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In this drill, we're going to talk about the post shot routine.

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So many people are familiar with a pre shot routine, where you're going to try

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to get

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yourself in the right state of mind so that you can execute a shot the first

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time, you

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know, without distractions, all that good stuff.

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But I rarely see amateurs who have a very good post shot routine.

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And I think that it's important when you're trying to transfer practice from

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the range

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to the course to have a good post shot routine during most shots.

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So the post shot routine should be a matter of a few seconds, but your goal is

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to interpret

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the feedback from that shot.

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Here's what I mean by that.

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So let's say I take a shot and I let's say hit it off to the right.

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My goal is not to analyze my mechanics.

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They might have broken down, but I don't want to use this time to pay attention

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to that.

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But I want to pay attention to during the post shot routine.

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Was there any distractions that I didn't pay attention to during my pre shot

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routine?

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So was there any point over the ball where I kind of doubted the club selection

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?

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Was there any point during the swing where I doubted the commitment to the shot

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?

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And then if neither of those check out, then if I take a step back, was there

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anything that

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I didn't see here as in, well, maybe the ball was actually below my feet and I

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should

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have adjusted my swing to more of a fade by a swing and I just didn't prepare

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for it?

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Or was there a visual distraction?

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Like maybe the bunker over to the right was where my eyes were last fixated

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before I went

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and pulled the trigger.

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So the post shot routine is a great way to go through and see when you lost

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commitment

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to the shot.

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If you're practicing and you are hitting shots that have a predictable pattern,

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you're either hitting pulls or slices, right?

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So a common over the top pattern, I'm hitting pulls and slices.

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But I'm doing it while I'm working on mechanics, that's something totally

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different.

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If I'm hitting the ball great on the range and then I get on the course and

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every time

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I have a ball below my feet shot, I hit a slice, it's not mechanics, it's

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preparation.

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I didn't prepare for the shot appropriately and you're not going to figure out

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if you're

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not preparing for the shot appropriately unless you learn to analyze the

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feedback with an appropriate

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post shot routine.

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I call it non-judgmental acknowledgement.

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Just kind of make note of what you're seeing so that you can then add it to

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your practice

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schedule, don't try to correct it on the course.

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Just pay attention, write it down if you need to, but start noticing, but start

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noticing

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to notice the patterns of when your bad shots hit because they're rarely just

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because of

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mechanics and if you can rule out the other stuff it makes it a whole lot

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easier to train.