In the mind with Paul McBeth - Camp Hydaway Practice Round

hey everybody welcome we are at camp hideaway in lynchburg virginia i'm gonna run through a practice round try to give some mental tips some shot selections some hole breakdowns and just what i go through in a practice round and share it with you so let's go all right this is hole one 349 feet halfway it's just a straight shot and then it bends to the right there's two ways to attack this hole i believe one is with the distance driver kind of low get the skip to finish to the right or you can go with a slow turning mid-range or fairway driver i like the aggressive high-speed driver just to get over to the right and kind of try to park it more so than get a putt with the mid-range so let's go with the high-speed driver as i was walking down the fairway i noticed as i got closer to the green it got heavily guarded with trees you can see behind me there's quite a few around the basket but the fairway continues straight so i want to if i was in a tournament setting here focus more on getting the distance to the basket rather than trying to cut it in tight so i think if this was a tournament setting i would might lean more towards a mid-range or a fairway and just play the straight shot rather than diving into the woods trying to park the hole that would be my breakdown of this hole if i was at a tournament we're on hold two it's 246 feet dead straight another tightly wooded hole this one actually has ob just outside the circle long of the basket so the goal here would be keep it short but still try to put it in the circle and it's on a little bit of a hill so that might affect putting a little bit but it also helps on the drive because i can slide it up into that hill and get potentially closer without testing that ob behind the basket so i think i'll be going with a putter here but i can also bump up to a mid-range if i feel like that will give me some better accuracy but right now we're going with the putter so with the hole being only 246 feet i think i would go with a putter here uh i think the only thing that would change that would be wind if it was uh blowing through here uh in these trees but the real trouble on that hole is just early early on so if again if we're in a tournament setting go with the putter focus on getting through the initial gap right off the tee and then just letting the putter do the work the rest of the way and that shot was pretty successful about 18 feet away and that's the birdie in my books here we are on hole four this is a 366 feet very straight hole with a little soft finish to the left when i first stepped up to this t-pad i noticed that there's a tree sticking out on the left side which kind of changes the shot you would think a straight hole you want to throw a flat shot and just keep it straight with the way that that tree is sticking out you almost have to attack it with a hyzer flip that'll kind of flip up to flat and maybe fade a little bit to the right or you can have it finished straight but just that little tree on the left makes you have to throw a hyzer initially out the gap so let's go with a 366 feet or 344. let's go with the fairway driver first uh this is the practice round so if the fairway driver doesn't work we'll jump over to the mid-range so we can put a little bit more power on it and get it to get more of a flip up to flat if not get a little turn on the right so yeah let's do it so i got into some trouble with the fairway driver ended up off the fairway i did throw a few buzz shots after which worked out a lot better so tournament setting probably go with the buzz but scrambling is always important so when i when i'm doing practice rounds like this i like to try the spots that i don't want to be in so i know what to do in case i do end up in these situations and in the long run it's going to help just more practice so let's uh throw one from here kind of a awkward stance awkward lie but that's part of being off the fairway i think i'm gonna go with the overstable uh mid kind of try to bring it in early and let it kind of flatten out at the end of the flight i think it's a little too tight for a backhand perfect so one thing i think that gets overlooked is when you actually approach a basket i think people tend to forget to look back at the hole to kind of just get a different viewpoint of the shots that are coming in and kind of the style and shape of the hole to where this one from the t-pad you can't really tell that it gets tighter as you get closer to the basket um it looks like it's the same width the whole way but probably the last 40 feet the gap gets to about 15 feet wide which for the t-box you got about a 30-foot fairway but with that tightening of the fairway i think the fairway driver is a little too fast can be a little too squirrely uh for a finish like that so with the mid-range the buzz got here pretty close inside the circle which is all you're looking for when you're in a tournament is give yourself a chance to make birdies make putts and that's how you'll score so don't forget to look back at the hole to kind of see where you can make adjustments on situations that you can't see from the tee box so sometimes you'll step up to a hole that's very reachable at 428 feet but you'll find out that there's no way to reach the hole and this is one of them hole five uh it's a slow turn to the left um probably from the t-pad goes about 45 feet to the left but there's no way to get there even though it's reachable there's no way to get there in one shot so they call it a part four so what i'd do here is kind of just play the layup give myself the best opportunity to get a three this basket's on a tall mound so i want to be pretty close uh because that putt can get pretty treacherous if you you know miss it it can roll away 45-50 feet away sometimes there's water down there too so don't want to be in that but i think i'll attack it with probably something with the overstable mid-range or uh overstable fairway driver um but i'm gonna try try all the discs out see which one works out best for me because if i do throw a driver it brings in the chance of skipping left into the rough but i can also get more distance and then same with the mid-range i might not get as much of a skip but i can lose a lot of distance so i'm gonna try on both out here see which one gives me the best opportunity for a birdie because this is a part four but i'd love it too but sometimes you just gotta swallow your pride and take the three so with the mid-range and the fairway driver the mid-range is about 35 feet shorter of the fairway driver but i think the mid-range is in a lot better spot i threw the fairway driver as good as i could throw it and as wide as i could keep it testing these trees on the right side and i still have a pretty tough upshot from there even though i'm in the fairways it's very guarded i don't like that as much as this mid-range shot where i don't have as much distance but it's still very reachable i have my putter i think i can this is the right approach this from here but the mid range i didn't throw as clean as i did the fairway driver and i'm still in a great spot to where i could have more improvement on this shot and maybe get 10-15 feet further but this t-shirt for me would be a mid-range in a tournament um i'm noticing that so far in these wooded holes i'm tending to go more towards the slower discs uh even though i could get more distance out of the fairway drivers and distance drivers so if there's ever a tournament here i see a lot of mid-ranges so far so i just threw my up shot you can kind of see the mount uh the mound the basket's probably about five feet up on that mound um you'll notice that i didn't really attack the basket i was kind of just trying to slide it into the bottom of that hill get myself as close as possible without getting the potential roll away but still leaving myself far enough away from that mount where i actually have an angle at the basket i think that's something that happens quite often on these elevated baskets is you can get too close to where you're almost putting straight up and down where if i leave it a little bit further back i can get a better angle at the basket but that's what i did there was leave it a little bit short so i can still have a clean putt at it here we are on hole six this is the most open hole so far it's 355 feet again it's right in that little tweener section of fairway driver mid-range and it's slightly uphill for the most part so that'll add a few more feet in the shot so i'm gonna try the mid-range because that's what i've been going with early in the round so far so i mean i'm telling what's comfortable so far so if this was a tournament setting i just have to stick with the mids but if that doesn't make it there i'll throw the fairway drivers anyways just to see uh where they kind of end up distance wise because the fairway is not really the factor here it's the distance control so let's start with the mid so we'll see where that one ended up i noticed it kind of just fell a little bit to the left at the end i think that might be due to the hillside so i'm gonna throw the fairway driver now just to kind of gauge the distance but if i am to go with the mid-range i'll know to get it a little bit flatter maybe have a little slight s to it but let's go with the mid-range and see it over the fairway driver and see how the distance here on this one just my initial thoughts on that one is that was too easy not to go with uh so i think my decision is all already made from here just seeing the flight of that and how easy it was to control on this open fairway so we'll see when we get up there but right now my mind is made up on a fairway driver so my undertaker ended up about 25 feet short of the basket the buzz was maybe about 45 so i could get the buzz there if i wanted but just the ease of the undertaker and the fairway driver mold and then you can see the basket right here with so many guardian trees behind it sure if i did overpower it too much there's a lot there to stop it and keep it close to the basket so on a hole like this i would go with the fairway driver uh just for that contr that uh that speed control and not really much risk behind the basket um so hole number six i believe we're on fairway driver here we are on hold nine this is 342 feet tight tunnel shot downhill um it is it's a fun shot you know it's slowly bending to the right the whole way from beginning to end and then it continues downhill past the basket so speed control is very difficult on this hole but with it being 342 feet downhill i think i'm gonna go with a mid-range right here on my first shot um i'm focused more on hitting the line so i don't get into the early trouble left and right but if i do i'm gonna have to scramble so it is practice so that's what we're here for um but with this distance i think mid-range is gonna be the right choice but i will potentially after this first shot switch to a putter or fairway driver but right now in my mind mid-range so i threw two drives there um the first one i had a little slip kind of caught a tree on the left kicked over here into the rough but i still felt like that was the right shot to go with so i carry multiple of the same disc in nearly every mold and a lot of the reasons is for practice in situations like that to where i knew that was the right shot but you know a little misfortune off the tee box there to where i didn't have to walk down here grab this disc and go back i carried two of the same one i had the same exact disc there threw the shot i wanted to on the second drive and absolutely parked it so that's just a little tip i think as to you know people question why do pros carry so many discs and a lot of players why do they carry so many discs for situations like that to where you know that's the right shot but something just happened right there on the tee box and you want to throw it again rather than walking and getting that and going back to the tee box or going around the whole course and then coming back and practicing that hole that's why you carry two of the same discs so now that i'm here in the rough i'm still gonna practice this shot even though i know i should throw it better come tournament time or you know more practice rounds so just a little tricky up shot right here but um looks like i got a window over here to the left side so let's try a little turnover hole 10 this is 294 feet this is actually a pretty interesting hole it is another raised basket up on a pile of rocks but the interesting about this one is there's now after use two fairways here you can go out and around to the right with like a flip up backhand hyzer or you can go with the forehand touch shot and kind of get a little flex out of it but now with play on this course it's kind of opened up a left gap here to where you can attack it straight down the middle if you want to be aggressive and that's kind of a shot that i think people will take if they don't have confidence in a forehand or flippy beat up mid or putter to throw but i think what this hole really shows me is going to a course and taking the percentage shot and what i mean by that is if you were to attack that hole on the left side that fairway you might make that shot 2 out of 10 times so 20 chance that you'll hit that gap but people like to look at it as they parked it one time through that hole or two times through that hole and they want to take that and when the tournament comes around two out of ten isn't a good chance you know it's not it's not good odds there so i like to play the percentages so i will take the wider fairway on the right to where i might not park it every time but i'll give myself the opportunity to have a putt and i think a lot of people miss that to where they play for the chance of parking the hole rather than the percentage shot to where they'll get a putt seven out of ten times rather than two out of ten times where they're getting a drop in so percentages when you're on a hole trying to figure out what the best shot is think about the gaps as percentages which one is your highest percentage and take that shot because when a tournament comes around that will build the consistency in your game seven out of ten rather than two out of ten you're going to become more consistent just by choosing the right shot so shot selection and percentages big deal very overlooked so i'm going with the percentage shot here going forehand flex with the putter all right you're good so we're on hole 11. this one's 435 feet dead straight um there's ob creek right there short of the basket so it's kind of either play it laying up or going for it um so i've been bragging about this disc a lot on how straight it is so this is my opportunity i feel like to throw this shot um just for you guys so let's uh let's make it happen and if this doesn't work out i'll throw a few more try the mid just play it safe short of the creek and try to get a long putt but i'm gonna attack this screen real quick so unfortunately i didn't make it all the way down didn't hit the line exactly how i wanted kind of overpowered it a little bit flipped it over but now i get a fun place to scramble from i did throw the mid-range i think it worked out a little better had a straighter flight to it but i think overall i would go with the mid-range it's kind of what i've been going with the whole round so far and i'm sure you guys have noticed we skipped a lot of holes i'll cover that here in a little bit but mid-range again is what i'm going to go into but i did enjoy throwing the fairway here getting some practice in with it but now let's let's get the approach so that shot right there i went with the aggressive route um and i hit in safe rolled ob so luckily i get to take my four putt from here which is generally a drop in but i could have laid it out across and made my three attempts but i felt like the aggressive shot there would get me an easier putt rather than trying to make a 40-footer with the potential of hitting this thing rolling back into the creek creek and taking a 5. so i went the aggressive line in a tournament setting i still think i would go with that aggressive line with knowing just make my mistake right hit if i roll in whatever i still take my par with this being a par four again reachable hole with the par four on it but with the way that this green is set up kind of makes you not want to attack it in a tournament setting unless you have to but i like that to where you get the opportunity to attack it and get an eagle if you have to come back or chase someone or if you just want some fireworks for your round hole 13 306 feet um i guess i'm going to take a second and kind of talk about what's going on this practice round so far this is the first hole that i get to throw a forehand since hole three but you'll notice that we've skipped a few holes here and there and the reason is when you have 18 holes some of them are going to be repetitive so this is one of those kind of repetitive holes that we're going to go over and what i like to do is something like this is is it reminds me of hole one and three which are both four hand holes uh and this is another one that'll be a forehand but i can kind of reference back to those and if i made a mistake or if i did something good i could kind of think back and use like a photographic memory there to okay you know i kind of turned that one over a little too much here i want to get that angle a little bit more right get a little flatter maybe or a little bit more hyzer to where i can make corrections during my round and not wait until after and kind of think back what i do wrong on hole three what did i do wrong on hold 12 why didn't i fix it so being able to go back into the moments on the course where something is repetitive like that and then there were other holes that were kind of similar straight shots to where i might have turned it over a little bit too much or hyzered it out a little too early so you know being able to do that during a practice round as well as doing it in a tournament round will create more consistent rounds and make you work on your game even you know twice as much as you would in a normal round even though you're not really changing anything other than mentally looking back on shots that you've already thrown earlier in the day so here it's only 306 feet but i think that is in a straight line to the basket throwing the forehand or backhand here uh will kind of add a little bit more distance with it having to curve around what i'm going to do here is throw a straight forehand disc uh this is the esp forest i'm gonna throw it flat with a little turnover and just try to play it back into the hill um you can see the ob is a little bit short there with the creek and then i'll throw the other distance driver i have here a little bit more power but with the overstability it's going to cut more towards the basket which i'll find out if it's worth it or not the risk with that creek there so straight long here and then it's going to hyzer out here towards the basket a little bit more but there's a chance of going in the water so my aggressive shot is right here about 16 feet from the basket um and my straight one's about 45 feet away kind of up the side of the hill there difficult putt but i mean wide open something i notice here is if i was to play this hole just like i did hole one earlier in the round this is my result to where if i thought about playing it kind of how i was talking about that mid-range earlier in the round i would end up up on that hill there so i was able to you know mentally go back to that whole one shot and just get it out of my hand flat and let the disc do the work there at the end and that will result in a consistent shot like this where i'm looking at birdie hopefully seven out of ten times but this is again that mental block that i was telling you about use that photographic memory to go back into a shot you threw earlier in the course early in the round earlier in the tournament because that will actually end up helping you fix these issues that you might have and i think that's kind of what can kind of be the difference between a really good advanced player to or even like a lower end pro player to put them on to that next level because it's not something you can physically change it's a mental change that you will use to help you create a consistent consistency and create you know i guess more shots i guess in the round so again use your mind because that will help you in the round in the tournament and overall disc golf so here we are on the final hole uh we skipped a few holes through there kind of up the hill they kind of get repetitive little straight putter shots or mid-ranges so we're jumping over here to hole 20 on camp hideaway this one's a little interesting hole it's got a soft bend to the left but the way that it's designed is you kind of throw it up the side of the hill here and then it finishes down the left with the creak again on the left so kind of have to have some speed control at the end but the interesting part about this is i'm gonna throw a mid-range but the hill actually will pull the disc down to the left for you so i'm gonna throw a straight mid-range here with the buzz um just up the hill and let it just naturally finish with the hillside there so let's let's do this and see how it turns out so one bonus element to practicing on the course rather than field work is a hole like the one i just threw hole 20 here is that hillside you can't really find that in a practice field the hill is actually pulling the disc down with it i don't know if that's gravity i don't know if that's just the shape of the hole but i'm throwing a straight disc up the hill and it's just getting pulled back down luckily towards the basket to where if the basket was up on the hill it'd be a lot harder whole but that is something you have to be on the course to learn whether you're just going out there to practice getting ready for a tournament just playing with your buddies keeping score that is something you're only going to find on the course so if you have a local course get out there learn the holes learn your shots mentally you know try to find things like repetitive holes to where you can look back on them earlier in the round last week into a practice round there's all sorts of things you can figure out just by going out and playing taking mental notes to where i think this is the biggest part of this practice round is getting these small little mental notes out of it because i can't i don't know how to teach you that i don't know how to like show you how to throw and mentally teach you so hopefully you get something out of this to where you can improve your game mentally to where you can save yourself strokes rather than getting out there and throwing but then again getting out there and throwing is what's going to help improve your game now it's let's bring it together and consistently get it together and make you a better player so hopefully this has helped thank you foundation for filming this putting this on your channel and getting some players out there hopefully improving so i'll see you guys next time