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This content video is the two goals of a pre-shot routine.

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So while it's great to have solid mechanics, it's just as helpful to have a solid routine

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or a solid mental game approach.

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So in this video, I'm going to cover the two main aspects that you want to make sure

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happen in your pre-shot routine.

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Many golfers come back from either a trip or a tournament and talk about how their mechanics

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broke down.

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And I'll usually talk them through these two key components, just to make sure that they

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are paying attention to the process as well as the swing mechanics.

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

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

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It was that you lacked the emotional commitment to hitting a good shot and therefore the

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mechanics broke down.

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Because if you're not totally committed, you can have extra attention, you could have

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

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what shot do I want to hit and what am I going to experience or feel over the golf ball?

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And I find that many golfers think through number one.

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So they will figure out what shot do they want to hit?

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They'll stand back here and they'll say, okay, I want it to start over there or so I want

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it to start at that tree.

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It's going to have a little bit of a draw to it.

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I'm going to swing the club at about 85, 80 percent.

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

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They'll get pretty detailed as far as factoring in wind and elevation and what club to hit,

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

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

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like or what is the experience going to be like?

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So basically, when you see tour professionals taking their practice wings, they're creating

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the phrase that I really like came from Jordan's speed.

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Say, many at the ball feel of what the ball flight will feel like.

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So basically, it's a many at the ball feel of what's my body going to feel like?

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What are my hands going to feel like?

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

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to hit?

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And it's very important that you get a hundred percent clear on what you think it's going

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to feel like.

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And then you stick to that commitment all the way through executing the shot or the whole

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time you're in the play box.

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

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

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happen during the shot.

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What's the swing going to feel like?

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What's the experience going to be like?

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And then get up there and just kind of execute.

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And if 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?

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Am I going to focus on my arms?

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Am I going to focus on my hips?

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Am I going to focus on low point?

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If you haven't made a hundred percent clear commitment to what you're going to focus on when

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you execute the shot, then in my mind you're not committed to the shot yet.

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It's natural that you are going to have a breakdown of mechanics when you're lacking

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a hundred percent commitment.

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So when you're on the course and you're going through your pre shot routine and I do

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recommend that you practice your pre shot routine on the range at least some part of the

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time, especially as you're getting closer and closer to a tournament.

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But let's say you're on the course, you've got the feel of the shot or you got the idea

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of the shot.

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You're going to take enough practice swings so that you can get a clear feel.

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

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That's what it's going to feel like when the club hits the ball.

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You want this mini strong sensation of what the swing is going to feel like and then your

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goal is to keep distractions away and just focus on executing that same feel.

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If you execute that feel, then it's a good shot regardless of where the outcome is.

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

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the ball, connect it to the ball flight you want to hit and you execute that feel, you're

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likely going to hit a really good shot.