It's the son of a which podcast. I'm your host, Claude Harmon. Just back from three weeks in Asia. Was out at my academy in Bangkok. Really excited about that project. It's a really cool spot. And then Hong Kong and Singapore with Live Dustin Johnson. Did you have a chance to win Singapore last group on Sunday? So that was really really encouraging. But what I want to talk about is some of the stuff that we did in Singapore with DJ that I think is applicable for your game. I'm always trying to figure out how i can use the information that I'm lucky enough to see and hear about and work on tour with, because I do think you can learn some things from what the best players in the world are doing. I did a content shoot and put out some content for Rafsoto, a launch monitor that I think is one of the best on the market, mainly because it's affordable. It's under one thousand dollars. It's something that you can use. But one of the persons in the comment said, hey, I'm not a tour pro, so none of the stuff you're talking about is applicable. And yardages and stuff like that, but I do think that understanding how far you hit the golf ball and understanding what you do on the golf course is massively important. So just to give you a little insight, So obviously on the PGA Tour, they're shot linked data, right, they have some of the best data on the planet, and as a player, as a coach, you can go in and look at the data. You can look at what you're doing, how you're performing, what clubs you're using, things like that, And I think most professional golfers now at the elite level have some sort of stats program that they're either keeping themselves or they have companies using. We do that as well, so we kind of get reports every week on what the golf course strategy should be based off of historical data, based off of what players have done there before. So last week we're in Singapore and at all the data and from a strategy standpoint, the first thing that we noticed is due to the length of the golf course and due to DJ's length, he was only going to really hit five drivers or needed to hit five drivers all week. Yes, he can hit driver on a lot of holes, but the risk versus the reward where the carries are where the troubles are, So we pretty much identified that he was only going to hit five drivers, going to hit drivers on the two par fives, and then there were a couple of other holes that he hit drivers the year before, so we kind of knew he was going to hit five drivers. So that means a lot of three woods off the tees. He carries a nine wood and a seven wood, so a lot of those clubs off of the tees. But really, in looking at all of the data, the majority of the clubs the yardage is that he was going to have, We're going to be from one to twenty five to two twenty five, So for DJ that's right around a pitching wedge, kind of a gap wedge, and up to a five iron. So the majority of the shots he was going to hit, we knew the clubs that he was going to be using pretty much the majority of the round. So what we did was in our practice session we kind of came up with a test. That's Richard Bland, who is just playing some of the best golf of his career in his early fifties. One two majors on the Champs Tour last year, plays on live but Richard's been coming over before some of the tournaments into doing some warm weather training at my place in Florida at the Floridian. His coach Tim Barter comes over sometimes as well. But this year Blandy was over and every week I see him on Live. I see him with a launch monitor, and he's always got a little book out and he's always writing things in a book and stuff. And so he was doing that at my place in the off season, and I went out and I asked him what he was doing. He said, listen, what I've come up with is a wedged test. And what I do is I take twenty balls and I randomize the numbers between eighty and one hundred and thirty yards. Right, you can go on Google type in random number generator. It'll come up and you can put in whatever number you want. Right, you put in fifty to one hundred, you could put twenty five to seventy, whatever it is. So he puts in eighty to one thirty and then hits a number and it spits out a random number. And so the goal of the test, if you think about it, So he's got twenty balls, he's randomizing every single ball. So he doesn't know what the distance is going to be. He can use any club in his bag, and the goal is to have a total score for the twenty balls of forty right. And the idea behind that is two yards either short or long out. So the way you take the test is you randomize the number, and let's say the number is one forty four. You take the club that you think you're going to hit the golf ball one hundred and forty four yards, and whatever the difference is, you write that number down. So, for example, if it's one forty four and you carry it one fifty for that you're write down five and you go through that, and then at the end of the test you add up all of the numbers that you were short or long out, and the goal would be forty right, So two yards out with every single ball. And he says over the last two three years he's been doing this religiously in every practice session he has, right, So it's no surprise that for someone like Richard Bland, who's in his fifties not nearly as long as some of the players, he's going to play against the lowest hanging fruit. And the way that he can really, really score and the way that he can really separate himself from the rest of the field used to be really really good with eighty two, one hundred and thirty. The scoring clubs right your wedges and stuff like that. And he does this test on a regular basis religiously. And I think we are in Adelaide and he told me, hey, I just got twenty nine, and if you hit the number. So let's say the number is one fifteen and you carry the golf ball one fifteen, that's zero, right, So twenty nine is an unbelievable score. And in Hong Kong we did that a couple of times with DJ. DJ got thirty eight. One of the times was doing that with another of the players. I teach Noah Kent, who we're trying. He's going to play in the Masters this year. He'll play in the US Open by finishing second in the Usam. So if you get to the finals of the Usam, you get into the Masters. In the US Open, we've been having Noah do this religiously, trying to get that score down. So last week we basically did the same thing with DJ. We did one twenty five to two twenty five, and we just randomized the numbers and got him to just again get out of technique right. It wasn't him thinking about his golf swing. And I think last week in Singapore, out of all of the years that I've worked with DJs to working with DJ in twenty twelve, I think last week was as little technique work golf swing work that we've ever done. We didn't really talk a lot about his golf swings. Golf swing is in a pretty good place Hong Kong. He finished dead last. A lot of people jumped on the bandwagon on that doesn't care all that bullshit. That's fine, if you want to do that, go for it. Thursday night in Hong Kong, DJ kind of slept wrong and had a rib out and his physio doctor, matt Ort, tried to work on it. Warm up wasn't great. It was on Friday in Hong Kong. It was fifty degrees in raining all day, so Spotty never really loosened up. He got better every day. Bogie the last hole on Sunday could have shot seven under. I think he shot you know, six under, so really good score. So by the time we got to Singapore, I was like listen and by the way for the first two days of that tournament and for the majority of the third round in Hong Kong. For the last ten years, DJ's stock shot has been a fade Thursday and Friday because he couldn't get through the golf ball. When he did try and get through it and try and hit down on it and trying to get that path left, he was unable to do it, so he had to switch to hitting a draw. So he hit a draw for almost two and a half rounds, which isn't his normal shape at all. But we got to Singapore and every single day after the practice rounds Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, we did this test one twenty five to two twenty five and he was choosing the club and we were looking at the difference between what it was, and we were also having him pick out specific targets, right, not just aiming at the middle of the fairway or not just aiming at one target, So not only randomizing the number, but also trying to randomize his aim and having him go through his pre shot routine on every shot, so trying to get him in a game type situation. I've talked about this on the pod before. One of the things that we're always trying to do is instructors. As a coach, what I'm always trying to do is how can I simulate what is going to happen on the golf course for a player on the driving range. So it was something that we did for four days and I think it really helped him. I think it really helped him kind of get into play mode. I think it really kind of got him not thinking so much about his golf swing, so much about his technique, and he had a chance to win shut eight under the first day, was in the last group with wach o'neman on Sunday. Didn't get it done, but a tremendous amount of positive So I think a lot of people say to me, listen, I don't have a launch monitor, so I can't work on my distances. Right, I'm not a tour player, so I can't work on my distances. So maybe try this. Go to the driving range, and every driving range you're going to go to, he's going to have some flags, right, They're going to have target flags, target greens. And if it doesn't have target flags and target greens, it's going to have numbers, right, big scoreboard type numbers, one hundred yards, one hundred and fifty yards whatever, those yards are, right, But most are going to have some sort of green complex and flags on the green. And I think most golfers now have a launch monitor. If you don't have a launch monitor, I mean have a rangefinder. Launch monitors expensive, right, some of the ones the players on the PGA Tour use thirty thousand dollars, fifteen thousand dollars, ten thousand, whatever the numbers. I think launch monitor technology is going down, and I think launch monitors are getting better across the board. That's why I'm a huge fan of rap Sodo. They've got two launch monitors that are I think affordable. If golf is an important part of your life and if you are really really focused and trying to lower your handicap and get better. But if you don't have a launch monitor, if you've got a rangefinder, pick out a bunch of different targets, right, pick out the different yardages and randomize these yardages. Right. Pick out the fifty yard flag and get a number on what that is, and then a seventy five yard flag and one hundred yard flag, one hundred and twenty five hundred whatever, you've got on the golf course. And then if you don't have a launch monitor and you can't tell exactly how far the ball is going, maybe adjust this test and give yourself twenty balls and say, okay, I'm going to try and aim at this specific target, and I'm going to try. If I don't have a launch monitor, I'm going to see if I'm long or short of it and write that down, right, and you choose the club right, So write down the club that you're going to use, the yardage that you're trying to hit it. So let's say you're trying to hit it one hundred yards. You choose the club, write that club that you're going to use down, and then if you're short or long, right, short or long, do that for twenty balls and try to your best ability to randomize all of the numbers, or just pick out one hundred yards, pick out you know, baseline numbers. Pick out a flag that's one hundred yards, pick out a flag that's one hundred and twenty five yards. I think good random numbers. Fifty seventy five, one hundred, one hundred and twenty five, one hundred and fifty right, I think those are good numbers to start with. And again, if you don't have a launch monitor and you can't tell exactly how far it's going, but you have a rangefinder and you say, okay, that target is seventy five yards, you could just do twenty balls and pick out the club that you would use for that distance and then do the test of being either writing down if you're short or long, and then go back in and look at what are the tendencies. So if you've got your sand wedge, if you've got your pitching wedge, if you've got your nine or whatever the club is, figure out if the tendency is to come up long or the tendency is to come up short, right. And some of this you will probably if you're in that mid handicap range, some of it will be contact issues. Right, So yeah, when my contact is bad, I come up way short of the number, right, way short of the flag that I'm trying to hit. In an ideal world, you would want the miss. I think it would be better for the miss to be long then it would be short, because if the miss is long, that's probably going to show you that the contact is pretty good. Right, If the miss is massively short, that's probably going to show you that the contact miss is poor. Then you kind of know what to do off of that. You know two things. You know, if the tendency is from whatever the distance is, if you're short or long, and then you know that if you're consistently short and you're hitting it fat or you're hitting it thin stuff, then you know that's a contact issue. Then you can go and say, okay, let me go work on my technique to improve my contact, the quality of the strike. You know where my weight is, am I taking a divots? There's a million different drills you can do to try and improve contact, But I just think that knowing with the yardages that you've got with sand wedge, pitching wedge, nine iron, eight iron, seven iron, I would work with those clubs and then say, okay, am I short? Do I tend to be short? Do I tend to be long? And then next time you go play golf, write down all the irons that you hit right on every hole. So on the first hole, if you hit the fairway right down the club that you're going to use right, write it down. And then the next hole, obviously, if you don't hit the fairway, you're chipping out right, but then write down the yardage that the range finder tells you it is and the club that you're using, and then figure out if you're short or long, Because then I think what you can do is similar to what we're able to do on the tour level, is we know the data from shot link, from launch monitors, from the companies that we use for strategy. For data, you can then kind of get an idea of Okay, at my home course, I am going to have a lot of these clubs that I'm going to have to hit. I'm going to have to hit a lot of seven irons, eight irons, six irons, five irons, hybrids, whatever the club is. Because then I think it can really help you streamline your practice, and your practice can actually be for something specific that will help you on the golf course as opposed to just what you're trying to do on the range by just getting exercise. Try to then go, okay, let me gamify the way that I practice, Let me randomize my targets, let me randomize my numbers so that I can then figure out what's happening on the golf course. And I think you'll get a good idea of some trends of what's happening. Most of us play our home course on a regular basis, so you want to know the clubs that you're going to be using the most on your home course, right, And it's simple. Not everybody has a launch monitor, right, Not everybody has access to the data that we've got. But I think most driving ranges can give you a lot that you can use to help your game. Invest in a rangefinder and then go out and say, okay, let me pick a bunch of random targets, are random yardages and go from there. And then one of the things that you can do is gamify the driving range, right, and say, okay, I'm going to try and pretend I'm playing on the golf course. So pick a driver, take your driver out, use some targets on the driving range, use kind of design a fairway for yourself. Use poles, you can use trees, you can use flags, and say, okay, I'm gonna choose a flag or a tree or a pole on the left, and then I'm gonna choose a flag or a pole or a tree on the right hand side. That's my fairway. And what I've got to do is I've got to get the golf ball into the fairway and then randomize, use that random number generator you can get on Google and say, okay, now I've got to hit a club. The number says one sixty five. Okay, what is my one sixty five club? And then see if you can find a target that is somewhere around that distance and then hit an iron shot. You choose the club and figure out if you're short or long, and then do that a bunch of different times. Pick out a bunch of different fairways, create your own fairways, pick out a bunch of numbers that you know that you're gonna have on the golf course, that you know that you need to hit, and just see if you're able to have good distance control. I don't think it takes a tremendous amount of money. I don't think it takes a lot of the stuff that we use on tour. Think of the driving range as a playground, right as a massive playground, and you're just going to try and use your driving range your home course to try and help you on the golf course. But I think if you can start writing down the irons that you're using, whatever you're using, maybe you're using a lot of hybrids on the golf course. Maybe you're using a lot of long irons on the golf course. But I think if you can start to see the trends of the clubs that you're using, I think it can be hugely beneficial for you to then know what to practice as opposed to just going to the driving range and just basically working on your golf swing. Where I keep talking about this, there's two rooms that you should be living in on the driving range. A room that is technique and then another room that you need to go into that is execution. And I think last week the work that Austin Johnson, DJ's County and I we just said, listen, we're going to try and gamify as much of the practice as we can. For DJ. We're going to try and get him not thinking about his golf swing, not thinking about his technique, think about what he's going to be doing on the golf course. And he had a chance to win and finish top ten. A lot to build on from last week for DJ. But I do think if you could practice like this and start to use your driving range like a big giant playground, use the targets on the driving range, not just for the shape and where it's going, think about are you short or long of it? Are you missing it left or right of it? And then I think that'll help you kind of form a plan when you go to the golf course and say, Okay, I know on the golf course today, I'm going to have a lot of distances I play my game, I'm gonna have a lot of distances between this number and this number for my second shots. I've been practicing these on the golf on the driving range, and I think it will help you lower your handicap, and I think it will help you enjoy your golf better. And I think it's something that you can use and take from the PGA Tour, from DP World, from the Champs, from Live from the LPGA, all the tours around the world. Right, it's very hard for you to swing like the best players in the world, like our heroes. We all struggle with that, right, We'd all love to do that. We'd all love the swing the golf club like Rory McElroy and Scotti Scheffler. We'd all love to swing the golf club like Nellie Corda or Adam Scott. All these beautiful golf swings, but that's not the reality. But what we can do is really have a good understanding as to how far you hit your clubs, and really have a good understanding as to what is your tendency. You tend to be short or do you tend to be long. Is it a contact strike, is it a directional miss, whatever that is, then you can form a plan when you go to the driving range, and you can really make your practice effective, and you can make your practice help affect what's going on on the golf course. So that's just a little insight of what you know I was doing last week with DJ. I think he can help you and give it a try, and I definitely think it'll help. Son of a Butch comes to you most week's rate review. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Can't thank everyone enough for listening. See you next week.

It's the son of a which podcast. I'm your host, Claude Harmon. Just back from three weeks in Asia. Was out at my academy in Bangkok. Really excited about that project. It's a really cool spot. And then Hong Kong and Singapore with Live Dustin Johnson. Did you have a chance to win Singapore last group on Sunday? So that was really really encouraging. But what I want to talk about is some of the stuff that we did in Singapore with DJ that I think is applicable for your game. I'm always trying to figure out how i can use the information that I'm lucky enough to see and hear about and work on tour with, because I do think you can learn some things from what the best players in the world are doing. I did a content shoot and put out some content for Rafsoto, a launch monitor that I think is one of the best on the market, mainly because it's affordable. It's under one thousand dollars. It's something that you can use. But one of the persons in the comment said, hey, I'm not a tour pro, so none of the stuff you're talking about is applicable. And yardages and stuff like that, but I do think that understanding how far you hit the golf ball and understanding what you do on the golf course is massively important. So just to give you a little insight, So obviously on the PGA Tour, they're shot linked data, right, they have some of the best data on the planet, and as a player, as a coach, you can go in and look at the data. You can look at what you're doing, how you're performing, what clubs you're using, things like that, And I think most professional golfers now at the elite level have some sort of stats program that they're either keeping themselves or they have companies using. We do that as well, so we kind of get reports every week on what the golf course strategy should be based off of historical data, based off of what players have done there before. So last week we're in Singapore and at all the data and from a strategy standpoint, the first thing that we noticed is due to the length of the golf course and due to DJ's length, he was only going to really hit five drivers or needed to hit five drivers all week. Yes, he can hit driver on a lot of holes, but the risk versus the reward where the carries are where the troubles are, So we pretty much identified that he was only going to hit five drivers, going to hit drivers on the two par fives, and then there were a couple of other holes that he hit drivers the year before, so we kind of knew he was going to hit five drivers. So that means a lot of three woods off the tees. He carries a nine wood and a seven wood, so a lot of those clubs off of the tees. But really, in looking at all of the data, the majority of the clubs the yardage is that he was going to have, We're going to be from one to twenty five to two twenty five, So for DJ that's right around a pitching wedge, kind of a gap wedge, and up to a five iron. So the majority of the shots he was going to hit, we knew the clubs that he was going to be using pretty much the majority of the round. So what we did was in our practice session we kind of came up with a test. That's Richard Bland, who is just playing some of the best golf of his career in his early fifties. One two majors on the Champs Tour last year, plays on live but Richard's been coming over before some of the tournaments into doing some warm weather training at my place in Florida at the Floridian. His coach Tim Barter comes over sometimes as well. But this year Blandy was over and every week I see him on Live. I see him with a launch monitor, and he's always got a little book out and he's always writing things in a book and stuff. And so he was doing that at my place in the off season, and I went out and I asked him what he was doing. He said, listen, what I've come up with is a wedged test. And what I do is I take twenty balls and I randomize the numbers between eighty and one hundred and thirty yards. Right, you can go on Google type in random number generator. It'll come up and you can put in whatever number you want. Right, you put in fifty to one hundred, you could put twenty five to seventy, whatever it is. So he puts in eighty to one thirty and then hits a number and it spits out a random number. And so the goal of the test, if you think about it, So he's got twenty balls, he's randomizing every single ball. So he doesn't know what the distance is going to be. He can use any club in his bag, and the goal is to have a total score for the twenty balls of forty right. And the idea behind that is two yards either short or long out. So the way you take the test is you randomize the number, and let's say the number is one forty four. You take the club that you think you're going to hit the golf ball one hundred and forty four yards, and whatever the difference is, you write that number down. So, for example, if it's one forty four and you carry it one fifty for that you're write down five and you go through that, and then at the end of the test you add up all of the numbers that you were short or long out, and the goal would be forty right, So two yards out with every single ball. And he says over the last two three years he's been doing this religiously in every practice session he has, right, So it's no surprise that for someone like Richard Bland, who's in his fifties not nearly as long as some of the players, he's going to play against the lowest hanging fruit. And the way that he can really, really score and the way that he can really separate himself from the rest of the field used to be really really good with eighty two, one hundred and thirty. The scoring clubs right your wedges and stuff like that. And he does this test on a regular basis religiously. And I think we are in Adelaide and he told me, hey, I just got twenty nine, and if you hit the number. So let's say the number is one fifteen and you carry the golf ball one fifteen, that's zero, right, So twenty nine is an unbelievable score. And in Hong Kong we did that a couple of times with DJ. DJ got thirty eight. One of the times was doing that with another of the players. I teach Noah Kent, who we're trying. He's going to play in the Masters this year. He'll play in the US Open by finishing second in the Usam. So if you get to the finals of the Usam, you get into the Masters. In the US Open, we've been having Noah do this religiously, trying to get that score down. So last week we basically did the same thing with DJ. We did one twenty five to two twenty five, and we just randomized the numbers and got him to just again get out of technique right. It wasn't him thinking about his golf swing. And I think last week in Singapore, out of all of the years that I've worked with DJs to working with DJ in twenty twelve, I think last week was as little technique work golf swing work that we've ever done. We didn't really talk a lot about his golf swings. Golf swing is in a pretty good place Hong Kong. He finished dead last. A lot of people jumped on the bandwagon on that doesn't care all that bullshit. That's fine, if you want to do that, go for it. Thursday night in Hong Kong, DJ kind of slept wrong and had a rib out and his physio doctor, matt Ort, tried to work on it. Warm up wasn't great. It was on Friday in Hong Kong. It was fifty degrees in raining all day, so Spotty never really loosened up. He got better every day. Bogie the last hole on Sunday could have shot seven under. I think he shot you know, six under, so really good score. So by the time we got to Singapore, I was like listen and by the way for the first two days of that tournament and for the majority of the third round in Hong Kong. For the last ten years, DJ's stock shot has been a fade Thursday and Friday because he couldn't get through the golf ball. When he did try and get through it and try and hit down on it and trying to get that path left, he was unable to do it, so he had to switch to hitting a draw. So he hit a draw for almost two and a half rounds, which isn't his normal shape at all. But we got to Singapore and every single day after the practice rounds Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, we did this test one twenty five to two twenty five and he was choosing the club and we were looking at the difference between what it was, and we were also having him pick out specific targets, right, not just aiming at the middle of the fairway or not just aiming at one target, So not only randomizing the number, but also trying to randomize his aim and having him go through his pre shot routine on every shot, so trying to get him in a game type situation. I've talked about this on the pod before. One of the things that we're always trying to do is instructors. As a coach, what I'm always trying to do is how can I simulate what is going to happen on the golf course for a player on the driving range. So it was something that we did for four days and I think it really helped him. I think it really helped him kind of get into play mode. I think it really kind of got him not thinking so much about his golf swing, so much about his technique, and he had a chance to win shut eight under the first day, was in the last group with wach o'neman on Sunday. Didn't get it done, but a tremendous amount of positive So I think a lot of people say to me, listen, I don't have a launch monitor, so I can't work on my distances. Right, I'm not a tour player, so I can't work on my distances. So maybe try this. Go to the driving range, and every driving range you're going to go to, he's going to have some flags, right, They're going to have target flags, target greens. And if it doesn't have target flags and target greens, it's going to have numbers, right, big scoreboard type numbers, one hundred yards, one hundred and fifty yards whatever, those yards are, right, But most are going to have some sort of green complex and flags on the green. And I think most golfers now have a launch monitor. If you don't have a launch monitor, I mean have a rangefinder. Launch monitors expensive, right, some of the ones the players on the PGA Tour use thirty thousand dollars, fifteen thousand dollars, ten thousand, whatever the numbers. I think launch monitor technology is going down, and I think launch monitors are getting better across the board. That's why I'm a huge fan of rap Sodo. They've got two launch monitors that are I think affordable. If golf is an important part of your life and if you are really really focused and trying to lower your handicap and get better. But if you don't have a launch monitor, if you've got a rangefinder, pick out a bunch of different targets, right, pick out the different yardages and randomize these yardages. Right. Pick out the fifty yard flag and get a number on what that is, and then a seventy five yard flag and one hundred yard flag, one hundred and twenty five hundred whatever, you've got on the golf course. And then if you don't have a launch monitor and you can't tell exactly how far the ball is going, maybe adjust this test and give yourself twenty balls and say, okay, I'm going to try and aim at this specific target, and I'm going to try. If I don't have a launch monitor, I'm going to see if I'm long or short of it and write that down, right, and you choose the club right, So write down the club that you're going to use, the yardage that you're trying to hit it. So let's say you're trying to hit it one hundred yards. You choose the club, write that club that you're going to use down, and then if you're short or long, right, short or long, do that for twenty balls and try to your best ability to randomize all of the numbers, or just pick out one hundred yards, pick out you know, baseline numbers. Pick out a flag that's one hundred yards, pick out a flag that's one hundred and twenty five yards. I think good random numbers. Fifty seventy five, one hundred, one hundred and twenty five, one hundred and fifty right, I think those are good numbers to start with. And again, if you don't have a launch monitor and you can't tell exactly how far it's going, but you have a rangefinder and you say, okay, that target is seventy five yards, you could just do twenty balls and pick out the club that you would use for that distance and then do the test of being either writing down if you're short or long, and then go back in and look at what are the tendencies. So if you've got your sand wedge, if you've got your pitching wedge, if you've got your nine or whatever the club is, figure out if the tendency is to come up long or the tendency is to come up short, right. And some of this you will probably if you're in that mid handicap range, some of it will be contact issues. Right, So yeah, when my contact is bad, I come up way short of the number, right, way short of the flag that I'm trying to hit. In an ideal world, you would want the miss. I think it would be better for the miss to be long then it would be short, because if the miss is long, that's probably going to show you that the contact is pretty good. Right, If the miss is massively short, that's probably going to show you that the contact miss is poor. Then you kind of know what to do off of that. You know two things. You know, if the tendency is from whatever the distance is, if you're short or long, and then you know that if you're consistently short and you're hitting it fat or you're hitting it thin stuff, then you know that's a contact issue. Then you can go and say, okay, let me go work on my technique to improve my contact, the quality of the strike. You know where my weight is, am I taking a divots? There's a million different drills you can do to try and improve contact, But I just think that knowing with the yardages that you've got with sand wedge, pitching wedge, nine iron, eight iron, seven iron, I would work with those clubs and then say, okay, am I short? Do I tend to be short? Do I tend to be long? And then next time you go play golf, write down all the irons that you hit right on every hole. So on the first hole, if you hit the fairway right down the club that you're going to use right, write it down. And then the next hole, obviously, if you don't hit the fairway, you're chipping out right, but then write down the yardage that the range finder tells you it is and the club that you're using, and then figure out if you're short or long, Because then I think what you can do is similar to what we're able to do on the tour level, is we know the data from shot link, from launch monitors, from the companies that we use for strategy. For data, you can then kind of get an idea of Okay, at my home course, I am going to have a lot of these clubs that I'm going to have to hit. I'm going to have to hit a lot of seven irons, eight irons, six irons, five irons, hybrids, whatever the club is. Because then I think it can really help you streamline your practice, and your practice can actually be for something specific that will help you on the golf course as opposed to just what you're trying to do on the range by just getting exercise. Try to then go, okay, let me gamify the way that I practice, Let me randomize my targets, let me randomize my numbers so that I can then figure out what's happening on the golf course. And I think you'll get a good idea of some trends of what's happening. Most of us play our home course on a regular basis, so you want to know the clubs that you're going to be using the most on your home course, right, And it's simple. Not everybody has a launch monitor, right, Not everybody has access to the data that we've got. But I think most driving ranges can give you a lot that you can use to help your game. Invest in a rangefinder and then go out and say, okay, let me pick a bunch of random targets, are random yardages and go from there. And then one of the things that you can do is gamify the driving range, right, and say, okay, I'm going to try and pretend I'm playing on the golf course. So pick a driver, take your driver out, use some targets on the driving range, use kind of design a fairway for yourself. Use poles, you can use trees, you can use flags, and say, okay, I'm gonna choose a flag or a tree or a pole on the left, and then I'm gonna choose a flag or a pole or a tree on the right hand side. That's my fairway. And what I've got to do is I've got to get the golf ball into the fairway and then randomize, use that random number generator you can get on Google and say, okay, now I've got to hit a club. The number says one sixty five. Okay, what is my one sixty five club? And then see if you can find a target that is somewhere around that distance and then hit an iron shot. You choose the club and figure out if you're short or long, and then do that a bunch of different times. Pick out a bunch of different fairways, create your own fairways, pick out a bunch of numbers that you know that you're gonna have on the golf course, that you know that you need to hit, and just see if you're able to have good distance control. I don't think it takes a tremendous amount of money. I don't think it takes a lot of the stuff that we use on tour. Think of the driving range as a playground, right as a massive playground, and you're just going to try and use your driving range your home course to try and help you on the golf course. But I think if you can start writing down the irons that you're using, whatever you're using, maybe you're using a lot of hybrids on the golf course. Maybe you're using a lot of long irons on the golf course. But I think if you can start to see the trends of the clubs that you're using, I think it can be hugely beneficial for you to then know what to practice as opposed to just going to the driving range and just basically working on your golf swing. Where I keep talking about this, there's two rooms that you should be living in on the driving range. A room that is technique and then another room that you need to go into that is execution. And I think last week the work that Austin Johnson, DJ's County and I we just said, listen, we're going to try and gamify as much of the practice as we can. For DJ. We're going to try and get him not thinking about his golf swing, not thinking about his technique, think about what he's going to be doing on the golf course. And he had a chance to win and finish top ten. A lot to build on from last week for DJ. But I do think if you could practice like this and start to use your driving range like a big giant playground, use the targets on the driving range, not just for the shape and where it's going, think about are you short or long of it? Are you missing it left or right of it? And then I think that'll help you kind of form a plan when you go to the golf course and say, Okay, I know on the golf course today, I'm going to have a lot of distances I play my game, I'm gonna have a lot of distances between this number and this number for my second shots. I've been practicing these on the golf on the driving range, and I think it will help you lower your handicap, and I think it will help you enjoy your golf better. And I think it's something that you can use and take from the PGA Tour, from DP World, from the Champs, from Live from the LPGA, all the tours around the world. Right, it's very hard for you to swing like the best players in the world, like our heroes. We all struggle with that, right, We'd all love to do that. We'd all love the swing the golf club like Rory McElroy and Scotti Scheffler. We'd all love to swing the golf club like Nellie Corda or Adam Scott. All these beautiful golf swings, but that's not the reality. But what we can do is really have a good understanding as to how far you hit your clubs, and really have a good understanding as to what is your tendency. You tend to be short or do you tend to be long. Is it a contact strike, is it a directional miss, whatever that is, then you can form a plan when you go to the driving range, and you can really make your practice effective, and you can make your practice help affect what's going on on the golf course. So that's just a little insight of what you know I was doing last week with DJ. I think he can help you and give it a try, and I definitely think it'll help. Son of a Butch comes to you most week's rate review. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Can't thank everyone enough for listening. See you next week.