Extraordinary Golf
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Welcome to Data Axis Golf, your home for rapid golf improvement. And now from the thin air of rocky mountains, next on the number one tee. Your host, Aaron Stewart.
Hello, everyone. Aaron Stewart again. Welcome to the next installment of the Data Axis Golf podcast. Good to have you here. I appreciate those that have listened to have the first podcast and the subsequent ones and grateful for the comment. One of the questions I've gotten, I want to address right now is some of you wanted to know what made the Extraordinary Golf School so great. It's a fair question, right? It is great. I'm not going to change my stance on that. It's fantastic. It's the best golf school in the world and I'd be happy to take that up with anybody.
I've been to an Extraordinary Golf School. I don't know, a couple of dozen times, maybe 30 times. If you throw in all the private lessons with Fred. I mean, I've been there a lot. And I love it. And if I could go more, I would. It's a great place to learn golf. So what makes Extraordinary Golf so great? I'm going to start with the original time I went because that was the biggest epiphany I guess for me. I went with my buddy Thayne and he's the one that introduced me to the whole concept of Extraordinary Golf and what they were all about. And we went to a golf school together. Unfortunately, it was in July over my wife's birthday, and I was on the next health cell phone network at the time, which did not work well. I ended up calling my wife on her birthday very, very late that day. So it almost killed the whole Extraordinary Golf thing for me, right? Because all of a sudden golf was more important than my wife to her, which isn't the case. But boy, it was good, right? So don't ever, whatever you do, right? If you book a trip to Extraordinary Golf, make sure that it is not over your wife's birthday, no matter what. Just don't do it. And if you can avoid Mother's Day, I've done that as well. And also avoid when your family has a trip plan to Disneyland because that doesn't go over well either. I have done all those things. Okay. So if you can avoid it, please do.
But anyway, back to my story. So Extraordinary Golf School. We show up. Buddy and I show up we're staying at a buddy's of his house we're staying in their guest house and it's nice. I mean guest house you kidding? It's nice. It's up in the hills of Carmel. It has this amazing view, frightening dogs rights. We had to sneak into the guest house to avoid the German Shepherds. It's like the whole Magnum P.I. thing, right? Just avoid the dogs at all costs and get in as quick as he can. It's a gorgeous place, we love staying there and we actually go out and play with this buddy of his at Quail Watch, which is a cool course, great little place there in Carmel Valley. I've stayed there a bunch. Awesome place. So if you can stay there, great! They have a cool exotics car show there a couple of times a year or maybe once a year. I don't know but really awesome place, very Carmelish if you will.
So, we go and play this Quail Lodge course. It's awesome. I mean, I'm having a great time playing golf and I'm not very good. I'm a little embarrassed because I'm playing in front of things buddy Thayne but I'm trying to be, you know, I'm trying to do at least kind of buy-in, right? And we play a couple of holes and then this body of things and he's also been to the Extraordinary Golf School. He asks if we can play the next hole in dead silence like without talking, right? And I'm like, What? whack job or I don't want anything to do with this. So I'm like looking around and things like. Yeah. Okay, that sounds good. And so we do it. It was weird, guys. I mean, it was just weird. But we go through and do it. And dead silence and I'm like, whatever. I'll take my par and we'll move to the next hole. And then the next hole. So funny stuff happened. He let go of his walking card and went down. And went into the pond, which I felt like kind of served him right for making me play a whole dead silence previously. So, anyway, so we finished playing this nine to kind of get sort of a taste right to what this Extraordinary Golf experience is going to be like. At least I think it's a taste. It turns out to not be really a taste but so I go off and we finished the round have a nice dinner there at the club and get up and get ready for the school the next day.
Well, the next day we go into we meet at Carmel Valley Ranch. Also, super cool place and we meet in this upper room right in the clubhouse. Carmel Valley Ranch is like heaven to me, right? It's like Nirvana. I love that place. I've learned so much about golf at this club that it feels like home to me. So this is my first time in this classroom. And I spent hours and hours there since and I love the place but I'm a little concerned. We're sitting around a great big conference table and there are people from all ages and I'm looking around kind of going. What? You know, I think I may have been the youngest guy there and I'm walking around going, What in the world that I just get myself into. This doesn't look like golf schools that I've attended in the past. And so we get started and Fred starts and talks about kind of what we're doing and all that. And kind of the first item of the day is, hey, we're going to go out and we're going to film your golf swing. I'm like, Okay, that sounds normal, right? That's pretty much what we do film our golf swings will look at them. Well discuss them and we'll get into it, right? We'll get into technique and on fixing it. So we go out and they get the cameras off setup. Well, they're going to film us two different ways. They filmed this, you know, front view, and then down the line view of our golf swings hitting golf balls. And then they film us front view and down the line view when I'm throwing a golf club at a golf bag. That's like, you know, 20 yards down the back of the tee. Like I'm just chuck on this thing. You take a like a golf swing and you're throwing this golf club and I'm like, Okay, this is odd, right? This is just weird, wacky, wild stuff. But hey, right we're just getting started. I feel like I've got to be a team player. I do this thing. I kind of keep my mouth shut. But I'm a little uncomfortable.
We go back up into the conference room. We all gather around the table. And there's this one old gal that was with us. Let me jump back. As we go around the table and we introduce one another, there are two people on this table who have never played golf before. Two. Are you crazy? I am now in like some sort of remedial golf program? And then one of the ladies introduces herself and I don't know, let's call her Marge. I can't remember what her name was, sweet lady, but she comes out and says that she hasn't been playing for very long. I got one guy doesn't even have clubs, right? My mind is blowing here and I think I've made a major mistake being here. I've dropped over 1000 bucks. And I think I've made a huge major mistake and I don't think I'm going to get anything out of this class. So there we are. And so we go out. And so this one lady, and I'm, she's the probably late 60s, early 70s, and they film her swing. And I kind of see it, you know, and I'll go, geez. And then we go back up into the course.
Well, Fred is a very wise man, right? He picks me out of the group and realizes I'm the skeptic, right? I'm the idiot of the bunch. He picks it out quickly. And if you go, be careful to not put yourself across as the idiot because Fred will figure it out and put you on the spot, which he did wisely. So we bring up the videos and the first video is this lady but I call her Marge? I don't know what it was. But sweet lady actually just loved her to death for this course. But here we are at the beginning. And Fred shows her golf swing right when she's hitting the golf ball and it is. What do you think of this golf swing? And I'm thinking, What do you mean? And he's like, well, it means right Myrtle or whatever, here, to learn to be a good golfer, what do you think? Do you think that? How long do you think it's going to take her? I'm thinking to myself, I'm looking at thing going. Chances are, you know, not very good. He's like, no, no. What do you think? What do you think? How long do you think it takes her to be a good golfer, and I am so embarrassed and I feel so horrible that I said this, but I did. And I'm going to admit it and just let it fall where everybody is going to hate me after I say that, but I literally said she doesn't have time. Whoa, right insinuating? She's so advanced in years if I can put it politically correct, that she doesn't have time-based on what I know about the golf swing and how hard it is to learn to get good at golf, right? So I throw it out there. Well, obviously Marge isn't really happy with it. I don't think most of the group was very happy with it. Thayne probably wanted to kill me for bringing him into this you know this group of his, right? This group of peers and I was a prior pariah, right? But Fred's looking at me like oh okay yeah that's your opinion okay that's great. Ah here's the trick he switches over to the golf swing of Marge throwing a golf club, right? Face on. Throwing the golf club at that bag that was 20 yards down the back of the tee. That said hey Aaron based on what you know of the golf swing, what do you think of this move? And I watched that thing in slow motion and I turned to Fred and I realized I've been had, right? Fred had me exactly what he wanted me and he won. And he always wins. But I look at this video of Marge, and I wish I remembered her name because it was something like that. But throwing this golf club and it's perfect. And I say it's perfect. As far as a golf motion goes, it's perfect. She takes it back. The fluid motion sets it, hips go first, comes down, flings the club out. I mean, she doesn't go up or down or head stay steady the whole thing. I mean, it was like tour quality motion and I am completely blown away. And then Fred Shoemaker goes, Okay, that's what we do. We take what we have, you know, and we take us throwing or propelling a club and we try to get closer to that motion and stay away from this motion. And he explains why we make that motion and I'll probably get into that later. But that for me was the tipping point for Extraordinary Golf.
Fred Shoemaker and Extraordinary Golf look at the golf swing very differently. And going back to what I said when I was with my daughter, and she learned to ride a bike, Fred Shoemaker and Extraordinary Golf give you the experiences you need to finally get an understanding of where you need to be for you and your golf swing. And it's different. It's not about putting yourself into different positions, and this, that and the other. They do it a little bit when they have to when you really get out of whack. But it's really just about helping you sort of discover who you are naturally. We don't have books, books, and books on how to ride a bike. And sometimes you actually get technical when they get into it. They want to be aerodynamic and all that kind of stuff. They want to be super professional, then you've got time trials and all that then you've got to coach. But no, we don't have to write about the bike. And based on what I saw, Marge, Myrtle, whoever the sweet lady was, she knew how to hit a golf ball. She knows how to put a good golf swing together naturally. And we all do. And that's what Extraordinary Golf does. It shows you what your natural movement is. And once you tap into that, you play better golf and that's just the bottom line. And that's why I love Extraordinary Golf. That's why I highly recommend it. That's why I say anybody who ever wants to go to a Golf School ever, go there because they will help you get to the bike riding experience instead of having a myriad of coaches giving you a bunch of tips, and this that. And the other that is not accurate feedback, that is not instant feedback and it's not understandable, relatable feedback so we can't use it. At last surrounded to some tip, last around or two and then it's gone, and all the guess why tips and stuff don't work in a later podcast. It's pretty interesting. But we'll discuss that.
But for now, there it is. Extraordinary Golf helps you figure out how you swing a golf club. What's the natural motion that's best for you. And the cool thing about it too. Your body knows how to swing a golf club so it doesn't hurt, right? So you take the pain out of it. So if any of you worked, swinging a golf club, you need to go to Extraordinary Golf. They'll teach you how to swing pain-free and get it around the course very proficiently. And I'll close with this. I played the last nine holes we played before we left and you get to play, which is awesome. I played with Marge, right and she played beautifully. Not perfect, but she hits some really amazing drives. She hit some wonderful approach shots. She was a golfer and she went from somebody the habit camps to somebody who could get it around the course and hit some good golf shots in three days. It was miraculous and still one of the coolest experience golf experiences ever. And it happened in the first time I experienced Extraordinary Golf and I assure you, if you go, you will have that aha moment where you kind of go, Okay, this Fred guys brilliant dude. And I only want to learn golf from him. So anyway, thanks for tuning in. Until next time, this is Aaron Stewart and I'm out.
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