How to lower your handicap in golf

This was the thing that made me a good player.

Visit https://tropicanagolfshop.com/products/golf-my-way

To download the 3 hour golf instructional by Jimmy Tropicana.

Visit: tropicanagolfshop.com for Jimmy’s caps and merch.

Follow Jimmy on Instagram: instagram.com/mistertropicana

#golf #golfingtips #golftips #golfswing #vintage #golfclubs #golflessons #tropicana #fashion #retro

Hello ladies and gentlemen my name is Jimmy I’m with tropican golf today I’m going to share with you something that completely changed my game I went from a 15 handicap to a seven in the golf season of 2017 it wasn’t a magic pill or some Hocus Pocus it was a concept that I

Discovered and I practiced it and man it really really worked and I think it’ll work for you I’m going to share it with you right after after this okay so what’s this secret what’s this potion what’s this concept well listen the first six years I played golf

I got a golf club in my hand and I tried to hit the ball as far as possible every single time I would I would had this mentality that for instance one time I hit a seven iron 165 yards so when people would ask me or I would mentally think of 160

Yards I’d go seven iron well I hit that seven iron 165 once it was perfect every other time before that and every other time after that it would go 140 145 150 maybe but in my mind it was 165 and that killed me and that was with every Club somebody would

Ask me how far do you hit your driver 280 I hit 280 once and it hit off a cart path but it was still 280 I never had the idea or the less ego of I don’t hit it that far that’s not how that’s not my shot I hit it once and

Then from there I just thought that was my number forever well that was wrong and that was killing me because I was swinging the seven iron as hard as I could to get it to that 165 now seven iron is just an example but your distances are not predicated on your

Best shot they are in general how far do you hit it now I also had an idea that I needed to hit my t- shot as far as possible and that’s just not the case you need to hit your t- shot number one on Grass and if that means taking an

Iron off the tea so be it unless you think I can get this ball on the Green you’re going to have a second shot so is it make a difference to you if it’s from 100 or 127 sure 100 yards is closer to the hole

But what at what costs so I took the driver and I took it out for a while and I only hit it when there was nothing out of bounds on either hole think about that I couldn’t miss left and I couldn’t miss right it was wide

Open there’s only a few holes like that now that allowed me to get the ball on grass and my scores dropped because my t-shot was now in play it starts with your t-shot it really is the most important I now believe that putting is second but if you can get your ball on

Grass to start the momentum you’re on the right track so for for example right here we’re going to play a couple holes now and I’m going to bring you into my mindset then I play a little bit different now because I’m comfortable I’m better now I I’ve practiced more but

When I was a 15 handicap my objective was kind of bogey like I wanted to play bogey Golf and I and I could sometimes I’d have some doubles and some triples in there maybe three pars but it was mostly Bogey and double Bogey and then you know the occasional

Triple bogey and then I went from maybe one double Bogey and six bogeys and then some pars and like it started changing so let me show you how I got to that mindset so let’s talk about this hole this is a par five up the hill so instantly I used to

Say par five driver hard as I can as far as I can not necessary it’s a three- shot hole you’re going to hit three shots do I want to be out out there yes but there’s a parking lot on the left and houses on the right I have to hit my

T-shot right where that airplane is so I line up there and I just take a good swing I take a nice easy swing because now I know I’m not trying to hit it as far as humanly possible I’m just trying to hit it on grass and grass is a lot

Easier to hit when you have a controlled swing so I get here I just take a nice controlled full swing that ball went nowhere but it’s on grass now you’re going to see how this plays out that thing went 175 yards maximum it’s a three iron that Ball’s supposed to go

220 yards with a three iron like that’s the manufacturers uh suggested real tail distance but it didn’t happen Okay but it’s on grass now let me show you how and why grass being on grass and in the Fairway is so important we’re going to

Get up to the ball we’re going to have a nice clean lie cuz it’s in the Fairway and we’re going to do it again that ball went absolutely nowhere most people hit driver off the T box I understand it that ball went literally look it went nowhere I could have hit a

Seven iron further than that but that’s okay guess what we’re going to do we’re going to take the same three iron and we’re going to do it again I promise you this is going to pay off for you watch so I get to the ball I take a nice full

Practice swing now I know I can’t get it to the green I just need to hit it up there this is me the 15 handicapper there’s houses right trouble left hit it straight control your swing nice and smooth full full swing nice and smooth and get it on

Grass I held my finish I hit a ball that went a lot further than my first one and now it’s in play I hit my first ball look how far are we maybe maybe 65 y maybe that’s a terrible t- shot right well is it we’re going to find out

This is the mindset this is the concept that I practiced I wasn’t so worried about roasting my t-shot I was more worried about keeping it on the grass keeping it in the Fairway especially on a par and it benefited me right away like this didn’t take years and years of practice

I didn’t spend thousands of hours at the driving range there’s my ball middle of the Fairway I still have a long way to go now there’s 150 here comes another concept I’m 150 this is 160 160 yards okay remember I was telling you earlier they what do you hit 160

Well I hit an 8 iron 160 once but that’s not how far you hit it you hit it once so okay uh seven iron all right so I take my seven iron and what do I do I just swing nice and smooth I don’t have

To kill it now if I took an eight iron I could get it there once out of 10 times my seven iron I can get it there seven out of 10 times the odds are way better I do the same thing I take a nice easy smooth full swing swing not hit

There’s no ball there I’m just swinging the club I’m just swinging the club watch me swing the club and the ball gets in the way okay now I hit a seven iron I’m 160 ego would have told me hit uh eight iron that thing could have gone anywhere

That Ball’s okay is it on the green I don’t think so but where is it on grass and forward heading towards the pin I didn’t chunk it I didn’t slice it I didn’t blade it I didn’t huzzle rocket it I hit it well up towards the pin there’s been no

Pressure so so far I’ve hit three irons On a par five let me show you where I’m at so you can see that this concept really does work it’s smooth it’s cool like you got to be cool out here you you have to like not try to be so intense about things it

Doesn’t really pay off at all you get super agitated and oh and cursing and come on it’s a game I know you want to get better but trying to show off every shot it’s not going to make you any better here’s my ball okay there’s my ball there’s the

Hole so I’m a little short now I got a wedge game remember I’m a 15 handicap Bogies are my friend pars are my best friend and birdies are my lover okay I have a shot 15 handicap what do I do well let me just tell you this 15 handicap gets

To this ball keeps their weight Center takes it tries to lift the ball into the hole you want to get your weight forward towards the pin you want to make this as easy as possible this is how to make this easy you address the ball hello ball

Weight forward let’s do it this way so you can see it address the ball weight forward towards the target I’m going to pick my club up and I’m going to drop it right on the back of the ball that’s it looks like this wait forward pick it

Up you think you could do that at home you think that this is complicated it’s not now what is complicated is here getting back here getting under the ball that’s tough this is super easy and that’s all I’m gonna do watch weight forward I’ll do

This with one foot one foot I pick it up and I go like that watch don’t forget to tap this in there we go I just took all the work out of chipping chipping can be a disaster and you see it all the time balls going right balls going left

Chunks blades they go off the back of the G the ones that go off the back of the green oh my God what a nightmare okay so look there’s my ball greens are freshly punched here so we’re not going to worry so much about let’s put this over here so you can see

It we’re not going to worry so much about uh the putting now I’m putting for par think about this right now think about this calculate this in your mind I’m putting for par and I hit my t-shot On a par five 165 yard it’s a 500 yard

Hole okay so yes you can do it now imagine if I hit my t-shot 225 yards which is still relatively short I hit it 165 I have this putt for par whether I make it or not depends on the plink of the greens going give it a

Good shot worst case scenario I’m going to make bogey no doubles no triples here we Go oh my gosh that’s a par I hit it 165 yards 165 yards off the is that crazy or am am I crazy this made me a better golfer let’s go play another hole I want to prove it to you now before you start asking because I know

Everybody asks every single video Jimmy what clubs do you play I did a full what’s in the bag everything every single Club I explain it to you why I play it what brand the whole thing it’s in a threeh hour video that I created

I spent a full day I give you what’s in the bag I give you my pre-round routine how I warm up uh what I do at the range what I do on the putting green what I drink what I smoke because sometimes I like cigars not sometimes I

Like cigars I always like cigars what kind of stupid comment was that um but my routine and my process and how I play golf and it’s called golf my way it’s available on my website at tropican aolf shop.com and you can go there and purchase it it’s 3 hours long I show you

My warm-up what’s in the bag and then I play 18 holes of golf 18 holes every single shot and I walk you through it every distance every shot every every Club selection it’s pretty interesting tropican aolf shop.com scroll to the bottom you buy it then you

Get an email with a link and from there you can watch it over and over and over I think those kind of videos are the best I used to watch this video that I just found on YouTube when I was a child and it was called Little League’s

Official how to play baseball and it was this group of kids that taught you how to play baseball everything they did how they warmed up all their equipment then they played a game it was Unreal and I kind of emulated it because that was a VHS that I wore out I watched

That thing a thousand times anyway okay here look we’re at a par three now it’s 75 yards when you were to ask me what club do you hit 175 I would say six iron why because I hit it once wrong I need to hit a five iron okay now I take more Club

Um I take more Club I thought I lost my ball I take more club and I swing smoother now at my point in the game where I’m at now I’m more precise with my distances if I were to play here later today and it’s 170 yards I would hit a

Seven iron because that’s what I hit now but I have a five iron in my hand right here and I’m going to show you what the 15 handicap that was getting better would do now I don’t know if you can see this I hope you can there’s a bunker on the

Right okay par 3s are tough there’s no room for error you have to hit it on the green on your first shot and you have to two-putt no room for error so we have to take advantage of being able to move the ball forward there’s a bunker on the right there’s a

Mountain on the left there’s a squirrel in the middle of the Fairway I need to punch ball right down the middle what does that mean nice smooth controlled swing I’m not going to make this ball in the hole I don’t even care if I make it on

The green I just want to make sure that I don’t hit it in the bunker or in the hill so I’m going to take an abbreviated swing I know I have more than enough Club abbreviated swing means this here and just swing forward swing forward there is no ball I’m going to

Swing like that here we go this and this no ball keep it out of those two hazards I almost made it in the hole I’m telling you man look it’s a iron when you learn this I didn’t do anything crazy I didn’t have some special swing nothing nothing this is the

Game you need to take a little bit more Club you need to swing a little smoother and I guess the question that I should answer is what’s the point of swinging smooth what’s the point why not swing as hard as you can well every Club has

This it’s called a club face the harder you swing the harder it is to hit the middle of the club face and in order to hit a ball clean pure like hitting a baseball in the dead center of the barrel that’s the feeling that you get when you peer an

Iron now you have to do that it’s not optional you have to hit the center of the club face and by swinging smooth you will accomplish that I promise so take a little bit more club and swing a little smoother that is the concept don’t try to hit that eight iron

165 that’s not you take the seven iron smooth it out you will be rewarded every single time I promise in turn your scores will come down okay I mean I remind myself of that now I could have hit a seven iron right now and sometimes you know it does feel good

To swing a little harder and and purer and whatever but when you’re at where you’re at it’s okay it’s okay look there’s my five iron five iron 170 something okay good let’s put the camera over here look at these greens they’re not pure right now but they will be in a

Month or so nice and tight and rolling uh let’s go from this angle so you can see the ball okay now look I have an uphill pot for birdie do I want to make it yeah for sure I want to make it is it mandatory no what is

Mandatory is getting this ball in the jacuzzi what’s the jacuzzi Jimmy what are you talking about I like to Envision my jacuzzi there’s a three- foot circle around the hole I dig it out fill it with water get about six girls in bikinis and a lifeguard always be

Safe all the girls are drinking Miller High Life champagne of beers I want to take that ball and put it in this jacuzzi now when you have a Jacuzzi full of girls you got to be cool man you can’t come running in there and cannonball in there they’re gonna be

Like dude you’re a dork get out of here you want to walk in and be cool so I need to smoothly put that ball in there no splash so it’s just let it roll in there even if it just gets to here it’s okay we have a

Tap in don’t Hammer the ball that’s what I’m trying to tell you no splash let’s clean this up get all the Rock and Sand off of it perfect I’m just going to put one in the jacuzzi okay I wish I could make a little graphic that shows the jacuzzi in

There with everybody drinking beer I know the ball’s going this way okay Jimmy how do I hit the ball into the jacuzzi though look just roll it in there how would I roll this ball I’m not going to step up and no or just maybe flip it I’m

Gonna look guide it in there okay with my hand and guess what and I put my what a mess then I put my both hands on the club and I roll it in there just roll it in there okay here we go jacuzzi time baby hot tub let’s go here it Is hi everybody my name’s Jimmy I’m here for the party oh yeah sure come on in do you have a beer no can I have one yeah we’d love it I love that you didn’t make a splash and now you’re here and now you’re in very very important when it comes to

Putting I think that the whole concept of everything is just be cool okay don’t be a showof put your ego leave it in the golf cart come out have some fun don’t get super aggressive don’t get mad don’t start throwing clubs breaking clubs I love people that break clubs what are you doing

You’re going to have to go buy another one now now you don’t have one for the round you’re not this good I’m sorry you’re not that good to be this angry bottom line my name is Jimmy I hope this helped you remember be cool swing smooth take more club and those scores will

Come down thank you for watching see you soon