The Golf Show 7-12-25 2025 SEG 4: Extrication

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, we continue on the golf show and to
kind of expand on what Joe was talking about with
understanding how you can hit shots and how your clubs
actually work in the physics of the game. I can
remember the first chipping lesson that I was ever given
out at Lake Hefner in Oklahoma City fifty plus years ago,
and he was trying to teach me how to hit

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a shot in the air, like over a bunker or
over a tree. And so, see the wall right here
is probably about seven eight feet from where I'm sitting
right here in the studio. So we back up almost
to that area about seven eight feet in front of
this tree that's probably ten or fifteen feet high. And
I thought we were going to pitch back towards the

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pitching and chipping green, and he said, no, I want
you to take your sand wedge and hit it over
that tree. And I said, there's no chance, it's not possible.
So he said, okay, I want you to. I want
you to open your stance about twenty degrees. I want
you to open the club face and lay it flat
on the ground, wide open, and I want you to
swing as hard as you can, like you're taking a

(01:08):
full shot, but make sure you hit the ball first. Well,
the first two I think I sculled into the next county.
But the next time that I actually made contact with
the ball first, the ball just popped over the tree.
I was like, Wow, how'd that happen? But fortunately I
had an instructor that was willing to kind of teach
me how loft in angles and those kinds of things

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work a lot, and I tend to chip mainly with wedges.
I'll sometimes chip with the gap wedge if I on
certain things, but to be able to go out and
practice and then hit your sand wedge or your fifty
six or your fifty eight or whatever you have at
different levels. You can hit it high, you can hit

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it low, you can skip it, you can pitch it,
you can let it run out, you can try to
get it to stop. To me, that's where you kind
of understand how game works and not just have one
shot that you always hit, because you're gonna be faced
with many different challenges.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
There's a lot of challenges, and especially if you're somebody
who travels and plays, you know we're here in San Antonio.
If you play the municipal golf courses, the greens are
gonna be slightly slower, a little bit more mushier. When
you go play Oak Kills, it's gonna be firm or faster,
you know, lock and tear, firm or faster. You go

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to Silver Horning, it's gonna be a little bit slower,
a little bit. I call it mushier, a little bit softer.
Canyon springs at times is rock hard fast. It definitely
river crossing fast hard at certain times of the year.
That just tells you something just about San Antonio. But
when you go out to the west, out west and

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you go to play out in the desert, it's it's fast,
it's firm, and it's hard, and the year is all right.
You're gonna be chipping with your or you're fifty four
nothing else, and you have to be able to change
the flight of that ball or you're not going to
get the ball up and down ever. And then when

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you go out east, you know, like Florida and so on,
talking about slow and soft, I mean it's like, now, hey,
what's my nine iron?

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Do?

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Right? Try a nine iron? You show you pitch it
across the green well.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
And the one thing that the pros have an advantage
of is that they bring track man with them and
when they go to the driving range, they're nine iron
might be one forty five every time they hit it,
but in certain conditions with weather, it may be one sixty,
or it may be one thirty if it's cold and wet,
or if the air is heavy, or I mean, go
play golf in San Francisco at Harding Park and it's

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like trying to, you know, drive a golf ball through
plastic or rubber that goes nowhere.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, that's what they have. And these track man's and
flight scopes and gc quads have a barometer autometery inside
and so it it's measuring all that. So when the
guy hits one, he knows exactly what he's hitting that morning,
and the guy who takes it out on the afternoon

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is going to know exactly what that weather's gonna do
to his golf ball.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Colin Marikaw has been in the news a lot over
the last few weeks and he's now in his third
caddy veteran Billy Foster, who caddy for a lot of
guys including Sevy back in the day. What do you
make of the player caddy relationship and the fact that
Colin can't find somebody he likes right.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Now, Colin is it's becoming a little bit of a uh,
you know, a little whatever. He needs to stop. You know,
this is nonsense of acting the way he's acting in
his interviews. I'm sorry, Colin, You're you're You're not Scottish

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Scheffler for whatever reason. I know he won a couple
of majors. You're you're a good player, all right, but
you're come on, stop it, all right, all right.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
The catty sometimes has to be psychologist.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Catties get a lot of the catties get beat up.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, all right, Well, Billy Fosters had savvy and DJ
so I think he can probably handle Collin. Yes, see
you next month, Joe, Thanks so much. That'll wrap things
up for today. Enjoy your golf wherever it is you're playing.
Scottie Chopin about to get underway. Thanks to Shane Carter
for producing the show. Back next week. It's the Golf
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