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Sometimes the club feels heavy,

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sometimes the club feels light.

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Uh, so in this concept video, we're gonna discuss this, uh,

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tiger Woods quote, uh, quote.

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Um, I'll post the little clip here below.

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Uh, but in this clinic that Tiger was giving, he said,

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every day the club feels a little different.

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Sometimes the club feels heavy,

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sometimes the club feels light.

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And when he is going through his warmup, he's kind

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of like dialing in the feels for that day.

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And this is a point that I've heard a number

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of different tour pros discussed

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that the swing feels different.

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It might be, you know, you might have the same swing feels

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for a day or two, um, if you're lucky, uh, maybe a week.

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But it's rare that those feels persist.

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Um, so I always caution my students not to chase feels,

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but rather under chase positions or checkpoints

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and understand what feels you've had

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or could have that will help encourage those checkpoints.

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Um, because if you get the club in the same positions,

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if you create the same impact physics,

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the golf ball's gonna fly pretty much the same

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way every single time.

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Um, but oftentimes I'll find golfers try

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and duplicate yesterday's feel

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and yesterday's feel might be producing a very

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different impact position.

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That's just the nature of feel

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and how our body adapts every single day.

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Um, so what he's describing with the club could be applied

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to any particular area of your swing.

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Um, sometimes the club feels heavy,

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sometimes the club feels light.

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Sometimes the swing feels more like I'm using my body.

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Sometimes it feels more like I'm using my arms.

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Sometimes the arms feel like they're staying behind

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and they're really slow.

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Sometimes the arms feel like they're

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active and they're really quick.

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Um, all these can coexist

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and, um, depending on how the swing looks,

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that's gonna help you kind of prioritize the fields

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that you might need to add that day.

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I go back to a famous Jack Nicholas quote where he said

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that most good players have three to five keys

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that make their swing work.

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And when they're getting warmed up

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or over the course of the season, um, if they're struggling,

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it's usually one of those keys that's off.

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And so when you're going through your warmup, you want

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to run through your keys

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and prioritize the one that is, that kind

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of needs the most support that day.

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Um, I would add to that understand your keys

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and understand your benchmarks

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or understand how your swing tends to look.

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If you have a tendency to get over the the top, um,

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you might have to prioritize either a release feel

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or a transition feel,

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or maybe even a backswing feel that helps you

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avoid getting over the top.

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Some days that might be more about arm shallowing.

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Some days that might be more about, um,

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not spinning the shoulders

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or keeping the shoulders back longer.

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Um, and some days it might be more about feeling like the

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lower body dominates the swing

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and the arms do a little bit less.

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Um, but if you keep monitoring what's going on

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and you're willing to, um, kind of adjust the feels,

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you'll get a better, um, overall, um, feel library

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for each of your major keys.

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And I think when you do that, then you're might more likely

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to have feels last for a few rounds of week.

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Who knows? Um, so this is my cautionary tale

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that you don't wanna chase feels,

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but you wanna understand how the looks created those feels.

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Um, and then you can use those benchmarks

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to give you something to go back to.

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If Tiger Woods

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and the other pros that I've had conversations with, um,

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if they can't get the same feel to to work day in, day out,

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I think it's unlikely that you

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and I are gonna have fields that persist for very long.

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But the check marks, those will always

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create the results that we want.

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Let's see if we can test yesterday's feel today.

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So yesterday that was drawing.

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Today it has a little bit of a fade.

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I better check my checkpoints to see

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what might be causing the club face

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to feel a little bit open.