Mark Blackburn discusses Max Homa at The Players 2024. #TheYards #pga #truecaddy

Mark Blackburn discusses Max Homa at The Players 2024. #TheYards #pga #truecaddy



Great insight into next level Coaching and relationship to Tour Pros.

Brain his golf brain is very analytical he wants to understand he wants to know so he has lots and lots of questions so his preparation is going to be very different to a player who wants to just go go play golf who just wants to get

The ball in the hole and every golf is different so our job as coaches is to try and give them the ingredients and the recipe that’s going to work well for them what puts them in a state of mind that allows them to be confident and be

Able to go play and like most time your goal when you get to a golf tournament is to learn the golf course because every week the courses are different this week across the street it’s pretty Lush obviously you guys have had lots of rain the rough is up a little bit um

It’s over seated it’s different to how it was last week you can at least Advance the rough ball out the rough this week last week at Bay Hill you couldn’t greens were a lot firmer the greens will probably get fir here so you’re every week you’re trying to learn

A golf course so the golf golfer needs to have enough strategy can they start the ball line they have the flight they want that’s really an ongoing process sort of what’s their swing how do they do it what are the things they need to do to get they give them ball flight but

Then when we get to a tournament it’s very much about getting them ready for Thursday are they doing the right things are they preparing so lots of you when you go play golf you probably all focus on if you like most golfers you focus on your golf swing and what you’re doing

But these guys girls on the LPGA they’re focusing on the shots they’re going to get so they’re way more into able to hit a shot what’s their process what’s the performance side of their game like how what shots do I have in my repertoire that I know I could play and navigate

This golf course today or this week and if there’s something that they know they’re going to need and they’re not quite right we might work on that but for the most part it’s preparing them to play the golf tournament and every player is different and every player has

Their own unique way that they’re going to play the golf course I would say the players that the most successful now all tend to smash it because hitting the ball a long way is a big Advantage but beyond that you’re trying to figure out what’s the best way for them with their

Skill set to be able to play So Max for example great putter tends to be very good at a lot of the areas so he’s going to be focus on okay where where are my lines of the tea what am I going to do where the holes I might be a little bit

More aggressive where can I afford to take the risk is it off the te is it on the approach just depends and then I’ll do that with every player so this we Justin Rose col Mor cow Charlie Hoffman and Adam had so with each of the players

I saw everybody today by Rosie he’s a bit under the weather kind of where are they in the week where are they in their progression okay and now how are we going to about going to the golf course to play the game I will say everyone’s intrigued by

Max obviously he’s had a lot of success he’s a great player and he works really really hard all of my guys I think the players that are the top players in the world I don’t think anyone realizes quite how hard they work from the golf side of things to their nutrition to

Their physical conditioning to their rest recovery all of those things Justin Rose travels with a $400,000 bus basically converted into a recovery which he has a SAA he has hot tub he’s got ultraviolet light he’s got oxygen chamber he’s got the whole shoot matched because he’s aging and he wants to

Travel and be healthy and play the game for a long time so these are preparing really really well they’re true professionals so our job is to have them ready but that’s kind of what we do I would say week in week out we’re peing for probably five tournaments a year

This being the fifth major but beyond that you know there’s going to be certain tournaments they play well at coures for courses they play well at certain venues because it suits their eyes suits their flight suits the shot they have their conditions work well maybe they’re from the West Coast or

Maybe they’re from Florida but those are the things that kind of go into it to prepare a player but everyone is like a one of one and that’s the there are some similarities but our job as coaches is to figure out how to relate to that

Person and give them a plan for them to be able to go execute

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