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Ever wondered how a tour pro gets ready for a big event? Robert Rock shares his complete guide to tournament preparation, covering everything from his weekly swing reset to the drills he uses to sharpen his long game.
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00:01Handsome, stylish, one of the most beautiful swings in the game, one of the most luscious
00:06and thick heads of hair in golf. But we're not here to talk about me, we've got Robert
00:10Ropp behind me, so let's go and find out how he warms up for a tournament.
00:29That'll do you, Rob? Yeah, not the best, but it's all right to start with. Thank you for joining us
00:34again.
00:34Right, everyone, we've got Robert Ropp back on. Every time we do a video with Rob, you guys love it.
00:38I get all sorts of comments saying, you should have asked him this, you should have done that,
00:41we're going to do a little bit more today, we're going to do a bit on long game, we're going
00:44to do a
00:44little bit on short game, but it's specifically around tournament preparation. So I'll get a lot
00:49of people that I speak to that have something coming up, whether it's a corporate day, whether
00:54it's their monthly medal, whether it's the club champs, left preparation a little bit late. So
00:58we're going to focus on what you would do as an elite player in the last week leading up to
01:03a
01:03tournament to try and get your feels and everything in the right place. And I want to start with the
01:07long game. And we're going to see if us mortals can take something from it, what you do and see
01:12if we can apply it to our own games and sort of expedite the process of being good within a
01:17week.
01:17So where would you start with your long game? I think the stage I'm at now is a bit more
01:22realistic,
01:23right? When I was playing tournaments every week, you're only topping up a little bit,
01:28you're already loose, you're already playing well, you're already playing lots of golf. So
01:32that isn't relevant to your normal person that's got a comp coming up in a few days.
01:39Now I don't play anywhere near as much, a little bit busier doing other stuff, but I have got some
01:45events coming up shortly and I will be trying to cram in a bit of practice in in a week,
01:50a week or two's time really to get myself ready. So from almost a start where I've done nothing.
01:57I'm building a game from trying to tap into what I've done before, but I'm trying to get myself
02:04loosened up first of all, try and get some sort of speed back into the swing and going through all
02:10my
02:11basic drills and trying to cram them all in into a few days. So I think that's a bit more
02:17relevant
02:17now and I'm in the same boat. I've got a comp coming up in the middle of April and I'm
02:22going to,
02:22it's not the masters.
02:24You never know, we never know.
02:26But I'm going to try and get my game in the best possible shape with as minimal balls hit as
02:33possible.
02:34Okay.
02:34Because my back doesn't like hitting loads of balls, especially loads of drivers. So I've got to be
02:39careful and efficient and not waste time and effort.
02:44Well, that'll be relevant to a lot of people watching at home. They're going to suffer with
02:47their own ailments and aches and pains as well. So in terms of efficiency and where you would start,
02:52I guess on the swing side of things, I can see you already sort of laden up with your TRS
02:56slider.
02:56Yeah.
02:57So is that something you kind of start every session with just to get yourself
03:00the right feels from the get-go?
03:02What I used to do on a Monday would be reset my whole swing. So from a tournament obviously finished
03:08on a Sunday and a bit of traveling time, get back home on a Monday and I'll start rebuilding
03:12the swing for the following week.
03:14Hang on. Rebuild. What are we talking about? Just a control, alt, delete, clear it all out.
03:18And like a reset, a rebuild probably, well, I did do a lot of rebuilds, but a reset and like
03:25realign everything. So I know I'm starting the next tournament,
03:28hopefully at the same point that I started the previous one, because you go backwards when you play
03:34four or five rounds in a row, because you're not doing technique work. You're just hitting shots.
03:38What do you mean specifically? Do you've got checkpoints in the goal swing that you...
03:43Yeah, I've got checkpoints and everything, even just down to your basics of alignment,
03:46making sure my grip hasn't just tweaked its way around just for comfort's sake while I've been
03:52playing. So I realign everything using sticks, the slider, camera work. I do loads of slow motion drills
04:03first to make sure my practice swing is actually like I think it is because I get that wrong loads
04:10of times. I think I'm getting the takeaway right and I just loosely sometimes rehearse the takeaway
04:15and then I've caught it on video and it's like miles off. So get it right slowly first, build it
04:21up
04:22bit by bit. Doing just practice swings really for me, getting my shoulders working early enough,
04:27making sure my club head is in the right place at P2 in the takeaway, making sure I'm stretching
04:34enough to the top of the back swing, which is a real big one for me at the moment. As
04:38you get
04:39older, it's easy just to do like a, just half an effort and get it to the top and you
04:44think you're
04:45winding yourself up, but you're not. So... See, I see that with you a lot and every time we've done
04:49something together or one of these sessions, I see you arguably making more rehearsals than hitting
04:55balls. I see you doing a lot of movement. You're just training movements rather than actually hitting
05:00shots so that when you do come to hit the shots, you've got all your fields in the right place.
05:03I promise we are going to make him hit some shots because that's what you all want to see,
05:06but I guess that's a real key takeaway that even if you can't get to the driving range
05:11or the golf course, you can go to your garden, you can pop on a train in it.
05:15Yeah, I'll do this at home, right? I'm only, we're here hitting balls because we've got space to hit balls,
05:19but in the weeks or the days leading up to a tournament, I'll be rehearsing my backswing
05:26throughout the day in, in the garden or in the house or...
05:30People think you just have to be hitting shots and you don't.
05:32No, no, no, you don't at all. I've got to get my backswing so it feels
05:36lined up and powerful so that the downswing isn't as hard. And if you haven't got all your things sort
05:43of,
05:44all your leverage accumulated in your backswing, then you're, you're going to be limited as to what
05:49sort of club head speed you could actually produce. Well, come on then, let's see lined up and powerful.
05:53You just lined up and powerful. So this ticks a box for me because it keeps my right arm close,
06:01but I am trying to stretch everything else out as far away, as deep as I can,
06:08trying to keep my left arm straight and stretched, make sure my shoulder turns enough,
06:13make sure my hip turns enough so I can get it and get my, my forearm traveling backwards
06:18enough so my swing's long enough. Because if it's too short, it becomes snatchy and
06:23lose a rhythm. And would that be the benefit of using your slider versus a towel? Because
06:27presumably when people tuck a towel under there, you can't get that.
06:30Well, your towel, your towel drill is going to look like,
06:34it's going to be like that.
06:35Yeah.
06:35And I don't know any shots I've ever hit like that on the course.
06:38I do.
06:39Yeah, but, but that, you can only really do that sort of shot with a, with a towel drill
06:45and we'll do that later. But, um, so just adding that, adding that movement of the right arm,
06:50just this, this gives me a full backswing to play with. So I can now work on moving my body
06:55and my,
06:55for me, my upper body and my right shoulder all the way through about my arms flying away from.
07:00Cool. Let's take a double away then.
07:03So I'll do some like this where I'd build the takeaway up, stretch that to the top and then
07:12try and get a shot at the end of it. Because it's that patience as you build to the top
07:18of your swing,
07:20if you haven't played a lot, the calmness to sort of take your time up to there and then swing
07:28down.
07:29So when you're doing that slowly in slow motion, you stopping, you consciously registering that
07:34position, once you're in it, you're going, right. Okay. That's what that feels like.
07:37So I will slow down through this point because I want to get that bit right. And then this bit
07:42will feel like I'm, I'm pausing for a second or two, but I'm obviously not. It's a fraction of it.
07:50And when I feel that extra stretch and I hit where I feel like I ought to be, then I'll
07:56start moving down.
07:57Okay. So, so these are staggered shots and I'm not expecting anything out of the shot.
08:02So we're not even really looking at ball flight.
08:03Don't really, don't really care. No, I don't care.
08:05So how much of this would you do then? Say, say we're playing, you've got a week from today,
08:09you've got a tournament. This is your first session after a little bit of a time off,
08:12we're getting going. How long are you doing this for realistically?
08:14I might need to hit 30, 40, 50 balls until I start feeling looser and I'm getting the same spot
08:21at the top
08:21and I'll check it on video. So when I'm pausing at the top, it's right. And I won't move on
08:27until
08:27that's right. And how many shots will you hit? Will you hit, will you literally hit one, check,
08:31one, check, or are you? I'll do 10 or 20 to start with just to loosen the old body up
08:37a bit. And then
08:38when it feels better, I'll video probably every other shot. Okay, cool. And then when I'm hitting a
08:44consistent spot, then it's time to take this off and see if I can actually replicate that. And then
08:51I go again. Well, hit me one more because we're going to speed that 30, 40 ball process up to
08:55about
08:56three or four. All right. It's windy and cold. Well, that looks very good to me. So I'm going to
09:02assume you're positionally very good. Oh, he fancies one more already. One more. That didn't feel
09:06quite right to me. Needed a little bit wider. Yeah, that was better. Good. So when let's assume
09:15now you've done that work, you're in the position where you, okay, I'm in the right place. I've got
09:19my fields. I've checked off my positions. Do you change into kind of a more playing mindset? Do you
09:24think about what golf course am I going to play? What shots am I going to need? Or are you
09:28someone that just goes, if I've got my skills set in place, that's applicable for anywhere?
09:32Almost. Yeah. It's almost like that. It would have been like that when I was
09:35playing regularly. Now I've got to go through the bag a bit more and remind myself of the
09:41just tiny little adjustments to hitting drivers, making sure that the length of the driver swing
09:46is correct. My stance is right. First of all, I get wide enough and I don't, I tend to sometimes
09:52lean up to the ball position. I try and make sure that's all right. And then trying to keep a
09:57decent
09:58rhythm with the driver, which it's much easier with a seven to have a reasonable rhythm. So that will come
10:04off. I'll try and do the same backswing now. Probably do one or two where I'm pausing.
10:12That felt pretty good. Looks pretty good. Right. So then I'll link that together now into a
10:19almost a non-pause. Go on then, clean that mate. That's what you said you were coming for. Lovely.
10:27It's always been important for me to do this first move slowly. Right. And that was probably my best
10:34one. So bang on. I'll do a few like that. Then I'll go four irons, drivers. Okay. And then you
10:42feel
10:42comfortable. You've worked your way up through the bag. I feel that the swings, if I can get my four
10:46iron and my driver working, then it's, then it's after that it's time to come back down to the wedge
10:51work.
10:51What are you like? Okay. That's interesting because I was going to say that. What, what
10:54in terms of, I've just been in your studio, I think you've got GC quad knocking around here somewhere.
10:59Would you start to implement some of that to look at, start looking at numbers and yardages to make
11:04sure they're as they should be? Yes. That's something you do? Now, nowadays I do. I used to be able
11:08to feel
11:08that pretty well, again, because I'm playing every week. Now it's been, well, it's been a few weeks since
11:13I've actually played a round of golf. Dropping about four yards a week, are you? Yeah. If I don't do
11:18anything
11:18about it. Yeah. So this really, this used to go 169 yards. Yeah. Right. Now my first few shots today
11:25would have probably gone about 160. Yeah. So that's why I've got to sort of crank it up and stretch
11:30the
11:30swing out a little bit. So I'm refusing to adjust my yardages at the moment. Right. You're still
11:36fighting back to that stage. Yeah. It's coming. But for as long as I can up it after a bit
11:40of practice
11:41and I'll use the quad to tell me, am I hitting this as far as I should be? And don't
11:46think you can't do
11:47this if you haven't got a GC4. That's an expensive bit of kit. There's TrackMan ranges. There's top
11:51trace. There's all sorts of things at driving ranges nowadays. You can just laser a flag, can't you?
11:54Of course. And just hit that. Exactly. Yeah. If you've got your Bushnell or whatever, laser a target
11:57and you can get an idea of where that stuff's going. It's not a bad idea to do that on
12:01a day like this
12:01because it's cold. It's probably not going to go 169 in truth. It might go 165 at best in this
12:07cold wind. Right. So we've assumed we've done driver. We've assumed we've done four iron. We're now going to talk
12:12about wedges. You just grabbed a 52 degree wedge. So what does this look like for you? What are you
12:16trying to achieve from
12:17your wedge sessions with a week to go? So I would tend to hit most shots with a 52. It
12:22seems to be
12:23that I get a lot of hundred yard-ish shots. So this is the most important one for me for
12:28scoring.
12:29And I've got to hit the right numbers. So I've got a few favorite shots that I feel like I'm
12:36okay at.
12:37So it would go 107 if I hit it full. I've got a hundred yard shot that I can replicate
12:43quite nicely.
12:44And then if I push it to its max, I can hit it 112. Okay. So those shots are the
12:50ones I'm trying to
12:51hit now to remind myself of what my swing speed feels like to get those three numbers.
12:56So you're controlling, are you just controlling in a speed dial? You're not a clock face?
13:00No, no, no. It's just, it's the same swing, same setup, everything just done at a slightly different
13:05tempo and pace. Okay. Well, let's show us the nuances of that. Give us a clue what your hundred looks
13:10like.
13:10So I'll start with a hundred. Yeah. So my wedge play is just slightly different. I'm a little bit more
13:14upright and I'm keeping my weight on my left that little bit more during the swing. And I'm not using
13:20my wrists as much. So that was an attempted hundred, but probably it's probably gone 90 something,
13:30maybe even only 90. Didn't feel quite right.
13:32So what's the thought process of essentially what you're describing there is almost a different
13:37technique. You're going wide to wide, you're feeling less hinged. Yeah. What's your thought
13:41process and higher hands you said? Yeah. What's your thought process around that?
13:46People would look at your golf swing and just think, well, that just popped out on everything.
13:49Why that subtle change? I found it more reliable for the starting line and to sort of replicate the
13:56pace I wanted. Um, and I copied this basically off Thomas Bjorn, because I played with Thomas quite
14:03a bit, bit, and I tried to help him somewhat with his swing, but he helped me more so with
14:09wedge play.
14:09And I just watched how he did it and he was brilliant at it. Always looks big, long right arm,
14:13right? Yeah. So it was, it was minimal wrist hinge, controlled the speed of it with his turning to
14:20his chest. Okay. And it's, it's simple. Now, in the manner that I hit my full shots, I would have
14:27my
14:27hands lower. Yeah. And I'd be building up a bit more lag. Lag's not great for wedge play and having
14:34low
14:34hands is a bit of a death move because it promotes a pull left. That's the worst thing you can
14:40do with
14:40a wedge. Long left's never good on any green. Surely if you're cranking up to 112, is that when you
14:45start to introduce a bit of hinge or not? No, no. I just, I just, I just turn a bit
14:48harder. So, so this,
14:50that was the 100. If I try and get nearer the normal speed,
14:56so that may have gone a bit further. That would feel like an attempted version of 107. It's gone
15:02further, yeah. And then the 112 is as hard as I dare hit it with this technique without risking
15:09messing the strike up. Okay. So it's, it's the same thing. You're not really noticeable, I suppose, but it's
15:17just a little firmer hit, but the intention of the whole swing is the same.
15:23That was exactly, exactly five yards further. I can see that with my eyes. There we go.
15:27So once you've done a bit of that, so you're going to spend a bit of time working up and
15:30down your
15:30100 shot, your 112 shot, your 107 shot. Until I can hit the numbers close enough, like to within a
15:36couple,
15:36I'll do the same with my 46, my 56 and my 60. Okay. So then we've taken care of the
15:43positions
15:43of the swim. We've got our fields. We've got our fundamentals set. We've got some wedge yardages.
15:46Yeah. I guess now we'll probably go over to the pitching green and see what
15:50we can do with the scoring area, right? Yeah. So that should give me a reliable tee shot. My iron
15:56place should be pretty sharp. My wedges should be all inside 10 foot. I shouldn't be pitching much
16:02or chipping. So we've just got to hold pots after that. But just in case, we'll do some pitching.
16:06Go on then. Let's go.
16:11Right, Rob, we have covered off a long game. So we know we're in decent nick now. You feel
16:15more comfortable heading into tournaments. People are going to know what to do. We're now entering
16:19a zone that a lot of people sort of ignore, and this is really important for scoring, right?
16:23Wedge play. Why is it important? And what do you do to try and sharpen up pre-tournament?
16:28Well, these are your opportunities to hit it,
16:32close to the flag, right? If you're not playing a lot, there's still no excuse for not being able to
16:39hit a pitch shot from 50 yards and get it closer than you would do with a full shot.
16:45Because this is the relatable bit, right? People will look at your goal swing and go,
16:47well, that's all very well him saying that. I can't do that. But there's no real excuse. There's no
16:51huge physical prowess or strength or speed involved in this. This is just feel and touch.
16:57Just a bit of technique and a lot of practice. I used to be absolutely horrendous at 50 yards,
17:04and it used to spoil my chances of winning money as a pro, right? Because I would drive it into
17:09this
17:10zone on a lot of par fours, because I used to be pretty good off the tee, hitting it 300
17:14-ish. But
17:15you're going to face this shot. So if it's a short par four, you've got it. If it's a par
17:18five that you
17:19can't get up in two, you've got this shot. And if you've hit a bad drive and you have to
17:24wedge out,
17:26you've got the shot again, right? So you've got to be good at this shot. And if you can get
17:30good at
17:3150 yards, 40 yards, 60 yards, chances of saving shots are there, but also not completely messing it
17:39up. So just to clarify then, this is our kind of expedited speed process of getting some touch.
17:44You're going to this 50-yard range. If you were practicing wedge play and you're pitching,
17:50as a general rule of thumb, without this kind of target of getting set up, would you be coming
17:55back and forth, moving yardage, or this is your step? I'd just start here until I get this right.
17:58If I can hit my 50-yard number with the right spin, the right divot, the right strike, the right
18:04flight,
18:05I know I can kind of adapt. So if I'm pressed on time, start at 50 yards, or it might
18:11be,
18:11for others, it might be 40, or it might be 60, but pick the one that you face a lot
18:17of
18:17and practice that first. And then you can gauge the others around it, because it's just an extension
18:22of, right? It's the same shot, it's the same technique, it's either slightly less or slightly
18:28more, slightly shorter back, slightly longer, slightly firmer, right? But basically the same
18:32technique. If you get the strike right, then you're there. Cool. We're sort of clipping a couple of
18:36ways and start to get a feel for it. So this is a 60-degree wedge, and I'm playing it
18:40a bit like
18:41we talked about with the full wedge shot, where I'm trying to get minimal divot, and I'm trying
18:47to get a nice sort of wide waist-high swing for me for 50 yards at a sort of moderate
18:53tempo should
18:54give me 50 yards. So remind me of your feel for that, you just feel wide to wide, or are
18:57you feeling
18:57a long right arm? What are you feeling? Yeah, long right arm, I'm higher in the setup,
19:01I'm not dropping the hands down low, I don't want any wrist action, I want this relationship here,
19:07in line, hands slightly forwards, and I want to be kind of collecting it like that.
19:12I'm not trying to hit down into the ground too much, having my weight set slightly on the left
19:18to start should give me my low point and contact with the ground, and I'm trying to maintain that
19:24for as long as I can. I don't want divots, I feel like it's more of that sort of action.
19:29Yeah, makes sense. So it's just wider and just a turn to a finish.
19:39That sounded nice.
19:43Just for the benefit of the camera there, he's just one bounce and clipped it against
19:46the stick. Do you want to just wrap it up there? That'll do, Rick.
19:48You'll calibrate it. If I did that, I'd be quite happy, I'd probably do a few more and I'll be
19:53done with that. But a lot of people could learn from that, so as soon as you said wide to
19:56wide,
19:56all I see is Jason Day, that kind of... Yeah, Jason's your model for stuff like that,
20:01he's so good at it. So kind of just like that. So it doesn't make any sense to not do
20:10that,
20:10it's got more margin for error. Jason Thomas Bjorn, Luke Donald, it's not into the ground and trying
20:18to get loads of spin through hitting down on it really sharp. And you can see that from your divot,
20:23you've barely bruised. It's a firmish bit of ground, but if I got it wrong, it would dig in.
20:28Okay. And then it would come up short. So it's got to be like that, flighted relatively low,
20:34had a bit of spin on it, luckily got the line right, but it felt... right, first go.
20:38Looked pretty good. Let's have a couple more then. Let's get you calibrated,
20:41because we've got a tournament to win in a week.
20:46Sound of that, Rob. That was probably slightly better strike to be fair.
20:50So if these are landing at 50, and I'll check with my pitch mark when we get down there.
20:55That's a great tip for people. Yeah, so you laser it first of all,
20:58and then are you landing it where you think? Right, because it's easy to come up on the...
21:02the front of the green here is angled towards us, so we've got to get past that bit,
21:06otherwise it's just going to stop on the front. And that's a... it might feel like a nice strike,
21:10but if it lands on the front edge and you're leaving yourself 25, 30 foot down a green,
21:16that's no good. So from this range particularly, just past it is better because you're putting
21:21back at it. And as you're clipping away, great tip for people at home, exactly what Rob said,
21:24look at your pitch marks, find out where you're pitching, because you can just go up there,
21:27the ball's next to the hole, and you think, oh great, I'm good at 50 yards.
21:31Bit more divot on that, but still okay. Yeah, it might have pitched 10 foot short,
21:35had a big bounce, so go up, find those, and just... this is disgusting. For the benefit of those who
21:39can't
21:39see that, I reckon our longest putt there is probably the one that hit the pin and bounced
21:43to four and a half feet, so I'd like them a little closer. Yeah, well I'd say you're fairly calibrated,
21:48so let's go and get calibrated on the green so we can take advantage of those wedges and go and
21:51knock
21:52them in. Right Rob, we're on putting green now. Yeah, my favourite place. Yeah, you've made no secret
22:00of the fact that this isn't necessarily your favourite part of the golf course, but when you're hitting
22:05pitch shots in like you've just hit, I guess that tells us the importance of taking advantage of
22:09those and holing out. So you've got a week to go, as we know, you're trying to sharpen your putting
22:14skills, just give me a little bit of a flavour of what you do to get yourself to ornament ready
22:18on the
22:19greens. So the most important part for me is holing out. I don't make many of my mid-range putts,
22:26but if I can lag my long putts up close enough inside it, should we start that again? You haven't
22:32even
22:32missed one yet? And I've thrown it already. If I can lag them up close enough, I'm going to be
22:38faced with four, five foot, hopefully three foot if it's close enough, but the pitch shots have come
22:46to this range. If I'm going to make birdies, I've got to expect these to go in. I don't expect
22:53longer ones to go in, but if I get a good pitch, this has got to go in. So the
22:57main focus of this
22:58would be what then? Your fundamentals of, because we've got... Just start line. So we're looking at,
23:02we've got an alignment aid here down that gets your club... Yeah, it gives you a bit of an idea
23:07of the
23:07club face and path during the whole stroke, but you've also got the gate to send it through.
23:12And I will often have the line on the ball as well to tell if I'm striking it well and
23:16rolling it
23:17properly. So without the mat, I would be lining that line up on my target line. But I try and
23:24do all
23:24these things together to help get me a bit of confidence in what I'm doing is somewhere near right.
23:30So that rolled pretty nice. So if I can keep it rolling like that from short range, I know it's
23:35just a matter of reading and lining that line up. Is this something like with your long game where
23:40you'd use video camera and you'd refer back to that and have a look at your stroke?
23:44Yeah, I'd have a sort of tripod with the camera hanging directly over this mat so I can check
23:51the face along these sort of face alignment lines with the path. That gives me a bit of confidence
23:58that the stroke's on line. Then it's a matter of reading it and lining up properly. But I need to
24:04do
24:04quite a lot of this to reassure myself that I'm going to hold shortish putts.
24:13Which you are doing. Yeah, I'd like that to go in a little bit faster. So trying to hit the
24:17back
24:17of the hole would be something. Keeping a nice rhythm to the stroke is important.
24:26Holding my follow through and checking that my tendency would be to come this way sometimes. So I'm just
24:32trying to stay down long enough, match the club face up and just stay in position, right? Not coming
24:39out of the putt too soon. I think this is a really good one because this isn't, no disrespect, this
24:45isn't a difficult task as such, is it? No. So we're looking at a relatively straight,
24:49shortish putt where we're just checking fundamentals. This is something everyone can do and this is just
24:53to recalibrate to make sure you've got the confidence that you're rolling the ball end over
24:57end and you're starting it on the line and you can take that to the goal force. Everyone can do
25:01this.
25:01The, I mean, I'm moving the putter from there to about there and through to there. So it's not
25:06a complicated movement. If you get it somewhat near, the ball should start and roll straight.
25:12It goes, on short putts, you've got to get it through the tiny gap. So the bigger gap's a bit
25:18pointless because it'll probably miss. So that start line, that's sort of your fundamentals.
25:22Yeah. We all know putting's got a bit more to it than that because you're going to have longer putts.
25:26Well, you might not, but I will have longer putts than this on a golf course. Do you do much
25:30in terms
25:31of pace control and what do you do to try and get the pace? Or would you leave that to
25:35the day?
25:35I'll use, I'll use this ball and just put across the green, hoping and trying to get this ball to,
25:42to run true end over end and just put backwards and forwards across the green, making sure I'm rolling
25:48it right. So it could be just not particularly aiming at hole, but just setting it up and giving
25:54it a decent size stroke this time and see if I can get the line to, to roll. It's wobbled
26:01a bit,
26:03but if I'm striking it true on longer putts, then I know my distance control is going to be
26:08probably as good as I can do it. Cool. Right. So there we have it. So we've got long game,
26:13calibrated. We know what we're doing. You've got your fields with your CRS slider. We've got pitches that are
26:17just hitting the stick. Yeah. We can hole out from three foot. So you've got no excuse not to shoot
26:2265 every round. Hope you can take something from that. There's some real good gems in there.
26:26And thank you very much, Rob. And we'll see you next time. Pleasure.