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Hi, I'm Tyler Farrell, and welcome to Golf Smart Academy.

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In this video, I'm going to help you figure out how you can best utilize this

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site.

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Now I find that most golfers come to this site with one of two different

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philosophies.

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Either you have a specific problem that you're trying to solve, let's say you

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're hooking

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the ball, or slicing the ball, or topping the ball, or hitting your irons fat.

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Whatever that is, if you have a specific problem to solve, that's a little

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different

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than just, you know what, I'm a student of the game, I love learning about this

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stuff,

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I want to continue to be a lifelong learner of the golf swing, and I want some

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science-based

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ways to understand what's supposed to happen, whether it's setup, or during the

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backswing,

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or during the downswing.

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Those are two different schools of thought, and neither one is right nor wrong,

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but we

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have a lot of videos on this site, and so I want to help you learn to navigate

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it as

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simply as possible.

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So regardless of which approach you're using, the first step is you want to get

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really clear

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with reading feedback.

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You have to learn to read feedback, and you have to learn to set clear

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objectives or

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expectations of what you're trying to accomplish.

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So clear feedback helps you if you don't know how to read ball flight, or if

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you hit

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it thin, what does that mean, or if you hit it fat, what does that mean?

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If you shank the ball, what are some of the likely reasons, or what would the

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club be

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doing in order to create that situation?

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What I call my foolproof recipe, which is essentially you want to figure out

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what the

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club is doing, you want to figure out what you want the club to do differently,

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you'll

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strategize on how the body can do that differently, and then you experiment

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with different drills,

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whether they are field drills, or visual drills, or tempo drills, at-home

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training drills,

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whatever it is, you experiment with drills to get the body to do what you want

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to do

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so that the club does something differently.

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And because you know how to read feedback at this point, you'll be able to

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identify

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if you're doing it correctly.

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So step one, read the feedback, step two, figure out what the club is doing,

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step three, figure

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out what you want to do differently with the club, step four, figure out how

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the body can

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do that differently, and then the last step is once you have a drill or two or

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three that

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helps you train how to do it differently, you just got to put in reps and

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monitor your

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progress with feedback.

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Eventually, what ends up happening is people come up with a recipe of, let's

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say, you know,

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two to five drills, where if I ever get lost, I do these drills and I can get

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that area of

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my swing back on track.

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That's my full proof recipe for improving whatever you're doing with the club,

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and it

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really fits into either of the two categories of whether you're trying to just

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solve one

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specific issue or trying to be more, take the long-term approach of building

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your version

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of the stock tour swing.

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So once you have a clear understanding of feedback and objective and what you

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're trying

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to do, the next step is to identify are you trying to solve one issue or are

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you trying

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to just learn about the swing from more of a holistic perspective using golf

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science.

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So if it's the first, if you're just trying to solve one specific issue, I

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highly recommend

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contacting us, send us a question or submit your swing.

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That way we can isolate and pinpoint what drills or what fundamentals are going

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to have

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the biggest impact on your game and help you solve that question quickly,

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because if you're

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not quite sure, it's easy for you to start chasing a setup or start working on

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your setup

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if really you have a release problem or if you have a sequencing problem.

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So we don't want you to waste too much time trying to find the answer.

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Now, if you are a more of a lifelong learner and you're trying to learn how to

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self coach

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or manage your golf game for the years to come to be a really good student of

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the game

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so you no longer get tricked by poor information, the real key is to take

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inventory of your

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game and prioritize what you want to work on.

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At some point, if you're working on a golf swing, you're going to work on setup

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, you're

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going to work on the takeaway, you're going to work on the setting of the club

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or the full

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backswing, you're going to work on transition, you're going to work on the

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release and you're

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going to work on going through into the finish.

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And if you understand how these pieces fit together, whatever piece you're

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working on,

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if you're working on things that are going to move your swing in the right

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direction,

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then you're ultimately making progress.

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So your goal is while you're going through these videos to try and understand

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how things

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in the backswing affect the downswing and how things in the downswing affect

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your setup

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and basically how the whole picture of the stock tour swing fits together.

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That way you'll be able to, while reading the feedback, you'll be able to

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figure out

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which of the pieces really are the most important for you.

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Some people hone in on transition and if they have a great transition,

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everything takes

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care of itself.

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Other people need more of a good follow through or release.

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You'll figure out which ones are important to you by experimenting with the

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different

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ones as you go through each section.

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But I can't stress enough, your goal in each section is to understand how they

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all fit

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together to create this unified movement that's a golf swing.

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So whether you are a competitive golfer trying to play for a living or a

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lifelong learner

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who's just passionate about golf or if you're a coach and you just want to know

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the science

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behind each of these sections and you want some additional drills or ways that

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you could

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experiment with training the movements that you know, I hope that you find the

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content

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and the site extremely beneficial.

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In the next video, I'm going to show you how the site was designed to be used

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to help

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you find the answers to your questions as quickly as possible.