Tournament Preparation

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All right, golfers, let's do one bonus video where we're going to take a look

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at getting

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ready for a tournament.

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So oftentimes getting ready for a tournament is a stressful process.

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Golfers just think, oh, I'm not ready.

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Well, I developed this little checklist as just a quick way to see, hey, maybe

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you're

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as ready as you're going to be.

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If you can put a check marks in every one of these boxes, then you know what?

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You're ready.

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Just go out there, be prepared for the ups and downs of a normal tournament

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round and

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see what happens.

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So with the four core scoring skills, we're going to develop some basic

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objectives.

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With putting, I want to be really confident with my five footers.

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If I can do that, I've got a pretty good job of start controlling start line,

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and I want

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to be pretty good with my lag control.

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That takes care of speed and reading green.

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With my wedge play, I want to be comfortable making solid contact with my basic

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shot, and

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I want to make solid contact with my high shot.

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If I can do that, then I want to look at controlling distance for multiple

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distances.

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So basically, can I make solid contact with a couple different length back

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swings?

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That will help me with my overall distance control and giving me some pretty

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good touch

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around the greens so that I can get it inside that four to eight foot zone more

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often.

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With iron play, can I make solid contact?

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Can I control the direction?

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It doesn't have to be perfectly straight.

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I just want to make sure that it's somewhat predictable.

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And can I do that on both a full and a three quarter shot?

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If I can do that, that means that my sequencing and my rhythm is pretty good

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for that week,

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and that's going to help me with the distance control if I have less than full

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shots or

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if I'm in between clubs.

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Oftentimes, for whatever reason, I always felt like tournament play, I got more

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in between

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shots.

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So if I was really good with my three quarter, I was going to score pretty well

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When it comes to driving, I want to know what my miss is going to be, and

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hopefully it's

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not a huge miss.

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So a predictable playable miss, either a little flare off to the right or a

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little kind of

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low left or the two most common ones.

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When you have two way misses or really big misses, it's hard to know where to

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aim.

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So I'll do some work on curve control, not trying to curve it both ways, but

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trying to

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do a little curve, a medium curve, a big curve with my dominant shot pattern.

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Also I always felt that my two little tests to see if my rhythm was good or if

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my sequencing

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was good, was having the fairway finder, which is when I would try to take off

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maybe 30 yards

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or so and just kind of get it in play or when I swing hard.

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If when I swing hard, I had the same ball flight or the same shape that usually

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told

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me that my swing was in a pretty good shape and I was going to be able to

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handle some

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extra adrenaline.

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When I was hitting good in practice and in rhythm, but then if I swung hard, I

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had a

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much bigger miss, that's when I was a little bit less confident going into a

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tournament

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situation because I was naturally going to have a little bit more adrenaline or

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stress

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in that tournament environment.

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So predictable miss, curve control, can I swing hard?

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Those would be some of the big ones there.

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So if you have this all in play, look at the course, kind of take it, figure

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out what distances

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you're going to hit a lot with your irons, especially what are the par threes,

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what are

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my T shots, come up with a plan and that's really the best you can do.

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And then just have a good night's sleep, good breakfast and hopefully all the

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you get the

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lucky bounces that day.

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But I find that this makes the stress of getting ready for a tournament a

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little bit more manageable

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and it ties in the four key scoring skills so that you understand how to apply

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those benchmarks

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and this whole philosophy to your tournament game.

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So if you're going to be your own coach, you have to be able to monitor your

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process and

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plan how you're going to use your time.

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That's one of the big steps to monitoring your own game.

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Using the Golf Smart Academy system, I'm confident that you are your own best

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golf coach and

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smart golfers are happy golfers.