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RUSH: During the break I went in to see Dawn and Brian and they said, ‘When does your golf show start?\u2019 And I said Tuesday night. Reminds me, I did an interview yesterday afternoon after the program with the golf reporter for USA Today, and I think he said it\u2019s gonna run Tuesday. The Haney Project, which stars Hank Haney and me, premieres Tuesday at nine o\u2019clock on The Golf Channel. It\u2019s eight weeks, each show is a half hour, I think from nine to 9:30. And he was asking me some really good questions about this show, my attitude going into it and so forth, why did I want to do it, what was my objective in doing this show and what did I think of it. I couldn\u2019t talk about the development of the show because that gives it all away, but folks, it\u2019s reality TV. I mean, there must be a hundred hours that\u2019s been shot. But it has been a blast. <\/p>\n

I went through a whole lot of changing emotions when this thing started \u2019cause I had not seen the previous two installments of The Haney Project. The first one was with Charles Barkley. Of course the objective here is for Haney, who used to be Tiger\u2019s coach, and he\u2019s a god in the golf world. Everywhere I\u2019ve been with this guy all over the world shooting this show, he\u2019s a god. I had not seen his first episode with Charles Barkley. I had not seen the second Haney Project installment with Ray Romano. I had heard about them. The objective is for a professional golf coach to take a rank amateur and try to turn them into much better golfers to improve their game. Now I had not seen any of the other episodes and I had not met Hank Haney. I just assumed that what was gonna happen here was get some golf instruction and mix that together with elements to make a good television show, and, voila. <\/p>\n

Now, all of that happens, but I met somebody who is as committed to what he does as I am to what I do. And I don\u2019t run into that very much. I gotta be very honest with you. And it was fascinating for me. In everything I do I\u2019m the most committed to it. Like in radio, you\u2019re not gonna find anybody more committed to what I do than I am. And so I never in my entire life run into anybody as committed in any avenue of golf — (unintelligible) I\u2019ve not spent time with him practicing and all that, but he is singularly focused on teaching people the right way to play the game, debunked I can\u2019t tell you how many myths. One of the problems with amateurs is that every other amateur who can\u2019t play the game tries to tell you how to play the game. And you end up with so many erroneous things, swing thought errors, somebody will tell you what works for them, you try it, it might work once, but you end up with 15,000 swing thoughts in your head, and you have paralysis and so forth. <\/p>\n

So it took Haney awhile to figure out what he was dealing with. He had to drain my brain of everything I knew about golf, everything I thought about it, and basically 13 years, that\u2019s how long I\u2019ve been playing, 13 years of everything I\u2019ve been doing physically and throw it out, although he didn\u2019t say that\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna do, it just ended up happening. I\u2019ll tell you this much. I don\u2019t know how they\u2019ve cut it. Even though I have final approval rights I\u2019ve not seen the final versions. It\u2019s all okay. Don\u2019t misunderstand. The first two, full-fledged episodes we\u2019re over in Hawaii, we\u2019re Team Vodka going on, having a great time. By episode three, boot camp. Go down to his ranch in Texas, that\u2019s what I was talking about yesterday, six hours with one club, no break. The unionized Golf Channel camera crew took two breaks. I didn\u2019t get a drop of water. I mean this is like training camp for high school football in August. This was in September. This is after we had a couple episodes shot. This shoulda been done first, but the way the schedules worked out it actually makes it more interesting this way. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s one episode, I\u2019m about to flip my — I get so mad in one of these episodes, but I bottle it up. Because I\u2019m hell-bent, I am not gonna lose my composure on camera no matter how badly they\u2019re trying to goad me into doing it, so I just retreat into myself and keep plugging away at it. And the whole thing turned out to be a life lesson — and there\u2019s still two episodes to shoot — the whole thing turned out to be a life lesson, tremendous learning experience, because it would have been — and I say this with all candor, I don\u2019t want anybody misunderstand — it would have been easy for Hank Haney to size me up and figure out, ‘All right, look, I\u2019ve got this guy Limbaugh, he\u2019s this and that, let\u2019s just go easy here. I don\u2019t want to be insulting.\u2019 He could have gone the celebrity route and all that and he totally threw that out. I was a buck private. It didn\u2019t matter. He was singularly focused on analyzing everything about my game that was wrong and fixing it. <\/p>\n

This guy sent long e-mails to me, video analysis from sessions with him, with commentary, stuff that had to take him hours to put together. And obviously he did it \u2019cause he is just obsessed with being the greatest teacher he can be and taking people that really don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing and try to make something out of \u2019em, which was me. And at the same time, being true to his own purpose, which is to be a great instructor. There were a couple episodes were there weren\u2019t any laughs. They may edit some in from previous shows to make it look like it, but there were a couple of shoots there weren\u2019t any, it was dead serious. It took me awhile, I finally had to say, ‘Okay, we\u2019re not just doing a fun television show here. This is dead serious.\u2019 I haven\u2019t watched it all. I\u2019ve seen some of what they\u2019ve sent me. And the libs, folks, are gonna be shocked. They\u2019re gonna be stunned. There\u2019s a secret reason I did this. I don\u2019t want to give away the secret reason, it won\u2019t be a secret, but a number of reasons I did this, and they\u2019ve all panned out to be good. They\u2019ve all panned out to work out the exact way I intended them to, so it\u2019s been a fun and worthwhile — (interruption) well, H.R., I can\u2019t answer that question. If I start answering questions like that then I kinda give away the progress of the show. <\/p>\n

He just asked me, ‘Is the game better?\u2019 Look, my game, yeah, it is. That\u2019s another upper, it has worked. It\u2019s the first time lessons have worked with me ever, the only times lessons have worked with me. (interruption) Well, I\u2019ve heard it didn\u2019t work with Barkley, but I haven\u2019t seen any of those, but it did work with me. It\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve ever spent such time with an instructor. I\u2019m not trying to impugn other instructors I\u2019ve worked with, you know, spend an hour with them here, two hours there. This has been a hundred hours and there\u2019s still 50 to go for two more episodes, maybe not that many, but, no, it\u2019s worked. First time it\u2019s worked. There\u2019s one thing, it\u2019s gonna be in episode four or five, and I would love to be able to tell you right now, but I just… okay, I will. I\u2019ll just give you a little tease. <\/p>\n

I show up and Tom Farrell, Philadelphia, big Eagles fan, probably upset that I\u2019ve picked the Eagles to lose on Sunday, I meet him over in the Bahamas beginning the shoot and I look at him and I point my finger, and I said, ‘When we get off this boat we\u2019re going to the range. We\u2019re not going to cocktail parties, screw the cocktail parties, we\u2019re going to the range, and have I got a surprise for you guys.\u2019 That\u2019s all I\u2019m gonna tell you. So I put myself on the line there. I\u2019ll have to see how that worked out. Anyway, it\u2019s been fun, and as I say it starts Tuesday night at nine, it\u2019s eight episodes of a half hour each, and the interview with USA Today, which was pleasant. You\u2019ll agree, Dawn, it was very pleasant. So everything about this has been a fun exercise. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I did not expect The Haney Project to be as singularly focused on making my golf game better. I don\u2019t know why, but I thought it was more of a lighthearted, ‘Here\u2019s some lessons. We\u2019re gonna do a fun TV show.\u2019 This was boot camp. <\/p>\n

‘We\u2019re gonna improve your game.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Yeah, it took me a couple of episodes to adjust to it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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