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January 25, 2025 • 13 mins
The man from Joe Caruso's Golf Academy is back!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi everyone, It's Andy Everett. Enjoy this podcast version of
The Golf Show from sports Radio AM seven sixty. The
Ticket now from sports Radio AM seven sixty to the Ticket.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is another edition of The Golf Show. The Golf
Show brought to you by MK Golf Tech, Joe Caruso's
Golf Academy, and by Alamo City Golf Trail. Now on
the first t Andy Everett.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yes we are.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's a little cool outside, but the weather's getting better.
At least it was yesterday nice day yesterday afternoon, and
as it usually is, when we have a few days
of bad weather, we get good golf weather soon after.
Time to talk golf for the next hour. Joe Caruso
from the Joe Ruso Golf Academy over at to the
San Pedro Driving Range in Part three, is with us
today back from the PGA Show this week. How you doing.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'm doing great, Andy, it was a great week.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Take us through some of the things that you saw.
You tell we were talking before we started today that
there's a lot of apparel companies that are getting into golf,
and there's a lot of new stuff. I guess to
help you teach a little bit as well there is.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
I think that we've been going since nineteen eighty seven,
and you can see how it evolves over the years.
Used to be all about golf equipment. Now it's all
about what.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
You look like.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Oh absolutely, and we don't play well you look good.
What shoes you're wearing, you know what you look like?

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Hats?

Speaker 4 (01:26):
I mean, it's the apparel is It seems to be
the most important thing right now. I think the show
was big on apparel this year. I think the other
is simulators. That's a big thing. I think there was
thirteen or fourteen simulation companies there, and I'm telling you

(01:47):
right now they're getting less and less. And garments new
simulation Launch monitor was awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
If you live in the northern half of the United States,
we're even northern two thirds of the United States, and
you have a space to put it. I think that
that's something that we're going to see more and more
of because number one, people don't necessarily want to get
the car and drive to the driving range. And then two,
when you get a simulation, you can actually practice while
you're playing a virtual course.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
It is and like I'm going to use garment for
an example, and Foresight but Garman came out with one
that's all. It's all there in front of you. You
got eleven inch iPad screen. It's very clear. You take
it outside or you can go home. And it's a
computer also, so you just have to plug in your

(02:37):
projector to that little box and it projects I don't know,
one hundred and forty golf courses and practice and all
kinds of up into a net pad. I mean, there's
all different things that they're given out there. I think
you could do everything for less than fifteen thousand so
and have an incredible setup. So it's getting less and

(03:01):
less every single.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
And that set up was probably forty two years ago
and it's probably be ten next year.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Easy.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
It's like to I'm pretty sure the simulator that we
have at the trails eighty ninety.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
So it's it's changing, that's for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
And then you also have the portable stuff that you
can take to the driving range and it attaches to
your phone or your iPad and gives you the numbers.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
And they're getting less and less. Also, you know force,
if Garman has a smaller one five hundred dollars, you
got probably the best one like that is Flight scope,
the Mevo plus, I mean that's eighteen hundred. I mean,
so it's getting less and less and you're starting to
see people at sam Pedro showing up with these things.

(03:42):
Oh yeah, so out there on the range, well, the
pros had fun to watch.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
The pros all have the big one, the flight scope
one or whatever, and it's like twenty thousand or whatever
that cost. And but they're pros. They can afford that.
That's free.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Probably most people just want to know how far the
ball went. And I mean, if you know about spin
factors and actually what the spin numbers mean, that's one thing.
But if you're just trying to figure out how far
do I hit my seven iron in the air.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
That's another.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Unfortunately, we also hit with range balls, and that's going
to vary by five to ten yards when you're going
to get on the golf course.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah, there's only one launch monitor that can take the
range ball and turn it into a player's ball. That's
the track man and that's twenty eight thousand. But yeah,
the little garments five hundreds, you got all these little
ones that are less than five hundred dollars, they can
give you some pretty good.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Numbers Artificial intelligence is creeping into pretty much everything we do.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
How does it affect how you teach? Well that they're
trying to push that. So there was three companies there,
maybe four that you know, you take a video and
then it tells you exactly what you're doing and what
you need to do. And like every time I went
to one of those booths, I'd sit there and I go, Okay,
that's not that's not how we would approach it. You're

(05:01):
approaching it through what the computer thinks. All right, So
what AI thinks that you're doing wrong? And it could
it be correct? You sure can, it could be, and
so it could be. But excuse me. I've already had
two players that have worked with AI. You know that
there's already an app out there, and they came in

(05:24):
and they go, I'm lost because AI, there's a personal
relationship that you have with your instructor. The instructor knows
your personality. AI does not know your personality.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Well, here's the other thing too. AI may say, this
is what you're doing wrong, here's how you need to
fix it, but your body may not be capable of
doing what that AI tells you you need to do
because they're comparing the forty year old twelve handicap that
you're teaching to Tiger Woods, and unless they can AI
that algorithm, somehow you've got to get tim that forty

(05:57):
year old twelve handicap into using that their body will allow.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
They're trying to come up with that where the AI
does a body analysis. All right, it makes you do
like five or six different movements, and then it kind
of okay, your left hip is tight, your your neck
is tight. You know, I'm going to say this one thing.
I don't think people understand. If your neck is really tight,

(06:22):
you can't turn all right, You're not gonna be able
to rotate.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
So that's a big one.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
So AI is out there, Is it going to be
Is it going to take over the instructor.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
I'm not going to say it will, it won't, but
not right now.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, and I think the other thing too, when you
talk about making your body do things is if your
next tight, your hips are tight, your cabs are tight,
anything that's not functioning as it would for in an
athletic way, it's going to hinder what you're able to do.
And twelve thirteen years ago, whatever it is now, when
I said, I went to Jet Burns, who teaches it

(07:00):
at the first T And I said, because he was
playing pro then he wasn't at first T then, And
I said, Jeff, who trains you? I want to meet
a trainer that is golf related, that knows the body
function of what the golf swing's supposed to look like
so that you can train appropriately. And that's when he
introduced me to Craig Brown. And there's Craig and there's others,

(07:21):
but they teach you body movements. And I can't tell
you how many times I'm getting ready to do a
set or a weightlift or a core exercise and the
first thing he says, get in your golf posture. If
you can do it in your golf posture, then you
can make the proper moves. So going to the gym
is great, working out is great, cardio is great, lifting
weights is great. But if you're doing it to improve golf,

(07:44):
you need a I think a specific trainer that says
these are golf moves so that they will go to
you for a lesson. They know how to move properly
so that they can do what you're trying to teach them.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, and I think it's very important.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
So AI doesn't know your practice routines, all right, So
that's another question. It's like how you approach your player
that's in front of you, your students, is like, how
much do you practice?

Speaker 3 (08:13):
I don't. I just love to play, okay in the model?
All right?

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Then there's ways of helping this person maintain what they
have or get a little bit better if they're not
going to practice, and AI can't do that. I mean,
it's not going to sit there and ask you questions. Yeah,
I practice five days a week, you know, And am
I going to use drills and so on? And it

(08:38):
just not yet. It's just not yet.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, I think we're seeing seeing you have to The
computer can't know everything. It might think it can, but
when it comes to physical movement, you still have to
do what it's telling you to do. And if you can't,
well then the computer is gonna have to come up
with something else. I'll ask this question is a broad question.
By going to the PGA show, by talking other vendors,
by seeing the apparel companies, is the sport of golf

(09:04):
in a good place right now compared to maybe five
years ago or twenty years ago, when Tiger was winning
every tournament. Do we like where golf is and is
it heading in the right direction?

Speaker 3 (09:14):
That's a great question. I think that.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
I think it's in the right direction when it comes
to entertaining the new golfer, all right, said the new
golfer that wants to be relaxed. I mean, you know,
playing music on their golf carts, the shirts untucked, you know,
I do the shirts untucked at times. The clothing you know,

(09:42):
the look, yeah, the look, it's it's changed, there's no
doubt about it. I mean the uh And it's catering
to that, all right. And I think it's good because
it's becoming not so stuffy.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
You still have the guys.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Walking around coat and ties, and then you have the
guys walking around and joggers.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
And untouched and they still look good. Yeah, all right.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
It wouldn't present at Augusta, but it's going to present
a lot of different places where they're going to play.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
I don't have an issue with that if you want
to play music, and I don't mind noise. Now, I
think there's decorum at PGA Tour events that needs to
be somewhat respected, But I don't and that's one of
the things, another of the billion things I don't like
about Live is it sounds like you're at a NASCAR
event instead of a golf tournament. But that's what younger

(10:36):
generation likes. But the thing that we still got to
get under, and I think the best golfers understand this,
is that if you're going to get good, you have
to have the three things that are still very much
part of golf. You have to be able to invest
properly in it and have the resources to do it.
You have to have the time to practice, and you

(10:58):
have to realize it's a really, really hard The Church's
not going to master overnight. Some will get good at
it quickly, but you have to have have to take
the time to work at it.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
I think the what they're doing out there going to
trying to master the game. I think the golf is
at its point where they're trying to make it more
fun to where if you can't master the game, you're
still going to enjoy it. Right, And you see that
in simulations all right. That Another big deal was simulators Andy.

(11:30):
There was at least fourteen simulation companies there, and the
big one was Golf's own from David ledbetter. I mean
it's it's virtual reality. I mean it looked real. The
floor moved based upon the grade that the ball was
sitting on in the fairway. It had all these different

(11:54):
texture mats that depicted sand rough second first first cut
of rough. It was incredible, and then the putting surface
would tilt, so all in one simulator and it was I.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Think we'll see I think we'll see a lot more
people playing simulated golf and others companies around town right
now that you can pay a fee or whatever and
go play a virtual golf course and and things like that.
But the other part of that is time. A round
of golf, if you're going to play, is going to
be four hours minimum, maybe four and a half to five,
depending on how busy it is. But I think people
the difficulty of it, the time that it takes to

(12:33):
get good at it, the expense that it is, the
time it takes to play is something that a lot
of people don't have patience or actual time in their
lives for. And I think the best golfers are still
working hard on the range every day, working on their
their pitching and chipping and their short game. And if
you're willing to do that, you can probably get pretty
good pretty quickly if you have any kind of less athleticism.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yeah, it's uh, there's there's going to be a big
push towards the simulation. Also, like a lot of my
young good players now have the parents invested in those
smaller ones so that they can practice and they're off
time right right in backyard of garage or whatever.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
You know, sometimes a lot of these high school kids
get out late so they don't have time to get somewhere,
so they're using those It's getting there.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
It's uh.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Steve Stricker, Steve Stricker lives in Wisconsin and lives there
in the winter time and he'll go to tournaments throughout the
champion to a year, but when he's at home and
the golf course has got to put a snow on it,
he's in his garage hitting golf balls in to do
a simulator.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah, it's it's getting there, but it's fun. All right.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
We've got some tips of the week saved up for
Joe to talk about. We'll also talk about what's going
on out in California with those tournaments and more as
we continue on the Golf Show on Sports Radio Am
seven sixty the ticket
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