Oh, there it is. Awesome.
There you go. Look at that. Yeah. Whoa,
everyone, Shawn Sav & Mu. And man, do we have a treat for you today We are paying homage to the
great short game artist that is Phil Mickelson. You saw our little intro there, right And that's
our cheap imitation of the master at work, but it is something that is really cool for you
to picture and do for yourself. And we're going to show you how using this simple grass whip will
really make you understand how to hit the perfect flop shot in any situation. Stay tuned
But of course, before we start, we would love for you to join us and subscribe to
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hit that notification bell. So you don't miss any videos. Notice I got the mic first things first,
you need to know how this puppy works. Now the golf club, especially the lob wedge
is a grass-cutting tool. It's a gardening tool first and foremost. So let's have a
look first and foremost, how this works with a regular ball and tee. All right,
you guys step over here. So if I take a ball and a short tee and I put it in the grass right here,
and I take my grass whip and I'm going to
whip it through the T. So notice the grasps on the ground. It's my full-time job is to cut grass.
I'm just going to whip this tool along the surface of the grass. When I do that,
see how the ball stays right there. That is exactly how a flop shot works. So if we look at
I'm on my slope here, and what I want to do is I want to whip the grass whip through the dandelion
stem and my eyes are on the grass between the whip and the ball. I'm not trying to hit the ball. I'm
trying to cut the grass, at ground level. Notice I cut the grass right out from underneath,
and the ball just rolls off the slope. So once you know how this works and you know how to
master that shot, you're simply cutting the dandy line stem. And then we just take the golf club,
which is the high wedge and the leading edge of that club. That's why you want a low bounce wedge.
You know, as fills a lob, the wedge is normally 10 to eight to 10 degrees, and it's got the back
of the sole of the club ground out. So it's very easy when he set it down and you want
to cut through the dandelion stem, see that. So my club is in the center. My ball is forward.
I see the leading edge ready to cut through the stem and notice how easy it is. And you see how
lovely that ball takes off. But my attention is not on putting the ball to the face. My
attention is taking the sole of the club through the stem of the dandelion. So I'm literally
sawing through the stem of the dandelion in the direction. I want that ball to
go. So if you look down the line and we do the same thing, most of you are thinking,
Hey, when I open up the face, the ball's going to go more to the right for the right-handed player.
That's not true if I have an open face chip, and you've seen this in the past,
there's my intermediate point. If I'm doing a normal chip, it'll look like that. Notice
it's going straight out. If I do an open face chip, I'm going to set up, normally
turn the face, open 45 degrees. And all I'm going to do is cut through the dandelion stem.
Notice the ball never went to the right that's because there's too much loft. And if I
stay on my path, the ball will go straight. So I'm doing the same thing with my flop shot.
I'm going to take it in that direction right there. So I'm playing the club in the center
ball forward, and now I'm sending my momentum in the direction of that intermediate point. The ball
landed right behind that intermediate point. So now when you get to this particular shot,
what I want to do is cut the dandelion stem up the slope.
So I'm seeing a stem to cut and I'm staying up the slope with my cut and notice it doesn't go very
far. Does it So now I'm going back this way for, you know, and feels a lot better at that than me.
and you probably Duffin in the bunker, but he saw a way to take it. Cause he all that room under
the lip of the bunker whips it up the lip of the bunker and then drives it backward. And now the
ball is coming from a much higher position, land soft, and he scoots it pretty close to the pin.
Okay. Let's see how our local lefties can do on this one. So move, going to start off with
cutting through the dandelion stem. So your eyes are on the grass
and you're just going to cut through the T and let the ball fall to the ground.
All right. Now the feel that you're looking for is
that notice you kind of caught the ground before the ball. Yeah. So you want to feel the speed
out here past the T. Okay. So show me how you're going to cut through the T. Yes, exactly. Yeah.
Not bad. So yeah, I know it's gonna, it's good. The toe is going to bottom out. Pretty
good. Cause you got a lot of velocity, so yeah. So just use a little bit of velocity.
Just let the arms fall through that tee. Okay. There feel that. Yeah. Awesome. So you noticed
how you cut the legs out from under the ball. That's what we call the, you know,
you hear the commentator say that on the, on the, on the tour all, all the time. So if we take that
to the slope here, there's your dandy line. Okay. Yes. So set up, line it up with the slope plate a
little bit more back in the stance. Okay. That's forward. There we go. Now, do you see the stem
to cut Do you feel like you're following the slope Right Good? Let it cut up the slope.
Superb. Superb. So this is the ball hanging on the lip here. You got your lob wedge now.
So you open up the face. Plenty more. Yeah. Hands forward. Okay. There you go. So you feel
like you're whipping up the slope through the stem. Good. Let momentum with it up the slope.
Awesome. That was just a little off the toe there, but just a little bit, but your swing was
perfect. Notice. Notice how you follow the slope perfectly. Yeah. Oh, dude. That was a great swing
hand forward. Yeah. Open the face more. That's it cut right through that. The stem
is backward. It goes awesome. Nice job salve. Hey, you go.
Ditto. Whoa. Oh my gosh. She could have chopped somebody's head off.
I can't wait to see that and stop action. Wow. Oh, that is hilarious. We should,
we should do that as the first scene. Yeah, that was fun. Okay. So you're good with that.
So we won't, we won't tempt fate any more than that. Okay. Right on cue. Look at that. So all
well it's a mini one. Yeah. But imagine if the green was right here that a trickled perfectly
onto the green. So now just add more momentum up that hill. Give it a nice sling up the hill.
Awesome. You like the mini ones I want to try one more.
Hey, how about that
So we hope you enjoyed this special edition of Phil Mickelson for the flop shot. And we hope to
enjoy Phil for many more years to come stay tuned for, the second half of this video, where we talk
about the longevity and how we predicted back in 2016, when Phil made the change to his new coach,
how he opened up his swing and removed all the restrictions in his swing
and started free-flowing some more. And that led to way more longevity. Of course, his
so-called diet that he's not enjoying so much. If you, if you saw the interviews and
in, in the recent win, you could see that he's still struggling with that, but I can attest that
36 hours fast, really helps the joints big time. So enjoy the second half. We'll see you next week.
And so maybe he and Bran Brandell had a little conversation because he's talking about
how, you know, the modern swing is wrapped up in a back brace.
And we completely agree with that here at wisdom in golf. And we have been teaching a strain-free,
free-flowing swing for over 20 years now. And when we look back because of the anatomy of the human
body, we had to look back and, you know, from the 19 hundreds, through the 1960s to find the best
that respected human anatomy, Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen,
you know, Byron Nelson, Sam Snead, Jack Nicholas in his prime in the sixties and seventies is he
moved beautifully with this. So I want you to put your attention to the part of the spine here
between the pelvis and the rib cage. And you'll notice here as the sacrum, this is your tailbone.
And every vertebra starting with the sacrum has a built-in stopper in it called a Fossette joint.
And the Fossette joint is to prevent the vertebrae on top of that one from spinning out.
If it spins out, cut your spinal cord, you're in big trouble. These are the protectors of
your health. Okay So now this is not meant to twist here. It's a buffer zone in case
you make a wrong move at some particular point, it's not made to torque up. So now
if you resist with the lower body, you got your legs and your pelvis here, and you're,
you're really trying to hold on with the legs and prevent the legs from turning well,
the leg is the hip, you know, the hip bones connected to the leg bone, and we know how
that song goes. Well, it's all, it's a whole domino effect. We're dealing with the whole body.
We're not dealing with a sum of body parts. Okay So you never go body part thinking when you're
playing golf, you always want to, you know, swing with a whole-body experience. Always. So now,
since this is not going to give, if you coil this up against this, all you're going to do is
ring out the tissue between each facet joint. And you're going to create a premature deterioration
of that spine for absolutely nothing. And for those of you out there who think that
by the way more powerful, and the guys have sure, you know, they're looking at shorter,
careers right now, but they think they can perform better. That's all horse hockey.
Okay. We're not built that way. And thank goodness we have, some very like-minded
individuals right now in a spotlight that is going to really shed some light on the situation.
We're there to back them up big time. Okay. So that's not going to turn these coils against
this you're in trouble. So don't do that. So that's why we talk about if you look at,
you know, we've, we've had some conversations of Bubba Watson. And if you look at Phil Mickelson
in his prime, when he first got on in the scene coming out of college golf,
he had narrow stance feet were towed, open, headed, huge backswing with the lead knee coming
behind the ball. It was awesome. He actually had both feet solid on the ground. He was already set.
Okay. So there was no nip and tuck needed. There was just, Hey, where am I going And how am I going
to get there And I'm going to feel this. And we're just going to perfect. The art of finding targets.
So now thank goodness. You know, I think, Phil, speaking this way, just elongated his career well
into the champions tour. Whereas other players are not as lucky other players are already struggling
with back problems way before their midfield. I want to release to the target and, and this, this,
you can start doing at any time in your career, right So we can just allow the body to fully turn
in the backswing. So how does that work Well, the best way to go about it is to think about,
you know, when you're going bowling, all of you have bowled before I'm going to
take my kettlebell right here. And you'll notice that the shoulders only have 20 degrees range
on top of that rib cage. They don't have 90 degrees of range that doesn't exist.
So when you're using rib Cajun pelvis on top of the hips, your hips are the ball socket system.
That's right where the turntable is. The turntable is not in your vertebrae. They're not built for
turning. They're built for staying secure. And to have that beautiful central nervous system
are on all cylinders. You start kinking up that thing, and then you're going to reduce performance
everywhere in the body. So I want to take this kettlebell. Let's say I'm bowling with two arms
and I'm going to bowl towards you. Well, if I don't remove my body out of the way, all I'm going
to do is crash arms into my rib cage. So what I want to do is allow my left arm full freedom
into the backswing. So don't let the left arm hit you going back and don't let the right arm hit you
coming through. So notice my right arm is free to go. That way. My left arm is free to go that way.
So when you remove the obstacles and you say, okay, all I'm going to do is not let my arm
hit me. So you see what happens. The legs start actively participating in your swing
without you thinking about it. And that's, you are your own self-preservation system. You know,
we've, we have some evolutionary experts here at wisdom and golf that tell us that, Hey, we've been
around for two and a half to 4 million years. And there's a reason for that is like, we're gravity,
geniuses. If I'm skipping a stone on water, I'm going to take the stone and skip it out there. The
first thing that's going to happen is the brain is going to go get the ground and it's going to use
the ground to get the body out of the way. So I have access to my target. Well, there's my ball.
There's my stone. Throw the stone into the ball. Well, I don't have to shift my
weight or clear my hips. I'm already facing the target. So now, if that's your target,
and then you'll see a beautiful video I did with my daughter called be savvy with your chest.
This will get you the wherewithal. As far as whether you're a man or a woman,
you have to have access for those arms to freely. So, you know, the, the tour players are being much
more aware of that. They're more Stu to that, but Bubba Watson's played that way. His whole life,
Tom Watson could be a poster boy for what we teach here at wisdom and golf.
And, and the list goes on haler. When you got to check this guy out, why do you think he's got 45
wins on the senior or the champions tour and Bernard Langer is not going to catch him. So
the longevity has a purpose. Tom Watson, you know, did not, did not play, did not finish
in only four events in 40 years. What does that tell you So Phil's on the right track brand was
on the right track. Peter Costas is talking about the same thing and the list is starting to grow
pretty significantly. And, it's, it's all, you know, revolving around what we do. And so if you
really want to learn how this works and you want to instill it in your own system, give us a call.