Free Karl Morris App - Quite Good

ShriekingSheet

Stumbled upon this in the iTunes App Store. Not sure if it's available on Android. It's free to download, and then has the individual audio chapters for the "7 Rituals" for consistent golf, all listenable for free. It's over an hour in total, I'd say.

Beyond that, the audio chapters for "5 shots lower" can be bought in the app for 89c each. After the 7 free chapters from the previous book, you'll know whether it's worth the investment for you or not.

All in all, a nice app that doesn't proport to be anything it's not in the store info, and doesn't try to scam you into having to buy anything after the iniitial free download. It's worth using the free bits alone, and some will find it worth adding the few quid for the additional books.

If you don't know Karl Morris, he's a golf-specific mind guy who's a little less airy-fairy than Bob Rotella, acknowledges the need for some mechanical thinking, and as such is a little more practical. Graeme McDowell is his main advocate. The GUI seem to buy into him in a big way, regularly hosting sessions for national panels and paying punters at Carton House.

Personally, I find his stuff less entertaining than Rotella in terms of BR being a more interesting read, and KM doesn't have so many big names involved with him. But on the whole, KM is possibly more relevant to you or I, and his books have more specific activities you can do to get better, rather than notions and stories.

Cairn

This is really good stuff, the "letting go" ritual really struck a chord with me.

Thanks for the share.

PARlance

Same as, listened to it last night and found it very good.
Cheers SS.

Arsenium

ajcurry123 wrote: »

Same as, listened to it last night and found it very good.
Cheers SS.

Anyone find this for android?

PARlance

Arsenium wrote: »

Anyone find this for android?

I bought into Apples marketing hype, not sure if available on android.

His website is golfmindfactor.com
There are a few videos up there that may be useful

link_2007

Arsenium wrote: »

Anyone find this for android?

I searched for Karl Morris in the Play store and an app called Grip Practice came up. I downloaded it but unfortunately it asks you to pay for membership (£19.99 per year) before it lets you access anything.

spacecoyote

went to a group session with him the Spa Well range and found it really interesting. It was related to his 5 shots lower stuff.

I've taken on a few different elements in my game and its really helped.

For me the thing that stuck most is what has helped me develop my skills with working the gold ball.

Basically was comparing learning to swing to learning to brush your teeth, ie when you learn to brush your teeth you learn to put the tooth brush in your mouth and move it in a motion, you don't learn grip tooth brush down centre, raise arm, bend at elbow, etc....

The point was that is how lots of people learn how to swing a club, every single element of where their body needs to be. His suggestion wasn't think about what you need to do with your body, but think about how you move the club to move the ball a certain way.

I'm not explaining it exactly correctly, but it really struck a chord with me and made a massive difference to the way i swing a golf club.

Also got some tips on short game practice and super 6 golf, etc...

was a very informative session and his stuff is worth a listen.

ShriekingSheet

spacecoyote wrote: »

went to a group session with him the Spa Well range and found it really interesting. It was related to his 5 shots lower stuff.

I've taken on a few different elements in my game and its really helped.

For me the thing that stuck most is what has helped me develop my skills with working the gold ball.

Basically was comparing learning to swing to learning to brush your teeth, ie when you learn to brush your teeth you learn to put the tooth brush in your mouth and move it in a motion, you don't learn grip tooth brush down centre, raise arm, bend at elbow, etc....

The point was that is how lots of people learn how to swing a club, every single element of where their body needs to be. His suggestion wasn't think about what you need to do with your body, but think about how you move the club to move the ball a certain way.

I'm not explaining it exactly correctly, but it really struck a chord with me and made a massive difference to the way i swing a golf club.

Also got some tips on short game practice and super 6 golf, etc...

was a very informative session and his stuff is worth a listen.

Cool. What were the tips on short game practice?

Super 6 is where you play every three holes seperately, right? I found that good.

spacecoyote

yeah super 6 is splitting the course into 6 sets of 3. I actually put together a spreadsheet that does a pretty decent analysis of all my rounds on my home course. I was able to pull historical scores in off HowDidIDo and add them to the database to see which parts of my round I needed to improve in.

The short game stuff was actually more just things he suggested on the night, don't think its necessarily covered in the material.

But the general idea around it is to make your short game practive have some pressure in it to try recreate the feeling you have on the course.

One of the games was called par 18 where you play 9 balls from different spots around the green & play each ball till you hole out. Then tot up your total and the aim is to beat a par of 18 (ie 9 up & downs). His suggestion is that you should only play it once each practice session and keep a record of how you perform. You only get to play once, as that increases the pressure, and keeping the record should hopefully see you improve.

He talked about McDowell playing it in his pre tournament practice. He plays the course with the caddy and randomly at some point when they reach a green the caddy will say to him, par 18 now and he plays a game of it.

Was another putting game called just 9, where you get only 9 putts, 3 short, 3 medium, 3 long putts and the target is 15 putts. Same idea, only play once as it puts pressure on the game.

One of the main emphasis of the session was to try make your practice feel like an actual round, as your body will be more ready for the pressure in that way.

He did refer to some of the stuff from the 5 shots, like putting an emphasis on how you carry yourself between shots, ie you spend more time on the course not taking golf shots so to make sure you are behaving in the right way in the non golfing time. Stuff like focussing on your breathing to distract you from negative thoughts after a bad shot, keeping your posture upright etc...