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This drill video is avoid lazy aiming.

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So many students, many golfers that I have, I have a kind

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of an indoor outdoor, uh, performance studio.

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It's got, um, you know, it's kind

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of aimed at a specific spot on the driving range.

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I'll have people hitting there, um, just casually hitting,

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and then I'll ask them to deliberately aim at a target

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that might be just a few degrees away from

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where the building is aimed and they'll often struggle.

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These are the same golfers that when we go on the course,

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if a tee box is aimed to the left

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or to the right, they have a hard time recognizing it

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and they aim with the tee box.

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So one of the concepts here is we're gonna try

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to avoid lazy aiming.

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I want you to make it a habit that

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whenever you go to the driving range, if they have mats,

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then you are never going to aim exactly

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where the mat is pointing.

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So I am never going to be perfectly square

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to the framework of the mat.

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I'm, I might be one or two degrees to the left,

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or I might be one or two degrees to the right,

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but I wanna get used to the edge

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of the mat not being perfectly square.

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If I wanna put in alignment, stick down, I'm okay with that.

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It just won't be parallel to the end of the mat.

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Now, um, if you're practicing off grass,

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we don't have this constraint.

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We don't have the laziness of aiming here,

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but we can still have a laziness of not picking targets.

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Now, if you are working purely on mechanics

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and you're not getting ready to take this to the course,

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then I'm not too worried about where you're, um,

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where you're aimed and where you're hitting it.

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But that should only be a small portion of your practice,

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especially if it's more of a warmup

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and you're getting ready to go play.

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If you're trying to transfer this to the course, then I need

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to be picking a specific target.

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And I want to practice giving myself visual challenges,

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not making it easier on myself.

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So if this was my mat, this box,

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I've got it aimed pretty much at that bunker.

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So now if I wanted to aim at the blue flag,

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now visually this looks like I'm aimed

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sideways compared to the mat.

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Um, but I've double checked it with my, with my feels

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and my visuals compared to the target.

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This will help me make a more confident swing on the course

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when I have a little bit more of an uncomfortable aim.

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So now we're aimed at that blue flag.

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Ugh, Caught my neck a little bit on that one.

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Heard the sprinklers going off.

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Golfers always have good excuses. Those are my two one.

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Alright, so now the, the competitor in me wants

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to try it again, but the teacher

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in me says, you know what?

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I don't wanna give into it that easy.

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I'm going to now pick a different target.

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So now I'm gonna aim right of that bunker.

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So I'm aiming what feels like right

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of this box on the ground

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and I got it just, it's a tiny bit left of my target.

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It's still right of the bunker. So it was a good shot.

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I was happy with that and it accomplished my goal

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of not having a lazy aim.

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Now I'll give myself a second try at the left

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blue and white pole.

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So I'm aiming there. This does visually look distracting,

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but I can still get committed by into the shot

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and that's not bad.

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Just a tiny bit left

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of the blue flag, but pretty happy with that.

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I'm gonna wrap it up before my equipment gets wet.

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If you are struggling with taking your range game

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to the course, it could be a result of your process.

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And part of your process is aiming.

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So when you're practicing, always pick a target

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and don't make it easily easy.

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Visually. Avoid what I refer to as lazy aiming.