Brad Dalke on Navigating Tour Dreams & Overcoming Driver Issues

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00:00Uh, did that have an added pressure for you at all when you got to the professional game

00:05to continue on that path of being on the PGA tour?

00:09Because I would imagine at a fairly early age, I mean, you're committing to Oklahoma

00:14at 12 that people, uh, are telling you it's like, can't wait to see on the PGA tour one

00:19day, uh, whether that's friends or family or just even that inner belief that you have

00:24walking around junior golf, uh, and showing up to Oklahoma with the dream of one day playing

00:29on the PGA tour.

00:30Yeah.

00:30I mean, that's a good question.

00:31I, I definitely think it had something to do with it, you know, cause I mean, if you don't

00:37know my story, people watching, it's like my pro career was not good at all.

00:42I've been saying recently, like when I was doing pro pro golf for three years, I was probably

00:47like at a scratch to two handicap if I kept a handicap back then.

00:51But, um, cause my golf game was just in shambles.

00:54I had right before I got to college, I started developing driver problems.

00:59Um, which I had never dealt with before in junior golf.

01:02Like I just always struck the ball really well, especially off the tee and I'm, you know,

01:05long irons, just ball striking in general.

01:07And then right before college golf, I started having driver issues, which I, you know, like

01:11I said, I was never dealt with it before.

01:12Didn't know how to deal with it.

01:14And throughout college, it was very up and down.

01:16Like there were months, uh, yeah, I can, I can manage it.

01:20Like, I still get hit through wood all the time.

01:23I hit irons really well still.

01:25Um, but with the driver, it was off and on some months, you know, three months at a time.

01:29I would hit the driver really well.

01:30Like the U S amateur, I got runner up at that.

01:32That was a week where I hit the driver extremely well.

01:34I was swinging as hard as I wanted at it and it was going straight.

01:37And then there'd be months at a time where I couldn't keep a driver on the property.

01:41Like it was, it would go 120 yards, right?

01:44120 yards left.

01:45So you had a two way miss.

01:47Do a miss.

01:47Oh yeah.

01:48It was all timing dependent.

01:49Very just, you know, and obviously you get under the gun is one of those where I get

01:53on, on the range.

01:53I could go striped it all day, but you get under the gun a little bit timing dependent.

01:57It was all over the place.

01:58So what was the technical piece you think that was, uh, kind of led you down that road?

02:03So I finally figured it out about two, two and a half years ago.

02:08Um, because I mean, let me get a notepad.

02:11Cause, uh, I need to figure it out too.

02:13Um, but like after college, I, I tried so hard.

02:18I was like, I had to figure out the driver.

02:20I want to play pro golf.

02:21You know, I had to figure out a way to be able to hit this driver straight and me trying

02:24to fix it and go into different people and all that made the driver worse and made everything

02:29else for us like with irons and everything.

02:31So couldn't, I mean, I was going to major events hitting two fairways around and four

02:35greens around on very horses.

02:37And, um, and finally a couple of years ago, I figured out technical wise, especially with

02:43the driver for me, my head moves off the ball at takeaway.

02:48Um, so I have to make sure I keep the head kind of over the ball.

02:51It almost feels like it's going ahead of it, but, um, that's huge.

02:54Just being able to keep my head more still and then keep it a little taller as well throughout

02:58the back.

02:58So more rotational almost.

03:00Yeah.

03:01So very much like my, cause you get off, I mean, you can get rotational, but you got

03:04a long way to get back to the ball.

03:06The head's just all over the place.

03:07So when I'm hitting it bad, it's the head's going here, going back and then going down.

03:11So it's basically trying to keep it centered and tall.

03:14And then, um, then the other big piece is keeping my arms, keeping a lot of width in

03:19my arms, uh, throughout the, the backswing.

03:22So if you know, if you watch my swing at all, I set up with the driver head or really every

03:27club head on the, the balls on the heel of the club.

03:30That's me basically.

03:32Yeah, exactly.

03:34Yeah.

03:39Yeah.

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