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In this PodCast I speak to Performance Psychologist Ashley Clinch. Ashley tells us how he got into golf and 3 things we can do to improve the mental side of our golf game.
As it is US Masters week. We also talk The Masters and we try and pick a winner.
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In this episode of The Golf Doctor Podcast we meet up and comming comedian Sam Taunton.
Sam is about to perform his show “Taunts Down For What” as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Sam has been a keen golfer since he was 12 years of age and golf is an important part of Sam’s life and as it turns out his preparation before a show.
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How To Get The Most From Your Golf Practice.
In this my first ever podcast. I take a look at how most people practice.
I visit a golf range and describe what I am seeing. The way a few golfers were doing in their golf practice.
I then propose an alternative practice method that will help you transfer your learning from the range to the golf course.
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“Does Putter Length Matter?”
Improve Your Putting Distance Control With The 4 By 8 Drill
Hello I’m Brian Fitzgerald The Golf Doctor.
Today we are going to look at a really good putting drill to try and get some control over the distance that you hit the ball.
I call it the Four By Eight Drill. I hope you enjoy it.
So I have set up my Four By Eight Drill here.
Basically I set up four balls here all pointing at the hole. That’s eight paces away. I put a circle of tees one club length around the hole. So my target is to get my ball inside that circle.
I’ve also done similarly here. I’ve set these four balls up four metres or four paces from the hole and I’ve set up a circle of tees one putter length around the hole. The object is to see how many of the eight balls I can get into the circles. That’s the plan. Lets see how I go.
A little bit to the right.
Almost.
That makes it easy.
Oh. Nearly.
OK the last short one.
Ok, so that’s how we do it.
Now what we do is we go up and we have a look and we try and count how many balls are inside the circle. so I have all four in the circle there and one in the hole.
And over here I have got all four well and truly in the circle.
So by doing that we are working on our distance control. If we can control our distance, we stop 3 putting and we are going to be better off.
Ok so that was the Four By Eight Drill.
If you practice the Four By Eight Drill regularly. You’ll find you get better distance control. If you get better distance control you won’t have as many 3 putts. if you don’t have as many 3 putts you will definitely lower your score.
So do it regularly. It’s a fantastic Drill. Look at some of my other putting drills.Which also deal with distance control.I’ll put links to the video up there.
Thank you for letting me help you with your golf. I’m Brian Fitzgerald “The Golf Doctor”.
The Simple Concept Of A Pitch Shot
Hello, I’m Brian Fitzgerald “The Golf Doctor”.
And today we are going to have a look at pitching, and just the simple concept for pitching.
Pitching is actually one of the simplest shots in golf. All we need to do when hitting a pitch shot is to start with the club down near the golf ball and then we try and return the club underneath the golf ball.
If we can do that we are going to hit a good pitch.
I’m going to show you a funny way to do it.
So here’s a strange way of teaching people how to hit a pitch shot. I quite often say to kids when I teach them “What makes the ball go in the air”?
It’s actually quite a simple thing. What makes the ball go in the air is the loft of the golf club. Provided there is loft on my club. And provide the club comes down underneath the golf ball. The ball will go in the air.
I’m going to show you how it’s done.
As you can see there, there is definitely loft on my golf club. I’ve got the ball in the middle of my stance. All I need to do is let the club get under the ball and the ball goes in the air. It’s pretty simple really isn’t it. Try that one at home.
Thank you for letting me help you with your golf.
I’m Brian Fitzgerald The Golf Doctor.
Hello I’m Brian Fitzgerald The Golf Doctor.
Today I’m going to teach you how to improve your pitching.
It’s a little bit of a strange drill, but you are used to me using strange drills now.
Today is one of my better ones. I hope you enjoy it.
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Okay, we are going to do some pitching today.And when I play with amateurs, most people go wrong when they try to hit pitch shots because they are trying to help get the ball in the air and they are lifting up. They are not necessarily lifting their head, that’s what their playing partners are actually telling them.
But it’s lifting the whole body so they are hitting it on the up and I’ve got a 56 degree sand wedge here. There is enough loft on that 56 sand wedge to get the ball in the air. What I have to do is get the club down underneath the golf ball. So provided my golf club can get down underneath the golf ball, I have a chance at getting the ball in the air so I am looking for a downward strike. I am not looking at hitting it on the up. So the drill that I use to teach people how to hit with a downward strike.
Is to take a normal setup and then get their right foot back here with their toe on the ground and their heel up.
That forces your weight to go on to the left foot, it moves my upper body slightly to the left and that encourages me hitting the ground. So you can see there I’m easily hitting down under the golf ball.
And that’s the type of swing we want to use when we play this shot.
So we take our setup and then I just hit down and the ball went up in the air quite nicely.
It’s a simple drill, it’s effective. If you use that on a regular basis I think you’ll find your pitching will improve.
Thank you for letting me help you with your golf.
I’m Brian Fitzgerald The Golf Doctor.
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