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In this video, we're going to talk about taking inventory, which is basically

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figuring

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out the state of my game and what the heck do I need to work on.

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You see, the golf swing is very complicated and it changes from club to club,

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right?

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Because it's not just like I have one tool like a tennis racket, I actually

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have a whole

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bag full of tools, I have 14 different tools that I'm going to swing, and each

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one of them

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behaves slightly differently.

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Now which tools I'm doing well with and which ones I'm having trouble with can

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give me insight

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into what's going on within my body, within my brain and within my golf swing.

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So here's how you're going to take inventory.

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I'm going to write instructions in the notes section of this video, but the

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simple version

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is going to be what we're going to cover first and I'm just going to highlight

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on the advanced

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version because it can take some time.

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So taking inventory is figuring out what's going on with my game.

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I recommend that all students keep some form of statistics because finding out

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what you're

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actually doing on the round or when you actually go out and play golf is

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definitely better

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than what's going to happen when I'm practicing here at the range, right?

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Here at the range, I have a lot of factors going in my favor and it might not

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give me

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a complete picture.

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But I want to have at least a good guess if I don't have those accurate

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statistics.

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So the beginner version of taking inventory is I'm going to hit 30 golf balls.

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I'm going to do 10 golf balls with my driver, 10 golf balls with my seven iron

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and 10 golf

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balls with a three quarter sandwich somewhere in that range, you know, 80, 90

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yards, okay?

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Each one of these will give me different indications of what's going on with my

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swing.

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And all I'm going to do is I'm going to hit 10 golf balls and I'm going to

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write how solidly

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did I hit it?

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Did I hit it heavy, thin, toe, heel, et cetera?

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And I'm going to write down where did it start?

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Where did it curve?

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How high did it go?

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Some of those factors, okay?

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The other little piece to this is you're going to use your full shot, full pre

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shot routine.

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You're going to take one minute in between each shots.

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So this typically takes about 35 minutes to go through the inventory.

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If you're doing the advanced version, it can take two hours.

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But for this version, we're just going to be doing seven iron driver and wedge.

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And by writing down these misses or solid shots, so if I hit 10 drivers and

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eight of

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them are solid and two of them go to the left, and then with my seven iron, I

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hit six of

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them solid and four of them, I hit a little heavy, two of them went off to the

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right and

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two of them over hooked.

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And then I hit my sandwich and I hit three of them solid.

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I hit five of them kind of really thin or bladed and the rest of them I hit

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heavy.

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What does that tell you about your golf game?

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If you don't know, if you're not sure how to interpret that results, that's

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great.

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That's why you're here.

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But if you have that information, it can tell you almost exactly what you're

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doing with

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your swing and how to work on it.

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So I recommend doing this at least a couple times a month just to see what the

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state of

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my game is so that I know exactly what I need to be working on instead of just

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relying

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on how your swing looks on video.

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Yes, the video is very helpful, but ultimately the true test of whether your

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swing is working

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is whether it can perform.

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And this is my favorite way of testing how it can perform when you're not on

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the golf

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course.