Choosing The Right Coach

good morning guys welcome to Ottawa good to be back home showing Kelly around but also getting some practice in at the course I grew up that what I'm gonna do with today's episode is I'm basically just gonna do the make you a and tackle the questions that you guys posted for the road trip QA that we're specifically directed at me and about golf and if you didn't see the QA vlog with Kelly and I when we drove up go check it out I'm really proud of it it was an opportunity for you guys to be my girlfriend but also see a little bit of this road trip see a little bit of what goes on behind the scenes of a mini tour player as he has to trek from Florida to Canada I'm out here practicing all day so I'm going to tackle them throughout the practice kind of the usual drill some involve some questions now okay here's a question from a Gulf youtuber any tips or like growth strategies honestly you just got to keep making videos I started making videos last March and I think I finally reached 100 subscribers in June and I didn't reach a thousand subscribers until October so almost it's over six months of making videos you just have to be consistent you have to be patient you have to be hard-working and you have to offer value I think that's the only real tips I can give if you're in it to try to make money or try to get big or famous people will tell you just gotta be in it because you love making videos you love editing you love golf you love you love everything that comes together and you just want to share that love with with viewers so the only tips are just hard work patience hard-working patience alright go to snack on the course what's my go-to snack on the course protein bars pretty much probably my go-to snack on the course hi snack I bring trail mix every all that but my go-to would have to be some good protein bars the cheapest ones I can find wherever I am wherever I'm quite a tournament here's a good one that I'm gonna keep practicing how do you get through many hours of practice without getting physically and mentally drained I think I've talked about this in past videos but you got to keep some variety and it spice it up not do the same thing every day over and over like today I came straight to the putting green to start where as tomorrow I might start on the range and go to the short game then do the putty then go to the course you just have to keep some variety and that'll keep you from getting mentally drained because you're keeping your mind fresh and in terms of physically drained just take the appropriate rest take a breather sit down for five minutes having perhaps some water have a snack and then get back to it a lot of people think it's just like go go go go go rest is really important little five minutes here there it's not gonna take away from your practice if anything that's gonna help because you're gonna be a little bit more refreshed when you go back to practice and that's kind of like what I do this is gonna find me to breather back to work motivated refreshed so speaking of that let's get back to work [Music] [Music] I'm starting to get a little windy out here so hopefully the audio isn't terrible done some work on the putting green on the range now I'm over on the short game area luckily here at Highlands with two short holes like 60 yard holes I've talked all about this last year but I'm gonna do a real go proper tour of Highlands throughout this summer hopefully I can get a good course log in for you we are right next door like literally across the street from the airport so even when I tried to fly the drone earlier it automatically lands so I might struggle getting the drone up this summer at Highlands but fingers crossed I can get up and sneak it up at some points to answer a few more questions how do you pick the coach you work with historically I've worked with the coach at my golf course and then I've got a really good friend down in Toronto that has helped me with my golf swing over the years but then when it came to working with Dan last year I made a decision that I needed to maybe put a lot more attention into my swing and take coach work a little bit more seriously so I knew Dan was in my area I did some research on him and I just asked around and the reputation Dan had was really good so we work together first time and it worked really well so we went from there I would say it picking a coach you need to do your research but it's also a little bit of trial and error you have to give a coach a session or two and to see if you guys click see if you can communicate well see if you listen well see if he you can set goals together and all that stuff much like a caddy much like a therapist a sports psychologist when it comes to adding someone onto your team you need to trial and error it and if you get lucky on the first go-round more power to you but it might take a coach or two and you ultimately just want to make sure you're on the same page you want to make sure the coach isn't trying to take you too far from what's your natural motion and also not take you too far from some of the goals that you want or the timeline that you want like you have to come to a consensus you're you're a team you've got to work together so I think the relationship to communication that's probably the most important thing to look for when looking for a golf coach I'm working on technical stuff what iron do I use I typically use seven or eight iron kind of rotate one day to the other because I just don't want to wear out my seven IR wear on my eight iron but when I'm doing my technical work when I'm doing my slow motion golf swings when I'm doing that kind of stuff it's a seven or eight iron and then I'll go throughout the bag and you know hit shots with all the clubs but then pepper in some technical work with the 3-wood technical work with the four iron with the lob wedge you just want to keep that variety in your practice but when it's like that block block block work seven or eight iron what did I normally shoot in college or what was my handicap in college I was probably in the pluses when I was in college my tournament schedule going to Ottawa you was all the Northeast States so we didn't have the best weather so you know rounds around par we're really good in those conditions and I think I never won an NCAA tournament I want some Oh UA and stuff like that and our national championships the Canadian national championships right around par was good playing so I think my scoring averages out say and in college we've been like anywhere between 73 is 73 74 but my obviously summertime tournaments and that kind of stuff that's when you had the opportunity to go a little bit lower because you had better conditions and you're playing your home course or courses played a lot so I would get lower tournament scores in the summers and when I was college age but my handicap would have been in the round the plus two plus three I think I turned pro at a plus four handicap way back in 2008 that's enough like I've answered the golf questions I answered a couple golf questions back in the vlog from the road trip and there's a handful of questions here about sponsorship like financial sponsorship so I've been wanting to do a video all about that so I will do a video all about that in the coming week or two I'm gonna keep practicing and then next week we finally get into some tournament blogs we've got US Open qualifying on Monday and then next Thursday Friday I've got the first two day event on the Great Lakes Tour I will see you guys in those tournament vlogs next week absque Ribe give this video a thumbs up and see you in a couple days [Music]