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This content video is the two goals of a pre-shot routine. So while it's great

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to

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have solid mechanics, it's just as helpful to have a solid routine or a solid

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mental game approach. So in this video I'm going to cover the two main aspects

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that you want to make sure happen in your pre-shot routine. Many golfers come

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back

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from either a trip or a tournament and talk about how their mechanics broke

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down and I'll usually talk them through these two key components just to make

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sure that they are paying attention to the process as well as the swing

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mechanics.

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Because oftentimes if you have a poor commitment to the shot, if you have

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really

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poor focus over the ball and you hit a bad shot, it wasn't so much that you had

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bad swing mechanics. It was that you lacked the emotional commitment to

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hitting a good shot and therefore the mechanics broke down. Because if you're

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not totally committed, you can have extra tension, you could have little extra

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triggers or kind of sway movements to make yourself feel more comfortable.

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There's a lot of things they can go wrong if you're not committed to the shot.

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So

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in order to get more committed to the shot, the pre-shot routine is designed to

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cover what shot do I want to hit and what am I going to experience or feel

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over the golf ball. And I find that many golfers think through number one. So

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they

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will figure out what shot do they want to hit. They'll stand back here and they

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say okay I want it to start over there or so I want it to start at that tree.

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It's

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going to have a little bit of a draw to it. I'm going to swing the club at

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about

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85, 80%. So it's going to land at this part of the green, maybe roll out. They

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'll

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get pretty detailed as far as factoring in wind and elevation and what club to

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hit, what trajectory, all the key components they go into clearly picking out a

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shot.

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But then they completely fail on the second piece which is what is it going

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to feel like or what is the experience going to be like. So basically when you

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see tour professionals taking their practice wings, they're creating the

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phrase that I really like came from Jordan Spieth. It's a mini at the ball

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feel of what the ball flight will feel like. So basically it's a mini at the

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ball feel of what's my body going to feel like. What are my hands going to feel

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like. What's it going to be like when I execute the shot that hits the ball

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flight that I want to hit. And it's very important that you get 100% clear on

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what you think it's going to feel like. And then you stick to that commitment

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all

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the way through executing the shot or the whole time you're in the play box. So

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the

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word that gets thrown around a lot is you need to be committed to the shot. But

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what I really think that that means is you need to have clarity on what's going

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to happen during the shot. What's the swing going to feel like, what's the

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experience going to be like. And then get up there and just kind of execute. If

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you're intellectually committed to the shot that you're going to hit but you go

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up to the ball kind of wondering well what is this going to feel like am I

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going to focus on my arms am I going to focus on my hips am I going to focus on

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you know low point. If you haven't made a 100% clear commitment to what you're

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going to focus on when you execute the shot then in my mind you're not

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committed

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to the shot yet. And it's natural that you're going to have a breakdown of

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mechanics when you're lacking 100% commitment. So when you're on the course

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and you're going through your pre shot routine and I do recommend that you

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practice your pre shot routine on the range at least some part of time

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especially

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as you're getting closer and closer to a tournament. But let's say you're on

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the

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course you've got the feel of the shot or you got the idea of the shot you're

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going to take enough practice swings so that you can get a clear feel. Okay

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that's

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what it's going to feel like when the club hits the turf that's what it's going

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to feel like when the club hits the ball. You want this mini strong sensation

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of

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what the club or what the swing is going to feel like and then your goal is to

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keep distractions away and just focus on executing that same feel. If you

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execute that feel then it's a good shot regardless of where the outcome is but

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most of the time if you have a clear feeling of what it's going to be like

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over the ball connected to the ball flight you want to hit and you execute

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that execute that feel you're likely going to hit a really good shot.