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Male: Every good golfer has got to get in to a routine that they do every time before they come up to the ball, so they can have their mind clear to think about the specific target that we are going to hit at. Kent, explain your free shot routine for us.
Kent: Well, on this particular hole when I come up to this green and look at it, the first thing I have to do is kind of survey the whole thing. I look at the range marker over here that tells me that is about a 142 yards from this T right here. A little bit downhill, for me that is right in my 8 arm range. So, I can see that there is trouble on the left and trouble on the right bunker. You can see all kinds of trouble.
Male: The whole hole is trouble!
Kent: That is right.
Male: There is no bail out area at all.
Kent: This green is actually surrounded by trouble. So, I want to observe the trouble but I see the trouble as kind of arrows pointing me towards the target. And the target is up there on that green. So, the first thing I have to do is determine where I really want to land this golf ball. I am probably not going to shoot at the pen because it is too closed to the right side of the green. So, we have actually placed the pizza out there this morning, I know it is still early for pizza but we have a pizza out there in the middle of that green.
Male: Remember what we have talked about in the classroom? Is that you never want to vision where you do not want to go. And the pizza on the middle of the green gives us a great idea exactly where our target is going to be at. We are going to have our target right at the middle of this green.
Kent: I do not feel any wind in my face. If I felt some wind, that would figure in to my pre-shot routine and for about every 10 miles of wind, I would use 1 club more or 1 club less, depending if it was with me or against me. If it was blowing across, you have to allow for the wind to blow it left to right.
So, once I have gone through that, I have done everything I can do, I am just going to rely on my practice and walk up and just like I was pulling a trigger on a gun or a rifle, just walk up, Tee up the ball, waste very little time, and pull the trigger.
Male: Well, let us not get in to the pizza.
Kent: All right.
Let us review the pre-shot routine. I would reduce it to see it, feel it, and trust it. Once the club has been determined or we know the shot that we are going to hit here, it is just a matter of seeing it now in the air and then feeling that feeling that would be required as is if we hit a perfect shot. I want to capture that, how would I feel if I just hit it perfect, and then I simply walk up, tee the ball up, square to my target and hit it. See it, feel it, trust it.
Male: Three basic things of what every great player does, he sees the shot, he feels the shot, and then he trusts it.
Kent: That is right. It is reacting to it; it is not trying to control the shot.
Male: Absolutely. And that is so important to have a practice swing so that during your practice swing, you will see it mentally, you feel it with your body and you trust it when you step up behind the golf ball.
Kent: It is that simple.
Male: That simple.
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