Tyrrell Hatton and Jon Rahm taught me 10 lessons in 45 minutes

Tyrrell Hatton and Jon Rahm arrived early. Maybe that was the first lesson they taught me: to be a suitable career, if you’re on time, you’re too late. But when I reached their position within the driving range of the Maridoe GC in Dallas, both players were already holding wedges and warming up. So our latest episode warm up – Starring Hatton and Rahm – Real-time starts in real-time.

Here are 10 things I have learned.

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1. Both start with their highest wedge.

“I mainly hit it from anywhere from 50-60 yards and got used to the club for the day,” Hatton said of his 60 degrees. Does he have any lens shape? “I didn’t think about it, I just played it.” “Golf is complicated.”

2. But they have started at the gym.

Hatton admits that this is not always the case. But at this point, he needs to keep the engine going before impacting the range.

“Absolutely not,” he said. “But as I get older, harder and fat, I need to start doing more work in the gym to get the rig ready to spin.”

3. Hatton has a “double grip” he uses to take off distance.

“I’ve been trying to keep my distance by slowing my swing, which has got me in a strait,” he said. “So I started to grab it and then use 54[-degree] I have a double grip, so shorter. That way I can still swing. ”

He showed me the small “V” marks he used to monitor the degree of the grip. How many yards did this strategy take off?

“From a whole pole, the double grip drops usually close to 12 yards,” he said. “So that’s a lot. It feels horrible, but I’ve done enough to be happy with it.”

4. Ram loves playing with other hot competitors.

“One thing that lets get along is that we tend to have a similar reaction on the golf course,” Ram said of Hatton, who was his Ryder Cup teammate and now his fellow teammate at Legion XIII. How does this affect him, play with another hohead?

“Whenever I play with someone who might be shot on a golf course, not only [Tyrrell]everyone, because I saw myself inside, I laughed. So, there is some fun that follows. Many times, they will see me laughing and then they laugh. Because they fully understand where it comes from. ”

5. Ram is a gentle giant.

Asked Hatton, the feeling of Rahm away from the court may have led to my favorite exchange today:

Hatton: “Well, he looks horrible, doesn’t he? But he’s like a big teddy bear.”

Ram: “Why do people say I look horrible?”

Hatton: “This may have something to do with AF – units and six feet three.

6. Hatton is as fun as you think.

“Tyrel is one of the most interesting people you’ve ever met,” Ram said. “He doesn’t like to do that, but I think he should be mic in one of our exercises. Because he just dropped the gems. Like, any compilation you see is very gentle compared to what we usually hear.”

7. But he doesn’t have much conversation with positive self.

I asked Hatton when he felt like he had become so good for the first time. I think this is a very safe territory. According to your requirements, he is currently considered one of the 10 or 15 best golfers in the world. That is, unless you ask him.

“This is a strange question. I don’t think I’m [so good]he said. “I told myself I was-.”

He then cites lines from a British comedian.

“What Micky Flanagan said: Motivation can exhaust you.”

8. Ram, on the other hand, is more positive than his voice.

“I have an irrational positive in my mind,” he said. “Never lose hope, always hope for the best hope on the next shot under any circumstances – even if my mouth may say something else, I firmly believe.

In other words, he never lacks self-confidence.

“No, no, no.”

9.

Just during our meeting, he fired a few shots, registering a few shots in the side-spinning “0”, including on a drive with 318 yards.

“For how complex the game is and how much we try to simplify, [Tyrrell’s] Ram said the only thing that came to mind was to go straight, which was arguably an impossible game. This is the most interesting part for me, but how good is he, right? I mean, you see. To make so many clubs spin, he is obviously good at it. ”

Hatton confirmed that he did not specifically consider the speed of the chase.

“I feel like I can play far enough to compete,” he said. “Of course there are a lot of people here who absolutely send it, you’re never going to beat them in a long driving race, but playing a long way doesn’t mean you’re going to win every week. There are other ways to solve the course.”

10. Ram has been playing more draws.

I asked Ram if he hits the 100 drive, how much would fade out compared to the draw. He said the number has changed dramatically.

“If you asked me these five years ago, I would say 99 fades and an unexpected draw,” he said. “If we included 3 woods in the tee, I think I could have reached a 30% draw.”

Rahm shows how it looks when he hits the stock – a few inches before the ball, pick a reference point, line up with it, align the target slightly left and right, and rotate along his target, knowing that the ball will land on the right.

On the other hand, he would close his position slightly when he was tied, but move the ball further to the same spot in his position.

“I just allow the club’s extra foot to close,” he said. “I don’t change anything in terms of swing. When I’m swaying, the worst thing is straight.”

Good news: There are more sources! To hear Ram’s favorite part on the golf course, whether Hatton “loves” the game or not and what he finds “disgusting”, watch the full video on YouTube here or below.

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