5 HABITS The Tour Pro’s DO That Amateurs DON’T!

Coaching PGA Tour Pro Aaron Rai has given us the unique experience of spending a lot of time around some of the best players in the world. In todays video we want to share the small things that they do that make them so great and how you can implement these simple things to your practise/game to make you a much better player!

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what is it that the tour Pros do that
helps them stay so consistent and play
their best we spent a lot of time on the
PGA tour with Aaron R Wii coach and
we’ve been on the Range and we see
exactly what the best players in the
world consistently do and what habits
they’ve got and today we’re going to
share five with you that are really
going to help the fifth one is probably
the most important and you’re going to
have the most fun with it so tour pro
habit number one is dialing in your
wedges now when we go to the driveing
range and we warm up often we’ll warm up
with the wedges but are we really
dialing them in I think we’re just doing
it to get our body moving think of this
Dustin Johnson by his own admission got
to world number one by changing two
things hitting a fade and then dialing
in his wedge distances this is so
crucial so when you’re at the driving
range making sure like Andy that you’re
going to different flags and knowing
exactly how far you’re carrying the golf
ball is crucial you can even start
developing a wedge Matrix so Andy you
got you’re hitting to different flags
here yeah and I’m tapping into my feel
here in this is just such an important
part I’ve got a 50 75 and an 85 I’m
going to vary it up there so so often
someone’s come to us for a lesson and
we’ve said oh hit a hit hit the wedge to
that 50 yard flag and they hit it 100
yards that tells us straight away
they’re not dialing in their wedges when
it comes to driving range so I’m
changing things up here I’m going to hit
short ones I’m going to hit some
slightly longer ones and I’m going to
see how
close I can get to the yardages this is
going to tap into some feel this is
going to make sure I know what’s going
on with these wedges and like you said
Pier then I can create a wedge Matrix
which is understanding how far these go
and having multiple options but if you
look at these you’ve got three different
flags you’ve been going for and you’ve
used the same Club so he’s got to be
doing something different from a speed
point of view so that’s what we look at
with a wedge matrix it’s look it’s
really simple really if you have all of
your wedges and then have three
different swing lengths for all those
wedges so maybe just hit one quick Andy
go with a 3/4 wedge so three quart wedge
so 3/4 wedge with a 58° for Ry that’s
probably going to make make it go around
about 75 yards yeah and you can go key
thing with this is have a half swing a
3/4 swing and a full swing and record
the yardages then you have three
different yardages for each wedge that
you have so any yardage on the golf
course then you’ve got it but also
you’re tuned in with your practice so
Tor Pro habit number two is calibrating
the basics it’s amazing that the best
players in the world take so much care
of actually making sure a they’re aiming
their body and Club face in the right
place and B maybe checking the
fundamentals like ball position or even
grip or even balance so what pi is doing
here now the first thing he’s doing is
making sure he’s got his Target line in
here which is going straight at the
Target and then he’s got another one in
here which is going to check his ball
position things are always moving in
golf this means our ball position can
change our alignment can change our
posture can change so managing and
calibrating these Basics help help you
not go too far offline now P you said
recently that your alignment had drifted
off it had drifted off where yeah yeah
and it gone left so I I was playing golf
and I’m pulling a few and guess what
happened straight straight away I went
to oh I’m getting a bit steep again I’m
getting a bit steep again but I hit some
balls I put the calibration lines down
and I was hang on a bit that club face
is pointing quite a long way left it was
actually with the alignment stick on the
ground there I’m going hang on a bit
they’re not matching up I’m not getting
that coming out there at 90° so as
simple as that without having to Che
make any major swing changes obviously
makes a lot of sense and it’s just such
a key thing the great thing is well what
you’re doing here you’re training your
Association to the Target you’re making
sure that you know that you’re Square
you’re looking up at the Target so when
you get on the golf course it’s so much
easier to actually just take to the golf
course and also if you hit a shot that’s
going offline now you know it’s the golf
swing you know that because you’ve
calibrated where you are it’s nothing to
do with the alignments and setup yeah
for sure I think there’s a couple other
things you can add to this as well but
Al this is one we do a lot with Aaron
you’ll have a balance rod or you can do
it with an alignment stick put it
through the middle of the feet there and
you can figure out where your balance is
making sure you’re not too much on your
toes or too much on your heels and this
is again all part of calibrating and
whenever we’re at these PJ tour events
it’s lined up with golfers doing this
best golfers in the world yes they might
be thinking bit about their golf swing
this though is crucial for them and it’s
rare we see golfers on the Range amateur
golfers do this so make sure you
calibrate the basics Tor Pro habit
number three is practice with pressure
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description right Andy practicing with
pressure yes when we play golf we have
one go at it when we’re on the driveing
Range we’ve got loads of goes at it this
is sometimes the problem we warm up and
we get confidence and we work at our
Technique we go on the golf course hit
one bad shot and the confidence is gone
so we need to build confidence by
understanding how to take pressure into
your practice situations this is key how
many golfers said to us I want to take
my range game to the golf course this is
what you do you actually bring the Golf
Course to the range and this is how we
create the pressure here so when we get
out there it just feels not quite the
same but it feels a little more
comfortable so Andy let’s just think
about this the simple way of doing this
would be to have like a scoring system
so we’re going to go to a green and we
normally let’s say hit 10 shots how many
out of 10 could you get but the green
would be small it would be tricky this
one’s small red flag small I’ve got
eight iron here 10 shots if I could hit
five out of those five that I’d be
pretty happy cuz that is a tiny green
I’ll have a couple of shots here yeah
let’s hit a couple let’s see how many
scores out of two you can actually get
it’s good and you can play this game
against your friends as well you can
have a a bet on it you know play for a
pint whatever it is clean the loser
cleans the other person’s clubs put a
bit of consequence someone you know if
Andy loses to me he’s got to go on his
social media account and say Pierce is
the best goer in the world he beat me
again that is a beauty that was right at
the flag I’d be happy with that one but
again free shot routine making sure you
take your time you know understanding
exactly what’s needed on the golf course
and you can vary even the shots up you
can play some phage you can play some
draws high
low this is a great game as well with a
driver missed one out of two one out of
two is not bad 50% for you is not bad
but think about doing this with a driver
and you’ve only got a 20 yard Fairway
hit suddenly when you go on the golf
course then the Fairway becomes a lot
wider you’ve got the confidence that you
can hit six out of 10 on that but always
aim to make it hard okay tour pro habit
number four is random practice now often
it’s a drag and go and we hit like loads
and loads of 7 IRS there’s a place for
that when we work at technique but again
we still want to simulate the golf
course so randomize your practice when
we’re on the course we don’t hit the
same shot over and over again we might
hit a drive 7 iron hopefully not a chip
but then a put so we have to do the same
as we would on the golf course so Pierce
now is going through his routine he’s
picked out a short Target over here the
yellow flag he’s now going back to his
bag different flag different Club same
routine but now it’s challenging
thinking he’s getting his mindset into
the golf course and this is a great
thing to do just before you go out and
play because again it’s getting you
prepared I think just practicing the
pre-shot routine as well as you say it’s
just getting you ready for when you come
and play
golf yeah
P that was so far from the golf ball on
that
one and you’ll see Pierce is standing on
you know behind his Target line
visualizing the shot looking at the
targets it’s very different than just
one ball after the other with the same
Club it really does prepare you I’ve
done this a lot more in my practice
recently and when I get onto the golf
course I feel so much more tuned into
the course rather than going this feels
so different to the driving range again
it’s similar to the last tip isn’t it
the last habit is that I’m actually
recreating the golf course on the
driving range falo would talk about it
cik falo he taught he’d play the course
before on the driving range so I’ve got
a 130 yard wedge of being a little Fade
Into I’ve got to hit a good shot I’ve
hit that one there I’ve just missed the
green but it was wasn’t a bad shot with
six iron from 180 again different
yardage different distance different aim
that’s having to step back and take a
look at
it little bit of a knockdown that was
nice again getting a little creative you
know getting letting the mind go into
how we would actually play golf on the
golf course so make sure you randomize
your practice Fifth and final tour pro
habit is taking a bit off now as we said
at the beginning you’re probably going
to have more fun doing this and it’s
probably the most important thing so
look when we’re on the golf course we
rarely have the exact number for our
carry distances with our clubs the best
players the world are very good at
taking a bit off so generally you’ll
find that the player will know how far
they hit the 79 but they’ll know what it
takes to hit it five yards less and 10
yards less that’s what you need to
explore when you’re playing golf now
Andy there are a few ways to do this
quite a few ways to do this what are
some of those ways well let’s go through
a few of the key things and then I’ll
share some of the things that I would
actually my preferences are really but
you’ve got to practice this and we don’t
see most golfers do this they’re just
hitting sort of full out shots so the
first thing you can do if you want to
take a little bit of off you can just
choke down the golf club so when you
choke down the golf club it’s obviously
making the club smaller smaller Arc less
speed it’s going to reduce it personally
I don’t like this but that doesn’t
matter you’ve got to practice this he
will never do that ever never I’ve tried
in the last 20 years to get him to do it
he’s never done it once unless the
ball’s above the feet and that’s
different so practice that see see what
you think in the setup the number one
thing that you can do reduce the The
Stance width soon as you do this it
takes out the leg work and when we take
out the leg work it’s going to reduce
the speed so the first thing I do if I
want to reduce speed on narrow The
Stance this is a 7 iron here on narrow
The Stance and have a
relatively normal swing at it the fact
that I’ve got less legs involved means
I’m going to take a little bit of power
off it also sends an intention to the
brain as well doesn’t it that your
brain’s going WR a bit I’m doing
something different here is softer yeah
definitely then what you can do is
obviously you can have a shorter swing
so just having a slightly shorter golf
swing will certainly reduce the power as
well so I’m going to go half to 3/4
here that’s going to reduce the speed
and I’m going to be hitting it that was
a normal stance width you could go
shorter on the through swing as well
shorter on the through swing overall you
can then also just go a little smoother
so I can just smooth things out I like
to hit some of these as well where I’m
just slowing the
whole transition down it’s more like
almost like a long wedge with a 79 here
I’m not sort of as as explosive Aaron
talks about that a lot when he’s hitting
these shots he’s got multiple ways that
he uses but he’ll talk about actually
having a what feels like a pitch shot
everything moving together maybe the
final one you can do is just shot
shaping so if I want to take a little
bit off with a 79 I’d also play some
Fades as well so I’d be aiming a little
bit
left swinging left that’s working from
left or right that’s going to take some
yardage off I actually do all of them by
the choke down one you can experiment
with a combination of all of these but
the key thing is practice with them and
actually get some feedback to where
they’re going and what feels the best
and the most comfortable to you there
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