Be Your Own Coach Overview

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Okay, welcome to the overview of the GulfSmart Academy or the GSA system.

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The GulfSmart Academy system, I originally designed it to be the ultimate guide

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for do-it-yourself

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golfers.

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And so, one of my core philosophies is that you are your own best golf coach.

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This line is inspired by one of my mentors, Dr. Guy Voie, who claims that you

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are your

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own best therapist, where if you understand your injury, then potentially you

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can do the

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exercises as much as you need, you can feel when it gets out, you can

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ultimately control

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your situation better than any therapist working on you.

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And I believe the same is true in golf.

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If you understand your game, then you can make little course corrections and

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get your

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game back on track.

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And that gives you a great sense of confidence and ownership as you progress

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through improving

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your golf game.

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Okay, if you're going to become your own coach, there are really two key

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questions.

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One, how do you assess your game?

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So how do you figure out where you are at, and how do you compare or isolate,

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what do

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I have to do to get where I want to go?

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So that becomes, how do you assess your game, and then how do you train to

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actually improve?

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Well, to assess your game, I think there's two key steps.

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One, you have to understand the benchmarks.

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So if you currently shoot around 100 and you want to shoot 80, you don't want

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to just

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say, "Oh, I need to get better."

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You want to figure out which part of your game is holding you back.

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So in this presentation and in other presentations, we're going to talk about

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some simple benchmarks

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that you can use to figure out what you actually have to do to improve.

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Now the benchmarks alone, that might help you focus how you're going to

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practice, but

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to really improve, you're going to have to learn how to analyze your own video.

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Whenever you take a lesson with a golf coach, we're going to either put you on

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track man

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or 3D or video.

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We're going to look at your swing and compare that to our theoretical model in

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our mind.

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If you're going to be your own coach, you have to understand the benchmarks,

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and you

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have to understand the models, and so that's what the GolfSmart Academy system

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is here

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to teach you how to do.

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So then, once you've identified an issue, you have to train it.

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To understand how to train it, you have to, again, understand where am I

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compared to

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where I want to go, and then you have to experiment with drills and different

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swing

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ideas or swing thoughts that get your swing to move closer to the model.

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If you move closer to the model for each different skill level, ultimately,

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your benchmarks

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will improve.

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This is the system in a nutshell.

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So the way it works, or the way it looks, graphically, you're going to play

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golf to

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figure out where you're at, you're going to diagnose a key issue, and then you

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're going

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to train to improve what issue you isolated.

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When you play golf again, you should see a little bit of improvement or a trend

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in the

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right direction on whatever benchmark you isolated.

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Here we've got it again.

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Got to understand the benchmarks.

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So when you play golf, you're going to get the stats.

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Got to understand your key issues.

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You have to understand how the swing models relate to the benchmarks, and you

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have to

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understand how to analyze your own video and read the feedback of contact and

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ball flight.

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And then you have to practice effectively.

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You can't just go up there and rake and beat balls.

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You have to do good swing thoughts, understand the concepts that help you

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ultimately change

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the way your swing looks.

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And when you do that, you'll develop a field library.

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The field library might be, okay, I now know what it means to actually make

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solid contact.

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I know what it feels like to cover the ball.

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I know what it feels like to square the face.

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You're only going to get glimpses of those when you do the drills, and so the

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drills will

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ultimately help you build a more comprehensive field library.

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As you play more golf, you're just going to repeat the process until you get as

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as you want to.

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Now the good news is play golf can actually be broken down into four main

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skills.

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So instead of just saying, oh, I'm terrible and I want to get better, you can

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isolate which

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of the four skills is really holding you back, and I'm going to help you do

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that.

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So the four key skills are your tee shot, your iron shot, or your approach shot

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, which

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is basically a full swing when the ball is on the ground instead of on a tee.

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Then you've got your wedge play, especially around the greens, and you're

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putting.

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With any two golfers, so if I take a golfer who shoots around 100 and a golfer

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who shoots

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around 80, they've got a 20 stroke difference, about 2/3 of that stroke

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distance on average

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is going to come from the full swing.

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We'll break that down even further, and about 1/3 is going to come from the

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short game.

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So you want to improve every area, but if you really want to have a big impact

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on your

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game, you want to get better and better with your full swing, which includes

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hitting the

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ball further off the tee, keeping it more in play, and then hitting your irons

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more solidly

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and closer to the hole.

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Do that, your scores go down a whole lot quicker and easier.

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So here's just kind of a rough breakdown of, if you've got somebody who shoots

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pro score

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right around par, and then someone who shoots around 90, both players are going

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to have

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14 tee shots because there's typically 4 par 3s.

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So you'll have 14 tee shots on par 4s or 5s.

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Even par round or 1 under round is going to have about 18 iron shots, 10 short

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game shots,

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which would be short shots on the par 5s or missed greens.

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We'll get into that.

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And then about 29 putts and less than one awful shot.

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This tracking your awful shots is often one of the easiest ways to improve your

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overall

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scoring average.

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Many higher handicap golfers just have too many terrible shots because either

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they don't

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get committed to the shots, or they feel really uncomfortable on certain shots,

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or they take

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high risks which result in those awful shots.

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But what you'll see is someone who shoots about 20 strokes higher.

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They're going to have the same number of tee shots, hopefully.

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But then they're going to have about double the amount of short game shots,

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about 25% more

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iron shots, and then almost a third more putts.

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So we have to get good at these because we have a limited number of

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opportunities.

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And then if we get better at this zone here, that has one of the fastest tracks

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for improving

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your score, which is ultimately what being your own coach is about.

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So I have a separate little program where we'll go through some more advanced

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benchmarks.

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It doesn't mean it's more time intensive, but it takes a little bit longer to

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explain.

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The simple stats are the ones that everybody is kind of used to keeping track

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of, which

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we'll be looking at, well, how many fairways that I hit and what's kind of a

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rough range

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of my driving distance.

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What you'll notice is in order to improve, I have to hit a certain number of

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fairways

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and I have to hit the ball a little bit farther.

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It is very hard to get down to shooting in the high 70s, low 80s, unless you're

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hitting

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at about 220 yards minimum off the tee.

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So that can be one factor, just one example of how we're going to use this to

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drive what

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technique we might want to work on.

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Again, green and regulation is probably the highest or has the highest

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correlation with

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your scoring average, and you'll see that it's the most linear scale where if

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you shoot

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around 100, you barely hit any greens and regulation, when you start getting

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scratch, you hit about half, a pro golfer is going to hit on average 12 greens

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and regulation.

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But another stat that I like that comes from Mark Brody's book is green and

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plus one.

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So this is basically how many par putts do you have?

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We're not going to differentiate the length of par putts, just how many par put

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ts do you

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In order to have a par putt, you can't have too many awful or terrible shots,

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you can't

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have too many penalty strokes and you can't have too many duffed or top shots.

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So you'll see to get down to shooting around 80, you can only have about two or

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three holes

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where you didn't have a par putt.

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So this can be an important barometer for how well your iron play is working

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out.

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Even when we get to the short game, we've got the up and down percentage.

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We'll dig into what I think are some, again, more detailed but better

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assessments as far

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as where you're at right now for both up and down as well as putting.

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But up and down percentage, you get down to about one in five, one in four at

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80, where shooting around 100, you're only going to get up and down once, maybe

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around, as far as putts go to get down to 80, you've got to have three under

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two putts

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per hole.

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It's a good way to look at it, comparing the number of putts per hole instead

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of just

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the total putts.

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And then to shoot 90, you basically get an average of two putts per hole

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somewhere around

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Awful shots are terrible shots.

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We're going to dig into the strokes gained.

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And by strokes gained an awful shot is basically a shot where you didn't gain

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any strokes.

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It's essentially like you just threw away a stroke.

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That can be hitting it in a penalty area, a drive off the tee that goes less

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than 80

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yards, topping it, sculling it across the green.

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We know what those awful shots look like, but I'll give you a clear definition

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in that

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program.

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You'll see that 100 golfers are going to have about 10 awful shots where to get

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to 80, you only get three of those per round or less than three of those per

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round.

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So when golfers say they want to be more consistent, oftentimes they think that

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I want to hit more good shots.

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But what it really means is if I want to be consistent, I have to eliminate or

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minimize

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the number of awful shots.

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So that's what we do when we play golf.

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Now to diagnose our game, we're going to take that playing golf data and we're

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to compare our benchmarks to the stats.

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I recommend that you pick the benchmark that's one level hot better than

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whatever you're

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doing.

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So if you're shooting 90, aim for the 80s benchmarks.

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If you're shooting 80, aim for the pro or the scratch benchmarks.

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The part that takes a little bit more time is understanding how to analyze your

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own swing

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and understanding the swing model.

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So what is it that all pros have in common?

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Why are they able to perform the way that they're able to perform?

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Or what do golfers who shoot 80?

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What do their swings look like compared to a golfer who shoots 100?

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In order to do that, you have to understand how to analyze the swing on video.

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Ideally, or the way I really wanted to work is when you look at the video, you

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're going

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to look at a key trait that is relevant to the benchmark.

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So for example, let's say you needed to hit the ball further, you wouldn't want

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to just

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look at say your grip and your setup because that doesn't have a real high

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correlation

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to how far you're hitting the ball.

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You'd want to look at more of the length of swing and how well you're creating

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lag and

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how well you're getting shaft lean and transferring.

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You'd want to look at the features that are related to the benchmark you're

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influence.

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So I'm going to teach you which features relate to which benchmarks.

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If you want to hit the ball more consistently, if you want to hit the ball stra

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if you want to hit the ball further, we've got kind of things that you can

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identify and

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address to help you stay laser focused.

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Jack Nicholas had a great quote that I love that said that most good tournament

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have about three to five things that they focus on with their swing.

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And when they're off, one or two of those will be off.

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And typically what he said was during the warm up, you're kind of running

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So let's say, for example, just to keep it simple, we'll take a look at a

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So maybe you have 40 puts per round and you look at it on video and you're kind

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of having

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a putting stroke that looks like this where your hips are turning a lot and you

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of throwing with your arms and turning really level.

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So your three to five keys, maybe you practice some drills and you learn to

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keep your lower

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body more still so now it starts looking like this.

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instead of turning

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around and maybe you have a third key about your arms.

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So what happens is you get your three to five keys, you monitor those keys

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getting warmed up and each day you work on improving those keys.

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Some days you might have to focus more on key number one, your lower body and

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you might have to focus more on key number three with your arms.

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The days that you play really, really well, it takes very little focus on the

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three keys

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but you still probably have your keys in the back of your mind.

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That's ultimately how being your own coach works.

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Use all this data to figure out your few keys that make your swing work and

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then you monitor

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and improve those.

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If you want to get to the next level, you might have to add another key or

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replace a

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key but this is the overall process to being your own coach.

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As an example of analyzing the video, like I said, we're going to take a look

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key parts of the swing so that you know what to look on so you don't just look

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at a video

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and kind of get overwhelmed by everything in the video.

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Let's say you're working on impact position, I'm going to give you a handful of

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things

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to look at at impact or a handful of things to look at at the top of the swing.

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We're at setup and you're not just going to take my word for it, I'm going to

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show

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you examples so that you can see, hey look, compared to this impact line, like

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you wanted to strike your irons more solidly, you'll see this nice impact line

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of basically

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the hands, the leg, the left shoulder all in line.

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Here we go, we've got slightly different camera angles and clubs but you can

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kind of see the

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rough representation.

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Well, if you looked at your video and you saw that your hips were way back like

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and your hands were way back like this, that would make sense why you're

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hitting it fat

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or thin.

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So then we would experiment with drills to either work on your sequencing or

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your weight

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position getting onto that left side or your hands getting more ahead, you'd

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isolate the

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issue based on the video and then you'd train with the drills smartly.

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This is the next step, maybe we isolate that we need to work on the core or

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whatever it

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would be, we're going to use the drills to improve the video to get it more

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towards the

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model that performs the benchmarks at a higher level, that's how the system

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So, quick summary, play golf and get your benchmarks, compare your benchmarks

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video to the level that you want to get to, analyze your video to see why you

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're not performing

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that way, isolate a key issue and then train, use drills to build your field

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library so

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that you're able to change the way the swing looks on video.

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If this makes a lot of sense and you want to learn kind of the next step, I've

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got three

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main programs.

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We've got a program for helping you understand the different benchmarks for the

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different

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skill levels and the different four core skills.

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We've got a program for learning how to analyze your swing with the focus of

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trying to improve

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one of these benchmarks.

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And then lastly, I have a basic program for learning to build your own swing.

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It's going to cover all those big pieces that typically Jack Nicholas talked

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about.

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So you're going to learn what does it take to hit the ball solid, what does it

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take to

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hit the ball straight, what does it take to hit the ball far, what are the big

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buckets.

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When you go through that program, you'll usually get a good sense of which are

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the areas that

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you need to put more emphasis on.

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And then when you're going through the extra drills on the site, you will be

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able to have

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a good filter.

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You'll be able to put those pieces in place so you'll be able to understand, oh

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, I struggle

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with my club face.

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The basic program only had two videos working on club face.

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While they were good, I feel like I still need a little bit more.

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I'm going to dig into more of the club face videos.

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So by going through these three programs, your benchmarks, how to analyze your

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swing

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and building your own, your stock swing, you're going to take a huge stride

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toward learning

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how to actually become your own coach, because remember, in the Golf Smart

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Academy system,

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you are your own best golf coach.