If you are struggling to take your range swing to the golf
course, this episode is for you. I was falling into that camp
lately because I've been working really hard on my swing.
I'm happy about what I'm seeing on the golf course and in my my
simulator at home, but when I go play, it's just been rough.
So I wanted to have a chat about this with Doctor Luke Benoit and
I was up at his place. We were filming some content for
his RIP Ignite program, which is is a really cool month long
intensive where folks work on their swings.
You should check check it out for sure.
And we're filming this for that group.
And I was asking questions about what he calls the lab.
It's that transition from when we have got really a lot of
progress on our swing, but it's not going to the golf course.
And he has some of the box ideas, which we talked about
today. So make sure to go check out RIP
Ignite, check out Doctor Luke Benoit on Instagram.
And yeah, thanks for. Let me share.
This Luke really appreciate. It this is inside his program
normally, so it's. Cool that we get to share it
here on the podcast. And this is a video episode.
If you just listen to the audio, you're gonna wanna go video on
this one. All right, Luke, I'm excited for
this video because it's all about transfer, right?
It's about this idea of we have a great looking swing.
It works really well out here. Maybe it works well in our house
and then we get into a practice round.
Maybe it works there. We get into a tournament, it's
working, it's shaky, and then we fall off.
This isn't from, you know, personal experience or anything
that I'm referencing coming off some bad tournaments.
No, it is. I am right now in a place where
I've had some rough tournament scores even though I feel really
good about my practice and training.
So I need some help with transfer.
So first question is, if you're like hitting in your simulator
at home, are you hitting the ball pretty darn solid?
Yes. OK, yes, on the range, are you
hitting a pretty darn solid? OK.
And then when you go play a tournament, there's a huge gap
that's basically. It yes, and even like practice
rounds are some sometimes pretty good.
In the in the, the actual because you kind of know you're
elsewhere. Does the path and phase change?
Like are there big differences? I think if for me personally,
I'm like I'm getting stuck, yeah, I'm almost early extending
more than I ever do and things are real shot like there's not
much loading happening. Things get shallow and.
All the bio mechanics you've been trying to change are not
working under. It seems like I I revert is
reverting the right? Word like, yeah, yeah.
And so my personal story is, you know, I hit hooks as a kid.
I hit fades on the range, I go play in a tournament, I hit baby
draws. So we're going to regress to
kind of our old pattern. And so now we talk about going
from the workshop to the lap. That's exactly where we're at.
So I got to get into the charts. OK.
So you know, I think the best way to do it is we got an XY
axis and let's call this contextual interference.
You could also call it like external load, OK, which is like
stuff that's beyond your own body and your own thought
processes. So this would be like tournament
pressure, OK, now the shots matter.
So as this ramps up, golf gets harder, OK, On this side we have
cognitive load and this is how much you're thinking and
basically your attentional capacity for maybe your own
swing. And here's here's the thing,
everybody's got a different bandwidth.
So this would be like your kind of call it your skill band and
you're pretty high level skill guy overall.
You're a 0 handicap. So your band is generally fairly
high. You can think about a couple
things and maybe do it on the course.
Some people with less would be down here and they can't do as
much. So if you give 30 handicap 3
swing thoughts and you tell them hit a shot for 100 bucks they
can't even make contact. Correct or.
Good contact. So understanding where you're at
and what we call this, this is what we call challenge zone,
which is a term from Mark Wattagnoli, Tim Lee.
Understanding where you are in terms of your own skill level is
really key. And then understanding this
would be what we call the workshop.
So the workshops down here, that's where we build our swing.
And you've been doing that and it's actually going pretty good.
But then you're trying to go over to here to more like what
we call the arena or more like the performance zone where
you're trying to take it to the course and it's not working.
But have you done much in the lab which is where you transfer
it? Probably not.
Yeah.
So this is where we got to dive in and we got to find ways to
basically make it destabilize your pattern and make your
practice harder and keep thinking so that you can
actually use some of the cognitive load up here.
And you know, basically like you're trying to go over here
and you're trying to basically, you know, keep thinking about a
little bit while you're doing it on the course.
But unfortunately, when you think even a little bit, it just
gets to too difficult. So you have both really high
like prep pressure of tournaments, external load, and
then you also have a lot of thinking going on.
And this is what we call the danger zone in the danger zone.
And then when you're in the danger zone, you don't hit solid
shots, correct? Get big misses.
OK, So what are the things that need to happen in here?
So how do we train in the lab? We have to understand we're
trying to add a lot of variability to our environment
and we have to keep thinking about the stuff we're doing.
So even though you're not going to be flushing it on the range,
we're going to be thinking a lot and try to flush it, OK?
So you're going to push your limits and I'm going to give you
some drills to walk through this, OK?
And I think it'll be really fun. Got it.
So what we need to go is we need to, I'm hitting it great on
parallax. I've got all my numbers where I
want them to be, and I've hit it with a golf ball as well, right?
That's where we got to get to here.
And then to get to A tournament, we have to work our way.
We have to work we. Can't go from here to.
Correct. And in this whole shift, we call
it skillful sliding is really what the tournament player.
And I think that the future golf is all about being like, you can
go do workshop, you can have a big event coming up and you can
go switch to more of this or you can stop in the middle and kind
of like transfer train. This is where we almost just
it's all mental. You know, if we do a good job
here, this will work really well if we don't do a good job here.
Because I would say in your range time, how often have you
gone out there, switch targets, added pressure, change shapes,
make it difficult with your new swing.
Have you done a lot of that? No, no, I I think most of it's
been the most I've done is just shot shaping.
Sure. A little bit shot shaping right
that. That helps me a lot, but yeah,
not not enough of that. Drinks for training.
Walk us through a What do you want to see?
So we're going to start with just like a simple kind of like
we'll do a 20 shot. I love 2020 is a good number
because now you have statistical significance and we'll just go
through all these different targets and we're going to score
it like we're going to basically say within 5%.
That's a birdie, OK OK, within 10%, that would be a par.
More than 10% is bogey. So we got -1 even plus one.
And you're going to do a series of 20 shots and you're going to
think about your swing with a smooth backswing.
So you have a little bit of a little bit of like space and
time to make sure the swing is actually kind of clicking.
So you might be 1/2 club shorter, but it's you're kind of
proving that you could use some of the mechanics while you're
testing and making it hard, OK. Let's do it.
Let's show some of what this looks like.
OK, cool. I guess tell me stories of some
of your students of like making it through the what other other
terms for the death zone is that they.
Call it a danger zone. Yeah, the.
Yeah, I mean, that's very, very when we have to trademark that
one, The Death Zone. I love that.
That's an Everest, right? That's an Everest.
You get to the top. So so it's really common and I
think the more you compete and the more you're out there doing
it, the easier it is. And then if you're 16 years old,
you can do South in the workshop and you can transfer to the
arena and like performance really fast.
It's a little harder when you're older because you have all those
reps of being a little under and flipping, you know what I mean?
So let's get you this for a couple shots and then we'll kind
of jump right into it. OK.
And I don't like, you know, I don't really feel like people
need a big warm up for this sort of work.
It's kind of like you can get a few balls rolling and then we're
going to start testing. Yeah, it was like it was.
It was such a frustrating trying to transfer what I've been
working on because I've been hitting it so well.
Really. Yeah, and like, you know, at at
men's league the other day had shot under par and it was just
pretty much just like hit it and go where your ball goes, where
you want it to. Go interesting.
And with men's league, how much do you kind of care about that?
I mean, are you thinking about your swing out there?
A little bit, a little bit, yeah.
I mean, I've been trying to. I mean, the big thing for me is
like pop, pop up and cover. And when you're mentally does
it, does it seem like overall you're keeping the handle lower
than you might be in a in a qualifier?
It sure seemed that sure felt that way.
My driver shape was different. The only the hint that I have is
my driver changed. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So one of one of the most useful tools I would say if you really
know this is a problem is you have to go to some of these
competitive events and be like, I'm really OK shooting 90 and
I'm just going to go do it. Yeah.
And you probably should certainly go practice a bunch
with these fields and and go out there first, like with your own
ball in a cart by by yourself in the evening and then go play
with some buddies and ramp it up.
But you really have to just say, I don't really care what I shoot
Otherwise it will be hard to transfer.
Got it right. But if we do this right work and
kind of do more of this, kind of like right in the middle of the
lab where you're doing some skill but also thinking it helps
a lot. OK, I guess let's.
So we're ready to dive in. Let's play the game.
OK, so we're going to just go and I, I love kind of random
stuff here. So we're going to go kind of
left to right across starting at 70 yards.
So that pin that's about there. You can see that 70 yard.
So grab your 70 yard. You actually were going to
change distance too. Yeah, I do.
I want to change distance on every shot and I want you to
have a pre shot routine that mimics your feel of what you're
trying to achieve. So you're going to feel like,
OK, I'm trying to, I don't know if you want to.
We don't need to cross line or anything right now.
We're just trying to feel like this, right?
And you're trying to feel a little bit back.
So you're going to try to feel these on every shot and you can
give that as part of your pre shot routine.
Yeah, that's my pre shot. Routine and that's your doing.
Good, that kind of thing. Handle low good and then go
around. And keep the backswing pretty
smooth because that gives us a bandwidth to kind of go into the
new pattern we've been working on better.
I mean, pretty good. A little strong, but it's not
good. Yeah, good.
OK, Now we're going to move left to right to the next one's 90
yards. And so that shot we were saying
within 10% would be a par. You were just outside of seven
yards, you got a bogey. So we're scoring while we're
doing it, OK, Because now we have like the pressure of it
counts and we're thinking. OK, OK.
So now we're going 90 yards. The one just passed.
It one just passed it. Exactly.
There's a whole separate conversation, but I also feel
like all my wedge distance control work in the simulator
did not transfer either. Really.
And you're saying that because you're going too far, too short?
Too far every time. Do you think you've gotten
better with your dynamic line and getting a little more down
on it possibly? Yeah, definitely some proof.
Yes, I do. And so that that might be
something that's causing that thing to jump a bit.
That could. That's a good point.
OK, I don't know, was that that was probably par anyway.
Yeah. All right.
Next pin is going to be, I don't know, 155 on the left there.
And so as you're doing these, you're thinking a lot about what
you're trying to do, but you're also thinking about your target,
right? So this is basically the lab.
It's like we're doing a lot of cognitive load and we're testing
so that it starts to work. We we don't want this just to be
performance. Correct.
And this is where like we, we say it's OK if you're not great
at this. Like I would almost say you
should be hitting at 80 to 90% solid instead of 100 because if
you're 100, you're not changing the pattern enough.
Got it. No, it's OK to kind of suck at
this a little bit. OK?
So make the swing look beautiful, all right?
You tell me how this looks, then let's see.
So it looks pretty good. You were doing a lot better, I
think, with your dynamic angle. But the shape tells you what?
What does the shape tell you on that one?
It's closed. It's closed and you're inside
out, right? Inside out.
And so let's do another one. Obviously generally in this game
you would kind of switch targets every time, but I want you to
see if you can get try to get the path even more left, because
we want to want to feel more cuts, right?
All right. And I will say here, Corey, like
your swing to me looks better than when I saw you last time.
Oh, good. You are aimed right.
I'm aimed right. You're aimed 5 yards right.
And I wonder if it's because you're doing the kickstand real
and you're kind of aiming and. Last time I was aimed. 2.1
You've changed it. OK, go to work.
Go to work. It worked, yeah.
So let's let's just aim a little more left.
Show me one more to that same target.
But I'm I'm liking a lot of what you're doing, to be honest.
So if I was, if I was by myself right now, I'd be using video
feedback. Right, you would you'd be using
your your parallax while you're doing this aim a little more
left tiny bit. There you go.
That's a point of good. Perfect.
OK, we actually got a cut on. It anyway, yeah, it's really
well. Your alignment is really
different than the last time. Yeah, it's funny how quickly
things can change in this game, right?
That is nuts. That's why, like, we always got
to do this right? Yeah, we got to do this
constantly. Checking these things.
So we'll keep going. Let's say that was a par bogey.
The next one's kind of, I don't know, 120 on the right. 120 on
the right. So how much do you think this
sort of training would hurt your performance versus just trying
to hit great shots? Ask that another way.
Maybe. I mean, do you feel like you're
handicapped doing this because you're thinking a lot?
It's not going to be as good. You're hitting it like a 5.
But at least we're training the stuff we need under the right
situation. You know what I mean?
We're training. Thinking and we're training in
the variable environment. Exactly, exactly.
So we're trading one for the other a bit, but if we don't do
it, we won't transfer at all, right?
How's the 120 flag going? Yeah, it's kind of the one on
the right, I guess. That's where I was aiming
before. OK, got it.
That's why that's okay. Never mind.
You were in over there. Got it.
Okay, now we figured. Some things.
Now you're perfect. Okay, here we go.
We can cut that video out if we need to.
See, that's the stuck. What's that?
That's a good stuck shot. Yeah, Yep.
So you know, this is where OK, I'm going to give you another
one and this would be OK during this training be like OK, if you
feel like you hit a bad one and you want to try to feel a little
more released to get the face feeling here you.
Can do that was this this is clues right we got toe down full
toe down on that we can tell that through the divot maybe all
right so here we go again. Now that was it, wasn't it?
Yeah. I think you're like in a classic
place of transfer hell, You know, it's kind of like you can
do it, but it's not that consistent as soon as you had
pressure. It's really hard as someone,
maybe we got some classic stuck folks here with me, but as a
classic get stuck behind. It's really hard to get it on
top. So then could you exaggerate
this? So I had this guy who's really
good, really good player at a over at Hazeltine.
And he's like, he struggles to get 2 inside out, kind of like
you. So I said, all right, I want you
to practice at -9 And he's trying to hit really hard, hard
cuts. So you could push the envelope
on this and say, I'm not going to hit it good, but I'm going to
hit really outside in cuts and just really cover it.
So let's go a little more aggressive with that.
So next target, let's call IT175180 probably.
And I want you to just exaggerate it more.
So Sam, I won't do a cut setup, but just.
Yeah, you're just going to feel that low left handle.
Yeah. Good, you hit a terrible.
Shot. I hit a terrible shot.
And that's where I say like 80 to 90% good contact is kind of
the goal. You get to 100.
You're probably not changing the swing enough, you know?
So you want you're saying practice if you need to practice
extreme practice this, right? Yeah, because we want to get
this in 1000 reps, not 10,000, you know, and if you don't push
the envelope pretty hard, you won't get there very fast.
So finish low left, but try to hit a good shot.
Good. See, that was some of the bad
shots. Got it.
And I was super toy, right? So now I'm going to throw the
impact opposites feel at you and be like, OK, could you not hit
the toe on this one? Could you hit more heel with
that same sort of feel, Right. We're about to find out.
Yeah, I got good news. OK, so back too much, my brain
broke. Yeah.
It's great. Keep going.
Broke my brain. And this is kind of like, you
know, I'm going back to the chart again talking about that
you're at you're totally at the edge of it's almost too much.
Yeah. But you're grading it on your
contact instead of parallax. And that's what that's what most
people do. That's why I kind of want you to
struggle and talk through this. The goal is not to hit it good.
I'm just sitting over this ball forever because I have so many
things I'm trying to think about right now.
I thought the contact was terrible, but the swing was
pretty decent, you know? And so the whole thing, you, you
know, it's like decoupling from impact is how you're going to
learn. So let's keep going until you
can start to square it up and figure it out.
Yeah, low left, low left, release it a little earlier.
You don't need to maybe feel as active with the lower body.
All things equal. You got to just let the arms
release low left. That was actually very close.
OK, right. Good shape.
Just got a group then. It definitely went definitely we
started left was not the stuck. That's it.
Nice. Look at that man.
Yeah, OK, so we took us four and then what we'd found is we got a
little stuck in the block practice because we had to slide
down to the workshop for a hot, hot minute to feel it.
But then you flush one and you're like OK I actually hit 4
shitty ones but now I got OK. You got your first path that was
pretty negative. Covered it pretty well.
OK. So things that we're thinking
about here is we're switching targets and distances, switching
clubs every time. We're trying to think as much as
possible, right, Because we want all the swing thoughts.
We're judging the shots based on the result plus the swing at the
same time. If we do make a bad swing, pause
for a minute maybe and try to improve it.
Yeah. Yeah.
OK. Do you think now though, like we
hit a good one? Now let's move on.
Yeah, yeah. So it is.
It is this really tricky part because I do want you to care
about the shot a little bit, but I also want you to be OK with
getting a lot of bad results. But, you know, regressing your
old pattern's not an option. It's not what we're doing.
We're in the lab, so it needs to feel like we're trying to care.
And you're trying to make the swing awesome, too.
And that's what's really hard about playing golf right now is
that I'm, I get stuck, you know, I hit one, I, I can think of a
handful of shots which were hit like that.
I can also think of a handful of shots which were not hit like
that over there, Yes. So it's right like you said,
it's right in the danger. Zone, it is in the danger zone
and so you're kind of looking at the feedback.
How's my video look? Does it look pretty good?
Then I'm happy with it and then I solve contact biases, but hit
a lot of bad ones don't do the same bad.
So if you know overall your face is open, you better release it,
make it go more left. If you're chunking, a lot of
them feel a little thinner, you know what I mean?
What do you think about this thing is like, I feel like in
pressure, yeah, I definitely get sucked.
I like use the ability to cover and like use my lower body and I
just kind of we're just going. Yes.
You know, like this. Yeah.
Do I just, is that a thing of like more reps?
And then this is just we're always focused.
We're just going to focus on that a lot for a while.
Yeah, yeah. And, and I would say especially
for you, a little bit of an easy way to to, to, to perform
without thinking as much lower body is just make sure that club
is out in front releasing the arms or doing enough work.
So your hips going this way a bit, but you're also just
releasing that, you know? The death zone that I fell into
was, I think I I was doing that at the same time of going right
towards. The guy, right?
And so then we fall into those like traps.
Yes. Now see, and it's like very
clear where I am in this. What?
What did you call it the? Skillful, skillful sliding and
the big thing is everybody always is like they want to hit
good shots on the range. You can see I'm very comfortable
with you hitting it like shit on the edge.
I do not care if you're bad. But when I was a young coach, I
would feel bad for my students struggling.
And now I realize that is the whole point.
Now if we want to feel better about it, we can just kind of go
blank mind and you should move towards more close to maybe the
arena where you're performing. And so that would be our next
challenge. But I want to give you one more
kind of like way. Like let's say you're a little
farther along and you're starting to make it fairly solid
and it's looking pretty good. Now we start to start to
integrate like this, this idea of sequencing different shapes
while we do it, OK, which is going to be really hard for you.
OK, But I want you to think about your new swing and I want
you to do stock shot. Yep, draw stock shot, fade stock
shot, windball with your mechanics.
I like this. Extremely hard right?
I think I'm going to be better at this.
OK, interesting. I can almost guarantee that I
will be fine. Got it.
I don't know if that's weird or not, but it is weird.
This is where it's time to thrive.
Got it. So while I'm hitting these
shots, tell me about why this is.
Why is this important? Well, it makes the whole pattern
more more kind of flexible, you know, was that stock or draw
that was? Draw OK now stock?
Yep. And we'll call it new stock,
which is path, goal, what -1 or two, something like that group
then. But you know.
I did hit the shot. You did hit the shot and now
we're going back to stock or I'm sorry, now we're going back to
fade, right? OK, I like it.
I like it. Now we're going back to stock.
It's kind of fun. That's a good swing.
Yeah, and now we're going to do windball now, OK for you.
What's that mean? Probably a little bit back and
then kind of chop at it. OK, OK.
I don't see what happens. We can talk more about.
That I don't really have much of an idea here currently.
I mean, the big thing I would say is like you need to have an
option and different people have different ways to do it.
You got an option there. So that's kind of.
Hold up real quick. We're good.
You know, you're right in the teeth of now we're now we're
trying to make shots happen. You're also thinking about your
move and then you are finding different solutions to the
problem. And this is like that, that edge
of like it's it's, it's pretty gnarly.
You're going to hit a lot of bad shots, but you're going to learn
fast. We don't have to judge it on
contact every time. So one thing that I haven't done
here is I haven't like done some of this stuff.
Like. You know, really gotten in here,
done this. What's your thought?
Are we still thinking like speed is better or what are we?
Yeah, I think for the most part, you know, I kind of like the
three quarter 1/4 reel. OK, I think I'd go pretty quick
most of it. Now as we move into the last
part of like we're almost to the arena, like let's see, had a
tournament next week, then you should be doing a lot more and
more like exactly how are you going to play golf going through
pre shot routine and thinking less lightning the cognitive
load and trying to hit solid. So you might your swing might
not look as pretty, but you're going to hit more solid.
So that's where we start integrating more pre shot
routine and getting for the course.
But when folks are just working on their swing, let's hit shots.
Let's hit shots and let's be OK with hitting a bad, but don't do
the same bad. Solve it with the Impact
Opposites framework while you're in that spot, yeah.
All right, we're in the lab. Do we?
What do you think? I think you got the heart of it,
but but just understand that the the hardest part of the lab is
that when you start to add more pressure.
Yeah, you you're in danger of going into the cognitive like
overload in the danger zone comes if you're still thinking a
lot. Yeah.
And that's what most people just don't really think very well.
About well, I think right now is we were just kind of show I can
hit a good shot that I I feel like the swing is good and the
contact is good yes it's probably what one every four
times right now? One every five times yeah.
So that's hard to take to the it's.
Really hard to take the golf course.
So now let's do a little training where we're kind of
like doing pre shot routine, switching targets, and I might
even throw this where like, you know, I'm going to have you do a
push up every four shots, just like physiologically stress you.
And you could do this in so many different ways, but you want to
find different ways to add stress while you're practicing
and make it weird and and it sounds crazy, but even
practicing when you're tired, it's good.
You know, it's OK, like fight that because what do you know
about the best golfers is they're ready for any shot at
any time in front of anybody. And so you have to train when
that whole bandwidth of different ways to add
difficulty. Don't make don't look for
consistency, look for hardship and overcome it.
Got it. Yeah, talk through.
OK, so let's go through like you can, you can RIP driver, let's
go through some holes and we're going to go through more like
full shot routine. And this is where I would say
now our goal is 95% solid strikes.
And so for you, you have to decide what cognitive load you
need so that you can hit it solid.
So if you think it's just one thing to think about, do that.
If you think you can manage 3 and hit it pretty solid, do
that. You know what I mean?
I can try. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's it's the baby one. I mean, honestly, you're into
the wind. Impressed me.
Cory, if you get ball speed 190, you will not hit them.
Really. Nope.
OK. Does that sound like a fun, a
fun challenge? I'll pay the ER visit if you can
hit them. So we're going to play.
We're going to play some holes. Yep, and you're going to go
through full routine. Full routine?
And how much do you want to think?
This is a good cognitive load question.
Right now I have to think a lot you do I have to add these.
But if you don't, what happens? I don't know, I think I'm just
going to go inside out and high handle, OK.
So here's what I would say. If you want to perform well in
tournaments, you probably need to practice some without
thinking too much. And I think you haven't done
that much at all. So think about Phil Mickelson.
How high is that handle? How it's so bad?
Can you be the second best player in your generation with a
high handle? You can.
You can, you can be. So we're going to not think if
we're trying to do performance, the training, you know, I know
it's not going to be pretty, but swing smooth, have good tempo
and almost go, let's go, no cognitive.
Thoughts. No thoughts.
Just. Hit shots and this is how you're
really going to want to practice for getting ready for a big
event. All right, so we're going to aim
between the two flags at the end down there.
Yep. Is that fair enough?
Yep. OK, we're going to think I just.
I hit straight balls, to be honest.
So that's what we're going to try to do.
Oh, gross. See that?
Well, that is really representative actually.
That's pretty much what it did, right?
Yeah. And so, OK, so let's do it
again. If you, if you notice a trend,
you know how we look at data trends and like if it's one,
we're going to move on. If we get 234, we see a pattern,
then we just get the club face open using impact opposites.
But we're not going to go mechanical cognitive load super
high because you won't hit that solid.
Yeah, it feels, if things feel really gross, I mean, I can try
to hit a cut here. Yeah.
Just show me a little cut that's impact opposites like just feel
a little fade out there. If you early extend a little
bit, who cares? That was pretty good.
Yeah. So this is kind of where I think
you should be playing a tournament instead of thinking a
ton, yeah, going to OK, I can hit little cuts.
Yeah, I can early extend and I can be like Phil Mickelson and
be OK, you know? What I mean all right.
All right, look at that. Look at you out of the docks.
172 and three O 7 carry. I mean this this driver's pretty
dog when I hit it. OK, let's play a couple more
holes in our head and and we have to train this mindset of
not thinking this is right on the edge of basically a
performance zone, right arena, OK.
So you want another? Driver another.
Let's do Yeah. So let's go.
Let's say you hit that at Summer Bee number one.
What do you have in? Is that like a high rear?
Yeah, we've got like a let's just hit a forearm.
How about that? We'll hit it at well, no, you
don't like gaming of flags, do you?
I mean, let's pick a flag in the name 10 feet right of it, OK?
Let's just go the farthest flag, right and then, and then I can
go anywhere right of this flag. I can't go left of.
It. I like it.
So we're very situational. Yeah.
And then when with the wind, where we're at, do you want to
hit draw or fade? You have a shape in mind.
What do you like? I I have not been playing shape
on the course. OK.
So just hit stock shot, then stock shot I.
Don't know if that's good or bad, but that's where we're at
all right. And we hit it in the lake.
OK, And so I think let's try it again.
And I want you to feel a little fade.
You know, obviously 1 sample, but it does seem like you are
more prone to hit it left right now, aren't you?
You got you got that right. So I just want you to feel
fades. Has hit well.
Hit Well, just a little pull baseball, right, Yeah.
So we're going to kind of watch these trends and we're going to
basically do this and test this is the betting to be like what
could I expect on the course? Yep, because going into your
last event you did almost 0 of this.
No, I I to be honest, I find it really hard to get.
Those shots on the range. So I'm very happy that we just I
just did OK. I typically can't.
Really. Yeah, OK.
All right. So this is good.
Good, let's keep going. Good.
This is good. All right, so let's go.
Next fall into this. Next fall, yeah.
OK, on this one, I would just let's just hit a hybrid for fun,
mix it up. And then do you like at this
point just trying to feel baby fades because that's kind of a
manageable sort of strategy, right?
That's a good swing thought for us here today.
Well, this is good. I haven't I haven't been able to
hit these kind of shots. So I'm quite pleased.
It's money, yeah. OK.
So a little bit of what we're seeing is you're you're instead
of being internal focused on this, you're trying to hit the
golf ball with the shape you're trying to do.
Yeah. And the result's not that bad,
right? So it's kind of going the closer
to competition, the more external focus we should be.
What's that golf ball need to do?
Let your body find the answer, you know what I mean?
And then you actually can use some of it.
Yeah, No, this is, this is brilliant.
OK. So let's let's track back a
little bit. So drill one, we're changing our
targets, lots of thoughts, lots of bad shots.
We're trying to bring everything together that we've been.
Working and we're testing, but we're OK hitting about 1/5
really bad or even 1/4. That's fine.
Then our next transition is shot shape, right?
That's the next layer on and then after that we go to
straight like clear the mind, yeah, go hit golf shots, right.
So those are like the three stages of.
The lab and all, all the while we're kind of using impact
opposites framework a little bit to make sure we can solve bias
patterns. I'm not trying to, you know,
think internal cues at all. Don't think about your body too
much when you're playing golf. It doesn't work right.
OK, your performance. Got it.
Internal cues body is for workshop.
And this is just the realities of the zone of 25% of your shots
are good. Yeah, Yeah, that is what it did.
Early on, totally, Yeah, Yeah. And then if, if, if, if you do
the right stuff over time, you can, you can get to being pretty
flushing with a pretty good swing.
But it's, it's a lot of battles to get there.
I'm not, you know. How much work?
So I'm hitting 2520% of shots decent right now.
This is going to take me to get to 70% of shots are decent.
And everybody's different, but you're pretty good athlete.
And I also think like part of it is you need to just accept that
you don't need to think so much while you're playing golf.
Just say little cuts like those feels transfer into the right
body movements. It's kind of like we're we're
achieving motor equivalents. When you feel little cuts, yeah,
you're not really extending that much.
You know what I mean? So I think given that you have
an easier way to think than you do than you thought, yeah.
That's great. This is is.
This is the hardest part of this whole process.
I think, yeah, because people want that workshop swing to show
up on the course. And if you give me a 16 year old
kid, it kind of does very quickly.
You're not, you're not 16. So then you have to do more time
in the lab and refine it and you have to compete more.
And you should make very, we always say breakdown your your
practice and very strategic bins of you got workshop lab and
arena. Arena is really where you're
very light touches. Again, external cues shape and
what we're trying to do, make sure you do enough of that
before your tournaments. And then definitely like, get in
the lab and kind of hit it relatively bad, but make the
swing look pretty good too, you know?
It's brilliant. It's different.
I like it.
Cool. This answered a lot of
questions. Good.
Any other questions from the audience back there?
Do we? We covered a lot here in
transfer. We did maybe like.