It’s so hard to use a shorter club off the tee when all your friends are using drivers, but it’s worth it when you’re in the fairway twice as much as them
@@ThunderDawg89 I’ve been using my hybrid off the tee since I made this comment. It has helped me stay in the fairway as I work on other parts of my game, and now I’m money on any shot ~190 yards. Still haven’t broken 100, but that’s because I never practice my short game. But I’m feeling like I’m finally ready to transition to the big stick!!
Very honest and thoughtful video. Having just had a shocker at the weekend from 100yards in and putting I could of done with seeing this before the weekend. More of this sort of stuff please
This is absolutely the way to go. I'm an irregular player and so struggle for consistency. Last year I took my woods and driver out of my bag and my enjoyment went up! My scores came down too. Now I use a 3 or 5 iron to drive and rarely hit trouble. Half my practicing is spent on chipping from 50-60 yards and I really like that part of the game now. I do need to work on my putting though.
Cheers! Great video, for those of us that are either a "little older", or, our scores are creeping upward. Keep up the great work! From Maryland, USA !!
Really enjoy your videos Simon, especially the ones showing how ‘old’ second hand clubs allows everyone to enjoy the game with minimal expense and virtually no ‘performance’ cost. Strike is king no matter what club is in your hands. Back in the day of persimmon woods and wound balls the late great Arnold Palmer’s instruction book [which as a young junior I devoured] was called Hit it Hard. No one smashed the ball so straight and so far as he did back then. BUT Palmer also said that most golfers should play a round with nothing longer than a 6 iron - and just see how much better they scored. He was right; and the lesson is still right as your video shows.
if you can get your short game in hand you can really shoot a low score. I practice that all the time and you can do this off the golf course. Good video mate.
Good vid. reminds me of a social round I played with the club champ last year (think his handicap was 2) We were on the hardest hole on the course a long par 4 and I hit a good drive and was about 230 yds out. I got out a 3 wood and was about to give it a lash when he asked me what I was doing, he said., "you have 2 shots on this hole (my handicap is 22) you are 90% sure to hit nothing but trouble with that 3 wood, hit an 8 iron and a pitching wedge". I followed his advice and walked off with a 5 for 3pts. I should remind myself of this more often!
Very good advice, start to finish. Now if I could just get my ego to join the team...It's like I know what to do, I just don't execute consistently. I really appreciate you doing these videos! Thanks Mate!!
Great video! Started playing 7s team golf this year and it has changed my game, your point if you’re not making the green with a long iron or wood so play safe has won me so many holes, and watching the opponent collapse or “wish I’d done that” Playing a PW on 14 and making a 5 is 👌🏼
Excellent vid Simon, I play with a gent who we nickname "150 Bob". He plays off 22 and basically hits every shot 150 yards then chips onto the Green and two Putts. In a Stapleford Comp, he is lethal!!!!!! Oh and he cheats!!!!!!!!
I haven't broken 100, But I did shoot a 46 on my home course's front nine the other day. This was with 2 3-putts and one 4-putt...I know! My chipping is pretty solid, but I've really neglected my putting; no more!
Great video. I've just started out myself and just picking up the basics. Picked up some used Titlist AP2 712. Struggling to be consistent with them if I'm honest. I'm thinking of trying to get some more forgiving clubs so I enjoy the game more and then build up to some players club's.
I'm a long way off in my game to be considering breaking 100, but I got a lot out of this video, more of these tips aimed at the beginner or inexperienced golfer would be a great addition to the channel. Maybe ideas on club selection and what the reasons behind them?
This is a great concept for play, if I could actually do it I'd probably be better off. Any way you could do a video on ball position in the stance for different clubs? Just the basics would be good, no need to complicate it by throwing in different lies and shot shapes.
Around the Green the best advice I was given was to take out my rescue and use it literally as a putter the little bounce you get off it gets it running through rubbish
Thank you for the info, very informative and useful tips, I will try this next weekend, I usually shoot between 101 and 110, my problem is I’m long off the tee but there’s no telling where it will land lol....
Daniel Silva yeah exactly that mate, use the power when there’s little danger nothing wrong with taking a bit of length off to make sure your finding more fairways.
Good common sense video. I’ve got old Cobra SS irons and tried some modern irons at American Golf recently and increased my distance. What I don’t know is if the new clubs we’re the same loft or was I using the equivalent of a 6 iron. Can you do a video of old versus new of the same loft to see what benefits there are(or not) in new clubs.. I’ve yet to see this type of video.
thankyou for a great video, I always enjoy your thinking and your thought provoking content. if you could do a few hour long ones I could get rid of my tv!
Also, “waggle dat shit, smack dat shit. Dassit!” -Manolo My mantra👆👆. I’ve broken 90 4 out of my last 9 rounds saying this before every swing. I also play a forgiving course regularly. That’s the biggest thing new golfers should look for. If you play tough courses starting out it’s easy to get frustrated.
Tom Watson says people should learn golf from the putter on the way up. I've learned the hard way in the 90s I was a 6 handicap but I had a scratch long game and a 27 handicap short game when it comes to chipping. I stopped for a long time I came back spent the first month just hitting chips and half shots
You find me a newbie with no lessons who actually breaks a 100 and prove me wrong, because people with no experience at all will at least 3 or 4 putt on the green alone and don't forget lost balls, miss hits, etc..
thats almost exactly how i learned to improve my score. The only real difference was I only hit the longest club off the tee that I knew I could keep in the fairway, 4 iron in my case and what I failed to do was always try to just get that first put within 3 feet of pin.. not doing that created waaaay too many 3 and 4 puts for no reason at all. Also, play from the forward tees and give yourself a chance at posting a confidence score.
Good stuff Simon. Similar to the stuff that golf sidekick does. You tube needs more of this stuff and less of the really technical stuff and the fifteenth Taylor made release of the year...
One important thing I learnt this weekend is not to get absolutely hammered the night before a competition managed to go out in 60 and back in 45 playing off 26 was not an enjoyable day lol
@@SASGolf the back 9 I stopped caring so did ok.I had to be driven to the course as I was ever so slightly still tipsy 😂😂 Being the complete professional you are I wouldn't expect anything less 😉
@@SASGolf Back in my youthful drinking days, I was exactly the same. I'd be drawn to play in a club comp at some ludicrously early hour and stagger up to the tee with shoelaces barely tied, a raging hangover, whimpering softly while trying to roll a smoke and wishing I was still in bed. "Do you have to hit that driver so fecking hard and noisily? Some of us are suffering here". Just bending down to put the ball on a tee peg without falling over took a superhuman effort. Then, from nowhere, I'd hit a perfect drive, "Nice shot, Del" "Alright, there's no need to shout" I'd mumble incoherently Yep, playing with a hangover, whilst not recommended, can sometimes produce great rounds
I love this kind of 'instruction'. But the industry hates it as it does not sell drivers, balls, gadgets and gizmos. Personally, I get caught up in the minutia of golf instruction and it really crushes my enjoyment of the game. Many years ago, long before the internet and the seemingly endless numbers of golf instruction videos, I loved playing and didn't really care about my score or why I hit the ball the way I did. I am trying to get back to those 'innocent' days.
I would agree that these are great tips for people wanting to break 100 in short time =) However I don't think it's good advice for people in the long term of their golfing career, strokesgained clearly shows distance is your friend more than anything(assuming you are not losing way to many shots oob etc, which is why I'm saying longterm, where you can control it little a bit better) and miss it with little penaltys). But you need to practise distance and technique, something you all of people know of course =) So I think it's good to start early plus a big other thing is that you probably will struggle a bith with mindset later on and not being aggressive enough, pat-pating it down there when you would gain a whole lot from going for it. If you start with hitting 80% 7 woods or something of the tee and not loose any balls it will hurt so much more and be so harder to start going for those right strokes gained ones once you hit a shot into the dinner area of your clubhouse at 18th and you will probably not do it again even though it is a higher expected value. Great vid however! Even at a 8 hcp I can still learn from this and hit even more 3/4 shots with wedges instead of full shots with higher lofts, especially since I live in Gothenburg Sweden which is a windy as links in Scotland lol. GL with the chase of 200mph ballspeed, just broke 113.8 clubhead on trackman (probably equals around 117 on GC2/quad) myself and def. cheering for ya! #NeedForSpeed
It's a video of how to break 100....not how to be a scratch golfer. Im sure common sense tells everybody once they've broke 100 they can then take the next step!
First see you on the RUclips day video. Decided to have a look at your channel. I must say great content you break it down very simple and make the game easier to digest 👍subbed. would be interested in different scenarios around the green video if possible.
Except by making a video about how to break 100 with no lessons, you are giving people a lesson, thereby nullifying their ability to break 100 with no lessons. 🥸
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150 pitching wedge. lord. thats a well struck 6 for me haha
my 7 iron lol
@@PNW_Sportbike_Life it is now my 9
It’s so hard to use a shorter club off the tee when all your friends are using drivers, but it’s worth it when you’re in the fairway twice as much as them
Chrish C this is very true, but when you win the beers at the end, it’s worth it!
Im gonna try this, been playing a couple months, still at 123 or thereabouts, gonna leave the driver at home next time out
@@ThunderDawg89 I’ve been using my hybrid off the tee since I made this comment. It has helped me stay in the fairway as I work on other parts of my game, and now I’m money on any shot ~190 yards. Still haven’t broken 100, but that’s because I never practice my short game. But I’m feeling like I’m finally ready to transition to the big stick!!
He’s right I use to do all of this and now I’m shooting in the low 80s
Great video enjoyed it....biggest battle on a golf course is in between your ears fight the ego scores will take care of themselves 👍🏌️♂️⛳
Good instructional video. Lots of good ideas i dont remember when i get out to play. I have started to play off the shorter t’s
Aww fresh faced Simon full of hope and joy and tips
Very honest and thoughtful video. Having just had a shocker at the weekend from 100yards in and putting I could of done with seeing this before the weekend. More of this sort of stuff please
This is absolutely the way to go. I'm an irregular player and so struggle for consistency. Last year I took my woods and driver out of my bag and my enjoyment went up! My scores came down too. Now I use a 3 or 5 iron to drive and rarely hit trouble. Half my practicing is spent on chipping from 50-60 yards and I really like that part of the game now. I do need to work on my putting though.
...that’s it, out goes the lob wedge; that’ll lighten the bag! Good video Simon, you’ve reduced the number of clubs in my bag, nice one👍👏
Superb content as always! Probably one of the best golf you tubers around!
Sean Gallagher Thanks Sean appreciate the support 🙌
Great vid, thanks. More ideas on course management, please.
Cheers!
Great video, for those of us that are either a "little older", or, our scores are creeping upward.
Keep up the great work!
From Maryland, USA !!
Great vid 👍 I'd like to see more coaching/tip videos like this.
Fantastic video! Every beginner should watch it. Cheers, Mate!
Really enjoy your videos Simon, especially the ones showing how ‘old’ second hand clubs allows everyone to enjoy the game with minimal expense and virtually no ‘performance’ cost. Strike is king no matter what club is in your hands.
Back in the day of persimmon woods and wound balls the late great Arnold Palmer’s instruction book [which as a young junior I devoured] was called Hit it Hard. No one smashed the ball so straight and so far as he did back then.
BUT Palmer also said that most golfers should play a round with nothing longer than a 6 iron - and just see how much better they scored. He was right; and the lesson is still right as your video shows.
if you can get your short game in hand you can really shoot a low score. I practice that all the time and you can do this off the golf course. Good video mate.
Brooks Krabousanos thanks mate and your spot on! Enjoying practising short game is the key!
Good vid. reminds me of a social round I played with the club champ last year (think his handicap was 2) We were on the hardest hole on the course a long par 4 and I hit a good drive and was about 230 yds out. I got out a 3 wood and was about to give it a lash when he asked me what I was doing, he said., "you have 2 shots on this hole (my handicap is 22) you are 90% sure to hit nothing but trouble with that 3 wood, hit an 8 iron and a pitching wedge". I followed his advice and walked off with a 5 for 3pts. I should remind myself of this more often!
Cant wait for break 90 and 80! Great vid bruh
Jordan Mills il get working on them!
@@SASGolf 🙌🙌🙌
Agree
Refreshing video Simon , really sound advice... thanks.
Very good advice, start to finish. Now if I could just get my ego to join the team...It's like I know what to do, I just don't execute consistently. I really appreciate you doing these videos!
Thanks Mate!!
Great video! Started playing 7s team golf this year and it has changed my game, your point if you’re not making the green with a long iron or wood so play safe has won me so many holes, and watching the opponent collapse or “wish I’d done that”
Playing a PW on 14 and making a 5 is 👌🏼
Great video. More of these please
Great tips
Great advice my friend, its something I have started doing myself recently to try and break 100 constantly and lower my handicap a little at a time
Excellent vid Simon, I play with a gent who we nickname "150 Bob". He plays off 22 and basically hits every shot 150 yards then chips onto the Green and two Putts. In a Stapleford Comp, he is lethal!!!!!!
Oh and he cheats!!!!!!!!
Very good video. I seem to still be getting > 100 more often than
Awesome video would love to see more coaching videos
Nice vid. What's your putter at 6:49?
Great video, Simon ... really useful.Tthanks for that!
Wish I had this advice when I first started playing
Great content and advice Simon. Keep up the good work
I haven't broken 100, But I did shoot a 46 on my home course's front nine the other day. This was with 2 3-putts and one 4-putt...I know! My chipping is pretty solid, but I've really neglected my putting; no more!
Definitely like to see more like this.
Great video many thanks , perfect advice, looking to reduce my handicap but struggling with over ambitious shots.
Great video Simon!
Great video. I've just started out myself and just picking up the basics. Picked up some used Titlist AP2 712. Struggling to be consistent with them if I'm honest. I'm thinking of trying to get some more forgiving clubs so I enjoy the game more and then build up to some players club's.
Great stuff as usual,thanks
Awesome video need more videos on RUclips like this one thank you!🏌🏆
Good lil tip there Simon.... Keep it up....
Jason Pollard Thanks Jason, Will Do
I'm headed to the course to hit some Ping Blueprints today.... No I'm not gona buy them lol I just want to try them
Loving the journey⛳️
Thanks For Watching Guys! Leave this video a like, if you want more coaching style Videos and a comment on what you would want to see? Cheers.
I'm a long way off in my game to be considering breaking 100, but I got a lot out of this video, more of these tips aimed at the beginner or inexperienced golfer would be a great addition to the channel. Maybe ideas on club selection and what the reasons behind them?
Such a great video!!!
VIDEO WAS GREAT
Lovely vid
This is a great concept for play, if I could actually do it I'd probably be better off. Any way you could do a video on ball position in the stance for different clubs? Just the basics would be good, no need to complicate it by throwing in different lies and shot shapes.
Around the Green the best advice I was given was to take out my rescue and use it literally as a putter the little bounce you get off it gets it running through rubbish
+Darren Terry yeah great advice mate, anything that gets the ball rolling and your confident with is a win.
Thank you for answering my question
Excellent video. Cheers mate.
Great video thank you!!
High8uS thanks mate!
Great tips. 👍👍👍👍
Thank you for the info, very informative and useful tips, I will try this next weekend, I usually shoot between 101 and 110, my problem is I’m long off the tee but there’s no telling where it will land lol....
Daniel Silva yeah exactly that mate, use the power when there’s little danger nothing wrong with taking a bit of length off to make sure your finding more fairways.
Good common sense video.
I’ve got old Cobra SS irons and tried some modern irons at American Golf recently and increased my distance.
What I don’t know is if the new clubs we’re the same loft or was I using the equivalent of a 6 iron.
Can you do a video of old versus new of the same loft to see what benefits there are(or not) in new clubs..
I’ve yet to see this type of video.
thankyou for a great video, I always enjoy your thinking and your thought provoking content. if you could do a few hour long ones I could get rid of my tv!
JULES DOWNER haha il just have to work on getting on the TV as well 😅
hmm, just a thought but Peter Allis won't go on forever! make sure the BBC have your number
actually, its about time there was a 'golf show' on tv. you should put yourself forward for it, you could be the 'Kyle' replacement!
Also, “waggle dat shit, smack dat shit. Dassit!”
-Manolo
My mantra👆👆. I’ve broken 90 4 out of my last 9 rounds saying this before every swing. I also play a forgiving course regularly. That’s the biggest thing new golfers should look for. If you play tough courses starting out it’s easy to get frustrated.
First video of yours - nice.. I'll watch some more... Sub'd.
Tom Watson says people should learn golf from the putter on the way up. I've learned the hard way in the 90s I was a 6 handicap but I had a scratch long game and a 27 handicap short game when it comes to chipping. I stopped for a long time I came back spent the first month just hitting chips and half shots
Brian Rizza yeah makes so much sense from the green backwards as lots of techniques in your chipping etc help your long game. Thanks Brian.
You find me a newbie with no lessons who actually breaks a 100 and prove me wrong, because people with no experience at all will at least 3 or 4 putt on the green alone and don't forget lost balls, miss hits, etc..
thats almost exactly how i learned to improve my score. The only real difference was I only hit the longest club off the tee that I knew I could keep in the fairway, 4 iron in my case and what I failed to do was always try to just get that first put within 3 feet of pin.. not doing that created waaaay too many 3 and 4 puts for no reason at all.
Also, play from the forward tees and give yourself a chance at posting a confidence score.
Do these tips work to break 100 on the back 9 too?
Good stuff Simon. Similar to the stuff that golf sidekick does. You tube needs more of this stuff and less of the really technical stuff and the fifteenth Taylor made release of the year...
i am so jelly you got a psi set
Great video! Now do one on how to break 90. 🐸
Grigsby Poland thank you and will do 👌
I’ve managed to shoot a 76 and I’ve still not had a lesson .... :) I’m on the fence as to whether I should have a lesson or not
My 60 degree is retiring now! Thank you
One important thing I learnt this weekend is not to get absolutely hammered the night before a competition managed to go out in 60 and back in 45 playing off 26 was not an enjoyable day lol
Darren Terry sometimes that use to help my golf, as couldn’t care less being out there. Obviously don’t do that anymore though 😉
@@SASGolf the back 9 I stopped caring so did ok.I had to be driven to the course as I was ever so slightly still tipsy 😂😂
Being the complete professional you are I wouldn't expect anything less 😉
@@SASGolf Back in my youthful drinking days, I was exactly the same. I'd be drawn to play in a club comp at some ludicrously early hour and stagger up to the tee with shoelaces barely tied, a raging hangover, whimpering softly while trying to roll a smoke and wishing I was still in bed.
"Do you have to hit that driver so fecking hard and noisily? Some of us are suffering here".
Just bending down to put the ball on a tee peg without falling over took a superhuman effort.
Then, from nowhere, I'd hit a perfect drive,
"Nice shot, Del"
"Alright, there's no need to shout" I'd mumble incoherently
Yep, playing with a hangover, whilst not recommended, can sometimes produce great rounds
Sand or gap wedge for 120 yards?!
Just threw all 3 of my lob wedges into the bin. Haha.
I love this kind of 'instruction'. But the industry hates it as it does not sell drivers, balls, gadgets and gizmos. Personally, I get caught up in the minutia of golf instruction and it really crushes my enjoyment of the game. Many years ago, long before the internet and the seemingly endless numbers of golf instruction videos, I loved playing and didn't really care about my score or why I hit the ball the way I did. I am trying to get back to those 'innocent' days.
I would agree that these are great tips for people wanting to break 100 in short time =) However I don't think it's good advice for people in the long term of their golfing career, strokesgained clearly shows distance is your friend more than anything(assuming you are not losing way to many shots oob etc, which is why I'm saying longterm, where you can control it little a bit better) and miss it with little penaltys). But you need to practise distance and technique, something you all of people know of course =) So I think it's good to start early plus a big other thing is that you probably will struggle a bith with mindset later on and not being aggressive enough, pat-pating it down there when you would gain a whole lot from going for it.
If you start with hitting 80% 7 woods or something of the tee and not loose any balls it will hurt so much more and be so harder to start going for those right strokes gained ones once you hit a shot into the dinner area of your clubhouse at 18th and you will probably not do it again even though it is a higher expected value.
Great vid however! Even at a 8 hcp I can still learn from this and hit even more 3/4 shots with wedges instead of full shots with higher lofts, especially since I live in Gothenburg Sweden which is a windy as links in Scotland lol.
GL with the chase of 200mph ballspeed, just broke 113.8 clubhead on trackman (probably equals around 117 on GC2/quad) myself and def. cheering for ya! #NeedForSpeed
It's a video of how to break 100....not how to be a scratch golfer. Im sure common sense tells everybody once they've broke 100 they can then take the next step!
Used the technique and the practice regimen. I still shoot 110 to 120. Frustrating
Very nice, be better to see you coaching the wife to break 100... we don’t all strike the ball like you😂
Any tips for an 11 year old
I broke 100 with no lessons...until I do it again, we're going to go with it was a one off luck thing
First see you on the RUclips day video. Decided to have a look at your channel. I must say great content you break it down very simple and make the game easier to digest 👍subbed. would be interested in different scenarios around the green video if possible.
Davey Whenman thanks for the Sub Dave and yeah definitely something I can have a look into for sure 👍
@@SASGolf nice one mate much appreciated
I shoot in the 80s I’m 62 and have never taken a lesson in my life
This not a new thing. A guy called golf sidekick (South African). Did this a few years ago. And talks about stress free golf. Go check him out.
Waddaguy waddacomment. SAS Golf is merely an enlightened playa himself down the Path of Least Resistance.
More of this. Same of the other stuff.
Dont try to kill it at the tee and used your noggin around the greens. Thats it.
Like he's a golfer that hasn't had lessons. Just to get to the point of hitting it 150 in the fairway takes a ton of practice to get there.
First Pro tip to break 100. Try only playing nine holes! 😂
Scott Hudson Damn I should of put that in 😅
SAS Golf all seriousness you have some of the best content and info on RUclips related to golf. Keep it up brother
Scott Hudson thank you mate appreciate it!
Except by making a video about how to break 100 with no lessons, you are giving people a lesson, thereby nullifying their ability to break 100 with no lessons. 🥸