Speaker 2
The last hole of the Barbossole last week? Did you happen to watch? No, I didn't see that. I did not see that. Vincent Norman had hit every fairway all day. And I think every green. Yeah. And he made, he actually had, he got lucky to bogey the final hole. He had, he all he had to do was part of it. And then did
Speaker 1
he pull hook it in the water?
Speaker 2
Is that on the approach shot? Is that what he did? No, no, he, he pulled it
Speaker 3
into a really slopey lie above the bunker on the left.
Speaker 2
And so he punched it. He stayed in the rough on the left. Still the bad
Speaker 3
lie. Ended up missing the group. He almost was in the water. And
Speaker 2
then he shipped up seven feet past and had to make a seven footer for, for a bogey, which did a full 360 degrees.
Speaker 3
But, but he was a guy who was cruising all day.
Speaker 2
I feel like there's this, there, there's a mindset shift in a way, right? Like he came from behind. He was, I think, nine under or something like that. Then he gets to the last hole. He's playing defense. He's got the lead. Like how many, like he was quote clutch before that all day in a way. He was playing, he was at the top of the leaderboard around the top of the leaderboard. Then you have that one hole where, you know, maybe he was just like, I mean, he saw his swing was a bad swing. He, his arms kind of took over early. He was, there's water all the way down the right side. He really didn't want to miss right. But, but, and then on the, in the playoff hole, he ended up winning with the par despite, who was he against? Nathan Kimsey. I think, I think Kimsey's made his best effort to, to choked. I mean, both guys basically were choking. But the notion here is like, how many times do you see Vincent Arment play a hole where he has to, where he just needs to make a par to win a tournament, right? Like.
Speaker 1
Yeah, you don't see it very often, but you know, that's very likely what's going on. There is mental game. Right. Yeah. So the neuroscience side of that, what, what, you know, from what I've learned, again, I'm not a neuroscientist, but from what I've learned and why not what I understand when you get scared, anxious, nervous, afraid, whatever you want to say, whatever you want to, however you want to quantify that, whatever word you use, your brain wave frequencies go up. And when your brain wave frequencies go up, it causes three things. That information, your ability to hit a golf shot exists exclusively within your brain. There's no such thing as, as muscle memory, the muscles don't store or retain any information. And so that side of instruction is needs to get delivered and oversimplifying. There might be a bit of information that goes to your left wrist. And it's traveling around along those neuro pathways and those neuro pathways are like roads. And when you get high frequency, those roads get jammed up with traffic. It's a, it's nine AM rush hour. And that bit that needs to go to your left wrist to tell to be in one degree of flexion. It runs into a traffic jam in your left elbow and it doesn't get there in time. It gets there late. And instead of being one degree of flexion, it's one degree of extension because it got there a little bit late. And that one degree of flexion versus extension changes the club face significantly. The ball goes in a very different place. The other thing that it does is that you lose your ability to hold the target, which is really important in golf, we're typically not looking at the target when we play. And so when you look down, you have to be able to maintain in your brain where that target was. And when you get high frequency, what can happen is your brain can shift where that target is. So when you see some of these funny swings, when somebody hits a big blocker, big pole in a pressure situation, their brain could have shifted the target and their body is just simply reacting, trying to hit the ball to that location. The last thing it does when you get high frequency is your ability to feel force is different. So you guys probably don't get nervous anymore, but I'm sure both of you have spoken in front of very large crowds. People tend to get nervous in those situations or being on TV or whatever the case may be. Some people will tell you that like my arms feel heavy, my hands feel heavy. That's your ability to feel force correctly getting impacted. And when you get nervous, that happens. And so if you've ever had a perfect number for a wedge shot, for example, and you hit it and as soon as you hit it, there's no wind, it's flat golf course, you're thinking going the hole and it just felt perfect. Everything's perfect about it. And it falls out of the air 20 yards short or it flies 20 yards long and you're like, what the heck just happened? I don't understand that. And your ability to feel force could have been compromised. And so that typical stock swing could have been four miles per hour faster or slower than what's typical, but it felt typical to you. So all of those things play a role. And when your brainwave frequencies go up, like it could have gone up for him, like that bad swing that you said he made probably isn't a swing. There's probably a combination of all these