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Get ready to take your golf game to the next level as Joe sits down with renowned golf coach Damon Wood.
Damon, armed with years of experience and a keen eye for improvement, shares his top 5 tips for enhancing your golf skills and lowering your scores, even if you have minimal time for practice.
In this insightful conversation, Damon breaks down key aspects of the game that can make a significant difference in your performance on the course. Each tip is designed to be practical and efficient, ensuring that you can implement them seamlessly into your busy schedule.
Whether you’re a seasoned golfer looking to fine-tune your game or a newcomer eager to make quick progress, Damon’s expertise provides valuable insights that cater to all skill levels.
Join Joe and Damon as they discuss strategies, drills, and mental approaches that can help you elevate your golf game without spending endless hours on the range.
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Welcome back to the macro golf YouTube channel I’m here today with Damon founder of my golf tribe and we’re today going to let you know the five top tips for you as a busy golfer guys welcome back to the macro golf YouTube If you are new here welcome
To the channel thank you for joining us here slightly new piece of content for us today where we’re actually going to start to hear from Damon and he’s going to give us his top tips for you as a busy golfer to help improve your game in the shortest amount of time possible
Daman welcome to the channel thank you for coming on let guys know who you are what you do and where they can find you Joe first of all thanks a lot for having me um so guys I’m a full-time coach that is now primarily online but I have a
Small Academy up in chesher where’s a team of two coaches that coach full-time um where can you find me well in person is up in chesher uh but online uh Damon Wood Golf is the uh the account handle exactly so guys go and follow all of Damon’s socials go and follow his
Channels go find all the stuff that he does before he gives you his top tips number one what is the first top tip for busy golfers when people come to see you I know they’re busy theyve got full-time jobs they got families they got all this
Stuff going on but they’re so Keen at getting better what can they do if they’re busy top tip for them what’s what’s top tip number one for busy golf number one as ironic as it is Joe it’s stop watching content okay yeah turn off turn the video I know right no but all
Joking aside it’s very easy to just consume consume consume and the content right now on YouTube is fantastic when it first started coming out some of the stuff was very questionable um but it is really really good now and whether it’s an established guy that’s bringing it out or girl or
Someone that’s just starting out the quality of the content’s great but it’s very easy to go down a rabbit hole and get extremely confused and not just that how does that client or you the individual that’s watching that content how do you know it relates to you yeah
And how you move and what you need to work on so best piece of advice would be to stop watching it initially get an understanding of what you the individual needs before you continue to consume nice and is that in terms of Instagram short form like real YouTube does that
Also apply to like online courses and different things would you say that those things are a little bit more specific to people or is it all kind of a little bit generalized and is not necessar going to help you especially you’ve got less time to kind of work on
This stuff as well oh I love that so here’s the thing some of the online courses are fantastic so like a generalized break 80 yeah yeah so like right now I’m doing um one to 100 videos and currently as we’re speaking we’re going through six very specific detailed
Just me talking to the camera relevant information to help you break 80 there’s nothing technical in that though it’s about giving you advice on actually understanding how far you hit the ball yeah yeah pre-shot routines stuff that is really really valuable but isn’t telling you how to hit the ball better
So that kind of content for me go and consume it but make sure you act on it and you implement it too many other us watch content consume it absorb it but then don’t use it so like you’ve just done your your 7-Day Mobility challenge fantastic because everyone realistically
Needs to improve on the mobility and that kind of stuff is gold but how to stop your slot strengthen your grip make sure it’s great but how do you know that’s the right information for you the individual you just don’t yeah I suppose if you’re short of time and you’ve watched all of
These different videos and you’ve got all of these different things to go and work on you’re go head to the driving range you’ve got 10 different thoughts in your mind 10 different things to fix if you’re short time that’s gonna make it even less efficient and even less use
Of that time so I suppose what I dragged from that what you said there is if you are going to spend time absorbing content maybe absorb content that’s a little bit more strategy based mindset based stuff that’s not going to take up your time with the driving range but
It’s stuff that you can take onto the golf course without any kind of driving range time it’d be like strategy and knowing your distances and working on that type of stuff and then making sure you’ve been a bit more efficient with your dve range time basically 1,000% and
You’ll notice as we go through these five there’s a general theme yeah and that’s basically it take us to number two then what’s number two number two top ti so number two mate not just talking about struggling for time or short on time but also money right right
Now cost of living money is important true yeah and so many of us are saying like I want to get better but I’m short of time short for cash but then we’ll spend a whole year going to the driving range lots of time yeah buying range
Balls lots of money okay so just doing some very simple sums to go on a trackman range right now 100 Balls you’re looking anywhere between 11 and 12 pounds for 100 Balls yeah you do that once a week for the whole year first of all that’s a whole year but secondly
It’s around 600 Quid now all of a sudden you think oh wow more to that there’s no guarantee you’re going to get any better so you can spend a whole year 600 Quid and not get better blows my mind so making sure that we don’t just keep
Conning ourselves like oh I can watch this video and I’ll implement this and I’ll try this and I’ll try that and it will get better because all of a sudden you’ll be having a conversation with somebody else two years down the line and you’re still in the same place
But years down the line you’re years worse off and 1200 quid worse off and that’s if you go into the range once and how many people go to the driving range buy 100 Balls feel like they’re hitting it terrible look at the you know what I
Can squeeze out another half an hour and go get another 100 Balls yeah so all of a sudden that 600 turns into 1,200 so true and more time was it’s something I ask people all the time when they come to me I would say when they when they
First come to me and ask him a little bit about their Golf and I say are you currently having lessons or or what are you currently working on and generally what I see is if they’re not having lesson and I say what you working on
They give me a like a spel of stuff and then generally the followup question to that would be you know have you got better have you got better over the last three months I’ve got better over the last six months and typically there’s a trend of what you said there like the
People that have consumed a lot of content a lot of stuff going on their head hitting a lot of balls at the driving range loads of stuff going on not got any better yeah and that’s what we’re trying to avoid right we’re trying to make sure that the time you are
Spending and the money you spended as you said yeah you’re actually getting better if you’re not what’s the point yeah I could agree more absolutely and like just going on that a little bit more I have a lot of conversations because I try and reach out and speak to
As many of my followers as possible on Instagram uh and have some fantastic conversations and if for the guys that aren’t having coaching they’re going to the YouTube or Instagram getting the content and I’m just trying this and then I’m just trying this and the
Problem is then when they do hit a good one they don’t know why they’ve hit the good one yeah so then trying to repeat that is impossible if anything it just further ingrains that bad habit right they hit was potentially a bit lucky or just things clicked or they timed
Everything up and sequenced everything suddenly that’s then like ah that was the aha moment and then they go and Chase that again actually there was no real I assume we’re going to go on this but there was no real plan no real structure no real kind of reasoning
Behind that it was just a a freak kind of matchup 100% And then for the guys that go for the odd lesson as well about so I I was told to work on this okay fantastic why and they can’t tell me and that’s the scary thing it’s me every
Client that comes in really needs to understand right what’s the goal what’s the intent okay brilliant so that’s what you want to most of them can’t even tell me that oh I’m trying to hit it straight why yeah why are you trying to hit it
Straight you know how hard it is to hit the ball straight yeah you’ve got zero room for error on path and face the two most important things other than obviously low point and that is the The crucial point but so you trying to hit it straight okay great how are you going
To achieve that so working on that takeaway how is that actually going to help you at impact other than perhaps make your takeaway look pretty it’s so it the why for me is so important and a lot of guys can’t tell it love it what’s number three D we basically covered it
But number three is all about making sure that you the individual has a plan yeah to really understand what and why you’re working on something and is that swing or is that goling General right because sometimes I suppose what can happen especially when we’re busy people get attracted to the swing because
That’s what they can go away and work on are we talking now plan of how am I improving this swing and this metric and improve my matchups and my contacts and my strike and all this great stuff or are we saying what’s my plan to actually
Shoot l golf scores which is the point oh okay good so I’m really especially being more of a predominant online coach now everybody gets absolutely sucked into improving swing my swing needs to be better my swing needs to be wrong at the end of the day what’s the one thing we want to
Improve numbers score and we get so lost what’s really concerning is that over the last 10 15 20 years the average score for the golfer hasn’t improved the Technology’s improved I think the level of coaching has improved certainly the level of information out there has improved but people’s scores
Haven’t why we get carried away in the wrong areas so it’s got everything’s got to be underpinned by improving score yeah and then for me it comes down to what’s happening at impact and what the individual intent is and I know intent can be considered to be a buzzword right
Now but I think it’s underused still and it’s certainly not been talked about enough from day one because so many people will go onto the driving range ball ball ball ball with no true intent as a result we become reactive that one’s gone out right right I got to fix
That now I’ve topped that so half a dozen balls you’ve had half a dozen different outcomes all of a sudden youve got six different things you’re thinking about your practice is lost you’re wasting your time and your money so true man yeah so little cliche being a golf
Coach but number four for me is an invest in a coach yeah invest your hard-earned cash for someone that’s going to guarantee you a result yeah someone that’s going to give you that individual plan hold you accountable and be there to answer any questions so that
You don’t waste a year of your life going to the range not improving waste 600 Quid on 100 Balls a week not improving so that you don’t have to go to YouTube by all means go to YouTube to consume some fantastic um Quality information but not
That you need to go there to get your individual answers you need someone that can be that knows you the individual what your plan is what you’re working on and give you the answer straight away rather than confusing supp it also allows you to stop getting attracted to
Other stuff right you said about having the plan yeah it’s all very well having a plan but it’s it’s so easy to get attracted to other things where you’ll read something you’ll see something someone to tell you something the GOL of course and easily people can be
Attracted to the new thing and there almost sometimes having a coach that can just drag you almost not necessarily push you forward but actually hold you back sometimes from like being attracted by that new shiny thing that’s come out or whether that’s a new golf club or
Whether that’s a new Theory or whether that’s speed sticks what whatever random thing it might be right my classic little dig on speed sticks but is is whatever that is it’s the coach dragging them back in and saying right is that part of our plan is that gonna make us
Shoot low golf SCS yes or no if no forget it ignore it let’s continue with our plan and just keep chipping forward so sometimes there’s the responsibility of the coach to actually drag people and people always think they’re going to push them forward which is obviously a
Huge part of it but also dragging them back and actually saying no come back in back in back in almost putting the blinders on right when you do that though all you’re doing there is actually making sure you maximize and utilize that that small amount of time you have exactly yeah rather than
Wasting it going for the latest fad exactly it’s huge huge um and that was one of the biggest reasons why I moved to online coaching is because so very quick journey of my coaching we did the the same that everyone gets taught six lessons for five yeah or 12 for 10 worst
Model in the world right because someone to invest and the coach would be great I got loads of money and now I’m not going to try and get them booked in because I don’t want to really deliver on it well that’s no good for you and it’s no good
For the client also when they did book in you might see them once every six weeks once every eight weeks or have 12 weeks off but guess what they got initially they got a free lesson but you’ve done three lessons you’ve not seen them for three months and guess
What you’re going to repeat the three lessons so you’ve wasted time and money no one’s winning yeah so I’d move to the monthly programs where guys would come in either once a month or twice a month fantastic that hour awesome and then you’d go back over but the problem you’d
Have in between that time the guys are by themselves so a lot of the time someone would come back oh I’ve not had time I’ve and I get that golf isn’t the be all and end all you’ve got family work that’s got to come first even your physical well-being right then golf but
If you’ve got someone that can hold you accountable and you say look we set out with this goal what’s going on how can I help Game Changer but not just that for me one of the biggest things is you’ve got guys that you give drills to and
They’re going to go away and do them most of the time when you’re not there their intent is amazing to do those drills but they do them wrong yeah so actually all they’re doing is ingraining the bad habits you’re trying to get rid of so the amazing thing for me with
Online coaching not only can I give you feedback on every single practice you do when you record it and send it me but I’m also going to ask you to record your drills and whether it’s a drill on the Range or a dry drill at home I’m going
To give you feedback so all of a sudden now my guys in per in person coaching would see Improvement but the online guys are so much faster because of that feedback that communication and the ability to answer questions quickly rather than have to wait for next month
Like how many guys that are having lessons struggle to get in with the pro at a time that’s convenient for them as a result that three week Gap turns into four five six and then you know what you fed up your date book in exactly if
You’re short time why you going to be W to go to the range do drills even if you g with the best intention you’re going to stick to your plan you deliver on those drills deliver those drills correctly or you’re moving things away we’ve all done stuff we’ve all felt like
We’ve picked it up in the lesson and gone away and and lost touch with what that is or been unsure as you say if you’re short of time you need to be making sure that every ball you hit is of that same quality and that’s how
You’re going to get that for sure we’ve gone a little bit longwinded on there but the final point to point four for me is find a coach that can deliver on those things so give you a plan hold you accountable be there to answer the questions that you need answering so
That you can maximize that time but also find a coach that backs themselves that guarantees to give you that Improvement obviously you’ve got to set a few things for you to commit to but for me there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be investing with someone if they’re going to
Guarantee to get you that result yeah so many of us will buy the latest driver with zero guarantees but yet we’re not willing to invest in a coach and I think find someone that backs themselves that will guarantee for that Improvement or they’ll give you your money back simple
As yeah what have you got to lose 100% DAV what’s number five so number five super simple keep a practice diary nice okay because so many of us will be having lessons will go the driving range with great intent and we’ve spoken about already then we get reactive right so we
React to a shot and then we’ll work on this then we’ll try this and try that and all of a sudden you’ll hit 100 Balls you’ll spend 30 minutes by the way which is not long enough I always ask my clients if they’re telling me they’re
Hitting a 100 Balls in 30 minutes right now get 50 and spend an hour yeah yeah make that quality of that practice so much more by taking time and actually going through your drills but back to the point you’ll hit 100 Balls in that 30 minutes you’ll get in your car and
You sit down you go what have I actually worked on there what have I achieved nothing because you got reactive and you you worked on different things every single time so by keeping a diary it’s going to help you really stay focused and all you have to Simply do is before
You get on the Range what are your goals for the session okay when you get back in the car what did you achieve in that session yeah and you’ll find initially that you probably w’t achieve the goals but all of a sudden you go right I’m investing all this time I’m investing
The T the money on the balls and the money on the coaching this has got to be better actually this is what’s holding me back it’s not the quality of the coaching it’s not the quality of the information or the delivery it’s actually my execution and by keeping the
Diary it’s like bang Game Changer yeah just stop getting lost right like the go they go to D range get lost and they come away and think what where did I go where when when did I lose it and that diary I think is is a key thing yeah um
Something I get my clients to do with loads of stuff they do and I think that’s a yeah it’s a huge one okay David thank you so much for all of that detailed information but for those guys who want to take away one absolute like nugget piece here what are the top five
Things for busy golfers what do they need to do one to five brilliant so stop watching endless content yeah yeah stop wasting that investment that time and that money over the year yeah just doing trial and error doesn’t work good number three number three is get yourself that
Personalized plan y number four find yourself a coach that is going to guarantee to make those improvements or you’re going to get your money back Y and number five is practice with a diary practice with true intent my favorite one my favorite far D thank you so much
For giving such valuable uh content to I think so much people will take from that where’s everyone going to find you Instagram so yeah the the easiest way is Instagram so Damon Wood Golf y uh but also if they want to reach out via email it’s Damon d m nyol tribe.com I’ll stick
All your details below I’ll stick all your socials below hit up D on his online coaching Dam thank you so much no worri guys guys if you do reach out I always make sure I get back to everybody so please don’t hesitate amazing want some stuff dude
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This is awesome Joe!
love it lads
It's hard to not watch videos when it is the middle of winter here.lol 😂
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