WEBVTT - Winter Survival Guide For Your Golf Game 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:08.479 It's the Son of a Butcher podcast. We come to 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:13.720 you every Wednesday. I'm your host, Claude Harmon this week, Yeah, 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:15.640 the weather's starting to change, and I think there are 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.599 a lot of people that are going into a time 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:20.520 period to where they're not going to be able to 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:24.720 play as much golf as they would want to weather wise, 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.720 getting out on the golf course. And I think these 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.680 kind of winter months, if you are kind of not 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:33.519 able to get out and play as much as you 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:36.240 want because of the weather, I think the winter months 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.640 are a good time for you to do some real, 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.360 real work on your golf swing. So if you could 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.600 think of, you know, when the weather starts to get bad, 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.080 it's it's if you live in a place where the 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.920 climate is you know, warm in the summer and not 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.959 so great during you know, the next four or five 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.880 six months, you can use that as kind of a 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.480 off season, right, you can use that as an off season, 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.360 similar to what a tour player would do to say, Okay, listen, 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.680 I have my season where I play and then I 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.720 use this time. I think a lot of people think, Okay, 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.360 the weather's getting bad now I can't go out the 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:15.120 way I used to and it's somewhat of a negative 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:16.840 because you can't get out on the golf course, but 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.640 you could kind of flip the switch and say, let 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.319 me see this as a positive. Let me find a 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:26.399 way to take what is going on in my golf game, 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.120 the stuff that I've seen, you know, when I've been playing, 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:34.360 and then really break down the areas where I can improve. 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.720 And if you're a regular listening to the pod, you 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.399 always hear me talk about the difference between technique and execution, 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:41.920 and I spend an enormous amount of time talking to 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:47.280 players about executing. That technique is important, but you need 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.240 to learn how to execute. And I think if you 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.560 are in a climate to where you're not going to 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.200 be able to get out as regularly and play the game, 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.920 you could use this time as Okay, this is my 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.360 technique time. This is the time where I'm going to 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:07.160 go ahead and whatever I'm working on in my golf swing, 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:09.600 this is the time where I'm going to say, okay, listen, 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.080 I'm not going to be so much outcome oriented here. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.480 I'm going to be very much concerned on fixing whatever 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.400 these problems are. And I think there's a number of 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.240 different ways. I also think this is a time where 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.440 a lot of people are hitting golf balls. We're going 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.200 into a time period to where maybe you're hitting a 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.440 lot of golf balls into a net. So and I 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.840 think there are ways when you're hitting into nets to 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:38.120 try and work on a number of different things. But 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.760 if you are going to be working a lot inside, 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.280 and you are going to be working a lot just 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.160 hitting balls into a net, it's tough to see where 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.079 the golf ball's going. If you're on a simulator, you 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.040 can kind of see it, but that's all kind of 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.519 based off of you know, algorithms and simulations and stuff 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.320 like that. But what I think is really important in 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.480 this offseason is, first of all, do a yardage check, 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:06.920 right and find if you don't have one, find and 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.600 get access to a launch monitor and say, okay, I'm 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.880 going to go through and do a yardage check because 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.640 I think over the course of a year, your yardage 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.680 is changed. They kind of go up and down. There's 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.639 times where you're swinging really really well and you'll be 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.320 hitting the golf ball really really good, really really solid, 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.200 and then there's times where you're not. So I think 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.080 golf season and during these winter months it's a time 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.320 to really dial in the yardages. Now if you do, 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.720 if you've ever been on a launch monitor before, you've 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.040 got access to a launch monitor, I think what you 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:42.800 want to do is do it in reverse. So pick out. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.680 I mean, ideally you would want to go through this 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.120 with your entire golf back right, every club in your bag. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.680 Get an idea of how far it goes. But if 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.400 you don't have the time to do that, look at 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.520 what your scoring clubs are, look at the clubs that 0:03:56.600 --> 0:04:01.080 you tend to use the most in when you're on 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.280 the golf course, whatever, But get the clubs that you're 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.760 using at your home course on a regular basis. Most 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.920 golfers are not traveling golfers, right, they kind of play. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.280 They're not like tour players to where they're playing a 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.760 different course every week, and the test that that course 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.839 demands is going to be different from week to week. 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:27.120 So it's going to not be super long. Maybe the 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.679 rough isn't super super thick, maybe the fairways are wide. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.720 Maybe either it's a wide open golf course, maybe it's 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.160 a treeline golf course. Whatever that golf course is. I 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.200 think that's one of the things that you want to 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.159 try and figure out, Okay, where do I play most 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.560 of my golf and what type of shots and what 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:47.000 type of game does that course demand. First of all, 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.599 if you can get on a launch monitor, you want 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.600 to make sure that you know how far you hit 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.839 your wedges. Those are the scoring clubs. You're going to 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.679 hit a lot of those. I see big, big gaps 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.679 in how far people think they hit their wedges versus 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:04.080 how they actually do hit their wedges. And again, work 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.719 if you are going to get access and work on 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:09.000 a launch monitor, work at it in reverse. I think 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.800 a lot of Listen. I think some of the combines 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.120 out there are really really good. You've heard me talk 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.400 about wraps out of the launch monitor that I use, 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.960 and they've got a combine. I think it's really really good. 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:22.960 But one of the things I think you can do 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:27.279 is do a combine, but do it in reverse. Okay, 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:33.240 So whatever club that you're using, blind test that club. 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.760 And what I mean by that is get a club 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:40.120 that you have an idea of whatever it is. Let's 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.360 say it's your fifty six degree wedge and you've got 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.479 an idea of how far you hit that. So let's 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:51.160 blind test that. Let's hit five, ten, maybe twenty balls, 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.120 and then go ahead and say, okay, let's say you 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:59.640 think you hit your sand wedge ninety five yards before 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.839 you out, actually look at how far your sand wedge 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.440 is going, blind test it and say okay, I'm going 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.359 to go through. You know, like I said, five ten, fifteen, 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.200 twenty ball challenge, you're hitting shots to a target and 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.560 you're just blind testing. You're just hitting these and try 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.600 and do this without any kind of mechanical feels not 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.000 really working on anything. From a technique standpoint, this is 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:29.280 just let me get my wedge, this fifty six degree wedge, 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:31.800 Let me get this nine iron, let me get this 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.279 eight iron, the seven iron, the six iron, whatever the 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.160 club is. Let me blind test it first from a 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:41.400 yardage to see if I have a really good understanding 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:45.599 as to how far I hit my club. And then 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.239 you could even do this yourself. So on every ball, 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:53.960 hit it, and on your phone or on a scorecard 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:58.160 or something, right down, how far you think that went? Okay, 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:02.200 So you're gauging how far the golf ball went off 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.440 of the swing that you put on it. So you're 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.200 gauging that off of how much the ball is curving, 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.640 how much the ball is spinning, whether you hit the 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.840 golf ball solid or not. But again, I think a 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.640 lot of players are very and I've said this before 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.720 on the Pod, I think a lot of golfers were 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.120 very influenced by what we see on television and we think, okay, well, 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.520 if Justin Thomas has got a wedge in his hand 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.520 and he's hitting it from you know, he's got pitching 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.680 wedge and he's hitting it from one fifty five to 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.720 one to sixty. And then you hear that enough times, 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.800 you hear Roy McElroy doing the same thing. You hear 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.520 any of the players that you watch, You hear the 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.400 same numbers over and over again for specific clubs. I 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.320 think we get baited into that because if you watch 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.640 a lot of golf, you're watching players hit on a 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:47.720 lot of par threes, and there'll be a lot of 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.440 similar clubs on the par threes. You rarely do you 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.880 have a par three where there's three players in the 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.960 group and there's a twenty to thirty yard difference in 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.600 how far they hit the club into the par three. 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.800 Watch golf on television, whether it's Men's, Women's Champs Tour, 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.960 or wherever you're going to see a lot of players, 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.920 especially on par threes, hitting kind of the same yardage 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.200 and hitting the same type of clubs. So what you 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:16.640 want to try and do is you want to find 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.760 out how far you hit all of your clubs. And 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.120 that's why I think it's important to do this blind 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.800 and I think it would be really good for you know, 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.680 a ten, fifteen to twenty ball challenge, Get a scorecard, 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.480 get a piece of paper, whatever the clubs. Let's say 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.520 it's a nine iron. You have an idea in your 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.200 head of how far you hit the nine iron, So 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.080 write down on a piece of paper, nine iron, and 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.560 then how far you think you hit your nine iron right, 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.600 and then go ahead and hit a shot, write down 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.400 what you thought the yardage was. Then go through that. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.400 If you can get ten, if you can get fifteen, 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.080 if you can get twenty, and then you've written down 0:08:55.520 --> 0:09:00.440 how far you think it went, then go to launch 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:05.720 monitor and see what the difference is. What is the 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.760 gap between that? Because I think a lot of time 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.960 and ask yourself, did you hit this shot solid? So 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.560 that's the other thing you could do. You'd blind test it. 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:16.880 You grab your nine iron and you could hit the 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.520 shot and say okay, on a scale of one to ten, 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:24.120 one being the worst contact and ten being really really 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:28.160 good contact, and give yourself a score out of one 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.160 to ten. If it's really not good contact and stuff, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:35.640 maybe that's a five. If it's almost dead straight out 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.160 of the middle, but you feel like it's a really 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.000 good shot, maybe that's an eight, and you're writing down 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.679 based off of the contact. Give yourself a score of 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.640 one to ten. Then when you go through and look 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.560 at the yardages you're hitting it, maybe okay, and I've 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.720 seen this happen. Maybe the yardage that you think you 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.560 hit it, the only way you're able to get that 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.800 yardage is if the contact is at a ten, so 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:05.599 it's perfect, perfect contact, which for the majority of golfers 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.280 that's very difficult to do. We don't hit the golf 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.360 ball solid all the time, and golf really is a 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.720 game of misses. So I think having a good idea 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:19.240 of how far you hit your clubs is vital. And 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.760 I think that if you're hitting into a simulator, it's 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.960 going to give you a number. If you're able to 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.640 use a launch monitor, I think that's a very good 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.320 way to do it. Or if you're on the driving range, 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:33.600 pick out some targets, get your range finder out, pick 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.800 a target out, and then figure out, Okay, that's my 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.160 one hundred and fifty target. Maybe that's my two hundred 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.559 yard target. Maybe that's my one seventy five target. Maybe 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.800 that's my one hundred yard target. Whatever the numbers are. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:53.720 But what I do think is important is getting that feedback. 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.400 But the feedback based off of your fields. We always 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.360 get asked how we create feel? Right, how do I 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:05.520 create feel in my golf swing? And I think one 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.600 of the ways you do it is you figure out, okay, 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.280 what is your perception of how far you hit the 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.600 golf ball and how far do you really hit the 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:18.719 golf ball? And I think the difference between those can 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:22.800 sometimes be really really different. I would do this with 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.880 all of my scoring clubs, so my wedges. If you 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:28.679 want to baseline it, you can do this. 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Is it overhooking to 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.600 the left, and the majority of the people I think 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.080 that are listening right now are probably going to raise 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.040 their hand and say, Okay, the predominant shot that I 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.720 hit is left to right. The predominant miss I have 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:43.400 is a slice right. So what that is is that's 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.400 when the path starts to get when you slice the 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.640 golf ball. If you're a right handed golfer, that's when 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.600 that path starts to get excessively to the left. That's 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.120 where the club face can start to come in very 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.760 very open. I think the reason why the club face 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.000 comes in in such an open position for most golfers 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.560 is because the path is so far to the left 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.560 that if you actually had the face square or released it, 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.000 because the path is so far left of where you're 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.320 trying to go, the golf ball would just go miles 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.640 to the left. So as the clubs get longer, after 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:19.640 we get after you know, wedge eight nine eight iron 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:21.920 seven iron, I think you can get away with it. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:23.560 I think a lot of times people will say, listen, 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.640 I just kind of started a little bit left of 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.640 my target and then it kind of fades a little 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.280 bit to the right. But as those clubs get longer 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.640 six five four, your hybrid's, your three woods, your drivers. 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:38.360 I think for most people listening, the path is going 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.120 to be left, that face is going to be open, 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.960 and you're going to be hitting a shot that is 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.840 going to be going dramatically from left to right. If 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.720 that is your problem, I think that's during the season. 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.920 You've got to be able to execute and say, Okay, 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.720 even though I'm going to try and work on that shot, 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:58.680 it's probably going to be tough for me to work 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.800 on it and really get it out out of my game. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.480 So what you're going to do is say, Okay, I 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.960 know that my path is excessively left to right. I 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:12.080 see my divots down to the left, feel everything kind 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.960 of steep. So what I'm going to do when I'm 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.920 just hitting golf balls, whether I'm just hitting golf balls 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.320 on the range, whether I'm hitting golf balls into a net, 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.160 whether I'm hitting golf balls into a similar but I'm 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:27.640 going to go work on my path. So again, if 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:29.680 you have access to a launch monitor that gives you 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.680 the path, you're going to be able to look at 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.280 that number and see what that path number is. But 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:40.800 what I do think is really really important is to say, Okay, 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.200 let's try and work. Just as a generalization, Let's see, 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.360 you're hitting golf balls into a net, you're hitting golf 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.560 balls into a simulator, and you're just basically you know 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.480 that that path is out to end. You know that 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.360 that path tends to get left to right, tend to 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.920 get those divots that tend to get steep. So there 0:16:57.920 --> 0:16:59.960 are a lot of different drills that you can do, 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.520 but one of my favorites is, if you've got an 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.520 iron in your hand, go ahead and take your setup. 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.880 Take a headcover, take a floating noodle that you would 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.159 use in a pool, something that's soft, you could use 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.719 a club box, and then place that on the outside 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:20.000 of the ball parallel to your target line. So it's 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.480 going to give you a barrier if you come over 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.760 the top of the golf ball. And I think if 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.720 you are someone that excessively comes over the golf ball, 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:33.080 and you put that head cover basically just parallel to 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.000 your foot line on the other side of the ball, 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:41.200 so that the big part of the headcover is at 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.800 the back of your stance and the big part the 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.959 top of the head cover would be more facing the 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.720 front of your stands. Then I think if you give 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:54.159 yourself that physical barrier, if you do come over the 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:56.480 top of the golf ball, you are going to feel 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.720 it because you're going to hit the object a club 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:03.160 box to where if you're excessively coming over the top 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.439 of the golf ball, you're going to come crashing into 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.960 the club box. You could if you didn't want to 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:10.960 do that, you could go ahead and get a golf 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:16.120 ball and then take your set up and then put 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.639 two golf balls. Put one on the inside of your 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.440 golf ball and one on the outside of your golf ball, 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:23.639 and that's going to create kind of a gate for 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.119 you to swing through. Similar to if you were going 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.120 to put teas down and you were trying to work 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.560 on your putting and you were trying to put through 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.880 the gate. We've seen tiger woods do that to where 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:34.400 you're trying to put through a gate and you're trying 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.280 to not hit any of the teas. Give yourself some 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:42.520 room with your iron. You know, maybe you know a 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:47.280 club head length maybe two club head lengths from your 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.080 golf ball, So golf ball. Imagine you've addressed your golf 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.360 ball and then one club head on the inside, two 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.879 club heads on the inside one club head on the 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.159 outside one club. So give yourself that gate. Obviously, the 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:04.280 more tight and the more close you put that gate, 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.919 the harder it is. But you're going to get a 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.640 good idea of what you're doing on if you're hitting 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.399 the inside ball, if you're hitting the outside ball, and 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.680 then just working on that path. You could put two 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:21.120 clubs down parallel to your foot line, and you could 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.959 put them on either side of the golf ball and 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:29.639 make you know, a path, a road, something that you 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.640 could feel like the golf club would go down, a visual, 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:38.520 a runway, a road that you could swing down and through. Right, 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.600 so the clubs are pointing, you know, there's an inside 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:43.920 club which would be parallel to your foot line, there 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.119 would be an outside club which would be parallel to 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.640 the other one. And then that's giving you a gate 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:50.880 and a roadmap. If you make it wide enough, you're 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.760 going to be able to see, Okay, that's my target 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:58.560 line and all these divots are consistently left, and I 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.040 can see that because I've got to find area of 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.440 where I know my target line is. I've got two 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.560 clubs down, two alignment sticks down. We see tour players 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:08.920 do that all the time. But give yourself that road, 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.359 give yourself that gait, and then you're going to be 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.840 able to see how the club is working and then 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.840 work the opposite. So if these paths are way left, 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:19.840 if you can see that with the divot, if you 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.920 can see that with the path, if you could see 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.800 that with the number on a launch monitor, then try 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.120 and work the opposite. So if the path is you know, 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.280 six seven, eight degrees to the right, try and get 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.920 that path, cut it in half and say okay, instead 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.359 of being massively to the right and I'm overdrawing the 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:40.280 golf ball, I'm going to try and say, okay, I'm 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:43.280 gonna swing. What I feel like is more left. If 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.840 you're slicing the golf ball and you're massively out to 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:47.840 in and you're over the top of it, and you 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:50.399 know that path, as math will say, okay, I'm going 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:52.399 to try and feel like I swing more out to 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:56.880 the right. If you've ever played baseball, imagine that you're 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:01.240 standing at home plate. Second base would be where the 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:05.200 target is, and then if you're massively swinging over the top, 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:09.160 you would be swinging to third base. So try the opposite. 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:11.280 Try and feel like you're going to swing way out 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:13.520 to first base, try and feel like you're going to 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:15.080 swing out to the right, and I think having that 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:20.520 ability and then if you can do both, then do both. 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.680 Say listen, I'm going to swing left here and see 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:26.359 what happens with the golf ball flight. Okay, now I'm 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:28.520 going to feel like a swing to the right. Then 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:30.440 I'm going to see what happens to the ball flight. 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:35.680 But working that and working on it to where you're 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:39.320 giving yourself some drills, you're giving yourself some barriers. And 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:42.159 if you're on a range, there's not a lot of consequence. 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:44.080 You're picking out of targets. You're not doing this on 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:47.120 the golf course. And I think you know, these winter 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:49.680 months are a really good opportunity for you to work 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:53.560 on what your golf swing is doing, what that path 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:55.800 is doing. If the golf club's getting in too much 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:58.520 on the inside, trying to feel like that golf club's 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.359 going more on the outside, the golf club is doing 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:04.040 too much of the golf club going out, you can 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:10.480 work just mechanics and drills, and this is your technique work. Right, 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:13.120 there's your execution work when you play, and then there 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:17.679 is your technique work. I think the winter months are 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:20.399 a really good opportunity for you to work on your putting. 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:22.280 If you can do this indoors. There's a lot of 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:29.359 different putting products out there. Dustin Johnson has one the 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:34.239 perfect practice practice. That's it's a mat that you put on. 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:36.119 Phil Kenyon, who's been on the pod, he has his 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:38.680 Visio matt that you can get online, which can put 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:42.359 tea's in. You know, there's a there's a bunch of 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:44.879 them that you could you could buy. You could just 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:48.040 work on, you know, your start lines. You know, put 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:50.400 a ball down. If you don't have a mat, put 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:54.120 a ball down. Stick two balls about, you know, two 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:57.680 three inches in front of yours, give yourself that gate 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:02.800 and see if you can just consistently start the golf ball. Online. 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:05.440 If you're on a putting green and you want to 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:08.160 work on this, get a you know, three four five 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:12.320 foot putt, make sure it's relatively straight, and then you know, 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:16.280 do what we talked about the tiger woods drilled where 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:20.439 you're hitting your your putts and you're putting teas on 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:23.160 the other side of your on the heel of your 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.160 putter and on the toe of your putter, and you're 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:27.879 putting through a gate. You could do that, and then 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:31.280 a little bit bigger than a golf ball, the size 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:32.840 of a golf ball, the width of a golf ball, 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:36.040 you could put on your intended start line. You could 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:37.960 put another gate and all you're trying to do is 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:40.560 not hit the teas as you're coming through impact, and 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:43.120 then see if you can consistently start the golf ball 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:47.159 on your target line. So I do think that you 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:49.919 could if the length of your backswing with your putter 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:53.840 is too long, you could put barriers to say, Okay, 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:57.119 I'm going to try and shorten or tighten up the 0:23:57.200 --> 0:23:59.320 length of my backstroke. I see a lot of putters 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:03.160 that have that excessively long putting stroke on the backstroke 0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:06.680 and then they're decelerating through. So I think in the 0:24:06.720 --> 0:24:09.160 winter months where you're not really worried about outcome, you're 0:24:09.200 --> 0:24:12.800 just saying, okay, I'm just gonna work. Stroke mechanics is 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:14.840 my putting stop. You can film it. You can film 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:17.480 what your stroke looks like, you can film what your 0:24:17.480 --> 0:24:20.399 body's doing. There's a lot of stuff that you can 0:24:20.440 --> 0:24:25.520 do in this downtime where you're not playing constantly. So 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:28.919 that's yardage check that's some stuff you can do with 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:31.359 your full swing, and then that's some stuff that you 0:24:31.400 --> 0:24:34.000 can do with your putting. But one of the things 0:24:34.040 --> 0:24:37.160 that I think is probably one of the easiest low 0:24:37.200 --> 0:24:40.440 hanging fruit to improve your golf swing and improve your 0:24:40.440 --> 0:24:42.880 golf game as we're going into these winter months where 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:44.880 we're not going to be playing as much as possible, 0:24:45.920 --> 0:24:48.160 is to work on your body, is to work on 0:24:48.280 --> 0:24:52.960 what you're trying to do physically. We've had Dave Phillips 0:24:52.960 --> 0:24:55.199 on the pod numerous times. He's one of the co 0:24:55.280 --> 0:24:58.800 founders of the Titleist Performance Institute. They have a website 0:24:58.800 --> 0:25:02.280 MYTPI dot com you can go on. They kind of 0:25:02.320 --> 0:25:06.720 look at their Big twelve swing characteristics of their swing falls, faults, 0:25:06.760 --> 0:25:11.240 and then they've got physical characteristics that kind of cause 0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:15.520 all those. So I think the winter months are a 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:19.879 great opportunity if you haven't been physically screened. Your golf 0:25:19.960 --> 0:25:23.359 is important to you. Whether you're a competitive golfer, a 0:25:23.400 --> 0:25:26.800 single digit handicapper, someone just trying to break eighty or 0:25:26.840 --> 0:25:28.960 trying to break ninety or one hundred for the first time. 0:25:29.520 --> 0:25:32.440 Believe it or not, there are probably some things going 0:25:32.480 --> 0:25:35.360 on in your body, some physical limitations that you have, 0:25:35.840 --> 0:25:38.000 and then if you can work on those and clear 0:25:38.080 --> 0:25:41.560 those and have an understanding as to how those affect 0:25:41.680 --> 0:25:46.000 your golf swing. I think the biggest physical thing that 0:25:46.080 --> 0:25:48.959 I see on a regular basis in all the lessons 0:25:49.000 --> 0:25:52.959 I give, regardless of the handicap level, is what we 0:25:53.040 --> 0:25:56.800 call early extension. So if you think about your lower body, 0:25:56.800 --> 0:25:59.840 your pelvis, most golfers, as they're trying to hit the 0:25:59.840 --> 0:26:03.359 golf golf ball on the downswing, the lower body, the 0:26:03.440 --> 0:26:08.040 lower pelvis, the hips, they're getting closer to the golf 0:26:08.080 --> 0:26:10.760 ball on the downswing, and as a result of that, 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:14.480 the upper body has to kind of back up, their 0:26:14.520 --> 0:26:17.639 body stalls out. That's what we would call early extension. 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:21.399 That's what we would call thrust. That's when your pelvis 0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:27.720 has an inability to rotate correctly around your lead hip. 0:26:28.119 --> 0:26:31.000 So if you're a right handed golfer, that is your 0:26:31.160 --> 0:26:34.199 left hip. So when we see that early extension and 0:26:34.240 --> 0:26:36.800 we see that lower body get closer to the golf ball, 0:26:37.200 --> 0:26:39.600 one of the characteristics that we see with the naked 0:26:39.600 --> 0:26:41.400 eye when you're looking at your golf swing on video 0:26:41.480 --> 0:26:44.480 or you're watching your golf swing would be balanced and 0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:47.280 would be seeing how much your weight goes to your 0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:50.800 toes as you start your downswing. As soon as your 0:26:50.800 --> 0:26:53.960 weight is going up to your toes in your left 0:26:53.960 --> 0:26:57.240 foot and your right foot, that means that lower body, 0:26:57.280 --> 0:27:00.159 your pelvis, is getting closer to the golf ball, and 0:27:00.200 --> 0:27:02.760 as a result, on the downswing, as that lower body 0:27:02.760 --> 0:27:06.120 gets closer to the golf ball, your upper body kind 0:27:06.119 --> 0:27:10.840 of goes backwards. So in reality, what's really happening is 0:27:10.880 --> 0:27:13.680 you're losing a tremendous amount of rotation and not only 0:27:13.680 --> 0:27:16.400 your lower body, but your upper body. And a lot 0:27:16.440 --> 0:27:19.440 of times we'll see this in balance issues. We'll see 0:27:19.440 --> 0:27:22.359 players that are way up on the toes. And again 0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:26.480 if you're hitting golf balls into a net or driving 0:27:26.560 --> 0:27:29.560 range or a simulator. One of the great things to 0:27:29.680 --> 0:27:33.800 work on with your wedges to help get that lower 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:35.960 body to start to work better is just to hit 0:27:36.960 --> 0:27:38.840 kind of a nine to three. If you're a right 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:41.320 handed golfer nine o'clock on the back swing with your 0:27:41.320 --> 0:27:44.160 hand position three o'clock on the follow through, with your 0:27:44.160 --> 0:27:46.840 hand position that nine to three, that kind of wiste 0:27:46.880 --> 0:27:49.800 tie back waist tied through, get a sand wedge, get 0:27:49.800 --> 0:27:52.720 a pitching wedge. Hit some of these and hit them 0:27:53.040 --> 0:27:56.359 and try and feel like you're hitting these nine to three. 0:27:56.480 --> 0:27:58.960 So nine o'clock on the back swing, follow through to 0:27:59.000 --> 0:28:02.440 three o'clock. Keep your right heel on the ground through impact, 0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:04.800 try and keep your left heel on the ground through impact. 0:28:05.040 --> 0:28:07.000 I think that's a really good way to start to 0:28:07.080 --> 0:28:09.680 hit the golf ball solid. I think it's a really 0:28:09.720 --> 0:28:12.080 good way for you to start to say, oh wow, 0:28:12.560 --> 0:28:14.639 when I do that, I hit the golf ball more solid. 0:28:14.680 --> 0:28:16.399 And when I do that, I feel like my weight 0:28:17.040 --> 0:28:19.440 is more on your toe, on your heels rather than 0:28:19.440 --> 0:28:23.800 my toes. Most really good ball strikers, specifically with their irons, 0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:27.679 are going to have more weight in their heels than 0:28:27.720 --> 0:28:31.239 their toes. Most higher handicapped golfers tend to get a 0:28:31.280 --> 0:28:34.000 lot of weight on that downswing. They kind of jump, 0:28:34.400 --> 0:28:36.440 they get up on their toes, and they just don't 0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:38.800 hit the golf ball solid. Now, that can be a 0:28:38.840 --> 0:28:41.400 concept isssue to where you don't know you're supposed to 0:28:41.440 --> 0:28:44.680 have more weight in your heels at impact. You don't 0:28:44.720 --> 0:28:47.240 know you're supposed to have more weight on your lead 0:28:47.320 --> 0:28:50.520 foot than your back footed impacts. If you're a left 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:53.240 or if you're a right handed golfer, you would want 0:28:53.280 --> 0:28:56.120 to have more weight on your front foot at impact 0:28:56.160 --> 0:28:59.480 than you would on your back foot. But one of 0:28:59.520 --> 0:29:03.640 the things going through a TPI movement screen with a 0:29:03.720 --> 0:29:07.400 TPI certified fitness trainer is you're going to have an 0:29:07.480 --> 0:29:11.479 understanding as too. Is that a concept issue or is 0:29:11.760 --> 0:29:16.040 that a physical issue? Do you have really really tight glutes? 0:29:16.080 --> 0:29:18.960 Do you really have really really weak glutes. Do you 0:29:19.000 --> 0:29:21.120 have the type of job where you sit all day 0:29:21.240 --> 0:29:24.840 to where you're just in a sitting, sedentary position. Are 0:29:24.880 --> 0:29:27.760 you in a car? Those type of jobs are not 0:29:27.920 --> 0:29:31.560 really conducive to a tremendous amount of rotation because you're 0:29:31.600 --> 0:29:34.920 not doing anything in your daily life that has any rotation. 0:29:35.120 --> 0:29:37.560 Most golfers are going to the golf course. They're not 0:29:37.680 --> 0:29:40.200 doing a warm up. They're not doing a dynamic warm up. 0:29:40.360 --> 0:29:42.360 They've been in a car, they've been sitting all day. 0:29:42.600 --> 0:29:44.280 They just go to the golf course. They do a 0:29:44.280 --> 0:29:47.080 couple of bullshit stretches that may be seen on TV 0:29:47.120 --> 0:29:50.400 that don't really have any real effect on anything. Their 0:29:50.400 --> 0:29:53.720 bodies cold, their muscles aren't loose, their muscles aren't warm, 0:29:54.160 --> 0:29:57.000 and then we get into a golf posture we bend over. 0:29:57.160 --> 0:29:59.240 You've been sitting in a desk all day. That lower 0:29:59.280 --> 0:30:02.280 back is tight, the glutes are switched off, they're weak, 0:30:02.360 --> 0:30:05.600 your hamstrings are tight. You don't have a lot of rotation, 0:30:07.040 --> 0:30:11.320 Your ability to squat to stay in that body position 0:30:12.400 --> 0:30:15.640 is compromised. And then you do all these things that 0:30:15.680 --> 0:30:18.160 we want you to do in the golf swing. And 0:30:18.240 --> 0:30:21.640 if you look at three of the most common things 0:30:21.680 --> 0:30:26.120 that I see from a swing characteristic standpoint, we see 0:30:26.120 --> 0:30:28.640 players coming over the top. We see a lot of 0:30:28.720 --> 0:30:31.960 players scooping at impact. We see a lot of players 0:30:32.000 --> 0:30:37.320 with that chicken wing. So those three golf swing characteristics 0:30:37.320 --> 0:30:42.000 that I'd say for the majority, I'd say, the average 0:30:42.000 --> 0:30:45.080 golfers that are not trying to play competitively that I 0:30:45.360 --> 0:30:50.320 teach the handicap golfers, I would say almost ninety percent 0:30:50.400 --> 0:30:54.320 of them come over the top, are scooping the golf 0:30:54.360 --> 0:30:58.479 ball at impact, have that chicken wing, and have that 0:30:58.640 --> 0:31:01.520 early extension. The lower body doesn't work well. 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You can put it on a 0:33:55.120 --> 0:33:57.120 t and just say, okay, I'm going to go to 0:33:57.160 --> 0:33:59.640 the top of my backswing and stop, and then I'm 0:33:59.680 --> 0:34:03.040 going to count one to three and then I'm going 0:34:03.080 --> 0:34:05.800 to start my downswing and say go Now. If you're 0:34:05.840 --> 0:34:10.200 doing this drill in an ideal world, the downswing would 0:34:10.200 --> 0:34:13.200 be started by the lower body. The lower body would 0:34:13.200 --> 0:34:16.080 be the thing that starts the downswing. If you're coming 0:34:16.120 --> 0:34:19.880 over the top of the golf ball, if you're chicken 0:34:19.920 --> 0:34:22.520 winging the golf ball or the club through and back 0:34:22.560 --> 0:34:25.040 with that lead elbow, and you've got that kind of 0:34:25.120 --> 0:34:28.120 chicken wing elbow. A lot of times that's because that 0:34:28.200 --> 0:34:33.640 path is working massively from out to in. So you 0:34:33.719 --> 0:34:37.440 think that it's a path problem, it's an upper body problem. 0:34:37.640 --> 0:34:40.399 But a lot of times, if we can clean up 0:34:40.440 --> 0:34:43.280 how the lower body is working that drill to where 0:34:43.640 --> 0:34:45.600 if you're coming over the top of it, the arms 0:34:45.600 --> 0:34:48.840 are really getting steep and that path is getting to 0:34:48.880 --> 0:34:51.560 the left the stop start drill to where you're going 0:34:51.640 --> 0:34:55.120 to the top of her back swing, pausing for one, two, three, 0:34:55.800 --> 0:34:58.920 and then starting the downswing with your lower body. Now, 0:34:59.000 --> 0:35:01.439 when we have played players do this a lot of times. 0:35:01.520 --> 0:35:04.640 We'll have players top the golf ball, hit behind the 0:35:04.680 --> 0:35:07.799 golf ball, shank the golf ball because their arms are 0:35:07.840 --> 0:35:11.479 working faster than their lower body. So if your arms 0:35:11.480 --> 0:35:14.439 are working faster than your lower body, first of all 0:35:14.560 --> 0:35:18.120 you want to know is does your lower body physically 0:35:18.320 --> 0:35:21.520 have the ability to work in the way that you 0:35:21.640 --> 0:35:24.880 need it to do. Is it a physical issue, is 0:35:24.920 --> 0:35:28.240 it a concept issue? Is it a combo of both. 0:35:29.320 --> 0:35:33.000 I see a lot of players have that lower body 0:35:33.040 --> 0:35:36.279 combo to wear one. They didn't realize how much that 0:35:36.360 --> 0:35:39.040 lower body was getting closer to the golf ball. They 0:35:39.040 --> 0:35:42.600 didn't realize that that was causing the golf club to 0:35:43.400 --> 0:35:46.440 land behind the golf ball. To get that path to 0:35:46.480 --> 0:35:50.360 the left, so over the top that kind of scooping 0:35:50.400 --> 0:35:52.560 at impact where that left wrist, if you're a right 0:35:52.600 --> 0:35:55.360 handed golfer, to where that left wrist kind of breaks 0:35:55.400 --> 0:35:59.960 down and isn't solid. That also causes that chicken wing. 0:36:00.000 --> 0:36:02.880 And a lot of times we clean up what's happening 0:36:02.880 --> 0:36:06.640 with the lower body and the domino effect of what 0:36:06.719 --> 0:36:08.960 that does with the upper body, what that does with 0:36:09.040 --> 0:36:12.360 the wrist angles, what that does with the downswing really 0:36:12.400 --> 0:36:16.000 can be a game changer to where I'm a big 0:36:16.040 --> 0:36:18.480 believer in that the golf swing is a series of 0:36:18.640 --> 0:36:21.520 dominoes and there's a domino effect. And I think when 0:36:21.520 --> 0:36:24.160 you're looking at your golf swing, yes, there are a 0:36:24.200 --> 0:36:27.360 lot of different things going on. It's a dynamic movement pattern. 0:36:27.440 --> 0:36:30.799 You're swinging the golf club. You know, a second to 0:36:30.960 --> 0:36:33.840 second half to two seconds and the movement pattern is over. 0:36:34.239 --> 0:36:36.319 And so there's all of these different things. Like if 0:36:36.320 --> 0:36:38.359 you think about all of your body parts, you think 0:36:38.360 --> 0:36:41.000 about all the things that are going on. But what 0:36:41.160 --> 0:36:45.279 tends to happen is there is a flaw an issue 0:36:45.719 --> 0:36:48.279 that is the domino that is causing all of the 0:36:48.320 --> 0:36:52.120 other dominoes. So I think the off season is a 0:36:52.160 --> 0:36:55.000 really good opportunity for you to look at your golf swing, 0:36:55.440 --> 0:36:58.080 look at what's happening in your golf swing and saying, Okay, 0:36:58.640 --> 0:37:02.160 what is the big domain that is causing all of 0:37:02.200 --> 0:37:05.719 the things that are working in my golf swing. What 0:37:05.800 --> 0:37:08.560 is the one thing that I am doing that is 0:37:08.640 --> 0:37:12.239 causing everything else to fall in line? Because I hear 0:37:12.280 --> 0:37:15.120 players all the time say, listen, I'm not trying to 0:37:15.160 --> 0:37:16.799 come over the top of it. I'm trying to swing 0:37:16.840 --> 0:37:19.040 more into out. I'm not trying to have the golf 0:37:19.040 --> 0:37:21.160 club go so inside. I'm trying to have the golf 0:37:21.160 --> 0:37:24.480 club work more outside. So you're never doing what you're 0:37:24.520 --> 0:37:26.520 doing in your golf swing because you want to. You're 0:37:26.520 --> 0:37:29.319 doing what you're doing in your golf swing because unfortunately 0:37:30.040 --> 0:37:33.680 you have to. So I think if you can understand 0:37:33.880 --> 0:37:37.440 how everything is interconnected, and that's why I think that 0:37:37.960 --> 0:37:40.719 in the off season, if you can go and go 0:37:40.800 --> 0:37:45.160 through a physical assessment screen to where you can say, okay, 0:37:45.360 --> 0:37:49.840 is this me or is this my understanding of the 0:37:49.840 --> 0:37:52.840 golf swing or my golf swing? So is it my 0:37:53.040 --> 0:37:55.439 body that's not allowing me to do what I want 0:37:55.480 --> 0:37:57.719 to do in the golf swing. Or do I just 0:37:58.320 --> 0:38:00.480 not know what I'm supposed to be doing, or I 0:38:00.520 --> 0:38:03.880 need a better concept. But I think a lot of 0:38:03.920 --> 0:38:08.080 people listening right now, you have something going on in 0:38:08.120 --> 0:38:12.000 your golf swing physically that isn't allowing you to do 0:38:12.080 --> 0:38:14.439 some of the things that you're trying to do from 0:38:14.480 --> 0:38:18.040 a technique or a technical standpoint. So that's why I 0:38:18.080 --> 0:38:21.320 think having a physical screen and going and saying, okay, listen, 0:38:21.680 --> 0:38:24.840 this is what my body can do. This is what 0:38:24.960 --> 0:38:29.160 my body can't do. The things that my body does well, 0:38:30.040 --> 0:38:32.520 these are the things that my body doesn't like to do. 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:35.799 And as a result, now it makes sense as to 0:38:35.960 --> 0:38:38.680 why I would be swinging the golf club the way 0:38:38.680 --> 0:38:42.920 that I am because there's an issue with my physical 0:38:44.000 --> 0:38:49.000 that is causing an issue with my technique. The way 0:38:49.040 --> 0:38:51.200 I look at golf swings now is when I look 0:38:51.239 --> 0:38:53.040 at a player and I look at them swinging the 0:38:53.040 --> 0:38:55.880 golf club, I know that if they're a higher handicapped 0:38:55.880 --> 0:38:58.359 golf cert and they're swinging that golf club from out 0:38:58.360 --> 0:39:01.800 to in, they're slicing the golf ball, they're not trying 0:39:01.840 --> 0:39:04.239 to do that. They don't want to do that. They're 0:39:04.320 --> 0:39:08.520 trying to do the complete opposite, But my brain says okay, 0:39:09.480 --> 0:39:14.560 So I'll ask questions, do you know why you're slicing 0:39:14.600 --> 0:39:16.640 the golf ball. Yes, the club is working very much 0:39:16.640 --> 0:39:19.239 from out to in. It's cutting across the golf ball. 0:39:19.280 --> 0:39:21.799 The face is very open. I'm trying to swing the 0:39:21.800 --> 0:39:24.800 golf club more into out. Okay, that would be somebody 0:39:24.840 --> 0:39:28.719 that understands the concept. And then you'll have players that say, listen, 0:39:28.760 --> 0:39:31.319 I didn't realize I was swinging the golf club so 0:39:31.440 --> 0:39:33.840 much from out to in. I didn't realize I was 0:39:33.880 --> 0:39:36.359 so over the top of the golf club. So then 0:39:36.360 --> 0:39:38.839 you could say okay. And then if we look at 0:39:38.840 --> 0:39:41.440 their body and you could say, okay, well, your body 0:39:41.520 --> 0:39:44.800 is fine. You just don't know that you're not supposed 0:39:44.840 --> 0:39:47.080 to come over it. So then we can just change 0:39:47.080 --> 0:39:50.040 what they're doing from a concept standpoint. So I do 0:39:50.120 --> 0:39:53.239 think that most golfers will fall into that bucket of 0:39:54.000 --> 0:39:57.080 there's an element of a concept problem, but there is 0:39:57.120 --> 0:40:01.279 an element of a body position. And if you think 0:40:01.320 --> 0:40:04.160 about it, right, what I just said, that early extension, 0:40:04.160 --> 0:40:06.400 that lower body getting closer to the golf ball on 0:40:06.440 --> 0:40:10.680 the downswing, the upper body goes back. That causes over 0:40:10.719 --> 0:40:15.160 the top moves that causes hanging back, that causes weak scooping, 0:40:15.360 --> 0:40:19.319 poor impact positions that causes chicken winging, that can cause 0:40:19.440 --> 0:40:23.320 thin shots, that can cause fat shots that can cause 0:40:24.239 --> 0:40:28.719 not center concept or contact. So if we can have 0:40:28.800 --> 0:40:32.719 a better understanding as to how that pelvis works, get 0:40:32.760 --> 0:40:36.320 the lower body to rotate, you can do some movement 0:40:36.400 --> 0:40:39.080 preps and some body preps before you hit golf balls, 0:40:39.120 --> 0:40:41.399 before you get out on the golf course. That will 0:40:41.440 --> 0:40:45.160 start to wake up these muscles that will address what 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:49.560 these issues are. I think the offseason and where maybe 0:40:49.640 --> 0:40:52.240 you're not hitting as many balls on the golf course 0:40:52.320 --> 0:40:55.719 and scoring and not playing as many rounds as you 0:40:55.840 --> 0:40:59.080 normally would, I think these are great times to work 0:40:59.120 --> 0:41:02.440 on the physical So you can go on to the 0:41:02.520 --> 0:41:06.320 MYTPI website, you can look at find a fitness professional, 0:41:06.360 --> 0:41:09.719 look at people in your area and sign up and 0:41:09.760 --> 0:41:13.280 instead of going taking a lesson, go get physically screened 0:41:13.600 --> 0:41:15.279 and see if there's some things that you can do 0:41:15.320 --> 0:41:18.839 from a movement standpoint. But I think this is a 0:41:18.880 --> 0:41:24.239 really fundamentally important time for everybody listening, regardless of your 0:41:24.280 --> 0:41:27.799 handicap level. If you don't live in an area to 0:41:27.800 --> 0:41:29.279 where the weather's good and you can get out on 0:41:29.320 --> 0:41:31.840 the golf course. I think a lot of people listening 0:41:31.840 --> 0:41:36.040 are in that kind of time of their golf to 0:41:36.040 --> 0:41:39.399 where Okay, I'm hitting a lot of golf balls, I'm 0:41:39.480 --> 0:41:42.120 hitting balls in a net, I'm hitting balls in a simulator, 0:41:42.160 --> 0:41:45.960 and I'm not getting out on the golf course and playing, 0:41:46.280 --> 0:41:50.400 scoring and executing. So for me, this is the time 0:41:50.480 --> 0:41:53.760 to where you really want to grind out that work 0:41:53.800 --> 0:41:56.960 on the technique, on your full swing, on your putting, 0:41:57.440 --> 0:42:00.680 and on your body. Those to me are three areas 0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:03.239 that if you don't have the opportunity to get out 0:42:03.280 --> 0:42:05.760 on a golf course, you can really do some things 0:42:05.760 --> 0:42:08.799 in the offseason, work on those three things, and they 0:42:08.800 --> 0:42:13.160 will really make a massive, massive improvement, so that when 0:42:13.200 --> 0:42:14.920 you do get back out on the golf course when 0:42:14.960 --> 0:42:16.560 the weather does start to get a little bit better, 0:42:16.960 --> 0:42:19.680 you can go and feel like, Okay, I've done some 0:42:19.719 --> 0:42:21.680 stuff in the off season. I've put the work in 0:42:22.360 --> 0:42:24.560 not only with my golf swing, but also with my 0:42:24.640 --> 0:42:27.520 body with my putting as well, and I'm ready to 0:42:27.600 --> 0:42:31.080 go and I'm ready to compete. So those are just 0:42:31.120 --> 0:42:34.000 a few things that I think are really easy to do. 0:42:34.560 --> 0:42:37.839 That you can work on in this off season as 0:42:37.840 --> 0:42:40.080 the weather starts to get a little bit cooler, and 0:42:40.120 --> 0:42:42.600 I do think that will have a big effect on 0:42:42.640 --> 0:42:45.560 your golf game once you get back out and playing 0:42:45.680 --> 0:42:49.120 on a regular basis. Want to thank everybody for listening. 0:42:49.640 --> 0:42:53.480 We've got a bunch of great podcasts in the bag. 0:42:53.719 --> 0:42:55.840 If you haven't listened, if you're new, go back and 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:58.319 check them out. I think that if you want to 0:42:58.320 --> 0:43:01.000 listen to players talk about their game, we've got that. 0:43:01.080 --> 0:43:03.680 If you want to listen to instructors talk about their game, 0:43:04.120 --> 0:43:06.960 we've got that. If you are a golf nerd and 0:43:07.120 --> 0:43:09.719 just want to listen to people geek out, we've got 0:43:09.719 --> 0:43:12.840 episodes where they're very very golf specific. And if you 0:43:12.880 --> 0:43:16.880 want to hear about how golf impacts people's lives that 0:43:16.920 --> 0:43:22.600 aren't in the golf space, celebrities, musicians, actors, athletes, we've 0:43:22.600 --> 0:43:24.600 got that too. Son of a Butch comes to you 0:43:24.640 --> 0:43:27.080 every Wednesday. We will see you next week.