Stop Sucking at Golf: Fix These 5 Mistakes Now – Simple Golf Tips

Stop sucking at golf by fixing these 5 common mistakes that destroy your scores! In this video, I’ll show you the simple golf lessons that actually help you improve your golf swing, lower your scores, and play better golf on the course. Too many golfers are stuck chasing perfect swing positions, relying on golf equipment instead of skill, or watching every golf tip video they find—only to get worse!

I’ll break down why:

1. Chasing perfect swing positions is hurting your game
2. Blaming equipment won’t fix your bad shots
3. Trying to force a draw or fade is a waste of time
4. Practising without real-world course skills keeps you stuck
5. Watching too many golf tips online makes you more confused
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If you want golf tips to break 90, learn how to play smarter golf, and finally improve your golf swing, this video is for you.

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Today I am breaking down five reasons why your game is stuck. Why from chasing perfect positions to relying on gear instead of skill and even why watching too many golf videos might be hurting you more than helping. If you like the information in this video, hit that like button down below. Really helps out the channel. Subscribe for more free golf tips coming weekly. Today’s question, what is your target handicap and where is your handicap now? So, how far does it have to move? Let me know in the comments. So, let’s kick it off. Is this you or someone you know? So, when I take the club back, if I move my hands and then I don’t hinge my wrist, but I pick my arms up and tilt my hips, turning my shoulders, right? And I hit this position, it’s so much better than if I hit this position. Like, it just look Let me show you. So, if I go here, here, here, here, here, it that one was unlucky. Let me get another ball. I’m lucky. Okay. Now, look, making swing changes are great and if they are helping your performance, even better, but the amount of golfers I see through the years try and hit idealistic positions because their favorite player gets in this position. But they simply can’t because it makes them less functionable than when they do have a stronger grip and put the ball back and kind of hit the ball this way is unbelievable. With all students I’ve worked through the years, you’ve got to teach the mass human. We are not the same shape. We are not the same person. You might see some standard movements that come across most golfers, and there are certainly some good positive things you can work on to improve your game. But working on positions without identifying what that means, what it’s doing to impact, which so many people do, is a real dead end for lots of golfers and a frustrating one. Make sure if you’re working on something in your swing, it’s reflecting out through the shot and then in turn through your scores. If not, get a different coach. Make sure you consider with a coach a bit more than make sure what you’re working on is right. Position based golf swings just not going to help. You’ve got to play golf at the end of the day. Oh, that’s a nice shot. Don’t care what position I got. Green hit. Do you know this equipment junkie? Ah, you see that one’s cutting a little bit cuz it’s it’s just a bit light. Okay, let me try another. Let me try another cuz it’s just bit light sometimes, isn’t it? Oh, and look at that one’s just going out a little bit lower because it can also with some swings be a bit heavy, can’t it? Can it? Okay, let me try one more cuz it can’t be me. I’m pretty consistent. It’s got to be it’s the loft or the shut. I think the CG is just not on the moon’s orbit. See, I’ve hit that toe and that one’s just stayed out to the right. So, I don’t know. It’s It can’t be me. It can’t be me. It can’t be him. Now, look, can equipment help you? Of course it can. Having the right driver, having a shaft that match what you want to deliver, having the right grips, having the right bag set up from hybrids to long irons, chippers to lob wedges, long irons, fairway woods at the right loft. This can all make a difference. This doesn’t mean you don’t look at your equipment, but what we do see from lots of golfers is they blame the equipment. it becomes like a crutch and they go into this spiral of changing equipment where they’re actually not really making any meaningful difference to their score. And that’s the thing, you’re either buying golf equipment for fun, which is fine, bright, shiny stuff, we all love it. Or if you’re looking to improve, you should be buying equipment and seeing if your scores actually improve. And that is a hard ego test for lots of golfers. Things to think about when it comes to equipment as well. New does not mean better. As much as the manufacturers will tell you that new is better than the one before, doesn’t mean it’s actually better than the one two before. Because that’s how marketing works. New isn’t always better. Expensive isn’t always better as well. You’ve just got to get your bag working for your game, which is the best way to do that is gap testing, custom fits with someone who teaches a bit as well, who might know your swing and what you’re capable of and not. Equipment can help, but don’t be that person who’s just well that person. Don’t be that person. Next up, the shape addict. This is so much more common than you think. Like, I see golfers struggle with this concept of wanting to hit a certain shape, and it often isn’t the best route to improvement. A didn’t draw. Yeah, it’s a good shot. It’s down the middle. A didn’t draw. It’s on the green now. I’m not sure that’s ever going to draw with that club from that lie. Chasing the draw. That’s what most people, not many people are chasing a fade, apart from good players actually, maybe go that way a little bit more. But the amount of amateurs through my time of teaching who have desperately tried to hit draws as their shot, like they just got to hit a draw. And the pattern we start seeing is they start getting kind of back swings in here and down swings like kind of trying to come down here or they do back swings in here and then they have to correct and it just creates the kind of more curvature shot that they’re trying to get rid of. You have to play within reason the shape of shot that you play. If you are butchering your swing just to try and hit a desired shape, you’ve got to ask yourself, what is that shape doing? Here’s a common kind of way round. I used to see it with amateurs when I used to get them to hit their draw. So, you’ve got an amateur who hits a really good fade consistently, want to hit a draw because they think it goes further. You get them hitting some draws, it goes a little bit further, but it’s more dispersed. So, then what happens is they’re actually worse on the course. Now, am I happy that they have another weapon to be able to hit a draw? Yes. So, I’m not saying don’t try and hit draws, as in add some weapon that you use when it’s needed, round trees, certain situations where you’ve got no other options, but you need to be playing the shape shots that you play. Most people are wired in a certain way. Some of them are neutral and they can go from fade to draws easier. Some people are just wired to swing on certain paths with certain faces and that’s how they play their best scores. Hitting a draw doesn’t mean lower scores. Hitting a jaw for logical golf doesn’t always mean going further as much as people think it does. And hitting the opposite shape to what they’re wired often means their dispersion gets a little bit wider. And then the last thing to remember with this, as hopefully that guy that we pointed out at the start points out, not all clubs are going to shape the same way. Me trying to hit a freewood from a deck for most lights, it’s not going to draw. I’m never even going to try and make it draw because I’m down at a low loft from the floor, it’s generally going to fade. I’m not even going to try and overdraw a driver particularly. I’m going to let that just play its shape. Where something like a nine iron or a wedge, I could easily shape that a little bit more. Play the shapes of your clubs if you want to score the best. If you’ve got big curvatures either way, so big curvatures through the air, you definitely reduce them. Flipping them to the other side can be good. It’s not the answer most of you are looking for. Being smarter with the way you practice is something I see lots of golfers struggle with. Do you recognize this player? What club have you got? 7 iron. Been practicing all week. Hitting is so good. Cool. Ball below my feet. It’s like below my Yeah, unlucky. So, taking that indoor range practice, that neutral practice out onto the course and getting the results you want is an absolute skill that you should be practicing. And I know it’s hard when you can’t get out and play, but this is the best way to practice it. Grab a tea. Mixed height tees works. And a medium iron. And I’m going to tee this a for me up high like driver height, really high. Now I’ve got a launch monitor so I can see my ball launched at 18°. You’re going to have to visually see this when you practice. So I’m going to try and hit this eight time from this really high tee, but I’m not just going to kind of embrace the higher tee because you won’t get a ball on a tea like this very often. You’re just trying to mimic that the ball’s above your feet. I’m still going to try and launch it at the same angle. So, you’re going to have to kind of visualize that. So, really high tea. I’m hovering my club up near the ball. Still trying to launch it around the same launch height. Nice strike. You’re going to see where the strike happens. Feels where it happens. You could mark your club to see where it happened. Launching at 18°. Then what I’m going to do, same tea height, ball above my feet, and I’m going to go ball back in my stance. going to try and launch this lower while still trying to maintain a decent level of strike. I can see it pull drawing. So, this is all things you should be looking at. Need to aim that, play that shot, but aim it up the right. If I’m going to go ball above my feet and move it back, it’s going to kind of pull, draw, 14° launch. Then I’m going to take this old tricks and golf ball box. I flattened it down. Ball’s still on the really high tea. I’m going to put it under my lead foot. And you can see what happens to my lead foot. Now I’ve got no stability. Ball above my feet. No real stability. I’m going to see how much shorter that shot goes because I’m not really trying to push because if I do that’s slipping. Because this is what happens when you get on an even lies. It’s about the instability in what you’re doing. It’s not only just about bottoming the club out. The different tea heights. Trying to make sure you’re launching it and practicing different tea heights. Great way for learning how to bottom the club out. Give yourself some stability and instability under each foot. Just be careful with this. Obviously, don’t do yourself a no good. But I can feel that my back swing this is going to slip. So, if you imagine I’m on some kind of slope where that same thing’s going to happen. Practicing locking down my body, swinging my arms more. So, this isn’t engaging. These are the skills you need to take the range practice to the course. Be honest and in the comments, let me know. Have you ever practiced this way? I reckon most of you have not, which is often why you hate sloping lies. Remember, if you like the information in this video, hit that like button. Really helps. Hit the subscribe button to not miss out on my next free upload. Now, the final reason you’re not improving breaks my heart, to be honest, as someone who has created content for years with a passion to helping you get better. Do you know this golfer? I I personally think you deserve so much more than what you’re getting at the moment. Oh, no. That doesn’t feel right at all. But what are you doing? Sorry. Maybe it’s this one. Must be this. Must be this one. Must be this guy. He’s good. I really like this guy. Oh, yeah. He’s great. My swing just doesn’t feel right. I just want to You’ve not even hit the ball yet. Yeah, I know. But it’s got to feel right, is it? And that guy on YouTube told me that that’s how it it’s meant to feel like this with the amount of content out there at the moment. Um, watching every YouTube video, trying every tip, trying every secret fix might not be helping you. Can you learn some great things from the content online? Absolutely. Can they help you play better, lower your scores, improve your chipping? 100%. or your back swing or your grip. And there are websites selling courses that do the same that can all help. But let’s do some best practices that I advise people who I love and ask me questions about content. What should they watch? Let’s give you some best practices so you get maybe the best experience from your online learning. Number one, use the ideas of the content you’re watching online to help you learn more rather than think everything applies for you if that if you’re that way inclined. Meaning, if you want to understand what gear effect is, you can find that online and what it might be doing to your shots. There’s great info like that. What does MOI mean on a golf club? What does the weight of the shaft do? What does different lofts do? That’s all information that might help you improve your equipment, your game. Two, just because the person you’re watching is better than you or perceived better than you, cuz online has its issues there, too, that doesn’t mean they’re good at coaching or even understand why they’re better than you. There is plenty of tour pro content out there, the best players in the world, saying l just ludicrous stuff about what they think they do to make them better. it it’s just myth. And often when you point a camera at a world-class player, they’re not kind of built for that. That’s not what they’re there for. They just say something they’ve heard. It’s not even true. And then this leads on to not a dig at tour pros. There are loads of people now out there creating content who are just people. They’re not coaches. They’ve got no experience of coaching. that you can build an online brand that sells you the idea of them being a coach or a knowledgeable voice. Yet, it’s very clear to anyone who does coach and has worked with people for years that they haven’t got a clue what they’re saying and they’re actually doing more damage than good. Their content’s often riddled with mistakes, which for me would be the next bit of advice. The best practice is who is this person that you’re listening to and how are they qualified to give you the information that they’re giving you? You can find more about people online, what if they’re coaches, if they’re not coaches, if they’re qualified PGA pros or not, if they’re you’re going for stat ideas, are they voices within the stat world? It is literally a free-for-all out there at the minute. And I see more bad content than good. Maybe in the comments down below, let me know what you think of these ideas. Just vetting the people that you’re actually listen to might be some idea of giving you some trust over that information. You would do it with well doctors for instance are kind of vetted for you in the UK aren’t they? There’s a system there in place. There’s actually system here in the UK and place as well. It’s called a PGA. The the PGA of UK and Europe and PJ of America. They have a qualification that people are qualified to coach. And then my last one, which I’ve said from the day dot of starting this, just consult with a professional. If you’re using any of my tips and you find they’re helping, don’t be afraid to go to a professional and say, “Look, Mark’s saying this. Should I do this?” That’s how I would want you to use my content. Really make sure it applies to you. It can really help you gain knowledge. It can help you gain feels. But using it with someone who knows what they’re doing. The self uh diagnosis part of it is what’s so difficult and I see it time and time again could really really help you improve your swing, improve your game, prove your golf and maybe not just follow people that you kind of I like the look of them might do what they