Ep 2. Why You Stripe It on the Range… and Lose It on the First Tee

What if the reason you keep shooting the same scores… is because you’ve been practicing the wrong course the entire time?

In Episode 2 of the One Round Away Podcast, Bo Watson and Shannon Shuskey unpack one of the most important ideas in golf performance: the real course you’re playing every single day is the six inches between your ears.

This is the episode that shifts everything.

Bo and Shannon break down why the average golfer keeps chasing more lessons, more swing thoughts, more range time, and more information… yet still sees almost no real improvement. They tackle the massive disconnect between the range and the course, why golfers can look incredible in practice and then become a completely different player under pressure, and why the biggest gains in your game may have nothing to do with another swing tip. 

You’ll also hear why golf is far more mental than most players realize, how your thoughts are either building confidence or draining it, and why most golfers are making constant withdrawals from what Shannon calls their “brain account” without ever making deposits first. Bo and Shannon also begin laying the groundwork for a new identity — the Caveman Golfer — the player who stops overcomplicating the game and starts performing with instinctive freedom.  

If you’ve ever wondered why your game doesn’t transfer from practice to play… why one bad hole can wreck an entire round… or why you know you’re capable of more but can’t seem to access it when it counts…

This episode will hit home.

And before you listen to the next episode, Bo and Shannon invite you to take their free mental game assessment so you can identify your personal missing link and start making the right adjustments. 

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You’re just one round away.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

I want to ask you something, and I really want you to like sit with us just for a second. What if I told you that you have been practicing the wrong thing your entire golf life? Like, not the wrong swing, not the wrong club, not the wrong course, but like the wrong thing entirely. Like, would you want to know what that is? Hey, I'm Bo Watson. Shannon Shesky. And this is the one round away podcast where we're going to help golfers like you stop guessing, stop grinding, and start playing the game of golf that you know you're capable of. You know, last week we told you about our origin story, how I walked away from the game of golf for two years, also how Shannon became a national champion speech uh skater after being born like severely club footed. We talked about how we had a dinner conversation back in 2018 that completely changed both of our lives. And so if you haven't heard episode one yet, like make sure you go back and listen to that because like what we're gonna talk about today, we're gonna go deeper into everything that we shared. So go back and listen to that because this is gonna be amazing. Today, what we're gonna do is we're gonna talk about like why most golfers never improve. I'm warning you right now, this is probably gonna be pretty uncomfortable because chances are you've been doing this too. So like here's a number I want you to sit on. 0.1. According to the National Golf Foundation, that's the average stroke improvement that golfers are doing in a year basis, doing all the traditional things like lessons, range time, new equipment, YouTube videos, golf magazines. 0.1 strokes per year. You know what that means if you're currently shooting 95 and you're doing all the stuff under the sun the traditional way, that means in 10 years you're gonna be shooting 94. Does that feel familiar to anybody?

SPEAKER_01 1:42

Yeah, and that's crazy, but I want to say this too, because a lot of people are going out and watching these videos and and listening to all this stuff, and you don't really know you know what you're getting into. Do they really know what they're talking about? And then that's actually affecting it too, because they might be teaching you the wrong stuff, you know.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Actually, that was why Shannon, if you remember, like when we first launched all this, like we hosted the very first ever consistent golf summit. Because like the main reason why I did that was because I saw a lot of people going on YouTube, and many of them were getting so frustrated. Because if you go back to that same study, this is what's so like amazing to me, is that they found like when you dig deeper, the number one reason why golfers are quitting the game is because of frustration. I'll tell you what, like the biggest thing that I kept hearing over and over in the community is that many people go on these places like YouTube and stuff, and don't get me wrong, there's a lot of good people out there. A lot of them have actually been on my summits in the past. So there are some really good, world-renowned coaches out there that are sharing information. But it's what really ends up happening is many people are going and getting their information. Some of them don't even know how to source it for themselves. But the other thing is there's also a lot of bad information out there. I don't know about you, but if you had something, again, I shared this in last week's episode. Uh, but if you, heaven forbid, had something like severely wrong health-wise, are you gonna go to a generalist or are you gonna go to the number one specialist on that particular topic? And that was the whole like reason why I did a first ever consistent golf summit, is I went out and picked the very best coach in each of the different niche within the game of golf, and then had them come in to that summit so that people could go to the specialists, right? And so it it's really in a sense depressing because I see it day in, day out. Shannon, you and I both do. Like when we onboard new clients, we work with people one-on-one, or when we do like group stuff with some of the people that we work with, like we see it all the time, especially in the very beginning, like when they share like their laundry list of all the things they've been doing, and yet many of them have gotten worse. And so that's really sad. And that's why we're doing this podcast, because guys, we really want you to shoot your new lifetime low ground, and we want you to not just do it just one time, but do it many times. We want you to move into that identity that we talked about in the last episode, which is become the caveman golfer or become that cavegirl golfer. Uh, because the reality is when you look at how this game is played, and you know, when Shane and I, you and I were talking about this in the beginning, and I told you that you're full of crap. They're so fun intended. Like when we first had that dinner conversation, I was like, look, golf is like the hardest sport in the world. There's no way that this system is gonna work for golf. And Chan's, yeah, I know, because like it's 90-10. You know, when you look at the game of golf, it's 90% mental and 10% physical, right? So Chan, talk about that.

SPEAKER_01 4:32

Yeah, so what's interesting is all the elite coaches, all the elite athletes in the world, it doesn't matter where golf, tennis, NBA, basketball, football, all the coaches and athletes, that's the first thing that they'll admit. They'll say competition is 90% mental and 10% physical. And we even mentioned this in the past podcast. You know, we're going to get in all the the technical information like how to fix our swing and how to do that, but mentally, it's just not showing up because we're not putting in the right deposit. And with 90% mental and 10% physical, we're spending 100% of the time on only 10% of the game. And that's I'm I'm clearly going to call it out. This is not with judgment, it's because you know, the the Bible actually says that we're destroyed for our lack of knowledge, and that applies in a lot of different areas. You know, when it comes to golf, you know, we're destroyed for lack of knowledge. How do we apply it? You know, a little bit of pressure comes and all of a sudden we get discombobulated in our brain and we don't know how to perform when it matters the most. But here's the good news is we'll we're going to be able to show you how to get those mental reps in and balance this out even more. Yes, do you need physical practice? It's obvious you need physical practice. There's been studies and studies over and over again when it comes to even the not just golf, but in other sports, when it comes to if you're just doing physical practice versus just mental practice. And I would even say, what is it, Bo? Like 95% of the time, people that are just doing mental practice only, they're probably improving 20% and versus just physical practice only, they're probably improving 25%, right? Just think what happens when you put those together. Studies have proved over and over and over again, you're going to ignite your performance when you put both of those together, the physical and the mental performance, right, Bo?

SPEAKER_00 6:40

1000%. And I think that's why one of the biggest frustrations I see all the time, Shannon, like when we talk to people a lot, and even in a community, you know, the number one thing that many people come to us and complain about is why is my range game not transferring to the course? Or, you know, why is it that I'm a totally different practice player? And then when it's under pressure or when I'm playing with friends or just simply playing, it's like a totally different animal, right? And I call it a jack on hide. And, you know, the biggest frustration for many people is that they know they are capable, you know, and they're very smart. And a lot of people that we work with, executives, CEOs, business owners, and just very bright people that we work with day in, day out. They're very successful off the course, but yet it's like, who is this person that is playing this game? It's like almost embarrassing, right? And so for many of them, they just want to have more fun. One of the fastest ways to have fun is to change your approach to actually improving and getting better at this game. And that's why we got to change it just a little bit. And that's what we've discovered. That's the system that we're gonna share with you. This is how we're gonna finally put a stop to you go out and you play your front nine, you play it great, and then you blow up on the back nine. Or maybe it's like vice versa. Like maybe you go out and you play terrible on the front, and yet you somehow miraculously shoot an incredible back nine score and you do it routinely, or it's the occasional like you have these massive blow-up holes that are just scattered throughout the round, and it's like no matter what you do, you always shoot up in the same scoring range, right? And it I know it's so frustrating because again, this is what we help people day in, day out work on. But one of the things that we're gonna show you is how when we start putting these mental deposits in, which is what we're gonna talk about next, and ultimately, you know, why you've been playing the wrong course. And so, Shannon, you want to talk about that? What is like the actual course that we should be playing?

SPEAKER_01 8:38

Well, the actual course is you know the course engineers, they come out and they, you know, they're telling you what the par is and you know what you should be shooting, or or what not to make par or you know, what a birdie would be. But here's the thing every single morning, when you get out, what do you do? You brush your teeth and it and you're sitting there, you're looking yourself at the mirror. That is your biggest competition. The course is the six inches between your ears. That was the first thing that I found out. If you remember back in the first episode that we we recorded and brought to you, that was the biggest disconnect that I had with with speed skating. In reality, when we put shoes on, I was beating other national champions, and I was not a national champion but at that time, but I was beating in other national champions in the various age group and some pro skaters. And that disconnect for me was being able to put that when I had my skates on. And then I physically got mental doing mental reps that that set me over that goal line, so to speak, and moved me into a place where I was able to perform when it matters the most. So we're gonna unpack this concept fully. That course between your ears is the only one that you're playing every single time that you go out. You know, are you beating yourself up? You know, are you putting yourself in the best situation mentally to be able to perform when it matters the most? We talked about getting mental reps in. Everything that's going through your brain, no matter how you look at it, is a mental rep. If you're thinking negative, like I can't do this, guess what? That's a mental rip. If you're thinking positive, guess what? That's a mental rep. Which one is outweighing most? You might have that hole in your home course, and it is really just degradating, and you just don't want to even go to that hole and it just breaks you down every single time because you you never perform on that hole. Well, guess what? You've already beat yourself up and you've already started affecting your brain mentally. So when you approach that hole, your confidence is out the door, totally out the door. You've put all those negative mental reps in. Well, guess what? It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when you step up to that hole. And Bo, that reminds me back in the, I believe it was the Sochi Olympics where Jacqueline Hernandez, that was one of the things that she was doing. She was putting negative mental reps in, visualizing herself falling over this certain jump. And every single time she did it, well, here's the thing it affected her so bad that when she was going down, it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Because of negativity that's going on in her brain, it actually was affecting her coordination. So then when it came time for her to go and do that jump, what happened? She started tensing up, and what happened was she actually crashed, and unfortunately, she knocked herself unconscious. And that's that self-fulfilling prophecy. No matter what kind of reps you're putting in, negative or positive, it is a mental rep. And you're and you've heard the Bible verse, you reap what you sow, and everybody talked about that. Then what that's what's happening. You're only reaping what you're sowing, even if it's negative.

SPEAKER_00 11:46

You know what, Shannon? I just made me realize. I don't know if it's it's true or not, but like it does make you wonder that Lindsay Vaughn, you know, she's had this consistency, and just in the last few big races and even in the Olympics, and then even the big race just before that in qualifying, I believe it was, where she wrecked and had a really bad injury just recently in the most recent Winter Olympics. So, you know, not saying that could have been it, but again, there is a lot of truth here to what are you feeding your brain? What deposits are you making, whether it's good or bad, and we gotta be very careful of that. I love that when you talk about the brain account, you talk about how it's what you're depositing that matters. I think a lot of people struggle with, and especially just to share a story. What's so amazing, going back to like when we talk about why players can't transfer their games from like when they're practicing to like when they're going on the course, I had this one particular player, and we shared this in our book. And by the way, if you haven't picked up our book, you can get a free signed copy. All you gotta do is just pay shipping. But it's a really cool thing. You can get it our book, Amazon Secrets. Link will be posted in the show notes. But in the book, we wrote about this one particular player, and it's actually the player that fired me. This one particular player I was working with, he would stripe it on the range. He would hit amazing, he would go and when we do on course playing sessions, we would track him with stroke skein data. Everything was screaming that he should be a slow single-digit handicapper. But why is it that he would go and play in tournaments and these CGA one-day events, he would actually be somewhere between 87 and 92, like it was his day job. And it was frustrating as a coach. Then obviously for him too. And then when we finally started going through, which we're gonna talk about in just a second, when we made that shift and showed him how to do some mental deposits, show them how to do what we're gonna talk about here in a minute, psychedomisco training, what was so cool is literally a week later. Now, don't get me wrong, like it can happen. We've had players as old as like 81 years old. I learned, you know, within a week or so after learning this, go from a 12.4 index to shooting 69. I mean, we do have a lot of success stories like that, but let's just say it's not typical. But this particular player, literally the very next week after I showed him, he goes out and he shoots 76 in a Carolinas Golf Association one-day event. And I'm like, just given the benefit of the doubt, I'm like, hey man, like what did you do? And he's like, Bo, everything you just shared last week, like on the trigger and how to do the mental reps, that was my key to breakthrough today. I was like, that's so cool. It didn't stop there. Yeah, we had the next player I showed up with. This guy worked at the post office. This guy had literally the world's worst, I still think today, the worst slice I've ever seen with his driver. He had about 220 and he's slicing at about 40 to 50 yards, sometimes more. And I'm like, all right, we go right to work on showing him how to start fixing the swing plane. He was severely over the top, club head, down the line view over his head, okay, at P5 from P to four, P5. And so you're like, What in the world? All right, so we gotta get this come back on shout it out, right? And I showed him that, and then in the second lesson, I shared with him the principles that I also shared the first player, okay. So I showed him how to actually shortcut the learning curve with like mental reps. I didn't know this at the time because after that second lesson in November, guess what? He works at the post office, he's in busy season. I don't see him or hear from him until March. Now, just before we meet, I had texted him, like check in with him, because I hadn't heard from him, and he tells me he's only played once and practiced twice. And I'm like, okay, this is gonna be interesting. First lesson, first seven balls, five yard baby draws with his driver, and I'm looking at him like a deer in headlights, and I'm like, What have you been doing? And he said, Bo. And I because I asked him, I called him out, and I was like, Have you been lying? And he said, No. And he's like, I did play once and I practiced twice, but I was like, How do you explain this? And he said, Bo, like when I had downtime at work, I would actually just do mental reps of me rehearsing everything you showed me with what I needed to do with my swing. I was like, that is amazing. And we have many more case studies like this. But again, there's so much truth to making deposits. I'm gonna give two shout-outs.

SPEAKER_01 16:11

First shout out is gonna be to Sider Gal. We worked with her because here's the thing. She she was on medical exemption with a wrist. And this is I'm I'm getting ready to explain a little bit about the importance of getting those deposits into that brain account that Bo was talking about. And Bo was talk, was referring to people that had to, with their technique and things like that, even injury, getting mental reps in when you're injured. Get back to Sondra Gow. She actually had a medical exemption in for a whole year, hasn't played, was only be only able to perform 20% of the time as far as practice than what she was used to. And what happened was when she met with us, we were showing her how to do the mental reps, doing mental imagery and going through a trigger, which we're gonna talk about a little bit later, getting that trigger in and what that looks like. Um, and then her confidence level transpired to where she was like, you know what? I'm gonna I'm gonna go in for the Scottish and a British open. Not just that, on the very first day, she was on top of the leaderboard top three.

unknown 17:19

Right?

SPEAKER_00 17:20

Hang on, Shaf. Hold on. You gotta give them a little bit more background. She in this first round hasn't played in a competition round in over a year.

SPEAKER_01 17:31

Year, that's right. A year, but you nailed it. Thanks for share thanks for clarifying that.

SPEAKER_00 17:37

She she didn't even want to return and play when we first met with her. And you know, back in the beginning of June that year, you know, she had five exemptions gifted to her, and she didn't feel ready, and she wasn't going to use them until we showed her the system and she started applying this, making these deposits like you're talking about. And then I still have that email saved. I still couldn't believe it. But like when I checked in with her and she said, Yeah, guys, I'm making more putts than I ever have. You guys saw the Instagram story. I made a hole in one, I'm hitting the ball beautifully, and now I'm actually signed up for the Scottish and a British Open and Chance Shared right there. She goes in that first round, shoots, I think it was three under or two under, and she was and tied for third place at the top of the leaderboard in her first competitive round in a year off. And yet, you have to understand she could only practice physically, only about 25% of what she was doing pre-injury. Okay, just put this in perspective. Basically, playing with the top players in the world on the LPJ tour. Like, just put this in perspective. Like it would it almost seems impossible. How in the world can a player like that be able to return and play to that kind of form, but yet they're practicing 25% than what they were doing pre-injury.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

Absolutely. I mean, that that's just mind-blowing, and I'll never forget. I want to share this moment too, because this is this has always made Bo and I laugh a little bit because one of the things she was getting mental imagery in, and her mental imagery became so real when we met with her right before I think it was the Scottish show, and she said this. She goes, Shannon, Bo, I think I'm gonna stop doing mental imagery. And we looked at it with her mouth open, like, why? She goes, Because my wrist hurts every time I do it. Wait, what? And that's when we're Bo and I was like, no, no, no, you're doing it right. You're getting rehab on your wrist, and that's what's doing it's because your brain doesn't know the difference when you're doing mental imagery. And because it's actually the motor sensory part of your brain, your brain has no idea. But here's my other shout-out that I want to give to. I want to give a shout out to Carmen. She actually had a torn rotator cuff on her shoulder. Now, how many golfers, when they have a torn rotator cuff, come back stronger? Right? You you're gonna think automatically that your golf game is done. Well, she was getting her mental reps in over and over again, in between, and even doing mental reps of her therapy that she was doing, the physical therapy as well. She was getting mental reps in. So it's like double the amount of time of therapy working on her shoulder. Here's the thing. She came back literally once her doctor gave her the go-ahead that she could do full swing within two weeks, within two weeks, she was hitting the ball further than she was, and even more accurate. And here's the cool thing. She even mentioned this that she was not guarding her swing when she was swinging. We know mentally, we're thinking in our brain that man, this is gonna hurt when I do that full swing. My shoulder's gonna hurt. She was not guarding her swings because she's got so many mental reps in over and over again, and getting the mental therapy as well as the physical therapy. She wasn't guarding her swing. She was hitting the ball further, she was hitting the ball more accurate. That's the power of getting mental reps in, even when it comes for injury. That was amazing.

SPEAKER_00 21:02

Yeah, and we even had a guy, John, he had a knee replacement down in South Carolina, and I'll never forget him when he was going through that process of the rehab and all that and being away from the game for several months. Literally, like in the second round back, I shot, I think it was his lowest round in five years, 77, I think it was. And he had been a guy that's been, you know, mid 80s for a long time before we start working on this. But I want to I want to do this. We need to address the skeptics. And if you're skeptical, good. Because that's where I was when I first met Shannon, because I told him he was full of it. So for those of you that are like, all right, this sounds too good to be true, like blah, blah, blah. Let me just share this verse. As a man thinketh, so is he.

SPEAKER_01 21:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

Okay. So what are those things? How are we what are we making deposits in? What are we feeding ourselves? What are those thoughts that are coming in our brain? Paul talks about we gotta take our thoughts captive and make it obedient to the truth. Who is the truth? Christ said, I am the way, the truth, and the Life, right? The big thing I want to address right now is the all right, who has done this? Well, the world's best have done this, and I'm gonna prove it to you right here. You know what's so interesting is when you look at players like Tiger Woods, Jack Nicholas, you look at Sam Sneed, even like Phil Mickelson has talked about this, and we'll share that in later episodes. But Ben Hogan, Mickey Wright, one of the best ever on the LPGA tour side, amazing Hall of Fame career. So, what is the common denominator for all of them? What's interesting is if you look at Jack Nicholas, who was his childhood coach, it was Jack Grow. Okay. Who was Mickey Wright's child or coach for a long time? It was Harry Pressler. Okay, who was Sam Steed and Ben Hogan's coach? It was Henry Pickard. Well, what's the common link between those three coaches? Well, guess who their mentor was? Alex Morrison. Now, who's this Alex Morrison guy? You do a dig a little bit deeper, and you can actually go find his book, and you're gonna it's gonna cost you a lot, but you can go find his one of his first books that he wrote in 1940 called Better Golf Without Practice. All right, let me repeat that title for everybody that's on the podcast right now. Better Golf Without Practice. He wrote that book, 1940. All right, so what is he teaching? He's teaching basically mental imagery, well other principles. What's fascinating is that there was one well-known comedian named Lou Lore, and Alex Morrison was talking to him, and he came to Alex and he's look, I've tried everything. All right, sounds familiar? Tried everything. Lessons, clubs, you know, spending a ton of time practicing, and yet he couldn't break 90. Well, what does Alex do? Alex sits him in a chair, and over a two-week period, he has him rehearse the five Morrison swing keys. Basically, he's just doing mental reps. That's all he's doing. Then he goes and plays in his first round after taking two weeks off, no physical practice, in his first round back, he shoots 87. These principles, he shared it with Jack Raoult, Henry Pickard, and Harry Pressler, who then passed them on to their students, which is why they are literally the best of the best. Alright, to prove it further. Some of you are like, oh, I don't believe that. Okay, good. Go pick up Bob Rotella's book. Let's see, I think it's called The Golfer's Mind. Go read chapter two. What is chapter two? If you read that story in his book, Bob Rotell shares the well-known story about him going to speak at a big conference that Sam Sneed is in attendance. And everybody had warned Bob, hey Bob, like Sam really speaks his mind. So if you don't say whatever you're about to say on the mental side of the game, your career is over. Bob knew this going into this presentation. Well, guess what? Bob finishes his speaking. Guess who stands up at the end? Sam Sneed. Everybody's like, the room is quiet. Sam goes, we need to listen to this young man because everything he is sharing is true. What was Sam referring to? He was referring to on the mental imagery and visualization. Sam then goes, Back when I was playing my best golf, I would routinely go to bed, I would visualize my perfect round, I would make it the whole 9, 10, 11, or 12, I'd fall asleep, wake up next morning, have my morning routine, and I would go out and I would play it just about exactly the way I envisioned it. Isn't that fascinating?

SPEAKER_01 25:21

I want to reiterate what Bo was talking about because there was another book that actually went in a little bit deeper. One of the things that set Sam Sneed apart was not only would he do mental reps of the realm that he just played, he would fix all of his bad shots. Think about that. You start, your brain works in habit loops. And what happened is, and I even worked with a with one of the girls when she was on tour and was walking with her, that was one of the things she came up with the same same hall and was doing the same stuff over and over again for the past four days, the way she hit the ball. And again, it was a habit loop. And then when I had her go and fix it, just like what Sam Sneed did, fix that swing, fix that shot, and it where she's hitting the perfect shot. You always visualize, when you visualize, by the way, you always visualize the perfect shot. Maybe not the perfect scenario, like the rough, you know, being deeper than normal or just whatever it may be. You're in a you're coming out of a bad situation, but you're hitting the perfect shot. Because again, like what I was saying before, we don't want to have that self-fulfilling prophecy like Jacqueline Hernandez did by seeing a bad shot. That's why I want to hit those. And so I wanted to talk about that because that's one of the things that Sam Sneed did was he was go back and fix his shots. That's why he was one of the best putters, as well as you know, there were so many other things. Obviously, we know that Sam Sneed done. But here's the thing we would have never known any of this because most of your top elite athletes and professional, they don't share this until after they're retired. Because that's their secret sauce, so to speak, is getting the mental reps in and doing mental imagery. And with that being said, a lot of times what happens is let's talk about Pablo's dogs, for example, and we're talking about a trigger and the trigger concept. And you know, remember we're talking about a habit loop. Well, habit loop, there's a trigger that takes place, and then what happens is a behavior that takes place, and then a reward that comes out of that. And see, that's what happened with Pablo's dogs. With with the light or the buzzer, if you remember, if anybody's taking psychology one-on-one, you actually know exactly what I'm talking about. But if not, just in case, if you don't, if you haven't heard of Pablo's dogs, that's what happened. These doctors, they came in, they would do a buzzer, which would be a trigger, or a light, and then food would drop out, and then the dog would start salivating and then would eat the food. Over time, what happened is they would just do the light or the buzzer only. Um, and then the dog would automatically start salivating. And so that was a trigger that was going on. But here's the thing, I want to take it to a whole nother level. Yes, that that is true, and that's what happens, and we can physically do that. If you don't believe me, a prime example is how often have you thought of your favorite food, right? And this is one of the things that I did with Bo the the first night that we met. I took him through the visualization of peeling an orange and eating an orange, for example, and what happened was his mouth started watering. I'm not going to do that today, but how often have you thought about eating your favorite food and then your mouth starts watering, right? Well, that is a physical response to something that you have actually done and worked on. But here's the other thing. What if you what happens to a dog when you want to say, hey, you want to go outside? And then you take him outside, and then you start selling that over and over again. So then a month later, you say, You want to go outside to the dog. What does a dog immediate response do? What is it? What does a dog do?

SPEAKER_00 28:53

Oh, you get so excited. You got the tail wagon going nuts, spinning around in circles.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

Absolutely. There's a physical, emotional response that's taking place, right? And so that is one of the things that we're doing. We're going to start paying attention to what we're doing right before the best shot this week, for example. What are you doing before your best shot? What are you doing before your bad shot? There's going to be a pattern that's going to be going on there, and we're going to build on that even next week and how to be able to trigger that body to get in this.

SPEAKER_00 29:33

It's that we want to help people shoot their new lifetime low rounds. You know, that's our mission. And when you think back on your best ever round in the past, here's the common denominator that you'll see every time you think back on that round. You weren't thinking about P2, you weren't thinking about P5, you weren't thinking about P7. You weren't thinking about get the elbow tucked into the rib cage. You weren't thinking about how your foot pressure was. You weren't thinking about snap a load to power package, and you weren't thinking about the ground reaction forces and how you need to be shifting your pressure in your feet. None of that. It was C target, C ball, hit ball. Try to prove me wrong. And if anything, there was maybe one swing thought. And again, our system allows for process goals, things like that you we'll talk about later. But but in all cases, I have had thousands of conversations with people that have shared with me their lifetime low round, their experience, and what they recall when they think back to that round. And every time the common denominator is C target, C ball, pit ball. That is caveman golf or cavegirl golf in its most simplistic form. That's what we're inviting you to become. Step into that new identity. No longer go back and start playing the game with all these different swing faults, process by analysis. You know, we want to simplify. Yes, we want to work on those things, but we're going to show you how to do that correctly away from the course. What you will never hear me state on this podcast, and again, we told you before, we're going to be bringing in literally the world's best coaches onto this podcast. You'll never hear me say technical is not important. But what we are saying is how to put it in the right order of how to work on your game so that no longer it's incomplete like it has been for many years for many golfers. We're finally going to solve that last missing piece that's missing in your game. And to be honest, this is the downfall for many golfers and why they are stuck shooting the same scores every year is because they're practicing the wrong thing. They're spending 100% of the time on the 10%. And we're going to show you how to get that ratio working in unison with each other. So again, we want to invite you guys to move into that caveman or cave girl golf identity. And that's our invitation to you. One of the best ways to take that first step. We have an amazing free quiz or free assessment on your game. And if you want that, you just go to endazone secrets.com slash assessment. And you can take that 60 second set of questions and it will spit out your specific mental game score killer. And I think it's going to be something that's going to really open your eyes and it's going to help you immediately.

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With that assessment, a lot of times we're going to find ourselves when it comes to the mental thing. When we say mental toughness, that's one of the things that that I actually ask whenever we're working with universities. I'll ask them, I say, What is what is mental toughness for you? And every every person that says it, they talk about all these different things. Very similar. I'll just relate it to this. You know, whenever you're sick, how do you know that you're sick? Well, you're coughing or you're congested, or you know, you're having a hard time breathing, your chest hurts, or you know, or you might be thrown up. All those are symptoms of being sick. And a lot of times when it comes to mental toughness, we're only showing symptoms. Here's the true meaning of mental toughness. It is the one that makes the right adjustments. And we're going to show you how to make those right adjustments in the mental game and the call to action. So definitely go through, go to in the zone secrets.com backslash assessment. Get it's a free gift and take that quiz. Literally, it won't even take you five minutes to do. It'll give you a solution on what you're what you need to really work on, the mental aspect of your game. So then you're going to be more balanced and you'll know give you a starting point for that.

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Absolutely. And guys, to wrap this up, again, we're going to go deeper on the editor and psychometrical training in our next episode. But before you do that, take that quiz, that 60-second assessment. Remember, you're just one round away. Last thing is, if you are somebody that's, hey, I want to work with you and Shannon, I want to get to my goals much faster. We have a process that we can help you with that. All you need to do is go to the link just below that. It's AmazonSegrets.com free call. But that link will be posted in the show notes as well. And you can take advantage of that. A few questions that you can ask and that'll help us tailor the best experience for you on that call to get you to ultimately your goal much faster. So right now we're currently averaging about 5.94 shots, um, dropped off players' scoring averages in just under nine weeks. We're at 8.96 weeks is the average time frame that we're helping a lot of players do that. Yes, we are working with really good players too. We took a guy like Thomas from a 78.6 scoring average to down to 72.5 within eight and a half weeks. Currently, he's at a 69.6 scoring average. Now we're about 18 weeks in. So, yes, we can take you as far as you want to go. We work with tour players like Shannon said, we work with universities. A lot of them are using this system to better their game and have more fun, but more importantly, become better people. Like we told you in episode one, not only are we going to share the truths in the game, but we're also going to share truths in life. And for that, we're really excited on this journey together with you. That being said, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. And remember, you're just one round away.