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00:00If you want to break 90 you have come to the right place because with the help of
00:05ShotScope and all of their incredible data and insights we have pinpointed exactly where you
00:11need to improve your game to make sure you're shooting in the 80s. I'm here at the incredible
00:17Blackmoor Golf Club and top 50 coach Adam Hartnett is going to help us.
00:32The first point we're going to look at is troublesome tee shots. Now what do we mean by
00:36that? That is anything where basically you can't go for the green with your second shot so you've
00:41knocked it into the trees into the rough out of bounds into a penalty area obviously they're big
00:46ones or even just into a bunker which really limits your ability to attack the green with the
00:52second shot. Now if you're shooting in the 90s you're averaging 4.9 of those troublesome tee shots per
00:58round in the 80s that's dropping down to 3.3 so about one and a half fewer per round is
01:04going to
01:05really really help you. Big question is Adam how do we do that? Okay well I think initially you know
01:11golfers need to understand their shape and and play with it you know so if you're a fader of the
01:17ball
01:18or a drawer of the ball you need to stick to your shape and use that in your strategy. Okay
01:23so most
01:23amateur golfers handicapped players we're struggling a bit of a slice of fade if you're a right hander so
01:29you're heading over to the right hand side of the tee box right? Correct and the mistake that a lot
01:33of
01:33slicers make is because their ball goes to the right they tend to tee up on the left thinking they're
01:38giving themselves more room but actually what that does a lot of the time is it blocks them off
01:42because of certain trees or parts of the hole so we want to do the opposite so if you're somebody
01:48that
01:48slices the ball we tee it up on the right to hit a cross diagonally and if you're somebody that
01:53hooks
01:54draws the ball maybe you tee up on the left to open up the right side to draw it back.
01:59I know you've
02:00got a nice draw in the bag. That's a little draw yeah. You're heading over to the left hand side
02:03of the
02:04tee let's see how it's done. I am indeed so I would tee my ball up here and that way
02:11then I can aim down
02:12the right side and allow for my draw. A good thing to note here your feet are outside of the
02:18tee markers
02:19it's only the ball that has to be within the teeing area so use all of that to your advantage.
02:30Beautiful strike there is absolutely no trouble there so get rid of those troublesome tee shots
02:35and those scores will start to come down. Next up it's driving distance there is the direct
02:41correlation between how far you hit the ball off the tee and how good your scores are. If you're shooting
02:48in
02:48the 90s you'll be averaging around 225 yards off the tee breaking down into the 80s and you're up to
02:55236 yards
02:56so it's not a massive increase just 11 yards and that can really help your scoring but Adam how do
03:03we find those extra yards off the tee? Well a lot of golfers are trying too hard to control the
03:09direction
03:10of their driver and it actually robs them of speed. Now we need the club head to be moving at
03:16maximum speed
03:17throughout the shot and what I see a lot of golfers do is pull the handle through to try and
03:23steer the
03:24face and keep the face straight. Now what that does is all the time I'm pulling on the handle
03:29the head is lagging behind and it's not actually getting the full extent of the energy into the golf
03:35ball so we really need to feel the club release and the way I like to describe it to my
03:41players is
03:42allow the club head to win the race back to the ball so we don't want the handle to be
03:48ahead like
03:49we do maybe with an iron we want the club head to come through release past and think of it
03:56as the
03:56last part of a whip where we're trying to create that real swoosh at the bottom and get all the
04:02energy
04:03into the club head to create more club speed and more ball speed. We've got a handy bit of feedback
04:07with
04:08golf club in our hands as well because you will hear that swoosh won't you? Absolutely so the way
04:12to do it is to really feel that you're creating that swoosh at the bottom and if you can't hear
04:18it the chances are you're pulling the handle too much through the ball. Another important thing when
04:24it comes to driving distance as well is efficiency it might be that you're not actually getting
04:28everything out of the speed that you're creating because maybe you don't have the right club set up how
04:34important is it to make sure the driver is fitted into you and set up to optimize what you're doing
04:39at launch. Really key I mean loft shaft flex you know with modern day drivers now we can adjust the
04:46club heads so super important to make sure you get fitted for your driver to optimize your distance.
04:51There you go right club in your hands and make sure it's moving its fastest when you want it down
04:56at the
04:57bottom of the swing when it's hitting the ball. The third thing that can really help you is greens in
05:02regulation it's a great stat to monitor as it tells us an awful lot about the state of our game
05:07and the
05:08facts are if you're shooting in the 90s you're probably only hitting 3.6 per round if you can up
05:14that to 5.4 very achievable that gives you a great chance because that is what people who shoot in
05:20the
05:2080s are doing. So Adam we've got a beautiful green ahead of us very inviting how do we make sure
05:26we hit it?
05:27First of all knowing your yardage is super key so range finder in hand I've measured this 156 yards
05:34so I know my distance the flags at the back of the green so now it's a case of how's
05:39the best way for
05:39me to hit this green. One of the biggest things is to hit the middle of the green if we
05:44can hit the
05:45middle of the green to break 90 that's going to be great but making sure that we're not aiming at
05:50flags
05:51that cause us a real problem so for example understanding where your missed tendency is so
05:58for me my missed tendency is a little bit left so I never aim at a flag on the left
06:03side of the green
06:04because if I miss the green I'm short-sided and I've got a really tricky up and down. You've got
06:08to be
06:09realistic about how far we're hitting our clubs as well and and choose the appropriate club for the
06:14average not your Sunday best. Absolutely here I know that this club is not going to fly over the
06:21green so I'm pretty confident here that I can get to the green into the middle of the green and
06:26I'm
06:26not going to go too long and bring the danger into play. Brilliant like a good caddy I'm going to
06:30take
06:30that lovely range finder off of you and now we're going to see you do it. Okay let's go for
06:35it.
06:37So for me I know that my miss is a little bit left so I'm going to feel quite comfortable
06:41aiming a tiny bit
06:42to the right of this flag.
06:51Pretty good.
06:55Absolutely picture perfect so know the yardage be realistic about the club you choose and play
07:02for your miss tendencies to give yourself that bit of margin for error and you'll knock one up close
07:07and have a decent birdie putt like that. Next up is an area of the game that is actually a
07:12little
07:12underrated and maybe not focused on as much as it should be and that's pitching from inside 50 yards.
07:19This sort of range that we've got here you might look at it think it's simple I'm going to get
07:23it on
07:23the green whatever happens and I just want to try and get it close. Well the reality is the numbers
07:27do not bear that out. If you're shooting in the 90s 3.2 times per round you're not hitting the
07:35green
07:35from here to get into the 80s it drops down to 2.1 so that shows you the importance of
07:42hitting the green
07:44even from a short looking shot like this. So when we are pitching we've got these tricky little
07:49distances Adam what's the way you would set up and approach them? So really to have a standardised
07:54technique something you can rely on you know most golfers are either duffing or thinning these through
08:00the green okay they're not missing the green because they're usually too far left or right
08:04from this distance so if we can have a nice standardised routine for our technique that's
08:08really going to help. Okay show us that standardised routine. Okay so we're going to narrow our stance in
08:14a little bit for this one two reasons for that number one is a narrower stance helps to reduce the
08:19length of swing and we don't want a really big swing for these shots we want to keep it in
08:23control
08:24and also with a narrower stance it allows us to naturally turn our body. I see a lot of golfers
08:30play this shot with a stance that's way too wide and then the lower body becomes locked and it's
08:35then all arms and hands so this is a big body movement so stance nice and close together weight
08:41a little bit on the left side and from there really it's a thought of turning the body back turning
08:47the
08:47body through. What are your thoughts on club selection a lot of the time this sort of situation people
08:53automatically go for the most loft in the bag or at least a 56 degree wedge here there's nothing really
08:58to carry over those bunkers aren't in play do you want to try and take the loft out of your
09:02hands
09:02a little bit and keep things simple? I think it's safer for a lot of people to take the loft
09:06out
09:07but we still want to land the ball on the green and have it stopped so club selection is really
09:11really
09:11key it can depend a little bit on the on the pin position here we've got a lot of we've
09:15got a shelf
09:16here with the flag at the back of the green and actually we walked up didn't we and there's a
09:19lot of
09:20room at the back here so on this particular shot we've got to get it up there but yeah trying
09:24to keep the
09:25loft down you know 60 degree wedge from here you know isn't ideal likewise an 8 iron along the
09:31ground you know there's a bit too much variation in how the ball might roll through the fairway
09:35so anywhere between your kind of gap wedge to your 56 is probably a safe bet. That's a great
09:41description Adam let's see you hit one. Okay. There we go those are the keys simplify the technique
09:58give yourself something that you know you can rely on and actually realize sometimes just hitting the
10:03green even on a short shot like this will help you improve. As you would expect there are big gains
10:09to
10:09be made on the greens and the first metric we want to cast our eye over is three putts now
10:16a lot of
10:17people struggle on the greens three putts are a big issue and if you're shooting in the 90s or more
10:21you're likely three putting upwards of four and a half times per round but just reducing that by one
10:28can really help you get down into the 80s now Adam you've got a great drill that people can use
10:35to
10:35calibrate their speed on the greens. Absolutely yeah and speed is just so key for avoiding three
10:39putting most golfers are too short or too long that's what leads to three parts not necessarily
10:44to left or right and something really common that I see is putter lengths that are too short and then
10:53a
10:53big acceleration or too long and then decelerating. Okay so this drill is great to help you keep a nice
11:02constant speed constant swinging club so we can get some predictable distances. I'm just going to use
11:09the width of my stance here and swing the putter just to the outside of my right foot just the
11:13outside
11:13of my left foot and if I can do that with a nice constant swinging club I'm going to get
11:20the ball rolling
11:21the same kind of distance each time. Okay so I can then use that for longer putts and shorter putts
11:32I can
11:33lengthen it so a nice drill to make it longer is to pop some T's in the ground a little
11:38bit wider
11:40let's go a little bit more and now instead of just outside my stance I can go to the T
11:48here
11:51and to the T the other side and as you can see that's gradually moved past the first two putts
11:57and that's the key is to gradually increase your distance and not struggle with it being too short or
12:02too long. Absolutely superb there you go calibrate your stroke know how far the ball is going to
12:09travel on a typical flat green for each length of stroke and you've got something you can work with
12:14then to make sure you are dialed in in terms of distance and avoiding those unwanted three putts.
12:21Holing out is absolutely crucial and the key sort of distances we're looking at where we want to be
12:27holing it more often than not is everything inside five feet now the difference between whether you're
12:32shooting in the 90s or the 80s in this particular stat if you're up in the 90s you will miss
12:383.6 putts
12:40from inside five feet per round if you're shooting in the 80s that drops down to 2.7 it's very
12:48very
12:48important this particular part of the game so how do we make sure we are holding more than our fair
12:53share
12:53from this kind of range Adam? So a little drill here that I really like to use with my golfers
12:58is
12:58it's really about not being perfect and we've got two tee pegs here one either side of the hole just
13:04slightly less than half a hole each side so if I can roll some balls through those tees at least
13:10half of
13:11them the hole is going to get in the way. All right let's see you roll on I don't want
13:15it just between
13:15the tees I want it right in the middle of that cup no pressure let's give it a go
13:23bang now the interesting thing is you showed me just before this if you take those tees and move
13:28them away from the hole that kind of shows us actually how big an area that is correct so if
13:35you move that away and you stand you know you now stand you're three to five feet away most people
13:40are going to be able to roll or feel comfortable rolling their ball through those tees and if you can
13:47roll your ball through the tees and keep a sensible pace you've got such a big chance of holding
13:52more and more putts. You mentioned the pace there that is still important from this sort of distance
13:56what is a sensible pace what's the optimum pace for holding these putts? If we can keep it no more
14:01than
14:01about nine inches past the hole the hole maintains its full size so if we're too firm the hole shrinks
14:08so that makes it more difficult to hold your putts. Absolutely so there we go don't try and be too
14:12perfect you do have some margin for error on these and get the right pace as well that will really
14:18help
14:18you holding out these short putts inside five feet. Hope you enjoyed the video and you found it helpful
14:23once again thank you very much to Blackmore Golf Club of course to ShotScope for providing
14:28all of that brilliant data and to Adam and we'll see you next time
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