Course Vlog: Playing In The Wind

I'll take you guys out here and just go through my thought process when I'm out here playing what's up guys welcome back episode number 49 of the vlog 49 just got a new phone my iPhone 6 3 years old it crapped out on me so traded it in got the iPhone 8 okay cool awesome didn't wait for the ex big deal the good thing about the 8 is it shoots 1080p slow-mo so I'm gonna be able to add some buttery awesome slow-mo to the vlog so get ready for gratuitous slow-mo b-roll footage what else we're gonna do today I'm gonna practice as usual and then I'm gonna take you guys out on a couple holes here there's been a lot of questions about you know talking about course management how do I think around a golf course so did that let you in my mind with how I would play these holes if our plan tournament let's do this well guys it's really hot out here I'm sweating already you can see a little bit of though what goes on behind these scenes got a couple tripod it's a couple cameras what you saw as I was filming a lot of stuff with alignment sticks so that next week's work harder Wednesday it's gonna be about alignment sticks trying to get some cool angles trying to Rack my brain adjust all the ways I use my alignment sticks on the driving range and I really really hope this slo-mo footage turns out well that's it now time to practice got a bit of practice in I'm gonna go buy a few holes now it's good to get a lot of works out on the range but you need to get on the golf course you need to hit shots you need to be faced with real-life situations I'll take you guys out here and just go through my thought process when I'm out here playing so what we have here is the second hole at Northampton it's a six hundred yard par 5 given the right wind conditions and firmness of the fairways I can hit it but you can see it's pretty pretty forgiving off the tee so all I'm thinking about here is hit something in play not trying to smash it not trying to give it too much if I do keep it up the left side it is the shorter shot into the screen where I could think about going forward into but again that's all wind conditions and firmness winds into me right now the fairways are pretty soft I just want to get this in play and give myself an easy layup Here I am there's actually a lot of wind into the face here I've got probably about over 300 to the pin but you can see up there on the left there's tons of tons of room I don't want to mess with the right-hand side here so if you can see that 150 stake I just want to hit something over that left a bit give myself about a hundred yards into this flag the flag is at the back so I do have a lot of green to work with but I'm probably gonna have to hit about a three iron to get it to around hundred yards to that flag with this wind and everything so yeah still a stout layup six hundred yards into the wind this hole has some teeth today I haven't hit that very well caught it a little heavy so I've got 137 into this pin and you can hear that wind like it's up there so if you don't hit it well you don't strike it well the wind really will affect things pins back middle ish left I got lots of room right of it off this uphill lie is gonna be a little bit more challenging to keep it low but what I'm looking at here is I can't be too aggressive this hole is a tough hole five is a good score if you make a putt for four great this for a tournament there would be a lot of birdies out here probably gonna chip an 8-iron into this win and try to keep it right of that flag and let it just draw in a little bit anything inside 20 feet I'll be happy with well I had a good shot distance control was good it drew a little bit more off that uphill side hole eye but luckily the wind pushing it right held it so I've got about 20 22 feet here for birdie let's knock it in pretty stress-free par I probably hit one good shot the other two weren't great the drive wasn't great this a layup was it's awesome but it's all about how good your bat is and I hit those fine kept myself in play made a pretty easy par tap-in par I mean I wouldn't be frustrated with that in any tournament six hundred yards into the wind swirly cool win I mean sometimes not all par fives are birdie holes that one is a good example of that the next hole par 3 it's a tricky one wins always really hard to judge here let's go flag is up front we have 175 - it's a really really big green the front pin is probably the hardest pin because you don't have very much room left of it you see those mounds you don't have much room beyond it the depth of this green is more back towards the right there's a slope in the middle of the green that when it's a back pin makes it a little bit easier to get to it so this one here I want to fly this 175 shorts not great short right out it's fine short left not so good short rights not so good a little long right in the middle of this green is fine put them dead into the wind here some probably of the chip about a 6-iron this is probably playing closer to 190 I'm shocked I hit a really good shot but it still came up short there's there's a lot of wind but you can see what I was talking about with that green tons of room middle back right the front not as forgiving so I mean sure I didn't hit the green I'm in fine shape here maybe I took this maybe I put it roll this putt though pretty stress-free par I hit a really good shot really happy with that any other conditions it would have been much closer but again pretty stress-free on days like this when it's blowing 15 20 miles pars are great no matter the golf course you're playing pars are great you just want to keep yourself out of trouble keep the ball where you could see it and plot yourself around and if you if you make some putts great never getting yourself out of position giving yourself easy chips easy putts easy pars makes these days go by a lot quicker even though they're long and stressful you just need to commit 6-iron is way too much club from 175 but I really really had to commit to the shot I was hitting and I had a good shot let's go too far for a third hole at Northampton 455 yards from the back pretty big hole big fairway it looks like you want to take on the left side and try to take it over those bunkers to have a little shorter second shot in but you have so much room to the right this is a hole especially with wind like this you just want to hit the drive solid get it in play give yourself another good chance to make a par and if you have a pot and it goes in great you've made a birdie but this is not a hole where you're trying to bite off too much or trying to be too aggressive I just want to hit a solid drive keep it employee have a pretty stress-free second job I hit a really good drive focused on a nice smooth rhythm and hitting the center of the clubface so balancing rhythm is the most important thing on a windy day like today I've got 195 into this hole like that's just to speak to that wind I hit driver pretty standard ly about 300 yards I hit that one well hit it about 265 it's a lot of wind that flags ripping over there so 195 I would try to muscle a 5-iron low but I think I'm just gonna smoothly choke down and chip a 4-iron this green it's big it's wide so distance control is the most important it's not very deep you just want to make sure you get this thing anywhere from 30 feet right of it and then I could go anywhere 40 feet left of it I got a lot of room up there I just don't want to mess with right or messed with left just want to smoothly chip this one iron up there I hit a pretty good shot caught it a little on the heavy side but again I've got a pot I can't be too unhappy with that you saw what I talked I was talking about with this green a lot of width not a lot of depth let's try to see if we can't get this in if not another stress free par nothing to scoff at on a windy day like this there you go guys three holes they were challenging because of this wind so what's the takeaway well the takeaway is when it's windy like this you just have to adjust your expectations and be very very patient and I find a patient mindset helps you breathe a little more relaxed chill out a little bit and then you swing in better rhythm and you just don't bite off more than you can chew because if this were a tournament this would be difficult for everybody right now and sure they'll be guys making a lot of birdies but that could be me that could be me if I give myself opportunities so take away just be patient and be chilled like hear that wind that winds crazy right now there's gonna be holes if I were to be playing 18 today there's gonna be some birdie balls but these three holes you saw were all power holes we part them all so I'm in I'm in good shape caught up to some people so I'm gonna go work on my foot [Music] that's it for the day I'm done I'm tired I'm gonna head home and just have it chilled out Friday evening thank you so much for following along once again I hope you enjoyed this I hope you enjoyed a little behind the scenes access to next week's work harder Wednesday Wow say that 10 times fast and I hope you enjoyed this little course management tutorial for three holes in the wind how to play in the wind how to manage yourself in the wind give this video a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't because we're very very close to 3,000 subscribers so I'm gonna do a giveaway this is a giveaway I wanted to do at a thousand subscribers but that happened like this in the last two weeks so I couldn't really catch up it's gonna coincide with the 50th episode of the vlog and 3,000 subscribers there'll be tons of ways for you guys to win so make sure you subscribe I'll see you guys next week peace [Music]