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all right guys welcome back to the bombs and birdies podcast and today we are joined obviously by Logan again and uh what are we talking about today all right well I got a special secret challenge for you today Colton okay um are you a fan of the Ridder Cup by any chance yes sir you are what team would you cheer for usually um I would probably cheer for Europe just because it’s like the depth of the team yeah um being European blood myself that’s probably what I would do okay interesting yeah I think here in Canada anyways you get a lot of uh device it’s interesting a lot of people cheer for Europe and a lot of people cheer for USA but yeah I’m kind of on the fence I’d say both times like uh it’s just sort of a tossup but I usually like to choose a team and go with it right today we’re going to do our own version of the Ridder cup okay uh but there’s going to be a little bit of a Twist you want to see what it is let’s do it okay I’m going to grab some paper here sound of greatness right there yeah I have and I’ll put this up on the screen for the viewers two teams here okay and I want you to just take a brief look at them and I want you to pick a team right now which one would you bet your own money on going into a little Rider cup okay is team one and team two like currently where the players are in in standings right now no okay I would probably have to pick team two team two okay any uh any inclination or reason why you’re going with that one off your um well first of all we got some length uh Cameron Champ Ray mooy um are and wam Clark and John and John ROM you guys like they got five probably the five of the longest players in the PJ tour /li tour that are that are on that that are on that roster um okay and you got a lot of a lot of shorter hitters uh especially on this side um we have a lot of short HS on this side a lot of accurate players but a lot of guys that are kind of I guess either at the tail end of their careers or um like pretty deep down as far as like depth on the um on the order of Merit okay well I think you’re uh your instincts are pretty good on this one um because I didn’t tell you what these teams are made up of or anything like that right but uh this is actually simply just um a look at the top 10 players for distance on tour versus the bottom 10 players for distance on tour and uh I’m going to show you something else really interesting here in a moment but um uh we obviously went back to uh just a couple years ago when all of the players were on the PGA tour I thought that was a little more of a fair comparison and this year’s stats are just getting started so we did go back uh to look at a previous year but I just wanted to give you a little more information you know I didn’t I hid some of the info on this chart but I wanted to give you the earnings for both teams here and we’ll throw that up on the screen for you guys to see as well so we have uh this is total career earnings to uh it’s for that year I believe oh for this year do you know what okay so a combined 10 a combined 9 million for 10 guys yeah on team one and then team two 27 million yeah I can’t say I’m surprised and and not only is that a lot that’s like three times more yeah right uh so they’ve had three times the success as the players who hit it shorter right and I think maybe on the shorter team like you know it’s we got some I’d see guys I haven’t heard of before uh also you know Luke Donald’s a notable player on there but uh maybe just like more on the trail end of his career or whatnot whereas on this this team here we obviously see uh you know some upand comers along with uh some of the greats of their generation right um is that kind of what you expected to see that’s pretty much exactly like that’s the thing like when I when I start talk about distance when I start talking about like the stats that actually matter like that’s the F very first stat that I will look at and the reason for that is because you you just showed me right here and like I already knew these stats probably before maybe not to the degree of what you’re showing me here but um in the sense of like what is possible in order of like dollars and cents to be able to be made M there’s going to be some there’s going to be some Kickback in far as like oh well this guy’s a better putter this guy’s a better iron player yeah they’re all you’re like you’re completely splitting hairs when it comes to the 1% the 1% but this is a very very good indicator as far as like what separates the top 1% from from the top 1% right you know what I mean so it’s you’re you’re going to get everybody’s going to be in and around the same ball striking everybody’s going to be in and around the same greens hit everyone’s going to be in and around the same um putts made over the course of a round and and those are going to fluctuate yeah yeah and those stats you you know if you looked at the best Putters versus the worst Putters the best Putters are also generally going to be on the better side too right and and the the thing is when you putt well or when you have those good putting weeks you’re usually like have a chance to win like you’re playing out of your mind which is exactly what you’re supposed to do but as you can see just based by dollars and cents over the course of a year not even over the course of a career the top 10 players in the world like you said as far as driving distance have three times the ability to make money versus the guys that are just quote unquote the most accurate and the reason they are still on this list but they are at the B is because they have to be exceptional at what they do at everything else outside of this statistic whereas the Cameron Champs the Windam Clarks the John ROMs of the world they can have mediocre driving weeks and still be able to keep up if not surpass the bottom 10 on the PJ tour well yeah so I don’t uh have the exact stat in front of me here but if you looked at like the average drive from Cameron Champ Rory mroy I think it was in like around 315 carry y sounds and so that was about their average distance and then you look at the bottom of the list and it was around 285 maybe even a bit lower than that probably a little bit lower I think we SE 275 yeah and so you got to imagine um you know if Rory wants to hit it and this is interesting because we saw this exactly at the Ryder Cup this past year you know if Rory wants to hit at 275 what club is he hitting he’s probably hitting Three Wood right he’s hitting a three wood like maybe something less yeah so so if he wants to actually hit it that same distance cuz it’s beneficial on a hole or something like that you know he has the always has the option to hit at less distance but you know you’re Brian Stewart or Brendan Todd never has the option to hit it 3:15 if they have to right and there was interesting story I don’t know if you guys watch the Ryder Cup but uh there was a controversial moment on the final day when uh was it um Justin Thomas or Jordan Speed I think it was Justin Thomas was on the par 4 it was the short par 4 everyone was kind of like going for the green um and Zach Johnson came up to him and he like whispered something in his ear started have a conversation and he told him to hit a driver and he ends up hitting the driver and I think uh it got caught up in the in the wind and and hit the water right and then Rory comes up after and he takes a three-wood and just like stuffs on the green kind of it’s it’s it’s one of those things where and and actually that like the Ridder cup was set up in a way so that obviously European had the advantage like they set up the te’s in specific spots B like they looked at the team and they’re like Scotty hits his driver this far or he hits his irons this far and they averaged it out where it would put them in awkward positions off the T so they were either forced to completely try to carry everything which was most likely not doable because the European team was longer right so they set up the golf course a little bit longer considering they had the length and the depth in order to put themselves in better positions to score off the te right that’s yeah that’s really interesting sort of strategy and and uh I mean obviously they won even though they were you know highly favored to lose in that situation which is Win dominated yeah they dominated I don’t think a lot of people know that where like they actually like when the US picks the golf course they set up the golf course in a way to give themselves the best Advantage like if they have more more guys that shape the ball left to right versus right to left they’re going to set up specific holes and T boxes to the best of their ability within the real estate to be able to give the themselves the best advantage and that’s exactly what happened in the Ryder Cup so this is like being able to if you guys don’t think that actually matters like just look even at the top of the line at the PGA Tour top 10 versus bottom 10 and there’s a what do you have three times the amount you have 400 sorry 9 million combined between 10 guys and that’s essentially you got one guy that made over a million or three guys that made over a million bucks um and that’s probably because they won or they were probably had a couple top 10 everybody else isn’t in around the half a million dollar Mark yeah look at Von Taylor I mean $358,000 is a lot of money for most people but I actually would find that probably difficult to even earn a living on the PGA tour making that much when you have to include travel expenses and fees all of your coaches your caddy expenses uh taxes all those things come off there and he’s probably making a very modest living if not scraping by like some of those players are probably really questioning like you know is pro golf it I mean maybe the sponsorship off sets that a little bit hard to say yeah I mean but that’s the thing like the bottom 10 guys aren’t getting aren’t getting TV time yeah they’re not getting TV time time and I guess they’re also fighting for their jobs too each and every week got to be stressful that’s why you’ll see like that’s why it’s impressive to see guys at the at the top level keep their card for like decades like that’s that’s more impressive to me like the Imp poters of the world that they keep their card for like 20 plus years and it’s like you just you just never lose it and but at the end of the day you also have guys that are on the PJ tour that you probably have never ever heard of that again are like barely making a living because at the end of the day like at least I can only speak to it from a mini tour and like a Canadian tour level but at like the corn fairy tour like you got guys that caddies are making more than players yeah probably a lot of them are right right because you got you got to get them there you have to get yourself there you got to put them up you they have a flat fee there’s less risk involved in being the caddy right but then I guess there’s less reward on the other end where if you you know obviously if you’re Scotty Sheffer this year you’re making a lot more than his caddy would be right but yeah like it’s I think a lot of people Miss have this big misconception that like every PJ Tour player is like loaded and at the end of the day that’s just not the case like maybe the top maybe the top 20 guys out of the top 125 are like actually making like a seven figure income and then like maybe even maybe even not like you got guys in the top 10 here like the uh like Joseph bramlet who’s like like less than half a million dollars a year I’m not saying that’s like not a lot of money but like it is um but at the end of the day those are career earnings and you have tax and you have caddy fees and you have all that stuff like he’s probably cooking maybe A4 million dollars a year maybe yeah and I mean a lot of guys are saying okay maybe that like that’s an outlier that proves that uh you know distance doesn’t matter okay we got a couple names on there but it’s like we’re looking at the average the overall right not just um yeah of course and it’s like it’s going to be one of those things where um you’re going to have exceptions to the rule you’re always always always going to have exceptions to the rule and I think a lot of people always focus on the exceptions to the rule whereas like rather than rather than focus on the grand scheme of things of like what’s actually glaring which is the biggest deciding factor here is distance off the tea guys will be like oh well Bri like Brian Haron he won the US Open or he did this he did that and it’s like well that’s all great fine and dandy but at the end of the day if you’re not um like this is the deciding factor so if you guys are not chasing distance like you guys are way behind the eightball all right Colton so uh obviously I think you could say that this would be true if we did the same thing with a lot of other stats like if you took the top 10 putting players at putting versus the bottom 10 they would probably do better and it’s the same with like driving a accy probably greens and regulation there’s a few stats that you could do this with um but I think the interesting thing is that for example if you improve your putting that’s great it’ll shoot lower scores but it doesn’t impact or bleed into other areas of your game right whereas if you improved your driving and you’re one of the you know added 20 yards to your game you’re now going to increase your greens and rag probably you’re probably going to increase your proximity to the pin which is going to increase like your your putting so it sort of bleeds into all these other aspects right I think that’s where a lot of people like they’re not looking at the big picture of what actually matters cuz if you’re like well my shorter clubs are easier to hit and I hit more greens with shorter clubs okay well I want to hit more greens in regulation okay you don’t necessarily within reason you don’t have to necessarily get like that much mechanically better but if I just give you more opportunities with nine iron or wedges in your hand you’re statistically and this is proven like you’re statistically going to hit the green more frequently yeah so if you took like um you know what would be a good percentage of a player to hit a a seven iron how how hitting the green a third of the time yeah so let’s just use the example of like a 10 to 15 handicap like you’re probably having a low to mid or long iron into most holes right like depending on what T’s you’re playing like if you’re playing the correct T’s maybe not as frequent but you’re you’re you’re probably having midiron to long irons in you maybe have like two to four wedge holes around maybe right so so what would be easier like you know increasing your accuracy with a seven iron by 10% or just hitting an eight or nine iron yeah like like you know what I’m saying like you if you wanted to get better at accuracy with your irons I mean how hard is it realistically to go from like hitting 30% to 40% like that’s really hard right like eventually you reach a point where you got to get to like elite elite ball striking whereas if you can just reduce that to like a nine iron the percentage jumps like crazy right absolutely AB well if you think about it like if I was to take like I think it’s uh 15 or 18 ft don’t quote me but I I think it’s like 15 or 18 ft with a wedge in your hand on like even on the PGA tour that’s like PJ tour average so for the average for the average uh for the average Joe that’s going to be like two probably two to three times that right so if if I was to even put you in a realm of of just gaining two or three more clubs off of the not even off the te but just gaining two or three more clubs in your hand like yeah that statistic your dispersion is naturally going to get tighter without changing anything in relation to like your mechanics right right yeah cuz I think uh I think it was you telling me about a student that you had and maybe it was Ben but he would be like you know these players would be hitting like a five iron from 200 yards and they’d be getting pissed because miss the green they like ah as if it was a bad shot yeah you’re supposed you’re not supposed to hit from 200 right if you guys look at the stats of like what 200 yards and in on the PJ tour it looks like like it’s almost 40t I think it’s right around 35 40t from 200 yards so like if you hit the green even honestly it’s it’s almost a 50/50 split even from 150 and and and back so oh so if you’re 150 yards it’s like 50% chance you’ll hit especially with the average and that even and and and that stat gets worse like obviously if you’re on the PJ tour that stat just naturally gets worse like myself included yeah right so it’s like I bet you a lot of players are only like 10% from 200 yard then no actually probably less worse so it’s like it’s like oh I want to be able to I want to be able to hit more greens and regulation it’s like they’re like well how do I get my mechanics better it’s like you don’t have to get your mechanics better you can only like you we can get your mechanics to a place where it’s sustainable just to see the ball curve in a specific direction if if it’s too much then that’s something different but let’s just use the example of you hit like a uh the average Joe hits like a 10 yard cut with every single Club that’s fine if you can know it and you can predict it right if it’s going to curve left to right every time I don’t care how much it curves and then we can mitigate what that looks like tighten up even if we tighten up like 10% which is which is literally nothing sometimes and then but if I give you two or three more clubs worth of distance you’re going to hit the green way more frequently than grinding and trying to hit it straighter because if I’m being honest the hardest shot in golf is the straight one right like because it’s unpredictable because is it going to fall left is it going to fall right and and nobody is that zero out not even guys in the PJ tour and you’ll see guys in the PJ tour they have a specific shot shape you’re not seeing guys manufacture the ball in both directions like like obviously tiger was an anomaly and again people like oh well Tiger’s the exception of the rule well that’s one person out of a bajillion people so it’s like if if if you can curve the ball in one specific Direction with every Club in the bag obviously the more Loft you get the less curve you’re going to have but let’s just use the example of hitting a fade a 10 yard cut with every single Club in the bag including driver all the way up if you know the ball’s going to curve left to right you’ve eliminated half of the golf course you’ve you’ve already eliminated 50% of the Miss yeah so if I know that and I can and I can plot my way around the golf course knowing that and I just give you a couple more clubs worth of distance like you’re going to get so much more out of that and it’s going to be way more fun than grinding on the Range cuz 99% of people that are in and around the double-digit handicap range they’re not practicing two three times a week they’re not chipping and putting two three times a week like you want to get better distance is going to be one of those first of all eliminating one side of the golf course is number one and number two is gaining distance in order to accentuate the statistics that we just talked about right yeah that’s I think that sums it up pretty clearly there so if you guys aren’t convinced uh I mean yeah it’s pretty cool it’s also the fun thing right to go up and hit it past your buddies absolutely and like it’s it’s impossible for people for people to like Club off of you too like nobody’s been able to Club off of me that was hilarious for the past 5 Years cuz they’re like oh what club are you hitting and I’m like oh I’m hitting a pitching wedge and they’re hitting like eight irons and it’s like well don’t try and Club off of me because you can’t do it was worse than that I remember so Colton and I were playing on a par three uh last summer and we were playing with a A really lovely couple that we met we were just paired up with a you know husband and wife type and so um the husband he gets up and he tees up first on this par three and he hits like a a four hybrid right end of this which is fine it was like 180 yards probably yeah yeah and I think I got up there and I hit about a seven iron right and then Colton steps up there and he hits some ungodly short club and then and the guy’s like holy crap were you what were you guys were probably hitting like seven irons or something and I was like well yeah like I had a seven iron but Colton just like sort of like flashed flashed me the club yeah you’re usually pretty humble about that stuff you don’t tell anyone yeah I don’t I don’t I’m not a big like I know that some people like that stuff and I know that some people shtick online is like to to be that cocky individual i’ I’ve never been that way um I’ve always kind of got about my business very quietly and let my golf game kind of do the talking for me um which is way better than than getting uh than getting super fired up and getting overly cocky about your game don’t get me wrong like there’s there there’s a benefit to both but yeah like I’m it’s it’s just like if you if you have a question and you ask me I will gladly answer but I’m not going to be like oh yeah I hit a pitching wedge you’re a because you hit a seven higher you know what I mean so um yeah it was funny because usually be like do you guys play a lot of golf and I’ll be like yeah like I play a lot of golf and Colton will just like avoid the question I don’t really play that it just lets this game speak for itself that much but that’s that’s so true too man like it’s not at the end of the day like how will you play as for your enjoyment of uh that’s to you know you’ve got your goals in mind and and I think really it’s just about tapping that potential that you know you have it’s like just sort of living up and it’s fun right it’s fun to have a goal and get somewhere it’s super fun especially when you maybe never believed you were going to get to a certain goal I think a lot of players get stuck and they just kind of feel like I’ll never break ad80 again or something and their growth sort of around the GameStops and there can be frustration associated with that when you know you’re so close to Breaking that Milestone and then it all falls apart but I’ll tell you guys I think once I started making a change to my game like a significant real change and we are working on on different distance and a little bit of strategy and things like that to um when I broke through my barrier which had been it had always been 80 mhm it came like that and now it’s like no looking back like when you get past that barrier for real it’s like you you know of course you’re going to shoot above that again you know I shot at 9 in a tournament last year partially cuz my rang finder was set on meters instead of inste of yards whoopsie took me like a month to figure that that’s bad it’s like the last tournament of the Year too but uh yeah yeah absolutely so again if you guys aren’t convinced that distance is going to change your game like you guys are sorely mistaken especially if you don’t have time to practice like adding more distance to your game doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to hit it further in the trees that doesn’t necessarily what that means um obviously if your mechanics are not in a place and you add distance yes the M can be accentuated however as you guys can see from the beginning of this video you guys know that um distance at least at the highest level on the PJ tour is going to be 4X the amount of money that you could possibly earn so if even just if you think about taking money off your buddies or you’re thinking about your handicap you could Forex negatively Forex your your handicap or your investment per se in your handicap um just just by adding distance because that’s one of the biggest stats that’s uh that’s been changed over the course of the last years and it’s only going to get even further so that’s kind of why I continue to chase that and continue to push that because I know that if you don’t have a lot of time to practice that’s one of that’s something you don’t need to hit golf balls to improve your game which is which is kind of cool and not everybody wants to go to the range two three four times a week and bang balls no way nicer to just go outside work on a drill in your backyard for 5 or 10 minutes minutes a day and then just try to get speed like try to get faster and obviously kind of mitigate what those look like and make sure there’s a happy medium so hope you guys got some value of this video hope you guys have now bought into the whole speed scenario uh we know we’re going to be talking about this a lot more and it’s uh it’s a big value of mine and uh again hope you guys got some value out of the video and as always stay fast and we’ll
