Harris English Shares How He Practices to Hone His Golf Game

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00:00I treat every shot that I hit like it's a shot in a tournament.

00:04I go through my full routine, I pick a spot in front of the ball,

00:07I visualize what I'm trying to do, and I hit it.

00:11And I do this thing on the TrackMan where it gives me a game.

00:15Like, I would love playing Madden and college football at NCAA,

00:20like I saw we did in college, and I'll still sneak off and do that a little bit at home.

00:25But to me, it's like playing a video game.

00:28Like, the TrackMan, the iPad will pop up a green complex,

00:33and we'll put a pin on the right, and it'll be 174 yards,

00:37and it'll give you this circle around the pin where, like,

00:40that's where you need to hit it to gain shots.

00:43So that's all I do is just practice those certain scenarios of shots.

00:49Like, I rarely go hit ball.

00:51Like, I don't really enjoy practicing on the range because I get bored so easily.

00:56But this keeps me zoned in of, like, it's like I'm out there playing golf.

01:04So I'm hitting certain shots.

01:05I'm going through my full routine, and I can't tell you, like,

01:08how much that's helped me stay engaged.

01:11I don't go out and hit 300 balls.

01:13Like, my practices are so much more efficient now from working with Justin

01:19and working on all of that stuff of him working with Louis Eustace

01:23and him working with Charles Schwartz.

01:24So a lot of seeing Rory grow up.

01:27Like, he knew what a good practice session was,

01:30and we just went back to the basics of my grip wasn't great.

01:35My grip wasn't consistent enough.

01:37Sometimes it would be a little too strong.

01:40Sometimes it would be a little too weaker.

01:41He's like, you have to grip it the same every single time.

01:44I don't care what club you're hitting.

01:46It has to look the same.

01:48My aim was all over the place.

01:51Just the consistency of what I was doing was not breeding consistency on the course.

01:56And now it's like I got to practice as consistent as I can to be the most consistent

02:01I can be out on the course where the pressure ramps up the most.

02:05Man, that was fascinating.

02:06And I think my takeaways from that is that you're much more intentional in how you practice

02:11would be probably the word that comes to mind.

02:13And then also engaging yourself in a competitive space,

02:18one in which it's not a blank board phase.

02:21Like every shot, you can visualize a shot on the PGA Tour from 170 yards to a right pin.

02:28That could be one that you're hitting that week.

02:30So it's always looking ahead to what you're preparing for,

02:33but also getting your mind in a place that makes you really start to visualize

02:38what's ahead for either that day or maybe weeks ahead.

02:42But that's the type of practice that is next level.

02:45And I'm honestly surprised, Harris, that when I look down here at our Riverside app,

02:49that Charlie Holm, the producer and co-host of the show, is still here

02:54because I'm surprised he's not already heading to the range to figure this out for him

02:58because this is like that was all such great information and gold for people that need to hear it.

03:04Yeah.

03:04And I'm like everybody else.

03:07I would think, like, call it seven, eight years ago.

03:12Like, okay, I need to – I'm not playing good right now.

03:15I need to go practice.

03:16And I would literally go hit balls for five or six hours until –

03:20I don't know what my goal was because you can work yourself into bad habits.

03:25And it's like you're going to hit bad golf shots.

03:27And I used to do these practice sessions and hit a bunch of seven irons.

03:32And I'd pull one and be like, why did I just pull one?

03:35And then I'd work for another 30 minutes figuring out why I pulled that one shot.

03:39And you just dig yourself.

03:41And then you're tired and frustrated.

03:44And it's like what – I'd leave the course and, like, I just practiced for seven hours.

03:48And I have no idea what I just did.

03:50Like, I didn't – I'm not any more confident when I finished than when I started.

03:54So it's like that's not – that's not working.

03:56So it's like – that's not working.

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