When you head to the range, do you have a practice strategy?

Planning for moments of pure magic.

If you are a seasoned player, if you want to see a significant improvement in your game and score, you must make a meaningful change in the way you practice. Just imagine playing golf free of swing thoughts, free of thoughts of right or wrong, that’s where you’re headed.

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You have 3 seconds to pull the trigger, now what?

  • Actively processing information.

    Golf is hard, at times we have too much to think about. With the elements, mechanics, body movements, our mind is active processing all this information. The problem is we're processing information just before we pull the trigger. Then we're left with trying to diagnose what went wrong and how to fix it.

  • Eliminate all that thinking.

    The Blackout Practice Plan will focus on this very issue. We’ll focus on building your Feel for distance control, and how to eliminate all that thinking. You'll learn to hit your fairway wedges the correct distance and find your Feel for the speed of the greens, all done without conscious thought of course.

  • You better have a plan.

    When you step in to your golf shot you have 3 seconds to pull the trigger. You better have a plan, because if you're thinking about what is going on above the ball, if you have swing thoughts dancing in your head, do you really know where the ball is going to land? You better have a plan for your next shot...

When playing your best golf, what are you thinking about?

Meaning of Blackout Mode

You know the phrase, “It’s just like riding a bike.” How is it that you can go years without riding a bike, then you’re able to get on and ride it effortlessly? They say it’s because of implicit memory which involves remembering how to complete tasks that do not require conscious thought.

When you hop on a bike for the first time there is zero implicit memory to fall back on, you first must learn the fundamentals, ingrain them to memory, then and only then can you ride a bike properly without conscious thought.

With the practice plan we’re not going to fiddle too much with a golf swing that has been useful for decades. This is a crucial point because many of us have spent years on the practice range trying to fix our golf swing. When you’re in Blackout Mode there are no swing thoughts, no mechanical thoughts, and no thoughts about right or wrong.

Just like with riding a bike, the seasoned player must install implicit memory into their golf swing. That is, you must learn to strike a golf ball without conscious thought. This starts at home, where you can work on the technical stuff without thinking about the result.

Once on the range, it's critical to separate mechanical thought from hitting golf shots a specific distance.

By definition, that is Blackout Mode.

Advanced training

Changing Swing Speeds is the key to controlling distance.

This is where you change swing speeds to adjust the distance you're hitting the ball, without thought of course. We start at home, where we'll feed your mind with the fundamentals of changing speeds. Then you'll commit it to memory, so we don’t have to think or talk about the process once we get on the range. A key moment in your training.

You know you shouldn't be trying to fix your swing on the golf course. But you need to find answers, you need to know why, you need to know how. And for good reason.

  • If you're anything like me.

    You’ve spent way too much time trying to fix a golf swing that has been useful for a long time, maybe even decades.

  • Finding swing thoughts.

    I'd find my swing thoughts from a recent lesson or practice. Or a swing tip from an article in Golf Magazine, or a video on Instagram.

  • The real problem.

    I'd take all the swing thoughts I could find to the range and go pound golf balls, lots of them. Then I would go play golf.

How many times have you “found something” in your swing that works, and then that’s all you can think about?

Harvey Penick (Little Red Book) said this about swing thoughts:

"In the golf swing a tiny change can make an enormous difference. The natural inclination is to begin to overdo the tiny change that has brought success. So, you exaggerate to improve even more, and soon you are lost and confused again.”

I think Harvey Penick was talking about me.

Here's the real problem. We find something that works, then we pound balls on the range, and ingrain that swing thought into our conscious memory. Then we go play golf. In those few seconds just before we pull the trigger, the swing thought is barking instructions at us. By the time we make the turn, we're lost and confused again.

It's an endless cycle that some players never get out of. That's the reason why we're here.

But what if it's possible to trust your golf swing just the way it is.

  • Finding your own answer.

    What if every time you hit balls on the range you weren't looking for someone to give you the answer. What if you could hit balls consistently the correct distance without grinding over swing thoughts, and without trying to fix your golf swing.

  • Looking every where but within.

    Ask yourself: how would your game change if you had conviction for how you practice? What if you had the foundation of a practice plan to build upon? What if you could stop changing from day to day, swing thought to swing thought?

  • Practice without technical thought.

    Imagine what it would be like to take everything you think you know about the golf swing and get rid of it. Imagine in the moments just before you pull the trigger, you have no technical thoughts, no swing thoughts. Imagine the freedom.
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Introducing the Fairway Wedge Practice Strategy

A practice strategy that gets the distance right.

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What's Inside?

  • Training starts at home.

    At home, where it's easy to find the time to practice. This is where we install implicit memory into your golf swing. That is, the first step in learning how to strike a golf ball without conscious thought. We’ll introduce the fundamentals of the pre-shot routine, then the movements of the three stock wedge swings used for distance control inside 100-yards.

  • FEEL drills on the range.

    Once on the range, we’ll start the process of hitting golf balls without thoughts of backswing or finishing positions, allowing your mind to communicate with your body without your conscious thoughts getting in the way. We then progress to more advanced distance drills that prepares your mind and body for what's going to happen on game day.

  • How to change swing speeds.

    This is where you change swing speeds to adjust the distance you're hitting the ball, without thought of course. We start at home, where we'll feed your mind with the fundamentals of changing speeds. Then you'll commit it to memory, so we don’t have to think or talk about the process once we get on the range. A key moment in your training.

  • Building your practice plan.

    Going to the Golf Course without a plan, plowing through a bucket of balls, is not practice, and has little value. A great advantage to In-Home Training is you can evaluate your On-Course Performance, that is, identify your weaknesses. The next practice plan encourages you to keep moving forward, making sure this change to your practice habits is permanent. You'll be happy with the results.

  • Advanced In-home training.

    I'll encourage you to STOP with the swing thoughts already. But, if you’re anything like me, sometimes they enter our minds when we’re not looking. You might take a swing lesson or want to incorporate a movement or swing thought into your training. I'll show you how to do it without old habits returning, you know, trying to fix your swing while grinding on the range. YUK!

  • Blackout Mode Training.

    You know the phrase, “It’s just like riding a bike.” How is it that you can go years without riding a bike, then hop on and ride it effortlessly? They say it’s because of implicit memory or remembering how to complete tasks that do not require conscious thought. We'll install implicit memory into your golf swing. That is, you'll learn to hit golf balls without conscious thought.

  • Chipping practice plan.

    To build Feel into your chipping motion, we first must install implicit memory, sound familiar? You must learn the fundamentals before you can Pitch or Chip the golf ball without conscious thought on the practice green. This starts at home where we’ll introduce the fundamentals of the Chipping Setup and Swing.

  • Keep it simple bunker training.

    Most of us don’t practice bunker shots enough. With wedges inside 100-yards, chipping, and putting practice, sometimes we simply run out of time. That’s where this chapter comes in, we’ll cover the basics of getting out of the sand consistently and give you a chance to make a putt. The drills start at home of course.

  • Discover your Feel of distance

    How do you learn to Feel the distance of a wedge shot? If the truth be told, Feel is not something that you learn, it's discovered or found within yourself. When your Feel is good, you're free to play a confident shot. In other words, you trust it, you trust yourself. You'll discover, there's no better Feeling in the game of golf.

Plus you'll get Free Bonus Drills.

  • Make your short putts.

    There is no better way to make an immediate impact on your golf game then to spend a little time on the practice green watching the ball go in the hole on a consistent basis.

  • Simply read the line.

    Nothing can replace experience when learning to read the line, but it seems with our effort to get our read right we skip over the easiest and sometimes most accurate way to get it done.

  • Get Ready for Game Day.

    You’re preparing for your round, where things go quick, we’ll prepare you to get in the right frame of mind. When you show up to the first tee you shouldn’t be worried about the first shot, just excited to get it going.

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The 'must have' skill in the game of golf.

The common denominator of the best players in the world is that in the moments just before they pull the trigger, their not consciously thinking about anything. Top players and teachers have different names for it, separate ways to get into that mode:

Harvey Penick (Little Red Book) called it: "Take Dead Aim."


Brian Hepler (Tathata Golf) calls it: "Looking Out in Front."


Jordan Spieth calls it: "Blackout."


Tiger Woods calls it: "Take a Picture."

Simply, it's about striking a golf ball without the thought of how hard to hit it, with the image of the target fresh in your mind.

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GAME DAY PREPERATION

Fairway Wedge Distance Training

Practice becomes more preparation for game day and less pounding of golf balls on the range, trying to fix a swing that has been virtually the same for decades. There is no mystery to it, more than 60% of all shots are struck within 100 yards of the flagstick. If you are a seasoned player, if you want to see a significant improvement in your game and score, you must make a meaningful change in the way you practice. Just imagine playing golf free of swing thoughts, free of thoughts of right or wrong, that’s where you’re headed.

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Meet the moment of truth behind blackout mode.

A while back, ok it was over 20 years ago, I was reading an article in Golf Digest about how Phil Mickelson practices distance control with his wedges.

Phil would work on 1-yard intervals, yes, I said 1-yard. He would have his caddy stand at say 85 yards, with a baseball glove. Phil would hit his wedge shot so his caddy could catch the golf ball without moving his feet.

My interest was piqued!

His caddy would take one step back and Phil would hit 86-yard shots. He would go through all yardages; each time feeling the difference at 1-yard intervals.

Incredible!

Then it hit me, “I’m practicing the wrong things.” Phil was not working on his swing, most likely no swing thoughts were dancing in his head. His only thought was to hit the golf ball to his caddy 86-yards away.

Think about that for a moment, we are grinding on the range, shot after shot, trying to fix our golf swing.

Then here’s Phil Mickelson, hitting little wedge shots 85-yards, then 86-yards, then 87-yards, his only thought was the distance to the baseball glove?

I had questions.

How does he do that?

What’s the difference between 85-yards and 86-yards, in the golf swing?

Does he consciously change the mechanics of any part of his swing?

This was the decisive moment for me, it changed everything. It changed how I practice on the range, how I practice at home, and most importantly, how I prepare for game day.