Brandon Rave PGA Professional Golf Coaching

⛳️ STOP THINKING YOUR LOB WEDGE HAS TO GO HIGH.

One of the biggest patterns I see with everyday golfers is that they’ve been pigeonholed into thinking a lob wedge is designed to hit the ball straight up in the air.

Yet 99 times out of 100, good players are doing the opposite.

They’re controlling trajectory, often launching the lob wedge much lower, and regulating spin through an understanding of impact conditions and experimentation.

Around the greens, don’t be afraid to manipulate:

• Ball position
• Shaft lean
• Attack angle
• Dynamic loft
• Lie angle
• Face orientation

Change the variables. Watch what happens to launch, spin, strike and rollout.

The goal isn’t to own one “perfect” technique.

The goal is to understand cause and effect well enough that you can create the shot the situation demands.

Experiment. Learn your patterns. Master your wedges. 🎯

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If you want to manage how much the pelvis slides in the golf swing, you need to understand anterior–posterior force.

The pelvis doesn’t control itself in isolation. How you apply force into the ground has a huge influence on how it moves.

By learning to push into the ground and create force backwards, the ground pushes back — helping manage excessive pelvic translation while allowing the body to continue moving dynamically.

This is why simply telling a golfer to “stop sliding” is rarely enough.

You need to address the forces creating the movement, not just the movement you see on an iPhone.

Control the force → influence the pelvis → improve the low point a ground interaction

Train the cause, not the symptom.

Another example of world class player feeling one thing but demonstrating another.

Make sure you stick to your desired system to produce necessary outcomes.

This would be catastrophic for current slicers.

Is there something I’m doing wrong?

Does effort create ball speed from club head speed?

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PRACTICE WITH PURPOSE 🎯

If you’re practising without visual cues, pressure, or feedback, you’re not really training, you’re just hitting balls.

Creating clear visual references and adding consequences to your practice induces a deeper level of focus. More importantly, it gives you something every golfer needs: FEEDBACK.

Feedback tells you what actually happened.

Without it, golfers start inventing explanations:

❌ “I think I lifted my head.”
❌ “I didn’t watch the ball.”
❌ “I must have swung too fast.”
❌ “Maybe I was too tense.”

These are assumptions …not answers.

Give every repetition a task, a target and a measurable outcome. Let the feedback guide the next shot.

Stop guessing. Start training. 🎯

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TWO MASSIVE MISCONCEPTIONS IN THE GOLF SWING 🚨

Two ideas continue to hold golfers back:

1️⃣ “The golf swing is all about rotation.”

It may look rotational on an iPhone camera, but the movement is heavily influenced by side-to-side pressure shifts and ground reaction forces.

We load, shift, brake and push against the ground. The rotation you see is not something you simply manufacture, it emerges from how effectively you interact with the ground.

Stop obsessing over “turning more.” Learn to shift and use the ground.

2️⃣ “Stay loose and let the club fall.”

To create speed, the club actually needs to RELEASE.

That requires the golfer to apply forces and torques to the handle, and critically, parts of the system must decelerate at the right time so energy can be transferred out toward the clubhead.

The handle doesn’t just keep accelerating forever.

Pressure shifts. Ground forces. Braking. Release.

The golf swing is far more dynamic than simply “rotate and stay relaxed.”

Understand the forces and sequencing, and the movement starts to make a lot more sense. ⛳️

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🚨 WE’VE CREATED A GENERATION OF OVER-ROTATORS 🚨

“Turn more.”
“Rotate harder.”
“Clear the hips.”

And then we wonder why golfers are dealing with slices, sequencing problems and fat shots.

The golf swing isn’t simply a rotational movement. A huge component is side-to-side movement on the frontal plane.

Rotation is heavily influenced by how we interact with the ground. Shift → apply force → rotate.

If you want to control your low point and strike the ball before the ground, the pelvis needs to shift laterally toward the target as part of transition and impact.

Without enough lateral movement, you can rotate all you like, but controlling where the club hits the ground becomes much harder.

Stop trying to manufacture rotation.

Learn to shift. Learn to use the ground. Let rotation emerge from better movement.

The best players don’t just turn,they shift, push and rotate in sequence.

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STRUCTURE YOUR PRACTICE. STRUCTURE YOUR WARM-UP. ⛳️

Even something as simple as a quick warm-up before your round needs structure and purpose.

Don’t just hit balls aimlessly and hope you “find something.”

A simple order of play:

1️⃣ Technique — establish your feels and movement.
2️⃣ Transfer — start changing clubs, targets and shots.
3️⃣ Game-based training — finish by preparing for what the golf course will actually demand.

Obviously, the real technical work needs to be done in your own practice time. The warm-up isn’t the place to rebuild your golf swing.

But the bigger lesson is this: get into the habit of creating structure.

Know how much time you have. Know what you’re trying to achieve. And gradually move from thinking about your swing → playing golf.

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Hit the line

Shift your attention to the line. In-between reps theres no time to dwell on the past.

RUN AND REDIRECT YOUR MENTAL ENERGY TO A NEW LINE.

Train smart, have fun!

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Some of the worst advice in golf:

❌ Stay still.
❌ Watch the ball.
❌ Just rotate.

The golf swing isn’t simply a rotational movement.

Rotation is largely a product of how we shift, brake and interact with the ground. The body moves side-to-side on the frontal plane, creating forces that help produce rotation at the right time.

If you simply stand there and try to “turn,” you can compromise one of the most important variables in iron play:

🎯 Where the club hits the ground.

Good ball striking requires you to control pressure, shift laterally and organise your centre of mass so you can manage low point, strike and compression.

Stop trying to look still on an iPhone video.

Shift. Re-centre. Use the ground. Then let rotation happen.

Movement creates rotation, not the other way around. ⛳️

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