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- Right now we are in Bradenton, Florida.
There are people here from all over the world:
football players, soccer players, Olympic sports.
Those look like baseball players,
just finishing up their day.
Here to specialize on their sport.
On the physical, on the mental.
You have to always work on your craft and get better.
And this is the place IMG Academy.
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- This is the check-in for Lincoln's summer camp.
And to be fully transparent,
we've actually been here for a few days.
And after watching what Lincoln has been doing,
I thought we have to show everybody
what this place is all about,
because I don't think there's anywhere
in the world that is as good of a camp as this place.
- Yeah.
- Every day I have a one on one session.
- Oh, there's a lot of bays in here and clubs everywhere.
- On Friday I'm gonna be in here, with the, the putters.
Someone's gonna be coaching me on that.
And then this is actually really cool.
This measures where your weight is.
- And they have everything.
They've got a TrackMan like we have in our house,
but then cameras that film your swing,
a ton of driver heads, three wood heads,
everything in here so that they can do fittings.
Everything is turned off right now.
But there's a lot of training tools
and a lot of things inside of here.
- This is where they store all the golf clubs.
They lock it up and nightly, nobody's here, obviously,
but there is a lot of clubs in there.
- It's kind of nice to be able to store your clubs in here.
- Yeah.
- And not have to carry 'em back to your dorm.
- I just left my shoes here too.
- I was on manual focus that entire time.
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- This is the range.
Really great range.
A lot of really good targets.
Like especially these ones that you can see the,
the little metal IMG ones. Those ones are really fun.
'cause you hit 'em, they're very loud.
This is a really, really good range.
And during the time of the summer camp, you're not
allowed to go on the grass, because they want to save it
for when the school starts back in the session
and all the year round students have grass to hit on.
So we typically just hit off the mats,
but what's really nice about this part of the range,
is that it's all covered, which is awesome,
because it is so hot here right now.
Like it, it's probably like what, like 95,
but the humidity here ...
never sweat more in my life for the last couple days.
- Somehow Lincoln stays out here all day, every day.
Now, if you come to a camp in the off season,
there's six months where the weather is perfect here
in Florida.
And then also the springtime is really nice.
We just happen to come right during the hottest time
of the year because it worked out.
But even then, it's still really nice to be able to come
out here and hone in your game all day, every day with a lot
of other people here.
So fancy, whoa, that was a fancy do that tricky move again.
Do they teach you that here?
- They did not.
- Wow.
- So this is the front of the range.
That's all covered, but there also is the back of the range.
And that's where I was most of the day today.
So this is definitely my favorite part
about these practice facilities
is these two chipping greens.
They are so good.
They have so many pins, so much slope
and elevation change and something that we don't really have
in Utah very much is these elevated greens.
And it's really tough if you miss the green, just barely,
your ball will roll all the way down to the bottom
and then you'll have a tough chip going up the hill.
- Can he stick it close?
It's not easy
Unless your name's Lincoln.
And then it's super easy.
- Good shot.
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- Like it
- Look at that. First try.
That is real sweat on my face.
That's what you get when you're in Florida.
It's really funny in YouTube videos
'cause I'll go back and watch videos.
And it's hard to tell really what the humidity
and the heat was like.
And it's like that in golf tournaments too.
You watch 'em on TV and you're like,
why are they sweating so much?
Why are they struggling?
Well, 'cause it's hot and it's humid.
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- Hey buddy.
- Why don't you come and help me. I can't get this thing.
- Cause I like watching you be a big boy and do it yourself.
I don't think I've ever seen this big
of a grasshopper in my life.
Look down.
- Whoa
- Look at that thing.
- Florida has some weird animals.
- There's so many animals that are insects,
but we call them animals 'cause they're so ginormous.
Look at the size of that.
It's hard to tell.
This is where Lincoln spends most of his time as a golfer
both indoors and outdoors, but he also goes
and works out, and they do physical training,
core strengthening, mental strengthening.
And that's at a different building
that I gotta show you next.
One of the great things about IMG Academy
is they are sponsored by Gatorade, and it isn't just that
you get free drinks everywhere that you're at with Gatorade,
but they also have the Gatorade Sports Science Institute.
When Lincoln was here five years ago,
Hey buddy, go hang out with your friends
at the driving range.
I'll miss you.
Goodbye.
- Dad!
Hahahaha
- His teacher told him about Rory McIlroy,
and supposedly he had come here a while ago.
And what they found is that on hole 15
his nutrition wasn't sufficient for his athletic needs.
Golf is a long sport.
You're out there for hours.
It's also a very mental sport.
And if you get fatigued and tired and mentally tired,
because your body doesn't have the nutrition that it needs,
that's the point where you could miss hit a shot
or miss a putt. And that could be the difference
between winning and losing a tournament.
They came up with a nutrition plan
for during his round for what he drinks, what he eats,
what he snacks on throughout the entire round.
So that mental and physical fatigue
hopefully doesn't hit as hard,
and he can perform at his peak performance.
That's something that they work in
for the students and the campers that come here:
they help identify what you need
for your peak performance.
Every day there's all kinds of one-on-one lessons
and different things that Lincoln goes and does.
But just to give you an example,
this one is called mind gym.
- When you're not playing your best, right?
When things aren't going your way.
And even if it's not your swing
if it's whatever it is, you're frustrated out there.
Do you feel like you get probably more upset when you play?
Like when you're not playing well?
So what I want you to do
I'm gonna give you a few different post-it notes,
and I want you to think
about thoughts that you have
when you're not playing your best golf.
K. Now what I'm gonna do is
- Same time?
- Same time.
- Nope.
- There you go. Quick hands. That's alright.
There you go. Eyes in the middle.
Good job.
This is all growth right here man.
Yep. Good.
- 37, 38, 39...
- 40, 41
- 47
- 42
- And they're gonna pop up pretty quick.
Okay. As they change colors, that's a warning for you.
Try to recognize.
Yep.
- A lot of the things that he did
were really interesting tasks,
but at the end of the day,
all of it was to kind of help him to focus
on the things that you can control, and all the other stuff,
don't worry about it.
Just focus on what's important
and don't have those negative thoughts come in.
And the person that helped us there, the teacher,
the coach, super smart psychology major
from university of Tennessee.
He knows what he is talking about,
and it was incredibly helpful.
So, awesome class.
I wish it was, like, five hours long,
but it was fun to sit and watch Lincoln.
I wasn't here most of the week.
It was just Lincoln doing his camp. His golf shoes?
He wore a hole in the bottom.
The inside of his shoes, wore a hole in them.
And I think it has to do something
with the heat and the humidity.
But yeah, he hasn't even been able to wear golf
shoes the last two days 'cause it hurts his foot so much.
And these are FootJoy shoes that he wears
that are some of the best in golf.
This humidity does something to you.
- It really does.
I went back and watched some of our older videos
which you guys can do.
We'll link them in the description.
And it was also kind of a little bit sad realizing
that days of summer camp are coming to an end.
He's gonna be a junior in high school this year,
and then probably won't go to a camp next summer,
'cause that's the last summer before your senior year.
And it's been fun to see the growth
from being a little guy to today.
So now that camp is over, one week of camp,
Orlando is only two hours away.
We're gonna go up and go to Disney
or universal, and spend one really, really fun day.
So there's Lincoln's summer golf camp and yes, that means
for all of you that are school age,
school is actually coming
because summer is almost over.
So get ready for school.
Summer's over.
(kids calling out and laughing)