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well uh how often does that happen to you
a blow-up hole especially on the first hole
that's like the worst thing ever or the last hole but either way
they're going to happen the question we're going to have to ask
and answer today is how do we deal with the blow up hole how do we handle
it what do we do what's our mindset i'm gonna give you the keys so you can
recover and salvage around even though
you just took an 11. on the first hole oh and it was expensive like how many
balls did we lose too many so
here's what we got to do
all right tip number one and you better get this one down or uh nothing's gonna
work you're just gonna have to accept the
fact that it happened okay it happened it's over with it's done
you're gonna have to move on so mentally you're just gonna have to laugh it off
if you're angry and you're throwing clubs
uh get in your car go home because you're gonna have a horrible day
so just know hey dude deal with it this will test your adversity and you
will find out what kind of person you really are
when you have to deal with the fact that you just took an 11 on the first hole
but if you run tuck your tail between your legs and go home and cry like a
little baby or throw clubs on the course and have a temper tantrum
then uh you get problems you have to work that out okay
so laugh it off deal with your character now
because that is a character issue and it's a good thing
so accept it then if you once you accept that
laugh it off say all right let's deal with it let's see who what kind of
person i really am inside then you can move on to the rest of the
steps but if you if you can't accept that
forget it shut off the video go home you know take a nap but if
you're here and you want to persevere we'll get you through this and you'll
have a great rest of the round
huh
all right so after you move past the mental hurdle
that uh you're just gonna have to deal with it and you're gonna have a good
attitude no matter what then you can do this and i think it's a
good thing when that blow-up hole is first on the list because now you get to
transition your game into something else so you can pick
a number of different ways you want to play today
so you can say okay cool i'm gonna practice my game
right it's gonna be practice day and i'm gonna work on different things but then
you actually have to do that so that would be one i'm gonna try to
miss every green i'm gonna try to hit it in the bunkers
i'm going to try to come up short and work on my short game and practice my
chipping so you can do that that is one way to
say okay i'm going to switch my game it kinda only works if
it's on the first hole okay so if it's on any other hole and
you having a great round but then you have
the blow-up hole then what you want to do
is focus on this what i'm going to do is now the next hole i'm really going to
focus on a shot to play and i did that on the last tee box i
said okay i'm going to play a little cut shot work it back towards the middle of
the fairway hit a great shot and paid off got a par okay now here
same thing i'm going to pick a shot that i'm going to play and
that's all i'm going to focus on just try to play a
specific shot here i'm going to play it at that tree down there with the touch
draw this time just a little draw take my hybrid something i can actually
do that with consistently
okay not my greatest swing of my life however it did draw kind of drop kicked
it and drew it which is fine so what i'm trying to do
is this the goal now is when i leave i don't want to
remember the 11 right i want to remember me playing
shots because when i go to sleep tonight i
want to have something positive to think about not oh man i did so good
until i blew up if i didn't have that blow up hole oh i
would have shot a great round no i want to go to bed thinking man that
little dry plate on the third hole i was i was sweet how about that little punch
draw under the trees and that was a good shot
how about this shot how about that shot that's what i want to remember because
that's what's going to help me but if i'm focused on all the negative
stuff and that one hole that one hole where i
made a couple bad swings remember you just made a two bad swings
something like that and it ruined your day that shouldn't happen
it just so happens you compounded everything and had all your
let's say your bad swings were all in a row and
that's the the sad part about this so now i have another shot here
and again i'm gonna play a low punch draw i kind of have to because i'm
you know kind of pulled it down here and i'm going to punch draw it around
and again i just want to focus on the things i do well today
not the things i do bad so that's just step
three two step two of how to recover from blow up holes
is start picking shots so that i have stuff to remember later on
okay so the next tip we'll call it number five no number four
i think wherever we are so every tee shot you're
playing a shot right uh and wherever you are you're playing a
shot but every shot to the green like here i'm
hitting to a par three okay i'm all you want to think about is where
do i want to putt from so it's hard to see pins kind
of center right so i want to putt and i know this green
so i want to put just left of the hole is going to give me
kind of that uphill putt so that's what i want to do and all i want
to think about is now i'm focusing see i'm shifting my
mind from score to
you know strategy and that's i mean you should have been doing that from the
beginning but hey you have a blow-up hole now you need
all the tricks in the book to shift your mind away from the 11 and
on to uh gameplay strategy something that's
going to help you get out of your own way let's say right so i want to put
left to the hole that's and so i'm not thinking swing i'm
not thinking like oh there's something wrong with me
i'm thinking golf shot put it where i need to be
so go figure on a 220 yard par 3 i am a little bit long
a little bit left of the hole but i didn't freak out
on the tee box with a long hole with a hybrid in my hand
all i focused on was where i wanted to put the ball and i actually put it left
of the hole like exactly where i wanted to it's a little
long so i have a birdie putt on a tough part
three because i had the right mindset now if i'm thinking like oh man i can't
bogey another hole because my whole life will be ruined that would
have messed up my golf swing instead confident swing great result
and a good a good look at birdie
one more tip for you to uh deal with the blow-up holes
it's not how to avoid blow-up holes because you're going to have them care
who you are this is how you deal with them uh one
there's two parts to this last step one is subscribe to the channel
because we're gonna get you fixed up and you're gonna know
uh what i'm talking about in terms of uh the other advice i'm giving
plus you're going to have less blow up holes if you subscribe to the channel
plus you're uh you'll you'll play better it's
easy the other one is what we're gonna do is
you're inevitably going to have to hit another drive
it's going to be a tight driving hall it's going to be risky you don't want
another blow-up hole so here is what we're going
to do you're going to have to have your go-to
swing okay not necessarily your go-to shot but your go-to swing
so for me i'm going to take that drive i'm going to aim a little bit kind of at
that bunker down there and i'm going to cut play a little cut
shot swing okay just something i know i've got the fairway binder
and that's what i'm going for smooth swing
most of us when we have a blow up hole soon after that we start swinging out of
our boots we don't want to do that okay we want to
be able to have a controlled swing so go to your
controlled shot and then what you're going to do is
you're going to just focus on stopping your swing
or your backswing i don't want your hands to go above
your shoulder okay don't get them up here because that's gonna be an
overswing so that's gonna be your key hands at the shoulder and let it go and
what we're gonna try to do is hit it short not far okay and then
as the round progresses you can go a little bit farther each time but
it's controlled swing fairway finder shorter shorter try to hit it
like you know maybe three-quarter your normal distance
it's really going to help
so great although this is a par 5 i found the fairway so that's fantastic
i'm normally like 20 30 yards up farther so
that's fine so i'm not going to hit a 3 wood here i'm going to hit a hybrid
lay it up again and just slowly work my swing speed
back up to 185 90 percent not 100 that's you know super wide fairway
but here it's just you know i'm working my mind back so
this would be kind of similar type of swing to the driver and let's see
how we uh how we finish this hole you know it's a long uphill par five
whatever march away step by step
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