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this video is playing golf as a field golfer so as a field golfer there's a

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couple things that you're going to try to focus on but the the basic rules are

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you need to figure out what your trigger is for swinging the club whether it's

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a trigger for taking the club away I've had golfers who focus on exactly what

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part of their body controls the takeaway you know whether it's pushing into the

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ground the hands the body the shoulder etc or when the downswing starts because

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that's when all the explosive movements that a lot of field players identify

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with so I've had some field players who are very good if I do the right

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transition if I focus on kind of one key movement all the other parts of the

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swing unfold that's great for a playing thought now when you're practicing and

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you're going through different drills you you can use tempos and you can use

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rhythms and you can put shafts on the ground or clubs in your way in order to

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kind of get these images of where the clubs gonna swing but ultimately all

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that you really care about is developing this feel so you want to be careful

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with

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getting too caught up in focusing on tempo too caught up in kind of trying to

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get the perfect imagery when you're on your on the course you want to build a

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pre-shot routine where you're allowed to stay over the ball until you feel very

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very calm and you feel like I've got this intention to swing I'm a field golfer

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so I can only describe it as you feel this urge to swing almost like an urge

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to sneeze like my body has to swing right now or I'm gonna get in trouble

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and what you'll find is that you will get in trouble if you ignore that urge

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so if I swing when I don't have one of those urges is typically when I'm gonna

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hit my worst shots now that's kind of the nuts and bolts of how to use this

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pre-shot routine as a field player basically I've already done my thought

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process I'm gonna kind of find a way to get into a calm state somewhat

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something

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like Ernie Ells or Fred Couples you'll see there can be movement over the ball

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absolutely but then when I feel like I'm almost ready I get calm and I wait for

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that urge now it is very possible to store stress as a field golfer in a

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field sense and what that would mean is that if you get over the ball and you

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feel kind of like Kevin Nod did a while back where I just can't pull the

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trigger

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I don't feel comfortable I don't feel right that basically means that you need

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to use some of your pre-shot routine or use some of your training time on the

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range to work on your pre-shot routine so that you can practice getting into

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this calm state it's not something that happens just automatically it's

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something that you actually have to train so as a field golfer pay attention to

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specifics specific part of your body that's controlling the swing and I'll

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give you a quick little it's a quick little exercise that I've done with a

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lot of field golfers so you're gonna stand up if you're sitting there

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watching this in front of your computer or on your phone you're gonna stand up

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and you're gonna close your eyes and just listen to my voice I want you to try

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to

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feel the tip of your nose so you're not gonna touch it with your hands unless

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you have to but try to put all your feel all your intention right there feel

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exactly what's happening to the tip of your nose now go down and feel your

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right big toe so if you need to you can wiggle it around but you're gonna feel

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your right big toe now go back to your nose now go back to your toe now try to

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do both now I give you a couple seconds there to try to do both and what most

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feel most golfers in fact every golfer I've ever done this with will say that

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it's impossible to feel both I learned this little exercise from dr.

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Bill Campbell I think it's brilliant but basically what it shows is that you

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can't

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focus on exactly what two parts your body are doing it once so when you're

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playing golf you need to have either a feel that happens in a sequence so you

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could have a feel like okay my backswing feel is there my transition feel is

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there and my release feel is there and I blend those into one feeling to play

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with or you could figure out well if I just do the transition everything falls

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in line so you can either have a sequence of feels or you can have one

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feel but you can't have two feels at once you can't be focusing on what the

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arms are doing in transition and the body so what you end up having to do is

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you have to use your practice time to figure out exactly which one of those

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controls your swing once you know that it'll be that much easier for you to

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take it to the course and this is the thought process you have to have if you

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gonna build your pre-shot routine as a feel golfer