The way we teach people to play this game and the assumptions we make of who they are initially

destroys their potential to ever really get good.

Because at the end of the day, whoever has the best face control when they play golf wins, I don't care what the swing looks like.

Look at the tour.

There's a lot of really weird-looking swings that are really good.

Why?

Through the ball, they control the face and they can hit the shots they want to hit under pressure.

Today I'm talking to Mike Maleska, who is a PGA national teacher of the year,

who played in two U.S. opens and was an all-American at Weber State.

Is Weber the correct pronunciation?

Correct.

That's correct.

Called it Weber until I was 14, so I always never quite know if I've got it right.

Well, Mike, thank you for being here.

And I wanted to kind of start by asking you, you know, I listen to you on talking about the role of the arms and the hands, you know, and the wrists and the swing. And so much current instruction is based on everything else, it seems.

So, you know, talk a little bit about, you know, your view on how those play into the

swing because everybody tells you, you know, don't swing with your arms, don't swing

with your hands, swing with your, you know, with everything else.

Well, okay, let's you know, with everything else.

Well, okay, let's talk about how you learn things.

So when you learn motion patterns, hit, throw, catch, it's called tactile learning.

So you learn from hands, fingers, toes, and feet inward.

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