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In this concept video, we're going to discuss losing distance so it's very

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frequent in this adventure of learning golf that you're going to have great

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weeks and then bad weeks or great rounds followed by bad rounds. Well one of

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the

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more frustrating things for a lot of my students is when you have a great day

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and you're driving the ball 290 300 yards and then you go out there the next

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day and you're topping out at 260. Now I get a fair amount of emails as far as

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what do you think I'm doing and I always respond with let's start with the

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objective data and you tell me what you think might be happening so we can come

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up with a plan. So there's a few little objective things that you want to try

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to

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zero in on. One is going to be contact so the first time you know you start to

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have issues as far as losing distance that you've already gained the first

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thing I want you to do is either spray the face or take impact tape or you

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can even just take a strip of electrical tape and place it across the face and

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monitor where you're making contact with it. If you're making contact with it

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in

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a place that's a little bit further away from the sweet spot than what you're

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used to you can lose significant amount of distance. With a driver hitting as

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much as a half inch off sweet spot which really a half inch you know kind of

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the

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size of the width of your thumb isn't going to be a whole lot so if you're

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hitting a half inch off of the sweet spot that could cost you 20 yards or so

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so that could potentially or sorry 20% of your distance so if you're used to

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hitting the ball about 300 yards and we take away 20% that would be about 240

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so

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perhaps you're doing in your swing that is affecting your contact. The next

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piece I would look at would be club head speed so obviously it's very hard to

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monitor club head speed unless you have a launch monitor but if you do have a

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launch monitor you can always just pop it up quickly take a few swings or even

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just a radar monitor quickly take a few swings and see if you've lost it. I'll

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tell you that that seems to be the least common. Usually I'm going to look at

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contact first then I'm gonna look at club head speed and that one rarely is it.

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The third thing we'll look at will be ball flight and specifically we're gonna

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look at the height of the shot as well as the curve so if a ball if my long

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drives are kind of having this nice little plateauing kind of climbing high

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and then plateauing and then landing and today I'm hitting a ball that's kind

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of

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spinning a little bit high off to the right that's gonna help me understand

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what I might be doing differently with my face or my path that's causing me to

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have basically a decrease spin loft and I'm not transferring as much energy to

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the golf ball. Now the last little I'm gonna call it kind of 3b or 4 is going

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to be what are the conditions that you're playing in. Now frequently I've had

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players especially since I've been teaching here in Colorado where we have

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dramatic changes in temperature. You could have a day where you're hitting

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well great and then the next day is about 20 degrees cooler and now I've

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got a jacket on I've decreased the range of motion I've probably slowed down my

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club head speed a little bit I've you know affected my spin loft and and

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because

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of having to swing around all this clothing and that's caused me to lose

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distance. So I try to communicate that every day you kind of have to gauge a

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little bit unless you've got all these variables under control. So use the

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logical kind of post shot routine to be able to to really zero in on why you

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may

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be losing distance and that will help you develop a plan to adjust your

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pattern to get either the path or the face to the path back on track so that

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you can get contact and if it's because of the temperature and you're the fact

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that you're wearing more clothes you're just gonna have to deal with the fact

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that today what I would normally hit my eight iron I'm now gonna grab a seven

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iron but that's kind of the the big picture of how you play golf and how you

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adjust for how your game is going to change a little bit but by tracking it

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we'll figure out these patterns and you'll know what you should adjust.