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0:00Today we are busting golf instruction
0:02myths during a lesson with Dr. Luke
0:04Benois. Should you keep your lead arm
0:06straight? Should you train speed only
0:07after you fix your golf swing? Do you
0:09need a perfect alignment practice
0:10station when you practice all these best
0:12practices that we've heard and we
0:13thought that we should be doing? They
0:15might be wrong. Let's get into it. All
0:18right. You should swing your swing every
0:20time. Myth or truth?
0:21Total myth. Especially when you're
0:22young, you want to learn how to swing a
0:24lot of different ways, build that skill
0:26base, be able to hit balls from any
0:28position. the kid that can play hockey
0:29and hit a ball here, here, here, here,
0:31here, is gonna be able to hit it more
0:32solid. So, it's okay to practice wild
0:34drills when you're young. And then when
0:35it comes to using different clubs, Yeah.
0:37they're also very different swings,
0:38aren't they?
0:38Yep. They are. They are. So, when
0:40anytime somebody says, "Swing your
0:41driver the same way you swing all your
0:43other club," they know what I'm talking
0:44about.
0:44If you're hitting down 5 degrees in your
0:45driver, how's it going?
0:46Yeah. All right. Myth busted. Don't
0:48swing the same way every time.
0:51That was it. That was shanked.
0:53That was pretty good. Okay. You shanked
0:54it. You were standing too close to the
0:56golf ball. You got to move back. Yeah.
0:58Okay. So, I got to tell you a lesson.
0:59First first uh year teaching. Okay. I
1:01had this guy that was like this pretty
1:03close to the ball. Shanking it. I had
1:05him move further away. Still shanking.
1:06Still shanking.
1:08Still shanking it. I had him here and he
1:10was still shanking it.
1:11He's really good. That is impressive.
1:12So then I started thinking about like is
1:14impact location more of a skill. Yeah.
1:16Or is it a byproduct of like mechanical
1:19stuff going on? Could I fix the shank by
1:22abducting my left hip and getting really
1:24deep and like feeling my chest go away?
1:26all these internal cues. Could I do
1:28that?
1:29Yes. But it's a dual task. I got to
1:31think about that and also hit the toe. Y
1:33Okay. So, I'm going to go to now like if
1:34I'm coaching my 8-year-old T-ball team
1:36where every single time, what does he
1:37do? He just hits the tea and the ball
1:39falls to the ground. What would you tell
1:40the 8-year-old
1:41to like swing over top of the ball?
1:43You know what? It works really well.
1:44Yeah.
1:44And that's how we're built to operate.
1:46Okay.
1:46So, solve the problem by using an
1:48external queue and not going to internal
1:50cues. So, whether you're 8 or whatever,
1:52do opposite. So, here would be a drill
1:54to fix impact and go like this.
1:58Huh.
1:58How hard is that? Yeah.
2:00That hard?
2:01No.
2:01Simple.
2:02Yeah.
2:02So, now I'm going to see if I can tow
2:03shank it. All right. So, I'm starting
2:05here.
2:06Oh, that's good, too.
2:07So, if I can heel shank it and toe shank
2:10it, guess what? Middlef face piece of
2:11cake.
2:12That's a myth busted.
2:16All right, Luke. Should I fix my swing
2:18before I speed train?
2:19Absolutely not. If it's hard for you to
2:21do it at full speed on the back swing,
2:23do some freezers. Set the table properly
2:25and then just go bat out of hell.
2:27So, should we play one shot shape? Luke,
2:29I'm only going to hit fades all day
2:32every shot. Or should I not? What's
2:34What's the decision?
2:35Absolutely not.
2:36Okay, this is controversial.
2:37It's really controversial for a lot of
2:38developing golfers. Like, they need to
2:40learn the skills to shot shape because
2:42you need to be able to recall it when
2:44the situation calls for it. Like you're
2:45at Augusta number 10
2:47and you don't have a draw down the hill.
2:48It's a huge disadvantage. You watch the
2:50guys that are kind of I call black and
2:52white thinkers that only hit fades. They
2:53struggle in that T- shot. So you're
2:55always doing the math. Is it costing me
2:57to do it because I'm uncomfortable and I
2:59can't pull it off
3:00more than what the advantages are of the
3:02actual strategic advantage.
3:04Let me double down on this.
3:05Yes.
3:06Can I hit it straight then? Or is that
3:08going to max there's going to be more
3:09misses because I'm trying to hit it
3:10straight versus one shot?
3:11Of course not. Is a straight shot easy?
3:12No. Yeah,
3:13hitting it dead straight with no curve
3:14is very hard.
3:16But what's your ideal? Are we talking
3:188.2 yards of curve? That's really hard,
3:20too.
3:20So, there's no ideal shot. To say that a
3:23straight shot is harder than any curve
3:24is ridiculous. Is it nice
3:26psychologically to maybe have some curve
3:27on it? Sure, you could argue that. If
3:29you turn your brain into a black and
3:30white thinker where like I'm just going
3:31to hit the same shot every time, guess
3:33what? You won't be able to kind of grow
3:34your game and develop those skills for
3:36when you need them. People that think
3:38that way struggle with bias more
3:40because they don't understand ball
3:41flight. So then they come back for a
3:42lesson, which is great for the pro, but
3:44oh, it's leaking right today. How do I
3:46fix it? For the people that are good at
3:48curving it and understand ball flight,
3:49they don't have those lessons.
3:50Got it. So give us an idea of like how
3:51do I master this skill then? Or what is
3:53the skill I need to learn?
3:54Right. So first of all, just because
3:55you're curving it doesn't mean you have
3:57to have your body all over the place to
4:00create the shot. So when I was young and
4:01probably when you were young, like you
4:02learned how to hook it doing this. Y
4:05Okay. So I want you to pretend you're
4:06more of a robot to do it and change your
4:08alignment.
4:09So that's your straight shot setup. Y
4:11does make sense.
4:12Now, for a fade, I want you to pretend
4:14you're hitting a straight shot through
4:15my legs here.
4:16Dead straight.
4:17Y
4:17Okay. Now, all you're going to do is
4:19open the face a little bit and then
4:21regrip it so it feels normal. All you
4:23have to do theoretically from there is
4:25do your exact same swing and the ball's
4:27going to curve left to right. You don't
4:28need to have all this athletic stuff to
4:30do it.
4:30Got it. Cuz when growing up, like you
4:32said, it was like, "Okay, so if I'm
4:33going to fade, I'm going to put towards
4:34the front. I'm going to kind of put my
4:36shoulders over here and kind of open it
4:37up and swing and, you know, swing this
4:39way." So you're saying let's lose all
4:41that. Let's we got to just same swing
4:43now. We're just going to move and then
4:45open.
4:45And if you train that as a skill of your
4:47setup, it's pretty doable. But we don't
4:49need to be like crazy athletes and feel
4:51like we're doing this to hook it.
4:52Right. The other cool thing about like
4:54working on this and this is a skill is
4:55you learn about aim. You learn about
4:57club face control. You learn about path.
4:59And you gain some awareness of all these
5:00things by experimenting on the range
5:02with this.
5:03A lot of people are afraid to get dirty
5:04with the learning. And they they like
5:05they think the goal is to hit good shots
5:07in the range. No, it's like to learn.
5:09And that's what I see that's so
5:10different about zero handicaps and tens
5:12is tens are so bad adjusting to feedback
5:14of shots and understanding how to fix it
5:16when it goes left, right, thin, fat.
5:18They don't do that well. Zeros are
5:20really good at it.
5:21Got it.
5:23Myth busted.
5:23Nice.
5:24So, I've always heard you never work on
5:26mechanics on the golf course. You got to
5:28come to the range because I'm trying to
5:30fix my back swing and do this on the
5:32range, right?
5:32Yeah.
5:33Truth or myth? You know what I would
5:35have said differently when I started my
5:37career, but at this point I think your
5:39best option is actually not do it at the
5:41range. Do it at home with really good
5:43video and learn how to do it on a
5:45practice swing and on a foam ball and
5:47then you can start going to the real
5:48ball. And more people now understand
5:50what is P55, where does a club need to
5:52be? And especially as people start
5:53taking online lessons, they realize the
5:55value. And I it's unbelievable that I
5:58feel like my online students do better
5:59than my in-person students.
6:01The golf ball ruins everything as soon
6:02as you hit it. Good or bad? That's means
6:04how well you did that golf swing.
6:06Exactly. They can't go hit this golf
6:07ball until the the practice swings and
6:10the foam balls look perfect.
6:11Give us the the 302 sevenstep framework
6:15pitch as fast as you can. The speedrun
6:17of how to
6:17learn how to do a pivot because if you
6:19don't have a good pivot, you're building
6:20your whole swing in a house of cards.
6:22Okay. Number two is learn how to do a
6:23freezer from the top making a really
6:26good down swing with a lot of speed.
6:28Because if you can get a good sequence
6:30from there, you learn learn how to do
6:31the down swing first. Because we hit the
6:32ball with the down swing, that matters
6:34more. The third step is going to be a
6:35smoothie, which is where you go slow.
6:37You go slow enough to make it look
6:39perfect
6:41and then attach your down swing. Because
6:42if you can do the smoothie pretty fast
6:44and look really good, now you're
6:46starting to combine that that back swing
6:49with a really functional down swing.
6:51Next, you take it to the foam ball. You
6:53do the exact same thing. Freezer
6:54smoothie, then real ball, freezer
6:56smoothie. Seven steps and the swing will
6:58look awesome.
6:58Love it. This is huge. If you want to
7:00actually change your golf swing, you
7:02have to do this. You have to get rid of
7:03the golf ball and go through this
7:04process. And uh yeah, no more mechanics
7:06on the range. We're going to do it at
7:08home. Myth.
7:15[Music]
7:17All right, Luke. Every time I practice,
7:19I'm in a perfect setup. Look at where
7:22the ball's in my stance. Perfect line. I
7:24al line directly and then it's good
7:26practice if I do all those things.
7:28I think setup's really overrated. Okay.
7:30Particularly with short game, you need
7:31to be an athlete and be able to hit hit
7:33balls in different ways. Like who are
7:34the best athletes that pick up the game
7:36and pick it up fast? Who are they?
7:37Hockey players are very good.
7:39We know that here in Minnesota
7:40cuz they can hit it from here, here,
7:42here. And so like when I train junior
7:43golf, like I do this drill where I'll
7:45have them set up and we call it the
7:47seven ball drill. I think we even did
7:48this one time, Cordy, but I like to
7:50remind people like I should be able to
7:53stand right here and I should be able to
7:55hit all these balls. Even if they're not
7:57great shots, I'm building a lot of hand
7:59eye as I do this drill.
8:03Wow.
8:03And somebody who does this sort of
8:04drill, these are really tight.
8:08But a challenge there. You've got to
8:10move this around, right? Like
8:11you got to be able to hit different
8:12shots.
8:12Yeah, we're doing all this different
8:13stuff. Okay. What how would you define
8:15the skill? What do we call the skill of
8:16this? So, what we're trying to do is be
8:18able to hit the ball solid in center
8:19contact, right? Using a small club head
8:21is one way to do it, but just adding a
8:23lot of variability. If you imagine how
8:25your how your kids, 5-year-olds,
8:278-year-olds, how do they want to train?
8:29They want to do all the crazy shots
8:31wide. That's how our brains are wired to
8:32learn.
8:33Y
8:33and by pushing the envelope of kind of
8:35that environment, we actually learn
8:37faster. But we don't think we're doing
8:39as well because we don't hit it as
8:40solid.
8:41So, adults think, "Oh, I'm learning if I
8:43hit it solid."
8:44Kids just want to go explore their
8:45environment, get better. Yep. I think
8:47that's a myth. I'll I'll piggyback on
8:48this. Another myth is that uh learning
8:51comes from mistakes and making errors,
8:52right? We all think learning comes from
8:54when I hit it pure, that I've learned
8:55something. It's actually not. It's it's
8:57the opposite of that.
8:58And you can start with any ball you
8:59want.
8:59And I don't move my feet.
9:00No.
9:01Okay.
9:03Okay. I hit it solid.
9:04Yep.
9:06That's okay. One of them just got really
9:09hard now way back there.
9:13Okay. Sorry, interlocking for your turf.
9:15I will fix my divots. I promise.
9:19Oh man.
9:19Oh my gosh. It's getting really hard.
9:21You're going to have to go between your
9:22legs. There you go.
9:27Yes.
9:28Ah, this is hard.
9:29It's really hard.
9:29That's really hard.
9:30You know how like in golf our goal is
9:31like hit the ball relatively straight
9:33the same shot, right? So he does this
9:35with volleyball players. It's a really
9:36good example of
9:37in volleyball you want to hit the ball
9:39and you want the ball to come up with no
9:41spin because it's a knuckle ball. Okay.
9:42All right. So he taught people to do it
9:44with lots of sid spin.
9:46Okay.
9:46And he had one group just do knuckle
9:48balls all the time. Well, the people
9:49that learned sid spin were actually
9:51better at no spin, too.
9:53Interesting.
9:53So, we broadened the whole skill base
9:55and we do shots with different setups
9:57where you're aiming way right, way left,
9:59ball forward, ball back, especially when
10:01you're young and developing talent.
10:03Yeah.
10:03It's really helpful long term.
10:05I love it. I like, you know, good
10:07practice when you go do it again. I want
10:08to do that again because I feel like I
10:09sucked and I can do better next time.
10:11That actually is good practice. So,
10:12yep,
10:12try it out. Try instead of just hate
10:14commenting down below, maybe go try it.
10:16How about that? All right, Luke. So,
10:17when I'm practicing, I'm going to make
10:18sure I go through my full routine
10:20exactly like I would on the golf course.
10:25Truth or myth?
10:26Total myth.
10:27Okay.
10:27Yeah. Let's say you were training for
10:29professional ping pong.
10:30Okay.
10:31And you got to hit one ping pong ball
10:32every minute because you got to go
10:33through your full routine and a ball
10:35machine's feeding you. Okay.
10:36Okay.
10:37How many balls would you hit? Not very
10:39many. Not very many. Right. What if it's
10:40coming every half second?
10:41You'd hit a lot.
10:42And how good are you gonna get with your
10:43contact?
10:45Probably better because I got to react
10:46fast and I got to figure it out as I go,
10:48right?
10:48What do you notice when your 5-year-old
10:49practices? How do they practice?
10:51We're hitting. We're going. We're
10:52moving. I don't They They got to keep
10:54going. They can't sit.
10:55You know what the funny thing is? Our
10:56machinery is developed to learn fast.
10:58And 5-year-olds do it well. So, let's
11:00say you're one of those golfers where
11:02you flush it every time
11:03and your deal is like mental or you
11:06can't take it to the course,
11:07then you should do a lot of deliberate
11:09practice to make it feel more like that.
11:11Okay? But let's say you actually misit
11:13it a lot and you don't control the face
11:15very well. You should probably switch
11:16targets a lot and practice a lot faster
11:19as a proportion of your practice. All
11:20right? So, what we're going to do is
11:21we're going to switch I'm going to put
11:22them in a line. So, it's a little bit of
11:24a rapid fire drill here, but I'm going
11:25to have you switch targets. And you
11:27know, if you look out here, we have two
11:29flags, but I'm going to throw I want you
11:31to actually try to land one in the
11:32bucket, too. So, we got left flag, right
11:34flag, bucket, and then hit one on this
11:36manhole cover, too.
11:37Okay.
11:37That way, we're switching up our targets
11:39a lot.
11:39And you're just going to go down the
11:41line, and you got to have a ball in the
11:43air every 8 seconds.
11:44Okay. So, I'm just going to hit and go.
11:46Yeah. No practice. This is weird.
11:48See the target, hit the shot.
11:51All right. Bucket.
11:55Okay. No, you're doing great.
11:58All right, manhole cover.
12:00Good. God, that's
12:01okay. Now, we're going to do it again.
12:02And now I want you to go high shot, low
12:04shot, high shot, low shot as you're
12:06doing the same drill.
12:06Okay.
12:08Okay. Low shot to the bucket.
12:14All right. High shot to that one.
12:19Low shot to the manhole cover. Go ahead.
12:22That was pretty good.
12:22That was good. Wow. manhole cover.
12:26First thing would be, is your
12:27performance as good going that fast?
12:29Probably not.
12:30Yeah.
12:30But there's a trade-off over reps. So,
12:32you're getting so many more reps. You're
12:34gonna hit so many more shots. And even
12:36if you're maybe 80 to 90% successful or
12:39even 50%, you're learning more. If you
12:41want to get in on this research, RIP
12:43research, we got about 15 people that
12:44are going to help collect research. It's
12:46a volunteer which can be part of a
12:47really cool study. We're going to
12:48investigate this.
12:49Got it. I love it. What a fun one. Myth
12:51busted, maybe. I think
12:53maybe. How's that? All right. So, in
12:56chipping, I either got to decide, am I
12:58going to be steep
13:00with my chips or am I going to be more
13:04shallow?
13:06How is that? Can I do shallow?
13:07That was your best one.
13:08Okay, there we go.
13:08Yeah,
13:09I got to choose one of those of what
13:10like methodology you want to go down.
13:12You can you can do both. Even if we are
13:13steep, is it okay to hit the ground a
13:15little before the ball sometimes? What
13:16does the ping data tell you? Cuz you
13:17were out there talking.
13:18So, when you hit the ground, the ground
13:19obviously bounces the club back up. So
13:21sometimes the attack angle that we read
13:22on a launch monitor is changed from the
13:26ground push it pushed back up. So a 13
13:28down could go to a zero based on if you
13:30hit it fat, which
13:31I think it was 87% of people or 87% of
13:34shots are hit behind the ball like
13:35they're not hitting
13:36crazy high percentage. Yeah. And
13:37particularly if you're on a downgrain
13:38bent, it's much better to hit behind it
13:41because frankly if you do, it'll still
13:43work. Big takeaway is to know your lie
13:44and have different shots. Like if you
13:46want to hit down on it and you've got
13:48more attack angle and you've got an open
13:50face, that's probably going to be better
13:52out of um kind of an into grain lie
13:54where you're trying to hit ball first.
13:56Y
13:56and then there's times where it's pretty
13:57fluffy and you want height. Then you
13:59want to feel like you're uh kind of
14:01sweeping up on it much higher attack
14:03angle.
14:03Yep. Don't choose one.
14:04Yeah.
14:05Try both and then choose situationally
14:07which one are you going to use.
14:08Just like most things, don't be black
14:09and white. Have them all. Y
14:11love it, man.
14:17[Music]
14:22There it is. You lifted your head, Luke.
14:24I know you did it.
14:25I topped the ball. Therefore, I must
14:26have lifted my head. Right.
14:28Truth or myth?
14:29Total myth. Watch. I'm going to lift my
14:31head. I'm going to early extend.
14:34And I flushed it.
14:35Hit it fine.
14:35You can do a lot of things and hit a
14:37solid. Yep.
14:37It's like it doesn't need to be just cuz
14:39I lift my head, I'm going to top it
14:40every time.
14:41Myth.
14:41Yeah.
14:43I have this bucket of balls and I'm just
14:45going to groove my swing here
14:48just to one target. Truth or myth?
14:50How often do you hit the exact same shot
14:51on the golf course?
14:52Not often.
14:53Unless it's OB, you're not doing it.
14:54Okay.
14:54So, if you're doing block practice like
14:56that where you're working on mechanics
14:57and you're doing some hard skill, have
14:59video set up and then it's okay to hit
15:01to one target. But if you're getting
15:02ready for a tournament or actually like
15:03practical golf, switch targets every
15:05time. Make it weird because the more you
15:08challenge yourself and practice, the
15:09more adaptable and transferable the
15:11skill will be. Got it. Myth busted.
15:18[Music]
15:22All right, Luke. So, I got my practice
15:23station set up here. I got my alignment
15:25sticks perfectly set up. And this is the
15:28way that I should practice is alignment
15:29sticks, you know, as much as possible to
15:31make sure my fundamentals are right.
15:33Mhm.
15:33Truth or myth.
15:34It's overrated.
15:35Don't do this to me, Luke. It's not.
15:37Everybody needs alignment sticks.
15:39You know what? You have to have good
15:40aim, but alignment can be variable based
15:43on you.
15:44And so if you were to practice without
15:46alignment rods all the time, Yeah.
15:48and you basically switched targets and
15:49you played for money
15:51against other people and competed, you
15:52think you would learn how to aim your
15:54golf ball?
15:54I' I'd probably have to figure it out.
15:56Yes. So, if we take you to a deserted
15:59island and you have an unlimited supply
16:01of golf balls
16:02and your task every day is to hit good
16:04shots out of this bucket of golf balls
16:06and you get rewards by landing it on a
16:08target
16:09and you're giving no instructions except
16:11for maybe a decent golf grip.
16:13Okay.
16:14And you had this boring spot on this
16:17island where all you get to do is hit
16:19balls and you get rewards. How much do
16:21you think you'd practice?
16:22A lot.
16:22A lot. Yeah.
16:23Constantly. And how good would you get
16:25at aiming?
16:26Really good.
16:27How good would your alignment be?
16:29Oh, nobody ever told you. I don't know
16:31how good it would be. It'd be
16:32functional.
16:33I bet you'd have people aiming like
16:34this.
16:35Yeah.
16:35And like this cuz they don't have
16:37sticks. They don't even know how to
16:38throw them down.
16:39They just want to get the ball over
16:40there.
16:40Yes. Yeah.
16:41So now I'm going to go like LeBron
16:42James. Do you see his three-pointers?
16:44It's like this. And you get guys like
16:46this.
16:47Do you think to hit a good jump shot you
16:49have to have your feet in the same spot?
16:51No. Probably
16:52see a huge variance.
16:52Yeah. So, we're kind of blinded into
16:54thinking like square really matters.
16:56Yep.
16:57It's just a standard.
16:58Yep. Okay. But what about like the idea
17:00of okay, if I'm moving the ball position
17:02and my aim around, then I got to change
17:04my swing every time of my low point and
17:07like all that stuff.
17:08Yeah. I think especially if you're
17:09playing a lot of tournament golf, you
17:10probably want a pretty consistent ball
17:12position.
17:12Um, but the truth is having your feet
17:14aimed at the target is not as important
17:16as having your dispersion pattern
17:18centered.
17:19Got it.
17:19You got to hit the ball at your target.
17:20Define that for us quick. Think about
17:21Freddy Coules aiming left or some good
17:23players aiming way over to the right
17:25like Victor Havland.
17:26Again, they can hit it at the target.
17:28The dispersion pattern works,
17:30but their biomechanics are such that
17:32they don't have to have their feet
17:33square.
17:33Got it?
17:33So, what you should do is practice
17:35different targets. And the outcome of
17:37that is that you will get good at aim.
17:38And then if you want to have a standard
17:40home base to go back to, you can.
17:42Yeah.
17:42But the truth is it's probably
17:44overrated. So maybe what people should
17:46do is get some balls, aim at a target,
17:48don't use any sticks,
17:50and see what allows you to hit the most
17:52balls closest to your target
17:54and then see then put sticks down and
17:56see where you are aimed potentially.
17:58And if you want to deep dive on why
17:59alignment might change, you definitely
18:01could. Like if you want to get the low
18:02point more forward, play with a more
18:03open stance, tilt your chest more here,
18:05right?
18:06So there's things you could change in
18:07your swing, but your alignment shouldn't
18:08be just like
18:10it doesn't need to be cookie cutter for
18:11everybody square.
18:12Got it.
18:12Yeah.
18:13All right. There's another one. Another
18:15one.
18:16Okay. If I want to work the golf ball, I
18:17need a blade.
18:18Maybe not butter blades all throughout
18:20the set, but I need a blade versus a
18:22cavity back like you got there.
18:23Yeah.
18:23Truth or myth?
18:24It's mostly myth.
18:25Okay.
18:25Okay. There's a tiny bit of truth to it,
18:27but it's so small you shouldn't consider
18:29it.
18:29Like if you wanted to lean the the face
18:32forward like this, you'd hit the ball a
18:33little higher in the face and your
18:35vertical gear effect would basically
18:37like reduce your spin more on a blade by
18:39a tiny margin.
18:40Okay.
18:41Okay. But from a practical standpoint,
18:43path and face are going to be the
18:45overwhelming thing. And you're not going
18:47to intentionally mishit the the club
18:48very often. So yes, when you hit on the
18:50toe, they hook a little more. When you
18:51hit the heel, they they fade a little
18:53more. But the truth is any center
18:55strike, regardless of how big the club
18:57head is, are pretty much the same sort
18:59of dispersion pattern. One one thing we
19:01do know is that the smaller club head
19:04will actually have because of the center
19:05mass is farther away from the shaft, the
19:07axis rotation is easier. So smaller
19:09clubs are easier to go left. Bigger
19:11clubs actually would reduce that. So
19:14small factor generally mostly BS.
19:17It doesn't really matter about
19:18workability.
19:19It's a myth. There are some intricacies
19:21though to think about.
19:22All right. On the back swing, lead arm
19:24has to be straight, right?
19:26No.
19:27No,
19:27doesn't matter that much.
19:28Okay.
19:29There's a lot of variability out there.
19:30Who are some of the straightest hitters
19:32on tour ever? Some guys bend their left
19:33arm a lot. Victor Havlin bends it a lot.
19:36Truth is, you just don't want to have it
19:37impact your sequence too much. So, if
19:39you're one of those golfers where you
19:40wrap it around your neck, could be a
19:42problem if you're starting to fire with
19:44the arms first. There's way too many
19:46older golfers that create some power
19:48with the bent left arm and they're
19:49trying to change it when in fact they
19:51should be working on ball flight stuff.
19:52Got it. That's a myth. Then that lead
19:54arm
19:55doesn't matter much.
19:56So, I got to hold leg through here,
19:58right? More leg the better because leg
20:00means power.
20:01Yeah. Truth is, if your sequence is good
20:04and your club is reasonably shallow,
20:07it's really hard to have a cast in your
20:09swing.
20:10Okay?
20:10So, understand how to do a pivot and
20:12then understand that if the club is here
20:14and you can pivot well from here, you'll
20:17have really good shaft length. There are
20:18some people where their mobility with
20:19the lower body is so poor that one way
20:22they can do that is maybe get that elbow
20:23to drop in and it feels like they're
20:24pulling the handle, but that's a pretty
20:26rare lesson because I can usually get
20:28the sequence to do the work.
20:29Got it. So, myth because work on your
20:32sequence, not holding the leg.
20:34Yeah.
20:34Got it.
20:36[Music]
20:42If I want to work on my distance
20:44control, Luke, I'm going to do the
20:45ladder drill here. I got to learn how to
20:48land the ball in different corridors to
20:51control speed. Yeah,
20:53I think it's not a terrible drill, but
20:54there's better drills. One is when
20:56you're doing the ladder, you're kind of
20:57going the same direction all the time. Y
21:00and so there's not a whole lot of
21:01variability of slope. Number two is
21:02sequentially it's not as good as doing
21:04random. Number three is not ecological,
21:06meaning you're not putting at holes.
21:08Okay?
21:08And so we should be as ecological as we
21:10as we possibly can. And I'd much rather
21:12have you aim at different holes and
21:13switch targets going up and down hills.
21:16So then can you gify that? Can you aim
21:18at this hole and say, "Well, from this
21:19range, you want to get it past the hole
21:22because anything within about 10 15 ft,
21:23let's try to get it past the hole."
21:25No more than a club length by would be a
21:27good goal. And then as you get out to
21:28the farther ones, just get it within
21:3010%. If you got a 40footer within four
21:32four feet,
21:33okay? Okay. And from there, you could
21:34easily gify the thing,
21:35right?
21:36Simple game would be if you get it
21:37within that 10%, we call it a birdie.
21:39Okay.
21:39If it's within 20%, call it a par. More
21:41than 20%, it's a bogey. You go until you
21:44get to five under, five over.
21:45This is a level up, not a myth, right? I
21:47think leg putting is a skill that
21:48everybody is deficient in. I'd say most
21:50people are. Uh gosh, what a great game.
21:55Ah. All right, Luke. The clock drill has
21:58to be a great way to work on my short
21:59putting, right?
22:00It's not terrible, but you can make it
22:01better. Okay,
22:02so let's make it better. So, first of
22:03all, as you're doing these, you see how
22:05close the balls are together?
22:06The the putts are pretty similar. Okay,
22:08so I did a study with six-year-olds,
22:10okay?
22:11And I can tell you when six-year-olds
22:13putt, if you move them around uphill,
22:15downhill, sidehill, and change distance,
22:17they will learn much faster.
22:19So, we're trying to basically like
22:21expedite how quickly you get good at
22:23putting. And we need to make every putt
22:24feel really different.
22:25You know how a lot of instructors will
22:27actually start looking at your putting
22:28stroke? Yeah,
22:29I used to putting stroke and then I
22:31found when I got them on some slope and
22:34changed the distance and went uphill,
22:36downhill, sidehill, they were terrible
22:37at speed.
22:39Okay, so now I never start putting that
22:41way. I get to the most sloped hole on
22:42the green and we go around and we do
22:44this drill that's kind of a clock drill,
22:46but it's a little different.
22:47Okay,
22:47so we're going to do one club length
22:48away, and we're going to rotate 100°.
22:50Okay.
22:51Okay.
22:51And then we're going to rotate 100° and
22:53go three club lengths.
22:56There you go. And
22:56then you're going to go to this one,
22:57which is two club lengths.
23:02There you go. This one's three.
23:11So, lots of different slopes.
23:12Lots of different slopes.
23:13Uphill, downhill, side,
23:16different lengths.
23:18And now we're going to talk about the
23:19scoring.
23:19Okay.
23:20So, you get a point if you make it.
23:21Okay?
23:21And you don't lose a point if your speed
23:24is good. So inside of this range, you
23:27have to get it to the hole.
23:28So nothing short.
23:30If you're short, you lose a point. Got
23:31it?
23:31So the game is the constraint to teach
23:33you speed.
23:34Okay.
23:35And so a good putter will not lose any
23:37points by bad having bad speed.
23:39Yep.
23:39And as a result, you get better at kind
23:41of doing uphill, downhill, sidehill,
23:43short, medium, long. You're doing a lot
23:45of variability with it.
23:46And so I would typically go 20 putts at
23:49a hole.
23:49Okay?
23:50And then you go find another hole, do
23:51another hole. And if you track it every
23:53day, you ever hear of the testing
23:54effect? If you go test this
23:56and you are trying really hard to get
23:57better at this drill and you just are
23:59trying to score better and get rid of
24:01those misses in terms of long or short,
24:04your putting is going to get so much
24:05better.
24:05Love it. Is there a percent of slope? Do
24:07we want to stay on a relatively flat one
24:08or are you looking for those 3% slopes
24:10of like let's get some?
24:11Most golfers are horrible on a lot of
24:13slope.
24:14So let's go target that first cuz
24:16frankly the flat 4footers and 8footers
24:19are not the reason you're bad at
24:20putting.
24:21That's true. It's mostly because you
24:22three putt from 13 feet downhill on a
24:25real slope putt.
24:26Yeah.
24:26And you don't you don't really give a
24:28good speed, so you don't even even make
24:29as many as you should.
24:30Got it. All right. It's neither a myth
24:32nor a truth. It's a drill upgrade.
24:35Yeah,
24:35that's what that is.
24:36Yeah.
24:37That's a power washer as well. I don't
24:38know if you guys know that. That's how
24:39they That's how they power wash vehicles
24:41right there.
24:43Neither myth nor truth.

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