WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:05.080 For members only. Golf Smarter number three hundred and forty six, 2 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:08.160 published on August fourteen, twenty twelve. 3 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:13.400 Welcome to golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain 4 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:17.000 insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the 5 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:23.039 Golf Smarter podcast. Great Golf Instruction Never gets Old. Our 6 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:27.920 interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations 7 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:31.879 like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. 8 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:34.000 Pay close attention to look at the back of the 9 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:36.880 left hand in the last frame before impact, and the 10 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:39.240 back of the left hand is facing straight to the camera, 11 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:42.000 and the club is pointed straight backwards, maybe even a 12 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:44.960 little upward. And then a frame or two later, the 13 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:48.280 hand is only moved latterly toward the target about fifteen inches, 14 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:51.719 But now the underside of the left wrist is facing 15 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:53.960 toward the camera. So there's been a four hundred and 16 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:58.799 eighty degree rotation of that left hand through impact the 17 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:02.119 release we call it. And when that hand releases that way, 18 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:06.040 look at what happened. The hand move laterally from six 19 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:07.879 or eight inches behind the ball to six or eight 20 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:10.560 inches in front of the ball, but the clubhead moved 21 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:12.799 from three and a half feet behind the ball to 22 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:14.560 three and a half feet ahead of the ball. So 23 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:19.280 there's a tremendous magnification of power in that rotational move 24 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:21.840 of the hand through impact. That's why tour players can 25 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:24.359 hit it so far and look like they're not swinging 26 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:27.239 hard at all, because the only thing moving fast is 27 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:29.799 that rotational move of the hand, and that's where they're 28 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:33.719 getting this tremendous magnification of power. It's the proper release, 29 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:36.439 and you can go learn that by hitting pitch shots 30 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:38.640 and rotating and releasing that because you're doing it in 31 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:40.599 slow motion, and once you get the feel of that 32 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:43.439 is the biggest epiphany, eye opener you will ever have 33 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:46.400 in golf. You learn how to properly rotate your left 34 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:49.920 arm through impact so that you get that magnification of power. 35 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:52.640 I personally think that was Hogan's secret. 36 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:59.519 The Secret of Scoring with Terry Kaylor of our new 37 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:02.400 Shortcut Academy. This is Golf. 38 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:07.239 Smarter, sharing tips and insights from golfers and golf professionals 39 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:10.120 to help lower your score. It's worked for your host, 40 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:11.280 Fred Green. 41 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:14.000 Welcome back to Golf Smarter for members only. 42 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:17.800 Terry, thank you for rhyth I'm glad to be back 43 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:19.879 and continue to talk about the short game. 44 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:22.599 Well, put on your slippers, buddy, because it seems like 45 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:23.800 you and I are going to be spending a lot 46 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:28.360 of time in this room together. I'm very excited about 47 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:32.159 the questions that are coming in from the audience and 48 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:37.240 you answering them on every Golf Smarter episode. And again, 49 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:40.639 I just want to remind people that if you submit 50 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:43.120 a question to Terry, he is going to answer it 51 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:45.719 or one of his staff will answer it. But I 52 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:47.560 want to pick up from where we left off on 53 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:51.479 the last episode, and that you were talking about technique 54 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:55.639 in short game and bringing up the names of different 55 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:59.120 tour players. I want to just let you riff on that. 56 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:00.639 I want to pick it up from there. 57 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:04.639 Okay, you know we were talking about the LPGA and 58 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:08.319 I had mentioned the Avon Masters and watching these ladies 59 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:11.000 come in and they were throwing darts at the flags, 60 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:12.639 they were hitting it all over the hole, they were 61 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:16.879 making puts from everywhere. And you know, the LPGA player 62 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:20.159 is not as strong as even the average amateur, much 63 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:25.120 less the tour male tour counterpart. So what my whole 64 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:28.919 point is is that you know, you you listeners out there. 65 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:31.479 You're not going to learn how to hit three hundred 66 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:33.639 and thirty yard drives like the tour players do. You're 67 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:35.120 not going to learn how to hit one hundred ninety 68 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:37.120 five yard five irons and six irons, and you don't 69 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:39.400 want to. It's not the game you play. You're not 70 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:41.639 teeing it up on these seventy five seventy six hundred 71 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:45.080 yard golf courses that these guys are playing. But what 72 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:49.240 you can do is to learn a sound fundamental technique. 73 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:53.599 It's all technique that lets you hit really solid, accurate 74 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:58.199 short iron shots and scoring shots to get the ball 75 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:00.240 close to the hole when you're inside nine iron range 76 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:02.199 or eight iron range. And so you know you're going 77 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:03.879 to play the golf course if you think about your 78 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:06.080 round of golf, and I alluded to this in the 79 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:10.639 last interview an episode, if you're playing the right set 80 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:14.199 of t's, you're going to play the golf course from 81 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:16.920 you know, five six iron, seven iron range for half 82 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:20.360 of the approaches and one or two three approaches at 83 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:22.000 most are going to be you know, in the long 84 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:25.600 club range and the bulk and the other approaches are 85 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:28.519 going to be in the in the under nine iron 86 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:31.240 range in nine iron eight iron are under and those 87 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:33.399 are the holes that you should be able to take 88 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:36.160 it to the golf course, whether that is breaking ninety 89 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:39.439 or whether that's shooting par or breaking eighty or getting 90 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:43.959 a career round. If you can learn a good, solid 91 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:47.680 technique for getting the ball on the right trajectory so 92 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:51.959 that it flies the right distance, making solid contact and 93 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:54.680 hitting the ball on the green and closer and closer 94 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:56.920 to the hole. When you have one of these short 95 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:00.480 clubs in your hand, then your handicap will go down. 96 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:02.920 It's inevitable. It has to go down if you're giving 97 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:06.600 yourself par in birdie putts when you put that nine 98 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:09.399 nine or less in your hand. It's just crucially important 99 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:11.680 to enjoying the game and shooting better numbers. 100 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:17.839 Yeah. Absolutely. You've mentioned before that you've been playing golf 101 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:21.279 most of your life. Have you ever taken lessons? 102 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:25.519 No, I've had dozens hundreds. Probably like to say, I 103 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:30.000 don't remember life before golf. I literally my earliest memory 104 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.439 of life is sitting on the ball pocket of my 105 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:34.839 dad's burden golf bag on a bag boy golf cart 106 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:36.680 and being able to hold the handle in my feet 107 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:38.240 not touch the ground, so I don't know how little 108 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:41.519 I was, but that's my earliest memory of life. But 109 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:44.279 my dad was a good amateur player. And I grew 110 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:46.959 up in the fifties in small town Texas, and every 111 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.160 little nine hole course had a golf pro trying to 112 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:51.079 make a living back then. And we had a pro 113 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:54.600 that loved teaching kids, but mainly we were taught to 114 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:57.120 get out there and just go play. And they didn't 115 00:05:57.160 --> 00:06:00.279 mess with our swings much until we were in our 116 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:03.800 you know, early teens and getting a little more power. 117 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:08.079 And I look at juniors and I kind of get 118 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:10.120 off on this of you know, trying to grind on 119 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:11.839 these four and five, six and eight year olds on 120 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:15.879 techniques and fundamentals. It's like, just let them go have fun. 121 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:17.879 Let them smack the golf ball. I mean, when you're 122 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:20.360 six years old, the club can't get too far away 123 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:22.759 from where it's supposed to be anyway. Just let that 124 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:25.160 kid go have fun. I mean a friend of mine 125 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:28.240 was telling me his ten year old daughter. The golf 126 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:30.160 pro is trying to teach her how to trap the 127 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:32.759 golf ball. This is a I mean granddaughter. This is 128 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:34.759 a ten year old that's just taking up the game 129 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:36.240 and the god pro is trying to teach her how 130 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:39.279 to trap an iron shot. It's like, really really, I mean, 131 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:40.920 I'm not picking on this golf bro, but you know, 132 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:43.360 let this kid just go smack it and have some fun. 133 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:45.120 And they don't need to be digging divots at that 134 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:47.079 age anyway, because they don't have the strength to get 135 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:48.879 the club out of the dirt. Just smack the gop 136 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:52.079 ball and make it go that way. And I think that, 137 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:54.240 you know, I watched the high school kids in our town, 138 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:56.920 and I think they hit too many rangeballs. They don't 139 00:06:56.920 --> 00:06:59.439 play enough golf. And you know, we were kids. I 140 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:01.920 mean we slung the bag over our shoulder and with 141 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:04.439 our four, six, eight ten clubs as we you know, 142 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:06.639 we put more clubs in our bag as we graduated. 143 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:08.480 And I think you put that little kid out there 144 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:11.680 and give them a three wood and a five iron 145 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:15.160 and a pitching wedge and a putter and let them 146 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:17.600 go and then they can add some other irons as 147 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:19.800 their gaps get a little bigger. But you know, let 148 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:21.360 them go learn how to make the golf ball do 149 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:23.079 what they want to do. They'll figure it out. Kids 150 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:24.199 are very resourceful. 151 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:27.319 Just listen when you and I were kids. We used 152 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:29.639 to go to the school grounds of the park and 153 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:32.160 wait a few minutes and then all of a sudden 154 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:34.720 you had a pickup game for baseball with full set 155 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:37.639 of teams. Right it was. It wasn't little league where 156 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:39.319 you get you know, you have to stand and right 157 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:42.160 field for two hours so you can get one at back. 158 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:43.920 You know. And that's the thing. I mean, golf is 159 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.360 fun because you know, I mean you take the Little 160 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:49.839 League and my golf professional whose son is a very 161 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:53.000 good baseball player and golfer, but he's really drawn to 162 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:57.360 the baseball thing. And you know, he was, you know, 163 00:07:57.399 --> 00:07:59.839 talking about what's the appeal of little league to kids? 164 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:02.360 You know, I mean they go out there, the kids 165 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:04.040 in right field, he may not make a play for 166 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:06.600 three games and he gets three at bats. It is 167 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:09.399 not the action that keeps them in baseball, So what 168 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:11.720 is it. It's the team aspect. I think they've got 169 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:14.480 to be part of something bigger than themselves. And I mean, 170 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:16.399 I'm getting off of our short game thing, but I 171 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:18.560 think golf could take a tip from that and get 172 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:20.920 these kids playing scrambles where they're part of a team 173 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:23.319 and everybody hits every shot and they cheer each other on, 174 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:25.879 and and you're you know, you're you're glad that you 175 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:27.800 got the best player in the league on your team. 176 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:30.279 And if Susie can't quite hit it as far as 177 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:32.519 everybody else will, then come on, Susie, you can do this. 178 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:34.320 You can do this, and kids cheer each other on. 179 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:37.879 And I meanway, but we're talking about the short game. 180 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:39.960 We're trying to talk about your listeners. And probably not 181 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:41.559 a lot of seven year olds listening out there, but 182 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:44.399 if there are you kids, forget the rains, just go 183 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:45.200 play golf and learn. 184 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:47.320 Yeah, right, I listened. There are parents of seven year olds. 185 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:49.559 And one of the things that Jeff Mangum and I 186 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:53.360 have talked about is getting it. Of course we're going 187 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:57.840 to be sidetracked here, but the and getting kids started 188 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:00.600 in golf. Just take them to the putting green free 189 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:01.919 and if you can get them to put it in 190 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:03.480 the hole and fall in love with putting it in 191 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:05.639 the hole, the rest of the game will fall into place. 192 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:08.320 But get that hard part out of the way and kids, 193 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:10.919 kids can get putting so much better than trying to 194 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:13.000 hit the ball off a tee or off the grass. 195 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:13.919 Get it in the air. 196 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:16.960 I really think that the game has to be taught, 197 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.279 whether you're teaching a five year old or a forty 198 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:21.559 five year old, the game has to be learned from 199 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:24.120 the hole backwards. Because when you learn how to roll 200 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:26.600 the ball across a green six feet ten feet, twenty 201 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.960 feet thirty feet and make it do what you want 202 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:32.080 it to do, everything's happening slow. You get the feel 203 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:36.399 of ball face impact, you get the feel of how 204 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:39.000 the ball propels off of the clubhead, and you can 205 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:40.759 move from there to chipping in there to pitching. And 206 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:42.399 I really believe if you're going to try to teach 207 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:44.720 somebody to play golf and you're trying to teach them 208 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:46.720 a full swing before you've taught them how to chip 209 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:49.440 you or spinning your wheels, you cannot learn this game 210 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:52.519 from the tee forward. You've got to learn this game 211 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:56.120 from the hole backward to learn This is where the 212 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:58.200 fundamentals is short game, And we're going to talk about 213 00:09:58.200 --> 00:09:59.919 the fundamentals day if we ever get around to it. 214 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:03.960 That the fundamentals are that if you mean take driver's in, 215 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:07.679 you don't teach a kid to drive by pulling out 216 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:09.519 onto the freeway and say let's go mag rump that 217 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:11.600 thing up to seventy and let's get after it. You 218 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:13.960 teach him to drive in a Walmart parking lot. You 219 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:17.120 teach him to how that car handles, how it feels 220 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:19.519 in a turn, how it feels in a breaking, how 221 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:22.279 it feels in an acceleration. And that's really the way 222 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.120 we need to teach golf. We need to teach you 223 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:27.159 how this feels when you're hitting a little shot that's 224 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:29.879 going to fly ten yards or that's going to roll 225 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:32.039 ten feet to start with. And then we're going to 226 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:34.639 teach you how it feels to fly that ball ten yards. 227 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:36.200 And then we're going to teach you how it feels 228 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:38.879 to fly that ball, you know, fifty yards, and then 229 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:40.399 we're going to teach you how it feels to make 230 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:42.919 a full swing. But if you don't know how to 231 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:47.120 make a golf swing from you know, hands going back 232 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:51.120 wastehimeh to hands going through waste time, that's exactly what's 233 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:53.039 happening in a full swing. Well, if you can't get 234 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:55.519 it right from waste time to waste time, you've got 235 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:57.720 no chance of getting it right from behind your head 236 00:10:57.720 --> 00:11:01.200 to behind your head. And so the beauty of the 237 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:03.960 short game is if you work on your short irons, 238 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:06.600 and you work on your wedge play and your scoring 239 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:10.080 club play, and your pitches and your chips, the release 240 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.240 through impact is exactly like is happening with the driver, 241 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:17.240 but it's happening slower. It's happening that you can learn that. 242 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:20.559 You can feel that because you're moving your hands and 243 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:22.840 your clubhead through the ball at fifteen miles an hour, 244 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:24.799 twenty miles an hour instead of eighty or ninety or 245 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:26.879 one hundred. You know, it's just like in a car 246 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:30.080 when you get out on a freeway, things are happening fast, 247 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:32.559 and that car can get away from you in a hurry. Well, 248 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:34.519 the same thing with the driver. That driver can get 249 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:36.960 away from you in a hurry. Little errors at one 250 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:40.039 hundred miles an hour become very big errors, but a 251 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:42.919 little error at fifteen miles an hour doesn't put anybody 252 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.440 in the morgue. And I mean and from the golf 253 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:49.279 is the same way. If you will learn how the 254 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:52.200 club releases through impact, how your bodycore and the club 255 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:55.200 engage together, how your weight shifts, if you will learn 256 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:58.200 that on these little short shots where it's all happening 257 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:01.000 in slow motion, you can learn that you can process, 258 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:04.279 that you can you can act and react, and then 259 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:08.240 you can work to get your speed up. And that's 260 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:11.559 what I'm a big believer that what is happening at 261 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:15.039 that magic moment of the club a foot before impact 262 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:18.679 to a foot after impact, the same thing happens in 263 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:21.679 a pit shot that's going twenty yards, that happens in 264 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:24.919 the drive that's going two fifty exact same thing is 265 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:27.759 happening through the impact none. It's the moment of truth 266 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:30.200 and it's the exact same thing. Learn it in slow 267 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:32.759 motion your whole game. You will do more for your 268 00:12:32.840 --> 00:12:35.639 driving by learning how to hit good nine irons than 269 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:36.799 anything else you can do. 270 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:45.639 So the challenge would be, and we're going to issue 271 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:49.120 this challenge right now, is the next half dozen times 272 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:53.120 you go to the driving range, leave your driver, your hybrids, 273 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:56.440 and your fairway woods in the car, and just take 274 00:12:57.240 --> 00:13:00.360 mostly your scoring clubs. Just work on those, and you 275 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:03.039 were going to see a greater impact on your scoring 276 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:05.600 than if you just walked out to the driving range 277 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:07.039 and pulled out your driver immediately. 278 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:10.000 Well, I think the thing is and nobody's going to 279 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:11.480 leave there driving the car for read Come on, this 280 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:14.759 is twenty twelve and everybody wants to hit it three hundred. 281 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:16.960 But I'll tell you what kock off, smarter listeners, if you. 282 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:20.039 Will go out there and spend two thirds of your 283 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:23.000 practice session working on short pitches and chips, and then 284 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:26.559 into short iron shots and then into middle iron shots, 285 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:29.879 and finish off that session when your last ten balls, 286 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:32.639 pull your driver out, smash five or six of them, 287 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:34.919 and then go back and hit a couple of nine 288 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:37.679 iron shots and finish that practice session with a couple 289 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:39.559 of short pitches. You know, one of the things that 290 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:41.679 I always like to tell people and has beencome a 291 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:43.559 pattern of mind when I'm doing it. And there's a 292 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:46.639 difference between a practice session and a pre round warm up. 293 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:48.879 When you're going into pre round warm up, you're getting 294 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:50.200 the feel of the ball off the club, you get 295 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:51.600 the feel of your tempo, getting the feel of what 296 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:53.559 the ball is doing today. You're just getting ready for 297 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:55.360 the first tea. You're not trying to learn anything out there. 298 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:57.840 You're just seeing who came with you today, which swing 299 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:00.480 came along today, and how are you to hit it. 300 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:04.679 But what I always encourage people to do is, you know, 301 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:06.919 work in your pre round warm up. You know, hit 302 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:09.399 a few half wedges, hit a few, you know, three 303 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:12.320 quarter wedges, it's some short irons, hit a few, seven irons, 304 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:14.159 hit a few five irons, Hit a couple of hybrids, 305 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:16.240 a couple of fairry woods. You know, beat three or 306 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:18.399 four or five drivers. Do you get a couple that's like, Man, 307 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:20.360 that's where I really want it to be. And then 308 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:23.279 save those four or five golf balls and go back 309 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:25.840 and hit those last four or five balls before you 310 00:14:25.879 --> 00:14:27.679 go to the putting green or to the first tee. 311 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:31.799 Hit five, four or five little different little pitch shots 312 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:34.480 and chip shots, because in the first or second hole 313 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:37.440 you're going to have a pitcher chip shot and you 314 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:39.480 don't want it to be boy, I don't remember the 315 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:41.320 last time I hit one of these. That's the whole 316 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:43.840 idea of a pre round warm up is is re 317 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:46.399 experience all the different kinds of shots you might have 318 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:48.720 to hit that day, at least the basics, you know, 319 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:51.879 middle iron, short irons, hybrids, fairy woods, drivers, and some 320 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:54.279 chips and pitches. You know, get the feel of those, 321 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:56.279 so they're refreshed in your memory bank. You've hit a 322 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:59.480 million of them, you know how, but refresh that before 323 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:01.519 you go to the ta, so you don't get to that 324 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:02.960 first chip shot of the day and go, oh wow, 325 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:04.759 I don't remember the last time I hit one of these. 326 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:06.360 Yeah right, you know, yeah, I just hit it. I 327 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:07.879 just hit a couple of these really solid on the 328 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:09.960 on the practice s green twenty minutes ago or the 329 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:10.840 practice range. 330 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:13.519 All of a sudden, you have more confidence in it exactly. 331 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:16.320 Yeah, you know how to do it, but you forget. 332 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:19.360 I mean it's like bunker play. You have trouble with bunkers. 333 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:21.279 You go into practice bunker maybe get the pro or 334 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:23.120 friend to take you out. You work on it. You 335 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:25.399 get to where you're really hitting good bunker shots, and 336 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:27.159 then you know, it's three weeks before you get in 337 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:29.240 a bunker and you go, oh, man, I'm scared of bunkers. 338 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:31.200 Well the last time you were in when you're hitting 339 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:34.159 it good, And you know, I think that's also a 340 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:36.120 good thing, is if you have very little time to 341 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:38.919 warm up, go hit a few bunker shots, because good 342 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:42.639 slow tempo really works in the bunkers and it will 343 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:46.200 infect into the rest of your game. And nobody swings 344 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:47.200 a golf club too slow. 345 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:49.960 Yeah, that's true, that's true. One of the things that 346 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:52.879 I love to practice, you know, especially pre round is 347 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:55.360 let me take a swing or two and not much, 348 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:59.440 just a swing or two pretending I'm under a tree. Yep, right, 349 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:01.679 just take the hybrid and not try to take a 350 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:03.840 full swing in it, but just get give me forty 351 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:06.480 fifty yards so that I can get it out of 352 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:09.279 the trees back onto the fairway. Because I still believe 353 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:13.799 you never follow a bad shot with a stupid shot. 354 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:15.639 So just get yourself back and play. 355 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:17.519 Yes, And that's fun, you know, to go out on 356 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:19.679 the range. Yes, instead of just seeing how far you 357 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:21.720 hit it. Now I'm going to hit this little you know, 358 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:23.919 cut five iron of this little kind of knock down 359 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:26.559 pourn out under the trees, or this little flop shot, 360 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:29.679 you know, and hit different shots. So anyway, we were 361 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:32.039 going to talk about the fundamental. To me, there's like, 362 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:34.360 you know, the thing that anybody can learn is some 363 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:38.639 basic core fundamentals of what makes for a good short 364 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:39.480 term technique. 365 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:45.600 And I'm gonna let you go. Let's talk about the 366 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:48.240 fundamentals and what makes a good short iron technique. 367 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:52.080 So I have a I have a nine five percent 368 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:55.759 finished manuscript called The Secrets of Scoring, and in the 369 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:58.039 secrets of scoring. What I'm trying to do is break 370 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:03.639 down the core fundamentals of you know, scoring club technique, 371 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:06.160 those swings you make with your short clubs. So let's 372 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:08.240 start with this whole thing about power. And I talked 373 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:11.920 about Ben Hogan and his yardages last week. Go out 374 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:15.480 and and all your your listeners. I always tell people, 375 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.759 every golfer has three yardages with every club, and that's 376 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:20.319 how far you think you hit it, how far you 377 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:22.480 wish you hit it, and how far you really hit it. 378 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:25.599 And you know most golfers are you know, well, I 379 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:28.200 hit a nine or one hundred and fifty five one time, 380 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:31.200 so therefore that's my nine iron range. Well, you know, 381 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:34.920 I talked about Ben Hogan last week about his his 382 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:37.880 yardages and he had twenty yards in reserve with every iron. 383 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:40.640 Now that was Ben Hogan and that was then. But 384 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:44.079 I think it would be a good exercise for most 385 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:46.160 golfers is to go out on a on a hole 386 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:48.039 on the course where that you know, if you can 387 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:51.599 get out there late in the afternoon and hit you know, 388 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:52.960 go to a place that you know, hey, this is 389 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:55.480 a textbook niner. And for me to that green and 390 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:59.000 you know, one forty one, twenty eight, whatever your number is, 391 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:01.960 go shoot it with your that flag that you think 392 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:06.440 is your textbook nine iron range, and hit five nine 393 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:09.480 iron shots and see where they go. See if they're 394 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:12.160 all around that flag or if they're all over the lot. 395 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:16.240 And then take five more balls and hit that nine 396 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:19.160 iron to the front of the green, fit ten to 397 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:22.119 twelve yards short of that flag, and just troddle back 398 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:25.359 to hit those five next five balls to the front 399 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:27.119 of the green right online with the flag, but the 400 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:30.000 front of the green, and you will probably find that 401 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:32.680