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Most golfers struggle to take their game from the range to the course. This struggle is partly a result of the different internal state when you are on nervous. When you are nervous, your body movements will be amplified and your fine motor skills will be quieted. This situation results in exaggerations of the misses you'll see on the range.
Build a swing that handles pressure better by keeping a relatively stable upper body position, aiming to keep a consistent tempo, and monitoring your arm tension.
Tags: Poor Contact, Early Extension, Standing Up, Sway, Chicken Wing, Practice Strategies, Mental Game, Member Question, Concept, Beginner
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This video is discussing your swing under pressure.
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Now, one of the reasons that we want to train a balance of good movements, the body, good movements, the arms is so that it performs under pressure.
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What I've found is that golfers who tend to have, I don't want to say, unique swings, because there's lots of unique swings on tour that work well under pressure.
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But golfers who have either low point control or face control that is dependent on a timing of kind of some extreme movements tend to have more trouble under pressure.
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And usually what'll happen is under pressure, your body is going to get hit with adrenaline and cortisol and you're going to feel kind of jacked up.
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Well, those hormones affect different parts of your body differently.
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And in my experience, what typically happens is your power sources and your core muscles get amplified.
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So your body movements from the shoulders to your feet tend to get amplified.
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And your arm movements, you tend to feel a little bit shaky as the normal reaction.
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And so you'll tend to almost lock them down or slow them down or speed them up, but you'll basically kind of
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Quiet the range of motion. You'll usually shorten the movements of the arms and you'll usually amplify what's going on with your body.
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And so when that happens, you can get into some trouble.
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So let's take a couple of the classic examples.
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What may happen is a golfer may be a little bit more outside in. Let's say steep with the arms and has a scoop to kind of shallow it out and they use their body standing up to shallow it out.
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So on the range, your arms are working a little bit steep kind of like this.
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And you've got a nice little scoop and you might actually, you can see that I got a path that's slightly ined out there.
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You might actually hit a few nice little draws.
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But what you'll tend to find is that under pressure you may find that you stand up earlier or more or more explosively.
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And your arms don't quite scoop at the right time. They tend to kind of hold on a little bit more.
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And now instead of having a nice little scoop pattern where you hit some solid shots, now you hit a bunch of top shots.
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Because you stand up and kind of tighten the arms too much.
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So what you want to do is you want to try to build a relatively balanced body movement where your upper body doesn't move around too much.
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Not too much of a sway, not too much of a slide, not too much left. It kind of stays in a little bubble like all it.
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So that's that old idea of kind of keeping your head still.
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Well, keeping your body in a relatively stable position or relatively, you know, a small amount of lateral movement to it.
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That'll allow you to then just kind of fire the arms and know that you're going to make relatively solid contact.
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So one of the ways to train yourself to perform better under pressure is to take away some of your really big body movements.
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But oftentimes those big body movements are compensations for either really steep arm movements or really open club face or a scoop to control low point or something like that.
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So by understanding what happens to your swing under pressure or rather by looking at video and reading your feedback, you can see what type of misses you may normally have.
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And by predicting if we amplify that pattern will usually be able to predict what's going to happen when you get nervous on the course.
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But the solution is to work on the key movements of this stock tour swing.
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So the body movements that kind of keep you relatively on plane and the arm movements by themselves that keep you relatively on plane.
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They're going to tend to balance each other under pressure.
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And you don't have to get all the way there. If you have a lot of stand up just by focusing on saying down a little bit more that can minimize how much the pattern's going to show up under pressure and it may help you hit more solid shots.
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So if you struggle with taking your range to the course, then taking honest look at how dramatic your body movements are and how dramatic your arm movements are.
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And if you have two dramatic movements that are balancing each other out, then understand that the arm movement is probably going to get a little quieter.
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The body movement is going to get amplified. So working on one of your ways to kind of keep your exaggerated body movement in check and to.
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Let's say fully release or keep the tension low in your arms.
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Those two things will help your game transfer more from the range to the course.
