Surfing? Wow that takes some strength and balance. I can stay on a board..........if it's on the beach. I tried a long time ago as a teenager, couldn't do it. Couldn't skateboard either. Playing with a stiff neck ruins your swing path. You just have to compromise on where you hit the ball.
Hi Simon, I player a course that I hadn’t played for four years. It’s a long championship golf course and long. A few years ago I would get to some of the holes with driver and six iron, but now as I’m nearly 70 I’ve lost distance. I just wanted to say what a god send hybrids are and my 21 degree came in very handy especially on long par 3s. Always practice your short game and you’ll save a few shots on your round. Cheers
Got to agree, hybrids really help with getting some distance and straight too. Get the ball airborne, a bit more height and backspin and a lighter shaft. Great tools. I can't over power a hole anymore. Too fat and unfit. Cheers
Top video, and how life changes as golfer and your game has to change over time. like the writing in your round, never thought of that, will start doing it, for me as nearly senior golfer, chipping, lag putting and pitching 50 yards in are key, I think. Also learning the 3 releases when chipping/pitching and how the ball will react. Certainly pro V1s will give you better results....hope the ailments clear up soon...👍
It does change Stuart. Used to be flexible enough to swing hard and reach a 500 yarder in 2. Those days are gone. With the card I do it about once a month and just get an idea over a whole round where my miss is. Then is there an old forgotton drill that might help it. I went back to the Doctor yesterday and got another wkk of anti biotics for the knee. Neck is getting there. I'm sure everyone aches in places all the time.
I too have neck issues, the list seems to be endless. I think I've lost another 10yds in distance in just the last 2 weeks, but I can still putt like a 30yr old. I don't play Kirkland anymore either. Callaway is a fine ball.
I've just had another lesson and have been given a new drill to hopefully improve strike and therefore distance. It worked in the lesson now i have to do it for myself. In another video I haven't edited yet I putt very well and that is what we must do. I find some other brand balls in that one. Just sharing it for a bit of fun.
@@thehairygolfer I believe I have found every brand of ball there is just about and I've tried most of them, incredible how different they are from each other. I need to stop finding them, I have too many.
Great vid Simon, glad you don’t draw lines on your balls🤔😂…. Beware of the injured golfer, you played really well with a stiff neck and a dodgy knee! The pros spend an hour before they even get to the range having a massage, then they warm up on the range. And they are fit athletes nowadays. It shows how much club golfers love the game, they hit half a dozen balls on the range, then off they go, no wonder we don’t play our best! All good fun! Hope your neck and knee get better for you soon. Keep smiling, cheers👍🏌️🍺
Morning Jeff, holed a few putts plus 2 lucky birdies. It hurts when those birdies don't come and the putts don't drop. I got stuck behind a tractor that morning for miles so I didn't get the warm up I wanted. I do always hole my 4 footers before I go out, got to have that confidence if nothing else. Back on the anti biotics for a week, I'll see how fast I can walk this afternoon. There is just one spot that will not go. Can't wait to get to Thailand and see a proper Doctor rather than talking to one over the phone after waiting 4 hours. Neck is stiff, I'm going to go and see the Thai Ladies in town and get a decent massage. Shame you don't pay Thai prices or I would go every week. Cheers
@@jeffreyroberts7438 You hang around in a queue for an hour. Then you get a receptionist who sends you a text to reply to with a photograph. Then you wait for the duty doctor to look at it and for them to call you back. Thne you get fobbed off. I can walk into any Hospital in Thailand and get looked at in minutes for pennies and the Hospitals and staff are better than here. You wont believe this. I went and practiced this morning and it was okay. No serious problems, hitting it decent enough. Went and lunch, got out of the chair and I was seized solid. I then went out and played on camera. You'll see that in 3 weeks I think. I've decided that I can either practice or play but not both. Poor old bugger!
Golf is hard! Played 13 holes last weekend and was mostly horrendous. Pulling and hooking everything. Hit 2 greens and 3 putted them both 😂 lost 2 or 3 balls off the tee too. On the plus side, I never sliced anything and I've since been hitting it better on the range. Again!
Golf is hard. Had my lesson and was told I was hanging back and rising up out of the shot. I said straight away - range mats and range balls. I must of been trying to lift the ball in the air off those bloody awful mats. He got me to hit down and through and all of a sudden a straight shot that flew the right distance. Next time I'm practicing off grass with my own balls. I hate ranges.
Considering that you've played so little recently, that 76 was a decent round. That idea, of keeping your own stats, in your own way, is interesting, and patterns are far more informative than "statistics". As is that comparison of ProV1 to the Kirkland! The argument of what is the best ball on the market will go on as long as the game is played, but it's whatever suits you that is important! For me, ProV1's do nothing (maybe I don't have the swing speed to engage properly with them?) but give me any yellow Bridgestone tour ball (yes, even those that are for golfers over 105mph swing speed) and I'm happy! As for Callaways well, they have had an issue with the concentricity of the core in recent years (according to MyGolfSpy) so maybe they don't go straight as some, and their Supersoft range is designed for higher handicappers, so it could be both!!!!! Great video as always!
Here is a story about balls. There are only 3 manufacturers who do not have a production line just for their professional golfers. Taylor Made, Srixon and Titelist. All of those Pros can walk into any pro shop in the world and buy what they get supplied for free. (Although Titelist players can play their favourite ball from whatever year they prefer) The others, well no. In fact some stores are no longer stocking Callaway as they are not known for going straight. I do wonder what people do with the knowledge that they last 4.2 shots driving. Why did they lose it? A page full of numbers doesn't tell you much - including my 76. That doesn't say how well I played. Or where I dropped shots and why.
Another point about Kirkland is they are not approved for golf. They have never been sent to the R&A or the USPGA for testing. Some of the other mail order balls aren't either.
I don't know the price of Callaways so perhaps that's why they are popular. I was just a bit of fun, 2 weeks after this I find other balls and give them a mention. Cheers
Notice you use sand wedge quite a lot .I usually use pitching wedge unless have to go over something , problem is especially with front flag it runs on and leaves long putt ! I have tried to use sand wedge more but seems to have more room for error but is good when it comes off , sounds like more practice needed .
I use sand wedge once I'm out of range for a rolling shot. Use it in the rough a lot. I'm not mentally happy with hitting sand wedge 40 yards off a fairway. I have this fear of knifing it. Horses for courses though, you use the club you are confident with and never let anyone take that club out of your hand. No friend, no Pro and certainly not me. If you love your wedge then use it. Best advice I was ever given by an ex 1970's Tour Pro was there are no rules to chipping and pitching and never worry what other people are using.
@@tomkavanagh756 Tom, I'll tell you what I do though. When I get the pleasure of playing with a low handicap, 2 or a 1 I watch them like a hawk. I can't copy their 290 yard drive but I can copy their short game. I just watch what club they use and the ball position for shots. A lot use a 60 but I don't carry a 60, I need my choice in my long clubs. I used to play with a guy who could get it up and down from 40 yards out of your back pocket. Lovely 1 handicap but he wasn't a long hitter. 265 - 275. Not one of the gorillas you see. Lovely man and a lovely player. He was so ordinary in the way he played the game, but excellent ordinary. Never tried too hard, never took on a shot he couldn't do. Was happy to lay back at a number rather than try and hit harder on his second shot on a par 5. Accepted he would miss the green on a long par 4. His mind was so strong not to try too hard on any shot.
Wind and slope. If 320 yards plays driver, sand wedge and today it is driver and a 9 iron it's probably into the wind. Slope also changes where the ball will hit the ground. Uphill it lands early, downhill it lands late. You need more or less club accordingly. The hard part is working out how much you need to adjust for wind and slope. There is another factor, the ball lying on an upslope will go really high so you need to adjust for uphill AND the ball being on an upslope. There isn't really a formula for working it out, you just go on previous experience. Does that help? Cheers
@@kudos4168 No worries. It confuses me too. 2 clubs into the wind - loss of 20 yards - is 2 clubs for the tee shot then 2 clubs for the second shot. That makes for a long hole over nice weather, an extra 40 yards ish. Cheers
Strokes gained works on individual shots: after a poor tee shot, being short and right you would have gained strokes on your driving for that drive. Your following shot would be put down as a positional shot because you weren't aiming for the green, therefore, would be removed from the "approach" statistics. It would br interesting to find your stroked gained statistics.
In previous years my best aspect was hitting a lot of fairways. Then chipping and putting. This year without a single game of golf after work and with 5 months off over winter and then another recent injury that made me miss 3 and half weeks my driving is awful. Such is life. I know the answer - play more. Don't you have to subscribe to strokes gained?
Hello Stuart, I don't keep stats on the putting. I know the more greens I hit the more putts I take. I do take note of a 3 putt and the possible cause. Wrong side of the flag or maybe a missed 3 footer. I then try and remember the break that I got wrong. But no, I don't count the number of putts. The overall score is important to me but not always how I got it.
I agree with a lot of the people here that you even with being shorter off the tee you still manage a decent round and that is due to your short game which you practice!! It shows too!! Hope you have a great weekend!!🏌♂⛳😀
I'm getting shorter now, I need to pitch more than I ever did. Went to the club today through the floods. They managed to get 7 holes open on temps so I just practiced off grass for a change. What a difference hitting prov1s off grass compared to crap balls off mats. Rain tomorrow. Back to normal. Cheers.
@@thehairygolfer Yeah we have had quite a bit of rain here as well!! I don't have anytime to play anyways with work and renovating our kitchen and living room!!
Perhaps it's a price thing Lewis? Anyway, the following week I didn't find a single Callaway, you will have to wait and see what or who I found. It was only for a laugh, nothing serious. Cheers
@@thehairygolfer You know what you want from a Golf Ball . Play a Mizuno putter With a Titleist ball then you have the best of both worlds . Keep Playing
@@lamarporter9976 I'll never change my Mizuno putter for anything. Had it longer than the the wife! I have fun when I get a young caddy in Thailand and I tell them my putter is older than them.
Hi Simon, even with the problems you managed to produce a round a lot of us would be proud of. Keep swinging. Ron
Morning Ron, the short game is keeping me in it but the long game is pretty average right now. Thanks for looking in. Simon
Short game is key!
And then some.
Thanks Simon, enjoyed that, many thanks for your hard work 😁😁
I enjoy doing that one. I didn't have to film every shot which makes the round go a bit better. Cheers
Sometimes because of all the surfing I do I am golfing with a stiff neck like you was explaining. 🤙🏾😎
Surfing? Wow that takes some strength and balance. I can stay on a board..........if it's on the beach. I tried a long time ago as a teenager, couldn't do it. Couldn't skateboard either. Playing with a stiff neck ruins your swing path. You just have to compromise on where you hit the ball.
Hi Simon, I player a course that I hadn’t played for four years. It’s a long championship golf course and long. A few years ago I would get to some of the holes with driver and six iron, but now as I’m nearly 70 I’ve lost distance. I just wanted to say what a god send hybrids are and my 21 degree came in very handy especially on long par 3s. Always practice your short game and you’ll save a few shots on your round. Cheers
Got to agree, hybrids really help with getting some distance and straight too. Get the ball airborne, a bit more height and backspin and a lighter shaft. Great tools. I can't over power a hole anymore. Too fat and unfit. Cheers
Really like your putting stroke Simon. I think I will practice your backhand putting stroke. Ha Ha.
All depends on the shape of your putter. One handed backhand. Would I do it in a comp? No!
Top video, and how life changes as golfer and your game has to change over time. like the writing in your round, never thought of that, will start doing it, for me as nearly senior golfer, chipping, lag putting and pitching 50 yards in are key, I think. Also learning the 3 releases when chipping/pitching and how the ball will react. Certainly pro V1s will give you better results....hope the ailments clear up soon...👍
It does change Stuart. Used to be flexible enough to swing hard and reach a 500 yarder in 2. Those days are gone. With the card I do it about once a month and just get an idea over a whole round where my miss is. Then is there an old forgotton drill that might help it.
I went back to the Doctor yesterday and got another wkk of anti biotics for the knee. Neck is getting there. I'm sure everyone aches in places all the time.
I too have neck issues, the list seems to be endless. I think I've lost another 10yds in distance in just the last 2 weeks, but I can still putt like a 30yr old. I don't play Kirkland anymore either. Callaway is a fine ball.
I've just had another lesson and have been given a new drill to hopefully improve strike and therefore distance. It worked in the lesson now i have to do it for myself. In another video I haven't edited yet I putt very well and that is what we must do. I find some other brand balls in that one. Just sharing it for a bit of fun.
@@thehairygolfer I believe I have found every brand of ball there is just about and I've tried most of them, incredible how different they are from each other. I need to stop finding them, I have too many.
@@andrewquinn6634 I find stuff I've never heard of. I sort my balls out, in the bag, in the practice bag, down the range and in the bin.
Great vid Simon, glad you don’t draw lines on your balls🤔😂…. Beware of the injured golfer, you played really well with a stiff neck and a dodgy knee! The pros spend an hour before they even get to the range having a massage, then they warm up on the range. And they are fit athletes nowadays. It shows how much club golfers love the game, they hit half a dozen balls on the range, then off they go, no wonder we don’t play our best! All good fun! Hope your neck and knee get better for you soon. Keep smiling, cheers👍🏌️🍺
Morning Jeff, holed a few putts plus 2 lucky birdies. It hurts when those birdies don't come and the putts don't drop. I got stuck behind a tractor that morning for miles so I didn't get the warm up I wanted. I do always hole my 4 footers before I go out, got to have that confidence if nothing else. Back on the anti biotics for a week, I'll see how fast I can walk this afternoon. There is just one spot that will not go. Can't wait to get to Thailand and see a proper Doctor rather than talking to one over the phone after waiting 4 hours. Neck is stiff, I'm going to go and see the Thai Ladies in town and get a decent massage. Shame you don't pay Thai prices or I would go every week. Cheers
@@thehairygolfer brilliant Simon. I know what you mean about doctors here, that’s why a lot of blokes don’t even bother going to a doctor.
@@jeffreyroberts7438 You hang around in a queue for an hour. Then you get a receptionist who sends you a text to reply to with a photograph. Then you wait for the duty doctor to look at it and for them to call you back. Thne you get fobbed off. I can walk into any Hospital in Thailand and get looked at in minutes for pennies and the Hospitals and staff are better than here.
You wont believe this. I went and practiced this morning and it was okay. No serious problems, hitting it decent enough. Went and lunch, got out of the chair and I was seized solid. I then went out and played on camera. You'll see that in 3 weeks I think. I've decided that I can either practice or play but not both. Poor old bugger!
Golf is hard!
Played 13 holes last weekend and was mostly horrendous. Pulling and hooking everything. Hit 2 greens and 3 putted them both 😂 lost 2 or 3 balls off the tee too. On the plus side, I never sliced anything and I've since been hitting it better on the range. Again!
Golf is hard. Had my lesson and was told I was hanging back and rising up out of the shot. I said straight away - range mats and range balls. I must of been trying to lift the ball in the air off those bloody awful mats. He got me to hit down and through and all of a sudden a straight shot that flew the right distance. Next time I'm practicing off grass with my own balls. I hate ranges.
Good video Simon. Good luck with the knee.
More anti biotics. Hopefully it will do the trick. Just one spot seem stubborn. Cheers
Considering that you've played so little recently, that 76 was a decent round. That idea, of keeping your own stats, in your own way, is interesting, and patterns are far more informative than "statistics".
As is that comparison of ProV1 to the Kirkland! The argument of what is the best ball on the market will go on as long as the game is played, but it's whatever suits you that is important! For me, ProV1's do nothing (maybe I don't have the swing speed to engage properly with them?) but give me any yellow Bridgestone tour ball (yes, even those that are for golfers over 105mph swing speed) and I'm happy! As for Callaways well, they have had an issue with the concentricity of the core in recent years (according to MyGolfSpy) so maybe they don't go straight as some, and their Supersoft range is designed for higher handicappers, so it could be both!!!!!
Great video as always!
Here is a story about balls. There are only 3 manufacturers who do not have a production line just for their professional golfers. Taylor Made, Srixon and Titelist. All of those Pros can walk into any pro shop in the world and buy what they get supplied for free. (Although Titelist players can play their favourite ball from whatever year they prefer) The others, well no. In fact some stores are no longer stocking Callaway as they are not known for going straight.
I do wonder what people do with the knowledge that they last 4.2 shots driving. Why did they lose it? A page full of numbers doesn't tell you much - including my 76. That doesn't say how well I played. Or where I dropped shots and why.
Another point about Kirkland is they are not approved for golf. They have never been sent to the R&A or the USPGA for testing. Some of the other mail order balls aren't either.
Is your shirt the testcard we used to see on tv 😊
I was in Homebase in my nice new white shirt looking at the paint. There was an explosion and it ruined my good shirt.
😂 ... nice trippy melange of leaves. 😂
🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
@@metalheads-golf The rule for buying shirts in Asia is very simple. Find the one that makes you want to throw up.........and buy it.
@@thehairygolfer There are no ugly shirts ... only boring or none boring ones. 🤣🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
@@metalheads-golf I don't know, I'm not a lover of green shirts!
As a ball hound, Callaways are always the most found. Maybe they get bought more than others. Not just that they are bad golfers.
Ball hound 😊
I don't know the price of Callaways so perhaps that's why they are popular. I was just a bit of fun, 2 weeks after this I find other balls and give them a mention. Cheers
@@Berry-fr5wj I'm a ratter. A ball ratter. Sounds a lot worse than Hound.
@@thehairygolfer Not as bad as brown hatter , we were taught as navy recruits not to speak to strangers 😀
Notice you use sand wedge quite a lot .I usually use pitching wedge unless have to go over something , problem is especially with front flag it runs on and leaves long putt !
I have tried to use sand wedge more but seems to have more room for error but is good when it comes off , sounds like more practice needed .
I use sand wedge once I'm out of range for a rolling shot. Use it in the rough a lot. I'm not mentally happy with hitting sand wedge 40 yards off a fairway. I have this fear of knifing it. Horses for courses though, you use the club you are confident with and never let anyone take that club out of your hand. No friend, no Pro and certainly not me. If you love your wedge then use it. Best advice I was ever given by an ex 1970's Tour Pro was there are no rules to chipping and pitching and never worry what other people are using.
@@thehairygolfer thanks for your advice
@@tomkavanagh756 Tom, I'll tell you what I do though. When I get the pleasure of playing with a low handicap, 2 or a 1 I watch them like a hawk. I can't copy their 290 yard drive but I can copy their short game. I just watch what club they use and the ball position for shots. A lot use a 60 but I don't carry a 60, I need my choice in my long clubs. I used to play with a guy who could get it up and down from 40 yards out of your back pocket. Lovely 1 handicap but he wasn't a long hitter. 265 - 275. Not one of the gorillas you see. Lovely man and a lovely player. He was so ordinary in the way he played the game, but excellent ordinary. Never tried too hard, never took on a shot he couldn't do. Was happy to lay back at a number rather than try and hit harder on his second shot on a par 5. Accepted he would miss the green on a long par 4. His mind was so strong not to try too hard on any shot.
I always wonder what people mean when they say for example this hole is 320yrds but is playing 350yrds, is it mainly wind and slope they mean?
Wind and slope. If 320 yards plays driver, sand wedge and today it is driver and a 9 iron it's probably into the wind. Slope also changes where the ball will hit the ground. Uphill it lands early, downhill it lands late. You need more or less club accordingly. The hard part is working out how much you need to adjust for wind and slope. There is another factor, the ball lying on an upslope will go really high so you need to adjust for uphill AND the ball being on an upslope. There isn't really a formula for working it out, you just go on previous experience.
Does that help? Cheers
@thehairygolfer yes thats sort of what i thought, thank you for the reply 😊
@@kudos4168 No worries. It confuses me too. 2 clubs into the wind - loss of 20 yards - is 2 clubs for the tee shot then 2 clubs for the second shot. That makes for a long hole over nice weather, an extra 40 yards ish. Cheers
Strokes gained works on individual shots: after a poor tee shot, being short and right you would have gained strokes on your driving for that drive.
Your following shot would be put down as a positional shot because you weren't aiming for the green, therefore, would be removed from the "approach" statistics.
It would br interesting to find your stroked gained statistics.
In previous years my best aspect was hitting a lot of fairways. Then chipping and putting. This year without a single game of golf after work and with 5 months off over winter and then another recent injury that made me miss 3 and half weeks my driving is awful. Such is life. I know the answer - play more.
Don't you have to subscribe to strokes gained?
@@thehairygolfer I use a shotscope. It's free on that. I think arcoss you subscribe to it. I don't know about other platforms.
@thehairygolfer if you use Arcoss, I believe there is a subscription but not with my shotscope v3. I don't know about other platforms .
Talking stats, I would like to know what is your average number of puts/round. It seems to be a strong part of your game.
Hello Stuart, I don't keep stats on the putting. I know the more greens I hit the more putts I take. I do take note of a 3 putt and the possible cause. Wrong side of the flag or maybe a missed 3 footer. I then try and remember the break that I got wrong. But no, I don't count the number of putts. The overall score is important to me but not always how I got it.
I agree with a lot of the people here that you even with being shorter off the tee you still manage a decent round and that is due to your short game which you practice!! It shows too!! Hope you have a great weekend!!🏌♂⛳😀
I'm getting shorter now, I need to pitch more than I ever did. Went to the club today through the floods. They managed to get 7 holes open on temps so I just practiced off grass for a change. What a difference hitting prov1s off grass compared to crap balls off mats. Rain tomorrow. Back to normal. Cheers.
@@thehairygolfer Yeah we have had quite a bit of rain here as well!! I don't have anytime to play anyways with work and renovating our kitchen and living room!!
@@ZaxDrumsGolfandMore Best time to work on the house is when the courses are closed or water logged. Good planning.
@@thehairygolfer I never looked at it that way but you are right!!
@@ZaxDrumsGolfandMore Never decorate in summer!
I play a Callaway and don't lose many. The answer to your question might be that more players play a Callaway!
Perhaps it's a price thing Lewis? Anyway, the following week I didn't find a single Callaway, you will have to wait and see what or who I found. It was only for a laugh, nothing serious. Cheers
I think the adverts are getting silly. I've just got an advert about property that is 37 minutes long. Anybody watch all of it?
If you want the Best Play Titleist🎉
I do. But I like the Mizuno ball too. Feels a little firmer but spins well.
@@thehairygolfer You know what you want from a Golf Ball . Play a Mizuno putter With a Titleist ball then you have the best of both worlds . Keep Playing
@@lamarporter9976 I'll never change my Mizuno putter for anything. Had it longer than the the wife! I have fun when I get a young caddy in Thailand and I tell them my putter is older than them.