A new ballstriking combine based on the Whitworth Course at Trophy Club CC. You will need a maximum of 40 balls.
**CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD COMBINE**
Scoring System:
Drives:
Acceptable: Par
Unacceptable: Bogey
Approach Shots:
Lands within 4 paces of target: Birdie
Lands within 10 paces of target: Par
Lands outside of 10 paces: Bogey
Layup Shots:
Acceptable: Par
Unacceptable: Bogey
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
12/5/17 - Ball Striking Combine Beta - Trophy Club CC - Hogan Course
Hello, below is a link to a project I've been working on to give golfers something productive to do on the range. The concept is basically a guided audio tour of a course broken down into all the shots you will need to hit hole by hole. Over 17 minutes the golfer will hit 40 balls and score himself based on the proximity of where the ball lands relative to described targets. All feedback appreciated.
**CLICK HERE FOR BALL STRIKING COMBINE**
**CLICK HERE FOR BALL STRIKING COMBINE**
Friday, December 1, 2017
12/1/17 - How to “play” golf - FMF
More thoughts inspired by Steven Yellin’s Fluid Motion Factor program:
Since you can only hit one shot at a time, “playing” golf requires you to ask yourself two questions repeatedly, what and why. The first question to ask yourself is what do you want? We know we ultimately cannot control where the ball will stop, so the best we can do is give ourselves an honest plan for the shot based on our abilities and experience. I want to hit this 7 iron low into the wind and keep it a little right of the pin. Once you feel that what you want is reasonable, you can then release control and allow your body to try and do the plan on autopilot. After the swing, it is important to then ask why the shot was ok or not ok.
More often than not, if the result was ok, the “why” was because you had a good plan and you allowed your body to carry it out within a reasonable margin of error. Sometimes you get an ok result without a reasonable plan, this is called luck. Congratulations, weird stuff happens, you just experienced an anomaly! It is fun to get away with a shot, but we all know this to be inconsistent at best.
If the shot was nothing like the plan, then it is critical to go down the rabbit hole for the true why. This to me is the thesis of Steven Yellin’s Fluid Motion Factor program. A golf industry challenging thesis, but one based in reality. If you intended for a low 7 iron right of the pin but received a low snap hook into the left bunker, most people will immediately say, “Dang, didn’t clear my hips” or “I just can’t keep that face open”. From a Trackman, physics based perspective they are correct. If you set Iron Byron up to hit balls with a dead shut face and a super in-to-out path, you would be illogical not to simply reposition the robot to create the desired straight shot. But since we are maleable, imperfect meat and bones based entities controlled by chemicals and electrical impulses, the answer for why we snap hooked the ball is more complicated than mere physics assuming one is capable of hitting the desired shot most of the time on the driving range.
Steven argues the real why has to do with noise from the logical part of our brain getting in the way of the part of your brain which allows you to walk without telling the legs how to move. Our plan for the shot may have been reasonable, we felt comfortable over the ball, but when we pulled the trigger and the boat was leaving harbor, all of the sudden we think to ourselves, “oh wow I sure hope I don’t look stupid and pull it in that bunker”, or “man if can just hit this one close, then I can re-hammer these pidgeons and really make some money”. At that moment, a traffic jam is created in the electrical signal highway going to your muscles. Just enough of a disruption is created to cause the muscles to act erratically and produce a result contrary to the plan.
So in one sense, you really have no control over where the ball will ultimately stop, but you absolutely have control over the ability to not create the traffic jam. Take the time to prepare an honest proposition to what you want before every shot, enjoy the moments you allow the body to attempt the plan without further instructions, and take note of the times you sabotage the plan while it is underway.
Since you can only hit one shot at a time, “playing” golf requires you to ask yourself two questions repeatedly, what and why. The first question to ask yourself is what do you want? We know we ultimately cannot control where the ball will stop, so the best we can do is give ourselves an honest plan for the shot based on our abilities and experience. I want to hit this 7 iron low into the wind and keep it a little right of the pin. Once you feel that what you want is reasonable, you can then release control and allow your body to try and do the plan on autopilot. After the swing, it is important to then ask why the shot was ok or not ok.
More often than not, if the result was ok, the “why” was because you had a good plan and you allowed your body to carry it out within a reasonable margin of error. Sometimes you get an ok result without a reasonable plan, this is called luck. Congratulations, weird stuff happens, you just experienced an anomaly! It is fun to get away with a shot, but we all know this to be inconsistent at best.
If the shot was nothing like the plan, then it is critical to go down the rabbit hole for the true why. This to me is the thesis of Steven Yellin’s Fluid Motion Factor program. A golf industry challenging thesis, but one based in reality. If you intended for a low 7 iron right of the pin but received a low snap hook into the left bunker, most people will immediately say, “Dang, didn’t clear my hips” or “I just can’t keep that face open”. From a Trackman, physics based perspective they are correct. If you set Iron Byron up to hit balls with a dead shut face and a super in-to-out path, you would be illogical not to simply reposition the robot to create the desired straight shot. But since we are maleable, imperfect meat and bones based entities controlled by chemicals and electrical impulses, the answer for why we snap hooked the ball is more complicated than mere physics assuming one is capable of hitting the desired shot most of the time on the driving range.
Steven argues the real why has to do with noise from the logical part of our brain getting in the way of the part of your brain which allows you to walk without telling the legs how to move. Our plan for the shot may have been reasonable, we felt comfortable over the ball, but when we pulled the trigger and the boat was leaving harbor, all of the sudden we think to ourselves, “oh wow I sure hope I don’t look stupid and pull it in that bunker”, or “man if can just hit this one close, then I can re-hammer these pidgeons and really make some money”. At that moment, a traffic jam is created in the electrical signal highway going to your muscles. Just enough of a disruption is created to cause the muscles to act erratically and produce a result contrary to the plan.
So in one sense, you really have no control over where the ball will ultimately stop, but you absolutely have control over the ability to not create the traffic jam. Take the time to prepare an honest proposition to what you want before every shot, enjoy the moments you allow the body to attempt the plan without further instructions, and take note of the times you sabotage the plan while it is underway.
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