Step Inside My Mind (On The Practice Tee)

[Music] what's going on guys welcome back to the channel my name's Andrew don't let the moustache fool you it's still me it's November 5th so five days into Movember and I look ridiculous like looking at that viewfinder I look awful so bear with me come back practicing after 8 days away feels so good just to be back at the golf course breathing the air hearing the birds chirp scene seeing the greenery I'm pretty motivated to work hard today because I've got tournament starting next week Monday Tuesday Florida Elite event really I'm gonna do today is just kind of do a full practice vlog just show you what I do after a break hopefully it can help you guys balance back into your practice and figure out some things to work on if you've taken some time off and how to kind of get yourself back into it you got a walk before you run I think that's the way that I look at my practice today so instead of just jumping on the treadmill and going full-tilt it's it's slowly getting myself back in we get the body back moving so start with a warm-up first and then some technical focused work hi this is my first shot since the last Saturday in Dallas I don't even think I should know how to swing a golf but my body feels so strange since I haven't swung a club in eight days the start of my routine my practice is just loosening up I'm not concerned with my technique right now I'm just hitting little wedges getting the feel for my body moving the way it should move for a golf swing there's no critical thinking here it's just loosen the body up hit some balls get ready to get to work after this I transition into some proper drills to help me warm up I'll put a glove under my right armpit to work on my connection and just keeping the golf club from getting too far in front of me or too far behind me and then I'll also work into some slow motion golf swings which is something I rely on heavily which allows me to really feel what I want to have happen and if I execute it properly in slow motion I'll hit it decently and if I don't I'll chunk it off in it and I have immediate feedback if I'm doing I'm supposed to be doing first like 60 80 balls I just hit obviously are very technically focused next step is head over to the putting green kind of clear my head from my golf swing because if I stayed here too long I would start to get frustrated and getting frustrated would just make the work even harder and then you start working along the wrong things and it just gets ugly so go roll some putts give the golf swing mind a break but also work on this part of the game so this is a great way to keep the practice bouncing around and keeping myself I'm getting frustrated with any one particular part of my game if it's not how I want it to be this trails nothing new if you are regular of the channel but if you're new here this is a drill I do almost on the daily 5-footer put my alignment stick down set a little gate for the putter head and then foot out I set a gate for the ball to make sure I'm starting the ball in line but this is just the ultimate putting drill keep your fundamentals your basics in check and it's perfect to help me transition back into full golf practice mode made my hundred five footers now I'm gonna transition back into hitting full shots but not before hitting a few short shots so I'm gonna go over to the cart there which is about a 30-yard pitch to that green those four balls that I was putting I'm gonna get them all up and down and I'm not gonna be able to go back to hitting golf balls until I get those four golf balls up and down from 30 yards this drill like I told you I'm gonna have these four golf balls I've got to get them all up and down and I can't stop the drill until I get all four up and down if I don't hit the green or if I don't hit it within you know a foot of the green I don't get an opportunity to try to chip it in or roll a putt in from six feet in the fringe I only get an opportunity to save the par if I hit the green or hit it to the fringe where I would actually put it come real golf situations and I again I can't leave until I get all four of these up and down [Music] I've transitioned myself now back to the range back to full swings feeling like a golfer that warm-up that putting and that short game work just you know got my mind back into golf mode now I can make some swings where I'm focused on my technique but I'm also focused on my rhythm I'm focused on my target and this is a time to just grind away on a lot of golf balls that that first little section took about two hours so now it's time to focus intensely on this for lunch this is time to focus on my rhythm my technique my target focus my routine kind of all in one a little more emphasis on the technique because I'm still trying to hone in swinging it properly again tying in rhythm tying in shot making and tying and everything that it means to be a golfer well guys that is it for my morning work about three hours in the books I'm gonna go have lunch and then come back and the afternoons gonna look like some wedge work a little more swing work if you want and then get on the golf course and play some holes and just get into play mode but that I'm not gonna film that we can film another day this is gonna be my time to really just get in the zone but I hope you learned a little bit from kind of seeing practice through my eyes through my head telling you what I'm doing why I'm doing it what I'm thinking and with the weather getting cold in a lot of parts of the world right now this could be useful to you because you could get a cold spell that keeps you off the course for a few days this can be something you can use when you get back to the golf course after three four five days away so you're not hard on yourself but you also find a way to transition from getting the feel back getting the thoughts back and then just turn into a regular golfer again me and my ridiculous mustache are gonna go have some lunch the Movember link is below so don't forget if you want to grow a mustache with me I encourage you to if you want to just donate to Movember and all the great stuff they're doing that links below give this video a thumbs up if you like it if you want more practice content like this subscribe if you haven't and I'm gonna see you guys in a couple days [Music]