Welcome to get a grip with Max Holman

Shane Bacon I'm Shane Bacon Max a great week last week at the memorial I know

maybe the last nine holes weren't exactly what you'd hoped for but I'd say top tens are top

tens you know especially after a couple of weeks off.

Yeah it was an awesome week it was big I think Joe said it best is kind of a breakthrough for us I

really didn't hit the ball well on Wednesday. I told, you know, I told Mark he was out there my coach and told Joe, you know, my short game and my putting feel quite good, but my ball striking was just not there especially my driver in

three wood and that rough was obviously nuts and Wednesday it was raining and

we spent like two hours hitting balls in the rain and I felt like I did a good job

but not being super emotional about it.

I was just trying to, you know, I was trying to be as rational and like even killed as I could and

just talk through it. Mark went through some great stuff. We talked about some, you know, mechanical things we could work on, but for the most part, we were really trying to focus on. I was, I've been saying it for a couple months now at least, you know, in my head or to Lacey or you know, some of my closest buddies, I guess that I'm kind of, I think like the jump to the next level for where I'm at is being able to

as I probably mentioned on this podcast is like kind of going with what Justin Thomas has said a few times and all the best guys seem to be able to do this is play or feel not great and still be competitive.

Right. That's the stuff I have not been good at, mostly because my short game just hasn't been super reliable, but other things, just mental stuff, just like, you know, kind of thinking I'm going to need to, you know, hit it great to succeed because that's how I've succeeded in the past and I thought it was actually pretty cool to hit the ball and sit in that rain and I kind of looked at Mark and I was like I'm excited for this opportunity. I'm glad I know on Wednesday that I think you know it's going to be a bit of a struggle because I think I'm going to

try and play golf more than play golf swing which has been I'm sure Joe would be the perfect person to note, you know, point out that that's one of my big issues.

So yeah, I found that I was hitting my irons well by the end of Wednesday and I was driving it poorly and you know I but but Joe made this great point he's like you're only missing your driver right he's like so don't try to draw it let's go back it, let's just only hit the cut again.

As, you know, we've been doing for the most part, but every once a while when I drive it,

well, I'll start working at both ways.

And he's like, just, you know, play that right right missed and basically we had a really good game plan for the course we played to where the bunkers would be our misses off the tee because the rough was just so bad and that first day on you know, I went around and I played a lot of shots at the left side of fairways and I'd kind of almost push them back into the fairway. And you know, we would miss it in the right spots and I wore out my iron game. I obviously cut it really well last week, but you know, as I probably mentioned like that's where I feel like I can get going so wasn't shocked that I just felt like that Thursday round was really fun in that

manner as far as growing up as the Gulfer I would like to become and after Mark was still there he up leaving, I didn't see him Friday, but he went on the range and again like just a logical rational like explanation was going on and just told them, you know, I was pumped with it, but I obviously needed to hit a little better.

And then we had a really good rain session that Thursday afternoon,

and I felt really good about where my swing was at all of a sudden,

obviously wasn't perfect, but definitely moving in the right direction.

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