The 3rd ECPT Provincial Series Tournament and Long Drive Contest
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Join me as I recap the third East Coast Pro Tour Provincial Series presented by Machinex, hosted at the Club de Golf Laurier in Princeville, Quebec. A fun golf course, some questionable weather and a few up and downs, how will I fare in this event? Make sure you tune in to check out all the action including the long drive contest after the round, followed by the breakdown after the conclusion. As always, I provide a fair and honest assessment of my performance and where I feel I need to improve going forward. Enjoy!
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Great content!!
@@UPUPGOLF thanks for the support 🙏
Member at the Laurier here, some of these greens are brutal! I see some of your mistakes so often, sometimes there is no way to know about some things unless you know the place inside out and even then its always hard to execute. Great video, lotta fun seeing you play my home course
@@WXB049 thanks for watching! I always enjoy playing at Laurier. It presents a very unique challenge for a shorter course.
Enjoyed that James - your swing tempo is silk 🎉
@@alisonburgess345 thanks Alison! 🙏
One to gain experience!
@@jeffreytabourne absolutely. If you’re not going to win you at least have to learn.
Clearly not your best day, James but you fought back quite well from the rough start. On a pound-for-pound and stature basis you were the clear winner of the long drive. It was my first look at Laurier so I'm slowly vicariously touring the province's golf courses to the degree that I haven't yet already done it (which is decent but far from exhaustive). Once again,great content. All the best for the rest of the season.
Here is a swing idea and concept that I've been working on. I believe that it has a certain universality of application for the golf swing but will likely be felt differently by virtually every player. Basically I feel that there is always a free release of the trail hand around the "post" of the lead wrist and moving lead arm in the best golf swings, meaning that the freeer (more relaxed) and more responsive the trail hand, in the very late stages of the pre-impact downswing, the more likely that fully square compression is to occur. The explanation for this is that micro adjustments of the clubhead path, attack angle, and speed occur late in the downswing based on slight variations in extension, weight shift, speed of rotation, tempo, etc., This trail hand freedom can also act as a bit of "shock absorber" when some of our swing elments fall out of sequence or the sequence changes tempo or rhythm.
Such an action of the trail hand presents a clear difficulty in describing it in detail since there is an interdependance of it with virtually every aspect of the swing during the most pivotal part of the swng motion. Thus I would say (assuming you find any reason to give any heed to this information), that a player should learn to pay very close attention (starting with practice and non-competitive play) to the sensation of that free trail hand release during their best strikes and understand that such freedom is always necessary and might be the first thing to go (and be more necessary) when a player is under pressure, changes rhythm, tempo, or sequence to some degree or becomes too focussed on the elements of his/her swing and consequently loses their sense of timing to some degree. This is not personal to you, but just something that I think could be helpful to any, especially high level, golfer. Anyway, just sharing my thoughts and hoping that it is helpful for you. Cheers.
@@timothypollock8358 interesting thoughts. I’ll stew on that for a bit and let you know my thoughts, but my initial reaction is that it makes sense. Cheers!
@@jamescolindavisgolf Just to flesh out the idea a bit. The 6-iron that you smashed in the 2nd Griffon video on 14 (18:34 in the video) was a perfect example in my mind of just how powerful the right trail hand release can be. You really drove to your lead side on the shot with very synched up rotation and then you really drove the lead hand and arm past the ball while the trail hand released freely in perfect synch with that motion. The end result was a crushed perfectly straight shot. A less perfectly synched swing might be saved by letting the trail hand release freely and still result in a square serviceable impact but when it all comes together, a free trail hand release will result in killing it. Still not trying to sell you anything, but I thought that I would provide something in the way of illustration. I guess that my thought could be summarized by saying that the golf swing is a combination of making it happen and letting it happen but a large portion of the "letting it happen" occurs in the arms and, I think, especially the hands. Since the trail hand is attached to the club and the most important lever system of the golf swing, the trail arm, it needs to be very dynamic in its response to the swing motion. Cheers.
@@timothypollock8358 love your breakdown. What’s your background in golf?
@@jamescolindavisgolf I've just been around the game my whole life. Starting with Montreal Municipal Golf Club where I caddied and worked the range in my pre and early teens. The pro, Phil Giroux and manager Damien Gauthier were both notable in Quebec and Phil even in Canada (played the Canada Cup representing Canada a few times). Started shooting par in my mid to late teens with a pretty natural swing and won the Quebec CEGEP tournament (14 schools) at Bromont Golf Club 1977. Had a plus handicap staring in my late teens having never taken a lesson but studied books and magazines and usually never exceeding 30 rounds a year, but lots of practice. I have also won a bunch of corporate tournaments, hurrah! I pretty much wanted to be a playing pro at some point but never had a huge amount of resources to play with and never took the next step. The vaguaries of the swing have fascinated me since my mid-thirties (the mid-90s) and for the last 10 years+, I have studied thousands of golf swings and many, many different concepts and ideas. I can pretty much get the gist of a swing in a glance now and see what top analysts see and sometimes what they don't. My take is that the swing has vertical, lateral, and rotational components in various combinations depending on the swing and individual strengths and tendencies. The takeaway and clubhead path must respect the particular combination of these elements pertaining to any given golfer for the swing to be "effective". There are however intangibles in the swing, which I believe is why even the best golfers can have such peaks and valleys of ball striking (except maybe Moe who took away so many variables in the main components that ONLY the trail arm/hand variable was left). The trail hand/arm combination is the biggest of these intangibles since no matter how you combine the big 3 major above-mentioned components, the clubhead is being driven around a curve rotationally at the bottom of the arc dependant on how those components combine and the appropriate plane for that club, and the trail arm/hand must respond to any differences from swing to swing in order to compress the ball and square the clubface. The stressors of the game, changing intensity and pace of the swing motion, all can make changes in the main components making adaptation and thus the intangibles more important for success. So in a nutshell, self made as a swing analyst with a lot of history, exposure, and mileage. Cheers.
@@jamescolindavisgolf I should also say that golf was my best but not only love in sports. I set all-time touchdown records in my regional football league in my pre-teens, played with the Quebec team and went to the final match of the under 15 Jeux de Quebec in table tennis, played varsity tennis, badminton, soccer, track, and golf in high school. Earned a black belt in karate by 19 and a few years later living in California, I used to spar regularly with the junior welterweight boxing champion of Northern California. So I was kind of confused and "didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up" athletically speaking. I always had widely scattered interests even beyond sports. Cheers.
Way to keep fighting and making good shots. I have that same damn miss pull left is so annoying.
@@charlesgenest5040 thank you Charles. Yes, any consistent miss is annoying. Working hard to eradicate it though!
Keep grinding, some days you’re the windshield some days you’re the bug
@@stewyeung such is the way with golf. Thanks for watching my friend.
James, as a new player starting this year - just want to say I'm glad I discovered your channel. Thanks for the vids, maybe one day (waaaaaay down the line) I can get a ticket to Tempo Town!
@@YourBoyJohn817 thanks John. I appreciate that man. Glad you’re enjoying the content!
Good grinding on a tough day conditions wise -- looking forward to more tournament vids!
@@GolfAfter50 thank you so much! Make sure you check out next weeks video!
Good grind out there !!
@@roxannedaoust5461 thanks my love ❤️
Great video!!!
@@utahperham5004 thank you 🙏
I play in a number of local tournaments here with mixed success. For me, the idea of not having swing thought while playing is a non starter. I absolutely cannot play without swing thoughts. A couple only but must concentrate and think about my swing. No question about that.
@@iguertin historically I have played my best when my only swing thought is tempo. But my swing need to be in a good place to allow me that freedom.
JUST AIM AT THE RIGHT SIDE OF TARGET!!!!
@@locomangstanquan1532 damn. Never thought of that.
On hole 6 you had 250 in and you hooked a hybrid. You yourself said that you knew you were not going to get to the green. The wedge distance you are the most accurate from what I have seen is 85 to 95 yards. Therefore your best play would have been hitting a 9I out of the rough 170 leaving you about 80+ yards. Then with your L wedge you would have knocked it close and putting for birdie opposed to saving Par.
@@markanthonydelnegro6781 statistically the best play is to get as close to the green as possible. Closer to the hole = better proximity. Better proximity = more putts holed.
In this specific case I just failed to execute my shot and paid the price.
@@jamescolindavisgolf I understand what you’re saying however you seem to hit the ball closet to the pin from 85 to 95 yards. Yes 30 yards from the pin is closer but how far of a putt are you leaving yourself?
I know you don't like comment people trying to help cause you have a coach (which you should fire), however I'll tell you what I noticed anyway. I used to have the same issue going left all the time. The cause was exactly what you are doing.... Go back and look at your range session, every shot was 100%... You get on the course and your swing slows down, same issue I had. I would go every shot on range 100%, but on the course for whatever subconscious reason I was only going 85%. So, my wrists would still turn but my arms and body wouldn't at the same tempo, hence everything went LEFT!!!!!!!!!!!! When I decided to go everyshot 100% on the course, I stopped pulling everything...
@@GoldGunsandGolf thanks for your comment. It’s not that I don’t appreciate advice from the comment section, but I’m sure you can understand that if I took it all to heart I would have 37 different swing thoughts. You bring up good points, and I appreciate it.
That being said, I have been working with my coach for two months and I have had the chance to see him three times. There is no chance I am firing him. We are taking it slow as he gets to know my swing instead of trying to make drastic changes in the middle of the season.
Thanks as always for watching!
When you try to guide the ball is usually when you are hitting it everywhere that is only when I hit my driver but my irons and wedges I don't do that and I can't get out of it (DRIVER)
@@michaeljones9904 agreed, guiding the ball never works. Try to let go of some tension in your hands and arms with your driver. Should help you get through it a bit more.
Just club up dude. You are pulling everything because you are trying to max out with a shorter club on every shot. Its OK to hit your 6 iron 180 or your PW 120. Especially when its playing super soft.
@@chaddddd1251 as much as I appreciate the feedback that’s not why I am missing left.
🤣🤣🤣 if your advice was good you wouldn’t give it out for free bud