Welcome back to Stock Shot Secrets! In this episode, host Kyle Morris dives deep into the art and science of creating a reliable stock shot for golfers of all levels. Drawing from listeners’ questions, Kyle shares expert insights on everything from tracking golf stats and understanding wind adjustments, to strategies for hitting longer drives and managing tricky lies on the course.

He pulls in real examples—including stories from playing at Sage Valley and advice learned from golf legends like Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods—to help you master practice routines, course management, club fitting, and more. Plus, Kyle answers live questions about swing mechanics, shallowing the club, generating spin, and how to build confidence through focused, structured practice. Whether you’re grinding through winter training or looking for keys to lower your scores next season, this episode is packed with actionable tips and encouragement. Grab your clubs, tune in, and let’s get you closer to that rock-solid stock shot!

00:00 "Focus on Strengths for Success"

05:56 "Distance Over Accuracy in Golf"

10:00 "Overcoming Golf Course Struggles"

11:13 Solo Golf for Growth

15:42 "Golf Swing Mechanics Explained"

19:21 "Golf Strategy: Where to Miss"

21:36 "Golf Swing Balance Explained"

27:18 "Golf App and Video Assessment"

28:30 "Golf Tips for Lower Stress"

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Copyright 2026 Kyle Morris

So the big question is this. How do passionate golfers like you and I develop a stock shot day in and day out? A stock shot that's as reliable as the sun coming up in the morning? That's the question. And this podcast is the answer. Welcome to Stock Shot Secrets. So let's see what do we got back here? And like I said, I promise you guys, I want to take a bunch of your questions. So if you guys do have questions. Right. Good job.

You guys said that I Landlock Club, way to go. If you guys do have questions, I'm going to give you guys a bunch of links here at the end. We got about 10 minutes left to take some Q A if you guys have it. If not, no worries. But I want to be here to serve you guys however I can. So. And I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you links to a ton of stuff. So whether it's doing we do this at the end, I will pop them in there as well.

I'll pop them into the chat and then I will also. We will also send an email tomorrow with it. Cool. We'll send an email tomorrow. Okay, so let's hammer some questions. Thoughts on scoring method. Josh, I'm not sure what that means, my man. You might have to give me a little bit more on that.

What's the best way to track during the round to go back and see. So ace the best. The best stats program for keeping stats in my opinion. There's two that I would really recommend. One is, is Scott Fawcett with Decade. He does a great job. He also has a ton of educational material on that. The second one that we that I really like is called Clipped C, L I P P D.

And Clipped is what we use inside of our VIP programs. We, we, we pull it in with the subscription of all of our VIP members. And what that what I do like about Clipt is that it allows us to essentially see there's a cool tab that says what to work on. And it. It's this AI algorithm that allows us to see what is the thing to work on that's going to have the biggest importance to your score. And everyone is different and everyone ace it's not always the weakest part of your game. So what I mean by that is the analogy that I would use that I use, it's a little bit outdated so I probably need to change it. Right.

I am not a Tennessee Titans fan, but just for the sake of the story. Right. Is when Derrick Henry was with the Tennessee Titans, back in the day when he would run over a hundred yards in a game, they were like 15 and 1, right? Like, they would never lose. And passing, they were terrible, right? But when they would practice, they need to, to maintain being really good at running the football. So even though they were the number one rushing team in the league, they didn't want to work on their passing. They just needed to. Even though they were good at rushing, they needed to continue to be better, good at rushing and continue to get better at it, right? So sometimes it's not actually making the weaker part better, it's actually making the better part even better, right? So but everyone's little concoction of what makes them play good is really, really important. So like, for me, just my own game, my game is very.

This is going to sound, you're going to kind of roll your eyes at this. So don't. I don't, I don't mean to sound like this, but like, my game is very, very dependent upon my putter. So, like, I don't hit, I don't hit it bad. Like, I don't have bad hitting days. I mean, some days might be a little bit off, but like, I always hit fairways. I always hit like 15, 16 greens putts. I shoot 64.

If I don't, I shoot 70. Like, my game is just make or break of my putting inside eight feet. It's very simple. But you guys don't want putting lessons, so I don't get to put enough. So you guys need to book more putting lessons. Okay, let's see. This was a cool one. Dale said, I'm going to go back here.

But Dale said, crosswind adjustment to head wind number Dale. Every mile an hour crosswind is a third of a yard. So if you have a 9 mile an hour left to right wind with a zero spin axis, meaning it is not curving, that should be about a 3 yard of dispersion that you need to account for. So every mile an hour is a three is every mile an hour is a third of a yard. So three miles an hour is one more yard that you need to add. So if we had that thing four paces to the right of the flag and it was nine miles an hour right to left, I need to add three more paces. So I'm actually aiming seven paces right of the flag because it was four paces off, or I'm aiming 11 paces right of the edge of the green, depending on however you want to look at it. Most of the statistics were taking distances out of the equation.

What Are the strokes gain stats for distances off the te? Is distance or accuracy more important? So the, the question that he said is should I hit it farther or should I hit it straighter? So it's a two part answer. So first and foremost, I did an article with Golf Digest. Oh this was probably four years ago with Mark Brody and it's called, you guys can go look it up. It's called KPI Key performance. KPI your game. Like the key performance indicators you need to breaking 100, breaking 90, breaking 80, breaking 70. Also did a podcast on it. So rather than read it or buy it, you can also just go to the to Spotify and listen to it.

It's pretty good. But the long story short is that there is a very, very, very big number for you amateur golfers for the most of you guys is hitting drivers over 250 yards. It is very important because that is a very big milestone in making you shoot lower scores. Now the second thing is that the way the rules of the road go essentially is that you always want to be hitting driver off the tee if you are not going to get inside of 140 yards. So you would never want to be like, oh, I can hit three. What I'll be 180 and if I hit driver, I'm 150. It's like, nope, you hit driver right now. If you can get inside 140, then hitting the fairway is pretty important because playing from the fairway compared to the rough, providing that the rough is actually rough, can be kind of penal.

Right? But the long story short, as a 10,000 foot answer to your question is hitting it far is more important than hitting it straight. So if you said, and you said, Kyle, give me the if you are, if you're a 4, if I'm a 14 handicap, do you want a 14 handicap that hits it 295 in the rough or a 14 handicap that hits a 235 in the fairway? I'd go give me the 295 every day of the week. So hitting it far is very, very important. I do think that coming up probably would pretty good if we brought maybe Aaron in, who's our head of fitness here at the Golf Room. And we did a little thing on like how to create more speed for the winter as we come into winter planning. So and at the same time I want to talk about stuff that you guys care about. So if you guys ever have any ideas, send them to support at the golf from everywhere.com and we'll be sure to kind of put those in the queue to see if we can talk about it. How can you tell me how you determine the win? Before a round, you go to weather.com and you just download the app and you look at the weather.

John I do it by golf tour players. In a sense, they're like little miniature meteorologists. Okay, let's see what else we got. Do you go with or against the grain matter on iron shots more than 40 to 50 yards? What do you recommend doing along with each type of. Do you what. Hold on, I gotta see what this. I just see a C do do going with or against the grain matter on iron shots more than 40 to 50 yards. So that would be what you're asking.

C. I think it's Chris maybe. I'm not sure. Sorry, I can't see your name. But he's asking if it go. If the lie is into the grain or down the grain, do you affect. Does that affect the shot or is that only four shots? 40 to 50 yards. And the lie has a dramatic impact on the ball flight and the distance.

So, yes, I 100% am taking that into account. If it's into the grain, there's going to be more friction resistance on the club. The ball will fly a little shorter. If it's down grain, there'll be less resistance. So therefore the club speed will actually be going, you know, maybe even faster or through the. Through the shot very easily. So that's where you can get a flyer. And then if the ball is sitting, if there is rough downgrade and the rough is sitting a little higher, whether it's going to reduce the friction of the club and the ball interacting, that's where you can get the flyer.

That'll come out like a knuckle or so. The, the lie, like I was saying, has a very, very dramatic effect on the shot. Let's see. Pretty undulating course. Would you ever play for more flat areas in the fairway and compromise distance or is undulation not considered much in stroke Skein killer example driver three. Yeah, got it. So that the answer to that question is you can sacrifice distance for a flat lie, but you can't sacrifice more than 50 yards. So I went to with a good friend of mine, we went and actually played Sage Valley a couple weeks ago.

Amazing place. If you guys ever get the opportunity to go, go. It's incredible. But essentially there is a whole hole eight that's there. It's a par five. And when you lay up, you can lay up at basically 100 yards into a slope. Or you can lay up back at 115, 120 on a flat lie. So with that shot that I had that I laid up, I laid up with a 5 iron to put me on that 120 flat spot rather than a hundred on the slope.

So. But if it was. But I wouldn't have laid back to like 1:50 on a flat lie versus a hundred on a slope. So there's. It's a distance game because you can't lay back too far. So. Great question. Let's see what other questions we got.

These are great. Hey, I've been working on showering for months now. I still struggle. I've been doing your hand noodle for a few weeks. It works. But as soon as I stop doing the drill, I go right back to being steep. This is by far the hardest thing for me to change in my swing. I simply can't convince my brain that I can hit the ball well from being shallow this way.

Any advice and thoughts? So, tg, what I would say, I got to see who this is. So, tg, what I would say to taking this thing to the golf course. And this is a very common question and very common problem. So to reiterate, he says, hey, when I practice, I can do it, but when I go to the course, I just can't seem to do it. So what happens is that where the disconnect happens. And I just took one of my good friends, we played golf on Sunday, and he was doing the same exact thing, right? Same struggle is that as golfers, we never give ourselves a chance to do it. I feel in the environment in which we play. So one of the most powerful things that we do, like when people come into Columbus, is to spend time with me, in my opinion, is we go on the golf course and if this, if this was TG and he came in and he was too shallow, it's like we're actually going to set up noodles or cones in the fairway on the fifth hole so that you can actually feel what it's like on a golf course.

And there's something to be said about going out and playing golf by yourself on a Sunday evening at 5 o' clock with no one around 9, no one judging you and doing this stuff to experiment on the course. But what happens is when we all play golf, it's like an event. It's like I'm at Sage Valley or I'm Saturday playing with the boys or whatever it may be, and we revert. We might try it on, like the first hole, and then we revert right back to what is comfortable and what is safe. We never give ourselves a chance to scrimmage and fail forward. So. And what happens is we never give ourself an opportunity to have the courage to try those things. So one of the most powerful things that we can do, tg, when getting ready to play an event, and we want to take that stuff to the golf course, is going out by ourselves with no one around and basically filming ourselves on the course, doing it and trying to be so courageous and make such an exaggerated swing.

And then look at it and we go, wow, man. That's what it feels like. Because on the course always feels different. The analogy that I would use to tell you is, like, when Ohio State, right, they play Penn State this week, and Penn State, obviously, they're having a rough year, but there's still a top five. There's still a top five, like. Like talent on their team, right? Like they were top five in the country. So the fact of the matter is that Ohio State and Ohio State defense will play each other all week. But what happens is when Ohio State plays another team like Penn State, the receivers, right, they'll be like, man, the game is going so much faster than it is when practice.

Well, in reality, it's actually probably maybe going even slower because the guys on Ohio State's defenses, defense, are maybe even faster than the guys on Penn State. No offense, if you're a Penn State fan, right? So the thing is, is, like, when you do that in the environment, like in the stadium, in a game like situation, it just feels magnified. So you have to give us yourself a chance to try it in that environment. And. And that's when you have the Tiger woods quote where he says, first I understand, then it looks better, then it feels better, then I can do it in practice. And tg, what you're saying is I can't do it in the. On the course. So you need to be able to go do it in the course, and then you're going to be able to do it in your tournament, right? So you're close, man.

You're really, really close. You just got to go to that next level and find a time where you can experiment on the course. Okay, Go blue. He says, I don't think so. You guys are getting rocked. Okay, what should I do to. What should I do to hit my short. Oops.

Watch out. Winded question. What should I do to start to hit my short irons higher and stop the ball on the green? So Larry he says, how do I create spin? How do I get that, like, cool backspin? So first, if you want a very long answer, Larry, they are not a long answer. But I did a YouTube video about seven, eight months ago on how to spin distance wedges. Like, how to hit those shots that hit in the green, and they go right. So go look at that after we get done here. But the long and short of it is to do that is a thing called spin loft. So spin loft is a fancy name which essentially is measuring the attack angle.

This is measuring the attack angle, so the club coming down into the ground and the loft on the face, meaning the loft. So the higher that triangle, right, the higher the triangle, the more spin. So if you are coming in too flat, the first thing is let's make sure your clubs are right, right? So, little early plug. We are going to be paving the way here soon in remote club fitting. We have figured out a way to fit your golf clubs from anywhere in the world and give you the exact specifications that you need so that you guys can get wholesome fitting, not get gouged on pricing. And, like, get clubs that are actually fit for you and they're working for you and not against you. So the first thing that you would want to check, Larry, is just making sure that your clubs are properly fit. Like, if you're playing a.

Let's say if you swing it a little slow and you're playing a steel shaft, that might be the wrong hit. The wrong shaft, right. Or the wrong head. So we got a first. That might be one thing to do. The second thing is that if you're hitting the ball too flat with not enough spin, your spin loft triangle is a little bit too small. We need to make it bigger. So essentially, you would need to hit a little bit more down, and you might need to hit it with a little bit more loft.

That would increase the triangle and therefore increase the spin and increase the loft. So the question is that I would say is, like, why do you do that? Is the ball too far back? Like, are you leaning too far like this? Are you coming over the top? There's a plethora of reasons why, I don't know. But the long story short is that if you are coming in from the inside and you're hitting it down and you're hitting it with the correct amount of dynamic off, the ball should go high, provided that your clubs are properly fit for you. So that's that winded question. But here, remember watching one of your Instagram videos where you talk about how even though you teach bowing your wrist at impact, right. Um, you don't necessarily love that feeling. You then went on to explain that you can take the club back parallel to the ground with the club face matching your spine and then regrip the club. I don't know about that part.

When I try this, my grip becomes very strong at address. But I also tend to hit better shots with this adjustment. Could you elaborate on this? As I also. I'm not really loving the feeling of turning my wrist down to impact. So what I probably was saying was to articulate is that I am not a big fan of feeling like I have to like turn my knuckles down, right? Like so to kind of go a little bit over this is that if I have a grip where I am more this way. This is also a YouTube video you guys could could look at, right. When my grip is stronger as a right handed golfer, right. And my V's are looking to my right side of my right shoulder.

You want to be releasing it more this way. You do not want to be swiveling, right. So I release it more side when my grip is stronger. If you are. If your grip was weaker, meaning the V's are working more towards the sternum or the left side, the more you will have. You would see that player more bowed or at the same time when they come down, they have to what's called supinate or flexion, your wrist or bowing or whatever, right. So your wrists do a lot of different things, right? So you have what. What's known as radial and ulnar, right.

Then you have the other piece, which is called extension and flexion. And then you have supination and pronation. So as I come down from the top, right, your arm, your wrist is a little bit of extension. Then it goes into flexion, ulnar and supination. Right. That's kind of like what happens. But how the amount that you do is relative to the grip in which you hold on the golf club. And what I was saying, my tendency is always my right hand gets too weak and then therefore the face is open and then I kind of tip out.

That's like my thing. Nice to meet you. Okay, so we all got our stuff. Hopefully that kind of answered your question a little bit. Let's take two more, three more. When picking where you want to land it. How much are you changing that based on can't miss areas as to not short side yourself or debunkers. You mentioned in your example, you mentioned eight paces to the right.

But what if Water, Yeah. Is on the left and the handicap isn't zero. Do you add. Yes, great question, Taylor. So if you add your notes going back to Ly Land Loft Club, right? If you have water, you add three. If there is a deep bunker, you add two. So if there was water left there, you would add three. So it'd be 11.

If you had a bunker there, you add two, it'd be 10, right? And then that's the closest that you can aim to that edge of the green, right? And you go, what if there's a bunker on the other side? You go, well, that deep bunker that short sighted, the strokes gained, you'd be better off in the other bunker because your, your stroke average would be like, let's say 2.6 and then over on this one would be 2.8. So this is a better penalty than this one, right? So it's kind of like understanding where to miss, right? And what happens is as tour players. Player, Tour players. Because I never like, knew this like until I became a coach or whatever. But like when people say like Tour players understand like where to miss, they're never, no tour player is ever thinking over the fairway like, where should I miss this? That is not going through their brain. But what happens is they're looking at the golf hole through like a vector. So they're looking at it because they're used to their shot dispersion of like, if I aim here, they just see this subconsciously. If I aim here, they're moving their triangle to allow them to have their shot pattern.

Give them the greatest chance to hit the green. Which essentially you go, how do they do that? And I go, well, lots of playing, lots of hitting balls. But that's what Noonan does. Noonan basically picks out your vector and says, this is where you aim. This gives you the greatest chance and probability to hit the green or hit the fairway or whatever the, the objective is. Right? But that's what they mean by like knowing how to miss. Ok, see, that's awesome. Do we get a discount for being here? Yes, you do.

It's like a 50 discount. I'm going to give it to you here in a minute. Thanks. Great presentation. Does keeping your head back on the downswing help with shallowing? Said differently, does your head moving forward in the downswing? Yes, it does. Because your neck is connected to your torso and your torso is connected to you. Okay? So if I go like this and I go up to the top and my, my head goes forward, my head's connected to my Neck, which is connecting my shoulder. So if I go this way and my head goes forward, what happens to the shaft? Right? It goes steep.

If my head goes back, the shaft showers. But at the same time, that's also. That can also be known as, like, a tilting back fake shaoling, because we don't want to be here and then going like this, because then I'm going to hit way behind it, and then you're going to be. Now your contact sucks you fat it you hit it in the bunker short, you make a double, and then you're like, gosh dang it. Kyle told me to do this, and he sucks. So there's a balance to it. But essentially your head, the way it works is like, as I go up to the top, my head stays still, my hip shifts 5 inches, 4 inches in transition, which creates this bend. Right? And then I have to come down.

And the more bend I have, the more lag I need, because those things have to match with each other. Okay, last one. I just love doing these. I could just stay here all night. If I use driver, it's a push slice. So I leave it in the bag. I become such a good iron striker with t with the golf room, but now I slice the driver. So, Dante, first thing, hate to pin it on it, but make sure your driver shaft is not too stiff.

Or it could be the tip is too, too bendy. Right? So if you're at the golf room, make sure you check in with Matt. There might be an equipment thing, and it would be interesting to know about the slice. You said a push slice. So when you say a push slice, that makes it sound like your draw, your path is from the inside. You just got a face issue, right? So it's coming from the inside. It's just the face. So that might be just like a little twist thing.

But you also, if you're. If you're like, man, I hit my three wood good, but my driver terrible. That's usually a technology problem. So, like, they're not that much different. So that might be. You might need to check into your equipment if that's an issue. Or if you're at the golf room, just pull me aside and go, hey, I'm Dante. I'm the driver push guy.

Like, come check it out and I'll give you a. I'll look at it in five seconds, and we'll. We'll figure it out. How can one balance practicing on the range, on the course, going to the gym, playing in golf tournaments. Great job. So that would be What I would pin that on Jack Nicholas, which told me. I asked him that same question, and he said, kyle, you got to know how to practice by mechanics and then play by feeling. So the way that you do that is you follow Banner 7.

You program block, random, compete. So you program every single day. Gentlemen and ladies, you need to be remembering, what is the objective that I am trying to do today? And literally, like for our Junior academy kids, they journal, you should be writing what am I trying to do today? What is the objective and the objective of what you're reminding yourself? It should be the same thing every day because your stuff is your stuff. Then that's you understanding what it is that you need to do. Then you go into block practice. That's making sure it looks better, right? And you're doing that. And that's what you're. That's when you're practicing by mechanics.

So now when you're practicing by mechanics, a proper swing gives a proper feeling that's very different and completely different than the rest of the world tells you. With instruction, they give you a feeling in hopes that it creates a look. We change it and we say, no, no, no, we're chasing the look. You tell me how it feels, and I don't care what you say. You're like, it feels like I'm tying my shoe. I go sick. That sounds great. It doesn't matter to me what you feel.

Your feelings are different than my feelings. So we understand what we need to do. That's programming. We're making it look better. That's block. Then once it happens, we need to create the feeling to where we practice by mechanics, but we play by feel. So the feel is where we work into the random. That's making sure it performs.

Then we can do it to take it to the course in the tournament. That's where we need to compete. We need to do something that creates stress so that in your practice you're stressed out. So, like, you've got to kind of figure that out with your coach inside the golf room and the golf room everywhere. We're doing things at the golf room where we're going to try to have compete hours where it's like you could sign up for a class, come here, and compete against buddies that we have, like, within the golf room. We're working on that. But if you're. If you're remote, it's coming up with systems and processes with your golf room everywhere.

Coach to where you can practice under stress. Because the goal is to compete and raise your heart Rate so that you're kind of scrimmaging before the tournament. Right. You don't want the first time that you're trying a new motor pattern to be on your Saturday morning pot game because you will abandon it in like five seconds. Okay. And that's why we follow program block, random compete, which is really at the hands of Jack Nichols. Tell me that a practice by mechanics, play by feel, and Tiger Wood saying, understand, look feel, perform or understand, feel, look perform, course and tournament. So we're just following the framework in which all greats do, which they're pretty good.

I'm just relaying the message. Okay. All right, friends, let me put a bunch in. Since you guys were here, I'm going to put in a bunch of links into the chat. So if you can save a lot of these links, we will also send it tomorrow. But I'm going to drop these in right now. So the first one that I want to give you guys that I'm going to put in there is the. This is the strokes gained.

So save that one. So open it up and save it. The next one is in the event that you really, really enjoyed what you guys learned tonight. This is the Course Management Secrets video series. So this is Course management and Mental, that little link right there, that's going to. That's like a full video series of like everything on Course management that is inside my brain. Right. This next one, this is a free.

This is a link to save a hundred, to save fifty bucks on Noonan, which is that app that allows you to essentially hit balls onto in your simulator, wherever you are. And it's going to tell you exactly where it is that you need to aim. The next one is if you have no idea what you need to do to get better just to have it. This is for a new student assessment online to where you can send in a video and we're going to tell you what you need to do. And then finally. Can I put this in there? I don't know if I can actually put this in here. Let's see. I cannot wait.

I think I can do this. One sec. If I can find downloads, I know I can't. The next one would be the wind card, which is back here. But I cannot put it into. I cannot put it into the chat. So we will put that in email so that you guys have it. Okay.

But all those links are the stuff that you guys are wanting tonight. So you got. You got all that stuff. They're coming. So. So don't shut down the session. Just yet we will, Cory. We'll leave it open as we.

We close up the golf room and go to bed. So anyways, hope you guys learned. If nothing else, if there's one question with all of this stuff, to make it very, very simple, what you want to leave with is, I just want you to think to yourself when you go play golf, you is, what is the average score from this position relative to my handicap? And I promise you, the answer is worse than what you think. So you're going to be like, it's whatever it's not. It's like 4.2 or 3.8 or whatever it is, right? And then realize that hopefully it just drops the stress level and you go, okay, like eight iron in the middle of the green from 140. And two putt from 40ft is really good way to go. I made a par, but it's actually like 8/10 of a birdie. Awesome.

And then when you go to the. When you go to the spot, what's my. How's my lie? Where do I want to land it? What's the loft and what's the trajectory? Why land loft club? Why land loft club? And you just keep running through that system over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. And I promise you, you will hit more greens because you will be more convicted over the shot. You will understand what you're trying to do, and you therefore will play better golf because you will be more convicted and more confident standing over a shot. Okay, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Love you guys. See you guys back here next month.

If you guys have any suggestions on what you guys, you guys want me to hear me talk on, please send them to support at the golf room everywhere.com send in your videos. Now is the time in the winter when it's getting cold to grind and get better. Not what you do this month. November, December, January, February, March is what's going to change your game next year. Do not start working on your game in March. It's too late. You have to do it now because you need time to do the understanding to make it look better and make it feel better. Because hard changes feel terrible.

That's okay. That's because you don't do it. That's why it feels weird. You're paying for weird in a very weird way. Okay, see you guys later. Thanks so much. Have a great night.