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This practice strategy is looking at a random warm-up.

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So I had a good film conversation with Buddy Mind Matt Wilson, who

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graciously vacated Northern California so I could come out here.

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And he was talking about one of the experts that they brought in to talk about who did a great

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study on warm-ups with better players.

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And what they found was pretty interesting.

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But during my playing career, I used a standard warm-up where I hit a handful of wedges.

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And then let's say eight iron, six iron, four iron, and just kind of did a few of each

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work my way through the bag up to the driver.

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And then worked on some short game of when go played.

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Well, the research that they're finding is that by doing a random warm-up,

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you're typically going to outperform those who do that old style of warm-up.

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Now, the caveat, the real kicker is if I ask you leaving the range, if you're confident

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doing the random style of warm-up, you're going to be less confident, but you're going to perform better.

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So you ultimately have a choice to make if you need to feel confident,

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understand that you may actually end up with more frustration.

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But if you're willing to risk being a little, having a little struggle during your warm-up,

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there's a good chance you'll perform better on the range.

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So essentially what they did was they had two different groups.

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One group would do a block style where they just went from club to club,

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and the other group did random style where they never hit the same club twice,

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shot twice, they were jumping all over the place.

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When they left the range, they interviewed them how confident they felt,

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the block practice group felt more confident.

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But then they used measurement devices to track the dispersion,

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and they found that the group doing the random practice end up hitting the ball closer.

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So you'll notice on the site that a lot of our practice-grink games

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incorporate changing from club to club or flight to flight or shot to shot.

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And many of the golfers who were great ball strikers in the 70s, 80s,

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talked about using the nine-shot drill as one of their core warm-up drills.

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So I think that there's some validity to it,

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and we'll find out with more research, but in testing it with some of my students,

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everybody's reporting that it's more challenging to do as a warm-up,

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but ultimately it tends to do produce better results on the course.

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So if you're trying to maximize your potential for scoring,

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you want to do a good analytic warm-up, you know,

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get the joints in the body, all nice and loose,

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then you want to do some random style practice,

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just to warm-up and test your different shots,

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and then do some random short game after that, head to the course, and see how it goes.

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My personal experience, my personal belief, is by doing random warm-up,

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your brain has to go through the struggle of adapting shots,

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and it kind of warms up that thought process and that part of the brain.

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So for me personally, and for my students, it seems to be helping out.

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It's definitely something that you might want to test if you are an intermediate to advanced golfer.

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So for a great warm-up, you're going to do the analytic warm-up

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to warm-up your ligaments and get the blood flowing,

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then you're going to do some random practice with the,

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whether it's four clubs or just alternating shots and alternating ball flights,

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do some random short game and putting games,

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and then you'll be ready to take it to the course,

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and hopefully shoot a really low score.