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Playing Golf As A Rhythm Golfer
Rhythm golfers look at the game as if it were a dance....
The rhythm player’s wiring is located in the vestibular system (inner ear) of the body. This system is also a brainstem function that features rhythm and balance. The rhythm player senses the shot as one motion…not a series of events.
- Uses rhythm
- Motion creates motion
- Rhythmic walk/swing
- Metronome, chewing gum, music
- Comfort, loose clothing
- Club selected by weight, loft
- Learns by listening, counting
- Speech: I’m hearing you say
- Movement/rhythm/balance
- Concentration = rhythm/count
- Swing programmed by rhythm & balance
- Mantra: “Count Du Jour 1, 2, 3!”
- Stress: Quick swing/build tension
- Stay in present by count and balance
- No count = quick out of sequence swing
- Eyes move in rhythm
- Key: Rhythmic take away in count/smooth
- Create perfect count
- STOP: Mechanics/visualization
- Start: The music/beat
- Continue: The beat/tempo, balance at finish/moving
- Bad play = quickness on take away, interruption, slow play .
- Lower voice, rhythmic talk
- Social sciences/management/leadership
- Music, Singing, drumming, chant, R&B, Bosanova, lyrics
Images for Rhythm Players
- Hear the song, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
- Make your swing feel like a waltz rhythm (3/4 time).
- Swing like you are brushing your sidewalk clear of snow.
- Count:“Ready, aim, fire!”
- Hear the swish of the club.
- Hear the click of the ball on the club face.
- Hold your balance of the finish position.
Tips for Rhythm Players
Rhythm players need to be in motion. If you stop moving, you’ll almost always hit a bad shot. Your challenge as a player is to learn how to create shots using the correct tempo and rhythm. Tempo and rhythm are two different things. Tempo is the pace of your swing. Rhythm is the in sync sequence of your swing. Nick Price has a quick tempo and very smooth rhythm.
Not much has been written about rhythm players. Most golf instruction is geared for picture and feel players. Tempo is important for all players, but rhythm is the key for you!
I recommend that rhythm players walk the course (easy to stay in rhythm), chew gum, listen to rhythmic CDs, buy heavy golf clubs so you can sense the rhythm in your swing, never talk to yourself, use counting or sounds to program your shots.
Learn to control your distance on short-game shots and putting by the rhythm of your body. Tempo starts in the legs. Slow down your legs if you begin to get “quick” in your swing. Learn to read putts with your feet, feeling the slope and sensing the distance by walking on the high side of the putt. Learn to putt with your feet (small weight shift with the putter hanging from your hands will do the trick).
Don’t try to visualize the shot or to feel the position of the golf swing. Your style benefits most from sensing the swing as a total rhythmic event.
Develop a simple 1-2-3 approach to your routine. Use the same routine on every shot and keep moving! A forward press is a good idea as the last count before you take the club back.
See if you can find a rhythm player as an instructor. They are easy to spot. They dance with their golf swing! Buy the Bobby Jones tapes, watch old footage of Payne Stewart, Tom Watson, John Daly or Laura Davies. Listen to only “good” music that has lyrics and a beat.
P.S. Buy a metronome, and use it on the practice tee and practice putting green.
The key to all of this is the answer to the question: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN TO TAKE THE CLUB BACK?
The rhythm golfer will say, “when I hit my count of the day, I go.”
For more details on this system, check out Dr. Bill Campbell's program "Hard Wired for Golf"http://hardwiredforgolf.com/
Rhythm golfers look at the game as if it were a dance....
The rhythm player’s wiring is located in the vestibular system (inner ear) of the body. This system is also a brainstem function that features rhythm and balance. The rhythm player senses the shot as one motion…not a series of events.
- Uses rhythm
- Motion creates motion
- Rhythmic walk/swing
- Metronome, chewing gum, music
- Comfort, loose clothing
- Club selected by weight, loft
- Learns by listening, counting
- Speech: I’m hearing you say
- Movement/rhythm/balance
- Concentration = rhythm/count
- Swing programmed by rhythm & balance
- Mantra: “Count Du Jour 1, 2, 3!”
- Stress: Quick swing/build tension
- Stay in present by count and balance
- No count = quick out of sequence swing
- Eyes move in rhythm
- Key: Rhythmic take away in count/smooth
- Create perfect count
- STOP: Mechanics/visualization
- Start: The music/beat
- Continue: The beat/tempo, balance at finish/moving
- Bad play = quickness on take away, interruption, slow play .
- Lower voice, rhythmic talk
- Social sciences/management/leadership
- Music, Singing, drumming, chant, R&B, Bosanova, lyrics
Images for Rhythm Players
- Hear the song, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
- Make your swing feel like a waltz rhythm (3/4 time).
- Swing like you are brushing your sidewalk clear of snow.
- Count:“Ready, aim, fire!”
- Hear the swish of the club.
- Hear the click of the ball on the club face.
- Hold your balance of the finish position.
Tips for Rhythm Players
Rhythm players need to be in motion. If you stop moving, you’ll almost always hit a bad shot. Your challenge as a player is to learn how to create shots using the correct tempo and rhythm. Tempo and rhythm are two different things. Tempo is the pace of your swing. Rhythm is the in sync sequence of your swing. Nick Price has a quick tempo and very smooth rhythm.
Not much has been written about rhythm players. Most golf instruction is geared for picture and feel players. Tempo is important for all players, but rhythm is the key for you!
I recommend that rhythm players walk the course (easy to stay in rhythm), chew gum, listen to rhythmic CDs, buy heavy golf clubs so you can sense the rhythm in your swing, never talk to yourself, use counting or sounds to program your shots.
Learn to control your distance on short-game shots and putting by the rhythm of your body. Tempo starts in the legs. Slow down your legs if you begin to get “quick” in your swing. Learn to read putts with your feet, feeling the slope and sensing the distance by walking on the high side of the putt. Learn to putt with your feet (small weight shift with the putter hanging from your hands will do the trick).
Don’t try to visualize the shot or to feel the position of the golf swing. Your style benefits most from sensing the swing as a total rhythmic event.
Develop a simple 1-2-3 approach to your routine. Use the same routine on every shot and keep moving! A forward press is a good idea as the last count before you take the club back.
See if you can find a rhythm player as an instructor. They are easy to spot. They dance with their golf swing! Buy the Bobby Jones tapes, watch old footage of Payne Stewart, Tom Watson, John Daly or Laura Davies. Listen to only “good” music that has lyrics and a beat.
P.S. Buy a metronome, and use it on the practice tee and practice putting green.
The key to all of this is the answer to the question: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN TO TAKE THE CLUB BACK?
The rhythm golfer will say, “when I hit my count of the day, I go.”
For more details on this system, check out Dr. Bill Campbell's program "Hard Wired for Golf"http://hardwiredforgolf.com/
Video Transcript
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this video is playing golf as a rhythm golfer so rhythm golfers are similar to
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field golfers in that they experience a very rich environment inside of their
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body however since field golfers are very much in tune with kind of muscles
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and tensions and activations and that kind of stuff rhythm golfers are more
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in tune with sequencing and pressures and and kind of where your weight is
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similar to more of a dancer so a rhythm golfer is getting most of their
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00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:35.520
information from what's happening with the vestibular system and so what's
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00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:39.480
going on with the vestibular system is very common to those who practice dance
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so what you'll see with a rhythm golfer is that they when they're playing
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really
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well they will tend to have this kind of constant rhythm that happens
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throughout
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their game and it'll all start back here so if they're behind the golf ball
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you'll see a rhythm golfer where everything is kind of moving at a very
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pronounced count so whether it's kind of a you know almost a one two three four
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or whether it's a one and a two and a three and a four away they'll have this
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own this this count that works for that but when they play well is when
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everything kind of moves off of that count you'll see them constantly fidgeting
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and wiggling and moving over the ball similar to say a Tom Watson or Jason
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Duffner or Sergio Garcia where you see them kind of moving moving and go what
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you
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want to do is you want to establish your rhythm for the day and you want to
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have
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everything work off of that rhythm so I've had golfers with kind of slow
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rhythms
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where basically they're counting in their head and basically every little thing
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has this kind of look to it boom where the field golfer is going to spend a lot
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of the time over the golf ball kind of getting set a rhythm golfer really wants
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to go on their count and they'll feel better when they go on their count and
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if they choose a count that tends to have the right amount of time built into
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it
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what I mean by that is some golfers who are rhythm golfers will tend to get
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over the ball and kind of stay there for a long period of time Allah Sergio
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Garcia
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who who hadn't practiced or didn't have a good enough count to know exactly
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when
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to take the club back so he was kind of waiting until his body had this rhythm
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and he was waiting until everything lined up so he could start it on one pretty
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much want to figure out what do you need to do to build one right how do I
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make sure that everything kind of starts on one so whether that's Lee
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Trevino getting up there and in two beats getting ready to hit or it's Jason
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Duffner and he's kind of got a certain number of waggles two three and let's go
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but rhythm golfers will tend to do well when they stay with their cap the
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rhythm
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golfer is going to store stress when they feel like they've lost their count
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and when they feel like they are either moving faster or slower so if I
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here in my head a beat of one two three four but I'm trying to kind of slow
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things down that's going to tend to build some tension in my body which is
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going to make it hard to repeat the swing that I've been practicing on the
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range without tension the other option is they're going to tend to get quicker
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especially under pressure and so having this count that they hear in their head
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or having these rhythms is going to provide that kind of inner clarity that
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they need in order to process things well so when you're doing your drills
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you want to focus on the sequencing and the relationships of movements more so
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than the details of exactly where the positions are so instead of focusing on
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kind of okay bending this wrist getting this elbow in front yes you're gonna
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have to do that to work on technique but then what you need to do as a rhythm
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player is you're gonna say okay if that if I do those movements together where
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does that change the waiting where does that change the pressure where does
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that
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change this timing because as these timings change you're gonna find what is
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kind of your perfect timing so you can use these drills to focus on some feels
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you can use these drills to get pictures of where the path is going but the
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ones
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that are going to do the best for transferring practice are going to be
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the ones that help you feel your perfect sequencing and exactly when you need
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to start your swing is going to be based on the count so when you're playing
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around with building your pre-shot routine you want to practice taking steps
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on count waggles on count rocking on count everything moving kind of on this
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beat the more that you do that the more success you're going to tend to have
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transferring it from the range to the course
Have questions?
Ask Mulligan for helpPlaying Golf As A Rhythm Golfer
Rhythm golfers look at the game as if it were a dance....
The rhythm player’s wiring is located in the vestibular system (inner ear) of the body. This system is also a brainstem function that features rhythm and balance. The rhythm player senses the shot as one motion…not a series of events.
- Uses rhythm
- Motion creates motion
- Rhythmic walk/swing
- Metronome, chewing gum, music
- Comfort, loose clothing
- Club selected by weight, loft
- Learns by listening, counting
- Speech: I’m hearing you say
- Movement/rhythm/balance
- Concentration = rhythm/count
- Swing programmed by rhythm & balance
- Mantra: “Count Du Jour 1, 2, 3!”
- Stress: Quick swing/build tension
- Stay in present by count and balance
- No count = quick out of sequence swing
- Eyes move in rhythm
- Key: Rhythmic take away in count/smooth
- Create perfect count
- STOP: Mechanics/visualization
- Start: The music/beat
- Continue: The beat/tempo, balance at finish/moving
- Bad play = quickness on take away, interruption, slow play .
- Lower voice, rhythmic talk
- Social sciences/management/leadership
- Music, Singing, drumming, chant, R&B, Bosanova, lyrics
Images for Rhythm Players
- Hear the song, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
- Make your swing feel like a waltz rhythm (3/4 time).
- Swing like you are brushing your sidewalk clear of snow.
- Count:“Ready, aim, fire!”
- Hear the swish of the club.
- Hear the click of the ball on the club face.
- Hold your balance of the finish position.
Tips for Rhythm Players
Rhythm players need to be in motion. If you stop moving, you’ll almost always hit a bad shot. Your challenge as a player is to learn how to create shots using the correct tempo and rhythm. Tempo and rhythm are two different things. Tempo is the pace of your swing. Rhythm is the in sync sequence of your swing. Nick Price has a quick tempo and very smooth rhythm.
Not much has been written about rhythm players. Most golf instruction is geared for picture and feel players. Tempo is important for all players, but rhythm is the key for you!
I recommend that rhythm players walk the course (easy to stay in rhythm), chew gum, listen to rhythmic CDs, buy heavy golf clubs so you can sense the rhythm in your swing, never talk to yourself, use counting or sounds to program your shots.
Learn to control your distance on short-game shots and putting by the rhythm of your body. Tempo starts in the legs. Slow down your legs if you begin to get “quick” in your swing. Learn to read putts with your feet, feeling the slope and sensing the distance by walking on the high side of the putt. Learn to putt with your feet (small weight shift with the putter hanging from your hands will do the trick).
Don’t try to visualize the shot or to feel the position of the golf swing. Your style benefits most from sensing the swing as a total rhythmic event.
Develop a simple 1-2-3 approach to your routine. Use the same routine on every shot and keep moving! A forward press is a good idea as the last count before you take the club back.
See if you can find a rhythm player as an instructor. They are easy to spot. They dance with their golf swing! Buy the Bobby Jones tapes, watch old footage of Payne Stewart, Tom Watson, John Daly or Laura Davies. Listen to only “good” music that has lyrics and a beat.
P.S. Buy a metronome, and use it on the practice tee and practice putting green.
The key to all of this is the answer to the question: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN TO TAKE THE CLUB BACK?
The rhythm golfer will say, “when I hit my count of the day, I go.”
For more details on this system, check out Dr. Bill Campbell's program "Hard Wired for Golf"http://hardwiredforgolf.com/
Rhythm golfers look at the game as if it were a dance....
The rhythm player’s wiring is located in the vestibular system (inner ear) of the body. This system is also a brainstem function that features rhythm and balance. The rhythm player senses the shot as one motion…not a series of events.
- Uses rhythm
- Motion creates motion
- Rhythmic walk/swing
- Metronome, chewing gum, music
- Comfort, loose clothing
- Club selected by weight, loft
- Learns by listening, counting
- Speech: I’m hearing you say
- Movement/rhythm/balance
- Concentration = rhythm/count
- Swing programmed by rhythm & balance
- Mantra: “Count Du Jour 1, 2, 3!”
- Stress: Quick swing/build tension
- Stay in present by count and balance
- No count = quick out of sequence swing
- Eyes move in rhythm
- Key: Rhythmic take away in count/smooth
- Create perfect count
- STOP: Mechanics/visualization
- Start: The music/beat
- Continue: The beat/tempo, balance at finish/moving
- Bad play = quickness on take away, interruption, slow play .
- Lower voice, rhythmic talk
- Social sciences/management/leadership
- Music, Singing, drumming, chant, R&B, Bosanova, lyrics
Images for Rhythm Players
- Hear the song, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
- Make your swing feel like a waltz rhythm (3/4 time).
- Swing like you are brushing your sidewalk clear of snow.
- Count:“Ready, aim, fire!”
- Hear the swish of the club.
- Hear the click of the ball on the club face.
- Hold your balance of the finish position.
Tips for Rhythm Players
Rhythm players need to be in motion. If you stop moving, you’ll almost always hit a bad shot. Your challenge as a player is to learn how to create shots using the correct tempo and rhythm. Tempo and rhythm are two different things. Tempo is the pace of your swing. Rhythm is the in sync sequence of your swing. Nick Price has a quick tempo and very smooth rhythm.
Not much has been written about rhythm players. Most golf instruction is geared for picture and feel players. Tempo is important for all players, but rhythm is the key for you!
I recommend that rhythm players walk the course (easy to stay in rhythm), chew gum, listen to rhythmic CDs, buy heavy golf clubs so you can sense the rhythm in your swing, never talk to yourself, use counting or sounds to program your shots.
Learn to control your distance on short-game shots and putting by the rhythm of your body. Tempo starts in the legs. Slow down your legs if you begin to get “quick” in your swing. Learn to read putts with your feet, feeling the slope and sensing the distance by walking on the high side of the putt. Learn to putt with your feet (small weight shift with the putter hanging from your hands will do the trick).
Don’t try to visualize the shot or to feel the position of the golf swing. Your style benefits most from sensing the swing as a total rhythmic event.
Develop a simple 1-2-3 approach to your routine. Use the same routine on every shot and keep moving! A forward press is a good idea as the last count before you take the club back.
See if you can find a rhythm player as an instructor. They are easy to spot. They dance with their golf swing! Buy the Bobby Jones tapes, watch old footage of Payne Stewart, Tom Watson, John Daly or Laura Davies. Listen to only “good” music that has lyrics and a beat.
P.S. Buy a metronome, and use it on the practice tee and practice putting green.
The key to all of this is the answer to the question: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN TO TAKE THE CLUB BACK?
The rhythm golfer will say, “when I hit my count of the day, I go.”
For more details on this system, check out Dr. Bill Campbell's program "Hard Wired for Golf"http://hardwiredforgolf.com/
Video Transcript
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.080
this video is playing golf as a rhythm golfer so rhythm golfers are similar to
2
00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:11.160
field golfers in that they experience a very rich environment inside of their
3
00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:16.720
body however since field golfers are very much in tune with kind of muscles
4
00:00:16.720 --> 00:00:21.000
and tensions and activations and that kind of stuff rhythm golfers are more
5
00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:25.160
in tune with sequencing and pressures and and kind of where your weight is
6
00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:30.440
similar to more of a dancer so a rhythm golfer is getting most of their
7
00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:35.520
information from what's happening with the vestibular system and so what's
8
00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:39.480
going on with the vestibular system is very common to those who practice dance
9
00:00:39.480 --> 00:00:44.530
so what you'll see with a rhythm golfer is that they when they're playing
10
00:00:44.530 --> 00:00:44.920
really
11
00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:48.800
well they will tend to have this kind of constant rhythm that happens
12
00:00:48.800 --> 00:00:49.080
throughout
13
00:00:49.080 --> 00:00:53.280
their game and it'll all start back here so if they're behind the golf ball
14
00:00:53.280 --> 00:01:00.240
you'll see a rhythm golfer where everything is kind of moving at a very
15
00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:07.920
pronounced count so whether it's kind of a you know almost a one two three four
16
00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:13.320
or whether it's a one and a two and a three and a four away they'll have this
17
00:01:13.320 --> 00:01:19.040
own this this count that works for that but when they play well is when
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00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:23.520
everything kind of moves off of that count you'll see them constantly fidgeting
19
00:01:23.520 --> 00:01:31.520
and wiggling and moving over the ball similar to say a Tom Watson or Jason
20
00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:38.880
Duffner or Sergio Garcia where you see them kind of moving moving and go what
21
00:01:38.880 --> 00:01:39.040
you
22
00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:44.720
want to do is you want to establish your rhythm for the day and you want to
23
00:01:44.720 --> 00:01:44.880
have
24
00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:49.620
everything work off of that rhythm so I've had golfers with kind of slow
25
00:01:49.620 --> 00:01:50.160
rhythms
26
00:01:50.160 --> 00:01:55.200
where basically they're counting in their head and basically every little thing
27
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has this kind of look to it boom where the field golfer is going to spend a lot
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00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:08.080
of the time over the golf ball kind of getting set a rhythm golfer really wants
29
00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:12.760
to go on their count and they'll feel better when they go on their count and
30
00:02:12.760 --> 00:02:17.000
if they choose a count that tends to have the right amount of time built into
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00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:17.080
it
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00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:23.360
what I mean by that is some golfers who are rhythm golfers will tend to get
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over the ball and kind of stay there for a long period of time Allah Sergio
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Garcia
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who who hadn't practiced or didn't have a good enough count to know exactly
36
00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:35.120
when
37
00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:40.480
to take the club back so he was kind of waiting until his body had this rhythm
38
00:02:40.480 --> 00:02:45.040
and he was waiting until everything lined up so he could start it on one pretty
39
00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:49.600
much want to figure out what do you need to do to build one right how do I
40
00:02:49.600 --> 00:02:54.400
make sure that everything kind of starts on one so whether that's Lee
41
00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:58.480
Trevino getting up there and in two beats getting ready to hit or it's Jason
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00:02:58.480 --> 00:03:04.960
Duffner and he's kind of got a certain number of waggles two three and let's go
43
00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:10.750
but rhythm golfers will tend to do well when they stay with their cap the
44
00:03:10.750 --> 00:03:11.080
rhythm
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00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:14.960
golfer is going to store stress when they feel like they've lost their count
46
00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:20.140
and when they feel like they are either moving faster or slower so if I
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00:03:20.140 --> 00:03:26.600
here in my head a beat of one two three four but I'm trying to kind of slow
48
00:03:26.600 --> 00:03:30.640
things down that's going to tend to build some tension in my body which is
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going to make it hard to repeat the swing that I've been practicing on the
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range without tension the other option is they're going to tend to get quicker
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especially under pressure and so having this count that they hear in their head
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or having these rhythms is going to provide that kind of inner clarity that
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they need in order to process things well so when you're doing your drills
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you want to focus on the sequencing and the relationships of movements more so
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than the details of exactly where the positions are so instead of focusing on
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kind of okay bending this wrist getting this elbow in front yes you're gonna
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have to do that to work on technique but then what you need to do as a rhythm
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player is you're gonna say okay if that if I do those movements together where
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does that change the waiting where does that change the pressure where does
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that
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change this timing because as these timings change you're gonna find what is
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kind of your perfect timing so you can use these drills to focus on some feels
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you can use these drills to get pictures of where the path is going but the
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ones
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that are going to do the best for transferring practice are going to be
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the ones that help you feel your perfect sequencing and exactly when you need
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to start your swing is going to be based on the count so when you're playing
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around with building your pre-shot routine you want to practice taking steps
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on count waggles on count rocking on count everything moving kind of on this
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beat the more that you do that the more success you're going to tend to have
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transferring it from the range to the course
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