Bryson Dechambeau's Coach Teaches Me How to Hit My DRIVER SMOOTH

[@TheDartion]

Thanks for these videos Jerome, always look forward to your content. The Dana videos are my favorite. I also started playing whites, to hell with ego. Starting to build confidence, work my way up to blues. Good job man.

[@JeromeRufin]

Nice yeah I’ve def looked at the game completely different

[@float101]

Dana is an amazing teacher. The two inputs in this video helped this new golfer hit consistently. Played my best game ever with those thoughts and white tees! Thanks so much!

[@smr535]

Your vidoes always have a way of hitting my eyes right when I need them most. This was THE perfect video for me to watch right now. Dana is the man and thank you for allowing us to watch your lessons with him!

[@jonathansmith9705]

"You were trying to figure out what happened and why -- you cannot play golf like that." Brilliant lesson. Everyone should remember that. It would be counterproductive and worsen your score during a round. It also implies that you or one could figure out everything and NEVER misfire or hit a bad shot again. It's not possible and perverse to think it is. Pros hit bad shots and don't do mental gymnastics every time they do. They go right back to the basics, and what they've been doing well most of the time. Glad you put this out Jerome!

[@pedroramsey]

I have watched you from the begining and all the coaches say the same thing to you "do not overthink it" and everytime you start thinking

[@JeromeRufin]

Yeah it’s a personality trait I’ve had since I’ve been born. They are trying to beat it out of me. One day it will be better lol

[@clorett15]

@@JeromeRufinmy instructor would keep talking to me when I was about to hit so I had to focus on him not my swing. It was annoying but super helpful. Maybe an audio book?

[@djkjestrup]

In fairness Dana is massively overcomplicating everything which can't be helping

[@Not.Satoshi]

@@JeromeRufin It’s not a trait unique to you. Stop using that excuse as your crutch. Most golfers suffer from it. It is a trained skill to teach your brain to simplify. It’s a skill you are not working on developing at all. On the range while learning is fine to an extent but you have to develop the skill to turn it off on the course.

[@JeromeRufin]

@@Not.Satoshi That's literally what I said lol, and I didn't say it was unique to me. It's a personality trait I have and we are working on fixing it.

[@NickOnPar]

Keep the Dana videos coming

[@JeromeRufin]

Always!!

[@diuneimaaaaaa]

Dana seems like he sucks with new golfers.

[@LittKoala]

I agree with Dana. I think being an athlete and thinking externally is how golf should be played. If you play basketball, you aren’t thinking about your positions every time you shoot the ball….same concept.

[@chingycjaii]

As an adult learner I have the same issue of trying to be perfect and outsmart my swing. It gets frustrating especially like you I put in a lot of time practicing. This video was a good reinforcement from what my own coach is telling me to just focus on one thing and the rest of my body reorganise around it.

[@MoAntphonyMo]

I concur with him on playing at Heartwell. It was one of my first courses I played starting and its such a good course for short irons and wedges. It will really test your skills there.

[@ryancampbell4445]

Haha the way Dana looks at you when you are "overthinking" is funny. It's like he is thinking "should I slap him a little or nah" 😂😂 Another great video thanks dude

[@JeromeRufin]

Hahaha it’s a love hate relationship lol

[@ricdenic]

Wow . What an incredible teacher.

[@nakakuchi_1780]

Nice video. I’m working on this with my coach as well. Is the previous video after this lesson since you were playing the white tee?

[@JBLEMSZGRAIN]

When Dana said I don't swing any different between 5i and 9i really hit hard

[@JeromeRufin]

Facts haha

[@kevinbarnes5185]

I understand your goals but I do believe you are chasing a pioe dream with this idea of the perfect swing. Every coach gives you a different thing which complicates your swing so much. I applaud this coach as the best you've seen. The simple and best answer...swing your own swing.

[@dominicverschuure9437]

In one of your earlier lessons with Dana was dealing with your hip rotation. Rotation feeling of moving your bellybutton into your inner trail leg. Maybe relook at this lesson if it can help with stopping your swaying laterally.

[@mikeg7924]

Holy Smokes Jerome! When you let loose and just had one input, your swing became elite! Congratulations! All the work you have put in is totally paying off and you definitely deserve it. I've been watching from the beginning and grinding along with you, so I feel entitled to say so. I think Dana should buy you a nice set of irons as a reward. 😉How is the wrist feeling? Keep this up and you'll be doing mini tour events before you know it.

[@JeromeRufin]

Thanks for grinding with me! And wrist recovered but def less flexible from the aftermath :/

[@mikeg7924]

@JeromeRufin Oh geez. Well, I hope you have a full recovery. Injuries suck!

[@teeoff007]

Great content Jerome

[@JeromeRufin]

Thanks ! And thank you for watching :)

[@brockwilliams203]

The hidden challenge of playing up is that your target off the tee gets much smaller, rather than larger. When you’re in range to drive the green or close the target line gets more narrow as compared to when you’re hitting a drive to a 30-40 yard wide fairway. Yes, you’re closer after that tee shot from the reds, but if you didn’t hit the right line then you have a difficult to control chip from the rough or a bunker rather than a straightforward full swing shot from the rough.

[@Zephyr1968]

🤜🤛 100% agree and also with the new Deadpool movie comment. You make the swing effortless if you can start it properly, otherwise compensations on top of compensations.

[@Aoughi]

28:30 what is this. 😂 You re hitting a great shot then you stopped the work, look to him like 'daddy I did it can I go now' and put the club back. 😂😂 Man that was the point where I would expect you to say wait. I hit it great. It was so great I HAVE do hit it again. And again. And again. Dude if the shot is spot on grab it jump on it don't let it go. But it looks like you prefer talking and chatting about the swing instead of hitting it 😮

[@Bigchuckidychuck]

Bro is projecting hard, tf are you saying

[@chrisporte1]

I like Dana’s Daytona, maybe the black dial would be more “stealth” just saying

[@bertpainter8385]

I know exactly what Dana is trying to tell you @ 48:40. It's when you're having a bad day. You finally get to the point where you just don't give a crap. You step up to the ball without thinking because you're fed up and you crush the ball after not hitting one good shot all day. No thinking, just stepping up and swing away without concern.

[@77bovi]

@39:05 "not bad Jereome". Gave me chills cos it's like straight out from the movie Gattaca. Please check out that movie, so many clips for you to use. Including "Jerome Jerome the metronome"

[@JeromeRufin]

Oh watched that so long ago. he spells it’s Gerome (fake Jerome) haha

[@77bovi]

@JeromeRufin nice that u have watched it. In the movie it's spelled Jerome Eugene Morrow. I kinda can recite every line in that movie 🤣

[@jackjetpilot]

15:37 SMOKED IT!

[@wally6193]

Why use a 5i, try going to a hybrid, or is there a reason you don't want hybrids?

[@77bovi]

Awesome stuff, I don't get left and down by the top of the swing and I do feel loading lots right in the backswing laterally... so I feel I need to slide left but seems I get too much left head goes left too and I extend and scoop to reach the ball. Gonna try this. Although I really should be working on my putting and partial wedge shots hahaha Very impressed with your nuked 5 irons! 230y carries 🎉🎉🎉

[@JeromeRufin]

Yeah I should be working on putting and wedges as well haha. Stay tuned. New short game coach coming into the picture - ex pga player and currently coaching pga pros :)

[@77bovi]

@@JeromeRufin can't wait! Love what Dana said about your swing being good enough to shoot even par. At some point we just gotta say stop golf swing and just golf. You're fortunate to have the swing and the pga level distance. When you encounter people who are in their 60s who drive it 40m less, playing low lofted irons, scoring near par and me shooting 80-84 with 3 putts, chipping tp 3-5 feet but missing those putts. Driving into trouble and having to make 1 putts for bogey or 2 putts for double... you start re-evaluating what's more important. I'm at the stage where, it's all about putting. But at the same time the only thing I ever hear from seniors is wanting to hit it longer. They never wish for lower scores hahahaha

[@timmyotoole6063]

15:38 bruh that was insanity!

[@JeromeRufin]

Insane in the membrane !

[@B92019]

Dana is awesome.

[@rjlovell1]

In baseball we have a saying ‘paralysis by analysis’. When you over-do it becomes a problem.

[@brandonlambert1586]

Idk if you'll read this but please can you also post some raw range sessions or putting practice instead of only lessons or course vlogs so we can see what you're working on and how?

[@JeromeRufin]

Yup! Follow my Instagram @jerome.rufin I post a lot of raw content there :)

[@nateshizzle1]

Just - so good

[@JeromeRufin]

Thats you!!

[@dmpt39]

A world figure skating coach confided to me that her most successful athletes were ‘dumb’ in that they didn’t think too much, whereas the smart athletes were always overthinking and never achieved the success that might have been expected. This why top athletes can rarely explain how they do it, whereas coaches are failed competitors and can explain the details of there sport.

[@JeromeRufin]

Yeah I can see that. I’m just trying to get to state I was when I played highly competitive basketball

[@bertpainter8385]

@@JeromeRufin Did you think or just react? Basketball is a game where if you think about what you do, you will usually be a split second late. The golf swing can be like that. Practice the drills over and over without thinking about results or other parts of the swing. Eventually, it's muscle memory. Then when you get to the course you just play. If you practiced enough, which I'm betting you do, the swing is without thought. I just watched a coach say the opposite of most. He said the golf swing is like a baseball swing except baseball swing is level and golf is more downward. He said if you're a good/great hitter in baseball, the butt of the bat leads the swing and the barrel catches up causing that whip/snap. Golf swing is the same. The handle should lead and then the club whips/snaps after the ball hitting the ground. I ignored all my thoughts after watching and before hitting the golf ball, I'd practiced how I used to hit the long ball in baseball and then got over the ball and used that thought to hit the golf ball. It's working. I'm 20 yards further and if I snap the clubhead fully extended after contact the ball goes straight. but if I don't it slices or fades. But the swing when I think hitting the long ball in baseball feels awesome.

[@jackjetpilot]

28:13 Dana with the beautiful Daytona.

[@tackywacky99]

This is extremely important. you get dont get stronger by doing the same thing and being controlled. you gotta just let loose and swing hard and then eventually your 110% speed will become your 80%

[@cynt1111]

Didn’t realise hitting a ball could be so complicated, i just put the ball down and twat it😂

[@ricoxkiller]

Maybe his over-analysis is for us the viewers. Jerome is really a great golfer but he's handicapping himself for us. Great show Jerome 👏

[@golfrep2584]

I think what you are seeing here in Jerome's journey to be a scratch golfer, is how difficult it is to take up this game when you are an adult! Kid's accept the fact that they will hit bad shots and they also know they will hit a lot of good shots along the way. Hence, they don't get hung up on trying to be perfect. It's just a game to them. Hit the ball, find it and hit it again until it gets in the hole. Unfortunately, as an adult, we want to learn how to hit perfect shots because we think that will help us shoot a great score. Hitting the ball well doesn't mean you will shoot a good score, anymore than not hitting the ball perfect means you won't shoot a good score! A player needs to learn how to shoot a good score and once you figure that out the game comes to you and becomes a ton of fun. Teachers like Dana can help you refine your swing, but it's up to the player to figure out how to shoot a good score. Full disclosure, I've taken lessons from Dana and he's a great teacher because he gives you the tools to succeed all the while trying to get you to play like an athlete and not a robot trying to make perfect swings.

[@wadesworld6250]

Dana: "Do this" Jerome: "But if I do it might work."

[@wally6193]

Dana says go fast go fast(backswing) to get your body working correctly. What does he say about guys like Hideki who has a very slow backswing, that I'd like to know because I find I hit it more consistent with a slower backswing.

[@brianschultz7320]

There’s not one way to swing my man. Find your swing DNA and a teacher you like and go from there.

[@wally6193]

@@brianschultz7320 yes thanks I'm aware of that, I was just curious what Dana would say to that.

[@JeromeRufin]

It depends on the player. He gave me this drill and feel because of how my mind complicates all of it when it’s too slow. But he would coach around the player if slower is better for them

[@wally6193]

@@JeromeRufin Yes I understood his reasons for telling you that, I was curious about if he would have a comment on the slower backswing. Maybe you can ask him on your next video. Thanks, now go play the whites, haha.

[@brianschultz7320]

@@wally6193 I’ll say that for me I try to hit the ball as hard as I possibly can and it’s very counter productive. When my coach tells me to slowww down I always hit it way better. The other day I was trying to kill my 7 iron and it was going 155. Then I told myself to stay balanced and swing nice and easy like I’m making a practice swing. I started hitting the middle of the face and carrying it 170.

[@United4eva85]

Dudes got more coaches than New York tour guides

[@diombre7]

What does he mean by forward and down??

[@JeromeRufin]

Weight lead side basically feeling u are landing left at an angle

[@kj475]

Is this your latest lesson or an earlier lesson?

[@craigcrawford6749]

Smoothly

[@ChrisSavage94]

2024 round count?

[@orrghead]

He has 19 logged on ghin

[@ChrisSavage94]

@@orrghead Never going to get to scratch at that rate. Thats not even 2 rounds a month. Jerome, you should be playing 3-5 rounds a week minimum. Playing will get you there faster than anything.

[@dunkirk1581]

Your driver is destroying your game, You would rather hit it 300 yards in every direction instead of 270 yards straight, Course management should be your aim.

[@timmyotoole6063]

are you watching the lesson? he started hitting it way better once he swung faster

[@peterrutkowski8172]

@@timmyotoole6063 Until he started thinking about that one shot that went left. Then it was back to mind vomit.

[@peterrutkowski8172]

Golf is not a game of perfection. Even Ben Hogan famously said he might hit one or two perfect shots in a round of golf.

[@dunkirk1581]

@timmyotoole6063 on the course he is trying to kill the ball with his drives, in the previous episode, Practice is not on the course, it's constructive criticism, an observation. Check it out.

[@dunkirk1581]

@peterrutkowski8172 watcch the end of the previous episode,

[@iammars142]

Jerome this is excellent. Where are you based now?

[@JeromeRufin]

LA!

[@magikkris]

look at your shot even when you miss. discipline .

[@tellwilliams4493]

I guess when I look at video, I need lines, drawn circles drawn things that I need to bring to my tension that I’m trying to work on what am I trying to get better? Show me pacifically what you working on this general looking at a video doesn’t get it for me big ZZzzzzz

[@PhillyPhenomGolf]

bro is gonna swing thought his way into an insane asylum if he dont start playing n stop thinking

[@JeromeRufin]

😂😂

[@3n2a2]

Truth. No smiles. Target: figure out how to hit ball there.

[@PhillyPhenomGolf]

@@JeromeRufin your a good sport for laughing at the jokes brother. I come from experience not hating. I think my way out of rds all the time. You have fun you deserve it. Don't think u give yourself enough credit for your natural ability. You got it. On course get used to just letting it fly. Only your routine to think about. Results don't change your thinking or swings. You will always be tinkering and never get consistent. The practice will eventually bleed over so much u won't need to think anyways.

[@PhillyPhenomGolf]

@@JeromeRufin it's also to me just a sign of your intelligence and determination on being best you can be. Just try and get 1% better then yesterday everyday. Trust me you will drop the strokes to scratch thru short game alone and rest just getting more consistent. And it's so much easier when you can save yourself around green. Instead of turning a par into double bogie

[@ChrisSavage94]

I think you neeed some new swag maui jim dad glasses. trust me, they're fire.

[@JeromeRufin]

Someone get me a brand deal hahaha

[@stitchwod]

Chubbs - It’s all in the hips!

[@GimmeDatSheep]

2:57 Can we get much higher?

[@spotcatsteve3752]

If he changes to a single plane swing like Bryson wouldn’t it solve his problems?

[@bradyhawk101]

You overthink not overthinking.

[@catman1050]

Politically correct way to say triple bogie on a par 3: I parred that par 3....twice!

[@benlaforce2915]

I thought Como was Bryson's coach

[@3n2a2]

Target. Hulk Smash. Find. Repeat. Look at target. Hit orb. PLAY golf. STOP working swing. Be an ATHLETE, not an IDIOT. REPS on course yes. RANGE no. Play to front & get up and down!! Gold. You don't need any more lessons. JUST WATCH THIS OVER AND OVER AND TAKE NOTES.

[@rjlovell1]

Sometimes we can be our own worse enemy! Jerome-stop it!

[@GolfRaffi]

how is Callaway or TaylorMade not all over this and bring this dude some golf clubs?

[@JeromeRufin]

Yeah I need new clubs haha

[@GolfRaffi]

@@JeromeRufin Ask either Garret from GoodGood (Callaway) or Grant (TaylorMade to set you up. They will for sure want to help you, OR, talk to the BrynBros they can set you up with TakomoGolf. Wish you the best!

[@patrickbcox]

The title of the video should be how to swing freely and less mechanically.

[@barfly4523]

Just hit the ball.

[@americanme8978]

He makes golf more confusing.

[@Pdubya69GS]

Lumpy. 51:21 IYKYK

[@diuneimaaaaaa]

24:10 dumbest shit ever. I rather play a high draw and shoot 90 vs a cut or slice that shoots par anyday. Looking good and playing good go hand in hand. Play the game because you love the way u hit it, not because u can scavenge a good score from a hack swing

[@nhlrob]

Stop using your head & use your body to hit the ball. Shut up J & hit the damn ball. That's what you overly polite coach was saying. Hit ball & then hit it again. Don't over analyze. Enjoy your golf. Don't over-think it.

[@tellwilliams4493]

All right, I don’t know who this teacher is. He’s definitely not hands-on. I would not feel confident that he’s gonna teach me anything from his ass sitting down in the cart.

[@silvermediastudio]

Bro, talk less listen more.

[@nastybadger-tn4kl]

his swing sucks so is his coach

[@oceanyt8]

My friend. The coach just BS. You are not extending both arms and hands straight upon ball impact. Any coach would spot that easily. Without the proper club face impact, you will continue to struggle. You have to time and extend both arms right after smashing the ball. That's power ! Check your video again. And lastly, you have too much body movement. That's really something you have to fix it.

[@Allan.clark26]

Hi mate. If you go to grf golf on KZbin. Marcus explains the hip movement you’re working on. He calls it drop and pop. Worth a watch plenty of videos explaining and working with students

[@Pdubya69GS]

Lumpy. 51:21 IYKYK

[@Pdubya69GS]

Lumpy. 51:21 IYKYK

[@Pdubya69GS]

Lumpy. 51:21 IYKYK