{"id":19227,"date":"2011-06-17T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:18:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:18:00","slug":"the_first_time_at_augusta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/06\/17\/the_first_time_at_augusta\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time at Augusta"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Jamie in Loudon, New Hampshire, great to have you on Open Line Friday. Welcome.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Now that we\u2019ve gone down this long road of despair, I\u2019d like to get to the important things in life. I\u2019d like to you revisit the first round that you played at Augusta and how that day started out at the driving range with your caddy, Tip &#8212; and how you would spread balls all over the place; everything was definitely going wrong &#8212; and then you had to get up to the first tee. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wait, wait. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER: You were announced just like you were playing in Augusta, you had the crowd watching you, and you hit the perfect drive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: What am I missing? Wait, you were there?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, no. I\u2019d called you. I\u2019d heard it on the radio when I was driving to the job.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Ah, okay.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It was really an interesting story.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, it was. You know, Augusta, for us golfers, is a shrine. It\u2019s hallowed, hallowed ground.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, now that you\u2019ve had the &#8212; I believe it was the Harman experience &#8212; professional training that you received, can you relate back to why, when everything was going wrong just before you got up to the tee &#8212; and the fact that you didn\u2019t have that training that you have now, why you hit such a perfect drive?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, you mean Hank Haney.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hank Haney.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The Haney experience.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, it\u2019s interesting. Hank deemphasizes working on the mental. He says, &#8220;If you just get the swing mechanics down and get comfortable with what you\u2019re doing, the mental will take care of itself.&#8221; It\u2019s sort of like what I\u2019ve always said about giving a speech. The greatest way to be confident giving a speech is to know what you\u2019re talking about and to be passionate and can\u2019t wait to say what you\u2019re gonna say. You won\u2019t be nervous. It\u2019s the same thing with your golf swing. If you\u2019re confident about what you\u2019re doing &#8212; which is sometimes hard to muster, but if you are &#8212; the extraneous things like being distracted mentally or nervous won\u2019t bother you. I was&#8230; I wasn\u2019t particularly nervous, but I did: I boomed a 240-yard drive right down the middle first up at Augusta. This guy\u2019s right. He remembers it.<\/p>\n<p>END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Jamie in Loudon, New Hampshire, great to have you on Open Line Friday. Welcome. CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush. RUSH: You bet, sir. 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