Breaking Through A Plateau

what's going on guys welcome back to the channel my name is Andrew it's a pleasure to see you as always before I go any further in this video I just want you to know that the first comment that's pinned will have the timestamps to every single one of these questions so if you don't want to watch through the entire video it's all good if you want to watch certain certain questions certain topics it will be stamped in that comment just to make it easier for everybody but yes today is a Q&A video yesterday I posted up on Instagram one of those stories with the little tabs with questions so if you don't follow me on Instagram do that will be linked below that is where you get to really interact with this channel but also see what else is going on in my daytoday life a lot of you guys came up with some really good questions so I'm going to tackle as many as I can yes I am still on injury in recovery mode it's been just over close to 2 weeks since surgery and are coming along progress is good so really happy about that but you don't care you you guys just want to see if I answer your question so let's go when are you getting into the new M5 stuff well I was supposed to go to the kingdom today February 21st when this video is live I was supposed to be at the Kingdom getting my fit but obviously I broke my elbow so probably no new gear for me until May because of this injury where would you want to play that you have never gone to and it can't be in a tournament I mean it'd be great to play in Australia I've never been there so Australia especially watching all the stuff down there Royal Melbourne would really really like to play there how was your college golf experience what was your lowest round any wins I don't think I had any wins oh no I had one win in like a handful of second places my college golf experience was good I went to Ottawa U so that's a Canadian school we played NCAA golf but we weren't part of the NCAA but it was a great experience I graduated debt free played a lot of competitive golf in the fall and we had a lot of great memories at the national championships we finished second in my first year so that was a a great way to start my college career and my lowest round in college I don't know I don't know maybe like uh 68 69 as a Canadian where and how did you practice during the winter I would practice in my basement I would roll a lot of putts growing up in the basement and I would find an indoor place to keep swinging so when I was younger when I was a junior there wasn't domes or anything here in Ottawa so I would just find a little indoor school from another club pro that my dad was friends with and then when a dome started I would hit at a dome um but then here in Ottawa the OAC is a great practice facility so when I am up here visiting family if I wanted to swing in the winter I would go to the OAC I would do as much as I could I do a lot of chipping and putting in the basement how many Monday qualifiers have you won SL got into the tournament uh I think two I know one of them I got in while I was playing like I was playing I was an alternate for the field and I was out there and then like on the 11th or 12th hole they they came out and got me they're like someone withdrew you got in the tournament so that's a great way to get into a Monday qualifier but I think I've played in twice I haven't done a lot of Monday qualifiers I did two pre-qualifiers for the PGA Tour and two web.com Monday qualifiers in my first year and then maybe I've done probably still not even 10 maybe anywhere between 5 and 10 Canadian tour Monday qualifiers maybe only five I haven't done a lot it's just when I haven't had status I haven't had the money to spend to chase Monday qualifiers who you got for the Stanley Cup this year I'm a Canucks fan I've got the Canuck for the Stanley Cup it's going to be impossible but they're my pick tell your funniest mini tour story I don't know I don't know if any of those are PG I've got some pretty bad ones I've seen fights near fights I've been this close with someone freaking out and throwing a golf club and it and it missed me by this much sometimes on mini tour you got guys that are getting really mad and it's really disrespectful to you the game the groups around you and I speak my mind and I'm not afraid to tell someone and put them in the in their place but I've also seen other guys do that as well because at the end of the day you got to stand up for this game and stand up for what's right and if someone's being a real dick out there they need to stop where do you see yourself in your golf game in 3 years I don't know man I really don't know obviously I want to be still playing and competing and healthy but as of right now with an injury it's really hard for me to think that far in advance I'm thinking 10 weeks in advance Max right now what's your opinion on the new Young upcoming players on tour it's great there's always young guys coming up on every every year every year there's young guys it's been like that forever so I don't think it's anything new I think golf media loves to put a new young guy on a pedestal and think he's going to change the game forever but that never happens so you just take it with a grain of salt young guy playing well it happens every year and then it's just a matter of will they keep that play up for a long time or will they experience the EB and flows of professional golf but yeah it's always good to see young guys doing well how do you translate good playing social golf in comp competition competitive play uh you got to just make those two worlds as similar as possible so if your social golf is super super relaxed and you play great but then your competitive golf is super super high stress and you play poorly you have to find some balance of bringing that relaxed mindset into your competitive golf or bringing a little bit more of the seriousness into your social golf so that they can slowly become very similar because golf practice and play should should very much mimic each other so if you're on two ends of this spectrum it's going to be really hard to bring this here and vice versa so I would think find what works best for you what makes you click so well in Social Golf and then just do it in competitive golf but competitive might be harder you're not playing with friends you're not as relaxed you don't have as much socializing chatting so you have to find a way to kind of stay on the fence between those two um polar ends of the spectrum were you doing your US Open qualifier I'm going to try to get into the Toronto site this year it's really well timed with the first stage of Canadian open qualifying so I'll go up to Toronto for 5 days and knock off those two qualifiers what is your favorite T 360 or t 360 knit t or 3 60 probably the new one the XT they're waiting for me down in Florida but I've seen them and they're amazing so that's probably my favorite one will you do a money breakdown for 2019 like you did last year probably not I probably won't I think I've made enough content that breaks into the financial side of professional golf of Developmental Tour golf of mini tour golf it doesn't need to be reiterated every year that information is relevant year to year and my own personal earnings and ups and downs that was that was good for once but I don't think it needs to be done every year because like I said it's the same thing just the final positive or negative is what's going to change but I don't think that's something that is necessary to make year after year after year because I like the little bit of focus on the money that I did on this on this channel but if you focus too much on money in professional golf it really debilitates you and I think I'm taking that approach to this channel if I talk about the money side of this all the time it's going to kind of pigeon hole this channel it's not really terribly interesting and it just money is a weird thing to talk about all the time so it's something that I don't think needs to be reiterated over and over again if you're curious about the cost if you're curious about the expenses relative to the earnings those videos are there and those numbers won't really change like some people have asked me yeah will you what is mini tour golf can you make a video about that like I made it a couple years ago and it's still relevant I made it last year it's still relevant so if you want to know about the financial side of things that's there but my own personal financial side of things I don't think that's really worth sharing anymore what's the best affordable camera to use for filming course Vlogs I would say the camera I'm using the Canon M50 you can find it linked Below on Amazon and it's often on sales like I think it's right in the $500 to $600 range but you can also find great used ones on Amazon and you can find them on eBay but uh the Canon the M50 is probably the best value and bang for your buck when it comes to anything for YouTube but especi especially if you want to make course logs win the Canadian open or when in Jack's Place win the Canadian open Easy how do you get better after you want Plateau with your scores you just keep going it's like with anything when you plateau with anything yes you maybe want to shake things up a bit but you have to keep doing what got you there and then be honest with yourself and go okay what more can I stretch myself in and how can I keep pushing cuz growth and Improvement isn't always going to be like this for everything for every every everything this channel is a great example like it grows and then it kind of plateaus and it grows and it kind of plateaus and it grows and it kind of plateaus I'm not changing a whole heck of a lot I'm just trusting my work and I keep doing it and the same thing with golf if your work and your scores are kind of plateauing you got to be very honest with yourself and if you're saying here 78 maybe you're still making a big number or two big numbers around so it's figure out how to eliminate one big number or or two big numbers or turn those doubles or triples into bogeys and a lot of times that is avoid making two mistakes in a row you hit it in the trees chip it out don't try the hero shot cuz a bogey is manageable but if you try that hero shot to kind of keep things going keep things around one or two overpar let's say that's how you bring double or triple into play so I would say that's the only real actionable advice I could give not knowing how you play the game or how you swing or Etc equipment changes for 2019 uh maybe obviously I'm going to get the new metal woods just get something that's dialed in for me got a spider X I'm going to test out but that's probably it and the new tailor made ball definitely going to be putting that into play when I am fully healed up and ready to golf all right guys I hope all of that Q&A was enjoyable for you if you've made it this far thank you very much hit that Thumbs Up Button subscribe turn your notifications on because there's still a lot of golf content to come on this Channel especially next week I've got an awesome upload starting from the PLAYERS Championship from TPC sass there's a few videos that George Bryan and I filmed back in January and they're coming out next week and the week after that so there's still a lot of golf content to come and then I will be back in Florida and I will be able to get on a golf course in March chipping and putting and I can start making videos about that type of practice to try to help you guys short game while all I can do is short game we'll see you in the next video peace [Music]