Played 9 holes today after having been hitting the ball on the range. And I’ve been hitting them greatly. But guess what: I couldn’t replicate that at all on the course. The result was terrible golf with me becoming more and more insecure with each shot. In the end, I felt like swinging a golf club for the very first time. Thanks for this great video. I will definitely practice that way going forward.
This video really helped me yesterday! Crossing my fingers can carry forward to next few rounds. Bad shots resulted exactly from what these guys pointed out. Really worked on phase one before setting up for shot. Thanks guys!
This is totally my nemesis. All the videos and instruction that I have had over the last 10 years paraphrases the same ideas behind this video. So it must work and work perhaps for the majority. However, it hasn't for me. I do the Phase 1 part each time, but when I get to hitting the shot it just doesn't feel anything like the wonderful striking I have been doing on the range. The answer I head often is "Oh you are thinking too much" or "just visualize". I actually am a very visual person so I know that's not the issue. I honestly think it is more of a physiological thing that affects by rotation and body angles when there is a distant target. Not many videos get into this and would love if you could address it sometime. Thanks!
This could be the best video I have watched from you guys. I go to the range and just spend time smashing balls. Not ever spending time pre shot or post shot. Greatest advise I have gotten from you guys. Thanks.
Great video. For the longest time, I've practiced by "bringing the course to the range". I keep a bunch of scorecards in my bag and I use them at the range to simulate a round. I'll "play" each hole by gauging my drive and hitting subsequent shots based on the previous one. I'm glad this video touched on that method.
This is superb! So simple but so overlooked. I will be 100% incorporating this into my practice. One of the best videos I have seen from you guys. Thank you.
Sensible stuff and just as valuable training the mind along the body. Makes you think a lot more than worry about on course mechanics. Very good. Love it.
Great video. Used it today and played the best I have all year. This technique takes away a lot of the thoughts that go on right before you start the swing.
One thing I think is even more important is that if you practise DO IT FROM GRASS! Matts er so helpfull and even you hit a little before and hit the mat you can hit a fine shot. This is what I think is the most important if a golf player want to improve. Check divots and ball placement and you see a real pattern in your practise and if you are hitting balls well. Standing on matts and just hitting irons you can a lot of help. I admit, you get propably more confidence on matts as they typically are more flush, but it doesn´t help much that you first hole and hit the 2nd shot bad, because the matt is gone
Definitely helping me focus more, taking phase 1 into phase 2 and no matter what the out come (phase 3) I try not to change my emotion, whether it's an awful shot or a beauty. (I have been know to throw the occasional club). Started the year on 15.3, now on 11.1. Shooting my best round of 76, along the way. Single figures next year. Thanks again.
On the range there are no consequences for a bad shot so you're not thinking about bad shots. Negative thoughts are unsettling on the course and will wreck your balance, focus and concentration. The mind controls the body. When you're thinking about hitting a BAD shot you're not thinking about hitting a GOOD shot and you lose control. Control your mind, control your swing, control your game.
Hey guys, could you do a video about playing out of bad lies? Meaning sandy, pine straw, thin grass and dirt etc.... would be a huge help for playing at courses that don't have the resources to have great grass all around. Thanks!!
Some great pointers there and will definitely be putting them in to my routine. However, I do have a question. Where should you take your practice swing ? Is it be side the ball and parallel to the target line or behind the ball and at right angles to the target line ??
On the range I put the basket of balls ten feet behind me so that I have to hit a ball ten go back and get another ball and set up for the shot just like I do on the course. That is the way I have always practiced and yet on the course I will often top the ball in a way that I almost never do on the course.
My apologies, but i need some help, and some questions I have, I’ve asked 3 head pros, and got 3 different answers.. I’ve live on a lake in Texas, that has 2 private course, and and 3rd extremely private course. Ok so i went from a single digit handicap golfer from 2015, or 16, up until I had my torn up, and damaged my wrist, which I had surgery in December of 2019 to repair it. The first couple weeks, I just decided to hit range balls 9 out of 10 days. I have 3 really solid pros, one is Roland Thatcher, but I rarely see him, where I’m at. I live in a guarded neighborhood on Lake Conroe, and have 3 courses. Anyways, after building my strength back up,, and somewhat feeling comfortable. I can smash the ball on the range, and shape shots like i would love to do. But why can I not transform what I’m doing on the range to the course. Heck even 1 day, i hit like 6 shanks. I don’t know what I’m doing, and desperately need some input. Because i can shoot a 31 on the front 9, then out of nowhere i completely forgot how to hit the ball. So whats the best tips, to transfer how well I hit in on the range, or flirting with a sun 30, to not even being able to hit the ball. I know I’m amateur, and not a pro, but it’s very frustrating
Great content as always guys. Could you please do a session on distance control? More so about gripping down 1/2, 1, 2 inches, how much effect that has to distances (in general, obviously its going to differ for everyone)? Questions like if i can hit my full 8 iron 160 yds, but also hit my 6 iron at 75% and also get 160 yards, is it better to use my 6 or 8 iron and why? Been experimenting with trying to control distances with my clubs and have tried playing several rounds of 3 club monte just to force myself to use certain clubs and experiment how to get different yardages, but would love to know what your thoughts are on this topic.
On the range, every shot is a mulligan. I work on shots on the range with a specific goal in mind. Short game, or middle irons, or long balls. I never mix them, mostly because I work about a hour and that's about all I can realistically do. But when I warm up before a round, that's when I "play the course" on the range and never hit the same club twice. If I duff it, I play the next shot. I run thru a couple of my favorite holes, then hit the course. Putting can come either before or after my range time. And above all else, I intend to just have fun! Isn't that the real reason we play? JM2C
For some people it is fun yes but for others it is different reasons. It is definitely about getting what you want out of the game. We like your approach to your practice. You are definitely on the right track.
Now watching HSBC Champions, 3rd day. Tommy Fleetwood makes a triplebogey and walks away from the hole head hanging down. Now there would be a place for this.
Really enjoy your videos. I've tried to watch all of them. Any chance you could put together something for players who have one leg shorter than the other? I fractured my right leg and it's 1 inch shorter than my left. (Driver is much easier to hit than a 9 iron.) Bio-mechanics is a real thing when it comes to a golf swing.
@@imcorrect9122 All my clubs are shortened. Biggest problem is maintaining good golf posture/swing with weight transfer from short right leg to long left leg.
@@imcorrect9122 Short answer is yes and contrary to my original comment, it's much easier to maintain with shorter clubs with a narrower stance than longer clubs with a wider stance. The only reason a driver is "easier" is because the short right leg gives me a natural tilt at address but the wider stance makes it harder to transfer my weight during the downswing. The weight transfer becomes increasingly difficult as the round wears on and I start to get tired. At that point my weight tends to settle disproportionately on my right foot at the top of my backswing so I have more mishits - tops and fat. It didn't used to bother me so much when I was much younger but now at 69 it's a noticeable problem.
My right leg is longer. So for me for a neutral shot I have to stand with the right leg a bit behind like if I was going to aim to the right. If I allign the legs straight then I will make a slice.
3 weeks without a video Me and My Golf? Feels like your neglecting the supporters and platform that got you where you are guys? Not a dig just feedback 😔
intent and execution are two very different things! what happens when you intend to hit a certain shot off a tee and you don't execute 18 times! The mental side is validated by a decent skill level. I lost my concentration half way through this video sorry! This is so far removed from actual club golf it is almost laughable. This type of thing fills players heads full of shit and causes more issues because of poor skill level, yes for tour pros it has a place. Some of the best players I see and play with are ones who clear everything and just stand up and hit it! I'm sorry but I think all of this is not appropriate for club golf and will actually make players worse, as it will promote a high level of negativity.
Hi Aaron. It may seem that way with the best players but you don't know what is going on in their mind. This video is very detailed but the key thing is to to take the simple things from this. 1. Ask a simple question to create clarity of what you want. 2. Create the right feel to produce that shot. 3. Execute with minimal thoughts. 4. manage your response. The best players in the world do this extremely well and have created a habit so it looks effortless. I hope that makes sense. this video was long but what you need to take from it doesn't need to be complicated.
Respectfully disagree Aaron. "The mental side is validated by a decent skill level." That is not true - you do not spend years and years just hitting the ball and a) either neglect your mental game or b) only up your mental game according to what you think your level of skill is ; and hope things and well - it will not. And this will not breed negativity - it will promote resilience. The best players bounce back right even after the bad shots. I play my golf like chess - I am playing to set up for the shot I have to hit next. If I mess up shot 1, then a) what can I do to get the same outcome I planned for shot 2? b) if it is not something I am overly confident in, where can I get to with shot 2 that will make shot 3 easiest? Hacking it out of the rough and onto the fairway and being content will only get you so far. The earlier you get that mentality, the better. Maybe you don't have to interrogate yourself like @Meandmygolf, but like life, you sure do have to plan in golf, and have a strategy for every hole and an objective for every round.
That player mentioned would be the GOAT... Tiger Woods
Played 9 holes today after having been hitting the ball on the range. And I’ve been hitting them greatly. But guess what: I couldn’t replicate that at all on the course. The result was terrible golf with me becoming more and more insecure with each shot. In the end, I felt like swinging a golf club for the very first time.
Thanks for this great video. I will definitely practice that way going forward.
This video really helped me yesterday! Crossing my fingers can carry forward to next few rounds. Bad shots resulted exactly from what these guys pointed out. Really worked on phase one before setting up for shot. Thanks guys!
This is totally my nemesis. All the videos and instruction that I have had over the last 10 years paraphrases the same ideas behind this video. So it must work and work perhaps for the majority. However, it hasn't for me. I do the Phase 1 part each time, but when I get to hitting the shot it just doesn't feel anything like the wonderful striking I have been doing on the range. The answer I head often is "Oh you are thinking too much" or "just visualize". I actually am a very visual person so I know that's not the issue. I honestly think it is more of a physiological thing that affects by rotation and body angles when there is a distant target. Not many videos get into this and would love if you could address it sometime. Thanks!
This could be the best video I have watched from you guys. I go to the range and just spend time smashing balls. Not ever spending time pre shot or post shot. Greatest advise I have gotten from you guys. Thanks.
Great video. For the longest time, I've practiced by "bringing the course to the range". I keep a bunch of scorecards in my bag and I use them at the range to simulate a round. I'll "play" each hole by gauging my drive and hitting subsequent shots based on the previous one. I'm glad this video touched on that method.
That's great. Golf is one of the only sports where practice doesn't simulate the real game so Getting them close together make sense.
This is superb!
So simple but so overlooked. I will be 100% incorporating this into my practice.
One of the best videos I have seen from you guys.
Thank you.
Sensible stuff and just as valuable training the mind along the body. Makes you think a lot more than worry about on course mechanics. Very good. Love it.
I really hope I can remember to do this next week at my family's annual golf tournament.
Really great video. Practical, straight-forward advice that just isn't obvious to most amateur golfers. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it Frederick.
Good stuff gentlemen. I’ve been told I over analyze and get stuck in my own head. This range training should help!!
good work boys!
Allways look on the bright side of life! tudu tudu tudutudutudu
Great video. Used it today and played the best I have all year. This technique takes away a lot of the thoughts that go on right before you start the swing.
Great. Hope you find it useful.
Andy & Piers, Thank you very much for this video!
Pleasure Popy.
Amazing work helped my game tremendously!!! Keep up the work love it!!!
One thing I think is even more important is that if you practise DO IT FROM GRASS!
Matts er so helpfull and even you hit a little before and hit the mat you can hit a fine shot. This is what I think is the most important if a golf player want to improve. Check divots and ball placement and you see a real pattern in your practise and if you are hitting balls well. Standing on matts and just hitting irons you can a lot of help. I admit, you get propably more confidence on matts as they typically are more flush, but it doesn´t help much that you first hole and hit the 2nd shot bad, because the matt is gone
Amazing vid, very very useful, sure it will make a big difference to my game
I can't get over how smooth and easy Andy's swing looks. And he bombs it. Lessons please!
Even more impressive in person.
You guys are great. Excellent production and content
Thanks Rowland.
Great video.
I will definitely be implementing phase 1, 2 & 3. Into my game and practice.
Hope it helps. Please let us know.
Definitely helping me focus more, taking phase 1 into phase 2 and no matter what the out come (phase 3) I try not to change my emotion, whether it's an awful shot or a beauty. (I have been know to throw the occasional club).
Started the year on 15.3, now on 11.1.
Shooting my best round of 76, along the way.
Single figures next year.
Thanks again.
Nice video! I think this will help a lot of people!
On the range there are no consequences for a bad shot so you're not thinking about bad shots. Negative thoughts are unsettling on the course and will wreck your balance, focus and concentration. The mind controls the body. When you're thinking about hitting a BAD shot you're not thinking about hitting a GOOD shot and you lose control. Control your mind, control your swing, control your game.
Hey guys, could you do a video about playing out of bad lies? Meaning sandy, pine straw, thin grass and dirt etc.... would be a huge help for playing at courses that don't have the resources to have great grass all around. Thanks!!
Very interesting and clever video! Hope to see you back at Stockport!
Some great pointers there and will definitely be putting them in to my routine. However, I do have a question.
Where should you take your practice swing ?
Is it be side the ball and parallel to the target line or behind the ball and at right angles to the target line ??
Great stuff, super useful. Keep these great videos coming!
On the range I put the basket of balls ten feet behind me so that I have to hit a ball ten go back and get another ball and set up for the shot just like I do on the course. That is the way I have always practiced and yet on the course I will often top the ball in a way that I almost never do on the course.
Fantastic vid
Great work, course practice always beats the range
The GOAT TIGER!!!!
Great video guys ☺☺
Great video !!! Followed the advice, went on the course and shot +4 and +3 the day after. Thank you so much!
Great Work Ieo!
This was great
Glad you enjoyed it.
I used to try and get good at golf now I just drink enough to not care
My apologies, but i need some help, and some questions I have, I’ve asked 3 head pros, and got 3 different answers..
I’ve live on a lake in Texas, that has 2 private course, and and 3rd extremely private course.
Ok so i went from a single digit handicap golfer from 2015, or 16, up until I had my torn up, and damaged my wrist, which I had surgery in December of 2019 to repair it.
The first couple weeks, I just decided to hit range balls 9 out of 10 days.
I have 3 really solid pros, one is Roland Thatcher, but I rarely see him, where I’m at.
I live in a guarded neighborhood on Lake Conroe, and have 3 courses.
Anyways, after building my strength back up,, and somewhat feeling comfortable.
I can smash the ball on the range, and shape shots like i would love to do.
But why can I not transform what I’m doing on the range to the course.
Heck even 1 day, i hit like 6 shanks.
I don’t know what I’m doing, and desperately need some input.
Because i can shoot a 31 on the front 9, then
out of nowhere i completely forgot how to hit the ball.
So whats the best tips, to transfer how well I hit in on the range, or flirting with a sun 30, to not even being able to hit the ball.
I know I’m amateur, and not a pro, but it’s very frustrating
Great content as always guys. Could you please do a session on distance control? More so about gripping down 1/2, 1, 2 inches, how much effect that has to distances (in general, obviously its going to differ for everyone)? Questions like if i can hit my full 8 iron 160 yds, but also hit my 6 iron at 75% and also get 160 yards, is it better to use my 6 or 8 iron and why? Been experimenting with trying to control distances with my clubs and have tried playing several rounds of 3 club monte just to force myself to use certain clubs and experiment how to get different yardages, but would love to know what your thoughts are on this topic.
Thanks for the suggestion Brian. Will take that on board!
This is why the guy waiting behind me at the range is always angry!! But I agree with every word
That's what I'm talking about...it seems so obvious now...thanks
Tiger woods, 1st and 10...touchdown 💪👍😀
On the range, every shot is a mulligan. I work on shots on the range with a specific goal in mind. Short game, or middle irons, or long balls. I never mix them, mostly because I work about a hour and that's about all I can realistically do. But when I warm up before a round, that's when I "play the course" on the range and never hit the same club twice. If I duff it, I play the next shot. I run thru a couple of my favorite holes, then hit the course. Putting can come either before or after my range time. And above all else, I intend to just have fun! Isn't that the real reason we play? JM2C
For some people it is fun yes but for others it is different reasons. It is definitely about getting what you want out of the game. We like your approach to your practice. You are definitely on the right track.
I struggle immensely with my mental game... I'm in a bit of a spiral at the moment. And it sucks so hard.
I always try to course but it failed to do sometimes.
Now watching HSBC Champions, 3rd day. Tommy Fleetwood makes a triplebogey and walks away from the hole head hanging down.
Now there would be a place for this.
As long as he can deal with it and leave it behind him so it doesn't influence the next shot that is the key.
When you said the 10 yard/10 pace walk, I knew straight away it was Tiger Woods!
I just wanna say, great video forsure! But is the background a greenscreen? You guys seem muchhh clearer than the background, the camera is weird.
It must be the focus on the camera. Hope you enjoyed the video👍
TIGER!!
Really enjoy your videos. I've tried to watch all of them. Any chance you could put together something for players who have one leg shorter than the other? I fractured my right leg and it's 1 inch shorter than my left. (Driver is much easier to hit than a 9 iron.) Bio-mechanics is a real thing when it comes to a golf swing.
That's a tough one, have you thought about cutting an old PW or something down by an inch with a usable grip and trying it?
@@imcorrect9122 All my clubs are shortened. Biggest problem is maintaining good golf posture/swing with weight transfer from short right leg to long left leg.
@@grigsbypoland3203 Are you able to load up slightly on your lead leg to help (60-40 weight) you come through the ball?
@@imcorrect9122 Short answer is yes and contrary to my original comment, it's much easier to maintain with shorter clubs with a narrower stance than longer clubs with a wider stance. The only reason a driver is "easier" is because the short right leg gives me a natural tilt at address but the wider stance makes it harder to transfer my weight during the downswing. The weight transfer becomes increasingly difficult as the round wears on and I start to get tired. At that point my weight tends to settle disproportionately on my right foot at the top of my backswing so I have more mishits - tops and fat. It didn't used to bother me so much when I was much younger but now at 69 it's a noticeable problem.
My right leg is longer. So for me for a neutral shot I have to stand with the right leg a bit behind like if I was going to aim to the right. If I allign the legs straight then I will make a slice.
When you went through a whole bucket like a pro and the last two balls you want to bomb to the back net you end up duffing
Haha this is me-
Range- 56..PURE..GAP..PURE..9,7,5 PURE.
Hole 1 on Course immediately afterwards...9 iron fat. Pulled. Thinned.
HOWWWWWW
Tiger Woods was the player for the question.
One thing I always say to myself before I hit a shot is: imagine this is the range... hard to take the on course pressure away, but it seems to help
Great example of how you need to reverse that process. Take the pressure on to the range and that will reduce the pressure on the golf course.
I’ve tried that. But I don’t think it works. Especially with the driver. For me it’s to different worlds. Frustrating.
Tiger
Ernie
Tiger Woods
Good thoughts, Tiger Woods
jack could take 2hrs to hit 3doz balls. when asked why is he taking so long he said.."how long does it take to play 9 holes"?
Imagine being stuck behind this four ball!! 😏
Ha ha. You would have been waiting that day!
3 weeks without a video Me and My Golf? Feels like your neglecting the supporters and platform that got you where you are guys? Not a dig just feedback 😔
And remember, common sense is not so common at times
Thanks guys, I watched this entire video and learned absolutely nothing... Good job...
ABSOLUTELY USELESS INFORMATION!
WASTED 20 MINUTES OF MY LIFE
intent and execution are two very different things! what happens when you intend to hit a certain shot off a tee and you don't execute 18 times! The mental side is validated by a decent skill level. I lost my concentration half way through this video sorry! This is so far removed from actual club golf it is almost laughable. This type of thing fills players heads full of shit and causes more issues because of poor skill level, yes for tour pros it has a place. Some of the best players I see and play with are ones who clear everything and just stand up and hit it! I'm sorry but I think all of this is not appropriate for club golf and will actually make players worse, as it will promote a high level of negativity.
Hi Aaron. It may seem that way with the best players but you don't know what is going on in their mind. This video is very detailed but the key thing is to to take the simple things from this. 1. Ask a simple question to create clarity of what you want. 2. Create the right feel to produce that shot. 3. Execute with minimal thoughts. 4. manage your response. The best players in the world do this extremely well and have created a habit so it looks effortless. I hope that makes sense. this video was long but what you need to take from it doesn't need to be complicated.
Respectfully disagree Aaron. "The mental side is validated by a decent skill level." That is not true - you do not spend years and years just hitting the ball and a) either neglect your mental game or b) only up your mental game according to what you think your level of skill is ; and hope things and well - it will not. And this will not breed negativity - it will promote resilience. The best players bounce back right even after the bad shots.
I play my golf like chess - I am playing to set up for the shot I have to hit next. If I mess up shot 1, then a) what can I do to get the same outcome I planned for shot 2? b) if it is not something I am overly confident in, where can I get to with shot 2 that will make shot 3 easiest? Hacking it out of the rough and onto the fairway and being content will only get you so far. The earlier you get that mentality, the better.
Maybe you don't have to interrogate yourself like @Meandmygolf, but like life, you sure do have to plan in golf, and have a strategy for every hole and an objective for every round.
Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods