You Will Never CHIP the Same Again Mike Malaska, PGA on Be Better Golf

and I said it and now when I swing I have to let my arms actually I have to let my arms stretch to reach the ball if we combine the

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swing that you had, there is a basic game that you had, but I had brains. transplant with Phil Blackmar do you think your career would have been a different story no that's the moment oh yeah ask tell me about that the difference between what I learned mentally from being around Phil and more than Phil and I maybe not more than Phil but most It was Nicolas, seeing all the 35 years I spent with Jack, I can't see him in all the different situations and listen to people asking different questions and how he answered those questions and then ask him about his answer and find out where he was.

What occurred to me was that it became apparent that Jack Nicklaus had a different perception of what was happening that night and that's why the people you meet when these guys make comments like when Jack makes a comment or Tiger makes a comment or Michael Jordan makes a comment or Bill Gates makes a comment or someone who is very successful at anything most of us hear that comment and say well it was arrogant or conceited or whatever when I see that these people are not normal, they don't react the

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to things. situations is why they have been able to do things that most of us can't, so when I realized that I started to do well, what had to be Jack's mentality for him to react to that question and give that answer, then I began to understand where? he lived and what he was thinking, yes, in his world and what he was thinking because he believes that what he is thinking was not even close to where I was, so the way he processed the information made it easier for him to produce under the greatest amount of pressure where For the rest of us, the way we reacted to that or a shot made us less likely to act, so he had an advantage because of the way he perceived the outcome or the way he perceived what I was doing well.

That's a question I'll ask you. He's a friend of mine or a Hershiser, he had a certain type of personality, which was a little mousy. I'm a little reserved and a little bit bookish, and if you look at old photographs of him and through Tommy Lasorda, he could You have this totally different Bulldog mentality, so you don't necessarily think that you're not stuck in what you know, no You are trapped in thinking things in a certain way, it can become chained. Oh, your brain is a muscle. Okay you can train it to think and I mean people don't spend enough time training their mind like they do their body and everything else so your brain is a muscle that can be trained to see things react the way they want. in a certain way and basically your brain controls your body, yes, so your thoughts control what you do, so if you start to have problems with that, there are exercises and exercises that you can do so that you are consciously very engaged, okay, in other ways words, when I get up on a shot. and this is Nicolas and Blackmar helped me with this with many things that you want, you don't want to go to a quiet place where everything is calm, no, you want your mind to be very busy and your adrenaline flow to be high and that level of energy goes up, but your body has to be called, so you don't want this to be like that because why would you be in those situations?

The reason you want to be in those high energy situations is. That's because it increases your adrenaline level when your adrenaline level goes up, if you know how to channel it, now you can do things that you normally can't do, that's why these guys love to see that they don't want to go to their quiet place. They want that energy, they know how to channel it so that they are mentally engaged but physically calm enough to move on and let it go, okay, let's move on to the next part, ma'am.

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ping I can go, we want to grab your wedge, oh, I take yours, okay, sure, okay, so I hold this hand, Mike, and okay, so another area that we see, we see a lot, is with

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ping, yeah a boy likes it, yes. and it

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be a thin streamer over the green.

I won't hurt your balls, it's okay or it'll go this far when you're or even a foot, so it's thin and a chunk, but you can see there's some kind of problem. in the vertigo or the tempo and something is very wrong so fixing the chipping gives me oh yeah of course okay now I'm going to go back to what I said with the putt and a lot of that is the first thing I tell you to the people. You don't have the IPPS you have the saviors and they go, what do you mean? I'm doing well, the reason I am is because your technique is so far away that if you didn't do something at the last second you would

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get it right. the ball is solid, so most people, when they prepare to hit a chip or a pitch, the way they prepare causes the bottom of their swing to happen too soon, so all it takes is It's one of these and now what do you do? do it on the next one, well, someone says, well, now they get here and your brain aborts the mission and so it goes and then you stop and hit one of those and you're all gone now.

I'm screwed, I mean, I either hit a fatter or hit it thin, this is the biggest problem with chipping, okay, chipping and pitching, where do you want your weight on each side? There are two ways to get your weight to the leading side that I can get and this is what I struggle with my entire career and this is where Blackmore really helped me so I got ready to hit a chip and what did I do with my weight? I pushed this hip forward, so where is my weight on my left foot? But when I pushed my hips forward, what did he do to me? shoulders on my head, yeah, your tracking shoulder just went down about four inches lower, so now if I sit here and do nothing, where is the club going to hit the ground?

Okay so I have to do something now to hit the ball now a lot of people say we

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move the ball back to your position well now you start to get so steep that if you don't hit it perfect you will make a bad shot so this is what he did to me, he says, it's okay, Mike. get ready get ready for the ball so I started wow and now I'm gonna stay there. If you had to lift your right foot and couldn't move your left hip, where would your upper body go? He would lean forward.

Yeah, what he says, okay, now you're there, where are your eyes to the left of the ball? Where are your shoulders level or tilted up so well that they are fairly level? Okay, now put your foot right, put the club down and now. I swung immediately, my club bottomed out in front of the ball because that setup changed where my circle bottomed out, so most people who have the yips with chipping are trying to lean left and they're trying to stay behind the ball and you're trying to get the ball up in the air you have to go just the opposite direction, I mean I had kite and Crenshaw was making shots at a PGA Championship and I looked at him and he made me make his shot , he turned me over here and I stick my head out here and I stay like this and I make pitches like that and I hit every one of them perfect, yeah, well, why?

Because he gave me the go-ahead to lift this shoulder and put my eyes to the left of the ball, most people. when they prepare because they've been taught two things: move your weight to your left foot and I would say okay, okay, how do you get to your left foot so you can get to your left foot? Two ways to do it this way. where you push your left hip forward like this, but as soon as you do this, if your head doesn't move, what just happened, shoulders tilt, yeah, now the bottom of my swing is here, okay, go this way, so now where is the bottom of my swing?

If you look at this, if I push my hips like this, okay, you'll see where the club is bottoming out, yeah, now I'm going to continue with the swing, all I'm going to do is change my setup, so I start changing my setup. and where does the stick start to hit bottom? Yeah, right in front of the ball, okay and also when you were doing it, the first way, your path was too much from these, yeah, from the inside and then it started to straighten out. Yes, Mike, I'm going to give in. This for you and just because I think I explain it to people a little bit, I want you to adjust me too, so if we have our

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er and they are like that chip and they want to get their weight back so they can Let's go like this, so what is it called ?

It is protocol to go through this tandem level of Weiss. Okay, and you stand up, oh yeah, okay, now bend over like this so the weight comes onto your left foot. Left foot. Yes you can. lift your right foot now and you wouldn't fall, yeah, no, you're out, you see where your head is now, everything you want to do from there, keep your shoulders like this, just put your hands on the club. right there go go and bottom out in front of the ball yeah all we did was change this and this that controls your circle so we're standing up leaning over here come over here but the hips stay there .

Stay, we're not doing well wherever you are, if you want to open your hips a little bit, you can, it doesn't matter, but the first thing you do is you stand here, you tilt your upper body like this, I see your right shoulder come up. that you feel like it's higher than your left and then you just lean towards the ball right there mm-hmm now you just swing, okay, if that happens, yeah, now with that, okay, here's the other reason for the fat, it's called measuring Okay, okay, so when you put the club on the ground, get ready, okay, so I'm here, I'm getting the weight like I would, it's okay up there and now your shoulders are level if you look at all these guys, their shoulders are. level and your eyes or even either forward or to the left of the ball, okay right now, when you put the club down, don't put it on the ground, you want the club to pull your arms, but you want it to just barely touch the grass, okay?

If you put it on the ground when you swing it, the momentum of the club will straighten your arms a little, I'm so sorry, I'm there, the bounce of the club is just pushing the blades down, oh yeah, perfect, I'll leave it now. See now, if you don't let your arms stretch, look, you caught it a little thin, because you put the club on the ground, okay, so when you get to the ball, what do you have to do to not hit it fast? you have to raise your arms, okay, I understand you, then you are right, member.

I told you when you got on, you're on the verge of yips, yes, I'm having a little failure there, yes, you have a little Savior and if Don't be careful if that Savior doesn't appear, you fail, come on, okay, so here, here, they're there mm-hmm, now, when you put the Clair on, let the weight of the club swing and it will straighten your arms out, go now, the way to the club, you can straighten your arms and you don't hit them, I'm glad I I came in here because if I had done this on my own, I probably would have made him fat. and they gave up, that's good, most people set the suit they do here, the main things they do wrong, they catch another ball, the main thing people do, what they do wrong is most of their configuration, so because they are trying to break the chip. ball and they want to get it in the air and they have heard that their weight goes to the left foot, they lean this way, which causes the club to bottom out early, so the first thing is to make sure that it is placed where your weights are left, but It's because you're here and your shoulders are level.

The next thing is you want the weight of the club to fall, you want the weight of the club to float on the grass, you don't want it to rest. on the ground I see so many people getting ready and they are so bent, their arms are so bent, if there is any momentum, see if your arms straighten or you stick everything into the ground, it's okay, so I let the weight of the club I just pull on this and set it up and now when I swing I have to let my arms stretch out to get to the ball, yeah I see if I pull them in I get over it so I'm not afraid to win big, it's a good place to do it because you need to learn freely, yeah, if I prepare and do this, and there are some good players who put a lot of band on their arms and They say we'll just keep the angle on your arms, good luck, yeah, you know , so when I prepare I let the weight of the club hang and when I am preparing, I prepare here and I don't rest the club. on the ground, so now

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, when I swing, what's going to happen is the weight of the clubs will stretch my arms and then I catch the ball correctly.

Thanks to Mike for allowing me to come out and visit them. Pick your brain, no problem, you see a lot of really interesting tips on mulaskey golf comm. There is a special promo code through Better Golf that you can use to get a discount when you first join. Thanks so much for looking. Micah also has a YouTube channel with a lot of interesting tech content. and he just types malesko golf into the search and you'll see, thanks

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, Mike, it'll be there.