month. So give us the quick backstory how
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you got connected with Wolf and maybe why his swing
works because it is unusual. But when you were working
with him, Unlike a lot of golf coaches who might
have changed various things about it because it's so unorthodox,
you did not change it and tell us why that
is and and you know sort of why his swing
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works so well. Well, I've been a huge fan of
you know, all the old swings. Um. You know Bobby Jones,
Sam Sneing, uh Hogan, Um, all a lot of the
older players back in the day ture be now. Um.
They all had their own unique look. And and that
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being said, they all lifted their foot up, you know,
very player. They all had, you know, a posture that
made sense to me rather than this athletic posture. You know,
I was a wrestler and I never got in an
athletic posture where I was arching my back. Um, so
I was much more relaxed. Uh. And I knew that
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I couldn't, like get into the ground a lot quicker
when I was relaxed than I could if I was
you know, my back was you know what we call
anterior public tilt and really arched, and um, I felt
like I could really move into those positions a lot better.
So when I look at Matt Wolf and he comes
to me, his foot's up he's got a huge turn,
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his trail legs extended, his lead legs really like an
in reflection arms flying clubs across the line. I'd seen
it before. It wasn't anything that was like abnormal to me,
So I it wasn't something that really made me want
to change. The whole thing when I saw it is
most people would react by you know, slide or dumping under.
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But he had such a huge turn that he would
still go in as so much front ben as he
got around the corner before he started to extend. And
and most players in that position don't have enough turn
that they're trying to stand up or kilt or pull
their arms down to get the club back inside, and
he didn't. And so for me, my job was to
get him more you know, rotated through the shot and
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leave some of the other stuff alone and create ball
patterns and teach him how to play better golf um
and take certain sides out and play smarter and mentally.
You know, I've helped him a lot. But physically, you know,
he's one of the better ball strikers on the planet.
And you know, he wasn't always the best contact, but
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he was a very repeatable player. Because he's got such
a repeated, repeatable mind. He's not thinking all the time
over the ball. It's more he sees visual patterns and goes.
So that's a cool part about Matt Wolf that a
lot of people don't know. Now you've worked with the
other guys, plenty of guys actually, um some high profile
ones as well, of course Adam Scott briefly last year,
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Patrick Harrington, Danny Lee. What is your approach when you
work with with these guys who obviously all have different swings,
you know, talking with you mentioned posture. You know Adam
Scott obviously the guy who who had that very sort
of athletic upright posture, and and I know that was
one of the things that you worked on with him
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last year. So what is your approach when you either
get approached by you know, a variety of players or
just in general, you know, every player look at you know.
First off, let's get something straight. These guys are so
talented to be a tour coach doesn't take a lot.
In my opinion, UM, I know a lot of people
are gonna still disrescus I feel a lot of people
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are gonna be disrespected by that comment. But I'm I'm
one of them. So the fact is is to get
a tour player, they can already hit the ball, they
already have you know, all the things, all the qualities
to score the mental game. That that's easy, you know
what I mean? Um to me? To me, it's about
not It's more about how can I get this guy
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to create better ball patterns? How can I get him
to hit more solid um? And if they don't already
hit it so solid um, how do I take a
side out or how do I give him more speed?
How do I make them more consistent? So that isn't
always technique, but most people out there come out comfort technique. Um.
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And when you look at a guy like and Adam
Scott who was bent over, he has a phenomenal matchup. Um.
He plays the ball off the hazzle. Um. So as
he sticks his butt back and gets into the posture
he did. If you want to call that an athletic posture,
you can call an athlete. I wouldn't call an athletic
posture at all to me, um. But if you want
to get into that posture and then you want to
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suck your butt back under you or stand your upper
spine back into extension. Um. When you do something like that,
most people are gonna throw their arms at it because
they're moving further away from the ball. But Adam Scott
plays it off the heel, so as he backs away
from it with his upper body, whether he's actually you know,
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extending his his spine or you know he's extending some
of his his his telvis or his hips um are
going into some form of extension. You know, he's moving
further away from the ball. So most people, like I said,
would throw it or change swing directions just to get
to the ball um or made contact. But he had
a phenomenal matchup so his was not mandatory at all.
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So when you look at a player, I look at
things like, okay, does this guy have to change um?
But there's nothing really that difficult for me when I
when I get on a mat in the morning, I
got a towny handicapper on my map. That's to me,
that's where to work with the tour players. Easy. The
guy is on tour, Like you know, everybody talks about
(09:01):
DJ swing and his is his Bode Risk or are
Brooks are Tiger or Rory? What are some of the
swings on tour? That you see that you do like,
or maybe there's little things you would change to make
some of these players better. Oh yeah, absolutely, but you know,
I never You know, it's funny because I just did
this thing called matched Up on on YouTube on my channel,
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and the guys that worked for me, they were like
begging for me to do it. And and I don't
like commenting on another players swings that I don't teach
because it's disrespectful the coaches, and I don't want to
come off that way like I know it all. It's just,
you know, that's their business. But there are swings out there.
Someone asked who I'd like to teach, and I said,
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you know, I'm not gonna, you know, comment on that
because they'll most likely hear about it. And it's it's
it's not cool being a coach and hearing that, you know,
some other guy wants to work with your guys, you
know what I mean. So I love to answer your question.
I love DJ swing. It's so matched up as far
as his rotation through the ball, his trail arms so
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externally rotated, his handles so lean, but those that's a
matchup to where his face is at and most people
can't do stuff like that because they don't have his speed.
They'd hit the ball dick high. Um. So when you
look at things like that, you know, Brooks has a
cool matchup. You know, he has very little turn in
the back swing and he starts to rotate. He gets
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his hand path out as he starts to kill to
get back inside. As he's rotated, he's gonna hit a
cut but most people hit it fat. But because he
pushes his handles so far forward from that tilted position. Um,
most people have the face offen, but his face is
up one on the shut side. So all these little
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small things match up with each other. Um, you look
at Rory. Rory gets his arms super deep in transition,
slows his legs down, but most people flip it way
out to the right, but his chest keeps moving. Some
some really cool things that players do that I love
that match up that you know why I mess with
things that work? Um. And And a lot of people
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disagree with that and say, oh, everybody should throw be
thrown in this cookie cutter, But you're taking some of
their natural athletic ability things that they've been doing for
twenty years. I don't I don't think that's very smart, right,
that makes sense. As far as like Tiger in the
spinal fusion is that do you think that's limiting his
ability to do some things he would like to do
versus maybe what he could do three years ago, or
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even say ten or fifteen years ago. I just think
if Tiger turned his turned his hips back, you'd be fine.
I don't think he would have hurt his back. You know,
when when you don't turn and in your backswing and
your legs don't extend, your trail leg doesn't extend, your
femer bone doesn't turn, you don't turn, you're putting stress
on your back. And we instinctly know that if we
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don't turn the back swing, we're gonna dig a trench.
And so what we start to do is early extent
to take off that dig and shout out or close
their body out or tilt and all those things are
messing up your back. So if you look at Matt
Wolf's legwork, it's phenomenal. His backswing, his trail leg extends um,
his steamer bone turns when I say steamers, you know
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as quad turns um. And so that that allows you
to get enough depth enough turn to where now you're
not going to react by not having a depth by
standing up or tilting or pulling down. You can really
get into the ground and turn and use it rather
than trying to actually stand up or tilt. And that's
that's where Tigers hurt himself is because he never finished
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his hip turn. Um. So that that's exactly why his
shoulders are so back, but his hips are not. And
he's always felt like he was stuck. Um. So I
think that's originally where he heard his back, in my opinion,
is from restriction of the hip turn. So nobody in
the old days did that right. And you know what,
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I've actually worked on it myself. Or I try and
restrict my hip turn but yet kind of keep my
right leg flexed, which just sounds like that is completely
the opposite of what you would teach no range of
motion first off, So you you actually, you know, restrict
your hip turn or your you take your whole right
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leg and you keep inflection. Your arms are gonna left
or they're not gonna have enough depths. So how are
you going to get the club back inside? You're gonna
extend with your trail leg right away. Um to get
it back inside. Just to make room. So the cool
thing about it, if you extend the trail leg and
turn it, you have enough depth to be able to
move back into the ground and open back up. But
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then the cool thing is it extends, it reflexes, and
then you can push off it again so you get
more speed out of it, rather than flex it in
the back and extend immediately and then not be able
to turn, not be able to use it again, and
now have no face control because you've jumped up through
the ball immediately, And transition makes no sense. It's like
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trying to actually make a try and try and jump
and get in the ground right away and then then
jump from there, or stand up like if you're in
a combine, like any anybody in the NFL, stand flex
your knees and then jump. That's how you jump. You
don't starting to jump. I don't know anybody who does up. Absolutely,
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So why are we doing that in golf because someone
made some bullshit up. I mean, it doesn't even make sense.
It doesn't make anything, never will. So some of us
can't can't turn our hips at all. So who know?
You know you can turn your hips, You just don't
know how. That's the problem. I no, no, I know
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you believe me. It would be work if I were
just spend a couple of hours on your map. But anyhow,
who if we were, I'm gonna put you on the spot,
who is your favorite swing in the game right now?
To watch? Uh swing? And why god, that's a good
crash and uh, you know, I don't even have a model,
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to be honest, so to say that would be pretty strong.
I mean, that's a great question. I I you know,
I if I was gonna say, one person in your mind,
Rory Rory, and the reason is he good to love
his chest, herd. Well, there's some things that that I'm
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not in love within his golf swing, but there's a
it I am. So the fact is is it's it's
pretty impressive, and he hits it impressive. I've seen him
in person. It's one of my you know, one of
my favorite swings for sure, and and and some of
the best contact you've seen. Um. I would also I
love DJ. I love watching him hit balls. UM look
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not freaking yeah, I mean he really does. I would say,
you know, probably the most surprising guy out there that
I saw hit balls was pressed was Keikan Bradley. He
he thumps the ball. Um. I mean I don't even
know Keenan Bradley. I just watched them hit it. Um.
Also one of my favorites is uh Fleetwood. I like
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it a lot. It's not like you've got a beautiful
called an absolute flusher. Yeah, great ball strikers. A lot
of those guys you mentioned, of course hit it a mile. Um.
Your guy, you know, one of your guys, Matt Wolf
obviously has incredible clubhead speed, hits it a mile. How important, um,
is that in today's game? Um? And how important is
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it in your in your teaching or when you're working
with these guys, because certainly at the pro level we've
seen just how important uh distance has become. Well, they
did a statistic on distance to amount of money being
made and it's it's obvious, um, And it always has
been to me. Um. And that doesn't mean you're swinging
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as hard as you can. And I think that's the
that's the stuff that people. You know, if there was
any trash talking going on, it was you know, Georgia
is getting these guys to swing it fast, but they
can't keep it on the planet. Um. That was never
my plan to get people to be long drivers and
hit one out of six and the grid, or one
out of six and the or one out of whatever fairway,
however many fairways you're you're playing that day. Uh. And
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in play, it wasn't anything that I was trying to do.
I was just trying to maximize players. It's kind of
like what Padreck told me a couple of years ago.
He says, I'm just trying to swing it one thirty
so when I chip it, I can swing it one um.
But that that's been pretty much my philosophy on it.
My you know, my whole career of teaching is getting players,
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whether they're juniors or or you know, older players to
max out and then go back to their old swing.
And basically what I'm doing is I'm stretching them out.
I'm I'm getting them to extend in the back swing
and finish their turn um. And because of that, they
can really want to get into the ground and you
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is it rather than standing up um also maxing out
their structure, getting their face in a good position where
they can optimize their dynamical loft um things like that.
If you don't turn in the back swing, you're gonna
you're not gonna use the ground. You're gonna stand up,
which means you have no force into the ground, which
equals very little little speed unless you're a big person,
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a big, big strong player, uh, with natural you know,
god given strength. Otherwise you have to finish your turn.
You have to move into the body. But if I
said you have to, you don't because some people can
swing just with their arms without turning and prove me wrong.
But those are also players that are you know, like
I said, god given athletes that that have natural strength.
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You can't you can't give that to everyone. But I
can't tell you I can't get everybody to hit it
way further than they've ever hit it. And I've proven
it for a long time, and I follow you on Instagram.
I see the things where I've seen the tracking and information.
If somebody who comes to you in the getting and
they're hitting and they're eight iron forty five yards when
they leave you, they're hitting their eight on a hundred
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and sixty eight yards, I mean, it's it's it's all
numbers and it's all facts. So if I am a
regular guy listening to the podcast, and I don't live
in California, I hear there is a new way that
I can learn to swing it from George Genkis. That
is the new website. It launched overnight midnight last night.
It is George Genkis dot golf. Can you tell us
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a little bit about your website and what makes it
different than any other website that's out there? Appreciate it? Yeah,
thank you. Um, what what's different about it is, it's
it's taken me two years to build with you know,
with some help, a lot of help. Um. And it's
it's taken me a long long time to actually develop
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what you know I wanted to do, and it's always
going to change. So you know, of thirty years of
me studying this game, UM, it's all in there. I
didn't leave anything out. Um. The only thing I've left
out is what I'm gonna learn today and tomorrow the
next day. UM. And and I'll keep putting in all
my information that that I'll ever have. I'm not holding
out on anything. Um. But what it really is, it's
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that there's an academy on there. There's you know, faults
and fixes for the academy skills. Drills teach you how
to practice mental game. Um. There there's a lot of
stuff that's gonna help. There's there's forms for people to
engage with each other. Um, there's short game, there's you know,
there's uh creating speed, there's everything you could want. Every
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part of the game will be on their putting, chipping, pitching,
flop shots, short sided bunker, everything will be on there.
But the coolest part about it is you know you'll
be able to engage with other players, ask questions, um,
and I'll constantly be updating new information on there. So UM,
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it's basically just gonna be years and years of showing
there's not one way to do it, but here's a
way to structure it. There's a platform, and there's a
there's a way to go about learning, um, an easier way,
And that's basically, you know what what, I put my
basic heart and soul into this thing, so it should
be pretty. It is. It's it's it's a million times
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better than anything I've done before, right, which is great.
So it's George Genkis dot golf. Instead of going out
and spending five dollars in buying a new driver that
I'm let me tell you, you're going to hit it
exactly the same way as you hit the one, you
have spend the money to get better, and you'll get
better with all of your clubs and you won't have
to go buy new ship just because you're not hitting
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the good. Get lessons, understand that you can get better
through instruction, and you don't have to Now you don't
have to fly all the way to California and put
yourself up in the hotel and try and cram it
all in in one. You can do the academy. George
Genkis dot Golf. Yes, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
So we appreciate your time. Thank you very much, appreciate
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your candidness, and we wish you the best. Hopefully Matt
Wolf will get some more victories under his belt. And
if there's anything we can do for you ever here
at the at the podcast, please let us know. Yeah,
thank you. So you gotta have a good one. George,
thank you. I appreciate it. Well, what a really really
candid guy, right, you know, he's he's sort of very
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anti establishment is the way I put it. It's very
non traditional way he approaches golf. And look, I mean
that's what this generation is, right, this is the YouTube generation.
And a different way to go about it. And George
seems to embrace that and you know, capitalize and that's
a success with it. And clearly, look, you know he
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knows what he's talking about in terms of the golf swing.
I remember Adam Scott telling me that he's he's a
golf tragic. He just loves the golf swing. So, um,
you know, the guy studies it and uh is a
student of the game, a student the swing. Um, you
heard some of that in the podcast. So it's cool
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to see because it's it's different. It's not everything that's
his point has to be the same. There's not one
way to go about it. That's that's always been the
beauty to me in golf, or one of the beauties
is that you can go about hitting the ball so
many different ways and have success with it. And that's
what we're seeing with guys like Matt Wolfe all the
way to a guy like Rory who he mentioned, Um,
(23:25):
you know, sort of a more a much more classic
swing there, and of course Adam Scott would be maybe
the ultimate example of that. But um, there's all sorts
of ways to go about it. And you know, credit
to George for embracing that and not, you know, trying
to fit into a box. Yeah, I mean it's really
awesome that you mean. You think about if you showed
up to your local muni on a weekend you saw
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a guy standing on the range and you didn't see
him hit the ball, you saw him his practice wing
look like Matt Wolfe. You would want to go take
that guy on for some money because you think you're
gonna whoop his ass. But the truth is is there
are are so many different ways and he's not teaching
any one way. He's not a formula guy. He's got
a couple of things he wants you to do to
help put you in a better position to swing the
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golf club. But it doesn't sound like he's a formula
guy where everything's got to be based upon what Matt
wolf does. And I know I'm meant to ask him,
he didn't get a chance to. One of the things
Matt Wolfe is famous for is that is that little
twitch he has before the swing that he does. And
I've seen George explain that that is the feeling of
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Matt getting into the impact position. So he feels himself
getting into the impact position, then he takes the club
away and hits, and that's just something that he's done.
It's something that he feels comfortable doing and that works
for him. It's not something that every single Ganga student
is going to do. It's not something he's going to
require you to do because Matt Wolf does it. But
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he's able to teach in a different manner. And so
I enjoyed it. I think he was awesome. And yet
his website again is uh George genkis dot golf. So
you fresh back from memphisis week um, pretty incredible tournament,
right first, Kapka just continues to impress really um so much.
Further fact that he doesn't care about a regular tour event. Yeah, well,
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well let's you know, the w g C is not
a regular tour event. It's it's it's elevated a bid.
But um, you know to that point, I mean, look, uh,
you know, people would talk about that sort of being
a whole in his resume and so forth. And sure
he doesn't have the consistency of doing it weekend in
week out uh as of yet. But look, it's hard
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to be critical of a guy who has won four
major championships who uh this year finished uh second and
two of them and fourth in another. I mean, this
is a guy who really could have won the Grand Slam. Uh.
He had a chance in every one of those tournaments
to win. And so, you know, just another impressive performance
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for me, and really it highlighted, you know, it really
came down to sort of a showdown. But mean him
and Rory of course playing together in the final pairing
for the first time on a Sunday, and you really,
to me it stood out in the differences between these
two guys, at least right now. Because Rory, you know,
as as good as a season as he's had, it's
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been incredibly consistent. He's once twice, including the players, there
have been some moments where the pressure has seem to
have gotten to him. We can go back to Port Rush. Obviously,
on the first tea they're hitting it out of bounds
and making the group quadruple bogi eight and just sort
of the almost looked like he had a panic attack
in some sense um on that first hole, all the
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build up and pressure there. And then you look at
how he played Sunday in Memphis, where really the turning
point was that third hole at par five where he's
got a five footer for Bertie and Brooks. You know,
Brooks pours into the ter for Bertie and then and
then Rory trying to match that doesn't even touch the holes.
You said, so to me, that was a huge turning point.
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Um know. And at one point deep into the round,
I think through his first twelve or thirteen holes, he's
the only guy in the field who had made a
birdie all day, which is sort of unimaginable with the
type of game that Rory has. It's me that was
another case. Uh, And look, you know, I think Rory
was just clearly disappointed with the way he played, didn't
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speak to the media afterwards. It's got to be frustrating.
It's got to be in his head at some point
because physically, look, he's got all the tools physically. You
just wonder where he's at mentally right now. And um,
if these can if these moments like this continue to happen,
you know, he's too talented for it to continue to happen.
At some point it will flip the other way. But
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but right now it seems, uh, there might be a
bit of scar tissue there that's built up, but that's it. Look,
Brooks shot five underplayed a terrific round, would have been
hard to you know, Birdie three his first six holes.
It's hard to keep pace with that. But you know,
just an impressive, impressive performance by Brooks, who's clearly to
me the best player in the world at the moment.
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And you know, I caught a lot of grief on
Twitter about this, but to me, he is the closest
thing to Tiger since Tiger. That doesn't mean I'm comparing
him to Tiger. It just simply means that he reminds
me the most of Tiger. He's just dominant. He's absolutely dominant,
and when he shows up, no matter where it is,
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he's probably going to be a force to be reckoned with.
And now, does he not care about a regular tour event?
I don't know, it's that's something he would have to answer.
But when when all the chips are down and it's
an important event. He's got seven wins to his credit,
seven total wins, four of them are majors and one
is a w g C. Of his seven victories, five
are majors or large tournaments. I know he won Player
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of the Year last year. Is there anybody that's even
close for winning Player of the Year again this year
other than Brooks Kopka. No, you could have made an
argument for Rory. Certainly had Rory one on Sunday or
uh if neither of those player said one and Rory
made a charge through the playoffs and won the FedEx Cup.
Actually wrote a piece about this for golf I just
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dot com. You can read it there. You look at
the other guys who've had good seasons or successful seasons.
Rory's got a couple of wains Dandil Shoffley, Matt Kucher
has played some of the best golf of his career
despite uh, you know, more than his share of controversies
this year amazingly. But me, no, it's now it's really
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a closed case because you give Brooks had another win,
another big victory. No, it's it's not close, and nor
should it be. I can't see how anybody else could
garner Player of the Year consideration. It's basically done. Uh
And you know Brooks probably isn't done winning. You haven't
played great in the playoffs in the past. Apparently those
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aren't big enough events for him. But but no, I'm
sure he's got his I'm sure he would like to
set his sights on the FedEx Cup. You know, look,
Sunday was a big day for him, one nearly five
million dollars because he wrapped up the Window Rewards Challenge
a week early, took home the A On Risk Award
Challenge as well, So that was a big payday for Brooks.
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Um he knew that going in. I'm sure to that
final round and it's hard not to be impressed with
the level of golf he's playing right now. And I
talked to his coach actually, you know, on Sunday before
and after the round, and you know, two things stood
out that he said to me is one, Books is efficient.
Everything he does is efficient, and you can see that
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from showing up forty five minutes before his tea time
on Sunday ready to go to just the manner in
which he went out and made three birdies in his
first six holes. You know holes that you can make
birdie on. Uh. He did just that and that was
a huge advantage to be able to do that. And
then really just Brooks his his mentality, his approach going
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back even at the beginning of his career, was that
players are measured by their success in major championships. He
takes a very um general sports fan approach to the game,
if you will. You know, his kid, who grew up
playing baseball, played other sports, has that sort of jock mentality,
So it's not surprising that he would come to golf
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and say, look, major championships are how players are ultimately remembered.
So that's going to be my focus, and so far
it's worked out pretty well. Yeah. You know, lot has
been made of him showing up to the golf course
forty five minutes before his tea time, hitting a couple
of balls, rolling a couple of puts, and then going
out and shooting sixty five. Now, when I first spoke
to you this morning before we started the pod, you
said that that's really not a big deal. I know,
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I know Rory showed up two hours before the tea time.
Is it not a big deal that he showed up,
you know and almost basically just walked to the first team. Well,
different guys have different routines, right, and some uh, these
guys are all creatures that happen, and that includes Brooks
and that's just you know, that's the m oh. He
shows up, certainly, No more than you know, I would
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say an hour before, particularly at a regular tournament, Uh,
you know, a major, there might be some more logistics
to deal with, there might be some different preparation he
wants to go through. Well, no, you know, I mean,
I'm sure he'd already worked out Sunday morning. I'm sure
he'd already gotten loose and and simply just needed to
go through the routine of hitting some balls and hitting
some pots and where you go. I mean, that's that's
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just how he goes about it. I mean, look, when
you're playing that well, let's let's remin that, when you're
playing as well as he's been playing, Why show up
two hours before your teatime? What's the point? You know,
you've already done your work At that point, you really
just are trying to get loose and trying to get
in a rhythm. And you know, he was already in
a rhythm. Uh, in my opinion, So that was it was.
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It was a fun story, but to me, not really
a big story, because this is just who he is,
and uh not the first time won't be the last
time he does that, Right, that makes sense. Just two
more things I want to get to before we wrap
this up. One, Uh, the PGA Tour put out the
scheduled change. There are some changes next year. I know
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we changed a lot this year and they're still tweaking
it and making some changes next year because the Olympics
are involved. What are the big changes next year that
will be different from this year? Right, So I'll do
that chronologically and you look at the fall portion of
the schedule. There's eleven events. Two events back on the
schedule announced Greenbrier in the Houston Open. Greenbrier will kick
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off the season UH September nine. That will be the
first event of eleven in the fall fall portion of
the schedule. We've also got two new events. You've got
a tournament in Japan UH, the Zozo Championship, and you've
got a tournament in Bermuda, the Bermuda Championship. The other
significant change comes later in the schedule. The tournament we
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just had w g C FedEx St Juwed Invitational that
actually moves from UH it's spot the week after the
after the Open Championship, which, let's be honest, that was
a terrible, terrible spot for that tournament to be in. UH.
They're fortunate they really drew as good at field as
they did probably um, although there were a few guys
that skipped it, Tiger Woods among them. Um. That tournament
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will now move in between the two Opens, two weeks
after the US Open, in two weeks before the Open Championship.
Then you'll have the three M tournament moving uh later
in the schedule uh to the end of July post
Olympics or sorry pre Olympics, rather the week before the Olympics.
Then you'll have the Olympics, the end of July being
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in August, which will actually be an off week on tour,
and then the return to close the season at the
windhom You've also got the Rocket Mortgage Classic moving in
the schedule up to May. Um. So a couple of
changes there that you know should affect the schedule, probably
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in a positive way for the most part. Um. So
those are the significant differences. And of course three playoff
events again with the Northern Trust, which will be played
in New York. That rotates back to Boston next year,
so we'll be back at TPC Boston, that event, of course,
rotating every year between Boston and New York, right, And
they're going to stick with the three playoff events every
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year now, yes, Yeah, for the foreseevil future. That seems
to be like, you know, look, those are big, expensive
events at the end of the year. Sort of makes
sense they want to wrap it before we get into
football season. So the season next year will conclude similarly
to this year and last week of August with the
Tour championship, So a few moves will still have a
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big event, if you will, we'll still have it. We'll
still have a major once every four weeks, which has
become a bit of a hot topic among players this year.
So they've had to learn how to sort of adjust
for that. There's no longer that big gap between the
Masters UH and the US Open. And also, if you
just look at the way the schedule breaks down, one
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of the tours goals is basically to try to have
a quote unquote big in every couple of weeks throughout
the course of the season, and they've mostly accomplished that,
I think. So that is your schedule. Speaking of the
FedEx Cup playoffs, I see, so the Northern Trust is
going to cut the field, will be a cut there
that will cut down to seventy will be a hundred
and twenty five players. We get the winho this week,
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then we'll start the Northern Trust, so we get a
hundred and twenty five players the tee off in the
top the FedEx Cup. Then we drop it down to
seventy after two rounds, the Thursday and Friday rounds. Then
they'll finish out the BMW and the Tour Championship will
now be no cut events. Is that correct? Right? Well,
the BMW always was because it was at that point
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it was you you're talking seventy players, so um, but
one one change, uh, you know, speaking of changes that
that came up. This happened actually a couple of weeks
ago at the latest pack meeting. Is that next year
we will also move from top seventy and ties to
top sixty five and ties for making the cut on
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a week The big basis on tour that was done
in large part to avoid threesomes and two tea starts
on the weekends. There still be intermediate cuts because you know,
sometimes they get they do a cut on Saturday, right,
So the secondary cut goes away because of that, because
effectively that would only be in place when you had
seventy eight players or more make the cut. Now with
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the tied uh, you know, the cut down is sixty
five times. That really is not going to be an issue.
Just no secondary cut there. Uh, and then the again
goes from seventy to sixty five, so that will help
alleviate at least in a few events. You know, they
need to have split teas on the weekends and playing
in threesomes because of daylight issues and so forth. So
(37:45):
not everybody in favor of that, because we've seen it
in the past, although rare. You can go back to
two thousand ten, Carl Peterson coming front, he would have
the rule had been put into place with the secondary
cut in two thousand eight and two thousand ten, you
would have missed the cut. How that will not been
in place, ends up making it on the number, and
then on that second you know, on the number he
(38:07):
would have otherwise missed um and then ended up going
on to win the Canadian Open. So that worked out
for him. But it's pretty rare when that happened. So
I don't think there's a huge feeling that this is
taking away chances for guys, but it will be a
difference moving forward. In right. One last thing I do
want to cover, so as you know last time, at
the end of the podcast, we got into the fact
(38:28):
that we have spoken many times about the issues with
Sergio Garcia, and that was we spoke to Brooks Brooks
Kepta after the tantrument was thrown he was destroying the
greens overseas, and then we got into he apologized. And
then last week or two weeks ago we spoke about
at the Open Championship when he threw a driver at
(38:50):
his caddy who happened to be his brother. Uh. And
then now this week another video has surfaced of Sergio
hitting an errant drive at the w g C St
Jude Fedak and smashing the tea box and destroying the
tea box. When will this stop? Apparently never? Maybe when
(39:11):
Sergio stops playing golf. I I don't know, Uh, why
doesn't the tour do something? Why don't they put their
foot down and make this stop? How does he keep
picking up sponsorships? How does he? I don't understand how
it keeps happening. They I don't feel like they would
let anybody else act this way. Well, you know, it
looks Sergios. He's a star player, and and uh, you know,
(39:33):
he's certainly had his share of incidents over the years,
and and he's had multiple incidents this year. I mean,
we can just go back to Saudi Arabia and him
apologizing thing that's not who he is when he damaged
some greens and through a fit in the bunker. Yet
here we are a few months later, and and you know, look,
I get it. You know, players are going to get upset,
(39:54):
they're gonna get angry, they're going to throw a club,
they're gonna do something. You'd like to not see it happen. Um.
It's certainly understandable if it does happen on occasion, but
it seems to happen too far too often with Sergio,
where he goes on these apology tours, uh, for behavior
that's you know, pretty much unbecoming of the game. And
(40:14):
it's it's it's just reeks of uh you know, it's
it's a petulant um behavior and and uh, there's really
no other way to put it. I don't know when
it stops, because it's been going on his entire career. Yeah,
I mean, I don't have an issue like, for example,
when Hendrick Stenson got upset in the open and he
snapped the club over his over his knee. I'm not
saying that for young fans that are watching the game,
(40:37):
that's a good thing. I'm not I'm not saying it's good. However,
it does not affect his playing opponent. Something he did
to himself. He has to play the rest of the
round without that club. It only affects him. But what
Sergio is doing is affecting other people, the following groups.
Whether it's destroying a green, destroying a bunker, slamming your
club into the tea box, it affects the playing You're
(40:58):
playing partners behind you, your competitors are now affected because
of your anger to me. That's the problem, and that's
what has to be stopped. Yeah, and and until somebody
steps up and and does something and you know, you
can find them all you want. Um, that's really not
going to impact these guys to make so much money. Um,
(41:20):
But until someone steps up and really level Levi's uh
you know, um, something severe. I mean, we saw it
in Saudi right that he was disqualified from the tournament.
So until those sorts of things continue to happen, I'm
not sure we're going to see a change. Right, So
we get the winning this week and then we will
start the FedEx Cup playoffs. You've got a lot of golf,
a lot of important golf coming up. As you know,
(41:42):
we've got the playoffs, You've got the President's Cup that's
coming up. I know that. I think Tiger's event in
December and the President's cover back to back weeks. Correct,
they are. Tiger's event will end the day early to
allow the host and captain to get from the Mohammas
who ut earlier. But yes, you'll have probably a fair
(42:02):
number of players on the US team uh at Tigers
event and they'll make their way from there to Australia. So, um,
it'll be interesting to see if Tiger, you know, ends
up picking himself to be on the team or works
his way onto the team. And he still worked his
way onto the team, he would need to play really
well in the playoffs. Is there a cutoff is at
the end of the playoffs? Yes? Correct, so he would
(42:25):
he still has some time to do that. But uh,
you know, I wouldn't be shocked if he picked himself
to be on the team. I think he would have
some fun with that. And let's be honest, this is
this is a tournament where the Americans are are going
to be the heavy favorites again. They've you know, they've
long dominated this event and uh, you know, it'll sell
a lot of tickets Tiger being there, so it will
(42:47):
be interesting to see how that plays out and really
how he plays again. He can limit how much he
plays in that event, only put himself in a couple
of matches, you know. But it'll be warm, it'll be
a summertime there, so we don't have to worry about
the cold affecting him as much. Of course, coming up
with Bahamas as well, so it'll be a busy couple
of weeks, but that's really not until you know, we're
(43:09):
still a few months off and that right, So as
we look right now, just to recap the President Cup standings,
you've got Brooks, Dustin, Justin, Thomas, Xander Shoffley, Matt Coucher,
Bryson De Shambo, Patrick Kentley, Gary Woodland, Tony fene Now
and Webb Simpson are your top ten. Ricky Fowler is eleven,
Tiger twelve, CHESB thirteen, Phil fourteen, and Charles Howell fifteen.
(43:32):
So only the top ten get in, is that correct? Yeah,
so he's two spots out right now. Obviously, could play
his way in or if somebody were to uh drop
out or something could happen. So he's not terribly far out,
but he would need to play his way in so
FedEx Cup playoffs. We'll be back obviously recapping that. Want
to say a big thank you to George Genkis Golf
(43:54):
for his time once again. He launched a website if
you would like George to take a look at your swing.
It's very simple to do. Just go to George Genkis
dot Golf. So Whacker and I will be back in
a couple of weeks. Gonna let Whacker recover from all
this travel. Do you even remember where you live? Because
you were gone for so long over in the UK
and then you were home for two days and then
(44:15):
back in Memphis. Have you found your way back home?
I have and it's and it's nice to finally have
kicked the jet lag. And by the way, uh um, yeah,
you could not have to desparit locations. Um comparing uh
Northern Ireland to Memphis. If nothing against Memphis, by the way,
(44:37):
they're just extremely different. No, but your food choices in
Northern Ireland. Listen, you've gotta follow Whacker on Instagram. It's
at Bran is it at Brian Whacker one on Instagram.
You have for you have to follow Brian on Instagram
number one. His views of where he lives are just perfection.
(44:57):
His food selection is always good, his ca offee selection
is also great, and he does play some pretty nice
golf courses. So if you're into all that, you need
to follow Brian, and please make sure you follow the
podcast at Playing Through Podcast on Instagram. Whacker. We'll be
back here again in a couple of weeks after round
number one of the FedEx Cup playoffs. We could be
(45:18):
talking about another Brooks TEK victory, or hopefully, just to
break it up a little bit, we'll get another winner
in uh, you know, in in a couple of weeks.
I know he's not playing the winning this week.
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