Can I Win The GOOD GOOD CHAMPIONSHIP??

can I win the good good Championship short answer yes [Music] simple but uh the state of my game right now yeah probably not that's why I've got five weeks ahead of me to kind of get my game back in tournament form so that when I Tee It Up on May 8th I feel confident enough to be competitive and have a chance to uh maybe so in today's video we're gonna play nine holes here at my home just talk through what I need to work on what's good what's not so good and just my head space as I prepare for my first tournament in over a year a big tournament and I just try to share some of my wisdom insights experiences from a decade-long playing career turned into uh just being a stay-at-home dad who makes a YouTube video once a week [Music] please [Music] days like today are reminiscence of when I had you know full-time ability to practice get on the golf course and and work on stuff on the golf course hit shots hit multiple shots that's what I'm doing Kelly's watching Jude this afternoon so that I can get out here get a couple hours of practice in can I just check where my game's at how I'm thinking how I'm executing because that's the small incremental gains that I'm looking for to uh to improve upon throughout these five weeks so get on the golf course hit shots I'm still paying attention to score obviously because I gotta score tournament golf you got to score but having extra balls to just further solidify a good feel or kind of hit a better one instead of that poor one to get a good visual of proper execution [Music] laughs [Music] that shot right there it's been both well 92 yard lob wedge off dirt I get steep with my wedges especially when I don't play and the fact that I was able to execute that well both times is huge for me because that's something I'm working on in the garage just working on the wedges so that I'm not steep things I have a launch monitor to make sure the angle of attack is is appropriate launch angle is appropriate and to execute that oh it gives me a lot of confidence like [Music] probably about a c plus being honest when I hit shots like I did on two feels like an A plus feels so confident feels like I'm back that good tournament player that I always was feeling like I can accomplish and hit the shot I want to hit then I hit what I hit here on three just a seat seven iron kind of clanky off the toe to the front of the green to a back pin and we're right back down work to do but that's what giving yourself some time and a bit of a plan and a program is all about because getting better at this game getting more confident and this game takes time you got to be realistic with it so I'm being realistic [Music] because the reality is just clanking it around like I have for these first three holes and being even far that won't win the golf tournament that's kind of the state of where my game is at I just hit some good shots I hit bad shots that just like are in front of me but they're not close they don't put me on the offensive I'm in the on playing defensively just trying to kind of save a car and then I have a hot putter here and there make the odd birdie putt but I make some sloppy bogeys that type of golf won't win the tournament it might get me through the first day that the 63 guys for top 12 pretty clunky even bars is not winning the tournament so that's what uh I have to work my way out of another thing that I'm really focusing on with my time is obviously my uh body my strength my Mobility I talked about it in the last Route 66 video but I've been using pliability now for about five weeks and it's been a GameStop where like a field it's much more mobile I recover better they just rolled out their second golf specific path so it's a bit more active pair it with the hip flexor pad it's an incredible incredible one-two punch getting my body um this 39 year old body ready to compete again and so check it out liability you get uh two free weeks with the link down below prom series it's well worth your time [Music] see that right there is what I need to focus the bulk of my attention on when I practice for the next five weeks a couple days a week I can get away from the garage and out to the golf course it's short game that was an opportunity hit a drive like right to the front of the green and it's a tricky little shot but I need to be able to execute hit that thing close and make you know pretty sure fire birdie but that is a big area that I need to practice on is is just getting myself super comfortable around the greens inside 100 yards that I know I can get up and down or that when I have a wedge in my hands I can hit it close and give myself a very good opportunity for birdies the rest of my game is okay just keep kind of tightening it up in the garage a short game practice for the next five weeks is going to be proof foreign [Music] thing that I need to shore up and that's kind of like the physical my mental game obviously is what I will need to do a lot of work on and get the most prepared for because my playing career I had some good golf there I knew what it was like to feel good golf to be in competition to win but I had a lot of bad golf and I had a lot of scar tissue and I fought a lot of demons I felt uncomfortable not relaxed out there and it's very similar to the last Route 66 video that front nine man I was so comfortable confident relaxed to turn it four under and just felt like a world beater and then I just was holding on for dear life on the back now I'm feeling uncomfortable feeling shaky so I need to kind of you know dissect that round dissect my playing career and learn from the good stuff and kind of pick away from from the negative and learn from it yeah I can work on some visualization and do these things but I just really need to let the good that happens in these five weeks of preparation really sink in and really just ignore the negative like not hang my hat on it too much so that when I get out to Phoenix I can be as relaxed and as comfortable and confident as I possibly can't and that's the exciting bit because there's no pressure so if I'm to create immense amount of pressure on this I'm foolish I'm silly so I need to remind myself of that doing this helps a lot because it's an accountability thing and I have video evidence of the ways to think what looks good how what shots are executed properly so there's a lot of good from this I hope you're getting something from this that you can take towards your next tournament or your preparation your Club championships whatever it is foreign [Music] we don't know I don't know who's in the tournament at this point and quite frankly it doesn't matter that's that's one thing that I think you don't necessarily need to pay attention to if you're getting ready to play tournament golf who cares who else is playing in the tournament you can only control your game and your stop so focus on your stuff I don't know who's in this tournament I could say to myself oh it's all a bunch of YouTubers I'm better than that no that's stupid or I could say oh it's a bunch of other full-time players I don't stand a chance no that's dumb I can control my prep my game and that's all I'm gonna focus on the competition is kind of irrelevant and it should always be that way but yeah even if it was like us open qualifying you have an idea of what you know the score you need to shoot this I have no idea what the score he needs to do so it's almost no better going in on a Clean Plate my stuff and let's just uh keep building confidence as the tournament approaches foreign [Music] well I would say this is a good place to start from these nine holes he felt solid a lot to improve upon so subscribe if you're new here and uh we'll uh we'll see the next one on this journey peace