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Alright, we are back with day 3 of our mini sessions.
On course management with Coach will Robbins.
We've talked about blow up holes, we've talked about
proximity from the whole day three.
Three, what are you helping us with Will?
Well, I think we've talked about some stats and now, we've got to
get honest, and we've got to start to talk about the mindset,
and I think that a lot of people say, oh, the game of golf is
mental, it's so Mentor. But, you know, realistically, I
think it's more that we need to learn about the emotions and how
we play the game in our emotional state, that we're in
rather than our mental state. Because what I tend to see is
that our thoughts lead to emotions.
And most of us, If we're honest, when we're playing, let's say if
you're a better You're very loose one two, three over par,
but you start to get you. No you no one under to under
three and and you start to tighten up and you start to
think a little bit more and you start to Future trip and those
thoughts, what do they lead to usually that emotion of anxiety
and that anxiety leads to struggling to keep, you know,
really commit to the shot, really struggling to let, you
know, actually believe in it. And then from there it leads to
a bad shot. And then so often I'll hear a
place. Say, oh, I just didn't swing it
right? Or oh, you know, I hooked it.
But was that a technique problem or was that a commitment
problem? And what I see from most good
players is that they're not getting fully committed on a
golf shot and that's why they struggle to hit the shot.
They desire. Not because their techniques
wrong, you know, their technique isn't up to par.
So I really think it's all comes down to how do you go ahead and
get committed? You know, there's one thing that
we are all are very good at and when it comes to can in this
kind of conversation, It's piling on the tension and piling
on the stress when you're when you're standing over that shot,
right? Yeah.
All starting with that expectations.
Oh, I should hit this one to ten feet, your 135 yards, out of
rough. Going over a bunker, no, you
shouldn't. So, when you increase the
stress, you then get in a worse, emotional state, which means
then you don't commit to the shot and you swing with anxiety
or tension or quick. And then people look at me.
What did I do wrong? And they think oh, my swing
isn't good enough. Well, I always It's them or how
is it that the best players in the world can be 17-under.
Par heading into the 18th hole and duck hook it into the junk,
you know, a jean band of L or every every player that's ever
melted down. You think they lost their
technique or the tension got to a point where they stopped
committing because they weren't free anymore.
They were so tight and tense that they couldn't commit to the
shot. So, it's really about this whole
idea of, what's the real problem?
Because I see everyone on my swings are not good enough.
I'm going to ask you this on every shot.
Are you committing fully to Shop?
Do you even know what that means?
You don't mean a, you do you know what it is to commit to a
shop? Because if not, I'll guarantee
you will transform your golf game.
When you start to understand what permitting is, what it
feels like, and how to do it rather than continuing to work
on. If my technique was better, I'd
be a better golfer. Well, Molinari still got pretty
good technique but he tightened up and there were two double
bogeys due to tension. Not to do with technique and
that it not a monarchy fan. Are you from?
He's fantastic, but they showed him saying, look 59-49 Holes,
without a bogey. Look how stress-free is.
Yeah. But then you get to the back,
nine of a major playing alongside Tiger Woods and you
get to that 12th hole and that flag in tasting and he aims a
little bit too far, right? So his expectations were not in
alignment with the show. You should have been hitting, he
then whiffs at it and hits a shot that we haven't seen him
here now. You think his technique
disappeared because he birdied the next hole the tension
overcame him Swing didn't hit the ball away when it hits in
the water makes double. And so the point is that the
best ball striker in the world. If he can't hit a good shot,
under a ton of tension when he's not managing it correctly, why
do you think you should be able to when he's managing his
tension correctly, he plays, great just the same as all of us
when we're in that Peak state, where relax, we're enjoying
ourselves. You know, we're trusting, we're
committing Two Shots. We play good but when we get out
of that future trip tension and all that then.
Yeah, next thing you know, bad shots come and then I blame it
on our swing and that is absolutely false.
So what you've defined here is that we all need to get better
at accessing the skill that we already have, you know, like you
go and throw down two golf balls on every shot when you go out
and play, you have the skill, right?
We all have the skill. So it's about accessing that.
Okay, so what is your suggestion then how do we all get a little
bit better at accessing that skill when the tension comes,
you know, after we've shot, 36 on the front nine and, you know,
we're used to shooting 42 like How do we access that?
Well, I would go ahead and say before you shoot that it takes
on the front, nine on every shot.
Let's stop worrying about, you know, tracking stats and not
because you can track stats. At the end of the round, you can
track them at the end of a whole, but when we're in the
process, we need to start to have instead of hindsight, we
need for site, we need to see what's going to happen before
the shot happens, right? So I want you to track at the
end of every shot. How committed were you on this
shot? So did you visualize it?
Did you actually see it's a 9-iron off of the left edge of
the green. 145 yards, and it's a soft cut.
Okay? And then did you get over and
feel good over it. And then, did you let it go?
Did you actually trust it? Or did you go?
Well, it could be a nine. It might be an a I think what?
I'll hit the nine anyway. Have a rehearsal swing Gogol
that didn't feel right. Maybe I should draw it, get over
the golf ball, rush it not put a good swing on it and duck hook
it into the water and say, God my technique is terrible.
If you did. The second one is a 0 out of 10.
The first ones, a 10 out of 10. It doesn't matter where the ball
goes, if you hit it close to the hole or if you're in the water,
it's Did you get committed to that golf shot?
And I want you to do that on every shot for a round of golf
and just start tracking at a 10. So, your score card on the left
hand side. You have first shot.
Second shot, third shot for shot and fifth shot on your first
shot. How committed are you 7?
Y i7. Well, I just didn't believe I
didn't visualize your good enough.
Alright. Well on the next one visualize
better, what was it a 9? Well, why not attend?
You know what? At the bottom of the swing, I
got a little bit tight. Okay, well on the next one, but
even Freer and just start to find how you play and trust and
commit to the golf shot. And then just go through a whole
round doing that and start to see.
Oh yeah. 4432 well how are those holes?
I was rushing I was tired, I was overthinking.
Well no wonder you hit poor shots and just start to track
the process and commit to the process rather than the result
because the result will take care of itself.
You're going to shoot whatever you going to shoot, but I'll
guarantee you. It's a lower score when you're
committed to more golf shots. Yeah, I'm a fan of anything that
we can do to help us, you know. Yourselves.
Get a little more awareness and what we're doing right then.
Because so often we just get carried away and you know,
you're either so mad that you want to quit Golf and sell your
clubs or your so you know, wrapped up and I'm going to
shoot my lowest round ever that you kind of just forget that
it's one shot at a time and exercise like that helps you
just be a bit more here right now in this shot.
And then the next shot instead of the whole, the whole thing
and nobody listening to this podcast doesn't already know
this because that you'll say to them, when do you play your best
golf? Half and quarter.
You've heard it a thousand times.
Well, when I'm just, you know, I'm just trusting it.
I just I just I'm not overthinking, I'm not trying
really hard. I feel, I'm feeling good.
And at, you know, if I had a bad shot I let go of it.
Okay. When do you play your worst?
What? I'm thinking a lot on.
I'm trying really hard when I when I when I'm tight.
Okay. So how are you practicing on a
daily basis on a whole basis, on a shot-by-shot basis, getting
into your Peak state of seeing a shot?
Trusting it feeling good and executing it is trusting
committing because if You stand over shots feeding tight
thinking a lot and not committing.
Why inhales named you needed a good golf shot that's illogical.
I'm is completely rational, but guess what we golfers.
So we do that and then we get frustrated where the golf ball
went rather than where our mind and our body in our physiology
was. So it's really about on every
shot running through that process and started to take
ownership of every shop. And that's what the best players
in the world. Do better than anybody else on
the planet. I think I saw him on our in an
interview say something like you've lost focus on a couple
shots in the back nine and I think he was right.
Prancing to that 12, obviously in your right like if he can
lose focus and not be there. I'm using air quotes here for
everybody that's listening obviously you can see that but
you know, if he cannot be there in that moment, you know, he
obviously he's been under that gun before at the open and Etc.
Then how much more practice do we all need of this?
How much more, you know, tools? Do we need to keep track of this
and have this. Be a focus for us to build that
muscle it's over time, such a great point.
And what he said in the interview is, I'm Really please.
Why? I am really pleased with how I
played. He was really pleased about how,
well he dealt with his emotions and his balance, and he stayed
through the round, and he made those two errors.
But, let's get back to Majors ago and Tiger Woods is leading
the open, you know, and it kind of Ste on the 10th hole.
Hooks went into the bunker makes part on 11, hooks it into with
an iron off the tee hooks. It makes bogey on 12 blocks.
It makes Bogey and losses to mollari again.
He came off, he II was under the pressure.
I didn't quite didn't quite commit to those shots.
And so there's the two, you know, two of the last three
major winners saying, hey, you know what, I had that lapse of
concentration whereas at the PGA Championship Brooks koepka,
never let off and needed in Tiger Woods and it was a great
battle. So best players in the world, do
it, even though they're focusing on it, 100 percent on every
shot. It's now time for us to start to
doing that. Like I said start to get
hindsight. The shot in front of me is
important get committed to it and execute rather than you
know. Okay.
What I'm for over. What am I going to do?
I hope But it make a bogey things like that.
Okay, so our three pieces of homework, from the last three
days is one. We've got our blow up whole
Challenge and the challenge for that is that 18 or 72 holes.
If you have the time of not causing any penalty Strokes,
then we have our proximity from the holes.
We've got measure your first put on each hole and then also make
a quick note of where the shot was from that got you there, and
then today's homework which is going to be your commitment
level will kind of Share that scale a little earlier here.
A commitment level of each shot. And just looking at that, those
are kind of our three pieces, of course, management homework,
that I guarantee you're going to get some awareness.
You're going to get more engaged in the process of playing and
practicing by running through those and I can't recommend
enough. Here's everyone, you know, if it
may be off your sins may be. Just one final thing is maybe
just about to change that word, of course, management to game
management because your game is your game, right?
And that's why I think you hear from a lot of these, these great
Sports psychologists and statistician.
And has its your game. How do you keep double bogeys
out of it? It's your game.
How do you get closer to the hole?
It's your game. How do you think your way around
it? So you really looking at, if you
understand game management, then you have an understanding of how
to play the game which allows you to practice and train the
right way which meets that you're going to reach your
potential. So I think it's really important
to really embrace it as yours rather than this course is how
you should play this course. No it's how you should play the
course in front of you. Yep and I guess one further step
by I don't know if we've said this or not but all of these
These these homework assignments are helping to educate your
practice and training. Also that is the reason that
we're doing one is obviously gaining awareness, but the
second is to help you. Spend your time smarter when you
head out to practice and practice isn't always shining on
the driving range shooting golf balls, practices committing to a
golf shot before I hit it. You know, practice is measuring
the length of the first part and trying to get it closer than 15
feet when I chip next time, because that's my average, you
know, everything is practice, right, and practice makes
permanent what you do more of you get better at.
So, Very careful of what you're working on.
Because if it's the wrong stuff and it's not where you need to
be working, you will Plateau and you will not shoot lower scores
and then it leads to frustration, which usually leads
to higher scores. Do you recommend that people do?
Like all of these at once or focus on one thing at a time
when they go play nine holes or I would take a week at a time a
month at a time just go and moths that I mean the last one,
the commitment to the shot I mean I've been working on that
for 14 years or however long, you know, and so you'll start to
track, you know, you'll start to the way to look at it.
Is this on Every shot you are going to commit to the shot.
So you're doing that every shot on every hole.
You're looking at. How on Earth do I keep the ball
in play on this hole? Once you get onto every Green?
You're thinking. How far away am I from the hole?
So it's it's kind of shot by shot Hole by hole and then
obviously core strategy at the, you know, when before you play
is, how am I going to put all these 18 holes together?
And what I think my you know personal power will be on this
golf course you would prefer when you send student out though
that there's some level of like today, my focus is kind of going
to be here. Yep.
Absolutely. And do Until you attain your
goal like if it don't go on to the next one.
If the first day you go out and get 16 out of 18, but you know,
with The Blob cause you kept 16 of 18 in Plano, get 80
innovating earn your way to proximities, and then once
you've gotten proximities and you know those numbers then,
move on to the next one. Perfect.
Well, it's been fun to hang out with you the last three days.
Hopefully people enjoyed this. They want to learn more for me
or check out what you are doing. How can they do that?
Yeah, just check out the scoring method.com, you know, reach out
to me on Facebook will Robbins And yeah, but I think the
biggest thing is, is it get on that Facebook page and post some
of the results and get into the community and start to realize
that your potential lies in how well you play the game on how
well, you just swing the club. So looking forward, hearing some
great results. Thank you so much for listening
to this episode of the podcast and get it will Robbins for
joining us. The last three days in a row for
this little mini series that we did.
I really enjoyed it. I hope that you did as well.
Make sure to go follow along with what will is up to at the
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what he is doing that can help you lower your scores with the
game that you have, give you a better idea of how to be your
own caddy, how to have foresight instead of hindsight and then
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