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This practice strategy is looking at a random warm-up so I had a good phone

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conversation with buddy of mine Matt Wilson who graciously vacated Northern

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California so I could come out here and he was talking about one of the experts

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that they brought in to talk about who did a great study on warm-ups with

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better players and what they found was pretty interesting so during my playing

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career I you know I use kind of a standard warm-up where I'd hit a

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handful of wedges and then let's say eight iron six iron four iron and just

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kind of did a few of each worked my way through the bag up to the driver and

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then worked on some short game when go played. Well the research that they're

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finding is that by doing a random warm-up you're typically going to outperform

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those who do that old style of warm-up. Now the caveat the real kicker is if I

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ask you leaving the range if you're confident doing the random style warm-up

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you're gonna be less confident but you're gonna perform better so you

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ultimately have a choice to make if you need to feel confident understand that

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you may actually end up with more frustration but if you're willing to

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risk being a little having a little struggle during your warm-up there's a

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good chance you'll perform better on the range. So essentially what they did

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was

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they had two different groups one group would do a block style where they just

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went from club to club and the other group did random style where they never

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hit the same club twice shot twice they were jumping all over the place. When

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they left the range they interviewed them how confident they felt the block

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practice group felt more confident but then they used measurement devices to

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track the dispersion and they found that the group doing the random practice

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end up hitting the ball closer. So you'll notice on the site that a lot of our

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practice games incorporate changing from club to club or flight to flight or

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shot to shot and many of the golfers who you know were great ball strikers in

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the 70s 80s talked about using the nine-shot drill as one of their core warm-up

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drills. So I think that there's some validity to it and we'll find out with

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more research but in testing it with some of my students everybody's

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reporting that it's more challenging to do as a warm-up but ultimately it tends

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to produce better results on the course. So if you're trying to maximize your

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potential for scoring you want to do a good analytic warm-up you know get the

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joints in the body all nice and loose then you want to do some random style

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practice just to warm up and test your different shots and then do some

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random short game after that head to the course and see how it goes. My

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personal

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experience my personal belief is by doing random a random warm-up your

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brain has to go through the struggle of adapting shots and it kind of warms up

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that thought process and that part of the brain. So for me personally and for

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my

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students it seems to be helping out it's definitely something that you might

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want

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to test if you're an intermediate to advanced golfer. So for a great warm-up

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you're going to do the analytic warm-up to warm up your ligaments and get the

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blood flowing then you're gonna do some random practice with the whether it's

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four clubs or just alternating shots and alternating ball flights do some

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random short game and putting games and then you'll be ready to take it to the

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course and hopefully shoot a really low score.

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