Super common question. I get asked this. I've been asked this so many times, Lou, after the,

over the years of coaching, is should you play or should you practice? Meaning so, should you

play golf as your practice? So go and play four oars, nine oles and just that's your practice,

or should you go to the range and really drill things in and then hope that comes out onto the golf course?

Now, look, obviously in a perfect world, like gregg's here he's going to do what's ever he needs it's it's his job if

it's if he needs to practice more he will if he needs to play more he will um it's it's it's easy

for him this decision it's not such a question, which we'll talk about some of the

reasons why, where for the average listener, I'm kind of pointing this towards more Lou.

Maybe has less time than Greg Wood to dedicate to playing or practicing. It would be what

are some of the guidelines for them to kind of follow, to put it into perspective.

If you practice, you could go in it 100 balls.

If you practice well, 40, 50 minutes, you know, as in practice swings between shots, taking a bit of time.

You know, you can condense it down.

If you go and play nine holes and shoot 45 and you have, you know, you can condense it down. If you go and play nine holes and shoot 45 and you have, you know, 18 putts in those

holes, you're not hitting many shots and you're out there for nearly two hours.

Yeah.

So that's your kind of balance that people, the reason they ask that question.

I've got some benchmarks I used to tell students around

this question. What are your thoughts on it initially, play or practice? Well, I want to initially,

I want to talk about a conversation I had recently with a friend of mine. And we were talking about

the handicap system. And he does not like the handicap system, but for a different reason. And his reason,

he said, is his handicap is artificially high. And it's not because he's a sandbagger. He said a lot of

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