You are listening to the golf Science Lab podcast. My name is Corey Walker, and I'm on a mission to figure out how to improve the way that we learn and get better at golf. I've been able to travel all over the world talking to the leaders in the industry from instructors, to researchers, to Golfers themselves learning how they're getting better at golf and what that means for you. Hey everyone. Welcome down to a new mini series of the next three days.
We are going to dive into some game management coaching to get. You started in the right direction and some mindsets and tactics for this season. In the past, we've had on some experts like Mark, Brody Scott faucet who brought some clarity around statistics and some Concepts. And today we're getting some coaching. We're getting some some coaching from someone who really knows how to help people, shoot lower scores. His name is Will Robbins. He's a great friend of mine.
And I always enjoy sitting down to talk with him and learn from him. He is serious about helping golfers lower scores and he is good at it. You might have seen him from his program called the scoring method and I wanted to have them on over the next three days to drop some knowledge. Give us some practical info and then some homework. So, we could go out and actually take action. So this is three days to lower scores. Let's get into day one.
Make sure to subscribe wherever you're listening to this so that you can catch these next three days. Let's get to it. Well, you're the expert coach at helping us lose shots off our scorecard and over the next three days, you're going to teach us some of the best methods around course, management and strategy to help us lower those scores. So day, one, I know of a specific thing. You want to talk about where we going, we've just got to get rid of blow up Pulse.
We've got to stop watching golf on a Sunday and thinking that all professional golfers me. Make birdies and that's what we need to do. More of and start to realize that really what it's all about is keeping the big numbers off the off of the scorecard just plain and simple.
And you know, it's really fun at that Ascot five set, remember back to one of his Workshop or something saying that tiger lowered his scoring average one-year and he lowered his scoring average by having less birdies actually, instead of having more birdies like, you think he had less birdies, but he had less double bogeys and he just won the Masters by having no. The Bogies and another gentleman had two double bogeys on the back, nine and lost the Masters
mr. Molinari, so yeah, I mean, it's not glorified, right? And people don't really want to hear it. But the fact is, is that if you can get rid of the big numbers, then it's not that hard just to keep on making pars bogeys, you know, with your handicap and keep yourself around, you know, the scores you want to shoot and I think it always comes from the tee shot. I think that most of us have been just program called ET C'est par for par 5 driver. They will grab a drive.
And we Don't think about okay? How's the driver been going that day, or how tight is this whole or where's the trouble? We just assume that because it's a long hole. We need to go out there and hit driver. And the fact is, is that what we've got to do? Is number one, rule is at all cost, keep the ball in play. If your drivers are shredders Club, hit it. But if you can't, if he's worried about keeping the ball in play, with that club, I prefer to be 200 yards out than
taking three off the tee. How, you know? So the fact is is that it all With your selection of club and how aggressive your playing offer the tea box. But we'll mark, Brody says it. We need to hit it as far as we possibly can. And this is the best thing the
other day. So on our scoring method page, I see Sylvia my assistant even posted someone said, but we'll mark Brody says in all every shot counts get it as far down as possible and so I she posted the video of Mark Brody saying and me asking him Mark. So many of my players tell me hey I meant to get the ball as far as too close to the green. His specific words are No, you have to get the ball as close as you can safely to the green without losing a golf ball or
out getting a penalty. So yes, you want to extend your go to Club if that's a for hybrid or a 6-iron. You want to get to a five iron or a three hybrid and try and get it from 190 yards to 210 yards, but the minute you bring in Risk, bunkers, Hazard, trees, rough water. You can't play that shot. So if anybody's interested in that quarry, somehow we need to send them to their, yes, for a method, Facebook page and watch that video of Mark.
Brody saying exactly. Clear that and me going like, thank you, Mark. That's the from the, from the mouth of the man who created that book in his so knowledgeable. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. So the mindset shift that we need to make as like, okay yes we obviously want to hit it as far as we possibly can as close to the green as we possibly can. But we can't do that if we're risking hitting in the woods and the water etc etc. Choose smarter clubs, choose
smarter aiming points. Yeah. You will favorite Club. I mean just pick your favorite club that you can get off the the tea and the fact about this is it's actually probably easier to learn how to hit the next Club down, then it is to be patient enough to go ahead and actually take out your go to Club because we've all been so pattern to go into the driver or 3-wood as a layup compared to what is the club that can kill put it in play every hole.
And so I would challenge everybody out there is like just try it for one round of golf, you know, go out there for one round of golf and see if you can keep the ball. In play. And that means no chipping out sideways. No penalty shots. No. It doesn't have to be a lost ball. It could be in a hazard that you play from well. Okay. The fact is is that has it should be full of water. Maybe it's dry right now. Keep the ball in play at all costs and just see how patient you have to be.
It is it is a true challenge of how patient these two players are the playing. You know, us opens and Masters are just they just they always a playing the shot that they know they can pull off even though they have the ability to pull off other ones. So cable or positive get the
T-shirt. The other thing that you know, from hanging out with you, that you've helped me understand is with the short game, almost of emphasizing getting it on the green and making sure you're making a bogey verse trying to hit you know the perfect chip or Flop shot and bringing double bogey into play. I know it seems kind of dumb and lame but like honestly that is helped quite a bit. Make sure that you lock in Bogey and eliminate the double bogeys.
Exactly. And you see to a plays do this, you'll see at the US Open, you'll see it. The oh, Couldn't you see the PGA Championship in a few weeks where they'll fly it over a bunker? And I mean, even tiger at Augusta, right? He aims the right on hole 18 because he knew if he hit it harder, it would roll back down the hill, but if he aims to the left, it come back off the green.
So the best players in the world, know how to play patient, play away from trouble and so taking out the riskiest shot which is, you know, flipping it over the bunker or trying to land on a little knoll on the green.
You've really got to be thinking like if I'm on the green and I to part-time down in three Well if you kept the ball in play off the Tee Box and you've Advanced it down, short of the green and you trip it on the green and 2pi, you've made a bogey and I don't care if you say, well, I'm a to handicap or I'm a +3 or I'm a pro, take out double bogeys and you going to be a better
golfer, that's a fact. And so the way I help golfers to understand this court has always has to tell them that this is just first gear. I'm not this coach, it's going to tell you, Hey listen, you got to hit 60, not the teeth, the rest of your life. It's learn how to play the game of golf in first gear, and then develop second gear and third. And there are some holes wide-open bomb driver, but when you get to those tougher, holes shift, it down into first gear
and just get it around. And I think that if you look at it that way, it helps the sort of the ego to go, okay? I'm just going to do this because its first Kia but I'm not moving into play in third or fourth. Brilliant but know how to shift down into first gear and if you don't know how to do that, well, if you don't, if it's a professional, if you don't have to do that, those players will
never win a major. It was when Phil, Phil Mickelson side to keep the ball on the ground, play more passive that he started Wing Majors. He had less birdies but less blow up. Poles and the anyone wins goes off from Windsor terrible, you know.
Yeah, no I think you're right on there it you know I'm a like a one or two handicap or something like that and you know you might be thinking that's silly, not trying to chip it within three feet every time, but honestly, it's a huge shift that that has helped me and then off the tee, that's a huge thing as well. So we're limiting those blowup holes, the homework for this week that you want to give people.
What is that with? I would start with go out and play golf for 18 holes and see if you can just keep it in play. For 18 holes, no matter what. Say, at the end of it. Listen, if I do it, the end of it will Robbins owes me, 100 bucks, right? In the make a challenge out of it, right? So, it's something something worthwhile, or you buy yourself a nice be. I'm sure you will prefer to get a hundred bucks off of me. But the fact is, is that you, you know, just do that.
And then I challenge all my players to do it for 72 holes. And the crazy thing is, every single time I do it, they say, to me, well, I thought you were stupid. I do it. Didn't make any sense. I went out there. I played the most relaxed. Simple stress-free for rounds, and I shots the Scores that I normally shoot but I didn't show any high scores.
Yeah. Because you took off the pressure, you took out the blow-up holes and when you take off the pressure and you actually start to execute the shots better because you're not stressing out, trying to drive on how you shouldn't. So I would challenge you to 72 holes and I would love to see it. You know, they can is the best way you called me for them to reach out, to go to the scoring method, Facebook page, or something to make comments, or how can I measure?
Yeah, that's the way they can get in touch with you. Their love to see, you know, reach out to me on Facebook or messenger, but just love to hear your thoughts. And feedback because it just it amazes me, whether I'm working with a scratch golfer or someone shooting 100, how relaxed they become, when they play the game of golf when they're playing and learning how to play in first gear.
And just to clarify this on those 18 holes at 72 whores, you have to have like a clear shot to the green on every hole. Is that what qualifies? Um, yeah, a clear shot that. Yeah, I mean, basically for sure. No penalties. Okay, and I consider a penalty. If you're plugged in the face of a bunker, that's a penalty, you know. If you're stymied behind a tree and you can't Advance the ball forward, that's a penalty.
So if you're under a tree and you pitch down to the fair, when you're on The Fringe Of The Wind, that's fine. So, I'm looking at really penalty shots and shots where you have to literally play Backwards or sideways because you physically cannot Advance the ball to with to tour around the green, Perfect. All right. Well that's day one, I'll be back.
Thanks so much for listening. Thank you will Robbins for happen on. If you have your homework, if you gotten do that, make sure to post a picture of the scorecard tweet. At golf science laboratory Walker, I are headed over the gulf science lab, Facebook group, posted in there, check out what will is doing at the scoring method.com s and free video training, three scoring Killers. You'll want to go through that. All right, we'll see you tomorrow.