Valuetainment - April 24, 2025


＂Tiger's Wrong Decision＂ – Golf Legend EXPOSES Tiger Woods BIGGEST Career Error


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Tiger Woods is one of the greatest golfers of all time. He s won 14 majors and holds the record for the most majors won in a single tournament. But he s also the only person to have won the Grand Slam of the four majors. Gary Player says he should have stuck with the coaches that were proven to him and not the ones that weren t.

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00:00:00.000 So, to the people that don't know Gary Player, how would you describe who Gary Player is, Tom?
00:00:04.200 Is it fair to say he's one of the best golfers of all time?
00:00:06.840 Absolutely. He's one of only four guys that's won the Grand Slam of the four majors.
00:00:12.380 Okay. So, here's Gary Player. This is specifically going to those of you guys
00:00:16.860 that you have a trade you want to improve, or you're a business owner,
00:00:20.480 you're trying to find a way to get better in the marketplace.
00:00:24.220 Look what Gary Player says here about Tiger Woods. Go for it, Rob.
00:00:27.500 Look at Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods had his career ruined, completely ruined.
00:00:34.540 Tiger Woods won 14 majors.
00:00:38.740 And then he wins, the 14th major was the US Open at Pebble Beach.
00:00:43.040 He won by 15 shots. You know what that's like?
00:00:46.680 It's like running the 100 meters in 7 seconds.
00:00:50.840 The next week he's having a lesson from a man who I don't know if he played in the Masters,
00:00:55.940 could break 80. Couldn't. But he's having a lesson from this guy.
00:01:00.360 Yeah. And then he goes to another guy who couldn't break probably 85 in the Masters
00:01:05.120 with the pressure, or the British Open, or the PGA on the final day.
00:01:09.880 And he's having lessons from them. Why did Tiger do that?
00:01:13.080 He was so good, but I understand he wanted to get better.
00:01:16.820 But if he just went along and never changed,
00:01:19.760 he would have won minimum 22, maybe more.
00:01:22.760 He would have gone down as the greatest athlete the world had ever seen, man or woman.
00:01:26.460 And the planet. But he made the wrong decision.
00:01:28.900 And it's very easy to do, because we're all trying to get better.
00:01:32.140 Tom, how do you process this?
00:01:33.880 Well, I have a lot of respect for the Black Knight.
00:01:36.640 That was Gary Player's nickname.
00:01:40.100 He's clearly white, Tom. 0.96
00:01:41.860 No, no, no. But you see the logo on his shirt?
00:01:43.660 No.
00:01:43.940 That's his brand.
00:01:44.880 Oh, Black Knight.
00:01:46.120 Black Knight.
00:01:46.940 They call them the Black Knight.
00:01:48.140 Got it.
00:01:48.460 That was his.
00:01:49.620 He wore black on the golf course.
00:01:51.700 Got it.
00:01:51.800 That's what they called him.
00:01:52.800 Okay?
00:01:53.540 And I think he's right, because if you look when Tiger came up,
00:01:59.520 and he had a couple major injuries.
00:02:02.600 One, he started training, and trained with the Navy SEALs,
00:02:07.600 and he went to an intensive Navy SEAL training.
00:02:10.420 And unfortunately, he suffered a big-time knee injury and concealed it.
00:02:17.940 And so Tiger got distracted and wanted to go train with the SEALs, A, and B.
00:02:23.440 He did move from his coaches, and there were chapters of his life
00:02:31.260 where the coach he had, he was at kind of a plateau.
00:02:36.380 And he had a falling out with the first coach.
00:02:40.440 This coach had a big ego and was sort of trading on Tiger.
00:02:44.820 And Tiger didn't like that.
00:02:46.260 I don't blame him.
00:02:47.500 You know, it's like you have a – people understand.
00:02:52.260 I don't need to make metaphors, right?
00:02:54.380 People know who the success is, and then other people are, like,
00:02:57.120 trading on that success, kind of chasing you around like Remora is the way
00:03:00.840 they chase sharks.
00:03:01.580 And I believe Tiger would have had far more majors if he had stayed –
00:03:07.200 he had such insane talent.
00:03:10.720 And if he had stuck with that thread and not been distracted and got hurt,
00:03:15.860 he got really hurt at a Navy SEAL training.
00:03:19.620 And if he had not done that, I think things would have been fine
00:03:24.100 because people have talked about the car accident.
00:03:27.080 It's specific.
00:03:27.780 What I'm asking about is – I'm not asking about the Navy SEAL stuff.
00:03:31.520 Specific to what Gary is saying here,
00:03:33.900 taking advice from somebody that shot an 80 or an 85, okay,
00:03:38.160 and having that person give you counsel on what to do.
00:03:41.420 How do you process that?
00:03:44.700 He wants to know what your point is, Tom.
00:03:46.620 I process it very simply.
00:03:48.960 I think he should have stuck with the coaches that were proven.
00:03:52.060 And sometimes it's like the latest coach, and you think, okay,
00:03:57.680 I'm going to work with this, I'm going to work with that.
00:03:59.740 And I agree with Gary Player.
00:04:01.680 I don't think some of those later coaches were – I mean, I look now –
00:04:06.400 you can look at some of those later coaches now and see who they're coaching,
00:04:09.560 and I think it speaks for itself now.
00:04:11.140 It's like, oh, okay, I get it.
00:04:13.060 And I think moving to these other coaches, I don't think it helped him.
00:04:17.060 I agree with Gary on that.
00:04:18.520 I also agreed with Phil Mickelson because Nike was the sponsor.
00:04:24.080 Nike got into golf equipment and had Tiger using their equipment.
00:04:28.640 Tiger was winning and using equipment that was inferior
00:04:32.680 to what the other top five players in the world were using at the time.
00:04:37.660 The Nike equipment was inferior, and he was winning.
00:04:41.180 Yeah, this guy was a special guy.
00:04:42.840 But Adam, go ahead.
00:04:44.080 You want to say something?
00:04:44.680 Yeah, I don't – listen, are the best professional coaches the best players?
00:04:53.320 I would argue no.
00:04:55.040 You know, Phil Jackson, the greatest NBA coach ever,
00:04:57.260 wasn't one of the best players ever.
00:04:58.800 Either was Pat Riley, Eric Spolstra, Greg Popovich.
00:05:01.940 So if you want to use the NBA, none of those guys were the greatest coaches.
00:05:05.120 If you want to go into the NFL, Bill Belichick, greatest coach of all time,
00:05:08.500 not a great player.
00:05:09.280 The list goes on and on and on.
00:05:12.620 So in order to coach someone great, you don't need to be great at your sport.
00:05:17.160 You need to be a great coach.
00:05:18.420 You don't necessarily need to be a great player.
00:05:20.440 So I get that Gary Player is one of the greatest golfers alive.
00:05:24.460 By the way, sick name, Gary Player.
00:05:27.180 Go ahead, play on player.
00:05:28.620 But I don't necessarily know if I agree with what he's saying.
00:05:32.580 What you need is someone that will tell you the truth,
00:05:35.600 someone that will hold you accountable,
00:05:37.940 someone that will make you do maybe not what you want to do.
00:05:40.640 You need a leader.
00:05:41.760 You don't necessarily need somebody who did what you did
00:05:44.820 because nobody was able to do what Tiger Woods did.
00:05:48.060 Nobody.
00:05:48.780 Unless he's getting Arnold Palmer, the famous drink,
00:05:51.260 or he's getting Jack Nicklaus to coach him,
00:05:53.360 nobody's going to be on Tiger's level.
00:05:55.540 Nobody's on Michael Jordan's level.
00:05:57.280 Nobody's on Tom Brady's level.
00:05:58.720 So I understand where you're getting your counsel from is important.
00:06:02.660 But when you're one of the GOATs, nobody's going to be on your level.
00:06:05.580 The only difference I would say is the following.
00:06:08.040 Coaches also have track records.
00:06:10.700 Who have you built?
00:06:12.960 So who have you built?
00:06:14.140 If you've built somebody, great.
00:06:16.860 For example, in tennis, who was that guy that ended up building IMG?
00:06:21.620 What's his name?
00:06:22.120 Nick Boletari.
00:06:23.060 Nick Boletari built Institute.
00:06:24.460 What reputation does he have for building tennis players?
00:06:26.720 Oh, yeah.
00:06:27.040 Top notch, right?
00:06:28.380 You can go through a list of names to see what they've produced.
00:06:32.820 Who was our buddy that was on the podcast?
00:06:34.700 Who was that?
00:06:35.460 Our buddy that coached the Williams sisters.
00:06:37.520 Oh, Mark.
00:06:38.640 Rick Macy.
00:06:39.580 Rick Macy.
00:06:40.400 Right.
00:06:40.740 He was in a movie.
00:06:41.340 You may not see what I see, but Rick Macy.
00:06:43.300 The point becoming that you have credibility with the coach that's giving you feedback versus taking it from somebody else.
00:06:53.380 That was a very interesting observation from Gary Player because whether you like golf or not, there was a moment where Tiger, what he was doing, made no sense.
00:07:02.340 Whenever a player makes you watch a sport that you've never watched before, you're a transcendent player.
00:07:08.260 You're a revolutionary player.
00:07:10.240 And Tiger was exactly that.
00:07:11.520 Tiger got Middle Easterners to watch golf.
00:07:13.920 We don't watch golf.
00:07:15.260 We run away from bunkers.
00:07:17.120 We have flashbacks.
00:07:18.640 We get scared of bunkers.
00:07:20.120 I mean, we don't do that kind of stuff.
00:07:20.840 You guys end up in the sand trap, though, for someone who's like this.
00:07:23.220 You guys feel very comfortable.
00:07:24.440 Yeah, we're not going to do it.
00:07:25.400 It's just like we're not going to do something like that.
00:07:27.080 But the point here is, you know, I like the way he put it down and what he said and where he's at now.
00:07:32.760 The reality of it is you're one good advice away from your life changing.
00:07:36.180 Dude, you're one bad advice from completely having a massive setback.
00:07:39.420 And you have to always be aware of that.
00:07:41.320 No matter what phase of your life you're in, you're a kid, you're an adult, you're a family man, you're married, you're single, you're a businessman.
00:07:48.420 Always make sure there is credibility of the person that you're taking counsel from.
00:07:54.220 I had no idea what was going to happen with the Yetis. 0.99
00:07:56.880 I had no idea.
00:07:57.480 When our team said, Pat, they're not going to last.
00:08:00.500 Like this, all of it was gone.
00:08:02.880 Next thing you know, we were swamped by messages of, Pat, can we get additional Yetis to do collaboration with Value Tim and the Future Looks Bright?
00:08:10.900 The next one is here.
00:08:12.120 Now, keep in mind, these will go very fast.
00:08:14.000 Rob, if you want to play this clip, we got different ones.
00:08:16.340 These are based on what many of you guys asked.
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00:08:27.000 This seems to be, this one seems to be, it's sick.
00:08:29.740 It's absolutely sick.
00:08:31.500 Yeah.
00:08:31.660 Or even a smaller one that you got.
00:08:33.400 And on top of this, Rob, if you can also go to the website, there are, I think it's 10 coolers that we got.
00:08:40.640 A couple people asked for coolers.
00:08:41.720 Only 10?
00:08:41.980 I just got 10 of them.
00:08:42.780 We're like, let's just see if there's a market for it.
00:08:43.960 I guarantee you that they'll be gone before we're out.
00:08:45.940 They asked, I said, let's get 10 and let's see how it does.
00:08:48.880 Look at that.
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00:08:59.160 Again, it is limited supply and they're absolutely sick.
00:09:04.460 When you go to work and you have this vitamin logo and the future looks bright, it looks insane.
00:09:08.260 Okay.
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