The Golf Show 7-26-25 2025 SEG 4: Bryan Gathright joins the show

The renowned golf instructor comes in for out Tips Segment of the Week.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's the Golf Show on the tickets. San Antonio is
blessed with three golfers who are going to have great
professional careers, or so it seems. Both Mac and Mitchell
Meisner and Johnny Keefer are all playing really good golf
right now and they're all taught with that by Brian Gathwright.
He joins us from Minnesota, and good morning, Brian, and

(00:23):
I know you're really proud of Mac going out and
shooting sixty seven sixty eight the first two days and
in the hut at the three m that's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh, it was great to watch yesterday Andy, and he
actually played better than that. He started on the back nine,
played better on the back than the score indicated, and
he was on the cut line after making bogie on
the second hole, which was his eleventh hole of the day,
and then had a really tough stretch of holes coming

(00:52):
up and proceeded to play four under from there in
So I was really really pleased to see he's he's
really he's coming into form. He'd struggled earlier in the
year with the putter. The putter's getting a lot better.
We've got a new caddy. Jimi Marino from Lakema, California
and him he's doing a great job. Uh. They both

(01:15):
do some main point and and Jimi's really good at it,
which which always helps when the caddy and the player
are on the same page. And he's playing with a
lot of confidence. That's the best I've seen him hit
it this year. And then uh, I spent the first
three days of the week in Chicago watching uh uh
Johnny and Mitchell. And you know, Mitchell, I had a

(01:37):
little bit of a tough front nine yesterday bogey to
par five, hit a ball in the water on a
par five and uh, but you talk about hard. I
sent him a text after he got done yesterday. I said,
Mitchell this, there are a lot of reasons I love
working with you, but but one of them is there's
no quit in And he' he birdied the uh two

(01:57):
hundred and I think two hundred and three yard part three,
seventeenth and then the eagle the eighteenth. That's pretty good
to make the cut on the number. So a lot
of heart there. And then what do you say about
Johnny Key for Brayden Bailey Chandler Phillips caddy. Yesterday, Mac
and I walked on the range to warm up and
Brydon looks over at me and goes, oh, what a surprise,

(02:19):
Johnny Kee forer atop the leader board again.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
That's pretty good, all right. It's really, I think interesting
that you have three players who are probably going to
have good careers on the PGA Tour for a long time,
basically off from the same city and similar age.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Years ago we had Cameron who was a little bit
older than Jimmy Walker, and we've had them kind of
spaced out, but I don't remember having three golfers basically
graduate from high school within a few years of each
other over the last few years that are all really
good players on the tour.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, you know, it's interesting. I've talked a lot about
that with Mitchell in particular, because you know, Mitchell said
the bar so high for Mac at being three years older,
that Mac always felt like if he could beat Mitchell,
he could beat anybody because Mitchell had such a grade
high school career. And then, you know, I'm very blessed.

(03:15):
I've worked with all three of these guys for a
long time. I've worked with Mitchell and Mac for sixteen
seventeen years. Johnny and I are almost starting our eighth
year together. We've been together a little over seven years.
And the one thing that not to take any credit
for it, but the one thing that I did, I've

(03:36):
always kind of encouraged my older players to play with
my younger players. Obviously, with Mac and Mitchell that was
a given because they were brothers. But Johnny started playing
with Mac a whole bunch when he was still in
high school, when Mack was at SMU. And I just
think that, you know, iron sharpens are steel sharp and
steel or iron sharpen's iron, whatever the thing is, playing

(04:00):
with great players, they just push each other so hard
and I couldn't be more proud of them, and most importantly,
three of the nicest guys on planet Earth. And I'm
telling you, they're just they're great young men. Forget the golf,
they're just great people. And it's a pleasure for me
to get the opportunity to work with them.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
And working with all these working with all these golfers
that you have over the years, what makes a good
golfer great? Are at least good enough to play professional
golfer a living, Because there's a lot of guys that
I've seen play and then go out and shoot sixty
five Brackenridge from the tips in their sleep. But that
doesn't mean they can play pro. What's the difference in
that pro golfer? What's the hit factor, the it factor?

Speaker 2 (04:42):
In my opinion, And it's something I talked with my mentor,
Harvey Pennic about. You know, Harvey was just such a
legend and teaching so many great players Andy and Harvey
always made the comment that there were two things he
felt like it was in their eyes and then he
meant by that was just how they how they saw

(05:02):
the game, how they saw the shot. And then I
kind of feel like it's that what Harvey meant by that,
and he and I talked about this, and what I
really have grown to see over the years is just
an extreme high self belief and not an arrogance, but
almost an arrogance on the golf course, belief that the

(05:25):
confidence is so supreme. And that was the one thing
mack had gotten. Mackett played well early in the year,
made a ton of cuts, but he just didn't have
a good weekend and he kind of lost a little
bit of the edge, and we worked. I went to
Louisville a couple of weeks ago and then went back
up this week, and boy, I'm really starting to see
some great play out of him, and he's he was

(05:47):
second on the tour last year in proximity to the
pen from the fairway on the entire PGA tour. And
I reminded him of that when we were talking in
Kluisville and said, hey, great golf is great golf. It
doesn't matter where you are. And we just kind of
got back to the basics of getting that self belief
built back up. And hopefully he's going to have a
great weekend and we've got a lot of golf to

(06:09):
still play this year.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
So all right, we got thirty seconds left. Brian, A
quick tip. Why do people hit the webshots too high
on the face and lose distance.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Their hips stop turning through the impact zone. One of
the most important things is you've got to get the
hips in the chest to continue to turn. If the
hips and chests stall, then the hip stops. The handle
of the club drags. That holds the face open and
it makes the face run under the ball, which causes
the high weak tow hen all right, keep it rotating,

(06:42):
keep it moving through and Andy, thanks as always for
having me on all right, Thank love talking about those guys.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
I do too.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
We'll do it again very soon, and good luck to
all of them this week wherever they're playing. That's Brian Gathright.
He teaches up at River Crossing and has been taking
care of a lot of the golfers in San Antonio.
Thanks to Shape Carter for producing today's show. See you
on Monday for the afternoon show at four on the Tickets.

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