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Speaker 1: It's the Son of a Butcher podcast. I'm your host

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Speaker 1: Claude Harmon solo episode of the pod this week. Just

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Speaker 1: got back from two weeks on tour and one of

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Speaker 1: the things went I'm on tour working with players is

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Speaker 1: I'm always trying to think about what I see and

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Speaker 1: what I see on a regular basis that can help

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Speaker 1: all of you listening. And I've talked about a lot

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Speaker 1: of things on the pod, but when we think about

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Speaker 1: what's going to help you get better, what's going to

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Speaker 1: help you improve your game, I think short game is huge, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, every single week on tour there is a

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Speaker 1: pro am, and when you watch the best players in

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Speaker 1: the world and look at their short games and then

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Speaker 1: look at regular everyday golfers and their short games, there's

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Speaker 1: a dramatic difference. On DJ's lift team, he's got Patrick

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Speaker 1: Reed and I walk a lot of practice rounds with

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Speaker 1: Patrick Reed, and the guy's short game is just ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: It is one of the best short games I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: And the way that he is able to control spin, trajectory,

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Speaker 1: the way he varies his shots, it's amazing and it's

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Speaker 1: no surprise that that is kind of the calling card

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Speaker 1: of his game. But what can you, as a regular

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Speaker 1: golfer do to improve your short game? So I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: break this down and you know a few different areas.

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Speaker 1: The first thing I think you want to do is

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Speaker 1: take a look at your wedge setup. What type of

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Speaker 1: wedges are you using? And I'm talking kind of like

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Speaker 1: loft wise, do you have a lob wedge in that

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Speaker 1: sixty fifty eight degree range? Sand wedges are going to

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Speaker 1: kind of run in that kind of fifty six range

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Speaker 1: pitching wedge gap weights. A lot of the guys that

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Speaker 1: are playing and girls that are playing professional golf, they

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Speaker 1: do have four wedges. I'm not saying that works for everybody,

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Speaker 1: but I do see a lot of times big gaps

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Speaker 1: in people's wedge games right and kind of gaps in

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Speaker 1: the distances on they have a shot and they don't

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Speaker 1: really kind of have a club for that. So the

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Speaker 1: first thing that you want to do is take your

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Speaker 1: wedges to the driving range and if you've got a rangefinder,

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Speaker 1: you can go ahead and scope out some yardages. If

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Speaker 1: you've got access to a launch monitor, that's great as well. Rapsodo,

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Speaker 1: who you've heard me talk a lot about on the

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Speaker 1: pod I think for the money under one thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: they've got a launch monitor that's portable. You can use

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Speaker 1: it inside, you can use it outside. The MLM two

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Speaker 1: pro is going to give you carry distances, and I

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Speaker 1: think it's very important when you're trying to assess your

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Speaker 1: short game to have a very specific, defined group of

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Speaker 1: numbers that you know is how far you carry your wedges.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people listening right now, if

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Speaker 1: they're honest with themselves, they don't really have a very

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Speaker 1: good gauge, a very good understanding as to how far

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Speaker 1: they're carrying their wedges. What swing they're making is to

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Speaker 1: produce that number. So one of the things that I

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Speaker 1: think you want to guard against and stay away from

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Speaker 1: is making full wedge swings. You know, a full lob wedge,

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Speaker 1: a full sand wedge, a full gap wedge. I think

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Speaker 1: that's very, very dangerous because I think it brings in

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Speaker 1: a lot of characteristics in order to pull these shots

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Speaker 1: off that you need. First of all, you need really

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Speaker 1: good launch conditions. You need very very good impact positions,

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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of regular golfers, mid handicapped

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Speaker 1: golfers struggle with good impact. You know, in their full swing,

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Speaker 1: and they struggle with that in the short game as well.

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Speaker 1: I think ball position is very important. Is the ball

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Speaker 1: in the middle of your stance, is the ball back

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Speaker 1: in your stands? Is the ball forward in your stants?

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Speaker 1: I see a lot of players have that golf ball

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Speaker 1: way forward in their stands with their wedges. They don't

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Speaker 1: really know why they're trying to hit something high, but

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Speaker 1: they don't really have anything in their technique that they're doing,

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Speaker 1: and they don't really know what they're trying to do.

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Speaker 1: So start off by neutral ball position right, neutral in

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Speaker 1: your stance, so kind of where the buttons on your

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Speaker 1: shirt would be, kind of where the zipper on your

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Speaker 1: shorts or trousers would be, where your belt buckle would be.

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Speaker 1: That would be kind of neutral to middle right. And

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Speaker 1: if you've got a camera on your I mean every iPhone,

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Speaker 1: every smartphone has a camera, go ahead and take a

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Speaker 1: look at your setup with your wedges. Look at where

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Speaker 1: you're setting up. Are you setting up with the golf

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Speaker 1: ball back in your stands? Are you setting it middle?

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Speaker 1: Are you setting it up way way forward the club face?

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Speaker 1: Start off and just get some baseline ball position. So

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Speaker 1: neutral ball position right, get a lob wedge out, get

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Speaker 1: your lob wedge. Whether you know sixty fifty eight, In

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Speaker 1: my opinion, you shouldn't be playing anything over sixty degrees

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Speaker 1: of loft. Anything over that is very very specialized, very

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Speaker 1: very specific. Yeah, it's going to help you hit the

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Speaker 1: golf b high because you've got so much loft. But

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Speaker 1: I have yet to see a non elite competitive professional

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Speaker 1: golfer utilize anything more than sixty degrees of loft. Well,

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Speaker 1: I just don't see it. So fifty eight sixty is

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Speaker 1: kind of in that range where you want your lob

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Speaker 1: wedge and club face should be square. The club face

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Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily need to be open. You can get to

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Speaker 1: that right. But I want you to think about your

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Speaker 1: short game like being a cook or a chef, and

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Speaker 1: what you need to do is just come up with

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Speaker 1: a menu of shots that are pretty basic, not a

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Speaker 1: ton of ingredients, but are very very reliable that you

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Speaker 1: can produce on a regular basis. So I'm sure I've

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Speaker 1: talked about this before, but I was watching all the

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Speaker 1: guys over the last two weeks that was lucky enough

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Speaker 1: to be in practice rounds with looking at their short games,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's very important that for whatever yardage

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Speaker 1: is that you're trying to hit, that you have some

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Speaker 1: end points, an end point to where the backswing is

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Speaker 1: going to go and an end point to where the

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Speaker 1: follow through is going to go. Because I see a

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Speaker 1: lot of people struggle with their short game because they're

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Speaker 1: making a backswing length that is way too far for

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Speaker 1: the length of shot that they're trying to hit. So

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Speaker 1: if that backswing length is too far, Let's say you've

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Speaker 1: got a twenty five to thirty yard shot, right, it's

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Speaker 1: going to be more of a pitch than a chip,

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Speaker 1: but you're trying to carry it thirty yards in the air.

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Speaker 1: I see a lot of players struggle because they're making

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Speaker 1: a backswing that is easily going to carry the golf

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Speaker 1: ball fifty seventy five. Sometimes even they make a full

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Speaker 1: length backswing for a very small shot, and then they

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Speaker 1: have to decelerate as they're coming into him because otherwise

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Speaker 1: you're going to carry the golf ball too far with

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Speaker 1: that backswing. So it's a very basic, kind of standard

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Speaker 1: way of thinking about this. But again it's a little

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Speaker 1: bit like I said, it's like being a chef. If

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Speaker 1: you don't know how to cook. It's hard to make

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Speaker 1: one Michelin Star, two, Michelin Star, three Michelin Star. You know,

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Speaker 1: fancy cuisine. So think about your wedge game, like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: really good dishes with not a lot of ingredients. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: have to be fancy. I talk about this a lot

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Speaker 1: with my students. I've talked about it in the pod

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Speaker 1: making an omelet. Making a cheeseburger. Right, a cheeseburger has meat, cheese, bread.

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Speaker 1: What you put on it after that is adding some nuance,

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Speaker 1: some flair whatever. But at the core to have a cheeseburger,

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Speaker 1: you need meat for the burger part, you need cheese

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Speaker 1: for the cheese part of the cheeseburger, and you need bread. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's not a lot of ingredients. So go get your

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Speaker 1: lob wedge and say, all right, this is my cheeseburger,

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Speaker 1: this is my omelet, an omelet, eggs, not a lot

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Speaker 1: of ingredients. You can throw a bunch of stuff in it,

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Speaker 1: but really eggs, milk, salt, pepper, some butter, not crazy

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Speaker 1: fancy when you and how you make that dish. Another story.

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Speaker 1: So sixty degree fifty eight degree lob wedge. Go get

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Speaker 1: your lob wedge, middle of your stance faced square, weight's

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Speaker 1: going to be on the left side. The stance is

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Speaker 1: going to be maybe slightly open, and the handle at

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Speaker 1: leaned forward. That's a pretty standard way of chipping and

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Speaker 1: hitting a lot of pitch shots inside of fifty yards.

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Speaker 1: The ball is going to be neutral, the stets is

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Speaker 1: going to be a little bit open, the handle is

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Speaker 1: going to be a little bit forward. We're going to

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Speaker 1: have our weight on our front foot. I'm sure a

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Speaker 1: lot of people listening have heard that before. But why

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Speaker 1: are you doing that? Why are we getting you into

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Speaker 1: that position to chip? The main reason is we're not

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Speaker 1: making a big golf swing around the greens. We're only

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Speaker 1: carrying the golf ball five ten, maybe even less yards

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Speaker 1: to three yards, so you're not going to need a

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Speaker 1: big swing. So the setup a little bit open, ball

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Speaker 1: kind of neutral, maybe just slightly back in your stance,

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Speaker 1: handle a little bit forward, and wait a little bit forward.

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Speaker 1: All of that is to basically preset your impact position.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're trying to do, right, We're trying to

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Speaker 1: preset good impact because we're not making a weight shift.

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Speaker 1: We're not making a big turn off the golf ball.

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Speaker 1: We're not making a big turn through the golf ball.

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Speaker 1: And then I've talked about this before, but it is

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Speaker 1: such a simple way to try and gain some repetition

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Speaker 1: in some consistency. Use the clock method. You're standing within

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Speaker 1: the dial of a clock. If you're a right handed

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Speaker 1: golfer standing within the dial of a clock, your head

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Speaker 1: at six o'clock on the dial of a clock. And

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Speaker 1: so your hands are at six o'clock. And on the backstroke,

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Speaker 1: and on the follow through, your hands on the follow through,

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Speaker 1: if they're starting at six, they can follow through to five,

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Speaker 1: they could follow through to four, they can follow through

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Speaker 1: to three, to two to one. So think about your

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Speaker 1: hand position. Don't think about the club head. Don't think

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Speaker 1: hands are. Think about where the grip is right, and

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Speaker 1: I do think one of the ways to become more consistent,

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Speaker 1: more repetitive, and kind of get the contact to be

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Speaker 1: a little bit more consistent more often is to use

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Speaker 1: that clock theory. Hands are at six o'clock. My weight's

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Speaker 1: going to be a little bit on the forward side.

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Speaker 1: The reason I'm going to keep my weight on the

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Speaker 1: forward side on my lead leg. If I'm a right

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Speaker 1: hand golfer, that's going to be my left foot. If

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Speaker 1: I'm a left handed golfer, that's going to be my

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Speaker 1: right foot. But if you're a right handed golfer, your

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Speaker 1: weight's going to be a little bit on the left side.

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Speaker 1: You're trying to preset impact. One of the things that

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Speaker 1: I see. I posted a video on my social that

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Speaker 1: I did for Cobra Golf a couple weeks ago. I

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Speaker 1: put a shaft down kind of parallel to where my

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Speaker 1: right foot would be, and what I'm trying to do

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Speaker 1: is make sure that I'm not going backwards to try

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Speaker 1: and get the golf ball in the air and hitting

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Speaker 1: the shaft. So it's going to help me have that

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Speaker 1: little bit of downward angle of attack to try and

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Speaker 1: get the golf ball in the air, the angle of attack,

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Speaker 1: how much we're hitting up and how much we're hitting

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Speaker 1: down on the golf ball dramatically influences how the ball launches,

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Speaker 1: but it dramatically influences the quality of the contact and

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Speaker 1: the quality of the strike. So if you are hitting

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Speaker 1: your target, that's your target area. Right. You could even

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Speaker 1: take four golf clubs and make a box, right, So

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Speaker 1: lay them down on the ground and make a box

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Speaker 1: with the golf clubs you have, and then you're just

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Speaker 1: trying to carry the ball in that box. I think

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Speaker 1: that's a great way to kind of heighten your focus,

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Speaker 1: heighten your visualization. So now you're not even thinking about

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Speaker 1: the pin. Now you're not even thinking about the rest

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Speaker 1: of it. You're just trying to get the basic part first,

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Speaker 1: carry the golf ball in a specific area that you

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Speaker 1: know is a specific distance. And I think if you

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Speaker 1: can start to do that consistently, if you can get

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Speaker 1: a consistent quality of contact, a consistent quality of strike

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Speaker 1: between the club and the ball and video what that

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Speaker 1: looks like so that you can then because I think

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Speaker 1: feel is recreating what you see, right, But I get

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Speaker 1: asked this all the time, how do we create How

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Speaker 1: do I think you create feel by going out and

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Speaker 1: matching the visual to what your technique is. So that's

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Speaker 1: where I think your smartphone having a camera so you

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Speaker 1: can look at it can say, Okay, I just hit

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Speaker 1: that one really really well. I had a good quality

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Speaker 1: of divot that went the distance I was trying to

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Speaker 1: get it to go somewhere in between ten to fifteen yards.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to land the golf ball. Got a barrier

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Speaker 1: on the ground at ten and I've got a barrier

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Speaker 1: at fifteen. If I can consistently carry the golf ball

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Speaker 1: in between those two alignment sticks and then I can

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Speaker 1: get an idea of what that looks like on camera,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a really good way to start to

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Speaker 1: gain some consistency of motion, some consistency of contact, and

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Speaker 1: just some overall club control consistency. Because when you're looking

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Speaker 1: at your golf bag, always remember this. Every single golf

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Speaker 1: club in your golf bag will stay in your golf

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Speaker 1: bag until you or someone else takes the golf club

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Speaker 1: out of the golf bag, picks it up, grips it,

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Speaker 1: and starts to move it. So the golf club cannot

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Speaker 1: move itself. So it's your job as the player to

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Speaker 1: move the golf club, and it's your job as the

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Speaker 1: player to control the golf club. And I think one

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Speaker 1: of the best ways to start to gain consistency in

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Speaker 1: your full swing is to gain consistency in your short

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Speaker 1: game so that you know where you're putting the golf

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Speaker 1: club in position on the backswing, you know where you're

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Speaker 1: putting the golf club in position on the follow through,

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Speaker 1: and I think if you can do that consistently, it

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Speaker 1: makes the full swing much much easier. Every wedge you

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Speaker 1: have for the nine to three shot is going to

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Speaker 1: produce a different distance, a different trajectory. Obviously, the trajectory

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Speaker 1: from nine to three with the golf ball in the

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Speaker 1: center of your stance with your lob wedge is going

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Speaker 1: to be vastly different than what the trajectory is going

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Speaker 1: to be with your pitching wedge from the same set up,

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Speaker 1: from the same length of backswing and from the same

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Speaker 1: follow through, and the trajectory is going to be very different.

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Speaker 1: The lob wedge is going to come out higher, the

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Speaker 1: pitching wedge is going to come out lower. So then

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Speaker 1: you can take some of the guess work out. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I've got a shot length of twenty five yards. I

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Speaker 1: only need to carry the golf ball just over ten yards.

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Speaker 1: So if I hit my lab wedge, that's going to

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Speaker 1: come out higher, softer, and not roll out. But if

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Speaker 1: I hit my pitching wedge, that length of the backswing

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Speaker 1: and that length of follow through might be shorter than

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Speaker 1: with a lob wedge, might be eight to five or

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Speaker 1: eight four, seven to five. But I just think half hour, right,

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Speaker 1: a half hour of you going out and saying, Okay,

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Speaker 1: i've got to hit this ten yards in the air.

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Speaker 1: I've got to hit this fifteen yards in the air.

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Speaker 1: I've got to hit this twenty yards in the air.

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Speaker 1: I've got to hit this twenty five thirty. You can

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Speaker 1: do in five yard increments. You can do ten yard increments.

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Speaker 1: You can do ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy eighty,

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Speaker 1: ninety one hundred. If you had a really good gauge

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Speaker 1: on how far you carried it, and you had a

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Speaker 1: really good gauge on controlling the length of back swing

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Speaker 1: and the length of follow through that you need to

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Speaker 1: do to produce these baseline numbers takes the guest work

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Speaker 1: on the golf course out. It really really does neutral

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Speaker 1: ball position, length of the back swing. Nine to three,

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Speaker 1: eight four, seven to five. Try that with all your wedges.

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Speaker 1: See how that trajectory changes, See how that distance, how

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Speaker 1: that carry distance changes. Go to a chipping green and

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Speaker 1: see what the rollout is like. So nine to three

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Speaker 1: with your lob wedge, the rollout when the ball lands

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Speaker 1: and rolls out, is going to be very different than

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Speaker 1: your pitching wedge. And if you know that, then you

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Speaker 1: maybe don't have to make as big of a swing.

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Speaker 1: You can take less club and say, Okay, I don't

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Speaker 1: have to make as big of a swing. The ball's

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Speaker 1: going to get on the ground. It's going to come

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Speaker 1: in a little bit lower, but it's going to come

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Speaker 1: in a little bit faster, it's going to come in

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Speaker 1: a little bit hotter. So now let's say I've got

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Speaker 1: to carry the golf ball thirty forty yards in the air,

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Speaker 1: but I'm still only ten yards from the front edge

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Speaker 1: of the green, So then I've got all that area

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Speaker 1: to work with so then maybe I take something that's

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Speaker 1: got less loft carry it that ten yards, but when

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Speaker 1: it bounces, it rolls, and it rolls more like a

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Speaker 1: putt as opposed to trying to control a lob wedge

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Speaker 1: and carry it all the way to the flag. Every

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Speaker 1: single pro am that I've ever been in, I'll see

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Speaker 1: someone carry the golf ball. They're in the rough, they're

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Speaker 1: trying to fly it. They carry it right to pin

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Speaker 1: high and then they say bite, spin, And I'm thinking,

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Speaker 1: what did you do to put any sort of bite

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Speaker 1: or spin on this? You carried the golf ball the

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Speaker 1: distance of the flag. Now it's going to roll off

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Speaker 1: the other side of the green because you carried it

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Speaker 1: too far. The pin may have been twenty five yards

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Speaker 1: away from you, But the last thing you want to

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Speaker 1: do is carry it twenty five yards because if you

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Speaker 1: don't know how to spin it, if you don't have

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Speaker 1: a ton of speed, if you don't have a good

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Speaker 1: method to do that, you're not going to be able

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Speaker 1: to control what happens to the ball after it gets

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Speaker 1: on the ground, after it starts to roll. But just baselines,

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Speaker 1: club face square and then I'm sure I've talked about

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Speaker 1: this in the past. Put the golf ball back in

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Speaker 1: your stance, you know, kind of more off of your

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Speaker 1: back foot, and then see what nine to three with

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Speaker 1: you lob wedge does. That's going to bring the trajectory down.

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Speaker 1: Play the golf ball a little bit more forward in

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Speaker 1: your stance, which is going to give you a little

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Speaker 1: bit higher traction. Again, all of this being done with

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Speaker 1: the club face square Again, we're making omelets here, we're

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Speaker 1: making cheeseburgers. This is not fine dining with tons of

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Speaker 1: ingredients and tons of different processes. It's just just really

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Speaker 1: really basic, basic stuff. And I think it's a fantastic

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Speaker 1: way to gain club control. I think it's a fantastic

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Speaker 1: way to gain consistency in the quality of the strike.

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Speaker 1: But I also think it's just a very very basic

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Speaker 1: way for you as a player to just gain some knowledge,

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Speaker 1: gain some control over what you're doing. And I think

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Speaker 1: if you can get that on a consistent basis, then

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Speaker 1: you're going to have the ability to control your shots

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Speaker 1: on a regular basis. I know that sounds really really

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Speaker 1: simp I know it sounds kind of short game one

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Speaker 1: to one, but if you can just master the basics

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Speaker 1: of where your ball position is consistent all the time,

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Speaker 1: the setup is consistent all the time, The length of

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Speaker 1: the backswing and the length of the follow through is

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Speaker 1: consistent all the time. I think that's a very simple

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Speaker 1: and a very easy way to start to gain some

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Speaker 1: very good baseline numbers for how far you need to

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Speaker 1: carry the golf ball on a consistent basis, and I

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Speaker 1: think you're going to see your short game improve. I

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Speaker 1: think it's going to take a lot of the guesswork

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Speaker 1: out of what you're doing on the golf course, and

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Speaker 1: I think your handicaps going to go down because your

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Speaker 1: short game is going to improve. I want to thank

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