jordan spieth pre shot routine
PGA pro Duncan Woolger reveals what Jordan Spieth is working on with his pre-shot routine and what us amateur hacks can learn from it.
PGA Tour players adopt a number of interesting pre-shot routines to get the most out of their games in 2022.But it's fair to say the majority of us amateur hacks do not even bother with anything.
Some of us serious players will probably have some go-to drill before every shot, but honestly from what I see with my pals and everyone else out on the course, very few players undertake a consistent process before pulling the trigger.
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Most of us will take one or two practice swings and hope for the best, butif we are having a really bad round out there then we will more than likely just step up with one look and thrash it.
Pre-shot routines can reap huge reward when it comes to lowering your scores as theyrepeatedly getyou in the zone before each shot.
If you have got a specific swing thoughtor something you are guarding against doing, then adopting a pre-shot routine can prove a wise move.
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As long as you aren't taking four or five practice swings and more than 30 seconds over the ball, we completely recommend taking your time on each shot out there and building some sort of rehearsal into your game.
Jordan Spieth's pre-shot routine is a great one to emulate, especially if you find yourself hitting too many hooks and pushes on the course.
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Spieth uses this drill on every tee shot and approach shot he hits out on the course, even when he's walking off the edge of a cliff.
Now let's hear from Advanced PGA Member Duncan Woolger, a close friend of , who speaks in more detail about what Spieth is trying to achieve and what us amateurs can learn from it:
"If you’re an amateur golfer, who hooks the ball, the ball moves excessively from right to left for the right handed golfer or pushes the ball to the right, then this practice move may help you.
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"However, similar to Jordan, you don’t want to over do the move or you could end up with weak impacts that would fly left to right."
If you give this one a go in practice or out on the course this week we would love to know how you get on. Have you got a pre-shot routine or do you just wing it out on the golf course? Share your thoughts and comments over on 's social media channels.
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Once that switch flipped, we started to see flashes of the Jordan Spieth of old. He carded back-to-back top 10s in San Diego and Phoenix and followed it with a strong performance at the Genesis Invitational. The strong play on the West Coast quickly turned into a trend and he got back in the winner’s circle in his home state of Texas later in the spring.
One year later, Spieth has returned to Riviera Country Club looking to continue that momentum, and he’s still relying on the swing feeling that began his transformation in 2021. If you pay close attention you can see him rehearsing it before nearly every swing.
The rehearsal begins with a normal takeaway, but once he gets about halfway back, he picks up the club and begins to get his arms and hands deep behind him. Once he reaches the top, Spieth aggressively lays off the club and so he can swing more around his body on the way down.
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Jordan Spieth’s pre-shot rehearsal looks a little odd, but it’s done with a distinct purpose. “I’m just trying to shallow the club transitionally. I’m trying to get it steep enough to where I can shallow it on plane.” pic.twitter.com/8vqOBw6NFO— Zephyr Melton (@zephyrmelton) February 17, 2022
“I’m just trying to shallow the club transitionally, ” Spieth said after his opening-round 66. “I’m trying to get it steep enough to where I can shallow it on plane.”
A steep swing plane is something that afflicts many recreational ers, but pro ers can struggle with it, too. And while Spieth’s swing might have looked no different than his previous moves to the untrained eye, it was causing him tons of issues.
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As ’s own Luke Kerr-Dineen pointed out last summer, from the position at the top of the backswing, he’s then able to aggressively turn through the ball without having to use his hands to save the shot at impact.
“That’s kind of a freedom move for me because then I feel like I can clear out and hit the trap fade, ” Spieth said. “And if I can hit kind of the trap fade, I feel like I can hit any other shot. So that’s been a move from this time last year that I’ve been working to try and get back to where I used to set the club, way back in 2013, ’14 time frame.”
But while Spieth’s swing is miles better than it was at this time last year, he’s not convinced it’s a finished product.
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“It’s not quite there, ” he said. “I’m reversing a lot of bad swings still over a few years, but there’s been a lot of good ones over the last 12 months and just trying to continue to progress forward with that move.”
Zephyr Melton is an assistant editor for where he spends his days blogging, producing and editing. Prior to joining the team at , he attended the University of Texas followed by stops with the Texas Association, Team USA, the Green Bay Packers and the PGA Tour. He assists on all things instruction and covers amateur and women’s . He can be reached at zephyr_melton@.Jordan Spieth won the RBC Heritage on Sunday, and he did so with a rehearsal move that is eye-catching but also effective.
Jordan Spieth captured his second PGA Tour win in two years at the RBC Heritage on Sunday, and like all Jordan Spieth victories, it came with a confluence of different emotions.
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His win was at times painful (missing a tap-in on his 54th hole of the tournament), exciting (three eagles in his final 22 holes), impressive (1st in SG: Tee-to-Green) and disconcerting (60th in SG: Putting).
One more subplot — let’s file it under “eye-catching” — present throughout Spieth’s recent appearances has been his pre-swing rehearsal move. Whereas odd practice swings have become commonplace on the PGA Tour nowadays, Spieth’s occurs moments before he’s about to actually hit the ball. He gets into his setup position, makes a full backswing and transition move, then resumes his setup. A few seconds later, he starts his actual swing.
The thinking behind the rehearsal is that it helps Spieth feel a swing thought he’s been working for the past two seasons: “turn-and-burn.” This is the feeling of Spieth making a full backswing, then shallowing, or laying the club down behind him, in transition, before turning his torso aggressively though the ball. Spieth says it gives him the feeling of using his hands less, and that he’s “hitting the ball with his pivot, ” which he says “frees him up.”
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Spieth’s rehearsal move helps him feel that, and while it’s not really all that similar to what he was doing in 2015-17, it’s working right now. He led the field in SG: Tee-to-Green for the second time in his last three starts, and now he’s back in the winner’s circle again.
Throughout it all fans keyed in on how weird it looked. In some ways, that’s understandable. But it also obscures the more important points that exist under the surface.
Jordan Spieth, rehearsal swing vs. actual swing. He’s trying to feel the club shallowing in transition, and then turning his body through. “I’m still having to rehearse it and still feel, I would say, 200 percent of something that’s only really moving an inch at a time.” pic.twitter.com/aoRGsXIALz— LKD (@LukeKerrDineen) April 7, 2022
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Basically every single pro out there works on their swing, pretty much all the time. The same way a Formula 1 car will constantly be making minor tweaks and adjustments to achieve peak performance, Tour players’ swings exist as an ever-present work-in-progress. And because the nature of being a professional er means you’re playing for a paycheck all the time, pros have to get good at taking this into competition.
One of the ways they do this is by over-exaggerating the move they’re trying to feel in their swing during their practice swings, even if it means their practice swing starts looking nothing like what their real