What we've got here is an opportunity to use a hip replacement as a way to get me back on track—and to do it through a process. Sounds a lot like the M-System? Well, it is.

When you start looking at rehab, it's very similar. You can learn some things, and you can retrain your body to move the way it’s supposed to. When you’ve had injuries, you can actually rebuild your golf swing—which is exactly what I’m going to help you see as I come back.

Right now, I’m not supposed to walk too much, but I’m going to walk without the walker here. I’m one week out of surgery, and the key is—I’m going to engage my glutes. So, when I take a step and my leg goes back, that motion triggers the glute. I have to tighten it. My feet are pointed straight ahead, and as this leg pushes back, this glute engages. Then the other. So it’s: engage, engage, engage.

Now I’ll turn around and start back—engage, engage, engage. I’m tightening down those glute muscles. If you want to learn how to do that, just stand with your feet straight ahead. It’s like you’re pinching your butt cheeks together—like you’ve got a dollar bill between them and you're trying to hold it. Pinch and hold. Pinch and hold. That way, you can feel each side of your glutes firing.

When you walk, you want your glutes to fire. They’re supposed to. But after surgery, they often shut down. So you’ve got to get them back in the game. That’s what I’m doing here. As I come back to my golf swing, I’m going to use this injury as a chance to gradually build my swing back up based on what motion I can do. Injuries can become an opportunity to make other things significantly better.

And that’s exactly right.