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In this video, we're going to take a look at the warm-up routines of Jason Day and

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Alex Norton at the Tori Pines tournament a couple of weeks ago.

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So you may have noticed that with the playoff they ran out of daylight and they had to

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start the next day.

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Well, on Facebook they did a great job of posting a video of these two getting warmed up.

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You saw two totally different systems.

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One golfer was working on really grooving his feel, the other was really grooving his feeling

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of target awareness and alignment.

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Now, you got to play around to kind of figure out which one's more important for you.

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I tend to be more of a feel golfer, but I know many good golferers who are more of

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the visual target awareness.

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You can play great.

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The important thing is to know what works for you and that comes from trial and error.

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What you saw both of them doing was they would hit maybe a shot to maybe a little cluster

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up to five for Alex and then they would recalibrate.

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So Alex would go into recalibrating by doing his little exaggerated crunch and white

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move and Jason would recalibrate by walking back behind them all starting over and recalibrating

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his vision even though he had an alignment stick down the whole time.

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So play around with how you get warmed up and make sure that you have a specific purpose

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that you're trying to calibrate in order to get ready for the day.

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Through trial and error you'll be able to figure out what it is that you need to focus

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on in order to play your best.

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Let's take a look and see just how these warm up routines look from both Alex and Jason.

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So here we have the two of them getting warmed up over on the left is Alex and over on

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the right is Jason Day.

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You can see that Jason Day has an alignment stick down and he started from behind the

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ball and Alex's mid-routine there.

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Alex would hit a handful of golf balls and then he would back away from the golf ball

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and recalibrate his movement where we'll see Jason in between shots would recalibrate

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vision.

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So now here over on the left we're going to see Alex doing that little crunch and white

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movement and if you've done your drills enough so that you build a strong enough map,

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you build a good awareness of the drill, then you can do what he just did.

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That was a little five second practice move and it kind of reminded his brain what he's

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trying to do.

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Now we've got Jason actually demonstrating a hard skill of putting a ball on a tee just

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using the club in the foot.

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So fairly loose here during the warm up.

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He goes back to start the process.

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He didn't even look at the target too long in that rep.

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It was more of just getting set back to home base basically.

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His swing starts from behind the wall.

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So then he goes through his pre-shout routine, hits a good shot, gets another ball

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from the caddy and what you'll see is he's not just going to stand there and whack away.

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He's getting ready to go play.

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So he goes back and he recets to his visual alignment.

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Now he's going to walk back up, go through his same alignment routine.

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So he's basically going through the process that he's going to use on the course.

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I find two often that amateurs are just getting physically warmed up trying to find a

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physical groove and they do so by hitting balls in rapid succession.

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And when you hit the balls in rapid succession, you might get a decent feel for the short

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turn, but you don't actually build a feel for the long turn.

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It's kind of the difference between cramming for a test versus actually study.

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So Alex is going to practice his short game.

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Let's go back to Jason and you'll see one more ball, every ball starting from behind the

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golf ball.

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I challenge my students, especially those who we think are visual, to start every golf ball

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behind the golf ball, have a visual alignment stations, just late Jason is doing here.

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If you're more of a feel golfer than you'll want to use more of the setup that the routine

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and Alex was doing, hit four or five balls and then if you need to recalibrate by practicing

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your feel move.

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This will help you take your game from the range to the course.