December 10, 2025 • 47 mins
Claude breaks down how just 30 minutes can be an effective practice session — whether you’re in the technical phase, the transfer/integration phase, or the execution/performance phase. The key is knowing which phase you’re in and making sure every practice session, every swing, and every ball you hit has a purpose.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's the Son of a Butch podcast. I'm your host,
Claude Harmon. So, in my never ending quest to try
and figure out how to make golfers improve but also
figure out why golfers don't improve, I'm always trying to
come up with ideas and concepts that I think can
help golfers not only get better, but also do.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It in a time zone that makes sense for people.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I think a lot of people don't have a lot
of time to practice, and so the limited time that
they do have to practice, trying to make that practice
as simple but also as effective as possible. So on
today's episode, I want to talk about the idea of
creating a thirty minute practice session. Now that doesn't seem
like a lot of time, but to be honest, it's
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plenty of time to get really productive practice. The issue is,
and what you want to try and do is build
a plan, right. What we don't want to do is
just start hitting golf balls and you know, hope something works, because,
first of all, hope isn't a strategy. And I think
what a lot of players do is they whatever time
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constraint that they have, for however long they're going to
hit golf balls. They're trying to either do one of
two things. One, they're not working on anything. They're just
basically swinging to golf club, hitting shots ball after ball
after ball, and in reality, they're just getting exercise or
whatever they're trying to work on in their golf swing
in whatever time gap they have. But let's say we're
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going to We're going to try and do something in
thirty minutes. You're going to try and work on your grip,
your posture, your alignment, your backswing, your top of back
swing position, your downswing, your impact position, and you're going
to try and do all of that at once. Right,
You're going to try and work on a number of
different things all at the same time, and regards of
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how much time you put into it, that's going to
be very counterproductive. There's no plan, there's no real kind
of you're not setting yourself up to succeed. You're setting
yourself up to fail. And I've talked about that in
previous podcasts. I think a lot of golfers their practice
sessions almost set.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Them up to fail.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So what we want to do is say, Okay, I've
got thirty minutes to go to the range and what
am I going to do in that thirty minutes? Okay, Well,
the first thing you want to try and do is
figure out what phase you're in, what you're going to
try and practice. Right, And I've talked about this on
another podcast. There's three phases.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
There's the technique or the technical phase. That's where you're
working on all of your technical moves, your drills, your feels,
your positions, how your golf swing looks. I think a
lot of players really just spend the majority of their
time in that. And then there's the execution and performance.
So I've been talking for a number of years now
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in the podcast that kind of balance and that kind
of concept between technique and execution, right, And I think
there's two phases there, the stuff you're working on in
your golf swing, and then there's seeing if any of
that works when you're in on the golf course or
trying to execute a task in performance mode. But there's
a middle phase, right, that's the transfer in the integration phase,
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where you're trying to transfer the stuff that you're working
on in your technique and your technical moves, integrate some
targets and stuff, and then take that and go to
the performance category. But the real truth about thirty minutes
is it's really long enough for you to do some
meaningful work. It doesn't seem like it is, but it is,
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And it's short enough for you to not get too fatigued,
but also for you not to lose concentration, to not
lose focus. I think most golfers think that tour players
have these long, elaborate, four or five hour practice sessions,
and there are players that do that. Bryson to Shambeau
is kind of famous for that. I think lately, in
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the last couple of years, we've seen Victor Hovland do
a lot of that because he's grinding, he's in the
technique mode of trying to work on his golf swing.
So when you see players, you know, like Bryson and
like Victor Holin, and you see the Golf channel focus
on how long they've been there, how many balls they're hitting,
the majority of that is going to be because they're
struggling with their golf swing. In Victor Holin's case, you know,
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Vick has really been trying to take apart his golf swing.
Since winning the FedEx Cup, He's gone through a bunch
of instructors, he's gone through a bunch of ideas, a
bunch of different concepts, and so that is kind of
the technical phase of what you're doing. But in a
thirty minute practice session, whether you're working on your technique,
when you're working on trying to transfer what you're working
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in your technique and then working on execution structure and
having a plan is really really vital, right, And I
think most players don't really have a plan, they don't
really have a focus. They're going to try and work
on everything at once. And when none of that works,
what do he end up doing? You just go and
end up started hounding drivers.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So what should happen? Right?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
What are we trying to do in this thirty minutes. Well,
the first thing that we're trying to do, if we're
in technique phase, with the technical phase, is we're trying
to build a new pattern, right, which means it needs
and it should feel uncomfortable because we're trying to reprogram a.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
New movement pattern.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So when we're in the technique phase, in our technical phase,
when we're working on these positions of our backswing, kind
of how the golf swing looks kind of the feels
if I'm working on a new move in my backswing,
if I'm working on trying to shallow the golf club,
get the club face in a stronger position, work on
a different impact position.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's all in the technique phase.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So make sure that you go into that with the
idea that, Okay, I am in technique phase. Right now,
I am in the technical phase. It's okay for me
to experiment. It's okay for me to try a lot
of things, but it's also okay for me to fail. Right,
So what you want to start to do is divide
this thirty minutes up and in the first five minutes,
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go ahead and start really really slow right, no golf ball.
We're just working on fields, and what we're trying to
do in this first five minutes is to wake up
this pattern and to try and wake up this new
pattern that we're trying to work on. So what we
want to try and do is make five to ten
slow motion swings where you're really trying to feel on
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what you're working on. You're really trying to connect and
feel this new pattern that you're trying to create, and
I think taking the ball out of this takes out
the result. Right, this is where you can start to
think about that process over outcome. That's one of Nick
Saban's big, kind of core principles of his college coaching
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career when he was at the University of Alabama. I
think it's one of the reasons why that program was
so successful, why they won so many national championships. Process
over outcome. So the first five minutes you're just reconnecting
with this pattern. If you've been taking lessons and you've
been working on something with your instructor, go through your
notes and say, Okay, what are the key things that
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I'm trying to work on in this golf swing in
this pattern. But I'm taking the ball away right, So
it's just pure feel. And I think the slow motion
swings are really really good because in doing it in
slow motion, it can really help you feel some of
the moves that you're trying to do. The other thing
you can do is take the ball, but also take
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the club away right. Just do some slow motion swings
trying to build this new pattern. Imagine that you're holding
an imaginary golf club right, So go ahead and take
your grip both with your left.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And your right hand.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
But there's going to be no club there, but you're
going to be mimicking what you would be doing in
kind of the golf swing that you're imagining that you're
making right.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
So the positions you're trying to in.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So if you're working on some things with an instructor
or like a lot of players, you've gone on YouTube,
and you know, I think YouTube now is a huge,
huge resource for golfer. Is what you want to make
sure that you're doing. If you're doing a lot of
stuff by yourself in YouTube or looking at YouTube videos
and looking at what other people are saying, make sure
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what you're trying to make sure what you're watching is
appropriate and applicical to your golf swing into what the
issues are. It's a little bit like you read that, hey,
if you've got a broken arm, you need to put
a cast on your arm. So you go put a
cast on your arm, and then someone sees you and says, oh,
how'd you break your arm? And you're like, well, no,
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I didn't actually really break my arm, but I heard
If you do have a broken arm, this is what
you need to do, right.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So make sure that whatever you're trying to.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Work on in your golf swing is something that your
golf swing actually needs. My advice would be go find
someone that you're comfortable working with that can create a
plan for you. And then when you do go to
the range in this thirty minute session and say, okay,
I'm going to just work on my technique today. I'm
going to follow the STAF in that plan. So what
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you're trying to do is wake your brain up to
remember what you're trying to do, right, what pattern you're
trying to feel. Just don't go to the range and
just start hitting shots and stuff because that just that.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Isn't going to work.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So then in the next five and listen, I would
time this right, I would put the timer on your
phone so that you're under a time gap. Right, You're
under a time constraint. So it's a little bit like
preparing for a meeting, preparing for something at work, and
you've only got a short period of time to do that.
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So you want to have a really good idea. So
first five minutes you're just trying to reconnect with the pattern.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
That's the slow motion swings.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And then the you know, from five to twenty five
minutes technical reps with feedback, all right, and the number
one thing that you're trying to do when we were
having technical reps with feedback is rule number one. The
ball doesn't matter right. Where the ball is going in
your technique phase doesn't matter. Right. You're not in execution
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and performance right, there is no outcome. You're just in practice,
so you can make mistakes, you can try stuff so
ball flight doesn't matter, and give yourself permission to not
only experiment, but give yourself permission to fail. Okay, I'm
going to try this feel, I'm going to try this
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thought doesn't work. If it doesn't, okay, let me try
another one. But the sole focus on this kind of
five to twenty five minute technical rep phase is the
sole focus is are you executing the new pattern right?
And if you execute the new pattern, regardless of where
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the ball went, it's a win, right, So executing the
pattern equals success. And what we're trying to do here
is in this kind of twenty minute period.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
We're not trying to hit a lot of golf ball.
We're trying to have good reps.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
So imagine that for you know, after you've done your
five minute kind of reconnect with the pattern slow motion
warm up, you're you don't want a lot of reps here,
but what you do want is good quality reps. We
don't want you making a ton of golf swings, right,
We want you making really really good golf swings with
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the pattern and committing to that pattern. So on every
ball you hit, check in with yourself, check in with
the pattern you're trying to make. If you execute the
pattern and it feels good and it's where you want
it to be, get another one. If you don't execute
that pattern, give yourself maybe two or three balls as test.
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And if you're not kind of executing and recreating that
new pattern, stop, go back to slow motion reps with
no ball right, and then reconnect with that pattern that
you're trying to make. Hit twenty five good reps rather
than one hundred reps with no plan, no structure, and
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just getting exercise. One of the things that I think
is really important when you are working this technique phase.
In this technical phase.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Is use video. Right.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
If you have a checkpoint, if you've got an idea
of what you're trying to get your golf swing to look,
if you're trying to have an idea of what you
where you want your golf swing to be at specific checkpoints.
Go ahead, you know, hit five balls, and then video
one and check the pattern. See if you're doing what
you're trying to do, If that backswing is in that
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position you want, that's video is not going to lie
to you.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
But again, in this kind of twenty minute phase, after
we've done our five minute kind of reconnect with the
pattern warm up, we're just trying to have good reps
with good intention. I think intent, what are you trying
to do in your practice? What are you trying to
do on every single golf swing? And I think if
you can start to connect to that to where every
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ball has a purpose that you're hitting, every ball matters
in your practice. It's a little bit like if you
look at the way team sports are being practiced right,
everybody on a team, whatever position they're playing, they have
a specific assignment, they have a specific role. So if
you're thinking about because right now in the US we're
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in football season, college football, NFL, everybody own an NFL
football team has a job, right, Everybody on a basketball
team has a job, and in practice you're trying to
figure out what that job is. But in the practice arena,
they're trying to have good reps. Right, They're trying to
have everybody have good reps, so I think that's really important.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
For that technique phase.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Right, and then the last five minutes stop stop hitting
golf balls, don't hit any golf balls. Use that last
twenty five minutes to review, to reflect, to take notes. Right,
you could take notes in your phone. You could go
ahead and write down what you were feeling in your
technique phase today and working on all of these drills.
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Write it down in a note format and then see, Okay,
this is where my backswing was, this is where my
tapa backswing was, this is where my grip was, whatever
it is in this technical phase that you're working on,
that's the time to experiment. That's the time to see
you know what the feels are and how that golf
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swing looks visually. But that review and taking notes see
if the notes you're taking after this twenty minutes match
the stuff that you said you wanted to try and
work on at the beginning of this lesson. Right, you're
building an awareness as to what you're trying to do.
And I think that reviewing of what you've done just done,
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write it down and then reflect on, Okay, how did
that go and what did I accomplish there.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
So that's thirty minutes of you kind of.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Being in that technique phase to where again you're trying
a bunch of different things. I think that's hugely, hugely important.
And then we can do another thirty minute practice session
where you're in that transfer phase. And again, that transfer
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phase is the middle phase between you working on your technique,
working on your mechanics, not worrying about ballflight, not worrying
about where the golf ball goes. Because I think most
golfers are only interested in where the golf ball is going.
They're only interested in the results. And I think that's
why it's very hard for players to make changes in
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their golf swing.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I think that's that's why it's very hard for players.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
To make to stick with changes, right because they're all
whe's evaluating every shot in practice when they're working on
the technique phase of their golf swing. Okay, did it
go to my target, So take the target away. But
now in the transfer phase and the integration phase, we're
going to try and see if that pattern is starting
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to feel a little bit more normal and a little
bit more neutral. When we're going into transfer phase. We're
pretty good at executing the drills that we're trying to do.
We're pretty good at kind of executing and putting the
golf club in the positions that we're trying to do.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
The look of the golf swing.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Right, we're checking that when we're in our technique foes
on video to see if the pattern is changing. Right,
you can compare. There's loads of apps where you can
put side by side comparisons of video. There's loads of
apps where you can take screenshots of your backswing at
kind of waist hie at the top and down and
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then where you want it to be, and then compare and.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Contrast those things.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
But this session is going to look very different than
the pure technique session that you were just in. So again,
the first five minutes we're going to do a technical
warm up, but it's kind of the same foundation that
we did when we were in technique mode. Right, start
with five reps, five to ten reps, where you know
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whatever club you're using your wedge, a nine iron, an
eight iron, some give yourself a club that you can control.
It's hard to make changes with longer golf clubs, right,
So give yourself a club, a scoring club that you can, Carol,
think of your scoring clubs as kind of a seven
iron and down. Right, So make five to ten reps
with just pure technical work. That's the same thing that
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we were doing in our technique mode. Right, no pattern,
You're just trying to reconnect with the process with the
pattern that you were trying to make. So in technique mode,
there was no golf ball, right, we were just working
on the pattern. Now we're going to make five to
ten reps where we're using a ball. Still no target.
You're again you're just trying to wake up the pattern. Now,
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a lot of players will say, listen, I've been working
on this for weeks. I know what to do.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I've got that.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
And that's kind of the wrong mindset because every single
session that you have in a practice session, regardless of
how long that session is, think about it is, Okay,
I need to wake up the car. I need to
wake up I need to warm up the car. I
need to wake up this pattern. Right, don't skip this
five to ten ball, pure technical.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Pattern, no targets, all right, no targets.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Now we're going to be in this transfer mode to
where we're trying to blend what we're working on in
technique and we're trying to blend it into Okay, now
picking out a target, picking out alignment, right, so alternate
that pattern right, Say, okay, I'm going to go a
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pure technical rep now to where I'm just trying to
work on my feels, no target, just working on this,
creating this new pattern. And now I'm going to have
a target rep where I'm going to pick a target
and commit to that technical change, right, and go back
and forth between that. Okay, a technical rep to where
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there's no target, there's no alignment, it's just I'm making
a golf swing. I'm hitting a golf ball with all
of the stuff and the fields and the drills and
stuff that I'm doing in technique. Now get completely out
of that and make a target rep. Okay, set an
alignment stick down, pick a target out. What you're trying
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to do is make a bridge, right, You're trying to
make a bridge between the practice and performance.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
One rep is just purely reconnecting and trying to execute
the new pattern, the new swing that you're trying to make.
And then the next rep is just the new pattern,
the new swing you're trying to make and a target, right,
And so as soon as you enter into or add
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a target, you're going to feel this urge and this
want and this need to try and steer the golf
ball towards your target. Right, You're going to try and
want to manipulate your golf swing and your pattern to
the target. That's the thing you're trying not to do.
Your job is to try and one hundred percent commit
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to this new pattern even when we have a target
in mind. Okay, so let's talk about picking out targets.
Don't pick out small, really small targets, right, don't really
pick out any target over one hundred and fifty yards.
Pick a big landing area, pick a green, right, and
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you're trying to hit anywhere on this green the goal
with this new pattern, this new feel, you're just trying
to hit a big, big target. So pick that big
landing era. You could use the driving range in any
way you want. Okay, I'm just going to cut the
driving range in half now, right, I'm just going to
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have a left side of the driving range. I'm going
to have a right side of the driving range. And
all I'm going to try and do is just hit
these shots with these new target reps where I'm just
trying to hit the left side of the driving range,
or I'm just trying to hit the right side of
the driving range. If your driving range doesn't have any
target greens, pick out some flags, pick out some yardage markers,
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you know, the one hundred and fifty, all of that.
But give yourself a really really big target, give yourself
room to miss. If you find yourself doing well, then
start to make the target smaller. So work from big
targets and then work into small targets. I think so
many players just immediately go and try and hit incredibly
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small targets, right, So I think that's something you really
want to try and.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Stay away from that.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And then bounce back between different clubs right, Okay, do
it with a wedge, Okay, do the rep. Do a
swing that has a rep to it. Right Again, that's
just trying to create the pattern. Now add a target
to the rep, and then go from a wedge to
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a seven iron right, and then do that same thing
again where we're making a pattern rep to where it's
a technical rep snow target. We're just working on the
feel of this golf swing. Then we throw in a target.
Then we throw in an alignment, and we can make
those targets as big or as small as we want
to art big and work back into that, right, And
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so I think another thing that you can add to
that is a kind of commitment, almost like a commitment
rating drill. Pick five specific targets, right, can use flags,
you can use yardage markers. Again, you can use that
concept of the left side of the green. You can
make that to the right side of the green on
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each shot that you're hitting okay, on each of these
five balls with five specific different targets, rate your commitment
did you fully commit to the new pattern? On a
scale of one to ten. One to ten would be
fully committing to the new pattern, and then a one
would be going completely back to the old pattern. And
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out of those five balls, if you could rate yourself
for the five balls you hit, okay, did I get
seven or above? You're not trying to hit every single target, right,
that's kind of performance and execution phase thinking, right, you're
judging your in this transfer phase where you're trying to
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build this bridge of transferring and integrating what you're working
on in your technique, in your fields and in your drills. Right,
you're trying to transfer what you're doing in practice to
this phase to where you're still allowing yourself to phase,
but you're judging your commitment to making this new swing,
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this new pattern. You're not judging the outcome. Right, The
pattern could really be there. You just need to calibrate
the pattern. That's the process of getting better. That's how
you get better. Right, And then the last five minutes,
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do the same thing that we did in the technique
phase and reflect, write down, ask yourself. You know, you
could ask yourself these questions. How many times did I
fully commit to the pattern? Or how many times when
I was doing my my golf swings to where I
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was working on the pattern but with a target, how
many times did I commit to that? Or how many
times did I go back and try and steer the
golf ball right? On what shots did you find yourself
steering it versus trusting the pattern? Which clubs felt easier
for you to trust the new pattern and not steer it?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Right? I think that's a huge, huge phase. And then
what's your think about it?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Okay, for that block of practice there where I was
going back through a technique rep and then a technique
rep with a target. What's my commitment percentage right now
and write that down. What you're really trying to do
in this transfer phase is kind of change the mindset.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
You're trying to.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Build trust with this new move that you're making. You're
not trying to build perfection.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Some shots are going to be great, some shots are
probably going to be terrible, But that's what needs and
is supposed to happen because you're not in performance and
execution mode here. I just think so many golfers are
in technique mode with no plan, no real process. They're
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not really thinking about anything, right, They're not trying to
create a new pattern. They're just going to hit some
balls and then they're just going to jump straight into performance.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Learning to trust something new under pressure is really important,
but I think most players the pressure and the only
pressure they ever try and add or use is.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
The golf course. Right.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
You need to build that trust in your practice session,
and that's where I think this transfer phase is this
integration phase, this bridge that you're trying to build, right.
I think that's a really really important thing to think
about when you're in this non technique phase. Right, you're
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trying to bridge or build this bridge to performance. So
you're trying to take and integrate the stuff that you're
working on in your technique and build that bridge and
transfer it into something that you can do when you're
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hitting golf balls with the target.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
But I think that's the middle phase of this technique,
transfer execution performance. I think it's this transfer phase as
to why golfers never really get any better. So three phases,
and now let's talk about a thirty minute practice session
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where we would be in execution phase.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
The warm up in all of these phases I think
is really really important. Right, So now we're going to
be in execution phase. And if we're in this execution
and performance phase again in practice not out on the
golf course, the pattern that we built in the technical
phase and the pattern that we built and then bridged
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in the transfer phase and the integration phase, the pattern
is pretty solid.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Right. You can commit to making.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Swings with the target in mind while you're still feeling
these things in your golf swing. Right, But now you're
going to try and simulate execution performance. You're going to
try on the range to play golf. Right, So this
first five minutes is really it's kind of a it's
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kind of a light technical check in, right. You're not
drilling your technique, You've already done that in the technique phase, right,
You're just making sure everything's really really good. So make
some swings. You can do this with any club, five
swings in total. And this is where I would use video, right, Okay,
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So when I'm in my execution phase, right, I'm going
to make five swings, I'm gonna set up my video camera.
I can set up that up face on, I can
set that up.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Down the line.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
But what I'm trying to do is make sure that
the pattern hasn't changed. Right, That's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
If you are making swings and you're going to try
and be an execution phase and you're looking at your
golf swing, you make five swings and you know this
light kind of you know this technique check in, right,
and it's not where you want it to be, stop
and go back into and say, listen, I'm not ready
to go into.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
This phase yet because my golf swing, the.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Pattern isn't there yet, right, So when you're in this
execution phase, you want your pattern to be good, and
that's really really important now in an ideal world, by
the time you get to execution, the pattern should be
kind of automatic. You're not rebuilding your golf swing in
this phase, you're just maintaining it. So now we're going
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to take that next block of twenty minutes and you're
going to use the range as a playground, right, and
so you're going to get out your driver and you're
going to pick out a target. Give yourself a fairway
on your driving right, use you know, if you need
to use trees, if you need to use the whole range,
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whatever it is, if you need to use the flags, right,
but give yourself a fair way. And again give yourself
a big fair way at the beginning, and then start
to work in right. So it's a game that you're
going to play, So then give yourself a fair way
to hit, and then give yourself a target or an
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area to hit with an iron, whatever iron you want
to choose. But again give yourself a big target. So
you're hitting a driver, which is simulating what you would
do off t right, and then you're hitting an iron,
which would simulate what you would do going into a green.
If you hit both of your targets, both with your
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driver and an iron. You could do this with your
three wood. You could do this with whatever woods you have.
You could do this with a driving iron. You could
do this with a hybrid right to where you're simulating
a t shot to a big target right, and then
you're simulating an iron shot. And again you can change
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the irons in any fashion you want. If you hit
both of those targets right, if you drive it into
your target, and then if you hit an iron into
your target, that's a par. Right, so you've made a
par if you miss one. So let's say you hit
the fairway but don't hit the green, that's a bogie.
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Let's say you don't hit the fairway but you hit
the green, that's a bogee. If you miss both. If
you miss the fairway and if you miss the green,
that's a double bogie. Right, different targets go through your
whole routine. You could design eighteen holes right, keep score,
make it matter, and then one of the things I
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think that's always really hard and difficult for golfers. Right.
I went up recently and visited Noah can at the
University of Florida. I'd never been up there before and
before I started working with Noah. The day I went
up there, JC Deacon, the head coach, and Dudley Hart,
the assistant. They took me around, you know, University of
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Florida's new one hundred and fifty million dollar football facility,
which was just it was amazing, right, it was unbelievable,
and getting to walk through that facility and seeing, you know,
the college athletes are part of the University of a
Florida's football team. But I started thinking about what happens
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in team sports when they practice, right, team sports, when
they practice, there's consequences, Right, there's consequences to practice, there's consequences.
So whatever position you're playing in, whatever sports you're playing,
you have a job, you have a role to execute. Right,
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So if you're playing on an NFL team, whatever position
you're playing, you have a responsibility and assignment for.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
That play, for that rep.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
So in team sports practice, they're not really going to
let you make mistakes, right with whatever you're doing in
these reps. Right, if you make mistakes, there's consequences. One
of the consequences of making mistakes in team sports in
your position and not doing your job and missing your
assignment is they'll pull you out of the game, they'll
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pull you out of practice and they'll bring somebody else in, right,
And so what I always find interesting and in team sports,
let's say a team is doing a scrimmage, they're doing a.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Five on five. You know, they're shortening the court, whatever
they're doing.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
You know, they're not doing necessarily games in team sports
all the time. In practice they're setting up smaller versions
of that game. But they're they're doing the things that
they need to do. But the coaches are evaluating every
single rep right, the coaches in practice in team sports,
they're evaluating everybody.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Did you achieve your assignment? Right? Did you do your job?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And I don't think we do that in golf because
there's no consequences, right, you mess up enough in in
in a college football environment and professional football, and bent
in the college basketball assignment, they'll run until you'll go run, right,
They'll make you go run the stairs, They'll make you do,
you know, some physical task which is designed as a punishment.
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And so we just don't have that in golf, right,
And I don't think we as a result, I don't
think that. And I said this to Noah when I
was up there at the University of Florida. I said, listen,
maybe we need to change what we're doing and hit
less golf balls.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
You would think that in an effort to try and
qualify for these tournaments that Noah's trying to do, and
in an effort to try and get better as a
college golfer, we would need him to spend more time practicing. Which, yeah,
practice is always good, but practice for the sake of
practice with zero structure and not understanding what phase you're
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in in practice, understanding that you're in a technique phase,
understanding that you're in a transfer phase. I think that's
really really important because when the game starts, whether you're
in teams or whether you're in an individual sport, the
game is going out and playing nine holes. The game
is going out and playing eighteen holes. The game starts
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when you are trying to keep score. What I see
everybody doing is going out and while they're trying to
play the game, they spend more time practicing the game again,
practicing what you're trying to do.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
That's technique phase, right, building that.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Bridge from technique phase and trying to build a bridge
from what you're working on. Everyone asks me, hey, how
do I take what I'm working on in the draw
on the driving range and take it to the golf course. Well,
what you do is you work on these three phases, right,
and you understand what phase you're in. If you're working
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on your golf swing, if you're working on your fields,
if you're working on positions, if you're working on looks,
if you're working on creating that new pattern, that's technique.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
That's technical reps.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Right, that's you're allowed to fail, You're allowed to experiment.
You're just trying new things out. Then you're trying to
build that bridge to execution and performance by transfer integration.
You're going back and forth between pure tech technique reps
with no targets, with no wins, with no outcomes, right,
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not caring where the golf ball goes. The only thing
you're trying to do is work on building and creating
that new pattern. Check yourself with video and transfer phase
and see if it works. And then in execution, you're
just trying to simulate from gamifying your practice as to
what you're going to feel on the golf course. You know,
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a lot of what we're doing with our junior golfers
now is we're trying to create those consequences in execution
and performance.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
So if they are doing you know, the par game
where if you hit a fair way and you hit
a green.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
That's a par. Right.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
If you miss one of those two, that's bogie, and
if you miss both, it's double bogie. So a lot
of what we're doing with our junior golfers now is
if they miss both, we make them do push ups,
we make them do some sprints, we make them do
some air squads, we make them run up and down
a slope or something like that, so that there is
a consequence that is a task that they don't want
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to do, right, build in a consequence for you. Right,
Let's say the consequence could be I'm in performance mode
and I'm going to try and do my thirty minute practice,
and if I am making in this par game, you know,
let's say I I'm going to try and do this
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eighteen times right to simulate what's happening on the golf
course and start off by doing, you know, a score,
and the goal would be to get a perfect score,
to kind of get a perfect score where you're just
trying to make a part. Ryan and Chrysler and I
Ryan who works with me here at the Floridian, but
his Instagram site Golf Chaos Manage. We did a podcast
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where we talked about this game to where you go
out for eighteen holes on the golf course and all
you're trying to do. Anything par below is a win,
anything over par is a loss on that hole, and
then adding up where you are. So you could do
that in practice in this par game, right in this
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execution phase is performance. But let's say that.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
You want to try and build in consequences right of
the par game.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
And again, the goal of the par game is if
you hit both targets, hit the green or hit the fairway,
hit the green on the driving range in execution mode,
that's par. And then if you miss one, it's bogie.
And then if you miss both, it's double bogee. The
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consequence could be okay if I make more than kind
of if I look at this from an eighteen hole,
I'm going to do this for eighteen times.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
If I make two double bogies, Right, if I.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Go two in a row where I don't hit either target,
the game's over and the consequences I have to go
back into technique mode because that's kind of and then
go back into saying, okay, let me go back making
some technical reps, no targets, no kind of consequences. Okay,
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give yourself a goal of how many swings you have
to make. Then let me do the same amount of swings.
So let's say you're gonna go okay, the consequence of
making two double bogies in this part game is okay.
Now I've got to go back into technique mode for
ten swings, and I've got to work no targets, no targets, feels, positions, drills,
all that stuff. Then I've got to do that transfer
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phaseed to where I'm bridging, trying to build that bridge
between what I'm doing from a technique standpoint, make ten
swings like that where I'm adding targets. Then let me
go back into the par game. Right, give yourself consequences.
And I think if you can create smaller practice sessions
where the time gap is shortened, so within that shortened
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time gap you have to be really structured and really
really organized, I think that's a really good way to
start to see some improvement, to start to see some change,
and to start to understand what phase. If you're going
in and you're going to play in a tournament. I
think it's another opportunity for you to check in and say, listen,
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I've got the club championship. Okay, it's Monday, I've got
the club championship. Over the weekend, I'm going to try
and practice, you know, a couple of times to get ready.
What phase of my practice am I in? What phase
of my practice do I need to be in right
now to get ready for this tournament. If my golf
swing isn't feeling really good right now, I need to
do some of these technique practices. Is if I feel
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like my golf swing's getting really better, but I'm trying
to get into that commitment phase, that trust phase, I'm
going to move into that integration phase, and then maybe
I just I'm hitting.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
It really good. I feel really.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Confident and comfortable with my swing. I'm just going to
use my practice sessions before this tournament that I'm playing.
I'm just going to use my practice sessions as as
performance execution practice sessions to where I do the par
game and I'm changing up my targets and.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
I'm going imagining that.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Okay, now I'm going to play a par five to
where I give myself a fair way. I've got to
hit that par five. I've got to have the ball
land in that target area. And then what I'm going
to do is I'm going to lay up and I'm
going to pick out another target, and if I lay
the ball up into that target, and then I'm going
to try.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
And hit the green. Right.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
I think understanding which phase of practice you're in technique
transfer execution right, technical integrate performance right, those are the
three phases. Understanding which one you're in, and then organizing
and designing thirty minute practice sessions. You could do our
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practice sessions, but however long you're going to practice practice
with a purpose. Make sure that each ball you're hitting
has a purpose, that there's a reason.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Why you're hitting that golf ball.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
And I think restructuring the way that you practice, focusing
in your practice sessions, having structure regardless of what phase
you're in. Technique, transfer, execution, I really think that's important.
And out of those three phases, it's that middle gap
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to where that transfer integration, where you're trying to build
that bridge from what you're doing in your technique, what
you're doing in all your fields and all your drills,
The other thing that you can do and transfer in
that transfer phase is cycle through your swing thoughts, cycle
through your feels. When a target is involved. Can you
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focus on the new pattern of your golf swing. Can
you attach a feel, a swing thought to what you're
trying to do when you have a target? Can you
trust that? Can you not try and steer the golf
ball to the target? To not try and focus and
have your brain jump to outcome anytime you start to
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think about results and outcomes, that is execution and performance thinking,
which is fine if that's the phase you're in, But
if you're not in that phase, right, you've got to
go back in in technique phase, there's no outcome, there's
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no targets, there's no judgment. It's just trying to create
a new golf swing, a new back swing, a new
top of backswing position. Transfer is doing that with a target,
and you're asking yourself, can I build trust? Can I
keep my trust? Can I not go back to the
old pattern? Can I not try and steer the golf
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ball towards the target?
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Right?
Speaker 1 (45:15):
And then in performance that's what it is. You're trying
to just think about performance and execution. So I think
that's a really good way to try and structure it.
I think it's a really good way to kind of
put a time stamp and a time gap on your
practice sessions. The warm up, that five minute warm up
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in all of these phases, don't skip that. And the
other thing you don't skip is don't skip that reflection
phase at the end. Take five minutes. Write down what
you're able to do. If you're in execution and performance,
write down what you were feeling, how many swings you
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felt like you were able to just trust the process
and focus on the outcome, focus on targets. And I
think if most golfers would practice better and practice with structure,
I think their golf swings would improve. I think their
handicaps would improve, and I think they would be able
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to build that bridge from technique, swing thoughts, drills, and
build a bridge to being able on the golf course
to turn your brain off and just try and focus
on targets, try and not focus on your golf swing
and just try and perform, try and hit shots and
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try and score.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
So give this a try.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Hopefully this will help, And I think if you stick
to it, I definitely think you are going to see
some results. Can't thank everybody for listening, I will say that,
but it really does mean a lot to me. The
podcast is something that's important to me. I try and
come up with as many different ideas and concepts as possible.
We're going to try and get more guests on, especially
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in this offseason and stuff. But my goal is to
try and use this podcast to try and help all
of you get better, improve your golf swings, and make
golf more simple and make golf easier for you to play,
Rate review, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
It's The Son of a Butch podcast
It's the Son of a Butch podcast. I'm your host,
Claude Harmon. So, in my never ending quest to try
and figure out how to make golfers improve but also
figure out why golfers don't improve, I'm always trying to
come up with ideas and concepts that I think can
help golfers not only get better, but also do.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It in a time zone that makes sense for people.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I think a lot of people don't have a lot
of time to practice, and so the limited time that
they do have to practice, trying to make that practice
as simple but also as effective as possible. So on
today's episode, I want to talk about the idea of
creating a thirty minute practice session. Now that doesn't seem
like a lot of time, but to be honest, it's
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plenty of time to get really productive practice. The issue is,
and what you want to try and do is build
a plan, right. What we don't want to do is
just start hitting golf balls and you know, hope something works, because,
first of all, hope isn't a strategy. And I think
what a lot of players do is they whatever time
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constraint that they have, for however long they're going to
hit golf balls. They're trying to either do one of
two things. One, they're not working on anything. They're just
basically swinging to golf club, hitting shots ball after ball
after ball, and in reality, they're just getting exercise or
whatever they're trying to work on in their golf swing
in whatever time gap they have. But let's say we're
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going to We're going to try and do something in
thirty minutes. You're going to try and work on your grip,
your posture, your alignment, your backswing, your top of back
swing position, your downswing, your impact position, and you're going
to try and do all of that at once. Right,
You're going to try and work on a number of
different things all at the same time, and regards of
(01:47):
how much time you put into it, that's going to
be very counterproductive. There's no plan, there's no real kind
of you're not setting yourself up to succeed. You're setting
yourself up to fail. And I've talked about that in
previous podcasts. I think a lot of golfers their practice
sessions almost set.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Them up to fail.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So what we want to do is say, Okay, I've
got thirty minutes to go to the range and what
am I going to do in that thirty minutes? Okay, Well,
the first thing you want to try and do is
figure out what phase you're in, what you're going to
try and practice. Right, And I've talked about this on
another podcast. There's three phases.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
There's the technique or the technical phase. That's where you're
working on all of your technical moves, your drills, your feels,
your positions, how your golf swing looks. I think a
lot of players really just spend the majority of their
time in that. And then there's the execution and performance.
So I've been talking for a number of years now
(02:49):
in the podcast that kind of balance and that kind
of concept between technique and execution, right, And I think
there's two phases there, the stuff you're working on in
your golf swing, and then there's seeing if any of
that works when you're in on the golf course or
trying to execute a task in performance mode. But there's
a middle phase, right, that's the transfer in the integration phase,
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where you're trying to transfer the stuff that you're working
on in your technique and your technical moves, integrate some
targets and stuff, and then take that and go to
the performance category. But the real truth about thirty minutes
is it's really long enough for you to do some
meaningful work. It doesn't seem like it is, but it is,
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And it's short enough for you to not get too fatigued,
but also for you not to lose concentration, to not
lose focus. I think most golfers think that tour players
have these long, elaborate, four or five hour practice sessions,
and there are players that do that. Bryson to Shambeau
is kind of famous for that. I think lately, in
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the last couple of years, we've seen Victor Hovland do
a lot of that because he's grinding, he's in the
technique mode of trying to work on his golf swing.
So when you see players, you know, like Bryson and
like Victor Holin, and you see the Golf channel focus
on how long they've been there, how many balls they're hitting,
the majority of that is going to be because they're
struggling with their golf swing. In Victor Holin's case, you know,
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Vick has really been trying to take apart his golf swing.
Since winning the FedEx Cup, He's gone through a bunch
of instructors, he's gone through a bunch of ideas, a
bunch of different concepts, and so that is kind of
the technical phase of what you're doing. But in a
thirty minute practice session, whether you're working on your technique,
when you're working on trying to transfer what you're working
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in your technique and then working on execution structure and
having a plan is really really vital, right, And I
think most players don't really have a plan, they don't
really have a focus. They're going to try and work
on everything at once. And when none of that works,
what do he end up doing? You just go and
end up started hounding drivers.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So what should happen? Right?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
What are we trying to do in this thirty minutes. Well,
the first thing that we're trying to do, if we're
in technique phase, with the technical phase, is we're trying
to build a new pattern, right, which means it needs
and it should feel uncomfortable because we're trying to reprogram a.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
New movement pattern.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So when we're in the technique phase, in our technical phase,
when we're working on these positions of our backswing, kind
of how the golf swing looks kind of the feels
if I'm working on a new move in my backswing,
if I'm working on trying to shallow the golf club,
get the club face in a stronger position, work on
a different impact position.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's all in the technique phase.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So make sure that you go into that with the
idea that, Okay, I am in technique phase. Right now,
I am in the technical phase. It's okay for me
to experiment. It's okay for me to try a lot
of things, but it's also okay for me to fail. Right,
So what you want to start to do is divide
this thirty minutes up and in the first five minutes,
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go ahead and start really really slow right, no golf ball.
We're just working on fields, and what we're trying to
do in this first five minutes is to wake up
this pattern and to try and wake up this new
pattern that we're trying to work on. So what we
want to try and do is make five to ten
slow motion swings where you're really trying to feel on
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what you're working on. You're really trying to connect and
feel this new pattern that you're trying to create, and
I think taking the ball out of this takes out
the result. Right, this is where you can start to
think about that process over outcome. That's one of Nick
Saban's big, kind of core principles of his college coaching
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career when he was at the University of Alabama. I
think it's one of the reasons why that program was
so successful, why they won so many national championships. Process
over outcome. So the first five minutes you're just reconnecting
with this pattern. If you've been taking lessons and you've
been working on something with your instructor, go through your
notes and say, Okay, what are the key things that
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I'm trying to work on in this golf swing in
this pattern. But I'm taking the ball away right, So
it's just pure feel. And I think the slow motion
swings are really really good because in doing it in
slow motion, it can really help you feel some of
the moves that you're trying to do. The other thing
you can do is take the ball, but also take
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the club away right. Just do some slow motion swings
trying to build this new pattern. Imagine that you're holding
an imaginary golf club right, So go ahead and take
your grip both with your left.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And your right hand.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
But there's going to be no club there, but you're
going to be mimicking what you would be doing in
kind of the golf swing that you're imagining that you're
making right.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
So the positions you're trying to in.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So if you're working on some things with an instructor
or like a lot of players, you've gone on YouTube,
and you know, I think YouTube now is a huge,
huge resource for golfer. Is what you want to make
sure that you're doing. If you're doing a lot of
stuff by yourself in YouTube or looking at YouTube videos
and looking at what other people are saying, make sure
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what you're trying to make sure what you're watching is
appropriate and applicical to your golf swing into what the
issues are. It's a little bit like you read that, hey,
if you've got a broken arm, you need to put
a cast on your arm. So you go put a
cast on your arm, and then someone sees you and says, oh,
how'd you break your arm? And you're like, well, no,
(08:32):
I didn't actually really break my arm, but I heard
If you do have a broken arm, this is what
you need to do, right.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So make sure that whatever you're trying to.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Work on in your golf swing is something that your
golf swing actually needs. My advice would be go find
someone that you're comfortable working with that can create a
plan for you. And then when you do go to
the range in this thirty minute session and say, okay,
I'm going to just work on my technique today. I'm
going to follow the STAF in that plan. So what
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you're trying to do is wake your brain up to
remember what you're trying to do, right, what pattern you're
trying to feel. Just don't go to the range and
just start hitting shots and stuff because that just that.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Isn't going to work.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So then in the next five and listen, I would
time this right, I would put the timer on your
phone so that you're under a time gap. Right, You're
under a time constraint. So it's a little bit like
preparing for a meeting, preparing for something at work, and
you've only got a short period of time to do that.
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So you want to have a really good idea. So
first five minutes you're just trying to reconnect with the pattern.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
That's the slow motion swings.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And then the you know, from five to twenty five
minutes technical reps with feedback, all right, and the number
one thing that you're trying to do when we were
having technical reps with feedback is rule number one. The
ball doesn't matter right. Where the ball is going in
your technique phase doesn't matter. Right. You're not in execution
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and performance right, there is no outcome. You're just in practice,
so you can make mistakes, you can try stuff so
ball flight doesn't matter, and give yourself permission to not
only experiment, but give yourself permission to fail. Okay, I'm
going to try this feel, I'm going to try this
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thought doesn't work. If it doesn't, okay, let me try
another one. But the sole focus on this kind of
five to twenty five minute technical rep phase is the
sole focus is are you executing the new pattern right?
And if you execute the new pattern, regardless of where
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the ball went, it's a win, right, So executing the
pattern equals success. And what we're trying to do here
is in this kind of twenty minute period.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
We're not trying to hit a lot of golf ball.
We're trying to have good reps.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
So imagine that for you know, after you've done your
five minute kind of reconnect with the pattern slow motion
warm up, you're you don't want a lot of reps here,
but what you do want is good quality reps. We
don't want you making a ton of golf swings, right,
We want you making really really good golf swings with
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the pattern and committing to that pattern. So on every
ball you hit, check in with yourself, check in with
the pattern you're trying to make. If you execute the
pattern and it feels good and it's where you want
it to be, get another one. If you don't execute
that pattern, give yourself maybe two or three balls as test.
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And if you're not kind of executing and recreating that
new pattern, stop, go back to slow motion reps with
no ball right, and then reconnect with that pattern that
you're trying to make. Hit twenty five good reps rather
than one hundred reps with no plan, no structure, and
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just getting exercise. One of the things that I think
is really important when you are working this technique phase.
In this technical phase.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Is use video. Right.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
If you have a checkpoint, if you've got an idea
of what you're trying to get your golf swing to look,
if you're trying to have an idea of what you
where you want your golf swing to be at specific checkpoints.
Go ahead, you know, hit five balls, and then video
one and check the pattern. See if you're doing what
you're trying to do, If that backswing is in that
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position you want, that's video is not going to lie
to you.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
But again, in this kind of twenty minute phase, after
we've done our five minute kind of reconnect with the
pattern warm up, we're just trying to have good reps
with good intention. I think intent, what are you trying
to do in your practice? What are you trying to
do on every single golf swing? And I think if
you can start to connect to that to where every
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ball has a purpose that you're hitting, every ball matters
in your practice. It's a little bit like if you
look at the way team sports are being practiced right,
everybody on a team, whatever position they're playing, they have
a specific assignment, they have a specific role. So if
you're thinking about because right now in the US we're
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in football season, college football, NFL, everybody own an NFL
football team has a job, right, Everybody on a basketball
team has a job, and in practice you're trying to
figure out what that job is. But in the practice arena,
they're trying to have good reps. Right, They're trying to
have everybody have good reps, so I think that's really important.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
For that technique phase.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Right, and then the last five minutes stop stop hitting
golf balls, don't hit any golf balls. Use that last
twenty five minutes to review, to reflect, to take notes. Right,
you could take notes in your phone. You could go
ahead and write down what you were feeling in your
technique phase today and working on all of these drills.
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Write it down in a note format and then see, Okay,
this is where my backswing was, this is where my
tapa backswing was, this is where my grip was, whatever
it is in this technical phase that you're working on,
that's the time to experiment. That's the time to see
you know what the feels are and how that golf
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swing looks visually. But that review and taking notes see
if the notes you're taking after this twenty minutes match
the stuff that you said you wanted to try and
work on at the beginning of this lesson. Right, you're
building an awareness as to what you're trying to do.
And I think that reviewing of what you've done just done,
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write it down and then reflect on, Okay, how did
that go and what did I accomplish there.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
So that's thirty minutes of you kind of.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Being in that technique phase to where again you're trying
a bunch of different things. I think that's hugely, hugely important.
And then we can do another thirty minute practice session
where you're in that transfer phase. And again, that transfer
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phase is the middle phase between you working on your technique,
working on your mechanics, not worrying about ballflight, not worrying
about where the golf ball goes. Because I think most
golfers are only interested in where the golf ball is going.
They're only interested in the results. And I think that's
why it's very hard for players to make changes in
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their golf swing.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I think that's that's why it's very hard for players.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
To make to stick with changes, right because they're all
whe's evaluating every shot in practice when they're working on
the technique phase of their golf swing. Okay, did it
go to my target, So take the target away. But
now in the transfer phase and the integration phase, we're
going to try and see if that pattern is starting
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to feel a little bit more normal and a little
bit more neutral. When we're going into transfer phase. We're
pretty good at executing the drills that we're trying to do.
We're pretty good at kind of executing and putting the
golf club in the positions that we're trying to do.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
The look of the golf swing.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Right, we're checking that when we're in our technique foes
on video to see if the pattern is changing. Right,
you can compare. There's loads of apps where you can
put side by side comparisons of video. There's loads of
apps where you can take screenshots of your backswing at
kind of waist hie at the top and down and
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then where you want it to be, and then compare and.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Contrast those things.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
But this session is going to look very different than
the pure technique session that you were just in. So again,
the first five minutes we're going to do a technical
warm up, but it's kind of the same foundation that
we did when we were in technique mode. Right, start
with five reps, five to ten reps, where you know
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whatever club you're using your wedge, a nine iron, an
eight iron, some give yourself a club that you can control.
It's hard to make changes with longer golf clubs, right,
So give yourself a club, a scoring club that you can, Carol,
think of your scoring clubs as kind of a seven
iron and down. Right, So make five to ten reps
with just pure technical work. That's the same thing that
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we were doing in our technique mode. Right, no pattern,
You're just trying to reconnect with the process with the
pattern that you were trying to make. So in technique mode,
there was no golf ball, right, we were just working
on the pattern. Now we're going to make five to
ten reps where we're using a ball. Still no target.
You're again you're just trying to wake up the pattern. Now,
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a lot of players will say, listen, I've been working
on this for weeks. I know what to do.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I've got that.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
And that's kind of the wrong mindset because every single
session that you have in a practice session, regardless of
how long that session is, think about it is, Okay,
I need to wake up the car. I need to
wake up I need to warm up the car. I
need to wake up this pattern. Right, don't skip this
five to ten ball, pure technical.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Pattern, no targets, all right, no targets.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Now we're going to be in this transfer mode to
where we're trying to blend what we're working on in
technique and we're trying to blend it into Okay, now
picking out a target, picking out alignment, right, so alternate
that pattern right, Say, okay, I'm going to go a
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pure technical rep now to where I'm just trying to
work on my feels, no target, just working on this,
creating this new pattern. And now I'm going to have
a target rep where I'm going to pick a target
and commit to that technical change, right, and go back
and forth between that. Okay, a technical rep to where
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there's no target, there's no alignment, it's just I'm making
a golf swing. I'm hitting a golf ball with all
of the stuff and the fields and the drills and
stuff that I'm doing in technique. Now get completely out
of that and make a target rep. Okay, set an
alignment stick down, pick a target out. What you're trying
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to do is make a bridge, right, You're trying to
make a bridge between the practice and performance.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
One rep is just purely reconnecting and trying to execute
the new pattern, the new swing that you're trying to make.
And then the next rep is just the new pattern,
the new swing you're trying to make and a target, right,
And so as soon as you enter into or add
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a target, you're going to feel this urge and this
want and this need to try and steer the golf
ball towards your target. Right, You're going to try and
want to manipulate your golf swing and your pattern to
the target. That's the thing you're trying not to do.
Your job is to try and one hundred percent commit
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to this new pattern even when we have a target
in mind. Okay, so let's talk about picking out targets.
Don't pick out small, really small targets, right, don't really
pick out any target over one hundred and fifty yards.
Pick a big landing area, pick a green, right, and
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you're trying to hit anywhere on this green the goal
with this new pattern, this new feel, you're just trying
to hit a big, big target. So pick that big
landing era. You could use the driving range in any
way you want. Okay, I'm just going to cut the
driving range in half now, right, I'm just going to
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have a left side of the driving range. I'm going
to have a right side of the driving range. And
all I'm going to try and do is just hit
these shots with these new target reps where I'm just
trying to hit the left side of the driving range,
or I'm just trying to hit the right side of
the driving range. If your driving range doesn't have any
target greens, pick out some flags, pick out some yardage markers,
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you know, the one hundred and fifty, all of that.
But give yourself a really really big target, give yourself
room to miss. If you find yourself doing well, then
start to make the target smaller. So work from big
targets and then work into small targets. I think so
many players just immediately go and try and hit incredibly
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small targets, right, So I think that's something you really
want to try and.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Stay away from that.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And then bounce back between different clubs right, Okay, do
it with a wedge, Okay, do the rep. Do a
swing that has a rep to it. Right Again, that's
just trying to create the pattern. Now add a target
to the rep, and then go from a wedge to
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a seven iron right, and then do that same thing
again where we're making a pattern rep to where it's
a technical rep snow target. We're just working on the
feel of this golf swing. Then we throw in a target.
Then we throw in an alignment, and we can make
those targets as big or as small as we want
to art big and work back into that, right, And
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so I think another thing that you can add to
that is a kind of commitment, almost like a commitment
rating drill. Pick five specific targets, right, can use flags,
you can use yardage markers. Again, you can use that
concept of the left side of the green. You can
make that to the right side of the green on
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each shot that you're hitting okay, on each of these
five balls with five specific different targets, rate your commitment
did you fully commit to the new pattern? On a
scale of one to ten. One to ten would be
fully committing to the new pattern, and then a one
would be going completely back to the old pattern. And
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out of those five balls, if you could rate yourself
for the five balls you hit, okay, did I get
seven or above? You're not trying to hit every single target, right,
that's kind of performance and execution phase thinking, right, you're
judging your in this transfer phase where you're trying to
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build this bridge of transferring and integrating what you're working
on in your technique, in your fields and in your drills. Right,
you're trying to transfer what you're doing in practice to
this phase to where you're still allowing yourself to phase,
but you're judging your commitment to making this new swing,
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this new pattern. You're not judging the outcome. Right, The
pattern could really be there. You just need to calibrate
the pattern. That's the process of getting better. That's how
you get better. Right, And then the last five minutes,
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do the same thing that we did in the technique
phase and reflect, write down, ask yourself. You know, you
could ask yourself these questions. How many times did I
fully commit to the pattern? Or how many times when
I was doing my my golf swings to where I
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was working on the pattern but with a target, how
many times did I commit to that? Or how many
times did I go back and try and steer the
golf ball right? On what shots did you find yourself
steering it versus trusting the pattern? Which clubs felt easier
for you to trust the new pattern and not steer it?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Right? I think that's a huge, huge phase. And then
what's your think about it?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Okay, for that block of practice there where I was
going back through a technique rep and then a technique
rep with a target. What's my commitment percentage right now
and write that down. What you're really trying to do
in this transfer phase is kind of change the mindset.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
You're trying to.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Build trust with this new move that you're making. You're
not trying to build perfection.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Some shots are going to be great, some shots are
probably going to be terrible, But that's what needs and
is supposed to happen because you're not in performance and
execution mode here. I just think so many golfers are
in technique mode with no plan, no real process. They're
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not really thinking about anything, right, They're not trying to
create a new pattern. They're just going to hit some
balls and then they're just going to jump straight into performance.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Learning to trust something new under pressure is really important,
but I think most players the pressure and the only
pressure they ever try and add or use is.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
The golf course. Right.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
You need to build that trust in your practice session,
and that's where I think this transfer phase is this
integration phase, this bridge that you're trying to build, right.
I think that's a really really important thing to think
about when you're in this non technique phase. Right, you're
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trying to bridge or build this bridge to performance. So
you're trying to take and integrate the stuff that you're
working on in your technique and build that bridge and
transfer it into something that you can do when you're
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hitting golf balls with the target.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
But I think that's the middle phase of this technique,
transfer execution performance. I think it's this transfer phase as
to why golfers never really get any better. So three phases,
and now let's talk about a thirty minute practice session
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where we would be in execution phase.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
The warm up in all of these phases I think
is really really important. Right, So now we're going to
be in execution phase. And if we're in this execution
and performance phase again in practice not out on the
golf course, the pattern that we built in the technical
phase and the pattern that we built and then bridged
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in the transfer phase and the integration phase, the pattern
is pretty solid.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Right. You can commit to making.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Swings with the target in mind while you're still feeling
these things in your golf swing. Right, But now you're
going to try and simulate execution performance. You're going to
try on the range to play golf. Right, So this
first five minutes is really it's kind of a it's
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kind of a light technical check in, right. You're not
drilling your technique, You've already done that in the technique phase, right,
You're just making sure everything's really really good. So make
some swings. You can do this with any club, five
swings in total. And this is where I would use video, right, Okay,
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So when I'm in my execution phase, right, I'm going
to make five swings, I'm gonna set up my video camera.
I can set up that up face on, I can
set that up.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Down the line.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
But what I'm trying to do is make sure that
the pattern hasn't changed. Right, That's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
If you are making swings and you're going to try
and be an execution phase and you're looking at your
golf swing, you make five swings and you know this
light kind of you know this technique check in, right,
and it's not where you want it to be, stop
and go back into and say, listen, I'm not ready
to go into.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
This phase yet because my golf swing, the.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Pattern isn't there yet, right, So when you're in this
execution phase, you want your pattern to be good, and
that's really really important now in an ideal world, by
the time you get to execution, the pattern should be
kind of automatic. You're not rebuilding your golf swing in
this phase, you're just maintaining it. So now we're going
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to take that next block of twenty minutes and you're
going to use the range as a playground, right, and
so you're going to get out your driver and you're
going to pick out a target. Give yourself a fairway
on your driving right, use you know, if you need
to use trees, if you need to use the whole range,
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whatever it is, if you need to use the flags, right,
but give yourself a fair way. And again give yourself
a big fair way at the beginning, and then start
to work in right. So it's a game that you're
going to play, So then give yourself a fair way
to hit, and then give yourself a target or an
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area to hit with an iron, whatever iron you want
to choose. But again give yourself a big target. So
you're hitting a driver, which is simulating what you would
do off t right, and then you're hitting an iron,
which would simulate what you would do going into a green.
If you hit both of your targets, both with your
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driver and an iron. You could do this with your
three wood. You could do this with whatever woods you have.
You could do this with a driving iron. You could
do this with a hybrid right to where you're simulating
a t shot to a big target right, and then
you're simulating an iron shot. And again you can change
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the irons in any fashion you want. If you hit
both of those targets right, if you drive it into
your target, and then if you hit an iron into
your target, that's a par. Right, so you've made a
par if you miss one. So let's say you hit
the fairway but don't hit the green, that's a bogie.
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Let's say you don't hit the fairway but you hit
the green, that's a bogee. If you miss both. If
you miss the fairway and if you miss the green,
that's a double bogie. Right, different targets go through your
whole routine. You could design eighteen holes right, keep score,
make it matter, and then one of the things I
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think that's always really hard and difficult for golfers. Right.
I went up recently and visited Noah can at the
University of Florida. I'd never been up there before and
before I started working with Noah. The day I went
up there, JC Deacon, the head coach, and Dudley Hart,
the assistant. They took me around, you know, University of
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Florida's new one hundred and fifty million dollar football facility,
which was just it was amazing, right, it was unbelievable,
and getting to walk through that facility and seeing, you know,
the college athletes are part of the University of a
Florida's football team. But I started thinking about what happens
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in team sports when they practice, right, team sports, when
they practice, there's consequences, Right, there's consequences to practice, there's consequences.
So whatever position you're playing in, whatever sports you're playing,
you have a job, you have a role to execute. Right,
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So if you're playing on an NFL team, whatever position
you're playing, you have a responsibility and assignment for.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
That play, for that rep.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
So in team sports practice, they're not really going to
let you make mistakes, right with whatever you're doing in
these reps. Right, if you make mistakes, there's consequences. One
of the consequences of making mistakes in team sports in
your position and not doing your job and missing your
assignment is they'll pull you out of the game, they'll
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pull you out of practice and they'll bring somebody else in, right,
And so what I always find interesting and in team sports,
let's say a team is doing a scrimmage, they're doing a.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Five on five. You know, they're shortening the court, whatever
they're doing.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
You know, they're not doing necessarily games in team sports
all the time. In practice they're setting up smaller versions
of that game. But they're they're doing the things that
they need to do. But the coaches are evaluating every
single rep right, the coaches in practice in team sports,
they're evaluating everybody.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Did you achieve your assignment? Right? Did you do your job?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And I don't think we do that in golf because
there's no consequences, right, you mess up enough in in
in a college football environment and professional football, and bent
in the college basketball assignment, they'll run until you'll go run, right,
They'll make you go run the stairs, They'll make you do,
you know, some physical task which is designed as a punishment.
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And so we just don't have that in golf, right,
And I don't think we as a result, I don't
think that. And I said this to Noah when I
was up there at the University of Florida. I said, listen,
maybe we need to change what we're doing and hit
less golf balls.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
You would think that in an effort to try and
qualify for these tournaments that Noah's trying to do, and
in an effort to try and get better as a
college golfer, we would need him to spend more time practicing. Which, yeah,
practice is always good, but practice for the sake of
practice with zero structure and not understanding what phase you're
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in in practice, understanding that you're in a technique phase,
understanding that you're in a transfer phase. I think that's
really really important because when the game starts, whether you're
in teams or whether you're in an individual sport, the
game is going out and playing nine holes. The game
is going out and playing eighteen holes. The game starts
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when you are trying to keep score. What I see
everybody doing is going out and while they're trying to
play the game, they spend more time practicing the game again,
practicing what you're trying to do.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
That's technique phase, right, building that.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Bridge from technique phase and trying to build a bridge
from what you're working on. Everyone asks me, hey, how
do I take what I'm working on in the draw
on the driving range and take it to the golf course. Well,
what you do is you work on these three phases, right,
and you understand what phase you're in. If you're working
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on your golf swing, if you're working on your fields,
if you're working on positions, if you're working on looks,
if you're working on creating that new pattern, that's technique.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
That's technical reps.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Right, that's you're allowed to fail, You're allowed to experiment.
You're just trying new things out. Then you're trying to
build that bridge to execution and performance by transfer integration.
You're going back and forth between pure tech technique reps
with no targets, with no wins, with no outcomes, right,
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not caring where the golf ball goes. The only thing
you're trying to do is work on building and creating
that new pattern. Check yourself with video and transfer phase
and see if it works. And then in execution, you're
just trying to simulate from gamifying your practice as to
what you're going to feel on the golf course. You know,
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a lot of what we're doing with our junior golfers
now is we're trying to create those consequences in execution
and performance.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
So if they are doing you know, the par game
where if you hit a fair way and you hit
a green.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
That's a par. Right.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
If you miss one of those two, that's bogie, and
if you miss both, it's double bogie. So a lot
of what we're doing with our junior golfers now is
if they miss both, we make them do push ups,
we make them do some sprints, we make them do
some air squads, we make them run up and down
a slope or something like that, so that there is
a consequence that is a task that they don't want
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to do, right, build in a consequence for you. Right,
Let's say the consequence could be I'm in performance mode
and I'm going to try and do my thirty minute practice,
and if I am making in this par game, you know,
let's say I I'm going to try and do this
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eighteen times right to simulate what's happening on the golf
course and start off by doing, you know, a score,
and the goal would be to get a perfect score,
to kind of get a perfect score where you're just
trying to make a part. Ryan and Chrysler and I
Ryan who works with me here at the Floridian, but
his Instagram site Golf Chaos Manage. We did a podcast
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where we talked about this game to where you go
out for eighteen holes on the golf course and all
you're trying to do. Anything par below is a win,
anything over par is a loss on that hole, and
then adding up where you are. So you could do
that in practice in this par game, right in this
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execution phase is performance. But let's say that.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
You want to try and build in consequences right of
the par game.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
And again, the goal of the par game is if
you hit both targets, hit the green or hit the fairway,
hit the green on the driving range in execution mode,
that's par. And then if you miss one, it's bogie.
And then if you miss both, it's double bogee. The
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consequence could be okay if I make more than kind
of if I look at this from an eighteen hole,
I'm going to do this for eighteen times.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
If I make two double bogies, Right, if I.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Go two in a row where I don't hit either target,
the game's over and the consequences I have to go
back into technique mode because that's kind of and then
go back into saying, okay, let me go back making
some technical reps, no targets, no kind of consequences. Okay,
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give yourself a goal of how many swings you have
to make. Then let me do the same amount of swings.
So let's say you're gonna go okay, the consequence of
making two double bogies in this part game is okay.
Now I've got to go back into technique mode for
ten swings, and I've got to work no targets, no targets, feels, positions, drills,
all that stuff. Then I've got to do that transfer
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phaseed to where I'm bridging, trying to build that bridge
between what I'm doing from a technique standpoint, make ten
swings like that where I'm adding targets. Then let me
go back into the par game. Right, give yourself consequences.
And I think if you can create smaller practice sessions
where the time gap is shortened, so within that shortened
(41:17):
time gap you have to be really structured and really
really organized, I think that's a really good way to
start to see some improvement, to start to see some change,
and to start to understand what phase. If you're going
in and you're going to play in a tournament. I
think it's another opportunity for you to check in and say, listen,
(41:39):
I've got the club championship. Okay, it's Monday, I've got
the club championship. Over the weekend, I'm going to try
and practice, you know, a couple of times to get ready.
What phase of my practice am I in? What phase
of my practice do I need to be in right
now to get ready for this tournament. If my golf
swing isn't feeling really good right now, I need to
do some of these technique practices. Is if I feel
(42:01):
like my golf swing's getting really better, but I'm trying
to get into that commitment phase, that trust phase, I'm
going to move into that integration phase, and then maybe
I just I'm hitting.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
It really good. I feel really.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Confident and comfortable with my swing. I'm just going to
use my practice sessions before this tournament that I'm playing.
I'm just going to use my practice sessions as as
performance execution practice sessions to where I do the par
game and I'm changing up my targets and.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
I'm going imagining that.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Okay, now I'm going to play a par five to
where I give myself a fair way. I've got to
hit that par five. I've got to have the ball
land in that target area. And then what I'm going
to do is I'm going to lay up and I'm
going to pick out another target, and if I lay
the ball up into that target, and then I'm going
to try.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
And hit the green. Right.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
I think understanding which phase of practice you're in technique
transfer execution right, technical integrate performance right, those are the
three phases. Understanding which one you're in, and then organizing
and designing thirty minute practice sessions. You could do our
(43:11):
practice sessions, but however long you're going to practice practice
with a purpose. Make sure that each ball you're hitting
has a purpose, that there's a reason.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Why you're hitting that golf ball.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
And I think restructuring the way that you practice, focusing
in your practice sessions, having structure regardless of what phase
you're in. Technique, transfer, execution, I really think that's important.
And out of those three phases, it's that middle gap
(43:47):
to where that transfer integration, where you're trying to build
that bridge from what you're doing in your technique, what
you're doing in all your fields and all your drills,
The other thing that you can do and transfer in
that transfer phase is cycle through your swing thoughts, cycle
through your feels. When a target is involved. Can you
(44:09):
focus on the new pattern of your golf swing. Can
you attach a feel, a swing thought to what you're
trying to do when you have a target? Can you
trust that? Can you not try and steer the golf
ball to the target? To not try and focus and
have your brain jump to outcome anytime you start to
(44:32):
think about results and outcomes, that is execution and performance thinking,
which is fine if that's the phase you're in, But
if you're not in that phase, right, you've got to
go back in in technique phase, there's no outcome, there's
(44:53):
no targets, there's no judgment. It's just trying to create
a new golf swing, a new back swing, a new
top of backswing position. Transfer is doing that with a target,
and you're asking yourself, can I build trust? Can I
keep my trust? Can I not go back to the
old pattern? Can I not try and steer the golf
(45:13):
ball towards the target?
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Right?
Speaker 1 (45:15):
And then in performance that's what it is. You're trying
to just think about performance and execution. So I think
that's a really good way to try and structure it.
I think it's a really good way to kind of
put a time stamp and a time gap on your
practice sessions. The warm up, that five minute warm up
(45:36):
in all of these phases, don't skip that. And the
other thing you don't skip is don't skip that reflection
phase at the end. Take five minutes. Write down what
you're able to do. If you're in execution and performance,
write down what you were feeling, how many swings you
(45:58):
felt like you were able to just trust the process
and focus on the outcome, focus on targets. And I
think if most golfers would practice better and practice with structure,
I think their golf swings would improve. I think their
handicaps would improve, and I think they would be able
(46:19):
to build that bridge from technique, swing thoughts, drills, and
build a bridge to being able on the golf course
to turn your brain off and just try and focus
on targets, try and not focus on your golf swing
and just try and perform, try and hit shots and
(46:41):
try and score.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
So give this a try.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Hopefully this will help, And I think if you stick
to it, I definitely think you are going to see
some results. Can't thank everybody for listening, I will say that,
but it really does mean a lot to me. The
podcast is something that's important to me. I try and
come up with as many different ideas and concepts as possible.
We're going to try and get more guests on, especially
(47:06):
in this offseason and stuff. But my goal is to
try and use this podcast to try and help all
of you get better, improve your golf swings, and make
golf more simple and make golf easier for you to play,
Rate review, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
It's The Son of a Butch podcast
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