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This concept video is translating feels to visual.

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So you can see that I've got a lot going on here.

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I'm going to talk you through a general concept that I like that will help you

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transfer your

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practice from the range to the course.

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Some golfers are able to get into a good rhythm on the driving range and then

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completely

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fails them and they have trouble recreating the feels on the course.

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So sometimes your feels are not going to be extremely reliable and so having

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some visuals

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is something that you can recreate on the course a little bit easier.

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So if you're working through feels, even if you're more of a feel golfer, I

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recommend

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at some point translating them into visuals.

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So some of the most common would be using alignment sticks or kind of pack

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gates.

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I also have videos about if your goal is to get out of a slice pattern or an

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over the

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top or a steep pattern about swinging a towards an impact bag somewhere 10 to

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20 degrees out

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in the direction or out to the right of the target line.

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So this is a helpful visual that then I could easily recreate on a T box by

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either putting

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a T or just looking for an object in that direction.

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So I could have a divot or I could have the T marker kind of out in that zone

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and this

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can help me recreate if I've practiced with the visuals on the ground.

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So we've got visuals that help us primarily work on the kind of chest height to

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chest height

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space.

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It's hard to have visuals that help too much with the top of the swing, but

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whether it's

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a takeaway or delivery position or the release or into the follow through, I

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use a lot of

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visuals to help you become a little bit more aware of not just the feel, but

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how that feel

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relates to the space where I'm actually hitting the golf ball.

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Behind me I got some of my favorites for if you are working on backswing.

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This is classically, you would just put a stick in the ground at about the y

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angle of

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the club.

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I often use this pool noodle that I can adjust to the angle of the club.

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This can be really helpful for if you're just kind of lifting in no turn or if

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you're getting

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really flat and bringing the club inside.

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So this can help those feels get recalibrated with your visual.

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And you've seen, I love creating path checkpoints that are a little bit higher

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up.

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So sometimes the sticks work great, but if you have more of a transition air,

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having some

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type of visual or feel, which could allow me to dial in where the club is in

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this space

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compared to the golf ball can be really helpful.

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Often when I'm using the visuals, I will have a station set up.

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This doesn't work as well at a busy public driving range.

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But if you have extra room, if you're practicing in kind of the quieter times,

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I would recommend

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creating a visual station and then have a place nearby where I can hit with no

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visuals.

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You can go back and forth between having the visual support and then having to

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hit a shot

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where you have to recreate it and create the image in your mind.

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This can be really helpful if you have a tendency to get a really strong feel

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on the range.

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It's going well.

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And then as soon as you get on the course, that feel stops working.

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Sometimes it's not just the feel, but how you're relating it to the space.

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So use some visual alignment to help calibrate or translate that feel into a

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visual.

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I didn't have it there because I didn't want to block the camera.

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But for a quick demo, we'll pretend sometimes I use a bucket right here.

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We've got all the visuals going on.

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If we can't hit it solidly in this environment, then we're in trouble, pre-

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solid strike.