PUTT FOR DOUGH

and I don't get to leave until I've chipped them all in good morning guys welcome back to the vlog been a minute I've been leaving you hanging just a little bit on how things went in The Match Play I lost in the first round I lost three and two wasn't an epic battle the wind was howling we both played I can't really complain about I didn't really do anything wrong never was out of the hole the puss didn't really go in when I needed him to go in and he had some jock late in the back nine that was it so I'm here in Ottawa I've been here for a couple days now and it's been amazing it's been so much fun I've rested and I've been practicing my thought off on my short game so that's what today's vlog is we haven't had one of these in a long long time it's a practice law [Music] [Music] so it's been a while since I've had a full-on practice vlog the last time I had a practice while I was probably back in Florida in March I've taking you out to the golf course before here at Highlands but haven't really walked you through the work I'm doing so this week I have a full week off to prepare for the Ontario championship it's my first week off in seven weeks so there's just been a ton of ton of work kind of inside 120 150 yards right now I'm working really really hard on my putting I'm committing to this this new putter I love how it strokes I just I used it in one tournament and it really liked it but I just I've been struggling to see the line so what I'm doing right now is I'm working really really hard on my routine got a lie on the ball and I'm really working diligently on my sight line making it so that when I look from my posture from from beside the ball that I see the line because that's what I've been struggling with and when you don't see the line your subconscious starts to just make little adjustments little mistakes the face changes the path changes the contact changes and then you miss putts so that's what I'm doing right now working really really really hard on that full routine every time get that line tee where I want it to aim and make sure the line is straight I get over the ball and I just don't have the putter down and I adjust my body until I look up and see that line put the putter down go and you'll see the reason I have a towel down because I'm standing in the same place for a long time I don't want to mess up the green so I stand on the towel it preserves the green so anyone out there if you're putting for a long time do the green a favor [Music] this drill I'm doing is something I've been struggling on as well just basic up-and-down it's really easy pitch shots well I've got five balls the objective is to get up and down 20 out of 25 times like a minimum of 20 and if I don't well then I start over so I can't finish this drill until I've gotten up and down 2025 times minimum so 80% we just saw there was five four five but that was three good chips two bad ones two good putts three Japanese the objective obviously is to chip these are incredibly close so that you don't fertilize hunter that's drilled number two today all right done the drill I got up and down 21 out of 25 times more because of my putting this part of my short game has really been letting me down in the last few weeks I think a lot because of the courses we play the grass has changed the thickness changes the firmness of the Greens changes and I've just been like guessing so I need to spend a lot of time working on this right now so I'm just gonna probably bust out about fifty to a hundred just simple chips pitches from roughs just been letting me down so I need to work on that [Music] important thing for when you're practicing your short game is to be using different club for the basic pitching around here I did 30 with my 54 degree wedge and I'm struggling with it so I'm working on my rhythm my posture just the basics and then I switched to a pitching wedge and all of a sudden the shot got a lot easier it's one of those things that you don't always have to grab a lot of wedge always have to grab the sand wedge practicing with different clubs helps you get a bit of creativity back bit of feel back there's a huge benefit there's a huge upside to it because when you get on a golf course you'll be able to visualize and kind of see different shots out there so always practice with different clubs when it comes to your short game but a few more to hit here and then hit some short sighted stuff ok the last thing I'm gonna do here on the putting green is a little fun drill that tests your your skill obviously but it really really tests your focus your patience and your attitude I've got five balls short side a little flop shot and I don't get to leave until I chip them all in so once one goes in and I only have four balls and then so on and so forth so it gets really really fun when you're down to one and two balls because you have to be very very focused patient and you can't get frustrated you can't get rushed you just gotta gotta grind it out let's do this [Music] [Music] well that was a good test of patience the first three balls went in pretty quick fourth and fifth took a lot longer but that took it took a little while to 2025 minutes I mean it's 11:15 I got to the pun in green 9 a.m. 2 hours and 15 minutes do all that work big takeaway I want to leave you guys with is not necessarily to judge or evaluate your practice on time but evaluate your practice on balls I want to do a hundred five footers 50 pitches 30 up and downs five whole outs and that could have taken two hours it could take an hour and 45 minutes it could have taken two hours 15 minutes but it's about the reps the quality over the time a lot of people just say I'm gonna go putt for half an hour or I'm gonna go chip for five minutes or to the range for 20 minutes what are you doing you're kind of just arbitrarily picking a number and what are you focused on what are you what are you doing you need to have a bit of an intention when you practice so my intention I showed you in the past that I put it all in a spreadsheet so I know exactly how many balls how many putts how many chips I've hit and and it's broken down in the parts of my game yeah I'm gonna have a little snack here and then I'm gonna head to the short range work on 50 60 70 you know a bunker shots and all that but I think that's enough for this episode I got to wrap this up pretty soon because I'm gonna fit my nephew up and have a little uncle nephew day we're gonna hang out and then have a little sleepover tonight so that's it give this a thumbs up but make sure you subscribe and I'll see you next week because I got a pro-am and I got a PGA Tour Canada that [Music]