WEBVTT - Intention, Visualization, & External Focus 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:03.440 It's the son of a butch podcast. I'm your host, 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:07.480 Claude Horman solo episode of the pod this week. But 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:09.680 before we get to that, it was four years ago 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:12.600 this week that the podcast started. Now read was my 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.280 first guest, and four years on, I think we're close 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.919 to two and a half million downloads. I continue to 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.120 be amazed at people listen. To be honest with you, 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.760 I travel probably twenty twenty five weeks a year all 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:29.600 over the globe. People no matter where I am, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Bangkok, Thailand, Singapore, 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:31.800 someone will come up to me and say, hey, listen 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:36.760 to the podcast, and that just blows me away. And yeah, 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:38.559 I mean I do it all myself. Obviously, with my 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.000 travel schedule it can get a little bit taxing at times, 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:44.720 but I travel with podcast bag, record everything, get all 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.440 the guests myself, and just do it all. It's a 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.840 labor of love and we'll keep doing it. We'll keep 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.000 trying to get as many good guests as we can 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.680 and come up with as many topics as possible to 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.040 help you improve your game. And once again, I can't 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:04.040 thank everybody enough for supporting and listening. It really does 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.520 mean a lot to me. So I spent a lot 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:08.959 of time obviously as a golf instructor on the podcast 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:12.240 talking about technique and things like that. But one of 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.600 the things, if you've listened over the last couple of years, 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:20.160 I think execution is as important as having great technique. Yes, obviously, 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.440 having great technique is a huge part of getting better 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:27.240 at golf. If your golf swing improves, if your technique improves, 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.720 if your positions improve, all of that, right, But if 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.640 you are going to play golf on a regular basis, 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.360 your golf swing and your golf game is going to 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:40.200 be in a constant state of flux change. It's never 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.440 really going to be the same all the time. And 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.959 even at that tour level, the best players in the world, 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.560 their game isn't great all the time. Obviously, Yes, when 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.360 the best players in the world are playing their best, 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:54.560 Scottie Scheffler, Ry McElroy, John Rahm, Brooks, Koepka, any of 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.880 the players right Xander, when they're playing their best like 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:02.440 last year, Xander, two majors playing great this year, no 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.720 majors so far right hasn't played the way he's played 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.640 last year. Guys, that's just golf. I mean, golf is tough, 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.160 but I see so many players that come and take 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.000 lessons from me, and I just look at the way 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.760 that they're trying to go about getting better. Yes, they're 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:19.880 trying to take golf lessons. Yes they're trying to improve 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.440 their golf swings, their technique and stuff. But I was 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.760 with a junior golfer I help, and we went out 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:26.880 on the golf course and we're hitting shots on the course. Yesterday, 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.680 This kid, you know, ranked inside the top one hundred 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.760 and junior golf scoreboard, probably will end up playing Division 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:37.000 one college golf, wins tournaments, a really really good player, 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.720 and it's got a beautiful golf swing. Technique is really 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:42.920 really solid. And so we were out on the golf 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.000 course and we were going out and I specifically wanted 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.840 to go out and just hit shots on the course. 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.399 We weren't hitting drives, we were just going to the fairway. 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.919 We were randomizing the numbers out on the golf course 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.519 on the different holes. Here at Floridian. He likes to 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.600 draw the golf ball, so I was like, Okay, let's 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.640 pick out really specific targets on where we want the 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.040 golf ball to start. And then let's be really really 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:09.200 specific in where we want the golf ball to start 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:10.920 and where we want the golf ball to finish. And 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.640 so what I was trying to talk to him about is, listen, 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:15.120 why don't we just go out and we're just trying 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.880 to hit either left or right of it the flag. 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:20.960 So he likes to draw it, So I was like, okay. 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.919 So we went out to a par three. So water 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.480 down the left hand side of this par three, probably 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.800 about one hundred and I think we were playing it yesterday, 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.880 right around one hundred and sixty five hundred and seventy yards. 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.640 Pin was in the back left hand portion of the green, 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.880 and there is a raised up area on the right 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:41.839 hand and then there's a slope so they can put 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.600 a pin on kind of a shelf on the right 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:46.600 hand side of this green, which is a really tough 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.360 pin position. And then the other difficult pin position on 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.960 this whole is back left because anything left of the flag, 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.040 anything left of the green, is going to go into 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.320 the water. So you've got to control your trajectory. You've 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.120 got to control how much curve you've got. So I 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.600 think he was probably seven iron, eight iron something like that. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.280 Stood up and I watched him go ahead and hit 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:07.960 the shot, and he got up and he kind of, 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.160 you know, got behind the golf ball, made a couple 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.720 of practice swings, and from I noticed from the time 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.120 that he started making his practice swings. So once he 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.240 finished his practice swings and he was getting ready to 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.760 get into the shot and hit it, I just watched 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.520 his head and I watched his eyes. And so from 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.040 the time he got behind the golf ball and then 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.120 started walking into it, and I noticed his head and 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.240 he's looking at the golf ball. So he gets into 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.440 his set up. He's kind of staring at the golf 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.040 ball and going through some waggles, quick glance at the target, 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.960 back to staring at the golf balls, a couple of 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.839 rehearsal backswings, you know, shuffling his feet, but again no 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.440 look at the target. Then quick glanced to the target 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.080 and back into looking at the ball, shuffling his feet, 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:51.839 all those things, and then he hit one. So he 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.600 hit two shots. They weren't great. One of them went 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.640 over the green, one of them came up a little 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.400 bit short, and so I mentioned that to him, and 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.160 I said, listen, you are daring at the golf ball 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.800 and just kind of quickly glancing at the target and 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.360 then back to staring at the golf ball and then 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:08.960 quick glance back to the target. Why don't we try 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:10.880 and do the opposite right, So, why don't you get 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.039 behind the golf ball? And then I said to him, listen, 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.159 I want a very specific target on where you're trying 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.320 to start the golf ball. So there was the flag 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.480 and then in the horizon behind them there was some, 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.039 you know, a couple of trees, and then there was 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.400 a gap in the trees, and then there were some 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.440 more trees, and I said, listen, if you think about 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.040 what we're trying to do here, we're trying to hit 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.760 this ball twenty feet right of the flag pin high, 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.880 So really zone in on where you want this golf 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.960 ball to start, where you want this golf ball to curve. 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.719 And the idea that I've talked about on the pod 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.160 before it's a game that I like to play with players, 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.800 is we give them a target whatever shape they're hitting, 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.560 whether they're hitting draws, whether they're hitting fades. We give 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.160 them ten balls. There's three points available, and then what 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.279 we do is you get your target and then you've 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.360 got kind of another target right of it, however, far 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.000 right of it you to go. That's player dependent, that's 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.880 up to you, and it's kind of ability dependent, right. Obviously, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:06.839 if you're not hitting it great and you're working on 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:08.760 a lot of things, give yourself a big winn. So 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.400 the idea that whether you're hitting a drawer or a fade, 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.520 but if you're hitting a draw, every time you're going 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.520 to hit a draw, go ahead and look at your target. 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.120 And what the launch monitors do is they basically look 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:20.880 at where your ball is. When you work with a 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:25.800 launch monitor, it basically is tracking kind of a line 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.240 from your golf ball to the target, and then there's 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.000 the right side of that, there's the left side of that. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:31.880 But every time you're going to hit a shot, look 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.400 at your target. If you're going to try and hit 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.039 a draw, what you're going to do is you're going 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.720 to open up a window right of the target. Right, 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:42.880 you've got a launch window and your target obviously the 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.960 flag that's where you're trying to hit the golf ball too. 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.400 But what I see most players do is they're just 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.719 hyper hyper focused on the target. If they're even looking 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:52.520 at the target right. So they're going to try and 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.039 hit it at the flag. So what I was saying 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.719 to this player yesterday, this junior, Okay, let's look at 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.640 where we're trying to start the golf ball. You know, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:01.960 what is our launch window of where we're trying to 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.279 start it. And he kind of came up with a tree. 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.600 He said, okay, that's kind of my out of bounds 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:09.840 on the right. I don't want to start it anymore 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.080 right of that. So from behind the ball, you know, 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.520 he had a very clear kind of window of where 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.120 he was trying to hit it. So he's trying to 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.040 start it in that window, curve it in that window, 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:22.920 have it stay in that window, and hit it solid. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:24.720 And that's the game that we play on the range. Right, 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:26.960 I give him ten balls, tell them to pick a 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:28.920 target out and then I say, all right, you know 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.200 we've got a flag right of that. We got another 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.680 flag right of that, we got another flag right of that. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.280 You choose which one as kind of your barrier on 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.200 the right hand side. So that's kind of an out 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.360 of bounds line, and then you've got to start the 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.680 golf ball in that kind of launch window. You get 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.600 a point for that. You get a point if it 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.840 curves and stays in the launch window. So that's two points, 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.360 and then you get a point if you hit it solid. 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:51.960 So we were on the course and I said, listen, 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.040 you've just hit two balls and you're not even looking 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.840 really at the target. You're just kind of glancing, you know, 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:58.520 at the target for like a second, and then you're 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.920 kind of staring at the staring at your body, staring 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.720 at all of the stuff that is not moving right, 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.040 and you haven't even hit the ball yet. So I said, listen, 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.560 I want you to stare at the target, glance at 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.280 the ball. Stare at the target, glance at the ball. 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.560 So he stood up, got behind it, and I filmed 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.800 both of these. I filmed the first one where I 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.360 showed him listen, go ahead and take a look at 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.440 this last video. And he's like, yeah, I'm not even 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.800 I'm barely even looking at the target. And I said, 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.520 so you're staring at the ball. What are you staring 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.600 at the ball for? The ball's not going to move right. 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.640 It's not a moving ball right in golf unless the 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.440 ball moves on its own, or the ground moves, the 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.560 ball rolls down hill or something. The ball is stationary. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.839 It's going to stay in the same place. And I 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.280 think so many golfers are worried so much about their 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.840 technique and their golf swing and their mechanics and all that. 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.720 And again, all of that is important, right, It's important 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.480 part of playing golf. It's an important part of improving golf. 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.720 But as I said in the opening, your golf swing 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:58.960 isn't going to be perfect every day. Your golf swing 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.959 probably has never going to be perfect. So when you're 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.720 on the golf course, you've got to figure out where 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.400 you're trying to hit the golf ball. And I think 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.120 where you're trying to hit the golf ball and where 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.280 you're trying to start the golf ball, he is majorly important. 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.040 And so I filmed this player on the first shot 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.080 staring at the ball, glancing at the target, staring at 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.600 the ball, glancing at the target. Didn't hit two great shots. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.520 I said, all right, so let's reverse that. Want you 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.719 to from the time you get behind the golf ball. 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.040 It just wants you to really focus in and stare 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.600 at where you want the ball to start, not where 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.040 you want the ball to finish, where you want the 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:36.360 ball to start, and just control your start line and 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.040 so I filmed it, and he got up and got 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.680 behind it, and all of a sudden, the walk into 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:44.960 the ball was a little bit slower because he wasn't 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:46.880 staring at the ball. He was kind of looking at 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.360 the target. And then he got in and got his 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.400 feet set and he was looking at the target. Then 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:53.760 he looked down at the golf ball for a second, 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.480 and then back into staring at where he's trying to 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.800 start the golf ball. He did some of his waggles again, 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.080 but staring more at the target than the golf ball. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.160 And then he got up hit a beautiful high little draw, 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.120 started it on the right hand part of the green 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.520 and started it kind of over where this top shelf is, 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:16.800 and then landed it on the slope and then one 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.840 bounced it started to go down to the hole, rolling 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.040 like a putt, and he lippt it out. I mean, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.880 he almost made it. And then I showed him that 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.680 and he was like, wow, that looks really different. It 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.559 looked more, he said, it looked slower. I said, I 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.400 don't know if it's slower. I think maybe it's just 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.440 more purposeful and stuff. And so I started thinking about that, 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.720 and so for the rest of the holes that we play. 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.920 It was the same type thing, Okay, hit this one. 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.040 And so what I was doing is I was challenging 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.000 him with his shape. Right, he likes to draw the 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.480 golf ball from right to left, So I was saying, Okay, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.160 on some holes, we're going to try and have the 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.079 ball finish twenty feet right of the flag, and then 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:54.720 on some of the holes, we're going to try and 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.199 have the ball finish twenty feet left of the flag. 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.520 So getting him to think about where he was wanting 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.880 the ball to finish and not necessarily being so hyper 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.960 focused on where the pin was in the flag. So 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.200 to me, I think one of the things that's really 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:14.079 important for golfers and is important when you're hitting shots 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.760 is your intent. Your intention, What are you trying to do? 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.480 What is the formula of what you're trying to do? 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.920 What is the recipe of what you're trying to do? 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.360 And I think so many golfers have a clear picture 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.720 in their head of what they're trying to do when 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.839 they're working on their technique, right when they're working on 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.560 positions and their golf swing, and when they're working on 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.679 mechanics and working on trying not to let the backswing 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.280 get too inside, working on not letting the backswing get 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:44.360 to outside. Whatever mechanical thoughts or technical thoughts you're using 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.520 in your golf swing. But when you get out on 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.240 the golf course, it's hard to play thinking of all 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.200 of the things that you're trying to work on in 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:56.560 your golf swing. And then I think the focus becomes 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.560 on the golf course really really internal, to where the 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:03.280 focus is about a specific body part, a specific muscle, 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:07.400 a specific body motion. That's all the internal focus. And 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.120 I just see a lot of players struggle on the 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.959 golf course because there's no external focus, right, There's no 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.320 focus on what is this lie going to do? What 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.480 is this slope that I'm on going to do? What 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.920 is that going to do? To the shape? The ball's 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.920 below my feet, what's the ball going to do? How's 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:26.680 that going to affect it? If the ball is above 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.439 my feet, what is the ball going to do? And 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.040 again going back to this junior that I was saying, okay, 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.360 and then what is your intent on this shot? And 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:40.000 so what I started doing was asking this player, this junior, okay, 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.920 talk me through what you're going to do, and not 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.080 your technique, not Okay, I want the backswing to go 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.040 a little bit more on the inside, want it to 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:50.719 be a little bit shorter than I want to try 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.400 and shallow it out and kind of drop it underneath 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.080 and do all that. No, I don't need to know 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.440 any of the I want to know what type of 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.120 shot you're trying to hit. Okay, you tell me you're 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.280 gonna hit a little draw, great, Okay, where's your target? Okay? 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.719 Obviously there's the flag. Okay, So where do you want 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.000 the ball to start? And then what I did was 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.600 I got him verbally going through that, you know, standing 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:13.600 behind the golf ball and saying, okay, what do we 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.120 got here? Where's the wind? What's the distance? Okay? So 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.960 first of all, what's the distance? And one of the 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.240 things that I try and do with junior golfers, and 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.000 I think it's something that everybody could benefit from, is 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.080 when you walk up and I think I've said this before, 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.560 but when you walk up to an iron shot, you 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.000 stand up and you're going to hit one, don't take 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:37.280 out your rangefinder, don't look for a yardage marker. Ask 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.040 yourself how far you think the flag is away from you? 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.640 Just ask yourself that first question, come up with a 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.480 number and say, yeah, that looks probably one fifty five. 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.920 Get your range finder. Okay, it was one fifty eight, 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:53.040 it's one fifty seven. Good. If you think it's one 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.800 fifty five and you hit your rain finder and it's 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.240 one eighty, that's a problem. And I think building that 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.200 kind of trust with yourself of Okay, I know what 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.520 the yardage is. I can see that visually. I think 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:06.760 visualization on the golf course. There's a lot of ways 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.760 that we visualize things, but I think distance control, depth perception, 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:12.280 and things like that is something that a lot of 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.960 people don't really kind of practice, they don't really test, 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.200 And I think if you can start doing that is 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:18.920 the first thing you do when you get up to 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:23.440 your golf ball is just ask yourself, okay, without any calculations, 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.360 without a yardage book, without a rangefinder, without looking at 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.480 a yardage marker, looking where the one fifty. You know, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.440 some golf courses are going to have plates on the 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.600 ground that are going to give you yardages, you know, 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.560 just basic yardages one hundred, one fifty, one seventy five, 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:39.760 or sometimes they have the markers on the side of 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.080 the fairways, right, so you know that's one hundred yard marker. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.840 And then obviously the fancier of the club, the more 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:46.720 you know details the yardages are going to be. They're 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.240 going to give you yardage to the front, they're going 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:49.920 to give you yardage to the middle, they're going to 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.280 give you yardage back, whatever it is. But I think 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.920 if you ask yourself first what is the yardage, and 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:59.040 then use your rangefinder to test to see if you're right. 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:03.120 Hopefully you're rangefinder or whatever yardage device that you're using, 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.880 plates things in the ground or on the course. Hopefully 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:10.000 you're right. You know. I think most golfers now they're 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:14.360 competitive and serious about their golf have rangefinders. So walk 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.360 up to it, take a look at it. Yeah, I 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.080 think it's one sixty five. Go ahead and scope it. Yeah, 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.880 you know it's one sixty three, it's one sixty, it's whatever. 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.720 Then ask yourself, Okay, what club am I going to hit? 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.640 I think building in for the miss, So I think 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.520 early in the round a good thing to do is 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.440 maybe take one more club and swing easy so you 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.760 don't have to kind of jump out of your shoes 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.920 and you know you're playing on the golf course. Play 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.560 for the miss don't play for the good shot. Play 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.080 for okay, if I miss it, let me just take 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.560 enough club. So if I miss hit this a little bit, 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:51.720 I've got enough club that's gonna maybe get it on 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.600 the green. So choosing the club and then ask yourself, okay, 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.720 where's the flag? Okay, And then dependent on the shape 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:00.000 that you're trying to hit. Let's say you're trying to 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.640 hit a draw, use the backdrop, use the horizon, use 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.880 the trees, use whatever you've got, and say, Okay, I'm 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.680 gonna try and hit this golf ball pin high, so 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.880 you know anywhere. I mean, if you could dump all 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:16.600 of your golf balls twenty to thirty feet left or 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:20.440 right of the pin, you'd probably lower your scores in 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.000 a pretty quick fashion and start to play pretty good. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.000 So just think, let me just hit this to twenty feet. 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.480 That's a good shot with an iron. Right, That is 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:34.920 a really really good shot with an iron. I was watching, 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.800 you know, at the PGA at Quail Hollow down the 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:39.640 stretch on Sunday. I was doing this with a couple 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.240 of juniors earlier in the week, and we were going 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.040 back and watching shots, and you know, John Rahm Sunday, 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:50.160 tied for the lead. Part three, stands up and it's 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.760 a beautiful shot to about twenty feet from two hundred 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.120 and twelve yards lip the put out. I think that 0:16:56.200 --> 0:17:00.120 was at thirteen, But a really quality iron shot in 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.560 a major championship on the back nine on Sunday, tied 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.240 for the lead, two hundred and twelve yard par three, 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:10.640 twenty feet great shot, Just a great shot in those circumstances. 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.640 If anybody was watching, lit the put out, still trying 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:15.960 to figure out how that didn't go in Scotti Scheffler. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.040 Just quality iron shots, right, So just trying to hit 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.280 it twenty feet left of it, twenty feet right of it, 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.720 pin high, and then say, Okay, where do I want 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.600 this golf ball to start? Not where do I want 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:29.720 the golf ball to finish? Where do I want the 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.240 golf ball to start? I think if you're asking yourself 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.399 that question, first of all, if you're asking yourself, okay, 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:39.120 how far do I think this yardage is without a rangefinder? 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.000 That's a question you're asking yourself, and if you get 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:45.040 the answer right, you're building some trust with yourself and 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:49.200 then having a very clear, specific, defined target. And I'm 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.840 talking when you do this on the golf course. Pick 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.480 something specific and say, Okay, I tend to curve the 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.280 golf ball from right to left. I'm going to try 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.400 and get this thing about twenty feet right of the flag. 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:00.359 That's where I wanted to finish. Okay, where do I 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.160 need to start the golf ball to achieve that goal? 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:08.640 To me, that is motive, purpose, intent, intention, that's I'm 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:12.240 intending to do something. So you're also kind of building 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.040 a narrative in your head of on every shot. Okay, 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.600 let me ask myself what the yardage is here? Okay, 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.800 let me see if I'm right, Then where am I 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:21.480 trying to start the golf ball for the shape that 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:23.479 I'm trying to hit? Okay, then let me pick out 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.439 a really specific target and then yeah, I mean, you 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:29.480 can have some swing thoughts, you can have some ideas 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.200 of what you're trying to do from a golf swing standpoint, 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:34.119 but then I think you've got to get out of 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.679 that mode and then get into play mode. Right the 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:40.800 vision fifty four mantra of think box playbox. Okay, you're 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.000 in the think box, and then when you're hitting the shot, 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.040 you're in the playbox trying to turn your brain off. 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.240 But I do think going out on the golf course 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.640