Another good one. The guy in the background was relieved that @MerchCzar wasn’t going to bang up the new paint job.
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I’m watching this side by side with the PGA feed on mute and when I looked up, my brain short circuited thinking KVV was out here swinging like Hovland.
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KVV’s reaction at the 12:25 mark is so damn relatable. Been there a thousand times.
Will Hueber be available for lessons at the summer festival? I desperately need to get in the sand with him.
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Yes plz
Who’s peeing in the bushes this go round?
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Very first thing on the screen is @KVV missing a belt loop on the back of his shorts. Did it myself recently.
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Hueber is exactly as consistently positive as one person can be without making me hate them. He somehow manages to stay solidly on the right side of that line every time he speaks. Seems like such a solid, solid guy.
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I’m loving these film rooms. As much as the first five talk down on their game, they are the outliers with pretty good swings. Taking how to salvage from a bad shot is more helpful for me, where double and triples kill me. Going to take that breath exercise out next time
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Specifically worked the “deep breath, exhale, go.” into driver swings tonight and felt so good.
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There really isn’t an amount of money I wouldn’t pay for an on-course lesson with Hueber.
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Hueber saying to imagine you’re hitting the sand in the middle of your stance and move your ball position around accordingly (so, depending on how much sand you want to take on a given shot) was a pretty good tip that I’d never heard before, and which made total sense, AND which would be a great thing to tell a beginning golfer about bunker play.
I’m teaching my wife how to golf, so these types of relatable nuggies are invaluable.
This video was a tough watch, but I was glad I hung in for that.
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By the way…
I hereby declare @KVV to henceforth be also known as Thicctor Hovland.
That’s some reliably OTT action, bub.
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Hit me watching this, I really need to take an on course lesson with a pro. That shit seems waaaaaay more helpful than sitting in a range bay.
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@kvv @ChickPhilA what’s it like to have a pro tell you “it’s this club because that’s the right club for when you hit a good shot.”? Like if I know the number is an 8, I’ll often hit 7 because I know I may not hit it solid.
Were you able to get your brain around the idea of ok, hit this club because I know I’m going to hit a good shot?
For me, this has been pretty easy to put my head around - trust the club will do its job and trust that I will swing it pretty consistently to have confidence over the ball just to let it rip. @joecline41 you got to see some of my new “process” in Ohio the other weekend. In addition to just trusting the club, I have been using Arccos to dial in my average distances with each club. Most are right about where I had them in my mind, but some were a bit shorter than what I “remembered.” I have been combining that info with looking at the middle-to-back distances for the greens (ignoring the pin for the most part), and those two things have helped me feel way more confident on approach shots. I see the yardage, and I know what club will get me there most of the time, and I have been hitting more greens because I am confident that the ball will go that far with that club MOST of the time. I’m not taking “more club” just “in case” I don’t flush it. I have to assume I will hit the club correctly, and it will perform as it should. This has been an easy mental switch for me.
I still need to tweak this process a bit (like, if the pin is way front, take the middle green # more into account than the back as long as there is no big trouble front, as recently I was rolling off the back of more approaches, lol), but having the actual data instead of just “anecdotal” data has helped me pull the right club more often than not, and I don’t let a random mis-hit change that process during the round 
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I’m not a stat tracking guy during a round. I’m way too ADD for that. But after talking Arccos with you, I’m very tempted to look into it this off-season.
Also, there’s way too many shots in a round for me to track.
I’m not an expert in KVV’s game but I have watched him play in Strapped, his fitting video, and now the back 9 at Timuquana. From my personal experience and those of golfers that I regularly play with is that there is a pretty big difference moving from Muni golf to more difficult layouts (ie nicer private clubs and “championship” layouts). For a muni, the recovery shots are far less challenging. It is quite possible to make par from the wrong fairway or pull hook it 50 yds left of the green and then escape with a bogey or maybe even an up and down for a par. One of KVV’s takeaways was to work on ‘recovery’ shots: the more challenging the golf course – the more variety of recovery shots that you need.
Justin Heuber does a great job in these videos talking about how to approach and think about golf. This is something that really separates people, because golf is HARD. So much of golf is spent on technique and skill instruction. Relatively little is spent on how to shoot better scores. I have been taking lessons from the same pro for over 5 years. Last year, he started inviting me to play in Pro-Ams with him. That has been an eye opening experience. He treats them as playing lessons and takes copious notes that you discuss at the next lesson. That has been incredibly helpful especially in learning to “Trust Good”. Plan for a good shot, expect it happen and enjoy it when it does. Know that you can recover from a bad result, and know that you don’t need a miracle to play good golf.
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That’s why I am enjoying the Arccos - I have to do a little cleanup post round, but I love the data!! Especially when I can see really where I have been improving 
approaches are the weakest part of my game, but we are getting better. I’m comparing to a 14 index as that is my goal for this year.
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While all of this is true, I don’t play most of my golf on public tracks. I’ve been a member of a country club since 2017 and have logged (rough guess) 200 rounds at them. I shot 82 from 6700 yards on Pinehurst No. 2 at the Donnybrook two years ago.
As much as watching my own golf swing on film makes me want to puke, there are some elements of this round that are kind of important to factor in. You can’t hit a single ball at Timmaquana on Mondays as the range/course isn’t open. I drove from the airport right to the course because I had to stay in Baltimore the night before and be on the Sunday pod because of scheduling. This was also literally my first round with my new clubs, which arrived two days prior to this. Also much as this feels like a whiny excuse, all that stuff does factor in. Playing on camera is definitely hard, but I mostly forgot about it. Golf is hard, particularly when you’re a 45-year-old dad of three who sits in a chair for a living. I hope next time will be better.
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