You are listening to the golf Science Lab podcast.
My name is Corey Walker, and I'm on a mission to figure out how
to improve the way that we learn and get better at golf.
I've been able to travel all over the world talking to the
leaders in the industry from instructors, to researchers, to
Golfers themselves learning how they're getting better at golf
and what that means for you. Hey everyone.
Welcome down to a new mini series of the next three days.
We are going to dive into some game management coaching to get.
You started in the right direction and some mindsets and
tactics for this season. In the past, we've had on some
experts like Mark, Brody Scott faucet who brought some clarity
around statistics and some Concepts.
And today we're getting some coaching.
We're getting some some coaching from someone who really knows
how to help people, shoot lower scores.
His name is Will Robbins. He's a great friend of mine.
And I always enjoy sitting down to talk with him and learn from
him. He is serious about helping
golfers lower scores and he is good at it.
You might have seen him from his program called the scoring
method and I wanted to have them on over the next three days to
drop some knowledge. Give us some practical info and
then some homework. So, we could go out and actually
take action. So this is three days to lower
scores. Let's get into day one.
Make sure to subscribe wherever you're listening to this so that
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Let's get to it. Well, you're the expert coach at
helping us lose shots off our scorecard and over the next
three days, you're going to teach us some of the best
methods around course, management and strategy to help
us lower those scores. So day, one, I know of a
specific thing. You want to talk about where we
going, we've just got to get rid of blow up Pulse.
We've got to stop watching golf on a Sunday and thinking that
all professional golfers me. Make birdies and that's what we
need to do. More of and start to realize
that really what it's all about is keeping the big numbers off
the off of the scorecard just plain and simple.
And you know, it's really fun at that Ascot five set, remember
back to one of his Workshop or something saying that tiger
lowered his scoring average one-year and he lowered his
scoring average by having less birdies actually, instead of
having more birdies like, you think he had less birdies, but
he had less double bogeys and he just won the Masters by having
no. The Bogies and another gentleman
had two double bogeys on the back, nine and lost the Masters
mr. Molinari, so yeah, I mean, it's
not glorified, right? And people don't really want to
hear it. But the fact is, is that if you
can get rid of the big numbers, then it's not that hard just to
keep on making pars bogeys, you know, with your handicap and
keep yourself around, you know, the scores you want to shoot and
I think it always comes from the tee shot.
I think that most of us have been just program called ET
C'est par for par 5 driver. They will grab a drive.
And we Don't think about okay? How's the driver been going that
day, or how tight is this whole or where's the trouble?
We just assume that because it's a long hole.
We need to go out there and hit driver.
And the fact is, is that what we've got to do?
Is number one, rule is at all cost, keep the ball in play.
If your drivers are shredders Club, hit it.
But if you can't, if he's worried about keeping the ball
in play, with that club, I prefer to be 200 yards out than
taking three off the tee. How, you know?
So the fact is is that it all With your selection of club and
how aggressive your playing offer the tea box.
But we'll mark, Brody says it. We need to hit it as far as we
possibly can. And this is the best thing the
other day. So on our scoring method page, I
see Sylvia my assistant even posted someone said, but we'll
mark Brody says in all every shot counts get it as far down
as possible and so I she posted the video of Mark Brody saying
and me asking him Mark. So many of my players tell me
hey I meant to get the ball as far as too close to the green.
His specific words are No, you have to get the ball as close as
you can safely to the green without losing a golf ball or
out getting a penalty. So yes, you want to extend your
go to Club if that's a for hybrid or a 6-iron.
You want to get to a five iron or a three hybrid and try and
get it from 190 yards to 210 yards, but the minute you bring
in Risk, bunkers, Hazard, trees, rough water.
You can't play that shot. So if anybody's interested in
that quarry, somehow we need to send them to their, yes, for a
method, Facebook page and watch that video of Mark.
Brody saying exactly. Clear that and me going like,
thank you, Mark. That's the from the, from the
mouth of the man who created that book in his so
knowledgeable. Yeah, absolutely.
Okay. So the mindset shift that we
need to make as like, okay yes we obviously want to hit it as
far as we possibly can as close to the green as we possibly can.
But we can't do that if we're risking hitting in the woods and
the water etc etc. Choose smarter clubs, choose
smarter aiming points. Yeah.
You will favorite Club. I mean just pick your favorite
club that you can get off the the tea and the fact about this
is it's actually probably easier to learn how to hit the next
Club down, then it is to be patient enough to go ahead and
actually take out your go to Club because we've all been so
pattern to go into the driver or 3-wood as a layup compared to
what is the club that can kill put it in play every hole.
And so I would challenge everybody out there is like just
try it for one round of golf, you know, go out there for one
round of golf and see if you can keep the ball.
In play. And that means no chipping out
sideways. No penalty shots.
No. It doesn't have to be a lost
ball. It could be in a hazard that you
play from well. Okay.
The fact is is that has it should be full of water.
Maybe it's dry right now. Keep the ball in play at all
costs and just see how patient you have to be.
It is it is a true challenge of how patient these two players
are the playing. You know, us opens and Masters
are just they just they always a playing the shot that they know
they can pull off even though they have the ability to pull
off other ones. So cable or positive get the
T-shirt. The other thing that you know,
from hanging out with you, that you've helped me understand is
with the short game, almost of emphasizing getting it on the
green and making sure you're making a bogey verse trying to
hit you know the perfect chip or Flop shot and bringing double
bogey into play. I know it seems kind of dumb and
lame but like honestly that is helped quite a bit.
Make sure that you lock in Bogey and eliminate the double bogeys.
Exactly. And you see to a plays do this,
you'll see at the US Open, you'll see it.
The oh, Couldn't you see the PGA Championship in a few weeks
where they'll fly it over a bunker?
And I mean, even tiger at Augusta, right?
He aims the right on hole 18 because he knew if he hit it
harder, it would roll back down the hill, but if he aims to the
left, it come back off the green.
So the best players in the world, know how to play patient,
play away from trouble and so taking out the riskiest shot
which is, you know, flipping it over the bunker or trying to
land on a little knoll on the green.
You've really got to be thinking like if I'm on the green and I
to part-time down in three Well if you kept the ball in play off
the Tee Box and you've Advanced it down, short of the green and
you trip it on the green and 2pi, you've made a bogey and I
don't care if you say, well, I'm a to handicap or I'm a +3 or I'm
a pro, take out double bogeys and you going to be a better
golfer, that's a fact. And so the way I help golfers to
understand this court has always has to tell them that this is
just first gear. I'm not this coach, it's going
to tell you, Hey listen, you got to hit 60, not the teeth, the
rest of your life. It's learn how to play the game
of golf in first gear, and then develop second gear and third.
And there are some holes wide-open bomb driver, but when
you get to those tougher, holes shift, it down into first gear
and just get it around. And I think that if you look at
it that way, it helps the sort of the ego to go, okay?
I'm just going to do this because its first Kia but I'm
not moving into play in third or fourth.
Brilliant but know how to shift down into first gear and if you
don't know how to do that, well, if you don't, if it's a
professional, if you don't have to do that, those players will
never win a major. It was when Phil, Phil Mickelson
side to keep the ball on the ground, play more passive that
he started Wing Majors. He had less birdies but less
blow up. Poles and the anyone wins goes
off from Windsor terrible, you know.
Yeah, no I think you're right on there it you know I'm a like a
one or two handicap or something like that and you know you might
be thinking that's silly, not trying to chip it within three
feet every time, but honestly, it's a huge shift that that has
helped me and then off the tee, that's a huge thing as well.
So we're limiting those blowup holes, the homework for this
week that you want to give people.
What is that with? I would start with go out and
play golf for 18 holes and see if you can just keep it in play.
For 18 holes, no matter what. Say, at the end of it.
Listen, if I do it, the end of it will Robbins owes me, 100
bucks, right? In the make a challenge out of
it, right? So, it's something something
worthwhile, or you buy yourself a nice be.
I'm sure you will prefer to get a hundred bucks off of me.
But the fact is, is that you, you know, just do that.
And then I challenge all my players to do it for 72 holes.
And the crazy thing is, every single time I do it, they say,
to me, well, I thought you were stupid.
I do it. Didn't make any sense.
I went out there. I played the most relaxed.
Simple stress-free for rounds, and I shots the Scores that I
normally shoot but I didn't show any high scores.
Yeah. Because you took off the
pressure, you took out the blow-up holes and when you take
off the pressure and you actually start to execute the
shots better because you're not stressing out, trying to drive
on how you shouldn't. So I would challenge you to 72
holes and I would love to see it.
You know, they can is the best way you called me for them to
reach out, to go to the scoring method, Facebook page, or
something to make comments, or how can I measure?
Yeah, that's the way they can get in touch with you.
Their love to see, you know, reach out to me on Facebook or
messenger, but just love to hear your thoughts.
And feedback because it just it amazes me, whether I'm working
with a scratch golfer or someone shooting 100, how relaxed they
become, when they play the game of golf when they're playing and
learning how to play in first gear.
And just to clarify this on those 18 holes at 72 whores, you
have to have like a clear shot to the green on every hole.
Is that what qualifies? Um, yeah, a clear shot that.
Yeah, I mean, basically for sure.
No penalties. Okay, and I consider a penalty.
If you're plugged in the face of a bunker, that's a penalty, you
know. If you're stymied behind a tree
and you can't Advance the ball forward, that's a penalty.
So if you're under a tree and you pitch down to the fair, when
you're on The Fringe Of The Wind, that's fine.
So, I'm looking at really penalty shots and shots where
you have to literally play Backwards or sideways because
you physically cannot Advance the ball to with to tour around
the green, Perfect. All right.
Well that's day one, I'll be back.
Thanks so much for listening. Thank you will Robbins for
happen on. If you have your homework, if
you gotten do that, make sure to post a picture of the scorecard
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Killers. You'll want to go through that.
All right, we'll see you tomorrow.