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I'm Charlie Hume, and I am very much looking forward to in the near future, walking you through my process of frying a turkey for the very first time. Despite the concerns of smiley, despite the concerns of my family, we got it done. Obviously so, otherwise I would not be sitting here speaking into this microphone. It was a great success, and look forward to talking about it soon. You will hear from Smiley Kaufman very soon on this episode. We're doing something a little bit different today, and you'll hear him alongside James Seachman, who is a well-renowned and a golf instructor who's taught many pros over a 30-plus year career. He's taught Brad Faxen, Stuart Sink, and the contemporary since. He's taught Otterbaum Lahiri, Russell Henley, and a number of others, and he is a short-game guru. And what we have for you today, it's going to be a very visual episode, so go to our YouTube right now if you want to walk through it there, youtube.com/at The Smiley Show. The same as all of our social handles. And it's basically a 90-minute walk-through of putting, of chipping, of bunker play, of scoring wedges with smiley as his pupil, and just breaking down each of those areas and how you can improve, and how you can compete and practice on a daily basis. You can get better and shave strokes off your game in the short game area. So it's a really valuable lesson. I learned a lot in watching this thing, and like we said, it's going to be something that is best consumed on a visual platform. You can no doubt gain stuff on the audio side just hearing Seek talk through each of these different stations. And maybe the best way for you is you listen to it, you pick the section you like, you go find it on the YouTube, you watch through that, and you get better at the game of golf. That's a win. So I'm not going to filibuster any longer. Let's get you right to smiley and James Seekman working on the short game. All right, guys. We're here. We're in Omaha, Nebraska heading to Shadow Ridge Country Club. I'm going to see my longtime short game coach, James Seekman. We're going to try to not only dial in my short game, but hopefully give you guys some tips and learn some things along the way. James Seekman is one of the best, if not the best, in the business at this. And unfortunately, we kind of did it on a cold day. You know, two weeks ago, I'm sweating in my backyard cooking a pork butt two weeks later. Now I'm here in Omaha with three layers on and a Chrysler 300 heading out to the golf course. It's just a classic Midwest day in the fall. Going to be about 50 degrees. We're going to be doing some potting. We're going to be doing some chipping, some wedge work. Also, this is the home of a college baseball world series. So we're in a town that's that LSU visits a lot. So got some familiarity in this place, but really excited about this. Got Jackson on the camera. We're about to go get some Jimmy Jacks, get some Starbucks, get fueled up. Then we'll be right out to Shadow Ridge and we're excited to get rolling. Is this the butter burger going? This is the big butter burger in LA. You're a butter burger country. Currently on our way to Jimmy John's, I felt like the butter burger was not going to be the play from Colvers before a short game lesson. I'm highly disappointed to hear that. If you did a short game video where you hit like a flop shot and then your pants, guys, we made it out here to Shadow Ridge, out here with my guy, James Segment. I've been coming here since I was probably about 12, 13 years old. First time coming up. I don't know if you still have that red. Is it a red Mustang? I did. We got rid of that. It was intimidating at the time though. It was a 13 year old short game coach. She got this fast car and we formed quite the friendship and relationship over the years. If you haven't listened to the podcast where we've had James on, that was a great episode. But now we talked about we wanted to do some on the green short game stuff and here we are. Well, won't be good to have you back at Shadow Ridge Country Club. You should be Matthew Tipper. Matthew's my associate leader. I have to get him to meet you. Everything together. So you see him hanging around and you've seen a lot of my work in the tour players I work with. I need all the help I get now. All right. So let's start working on it. And I think we'll just coach up like we normally do and just kind of lead you through it and hopefully somebody will pick up on the good stuff and help them here help their games. Well, definitely. It's kind of member guest season right now. So you got to give me dialed in. Let's get around. The simple string putt. All right. You've been with the best putters I've ever worked with. Actually college, you might have been the best putter I've ever seen. And things have not changed. Okay. I've been putting really solid over the last three or four years, I'd say. Every now and then I'll go to left hand and low but today conventional. It's good to see that you're still on that slightly open stance. As you remember, I'm going to zoom in on this one. Get the ball and the putter head that a lot of right eye dominant right hand players actually see their line a little better with that. Even though their shoulders are square, their feet are slightly open and you're still on it. Which is good here. Okay. All right. I got what I need. Okay. So our tried to block practice method was always just get a simple string, right? Go ahead and set up and then another thing we did at times. Go ahead and put the putter in there. We just created a little gate for toe and heel. So you had confirmation you're hitting the ball of the middle of the face, right? Right. All right. Just because my tendency always used to be, I would take it out a little outside, get a little disconnected. Right. So I would even put a T right there too. Yeah, no reason for that putter to ever go outside. Of course, we could put those anywhere we wanted. So if somebody had the opposite problem, you could put it on the inside, even though we went to arc a little. Always felt like that helped me feel like I was connected and I could, I thought I could cover the golf ball too. One of my beliefs is that in the simplest, shortest amount of time possible, you should be getting confirmation that you're aiming perfectly. It's a fact that you're hitting the ball out of the middle of the face. It's a fact that, you know, not only your putter face, but you're also training your eyes. So I really want you to take the time to like let your eyes roll down the string and go in the hole, right? Mm-hmm. And a lot of people ask me, like, what's the most important thing in putting? And if it's not confidence, it's vision. So you got to train for the truth. And that ball, that ball is breaking the hole. It's just going left. Yeah. All right. That's a plate right there. I'll move the T. Yeah, just adjust it a little bit. I'll watch golf as hard. So watch this one go to the right. Yep. But that's okay. I think the, we wore this string out in college and as a junior, right? Yes. Well, I, I would start every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday with the string and as the week went on, just make sure it was right. Yep. Perfect. All right. So the other things we cared about was your setup. In addition to having the slightly open stance of the square shoulders from face on, we're always making sure that the shaft was 90 degrees at setup, right? Right. And returning to 90 degrees at impact. And it's because the golf ball cares about the launch. And the launch is determined by the loft on the putter, the amount of shaft lean, and the slight rise angle of the putter as it goes into the ball. So that would be something that I'd come out on tour and I'd check or when you're in college, you know, we'd come here right before you got something qualifying and we'd say, okay, listen, setup, we've got everything we want. You get confirmation, just a few moments on the quality of your stroke. And then you're going to take technique off your list to some extent. You have an awareness created, but like when you're really putt, you're not really on technique, are you? Well, for me, I just want to make sure that I can line up the putter to the line of my ball. And then my eyes are trained with this whole string that when I get over it, it's just speed. And so all we're doing right here in this situation is training my eyes, training my body to feel comfortable with what square is for me. And then some days I'll get over the ball and it feels off and I'll get off the golf course and just know I could go back to my home base. It's a way to calibrate. It's a calibration. We'll talk later when we do some other putting drills about just how to calibrate your eyes and match lines. This is the start point. If you're not 100% certain that you can aim it, see the truth, hit the ball out of the middle with a neutral path. I just don't see how you can move on to the other with any confidence. And how many times would we hit about 10 of these? Is that just about 10 perfect ones? And as soon as you feel like I got the feel for the day, like that, like what else do you need? Yeah, it's the last three it felt perfect. I could be almost wasting time. This is what I want to do. Okay, so now this was fairly benign, but now that's one curves. And the second thing we did was a star drill. Do you remember? Oh yeah. So do five random putts basically between let's say five and seven feet and instead of practicing your stroke, you practice your green reading process, right? And your commitment. And one of the things why random practice more difficult is because you're adding extra layer. Oh, I got the read and it's uncertain. Yes. Now I got to make a committed stroke, even though I'm not 100% certain that the string set up perfect. I would I would always be so mad when I'd go from this to the star drill and miss the first pot, because I would I'd be missing the middle of the hole by this much of anything and putting it perfect. And I'll get over this. And it's getting yourself, you know, ready for what a golf round is actually like, which is reading pots and resilience. I like it when you miss the first one, because I know you got to be tough as nails. You got to be crazy and not throw a temper tantrum, not feel sorry for yourself. But instead you go, you know what? Solutions a little more break or whatever. All right. That was the 13 year old SK that showed up here. He had the, he definitely had a bit of a temper tantrum problem. It's just like five points of the star. Completely random, five lengths, five bits. And that one, I will keep that. All right. So we always start our green reading process on the opposite side of the hole, right? Yep. So you're reading that putt, you started here. And the reason why that is because it's tough to see something that is far away from you. So I just read the last part of the putt first. Man, I, I've read this from that, that side. I thought it was going to be an inside left. I get over here. And I see that it's a, it feels like a straighter putt and almost feels like it wants to go this way. No, I let you trust your reef from the other side of the hole. Okay. I'm going to keep it. Because when you're here, you can see how this ball always is going to fit in. And to me, this is fitting in just left to center. Now it could be a double breaker. That could be the case. But I'm telling you at the end, it should fall to the right. All right. Now you might want to read the first part of the putt and put them together, right? If you're saying the first part of the putt goes, I love my line. I love your line. Yeah. All right. Now here's the thing. You got to take the confidence that we created there. And you got to commit to this now, right? So it's the same. It's like, we're just picturing that string here. 100%. Your, your line on your ball is your near target. That's a strain. Entry point in the hole is your park target. And then like you said earlier, it's just speed. It's all taken care of. And like you said, that felt to the right, if you would have come over here and second guess that I would have always, you always trust those. Let's do the opposite one. Same deal here. I always, this is what I told you when you're a kid. You read the last three feet first. Yeah. And then once you have your answer, you can go put the whole thing together from the other side. You don't read it twice. You get information on the last part. And then you go over there and figure out the first part. 100%, especially for putts that the longer the putts get the more, I feel like I need to break them into too many times. Long putts would actually break into thirds. Yeah. I mean, maybe a half like this. Now Matthew over there is an A-Point Express expert. Isn't it? Amazing at it. And it's a valid way to read putts. There's a different way than this, but one is a... I never did. I always... I don't like it either because I kind of have this other system and doing my whole life. But I'm telling you, it's a valid way. But the mistake people make then is they don't practice it. And any, the point I'm trying to make is if we have a system, doesn't matter what it is, we have to practice our green reading, right? So this star drill is a full process. You're not skipping a step. Let's just finish it out. Let's do three more. And I don't mind that because it's like, it's a little light on speed and broke more than you thought, right? Yeah, I had it right edge and it was a ball and a half out. So I always smile, tell people that they're rearing process and then they're shot process. Like you're doing now, you line up your ball, you check it, you're going to walk it in there with the purpose, you're holding the picture, right? The whole thing creates a rhythm. Rhythm just doesn't happen. I love the line on that ball, by the way. It doesn't happen over the ball. It happens the whole thing creates it. Oh, I said it to firm. Yeah. But imagine this smile. Imagine I'm shooting a free throw. Okay. And I know you point guard, right? Oh, yeah. That down point guard. All right. I'm shooting a free throw. Is it like this? Like, I'm going to shoot rhythm or is it like dribble, dribble, bounce, breathe, boom, bam. Yeah. So, so the putting stroke is not like, oh, I'm going to swing a rhythm. It's part of the whole walk. It starts. I finish up two more. I think sometimes when I go from technical into the routine, it's so nice to have all those visual aids in the comfort. And it takes a second for me to get my routine back. That makes sense. The rhythm. Oh, once again, I think we've got to practice our routine. You know, I think that's what people don't do. They, they put on the string and then they think they'll just go on the golf course and be in rhythm and flow. So beautiful stroke. And so this is five puts done the right way. And we could do five puts the right way in like three or four minutes, right? But I just don't think, and I think there's huge value in that. And I think you could hit 30 puts one after the other, and I get no value from it. Right. Right. So I'm always over quality over quantity. Love the line on that ball too, by the way. So a little more pace. That's probably not a folder there. I pulled it a little bit. Okay. So if we go from the string, now listen, if you second guess yourself, like once you get over there, you don't get the results here. It's okay to go back. I wouldn't mind hitting a couple more. One was read. Yeah. All right. One was speed. Yep. One was commitment. And one was commitment. The other two are pure, right? And so we're just trying to get a little bit better every day. So setup looks great. And here's where you would confirm. I'll say you missed one or two over there. You weren't happy. Here's where you would confirm that everything's still okay. Yeah. Set up still good. That started right online. Yeah. All of a sudden you might have missed one there, but now you've got your confidence back. Yeah. Right. Okay. You take your technical warm up, and you take the confidence that gives you and the physics, and you take that good physics over there, and you got to figure it off. All right. We have two things just to do. The way I look at it, when we were working, we would do long like putts. We'd play the game short, medium, long, if you recall, right? Oh, yeah. And then more importantly, I think if you really want to win tournaments, you got to make call it a difference maker putts like eight to 20 feet. Oh, yeah. Think back to all those times where you really went low on shot of 64 or something 63. I mean, you had more in your share going in, right? Exactly. All right. I know I know that short, medium, long, there wasn't a Wednesday. I didn't try to win my way off the green. So there was we'd do nine holes. We picked three short, three, medium, three long, all in a rotation. And my goal was to try to shoot four under or better. And I wasn't leaving until I did it. Remember, we weren't going to leave them until I shot three on. Yeah. I started trying to raise expectations to try to get four. So I wanted to make that one medium. All right. So you want to show the folks how to play that real quick? Yeah. Might as well. All right. So one of my favorites. A short putt would might be inside a six feet. Yeah. You got a long putt it might be 50 feet. And then you have a kind of a makeable medium, maybe. Yes. 15 feet. All right. You play them real golf. So you got to play them into the hole. And we're going to play nine holes. And you got to shoot. I recall three on me. Well, this is when I had some pretty high expectations for myself. All right. Let's go. Let's go. Well, first test you right out of the gate. So for the sake of, uh, sake of time here, we're going to go do three holes, a short, medium, long, the goal will be, yeah, one under, but I will say this, we shortened it, but you didn't not take a walk, not line up your ball. It's still, we're going to run a process. We're going to run it properly, right? Yeah. First thing you did is you went down there and walked the full thing and you read the last half. I felt like it was down and put your pieces together and you say, okay, I'm going to start it there and see it feed down into the hole. The last six feet, I see it as an outside right pot. So that's the main thing I see in this pot. At this point, you're near line, you're lying on your balls near target. Now it's just about speed, right reacting to the feel of what you just walked. There you go. That's got a chance. Come. So one of the things I liked about this game to win it, your speed has to be impeccable. You may have to make all your short points somewhere. You probably need to make a medium, right? Somewhere you do. You get the chance? Uh, no. Okay. That's a good call. Let's go right here. We'll go medium. The ones they kind of, whether it's for birdying around or that par saver that you missed the short side and you gave yourself a putt, these are the momentum putts that you're able to make one of, shoot, seek one of four of these around, you would be, well, you'd be happy. Tour average from 10 to 15 feet. It's only basically 30%. Right, like 28%. But I'm telling you, you're not putting average and winning on the PJ tool, right? Or you're probably not putting average and winning your member yet. There you go. I'm going to say, if average is three out of 10, I'm going to make four. And this is probably 20 feet, so percentages are under 15% probably. Okay. It's a bit more than I thought. It's happening. All right. Even par so far, there's your short one right there. All right. And then after you roll this one in and you would be one under, winner might be four under, but I'd say three is good enough. Okay. That's no three spots. That's making your short ones. And I didn't mind that 20 footer you hit because the speed was perfect. And I feel like making those 20 footers is really about consistently having great distance control. Good one. That was three holes of short meme long. We were one under, you know, obviously, you can't just send me triple it. I think you triple it. You'd be three under and you'd be okay, but you'd be wanting to play. Hopefully I'd sneak in one of those 10 to 15 footers. Not a nine hole game. The second one I want to talk to you about it, and this is one I do with honorable on the theory all the time, which is, and I start with you way back as we put a gate in the middle third, and you get five tries to get through the gate and in the hole, but you get to move the gate. And what I feel is people think of it as a green reading game, but what you find quickly soon is really more about matching line and speed, which is about how you make those 15 and 20 footers. And I also feel like every greens are a little different, but it's a great way to kind of calibrate your eyes. And I want, when we look down there, I want a nice kind of slow look through the gate and the hole. I think it's really important to have that. Well, you change green surfaces every week on the PGA tour, the green speeds. For the most part, stay around that same range, but for me, I used to love doing that because it would calibrate me, but it also would get me in that zone of when I did hit it to the middle of the green with tuck pins, I felt like I could make these types of plots because I've practiced them. And for the most part, I would scare the holes on a lot of them 100% and you got to learn the value of the break on every green. It seems like, oh, it's just sloped. No, you get from you to green. So you get the grain and sloped back, same as they go more. Right. So let me go get two coins and we'll set up this part right in the corner and show the folks how to play it. Okay, smile. So we got a I got my spot 20 foot downhill puck. You lined your ball. That's step one. Yep. Now typically, I would put like a little sharpie mark on the green and where we're going from. Because we got five tries and where's the starting point matters. Okay. Because you don't want to change the gate and change. So somewhere in the middle third, I got two dimes. I want you to put a gate out there slightly wider than your putter. All right. Now for sake of TV, I just realized this make bad TV. So I'm going to use teas instead because that way people would be able to see. Fair enough. Yep. That's fair. All right. You know who else I saw doing this drill was Jordan was doing it before the Ryder Cup in Rome last year. And I was like, who do you wear in this drill? He's like, I've been doing it for years. I was like, well, you must still look for me, bro. So listen, you have five tries to get this ball through those teas and in the hole, but we can move the gate. I personally don't think you're going to need to. We may have to move it a little higher. We'll find out. Carry on is an edge of your seat action thriller that follows a young TSA agent who's blackmailed into an impossible situation at the height of Christmas Eve travel pandemonium. Either let a dangerous package slip through security and risk the lives of many or save the passengers and risk the life of his pregnant girlfriend. Starring Taryn Edgerton, Sophia Carson, and Jason Bateman. Carry on is a holiday thrill ride with nail biting nonstop action and suspense. Watch Carry on only on Netflix December 13th. Rated PG-13. [MUSIC] The glad girl grew coming at you with a throwback jam. That was glad for his flex drawstring trash bags featuring pine salt original synth. And that's better than all good. It's all glad. All right. So speed was plenty. Plenty of speed. Went through kind of middle ride of the gate. What's that tell us? The gate is what? The gate's probably a little, uh, 100%. I thought that to be true. I think the secret sauce is in having a experience. There's your line. Some measure of introspection, right? And then adjust. Yeah, but definitely the first time doing this drill in a while, I was more focused on the start line and less on on seeing the whole button having the speed and remembering this is a training exercise, not a get it through the gate. Here's the other thing. I would say we we started on the other side of the hole and we got our entry point, right? And then we know where the ball's got to roll over. It's that little dark patch. Yeah. Here's the deal. This, that's not your start line. The ball's going to bring to you now and there, right? Exactly. Yeah. So you got to be careful to realize the middle of your gate is not necessarily where you start the ball. All right. I know one thing. I think we got our gate in the perfect spot. That was close. And I would say it's breaking just a touch more than what you pictured early. So once again, my green ring process would be the entry point has to be here. It's easy. If there is going to roll over that spot and you don't need to start about the left key to get it to go through there. Yeah, that's perfect. Just just top into the key. Fuck it. Oh, I really called it a little high as your remember guest partner, you'd be so fit. I'd be so mad. But let me ask you a question. So that was, that one right through the middle of the gate with good speed. Do you think we need to raise it again or not? No, I think it's in the right spot. I think I think I can just be a little bit higher and where I'm at. Just not much. You could see that it's only about a half of all I need. But it's my tendency on left to right downhill putts. I'll get almost to where I just don't get high enough on putts. It's kind of listen, you've got no chance to change it unless there's feedback. So this is giving you feedback. It is higher in it. It's higher. Well, that speed was better. Yeah, it was. Now, I always say this. I always have my players. They got to win three holes, not play three. So the way you win a hole is you get it through the T's or through the coins. I've been getting it through the T's four for four on that. It goes to show you how important green reading is. And once again, why you have to practice it regardless of your method. Surely. Breaking. Come on. All right. So that we played that game with ton on tour, didn't we? Oh, yeah. It was one of my favorite games to play that in the short, medium long. That was the 15 to 50 foot where I really felt like, you know, the strength of my game was my first part would be around the hole. You know, if it didn't go in, it would tap into it. All right. So let's sum up. Ready? If you're my student, which you are, which I really appreciate is that we're going to confirm our foundational pieces as far as the physics. And we're going to do it first. So we had the string out. We had the T's. We checked to make sure the shaft was 90 degrees. We checked the shape. You made 10 of a row or whatever. Then we're going to test our process. And we did our star drill, right? Green reading process. Then we did our shortly and long game to work on pressure, but not only a distance, but also like six quarter need to make it. Right? Yes. And then when you weigh up, calibrate our matching line of speed, which is, I think, tough to do. But like I said, those are the difference makers. Those are the ones on statistically, I'm only supposed to make 25%, but not the guy winning that week, making 40 or whatever. Yeah, the competitor of me realized how I was under reading puts out here. And I would have probably spent another hour just doing just drills and drills of just competition to try to compete with myself, because I'm obviously the strokes in a good spot. Just need to try to match it at one speed up. And I would say you could practice half as much if you have feedback and get more value than it just hit a bunch of parts. Exactly. Okay. All right. Thanks buddy. Take that at the bank. Take that to the bank. Take it to the bank. All right. We just chipped a couple over here. We saved some of the good ones so they all couldn't see it. I was in an interesting spot to where Seac saw it in the first chip. So we got it on video. We're going to walk in to his academy here to look at it on the computer. It's a good lighting. So we'll be able to go to the chipping green and make some corrections. All right. All right, smiling. So I got down the line marked before and after. Okay. And you know, Matthew and I know that performance comes with face open a path. Low point slightly in front of the ball. And all I'm playing delivery. Okay. And typically when people get off, they're either too shallow or too steep, right? You are too steep. Now the golf ball is telling that because the first day you took it only did. I might actually take a touch of flex out of your knees because I feel like your knees are like, but if you took them back in here, that would be too shallow. And if you took it out here, it would be too steep. Now there are a lot of elements besides just the path. There's the ball position. If you put it back at steep, put it forward and shallow, right? You release the club. It's shallow. You hang on to the steep. So it wouldn't want bounce, right? So you tell me if you think this would be shallow or steep. I mean, that's that would be steep. It's just running over that hand. That's right. Now this chef, when you fold your elbow to the plane lifts, this chef should be on this line right there. So it's steep by that amount. So now if you're landing your airplane, you're landing it down outside your hands. We've always used through your hands as a checkpoint, and it's crash landing to down, which is why it digs. Now that, I don't think you hung on to your release. I think that's the interaction that took ground on the floor. All right. That's steep. I feel a little bit more of it. I hate to say this, but I'm not done with the bad news. Okay. All right. That's a steep. Most good players in the backswing, as their shoulder goes down, the head would move forward. How much? Maybe like half an inch. Okay. It goes slightly down and slightly forward. Great ball position, by the way, for a stock shot. Well, that moved more than half an inch. That's too much movement. Now, if you only pull somebody up to show you, but you know, take my word for it, half an inch is plenty. Then in the delivery, if anything, it would go up and more forward, but you're already too forward. There's the op that's every good chipper does it. It's extension that we want. This club to release to the same angle with the front of the ball. And so it's slightly, I think it's also a grab or just a hair that's slightly forward, right? And it's mainly because you're so far forward. Now, your head's steep. Your delivery's a steep. You're too steep. Kind of on a steep. So I didn't see the head when we're out there filming, but I did tell you that you needed to swing back more neutral. So what I did is an external cue is always easier for learning. So I put an alignment stick there and said, you got to get your hands coming back closer to you, right? So much better. That's the neutral path. We got the toe up in the air, which is good. You're certainly having over done the hands, but watch, remember what the shaft looked like before? Oh, so we got something. Wow, it's closer. And then we talk about through the hand delivery. So that's my shower. And I think we go back out there and we work on having your head quite so far forward in the backswing. All right. And you'll see the ball lighted. It just kind of clips off the turn. Matthew and I like, we'd like to call that using the bounce of the club. Just a little more forgiveness. It doesn't, so if you hit all behind it, it says stick it in, you drop kick. It kind of looks like you own the shot. It's open. Yeah. So, uh, foundationally, we're going slightly narrow open stance. Let's go on playing backswing for you. Feels like your hands are deep, right? We'll use as thick as a reference. And let's get rid of some of this forward head and see what happens. Okay. Let's go. Let's get your head. So, smiley, when we come out of the video room, we got the things that we want to work on. I have a simple rule. I try, when I'm on technique, I don't want to aim at anything. I want to just like strip it open space so that later when I'm looking at a pin, I'm thinking about making. I don't want to like look at a pin and think about my technique. I need some bad habit. So, I got us going about towards that tree with those last, uh, pyramid of yellow balls. Okay. They have our external key. I want you to start with your least lofted club that you brought out. Is that pitching or a gap? It would be my 50 degree. Yep. Okay. I'll cut you those up. All right. And I think the first order business would be to feel the head. We're going to take some of that out, right? So, go ahead. The old was, let's do it old would be too much movement. And now we're just feeling swiped. All right. And that's going to shell you out, right? That and Matthew, why don't you be on, uh, down the line plane? Okay. And you're still your feet. Maybe a slightly straighter leg. So you have a slight little bit more room, a little deeper hands, and then I'll let go of the head and the, uh, and now you're just giving that grass a little haircut using the bouncer club. And I like three good hits with each club. So let's say that's two general awareness there, deeper hands. Now that's why we use the bouncer club. And because you had behind it, but it didn't dig. Matthew was a plane there. Little inside. Well, the hands are the head. All right. So we want the hands inside, but not the head. All right. Let's try one more rehearsal. All right. So, so the hands would be deeper, but the club might feel more that way as opposed to rolled. Okay. All right. Matthew, you're on the plane. Oh, you got the thumbs up for Matthew. Okay. So now we're switching clubs. He gave you the big thumbs up. And from some extent, the golf ball will tell you, like the ball either likes or it hates it. All right. So now you got a flight with the 50. Let's do the same thing with the 55 is 56, 56. And let's do one. Maybe we don't hit quite so far. Okay. Let's rehearse that takeaway one more time. Oh, mic drop here. Literally. There you go. Let's put that in my pocket. All right. So a little quieter head, that backswing, and then low. So when I'm coaching Russell, Henley, he's always talking about flow. And that's something you have, you're have that in spades as well. When you're, you're un rushed. Yeah. I like to feel that club. Yeah. So we're on rhythm. That would be one little quieter here. Neutral path. Flow fair enough. Okay. So if that's your third good one, let's switch to that. Now you just have a 62. Well, I, it was a, it was a utility special weapon out on tour. When you get short sided, I can open that thing up in a bunker and just be so good. You're amazing. Maybe that comes to somebody. Yeah. They think it's fun. They like to try to hit up in the air. Hands feel close, club feels out, right? That's the opposite of what the pass. Sometimes it's good to exaggerate the feel. Matthew, give the nod again. That was good. UK nod. Yeah, thumbs up nod. We need a Matthew can here, Jack. Hands out are okay. Good. Good. All right. Still feel like that. I'm going a little too forward on those last two. I'll put a little awareness in it. The slight pressure against the hand but not crazy, right? Yeah. The light push. Yeah, it was really good. Shallow it, right? Yeah. Then we would always finish with like three trajectory drill. Now when Tiger talked about shipping, he always talked about hitting his window, right? If we can't lower the flight and hire the flight, we can't see a landing spot. We can't get the energy. So after we hit three good shots with each club in open space, how about we take the 60 and flight one down a little bit, and then the 60 and pop one up a little bit. I called them a one, a two, and a three, right? Yeah, that's we would run through the one, two, three, four drill. Yeah. Oh, I only do fours with tour players. If you're in the memory guests, you only get one. Well, you don't want to hit anybody in the parking lot, right? The first step. Now listen, there's a right and wrong way to hit a one. Yeah. A one would be put the ball further back in your stance, handle forward. But do we, you know, we still release the club, right? We still do doing everything the same. So you still can't go crazy here, and you still have to have a neutral path. So you've just delofted that club, maybe five or six degrees, but you still release it. Now instead of like up here, it came out here. Yep. All right. So that was a one. Go ahead and do go back to a normal. We call it a two. It's like mid trajectory, right? Grab a few more balls. How'd you do? It was a fraction diggy, but I didn't mind it. Okay. Now I'll say this. If you did mind it, then it would be what went on my list? My foundational list did I not do? Did the head come too far forward? Yeah. If anything, it was that I felt good about this. All right. Well, let's double down. Let's do it one more time and double down on head not going anywhere. I'll tell you. Better. All right. Now when you hit a three, so let's say on our two, we had a stock trajectory, or about five degrees of forward shaft. Yeah. All right. Now we're going to put the ball position where the shaft link comes out of it, right? So we go zero and then you open the face a little wider. Yep. And then the key to this, a lot of people think this ball is going over there the right. Well, they will, unless the club goes this way, then it's just going up, right? So it's still same thing with the head, still same thing with the plane. And here's what the club has. Now, if the member gets folks could hit that shot, that would be like stealing, right? Because that's why I call that a get out of jail. That's the three. That means we can hit even higher than that. That was what's what's not doing. Well, it was fun to hit that shot. Good. But I've struggled with that shot recently, as you can imagine, because it's too steep. If you try to hit a ball from the air and you're too steep, you got just like, oh, there's nothing that's felt comfortable hitting the shot lately. All right. So it's just this virtual delivery you set up for high, the club passes. So even though you made the big swing, you just like gave the grass a haircut, right? Yeah. So we got one, two and three. Now it's just like putting, you got to take the physics, oh, center face hit, 90 degree shaft. I got the right amount of effective lava. And now you've got to be a shop maker. Yeah. So now we're going to introduce the pin. And even though you might have awareness to your head awareness, you got to be like, watch it. Yeah. All right. And here's where the gritty competitor comes in. Right. All right. I'm going to set you up. You tell me, we'll go here. We'll go a second pin there where there are no balls. And we've got choices. We got 56. Maybe the graphics. What trajectory? This is like a one and a half. One and a half. Now you got to pick your landing spot too. Yeah. I don't got a little exercise I can show everybody. Show me where, tell me where your landing spot is. Yeah, it's right here. Just, just point to it. All right. That's what I want you to do. I'm giving way all my secrets here. You're going to hit a one and a half from there. I want you to get behind the visualize and you're going to bounce it off my club because I'm not moving it. You're going to bounce it off my club and the ball is going to go in. Fair? This would be pretty cool if you got this. This is going to be great TV. Exactly. Very nice. All right. I got a couple of questions for you. It's like a pretty good shot. We hit the right landing spot. Yeah. I think I would have made it if I hit the deal. So this is what I always, I'll do this exercise all the time. I know Matthew does it too. It'd be this. What were you thinking about? Well, I think I was still a little concerned not being in my base. And then I got over here. I thought for just like one second. But then I was able to do all the things I was trying to do. But I still think I was thinking about it a little bit too much and not enough about target. But that's just what I was hoping you were thinking about. Yeah. I was thinking about the flipping card. I was thinking about bounce it off. Everything else disappeared. The people went away. The wind went away. And I was just thinking about this thing, right? I will say this. You had pretty good touch there. You only missed the distance by about this far. How did you know how much to give it? How did you know how to just instinctively? To them. Yeah. Sports is, I don't know how I know. I do. Watch this. Yeah. It's subconscious. It's called intrinsic knowledge. It's things I know. I don't even know how I know. I just do. That's what good sports is. You can't outthink golf. You know, it's just too hard. You can't outthink sports that way. You can prepare intelligently and you can build good physics. But when it comes time to play, that's a different thing. And that's where you just got to be a greedy competitor and just like, watch this. Yeah. So I'm going to do it one more time. I'm going to hit a different target. I'm going to hit you down. I'm going to hit that dang wedge. Oh, you want me to hold that out of here? I'm going to hit you dang wedge. All right. This time, listen, we might have to be taping here all night, but we're going to know. It's good. Take it off your list. Yeah. Take it off your list. All right. I gave you a slightly different spot. So you got to tell me where to go. Okay. It's going to be like two and a half feet in front of that, right? Yeah, right? You're right on it. My good? Yep. A little closer, a little closer to me. Right there. This is the only thing on the plan exists. I don't care if you stand on one leg, swing with right arm. I want you to bounce this off the club. Yeah. Oh, God, I thought I had it. The rocks are good. You don't know how you knew it, but you knew. Matthew and I have a rule. And the rule is this. You can't play good golf. You're distracted. No, yeah. But most people don't even realize they're distracted. They're thinking about their technique. They're thinking about their score. They're worried about what Joe's over there thinking about them if they butcher the shot up or whatever. I tell you, I just felt like getting into that. I felt like the front of my brain just like put the switch and I just went into high school basketball mode where I was just like, you know what, I'm going to hit this thing. And you know what? The most competitive guy is usually the best player in that scenario. It's the same in golf. Think about who the most competitive people are on tour. T.I. Chef or Russell Hanley. And no surprise to see they did so well at the present cup. Yeah, at the present cup, I was there with you, but even though I missed you, they just talked about when I was up there, it wasn't a lot talking about technique. It was about being a dog. Like when they were in a team like a bunch of dogs, you know, they were in fighters, right? Yes. So I don't think that's a, now some people have that gene. That's, but I think that's something you got to practice being on. Right. And that's one reason why we always competed when we trained. But I mean, to me, if you have good physics and you, which we got better, yeah, and then you have elite level focus. And then you're an athlete and you trust your athleticism and your grit. Then to me, that's what good, good trick came in. So you're going to let me hit a four? I am. All right. You're going to let me hit a four. Sure. I put you over the bunker. Yeah. Over the bunker. What's hit a four? The one, two, three, and now you're going to let me hit the four. All right. This is going up. Don't try this at all. It's like a bunker shot though. It is. It is like a bunker shot. It just takes good mechanics and it actually takes commitment too, right? And Jack's come over here. I'll show you that the face on like when we talk about a one, this is like five degrees of shaft lean. This is a low shot. Two were kind of in that one to two degrees of shaft lean. Three is zero. It's almost a little bit back and a four. We got it negative two of shaft lean give or take. And then I would say the face that plays the role. So when you're hitting your, you know, your standard one, the handles for it, but the face is a little open. Now we've gone negative maybe with the face wide open. Right. And the ball's not going to the right as long as the pace goes this way. All right. All right. The whole treatment. We're the parking lot out. 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Grab Kleenex lotion tissues to help avoid the added discomfort of irritated skin during cold and flu season for whatever happens next. Grab Kleenex. It was a pretty good technique felt good. I felt this I feel this more as like you're not overdoing it. It was not around at all. It was good. Now wait a minute though we just don't finish a little that we've got to compete don't we? Yes we do. It's a good compete to win. So this is what we'll do. We'll do a simple game. We can play it right from here. I'll give you three fairway lies and three rough lies and there's six balls on the pin. I'm six pins on the green. I'll give you six balls. You go one to each pin and let's just sign a point value and just try and win our way. This would be a lot of tricky shots over here. Let's go three points if you make it. Three points if you know it's two points if it's inside four feet. We'll do a negative one point if you missed the green. I'll get your set up but you just start hitting. This will be your first ball to the far pin through. I got your 56 here if you want it. We're going to the back right with you. We're going to process it. What club, what trajectory was my landing spot? How's ball going in? Tell us what you see. Yeah this one it's because it's going to land on a slight down slope. It's a tighter lie so I'm going to give myself the benefit of the doubt here. I'm giving myself more room so 60 degree. I'm going to go with a basic two and land it about three or four yards on the green. I got my spot. You know what it check. I'll say I hit it too well and I really felt like it was going to have more tumble to it. I would say this mechanics great spin. I would say you were too steep to spin the ball before. Now that hasn't been my miss so I'm actually okay with that right now. All right let's do the top one. Yeah let's do the top one. It's a four. Yeah this would be a four. Off in a woodwalk slope with shelves. Well you know just balling. I didn't hate it. I feel like I was committed to it. I don't really know how to let's say let's say it was didn't turn out. Then you go which one on my list got to do better. So we had head a little deeper all right. I don't really know what you think it was. Yeah I really felt like I was committed to it. Let's try one more and let's go deeper. Deeper on the way back. Yeah the hand. Let's just say I could be wrong. I mean it wouldn't be the first coaching mistake I ever made in my life. Rehears it. Let me show the like a little deeper hands. Yeah exactly. And then just commit. I mean I don't know about that. It's a hard shot. It's a hard shot you're going to get. And I take a five or six footer there. Yeah it would have been easier being in the rough because I could give it a little bit more at the bottom. Why it's good a little down range. No problems with the three. Way it on the down slope. Box are good. Okay there's your first point. Let's just keep walking around here. And I might do something typically where we need three points to win the game. Right? And so you're one out of three? Let's go a second to come to the left. Yeah that's probably changed a couple of minutes. That was a two in a while. I'm slow. Let's see if 56. This is when I would try to see what it looks like on the ground. You know how we talked about intrusive knowledge like give it a chance to weigh in and you put it down. Well we need a really I said it to myself. I wanted to try to make one here and a little firm. It's a very typical shot to get on the tour. Short side sitting down right in front of you. This would be one you could try to make right here. Yeah and remind me we're going to get a little lower. Great survey. I'm going to jump down a little bit and you just maybe screw the weight. Just do a little bit right. And that's just create a little height and a little line up. And then I love that little release with the speed in front like that. Now same thing. Focus on your landing spot all right. All right there's your second point. That one could have gone in but that's sports. All right now I got two new standards. We got one shot left which you get inside four feet away. I think because I can I'm going to get a little into out almost that Raymond Floyd like I'm going to throw it a little bit. I'm going to try to land it right in the sandy spot. I know we should tell the folks what Raymond Floyd was. That was our code for like hey we're going to shout it out and feel a little little draw mentality. Yeah especially when the ball is sitting up in the rough or an uphill line. Right or above your feet. Yeah we're above my feet too. Yeah. No I didn't give you. I gave you about as hard shots as you have. You know but let's go for it. I can get height on this to make it work. Oh smiley. So good. Stay there. Oh I got a bad kick. No I'm calling that wedding a lot. I'm making it. I know. I know that. All right so what we did is we did our block practice first. We did the stick of some awareness to the head. You hit three good shots with each club. You did a three trajectory drill in your case four and then we've just started processing the lead level focus. Yeah right. What I was able to do was turn off that initial technique issues that I've been getting into. So I felt like I got into this competition mode and and that feeling of the rhythm of of just feeling the club. I started to really kind of tap into that and try to get into the competitive mode. I think the performance got better. Yeah I did. You know the fix does it does matter. So which is like it comes first. It sure won't be good every day. But the reality is there's no substitute for competing. It's like the focus goes up the want to goes up and then like the toughness has got to go up with it. The commitment level and that's what I think is your super power. Well you got to be gritty get up and down. I mean this is when you especially we don't have it down the stretch. This was you had to rely on this to turn a top 25 into a top 10 or a top five into a win. Or an 80 into a 75 exactly. Little chunky. We home for the first one. Yeah. That was gorgeous. Yeah you know I felt kind of like in the chipping how I was this way and around. I felt like that when I was like it's it's it's in here too. Do you remember the gusto when I remember in the practice grade they just built the new practice area and we talked about how that's something that if you had a medicine ball you're feeling that little like in front of you guess. Kind of similar right. 100% is. That feel along with just good solid left leg and throwing throwing the head around me. Yeah let's do it again. Tour sauce as I say. All right so let's take inventory. First question I have if we're trying let's say you're a viewer and you're they wouldn't bunker like smile because that was rocks are good. What's the direction of the splash relative to your alignment of the target left left like on your knees left yeah a lot of people don't know that you'd be surprised. Yeah I think I'm supposed to swing straight to the bit. No you swing your release left. Now here's one thing I liked about what you just kind of cut your so you gave yourself a lesson there. It's not that the hands are like out to end that's not how I swing left. I get the splash left by how I release the last. All right now I think it would be smart to go through and show how maybe we could develop that man I want to give one more tip on how that would be but try to fire your truck. Yep if I had my hands low when I was sitting like you and that extends this left wrist like this if I kept it look where the head even though my hands come straight back look where the head of the club is out yeah and then if I keep that in there and I'm letting it go past you's talking about that stable left knee I keep it in there I'm trying to go this way that release is why that splash markets to the left right. Yeah it's not us doing this right it's not exactly but it's a lot of people do or they cheat it by aiming way left and then they drop it under. Yeah my my feel pretty much and whether it's bunker or around the greens I'm always good I just want to feel connection the head going first and then stable left side where I can release it. Now one reason why you got feel head going first is because you have a lot of speed a lot of angle not everybody's blessed with that way. You got to realize some people like oh I cast it I need to feel like exactly so it's like we got to be careful but that's what I feel. One more your feel is that medicine ball connected that flex left knee right and then the release you just demonstrated in rhythm and it's always rhythm because it's short getting. That's crazy you're still probably the best bunker players are met. All right so I'm aspiring to hit tops like that myself someday. All right now how would I develop that? Well number one was a setup for sure. Number two I think I would start at home with a line pointing towards the target set up no ball smiley you do it if you don't mind and check the splash mark. Oh yeah because should be left yeah but you know neutral hand path. So now I have this splash over here if you can't do that there's no point doing the next thing. Yeah you already have a line in the sand I think I turn this way and I would practice pumping that line a few times. Why don't you go ahead and turn like you're hitting that direction. We still have our line the golf ball would be like there right and just slap the line that's where that entry point is. Now that was like perfect because it started right online. Now if you can do those two things get the splash mark correct yeah and hit your start then you couldn't do what you just did right yeah all right now I think I would introduce a golf ball and hit myself a great shot while your alignment is good you check your splash and I think I do that with a couple different clubs smiley because we got ultimately controlled distance right. So you just hit what was that 60? 60 and that was a little short one probably no way in the shaft at all. All right what are you doing here? Are you doing further? A little further yeah just a little bit more speed maybe less open. Pretty much That was great. I would say not everybody's blessed with your speed and the average player might have to get through their 56 for that shot but if we did grab your 56 yeah then we could maybe go to the back fringe yeah to the back fringe or hey we're the only ones here you want to go oh yeah here we go we got this camera set up right here let's point this camera towards which one do you want to go to somewhere on the back right I don't need to be careful there's no sand back in here some of these places all right so you're going to go this right pet yes right time all right so that's 56 for you for me that probably be 52 but you get to keep your rhythm when you change clubs like I don't have to like go crazy I can still tell my sequence right you still feel that medicine ball feel oh man life go right there for me now I think we could even maybe even go on 50 or 50 yeah I was a little on the cautious side with you know long bunker shot it's easy sometimes the like want to hit it hard well and I think that's what people script their bottom yeah so what's why I like changing clubs if you hit 50 out of there 52 the balls start to spin left to right don't they and you can actually see them in the air start to almost like a little fade yes so you got an intentionally land that ball left of the pin yep the 60 will fly straight and spin straight into the good bunker players can almost like hit little draws over there little on the hose but I want to try one more I want to try 52 okay yeah I think quite honestly that's the wrong club I think you got to swing 50 I'm sorry let's try one more time now here's what I'm going to say I want you intentionally align yourself to land this ball it's going to land a step left of the pin because it's going to spin left to right all right so 60 won't do that I don't think a 56 does with good technique but I think as we go down and lost I know an eight iron would be good it's good but to right yeah just a little too close to it but that was the idea I would say if you're trying to learn to be a great bunker player I'd say first we got to understand just the delivery of the club set up and delivered right so if we go back to our 60 here let's go back to it this way I would say let's just go through the keys one more time toes out sitting it would be forward ball position could be like maybe left heel mm-hmm and this left leg does it stay flex or do you post on it uh flex all this because it's going to offset this release right yeah you keep that pressure left and then it's all about the release of the club head past your legs and your hand all right so if those are the physics then we take that and I would build a progression check the delivery turn the other way check your ability to hit your entry point and I'll say this if you can't get the splash mark to the left those people alternate hitting too far behind and too close too far behind right so if that comes first ik Kim I caught her for years and years and just retired by the way great girl she splashed that thing she just earned her way to doing the next step which is one ball to every pin changing clubs exactly touch field judgment all right we got to win her way out yep all right so I'm going to give you three pins to her average is eight feet and we're not average so we got to go way less yeah i'm going to give you 18 feet you hit these three balls into okay first one will be the short one all right i got my club all right we'll take three three uh oh i got you done i know two good a lie that you never get a lie that's good i wasn't going to say anything i was trying to get a freebie if you make it i get i'm going to deduct three feet from your all right this is actually a little tougher i get a little steeper on this one now it's fine that lies good good shot all right so i'm going to say that's two feet good shot i'm not done because i'm going to give you a crappy lie you know i know i know i'll pull her down in one or whatever let's go that's not going to give you just kind of a little second to the left a little nestly lie okay not great second left all right so when it's sitting down like this i'm almost i got nothing here to that point no i'm going to say this i would play it similar but it's going to chunk and rock yeah no choice right i just have to land around the fringe just over and a little left and sometimes six feet is a good shot i would just trust it smiley honestly just change your picture and trust it sit oh you're better than you give yourself credit for oh that's a foot now also is i would chunk around that you could spend i did not think i could spend it from that lie but here's the deal i would say one mistake would be trying to do too much right let's take what the lie gives you yeah and it's a little shorter i don't know how you did it but i don't need it i don't i don't either all right show that one this one right here not the far one but the first one the first one okay you take fifty six fifty six yeah it's easier fifty six right so let's see you had one foot and two but you're killing this game you've got three feet so far and i gave you 18 feet it's a lot of pressure here all you need is one pin like it's used to say in the uh it's just basically hitting the green on 18 yeah kick left i did a little all right i'm gonna say that kind of pulled it but seven feet all right so you just your score was ten now i'll say this you tucked in any good coach i'm not going to pat myself on the back let's say you tucked in next saber and or you know pat riley or they talk about stacking winning days like i just want you to win today we show up tomorrow what are we going to do kind of win tomorrow we're gonna win tomorrow the next day we're going to start over and we're going to win again and we're just going to stack them up and at some point after you stacked up enough winning days but you're just going to be a winner that's what you that's what you are yeah but it takes consistency not like the one mistake people like they get super motivated they come out and they have a great day and then they don't they rest on it you know you know they don't wake up determined to do it again and to me i'd rather instead of doing like the guy that does 100 one day it takes nine days off i'd rather see somebody do 10 10 and just do it every day just be consistent be disciplined that way yeah and it's usually do obviously when your tour player does your job but i just think if i'm pressed for time and i'm a normal guy and i got 10 minutes i can create a 10-minute practice plan in the bunker and i can win out of the bunker every day yeah 100% so that's what i think definitely still got it or you've still got it yeah teach me how to do that don't we uh keep can you remind me how to hit a plug bunker shot well okay i can because i i see this too often i always want to explain it to people on tv on what these guys are trying to do because it happens all the time right it depends if you want to chase it or if you want to hit it short so we'll do one of each yeah all right now how about we start the easier one of the two which i think it's a running one okay so we can go 60 we got it back and we have room you only go in the middle uh yeah either one all right when you have the ball forward like that and it's this way that's very shallow like you were just clipping the same yeah well you can't be shallow here right so we're going to steepen it and what's maybe what it is steepen it would be to put the ball a little back and then i'm going to get way closer to it and i'm going to square the face so you're going to get closer to it and square the face this is one if i want to chuck and run it okay so close ball back the center and i hinge and if i throw this club in there and i throw it right in there and i just leave it in there that ball should pop up and run out what makes it pop up because not if i drag it it won't pop up but if i unhinge it and throw it in there you got it okay and it'll come up like the no spin will just be a knuckle ball right so you can see you can see the logo of the ball in the dimples let's try one let's see it kind of coach i am i'll kind of play or you are okay all right so look closer ball back back the center okay and then you're just literally just like throw it in there and leave it the club will do the work all right so there's if you want to chase it across the green okay that was pretty good first try good coaching too are you want to try again you're good no that was great i got that one the harder one of course is when you're trying to pop it up and you got to get it to stop right yeah now you can't square the face and i think we're steep in the delivery no here's what i would say i know what Russell would say all right if you want to know yeah it would be like i'm going to pick it up and i get that heel in there and i just pick it up and then you just gotta leave it and you got to give it a pop yeah you got to unhinge it right in there i always feel like i if my plug bunker shot feel is like i'm swinging in an elevator yeah i'm not going to be wider i'm going to be like almost throwing it on my head let's go you know maybe short style try to get to the short style that's all right so i'm going to say yeah i'm saying you're you're picking up and you're just pop that heel in right behind the wall okay that was pretty good it was and i'll say that if it was super short-sided it would have been amazing yeah but as far as you have to carry this which is like nine ten yards maybe not choke down okay yep you tinge it up fire it in there ah okay so if i need to stop it that was so good you stop it you play that way if i need to get it to tumble then i square up get closer and put it back okay these both in case yeah steeping the literary both cases that's good to know because explaining that to somebody is when people see a ball plugged in the bunker they think these guys have no chance but i can tell you that 99 percent of the two reporters when they get into a situation they can have room they're thinking i can actually make this they don't mind it but one of the things they practice yeah they practice exactly what we're doing here actually i only practice on the 14th hole in the double press yeah it's good to know it's it's hinging and then unhinging and yeah throwing it on and changing setup determines what you want to know right cool all right that's both dialed in the bunker dialed okay smile let's talk about controlling distance when it's off speed when you can't hit a full shot right yeah so what do you what do you let club you got i got a 60 degree right here all right so we got amazing markers out here at the shadow rich country club we got a quad it's going to tell us how far the ball carries in the air right now how far it carries in the air it isn't necessarily how far it goes right i mean how much energy i give it is not necessarily how far it goes exactly so earlier you hit a warm-up shot that flue skiing at 68 yards of energy right 72 because little downhill down right so that's a skill we got to develop right 100% and then the other is i think you should build and i know you did like a matrix of numbers i've got called known numbers of course you already have known numbers not be pulsing numbers right so how far does that go full this goes uh right around 95 to 100 all right so it's cold it's cold today so temperature and yeah very much pressure and all the stuff of course all right so uh if i said take that 95 yard club and hit a 70 yard shot with it yeah what would you do well i would take either a shorter swing or i'd open the face right and that just depends on where the pin is if it's front i'm opening the face taking a fuller swing it ended up in the air but if it's a back pin it's going to be a shorter swing the ball is probably going to be able to further back all right now i'll let me say this if you're highly skilled tour player you want to open the face with a law wedge and take a rip that's one thing but if i have one of my students at the club coming we do that i'm like no chance you're doing that i would say narrow stance shorter back swing and one reason why i go shorter back swing is a brighter club yeah because tour average as far as impact that shaft is 13 to 15 degrees lean forward and the only way for me to get that is to be shifting turning rotating and pushing off the ground so that i don't dig because i got four shaft lean i actually want that a little bit so the enemy to that would be a long swing and like no body dynamics whatsoever so let's see 70 yeah and i would say shorter swing smoother swing but still rotating would you not agree mm-hmm all right so karyon is an edge of your seat action thriller that follows a young tsa agent who's blackmailed into an impossible situation at the height of christmasy of travel pandemonium either let a dangerous package slip through security and risk the lives of many or save the passengers and risk the life of his pregnant girlfriend starring taren edgerton sofia karson and jason bateman karyon is a holiday thrill ride with nail biting non-stop action and suspense watch karyon only on netflix december 13th rated pg 13 this podcast is brought to you by Kleenex lotion tissues you can't predict sick days but with Kleenex lotion tissues you can be better prepared for them while helping keep your skin healthy Kleenex lotion tissues moisturize to help prevent skin irritation while you're battling those unwanted cold and flu symptoms it's extra care when you need it most keep relief within reach grab Kleenex lotion tissues to help avoid the added discomfort of irritated skin during cold and flu season for whatever happens next grab Kleenex i got bad news for you how was 80 that was 80 exactly it said 70 now here's what i would say be curious not judgmental after line i use all the time and i would say i don't want to turn less i think i want to go shorter so what if i said that looked like a ten o'clock swing so many what nine o'clock would look like yeah i've i've always i've really always struggled with the clock i always just have this intrinsic feel of where my left arm is and i know that is the clock system and it's just a general feel where my hands are at so i'll go like a let's go less i guess it'd be an hour less let's go less or one thing you could do is actually slow the takeaway down slightly which is going to be easier to go less and i still feel like that's borderline too big but it's closer to 73 all right so if i i want you to hit 68 but i wanted you to keep the same move through it'd have to be less it would definitely need to be less so let me see less yeah show me talent i've been wrong before i'm not afraid so less with the similar move through i don't i call that nine o'clock or it feels like nine o'clock anyway and that went in 69 yeah 69 yards now what Matthew and i do here at this golf academy is we create a matrix let me grab a shot of that and you know this i have my full swing numbers don't make fun of my numbers because i'm not powerful like you only hit my pitch when it's 138 hey that's very bad that's kind of it's really like a nine iron okay all right let's check these these are Bryson lost we're doing right here 122 in the gap all right sandwich and my law boys only was 85 now typically i put an x there and know what people hit full law but that's your highly skilled and then i create a matrix of known numbers so i go smaller swing i don't care what you call it could be an armpit swing at 80 percent and then this bottom row might be like a belly button swing at 60 percent yeah now the cool part about this is not only the numbers get less yards just let's put the lots comes down and the spin comes down as you make shorter slower swings yes right and so what this said what this did for me is when i got on the golf course and i had a 100 yard shot i had a couple different ways to do it right right so it could be a you know a a firmer one of these look at i could take seven off the sandwich full sandwich i had a perfect little armpit gap wedge which should be a low spinner so we're throwing a large i can throw ten over a little small swing pitch edge it should be just like uh or else ain't george's exactly about an hour wind you know exactly i'm gonna take out uh right all right so um typically what i'd have you do is i would have you just hit a known number three times a piece 92 is always my favorite number with mom 92 i want to see three of them and then you just hit 16 or 70 i'm going to have you do that three times okay the reason why it just was a 92 is the where it started not to be too diggy right and it would just felt like the most control so 92 just doesn't dig yeah it was 90 there give me one more and i want i want to throw in some input on why i think it doesn't dig okay half a groove low but still not diggy all right let's talk about that if you don't mind can i yeah so what most people do when they go short with a shorter swing is they don't push down and use the ground like you just did and i think i trained for that and we do it with this little tool here it's called a force pedal maybe force pedal i don't see you ever seen one before no and what happens you put it right under the ball your left foot can i do one yeah and the mechanics of the swing would be this as you put that under i'm not it creates appropriate substance for being able to push it squishy i'm going to have you do it in a minute and if i made a really short swing what i don't want to do is like get saggy and dumb yeah flat right so i'm going to go shorter swing got a little horizontal force or shift yeah right as soon as my hip knee and ankle line up i'm pushing down to create a little vertical and rotary force and that keeps it from digging yep all right so i don't should try one don't worry about the ball yet okay ball your left foot uh back up just to here there you go got it take it back to about let's say halfway no take it back even shorter i know you that's not normal given a little horizontal can you feel the push now jump jump and turn boom do it one more time and jump and turn all right yeah i don't think you have to land that hard because you you naturally go down yeah but i want you to hit a shot with a shorter swing where you feel like you're pushing off the force pedal all right how far are you going to hit this let's go i'll make it yeah 70s when i had my shorter swing but i still want you to push off the ground i felt like more connected and just speed in the right place exactly one exactly right and so one of the things that we believe in is that if you go shorter you still have to have to have the body dynamics to shallow the club the right way in your in your scenarios it was like connected i had this thing and then boom i think you see the great wedge player should look tiger was amazing like gonton is best at it yeah and even like uh jason day it's connected there's not a lot of wrist tins or downclock or in fact i know leech travino i saw this quote one time he thought said if you can reach back if you touch the top of your club you're going to be a bad wedge player excuse trigger yes there's less wrist it's more connected and it's boom yes right all right so trust 70 again all right force penalty shorter swing all right connected shorter force pedal overdone yeah my fault do it again i'd rather see you overdo it occasionally i know that was over because like if you've been to digger it all of a sudden it's like oh yeah do it again hang in there i think he gave it the right amount of energy there you go part of it's the dad back too you know just try to get this dad back real warmed up here this morning all right 72 yard carry though that's good now that's great if you know what 92 feels like you do yes comfort zone you know what 72 feels like sure but with a little bit of a push you use those for context to help you judge that's how your brain works okay ready you know what 72 is you know what 92 is yeah let's hit it 78 yards in the air and that's six more than that one swing you just fell yeah and you don't know what six is and you don't have to that's what feel is that's the feel all right use your eyes i bet a 78 on the quad goes 80 on the boards would you not agree mm-hmm all right all right bingo oh 77 you're a player oh yeah so you only miss about your yard now here's what i'll tell you you got to hold yourself accountable to a standard because we want to deduct a shot from the score right and it's not to our average mm-hmm tour average is 16 feet i don't care about that i want to know how many good shots i can hit how many can i hit three four or five feet away right right it could have bounced in wow i mean you watch watch tv so you can do it right 100 percent all right i'm gonna test you again okay you know what 92 feels like yeah i want to see a 95 carry okay on the quad today down my distance wedge size 95 on the quad probably go like 98 on the boards right mm-hmm oh straight 94 so we're getting there right we're getting there all right i'm going to really test you because i know uh now i do like opening the face a little bit when you're going under your bottom yes yes so let's call 70 our bottom number that's the shorter swing you could feel comfortable in yeah if i wanted to hit it 65 i might give it a 70 swing you could choke down or you could go a little open face which i'm gonna go open face it's all right it's one of my favorite numbers 65 i think i only hit it 60 uh 61 but around the face i knew it was just a couple short so the field's there the field is there yeah and the reality is once again if you look at four yards or three yards four yards from tolerance to what you're trying to do that's still a pretty good job yeah okay now okay there are skills beyond i would say number one get the physics of the delivery correct that to me is short enough swing where you can use your body correctly yeah that feels really good horizontal force road review okay then you have building your matrix so your brain uses context you had 92 and 70 you might do that for all your clubs and then you had the full treatment if you wanted to right yeah and then doing random practice where you're working on touch field judgment focus that's all the stuff that has to do with performance has nothing to do a technique right so that's what we're doing right now right yeah i think it would be different if i made you change clubs and made you hit a draw or a favor change exactly i was about to say that all the time you would you would say hey this is a this is a front right i got a shot here i actually got this video on my uh computer still do you yes and i shot in front of my presentation we're on the ninth hole at tp2 sawgrass okay caught behind that tree on the left just a little bit okay let's get a long skinny dream yeah i'm heard of that uh one 14 and you need to just hit a little oof draw you speak my language i got you all right what club so it's if it was a front left pin i would be hitting this one okay if i have some room i would get that one i'll say back left pin i gotta hit this uh 120 pin and you're gonna hit a 114 carry with a little draw yeah okay all right give yourself a rehearsal feeling draw feeling 114 using your contextual number yeah now you're using your eyes and now it's remember that athlete gritty gritty competitor time now it's that time there's our draw lovely and 116 that's pretty good i would think i'll hopefully hopefully don't get in that back bunker that's right you see we play shots not swings even though we have them and i i'll just tell you this when i was coaching up even though we have a matrix we have a system for controlling our spin rate our launch our distance it's not dial a number so you're misconstruing the whole thing and it's like i have my my contextual base but i want to play a shot yeah and that was a one that's good 14 draw that went 116 all right yeah i got one more might be in that that short-sighted bunker shot all right now let's go um same course 16 tv sawgrass okay pins front right and this time you're gonna let it curl in and if you had to lay it up that's typically not left well you wouldn't be further back you wouldn't be further back like 120 all right 120 little ball landing left of the pin and falling to the right yeah all right same thing you take the picture in your mind and you reverse the sensation right yes and now you have the sensation you're just you're an athlete baby so you just see your shot and hit your shot same thing elite level focus all right you got the shape right that's going to hit the left of the pin and curl toward it 118 i can't remember what we're trying to do 20 that's winning a life right there yeah i'll tell you this that i think there are some people i know you're tour winner and yeah i got it it would be really impressive that but they have no idea how many hours that we spent doing that problem 12 years all on i mean we probably spent yeah a hundred hours hitting shots like that exactly that's why you're highly skilled so you can't hit a 120 cut if you've never worked right right so your matrix comes yeah go ahead yeah well my i'm just thinking in my head looking back of it what my favorite numbers were i can spit them out just like they were yesterday 78 yards was the next lowest of that 92 yards i had a 92 and a 78 and then with the 62 degree which was a weapon for me was a club i could hit to a front pin on firm greens and that went 90 yards on the number but they also had uh it was about a 78 yard shot as well so i had all these different shots that i had with all these different clubs especially me being a longer player i had four wedges so i was just able to uh kind of build out my matrix and when i was driving a good i was making a lot of birdies or and i think the the lesson really is it doesn't work just for it to apply it works for everybody yeah your brain is craving context you develop swings you can do and you sleep about Greg Roscoe and Trump's blind and stupid numbers like yeah i just wake up and do this one thing for you it's like 78 yards yes now you use that not all you're trying to kind of get to that number if you can but you can use that just to help you with your touching your field oh gosh yeah because if you there was nothing better when my cat he told me i had 92 yards and it was a big moment and something needed to happen there was no thought about how do i hit this shot it was all about using my eyes and knowing i've hit the shot a thousand times and i'll tell you another interesting thing too and i don't know if it happened for you but like i coach Cameron Golly and he's so good at his distance watches when he gets in trouble like he drives it it's an overhang tree in the rough he doesn't take too much on because he thinks he's got it he said give him 75 yards from the ferry he thinks i'm gonna hit this to six seven eight feet and i'm gonna make a par anyway yeah and so it kept him from like doing the stupid like hero stuff that makes you make it double or triple good on cam you know for doing that for being smart enough i'll actually take some drugs it would take the national guard sometimes for me to weigh it up because i always think i can pull anything off there's value in that too yeah your Phil Mickelson and he's you know jack and i didn't mind though when he gave me an opportunity to go up and down for part two we just we got a little aggressive at times all right so you go build your matrix hit your known numbers every day start your ran impression and just went to win your way off with stuff like that call pin see if you can pull it off well it's nice when you have a nice setup like this and that's one other thing too if you can't you know if you don't have this exact setup even places i've been on tour pornfury tour i used to travel with cones and i would just walk off a distance i used to do it in a field i did it in somewhere in the middle of Iowa had some balls put my cones out and just was able to work through my cones and that's how i practiced to see if i was hitting my numbers because it's repetition i did see now if you're going well listen i ain't working for me i'm not walking out of the range it's a beauty in a minute but you can always hit a range binder and hit the top of the hill hit the corner of the tree hit the pin and go five yards shorter five yards you can still do don't yeah i always wrote this in my first book it's like great players they do what's required and they don't make excuses it's like no i'm gonna use a that excuse watch this i'll go just pump i'll go pin i'll go tree right now yeah so you just gotta do the work yes absolutely well this is great James how can we uh how can we find you for those that are trying to find out more about your any of your books you have a facebook in which you can get get in touch and and learn more about the short game so so three ways i'd say a you can look at my books i have written your short game solution your planning solution and colander pressure you get those at amazon or whatever uh Barnes and Noble uh i have a group that you can join on live and submit videos and ask me questions and you get a bevy of videos on how to hit bunker shots how to set up a party how to build a matrix things like that peruse the videos you have questions emails send matthew ice swings and we do uh weekly facebook live i mean oh sorry it's a good way to direct that's called short game mastery dot com short game mastery dot com yeah and the last one just be a website just come you can always email me through the blue website there you go three ways three ways to find we got matthew thank you for the help again here today this guy's a legend in his own right and james my man don't don't be a stranger i mean once every five years is to the law well i'm glad you got to see some of my action uh some of it i was like yeah let's see what i showed with today except for the champion it'll be better it'll be better i told you it wouldn't be good so all right jax we just finished up an incredible short game lesson from james seekman uh first off shout out to james uh his knowledge i mean just incredible you guys the best at what he does and i feel blessed to have gotten to work with him for so many dang years but boy did i need a tune up and you know it's it's probably been at least three or four years since i had worked with him uh it's felt that way especially with the pitching i knew going into it that he was going to laugh at my where i started but i felt like i got better with the chipping i know i have stuff i need to go work on in that aspect i was shocked at how good my bunker play was my bunker play felt too already seek was even uh given me props in that aspect but the one thing that uh we didn't get on camera which was after was with the putter i told seek i was like man i'm actually pretty good left hand low do you mind taking a peek and i just started making every left a writer he's like you know what you need to just put left to writers left hand left and so that's my new thing now i'm going to put conventional rights of lefters and uh left hand low left your writers but overall um i i feel like i improved i have things i can work on every time i leave a lesson with seek not only in my arms with information but i think i'm i'm given a road map to kind of tap into what i feel like i'm best at which is being a competitor being gritty all those sorts of things kind of lines up to how i you know play any type of sport so uh to be able to kind of go and show up uh and to some pitch shots some bunker shots some putts and uh really just tap into that um i feel like it's a good place to leave shadow rich today so i'm excited to see where my my game is going to be moving forward uh Omaha weather was great the golf course it was fantastic and uh i thought it was overall great day jacks uh did what did you mark real quick but what do you got for us man like you said the the bunker play i mean that was incredible first off but um you know coming from Minneapolis uh coming down here to Omaha for the day pretty much the same weather but i absolutely beautiful out here smiley had three layers on i stuck to my one um we had you going that whole time moving moving around a lot three different cameras hopefully you guys enjoyed it um had an absolute blast and appreciate everyone out at shadow rich shouldn't we uh do i say like go like like and subscribe yeah i go like and subscribe we're off to Culver see you guys later karyon is an edge of your seat action thriller that follows a young tsa agent who's blackmailed into an impossible situation at the height of christmas eve travel pandemonium either let a dangerous package slip through security and risk 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