I love when we make a video that'll be a reference for years to come, not just a one-time watch.

That's what today's is.

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Then I recorded a podcast that basically called me a bad golf student to my face 😅 Both below.

In this issue:

• 5 drills for every part of your bag (the wedge one was really surprising for me)
• Turns out I'm a bad golf student... and you might be too. We talk about it in our new podcast.
• The "mechanical index" and why the gap between it and your handicap changes what you should practice
• Behind-the-scenes US Open data that's kind of nuts

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The Best Drills for Every Part of Your Game

This weeks new video is hopefully a resource you come back to a couple times a year for some inspiration on drills you can do during your practice!

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One drill and one theme stood out from this episode for me

The wedge drill was phenomenal for me personally.

The setup and concepts really helped me understand what I need to be doing to hit more consistent distance wedges.

It's a little bit opposite of what I thought too.

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The theme to follow: Get your foundations right and calibrate first (then move into a performance-based / random practice)

Most of us never take the time to get the foundations set up and double check all the essentials.

🎥 Watch the new video here.​

​ 🙌 Well Played: This Week’s Top Finds: ​ 🛠️ The level of behind the scenes access we get these days with pro golf and YouTube and all this stuff is crazy. James Nicholas taking us behind the scenes at the US Open is pretty killer. ​ Check out the segment where they go into the data. Cool to see the kind of insights they're using for big tournaments like this👇 ​ ➡️ Tour Aim is coming out with a new version of their training aid. Something to watch out for. 👉 Stephen Sweeney is doing some very cool innovative stuff in putting coaching. Cool to watch him go through his coaching process. ​ 🏃 Watch me play Speed Golf. We edited up a few shorts from my first time playing speed golf. So much fun. ​ 🎥 I always enjoy these long-form chats. Dylan Dethier does a great job! ​ 🎥 Really interesting to watch Joe Mayo give a chipping lesson in a longform setting with Shane Bacon. Worth a watch. ​

NEW PODCAST: How to be a golfer that keeps getting better

On this weeks new podcast, I sat down with Luke Benoit and Justin Kraft to talk about something nobody wants to hear: most of us are bad golf students.

A few things we got into:

• Why I tell my 12-handicap buddies to not touch their swing... and what to do instead.
• Grading golfers "mechanical index" and why it matters.
• The one mindset thing that separates the students who get better fast from the ones who spin their wheels for years.
• Guessing handicaps from swing videos. Some plus-handicaps look like they fell out of an airplane. Some 26s look like Adam Scott.

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Have a great week!
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-Cordie

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