How was it to have Dustin Johnson in the last episode of “Heating“? It was good to hear directly about the process behind one of his generation’s biggest players. It was also a real golf emotion to see one of the greatest leaders of the modern era some high and let them fly. But mostly what is impressive Dustin Johnson Personally it is how comfortable it seems to be … Dustin Johnson. This meant that he answered every question diligently and thought, but also without any claim or performance. Johnson doesn’t care what you think about him, and he definitely doesn’t care what I think about him, and there is something admirable in that.
For our purposes, it also means that you can learn one or two things. Here are five parts of wisdom from a half hour session with the former world no. 1:
1. He is not afraid of a pre-randy workout.
It is not surprising to hear Johnson get a proper heat in the front-randy gym. But I was intrigued by his acceptance that he would decide in two days for a later afternoon.
“Of course if it’s Sunday and I’m in one of the later groups, we’ll go too late,” he said. “So yes, I will probably have already done a drill and then go to the course and will do a heat again, again in the gym, as, 20 minutes, just take the body moving and shooting.”
Again, this is not shocking to hear from one of the most famous athletic players in the world. But in the context of golf history – and relatively short players of the time frame have actually acted as athletes – it’s a reminder of how far the professionals have come.
First of all, I like Johnson’s old school Wedge: 60 degrees, 54 degrees, 48 degrees. No need an empty wedge unless you have a trench!
“For a while, I passed and went 46, 50, 54, (60),” Johnson said. “But I’ve played so when I was a kid, I think. … and I just got back a month or two ago. So I tried it for a year. It didn’t work.”
What THERE However, he worked is the call in detail. This means hitting three different wedge shots with each club.
“I have three shots with each wedge, like a half, one three -quarters and one action,” Johnson said. “I will work through them with all three of my wedges.” On this day in Dallas Stop of Liv Golf, his half-60 went 85 yards, his three-quarters-60 went 95 and his shares 60 went 105.
Johnson did not use a Monitoring of boot Growing up (no one did at the time), but while he is more taken in the data he has focused particularly closely on the calibration of these wedge shooting.
“For me, this was probably the biggest difference was just getting immediate feedback,” Johnson said. This liberated him to lay again in certain holes; He mentioned another strategy for a second blow to a Par-5.
“Instead of destroying it as close to the green as possible as possible, I would lay it like 85, 95 or 105, depending on the flag. Suddenly, you know there is something there, rather than as a 40- or 50-boron shots from the push up and then many times you stuck in the flags, where you hit a perfect stroke. easily. ”
3. He thinks the video study has its boundaries.
I asked Johnson if he feels like his swing has changed a lot over the years.
“No, I mean, there is no,” he said, after a pause. “I watch the old videos and videos now and all look (the same). Of course the video from when I’m swinging really well and playing really well when I’m fighting, and I compare them and they don’t really look.”
This controls; Generally, when I look at my shake in the video, I can really share the best shots of the worst if I can see where the ball goes (or watching the frustration and frustration washed over my face). Then what to do about it?
“That’s the thing. You know. There are such small differences that make great influences on what you are doing. That is why repetition and always trying to hit numbers and things is generally what helps me the most.”
4. He is hunting the maximum distance in the range – for a good reason.
Shortly before this session with Johnson, I would have a conversation with Louis Oosthuizen, who told me he hits him much further in the course than he is in the range. Johnson agreed – kind. He does not believe in the magic of the golf course by allowing you to suddenly destroy your personal ball speed record, but he believes in preparation.
“I always try to hit some, how, to try to destroy it. Just hit as much as I can with each club just to know what my maximum numbers are.”
I pushed again to wonder if it is possible to get up from THAT Max during tour games only because you are busy. DJ was not buying it.
“I think this turns out to know what is your maximum distance, because if you know your maximum distance, you can’t hit it further than that,” he said, then added this gem: “You’re not hitting it further; there is only so far you can hit it.”
Okay, what about extending the situation he described, opposing the couple’s latest holes, pumping adrenaline, feeling good, high confidence – there is sure to use another level you can use?
“Well, there are, but that’s why you try to use it in the range,” he said.
The closed issue.
5. He will tell you how to hit the fading. (He is just better in it than you.)
There is an old viral clip of Johnson who talks about hitting a pallor in which he essentially says when you are trying to hit a pallor, the most important thing to do is fade. I think there is a current mirror there – if you are hitting fading, hit the fading! This is what matters – but it is mainly a funny clip that Johnson admits that he still listens all the time. Then how does a pallor hit?
“My first eight years in the tournament I played a draw,” Johnson says. “I used to draw everything, I wouldn’t hit a pallor if I didn’t like me, go around the tree or something. And working with butch, the first four years together we worked on the faint hit we worked on palloring, but we would never hit one (on the course).”
Johnson remembers a BMW championship where he debuted that the secret weapon fades in a great deal below the stretch. Then how does he do it? It’s no surprise here, but Johnson makes him sound quite simple.
“I put my legs slightly open. The club on the target. I will take it back to the line of my feet. And then I will drop it.”
I asked for some explanations of what it actually means “Release it in the target”, for which Johnson essentially withdrew. “I will take it a hair out and then simply I’ll be targeted.”
Quite right.
You can see the interview in its entirety here or below.
Dylan Dothier is an elderly writer for Golf Magazine/Golf.com. Native Williamstown, Mass. Dothier is a graduate of Williams College, where he graduated in English, and he is the author of 18 in Americawhich details last year as an 18-year-old living out of his car and playing a round of golf in every state.
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