The yips are detrimental to any golfer, and nearly each golfer has suffered from them in some unspecified time in the future.
On this week’s GOLF Subpar episode, Joel Dahmen defined a few of his clashes with the yips, which included the punch-out yips and the 7-iron yips. (“Sahith Theegala additionally has that as effectively, proper?” Dahmen requested. Sure, he does.)
However Dahmen’s yips transcend the golf course. Like, for example, he’s at present battling the autograph yips.
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“Oh, unhealthy; it’s not nice,” he stated. “I’ve by no means pretended to have an awesome signature. My handwriting is putrid. Such as you assume if you happen to can hit a golf ball you possibly can in all probability signal your title, however I battle with that entire deal. However yeah, the cursive ‘J’ appears OK, however I freeze on the ‘E’ proper now. The pen simply stops for a full second after which it should go and get somewhat sloppy. … Let’s say you signal for 15 or 20 children after the spherical. Proper now I’m taking twice so long as different guys to get by way of this line and it isn’t fairly both.”
However his yips don’t finish there. He additionally has the parking yips.
Dahmen defined that his trusty caddie, Geno Bonnalie, often drives when they’re at tournaments, and Dahmen’s spouse often drives if they’re operating locations collectively. However when he’s solo and confronted with a giant car parking zone with a lot of choices, it takes a while for him to discover a spot for his 2017 Ford Explorer.
“I let the automobile select the place it needs to park,” Dahmen stated. “Typically you simply must let the automobile go and typically it takes somewhat bit longer to seek out the spot it matches in. I’ve had the parking yips for some time. I’m a stable driver. My spouse calls me a grandpa driver. I’m not ripping 80 across the 101 or going 55 on Scottsdale Highway, however I get into these parking heaps and I simply can’t pull the set off on a spot.
“And it’s not like I can’t match the automobile in there, I’m a assured driver,” he continued. “However typically there’s a automobile seat, you bought to have room for these, and also you attempt to get the youngsters within the backseat and then you definitely gotta discover the passenger seat with wider room than the opposite facet, and it simply takes somewhat longer.”
You possibly can hearken to Dahmen’s full Subpar look right here, or watch the video under.
