Danny Malcolm Golf Coaching

Great chat with HollywoodLow🎙🖤 during a rain delay - the man playing Michael Jackson on Broadway in MJ

He told me doing his training as MJ, choreographers Rich and Tone Talauega would turn the AC OFF in the rehearsal studio. No water breaks. No comfort. Just training exactly how it’d feel on stage, so by the time the lights came on, his body already knew what to do.

Sound familiar? That’s the gap between the simulator and the first tee. Perfect conditions, zero consequences - then you get out there and wonder why you’re panicking over a shot you’ve hit a thousand times in practice.

Nothing’s changed. The swing hasn’t changed. You just haven’t practiced under real pressure.

Add the pressure to your practice, and the course stops feeling like a different game.

Short greenside pitch

Quick demo here for a client during a short game lesson today.

What do you notice?

Anything you may or may not wish to include in your own action?

I just love all things short game. Always been one of my strongest parts of my game. Hours and hours spent around a chipping green as a kid playing up and down comps against my buddies for chocolate bars!

Played 3 holes with my 5 year old tonight.

Life can get busy and it’s easy to just skip having this time together after a big day. But now I’m back fit and swinging again, I am making a conscious effort to have him more involved in my day to day work.

And I would love for him to just grow up around this game more and that starts with me putting him in that environment.

And how good is golf. It’s so good to be back swinging! There is honestly no better feeling than a well struck iron shot🔥

There’s a reason why pro golfers train this way: slow speed strips away everything speed can often hide.

You can’t fake sequencing or compensate with athleticism when you’re moving at 20%. It forces you to feel exactly where the club is and where your body needs to be through impact, the stuff that gets lost when you’re swinging normally.

Then you build back up. to 40%, 60% and then 80% blending that discipline with controlled tempo. And full speed is the test: can you keep the same feels and sequencing you built slow, now that everything’s happening fast?

This is exactly the kind of work that’s been huge for me as I’ve made a strong recovery from surgery. I can’t just jump to full speed and hope my swing holds up. I am rebuilding it in layers, prove each piece works before adding speed on top of it.

This drill takes a ton of discipline guys, but honestly it’s one of the best drills you can do when working on changes to your golf swing.

Shoutout to Alex Moore | Golf Instructor & Coach for this drill 👍