HOW TO COMMIT FULLY TO YOUR TARGET-your swing depends on it! | Wisdom in Golf |

Shawn introduces the golf lesson w/ Sav hey everyone Shawn and Sav hi everybody  today a really important episode we're going to show you how to tell if  somebody is engaged with the target from their body language at a dress or if  somebody is afraid to miss the ball or distracted with something else which  usually results in disaster so stay with us this is going to be super Primo for  you oh that that was pretty Sav oh  yes so that was left edge of red back Establishing your target helps you   establish a positive posture at address toward that tree we're making that tree  our Target make it you know front and center and you'll notice that when Sav  gets ready to engage with that shot go ahead Sav get your  posture look at how engaged her glutes and quads are and really really applying  some nice pressure through the arches of her feet right now she's getting ready  to use her legs to engage with the target whereas the people that you'll  see engaging with a golf ball are typically up here being still with the  ball or over here making sure they're keeping  their head on the ball but there is no Target and there's no engagement with  the target so if you were to face the camera Cera Sav there look at how she's  getting ready to compress a ball in that direction if I was to try and push her  over right I'd have a hard time everything would be right up against the  inside of that left foot up against the inside of that right foot so if you take  a back swing and stop so you notice at   the top of the back  swing she's still engaged with that tree though was no sway there  why because we're going that way but if the ball was the target you could easily  sway off the ball yeah right because you don't have this is no longer an  intersection on the way to that Target over there yeah it's hard to create you  don't want to create tone when the ground is essentially your target yes  and that's where a lot of you getting hurt yeah right you're pounding the the  club into the mat cuz you're going after theall ball all day M and then you  wonder why you've got tennis elbow or golfers elbow versus I'm going to take  that and send it over there so a couple of really good examples for those of you  who play other sports if I'm getting Baseball analogy to show the body   language that's positive towards the target ready to hit a baseball I'm going to be  the strikeout King I I mean I wasn't as Brash to be  like Babe Ruth but I was looking for between first and second base yeh High  to get over that fence and then I'm waiting for the pitch that matches that  and when the pitch comes I know I have a really nice hit on my hands if the  pitcher has the gall to serve that up to me so in golf you actually have the  opportunity to stay with your target the whole time yeah and that will also  determine the distance between you and the ball so let's look at how are you  going to get set up in relation to going over there so Sav is basically going to  we're going to that red flag right here here's a nice divot that's going to help  her go there we're going to skirt the left edge of that red flag and fly it  toward the right edge of that tree with a nice little draw so when you're  looking down here at the ball what do you see that image going through that  that intermediate Point that's it so you're moving through there to the left  of that red flag and into that tree so you see a a nice Tracer coming through  there and moving into that picture yeah so go to the top of your back  swing what do you still see Target you still see that image and now what are  you sending into that image right heavy momentum heavy momentum when I go play a  friendly round of baseball there's always somebody's going to bring a bunch  of bats M the first thing I do is I go feel the different bats if the bat's too  heavy doesn't feel like I can move it fast enough MH and if the bat's too  light doesn't feel like I can hit it over the fence so the one that's just  right I'm going oh yeah I can do the job with that yeah I take my little pen  knife out and I'm going to carve my initials in it so I know which bat to to  use when I get there yeah because I know that that bat's going to give me that  home run so we're using that nice Hefty momentum to deliver into the direction  that we want to start the Sav demonstrates her swings and Shawn   shows his setup towards the target ball great  miss that's exactly how you want to miss him because that was Target bound yeah  it's going to happen that you hit a thin one once in a while or a little bit toe  or a little bit heel the key is she never left her post right at least I'm  giving my CH myself the chance to stay with it that's  it oh man there it is and it's just nicking the little  branches of the tree on the way down and it's just Landing behind that red flag  money why she stayed with it the whole time perfect  divot so there's been some incredible research that has been done on how we  learn motor skills they use used uh a dart team they used basketball teams  they used tennis so our favorite is darts so we're looking at a dart board  and they said to the first team make sure you go to the bullseye just focus  on the bullseye an hour day two weeks after two weeks they were 15% closer to  the bullseye and the ones that were just outside are now inside the Bullseye by  15% the other team that made sure that they were repeating the same motion of  the arm over and over again for two weeks they went 23% in the opposite  direction complete failure so the body is responding to your external Focus we  react to stuff so if you're sitting here going man where's my elbow where's my  wrist where's my you know where's my lag then you're not reacting to that picture  lag will come when you're moving in the direction of the target yeah and  so if I take my eight iron now and do the same thing I'll do a little fade in  uh to combat that draw of yours there sth so I've  got my divot right there I've got my ball of hair forward  to Center and right now it feels like hey I can move in that  direction I can't mm yes I can  no I got to go there so now I got my distance to ball ball position nah I got  to rake it back to go through that divot right there so I can't move toward the  target here I have to Lunge at the ball and here I can move in that direction so  I've got my distance to ball I've got my ball position I've got my grip Club  relationship what does that mean so Sav stand beside me show me your  grip mine's a strong grip Sav is a very strong grip these two grips are going to  allow us to go that way show me a back swing and stop slow motion come on down  look where our hands are so we can now collect the ball from  here and release in the direction of that tree yeah and we're letting  momentum do that it's not our job to do any fangling through impact because  that's going to take away from momentum trying to get you to that Target yeah  I've also noticed that in my long drive competitions if my tone is not strong  enough in my setup I can't get through it like that yeah so that is splitting  that tree in half and that was just a half Groove low  mhm and I felt completely engaged in that direction but it can't be lacad  isical exactly that's the part where in Long drivve sometimes I can feel too  laxidasical and then my grip falls apart through impact right and then you get  like those weird like toe shots and the whole thing just falls apart comes off  the wagon right but then when I really feel more tone at a dress yes then it's  like okay now we're ready to go that wouldn't that equate to how committed  you are to the shot too yeah right yeah How committed you are with your   target and your golf shot so you sometimes you get up there and  the Grid's pretty narrow and they got the wind going on a certain way and you  don't like the spot that you're in and you start getting a little timid yeah  and you can always sense when somebody's getting timid over a shot yeah I I  played in a tournament yesterday with my buddies and uh we did really good on the  Range in the morning MH I continued to do really well on the golf course like I  played really well didn't miss a fairway didn't miss a green in regulation  yesterday and I was a couple over cuz the greens are just you know incredibly  difficult but I was super proud at how I was getting myself committed I'd walk up  to a shot I'm going yeah there's a dog leg here so let's put one in play right  there and then I get over my ball and I'm going wait a second that's not clear  enough okay there's a tea box there there's a rope and there's a space  between the ropes okay we're going through there into that and there's a  wind coming over here so we're going to let the wind bring it back to that mound  right there through there to there and then I got up there and just absolutely  smoked my for iron off the tea yeah and it was a little too long yeah so my  second shot I mean I that was just a fabulous hole right I had 192 over these  towering Pines it's called Mystic Pines and I had have a a nice lie in the  rough I'm gone you can't really fade a ball with a crosswind out of the rough  so I'm going to have to take it over those trees and the only club that  really works is a seven iron over those trees so I had a little Tailwind the  little flyer lie I'm going yeah that fits MH I would normally i' would been  in five iron fade for me right two extra clubs yeah I smoked it landed 15 ft  short uphill putt missed the putt actually I three putted that one nice  nice right three jacked after that but the the clarity that I had on the tea  box was really really good I'm going left edge of red flag into that tree  with a straight fade there's my intermediate Point what's it going to  feel like when I deliver these grass clippings here with momentum into that  picture a yeah where's that heavy momentum right about like like  this just like that so that started just left edge of that red flag and just  faded to the right side of that tree but a really nice assertive pass y  I had two Eagle putts yesterday one of them was for I got a par and one of them  I finally got a birdie so to resume  Sav uh get ready to hit the ball versus Hitting the ball versus going for the target  get ready to deliver heavy poundage momentum left edge of  that red flag okay oh baby look at  that so that takes care of posture down the line and then if I was hitting a  shot toward Sav this is what it looks like see how  braced I am versus uh get ready to hit a ball so this is me getting ready to hit  a ball I could easily sway off this ball right now because I just don't have the  tone to hold myself yeah and here you are thinking I got to stop swaying so  you start thinking about stopping swaying but you're still not going over  there right versus I'm going to you yeah still going to you still going to you  just delivered to you right so there's that body language that matches my  intent to go that way with a twinkle in my eye right so so get to it you guys  get your targets and start getting into positions that match you going to the  Target for extra help come to wisdom Shawn concludes the golf lesson  andolf premium.com and we'll show you the body language that matches that and  we'll show you how to predict proper contact based on you going to the Target  and you got you got you'll have a lot more fun afterwards all the best