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What’s up, guys? I’m Nick Steiner. This is Ben Wharton and welcome to an all-new episode of Coffee and Carts, where we give you an inside look to PGA professionals and Tour players around the globe and get you some tips along the way as well too.
Today we’re at the 13th Beach short course because the pros are teeing up today at the beach and creek. So you ready to get out there? Absolutely. Let’s go again. Let’s go. There’s been a fair bit of amateur golfers, mid-handsappers who claimed single figures,
Or scratch golfers that are making content that is like their golf professional. I don’t like the practice strokes in a, I just find they’re not really necessary. And then you got Monday qualifiers, then you got to practice on Tuesdays.
A lot of people don’t realize how much golf you really have to play on these feeder tours just to make it out there. Yeah, we do. We play a lot. I’d say I’d play the same shot if I was an amateur golfer.
There’s no point bumping it or hitting a three-wood or something like that. This Is their livelihood. This is what they’re battling for. And good on you Ben, for. Yeah, but Don’t feel sorry For me. No, I still get to play golf every day. So
We’re going to take a look at the first hole here. As we said, we’ve got about 160-meter par three it looks like. Let’s take a look. Yeah, Yeah. It looks to me like it’s a nice little hole and it’s definitely into the wind.
I think normally I’d hit probably a seven iron, but I’m going to pull a little six. Just kind of the green looks pretty small to me. You Said you’re going to seven iron, then you went to the six. Yep.
Now is there something that goes in your thoughts or tips that you would have at home for maybe the grip or choking down or anything that you naturally do when you decide to make that change a little bit or you really just go at it? Yeah, no, absolutely.
I mean hitting a three-quarter shot or if it is windy, you don’t want to bust it up there. And I’ve talked about this before with clients and things. The harder you hit it and the more kind of oomph you put into your swing, I suppose,
Trying to get the ball there, the more spin and revolutions it puts on the ball so then that makes it go higher and then into the wind that comes kind of backward I suppose. So the best way to go around it, is just grip down a little bit, take an extra club, grip
Down a little bit, swing it three quarter on the way back, and kind of smooth when they say when it’s breezy, swing it easy, something easy. That makes complete sense, right? So many amateurs like myself will just try and get there, just strengthen it or swing a little bit harder.
Really go at it when you watch you guys play it. It really is just a very natural fluid thing that we can all learn from, that’s for sure. Yeah, absolutely. We are trying to hit it in a small compact area and the margin for error a greater if
You’re going at it with a fast velocity all the time. Of course. Pins on the left. I’m just going to aim straight at it. Finish it up in the middle of the green. Love that sound. It’s okay. The wind drifted a little right, but yep, It’ll play.
Here’s a good chance to give a little lesson here on up and down. Alright Ben, so here we are, just caught the edge of the green and kicked off to the right. As we do see there’s a bit of wind. When you look at the flag, a bit of an up-and-down situation here.
What are you thinking It is into the wind? The greens are quite firm looking at my lie, it’s kind of sat down in the rough a little bit, so I’m just going to take the 60 out, kind of hit it up nice and high about 15 feet
Short and let it run down the hill there to tapping. Nice. Looking forward to seeing that now a few of the things that we talked about here is how can we continue to add as much value to the people at home who are watching this today?
You’ve made that decision, you’re going to grab the 60. What are your swing tips? What should the amateur at home really be thinking if maybe they’re looking at this shot? I’d say I’d play the same shot if I was an amateur golfer.
There’s no point bumping it or hitting a three wood or something like that. This shot demands a lot. High lofted shot with spin on it. I see a lot of amateur golfers chipping wise. They tend to have the handle back and then they try and scoop the ball up in the air.
A lot of them, no body rotation, no movement through the impact or strike zone. Basically, I’d say narrow your stance a little bit. The easiest way to do it and then we’re going a little further forward in our stance, which
Then kind of creates a bit of lean in the handle, and then we’re kind of just following the line of our feet. If our feet are kind of aiming a little bit open, the easiest way to hit a crisp chip
Shot and using the bounce properly is kind of just going out and then cutting across and it goes out nice and high. Look at that right down next to the pin. Not bad. A little left of it. Not Bad at all, mate. I’ll take that. Alright, grab that putter.
Let’s see these tips at home or what you’re thinking as soon as you’re beginning to walk up Right away. As I’m walking on the green, I actually begin to read the putt, so I’m not kind of thinking about the last shot or anything like that.
I subconsciously, I suppose because I’ve been doing it so long, I take in my surroundings. So slopes and all that sort of stuff. Or if one of my playing partners is the other pros or whatever is putting, I’ll kind of take notice of what their ball’s doing.
If it’s going around the hole and the way it’s falling, obviously I mark my ball, don’t have a coin, but I got a tee. Yeah, tee is cool. We’ll just be out here. Yeah, easy done, little 30 for you to read the putt, I mean all the pros, this is how
We kind of go around it. Or the majority. I think Sergio Garcia is probably the only guy that, and don’t quote me on that, doesn’t go all the way around the hole, but we generally walk all the way around the hole, get a kind
Of lay the land and all that sort of stuff. See the break, I kind of get down low to reiterate what I’ve already seen. I like to do a little plumb bob thing just out of habit. It’s just part of my routine. It doesn’t really do anything. You don’t
See the plumb bob as much as you used to. Hey. Yeah, I mean I’ve been a pro for nearly 20 years now, so I do the old but nowadays the same, then, I dunno how to do it. What’s this one called with the Oh yeah, Old aim point. The old aim point thing.
That’s basically the plumb bob. It’s just a refined version and then routines are very important with putting, so you’re not necessarily trying to hold the putt as such in a mental capacity. We’re just going through the motions of our routine and doing everything the same over
And over and over again allows us to then when we stand over the putt, be kind of really confident with what’s going on. I don’t like a practice stroke. I kind of just get my club face lined up to the line I’ve already put on the ball. Nice and relaxed.
Hands and arms have two looks and then just stroke it in. Bang. There we go. No, I love that. We’ve had quite a few videos that we filmed lately, so as you know, partnered with Richard Woodhouse fist bump here. Nice little par. Yep, Easy. Oh, fist bump. Sorry man.
Yeah, no it’s all good. It’s all good. Just handing It over. So we’ve had quite a few conversations lately about not looking at the whole repeatedly practice strokes. It really just seems to make players just ready to go and pull that trigger. Is that what you feel as well? Yeah, absolutely.
I don’t like the practice strokes in an aspect, I just find they’re not really necessary and I’ve read certain studies that say it’s not necessarily beneficial. I find if you’re going to take a practice stroke, it’s more beneficial to do it again
To bring up Jason Day or Aaron Badley, another Aussie guy, probably the best putter I’ve ever seen. They kind of take the practice strokes behind the ball as they’re visualizing the ball dropping the hole, which is more beneficial in the put I think getting into the visual aspect
Of it rather than where your hands and arms are kind of functioning. But to answer your question, I don’t really like looking at it too often either. It allows you subconscious to kick in. It’s like if you were going to throw a ball to someone you don’t really, or kicking the
Footy playing a FL or playing basketball. Steph Curry probably doesn’t look at the hoop too many times when he is shooting a three pointer. So you just feel it and throw it and let your subconscious mind do the work. Love it, stay out of that six inches between the ears, right?
Yeah, a hundred percent, a hundred percent. What’s the difference between playing in or not playing in the ProAm? What do most guys, and I’m sure you can’t speak for everyone, but is it something that it’s good to do and it’s fun to connect with people sometimes?
Is it other times you like to just go and practice and focus on your game so you don’t really need to do that? What’s the difference between guys that aren’t doing that right now? Yeah, it’s beneficial in two areas I suppose. I don’t personally like playing them.
They’re good to connect with people that you wouldn’t meet before. It’s nice to give back obviously to the sponsors of the tournament, which we appreciate, but I have a really tough time focusing properly. So putting that amount of effort, six, five hours on the course and then six hours.
So dinner afterward or whatever into the day before you’re trying to compete is quite Difficult and that’s a lot of energy especially too if it comes from thinking about then you got Monday qualifiers, then you got practice on Tuesdays.
A lot of people don’t realize how much golf you really have to play on these feeder tours just to make it out There. Yeah, we do. We play a lot. We played eight weeks in a row and I played every day other than I work on Mondays and Tuesdays believe it or not.
So I kind of get all my practice in on a Wednesday and then tee it up on a Thursday and try and compete with all the boys. But Alright guys, so those are some of the differences that you’ll actually see with these guys.
Again, mad credit to them, I find it difficult to play two days, three days in a row sometimes and working on my personal fitness to get through it. I can’t imagine them, not only are they battling for their livelihood, battling for paychecks,
Battling to make it on these other tours, but they’re traveling to and from, they’re having to book all their own stuff Again, it’s not really a poor me situation, this is what they’ve bred into. This is their love, this is their passion. Absolutely.
But a lot of respect needs to go out to these guys because it’s just not those top 10 that we see on TV all the time that are flying jets and doing all these crazy wonderful things that they all would love to do.
But the majority of ’em out there guys, this is their livelihood, this is what they’re battling for. And good on you Ben, for. Yeah, but Don’t feel sorry for me. I still get to play golf every day so it’s a pretty cool, Yeah. Cool.
Alright, well let’s watch you play some more golf here and see how you approach this next shot. You’re done. Alright, so Ben, as we were just talking, you get to play with a lot and then these pro-ams or at your local club, obviously you get a lot of people asking you questions.
What are some of the biggest swing tips and things that you tend to see that maybe we can educate with some people with? Basically one of the biggest things I see amateur golfers do is try and hit the ball with their hands and arms.
So they try and create power or speed with their upper body generally, which then throws the club outside of the path, which it creates a cut across action and the slice that everyone hates most summer golfers like hitting a drawer.
And to do that you have to get your body engaged and working properly again from the top of the swing. Most people like the majority that do hit the slice, it’s from this action trying to hit at the ball and not letting your body swing.
A good tip that I can think of is just feeling like your hands and arms jelly or they’re kind of just hanging up there in space and you’re just trying to rotate your body through, which then obviously you just saw kind of laser the club back flat, which then creates
A nice little draw. It’s definitely something I’ve had a problem with and it’s something I’ve really had just to rebuild my swing completely around is having that feeling and not getting lessons young enough and working through that sort of thing myself.
So I definitely am on page with most of the people out there and having that feeling. So Let’s see. Hit this next shot as we cruise out. No doubt 99% of people do do that. Nick, you’re not on your own mate. Well it’s not bad Flushed. It’s pretty good.
A little bit, A little bit long. A little bit long. Went through the wind. That’s all right. I’ll hold that. What are some of the biggest mental challenges for you week in and week out as you’ve grown with this game?
As I’ve grown with the game is self-belief and confidence is a lot to do with it, A lot of self having to give myself a lot of positive self-talk and affirmations. It’s hard. I mean 18 years of being a pro, you have a lot of negative times.
There’s not many wins out there as most people see unless you’re tiger, your percentage isn’t that high on the winds factor. So a lot of positive self-talk a few other traveling is difficult being away from your wife or your family and it’s easy when you’re young, but because you’re chill, you’re just
Traveling around the world experiencing stuff. But as you get on, that’s definitely a mental challenge. And the mental challenges you now as you are transitioning a bit in your professional career and different goals that you have, what’s actually happening for you now?
I’ve started coaching recently kind of the last year or so, so I’m trying to build up that side of a business to transition. Obviously, I still have goals and aspirations to play on the major tours PGA tour and I
Was born in England, so the British opens a massive goal of mine to try and get and play and win that one. But yeah, basically building up my coaching business, mortgage children on the way and all that sort of stuff.
And I mean eventually you get to the end of your tether and this game can beat you down at some point. Well who knows? The little one might have the future alone. They catch the bug as well too. I’m sure one can only dream.
I’ll be yelling at it, rattling my coins and everything like Tiger’s dad to get it going. And that’s a big thing too that you see in golf. It’s so interesting nowadays, right to where you see so many kids and you’re seeing it
With juniors as well to where some parents are just really high pressure and pushing their kids to do all these things and then other ones just kind of let their kids do their thing. And it’s interesting how that turns out because the road can either go both ways, how they
Treat that, no matter which way they do approach it. Yeah, absolutely. I mean there’s burnout as we all know in sport and life is a thing and could be too much of one thing and not enough of another. There kind of needs to be a balance of both. Yeah. Nice.
Well we’re about to balance this up and down over here again. Yeah, that’s it. As we get some more, Hey, it might be on the green, it might be. Yeah, that’s right. Just creep it a little over the back so we should see. Let’s get up there. Let’s rock.
You’re having another putt Obviously I’m a bit of a dick. You made the green. I Thought it was extra. It goes over the tear mate. You couldn’t see that from back there. You couldn’t see it. I couldn’t. I’m not sure, but you probably could, Nick. All right, so we’re approaching this one. Yep.
I mean if you get down here you can see Yeah, it’s a massive, you see The ball and then you can’t, Massive slope there. Massive slope. That’s here. See if I can get it from the backside too. You’ll just see how much the flag Kind of disappear.
It’s going to be quick down there for Sure. So with this kind of shot, obviously with this putt still looks like a single breaker, a bit of a double both Sides. It’s a bit of a double. I think it goes right to left and then left to right coming down.
The one thing I like to do with putts like this, I like to come halfway and get a little feel for what it’s going to do in the last six to eight feet. As I can tell it’s going to go this way, but it’s really nice to see what’s happening closer
To the hole. Same deal. Do my little plumb back. We got a little side angle here, a little bit of elevation. Yeah, I think I’m going to hit it pretty straight. It’s going to go right to left and left to right. It’s very fast down there, Up over the hill.
Coming down pretty good. Not too bad. Good lag down there. That’s how the pros do it folks. We Have to little tap and another par. Easy, easy Done. Love it. Bam. Knuckles for a par. I like that. I need you around more often.
As of lately, you and I we’re having a bit of a chat about and good on ’em. There’s been a fair bit of amateur golfers, mid handicappers claimed single figures or scratch golfers that are making content that is like they’re golf professionals and again,
They’re just of course watching and looking at golf professional videos and sharing what those people are sharing. But it’s really inspired you to take the next leap in your journey, which I’m happy to celebrate and help build and share your content. Yeah, no thank you.
You want to talk a little bit about that? Yeah, I just decided I got invited to play with a nice golf slump, so give him a follow. He is a great kid. And then we played out and he’s got abundance of followers and obviously isn’t a professional
Golfer, but good on him for putting in the work and time and effort and the knowledge into his skills. But me being a professional, a coach and a PGA tool player myself, I noticed that no real PGA tool players out there were putting out the content regarding the golf swing or
To play better golf I suppose because it’s not all just golf swing mainly because they probably on the PGA tour make a little bit more cash than I do and don’t work as coaches. But yeah, I saw an opportunity to put out some stuff and again, going back to my father
Being a pro when I was a kid and my uncle actually was a golf coach as well, so I had the knowledge growing up, sitting at a dinner table or Christmas day or whatever asking an abundance of questions.
And I know a lot of golfers out there really struggle and all my clients search YouTube and tell me they’ve seen this on YouTube or that on YouTube. So I thought I’ll be that guy that they’re watching on YouTube And you’re now becoming that guy.
And we are going to share within the links and in the comments and in this video as well, tagging your socials, but where is the main place that people are going to be able to find you? On my Instagram, that’s Ben Wharton golf. Ben. B-E-N-W-H-A-R-T-O-N Golf. Yep. Alright, that’s it. Ben Wharton golf.
That’s it. Tips and tricks. He’s making some awesome reels and just getting his journey started and happy to celebrate it and glad that it’s brought us together. We’ve talked about doing this for a while, so just wanted to create some cool content,
Tell your story and continue to give as much back to our community as we can for you guys to learn as well too. Hundred percent. But not only that, I’ve been using a back to basics, putting mirror now since they probably came out so a few years now, so that’s Pretty cool too.
Yeah, nice. Well we’ll have some tips and tricks here at the end on how to do that as well. And let’s continue this journey and let’s just probably dive a little bit more into, we’ll go back, we’re going to go show you guys some inside looks into what it kind of
Looks like on tour prep and that sort of thing that Ben can walk you through and we’ll share a little bit of that story. What do you think? Yeah, Beautiful. Sounds great to me. Awesome. Alright guys, we’re out here at the putting green for the Vic open, putting green’s pretty busy.
What are you thinking about when you approach the green or what’s kind of coming up right now with you when you get in this mode? Yeah, it’s pretty busy and there’s no holes out there, but what I like to do is get the
Back to basic mirror out and kind of check where my head is positioned and all that sort of stuff. And it’s really good for swing arc and all that sort of stuff. So I’ll kind of place it down and I’ll find this flat spot and put a T down and try and
Avoid everyone. I like being by myself. Yeah. Okay, well let’s do that. So a fair bit of these players that will see out here today do use the back to basics mirror, which is pretty cool.
So first of all, I grab a few balls, grab a mirror, grab a few tees, you never have too many tees. And the magic wand Magic’s a flat stick. What do we got Here? Magic wand? Everybody wants to see a Yeah, this week, because I change weekly, I change weekly.
I’ve got a Ma Scotty Cameron. It’s pretty cool. It’s kind of a normal that you can buy off the shelf type thing, but it’s got some, as everyone’s pretty big on the circle T, it’s got some circle T weights in there just to
Make nice, make it a little bit heavier than normal and a nice cord grip on it. So like I said, it’s pretty busy out here, so I like to just find a nice flat spot with a bit of an UPS slope. So a Little bit of an up slope.
Why do you like to see the ups slope? I like to see the up slope. It just kind gets me hitting the ball up the hill a lot of the time. I mean, you don’t want to really practice putting on a down slope I suppose can affect the path of your stroke.
I just like to do it either on the completely flat or if you can’t fly a flat position on a down slope and then I really kind of go through and be quite technical about it.
But if there’s no hole there, then I’ll kind of lay something down so I can put a T to make sure my alignment’s all correct and then I’m hitting the ball to that position. For me, the Back 2 Basics Mirror is fantastic and it has that arc on there.
What I like to do, like Tiger Woods is kind have the tees on either side of my putter here just at the impact zone just to give myself a bit of an understanding of where I’m hitting the middle of the face there.
And then basically I just do this for, I like to do anywhere from 10 to 20 putts. Don’t overdo it in the mirror, but I like to see my eyes a little bit inside the ball. That’s just personal preference.
And then I’ve actually had a little bit of a problem recently taking my putter outside the line, so this is fantastic in the way it kind of helps me arc my stroke properly. And then obviously trying to hit just tap the tee, just tap the tee mate, just pretending
That ts the hole and obviously the tee being quite small and the hole being big, if you can hit the tee, well that one missed. But if we can hit the tee, it kind of gives you a little bit more confidence in knowing that you’re going to hold the putt.
That one missed the tee, but it obviously still would’ve gone in. And again, I just do the tee just because it’s busier as you can see there are people everywhere, so it allows me to get the same job done and I don’t mind doing it to the
Tee because it gives you a bit more confidence feedback knowing that you’ve hit that small target. A lot of the time I like to go to the putting green first, do my mirror work, and then I’ll
Head to the range, hit balls on the range, and then I’ll get dialed in with my short game. And then I try to endeavor to make my way back to the putting green. So putting green range back to the Putting green.
Yeah, the second time I come to the putting green, it’s more I’ll take one ball. So I’ve done all my mural work, setting myself up as consistently as possible I can for the day. And then the second time I come back to the putting arena, I’ll just take one ball and
Kind of put around each hole and kind of more competitive, pretend I’m almost on the course putting out to each hole hitting a three footers with break and trying to two put from 30, 40 feet and all that sort of stuff just to get a bit more feedback of what the green
Speeds are for the day and all that sort of stuff. And you’ve been using the back to basics, putting mirror for a while. Yeah. What would you say is the best thing that amateurs can learn and use the mirror for?
Oh, they’re fantastic to see a lot of amateurs and it’s all dependent on your own body style, but a lot of amateurs either get their eyes way over the ball or way behind it. I myself personally like to have it a little bit behind it being a shorter guy in my arms
Alone, so it kind of helps me, but we kind of really want to get our eyes somewhat over the ball. If you’re not in that position from the get-go, you’re kind of in trouble. And also the Back 2 Basics is the best mirror on the market without selling it to you guys,
But it’s got all the holes in the side there as you can see, and you can put all the tees along the way there and it really tracks a perfect stroke. So amateur golfers that take it out and cut across it, or if you take it in too far and
Hit it out of the toe or what have you, this really gets you in a good position to strike the beautifully every time. And the more engulfed is, the more times we repeat something correctly, the better we’re going to be. Man, it’s huge, right?
It just comes back to that decision fatigue, the memory and just creating that feeling over and over again, which is what you guys really want to have. Oh, absolutely. Before you get out on the course. Oh, absolutely. Because realistically we don’t hit a perfect shot or a perfect part every single time,
But the more times we can be in a consistent frame being with our eyes over the ball in the perfect manner for us at the time, we’re going to do a more consistent stroke. Awesome. I’m sure the amateurs at home got a lot from that.
Look at all these professionals out here just enjoying this absolutely gorgeous day out at 13th Beach, beach and Creek. You guys are playing the creek once in the beach twice? Yeah, we play the Beach three times. We play the beach three times in the creek once. Yeah.
So tomorrow I’m on the beach at 7 51 I believe in the morning. Don’t quote me on that. I should know my tee time and then playing the creek the second round and then once we make the cut, the weekends on the beach. Yeah. Awesome.
Well we don’t have to worry too much about that now. Let’s head out to the range and see what that looks like. Beautiful. So basically when I get to the range, I’ll look for the flattest spot possible. As you can see there’s a few divots being hit, A lot of pros working hard.
I’ll get myself a bit of a flat spot and try and away a bit of excess grass that I can balls down and then I’ll get the alignment stick and kind of find myself a spot to hit to. So I’m going to go to that yellow flag out there.
And so for the amateur at home too, do you recommend that same thing, getting that alignment stick, picking out that specific spot that you really want to be hitting to? Absolutely. I just believe in practicing or perfect practice I suppose.
So when you get out on the course and you’re under all different conditions and variables, then you’re able to rely on what you’ve done before on the range. So I like to align myself correctly, make sure that’s all perfect first and then I’ll
Grab a sandwich and just kind of warm up getting a feel for the pitch shots and how the heaviness of the head’s feeling on the day. I like to hit 10 or 15 sandwiches and then make my way up through the bag, just getting
A feel for the turf and moving my body before I come here. I do stretching in the locker, generally foam rolling and stretching, get my body moving before I head to the range. Yeah, it’s so important to have even found. It’s definitely something that I focus a lot more on, right.
Making sure I’m getting my daily stretches and it’s that dynamic stretches that are really, really Important. A hundred percent, absolutely. You got to get that. You got to get your body moving in the correct manner. We all have our own idiosyncrasies.
When I was younger I used to smash the gym a bit too hard, so I’ve got the rounded, rounded shoulders, so I struggle with a bit of external rotation in my shoulder there, so I need to really warm that up. And now That’s something you’re usually stretching out with bands and stuff
Like that? Yeah, just a few bands. I’ve got some specific exercises. I actually worked as a personal trainer, qualified personal trainer for a long time, so I kind of know what I’m doing myself, but I did instill a few guys to help work with that. Gave me programs and stuff as well.
Just do more mobility stuff in the locker room and some foam rolling, getting the muscles activated and I’ve gone from the sandwich now to nine, nine some days. I like to go through the odd numbers of clubs in my bag.
So 9, 7, 5 and then other days the evens just to get, so they’re not all getting worn out pretty much. Personally, I don’t hit it too good on the range. When I’m out here I I’m not very good at focusing, so I’m a better player on the course whereas
A lot of people are kind of the opposite. They’re range rats that hit it good on the course and hit it good on the range and then get to the course and struggle. But I just use the range as basically a way to get an understanding of how my body’s moving
On a day-to-day basis and what my shot shape is producing. I’ve got a seven iron now, so I always try and give myself a nice lie on the range until I’m warmed up enough and then I’ll actually, I’ll put a few in divots and things like that. Put a few in some trouble.
Yeah, I don’t mind just putting a few in some bad lies in some divots or because on the course we are bound to get ourselves into that position, so put it in a little sandy divot with have to try and get that feel for the day in case I’m in that position.
And again, I’ll only do it once or twice, But good for people at home to do that as well too because especially around Australia, you end up in some of the areas off in the rough, you’re traditionally in something probably like this. Oh, absolutely.
And you got to learn how to get your way out of it. That was out of it. Yeah, that was good. Came out nice. Like I said, I probably hit five to 10 sandwich Wes, and then I just go 9, 7, 5 and I’ll hit
A few two irons, a couple of three woods and then I’ll get into hitting a few drivers. I generally hit four or five drivers depending on the day. And then I go back to thinking about what the first hole entails and what kind of shot
I need to hit off the first here, for example, our first hole is into the wind hole and you kind of need to hit a two iron. So I generally leave with the two iron and I don’t leave the range until I hit a really nice one.
So then I have the confidence going onto the first tee that I’ve produced that shot 10 minutes ago. Yeah, huge tip at home for those folks, right? Thinking about that first hole you’re getting out there, getting that good start and so
Many of us have the first tee jitters or whatever you might say. Yeah, absolutely. Replicating that confidence that you’re going to have it on the range, whether it’s even the second or third shot. Will you get into that as well too? Yeah, Yeah. Generally sometimes.
I mean, if I have a practice day the day before, I’ll get more in depth. I’ve learned a few skills Nick Faldo used to do back in the day where you kind of go through the course in your head. So I’ll almost hit one driver and imagine what I’m doing.
The second hole is a path five, for example, and it’s really tight hole. So I’ll make a narrow fairway and off in a distance and I’ll try and get my driver into that position. And then knowing the par five, I’ll hit probably a four iron in for my second shot.
So I try and replicate that shot and I’ll go through the bag just playing the course on my practice days at home if I’ve played the course before and have an understanding of what it’s going to do, I take that all day.
And then like I said, I finish with a two iron and I get more in the mode of like I’m on the golf course, so I’ll get rid of my stick, Whoop, And I’ll get rid of my stick and I’ll just pretend I’m on the first hole.
I’m feeling all the feels I’ll have tomorrow morning and I’ll get behind and visualize my shot and go through my pre-shot routine, how I would on the course in that moment. I like that. Just like that. Is that a two or Three? That’s a two-iron, yeah. Nice. Tireless.
T 200 looks like a butter knife. Oh yeah, to me. I got The three. I should get the two. Yeah, the two’s a great great club. Great club, Awesome folks. Well that’s from the Range with Ben Wharton and you guys an inside look at what an Australian Tour Player does
Before the Vic Open. Hi Ben. Well, this is going to do it for the final episode, or not the final episode, just the final portion of our coffee and carts episode. You’ve been absolutely amazing. We went out and played some holes, you’ve given some professional tips, we’ve given
People an inside look at what it’s like on the putting green from the range, all that sort of thing on what you guys kind of do, what your cadence is. So I think people at home are really going to love this episode and we’re all wishing you well this week. Thank you, man.
The episode will be out by the time that this week is over or after this week. Hopefully I have a trophy. Hopefully, we’ll put a screenshot up there with that. And Ben, thanks mate. Mate, I really appreciate it, mate. You’re very welcome. Easy cheers. Yeah, thank you, man. Thank you. Thanks for having
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So thanks to you guys. And that’s it for Coffee and Carts.
