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In this video we're going to talk about taking inventory, which is basically figuring out

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the state of my game and what the heck do I need to work on.

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You see the golf swing is very complicated and it changes from club to club, right?

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Because it's not just like I have one tool like a tennis racket, I actually have a whole

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bag full of tools.

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I have 14 different tools that I'm going to swing and each one of them behaves slightly

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differently.

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Now which tools I'm doing well with and which ones I'm having trouble with can give me insight

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into what's going on within my body, within my brain and within my golf swing.

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So here's how you're going to take inventory.

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I'm going to write instructions in the notes section of this video, but the simple version

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is going to be what we're going to cover first and I'm just going to highlight on the

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advanced version because it can take some time.

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So taking inventory is figuring out what's going on with my game.

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I recommend that all students keep some form of statistics because finding out what you're

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actually doing on the round or when you actually go out and play golf is definitely

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better than what's going to happen when I'm practicing here at the range.

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Here at the range I have a lot of factors going in my favor and it might not give me a complete

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picture.

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But I want to have at least the good guess if I don't have those accuracy statistics.

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So the beginner version of taking inventory is I'm going to hit 30 golf balls.

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I'm going to do 10 golf balls with my driver, 10 golf balls with my 7 iron, and 10 golf

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balls with a 3 quarter sandwich somewhere in that range, 80 90 yards.

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Each one of these will give me different indications of what's going on with my swing.

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All I'm going to do is I'm going to hit 10 golf balls and I'm going to write how solidly

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did I hit it?

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Did I hit it heavy, thin, toe, heel, etc.

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And I'm going to write down where did it start?

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Where did it curve?

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How high did it go?

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Some of those factors.

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The other little piece to this is you're going to use your full shot routine.

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You're going to take one minute in between each shot.

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So this typically takes about 35 minutes to go through the inventory.

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If you're doing the advanced version it can take two hours.

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But for this version we're just going to be doing 7 iron driver and wedge.

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By writing down these misses or solid shot.

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So if I hit 10 drivers and 8 of them are solid and two of them go to the left.

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And then with my 7 iron I hit 6 of them solid and 4 of them I hit a little heavy, two of

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them went off to the right and two of them overhooked.

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And then I hit my sand wedge and I hit 3 of them solid.

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I hit 5 of them kind of really thin or bladed and the rest of them I hit heavy.

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What does that tell you about your golf game?

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If you don't know if you're not sure how to interpret that results, that's great.

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That's why you're here.

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But if you have that information it can tell you almost exactly what you're doing

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with your swing and how to work on it.

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I recommend doing this at least a couple times a month just to see what the state of my game is

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so that I know exactly what I need to be working on instead of just relying on how your swing

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looks on video.

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Yes the video is very helpful but ultimately the true task of whether your swing is working

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is whether it can perform and this is my favorite way of testing how it can perform when you're

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not on the golf course.