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In this video we're gonna take a look at the warm-up routines of Jason Day and

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Alex Norrin at the Torrey Pines tournament a couple weeks ago. So you may

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have noticed that with the playoff they ran out of daylight and they had to

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start the next day. Well on Facebook they did a great job of posting a video of

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these two getting warmed up. You saw two totally different systems. One golfer

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was working on really grooving his feel, the other was really grooving his

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feeling of target awareness and alignment. Now you got to play around to kind

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of

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figure out which one's more important for you. I tend to be more of a feel gol

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fer

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but I know many good golfers who are more of the visual target awareness. You

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can

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play great, the important thing is to know what works for you and that comes

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from trial and error. What you saw both of them doing was they would hit maybe

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shot to maybe a little cluster up to five for Alex and then they would recalibr

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ate.

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So Alex would go into recalibrating by doing his little exaggerated crunch and

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white move and Jason would recalibrate by walking back behind the ball starting

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over and recalibrating his vision even though he had an alignment stick down

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the

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whole time. So play around with how you get warmed up and make sure that you

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have

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a specific purpose that you're trying to calibrate in order to get ready for

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the day. Through trial and error you'll be able to figure out what it is that

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you

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need to focus on in order to play your best. Let's take a look and see just how

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these warm-up routines look from both Alex and Jason. So here we have the two

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of them getting warmed up over on the left is Alex and over on the right is

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Jason Day. You can see that Jason Day has an alignment stick down and he's

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starting from behind the ball and Alex is mid-routine there. Alex would hit a

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handful of golf balls and then he would back away from the golf ball and recal

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ibrate

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his movement where we'll see Jason in between shots would recalibrate vision.

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So now here over on the left we're gonna see Alex doing that little crunch and

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white movement and if you've done your drills enough so that you you build a

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strong enough map you build a good awareness of the drill then you can do

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what he just did. That was a little five-second practice move and it kind of

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reminded his brain what he's trying to do. Now we've got Jason actually

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demonstrating a hard scale of putting a ball on a tee just using the club in

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the

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foot. So fairly loose here during the warm-up. He goes back to start the

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process. He didn't even look at the target too long in that rep. It was more

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of just getting set back to home base basically his swing starts from behind

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the ball. So then he goes through his pre-shot routine hits a good shot gets

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another ball from the caddy and what you'll see is he's not just gonna stand

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there and whack away he's getting ready to go play. So he goes back and he

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resets to his visual alignment. Now he's gonna walk back up go through his

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same alignment routine. So he's basically going through the process that he's

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gonna use on the course. I find too often that amateurs are just getting

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physically warmed up trying to find a physical groove and they do so by hitting

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balls in rapid succession and when you hit the balls in rapid succession you

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might get a decent feel for the short term but you don't actually build a

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feel for the long term. It's kind of the difference between cramming for a test

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versus actually study. So Alex is going to practice his short game. Let's go

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back

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to Jason and you'll see one more ball every ball starting from behind the golf

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ball. I challenge my students especially those who we think are visual to start

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every golf ball behind the golf ball have visual alignment stations just like

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Jason is doing here. If you're more of a feel golfer then you'll want to use

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more

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of the setup that or the routine that Alex was doing. Hit four or five balls

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and then if you need to recalibrate by practicing your feel move. This will

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help you take your game from the range to the course.