Here's a video that I really liked from George Gankas on his new YouTube channel. You can find his new YouTube channel at this link:
George Gankas YouTube Channel
In my lesson with GG again in April we discussed a few statistical analytics in golf and a bit little bit of strategy. But, he did not need lots assist as most of the stuff I even have visible him discuss is at the equal wavelength with what the data has a tendency to show.
What I like approximately this video is the pre-shot recurring analysis. Recently the European Tour did a few analysis on pre-shot routines and the consistency and time it takes and its impact on overall performance.
My best issue with the RSM have a look at is that the pattern size (20 players over 8 rounds) is questionable at excellent. But, I do trust that with a more enough sample size the main conclusion will be the identical.
I also like GG's solution for separating swing thoughts from your round of golf in order to get the golfer to 'play golf instead of playing golf swing.'
I'm a company believer in utilizing slow motion practice. Not only because it works well at ingraining mechanical actions to your swing. But, I even have found that once I'm clearly in song with slow motion practice I can get out at the direction and play without the use of swing thoughts. In truth, it is almost like a peculiar out-of-body enjoy wherein I can stand behind the ball, visualize the shot and visualize myself hitting the shot before I simply hit the shot. Golf will become computerized from there.
The problem is that in case you're working on new mechanics and need to play it will take time to get to that stage with sluggish motion practice. So, I virtually like GG's coaching of making the primary exercise swing along with your swing thought after which 'flip that thought into a sense' on your 2nd practice swing.
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Having said that, to me it's no longer without a doubt a 'sense' as plenty as my braining SENSING how my body wishes to transport to hit the shot I need to hit.
I keep in mind years ago analyzing an editorial and they asked Fred Couples on how he hits a draw on purpose (at that point he played a fade). Couples' reaction was that he definitely visualized the ball drawing in his pre-shot habitual and then he truly were given up there and hit the ball and it might draw. I used to assume that Fred changed into full of shit and that there had to be some kind of real swing thoughts and step-by using-step training to do so. But approximately twenty years later I started out to realize that Couples turned into telling the fact and he became actually sensing what his body had to do with the intention to produce a draw.
I relate this sensing to watching musicians play a song that they are not quite familiar with. My sister was an accomplished violinist and occasionally would hear a popular song on the radio and play it with her violin. She didn't need sheet music or think about what actual notes to play or how he was holding the violin, etc. Instead, she could hear the music and her brain could sense that if she made a certain movement it would produce the sound she wanted.
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The concept of making par vs. saving par also reminds me a lot of what Jim Furyk once said in a Golf Channel Playing Lesson. Furyk hit a poor drive on a hole and the host asked him what was going thru his mind. Furyk's reply was there was no reason to get upset and instead he imagined that he was playing from the tee box from that location and it was a par-4 from there. His goal was to hopefully make a faux 'birdie' (actually a par), but he didn't want to make anything more than a faux par (actual bogey).
In GG's case, saving the actual par was not overly difficult because he did have some semblance of a shot at the green and he didn't have a long ways to go. But, the concept should stay the same. Losing your cool on the golf course is understandable and even to a degree, acceptable. But if it works against you being able to properly focus then it will be a detriment to your score.
One of the main concepts to come away from all of this is that data analytics and psychology in golf are often intertwined. They operate in a vacuum in golf far less often than people think. Things like confidence, etc. often produce 'good numbers' for golfers, but playing the odds correctly can often produce a healthy golfer from a psychological standpoint. And we can use data analytics to measure how things like pre-shot routines can impact performance and then use neurological and psychological experts to give detail as to what occurred to produce those observed results.
3JACK
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