I took the time to jot my carry distance on all clubs and avg distance on all clubs. Then 3/4 swing distance on all clubs (except Driver), and 1/2 swing distance on 7 iron through 60° wedge. Got back into golf 2022. First time golfing since saying "I do." ;) Lowered handicap from 30 to 18 at the start of 2022 to end of 2022. Looking to get back to 8 handicap, or better again.
Great tip. I tend to pull the ball left on the approach shots. I´ve been opening the club face to reduce the draw, but still setting up square to target.
Mr Short Game, I have learned so much from your videos. I have a tendency to pull my short irons and wedges. After trying this technique, I can focus on the pin with confidence instead of just hoping to hit the green. Thanks for sharing.
Great demonstration on opening the club face one question I had you said it moved the center of gravity up the clubface. does it affect the contact point I was wondering?
Matt I have watching your videos last few days! Love you method of teaching. I have subscribed to your channel. I just moved to SC last year. I’m going to start playing more golf this spring. I have been playing golf for 20 years. I love the game. Also I love your hat you 1:25 have on. Where can I get that hat? Also where you get your shirts? Thank you Todd
At 3:30 in the video: I struggle with this tendency and it definitely adds loft to the club as a result. But, you would think it would also promote a slice, right?
Matt can you talk a bit about your impact screen setup? I keep looking at it and wondering if it's retractable and have been looking in to doing something similar in my own space. Thanks!
This is exactly how I like to hit a lot of my wedge shots. Back in my stance with everything basically square except for the clubface being a little open. They still come out lower but with a ton of spin! Good stuff bud 🤘⛳️🧙♂️
So what loft do you use for your "100 Yard Swing"? I use a 48. I can hit a 56 to 100, but not swinging the way you describe in this video. My "100 Yard Swing" is my warm up on the range whenever I arrive. Always the first thing I do.
Love it!!! Couple of requests and questions: 1) What's going on with your move to pro tourneys? 2) Any more club tours coming? 3) Can you do a video on what to do when you get the shanks?!?!!!
Enjoying your videos. I have a request for a video or a series of videos. I'm basically self-taught from books and articles years ago. But I have taken a few lessons and I'm watching videos now a days. My wife (66 years old) is trying to learn golf - 2 or 3 years. So far I have not been able to get her to take lessons. She wants me to help her (by the way, it is a bad idea to every try and teach a family member). I really don't know enough about what I'm doing and she has issues to deal with that are not the normal for the average golfer. So far I have not been able to find videos or articles addressing these. Hope you can help. 1. She is short and stout - 4'11". 2. She has erosive osteoarthritis very bad in her back and hands. 3. Her fingers / knuckles look a lot like rheumatoid arthritis. 4. Because of the arthritis she does not have a lot of strength in her hands and does not get a lot of rotation. 5. She has large breasts that get in the way. What we have done to try and help is: 1. She wears Bionic ReliefGrip Golf Gloves on both hands. 3. She uses a baseball grip as she cannot interlock or overlap without pain. 4. We have oversize grips. 5. She wears a velcro waist band while playing. If you could work in a series of lessons all the way through driver, fairway woods, hybrids, irons, short irons, basically everything; I think you would address an audience that probably needs help. Thanks for your consideration.
U know…… I really needed this today before my round with the boy’s! I think I’ve been opening up even on many of my 150 yard and under shots ! LOL! Thanks !
I played pebble and number 7 was amazing. All I could think of is don't skull it or chunk it lol put it to 4 ft with the flag in the front and went on to miss the bride of course. Great tips great video
I get where you're coming from, but the advice as I see it is to aim right to get you to stay down on the ball, which in turn causes you to "cover" the ball and then to compensate for that you need to open the face to get a correct distance? Seems like a lot of fixes that need to be balanced out!
What is your opinion on the old school pitch shot? Face open 10 degree right and stand 10 deg left and swing thru. balls goes high and lands soft and very accurate in direction and distance. Seems to work pretty well to me for like 54 deg wedge to like a 8i; do not seem to work with more loft or longer club. Not sure what is the "science" behind this shot. Needs to practice, believe and commit to the shot.
Makes a lot of sense. The number of times I've over run the green because I had to make the desired club distance. Great tips Matt. Thoroughly enjoyed the content
Some people don't seem to get the point of this video. Most clubs will get you 100yds depending on the swing. He is saying use the most comfortable club & swing FOR YOU to get you to 100yds...ie your 'stock shot' you can repeat. By opening the club face, closing the stance & swinging to the left, you end up with a straight'ish shot but with a swing that is more forgiving. You need to practice to see how much closed stance & open club head that suits you. Both are not exaggerated but minor changes.
Today I'm off to play what will be my 6th game of golf in two weeks after a 33 year hietus, and I'm struggling more than I thought I would with this. Thank you so much for the lesson! I started at the range in December last year, and joined a municipal course a couple of weeks ago, (just to get going again) but it's been so long since I played I'd forgotten all of this from my lessons in the '80s. Here in Scotland we're playing off mats as the ground is frozen solid, and it's like playing on concrete, the winter greens are awful and it's like putting on glass with tree seeds all over it, so I'm shooting an average of 93, but I'm absolutely loving it! Once again, thank you very much for making these videos! Great lesson! 🙏🏻
Very similar circumstances for me. I left the game for 25 years and just picked it up again in the spring of 2022. The first thing I noticed was how much the equipment has changed. Instead of playing my ancient Ping Eye 2's and persimmon Titleist driver and 3 wood I decided to buy a whole new set - irons, driver, 3 wood, and rescue wood. I eventually also bought a new Taylor Made Spider X putter. For the first month I would go out and hit a bucket of balls at the range twice a week. I did not dare step on to the 1st tee, I was terrified. Soon, I started to reintroduce myself to the game and finally got to the point where I felt I could play a round. That first round was exhilarating, I had forgotten how much I love the game of golf. I didn't do too well, but I didn't care. I had so much fun I couldn't wait to go back out again. It's now early 2023 and I have to say that I have progressed quite a bit. I am now on my second set of irons (Taylor Made P-790's) and have added a Taylor Made gap wedge and a sand wedge. I try to play at least twice a week and spend two days at the range. When I was young I never practiced and my scores were all over the place - one day I would shoot 77 and on another day 85. No consistency at all. Now that I practice regularly I break 80 on every round and have a handicap of 2. Practice is the key! I also study my performance on the course. I keep records on a spread sheet of my scores, fairways hit, greens in regulation, and number of putts per hole and per round. By doing this I focus on problem areas and this has helped a lot. Good luck with your re-entry into the game. Have a little patience, work at your game, and practice whenever you can. The investment in time and effort will pay off. Oh, and practice with a purpose. Don't just go out and hit 70 balls and call it a day. Add some structure to your practice sessions to help you work out the kinks in your game. Cheers!
@@es2056 I'm actually in the 80's now. 83 being my best. I ended up buying an expensive driver, 3 wood and 3 wedges, 50, 54 and 60, that made a huge difference! I went with PXG for all of them. Love them! I think I really need a better putter, did you notice a big difference with yours? My irons are cheap, but my wife bought them for my Xmas, so I'm going to put them to good use for her, at least for this year... I too make notes of everything, I'm making a case study of every aspect of my game, and really re-learning a lot about the different conditions, because here in Scotland they change from hour to hour, never mind day to day!
Was pulling my pitch shots left at the range today and couldn’t figure it out. Remembered this video and tried it out and no joke I hit the 100 yard flag post on my first shot. Logically I am a little confused about why this technique works so well, but it works so I am not complaining!
Have watched your 100 yard shot video a few times over the weeks. When I open my club face, my ball is still going right even when I bring my right shoulder back. Thoughts?
From 100 y = 91 m it pays to be able to hit a Pw, or 9I or 8I to give different trajectories. Most golfers I play with try and thrash a 56 deg or pw and loose control
Aiming right on a high-lofted club directly contrasts Ben Hogan's foot-position rules, which call for an open stance for short irons. How do you resolve this?
try for yourself. this guy looks about 4 foot 13, what works for him may not work for you. work on solid contact and go from there. that's what works for me.
Nothing to do with this video but...can I add some weight to my driver rather that change to a different flex. I find stiff is not for me because of my age I was thinking or regular or senior flex.
Think about the swing while swinging? Aiming to the right and open the face? With all respect, I completely disagree. In my opinion everyone should have a number and a safe spot on the green. Then pull the right club and shoot this distance. Most people can't close the clubface and slice so practice face angle and do not set up to the right , otherwise you will come massively over the top and won't make ball contact!
The clue is in the title. These are THE 3 things a high handicapper should NEVER do. 1. high handicappers NEVER even reach the green with their 100 yard shot. They always come-up short. (unless they thin it over the back) 2. A lead foot forward will NEVER make a high handicapper stay-down through the ball (like a pro). It will cause them to swing from out to in. and 3 the perfect storm - opening that club face - and the high handicapper will see that ball sail 70 yards out to the right and OOB. A worst video for high handicappers and middle handicappers to soon become high.
Sorry. Not good advice. It’s better to practice with 9 iron and your wedges. Your 100 yard shot will be different for each club. Half swing, 3 quarter, full, one inch chocked-up. If you practice your distances on the range with different length swings, you’ll get where you need to be. If the wind is blowing off the sea, I’m certainly not going to hit a full gap wedge into that green. It’s gonna be more like a chocked-up 9 with a half swing. Maybe back in my stance a bit too, in order to keep the ball flight down.
Maybe next time make it a little more clear what error it is your trying to fix before explaining how to fix it. Because I was didn’t get what the error is at the start?????
If I ever win a couple hundred $m and get to pebble my nerves will be jangling so much I'd miss the ball. How about I get you to hit the ball and I just drink in the view and the beer
Some of the worst info I’ve seen bro. The complete opposite of what the best players in the world are doing thinking and saying. A 100 yard “swing” isn’t going 100 yards when you have 4 iron. Facts are guys use different lofts to control spin and launch. So there’s no “100 yard swing” 99.9% of the tour pros are open in the lower body from 100 yards.
To be fair, we're not tour pro's either. The vast majority of golfers can't hit a standard 100 yard shot, what he's explaining is how to get that in your locker first before doing the other parts. I agree with the open stance if a good player, but I can also see his logic.
@@James__123 the reason for the open stance is to allow for more rotation through the ball so you can hit the shot with the big muscles. Closing the stance does the complete opposite. It’s just purely bad info through and through. The guys not on tour are already way to steep and hard left through impact with wedges.
That's exactly why the rest of us need to do something different. Plus 99.9% of amateurs are trying to look like tour pros but 100% of them look nothing like tour pros.
I took the time to jot my carry distance on all clubs and avg distance on all clubs. Then 3/4 swing distance on all clubs (except Driver), and 1/2 swing distance on 7 iron through 60° wedge. Got back into golf 2022. First time golfing since saying "I do." ;) Lowered handicap from 30 to 18 at the start of 2022 to end of 2022. Looking to get back to 8 handicap, or better again.
Great tip. I tend to pull the ball left on the approach shots. I´ve been opening the club face to reduce the draw, but still setting up square to target.
Mr Short Game, I have learned so much from your videos. I have a tendency to pull my short irons and wedges. After trying this technique, I can focus on the pin with confidence instead of just hoping to hit the green. Thanks for sharing.
This is really interesting. That "looking at the hole" is me on short par threes and I then go left. Thanks so much.
Me too.
Really good ones! All of my Game is short, LOL I struggle to get 200 on a drive, i'm 65 but it really, it drives me crazy!
Great video. Very useful and easy to understand tips. Thanks, Matt!
Great demonstration on opening the club face one question I had you said it moved the center of gravity up the clubface. does it affect the contact point I was wondering?
Matt I have watching your videos last few days! Love you method of teaching. I have subscribed to your channel. I just moved to SC last year. I’m going to start playing more golf this spring. I have been playing golf for 20 years. I love the game. Also I love your hat you 1:25 have on. Where can I get that hat? Also where you get your shirts? Thank you Todd
Loving these wedge videos recently. Thank you!
Great tip! Thanks!
At 3:30 in the video: I struggle with this tendency and it definitely adds loft to the club as a result. But, you would think it would also promote a slice, right?
Great video, I have been struggling lately with my 100 yard shot...I think you hit my problem on the head. THANKS.
Matt can you talk a bit about your impact screen setup? I keep looking at it and wondering if it's retractable and have been looking in to doing something similar in my own space. Thanks!
It is retractable
And he has a video of setting it all up sometime after he moved to Georgia.
@@melborrego6370 Appreciate it. Just found this. Thanks!
Just shared. He gonna like this one.
love your tips mate.
Great video , love it ! Amazing shoes would love to grab a pair of those , what make are they ?
This is exactly how I like to hit a lot of my wedge shots. Back in my stance with everything basically square except for the clubface being a little open. They still come out lower but with a ton of spin! Good stuff bud 🤘⛳️🧙♂️
I’ve been doing this for years. You’re the first person to recommend it.
I love the shoes! Great video. Keep the good content coming!
Anyone know what these shoes are?
So what loft do you use for your "100 Yard Swing"? I use a 48. I can hit a 56 to 100, but not swinging the way you describe in this video. My "100 Yard Swing" is my warm up on the range whenever I arrive. Always the first thing I do.
my full 52 goes 110 so i just swing it smoothe.
Love it!!! Couple of requests and questions: 1) What's going on with your move to pro tourneys? 2) Any more club tours coming? 3) Can you do a video on what to do when you get the shanks?!?!!!
Following
Grip down on the club - way down. So your bottom hand is holding metal in half of it.
This will sync your swing back up, try it!
Interesting information. I have to try this
Keep up the video’s Thanks
Enjoying your videos. I have a request for a video or a series of videos. I'm basically self-taught from books and articles years ago. But I have taken a few lessons and I'm watching videos now a days. My wife (66 years old) is trying to learn golf - 2 or 3 years. So far I have not been able to get her to take lessons. She wants me to help her (by the way, it is a bad idea to every try and teach a family member). I really don't know enough about what I'm doing and she has issues to deal with that are not the normal for the average golfer. So far I have not been able to find videos or articles addressing these. Hope you can help. 1. She is short and stout - 4'11". 2. She has erosive osteoarthritis very bad in her back and hands. 3. Her fingers / knuckles look a lot like rheumatoid arthritis. 4. Because of the arthritis she does not have a lot of strength in her hands and does not get a lot of rotation. 5. She has large breasts that get in the way. What we have done to try and help is: 1. She wears Bionic ReliefGrip Golf Gloves on both hands. 3. She uses a baseball grip as she cannot interlock or overlap without pain. 4. We have oversize grips. 5. She wears a velcro waist band while playing. If you could work in a series of lessons all the way through driver, fairway woods, hybrids, irons, short irons, basically everything; I think you would address an audience that probably needs help. Thanks for your consideration.
Hello....what is the brand, model and size of your mat? Also where can it be purchased? Thank you very much.
Ben Hogan always said show me someone who takes a full wedge swing and I'll take their money.
Good vid!
Love this guy
U know…… I really needed this today before my round with the boy’s! I think I’ve been opening up even on many of my 150 yard and under shots ! LOL! Thanks !
Ahhh...finally solved my problem of hitting left in my approach shots. Grateful!
Lots of confusion here and backwards contradictory tips. Also, how does opening the face produce a lower ball flight? Haven't heard that one before.
I played pebble and number 7 was amazing. All I could think of is don't skull it or chunk it lol put it to 4 ft with the flag in the front and went on to miss the bride of course. Great tips great video
So True!👍
It Works
I do it
I get where you're coming from, but the advice as I see it is to aim right to get you to stay down on the ball, which in turn causes you to "cover" the ball and then to compensate for that you need to open the face to get a correct distance? Seems like a lot of fixes that need to be balanced out!
sounds complicated AF
All these videos are gimmicks. He’s not thinking of any of these while hitting a ball lol😅
Nahhh.......he is saying hit like a 80-85 because it's a downslope and extra carry distance is involved
James, this is only for under 100 yards. He can't explain it well is the only problem.
What is your opinion on the old school pitch shot? Face open 10 degree right and stand 10 deg left and swing thru. balls goes high and lands soft and very accurate in direction and distance. Seems to work pretty well to me for like 54 deg wedge to like a 8i; do not seem to work with more loft or longer club. Not sure what is the "science" behind this shot. Needs to practice, believe and commit to the shot.
Mr. SG what shoes are those your wearing?
Makes a lot of sense. The number of times I've over run the green because I had to make the desired club distance. Great tips Matt. Thoroughly enjoyed the content
What's amazing is that he can show you all the bad swings AND the good one.
Some people don't seem to get the point of this video. Most clubs will get you 100yds depending on the swing. He is saying use the most comfortable club & swing FOR YOU to get you to 100yds...ie your 'stock shot' you can repeat. By opening the club face, closing the stance & swinging to the left, you end up with a straight'ish shot but with a swing that is more forgiving. You need to practice to see how much closed stance & open club head that suits you. Both are not exaggerated but minor changes.
What wedge is your 100 yard swing with? Mine is the pitching wedge.
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Today I'm off to play what will be my 6th game of golf in two weeks after a 33 year hietus, and I'm struggling more than I thought I would with this. Thank you so much for the lesson! I started at the range in December last year, and joined a municipal course a couple of weeks ago, (just to get going again) but it's been so long since I played I'd forgotten all of this from my lessons in the '80s. Here in Scotland we're playing off mats as the ground is frozen solid, and it's like playing on concrete, the winter greens are awful and it's like putting on glass with tree seeds all over it, so I'm shooting an average of 93, but I'm absolutely loving it! Once again, thank you very much for making these videos! Great lesson! 🙏🏻
Very similar circumstances for me. I left the game for 25 years and just picked it up again in the spring of 2022. The first thing I noticed was how much the equipment has changed. Instead of playing my ancient Ping Eye 2's and persimmon Titleist driver and 3 wood I decided to buy a whole new set - irons, driver, 3 wood, and rescue wood. I eventually also bought a new Taylor Made Spider X putter.
For the first month I would go out and hit a bucket of balls at the range twice a week. I did not dare step on to the 1st tee, I was terrified. Soon, I started to reintroduce myself to the game and finally got to the point where I felt I could play a round. That first round was exhilarating, I had forgotten how much I love the game of golf. I didn't do too well, but I didn't care. I had so much fun I couldn't wait to go back out again.
It's now early 2023 and I have to say that I have progressed quite a bit. I am now on my second set of irons (Taylor Made P-790's) and have added a Taylor Made gap wedge and a sand wedge. I try to play at least twice a week and spend two days at the range. When I was young I never practiced and my scores were all over the place - one day I would shoot 77 and on another day 85. No consistency at all. Now that I practice regularly I break 80 on every round and have a handicap of 2. Practice is the key! I also study my performance on the course. I keep records on a spread sheet of my scores, fairways hit, greens in regulation, and number of putts per hole and per round. By doing this I focus on problem areas and this has helped a lot.
Good luck with your re-entry into the game. Have a little patience, work at your game, and practice whenever you can. The investment in time and effort will pay off. Oh, and practice with a purpose. Don't just go out and hit 70 balls and call it a day. Add some structure to your practice sessions to help you work out the kinks in your game. Cheers!
* hiatus
@@es2056 I'm actually in the 80's now. 83 being my best. I ended up buying an expensive driver, 3 wood and 3 wedges, 50, 54 and 60, that made a huge difference! I went with PXG for all of them. Love them! I think I really need a better putter, did you notice a big difference with yours? My irons are cheap, but my wife bought them for my Xmas, so I'm going to put them to good use for her, at least for this year... I too make notes of everything, I'm making a case study of every aspect of my game, and really re-learning a lot about the different conditions, because here in Scotland they change from hour to hour, never mind day to day!
4:22 ... things get complicated with left-to-right winds .... 😬
Was pulling my pitch shots left at the range today and couldn’t figure it out. Remembered this video and tried it out and no joke I hit the 100 yard flag post on my first shot. Logically I am a little confused about why this technique works so well, but it works so I am not complaining!
Have watched your 100 yard shot video a few times over the weeks. When I open my club face, my ball is still going right even when I bring my right shoulder back. Thoughts?
So if I heard you correctly. For all irons you open up the club face? However not for your woods. Correct?
If only I had seen this last week.
From 100 y = 91 m it pays to be able to hit a Pw, or 9I or 8I to give different trajectories.
Most golfers I play with try and thrash a 56 deg or pw and loose control
Good tip…focus on the swing ,not the distance!
Aiming right on a high-lofted club directly contrasts Ben Hogan's foot-position rules, which call for an open stance for short irons. How do you resolve this?
try for yourself. this guy looks about 4 foot 13, what works for him may not work for you. work on solid contact and go from there. that's what works for me.
i love golffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
I couldn't stop looking at your shoes. Tell us about the shoes.
Nothing to do with this video but...can I add some weight to my driver rather that change to a different flex. I find stiff is not for me because of my age I was thinking or regular or senior flex.
This is classic range golf where you hit a 100 yards because you don’t care but when you care you do crazy stuff
this is a bad example, that hole on PB sometimes gets 30 MPH winds into. I can hit 3 iron there. haha just kidding great video. thanks for the lesson.
Downwind when I played, so I imagine the back door is open to 'simulate' the tail wind. 😃
0:07 oh ... the horror face! 🙄
How is your competitive journey going?
I was wondering how long it would take you to put your mic in your hat. Good Good mode enabled immediately.
That's my full swing. Just swing lighter. 1 stage back swing. Lime Rhom!
Alrighty... bring on the 100 yarders!!!
100 yd swing. Nice pitch with a pitching wedge (52 degree). Not a 100 percent red face swing with a 60 degree..
SG: everyone asking about the shoes. They look like Jordan’s put cant find em. What are these??
Think about the swing while swinging? Aiming to the right and open the face? With all respect, I completely disagree. In my opinion everyone should have a number and a safe spot on the green. Then pull the right club and shoot this distance. Most people can't close the clubface and slice so practice face angle and do not set up to the right , otherwise you will come massively over the top and won't make ball contact!
I expected this to be a 7 minute video of me playing
The clue is in the title. These are THE 3 things a high handicapper should NEVER do.
1. high handicappers NEVER even reach the green with their 100 yard shot. They always come-up short. (unless they thin it over the back)
2. A lead foot forward will NEVER make a high handicapper stay-down through the ball (like a pro). It will cause them to swing from out to in.
and 3 the perfect storm - opening that club face - and the high handicapper will see that ball sail 70 yards out to the right and OOB.
A worst video for high handicappers and middle handicappers to soon become high.
🤌🏾YES SIR! I just figured it out then saw this…⛳️GREAT STUFF!🏌🏿
If I hit that first shot 12' from the pin on that hole, I'd card a hole in one...........(and pay off my group).
Sorry. Not good advice. It’s better to practice with 9 iron and your wedges. Your 100 yard shot will be different for each club. Half swing, 3 quarter, full, one inch chocked-up. If you practice your distances on the range with different length swings, you’ll get where you need to be. If the wind is blowing off the sea, I’m certainly not going to hit a full gap wedge into that green. It’s gonna be more like a chocked-up 9 with a half swing. Maybe back in my stance a bit too, in order to keep the ball flight down.
Usually I like your videos and they are helpful! But I couldn’t follow what you are trying to teach here at all 😢
Joke on you if I hit a shot into the water on pebble beach I’m dropping another ball down
Maybe next time make it a little more clear what error it is your trying to fix before explaining how to fix it. Because I was didn’t get what the error is at the start?????
If I ever win a couple hundred $m and get to pebble my nerves will be jangling so much I'd miss the ball. How about I get you to hit the ball and I just drink in the view and the beer
I would take another shot at Pebble and wouldn't even mention i hit first in the water.😂
Some of the worst info I’ve seen bro. The complete opposite of what the best players in the world are doing thinking and saying.
A 100 yard “swing” isn’t going 100 yards when you have 4 iron. Facts are guys use different lofts to control spin and launch. So there’s no “100 yard swing”
99.9% of the tour pros are open in the lower body from 100 yards.
Agree. And aiming right will cause you to come over the top, which is a world you don’t want to live in.
To be fair, we're not tour pro's either. The vast majority of golfers can't hit a standard 100 yard shot, what he's explaining is how to get that in your locker first before doing the other parts. I agree with the open stance if a good player, but I can also see his logic.
@@James__123 the reason for the open stance is to allow for more rotation through the ball so you can hit the shot with the big muscles. Closing the stance does the complete opposite. It’s just purely bad info through and through. The guys not on tour are already way to steep and hard left through impact with wedges.
That's exactly why the rest of us need to do something different. Plus 99.9% of amateurs are trying to look like tour pros but 100% of them look nothing like tour pros.
@@MrShortGame it’s just fundamentally not sound bro. I can appreciate the message and the effort but you missed the boat here.
What nonsense!
I play pebble regularly because I live on the mde way. I’ve made 22 million gambling on that course