Hey everyone, Shawn here, Wisdom In Golf. You've never seen anyone shoots 62 thinking about all the positions that they're trying to make sure of. And Jose Maria, Kenneth Zara's really demonstrated that beautifully. If you saw his interview on DP world tour, this week opened up with a 62. What was your secret Well, I stopped thinking about my technique, which doesn't work. No, it will never work because you can't be in your swing positions while the target is waiting for you. So we need serious skill acquisition. Fortunately, there are many ways to acquire the skill of a golf swing that are super easy, that you could learn tomorrow. Believe it or not.
You don't want to miss this show. my goal today was to focus only on the targets, not to focus on my swing since it hasn't worked. So then when we get all the ball, you got your clear and immediate target. I can see this flight is clear as I'm standing here. There it is. There's the blur just thought we were Hearst momentum. Again, I'm not gonna look at the target and just stay down in it. Wow. Amazing sound that just came off of that. Now one easy skill that we all know and love here at wisdom and golf is the cutting of the grass. So if your job was to cut grass for people's lawns, you would take a grass whip like this, and you would go about cutting grass at ground level. And it would take you about a day to master this and about a month to become a wizard at it, acquired skill, something you would never, ever lose. You know, so you're not going to lose that particular swing.
And that's what people just don't understand is that you've got a golf club here that's designed, especially to cut grass. So if you take this as a dandy line, I'll give you an example. I put this on the tee, I'll take my grass whip. I'm going to go ahead and cut through the teeth. Here we go. So notice you heard the grasping clipped. So my eyes are on the grass and I'm focusing on the blade, skipping along the surface of the ground.
See that notice how I cut the tee out from under the ball and the ball just fell to the ground. This is really important. So the skill acquisition here involves soul of blade to ground. Now another particular. And then if I take, obviously I take my nine iron here, listen to the sound, right I come to the ball. My eyes are between the leading edge of the club and the ball. And I'm just going to let the sole of the club shave grass along the ground. When I do that, the S the stem of this dandy is going to get cut. So I shaved grass here, the sound. So I shaved grass along the surface of the ground and the ballparks up in the air. If I only had one arm and I was cutting grass with just one arm, notice the center of that machine is my right shoulder. And notice the club keeps cutting grass right under my shoulder. That's the center of that machine.
So if I take both arms, put them together to take my grip and I shaved grass there, it'll always shave grass from the center of my sternum, the sternal notch forward. I'm going to take a gap wedge, and I'm going to cut along that. So the reason why I'm taking my gap wedge, so the first ball can fly over the second ball. So I can go from gap wedge to lob wedge.
I see the grass that I'm about to cut. I'm using momentum cut through both stems. So you'll notice in slow motion. When I performed that, you'll see the first ball fly over the second ball, the club continue along the ground. And then the second ball fly into the air. I'm just cutting grass. What you're about to see Jamie let do, who is the number one player, and number one, number two player in Alabama right now, soon to be number one, see Jamie, I'm already thinking about you and a model of consistency. He loves to use painting the ground. So notice how I just took a pink brush and duct taped it to my club. And all I'm going to do is use momentum to paint the grass in front of my ball. So I would actually have the soul of my club. I'm going to keep my eyes here on right there, right in front of the ball. And I'm going to paint the ground using the sole of the club. Here we go.
Here are the sound, the sound of the soul of the club in friction with the ground on the way to the target. So I have a very specific task that I'm going to acquire. You're going to acquire paint the ground in the direction of the target. So if I'm painting the ground in that direction, I'm going to whip the paint in that direction here, the sound.
So I'm taking these bristles and I'm painting along the surface of the ground. And then when the paintbrush releases flings the ball in that direction. So it's like if I'm sweeping the ground, I'm collecting the dust from here, putting pressure on the broom and releasing the dust in the direction of the target. So I'm painting towards the target. So let's have a look at our beautiful little video that we did with Jamie. Let, Just painting a Stripe along the ground, striping it, like you were mentioning before, painting a Stripe along the ground in the direction that you want that ball to start. And with one of your prominent players, you were talking about how that really took the anxiety out of his thinking and it, and it puts something really simple out in front of him and, and, and everything started to, you know, like bathing oil, right Yep. So let me see, take that shot there again. So we got eight iron.
We have a Stripe, we're going to, we're getting ready to paint a Stripe in the direction that we want that ball to start. And we're using momentum to deliver that Stripe. Awesome, miss. Yeah. And that's, that's the other thing with a good that's this, the thing with in my game in general is, when you have a clear task like that and you stay, the misses are, are better. You're always in the ballpark say you're a better than ballpark. You're always in the ballpark And have a clear task, a clear picture. And then when you set up in there, so we're saying, well, I'm going to hit a little draw to the right edge of those trees. And you know, that that fits that's spot on right there.
That's right there as the edge of the trees. So now you'll see his alignment matches up beautifully to the edge of those trees. I'm sure you see that on camera there. And he's getting ready now to deliver momentum in that direction. So show me a position where you'd be way too far from the ball. Jamie, see to him, that's way too far. You didn't, he didn't have to move very far. Did he Right. You knew right away that I can't do it. So get way too close. And now you just don't have the space to get there. Nope. And now show me something that fits.
So from there you feel like you can use momentum to paint that ground in that direction. For sure. So now show me a ball position would be way too far forward for that shot. Now you're going to have to lunge to try and paint the ground here and show me some it's too far back in the stance. Now we're going to have to reach back right. And something that's proper. So now it feels like when you paint the ground, this way, the ball position will allow the ball to start on the line that you want it to. And now the rest is just grip club relationship. And every time I look at your grip and I'm gone, man, you know, does that ever look good So Jamie has a strong Gish grip and the way his hands work through the shot is it feels like, Hey man, when I swing that way, the ball is going that way. So grip club relationship is something that's really important for you to do.
And you'll see that on the premium channel. There's, you know, we take a lot of pride in the way we teach the grip so that you're able to sling in. You'll use the anatomy to sling in the direction that you want to start. So we got flight plan, intermediate point set up that matches. And now we just need, we just let momentum. Now you're just a witness, right You're just going to witness yourself, deliver that way. And there it is pure. So you went from a nice goodness, slightly thin shot to pure. Did you have to think about what you needed to fix Not from that thin shot. Not At all. As soon as he hit that thin shot, what went three months Not much. Not Much because your brain already knew. It's like, Aw, that's not the feel. I know it feels that's the feel. Yeah. That's the look, that's the sound. Yeah. So your mind, when you start getting good at a task, your mind is going to start collecting benchmarks, things to compare each shot to, and those benchmarks are the tide that raises all ships.
Right. So, when, when you finally, what was it, you were, you were, you were talking to me about one of your students that had a benchmark moment. Was it your son Jack. Jack, yes. Yeah. Tell us the story. Yeah. So, Well, we still w it was for him, it was, you know, feeling the weight of the club for the first time. He felt the, the weight of the club and the throat through the shot. So, and he, he's, he's really tall, you know So I don't know how he got that. He got lucky, I guess he's about six to 16 years old. And, and so his, his really the benchmark, what really got him turned on the most was he was, you know, he would, he would always, he said, I just can't feel the way the club, he was a little too far inside. Right. So he w he was stuck and he was losing that arm unit and club unit, you know, relates to these couldn't feel the weight.
So we had him, I did throw in the club with him, the throwing, the throw in the clubs. So he took the momentum. One of our tasks is throwing the Club. Yeah. So he was into using that momentum and using his long arms yes. To throw the club in that direction. He went one day on, on GC three in here, he went from swinging his driver 105 to 117 In one day, And about five swings. And that was the thing, the throwing, the first throw he did, it went way left.
Right. And so when we got the, we got the, that chain going, that was his go through When Jamie just did that last swing. There's a little sound, you know, where you hear the swish of the club, the sizzle of that club, it was way out here. So a lot of our students, when they first come to us, there's a lot of preconceived notions in there. And one of the worst preconceived notions is all the speeds at the bottom where the ball is, and all of the energy has got to be directed toward that ball. And so that's, you know, a real dangerous predicament that they're putting themselves into when you're throwing the club peak speeds over here.
And so all of a sudden there was a lot longer wait until that explosion came out and it went from a 105 to 117. Well, that's getting pretty serious. Yeah. Really that's getting pretty serious. And then all of a sudden your ball trajectory improves ball flight improves. And then, but that was, that was the part where he, he latched onto that field. That's it
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