00:00And I think from watching your your short game since your early days as a pro till now, I think
00:06it looks drastically different from when you started to where you are now.
00:10And we had, gosh, help us with his last name.
00:13We know it's the short game chef Parker McLaughlin.
00:16McLaughlin. Yeah.
00:17All right. It just it doesn't sound that way when you look at it.
00:21McLaughlin, it looks like McLaughlin.
00:23So I just want to make sure we get his last name right.
00:26But I know he's helped you out a bunch with your short game.
00:28He sent us over some clips.
00:29So the first thing I want to ask you about with pitching and chipping is your release pattern and how
00:37you take the club back.
00:38To me, it doesn't look like a ton of wrist set on the way back.
00:42A lot of just straight arms.
00:43Was this something that you always naturally done or is this something you had to work really hard on to
00:48then get that release pattern where you have a ton of rotation through?
00:53So one of the things Parker helped me with most was trying to mimic what I did well in my
00:58golf swing and implement in my short game.
01:01So if you watch like me hitting a driver or a seven iron or whatever, I have very little wrist
01:07set in the beginning of my golf swing.
01:09Honestly, sometimes my hands like drag the club back.
01:13Like Duffer, man.
01:15Yeah, very similar.
01:17And except his waggle is all wrists and his takeaway is all that.
01:22It's pretty funny.
01:24But I have a very late wrist set, as some people would call it.
01:29And I was trying to get like maximum spin on my wedges and my chips and pitches.
01:37And so I would have some hinge and I would have a lot of shaft lean and they would come
01:42out hot and low.
01:44Perfectly fine.
01:45But I didn't have the high shot very well.
01:49And so Parker was like, let's take some of this hinge out a little bit and it eliminates ball speed,
01:56right?
01:56So like hinging is a ball speed mechanism.
01:59It's like it's like lag, right?
02:01When you have a lot of lag coming down, that's ball speed.
02:05Well, that's basically when you hinge the club on the way back, you're building that lag in.
02:12So long story short, we took some of that out.
02:14And then right here, I don't know how live this is, but that's something I'm trying to use hinge.
02:19I'm trying to get some speed because I'm trying to hit the ball up with a lot of spin.
02:23Right.
02:23So to break down basically three years worth of work with Parker into a couple sentences, you know, we try
02:33to build a baseline and then you read the lie and then you read the shot and then you try
02:37to work off that.
02:38And so in the baseline was my golf swing.
02:41And I truly believe that guys that can mimic the pattern of their golf swing and to their chipping, what
02:50they do well in their golf swing and to their chipping and do it properly, that's the recipe for success.
02:55Joel Damon, one of the best ball strikers I've ever seen, has a lot of hinge and a lot of
03:01download.
03:01So when he tries to chip like I do right there, disaster, right?
03:06Because it's completely different than his golf swing.
03:10But like if you slowed my golf swing down, that looks very similar, you know, if I'm hitting a wedge,
03:15very little wrist cock, a lot of rotation and, you know, a pretty shallow attack.
03:24So not to pick on Joel here, but he went to work with Parker for a little bit after seeing
03:29some of Mike's success and he basically got the chipping yips from around the green because it just didn't meet
03:34his pattern.
03:35He went to see Joe Mayo, who likes a lot of shaft lean and downward attack and angle of attack,
03:41and he started chipping incredible.
03:43So it truly, to me, there's no one way to chip.
03:47I would tell everybody the way to chip is the closest way to your golf swing.
03:51Man, that's interesting.
03:52I've never really heard it spoken like that, but I can often say that when I'm swinging the golf club
03:58well, and oftentimes when I make corrections in my swing, whether it be, hey, I need to get my hips
04:04more this way or I need to work on my takeaway in my golf swing.
04:07Oftentimes, that's translated to my pitching of like, oh, wait, I didn't realize that this was affecting my pitching to
04:14the things I was doing in my golf swing.
04:16So it's really interesting when you say that.
04:18Well, it's very true because like if you go work on your short game for, you know, three hours a
04:22day for four straight days and you don't hit many golf balls, you it's impossible to tell me that it's
04:29not going to bleed in.
04:30Right. Because it's still a golf club. You're still, you know, you're holding it the same way, you know, basically
04:36give or take and you're hitting shots.
04:38Something will come up from that.
04:39I had that same problem is because I started having so much success with Parker.
04:43I started chipping and chipping and chipping.
04:44And then all of a sudden, some of the some of my takeaway was getting very similar to my pitching
04:51motion and I had to work around it.
04:53So, again, if you're going to work on your short game, make sure that it's cohesive with your golf swing.
05:00And then if it is a little different, that's fine.
05:03But you've got to have to balance your practice because, you know, if you start getting left and and and
05:09standing up on it, you know, constantly, all of a sudden you do that for a month.
05:13You're going to that's going to bleed in your golf game.
05:15Or, you know, if you try to get real shallow and real wide and you do that for a month,
05:19it's going to do the same thing's going to happen.
05:21Yeah, so it's it's one way or the other thing.
05:24It's going to bleed.
05:25You got to be careful.
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