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1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,139 Welcome back, everybody, to Pull Hook Golf, the podcast. 2 00:00:07,519 --> 00:00:08,960 I'm your host, Matt Cook. 3 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:13,054 And today, we're diving into the world of short game mastery because if you've been listening 4 00:00:13,054 --> 00:00:15,714 to this podcast, you know my short game sucks. 5 00:00:15,855 --> 00:00:21,934 So we've got a special guest today and PGA Tour winner and now short game guru, Parker 6 00:00:21,934 --> 00:00:22,434 McLachlin.
7 00:00:22,894 --> 00:00:28,149 I mean, your journey through professional golf is nothing short of inspiring. 8 00:00:28,449 --> 00:00:33,649 From winning on the PGA Tour to becoming known now as the Short Game Chef, we're gonna get 9 00:00:33,649 --> 00:00:39,090 into all of that and how you've dedicated your career to helping golfers of all levels and 10 00:00:39,090 --> 00:00:43,804 helping them sharpen their short game skills, which I think is the most difficult aspect of 11 00:00:43,804 --> 00:00:45,564 golf, in general. 12 00:00:45,564 --> 00:00:47,725 But once again, we'll get to that in a little bit. 13 00:00:47,725 --> 00:00:50,784 But, folks, in this episode, we're gonna explore Parker's background.
14 00:00:50,844 --> 00:00:57,369 We're gonna talk about how his path to the PGA Tour helped him transition into this Short Game 15 00:00:57,369 --> 00:01:00,750 Chef and, really the success of his online platform. 16 00:01:00,890 --> 00:01:04,750 And then we'll dive into some practical chipping advice for all of you. 17 00:01:04,890 --> 00:01:07,530 So without further ado, welcome, Parker. 18 00:01:07,530 --> 00:01:09,194 Let's get started here.
19 00:01:09,275 --> 00:01:11,694 Let's get started with your beginning. 20 00:01:12,234 --> 00:01:17,515 Can you tell us, I mean, from the early days of, you know, growing up in Hawaii and so 21 00:01:17,515 --> 00:01:23,295 forth, how'd you ultimately get from a little kid in Hawaii to making it onto the PGA Tour? 22 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:24,120 Yeah. 23 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:25,079 I mean, good question.
24 00:01:25,079 --> 00:01:26,040 I think, no. 25 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:27,400 I was always a gym rat. 26 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:32,200 So my my dad was a basketball coach, and a volleyball coach. 27 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:35,579 My mom was a volleyball player, like, so I I was always in the gym.
28 00:01:36,275 --> 00:01:41,075 And so, I mean, I grew up with a basketball and a volleyball in my hands, and and those were 29 00:01:41,075 --> 00:01:42,534 sort of my first two loves. 30 00:01:43,075 --> 00:01:47,875 And then along came golf when I was sort of like, you know, 10, 11. 31 00:01:47,875 --> 00:01:54,060 I got introduced to it, and I was like, I started to get frustrated. 32 00:01:54,060 --> 00:01:57,819 Some of my teammates in basketball and volleyball, they they would show up late, and 33 00:01:57,819 --> 00:02:00,159 we would have to run lines because of them.
34 00:02:00,379 --> 00:02:05,834 And I just remember thinking to myself, like, golf is a little bit more of an individual 35 00:02:05,834 --> 00:02:14,715 sport, and so however much I work, I usually see payoff in the end on my end as far as 36 00:02:14,715 --> 00:02:15,354 success goes. 37 00:02:15,354 --> 00:02:20,430 So that's sort of what initially attracted me to golf, and then, you know, I didn't have 38 00:02:21,150 --> 00:02:24,830 great access to golf courses growing up. 39 00:02:24,830 --> 00:02:27,889 We weren't a member of any country club or anything like that. 40 00:02:29,069 --> 00:02:32,669 I grew up playing at the local muni golf course.
41 00:02:32,669 --> 00:02:39,044 It was called Ala Wai Golf Course, and it's actually the, the most—it had like a Guinness 42 00:02:39,044 --> 00:02:43,365 Book of World Records for the most rounds of golf on a golf course in one year, like 43 00:02:43,525 --> 00:02:48,405 something like 255,000 rounds in a year played. 44 00:02:48,405 --> 00:02:51,379 It was like the busiest golf course on planet Earth, right? 45 00:02:51,599 --> 00:02:54,420 Because you got basically, you know, it's in Waikiki. 46 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:56,500 You got sunshine every day.
47 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:02,000 And so they play sixes and six-minute interval tee times. 48 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,040 I'm not kidding you. 49 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:03,939 It's crazy. 50 00:03:04,284 --> 00:03:07,025 You get to the third hole, and it's like a four-group backup.
51 00:03:07,245 --> 00:03:12,365 You jump the fence, you go across to Jack in the Box, and you get some food, and you come 52 00:03:12,365 --> 00:03:12,865 back. 53 00:03:13,405 --> 00:03:15,324 Anyway, that's how I kind of grew up. 54 00:03:15,324 --> 00:03:21,459 But I did a lot of, I was more into playing, so I would always go out in the afternoon. 55 00:03:21,459 --> 00:03:24,739 Parents would drop me off, and I would play in the afternoon.
56 00:03:24,739 --> 00:03:31,724 So I'd go and play nine holes, and I would just hit a bunch of shots, and I loved the feeling 57 00:03:31,724 --> 00:03:37,245 of being creative, being behind coconut trees, and having to shape it up and over or around 58 00:03:37,245 --> 00:03:39,004 it, left or right. 59 00:03:39,004 --> 00:03:43,724 So, and then, you know, missing greens and just, you know, hitting a bunch of shots around 60 00:03:43,724 --> 00:03:44,385 the greens. 61 00:03:45,239 --> 00:03:45,639 For me. 62 00:03:45,639 --> 00:03:49,500 Like that was the really cool part about golf was the creativity.
63 00:03:50,199 --> 00:03:52,780 That was what I, what really drew me to the game. 64 00:03:53,159 --> 00:03:57,560 And, and then, you know, I was decent in high school. 65 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:04,764 I was good enough to sort of get a half scholarship to UCLA and went over there and 66 00:04:04,764 --> 00:04:08,944 played for, a redshirt my first year played for four more years. 67 00:04:09,085 --> 00:04:17,600 And then it was sort of like, I was never great in college, but I had a couple of second-place 68 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:22,819 finishes, but I was always kind of, you know, 15th to 35th, I'd say.
69 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:29,745 And I, you know, I think, I think for me, I ended up having a wrist surgery after college 70 00:04:30,365 --> 00:04:32,205 and it took some time. 71 00:04:32,205 --> 00:04:35,824 I probably had about nine months where I couldn't touch a golf club. 72 00:04:36,125 --> 00:04:40,384 And so I took some time to really work on my mental game. 73 00:04:40,889 --> 00:04:42,589 And I met a sports psychologist.
74 00:04:42,729 --> 00:04:44,329 I started reading a bunch of books. 75 00:04:44,329 --> 00:04:47,850 We started implementing some of the things I was learning in the books. 76 00:04:47,850 --> 00:04:53,850 And, and then I turned pro, after sort of about a year's time. 77 00:04:53,850 --> 00:05:00,034 And that was, you know, to me, like, that was, that was the then separator of going from a 78 00:05:00,034 --> 00:05:09,930 mediocre college golfer to then I won on every major mini tour, in the next two years, from 79 00:05:09,930 --> 00:05:18,009 the Hooters Tour, the Gateway Tour, the All Pro Tour, the Spanos Tour.
80 00:05:18,009 --> 00:05:23,904 Like, I won on every single major mini tour the next couple years after really I didn't win at 81 00:05:23,904 --> 00:05:24,884 all in college. 82 00:05:25,104 --> 00:05:31,584 And so a lot of it was just that mental part of it that I just sort of unlocked, that proper 83 00:05:31,584 --> 00:05:37,439 sort of mental state for me and how to the right things to feed my mind, but then also the 84 00:05:37,439 --> 00:05:40,099 right things, like how to get me into a flow state. 85 00:05:40,879 --> 00:05:45,919 And and then I just sort of general, you know, just gently ascended up to the PGA Tour. 86 00:05:45,919 --> 00:05:52,024 So a couple of years on the mini tour, one year on the Korn Ferry Tour, and then, and then got 87 00:05:52,024 --> 00:05:52,904 my tour card.
88 00:05:52,904 --> 00:05:56,824 So that was you know, there there's not a lot of us that come from Hawaii that have made it 89 00:05:56,824 --> 00:05:57,964 to the PGA Tour. 90 00:05:59,064 --> 00:06:03,990 I think I think there's been four of us that have, that have won on the PGA Tour that have 91 00:06:03,990 --> 00:06:05,269 been born and raised in Hawaii. 92 00:06:05,269 --> 00:06:06,870 So it's a small, it's a small group. 93 00:06:06,870 --> 00:06:07,669 Can you name them?
94 00:06:07,669 --> 00:06:09,050 I I know Collin Morikawa. 95 00:06:09,589 --> 00:06:10,069 You. 96 00:06:10,069 --> 00:06:12,569 I don't know the other two, though, off the top of my head. 97 00:06:12,949 --> 00:06:14,889 Collin is actually from L.A.
98 00:06:15,345 --> 00:06:15,904 So it's, 99 00:06:16,305 --> 00:06:17,025 Dean Wilson. 100 00:06:17,504 --> 00:06:17,985 That's right. 101 00:06:17,985 --> 00:06:23,824 The media loves to play it up around how he is a Hawaiian kid and so forth, but you're right. 102 00:06:23,824 --> 00:06:24,725 He's L.A.
103 00:06:24,785 --> 00:06:26,384 His parents were from Hawaii. 104 00:06:26,384 --> 00:06:28,944 He spent some time there, but, so hang on. 105 00:06:28,944 --> 00:06:30,805 So let's go back to the list. 106 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:31,919 Yep.
107 00:06:31,919 --> 00:06:37,220 So Dean Wilson, David Ishii, and Ted Makalena. 108 00:06:37,759 --> 00:06:38,000 Okay. 109 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:38,899 And myself. 110 00:06:39,039 --> 00:06:39,519 Wow.
111 00:06:39,519 --> 00:06:39,839 Yeah. 112 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:42,099 That's a good trivia question right there. 113 00:06:44,084 --> 00:06:45,045 I love that. 114 00:06:45,045 --> 00:06:51,285 Now, you mentioned something that we talk about on this podcast a lot, which is around the 115 00:06:51,285 --> 00:06:56,485 mental side of the game and how you got a mental coach in order to help you really kind 116 00:06:56,485 --> 00:07:00,129 of hone in your mental side of the game of golf.
117 00:07:00,129 --> 00:07:06,050 And I don't think this is paid enough attention to per se, but you're going back to where, you 118 00:07:06,050 --> 00:07:08,629 know, that wasn't a popular thing to do. 119 00:07:08,769 --> 00:07:11,589 What kind of pushed you to go down that path? 120 00:07:15,345 --> 00:07:15,584 Man. 121 00:07:15,584 --> 00:07:16,464 That's a good question.
122 00:07:16,464 --> 00:07:21,745 I think that, you know, for me, it's, you know, I was always great at short game. 123 00:07:21,745 --> 00:07:25,104 You've got Montreux as your background there behind you. 124 00:07:25,104 --> 00:07:32,970 And on that Sunday, when I won my only tour event, I hit five greens in regulation on that 125 00:07:32,970 --> 00:07:39,209 Sunday and I hit one green in regulation on the first nine holes and I was 8 for 8 in up and 126 00:07:39,209 --> 00:07:39,709 downs. 127 00:07:40,415 --> 00:07:43,154 So I've always been really solid with my short game.
128 00:07:44,254 --> 00:07:49,615 And so, you know, when I, you know, I didn't start this out of like, hey, I'm going to just 129 00:07:49,615 --> 00:07:51,615 sort of start a business. 130 00:07:51,615 --> 00:07:57,110 It was like a caddie friend of mine said, look, your short game's caddied for me a bunch of 131 00:07:57,110 --> 00:07:57,269 times. 132 00:07:57,269 --> 00:07:59,529 And he's like, your short game is ridiculous. 133 00:08:00,470 --> 00:08:05,669 You should do some tips on Instagram about how people can get better with their short game.
134 00:08:05,669 --> 00:08:09,834 Like I've never heard anyone describe it the way you describe it. 135 00:08:09,834 --> 00:08:11,035 And so I was like, all right. 136 00:08:11,035 --> 00:08:14,894 So he filmed a dozen videos for me, little one-minute videos. 137 00:08:15,435 --> 00:08:19,995 And he helped me sort of set up an Instagram account because I'd never, I'd never been on 138 00:08:19,995 --> 00:08:20,975 Instagram before.
139 00:08:21,419 --> 00:08:25,180 And, and he's like, okay, now you gotta come up with like a, like a catchy name. 140 00:08:25,180 --> 00:08:27,899 And I was like, can't just use my own name. 141 00:08:27,899 --> 00:08:30,319 He's like, no, no, no, come up with like a catchy name. 142 00:08:30,620 --> 00:08:36,205 And so I came up with Short Game Chef because, you know, every shot around the green requires 143 00:08:36,264 --> 00:08:39,404 some type of different ingredient or some type of different recipe.
144 00:08:39,705 --> 00:08:43,865 If you want to go high and soft, or if you want to go low and spinning, there's all sorts of 145 00:08:43,865 --> 00:08:47,404 different shots and each shot calls for a different type of a recipe. 146 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:52,919 So for me, I was like, well, short game guru, not a little too self-serving, short game 147 00:08:52,919 --> 00:08:53,419 wizard. 148 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,120 So I was like, I sort of settled on it. 149 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:57,879 I knew it was going to be about the short game.
150 00:08:57,879 --> 00:08:59,320 I wasn't going to be talking about the long game. 151 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:00,759 I was going to be talking about the short game. 152 00:09:00,759 --> 00:09:03,195 So then I said short game and then chef. 153 00:09:03,754 --> 00:09:10,095 And then I started as time has gone on, I, you start to see even on the PGA Tour feed now.
154 00:09:10,794 --> 00:09:14,575 Someone will hit a short game shot and they'll be like, that was so saucy. 155 00:09:14,875 --> 00:09:18,830 Or they'll just have like the chef's kiss, the chef's kiss emoji. 156 00:09:18,830 --> 00:09:19,070 Right. 157 00:09:19,070 --> 00:09:20,669 And it's like, oh my gosh.
158 00:09:20,669 --> 00:09:25,309 Like, I don't know if it was sort of me that sort of started that or if it's just the short 159 00:09:25,309 --> 00:09:30,589 game and, you know, saucy chef, all that recipe, all that stuff kind of goes together. 160 00:09:30,589 --> 00:09:34,524 But, but yeah, anyway, that's how it all sort of got started. 161 00:09:35,065 --> 00:09:41,705 And literally two days after I had put my Instagram account up, Kevin's real man reached 162 00:09:41,705 --> 00:09:44,445 out to me and said, hey, I see you're doing some short game teaching. 163 00:09:44,585 --> 00:09:46,684 I'd love to spend a couple of hours with you.
164 00:09:46,870 --> 00:09:50,570 And so my first paid lesson was to the guy ranked 93rd in the world. 165 00:09:51,509 --> 00:09:53,690 And I was like, I better figure this out. 166 00:09:55,269 --> 00:09:58,995 And then it's just been, it's literally just been word-of-mouth ever since. 167 00:09:59,075 --> 00:09:59,714 That's incredible.
168 00:09:59,714 --> 00:10:06,034 Let's go back though, because most people can't even dream, or they do dream of winning on the 169 00:10:06,034 --> 00:10:07,014 PGA Tour. 170 00:10:07,554 --> 00:10:15,309 And I gotta ask you because this was a unique win on the PGA Tour, because you mentioned it 171 00:10:15,309 --> 00:10:20,350 before as to how many greens you hit, but I believe you only hit one green in your first 10 172 00:10:20,350 --> 00:10:24,110 holes in that final round and ended up still winning by seven shots. 173 00:10:24,110 --> 00:10:25,230 I mean, that's it. 174 00:10:25,230 --> 00:10:28,190 That once again, another great trivia question.
175 00:10:28,190 --> 00:10:33,735 What is the who is the only player to hit 1 green in their final 10 hole or their first 10 176 00:10:33,735 --> 00:10:36,394 holes of the final round and still win by 7 shots? 177 00:10:36,455 --> 00:10:38,235 It's like, tell us about that experience. 178 00:10:41,575 --> 00:10:42,375 Oh, man. 179 00:10:42,375 --> 00:10:47,100 It was, you know, like the first three days, I just felt like my golf swing was just right in 180 00:10:47,100 --> 00:10:47,740 the slot.
181 00:10:47,740 --> 00:10:49,279 I just, I couldn't miss. 182 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:59,835 My putting was on point, and, you know, I shoot 68, 62, 66, and I've built up a six-shot lead 183 00:10:59,835 --> 00:11:05,294 over second, a nine-shot lead over third, and an 11-shot lead over fourth. 184 00:11:06,075 --> 00:11:08,654 So, like, I was blitzing the field. 185 00:11:09,835 --> 00:11:16,700 And then all of a sudden, like the last, like hole and a half on Saturday, I started feeling 186 00:11:16,700 --> 00:11:19,600 a little bit tighter through impact.
187 00:11:20,300 --> 00:11:26,235 The ball started coming off the clubface a little bit more low heel, which is sort of like 188 00:11:26,235 --> 00:11:28,815 handle raise and hold onto it for me. 189 00:11:29,995 --> 00:11:34,714 And it was just like it just I knew it just didn't quite feel right. 190 00:11:34,714 --> 00:11:35,914 And I was like, uh-oh. 191 00:11:35,914 --> 00:11:37,454 I think I might've lost it.
192 00:11:38,235 --> 00:11:43,200 So, and so I didn't sleep much that night because I was just, like, you know, in my own 193 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,480 head, you know, like, oh, I've got a six-shot lead. 194 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:51,200 You know, these are the days of Tiger Woods where you're like, Tiger's the only guy that 195 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:52,340 wins by this much. 196 00:11:52,565 --> 00:11:58,804 And so I've got this huge lead and, you know, all the negative thoughts that could possibly 197 00:11:58,804 --> 00:12:02,565 go through your head go through your head, and you just all the mental work that I'd done, it 198 00:12:02,565 --> 00:12:09,300 was, like, trying so hard to just, like, just keep out the bad thoughts and harness the good 199 00:12:09,300 --> 00:12:09,620 thoughts. 200 00:12:09,620 --> 00:12:11,059 Like, Happy Gilmore.
201 00:12:11,059 --> 00:12:11,300 Right? 202 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:14,440 It's like, keep out the bad, harness the good. 203 00:12:14,660 --> 00:12:16,340 And it was hard. 204 00:12:16,340 --> 00:12:19,059 It was just hard to do, and it was a it was a it was a tough night.
205 00:12:19,059 --> 00:12:21,925 I didn't sleep, hardly at all. 206 00:12:22,225 --> 00:12:26,865 Late tee time the next day, get out to the golf course, and and I was just like, okay. 207 00:12:26,865 --> 00:12:29,585 Just gotta get to the range, and then it'll it'll all be fine. 208 00:12:29,585 --> 00:12:34,779 And then I get to the range, and I didn't hit one shot in the center of the clubface in my 209 00:12:34,779 --> 00:12:35,759 warmup session.
210 00:12:36,220 --> 00:12:39,660 And it was just like, oh man, this might be a rough one. 211 00:12:39,820 --> 00:12:43,840 I better buckle up and really be ready to grind. 212 00:12:44,220 --> 00:12:47,279 And so I did, I grinded one green in regulation. 213 00:12:47,340 --> 00:12:49,679 The first nine holes, I was even par.
214 00:12:50,195 --> 00:12:53,815 Missed the green in regulation on 10, made bogey. 215 00:12:55,714 --> 00:13:03,449 And, yeah, I mean, I really never felt comfortable at all in that entire round until I 216 00:13:03,449 --> 00:13:05,629 hit my second shot on 18 onto the green. 217 00:13:07,209 --> 00:13:07,850 That's not we. 218 00:13:08,009 --> 00:13:09,449 It was a brutal, brutal day.
219 00:13:09,449 --> 00:13:14,089 I've talked about this with PGA Tour caddies that sometimes for them, even when their player 220 00:13:14,089 --> 00:13:20,514 has a big lead, that they're most fearful at that point because it's like the thoughts start 221 00:13:20,514 --> 00:13:25,394 creeping in and all of a sudden it's really hard to sleep on a big lead on Saturday night. 222 00:13:25,394 --> 00:13:29,815 So everything that you just said resonates with the audience, resonates with me specifically, 223 00:13:30,299 --> 00:13:35,100 as I'm like, wow, that fits perfectly in line with everything else I've heard from everybody 224 00:13:35,100 --> 00:13:36,720 that's kind of been in that position. 225 00:13:36,860 --> 00:13:43,019 But clearly, you've got an insane short game because you missed nine greens in your first 10 226 00:13:43,019 --> 00:13:45,565 holes and still ended up winning by seven. 227 00:13:45,625 --> 00:13:51,544 So now we gotta get into the fact of you transitioning into the Short Game Chef and 228 00:13:51,544 --> 00:13:53,065 getting into that side of the business.
229 00:13:53,065 --> 00:13:59,730 You've already talked a little bit about this, as we've been talking about how you kinda had a 230 00:13:59,730 --> 00:14:01,490 buddy set up an Instagram account for you. 231 00:14:01,490 --> 00:14:06,870 You gotta create a cool name, so the recipes, I totally get that with each of the different 232 00:14:07,250 --> 00:14:09,110 short game shots and so forth. 233 00:14:09,250 --> 00:14:15,184 But, in that transition, I mean, you knew that you had a good short game, but what made you 234 00:14:15,184 --> 00:14:16,485 think, oh, you know what? 235 00:14:16,865 --> 00:14:23,184 I can actually teach this, and what's being taught isn't necessarily the right stuff right 236 00:14:23,184 --> 00:14:23,684 now.
237 00:14:27,139 --> 00:14:27,460 Yeah. 238 00:14:27,460 --> 00:14:38,100 So I think I think where I saw a gap in, like, playing a bunch of pro-ams, seeing amateurs 239 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:43,664 struggle, you know, I saw a gap as to, like, well, what is it that they're trying to do and 240 00:14:43,664 --> 00:14:45,684 then what is being taught? 241 00:14:46,544 --> 00:14:49,764 Like, what are they telling me that they're being told what to do? 242 00:14:50,544 --> 00:14:54,350 You know, a lot of them were telling me, like, oh, I'm trying to get the ball in the back of 243 00:14:54,350 --> 00:14:54,990 my stance.
244 00:14:54,990 --> 00:14:56,610 I'm trying to get the shaft forward. 245 00:14:56,909 --> 00:14:58,929 I really want to get good ball contact. 246 00:15:00,110 --> 00:15:05,870 And they would inevitably either get really good ball contact and it would go over the 247 00:15:05,870 --> 00:15:11,924 green, or they would fear that really good ball contact and then they would back out of it and 248 00:15:11,924 --> 00:15:13,144 then they would chunk it. 249 00:15:13,684 --> 00:15:18,804 And then the second that they went into that chunk mode, they went back here and then they 250 00:15:18,804 --> 00:15:22,024 would flip at it, and then all of a sudden it would become a blade.
251 00:15:22,679 --> 00:15:28,700 So their really good shots were actually, like, 10 to 15, 20 feet too far. 252 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:34,120 And then their bad shots, they were still chipping again short of the green or over the 253 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:34,360 green. 254 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:35,320 They're chipping back. 255 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:41,245 So I just started looking at this stuff, and I'm like, boy, the information that they're 256 00:15:42,105 --> 00:15:44,664 being given is not necessarily right.
257 00:15:44,664 --> 00:15:46,605 It's not what tour players are doing. 258 00:15:47,625 --> 00:15:53,889 I think that there's a way that I can explain this to people in a simple and digestible way 259 00:15:53,889 --> 00:16:02,210 that can really help them to make their chip shots a little bit easier and not so precise 260 00:16:02,210 --> 00:16:03,350 and not so difficult. 261 00:16:04,465 --> 00:16:11,105 Man, that is music to my ears because I'll tell you. 262 00:16:11,105 --> 00:16:15,504 I mean, I'm one of those guys that you just described to where it's like, okay.
263 00:16:15,504 --> 00:16:20,879 I'm either going to have it a little bit heavy and leave it short or I'm blasting it over the 264 00:16:20,879 --> 00:16:21,279 green. 265 00:16:21,279 --> 00:16:26,740 So, I definitely think I could use your help by all means. 266 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:33,315 But that being said, do you think the short game side of it is kind of a competitive area 267 00:16:33,315 --> 00:16:39,254 where there are certain guys that have this niche of being a short game guru, so to speak? 268 00:16:39,554 --> 00:16:41,554 But how do you differentiate yourself?
269 00:16:41,554 --> 00:16:45,490 Is it from a PGA Tour standpoint that, hey, I played, I won? 270 00:16:45,550 --> 00:16:49,570 Or is it something different that you feel like is your unique approach? 271 00:16:50,670 --> 00:16:50,990 Yeah. 272 00:16:50,990 --> 00:16:54,610 I think there's a handful of things that I do really well.
273 00:16:55,070 --> 00:16:56,670 One of them is my pedigree. 274 00:16:56,670 --> 00:16:56,910 Right? 275 00:16:56,910 --> 00:17:02,554 So obviously having played on every sort of mini tour, Korn Ferry Tour, PGA Tour, having a 276 00:17:02,554 --> 00:17:09,994 win on the PGA Tour, you know, that gives me the understanding of what it feels like to play 277 00:17:09,994 --> 00:17:16,210 and sort of choke at the highest level and then what works the best under those high-stress 278 00:17:16,210 --> 00:17:16,710 situations. 279 00:17:17,490 --> 00:17:19,670 So that's one sort of part of it.
280 00:17:20,049 --> 00:17:26,845 I think the other part of it is, you know, I was mentored for about seven years by Paul 281 00:17:26,845 --> 00:17:33,085 Azinger, who, in my opinion, has got one of the best short games when he was playing. 282 00:17:33,085 --> 00:17:34,144 He still does. 283 00:17:34,684 --> 00:17:42,700 And Paul's, you know, from what I can tell and the people that I've talked to, Paul's got a 284 00:17:42,700 --> 00:17:49,819 top-three golf IQ of all time, and he's in that upper echelon of people that just think about 285 00:17:49,819 --> 00:17:50,559 things differently. 286 00:17:51,295 --> 00:17:57,055 And so I was able to learn quite a bit from him, and in learning that, I take some of that 287 00:17:57,055 --> 00:18:06,759 and I'm able to pass that along to my clients in a way I communicate to them in a very easily 288 00:18:06,899 --> 00:18:08,039 digestible way.
289 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:14,500 And I think that part of it is hard to quantify because, you know, when you go through my 290 00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:20,144 website and you go through the app that we've created, the videos are made in like one and a 291 00:18:20,144 --> 00:18:26,465 half to three and a half minute videos so that you're able to digest that information, take it 292 00:18:26,465 --> 00:18:33,424 in, and then you can move on to the next video or just take down your notes or go practice it 293 00:18:33,424 --> 00:18:34,085 right then. 294 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:42,720 So I think one of the greatest compliments that I feel like I continue to get is that I make it 295 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:43,440 so simple. 296 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:48,019 I make it so easy and so simple and so easily digestible for people. 297 00:18:48,214 --> 00:18:55,515 And I think that in a teacher, being a good communicator is extremely valuable.
298 00:18:56,454 --> 00:18:57,275 It is huge. 299 00:18:57,815 --> 00:18:58,055 Yeah. 300 00:18:58,055 --> 00:19:01,195 Cause I could go and say, you know, I could go and say a bunch of big words. 301 00:19:01,335 --> 00:19:01,575 Right.
302 00:19:01,575 --> 00:19:05,419 And tell you like, well, you're done, done, done, done, done, you know, every, you know, 303 00:19:05,419 --> 00:19:10,859 and use all these huge words that were all of a sudden it it you may think I'm smart, but you 304 00:19:10,859 --> 00:19:13,419 haven't necessarily learned anything because 305 00:19:13,419 --> 00:19:14,819 you got no idea what the hell you're saying. 306 00:19:15,019 --> 00:19:16,240 So far over your head. 307 00:19:16,299 --> 00:19:16,700 Yeah. 308 00:19:16,700 --> 00:19:17,200 Exactly.
309 00:19:18,105 --> 00:19:18,605 100%. 310 00:19:18,825 --> 00:19:24,585 So, you know, the point is, like, yeah, I want to make it so that you can understand what I'm 311 00:19:24,585 --> 00:19:29,464 saying, that we can talk about a handful of different things, and that hopefully one of 312 00:19:29,464 --> 00:19:36,640 those things fits and sticks and that you're able to take that in and be like, that's your 313 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:37,700 light bulb moment. 314 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:45,984 That's a feel or a thought, or a cue that you can latch onto, and that'll help carry you 315 00:19:45,984 --> 00:19:48,565 through when you're hitting your short game shots. 316 00:19:49,345 --> 00:19:49,505 I 317 00:19:49,505 --> 00:19:49,984 love that.
318 00:19:49,984 --> 00:19:55,025 Now we're gonna get into just some average golfer chipping advice here. 319 00:19:55,025 --> 00:19:55,525 Alright? 320 00:19:55,744 --> 00:20:01,150 So we're gonna test you a little bit and give the audience some tips that hopefully are going 321 00:20:01,150 --> 00:20:02,130 to help them. 322 00:20:02,269 --> 00:20:07,390 But chipping obviously can be one of the most intimidating aspects of the short game for any 323 00:20:07,390 --> 00:20:07,890 golfer.
324 00:20:08,190 --> 00:20:13,565 But what's the first piece of advice you'd give to any average golfer who struggles with 325 00:20:13,565 --> 00:20:15,184 consistency around the greens? 326 00:20:17,164 --> 00:20:24,605 Well, I would say that you would want to look at a chip shot more like a bigger putting 327 00:20:24,605 --> 00:20:33,109 stroke than you would want to take it from your normal 7-iron and shrink it down. 328 00:20:33,170 --> 00:20:38,930 I don't necessarily love being like, let me get in a wide stance with my feet, let me push my 329 00:20:38,930 --> 00:20:44,954 hands forward, and let me just make a smaller iron swing and hit this chip shot. 330 00:20:45,095 --> 00:20:50,394 Because then your body doesn't move, your feet are too wide, hands are pressed forward.
331 00:20:51,095 --> 00:20:53,819 A lot of things are leading to this ball coming off hot. 332 00:20:53,899 --> 00:21:03,359 I think that a chip shot should be closer in relation to a putting stroke than it would be a 333 00:21:04,380 --> 00:21:06,139 full swing with like a 7-iron. 334 00:21:06,139 --> 00:21:12,565 So I would always start with if you don't know where to start chipping and you want to just be 335 00:21:12,565 --> 00:21:18,725 like, let's build a baseline foundation, bring your feet all the way together, get them just 336 00:21:18,725 --> 00:21:21,605 touching, and just start there. 337 00:21:21,605 --> 00:21:27,740 Start moving your body, start moving your torso, start moving your rib cage, start moving 338 00:21:27,740 --> 00:21:29,840 your arms in unison with all that.
339 00:21:30,940 --> 00:21:36,880 Don't start using the wrist just yet, but just learn to turn, learn to pivot. 340 00:21:37,214 --> 00:21:39,054 That would be the very first place to start. 341 00:21:39,054 --> 00:21:45,054 And I would start with a lower lofted club like a 50, 52 or a pitching wedge. 342 00:21:45,054 --> 00:21:52,109 Start there if you just start, you know, two to three yards off the green and start to build in 343 00:21:52,109 --> 00:21:58,029 a baseline, that would be my biggest suggestion for someone who's maybe just starting out or 344 00:21:58,029 --> 00:22:04,424 maybe just unsure of what philosophy to sort of go with.
345 00:22:04,424 --> 00:22:11,085 I love that because it is so tough to put everybody into a box and to have general advice 346 00:22:11,464 --> 00:22:12,105 for people. 347 00:22:12,105 --> 00:22:17,340 And that right there was probably, I mean, I'm sitting here going, wow. 348 00:22:17,340 --> 00:22:22,460 That's a really good freaking answer because I've heard a lot of different answers to that 349 00:22:22,460 --> 00:22:22,779 question. 350 00:22:22,779 --> 00:22:23,420 I'm like, wow.
351 00:22:23,420 --> 00:22:25,200 That's actually really, really good. 352 00:22:25,420 --> 00:22:29,180 So clearly, folks, Parker knows his stuff. 353 00:22:29,180 --> 00:22:30,960 I don't think that is up for debate. 354 00:22:31,484 --> 00:22:35,884 Now I will get a little bit on the personal side of where my member guest over the past 355 00:22:35,884 --> 00:22:36,365 weekend.
356 00:22:36,365 --> 00:22:37,085 I struggled. 357 00:22:37,085 --> 00:22:37,884 I had the yips. 358 00:22:37,884 --> 00:22:38,684 I was chunking. 359 00:22:38,684 --> 00:22:39,585 I was thinning.
360 00:22:40,125 --> 00:22:45,990 There really wasn't any good ones in between, and granted, I'm a 3.5 handicap right now. 361 00:22:46,069 --> 00:22:50,950 When I played and played on the mini tours, like, you said that you were going all around
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