#1781 - Coleman Hughes

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Nice to meet you.

Coleman Hughes (0:14)

Great to be here, man.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

What is X Factor? Is that your podcast?

Coleman Hughes (0:18)

No, I wish. X Factor, this is a Lauryn Hill shirt.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Oh, I've seen you wear that on more than one occasion.

Coleman Hughes (0:23)

You know, I just love this shirt. It's comfortable.

I look good in it. I feel good in it. Thank you.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

You do look good in it. I'm glad you agree with Jamie that golf is a problem.

Jamie (0:33)

What kind of problem?

Joe Rogan (0:34)

This motherfucker.

Jamie (0:35)

It's a good problem to have.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

All he cares about is golf these days.

Jamie (0:38)

There's a lot going on in the golf world.

Coleman Hughes (0:40)

You know, I'll say, I just, I resent golf because my dad is good, and I think he really wanted me to be good.

At least I sensed that, and I never was. It's such an awkward swing.

Joe Rogan (0:53)

It's a very weird movement. I was watching Tiger Woods swing on YouTube yesterday for whatever strange reason, because we were talking about how, look at me, I'm scared. I told you, I'm fucking scared of golf. I can't.

I can't do it. I don't have that kind of time.

Coleman Hughes (1:06)

I feel like with every other sport, if you're a pretty athletic person, you cannot embarrass yourself in a short amount of time. With golf, it seems like there's very little correlation between general athleticism and whether you can do this swing.

Joe Rogan (1:19)

So here's a slow-mo of Tiger Woods. And you know, what it is is like, I was looking at the way his body moves, and then I remember hearing about all the different surgeries he's had on his back. And I'm like, it kinda makes sense. If you look at the amount of torque, right here is where the torque starts. Let it drive through.

Like this amount of fucking power, it is such a weird movement of the body. And you have to be, you have to like, be loose and strong at the same time, right?

Jamie (1:52)

Yeah, you gotta keep your arms like stiff, but your wrists loose, and your hips loose, but your legs stiff.

Coleman Hughes (1:59)

Everything's counterintuitive. A baseball swing is so much more intuitive to me.

Maybe that's because I played more baseball growing up, but I think it is more naturally with the grain of how the body would just, like, if a caveman just picked something up at a club, he would swing it more like a baseball bat than like a golf club, certainly.

Joe Rogan (2:16)

It makes sense because the golf thing is down low, right? And so you have to stand sideways, and it has to go past your legs and up.

Jamie (2:23)

I'm trying to find, this guy, he's a long drive hitter. I've seen, he's pretty new to this thing.

Joe Rogan (2:27)

Jack deus.

Jamie (2:28)

He's huge. He's a baseball player, but he's got this very unique swing. He calls it the no-wack swing. He does a giant baseball step.

Coleman Hughes (2:34)

Happy Gale Moore swing.

Jamie (2:36)

He blasts the ball, too.

Coleman Hughes (2:37)

Oh my God.

Joe Rogan (2:38)

He just dribbles it.

Jamie (2:40)

But I've tried doing it. It really fucks up your entire swing for everything else you're doing. It's only made for hitting the ball as far as possible, which is...

Coleman Hughes (2:47)

Yeah, you can't putt like that.

Joe Rogan (2:48)

But can you make it accurate and do that?

Jamie (2:50)

You can, because the long drive thing, you have to hit it within the fairway. You can't just smash it as far as possible and count as far as it went. It has to be within the lines kind of thing.

Joe Rogan (2:59)

I can't imagine that there isn't some like giant linebacker type dude that if you could teach him correctly, they would have immense power. Like can you imagine if you could teach Francis Ngano how to drive correctly?

That ball might never land.

Jamie (3:18)

Well, there's a picture of the Tyson Fury swinging, and which I think he's pretty new to it, and he's a giant person.

Joe Rogan (3:25)

He's enormous.

Jamie (3:26)

And it's the same kind of thing.

Joe Rogan (3:27)

The amount of torque.

Jamie (3:30)

It doesn't look as impressive. You also don't have, the other part, which is I've been figuring out as I learned, swinging as hard as you can doesn't make the ball go as far as it will as if you swing nice and soft and hit it in the right spot on the club.