Fixing DOD’s Golf Swing | One Simple Change

The DOD King joins Performance Golf coach JT Thomas after a high-pressure miss at the Internet Invitational exposed cracks in his game.

In this lesson, JT breaks down how too many swing thoughts, poor alignment, and rushed tempo were fighting physics and creating chaos.
With a few simple adjustments to both the swing and putting stroke, DOD starts finding the sweet spot again and rolling the ball with confidence.

This episode explains why golfers miss short putts under pressure and how simplifying fundamentals can help bring your game back fast.

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I'll talk you through it. All right. Peter Fench just threw a dart. Million dollars on the line. Carter. Don't miss a left. Don't miss it right. Don't miss it left. Heel pull. >> That was it. >> That's the scenario. >> Yep. >> Every time. >> What's up, guys? JT Thomas here with the legend himself, Mr. DoD King. >> It's just DoD right now. >> Just DoD right now. >> That's it. That's the myth. Do Jester. >> Dude, I just saw you internet invitational. A little bit rough. Seem to be in a dark place. I think he's been struggling just a little bit, right? >> Everything. >> Yeah. I thought it was mental, but dude, I tried everything. I've gone down way too many rabbit holes, watched too many videos. My mind is cluttered. I need it all to be solved. I was told to come to you, and I think you're going to save me for sure. >> I'm relying on you heavily. >> So, that's why we're here today, guys. Go through full bag, but especially DoD, cuz we cannot have DoD hitting four drivers, right? Can't happen. Maybe even a little bit of putting, too. So, if you guys struggle with anything in your bag, definitely watch this video. We're going to go through a full lesson. Get DoD fixed up. Let's do it, dude. Let's go, brother. So, bro, tell me about the game. Tell me about the Internet Invitational. What's the state of the game right now for DoD? >> Shambles. >> Shambles. >> Yeah. I got no confidence. >> I got nothing. I can't make two-footers. >> Swing's long and I'm humping it >> and I can't hit my driver off the deck, which is the thing that gives me confidence. >> I watch you hit a little bit. It looks like you're thinking of like maybe I don't know 7 to 12 different things while you're >> seven to 10. Can I run through them real quick? Yeah, I was going to say >> I'm being and I'm being dead ass. I start with the club about 2 in behind it. My very first thought is that I come down and then I connect my right elbow, but I don't hinge and try. So, I try to keep that and I rotate. I rotate. Keep my pressure right here. And then when I drop down, I'm doing a little squat and I try to hold it here and then I try to feel like my left elbow folds right away. >> So, that's what's going on. >> So, good news is I think you're actually doing that. The problem is like none of that works together. That makes a lot of sense. It's all selftaught. >> Yeah. Yeah. No, it's good, bro. The big thing is the goal is we're going to try to reduce the amount of thoughts and then get you like working with physics. So, the basics what happens to you right now when you're swinging is like the club is working one way and then your body's actually going the same way with the club and that's bad. You want to be going the opposite way so that you can like manage the amount of force. >> That makes sense. I feel like cuz right now I feel like everything's exiting left. >> Yeah. Exactly. The club's going left and you're going left. That's bad. I'm going left hard and I'm humping it, which is hard to do cuz I'm going here and then there. >> Well, that's helpful cuz you need some hump, right? So, if you're going really far this way, that's left. You need something right to help you. So, you're humping. So, your brain is a supercomputer. That's why I talk about always everyone's swing. Even your brain >> That's a crazy take, but I like it. >> I'm just joking with you, bro. Um, it's a supercomputer. So, meaning like everything that you try and do, it's going to be hard for you to do it if the shot won't be straight. So, let's just hit a couple, bro. Get loose. I'll kind of give you a little analyzation, >> okay? And then the goal is really only give you like one or two things to feel again. >> Yeah. And then then you should be heading the right way again. Yeah. >> Okay. >> And so two like swing doctor questions would be if you hit a poor shot, would you have a tendency to hit left or right? And if it could be both. Y >> could pull it or like a spinny slap. >> Okay. Gotcha. But then what about contactwise? Both. >> Both. >> When it's bad, I see it on camera. I hate it, but I'm like here at impact. >> Yeah. Gotcha. Yeah. So you're just trying to manage the low point. Yeah. >> Yeah. I hate my lower body. >> Okay. >> Like that just doesn't feel good. >> I've never had problems with self-belief, but I'm going through that right now. Like I step up to it and I know I'm going to hit it bad. >> So bad. >> Do was struggling with both contact and direction. This comes back to his root swing flaw, which is his arm plane. His arm plane gets too steep, which makes it very difficult for him to get the club back to the ball. your arms actually stay in the air too long. So everybody out there on YouTube like keeping your arms in the air, it's good for like a brief amount of time, but you hit the ball, your clubs connect to your arms. And so you have two ways to get the club to the ground. You can either tilt, go to the ground like that to get them there, which is one way that you do, or you can forward bend. Sometimes you do that. Golf is all about like how you get the club up and then how it gets the club down. So if you're going to be swinging where your arm stays high, then you need to have like a lot of flexion to get lower. you need to maybe tilt to the right. It's just too much to worry about. So, the basics in your swing is that your arms don't work like around your body enough and your chest never gets low enough to the ground. >> Okay. >> So, two things I want to work on for you are your sequence. When you get up to the top right now, you kind of like leave the arms spin too much >> so there's not enough like shift onto your leg, then use that energy to your arms. And then again, managing where your rib cage is throughout your swing. It's a little bit too tall. So, let's do a little practice swing. Just imagine you were going to hit that ball. Start to take the club back. I want you to feel like your chest gets progressively close to this all the way up to the top. Good. Yeah. Okay, that's better. Now, from that point, you know, the basic feeling that you've been having is good. Your arm should feel like they can go more back that way rather than up. Yeah. So, go ahead and let's try one where again, just a practice swing. Swing down and hit the ground like a ball was there. Chest a little bit closer to the ground. Arms a little bit lower. Great. Yep. Perfect. So, since the club's back here more like this, you shouldn't have to go like that to get it back in the spot. Yours is so up like that. You had to get it back here somehow. So, just make a swing. Hit it with that those two thoughts. Chest a little bit lower. Arms behind you. Awesome. Let's do like two or three of those. So much better. >> Really? >> Oh my gosh. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's the old matchup between new and old. So guys, when you're working on something in your swing, if you happen to hit a really bad shot, it's actually good. You're creating a new motor pattern and you have to learn how to get back to the ball. So when you change your swing, it's like input output. You need to give it enough input for your brain to be like, "Oh, this is where I'm going to be now. So I need a new output to actually hit the ball." Your brain knows where it's trying to hit the ball, right? It has an intention. But the problem with most people's swings is that the intention of your swing and your biomechanics don't match. Okay? That's what creates chaos. So, the big thing I'm seeing for him is Carter's arms are too far on this side of his body. So, in order for him to keep them behind him, spinning out, being open, actually helps his arms go behind, which is what he needs because his arms are way too much up here, right? So just by getting his arms lower, his brain's saying, "Okay, I don't have to spin out cuz then they'll be even more behind me." They actually need to get back in front. Yeah, way better. There we go. In this before and after, you can see how much easier it was for him to get his club back on plane, therefore making it easier for him to improve both his contact and direction. >> It feels a lot easier. I feel like it's way more efficient for me from this position. like my body's not working as hard as it had to. Now that you're saying it, I feel stupid for having done it so long. But I I was trying to feel like the higher they are, the better for me cuz it wasn't going as far. And so I was here and now that makes sense. I had to kind of kick it just to drop it cuz otherwise it would have been here. And I just feel like it's way less work. That's real. >> Sick, bro. All right, let's try some driver. See what we get. >> Let's do it. >> Literally just bun a couple. I don't care how you hit them at all. It doesn't matter. You're just focus on the movement. Okay. >> Yep. with the driver right now. I just feel like no confidence over it. I feel like everything is just really long and I'm just praying to like make some kind of contact to get it in the air. That's literally it. And I'm just shanking it right, pull hooking it left. Like when I'm hitting it good, it's slightly in out and it's a nice little draw and it's perfect. But I haven't done that in a long time. So here you go. This is going to be a lot of work you have here. >> That's it. That's the miss every time. Every single time. It's bad >> for sure. Do jester. >> Yep. Easy thing. Quick fix here. Just watch this. >> It's going to be the same damn thing. >> I'm just joking, bro. >> It'll be the same thing. >> Just joking, bro. >> The reason you started making your swing longer, too, is because time is helpful. So, a lot of times people try to shorten their swing. The problem is you have less time and the same amount of chaos. Bad. At least if you have more time to fix it, right? >> In your case here, arms are way too high. So they have to feel way more like around. >> So we want to get it flatter. >> Flatter for sure. >> Am I feeling that same thing with the chest? >> Yeah, probably not as much cuz the club's plenty long. >> Okay. >> Kind of just stay where you are. >> Yeah. Sweet. Perfect. All right. It drew a little bit. What you start to realize is like, okay, my arm's being lower. Guess what you don't have to do to get to the ball? Pump. Exactly. Because that makes the club drop. So before you needed that, so you were actually working on something that was making you better. >> That's crazy. >> So like the more you went back, the more hands you're high, more over the top, the more hump you're going to have. >> Interesting. >> Yeah. So you just >> That's so funny. >> kept having that cycle. >> That's crazy. >> Yeah. So ramp it up. Same thing. A little bit harder. >> Oh, okay. >> Wow. >> All right. All right. >> That's a little better, right? >> That's crazy. When you work on the right thing, you get some good results. >> Oh, another one. >> All right. >> All right. That was it. >> All right. Performance golf. >> Check it out. >> No problem. Very simple. Fix the DoD. Didn't take long. It's a wrap. >> Are my legs too wide? >> Yeah, you can have your knees like pointed a little bit straight. You don't have to have them so out like your kneecaps. Still better to be honest. >> Oh wow, that's way flatter. >> Way better. Way better, bro. >> What the hell was I thinking before? >> I don't know. DoD is obviously a pretty difficult shot. One big thing that you need is a little bit of speed. That would be kind of priority one. But what makes it hard is essentially the loft on the club. So it doesn't have hardly any loft. And if you hit too down on it, it's hard to get up in the air. But the key for having good DoD is essentially a good pivot, guys. So, you know, Carter's pivot was getting off. Most poor golfers have this scenario where they take the club back, they shift their hips too far off the ball, their upper body gets really ahead of the ball. That almost makes it impossible for you to hit a driver off the ground, right? Cuz when I do that, now I'm just swinging like this and the club has no loft anyway. So, no way I'm getting up in the air. So, just having good pivot just by having the club swing more around him, it makes it easier for you to keep your body level, which is important for hitting the ball solid off the ground, not changing your level all the time, which is what makes it hard to hit. That's why on a TE's is a little easier cuz you can change your level and still hit like up on the ball. But when it's DoD, you can't hit up on it's on the ground. >> Real talk. >> Real talk. >> I had like 10 different instructors I was listening to about how to fix early extension, how to shorten up the swing, and then I ended up having like seven different swing thoughts. So, I like that this is simpler. Like all I thought about on that was genuinely get the chest here. >> Yeah. >> And then everything else kind of figured itself out. So, I like that it's simpler cuz like that I was you're paralyzed with that many swing thoughts. >> Keep it simple. Keep it simple. Let's go get the putting done. Bro, I don't know if you saw I missed five like two-footers for with a million dollars on the line. And not only did that suck for me, but like I cost my two teammates who played great. I cost them. I lost sleep for like 3 days. I thought it was mental, but dude, like I tried everything. You're the only person Everybody say, "Oh, it's just your mind. Your swing's fine." No, it's not, dude. I need some tough love. I appreciate you being real with me. >> Yeah, dude. >> Let's go fix this damn putty. >> Let's go fix the putting. Let's do it. >> Yeah. So, you missed some short putts, right? Show me where these these balls were when you missed them, dog. >> I don't want to I don't want to talk about this. >> All right. Yeah, they were right about here. Million dollars on the line, >> obviously. Tell me tell me what you're thinking cuz you know DoD is about thinking positive thinking, believing. Yep. >> What were you doing over these? What were you thinking about? >> I'll talk you through it. >> Yeah. >> All right. Peter Fench just threw a dart. Million dollars on the line. >> Don't up Carter. You missed it left. Don't miss it left. Don't miss it right. Don't miss it left. Heel pull. That was it. >> Wow. And I'm usually not like that, but I think the pressure got me. >> Yeah, of course. Big thing for everyone out there on putting that I try and do is to distract yourself from the putt when you have like a putt that matters. So the way I teach people putting in the first place is like take the putter back roughly the same distance on both sides called gates. So we can use this for example, right? So when you have one of these really short putts that matter, this ball and this ball would be my gate. Meaning like that's how far I have to take the putter back and through. Like can I go from this gate to that gate? That completely distracts you. opposite of what you did. Don't miss it, right? Don't miss it. Right. That's the last thing you want to be thinking about. >> That's what I was doing. >> That's what you were doing. Yeah. Crazy. Tiger had that mindset when he made that putt against Bob May. It was like a 5ft downhill slider. And the last thing he told himself was, "My mom can make this putt." It's just like such a different mindset that you have to have over these short ones. That's an easy mindset switch. Hopefully, we can do that. But now, let's take a look at the actual stroke itself. So, you have a tendency push pull or it could be either. Both. >> Both. Okay. >> Sounds about right. Okay. >> You seeing how bad it is? >> Yeah. Well, good news is your face is super close. So, aim is priority one. So, I got a super easy way to learn what aim is. You can use your phone or like a credit card or anything that's straight and put it right up against your putter. So, you can see what straight is. So, he actually was lining up left. He was pulling them pulling and pulling. You pull them enough then your brain's going to start pushing them and then your stroke starts getting bad. And then after that, what's really easy is like taking an alignment stick or we can take this here and just point straight. So now try to take the line on your putter and point that right on top of that. So you can see what straight is. So you can like hover it above it. Yeah, exactly. The other part that's really important for you is what we call acceleration profile. So what that means is you have a tendency to go back too slow. Then your brain feels like you don't have enough momentum and then you get jerky. So that's what happens on probably what was happening on your short putts on your putts in general. Taking it back a little bit too slow and then kind of looking like this. >> Yep. Yep. That's me. >> So like >> decides to make besides make. Yeah. But in putting you want to take it back a little bit faster so you can actually slow down how fast you hit the putt. >> Interesting. >> Versus going through like the old adage of like swinging through is like the worst thing ever. Cam Smith just said, "I try to hit the ball on my backstroke." So think about what that means. So he's using the momentum of the backstroke to help him actually hit the ball. So good drills to stagger your feet like this. Put your foot right here. Go back and practice stopping there. So controlling a little bit slower into the ball. So that helps you hit the putt with much more precision. It's much easier to keep it straight when you're slowing it down versus when you're speeding it up. Let's try a couple, bro. Just feeling like you're aiming slightly right of where you were before. Yeah. Nice. So good. Way better. >> Yeah. Way better, bro. That's the stroke. That's what I want you to do. >> It feels like I'm aiming very right of the hole and it feels like I'm not going to get it there, but it's perfect. >> It's so pure. Yeah. Way better. >> And it doesn't feel as jerky. Like it really That does make a lot of sense cuz I on these putts I feel like I moved it back really slow and then kind of just like jerk it. >> Exactly. So >> that makes sense. I like the idea of that what you said kind of using momentum to hit it because then it takes out human error of like especially under pressure of just like jerking it and like trying to speed it up with your body and your hands and instead just kind of letting the the weight of the putter and physics take over. >> Yeah. So that helps you. And another great drill is actually trying to take it back really far and almost leave it short, right? So you're trying to stop it before it gets there. Meaning you're stopping your acceleration. So take it back really far and then >> Yeah, >> that was that was bad. >> But no, that's the idea. the same thing. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Yeah. I love it, bro. Let's go. Awesome. One more like that. Yeah. That's so good. All right. So, now let's back up a little bit longer ones here. Feeling like you're aiming a little bit right. The bad things that I see for putting all the time is people think they need to accelerate through. You do not do that. That is the worst thing to do in putting. >> Oh, how much better that roll, bro. >> Oh my god. Internet Invitational. Run it back. >> Run it back. I love the simplicity of all this, by the way. I appreciate this, brother. >> Let's go. >> That's crazy. I feel the sweet spot. I haven't felt it in years. >> Oh, bro. >> I feel like I'm not picking up my head either cuz like it used to be like that. >> Yeah. >> Before I even hit the ball. >> Let's go, guys. Do fixed putting so much better, >> dude. So simple. Like actually on and off camera. I really appreciate that. That's cleaned up so much of my brain. All right, guys. Thanks for watching this video. It was awesome fixing Carter, not only with the full swing, but a little bit of putting as well. If you guys would like to see me fix anybody, DoD, who you think I should fix next? >> Seem from No. >> Sem, >> he's he's my partner in some hater videos. He needs some help. >> All right, so Sem, if you're watching this or if any of you guys are watching this, want me to fix somebody else, please leave a comment down below. Follow our socials, which are also down below. We're looking forward to fixing everyone. Let's get it. Stay to the man. Let's do it.