Wyndham Clark & Paige Spiranac Talk Beating Golf Nerves ⛳️

he everyone it's Paige and welcome back to my YouTube channel I am at the BMW Championship in my home state of Colorado so if you're here come on out and see the action it is going to be absolutely incredible but as you guys know we are now two weeks out from the Creator classic and I have been quite transparent about the fact that I am beyond nervous because I don't play stroke play events anymore and so I'm not used to that type of pressure and so I'm going all out and I am bringing out the the big guns to help me prepare we're going to talk some technical and some mental so let's not wait any longer let's get right on into it so we have a very very special guest we have wam Clark he's joining me on my Channel today and um this is really cool most people don't know this but we're both from Colorado we grew up playing junior golf together and now we're here and in our home state of Colorado playing the BMW Championship how does that feel it's honestly a little surreal to be honest uh you know I remember watching the international here when I was very young and was a first tournament I ever went to and then now I'm playing this golf course as a pro in the tournament is as one of the best in the world as a major Champion that is insane I kind of have to pinch myself sometimes so this is this is going to be a cool week for me for sure do you feel more pressure or more of like a sense of calm cuz you're in a place that's comfortable uh it's a little bit of both um I'm just hope honestly just kind of getting out of the gates and just getting comfortable I think I'll really relax and enjoy it but I think it's kind of the the first couple shots I think I'll feel the pressure and then hopefully relax but it's it's so much fun I have all my friends and family coming out so you have a big crew coming out to support we've had to ask for a lot of tickets well that's awesome but you are here to help me because I'm playing in the Creator classic and I'm very nervous I haven't played stroke play in a very very long time and you know how to handle pressure so I was wondering if you give me one mental tip and one kind of like swing tip or like a shot that I need to have in the bag but how do you prepare yourself for going into event where you know you're feeling a little bit more anxious than normal um well the biggest thing is to I always go back to process and everyone hears this term and it probably gets overused but I feel like the best really focus on the process and focus on like the actual doing of it rather than the outcome and so you know for you and and you're coming up I would focus on okay what when I play my best what do I do and what's that process and so you know for me lately I have gotten a little too much into outcome focus and recently we've switched it to back to the process and I've started playing good golf and so you know for me um that's focusing on each like so if we go in putting what's my process in putting and when I get over a putt all I focus on is perfecting that process and let the outcome take care of itself same thing with wedges iron play driver all that and then at the end of the day you look up you're like oh wow shot 600 under great so I don't think I'll do that does help do you still get nervous for events I feel like people probably think oh the pros you guys play week in week out that you don't even get nervous for events unless maybe it's a major or like a rider cup do you still get nervous on the first te I yeah I mean I do it's it's funny certain events obviously it's higher than others um I feel like if you didn't get nervous then you wouldn't care about it and that's part of why we love this so much is the competition we love the nerves we love to embrace it challenge yourself um so yeah I I would say you the when I wake up the morning of a tournament I'm a little more nervous I walk to the first tea I have those first tea Jitters you kind of Hit the first shot and then you get to the green and but the great thing is as I've gotten better and more comfortable out here it kind of goes away sooner so it's hopefully it's just really the first hole and then you get to the second hole and you're like all right now we're back into work and we're comfortable but yeah I still get nervous what's the most nervous you've ever been in an event um honestly probably walking up the 18th hole at the US Open this year I thought I was visibly kind of shaking and just looking around I was like oh my gosh I can't believe this is my reality right now and then my mind wandered off for like 30 seconds and then I was like whoa we haven't won the tournament we still have to tput to win this and it was crazy I was really proud of myself I got back into like pretty calm I hit that Putt and then I went back to just being a nervous wreck I almost cried right after I hit the putt up to gimme U but yeah that's probably I do that almost every round so yeah that's that's quite normal so when I get nervous I feel it in my my hands and like my upper body and sometimes even like my legs and I just feel so jittery is there's something that you do in your swing that helps you kind of stay connected or have control cuz I do feel like my hands get nervous I get quick and then I flip it and then I get that nasty snap hook which keeps me up at night yes okay so I I I mean I've had the same nerves where you get on a hole you don't like or OB the first te and you're like oh my gosh I'm so nervous and I know this sounds but you go back to your process so if I I'll demonstrate to you actually um so my process on hitting shots so if we're going at this 200 yard marker okay I get a intermediate Target and so I play predom it cut so I'm going to start it barely left and so to make it easy do we have um I'll put this here so to make it easy I have this little dirt thing I focus on aiming my club and body to this and I actually don't even look up um as I'm walking and I don't even look at the Target so so that is now basically your new Target that is my new Target and I'm focused on getting really comfortable to that so all I do is I sit here and I go okay you know what I feel really good and comfortable to that then I look up and then I come back and maybe one more and then I ultimately pull the trigger breathing do you focus on your breathing the breathing's behind the ball breathing coming into it it's amazing what this does to me cuz you almost get focused on this and you forget about the outcome so the nerves almost go away and then you look up and you're like okay and then you pull the trigger and sure enough it starts where you want you're like oh s yeah so when I stand over it I go don't miss it left don't miss it right don't tank it so that I think that'll help me yeah that's that's not good that's not good right yeah don't do that uh let's not do that you know and then the other thing you can do is always have a go-to shot yeah what's your go-to shot Under Pressure um it's typically everyone tries to hit it lower so when you try to hit it up in the air I feel like more things can happen and so a lot of guys try to hit it low and it's predominantly a cut it's easier to kind of hold on you said those snap hooks yep it's kind of easier to open up and kind of hit like a you know honestly it might not look pretty but it's like a slap fade at almost sometimes even a slice and I've done it many times in competition and people bring it up like man that cut 30 40 yards and I'm like well did it end up in the Fairway and like yeah and I go well then it's that's what you're trying to do it's not how pretty it looks it's just getting the ball in the hole can you show us that shot so do you put it farther back in your stance choke down so what I'll do is if this is my normal I'm aiming here yeah I'm going to adjust a touch more left of that okay and then yes I have it a touch back in my stance I maybe narrow my stance and then all I'm thinking about is swinging left and then holding the face open so what does narrowing your stance do honestly it I think it just helps you when you're nervous you forget to move your big body parts and you get handsy and so I feel like if you get a little bit narrow it act it kind of through a little bit more cuz if you get really wide you can sometimes just be arms and hands that's what I do yeah my hips stop and then I either like flip it or try to save it and hit it out right so I would get into it be a little bit more narrow open up and then really just think about hitting like a hold cut and you you kind of abbreviate the follow through so should hopefully look like this yeah so that's how you win a US Open yeah just like just like that yeah so you it's I mean it it's not the prettiest shot but it looked really pretty to me yeah I mean to my eye I like straighter but typically you know Under Pressure I think that's kind of the best thing to do now for some people it could be a draw yeah for me I like Fades that's what I see so I always go to fade Under Pressure well there we go yeah and there you have it that is how you handle pressure which is really important for all of us either if you're playing at a major championship a N9 whole stroke play event your Club Championship really anything so thank you so much Windam for giving us some really helpful tips and advice and good luck we're excited to share you on this week yeah thank you appreciate being on the show and I will make sure to link all of windom's Socials down below don't forget to like this video leave a comment down below subscribe to my channel and I will see you guys next Thursday bye