How Low Can Tommy Fleetwood Go Hitting STINGERS ONLY?

We challenged one of the world’s best ball strikers, Tommy Fleetwood, to see if he could play 9-holes and go as low as he could. The catch? He has to hit stinger golf shots with every swing.

Watch as Tommy lowers his trajectory on every single swing with his Qi35 Driver, to his P·7TW irons, and Milled Grind wedges.

How low do you think you could go doing the same thing?

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She’s running so much. Maybe every season’s stinger season. Hey guys, it’s Tommy. Welcome back to the channel. We’re on the first tea here on the fire course at Jira Golf States. I have my Stinger clubs right here with me and we are here in Stingers only for nine holes. That will be beautiful shot tracer. I have never hit this shot before in my life. Unbelievable golf shot. I have no idea what the swing looked like, but I enjoyed the shot. The Lee Travino burning wedge, Stinger, burner, they’re all the same. There’s nothing going in the air. Okay, so we’ve gone with my UDI 3 iron. We are going to pick a spot right edge of greenside trap. Back in the stance, we are keeping this low. actually don’t really know carry numbers on stingers, but we know that it goes low and we know it’s going to run for a mile. It’s a good start. Beautiful divot. Still part of the Stinger family is the Litravino burning wedge. Stinger, burner, they’re all the same. 102. Slightly into the breeze. We’re going to hit a 52 burning wedge. Levino burning wedge. I swear I actually saw this shot. It was um years ago and I was I I was 14 I remember and there was like a golf program and it was like giving a tutorial about Lee Travino’s wedge play and the coach was and you know I can’t remember who the coach was or anything I just remember the um the TV program and it was how Lee Travino hits his burning wedge like this low sort of drilled you know lead fade Mr. just fade and it was like back foot open the stamps and then he always had that little bow that little drop on the like bow that made it look like a drop on the inside and then held it through. I just remember going out and practicing it the next day cuz I love the sound of that and um actually haven’t hit it for ages but I just loved it. That’s going back in the repertoire. Okay, we can’t hit a stinger putter. So, we are going to put with a putter. But what we will do is I think just in the spirit of stingers and all that, we’ll just widen the stance. We’ll just do a uh wind stance with the put in. Just going to go slightly wider. Turn misread. Just didn’t move. Wide stance though. Still wind put in. Okay, it’s a par. Beautiful UDI stinger. Burning wedge 52° to there. Good putt. Slight misread. It’s bar. Okay, second hole. Long par three. We’ve got 250 yards. We are back with the UDI. For me, key parts about a stinger. Obviously, the ball’s going to go back. Soon as the ball goes back, I would open my stance a little bit to give the club room somewhere to go. And then for me, it’s all about here through impact, just holding on to the club there. Okay, so it actually it carried on the green just too low to actually hold the green. It was coming in hot that thing. Good shot though. Good flight. Good shot. Hey, so when uh we play so many tournaments a year, but there are you know when the majors are coming and you know when major season starts and I think this is a great time of year to just start incorporating some of these shots into the practice. Just practicing them. You want everything, you know, those major weeks and that those different challenges and different shots that you acquire, you want to make sure that you’ve hit them enough that where you feel comfortable uh that when you get to that to the week of to the open, for instance, you know, when we get there that week on Monday, um I want to know that I’ve been practicing the shots that I’m going to require and I can go and take them out onto the golf course early into the week and just be getting used to the golf course and seeing what shots fit. It’s not that you’re going to hit them all day every day, but making sure that we’re doing it enough. And then uh when it comes to that, you know, you’ve got your whole repertoire of shots and you can take them out from the practice days and be ready to play uh in the tournament when the tournament comes as well. Okay, so we’re just going to be over the green here in this little bit of rough. I uh have brought a N option, but we’re not going to use it cuz we are going to try and take the opportunity to hit some chipping runs when we can. As it is, we’re just in this little bit of rough, but we’re still we’re not going to play anything. Stingers, burning wedges, little bump and run ship. So, we’ll just stab this lob wedge out here and get it running. Want the ball running. Maybe just overpaced, but there’s nothing going in the air. Going straight in. We watched it go past. We’re going straight in. Wide stance. Even had a little poppy stroke as well just for links greens pace. Whoa. Okay. A little bit clumsy with the chip, but we bump and running it. That’s what we were doing. Ball got away from us a little bit. Good put. Little bit overpaced. All in all, I would say good execution of shots. Just uh not the score on the hole that we wanted. Onto the next stinger. Stepping it up. Qi35wood. Fivewood doesn’t mean no stingers. And it’s exactly the same. Exactly the same technique. Everything is the same. If anything, you can feel like you want to knock it down more with a fivewood. Let’s go. Back foot. Just realize that sometimes I subconsciously narrow my stance as well. That’s like what we’re doing on this one. She’s running so much. Course is firm and fast. Getting a lot of run with these stingers. Beautiful stuff. Feel like stinger’s not just for stinger season. Maybe every season’s stinger season. So, we are in Dubai and certain things happen. It is uh 102 degrees Fahrenheit right now and the GoPro is overheated. So, you’re getting me probably a bit closer than uh bit closer than what you would like. So, I apologize for that, but there’s nothing we can do. Um, and yeah, like look, these um I’m pretty sure we’re not going to play the open in 102° heat, but still um like a golf shot’s the golf shot. The technique is the same. Doesn’t mean you can’t be practicing it. It doesn’t mean you can’t be finding your your ball flight windows out here. um shot shapes, ball flights, controlling the club, all of those things um they’re relevant no matter where you are. And um the important thing really is getting out on the golf course and hitting those shots. So take what you do in the range. I would practice something this morning. I would decide, yeah, I’m going to do a bit of open practice. What does open practice involve? Yeah, there’s some low ball flights. There’s some stingers in there. There’s some shots holding up against the wind. There’s some bumping runs. And then we will, you know, you practice all those things so you’re better on the golf course. So you then got to take it on the golf course, different visuals, all of those things and uh and put it into play. So we got 150 to the pin out of the fairway. The wind is actually slightly helping. It’s a wedge all day long, but that’s not what we’re here for. So I’m going to hit a little another variety of a stinger. I’m going to hit a little chippy cuty floaty n iron. That’s the shot that we’re going for here. hoping that’s caught the slope and run down. It’s interesting like even on the first few holes like for me so like if anything my divots go right like I’m a draw with a golf ball normally my divots would go right. So just my actual target to the pin is there and that’s like an example of there. You see me like you know that that was a that was a little chippy cuty one but you can see all of a sudden you know you start going that way a little bit just the difference in uh what you’re doing through the ball and the club path and everything just by changing things. So it’s always good to see you always learn from the divot. See? And then we repair it. That was a good shot. Yeah, like all um you know, all down slope here to the pin. Pretty good shot. We executed the shot nicely. We can now put from the fairway. Wide stance. Maybe a little poppy stroke. Oh, it looks good. 10. Good part. Okay, it’s a par, but good golf shots. Stinger fivewood. Another member of all that family. A little chippy cut floaty n iron which would be nice and controlled. Good putt. Yeah, a par. But all good things, all good shots. When you’re hitting these stingers, you can also just mess with the the face a little bit at address. You can always just make slight tweaks. You know, you can slightly have the face open at address, slightly closed. Obviously, that’s then going to hold against those crosswinds without you having to think much. So, for instance, let’s close the face slightly on this one just because. So, I would set up as normal. I’m just going to close the face slightly and then I’m not going to do anything else. And that’s just going to today it’s going to draw because there’s no crosswind strong enough to do this. So, I’ll actually just aim a little bit further right. But there we go. I’m not going to do anything else. The setup has done it for me. There’s the little low draw that if you wanted that to hold against the left to right wind, that’s doing that for you. And then we move on with that running down the fairway. Okay. So, we’ve got 168 to the pin here. Now, my low shots, if I land it on the green, it’s not going to be able to hold the green, but we are hitting everything low. So, what I’m doing now is I’ve actually pulled out a seven iron and I’m almost hitting like a long chip and run here. I’m only going to land this 155, maybe 150. And I’m going to let this thing’s launch short of the green and run all the way up onto the green. Literally like it’s a punch shot, stinger shot, but it’s like a little bit longer than a long chip and run. Get up there. Go. Oh, looks like it’s giving me the chance to an actual normal chip and run, not a 168 yard chip and run. So, looking forward to that. Might even keep the 7R in in hand. So, yeah. I you know the thing about links golf as well open championship you can actually use whatever golf club you want. Um I think you have so many different options. You can play the ball on the ground and it doesn’t mean that you have to play everything on the ground. Um play everything high if you want. Like there’s never any trouble in the air but I think you just have those options. Um and the terrain of the golf course plays such a plays such a role in that and such a big part in that and and conditions as well. Um, downwind shots play so fast, into the wind shots can play so slow. Shortsided doesn’t necess necessarily mean short-sided. You might be, you know, the the side, you might have missed it on the short side, but it’s into the wind. Um, and doesn’t play like a short-sided shot because the wind’s you, you know, working for you. You could miss it the long way, the long side might be downwind, and it might be rapid. So, we always got to keep that in mind as well. The conditions can dictate which is short side and long side as well. Just come up against the collar here. So, we’d probably play this one low anyway. Little back foot outside the back foot nearly 60°. Get it on the green. Ah, pace. It’s too much pace on it. Looks like there’s a lot of breaking. Not really left myself the nicest putt. Is there potentially some wind holding it up, but I think the slope might be too big. Anyway, let’s pick our line. Oh, it’s a good pot. Left myself some work to do. A little bit clumsy with my chip and runs, but we’ll keep practicing them. All in all, nice par. Nice hole out par. We’ve reached the fifth hole. We are one over par. One bogey, three pars, but good news, we have reached our first par five, which means first stinger driver. And it just so happens we’re into the wind as well. Um, multiple tea heights with drivers. Uh, we could go low and hit a more sort of spinnier cuty one. On this one, I’ve teed it high, but I’m still going to hit that lower bullety flight. This just isn’t going to spin as much. Straight at that tall building there. Punch driver. Stinger driver. Bit of a pull. I mean that shot with the tea up, it is supposed to draw. I just sort of feel like I wrapped it over a little bit, but I still think it should be in pretty decent shape. We’ll go from there. We got the flight. I read a a really good um article on some data analysis uh recently on um it was it was uh ball flight data like spin axis and trajectory and stuff. And uh actually came out this this is what I read. It it came out that the Rory is the player that varies his trae how hard is that word to say? He r he varies his trajectory um the most on tour and I did ask him about he says yeah I really like to you know bring it you know hit the high what hit high bomb drivers hit the low ones controll the you know all of that. So I thought that was really interesting. Then of course you got you know the ultimate in in ball flight control and window control is uh Tiger just immense at it. Um you know unbelievable unbelievable distance control player became an unbelievable player in the wind. Um you know I’ve always enjoyed watching him how he does it. Uh but yeah I thought that was interesting. Rory changes his ball flight window the most. I was thinking of uh hitting a Stinger three iron up the right, but I’ve decided I’m going to hit driver. I mean, the li’s good enough. It’s into the wind. Slight down slope, but it’s going to do all the ball flight work for me. So, it’s 311 yards to the pin. We are not getting there, but we can get close and then we can hit some little low spinny pitch. That will be beautiful shot tracer. Just shows how much you know that’s the grass. though. Did get the ball quite a long way at the face there out of that little bit of rough. Won’t be able to do that off tight links turf. I know that. Okay, we’ve got further than I thought we would do from 311 yards, but I’m going to have to hit this just over that slope. I’m going to carry the slope. I’m still going to go pretty low and try and control this with spin. Got the lie for it. Oh no. Stopped it too quickly. No. Ah. Played that so well. So well. Okay. 10 foot left to right for our first birdie. Here we go. Wide length stance. Got it. Okay, nice up and down. Driver, driver, chip, put our first birdie of the nine. Got ourselves back to level par. Okay, sixth hole. We are back to the Qi35wood stinger. Just sets up nice for the shot. Let’s open this stance up. Wasn’t my best effort. like a little bit on the uh cuty side, but we are in the fairway. It did sting. Can’t all be perfect, but that still did the trick. I think that’s another thing about the open and links. You don’t know if you’re going to hit a lot of drivers or not. Um, and holes can change so much just by the wind switching around. You know, one day 300 yard hole can play 500 nearly like something stupid, you know, and another day you can be hitting a four iron onto the green. So, it varies. It varies so much. And, you know, you you’re you’re not necessarily going to be hitting tons of drivers or hitting driver every hole. That’s for sure. Um, you’re also going to want a strategy to avoid the fairway traps. um you know they’re absolute full-on proper hazards uh in links golf fairway traps. So um sometimes you might be driving it great and you feel like you’re going to take it on and you’re going to take the golf course on and score that way and other times you think not feeling it going to be a bit more tactical going to make sure I stay out of those. So you’ve got to be ready to be able to hit any club that you feel is right off the tea. There are no rights and wrongs. There are just well results I guess. 153. It is uphill. I’m hoping I’ve got enough club. I want to land it just a little bit short of this low ball flight. I’m actually going to go to a burning nine. I have never hit this shot before in my life, but just been saying there are no rights and wrongs. This just feels right to me now. So that burning 52°ree wedge on the first, I’m going to hit a burning nine. Unbelievable golf shot. Half a club short. It was very, very good golf shot though. I have no idea what the swing looked like, but I enjoyed the shot. We’re on the green point for birdie. Steep fixing a crater there. Okay, half a club out. We’ve left ourselves a long Well, it’s not that long, is it? Long put, but we are going up up up the slope and then it is actually down and away. So, could be a tricky spot, but it could also just be. Knock a long one in. Awful. Didn’t get it there at all. Left myself another tester. Let’s get a good read on this. Looks like a fraction of right to left. Not a lot. Shallow. Let’s have our wide stance. stable. Good save in the end. Really good nine in. I loved that shot. Did not love the first putt. Didn’t get it there at the hill, but I did love the five six footer there that I just held out. Shallow. Hit a beautiful putt in the center. Another par. Three holes to go. Level par. Seventh hole down to the last three holes of the nine. We are on our second par five and the last par five of the nine. I’ve got this one pegged down a little bit. I just happen to see a more of a low cut on this hole. Going to feed it up this tree line here to the left and let it turn to left to right which is actually going with the shape of the hole. So teed it down a little bit. Going to open up and just hang that face open a little bit. Okay, here we go. May have started that close to the trees than I wanted to, but it might look good. I don’t I’m not sure. 266 yards to go for my second shot. We’re in the fairway. Pin’s looking at me right there in a little gap and it is just screaming low bullet UDI straight at the pin. It’s just all I see please. Left a little bit. Oh, it’s just going to go into the greenside trap. Here’s a beautiful effort. Good shot. Greenside trap. Up and down for birdie. That’s what we’re looking at. We are shortsided in a bunker, but I think it’s doable. It was a very good shot in step in. Make the most of it. We need quite a bit of loft out of this. This is actually very much like a Lynx pot bunker. Height of it. That must be close, right? Good bunker shot. Left it in the perfect spot. Uphill, dead straight, three-footer. Very happy right now. Feel like we can take care of these and made the most of the par fives on this nine. Low bullet cut driver. UDI rocket. Beautiful pop bunker. Bunker shot. Roll the three-footer in. Birdie to go one under. 210 yards. Long par three. The pin’s just over there on the right side. I’m going to hit a stingy cut five iron right now. Going to work its way into the pin. Ah, just didn’t really cut. Middle of the green. I mean, it’s a pretty good shot. Pretty good shot. Middle of the green. Just didn’t quite get the shape. Having a good time working with these low ball flights. Trying to uh I mean, that one there, that’s a a right pin. I mean, imagine if you had the wind hard off the right there and it and you’d have to hit that low. You’d have to hit that cut shot holding against the wind, but actually probably start it right of the pin to then finish left like when you get the wind that strong. So, um, really having, you know, being able to practice those shapes and being in control of your club face is so important. And visually like shots like that, you know, having to start a ball that you think, you know, that you’re sort of fading hard, having to start right of a pin to then fall left. Um, it takes a like a a really good visual as well. Got to work on those. Up and over. See if we do a better job of the pace than we did last time. I actually got a really good visual of this putt. Up and over. All about the pace. Do it. Do it. Did say I had a good I had like a good line for it. What a two. 210 yards. Low bullet. Cut five five iron. Hit a put up and over. Barely even read that one. Actually made one. All right. Two. Two under one hole to play. Final hole. I’ve gone to the normal tea height now. Normal T- height stinger driver, which means it’s going to be a straighter flight almost falling left and carry a little further than that teed down one. There you go. We’ve got 146. A little bit of evening breeze against slight ups slope. I’m going to hit a little little low. Nice controlled eight iron to finish. Ah, leaked it. We leaked it. It’s on the green. Looks like it’s pin high. Just got a bit. Didn’t quite get the start line that I wanted to on that one, but controlled the flight nicely. And we are putting for a birdie. Final divot of the day. Done. See if we can finish with a putt. Okay. Left myself a slow uphill putt to finish. It does actually get away after the hole. We’re not worried about that because there’s a hole there to stop it. See if we can keep our eye in. Finish with another pot. What a That was a good putt. Thought I was going to finish with three birdies in a row. Wasn’t to be. Hit a great putt. Two under for nine holes. Stingers only. Thank you for watching. Please like and subscribe to Tailor Made YouTube channel below and head over to my channel as well to see more of how I’m preparing for the open.