Impactful Coaching Stories: Lessons Learned from Top Golfers

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00:00But so often are so many players have come and seen you over the years, Chris,

00:04where you're constantly giving them advice.

00:07You're giving them lessons.

00:09Has there been a player, whether it was Tiger or someone else

00:13that has given you advice or you found that you learned something

00:17from that player that you've been able to kind of implement

00:21and how you coach players moving forward?

00:25I mean, I'd like to say everybody. Yeah.

00:30I mean, yeah, I mean, I mean, spending time with Bryson.

00:35You know, it's like five years or so was amazing.

00:37I mean, that was its own crazy kind of rabbit hole to go down with a person.

00:43You know, it's interesting with him because we did make this sort of

00:47we worked for two years, whereas more of like, you know, here's his sort of like,

00:52you know, how do you keep him in his personal sweet spot?

00:54And, you know, I think he won two or three times.

00:57And then during covid, he was like, man, I want to get more speed.

01:00So it became kind of like head time.

01:02This is like me. I work with him before us.

01:04I started working with him in 2018.

01:05And, you know, he had won.

01:07I don't remember exactly, but I know he'd won two playoff events.

01:10I remember. Yeah, exactly.

01:11It's like a Caves Valley. Right, exactly.

01:13And then and then covid happens.

01:16And he's like and we had talked before that were sort of like, OK,

01:20because I do a lot of stuff with like, say, you know, a stats person.

01:24And to me, it's always like, OK, where are the places that someone could,

01:29you know, find improvement, get edges type of thing in a realistic way?

01:33And how does it fit the overall ecosystem of their game?

01:36And, you know, we had started talking and, you know, he felt like hitting it farther

01:40was a place that he could get a lot better. Yeah.

01:43And because he was so straight to off the tee.

01:45So now you have some logarithm where if someone's already kind of like wayward,

01:49it's like you don't have logarithm for for games.

01:51I actually did a last year.

01:53I created this graph with Chris Brody, Mark Brody's son,

01:57and it was showing a person's strokes gain potential

02:01as they increase club at speed, given their anger dispersion off the face.

02:05And it's really kind of I thought it's fun to sort of like

02:08sort of make a prediction of like, OK, this person can truly get meaningful gain

02:13as they get more club at speed, whereas this person, it starts to plateau out

02:17and you just bring in too much other stuff.

02:19And then it's like not worth kind of the squeeze type of thing.

02:23But anyway, with Bryson, so, you know, we we kind of decided to do that.

02:28And and then during the whole lockdown, I built a lot like a lab

02:33at my house in Dallas, and he started working out a bunch

02:37and we started to make some swing changes.

02:38And I mean, that was such a rabbit hole.

02:40And I learned so much from that experience.

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