Speaker 1: Hi, This is Dwayne Dusky from Portland, Oregon, and I
play at Glenn Deevere East and West Courses in Portland.
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Speaker 1: If we're talking a distance wedge, which will I define
us between forty yards and maybe your full swing of
your pitching wage. So let's say one twenty five or whatever.
You don't want a bigger gap than about twenty yards
in there. So if I hit my pitching wedge to
one twenty five, the next club I need to hit
at least ninety five yards And if I can get
those nice even spread like that, you can really learn
to cover any yardage with appropriate spin in trajectory. The
second would be the bounce options and the soul grind.
The shape of the wedge you want to have a
sand wedge with a lot of bounce on it. Bounce
is the difference between the bottom back of the club
and the soul to the leading edge, and degrees good
sand wedge might have between ten and fourteen or fifteen
degrees of bounce on it. If you have a more
lofted club, like a fifty eight to fifty nine or sixty,
you want that one to be low and bounced, so
probably between four and seven, depending once again on your
standard technique. With the techniques that I try to get
people to use, you don't need much bounce because the
swing's very shallow and you use it as you swing.
If that's the case, and you have a high bounced
sand wedge and a low bounce lob wedge, then you're
really prepared for any turf condition because when the sand
or grass is soft, the ball comes out slow and
more bounce is better than less, so you can always
use your sandwich. If, on the other hand, you're playing
kind of tight, firm turf, you need more loft and
less bounce, so you always have a choice. If you
had that set.
Speaker 2: Makeup your short game solution. Mastering the Short Game from
one hundred and twenty yards and in with James Siekman.
Speaker 3: This is Golf Smarter Premium. Here's your host, Fred Green.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast.
Speaker 1: James. Hey, Fred, thanks for having me on. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: It's my pleasure because you've got a brand new book
out just came out last Month's available on Amazon called
Your Short Game Solution, Mastering the finesse game from one
hundred and twenty yards and in a favorite topic of
the Golf Smarter Podcast.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think hopefully a favorite topic of anybody that
wants to shoot a good score.
Speaker 2: And isn't that the case though? I mean, it really is.
And I discovered I'm not a PGA professional. I just
have the right equipment to do these recordings. And I
love playing golf, but I'm a weekend player and don't
have a ton of time to practice. But I recently
discovered in the last year or so, how important the
short game is. You discovered this a long time.
Speaker 1: Ago, Well, I did, because I mean I played professionally
and I hit the ball beautifully, and you know, it
just was a huge competitive disadvantage when I couldn't get
the ball up and end couldn't kind of keep my
momentum going in the round. And if you look at
the short game is so important for a lot of reasons.
But if you look at just look at statistically, the
best players make the most birdies and so you think about, well,
that means all of the best ball strikers then would
be the best players. But you got to think about
where you make your birdies percentage wise, and typically you're
not making them on a two hundred and fifteen yard
part three. You're not making on a four hundred and
eighty five yard part four. You know you do that
one in a while, but it's a bit of an outlier.
The reality is you make your birdies on the par
fives that you can't reach. You make them on the
par fives that you can reach. You make them on
the short part fours where you can happen to get
the ball up there seventy yards from the green, And
so that type of shot called a distance wedge is
critical for making birdies, and making birdies is critical to
being a good player. And of course if you make birdies.
Another way to make birdies is to feel like you
can shoot at pins. And if you have no confidence
in your finesse, game around the greens, and you find
yourself playing in the middle of the green and you know,
having good shots that end up thirty feet or so.
So it really is feeds on itself in so many
different ways as far as just keeping momentum, being able
to attack, take any advantage of the easy holes. And
if you're not tidy with your wedge game from one
hundred and twenty yards at end, you really do not
have a chance to compete.
Speaker 2: Right book, I loved the story on how you started
figuring this out with your brother and being on tour
and started videotaping on your own. Why did you give
us a little history of your own game and how
you got to understanding and becoming the guru that you
are to seventy players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of an interesting tale, you know. I
played in college, I played nicely, turned pro afterwards and
played those days. There was no such thing as a
web dot com tour or a hoving tour. It was
get all the way through tour school or play overseas
or many tour events. So I went overseas and I
played in Asian South America and did that for about
five years, traveling around the world playing great experience, but
it became very clear to me that everything that I
was working hard on to improve was actually making me
much worse. And I had a great touch around the
green when I was a kid, but I had no
thoughts either. I just kind of did it. And then
as I started to get formal coaching, you know, I
got much much worse. I quit, got married, and took
a job working for Dave Hills, who's kind of a
famous short game coach. After two or three years there,
having an opportunity to kind of learn from him and
dabbling a little bit more specifically in short game coaching,
and an opportunity to start my own business. And one
thing was very clear at that point, even after working
teaching short game schools for three years, I had no
clue what good technique was. I didn't know what worked
and why. I just knew that the things that I
was teaching in those schools and the things that I
was taught when I was going through college and as
a pro were not working. And they were not only
not working for me, but they weren't helping for the
people I was seeing. So I decided I need to
go on a little bit of a journey or quest
to try and figure this out, since I was just
getting ready to open my own academy and my oldest brother,
Tom's a PGA tour player before I was on tour
for eleven years and was close friends with Seve among
a lot of great players, and asked me to come
caddy for him at the Players Championship. So I had
a a kind of a unique opportunity to be around
the best wedge player in the on the planet, as
well as many others like Raymond Floyd and Corey Pavin,
and I had a huge need to try and figure
out what the heck, you know, what worked and why,
because at this point I only knew what didn't work,
And uh, you know, I went and took video and
I studied it just like a football coach would study
a film of a of a of a game, and
you know, kind of wiped the slate clean and just
started my own my own theory. Since I didn't know
what to teach, I thought the most logical thing would
would be to study what they'd do and atually just
teach what they do. And I found it to be
amazingly opposite and completely different than anything I'd ever heard.
Speaker 2: That's what I found so fascinating is the epiphany that
you had when you were doing this What was it
that you discovered? Well before I asked ask that question,
I just want to announce to the audience that we're
live on periscope right now, and if the people watching
on periscope have any questions that they want to submit
to James while we're having this conversation, please tim up
type them up on the screen and I'll try to
get to them as I can. I already have one
question that came in earlier today from Twitter when I
announced that I was going to do this interview with you.
But tell me about you know, when you went through
the footage, James, what was it that you found? How
were you able to get to the place where you're saying,
you know, this is very different than anything we're teaching.
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean so so. I mean it's different in
every single facet. I mean I could run through and
list seventy things that are completely opposite of what you
should be doing in your full swing to generate power,
and it just kind of just kind of came to
the realization as the goals change and the goal becomes
to be weak, to have a soft touch to control
the speed instead of generated to use loft and bounce
to the club. That the technique should change right along
with the intent. And you know, I wasn't thinking this
far ahead, but after a while I kind of I say, well,
this makes sense to me. Now, why wouldn't it be different?
But you know the first thing I noticed was that
these great players Sebe Bellisteros, Raymond Floyd, what not, Corey
Payment had a little reverse pivot in their backswing, which
you know that they might start with their weight fairly even,
which is another difference. I was taught to left and
you put your hands ahead that they had to weight even,
and they reversed weight shifted to add pressure in their
left or lead leg a little bit, and the backswing,
their head literally moved two or three inches towards the target,
and then as they delivered the club, their head would
stay forward. And if you think of a full swing
or even a seventy yard shot, as you turn back
behind the ball and swing your arms and turn your shoulders,
you actually load pressure into your trail leg and your
head typically moves three or four inches behind the ball
as you deliver a lot of times to add especially
with a driver, to hit up on it or at
least hit a level. As you shift your weight your body,
your upper body tilts back. So the entire motor pattern
was different, not only with balance, but with the sequence
of events, with the setup, with how they released the club,
or the role of the of not the role the
rotation of the arm movement. Everything about it was completely opposite.
So I just started to just write down the common
allies that Sevy had. He was my main guy that
I studied because I had the most footage of him
and he had the reputation of being the best. But
Graymond Floyd and Corey Pave and my brother who was
an amazing wedge player, and you know, I have Wayne
Grady and Jody my lot of great players that I
had this footage of, And I just thought, well, you
know what, I don't know what the heck I'm doing,
so I guess I'll just write down what they're doing,
and that's what I'll teach.
Speaker 2: And it's worked for you.
Speaker 1: It has it's you know, it not only worked for me,
because now all of a sudden, it's like I started
to rediscover some of the touch and feel I had
when I was young, and I had no thoughts, but
the students that I began to teach once again, you know,
when I was working for Dave pel Squad, honestly, people
were not getting leaving those schools improved in my opinion.
Now on my own, I really started to see some
major growth, you know, some excited phone calls and emails
of people telling me how much better they were doing.
And you know, at some point you need that confirmation
as a coach that things are working.
Speaker 2: I'm fascinating you said they weren't improving at schools. Is
that the nature of the schools themselves or it was
what was being taught, because I've talked to so many
people who've gone to golf schools and they feel so
great after doing a long weekend or even up to
five days in a school, and they go home and
without somebody there to you know, keep correcting them and stuff,
they don't remember much and very frustrated and feel like
they spent money that didn't really turn their game around
at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a little bit of both, but I would
say more than anything, it's just really bad information. And
you get bad information on technique. That's bad enough, but
Unfortunately those schools don't say this appropriately. I would say this.
I am a coach. I'm not a teacher. So if
you came to me and needed help and I said, hey,
I'm going to teach you to do this technique that technique,
and we're going to perfect this movement, you could walk
away with perfect movement. But Fred, but you won't be
a better player because as a coach, I'm interested only
in performance, and so you can improve technically to improve,
but you can also make your training time more effective
so that you develop skill, which is really what performance is,
and that those skills have nothing to do with technique.
They could be picking the right club, picking the right
landing spot, adapting for upslopes and down slopes. What do
I do? You know when the balls into the grain?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 1: So that type of stuff was just not being taught.
And what's worse is that the technical information was poor.
What's worse yet, is that when you're thinking about technique,
the thoughts are internal. And so, Fred, if I could
ask you, as a recreational player, what's the worst thing
you could do on a golf course.
Speaker 2: The worst thing that I can do on the golf
course is keep doing I keep repeating the mistakes over
and over again.
Speaker 1: Well I would, I would argue that it's thinking too much. Absolutely,
you overthinking golf and you, you know, especially with internal thoughts,
it's so harmful for your game. Great golf is not
internal thoughts. It's external. You're you're you're picturing your you're
feeling energy to the target, your you know, the thoughts
live outside your body, not in Well, you go to
this golf school, you learn this great technique. One hundred
percent of the time is is focus. Uh, have internal thought.
There's no mention of skill development, there's no mention of
how to improvementally. And yeah, it's long and tiring, and
you do this for three days, you get sent home
and it's no wonder people weren't getting better because they're
doing going about the process of improving all wrong. There
has to be not just this technique that I discovered.
I mean, that's great and it works, but more importantly,
there has to be an approach to improving and an logical,
simple way that you could spend a few minutes each
day to get better, to not only improve your technique
but your skill and the confidence of what great golf
demands and that's really what coaches do that teachers do not.
You know, they think about the whole picture as opposed
to just some little technical tip.
Speaker 2: Oh that's amazing. Actually, I guess the answer to your
question is that I'm actually struggling with right now with
my putting, is I'm getting in my own way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's well. I got the putting book coming
out next year, Fred, so we'll have to do this
again in the year. Okay. But it's the same whether
it's people getting their own way off the tea, they
getting their own way when they chip, they get in
their own way when they putt. But if I was
going to share with you, that's such a multifaceted, interesting problem.
And I do go into great detail on this next
one about that very topic because that's I think a
very common problem, that might be the most common problem.
But if you're getting in your own way, there's two
things happening. Once again, thoughts are internal. You're thinking about
how to move the club. You're thinking about a position
of your head or your arm, or the motor of
your stroke, or what you want the club to do.
And I would move your thoughts and train to try
and think of external and kind of a subconscious reaction
to what you picture. And the way I do that
with my students is I separate training time by intent.
So if the intent of training is to work on
and improve your technique, then we eliminate the whole we
put into open space and we think of only technique.
Those are those internal thoughts, and we do it in
a manner where there's some feedback whether we know we're
doing it right or not. So might just create a
simple workstation for your putting or for your wedge play
or your bunker player or whatever, and it just might
be some swings without the ball or certainly without a
pin where we evaluate the technique. Then you just have
to flush that completely and you have to think about skill.
And so you do that through random practice instead of
one ball after the other. In the same you scatterballs everywhere.
You have all your clubs, and you go through an
organized process to get yourself ready. And in the book,
I talk about this process starting with assessment of the lie,
the wind, the grain, all the factors that would influence it,
choosing a club, choosing a trajectory, choosing a landing spot,
visualizing the ball go in. So now all of a sudden,
as I visualize, the thoughts are external, Right, have my
thought walking in clear and committed, taking a rehearsal swing,
thinking of nothing more, that kind of energy to your picture,
and then then reacting like you tied your shoe this morning, Fred,
which is you don't know how you did that, you just.
Speaker 2: Did it, you think about it.
Speaker 1: You can take that approach to putting as well. When
you're taking a rehearsal swing or you're over the ball,
are you reacting to a vision or are you consciously
trying to move the club a certain way? And that
that's the definition of to some extent of getting in
your own way, you know. So that's the pre shot
kind of portion of that equation. There's also a post shot,
a portion where the most important time in golf is
what you do after a bad shot. What's the what
do you what's the first five seconds you after a
bad shot? How do you react? How do you respond? Well,
the typical person, let's say you miss a short pot,
you miss a two footers. If they get angry, they
get frustrated, they get despondent, they go, oh, I can't pot,
I'm horrible at this, you know, all the negative self talk, right, So, uh,
that's certainly not making the next one easier, right that
that your your self image is taking a big blow
every time you say I can't do this, I'm no
good at it, this is frustrating or just feeling that
negative emotion. So that's not what champions do. Champ think
about the results unemotionally and allow them to direct direct
them in a positive way so they can do the
next one better. So that's literally why I titled my
book Your Short Game Solution, because as a coach, I
ask the same question probably five hundred times a day,
and I always asks, Okay, what's the solution of that? So, Fred,
you missed this two footer? What's the solution? Well, it
could be more break could be less energy, could be
more commitment, could be I didn't quiet my eye and
do my breathing or whatever it is that we're working on, right,
and you say, well, next time, I'll just recommit and
I'll do that foundational thing better. And so therefore you
missed your two footer, but you've recommitted in a positive
way to your plan, as opposed to missing your two
footer and going wow, I suck. I can't put. So
there's a lot of little pitfalls mental pitfalls to to
putting or performance in golf that people just don't quite
get right. They just don't quite have the mental discipline
or the knowledge to to kind of self coach in
a positive way.
Speaker 2: You know, your your book. It's actually it's very hard
to do in an audio podcast go over the book
in detail because it's such a technical book and there
are great drills in it. There's there's so much great
information that it's the type of thing that you need
to go over multiple times. But there are a couple
of things in the book that I'd like to talk
about and just get your you know, rough explanation on
this and tease tease the audience to obviously go out
and buy the book. And that Let's talk about the
the choosing the correct wedges for for your your game.
Speaker 1: Right, so in your set makeup, you know, you're looking
for some versatility and the bounce options, okay, and also
kind of an even gaps total distance between your wedges.
So let's just look at those two criteria. You know,
if we're talking a distance wedge, which I define as
like between forty yards and maybe your full swing and
your pitching wage. So let's say one twenty five or whatever.
You don't want a bigger gap than about twenty yards
in there. So if I hit my pitching wedge one
twenty five, the next club I need to hit at
least ninety five yards, The next club I need to
hit at least seventy five full. And if I can
get those nice even spread like that, then through this
distance wage system that I expound upon in the book,
you can really learn to cover any yard which with
appropriate spin and trajectory. Okay, so that's one criteria. The
second would be the bounce options and the soul grind,
the shape of the wedge. And I mean that's a
book in itself, just kind of going to all the
different detail there. But if I could just generalize it
to this one point, I think it would be helpful
for anybody listening. You want to have a sand wedge,
your middle wedge, whether it's fifty four or fifty five,
fifty six doesn't matter with a lot of bounce on it.
Bounce is the difference between the bottom back of the
club on the soul to the leading edge and degrees,
So good sand wedge you might have between ten and
fourteen or fifteen degrees of bounce on it. If you
have a more lofted club like a fifty eight to
fifty nine or sixty, you want that one to be
low and bounce between four and seven, depending once again
on your standard technique. So with the techniques that I
try and get people to use, you don't need much
bounce because the swing is very shallow and you use
it as you swing. So if that's the case and
you have a high bounced sand wedge and a low
bounce lob wedge, then you're really prepared for any turf
condition because when the sand, the sand or grass is soft,
kind of like it usually is in the Northeast or
maybe up there in the northern California or whatever, you
kind of soft conditions, the ball comes out slow and
more bounce is better than less, So you can always
use your sandwich perfect you need you need a little
bit more energy, you need more bounce. If, on the
other hand, you're playing kind of tight, firm turf you
get in a lot of places, whether it's exis or
maybe it's just have a little bit of a drought
going on the course or whatever, or firm sand sand
that's been where it's rained and it's kind of packed
in and baked. Then you need less bounce is more
effective and the ball comes up fast or flies off,
so you need more loft and less bounce. So you
always have a choice if you had that set makeup awesome,
that makes sense, I hope. I mean, no, it does.
It does.
Speaker 4: Topic, Yeah, it is, but there was there was a
line It's almost not a throwaway, but it was kind
of buried in there that I also thought is actually
perfect for what Golf Smarter is all about for this
podcast and how we approach.
Speaker 2: Golf here, well, how I approach golf, and that is
bad decisions versus bad shots.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are certain conditions or trajectories that you might
play based on the lie, and of course this is skill.
Once again, this is not technique. It's a judgment. And
so the most common one that I see is a
ball laying into the grain on a tight lie. And
in that case, a lot of people they may have
their favorite club out, which is a lob wedge, and
they might see a little lower shot with it because
they have some green to work with, So they lean
the shaft a little forward and they take this club.
When you lean the shaft forward, you reduce the effective bounce,
and he's sharpened the leading edge, which is just an
awful thing to do into the grain, where if you
hit just a little behind it with a sharp leading edge,
it's just going to dig a trench. I mean, we
all saw that. I think the listeners think back at
Tiger the Hero World Challenge where he's into the grain
on that sticky Bermuda and he's digging the leading edge
in the ground, just duff and shot after shot. That
is much about that certainly was technique in his case,
but it's more about shot selection. So if you take
your sand wedge and just just roll back the clock
to nineteen seventy pre lobledge and take your sand wedge,
and we can hit the same trajectory shot as we
did with the sixty by hitting a little higher than
normal shot with that sandwich, and effectively you add bounce
and soften the leading edge and it just works so
much better. Now the problem is that skill development, that
judgment element requires decision making and training. How are you
supposed to learn that? How did I learn that? You know, Well,
the way I learned it is that I trained properly
by throwing balls everywhere, and you know, learning through experience
of a bunch of different trials. But that's not what
average golfer does they. I mean you, even at my
own club. You think these people would have read the
book and known better or whatever. But they go out
to the sharcame area. They stand in the same spot
for twenty minutes, and they'll hit ten shots to one pin,
and they'll hit ten shots to the next pin, and they're
all from the same lie, and they tee them up
and it's just horrible practice for trying to develop skill
and learn the little nuances of being a great player.
Speaker 2: And what would you walk up to them and have
them do If.
Speaker 1: I would not, I would just say, you know what,
the reality is, if they're not going to practice properly,
they're better off just going to have a beer because
they're probably doing more harm than good at that point. Interesting,
think about it. When you're in a pile, you hit
a bad shot, what do you do? Well? You think
internally about what you did wrong, and then you fiddle
and you try something new, and then you at some
point you stay there long enough, you're going to hit
a shot you don't like, you know, it's just there's
no resiliency in it, there's no toughness in it, there's
no skill development in it, and so they're just better
off just like skipping all together.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Tiger and I'm That kind of leads into
the question that did come across on Twitter today from
Nick at Golf Progress. What did you see in Tiger's
wedge play that was so radically different between Augusta and Phoenix.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's just backtrack a little. Let's say what
was so radically different between Phoenix and what he did
in two thousand? Technique in two thousand, when he was
at the top of his powers, there was spotless, very
fundamentally sound that this technique in Phoenix and before was
just absolutely awful. Everything awful. Know, the setup was bad,
He's backing up in the middle of his motion. The
backstriing was wrong, and he think, how could a person
of that talent regressed that far? Uh? And the reality
is only when you the only way to get that
far is to work hard on the wrong things. So
he got some bad information at some point, practiced it diligently,
you know, wasn't quite getting what he wanted out of
it and the whole thing regresses. And in this case,
I know for a fact that the changes he was
making in his backswing, with the way he moved his arms,
and you know he's working on his full swing first
with Haney and then with Sean Foley, that the arm movements,
the motor patterns that he was working on hard or
change that dramatically. He was. He just kind of crept
into his finesca and he was literally moving his arms
exactly the same way, and that ultimately ended up making
him change his set up and the whole motor pattern.
So that's very common mistake. The major premise of my
book is that the full swing and short game are opposites.
They're not the same, and if you use the same
motor pattern for both, you'll only be good at one.
You know, you just got to pick your one you
want to be good at.
Speaker 2: I guess I was very I was very surprised when
I came across that part in the book. Is like, wa, wait,
completely different swings on your short game.
Speaker 1: Now, I should say I finished that comment. I guess sure.
Tiger's new coach, Chris Como, a smart guy friend of mine,
has a ton of knowledge and he inherited this issue
with Tiger, he didn't create it. So I think the
reality is I think that was a shocker as a
coach when he shows up and he's working on full
swing and to find out that his player can't ship.
Kind of found that out after the fact, and then
I think, given, you know, then Tiger takes a break
and they sit there and they focused on that part
of the game and worked it through. And I think
now the difference that Augusta is just operating with good
information and everything has changed. Like setup is completely different, backswing,
arm movement patterns different, is balance, and the way he
releases the club was completely different. So one technique interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've asked a number of different coaches that we've
had on the show, if you had the chance to
talk to Tiger for fifteen minutes or you know, if
he called you and said would you help me? What
would you do? And so many have said, just go
back to what got you here in the first place,
stop playing with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but how do you do that? I mean, it's
like putting the toothpaste back into the tube once you
sweeze it out. It's just like it's impossible motor patterns
have changed, your body, motor memories have changed. You know,
everything's different. So you like the reality is that's why
you got to have foundational beliefs. They need to be
well defined. You got to have ways to train so
that you never really degenerate or get lost and move
away from them. And I think that's that's really what
happened when he switched kind of coaches. He switched complete
concepts of how to do it, and then at some
point he didn't know. It was kind of like me
when I was teacher. It's like, well, I don't know
what's right, but I know that's wrong, you know, So.
Speaker 2: So tell us where where you're teaching now, and if
people wanted to reach out and work with you, where
they would go and how they would get in touch
with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I have a golf academy in Omaha, Nebraska,
Shadow Ridge Country Club. The easiest way to get a
hold of me would pre to send me an email.
Just go to my website JS golf Academy dot com,
and there's a place where they can kind of see
some tips and do all those sort of things, but
also a place where they can contact me. I honestly,
not here very often. I work in one on an
airplane pretty much every week, working with tour players and
doing different things. But I'm usually here, you know, two
or three days a week, and you know, if they
want too bad enough, we can certainly find a way
to get together.
Speaker 2: How about giving us a quick tip right from the
book again, it's your short game solution mastering the finesse
game from one hundred and twenty yards and in how
did you give us a quick tip from the book.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the key issues around the green, especially
inside thirty yards, is to sequence your swing properly. And
there is a power sequence where you start your downswing
with your body some shift and some wire on your hands,
move faster in the club and you get this little
down cock so you get this little whip there. Well,
the short game is opposite, so I call it a
finesse sequence. And the easiest way to learn what the
finest sequence is, which is essentially at the start of
your down swinging the club moving faster than your arms
at the start of the downsing so these angles are
starting to be let out, is to chip with your
trailarm only just in training. So I just pretend like essentially,
like I have a ball in my hand which I'm
gonna grab here, and if I was going to do
a little underhanded toss, I wouldn't do it by starting
my hips. I'd start my arm, the club would come out,
and then I just release the club past my body
to get this nice, gentle little toss there. And it's
the same motion. And only think I'm gonna do differently
is I'm gonna do it with the club in my hand,
So just grip the club and the trail arm only
set up to this normal I really like to level out,
so I'd like to put my left hand kind of
down on my thigh. Now I'm just gonna make a
one handed swing. Just pretend I can do it a
little five yard toss with my trail hand, and that
gives you the perfect perfect sequences. You release the club
past your body, and I get a lot of calls
and or texts saying, well, I chip so beautifully one
hand only doing your drill, but when I put my
left hand on there, it's not quite as good. It's
just the perfect drill that allows you the sequence your
swing properly, release the club pastor body and nice soft
touch around the greens.
Speaker 2: Fabulous tip. Thank you, and I'm just so impressed that
you can hit balls around the house and not get
in trouble.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I watch out found that's the only reason