
Adam Young on His “7 Laws of Good (Golf) Impact”
Adam Young joins the On The Mark golf podcast to talk about his “7 Laws of Impact” and the importance of embracing them in your practice.
Sean Foley is one of the foremost instructors in the world. He is a PGA TOUR and LPGA teacher and he is also the Head Coach of the Canadian Junior Golf Association. Among many illustrious clients, he has worked with Tiger Woods and Justin Rose. He joins us to share his take on the game and how to maximize improvement and skill. He shares PGA TOUR examples as he dives into Body Motion in the swing, the action of the Arms and Hands, Confidence vs Competence, Perception and Reality and Productive Practice.
The On The Mark golf podcast has had some really great content lately. Our recent podcast with Andrew Park was awesome, go take a listen, if you haven’t already. One of the more popular ones was with Kevin Chapman. He spoke on dealing with fear and anxiety and how to navigate them on the golf course. We had the episode with Butch Harmon and it was downloaded like CRAZY! Make sure you listen to that one!
I also write for Golf.com, please go take a peak at my articles there as well. One of the instructional editors there, Luke Kerr-Dineen, has also been here one the On The Mark golf podcast. He spoke of 5 Great Tips from 5 Great Instructors from Golf Magazine. Luke actually wrote an article summarizing his listening experience of our On The Mark podcast with Butch Harmon, titled: 6 Hall-of-Fame tips from Butch Harmon that can help every golfer’s game.
Butch Harmon = legend.
Sean Foley = legend.
Sean may not be as old as Butch, but is certainly just as wise. Sean Foley has worked with so many great golfers, like Tiger Woods, Hunter Mahan, Justin Rose, Danny Whillett,….the list is long. He works with golfers of all skill levels, and helps everyone to achieve their best.
I’ve tried to protect players from my own influence for so long.
Here in Orlando, we have Dr. Craig Davies, one of the top sport chiropractors in the world, who has always worked with my players on tour. We have Mark B. who runs all our 3D analytics.
Basically, a kid comes to see me, gets accessed, then see’s Mark for 3D analysis. Those 2 confer. Then the kid comes to me for a lesson. I basically know what he can and can’t do.
I feel that I am more consistently working on their game now, than working on this perfect move that I have in my head. It’s the perfect place to be a coach. The thing that is so important about this process is that you know physiologically what limitations there are. When you only look at a player, you think you know what they need to do right away, but when you take into consideration physiological limitations you understand so much more.
You start looking at this 28 year old and realize I don’t need to tell him what to do, I just need to teach him what it is. If I can teach him why the lower body would move better if it did X, and the ribcage would move better if it did X, and the shoulder would move better is it did X.
He’s just taking it all in.
Realize that we are going out on the golf course and say it has 4 long Par threes, what is the percentage of 8 and 9 irons that a player hits on the range? It’s like 50%. And you think, we are not even going to use that club!
When you watch people post swing videos, they are all with 7 irons. Because it looks so good.
Let’s start to prepare better. It takes a lot of time to get better. If you go play a golf course and you know that 4 or 5 shots are going to be with a hybrid, then please hit your hybrids on the range.
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We don’t rise to our expectations,
we fall to the level of our training.
~Sean Foley
Sean Foley: When you start talking to coaches in other sports, if you can just get in your mind that the only difference is that the golfer is bent over and we are playing to the side, the rest of it is totally similar.
I’ve watched you do that to a certain extent with Danny Willett.
Please share some insight with the golfers who are struggling and trying to get back to their best.
When I started with Tiger, he wasn’t Tiger. Hunter Mahan had short game woes. So pretty much all the guys that I’ve worked with have been more to their low point when I started with them.
You are not adopting a misunderstanding of technique. You are adopting almost a depressed person. To them, golf is life and death. We know it’s not, but to them it is.
Perception is reality, but reality isn’t truth.
With Danny, he went from 7th in the world to 450th or something crazy.
He never really moved a lot in his swing. He won the Masters and 4 other tournaments, so he can do that obviously.
But I told him, you are going to struggle to hit a lot of shots to be hyper-competitive. You can’t really drive, you can’t hit it high, and you don’t hit it far enough. So….I asked him you are only 29, a career is a long time, how do you want to go about this? Oh and your neck, back, knee, and elbow all hurt…
Danny and Lucas are very different. Lucas just had a misunderstanding about many things that wasn’t helping his ball striking, but he is very capable (he wasn’t hurt from doing it).
But with Danny, he didn’t really have any options. If you looked at him, he had no stretch phase and because of that he had no counter rotation phase. So he is basically using the mobility in his thoracic spine and really fast hands to create a ton of force into the club in a short interval.
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Adam Young joins the On The Mark golf podcast to talk about his “7 Laws of Impact” and the importance of embracing them in your practice.
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Sean Foley joins this episode of On The Mark to share his take on the game and how to maximize improvement and skill. He shares PGA TOUR examples as he dives into Body Motion in the swing, the action of the Arms and Hands, Confidence vs Competence, Perception and Reality and Productive Practice.
Dr. Bob Rotella is one of the foremost golf coaches in the game. Specializing in Sports Psychology, Dr. Bob is consistently recognized as the leading mind in his field. Rotella joins the podcast to share thoughts and insights to help you navigate the challenges of being mentally astute on the course and in competition.
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