This Simple Strategy Can SAVE YOUR ROUND (even when you hit it bad)

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What if you could slice every single shot… and still score in the 80s?
In this video, we we share a simple golf strategy that will save your rounds. My friend Scott, a high-handicap golfer, teams up with coach Will to prove that smart course management can save your round, even when your swing’s all over the place.

Instead of chasing perfect shots, Will demonstrates how to utilize strategy, target selection, and emotional control to convert bad swings into good scores.

From avoiding doubles to using the 100-yard rule, this round shows exactly how better thinking beats better ball striking.

If you’re tired of wasting good shots (and ruining rounds) with bad decisions, this is your blueprint for scoring smarter.

📈 What You’ll Learn:
-How to manage your misses and still score low
-Why you don’t need perfect contact to break 85
-Simple rules for safe targets and smart decisions
-How to control tension and emotions on the course
-The “100-yard mindset” that changes everything

00:00 – Intro & Premise: Coach Will’s “scoring method” for slicers; meet Scott (higher handicap).
01:18 – The Scoring Method: Goal 1 = get inside 100 yards in regulation; Goal 2 = get down in three.
02:05 – Hole 1 Strategy: Safe layup over risk; target selection and avoiding trouble.
04:16 – Aggressive Target vs Passive Swing: Why aiming too tight brings hazards into play.
05:33 – Short-Game Choices: Bring multiple clubs; choose the most comfortable option and commit.
07:12 – “Two-Putt Mindset”: In scoring zone, prioritize simple chip + two-putt to avoid blowups.
09:16 – Hole 2 Tee Plan: Driver with safe miss; reduce tension by allowing acceptable outcomes.
11:18 – Bunker to Scoring Zone: Take the checkmark first, then focus on getting down in three.
14:13 – Real-Golf Misses: Shank recovery, lag-putt focus; avoid spiraling after mistakes.
16:39 – Hole 3: Don’t go long/left; “good miss” concept; when putting from off-green beats a dicey chip.
22:51 – Par Save & Checkmarks: Two checkmarks = par; process over perfection.
24:34 – Tension & “Player B”: Target focus frees the swing; expectations management.
25:35 – Hole 4 Par-5: Smart tee and layup; use the tee box and intermediate targets.
29:33 – 100-Yard Decision: Gap vs PW; avoid short-right on front pins; play dispersion.
33:28 – Checkmarks over Score: Let the method guide choices, not the running total.
36:28 – Lag Putting Drill: Heads-up pace drill—eyes on hole, then react.
40:45 – Tough Par-3 Plan: Treat it like a par-4; aim short/right, splash out, two-putt bogey.
44:54 – Hole 6: Driver even with trees; just get inside 100, simple pitch over, wedge to green.
50:41 – Emotional over Mental: Play calm/competent; most issues are tension, not technique.
52:10 – 6-Hole Scorecard: +4 through six (pace for ~84); wrap-up and method recap.

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Even if you slice most of your drives and chunk a few of your iron shots, good core strategy can help you break 85 and shoot the scores that you want to. Today, Coach Will is going to show us exactly where to aim, what clubs to hit, and how to do all that. So, to help illustrate that, I went through my phone to find someone who might not hit it great every time. Scott, it’s good to have you here with us. Scott’s my highest handicap friend. And then I brought out coach Will to take us through the scoring method of let’s say Scott slices some. He might top one. Heck, he might even chunk one. Does course management matter still? Absolutely. Let’s go and get it. Now that’s what we want to see. A nice shankaronius right there. This is what you all want to see, isn’t it? Right. Real golf. Scott’s going to play this first hole as he normally would so Will can get a feel for his game before he starts coaching. Oh, look at that big slice. That’s pretty good. I would say it was about what 30 to 35 yards of movement on that one. It’s a bit of a slice. That’s a bit of a slice. It’s a bit of a slice. You hit it well, but very doable. All right. So, what we’re going to do today is I want to go ahead and explain to you the scoring method. So, there’s two parts. One is can I get to the 100 yard marker in regulation? So, regulation, two on a par four, three on a par five, one on a par three. Okay. So instead of trying to get on the green and put all the pressure on ourselves, all we’re trying to do is put ourselves in a position to be able to score. And then once we get into that, I’ll explain that second game here shortly. Sounds great. 300. 300. Yeah. All right. So you got 300 yards to the hole. So that is a number that doesn’t help us at all. What are you going to do? I’m going to hit a seven iron right now. And I’m going to hit it about halfway. Perfect. Let’s see it. All right. How far do you hit that seven iron? Uh like 160. Okay. He hit it well. Is it going to stay? Oh, yeah. All right. No issues in play. I like it. I like it. Off to a good start. So, nice safe layup. I like that you did that. It’s the first hole. We’re always talking to our players about, look, how do you how do you not bring a ton of risk in? Obviously, you had trouble on the left, bunkers on the right. No point in trying to get aggressive, right? So, as we said, our goal number one is get inside of 100 in three strokes on this hole. It’s par five. Okay. Goal number two is once we’re inside of there, can we get down in three? Now, most people are going to go, “Well, that’s a bogey.” But what we’re trying to show you is how to eliminate doubles, triples, quads, blow up holes, right? Got it. So, we all know if you want to make a birdie, just rip one down the middle, knock it on the green, and one putt. And you do that. And if you two putt, you make a par. What we’ve got to show with the scoring method is how do you get rid of blowup holes? Got it. Make sense? I wish all my shots went down the middle and when I won. This is a great one. You actually took the most risk by going right here instead of being let’s rip a fivewood over the top and have a shorter shot or let’s lay back short of the bunker. So, so often this is what amateurs do is they feel like I should play safe but then don’t realize that if we just hit it just what 15 yards over there in a bunker and 12 yards over there and we’re in a hazard. So, it’s not all about just taking seven iron off the tea. It’s about making the right strategic call on each shot. And and maybe you’re saying Scott’s probably never played the course. He has kind of a lack of course knowledge. He’s played here maybe a few hundred times. So, we’re just going to throw that. I’ve never seen the course before and I wondered to myself, why is he taking a seven iron when it brings all the trouble into play? So, I have two problems in real life golf right now, which is I lost a bunch of weight in the last year and I hit everything further than I mean to. You know what? I have two problems in golf. I put on a ton of weight this year and I actually hit it shorter than I used to. So, f you. All right. I got 130 to the flag. Nice. All right. Let’s see it. See a good shot in there. What club? What distance you play? I’m going to hit a nine iron. Goes how far? I hit this about 125. Okay, perfect. And what are you aiming? And I’m going to aim just to the right of the flag. What does just mean? Like 85 yards, right? Or Yeah, seriously. Uh, probably like 8 ft right of the flag. 8 ft right of the flag. So now you’re really going to know how far off my aim is, but we’ll try. Okay, so let’s just go ahead and talk about this, Scott. So that was picking an aggressive target. Okay? And then swinging passively to it. Okay? Right? Instead of picking a passive target and swinging aggressively at it. So, here’s the thing. You’re in the scoring zone. You get it. He gets a check mark. Way to go. We win it. But if you go left here, it’s absolutely dead. Yes. Absolutely dead. Your line there from 135 on the first hole is 140 yard club and try and play it to the back right hand corner of the green, 20 yards right of the flag stick to take the trouble out of play. Got it. But again, eight feet right of that flag. Craziness. Sure. We want that one. He’s going to go 8 ft right off a right to left slope and you if you go anywhere right or left, you’re absolutely dead. I’m So, aren’t you glad you came out today? The net result will be good, I think. But you see what we’re saying here, Ray? Yes. You took a serv iron and put a ton of risk into play and then you cannot go left. There’s a lost ball if you go left. If that ball kicks into the hazard, you’re not in the scoring zone in three. You get an X because you can’t play your next shot. Most amateurs play way too aggressively and bring way too much trouble into play. Now, what I’m really pleased about is you missed it a mile right and we’re in a perfect place to score, but you hit it what? 25 to 30 yards right of your target. Yep. Okay. What club you got? 56. 56. Once again, one of the biggest things that amateurs do. Walk from here over to there with one club. We’re going to grab your wedge. Those We’re going to grab a nine. The other thing I want to do is walk up here and I want you to see the hole first. Take a look at that hole right there. I mean, it’s pretty flat, right? So, even if it’s just anywhere withinstead of six feet would be a good shot from here, right? If you can think of 10%, that would be the goal. So, we’re probably what 30 30 paces away. So, if we could get this inside of three paces, which would be 9 ft. That would be a great shot from here. We’d be happy with that one. Okay. What you most comfortable with from here? So, it’s either a 56 that I put in the air a little bit and let it basically stop, or it’s a pitching wedge that I essentially Which would you do if you had to do it? You had 100 grand on the line and you’re in the you’re in the horse race and you’re nervous and you got five cameras and a bunch of people watching you pitching and witch and w. Okay, there you go. All right. Now remember, if he hadn’t grabbed that club, he’d be swinging that one anyway. Probably hit a bad one, then get super pissed off and realize he didn’t come back to grab a club. So small decisions like that though, isn’t it Cy that our amateurs make that they just haven’t been taught that stuff, right? Great committed shot right here. Let’s land it on there. If anything, we’ll go about six feet past. Sit. It right by the hole. Beautiful shot. Nicely done. Now, I love that because it’s confident it’s past the hole. What I don’t want to see is a shot that comes up and it was really nice. You hit a sand wedge right here and it and it stops 15 20 ft short. Even though yours is 15 ft by, it feels confident, right, to have that one roll by it. Yeah. So, again, you know what I’m saying, Cordies? Most amateurs have taken too much loft around the green and then they go ahead and leave things short. It always feels like never really giving it a go. Sometimes those shots like maybe you never hit that shot. you’re completely uncomfortable doing something like that. A lot of folks never practiced, never have trained that, and so like the thought of doing that just kind of freaks them out. Let’s walk through the two games we’ve played so far in this first hole. Yeah, so the first game was par five, about 500 yards. We had to go 400 yards in three shots. We did it. Okay, check mark on the scorecard. Well done. The game’s over. New game, chip on and two putt. Now, what are most people thinking? No, no, no. I I got to try and get up and down, put the pressure on on the first hole, make a big error, hit it into trouble, or three putt. So, all we’re looking to do here now is just two part. Just roll it down there with good pace. If it drops in, oh, great. But if not, easy tap in. We got our bogey deal. All right, let’s see it. No practice. Love it. Tap it on in. Okay, so what what do you say to all the people in the comments right now, Will, that are going like, “Ah, he was in the middle of the fairway 130 out, and he made a bogey.” How can you say that was good? Well, first and foremost, he hit a big power slice, which I love because it avoided the trouble. You were aiming eight feet. You were here and we ended up 30 yards over there. So, that’s a massive miss, right? For a 16, 15 handicap. 16 handicap. Okay. And then pitched on beautifully two putt. Great. You got through the first hole without ruining the round. How many times have you ruined a round of golf in the first three holes with a quad, then you get super upset and angry and frustrated. So, to me, it’s like brilliant. We’ve made a bogey. We’ve got two check marks. Let’s get on to the next. We’re building momentum. But, you know what I And every time you go to the green, bring it three or four clubs every single time. Now, if if I saw I was shortsided, I’m not bringing an eight time. I’m not an eight time. But if I’m longsided, I’m bringing it seven, eight, nine. If I’m shortsided, L sand wedge, gap wedge, you know, like every great golfer knows, walk up to the flag, take a look at where I’m going, you know, and like we said, go past that flag stick. There’s something about when it rolls past the hole, it just gives you that boost of confidence versus I left it short again, you know. Just I’m super curious with you. 53. Yes. So, you see the there’s a stream all the way around there that cuts out all that stuff. Yep. And then bunker’s over here on the right. Yep. So, what you going to do? I don’t know. I was hoping you were going to tell me what to do. No, I want to hear what you want to do. What I’d normally do is hit a driver. And the reason I’d hit a driver is because it’s probably as consistent as any club in my bag, which statistically everybody that’s not true. And we can prove that if we put him onto some form of technology, but I I like the comments. I totally believe that. How far do you carry driver? Like 220. So, all I want you to do is just smash it in that right bunker, right? And if you hit it good and it goes over, great. And if not, well, you’re to the right of it and we’ll again, we’ll just wedge down into 100 yards because we’ve only got to go, this hole is 353. We’ve only got 253 yards and we we I mean, you could if you wanted to. I mean, you could a hit it into that fairway. You could take a nine iron here, but I like driver get our driver warmed up and just make sure we keep it right of the white pole that’s out there. Sounds great. All right, let’s see it. Beautiful. Executing well. So, did you feel more free there because I told you it was okay to miss it? Yeah. Do you see what amateurs do? Amateurs stand on this tea and go, “There’s a tough hole. I’ve got to do this. I’ve got to get it right.” And then they top one in here or dock hook it versus you can go anywhere from the water literally over to the other fairway for all I care. So, you tension reduction skill set increase. It makes total sense. You’re a 16 handicap, which means it’s actually a power fight for you, right? Because you get a stroke. So even if you go in that bunker, wedge out. Wedge onto the green two putt and get out of here every single time. Don’t ruin Don’t start poorly. How do you start poorly? Play too aggressive. Y Okay. So what’s your handicap right now? 15.9 I believe is there. So 91 out here is a win to me. So all we need is 18 check marks into the scoring zone. Lose no golf balls. Just advance into the 100 yard marker every single time when you’re going to shoot I would say 85 to 87. I like that idea a lot. Okay. It just feels like you you have to kind of rethink things. Yeah, in terms of it’s okay to be a little right. Well, it’s okay to be a little off the off the the hole in regulation. For me, it’s like it’s wide open and again, all we got to do is take the water out of playing, you know, and the last hole, we cut it to the right. So, we know we’ve got a miss that can we can trust going out to the right and hopefully our ball will be somewhere down around here. So, exactly what we’re looking for. We’re in the bunker. This is fantastic. We have I need more people to tell me it’s fantastic that the ball’s in the bunker. We have 147 yards to the hole. So, we’ve got to go at least 50 yards to get into the scoring zone. Okay. Yes. So, I would aim just edge of the green, right? Just just left edge of the green. And what can you definitely get out of there comfortably? Take a couple clubs down with you. So, gap wedge, fishing wedge, sand wedge. For context, most people when they hit it in this bunker are crying and they’re very sad because they feel like this hole’s over for them. So Will’s demeanor about this is very interesting. I’m enjoying this fresh perspective. Okay, just got to keep it. We got to stay right at that flag. What club do we have? Pitching wedge. Beautiful. Well done. Stay short. Okay, good play. So again, you know, no intention of trying to hit the green because if we try and hit the green, now we’re going to try and hit a perfect shot. And what if we chunk it and what if we do this versus no, just make good contact, you had plenty of club to get over that lip. You know what I mean? And it’s like, okay, we’re in the scoring zone. Now, this is the important part. You need to put on the check on the scorecard right now because once you’ve done that, you feel like, okay, I got a check mark. Great. That game is now over. You got to get down in three now. Does that make sense? Otherwise, we Oh, I’m playing good. I might get a four. No, no. Who cares about the numbers? Get another check mark. Does that make sense? It does. I like it. If you were trying to shoot 66, it’s a different thing than 86, right? Yes. So, what we got to do is we just got to look at like just get myself in a position to have a decent par putt. And if I miss it, I get an easy bogey. How do you not freak yourself out and stress yourself out in the beginning of a round? You pick simpler shots. You avoid trouble. You allow the score to come to you. So, again, how many clubs are we going to grab? I’m going with four. Absolutely. And we know it’s going to be short, right? So, it’s probably going to be L wedge, S wedge, gap wedge, pitching wedge, you know, and the putter. Okay. So, again, first thing that I’m going to be looking at is I’m going to come over here and I’m going to survey the green, right? Little bit of slope here. Okay. So, it wouldn’t be too bad if you were past the hole, but maybe maybe right below the hole there is a nice uphill putt. Do you know what I’m saying? Okay. So, let’s come back, find our ball. So, again, I’m filling out the scorecard now on hole two. Check mark into the scoring zone two. Put a check mark in. Game’s over. Let’s go and get down in three. Great. Somewhere right around here. So, ball sitting down in the rough a little bit. Okay. So, look, all we got to do here, right, throw it up onto the green within 20 ft. Who cares? Two putt. Get out of here. So, take the pressure off because obviously sitting down a little bit, so it’s going to land and run. What club do you think? I’m going to hit a 56. Yep. I like it. What? How many paces onto the green, you think? I’m going to land it about two paces onto the green. Yeah. Two, three paces onto the green. Be nice and confident with it. Okay, now that’s what we want to see. A nice shankeronius right there. There we go. Well done, my son. No, no, don’t give me that. We’re on the green. Come on. Let’s twut and get out of here. Oh, now we’re having fun. Now we’re having fun. Now we’re having fun. But that’s the sort of thing that happens, isn’t it? Now you go into panic mode where I’m saying, “You’re here in three, two, let’s get out of here. Let’s get a second check mark.” Do do you see what I’m saying? There’s nothing we can do. We can’t hold on to that last shot. Okay, but guess what? We’re not in the bunker. We’re not over the green. So, now let’s go ahead and hit an amazing putt right here. This is what you all wanted to see, isn’t it? Right. Real golf, like the kind of stuff that we all do when we’re out on a golf course. I’m not quite sure this is the standard they were looking for, though. Maybe a little bit. What do you see here then? Where’s So, it’s uphill, then downhill. It’ll break to the right, and then at the very end, it’ll come back to the left. Just get the pace right. Right. What’s your line? What would you say overall? Like foot out, two foot out on the left. Yeah. Yep. That’s It’s about exactly. Okay. So, let’s get that pace. Everything I want to see is about pace. Don’t over love the drip read. Just get the pace right. It’s the last 3 ft of that ball just rolling up to the hole. Settle down. Settle. Settle. Settle. Settle. Settle. Settle. Settle. Settle. Settle. Very nice. Good job, Scott. How many practice warm-up putts did you take today? Zero. But, but that’s that’s normal, though, isn’t it? A lot of guys, you’re running straight to the first te. You’re running straight to the first te. You’re not getting a chance to practice the short the lag putting it. That’s that’s the way golf is sometimes. Doesn’t mean you can’t put a great roll on this putt and go ahead and knock this one in. What are you playing breakwise? About 6 in. Yep. I love it. Oh, baby. Knock it in. What a good try. Knock it in. Great roll. Okay. But I would say the big thing that we would want out of this actually honestly is I want you all to know that we’re actually playing this game. And so it’s not all just bogeies. But what will people say on that hole? Well, I made that bogey because I shanked the chip. No, no, no, no. Lag putting. This is where I always say lag putting is the key. Long putting into your one putt circle. That’s the key because it makes up for all the sins, right? You hit a beautiful putt, but here’s the deal. We just got down in four and we get an X on the scorecard. It’s a six. What we now have to do here, okay, so we had three putts is we have to leave that behind us, head to the next hole and go, now go and get me a check mark. Does that make sense? And not, oh, I should, could, would. Sure. I like it. Third hole, we have 390. So, we have to go 290 yards. Does that make sense? In two shots, minimum. Minimum 290. Obviously, we like to go more than that. Sure. All right. Where can you not go on this hole? Uh, short left. Yep. It’s really the only place. Left. Don’t go left. Left. So, now we can pick a nice aggressive target. What’s a sort of passive target and stay aggressive to it? What would you say? So, I would pick like probably this if you look at the bunker that’s dead center, I go just the bunker to the right of it. Yeah, the one in the distance like the very right corner to it. Yep. Absolutely. Almost towards that uh in between those two bunkers in the far distance. Split that down the middle. Yep. Let’s see it. Beautiful. Grip it and rip it, baby. Now, all of you admit it. Sometimes you rip one just like that. And he just nailed that. Good job. Look at that smile on his face. But but again, let’s think about the most important thing here. You’re playing without me cing for you right now in the scorecard. You’re coming off that hole. Son of a gun. I was right on the edge of the green. I just made a double. All negativity bringing the bad shots over. Correct. Yes. Tense on this Tro probably hit a bad shot. So most people turn blowup holes not into one blowup hole, but multiple blowup holes. So you got to clear the mind, take the pressure off, and rip it like that. I love it. So good. Love it. Absolute striped. All right, let’s get a yardage. 144. Okay, so one thing that we’re definitely not doing, Scott, is we’re not hitting this 45 yards. Fair. Does it make sense? It does. It’s get inside the 100 and you get a check mark. Obviously, the closer you get to the hole, the better, right? But you kind of have a lost ball. So, we got 144. Where can you absolutely not go on this hole? You’ve had some coaching from me now, so you know I’m going to tell you. Can’t go long and I can’t go left. Can’t go long. Can’t go left. So, we’re not going to aim eight ft right, are we? We’re going to aim at least 30 ft. Right. You see the rake in the bunker right here. Right over the top of that rake. And you said it’s what? 140. 144. 144. What do you hit that? Eight iron. Yep. Yep. An eight iron. Great. Okay. Nice. All right. Little thin, a little swipy. Little thin. Little slicy on the ground. But again, you know, to me, this is where amateurs are going to go, “Oh, I didn’t hit it good. I’m not happy.” It’s scoring, you guys. Is this the idea of like, am I in a position to score? Yes, I’m inside the ch check mark. This is what most people do is they hit a shot which I would call a good miss. Not a good shot. And good miss, which is it got over the bunker. It’s right of the trouble and we can play it. Yeah. If I said good shot, I’d just be like being a jack. You mean like you’d be like, I don’t trust you as a coach. But it was a good miss. Now we should find a ball. Look, pin high. Pin high with the flag. I mean, we can putt that one down to the hole. Do you get what I’m saying? So, it’s it’s just most people are just forcing themselves into bad golf because they’re pressured to try and hit perfect shots. That makes sense. So, let’s bring multiple clubs so you sort of feel, you know, whatever’s going to work best for you. Okay, we’ll grab the putter. So, let’s just come on down again. Remember, and people say, “Well, I’m going to waste time.” No, you waste time by making a seven. You don’t waste time by making a four. So, all amateur golfers don’t do this. And this is where they’ll, “Oh, I should I should hindsight. Oh, I should have w I didn’t know it was so far downhill. Okay. Well, we’re coming down here and looking and going, “Holy crumbs, this is downhill.” Now, look at the reads on the green. You wouldn’t have got that from back up there, but you can see all the reads which which people have hit on the sand. So, you’re seeing the break, right? So, now we’re coming up. So, what did that take us if we didn’t talk for that time? If you 15 seconds, but you get what I’m saying. You’re given the advantage. But most people the hindsight is, “Oh, I didn’t know it broke so much.” Well, if you’d have walked down there, you’d have seen it. Okay. What do you feel like? What do you think here? What’s your most confident? So, I’m going to hit a pitching wedge. Okay. And I’m going to put it up about six feet high and let it roll back down to the hole. Okay. So, what would you like me to do here, everybody? Would you like me to let him hit the shot that I think is wrong, or do you think I should coach him and tell him what shot to hit? Cuz if you hit a pitching wedge on a down slope, it’s going to run straight off the back of the green. So, no, no, no. You guys are You guys are picturing pitching wedge like like think of it like a putter stroke with a pitching wedge. How high is it going to go? So, I’m going to So, I mean, where you going to land it? Probably about 2 feet on right there. Hopefully. Yeah, it’s going to go off the green. Okay. I think. But maybe we’ll hit a second shot here. I would agree. Great. Cody made a face. Have you got a second ball? I haven’t. We’re going to get one. Now, now prove I’m being serious. Prove me wrong, please. Like, let’s stuff it in there and then we’ll hit a putter. Okay. But let’s take that wedge and again fully commit. Hit the shot you want to hit and get it down by the hole. And I want to be proved wrong. Okay, sounds good. Okay, beautiful. Wow. So, landed it landed it short of the green by a lot. Land it short of the green by Yes. Two or three yards. Still gone. Yeah. So, where would that have gone if you’d have landed on the green? Probably in the bunker. Well, not probably in the bunker, but it would have gone into the rough though, wouldn’t it? Okay. So, I mean, again, to me, my feeling here would be for after just hitting the chip you’ve just hit, you shanked it. You know what I mean? I mean like I think this just just for the fun of it, you know, just give it a whack up through here. No thinking. Three, two, one, just hit it. Come on at me. 3, two, one, bang it through here. Three, two, one, and smack it. Like to me, that’s just percentage-wise. You could do that blindfolded 10 times and it’s going to be close to the one that you hit. Does that make sense? The error is you just hit a bad chip off of a tight lie, hitting it over trouble, take the trouble out of play, keep it on the ground. Okay? Does that make sense? How do we reduce tension is we don’t do the thing that we just like struggled with last time. Yeah. But if you think for the record is part of the reason. Okay. Okay. But if you had a thick rough, you have no choice. You have to hit the shad. But I would say look at that one. It’s directly below the hole. But anyway, now make the putt on both of them and then you can just prove me wrong and I owe you a beer after the round. Take your time on this. You hit a beautiful putt on the last. Even if you miss it, guess what? You still get a check mark. So it’s it’s just putting a good roll on the ball right now. You don’t have to make it, you don’t have to add tension. Just going to put good pace on it. That’s what I want you to focus on. See, and that’s why you don’t need me because you should always hit pitching wedge when you need to, guys. I owe you a beer afterwards. Now, you got to go through routine and take your time on this one. But a beautiful par. So, two check marks, right? But but again, Cy, you know what I’m saying? If we did that 10 times, the percentage is going to be if you can putt it, putt it, right? Yeah. I mean, as soon as he said the shot, I mean, I’ve played this whole, you know, we played hundreds of times. I was like, and with me, no less. This is not going to end well. Full commitment to this one. Remember, doesn’t matter if you miss it. You just got to put a good roll on it. That’s the focus. Beautiful. This is good. It’s just an easy hold. But but but my thing is if we did it 10 times just honestly from four feet or three and a half to four feet you’re going to make that 90% of the time a downhill left to right slider that didn’t go in the bunker. Does it make sense? But again here’s the deal. We get two checks but guess what? We’re now even bogeies right? If you want to shoot 91 here even bogeies. We’re breathing. We’ve hit some good drives. We got some pace of the greens down. We’ve we haven’t started poorly. We’ve got a rhythm to it. Yep. Yep. I want to say quickly that I think a lot of people are going to say, “I think that putter is just as difficult as the wedge.” And something you’ve you’ve taught me is to test it, right? As get get out here, get on the practice range and take 10 balls, take five balls and go test it yourself and see where you stack up. But if we do the video today, you’ll see you’re lining up your putts. You’re very precise and I love it. I forced him to go as quick as he could and he still hit it to four feet. So, do you get my point is it had to be easier by just looking and reacting. If you’re if you’re a six handicap, absolutely chip that. But if you were 16 after you just shanked one, it’s probably not a good idea. Does that make sense? Is that right? Is that wrong? That was a par four. We took two to get into the scoring zone. Check mark. We took two to get down. Check mark. Made a four. And we had one putt. Brilliant. I like that one better than the last one. Yeah. But you see how you’ve you’ve you’re working your way into a round now. Yeah. You got four cameramen out here. You got two professionals out here at a tough golf course, but you’re feeling a lot more relaxed, right? Yes. 100%. That’s what we’re trying to do is is is teach people to reduce tension. And when they think technique instead of target, right? That’s when they struggle because technique is left side of the brain, the logical, the thinking side of the brain. Whereas player B, the second ball pro, what do they do? They just look and react and go, I’ve already hit it in the crap. Whoosh. And rip one down the middle. Why would that be? Because you’ve reduced the expectations. You’ve reduced the tension. That makes sense. Okay. So, we’re down one, we’re down two, we’re down three. We’re on the fourth hole. We have another par five. We’ve got 523 right here. 523. All right. What do you do here? I’m going to hit a driver. Love it. I’m going to aim. I mean, essentially, it’s Do you see the peninsula that kicks out of it? That’s where I’m going to aim. Yep. Perfect. Yep. Absolutely love that. I love that he’s up on the right hand side. He actually knows to go down, which is good. Yeah, love it. Good swing. Nice play. So, what what I just said there was I was really pleased that you’re on that side of the T- box cuz it forces you down that left side because you can so easily stand here, aim down the middle, and then leak one hard right and be in that bunker. And again, we can still get in the scoring zone, but now it’s just more difficult. You’re 75 yards shorter further back. So, I love that you’re using the T- box the right way. How do you feel that like you’ve hit like what you would probably say are bad shots, but Will’s gone like, “All right, that’s good. Let’s go.” Well, think about I mean the my shank over there on two and stuff like that. Yeah, 100%. And I still I mean that’s different, isn’t it? It is different. And also like I was saying this to Will, but a lot of us play once or twice or maybe we’re lucky three times a month and then we expect to play well and we put all this pressure on ourselves. Well, that’s not how it works. Yeah. All right. Here we go. All right. Where can you not go? I can’t go in the bunkers. Which bunkers? Which which is the bunker you definitely don’t want to go in? I don’t want to go on the bunker on the right. Correct. Yeah. So, you want to aim at the bunker on the left. Correct. Yes. It cuts down immediately. So, 160 165 to the end of the fairway out of the rough. So, what’s your target going to be? But right edge of the left bunker. Uh middle of the bunker. Into the bunker. Yeah, cuz that’s this rough. I mean, if you go down the left a little bit, that’s fine. But I would just go right down the there’s two Christmas trees in the distance. Split those two. I think I agree going long is not is not the play here for for Scott. No. Um, but he has to stay short. He cannot go long. But now stay committed to this goal shot. Do you know what I’m saying? Stay committed to that shot. So I would say pick a club that you can swing aggressively. I think a lot of times with a layup like this, you might say like I’ll just kind of chop one down. Yeah. So yeah, hit one that you can rip. So pick a good target. Hit it straight through Luke’s legs right there. Yeah, it’s a brave man right there. Put a good committed swing to it. We got a passive target. Stay committed. Beautiful. Really good. Now, now one of the things though is that I will say there is Cer, you saw I don’t know if you saw it, right? But you set up cuz we were kind of joking around and you set up and you were aiming at the right bunker. Now, what would happen is with athletic ability is our our bodies will be like, well, this isn’t right. And we’ll try and auto correct and then we might who knows where it’s going to go. But that’s the big thing is that when I’m picking something, you’ve got to have that intermediate target cuz you can’t aim all the way out there with a rifle. You’re looking at the end of the rifle. So, you’re trying to put something like I’ve got to go over this to avoid that. See, I do that with a putter a lot, but I’ve never thought about it with a like an iron in the middle, you know? 100%. Got to stay on that target. It’s a nice shot, right? Yeah. Stripey. Now, you know what? People are going to say, “Oh, but he’s a much better ball striker than he.” But my thing is, how much looser are you right now than the first few the first hole? Considerably. Other than my friends with the cameras, I’m doing great. Yeah. Here’s here’s the deal, though. This is a high pressure sit. When I play golf on camera like this, it kind of sucks, right? screw up and shank it and all that stuff. So, this is a pressure situation. He’s hitting it really well, but he’s coached. You’re coaching them along to take the pressure down. You’re like, just hit it over there and you can. It doesn’t matter. And that’s why we’re saying is everybody the scoring method is the coach, not me. This is the caddy. It’s giving you foresight. Hey, this is what you’ve got to do. How do I get a check mark? Okay, I got to go 420 yards on this hole, right? Let’s get out there and do it. So, you need to be a better caddy, which is a scoring IQ, which allows you to play better golf. Makes sense. Makes a lot of sense. People are going to say, “Oh, he’s a much better ball striker.” But it’s like the whole thing is is trying to get loosened up, trying to free yourself up. All right. So, let’s go ahead and pick a laser. Okay. Got a friend in there. He just climbed in your shirt, I think. Is it now? I think I got him. Oh, I thought it was a No, you’re good. It was just Okay, so we have That was serious. I could have just lost my life there, guys. That could have like literally been a velociraptor or a crocodile. Okay, so we have 88 to the front. Okay, we got a 100 flag and we got 118 back. So sometimes what people do is they get freaked out. Oh, 100 that’s in between my my club’s 90 and 110. No, no. We’ve got a club where if you hit it 105 yards or 110 yards long left. So if we pick that flag stick up right now and move it back, see where the dead tree is? Yeah. Aiming at that dead tree. And we’re going to play our like what’s your 110 club? Uh like a 50 degree. 50 degree. Okay, perfect. What’s your 100 yard club? Uh that’s probably the same. Okay. What’s your 120 club? Pitching wedge. Pitching wedge. Okay. Can we do a double shot here because it’ll show people. Okay. So, I want you to take your gap witch for me. Okay. Hit a great one of those. Now, come sneak over here cuz he can’t hear this. Yes. Come on. Hit a good one. Hit a good one. I would prefer to see him hit down a little tra there’s a little bit of wind into us. I prefer to see a trapped little pitching wedge lower flight. big lesser of miss. He can hit a full one of those, but I would just be You can’t. So, the thing with this is you can’t go short here, which is Oh, the gap wedges up. The gap wedge is actually really really good. Oh, stay there. Stay that. Very nice. Okay. Now, but but here’s my piece about that. How good did you hit that? You hit that really really good. Right. If you’d have hit that a touch heavy, there’s no way that that’s getting there. So, what I would like to see is a just a little bit more of a a 3/4 controlled relaxed golf swing that’s still going to get past the flag stick because if like I said, if you have to hit it really good and you’re not at the flag stick, I don’t think you’ve taken the right club. So, to me is we’re going to take exact same thing. Nice control here. And again, how far does this club go pitching? Would you hit it full? About 120. Beautiful. So, you can hit it almost completely full. Okay. Okay. Try and get it past the flag stick for me. And I’m still picking the same line that absolutely that same tree. Absolutely love it. So, this is one of those I think for me is a really hard like tactical thing here of a front pin like this. I much prefer much prefer that. Okay? Because here’s why amateur golfers miss it short right. Okay? They miss it short right. So, think of this. You you’ve got let’s just say that this is this is your hole right here. Okay? This is this is the green all around here and that’s where the flag is. If you hit a 100 shots right here, 70 of them are going to end up short right. So if that’s the flag, this is where you should be going for. Whereas if you aim towards the flag with a 50° and slightly miss it, where are you? You’re short of the green with a front pin, which now means you’re shortsided and you’re struggling. So to me is it’s little things like this that you pulled off a nice one, but the point is when you do it 10 times, this is going to win. Just like the putt on the last hole, we got to start to play the dispersion, which is most amateurs, almost 99% of amateurs, it’s short right, short right, short right. So play long left consistently. Like this is a situation where you can really get trapped because this is short side is not good%. This is triple city. Triple city right here. Right. But it’s so easy to say zap the the pin. It was 100, right? Just like all right, I got to hit 100. But no, you can’t. I’ve got 120 to the back. I got 120 to the back. I could hit even if I flush that one, I’m on the back fringe. Okay, you got a 40 foot putt. You’re better off than that than being in the front right bunker. Or even just off the green on this side, I’d be in trouble. So now though, the hardest part is not getting frustrated when you walk up there and you are a bit long with that one cuz so often you’re you get like I should have played it shorter cuz I hit it long. Now you have to be you have to like understand like no, I did the right shot and be confident in that decision. Okay, so let’s take a look. Three into the scoring zone. Check mark. Boom. Game’s over. We’re not going to look at score anymore. We’re looking at the check marks. The scores freak us out. If you if you were one under par right now, you’d be freaked out. If you were seven over, you’d be pissed off. It doesn’t help. We need check marks to to make our decisions, not numbers. All right. I love it. Let’s do it. Yeah. So, I love how you flush that, you know, that that’s that sand wedge. Sorry, the gap wedge you bit, you know, I mean, you you called it a groove low, but I mean, you it was perfect. Point is, that’s as good as you could have done with it, and anything else would have just spun off the green or come up short. So, it’s that idea of like, and again, it’s a good shot, but the one that’s going to be a little bit long, that’s the percentage play over and over and over again, right? 100%. So, here’s what we’ll do. We’ve got your ball. We’re going to play the first one. So, as we as we look at these again, think of the dispersion. This is where you were aiming right here. This is where you were aiming for both of them. For both of them. Right. And again, they’re, you know, it’s right here. But it’s again, it’s a 30 foot, maybe 35 foot part. You’d be happy with that, right? I would. So, let’s just look where. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Where would you have been if you’d have been aiming about here? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Get my point? Short-sided bunker shot, right? All right, let’s come up here. Take a look at this putt. Look at the read on it. So, this is the second ball. This is the pitching wedge. This is his actual ball, but this is the pitching wedge we hit. We’re going to go ahead and put them both out. Just I usually putt from 7 ft for birdie on every time. This is just my normal consistently, obviously. All right. Pace, pace, pace. Don’t fall in love with the line. Get the pace right. Roll it up here. Get it nice and close. Beautiful roll. Sit. Good line. Okay. All right. Let’s finish this one out because this is this is the second shot, right? Again, what I’d be saying here, people is like, “Oh, well, this is why you’ve got to be honestly, you’ve got to be like a three handicap bag putter because then you can just knock it up by the hole yet. Go through your whole routine. Line it up. I know you got a birdie on your ball, but I still want you to make a par on mine.” But, you get what I’m saying here? It’s like amateur golfers, if you’re if you’re a 15, 18, 20 handicap, I need you to learn how to become a two handicap on lag putting on pace. I think it’s one specific skill that you can pull out and practice and get so one of the most under practiced under practice and saves you the most strokes. Exactly 100%. Let’s do this. I want you to focus on this. You got to make this one and you got to miss that next one. So, I’m right. What’s your line on this one? Uh, I’m about there. Yeah. Okay. Come on. Put that amazing roll on it like you did on the last. Yeah. I just played a little bit too much break. Okay. Now, tap it in. Okay. Now, everyone’s going to say, “Oh, you made a bogey.” A bogey. Yeah, but the whole point is a bogey. I don’t mind a bogey. Right. But the way you would improve in your improvement plan would be I got to teach you how to lag put eyes on the hole and get And this is why you keep hearing me say you’ve got the line on the ball so you don’t have to think about it anymore. Pace, pace, pace, pace, and more pace. Right. Now, here’s your birdie putt. All right. Tap it in. All right. Okay. Nice five. Give us the how do I become a three leg putt handicap in 60 seconds. Yeah. Go back down there. Throw two balls on the ground. Okay. Okay. So, the biggest thing is you got to get more target orientated and stop worrying about the stroke and start looking at the pace. Okay. Set up. Set up to the golf ball. Get ready to hit it with no line on it or anything. Just set up to hit it. Okay. Okay. Get ready to hit it. Put your eyes on the hole. Put your eyes on the hole. And now keep your eyes there and go look and react. Okay. Good. And now set up to the next one. Put your eyes on the hole. Leave your eyes on the hole. Now look and react. Pass them back to me, boys. Pass them back to me. Here you go. So, all you’re going to do is look and react. Just keep going. We’re going to hit 10 putts. Okay. Just go. Three, two, It’s three throw. Go. You’re an athlete. Go look at the target. Keep on. No, no, no. Just go. Just go at the target. Good. It’s basketball. It’s a lot easier. Look at this. Eyes on the target. Go. Look and react. I don’t want you thinking. I want you feeling reacting. Eyes on the hole. Look at the very back of it. Just like you were throwing it, throwing to a pitcher’s mitt, right? Back of a back board of a basketball. Look and react. Okay, passing back to us. This is the best drill that I can tell you to get out of thinking and start feeling the distance more, right? You’re you’re going to start going past the hole once you free up. You’re just tight over, you know, I mean, shorter putts you’re good on, the longer putts you’re a little tight on. You guide it quite a lot. Eyes on the hole and react. Good. You see how the freedom starting to come in right there? Yeah. Okay. Eyes on the hole, react. Go on. Before that ball comes in. There you go. Good. You have a lot of tension over putting because you’re trying to get a good stroke. What I want you to think of, look, if I was pitching a ball to you, you’d be down like this and I’m looking at that glove. If I’m throwing a basketball, I’m never doing this, right? I’m looking here. I’m looking here. So, I want you to look and react on the shot. So, now what that would look like is as you come into the putting stroke, come stand here. I’d want to see this. Eyes on the hole. Eyes on the hole. Eyes on the hole. Okay, that’s where it’s going to go. That’s where it’s going to go. That’s where it’s going to go. Eyes on the ball. Eyes back on the hole. Eyes on the hole. Back on the ball. And go. So 90% of my time was target focused. Whereas we are 90% of the time, which is great for a short putt, it’s all focused on line. Lag putt, it’s all focused on pace. Okay? So do a rehearsal, three or four rehearsals, looking at the hole, eyes on the hole, back and forth, back and forth. Is it too much? Too little. Back. Too much. Too little. Too much. Too little. Too much. Too little. Then put it in behind the ball. Set up on the hole. Eyes come back on the ball. And go. Good. Do you see how much more confident you are on those? Nice free. So that’s what I want to see as you as you get more used to pace. Talk us through that drill. How did you feel going through that? Super awkward. I think again maybe it’s just the psychology of me or whatever, but I don’t want to look like an idiot. So there’s a ball down here and I’m not looking at it and I’m about to hit the ball and there’s a chance that nine people on cameras are about to see me whiff on the ball together is what I had to get over the first few times. And then after that, I mean, it it’s a lot easier than your buddy going, “Hey, don’t look at the hole or only look at the hole.” When you have somebody who knows what they’re doing, it suddenly makes it a little easier to trust. And then by the end of it, I felt like I I mean, the last six were all pretty good putts that I would have made that next put freed up, though, right? Cuz before it was very guiding. Your stroke changed. Your stroke changed 100%. Yeah, those two. Yeah, those two you just hit at the end there were a little bit different, too. Yeah, that was good. It was good. So, take a look here. So, this hole right here. Okay, we got a three entering the scoring zone. You had two putts, made a five and two, and you missed a 10-footer. Now, even at worst, you knocked it past and I would have still made a bogey, but again, nice par on your ball. All right, so heads up putting has actually been studied. Our friend Dr. Sasha McKenzie has done a study on heads up putting for leg putting it. He proved out it’s a better way to hit leg putts. So, whether it’s in practice or actually when you play, try heads-up putting. But you know you and you’re seeing just the percentage plays of what you start to look at is amateurs don’t realize like if you if you picked up the hundred shots you’d see the dispersion pattern and go like let’s just say you were shooting a 100 shots with a gun and a 100 times you were you were low right you’d change the scope or you’d aim high left you wouldn’t just be like well I just don’t know what to do like no that’s it beast of a par three meaty right so Scott for 195 yard hole. Beast of a hole. So, this is for context. Like, this is the double bogey hole. This is the double boge. I don’t know any other hole that you’re more likely to make a five or six. But here’s my deal. If I told you if this was a par four, how excited would you be? Ecstatic. Right. So, it is a par four, right? Because let’s see. Congratulations. True. Well, it it’s stroke index nine. Yep. And you’re a 16 handicap, which means if you make a four, it becomes a net three. So, it’s a par four. So, what can we hit that you feel super comfortable with short of the green? Bump it up on the green. Dup get the hole out of here. Yeah. There there’s a really good way to play this hole. It’s called you play it short and right. Yeah. And that nice area four. Yeah. I mean that is the way to play the hole. Like what what have we got to the front of the green? What do we got flag? So 195 flag. 170 front. Yep. 195 flag. What’s your favorite club about that 175 180 mark? Uh I’m going to hit It’s a hybrid. Do you like it? Uh I’d rather hit a 6i. Perfect. 69. Let’s leave it short of the green. That was a good question. Well, because you saw that usually that means that’s not the club I want to hit, right? That’s true. So, my thing would be taking dead aim at the flag, leaving it short, and playing this because again, this is the double bogey hole. Pick that intermediate target for me. So, we got to go right over the middle of the st. Right in the middle of this divot, just like the last hole, you put a beautiful swing on it and just set up and just let it go. Beautiful. Nice shot. Good play. So, this is what people will do. I’ll aim down the right and then be like, “Oh, I’ve got plenty of space.” And then then weak swing it and hit it 40 yards right at their target. And I’m like, “No, no, passive target, aggressive golf swing.” So that’s why I put you just back in the middle cuz I’m like, I don’t care if you go in that front left bunker. We’ll chunk it chunk it out, smash it out onto the green, roll it on. But what I didn’t want you to do is, you know, 40 yards right into the junk over there. And it’s still playable, but it’s like I wanted you be to more committed to you’re hitting it hitting it solid. So let’s just let’s play the shot that’s needed. Sure. Okay. Okay, let’s go up onto the green. We are not trying to get it back to that flag stick. It’s too much of a risk. All we’re going to do is we’re going to try and land it up in here and it will roll out and it probably ends up about here. And if it rolls out more, that’s great, too. But we’re not trying to pick it or do anything perfect. We’re just trying to hit a shot just as if I I shuck the flag right here. Let it land. Go from there. Okay, sounds good. Again, aiming left to the flag. I want you five yards left of that flag. Splashing it out onto the front of the green. splashing the sand onto the front of the green. Very nice. Well done. So, do you see what I’m saying is is that those longer shots are where people are going to try and get a little bit like I’m going to hit a great shot and thin it straight back into the junk. So, this was literally splash the ball up onto the green, run it out. I mean, my miss here is over the green by Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, you’ve lost your golf ball. You’re making double if not triple. This is not my favorite shot by any means, but it’s certainly not my favorite shot either. Okay, remember we’re just looking to lag this up. Foot past the hole. Tap in. Get out of here. Right. Very nice. Well done. And so this is why I’m saying it doesn’t matter about the read cuz let’s pretend it was a foot right or a foot left and you pulled it a foot left or push it a foot right. It’s still a foot from the hole. So take your time, knock it on in. Nicely done. Now that’s the scoring method right there. Does it make sense? Yes. Never. And again, I mean, if you’d have hit a six, if we would have aimed a little bit right, it may have actually got on the front edge, but we’re still not trying to get it down in two. Just trying to make a bogey. Get out of here on a path three that’s inside the hardest half nine holes on the course is a hard path three. Cuz usually par threes are 18, 17, 16, and 15 for easy hardest holes on the course. You know, you can find this hole at your course. And you can say like, all right, this is the double bogey hole. We’ve watched so many people here hit it in this creek, make double, hit it in this bunker over here, leave it in the bunker, and then blade it over the creek, right? And so, you know what? Instead of saying this, it’s a bad shot if I leave it short right. Maybe that’s the perfect shot if you leave it short right, you know? Yeah. And then don’t try and hear a shot. Just chunk it out of the bunker and roll two putt. Get out of here. Which is why you got to work on your lag putting, your long putting, because you could roll that six feet by and make a bow double, and it’s like, oh well, I should have gone for the green. No, you should be a better length putter. You know, you got to work on your long long putts. So, here we are on the sixth hole. But again, now again, I’ve said it again. We’re working our way into the round. We’re building on successes. We’re gaining more confidence. Playing the same ball. Playing the same ball. Love it. Love that. Right. Okay. So, par four. Lots of trouble on the right. Okay. 377. So, we got to go 277 to get inside the scoring zone. As for again, that’s level one, everybody. And we’re not going to dive into it too much today, but the point being is that this is first gear. Get inside of 100. Sure. Now, as we go, we advance and try and get inside of 50 for level two, 25 for level three, green regulation for level four. So, there’s there’s other steps to it, everybody, but what you got to do fundamentally first, Cory, right, is just learn the basic method and go through the system. So, what’s your target here? The the two gigantic pine trees that are off to the left where that gap is, the gap between that. Yeah, I like that. Now again, do you care if you hit it in the bunker on the right? I would like not to. Doesn’t matter though, does it? It doesn’t cuz it’s 377 going to go 277. This is going to go 220. So if you hit it in one of the bunkers on the right, you can just pitching wedge out. You’re inside the scoring. So So don’t try and hit a great drive because I can’t go in the bunkers on the right. Be like, “Oh no, if I hit it in between those trees, great. But if it fades to the right and goes in the bunker, great. I’m in the bunker. I’ll pitch out still.” Do you mean that makes a ton of sense? I never thought about that. We need to stop the video because you haven’t told him to put his driver away yet. And I thought that’s what the scoring method was is you’re supposed to hit seven iron, seven iron the whole way around. And he’s hitting still hitting his driver. Driver’s been in play. Haven’t lost a golf ball, right? Putting it in play. So your goal is get it as far down as you possibly can. If I’m seeing this thing going in the junk on the first hole, it’s hybrid off every T- box. So you you got to all play to your standard when you know your dispersion with this is decent. So no, absolutely play yourself into the scoring zone. I think that’s the thing that people need to realize is like absolutely you’re saying you need to keep the ball in play. Scott has kept the ball in play today. Yeah. like and hit this. Well, even though you’ve hit you’ve hit a few slices, you’ve hit no pressure. Now, all he’s done in front of two cameras, 1 2 3 four five other people, right? You see the house in between those two houses, just put a good rip into it and know that it’s okay. If it if the wind takes it and leaks into the right, great. We can still get another check mark. All we’re looking for on that last hole, we got our check and we got our check. We hit into one, we were down in three, made our four with two putts. All we’re looking for is to get inside the the scoring zone. Okay, great. Okay, beautiful. Okay, right down the left hand side. Nice play. I mean, he’ll be blocked out by trees. But I won’t be blocked out inside 100. That’s my point. That’s what I’m saying. That’s my point. That’s That’s the difference, right? Even like the peace of mind, even knowing where that ball was going to end up cuz as soon as I hit it, I saw it. Yeah. Even not being ticked off about it while it was in the air because I reminded myself my next shot is to go inside 100. Well, exactly. And the thing is is like what I would say is most people are told green and red. Yeah. For a tour player a tour player they do it 12 and a half times around with a n iron. 12 and a half times around. They average a 99 told they do it 12 and a half times around. And here we are telling amateurs green in regulation. It’s like saying go to the top of a double black diamond and have a fun fun day skiing. You’re going to be miserable. Do you know what I’m saying? Struggling like all hell. Me personally nearest point of relief is right here. You can get one club length from here. So somewhere in here. And we’re just going to hit a sandwich over the top of the trees, right? Yeah, you’re right. Go ahead. Set up. Have your shot. Hit down and through it. Good. There we go. Pitch out just fine. Right. So, do you mean like even though yes, we’re blocked out and you think it’s bad, the whole point is just sand wedge over the top. There’s no point in trying to take a gap wedge or a pitching wedge and try and for cuz what? You’re gonna be 82 instead of 99 or 64 instead of 83. There’s only one thing that matters here and it’s getting over the tree. Doesn’t matter about the distance. You know what I’m saying? We got orange flashing light. I think we’re not going to make it. Let’s bring through, you know, sand wedge, lob wedge, uh, putter gap kind of thing. Yep. But what people will try and do is let’s cut it around the corner because once every 10 times I can do it compared to just play it to the 100, wedge it on two and get the hell out of here. Do you know what I mean? So it’s like just keep it simple. You got to choose your commitment level. Like are you going to commit to playing the game? Yeah. How it should be played or are you going to try to force the issue and like kind of fudge it? Such a good point because so many people will do this. They’re like, “Well, I played amazing on the front nine and then I start to play a little bit more aggressive and shot 50 on the back.” I’m like, “But no, you didn’t follow the the system. The system. The system. Follow the method.” Right. So, we’ve got 87. So, uh, what are we thinking? I’m going to hit a 52. Well, we’re down. 52. 52. Yeah. What? Uh, how far do you hit? 52. Uh, I hit it about 75 yards. Love that. Perfect. Cuz remember, we don’t need to get back to that flag. We’re going to be short. Yeah. I don’t care if I’m if if we’re 30 ft short of that flag. Two putt. Get out of here. Easy. Simple, right? It’s playing 80. No more than 80. So, I love that club. Okay. Going to just aim a little bit left of the flag stick. Luke is committed. Yeah, he’s getting every shot. Committed. It’s right there. All right. So, yep. I like the intermittent target. We’re doing target intermediate. I love it. Beautiful. You got to be kidding me. I zoom in on that. Who can zoom in on that? Can you zoom in on that and see that? But do you see what I’m saying? Is we could have played a seven iron. We could be in the junk. We could be a lost golf ball. We might be four feet from the hole, but more likely than not, stressed out, energy, freaked out. Instead, you’ve pitched it on there and we actually have a putt for par. All right, let’s go and do it. What tends to be the case for most people is they come to me and they see say we’ll have a technique problem. And I tell them, I don’t think you do. I think you have a tension problem. Because you can do it on the range, you can do it in the lesson. You can do it and no one’s watching on a Thursday night, but on a Saturday it doesn’t show up. And so really the solution is is realizing it’s not. And then what people will say is, “Oh, game the game of golf is mental.” It’s not mental. It’s emotional. Most people are anxious, tight, nervous, angry, frustrated. Those aren’t thoughts. Those are emotions. Those are feelings. Right? So, what are we trying to do in a round of golf? Just allow ourselves to get down into that sort of 60% calm, relaxed, confident, but also competent. I can do that. I can hit a sandwich over that tree. I can hit a driver down the left side of the fairway. So then we start to make those swings, those player B swings, and we go, “Oh god, look at that. How good did I hit that shot?” You know, I mean, what a beautiful shot right there. So that’s really the whole concept behind this is we’re getting you in the right emotional state to play the game of golf. Not the right mental state, the right emotional state, which is I’m not taking a ton of risk. I’m not freaking out over golf shots. I’m not getting angry. I’m not getting excited. Just playing the game. I know a lot of people that if they would just do this, they’d be a lot more fun to play with. I can tell you that. I’ve lost my pencil. No one’s going to believe it if that goes in. Okay. Thank goodness. Tap that one in. I didn’t want that one to go in. Everyone’s like, “Oh, they faked it.” And they did a bunch of shots to do this. Yeah. All right. Who’s got a pencil on him? For some reason, I must have left it in the car. I think we got a pencil. N. All right. Get you one. Hold on, Scott. That was a pleasure, my friend. Really enjoyed it. Isn’t that great? Yeah. Isn’t that good? Even with all these guys, it was still I was going to say all the pressure of that. Right. So, let’s take a look at the scorecard through six holes. Cina. Yeah. All right. So, let’s just take a look right here. Par four. Check mark. Even though we went way left, wedged over the green. Check mark down in three for a five with two putts. So, we were one over, two over, two over, two over, three over, four over. Right. Now, if that’s six holes, if we times it by three, it’s 12 over, right? Yeah. Pass 72. Yeah. Okay. Plus 12. Is that 84? Yes, it is. Yeah. So, you’re on track right now to play 84. And your goal was 91. And I’m not saying you you’re going to play like this for the rest of it. But you get what I’m saying is by being more passive, by being more patient, by taking trouble out of play, by relying on lag putting, by allowing yourself to miss in the right areas. Here you are sitting at four over through six with two cameras and one, two, three, four carts, five, six, seven people watching. You also though never told me like you let me be aggressive at the shot I took too. Like as we talked about it, it wasn’t you. Your target made sense to be a little bit more passive, but I still got it was still full swings. I got to be aggressive at those shots. It still was super fun. Yep. I felt I mean as much as these guys maybe suck a little of the fun out of it. Sorry guys. No, it’s still like it it it was still was relaxed. It was really fun. I had a blast today playing in front of you guys. That’s a comment that we’ve gotten from on these benches like smart golf is boring. Like do you think this was boring? I think I don’t know if it’s boring or not but I think looking for my ball out of bounds that way and that way sucks and I don’t want to do that. So if I can remove that plus not only that I put it for par on almost every hole today. I don’t know how that’s possibly boring. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. At least for me. It’s a lot of fun. And I think one of the things I would say to all of you, look, this is a crash course in the scoring method. Cordi, what do they need to do if they really want to take this serious? Well, there’s a whole method, right? You can go through and learn the whole scoring method. You’ve taught it all in detail whether you’re a 16 or you’re trying to break par, this can apply to help you reach your goal there. But like this was this was such a good example of how you can lower tension and lower pressure and how when you have a caddy and a coach and you have foresight, which we can replace you with the scorecard. I’m sorry to say. No, but that’s exactly what you want. Well, most most people say, “Oh, so they’re pro. Oh, I was on the 13th hole and I wish you were there.” Well, now you’re dependent on your pro. You should be independent on your pro. You should take that card and be like, “Look, that’s what’s going to teach you. Get me another check mark, go to seven, and off you go.” Do you know what I’m saying? cuz that is really the truth is you need to have the caddy coach out on the golf course with you. This is great. Scott, Will, thank you for coming. All of you, thank you for commenting saying that you needed to see a high handicap do this cuz this made it all happen. This was great. So much fun, guys. Good times. Thanks, boys. Pleasure. We’re doing handshakes. And I’m now going hair and makeup. [Music]