Playas I apologize. I was editing and counting and counting over and over. I couldn’t understand why the score kept coming to 79 when i knew it was 80. I counted 5 on the 13th and never even realised it was a 6. I had to pretend there was a fluffed bunker shot on the par 5 15th but there wasnt. That was a double bogey. The score is 80. I just screwed up the counting while editing and couldnt lie about a 79.
@@thehairygolfer Between the playa in chief and Gen ling, I've also had the same expedited golf progress with my game as well. Ive only been playing for about 2 years now and im creeping into the sub 80's along with B dawg. I miss J-bone :)
Best memory of the golf season? Playing with my boyfriends before I moved out of state. Those last few rounds were bitter sweet, the beers cold, and the memories priceless.
I just had my all time low of 77 on Tuesday along with a hole-in-one, my first! Love this channel and feel like it’s truly helped me think about golf better and make better decisions. I’ve followed a lot of your advice for breaking 100, and I did! Took your advise for breaking 90, and then I did! Now I’ve finally broke 80! Thank you for all of the help!
I almost quit golf after shooting 110 and 3 years of playing twice a month and practicing short game 1-2 times a week. I just shot 92-86-86 in my last 3 rounds for my all time lowest score of 86! Thanks Matt and Bdog for helping me find hope and getting me to not give up the greatest game. If Bdog can shoot 80 so can I! Especially after watching him over a year ago when he was shooting around 100!
Best memory happened last week. I was solo. Hitting on a par 3. There was a group of 4 playing ahead of me, I thought they had left the par 3(nothing on the green) after I had hit, I could see them coming out of the woods, heading to the green area. I yelled at them and they watched my shot stop 6" from the hole. I apologized to them, but they were cheering for me instead of being mad. Ended up finishing the round with those guys.
Best memory of the season was watching my buddy win his first club championship by shooting a 41/41 (82) and a 48/36 (81) over two rounds. The par 36 was his lowest nine holes of his life and he planted at least five feathers and played the 3-3-3 system in the way of the Playa. Ottawa Canada planting feathers and growing Birdies for golfers everywhere.
My best memory for me was FINALLY breaking 90 and doing so by 6 shots! I made a birdie on 18 to get home with 84 and it also won me my first competition on countback. WOTP was fully engaged.
Thankyou for what you do. Your vids took me from 90’s to a 78 inside a season. Literally fist pumped the air on that first birdie by bdog. Bro im invested :D
His play has improved SO much. He’s going to break 80 soon for sure. He’s got the assets and the skills to get there. I like everything about this series: the work ethic, your coaching, the mental toughness and Bdog’s power baus attitude
Favorite memory of this golf season was playing a spontaneous 18 on my brother's 30th birthday in June and shooting 140 after not playing for 10+years. Had so much fun I've been playing every week since. Last round was 104.
I finally broke 80 with a 76 last week. New course and playing with the boys. I finally got fitted for wedges and I can’t recommend doing that more. Game changer around the greens and I had way more birdie opportunities and short par putts. Love these vids of B Dog -and watching the process. 🙌🏼
Best memory of this golf season... ...was when I got 103 on a score card after going through "How to break 100" 6 episodes. I did my best to follow all the rules and my colleague summarized the round for me all I could do is seat down and breathe as I couldn't believe that after a solid year of playing >120 I saw 103 on a score card (too many memories and tries went through my head to be still standing). That just hit me out of nowhere, was unexpected. I like now golf more and looking forward to the 9 as a first digit on a score card :) Thank you life changing golf Guru! :) Greetings from Poland.
Best memory of the golf season has been teaching my 12 year old to play golf...starting out with the stress free way which is much more fun for him and thus keeps him interested. He has gone from barely getting the ball up at the range to now hitting solid drives and gorgeous chips around the green. So proud of my little man.
Playa! My favourite memory was YESTERDAY! I ran in to a guy wearing the 'holes' shirt you're wearing in this video at Angus Glen Golf Club in Markham, Ontario Canada (playing in a best ball tourney) and said, "Hey Playa, best ball is not playing WOTP!" He proceeded to show me his planting feathers towel, his feather divot tool, and so I said "Matt's the Baus and I'm happy to be one of his disciples!" He concurred. It was my first run in with a fellow Playa!! Keep it up brother, I remember B Dog's first video - wow he's come a LONG way, and MOST of it is mental, not mechanical! Love you boyfriend! :)
My best memory of this season ... I mostly play in nine hole after work leagues. Been working on swing mechanics w/ a coach for the last nine months... earlier this season, I knew I was hitting the ball better, but not much score improvement. Then I found Golf Sidekick! That was when I realized that my problem wasn't so much the inability to strike the ball well as much as it was how to play the game! Very subtle, but powerful! I have been playing golf for over 50 years, and this season I shot my first ever 40. I was 1 over with 4 left to play when disaster happened ... a big, ugly triple bogey! I remembered your words, got my shit together to par the next hole, and finish bogey, birdie for my first ever 40.... I lifted a glass in your general direction that night man! Thanks for all you do!
Bdog is the man! Fave memory of this golf season shooting my lowest score yet (been playing for 2 years, but past 5 months seriously) of an 86 with a triple bogey on 18!! An absolute vibe.
I was cracking myself up saying, "Crap! BDog how could you miss that...." Yeah, like I would do any better? Awesome video and congrats to BDog on a great 81!
Best memory this season was breaking 90. Went bad 48 then a miraculous 40 on back. It was a great feeling. Set a new bar for me to reach. Thanks Playa for the content and go BDog!
My favourite memory this season was a team scramble event, 4 drives to count per playa. The highest handicap in our group had struggled off the tee all day, he hit a good one of the 16th but I hit a beast which put us in such a good spot we had to use it. He still needed two drives! We get to the 17th, tee is at the back with 160yards of long deep shiza to carry. He steps up, all of us hold our breath, he swings, makes decent contact. I run up the tee box to see the land half a yard passed the rough rolling out down the fairway! "It's made it, it's actually made it" I shout, we all cheer. I've never been so happy on the course!
My first eagle! It was a par 5. I hit a good drive, then a good hybrid 3 which left me about 85 yards to an elevated green. I hit my 54° wedge. It came out low and hot. I thought it would have gone long. I had recently learned how to compress the ball though. And I see the ball land left of the pin. I can't tell how much past the hole it is, but I see the ball start rolling to the right, closer and closer to the pin, and then... it disappeared! One of my playing partners yelled, "it went in!" The other two didn't even see it. One's eyesight is just that bad and the other one had his head down as he was preparing for his next shot. That's my first and only eagle to date and that's my favorite memory from this season. Thanks Playa. Love watching your videos and playing no stress golf.
Favorite memory - my first ocean course (a Jack Nicklaus design) in Hammock Beach, FL. Gorgeous with breeze and not insanely hot. Made a run at 79 and was dreaming about Insta DM screenshots to the Playa in Chief
I’ve been battling to break 80 for almost 3 seasons, stuck at a consistent mid-80s score. Yesterday I finally did it! Shot a 78. Your videos have been so incredibly helpful over the last year and a half. Thank you!
My best golf memory from this year is playing a round with one of my boyfriends who lives out of town and I haven't seen since the beginning of quarantine. Played a short muni and had a good time telling stories, drinking a few beverages, and making plenty of birdies in Chicago's perfect summer weather. Good times were had!
This was a real breakthrough season for me, so a bunch of good memories. I had an eagle courtesy of a jarred wedge shot from 70 yards on a par-4. I had a hole-in-one early on in the season, in January. And I shot two rounds of even par, one on my home course and one in Nebraska with my Dad and Mom. So that last one is probably my favorite, really. And still so much to work on in the game! That's what I love (and hate) about golf: there's always something to work on; always something to improve.
My best memory of golf this year was playing a best ball format with my brother and dad on Fathers day! It was so much fun, and we hit so many good shots that day! It was amazing to spend time with them on the course and catch up!
Favorite memory: Broke 90 for the first time this season. Can honestly say the way you break down shot philosophy and just your golf mantras in general I absolutely use. Getting shot help on RUclips is dicey, but getting strategy and breaking down things the way you do is really quite unique. It is immensely appreciated!
My fondest memory of this season is when I took my 8 year old daughter for a round and she got her first par ever on a par 3 hole. She was so happy and couldn't stop talking about it for rest of the day. :)
Besr memory of the golf season - after an 18 month delay due to Covid, finally getting away on tour with good friends for 3 days and 3 rounds, finishing the last day with all 7 seven of us wearing 7 different Waddaplaya shirts. Pure bliss
Matt I'm so impressed with your videos quality continuing to climb. Keep it up Playa! The visuals: tracers on shots, hole maps, distance analysis before Bdog swings, the round 1/2/3 green approach marking, green sloping, and notes of the goals of the round...are absolutely mint! I feel like I'm playing the round with you with all the thinking process displayed. Can't imagine the time it takes you to edit but keep it up mate, it's helping me make my thought process more efficient on the course
Tempo with PW is soooo much better and smoother. I've found that when you focus on tempo/rhythm with any full swing club it can't help but leak into the other clubs. Tempo and strategy is everything. Great round, B-dog. Great coaching, Matt.
best memory of the season : Finally playing with my dad after 2 years not seeing him. Seaside link ( in St Cast) , Beautiful weather and under 90 for the first time in a long time. Wadda sport, waddaday , wadda dady
Best memory this season was my first (and only) birdie with my cousin who's like a brother and a much better golfer than me. Par 4 and hit a 160 yard approach shot within 10 feet and made the one putt. Golfing with family and trying to hit great shots is the best. Going to golf with him again before the year ends hopefully. Thanks to you and your sis for the vids mate happy golfing
Best memory this year was this week - after some prime advice from Playa-in-chief, I got my focus on and pulled off a PB 82, largely by stringing together 4 epic up and downs on the back nine and playing confident clubs to keep the ball in play on 17/18 holes. Wasn't even hitting it that well but had my year best score by 4 strokes. Normally I get worse on the back nine but actually shot 42/40 on par 35/37. That and probably my first eagle ever 3-4 weeks ago .
Best memory of the season.. playing my first ever competition as a 8-months-beginner-playa and scoring a +18 90! Felt like a baus big time! After 3 more months I’m now playing regularly in the mid-80s, dreaming of the day I will finally break 80! Good stuff by B-dog, super motivating!! 🍻
My favorite memory is using winning my most recent tournament in a 3 way playoff by using what I have learned from following this channel. This channel has taught me to keep a level head in all circumstances and that is what gets rewarded in the game of golf. Not playing aggressively all the time and hoping for the miracle shot 3ft from the pin.
The highlight of my year so far was the last shot of my first lesson in forever. Left with supreme confidence, and it carried over to the course and second half of the season. shelved the ego, asked for help, results.
15 handicap - and this year, it was first breaking 90, and now, I've broken 80 at two different courses. Both 79's - and today, three birdies (first ever back to back, and first ever more than two in a round). Getting out of my head and choosing the right shots has been key. Prime example was today - Par 5. 265 to the hole over a ravine/hazard. I'm watching two guys pull out 3 woods to try and get it over. They both fail. I'm standing there with a 9 iron to lay up, and then a 100 yard chip with a 2 putt par. Bought a bucket hat off of you - wife hates it, I love it, and I'm having fun with it. Thank you for making this fun.
And you're right - inside my PW range, is what I've worked on the most. PW, Approach, how to hit the 3 quarter/half shots, the Hinge and Hold chipping I took from Phil Mickelson - a whole arsenal in my bag that has proven deadly out there.
Favourite memory for this season definately for me is the first under 100 shot round. I skipped 90s and shot 89. I started golf this summer and already hooked.
I've yet to shoot below 100 after playing about once per 6 weeks for a year now. My favorite memory this year was hitting an approach into green side bunker and saying to my friend as I stepped into the bunker "I'm glad I'm in the beach watch me drain this". I proceeded to dig my feet in swing as hard as I could behind the ball and watched the ball magically and miraculously fly up in the air, take one bounce 5 feet from the hole and from about 3 inches roll right in. I threw my sand wedge in the air jumped out of the bunker threw up my hands and my friends went crazy as I front flip/rolled down the grassy slope and sprinted about 40 yards before coming back to the green and picking up the ball from the hole.
B-dogg is playing so well! My best memory of this summer (and sorry,don’t mean to Bragg playas) is my first ever hole in one! It came on the 18th hole on the last day of a 4 day golf weekend. Couldn’t believe it. Got goosebumps!
My best golf moment this year would have to be finding my ball in some deep woods during the tournament. Finding it didn’t make me feel great but what was, was me having an outstanding out and managing to get a birdie 🐦
Favorite memory time ! I did a lot of reps on the same course this summer to try and break 100. I ended up breaking it on 2 other courses before this one course since there was no mental pressure or goal. But I still wanted to achieve it on that one. My prior best score was 100 and I've had other nail biter endings. One time on hole 17 I pulled a miraculous par save. We're talking lipping out of a bunker I couldn't see 45 degrees towards the hole leaving me 3 ft short rather than 20. Because of this I go into 18 feeling invincible and overconfident, smash my tee shot with a hard hook and it all tumbled down to a triple bogey. On my last game there, I'm having a killer back 9. The best I've ever had. I tell this to my group on hole 17 after missing green in regulation by 3 yards. A minute after I chip it in for birdie from 10-15 yards. I go into 18 fearing myself a little. I don't want to be dumb and invincible like the last time. I nearly did the opposite : chicken out and play super conservatively. But I didn't. I trusted how I played the last 9 holes. I didn't try to do any hero superman shot. I didn't run away to playing break 100. I stuck to playing breaking 90. Nearly perfect too. Best tee shot of the day, 140y approach playing my shape and leaving myself a 5 footer. Dropped the birdie putt by a hair, nearly giving myself my 1st back to back birdie. Tap in par. I carded a 91 (+21) improving my best score there by 9. And that was with a +16 front nine. The score is not even the important part. That back 9 was a glimpse into the playa I was meant to be. Not the one trying to break 100 and play bogey golf, but the one that learned what playing high 80s look like.
Best memory of the season: Playing my first ever round of golf and hitting my 3i hybrid 190yds dead straight down the par 4 fairway. Thinking i could get used to this....and then walking off with a 7 haha. Only been practicing for three weeks at this point so i was chuffed even with the 7.
My favourite memory of the season ... playing foursomes with my golf buddy and she fluffed a drive on a par 3, I hi it a sweet 8i to be pin high just off to the right for a bogey. We won the day! Great times.
My best memory of this season was my hole in one back in June. It was witnessed by 3 of my best buddies from teenage years and honestly they were more excited than I was which made me happy. We enjoyed a great evening after over many beers, dinner and a dip in the pool. 162 yards to an elevated green with a 6 iron, lucky shot but I’ll take it! Waddalife ⛳️🍻👊
Amazing how Bdog’s swing has improved in such a short time. WADDAPLAYA! Also, so impressed that our favorite golf sidekick is working with others to improve their game as well. Waytogo!
I have banished myself to irons only on the course for a good 6 months or so whilst practicing hard with driver behind the scenes to try and patch up our rocky relationship. Finally put her back in the bag this week and had some decent results. A few wild ones still but hit 5 fairways with it and not a single off-the-planet NASA ball.
Favourite of this season and my so far overall. Played in a Pro-Am with two 11 yr olds. 29 WHS Handicaps then a 134 slope (35). They had to play off max 24 Mens Competition tees 🤯. Smooth all day 150 yards off the tee. The smallest junior had a smile on his face all day even when no scoring. 18th hole he nailed his driver 224 yards to 8 feet and won nearest the pin £25 quid amd we came 3rd overall 19 under . Give the gold divot tool to the little guy and I'll buy one for the other 11yr old. Awesome
Yestarday, I planted a feather on 4 greens on my home course while playing. One for each birdie opportunity. I made one (first in home club, best memory at golf - so far), and 4 pars on a 9 hole tournament. Ended up +5 on 9 holes with a 24 HDCP. Your systems works!!! I was 36 playing 105 4 months ago. BTW, my partners were technically better than me, but made all the mistakes you point out in your videos. You're the best. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I had the most amazing round yesterday, superb weather (probably the last warm day for the year where I live) and a new work buddy brought me to his home course. It was in immaculate condition and I managed to not only use the same ball the whole round, I broke 100 with a total of 99 as well!
My favorite memory of the season was watching a hawk absolutely demolish two squirrels on the 18th hole at my home course. Keep up the good work playa, these videos are excellent!
BDog is the bauuusss!! Hang in there cowboy, impressive imrpovement from the last months!! Best memory of the season: organizing my first birthday tournament with my lads and having one of the most awesome days of my adult life.
My Fav memory was with regular playing partner, we entered in the Club Champs and drew each other for the first round! I came back to level the match play score on the 18th with a birdie, but he took me out on the 19th with a 15 foot putt! We both scored just under our handicaps and was the best game of golf I've ever had. Both competitive and fun, the way it should be !
Such a great cheeky sense of humor. The medium big Richard energy and Paige spiranac comments had me rolling 😂😂😂. I hope to play golf with you one day playa. Your attitude is what I strive for on the course.
Watching B-Dog's prorgress has been fun. Favorite memory of the season? Probably going way of the playa in a skins game last month. Had my partners trying to talk me out of hitting driver on a short par 4. But I wasn't comfortable with the 3 wood since I couldn't miss left on this hole. And mid iron didn't excite me. So I hammered the driver and proceeded to make a long putt to win some dough. I just had to play what I was comfortable with.
My best memory this season was finally breaking 100! Shot a 98 and managed to keep the same ball the entire 18, my wee Mojo 2 ball! The way of the playa has definitely been an eye opener for me
Fav memory - was having an absolutely horrendous round but was keeping my head in the game as per the WOTP. On the 9th hole I planted a feather and like magic everything turned around. I made 3 birdies on the back 9 - I've only had 3 birdies in my life prior to then. One birdie was because I missed a 7 foot eagle putt - so be it! I was so pumped I ate lunch and played another round and shot my personal best like a baus!! Plant feathers grow birdies - it's science!!!
My favorite memory was the amazing feeling after smoking my drive and fairway wood shot to land on a 545 yard par 5 green at my home course in 2 strokes. It is hard to ignore the trauma of the 4 putt that followed though XD
Best memory this year was finally scoring lower then my dad's best and basically second father to me. He help teach me to golf 10 years ago and I've been saying I was going to beat him for that long hahaha the way of the Playa!
I shot a 35 on the back 9 at my local back in June. When I have trouble sleeping, I replay this round in my head to put myself at ease. I usually drift off somewhere around the birdski on 16.
Best memory of this season so far: my first eagle -ever- came on a course I was playing for the second time, on hole 9, I finally could link 3 "perfect" shots to score an unbelievable 3!
Sorry Matt, BDOG is now my fav golfer on your channel! I remember seeing him a couple of years back and OH MY! His improvement is very very impressive. BDOG - if you are reading this, you are my hero!
My best Memory this golf season was playing a round at the Rock golf course in the UP of Michigan on Drummond Island... And it was beautiful, deer everywhere and I got my first birdie ever there! Check out that course if anyone is in that area definitely a hidden gem!!!
Wahahaha...I can't believe how incredibly classic that 18th hole chip in was. When I was trying to break 80, the exact same thing happened to me 5 times or so. I laughed so hard when I saw it. True golfing classic caught on video. Thank you for capturing it.
Favourite memory from this season was 2 eagles in a 3 hole span! Driver + hybrid from 230 out to 20 feet, and a Driver + 5 iron to about 12 feet. Was going to play 14/15 holes (twilight round) but after pulling this off on 8 and 10 I just walked off the course!!
As someone who used to usually break 80 but is now constantly fighting to break it this video hits home lol... In my prime as a junior I played competitively and I was a low single digit handicapper usually breaking 80 and occasionally flirting with par. I got away from the game for a while only playing sporadically for like a decade (3-4 times a year) until starting to play more often now (3 -4 times a month) recently and have now plateaued right around 80 (usually in the low 80's and occasionally upper 70's). I really believe that my game outside 100 yards is good enough to be around scratch...I average around 290-300yards with my driver and hit most fairways (most par 5's on public courses are reachable in 2 for me)...my irons and full wedges are decent...However, inside 100 yards and around the green is where I fall off...I usually lose a several shots a round on bad 3 putts and easy putts inside 5 feet (around 2-4 strokes a round)...My chipping is also sub par .I'd say I lose at least 5-7 shots most rounds from my poor short game alone...on top of that I often find myself in trouble and I'll go for low percentage shot instead of punching out or not laying up when it's obviously the best option..It's crazy how sometimes I'll look back on a round where one bad decision kept me from breaking 80, and if I combined that good decision making with a solid short game I could of possibly flirted with par...
Playas
I apologize. I was editing and counting and counting over and over. I couldn’t understand why the score kept coming to 79 when i knew it was 80. I counted 5 on the 13th and never even realised it was a 6. I had to pretend there was a fluffed bunker shot on the par 5 15th but there wasnt. That was a double bogey. The score is 80. I just screwed up the counting while editing and couldnt lie about a 79.
Bee Dawg still proved the way of the playa is a proven path to golf enlightenment. STROKES SHAVED BEBEH!
No biggie. He'll get it soon. #science
No worries playa. Great video
@@thehairygolfer Between the playa in chief and Gen ling, I've also had the same expedited golf progress with my game as well. Ive only been playing for about 2 years now and im creeping into the sub 80's along with B dawg. I miss J-bone :)
How does he not get the gimme on 13?? that was like 15 inches.
Best memory of the golf season? Playing with my boyfriends before I moved out of state. Those last few rounds were bitter sweet, the beers cold, and the memories priceless.
I just had my all time low of 77 on Tuesday along with a hole-in-one, my first! Love this channel and feel like it’s truly helped me think about golf better and make better decisions. I’ve followed a lot of your advice for breaking 100, and I did! Took your advise for breaking 90, and then I did! Now I’ve finally broke 80! Thank you for all of the help!
Inspired to see B-DAWG improve his game so much. He looks like a completely different player now. Congrats to him!
Totally different vibe from him!!
@@GolfSidekick He needs to trash that L wedge tho lol!
@@JK-cu7mh No, not for pitching, but for chipping I agree - next phase in his development will be the chip and run
@@GolfSidekick Bruh pitching with an L wedge should be for more advanced playas…he ain’t there…yet!
I almost quit golf after shooting 110 and 3 years of playing twice a month and practicing short game 1-2 times a week. I just shot 92-86-86 in my last 3 rounds for my all time lowest score of 86! Thanks Matt and Bdog for helping me find hope and getting me to not give up the greatest game. If Bdog can shoot 80 so can I! Especially after watching him over a year ago when he was shooting around 100!
Best memory happened last week. I was solo. Hitting on a par 3. There was a group of 4 playing ahead of me, I thought they had left the par 3(nothing on the green) after I had hit, I could see them coming out of the woods, heading to the green area. I yelled at them and they watched my shot stop 6" from the hole. I apologized to them, but they were cheering for me instead of being mad. Ended up finishing the round with those guys.
Best memory of the season was watching my buddy win his first club championship by shooting a 41/41 (82) and a 48/36 (81) over two rounds. The par 36 was his lowest nine holes of his life and he planted at least five feathers and played the 3-3-3 system in the way of the Playa. Ottawa Canada planting feathers and growing Birdies for golfers everywhere.
My best memory for me was FINALLY breaking 90 and doing so by 6 shots! I made a birdie on 18 to get home with 84 and it also won me my first competition on countback. WOTP was fully engaged.
Thankyou for what you do. Your vids took me from 90’s to a 78 inside a season. Literally fist pumped the air on that first birdie by bdog. Bro im invested :D
His play has improved SO much. He’s going to break 80 soon for sure. He’s got the assets and the skills to get there. I like everything about this series: the work ethic, your coaching, the mental toughness and Bdog’s power baus attitude
Favorite memory of this golf season was playing a spontaneous 18 on my brother's 30th birthday in June and shooting 140 after not playing for 10+years. Had so much fun I've been playing every week since. Last round was 104.
I finally broke 80 with a 76 last week. New course and playing with the boys. I finally got fitted for wedges and I can’t recommend doing that more. Game changer around the greens and I had way more birdie opportunities and short par putts. Love these vids of B Dog -and watching the process. 🙌🏼
Best memory of this golf season...
...was when I got 103 on a score card after going through "How to break 100" 6 episodes. I did my best to follow all the rules and my colleague summarized the round for me all I could do is seat down and breathe as I couldn't believe that after a solid year of playing >120 I saw 103 on a score card (too many memories and tries went through my head to be still standing). That just hit me out of nowhere, was unexpected. I like now golf more and looking forward to the 9 as a first digit on a score card :) Thank you life changing golf Guru! :) Greetings from Poland.
Best memory of the golf season has been teaching my 12 year old to play golf...starting out with the stress free way which is much more fun for him and thus keeps him interested. He has gone from barely getting the ball up at the range to now hitting solid drives and gorgeous chips around the green. So proud of my little man.
Best moment was chipping in from 20 yards to save par. I aimed for the fringe and watched it slowly roll 15 feet downhill into the cup....like a baus!
Playa! My favourite memory was YESTERDAY! I ran in to a guy wearing the 'holes' shirt you're wearing in this video at Angus Glen Golf Club in Markham, Ontario Canada (playing in a best ball tourney) and said, "Hey Playa, best ball is not playing WOTP!" He proceeded to show me his planting feathers towel, his feather divot tool, and so I said "Matt's the Baus and I'm happy to be one of his disciples!" He concurred. It was my first run in with a fellow Playa!! Keep it up brother, I remember B Dog's first video - wow he's come a LONG way, and MOST of it is mental, not mechanical! Love you boyfriend! :)
My best memory of this season ... I mostly play in nine hole after work leagues. Been working on swing mechanics w/ a coach for the last nine months... earlier this season, I knew I was hitting the ball better, but not much score improvement. Then I found Golf Sidekick! That was when I realized that my problem wasn't so much the inability to strike the ball well as much as it was how to play the game! Very subtle, but powerful! I have been playing golf for over 50 years, and this season I shot my first ever 40. I was 1 over with 4 left to play when disaster happened ... a big, ugly triple bogey! I remembered your words, got my shit together to par the next hole, and finish bogey, birdie for my first ever 40.... I lifted a glass in your general direction that night man! Thanks for all you do!
I've broken 80 3 (77,78,79)times this year. You have changed my mental game! That's what got me over the hump.Thank you!
Bdog is the man!
Fave memory of this golf season shooting my lowest score yet (been playing for 2 years, but past 5 months seriously) of an 86 with a triple bogey on 18!! An absolute vibe.
That was so selfless of b dog to miss that 2 foot putt so we could have more breaking 80 videos. What a man!
I was cracking myself up saying, "Crap! BDog how could you miss that...." Yeah, like I would do any better? Awesome video and congrats to BDog on a great 81!
My favorite memory this season was planting my first feather, and then getting a birdie the next day! Plant feathers, grow birdies!
Fav memory from this season: draining a 15 footer for par on 18 for my first sub-70 round in 25 years.
Go BDog!
Best memory this season was breaking 90. Went bad 48 then a miraculous 40 on back. It was a great feeling. Set a new bar for me to reach. Thanks Playa for the content and go BDog!
Watching the progression has been unreal. Mans is a playa now!
My favourite memory this season was a team scramble event, 4 drives to count per playa. The highest handicap in our group had struggled off the tee all day, he hit a good one of the 16th but I hit a beast which put us in such a good spot we had to use it. He still needed two drives! We get to the 17th, tee is at the back with 160yards of long deep shiza to carry.
He steps up, all of us hold our breath, he swings, makes decent contact. I run up the tee box to see the land half a yard passed the rough rolling out down the fairway! "It's made it, it's actually made it" I shout, we all cheer. I've never been so happy on the course!
My first eagle! It was a par 5. I hit a good drive, then a good hybrid 3 which left me about 85 yards to an elevated green. I hit my 54° wedge. It came out low and hot. I thought it would have gone long. I had recently learned how to compress the ball though. And I see the ball land left of the pin. I can't tell how much past the hole it is, but I see the ball start rolling to the right, closer and closer to the pin, and then... it disappeared! One of my playing partners yelled, "it went in!" The other two didn't even see it. One's eyesight is just that bad and the other one had his head down as he was preparing for his next shot.
That's my first and only eagle to date and that's my favorite memory from this season.
Thanks Playa. Love watching your videos and playing no stress golf.
Favorite memory - my first ocean course (a Jack Nicklaus design) in Hammock Beach, FL. Gorgeous with breeze and not insanely hot. Made a run at 79 and was dreaming about Insta DM screenshots to the Playa in Chief
I’ve been battling to break 80 for almost 3 seasons, stuck at a consistent mid-80s score. Yesterday I finally did it! Shot a 78. Your videos have been so incredibly helpful over the last year and a half. Thank you!
My best golf memory from this year is playing a round with one of my boyfriends who lives out of town and I haven't seen since the beginning of quarantine. Played a short muni and had a good time telling stories, drinking a few beverages, and making plenty of birdies in Chicago's perfect summer weather. Good times were had!
This was a real breakthrough season for me, so a bunch of good memories. I had an eagle courtesy of a jarred wedge shot from 70 yards on a par-4. I had a hole-in-one early on in the season, in January. And I shot two rounds of even par, one on my home course and one in Nebraska with my Dad and Mom. So that last one is probably my favorite, really. And still so much to work on in the game! That's what I love (and hate) about golf: there's always something to work on; always something to improve.
My best memory of golf this year was playing a best ball format with my brother and dad on Fathers day! It was so much fun, and we hit so many good shots that day! It was amazing to spend time with them on the course and catch up!
Favorite memory: Broke 90 for the first time this season. Can honestly say the way you break down shot philosophy and just your golf mantras in general I absolutely use. Getting shot help on RUclips is dicey, but getting strategy and breaking down things the way you do is really quite unique. It is immensely appreciated!
My fondest memory of this season is when I took my 8 year old daughter for a round and she got her first par ever on a par 3 hole. She was so happy and couldn't stop talking about it for rest of the day. :)
Best memory this year is going from 105 at the beginning of the season to 87 two weeks ago. GIOTG!!
This is one of the, if not the best golf channel for learning course management. Hands down. Period.
Favorite memory of the season, watching my son put it within 5’ on 17 at TPC Sawgrass 👍👍👍👍
That Paige Spirinac comment was gold!!! Also my best memory was my very first par and first birdie of the season! Absolutely beautiful.
I've loved watching B-Dogs progress. You've been a good friend and coach to him!
Breaking 80 for the first time with a 79! Also first round with 3 birdies. Very nice! Need more feathers to plant
Besr memory of the golf season - after an 18 month delay due to Covid, finally getting away on tour with good friends for 3 days and 3 rounds, finishing the last day with all 7 seven of us wearing 7 different Waddaplaya shirts. Pure bliss
Favorite memory of the season was my golf vacation playing at some beautiful courses with the boyfriends. Can't beat those weekends.
Favourite memory is fixing the slice on my driver! And seeing BDog progress with consistency and smart course management.
Matt I'm so impressed with your videos quality continuing to climb. Keep it up Playa!
The visuals: tracers on shots, hole maps, distance analysis before Bdog swings, the round 1/2/3 green approach marking, green sloping, and notes of the goals of the round...are absolutely mint! I feel like I'm playing the round with you with all the thinking process displayed. Can't imagine the time it takes you to edit but keep it up mate, it's helping me make my thought process more efficient on the course
Tempo with PW is soooo much better and smoother. I've found that when you focus on tempo/rhythm with any full swing club it can't help but leak into the other clubs. Tempo and strategy is everything. Great round, B-dog. Great coaching, Matt.
Watching the evolution of BDog is really inspiring. He seems like such an eager learner too. And those 60 degree shots are so satisfying to watch!
best memory of the season : Finally playing with my dad after 2 years not seeing him. Seaside link ( in St Cast) , Beautiful weather and under 90 for the first time in a long time. Wadda sport, waddaday , wadda dady
“I am confident that he will get up…”😐😂
Great round and amazing strides in a short period of time B-Dog! Cheers to the journey
Best memory this season was my first (and only) birdie with my cousin who's like a brother and a much better golfer than me. Par 4 and hit a 160 yard approach shot within 10 feet and made the one putt.
Golfing with family and trying to hit great shots is the best. Going to golf with him again before the year ends hopefully. Thanks to you and your sis for the vids mate happy golfing
Got my first 79 the morning after watching two of these breaking 80videos. This is the best instructional golf content out there for any skill level!
This short putting pain level scale is something I can relate to and get behind…. I can see this catching on in the PGA tour.
Best memory this year was this week - after some prime advice from Playa-in-chief, I got my focus on and pulled off a PB 82, largely by stringing together 4 epic up and downs on the back nine and playing confident clubs to keep the ball in play on 17/18 holes. Wasn't even hitting it that well but had my year best score by 4 strokes. Normally I get worse on the back nine but actually shot 42/40 on par 35/37.
That and probably my first eagle ever 3-4 weeks ago .
So pumped to play after watching this. Thanks for the inspiration Bee Dog.
Best memory of the season.. playing my first ever competition as a 8-months-beginner-playa and scoring a +18 90! Felt like a baus big time! After 3 more months I’m now playing regularly in the mid-80s, dreaming of the day I will finally break 80!
Good stuff by B-dog, super motivating!! 🍻
I made my first eagle of my career. Drove it to sand wedge distance, put it to 7 feet and sunk the slider like it was LUNCH TIME!! LIKE A BOSS!
Best memory this year was getting into golf and really enjoying it so far and being able to get closer to my cousins and have lots of fun! GIOTG!
My favorite memory is using winning my most recent tournament in a 3 way playoff by using what I have learned from following this channel. This channel has taught me to keep a level head in all circumstances and that is what gets rewarded in the game of golf. Not playing aggressively all the time and hoping for the miracle shot 3ft from the pin.
The golf instruction is excellent and your music choices are perfect. Keep the videos coming!
The highlight of my year so far was the last shot of my first lesson in forever. Left with supreme confidence, and it carried over to the course and second half of the season. shelved the ego, asked for help, results.
15 handicap - and this year, it was first breaking 90, and now, I've broken 80 at two different courses. Both 79's - and today, three birdies (first ever back to back, and first ever more than two in a round). Getting out of my head and choosing the right shots has been key. Prime example was today - Par 5. 265 to the hole over a ravine/hazard. I'm watching two guys pull out 3 woods to try and get it over. They both fail. I'm standing there with a 9 iron to lay up, and then a 100 yard chip with a 2 putt par.
Bought a bucket hat off of you - wife hates it, I love it, and I'm having fun with it. Thank you for making this fun.
And you're right - inside my PW range, is what I've worked on the most. PW, Approach, how to hit the 3 quarter/half shots, the Hinge and Hold chipping I took from Phil Mickelson - a whole arsenal in my bag that has proven deadly out there.
BDog, you and Matt are bringing hope to so many of us out there!
Favourite memory for this season definately for me is the first under 100 shot round. I skipped 90s and shot 89. I started golf this summer and already hooked.
I've yet to shoot below 100 after playing about once per 6 weeks for a year now. My favorite memory this year was hitting an approach into green side bunker and saying to my friend as I stepped into the bunker "I'm glad I'm in the beach watch me drain this". I proceeded to dig my feet in swing as hard as I could behind the ball and watched the ball magically and miraculously fly up in the air, take one bounce 5 feet from the hole and from about 3 inches roll right in. I threw my sand wedge in the air jumped out of the bunker threw up my hands and my friends went crazy as I front flip/rolled down the grassy slope and sprinted about 40 yards before coming back to the green and picking up the ball from the hole.
dude, the way you cut your own commentary off on the 18th, priceless! A playa knows when he's humbled by the great game 😉
I was hopeful. I was HOPEFUL!!!! Hope is a fools game
Getting there BDog. We're all rooting for you. This is definitely helping me as well.
B-dogg is playing so well! My best memory of this summer (and sorry,don’t mean to Bragg playas) is my first ever hole in one! It came on the 18th hole on the last day of a 4 day golf weekend. Couldn’t believe it. Got goosebumps!
My best golf moment this year would have to be finding my ball in some deep woods during the tournament. Finding it didn’t make me feel great but what was, was me having an outstanding out and managing to get a birdie 🐦
Favorite moment was my first and only eagle. 330 Par 4. Group ahead of me was congratulating me so much on my drive. Made me feel really good.
Favorite memory time !
I did a lot of reps on the same course this summer to try and break 100. I ended up breaking it on 2 other courses before this one course since there was no mental pressure or goal. But I still wanted to achieve it on that one. My prior best score was 100 and I've had other nail biter endings.
One time on hole 17 I pulled a miraculous par save. We're talking lipping out of a bunker I couldn't see 45 degrees towards the hole leaving me 3 ft short rather than 20. Because of this I go into 18 feeling invincible and overconfident, smash my tee shot with a hard hook and it all tumbled down to a triple bogey.
On my last game there, I'm having a killer back 9. The best I've ever had. I tell this to my group on hole 17 after missing green in regulation by 3 yards. A minute after I chip it in for birdie from 10-15 yards. I go into 18 fearing myself a little. I don't want to be dumb and invincible like the last time. I nearly did the opposite : chicken out and play super conservatively.
But I didn't. I trusted how I played the last 9 holes. I didn't try to do any hero superman shot. I didn't run away to playing break 100. I stuck to playing breaking 90. Nearly perfect too. Best tee shot of the day, 140y approach playing my shape and leaving myself a 5 footer. Dropped the birdie putt by a hair, nearly giving myself my 1st back to back birdie. Tap in par.
I carded a 91 (+21) improving my best score there by 9. And that was with a +16 front nine. The score is not even the important part. That back 9 was a glimpse into the playa I was meant to be. Not the one trying to break 100 and play bogey golf, but the one that learned what playing high 80s look like.
Best memory is being with my Dad when he shot his personal best of 88 (he’s 70yrs old)
Best memory of the season: Playing my first ever round of golf and hitting my 3i hybrid 190yds dead straight down the par 4 fairway. Thinking i could get used to this....and then walking off with a 7 haha. Only been practicing for three weeks at this point so i was chuffed even with the 7.
I love watching the improvement. It gives me hope!
My favourite memory of the season ... playing foursomes with my golf buddy and she fluffed a drive on a par 3, I hi it a sweet 8i to be pin high just off to the right for a bogey. We won the day! Great times.
Loving that new graphic showing the distances to different points as you’re talking through them. Great addition. 👊🏼
My best memory of this season was my hole in one back in June. It was witnessed by 3 of my best buddies from teenage years and honestly they were more excited than I was which made me happy. We enjoyed a great evening after over many beers, dinner and a dip in the pool. 162 yards to an elevated green with a 6 iron, lucky shot but I’ll take it! Waddalife ⛳️🍻👊
Amazing how Bdog’s swing has improved in such a short time. WADDAPLAYA! Also, so impressed that our favorite golf sidekick is working with others to improve their game as well. Waytogo!
B-Dog is an inspiration. I remember when he was a slice master. Great work!!
I have banished myself to irons only on the course for a good 6 months or so whilst practicing hard with driver behind the scenes to try and patch up our rocky relationship. Finally put her back in the bag this week and had some decent results. A few wild ones still but hit 5 fairways with it and not a single off-the-planet NASA ball.
Favourite of this season and my so far overall. Played in a Pro-Am with two 11 yr olds. 29 WHS Handicaps then a 134 slope (35). They had to play off max 24 Mens Competition tees 🤯. Smooth all day 150 yards off the tee. The smallest junior had a smile on his face all day even when no scoring. 18th hole he nailed his driver 224 yards to 8 feet and won nearest the pin £25 quid amd we came 3rd overall 19 under . Give the gold divot tool to the little guy and I'll buy one for the other 11yr old.
Awesome
Yestarday, I planted a feather on 4 greens on my home course while playing. One for each birdie opportunity. I made one (first in home club, best memory at golf - so far), and 4 pars on a 9 hole tournament. Ended up +5 on 9 holes with a 24 HDCP. Your systems works!!! I was 36 playing 105 4 months ago. BTW, my partners were technically better than me, but made all the mistakes you point out in your videos. You're the best. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
It's always great to see true science on display. You saw the science of the feather, and the science of Stroke Shaved!
I had the most amazing round yesterday, superb weather (probably the last warm day for the year where I live) and a new work buddy brought me to his home course. It was in immaculate condition and I managed to not only use the same ball the whole round, I broke 100 with a total of 99 as well!
Best moment this season, been working on the wedges, big drive landed middle of the fairway, holed one out from 110 for my first ever eagle 🦅
My favorite memory of the season was watching a hawk absolutely demolish two squirrels on the 18th hole at my home course. Keep up the good work playa, these videos are excellent!
BDog is the bauuusss!! Hang in there cowboy, impressive imrpovement from the last months!! Best memory of the season: organizing my first birthday tournament with my lads and having one of the most awesome days of my adult life.
My Fav memory was with regular playing partner, we entered in the Club Champs and drew each other for the first round!
I came back to level the match play score on the 18th with a birdie, but he took me out on the 19th with a 15 foot putt!
We both scored just under our handicaps and was the best game of golf I've ever had.
Both competitive and fun, the way it should be !
Such a great cheeky sense of humor. The medium big Richard energy and Paige spiranac comments had me rolling 😂😂😂. I hope to play golf with you one day playa. Your attitude is what I strive for on the course.
Watching B-Dog's prorgress has been fun.
Favorite memory of the season? Probably going way of the playa in a skins game last month. Had my partners trying to talk me out of hitting driver on a short par 4. But I wasn't comfortable with the 3 wood since I couldn't miss left on this hole. And mid iron didn't excite me. So I hammered the driver and proceeded to make a long putt to win some dough. I just had to play what I was comfortable with.
My best memory this season was finally breaking 100! Shot a 98 and managed to keep the same ball the entire 18, my wee Mojo 2 ball! The way of the playa has definitely been an eye opener for me
Fav memory - was having an absolutely horrendous round but was keeping my head in the game as per the WOTP. On the 9th hole I planted a feather and like magic everything turned around. I made 3 birdies on the back 9 - I've only had 3 birdies in my life prior to then. One birdie was because I missed a 7 foot eagle putt - so be it! I was so pumped I ate lunch and played another round and shot my personal best like a baus!! Plant feathers grow birdies - it's science!!!
My favorite memory was the amazing feeling after smoking my drive and fairway wood shot to land on a 545 yard par 5 green at my home course in 2 strokes. It is hard to ignore the trauma of the 4 putt that followed though XD
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Best memory of the golf season was this afternoon, when me and my two playing partners each birdied the last hole (18th). Three 4’s on a par five!
Best memory this year was finally scoring lower then my dad's best and basically second father to me. He help teach me to golf 10 years ago and I've been saying I was going to beat him for that long hahaha the way of the Playa!
I shot a 35 on the back 9 at my local back in June. When I have trouble sleeping, I replay this round in my head to put myself at ease. I usually drift off somewhere around the birdski on 16.
Best memory of this season so far: my first eagle -ever- came on a course I was playing for the second time, on hole 9, I finally could link 3 "perfect" shots to score an unbelievable 3!
Sorry Matt, BDOG is now my fav golfer on your channel! I remember seeing him a couple of years back and OH MY! His improvement is very very impressive. BDOG - if you are reading this, you are my hero!
My best Memory this golf season was playing a round at the Rock golf course in the UP of Michigan on Drummond Island... And it was beautiful, deer everywhere and I got my first birdie ever there! Check out that course if anyone is in that area definitely a hidden gem!!!
Wahahaha...I can't believe how incredibly classic that 18th hole chip in was. When I was trying to break 80, the exact same thing happened to me 5 times or so. I laughed so hard when I saw it. True golfing classic caught on video. Thank you for capturing it.
Favourite memory from this season was 2 eagles in a 3 hole span! Driver + hybrid from 230 out to 20 feet, and a Driver + 5 iron to about 12 feet.
Was going to play 14/15 holes (twilight round) but after pulling this off on 8 and 10 I just walked off the course!!
Best memory this season. Using way of the player to consistently break 90. Golf so fun now.
As someone who used to usually break 80 but is now constantly fighting to break it this video hits home lol... In my prime as a junior I played competitively and I was a low single digit handicapper usually breaking 80 and occasionally flirting with par. I got away from the game for a while only playing sporadically for like a decade (3-4 times a year) until starting to play more often now (3 -4 times a month) recently and have now plateaued right around 80 (usually in the low 80's and occasionally upper 70's). I really believe that my game outside 100 yards is good enough to be around scratch...I average around 290-300yards with my driver and hit most fairways (most par 5's on public courses are reachable in 2 for me)...my irons and full wedges are decent...However, inside 100 yards and around the green is where I fall off...I usually lose a several shots a round on bad 3 putts and easy putts inside 5 feet (around 2-4 strokes a round)...My chipping is also sub par .I'd say I lose at least 5-7 shots most rounds from my poor short game alone...on top of that I often find myself in trouble and I'll go for low percentage shot instead of punching out or not laying up when it's obviously the best option..It's crazy how sometimes I'll look back on a round where one bad decision kept me from breaking 80, and if I combined that good decision making with a solid short game I could of possibly flirted with par...