Stop dreading those drizzly days. Most frustrated golfers make the same 5 simple mistakes when the course is wet, which kills their distance and consistency. It’s not about swinging harder; it’s about simple physics and smart adaptations.
I braved the elements to give you the honest, practical fixes you need—from how to get stability off the tee with your driver, to clubbing up with your irons, and managing the deadly flyer lie in wet rough. You don’t have to overthink it; you just need simple adaptations.
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0:00 – Introduction: Why wet weather is costing you shots
1:30 – Rule 1: Driver Stability Fix (The Wide Stance Secret)
4:15 – Rule 2: Iron Play (Club Up & Grip Down for Clean Contact)
6:55 – Rule 3: Rough Chipping (The Roll-Out Adjustment)
9:05 – Rule 4: Rough Iron Shot (Understanding The Flyer Lie)
12:40 – Rule 5: Pitching (Consistency with The Landing Zone Hack)
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I wager you are a fair weather golfer. I am a fair weather golfer. I keep playing. I don’t think the heavy shift’s gonna be out for quite a while. And you might think, well, you’re from England. There’s a reason why I left and the weather is just one of those. However, there’s times when we either have to play or we want to play when it’s raining, drizzling, or after it’s rain, when the ground’s a bit wet and the ball and the club interact differently. how it affects your swing and your ball striking is quite profound and most people just do not accept that and allow for some of those differences. So, I thought, you know what? I’m going to brave the elements and I’m going to come out and give you just a few little tips that you can use from the driver all the way up to the green. Let’s get into it. First up, we’re dealing with the driver. Now, obviously, there’s the issue of grip slipping, things like that. That’s kind of obvious. What I wanted to talk about was how it’s actually going to affect your feet and how we need to basically make sure that we have stability and that grip and understanding that when those feet slip just a little bit, we don’t want it to be like Scotty Sheffller. We just need a little bit more stability. As you can see here, there’s a lot of moisture on the ground, and that moisture is basically going to cause my feet to slip around a little bit. The first thing I just want to point out is being aware of what a slippy club face is going to do to the ball. It’s basically going to cause the ball to skid off the face. So, this is the one chance we have, unless there’s placement or whatever, is to try our best to make sure this driver face stays dry and the ball stays dry. And you’ll often see the tour players, fortunate enough, with caddies and stuff, sometimes holding the umbrellas over while they’re setting up and teeing the ball cuz this needs to stay dry. Don’t stress about it too much, but just be aware that we do not want too much moisture on the face cuz that will affect the direction. The main tip for the driver is to ensure that we are not losing our footing and pushing off. Because when we try and get a bit more power, which the big dog is hopefully going to give us, we can end up sort of using the ground or forcing the body a bit much pushing, which is fine, but if there’s not enough grip, we don’t have enough spikes. We certainly don’t want the foot sort of slipping that way. Scotty Sheffller can do it for various reasons, but we don’t want it too much and we don’t want it on the lead foot where that’s sort of spinning out either. Again, a little bit can happen, but we want stability. We’re not probably going to score our best ever score in this weather. Let’s just try and make it a bit easier, a bit more consistent, and hopefully a bit less miserable when it’s drizzling on you. to ensure that we do not slip around either this way or that way. I want you to just stand a little bit wider. That’s going to give us a much more stable base and generally reduce the motion and force we’re going to put in the legs. It’s going to make the swing feel a little bit more upper body. Okay? It’s going to feel a little bit more upper body and less trying to drive the feet and the legs. We don’t want this screwing up. We can hit it plenty far enough, feel like it’s predominantly our upper body and using a bit of arm speed and getting that core through, but standing a little bit wider and also flaring those feet out just a little bit more is going to give us a bit of bracing from going that way and that way. So, the feeling is definitely going to be a little bit more of a catapult and a little bit more neutral here. Keep it a little bit wider. And all we’re going to do is nudge it. Okay. Not the biggest drive, but it went solid and straight and I didn’t fall over. Let’s go and see where it went. [Music] Okay, we made it onto the fairway. It’s par five here. Um, and I’ve got 204 yards, little bit uphill. So, regular playing back 210. It’s cold today. The pressure is different. The ball is not traveling as far. So, I need to make sure I club up for a couple of reasons. One, because I again, I don’t want to be losing my footing when I strike it. I don’t want to be wanting to get too steep on the ball to get it a little bit chunky if it’s soft underneath. But I also have to understand that with the rain, with the water on the face that will be on the ball because it’s down there like I have to make sure that I take enough club cuz it it’s basically going to fly lower, which is difficult here cuz we’ve got bunkers to carry and all that kind of stuff. So with these conditions, I think I’m going to go with a smooth five iron. and I’ll talk about the main tip. What you can see here is the ball actually has already moisture on it, a bit of grass. The club face, even though I’ve not been out for long, it’s already got that water on it basically, and that is going to affect how much height I get off the ball. So, I have to make a slight little adjustment. There are two key things that I want from this shot. I want to make sure that I can try and maintain some height, and I want to make sure that I catch it clean. I do not want to be catching it heavy or getting it just way too low where it can’t get over the bunkers and things like that. This is how we do it. The first little tweak we’re going to do is there’s my normal grip. I’m just going to move down just about a centimeter or so, half an inch to an inch. I prefer less is more. But what this is going to do is encourage us to get it just a little bit cleaner because the club is a little bit shorter. It’s not the perfect solution, but it can help many of you. Just ensure that you’re not getting it heavy. The second thing we need to do is actually move it a little bit further forward. That’s going to encourage me to hit it a little bit more on a sweeping kind of feel. So, I’m not digging down. I’m not trying to hit down on the iron. I’m just trying to stay level and sweep it nice and clean. But the benefit of moving it forward just an inch is actually hopefully going to help keep some height on it even though the water and the rain or whatever is going to keep that flight low. Let’s see if we can do that. So, grip down. Move forward just a little bit. I’m exaggerating a hair. There we go. Struck it. Okay, that’s actually in a good spot because it’s going to show me, well, it’s going to show you what to do, how to chip out of the rough cuz it’s just left of the green. [Music] So, this is where I’ve ended up. Pin high, but I’ve got a bit of juicy grass, plenty of moisture behind the ball, not a ton of green to work with downhill. Not the easiest shot in the world. There are basically two little pointers I want to give you with this. One is to understand what’s going to happen after you hit it. You might think, well, things are a bit wet, the ball’s not going to roll as much. That’s certainly true. However, out the rough and with the moisture, it’s not going to generate the spin. Even if you have good wedges and good grooves on it, it’s not going to spin as much. So, we have to understand and allow that roll out. People are always surprised how much the ball rolls out from anything within 50 yards around the green when there’s a bit of water. It’s not so much what’s happening on the surface. It’s what’s happened before. The ball is coming out just that little bit flatter. So, what do we do to compensate for that? Well, it’s just understanding to change our landing point. Our landing point is going to be a little bit shorter than perhaps we’re used to anticipating. The second element is making sure that you commit. Yes. But we really have to do a very good job of not digging down too much. It’s going to feel much more like a a brush and a sweep. And the main key we’re going to do here, the only objective I have is to feel like I stay level in my height of my head. I’m staying level here. That is it. I’m making sure it’s set up. my club is a little bit, you know, further back, I guess. So, my shaft is more vertical because I don’t want to be digging that sort of leading edge in too much. So, I don’t want to have it the back of my stance. I don’t want to be sort of digging down. I want it forward in the stance, just like we said with the iron shot. And I want to just sweep it out the rough. We got to give it a little bit more oomph, but as I said, we allow that roll out a little bit more. So I move the ball forward an inch. Get that club ver vertical and then just back and forward. That rolled out just a little bit, but it’s good enough for a putt for birdie. You can see here just how much that ball sort of rolled on past the flag. You know, it’s not too bad, but that had plenty of roll on it. [Music] [Applause] [Music] I brought us here to show you just the difference between being in the rough and on the fairway. So, here we are in the rough. The ball has obviously gathered quite a bit of raindrops and moisture. The grass is wet. And what’s going to happen, even if I try and get a sort of steep angle of attack on here, it’s going to still trap some of that grass. And just like it would with a regular good weather, we can often get a flyer, which means that the the grass in between the club face and the ball, right? Basically acts as a bit of a trampoline and launches it not necessarily faster, but it reduces the spin. So what does that mean? It means that this ball is a little bit more likely and probably going to fly a lot further. It’s going to fly a lot further than it does off the fairway. Would you look at that? The sun is coming out just for you guys. It’s still sprinkling. Here we are. I’ve got 62 left. That would be an a comfortable sixiron, comfortable 9 iron uh in these conditions, but I’m going to hit a wedge because I’m expecting that sort of jumper. The ball is going to go a little bit higher. It’s going to kind of top spin like that. So it will also when it lands tend to kind of roll on just a little bit. So I’m hitting my pitching wedge and it should land I don’t know I’m not a robot. It should land about 15 145 something around there as normal. But as I said even in these conditions I think it’s going to go a little bit further. Right. So let’s see. I’m going to make sure that I commit to it. very important. Every single shot you hit, you have to commit. And perhaps even more so, when you’re doing things a little bit differently, adapting to the weather, we have to keep it really freaking simple. We have to remember, no matter what we’re trying to do, we still have to commit. We still want acceleration. So remember that every single shot you have. So there’s my target. Now, with this one, I’m actually not Sometimes I have it a little bit further in my stance, a little bit sweepy if the ball’s sitting up a little bit. But with this, it’s a bit spongy. It’s a bit buried, and I kind of want to make sure I get that ball first and commit to it. So, I’m going to keep my ball position the same as what I would if it was on the fairway. All right, enough of me waffling. Let’s hit this shot. That came out pretty juicy as you can see. That’s pretty good. Now, it came out kind of a big divot. I did actually get that a bit heavier than I wanted. However, it did fly how I expected. And the pitching wedge ended up being it’s about 15 ft 20 maybe about 20 ft short. Let’s see what happens off the fairway. Here is my muddy pitching wedge. Here’s the nine eye. This is what I’m going to use for the same distance of shot. You can see my toughs of grass over there. Going to make sure the face is dry as best I can. The ball is wet down there. Remember, this is going to fly lower. It’s going to roll out a little bit more and it’s just not going to travel as far out the rough. It’s kind of weird, but that’s how it works. And I’ll try and do a similar kind of swing, a similar intention. Ball’s a bit above my feet. That’ll do us nicely. Middle of the green. Exactly as I predicted. Let’s go and check them out. All right, here we are. So, this is where the rough shot landed and it rolled out about this much. Not as much as I would have expected, but as I said, I caught it a little bit behind. Just a little bit. Um, and the second one is here. So there’s the pitch mark. We sort of rolled out to about there. So if I’d got that a little bit better, we probably would have been about somewhere here. But either which way, we’ve got decent attempts at well birdie or whatever. However, it’s um showing you that just the slightest change to the equipment of what club you’re hitting and understanding does make a big big difference. Here’s the last little pointer I wanted to give you. So, we’re a little bit short to the green. Now, the reason why I’ve chosen this example is because it’s not an obvious choice. I would suggest that instead of, you know, using your lob wedge or something like that from here because we don’t have much green to work with, right? I would say in normal conditions, you probably want to go with your Sam Wed lob wedge or whatever you like to use. There’s a little bit more than you see from the back there on the fairway. There’s a little bit more than that. But, you know, we have the ability to make life just a little bit easier for us. And the way we’re going to do it is instead of using that lob wedge, we’re going to use, let’s say, a pitching wedge or a n ir. I want to sort of make sure that I get good contact because it is a bit spongy under here. And I certainly don’t want to be chunking it short into that bank there, right? And I want to make sure that I’ve got enough of a chance to have a putt. So the sensible thing instead of thinking like I’ve got to bump and run it, I’m going to compensate and be in the middle and hit a pitching wedge sort of in about there. It’s not that the log wedge landing it on the green is the incorrect shot. I’m just trying to make life a bit easier for you, bit easier for me. Playing a pitching wedge with what I’m doing here is just going to do that. I’m just going to do a very simple pitch shot. Chip shot really landing it just short. And that’s how I’m going to calibrate my distance. Just like Goldilocks. Too short. That would go too long. Feels about right. Okay. So, pick my target. I’ve got my tempo and I just chip it up. Not too shabby. So, but what that means is it just gives and raises the consistency bar, which is what I know a lot of you want is just more consistency. And this enables us to do that. As you can see, I landed down here, but it rolled rolled rolled rolled all the way up. And my sort of margin for error instead of being, you know, here to here if I was landing it, my landing zone became from anywhere from about here all the way down to about here. So, I went from a few feet wide of landing zone to a few yards. That is the art of simple golf. Like, why not? Let’s make this silly game just a little bit easier and hopefully make a few more little cheeky birdies. Oh, a little bit short than we want. That is the art simple golf. So, I hope you enjoyed that. It’s not the normal sort of style of videos I do. If you liked it, let me know if you want more. Um, I’m not sure I’ll be coming out in the rain too many times, but let me know what you think and be sure to check out this next lesson because I know that’s going to help not just when it’s raining, when it’s sunshine, too. Having a simple swing and a thought that’s going to help you on the golf course can only help, right? Thanks for watching.
