You are listening to the gulf 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. All right. Ready to get back to work with Coach will Robbins three days
lower scores day, too? Let's get after it. We are back with day two of our little mini series here on. Helping you with better course, management day one. Will we talked about blow up holes? How important that is to eliminate those? What are we talking about today? And a to we're talking about I think is probably the most important stat that you can keep of any. Me and most people say it's Greens in regulation because Mark, Brody told me, Mark, I love you. He's phenomenal.
And it is great stuff, it's not fair. He's in reg. It's not Total Parts. It comes down to proximity. And I think when you start to track proximity, actually, this is one of the first ones I did with this was with Brad police. And we were with Brad, and he started tracking the length of your first Putt and I'd done it in different ways with my players tracking that.
But once I looked at the length of your first part, it just gives you so much clearer information about what are Actually doing the shoot, the scores you're shooting, then what is the tell you? What will you tell you? I was waiting for you to ask. What it tells people say, well, I'm a terrible putter Michael. How many buses? Yeah, but three, three parts. Okay, what was the length of your first part, 70 feet, 90 feet and 80 feet? And I'm like, no, you're not going to part from those
distances. So you don't have a lag, putting problem, what you really have is you have a real struggle with chipping and pitching the ball close enough to the hole. That's it. Okay. If someone says well well I had three three parts were one of the length of your will you know what is the length of your parts 30 feet, 15 feet and 25 feet? Okay. Well then you've got a real lag putting problem because obviously you're not lagging it into one foot, you know, from 50
yards. If you're always hitting it to 30 feet and trying to make birdie, it's never going to happen. You've got to make putts inside of 10 feet and so what it starts to make you realize is that you know, when you're 150 yards away from the green even as a as a single digit golfer, if you're 30 to 40 feet from the hole you have absolutely hit, Fantastic shot. But if you are 25 yards off of the green and you chip it to 12 to 15 feet, you've just shot yourself in the foot.
And I think people try and put the pedal to the metal in the wrong places because they're trying to hit it close from positions, they can't compared to when they're around the green chipping. They're not hitting it close enough, so that proximity by just going on your scorecard and putting, you know, hey, I made a for I had two parts proximity in the length of the first part. It was 35 feet. Okay, great. Eight. I also like to put behind. Well, how far away were you?
And that's all I hear is a chip shot and I consider chip called a I would say 25 yards and then you know just a chip around the green inside of 50 yards. I'd say a pitch shot inside of a hundred yards, I'd say it's a wedge shot and then you know, inside of 150, you know, is an iron shot. And so if you shot just running that down and at the end of the round, I had five times. I was chipping from inside 25 yards and averaged 17 feet will guess what you just made for,
Downing threes at best. If not I've and so it really helps people to start to realize that the way players make birdies is they get the ball closer to the hole because that's where you can make putts from. So this is like, debunking, that myth of we've all walked in and said, like man, I would had a great score if I wouldn't have put it so bad today. And this is an attempt to bring Clarity to that statement that we've all said, yeah.
And I think I think what Montreux T-Zone, obviously, with the understanding of the greens and doing Strokes gained. Is this idea of, you know what, Where are you gaining Strokes
from? Because the fact is, is that, you know, if you've got lots of 6 to 12 foot putts and around, you have a chance to make those but you're not going to make 15 to 20 to 30 Footers. And so it's this idea of the players that have the best Strokes gained are actually the people that hit it closest to the hole, right? You know, they're not always the best Putters.
And I was actually, we're told a lot about Mark, Brody today, and yesterday, you know, that the new stroke gain is now considering where you're putting from, because the best ball striker. Keep it below the hole so it's easy to make a ten-foot putt uphill then it is a 10 foot sliding downhill. So again it's always where are you putting your shot? That's on the green II would prefer to miss the green then have a 90 foot putt.
I think I think a simple bump-and-run Chip Shot is easier than a 90 foot Putt and so this idea of a good hit more greens in regulation. It's know where is my first putt from? And hopefully it's for, you know, birdie or par and then that's going to show you how you keep, you know, big numbers off the Scorecard. But most importantly now how you start to make more pars or more birds well keep on the mark, Brody train here, toward the end
of last year. I started using his app golf metric so you can just really simply track Strokes gained. I loved it for two reasons. One is because it gives you better expectations of what you can expect to do on each shot, right? Because we all think that we should do better than we actually need to. You know and then the other thing is it gives you Clarity on where you are actually giving You that understanding where you
are actually losing shots. So I drive the ball like a plus 8 handicap in putt like, an 8 handicap. So I should obviously hit the range up more and really work on, hitting it farther. I think, absolutely, I think Mom flat bone can get you back there. I can get Sasha over there at the same time. We can dial that all it. Perfect! Let's get that. I need to hit it farther obviously. Yeah, absolutely.
And if there's just so much Clarity around better expectations, and then truly, In what's actually going on versus guessing. The feel of the thing about expectations is that where we should have we're delusional when it comes to expectations. And what I mean by that is we think we should be making 30-foot Parts, which we should absolutely not the best player in the world is 11% from 30 feet but then when we're chipping and we hit the ten feet we think
it's a good shot. Yet the best players in the world are averaging just under four feet from instead of 25 yards. So from 4 feet, then 98 99. Percent. And when you're hitting it to 10, 12 feet, you're at best 25%, that's where all the shots are being dropped. And so, you should have really high expectations on how close can you chip it to the hole and lower your expectations on do I think they can make this 30-foot? Birdie putt? No, just try not to three-part it.
And so, I think that once you align expectations, you then change your practice habits. You take the pressure off of yourself when you lack a 30-foot putt. One inch short, you don't go. Oh, you know, you should have been a bird, you go, that was a great life part. Knock it in and get the hell out of here. When you hit a chip shot to 10 feet above the hole, you go. Now, that was about Chip Shot. I need to work on my short game
and it really aligns everything. And really it comes down to what is the length of your first, but it's so kind of a mindset shift here that I've seen in myself. And with other folks, I've talked to is the biggest shifts that you're going to make in your performance is by really understanding these potentially non-sexy, and overnight, quick fixes, you know, like I love dr. Craig Carton and spend Time with them.
We have our mindfulness course and I can say that by understanding this concept has really helped me and performance on the golf course helped me in life etcetera. It is not like a it secret tip, mental Mantra, you know, the It's a Grind, it's difficult, you change your mind sets, you change, your Frame Works, Etc. And it's the same way with becoming better at course, management better at playing the game better changing your mindset around scoring.
None of these things are going to have a huge impact over the next year are super A cool and flashy and, you know, etcetera. But they're either is making need as making money for your retirement fund, right? I mean, you do go and whack it on bitcoin if you want, or you can go ahead and invest in the in the the index funds and S&P 500 and 7% return over 40 years,
gets you somewhere. And so the beauty about it is though the difference between investing compared to this is that I watch people day in day out, go and apply what we just told them and drop 10 shots and I'm not getting 10 shots. They go from shooting a 92 to an 82. Because if one concept and what my belief is called is that you have the potential inside you, so you're an 82 shooter capable, but you don't have the patience or the understanding.
Once you get that, aha moment. You literally can go from 92 to 82. If you have 92 potential and you hit the ball like a ninja 2 player and you practice like a 92 player. I'm not saying you can improve your swing 10 Strokes in one day. But you see these breakthroughs because most people's technique is actually way better than it needs to be.
Be. But their ability to put the ball in the hole to play the game is very very weak that it's transformational for them but at the same time right now, it's super frustrating because they keep on trying to scratch the surface of you know got to get better at my chipping and maybe, but really, I'm spending my time on my range.
They scratch the surface of it rather than like you said really dive into it and realize, okay, I've got to keep the ball in play and the next thing, you know, no more, double bogeys, proximity, no more three parts, my God. I just broke 84 First time I've been to arrange in a week so that's really the challenge is, it's being disciplined enough or frustrated enough? Are you pissed off enough at
your golf game? Some of you are coming out of winter so you've done all this stuff, but if your supervisor over the okay, maybe it's time to try something different and not go to the range. Not go to another swing lesson, not going by another driver and actually do what the best are doing in the world and honest editions are doing and realize, this is how you get better. Yeah, you got to get smarter, how to play the game. Okay. Our homework for this week. Could you define that one more
time? I know you said. It earlier but are, yeah, I work, I would go out there and play 18, 9 or 18 holes have many can get in and on each hole you score on your putts. But on the next line I want, what was the length of your first part? And then, where did you get it from? Was it a chip inside of 25 yards, a pitch inside the 50, a wedge shot inside of a hundred and an iron shot instead of 150 outside of 150. It's hard at the green, right?
And, and you might be saying, well, I only hit my 3 hybrid. 100 yards. That's fine. It's just those. If you look at those measurements, 25 50, 100 150, Okay. For many of us it will be that chip pitch wedge and iron. And then at the end of the round, total map, divide it by how many times you were in that zone and what is your average distance from the hole. When you're chipping pitching and wedging and if you get those you'll be astonished. You know? That the stats you know the 75
to 100 yards on the PGA tour. They're averaging 11 feet from the Fairway. What are you at? 70 feet, 50 feet, 20 feet. I don't know. But once you get it, you'll realize my goodness. I'm either good at this, or heck? I need a hell of a lot more practice. Awesome, awesome. So, if folks go, Do that. Take a picture of your scorecard tweet at myself? Will you on Twitter? I don't know about that.
I think I'm on Twitter, but I think, I think, I think the Facebook, I think you go to the Facebook is where your Facebook me on the scoring method, the scoring method, okay? Lots of the are. All right, folks should take pictures of the scorecard, the scoring method, the Facebook page their post it. There tag myself, William Robbins and we'd love to see how you do on. Some of this homework and that will be back tomorrow with our final day of our little course management series here.
Thanks so much for listening. Thank you, will Robbins for hopping on. If you have your homework 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 has some free video training, three scoring Killers. You'll want to go through that. All right, we'll see you tomorrow.