Course Vlog | Hylands GC | Driver & Wedge Work

I'm out here on the golf course today it's a beautiful hot Sunday evening it's about 6:00 I'm going to go play nine holes I'm going to play the back nine of the South course of Highlands there's two courses here North and South so four nine holes this is actually the shortest nine we have and I'm going to do a little exercise today this will be a course Vlog but this will be a driver everywhere Vlog so this is a good drill to get you shaping shots and uh for me because this course is this nine is short it's going to be a great exercise for my short wedge shots and how good I can make some puss to convert and hopefully go really really low so let's go here's the 10th hole on the south course little dog leg right the green is actually over there 370 y when I was growing up there was actually tree kind of in the middle left side of the Fairway like 100 out so I'm going to have to hit a big old cut to get this thing up there in the Fairway all right I caught that a little off the heel though it didn't kind of helped with the cut but didn't get the distance I want got 78 to that flag downwind gotta land this thing just in front of the green and then bounce it up and hope it doesn't release too much well I haven't played out here in probably 3 weeks and it's pretty firm that shot landed just just on the front of the green and it's releas probably a good 25 to 30 ft past the flag so I got to take that in consideration for the rest of the [Music] night so I hit that 30 ft from 78 yards 30 ft that's not good and that's kind of why I'm doing this drill this evening because my most recent event at C4 shorter golf course with a lot of wedges I hit 15 greens round one 14 greens round two I shot 7270 finished in the middle of the pack and a lot of it was sure round one I didn't didn't putt terribly well but round two when I had those wedges I just wasn't hitting it close enough so this drill is basically trial by fire putting me in the fire of having to hit wedge shots short wed shots 3/4 wed shots half shots and hit it closer to make those birdie opportunities a lot easier 11th hole now this is a par five short one 486 y there's a bunker right there that's only 260 to cover so I have to cover that with a little draw the wind is off the right so this is one where smash driver away going straight missing right is better than missing left hit a good drive floated at a hair but the wind brought it back so I hit just to the right right corner of the Fairway here I've got 202 to the flag and this is a very shallow green so this is something where I probably want to land at about 195 and be content with that so go with six iron here I was right in between clubs really five iron would have been enough to fly right to the pin with this little wind into the face but like I said shallow green short was better than long so hit that six iron pretty well just a little thin so it bounced up here but now I've got a really nice look at [Music] Eagle 12th hole par three pin is way at the back playing 2011 yards slightly downhill but there's a breeze that's kind of into off the right basically the exact same shot as the last toll so I'm just going to hit another six iron to the middle back of the green well this always helps hitting it hitting at 8 ft from 200 yards kind of makes up for hitting it 30 ft from 78 yds on 10 13th H Highlands 342 yard this is where the driver everywhere challenge gets a little more demanding because it's quite narrow up at around 300 yard right around there this is something where I would just hit a three iron to 110 yards and leave myself a nice smooth Sand Wedge in but at 340 green is slop from front to back more so in the front I want to leave something within 40 50 30 yards of the green out there on the right side so let's try to thread this [Music] needle got 30 yards to the flag h a nice high fade and it's quite firm down there so I'm sure it bounced and gave me some good some good release but this is a tricky one because the front pin has the most slope to it so I'm going to have to land this thing just a pace or two on the green and hope it just kind of eats into that slope and then just releases to the hole [Music] had the right idea just didn't release as much as I wanted that lie was really really tight so I wasn't going to try to get much air underneath it but I give myself the right leave 8 ft straight up the hill little right to [Music] left well that was a bummer 8 ft I don't know if I pulled it or if it just bounced straight left off the blade but I think never had a chance so I'm still I'm two under through four holes I was hoping that you know doing this drill properly I should be able to shoot anywhere from four to six under so I still got my work cut out for me what you see here now is actually let me spin the camera around this is the 14th hole 400 yard par 4 very forgiving so this is another one to just uh let that driver fly I found the first got a rough wind is kicking a little bit into have 129 to that flag just need to chip a pitching wedge [Music] here well I pulled that one this has actually been the Miss I've been fighting lately with these 3/4 shots is the body's been stopping the arms go a little fast and I pull it so that's exactly why I'm out here working on this driver drill to give myself these shots so I got lots of green to work with here so just an easy little pitch and [Music] run 15th hole par five 495 downwind wind off the left so this is an opportunity to just make a good golf swing give myself an eye underne the screen and then have a look at Eagle and maybe just walk away with an easy [Music] birdie okay a couple holes ago I said you know a good score in doing this drill would be 4 to 600 par I don't want that to be M misconstrued that I'm out here focusing on score I'm not this is a drill that's making me hone in on the things that need to be a little bit better in my game and if I execute everything properly I should shoot 4 to 600 par two reachable par fivs five wedges in my hands and then two par 3es that are just mid-irons if I'm executing as I should be executing should be a lot of makeable Birdie putts and I should be converting four to six of them so for your game if you're going to do a drill like this where you're going to go out and be really really aggressive you're not judging yourself on the score like if I just stick on two under par I'm not going to be like oh what a let down I'm going to be able to look and be like well I hit the first one to 30 ft I missed an 8-footer I missed a green like those are the things that I'm going to pay attention to and those are the things that are going to need to be continued to work on so for your game sure give yourself a score that might be a little bit outside of what it would just be comfortable and easy and then you can kind of judge yourself result wise on that but it's what got you to that result that you can kind of pay attention to and if I executed everything boom and shot six under I'd be like all right things are things are tight right now I'm good happy with my game but I'm revealing to myself what I kind of already knew coming out here that I need to hone in these scoring clubs so that's what I'm out here doing trying to do caught a pretty good drive a little high on the face but just kind of floated up there and the wind kept it going I've got 202 to this flag 187 to cover the bunker and the wind is helping off the left so again I'm kind of in between clubs because I think six iron would be enough to fly right to pin high but I don't know how firm these greens are going to be and 187 downwind seven iron should cover that and cover the bunker maybe Chase up to the hole so I think I'm just going to go with the seven well I made a really bad swing there really thin and almost almost off the hosle so I'm I got 44 yards here I hit this well right short so now I got to work for my Birdie on this hole I've got 11 ft for birdie from 200 yard so I I've uh I've put some stress on myself this hole but hopefully I can just make a putt and get the heck out of here and still make one back to par [Music] 16th hole par three beautiful looking hole little downwind it's 188 to that flag I'm just going to chip a seven iron here I could try to hit eight iron just let the wind really take it but I want to work on that little 3/4 shot so why not do it right [Music] now but what do you know I pulled it into the bunker left really making it hard of myself today to to [Music] score [Music] 17th hole now this is 325 yards the pin is up front and those trees have really grown in on the left since I was a kid into the wind so I mean if it wasn't into the wind this could get really close to the green but I'm going to have to hit a nice little kind of low cut to get this up close to the green it's pretty narrow up here and the wind I hit it pretty well it was on the right side of the Fairway but the wind just drifted it right so now I've got about a 70 yard little bump and run under those branches hard to score from the trees I'm happy with the shot like it wasn't easy just hitting the Green's a good thing but I mean I've got 45 ft for birdie so just need to lag this up here close and get away with bar 18th hole on the south course this is where the driver anywhere challenge gets interesting this hole is 350 but at about 150 it starts to go downhill and maybe at about 60 yards from the green there's a giant pond so this tree right here is kind of where the pond starts so if I want to keep this in the Fairway I've got to keep it slightly right of that tree but inside these trees it's going to take a little threading of the kn [Music] here lost that one a little to the right and caught some trees so uh I've got like 120 yards up and over these trees lovely okay I'm happy with that shot I got it up and over just didn't hook still a lot of wind so it was just a hard shot to get on the green scrambling once again for bar [Music] didn't hit a very good ship this has been pretty frustrating hole so uh let's make a putt well guys that was a very disappointing finish to a rather frustrating nine holes it's frustrating because didn't really execute what I wanted to execute I hit a few good drives but then a couple drives in trees yeah I birdied both par fivs and I flagged One On a par three but what I wanted to go out and do was you know hone in those little wed shots and I didn't really do that so it's frustrating but that's the point of this game that's why we play it that's why we practice um so I hope you learned a little bit from this drill I'm going to take away two things obviously I need to keep honing in on exactly what I was aware of but also I kind of let my energy and emotional control dip a little bit throughout the last kind of three holes just getting frustrated with the camera getting frustrated with myself and it showed in my play so uh chock that up to a learning experience uh let me know in the comments below what would your nine-hole benchmark score beat so for me I Believe In My Level it's 4 to 600 par so let me know in below what going driver everywhere making the course as short as possible what would your benchmark like did a good job scoring B uh give this video a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't we'll see you guys in the next Vlog [Music] peace