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What if the score is the enjoyment?

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Somebody has to pay for the new clubhouse. It's too expensive for me sadly.

Price is certainly an issue now. I looked up 2 ordinary golf courses to play and they want £60. To play a £30 track. It's gone a little mad. Cheers

Hello Dave and thanks for dropping by. The reds will be more enjoyable. Still make a decent score rather than trying to break 100 off the back. Sorry to hear of your friends, it's very sad to find your 4 ball is now a 2 ball and you miss them terribly. I do know that feeling. Well keep going and keep getting the fresh air and being in nature. Cheers

This round should of been in the 80's Nads. I'm making changes and it's getting a bit better. I think I can just about rescue it in time before my flight.

That's what we want. Still make some pars. Cheers

No point trying to copy one of those 6 foot tall Pros. I'd break into 1000 pieces trying to turn like they do.

I've just edited a video playing the reds. Quite simply we don't have enough staff here to get round all the courses in a timely manner. We are behind everyone else at the moment. Should get better over the next 2 years. Cheers

I find it very sad that people of your standing do so well and then end up selling mars bars and tee pegs and never play again. Had a teacher in 2011 and I said let's go for 9 holes and she said she didn't even own any clubs anymore. I've known a couple of local Pros who over the last 4 years have quit and drive for Amazon now. Another became a golf manager and doesn't play. It's such a shame.

@@thehairygolferagreed. There isn’t the money in the game anymore for club professionals. Tough to make a basic income. Of course the PGA is rolling in money but it’s far a very selective few.

@@douglasthompson9482 That is very true. Can't sell clubs. People come for a fitting and then go to the internet. Why golfers can't support their club Pro I don't know. I always buy through my Pro. He/She knows my game better than me. It would help if clubs paid a decent wage and didn't ask for kick backs on lessons. There is a golf superstore here with 5 studios and they teach all day and give a huge kickback to the owner. How are you supposed to live on such low pay? It's beyond me.

It's a great course, good mix of holes, generous in width and the greens are very good. All for a good price. Not sure we need to worry about golf for 2 weeks now.

Are you sure? Not sure I've seen another collapse like mine LOL. I'm very average in distance, helps being 5 foot 5 tall bit I can hit a pitching wedge from 180, I just need to hit a sand wedge after it. I do find it amusing when someone is telling you how to play golf and then hits a 4 iron from 225 yards. I think for a lot of my viewers that's a driver. The only bitthat isn't ordinary is round the green, slightly above average there but then i love to practice it.

I'm hitting it sideways now Kevin. Had a lesson and will be having 2 more. Changes are so hard to make. I have watched Danny from time to time. The guy I'm watching now is fitzygolfpro from Australia. A little younger than me, about the same height and talks a language I understand. Danny sometimes gets a bit technical for me. Yes, the weather is awful. It only seems to be dry when I'm working for some reason. Cheers

That was my 1 round in 2 weeks. I've had lesson number 1 and it's going a bit sideways David. I'm playing with crap balls I found in the bushes. I lost 2 balls on wednesday playing with Neville. On 2 holes I wasn't on camera so maybe the concentration went. Lesson number 2 on the 21st. Some days golf is hard and until it's easy again I will continue with the crap balls! Cheers

@@thehairygolfer good idea Simon. Good luck with the lessons!

@@davidwalters313 I hope I don't run out of crap balls!

@@thehairygolfer you won’t. There are plenty of us crap players around who pepper the rough with rubbish balls! Plenty to find!

@@davidwalters313 Could you stop buying dunlops please? I lose a prov1 and find a dunlop! What did I find last week? I think it was a top flite about 1990 vintage. I'll tell you something - it flew! Hit it for a laugh and turned to my son saying it's going in the bag.

Hello Alan, I had no idea what would happen and it just turned into a chip n putt video by chance. Much of videos do that, start one thing and end up another. Yes, I do just use 2 clubs round the green, that's all I have time to practice. I figure be good with 2 rather than average with 4. We are all different though and I would never tell anyone to not use 4 clubs or more. If I was to offer any advice I'll stick with what I've said several times in different videos. One club to go up to a raised green or over a bunker. One club to run out. Plus a 3rd for further out. Then fiddle with ball position until you are happy. Back in the old days Pros would use a load of different clubs. Now they all seem to use a 60 for everything. I think osmewhere in the middle for us. Is that okay?

Thank you for your advice. I will give it a try. Today I played 14 practice holes trying to improve my fade instead of a draw. No pressure .Average driver distance 148 yards. If I had been putting in a card for a handicap it would have worked out as 16 off the red tees. Choice play off the reds & score well or struggle to beat 100 off the yellow tees. Your 7 iron goes a lot further than my 125 yard 5 & 7woods. You play a different game to me. HOWEVER I HAVE NOT DIED YET & STILL PLAYING. Tonight I played 2 hours of single table tennis to round off the day. That is why I only played 14 holes in the afternoon. I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR COMMON SENSE ADVICE, WHICH IS DEFINITELY ENCOURAGING ME. Tomorrow afternoon 2 & a half hours of lawn tennis doubles. OVER THE BUNKER IS MY ALIEN 60 * LOB WEDGE. NEED TO SORT OUT THE OTHER 2 CLUBS. POSSIBLY USE MY 42 * CLEVELAND SMART SOLE CHIPPER FOR MOST CHIP SHOTS. Have you heard the saying He's got all the gear but no idea. FURTHER OUT 6 H OR 5H.

@@alangoudie2299 Good grief Alan. You are far more active than me which explains the belly. Can't wait to retire and have some more free time instead of bashing a keyboard for work. The Alien is a beast of a club, good choice. 42 chipper is ideal too, that has a putter length shaft in it? Talking of all the gear but no idea. I played with my nieces husband who had just taken up the game. I turned up with my battery trolley, all the gear, matching bag as you have seen and he gave me heartache. All the gear and no idea. I told him I was a 5 handicap which didn't mean a thing to him. Par 5 1st got a birdie. Very short par 4 next, 4 iron and gap wedge, got a birdie and it started to dawn on him he may have been wrong. I ran out at 7 over as the course gets harder. A number I was very pleased with. Made me laugh, don't know what he shot, a zillion I think. He quit golf shortly after. It's easier on the play station apparently.

Hello Dave, I've seen those charts and they are useful. I should play 6000 yards but in the summer when the ground is firm I can happily play 6500 yards and play to 5 or 6. That's my traget, I still want to be stretched a little bit. But on the other hand I like to play a course where 3 wood is plenty off the tee too. I guess it depends what I feel like on the day. Valid point. Cheers

@@thehairygolfer Also, I'd like to point out that in playing the forward tees, I tee off with a 17 degree hybrid, not a driver!

@@dave8059 Nice. That would be my 18 degree 5 wood. Different flight but more or less the same. I enjoy that too. You get a par 4 of 330 yards and how far do you really need to hit a tee shot to make 4? Takes all the pressure off if you leave driver alone. Love it.

It was mostly wet Oggie. Typical Britain! It's lamping it down here again. Please tell me the season isn't over already?

Hi Finbar, nice little cut off there on 17. Because the camera makes me slow I just want to keep moving so sometimes I just don't finish it off. As I practice 4 footers all the time I know I don't miss them often. I knock a lot in back handed or one handed. I just use 2 clubs then I only have to practice 2 clubs. The one I got wrong was on 18 when I used the sandy instead of the pitch. That was a mistake. I always say just use 2 clubs, one up and over and the other run out. It doesn't matter which 2 clubs people use. Not going to tell anyone to stop using their favourite club. I had an issue with short ones a long time ago, I just wasn't commiting to a line properly. I'd over borrow and then hit it through the break. Long putts I think is tension and I think that tension comes from not practicing short putts. Inside 4 feet. Just a guess. Cheers

@@thehairygolfer I was decelerating through the ball on my putting and leaving everything short or dying lowside of the hole. Pretty much the opposite to you lol. I didn't even realise I was doing it. And yes when you feel confident on the short ones there is definitely less tension on the lag putts.

Hello Ian, The old course? Now that is a track I must play again some time. I haven't been for 5 years. Not at Gloucester this year, hoping to get back into Lilleybrook in April with my sons. If you want a chat it's hairy.golfer@btinternet.com Time is always an issue but it's mostly weather. I can't record in wind or rain. And the next thing is a quiet golf course. The camera slows me down. Typically I play 18 holes in 3 hours 50 minutes. I can't play on a saturday morning amongst a full golf course. I would be a pain to everyone else. That is the hardest part of filming. The forecast for the next 2 weeks is pretty dire. Of course it's dry now as I'm at work. You can't win! At least you are local which means we have a chance. When I get a request to play a course 200 miles away it's just not possible.

I did. Some of it.....

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As you have seen i'm using the entire face of the club. It feels awful and at least in this round I didn't lose anything unlike wednesday when I lost 2 balls. Plus a whole host of other rubbish. I've always enjoyed spending time chipping and I used to spend time lagging. I still chip but I don't bother putting now, only the 4 footers.

Stuart, I'm in that strange world where I can't hit it far enough to lose it now. Not with the part of the clubface I'm using anyway!

Does that provide a strange degree of confidence?

Kev, the best way is to just let the adverts run. That is a very kind gesture, reward yourself with those pints after holing 100 putts of 3 feet. Cheers

Hello Kev, no idea why the lag putting is decent. I used to practice it a long time ago but put no effort in now. I guess it's second nature or automatic now. Not every round but most of the time. I miss so many greens and when I started I could miss 17 greens. I'm certainly getting the practice!

This was before the lesson, I'm worse now. Hitting it sideways and losing balls. But it will get better. I'm going to the range and I see young men popping a vein trying to hit 100 drivers as far as they can. As quickly as they can. I don't understand it myself. I hit 3 easy drives at the end and that's it. Bizarre.

@@thehairygolfer The bad weather early in the year and the sporadic crap months through summer must have hindered your game

@@Berry-fr5wj Yeah, the time off I had has really hurt me. It will be better next year and I will have better practice facilities too. Get some cards in and find out where my handicap really is in a competition.

Good luck with the membership Kevin. My 2 sons and I are hoping for a membership in April. Then I will have a home course near my home. Should make life easy and I can finally start submitting cards again. Chipping is a past time I love doing, I don't practice lagging any more but I do practice 4 footers. Hundreds of them. Best of luck.

We had a miserable 2 weeks Jeff. The boys came down for a long weekend in the middle which was good weather. But outside of that we had 2 dry days. I meant to play Haverfordwest as well but it was just miserable. We did visit Cardigan twice. Once it rained and the second time it stayed dry long enough to take the dogs on Poppit beach. Tenby golf club have raised the visitor green fees out of my range. Sad really.

@@thehairygolfer poppit sands is fantastic, we take our two beagles there, they love it. The weather? Welcome to Wales Simon, that’s why Wales is so green, never stops raining😂 Shame about the green fees at Tenby, they must lose so much because the charge too much! Cheers 👍🍺🏌️

@@jeffreyroberts7438 Didn't Tenby just build a new club house and accommodation? Somebody has to pay for it! If Tenby didn't have the mound of dunes and you could see the sea from everywhere it would be wonderful. But windy. We stay at a little cottage in St Dogmaels. It used to be the office for some holiday flats on the river before they got sold off. Not sure when we will be back. My wife needs some different shops to stick her nose in.

I'm beyond that now. Trying to turn my hips in the back swing which means I've got to turn them coming down again. Timing is out the window. I hit a few sideways shots and a few lost balls (I'm playing with rubbish I found in the rough). Next stop is 7 iron feet together to get the timing back. Hopefully in 3 weeks time it all works. If not I'm going to lose a dozen balls on Red Mountain and I'm playing it twice.

@@thehairygolfer Your game will return. I've watched your game "cycle" before and it always comes back. Plus, you have the short game to save you. I think you can recover from anything and this round shows it. You escaped a high round with your chipping and putting. Other than the last hole.

@@golfinginthailand I'm off to do a bit of 7 iron feet together this weekend. Another lesson on the 21st as I certainly haven't 'got it' yet. Shame about the rain down here. Short game has always helped me out because I miss so much I'm doing it all the while. 18 was funny. There was a group on 17th tee so I waited in the rought for them to play and walk past me. As I got out to hit the 2nd shot I could hear balls landing on the 16th green so I rushed. Silly boy! Wheels up in 70 days.

Hello Alan, my chipping and putting is just fine. Prior to this I had played on a beginners course where the greens were about a 1 on the stimpmeter. 5 foot putts were like a 200 yard 3 iron. I knew I would have trouble coming back to proper greens. I thought it was funny. Well, I was laughing on the course. Cheers

Hi Zax I was making £22 a month this time last year. It's jumped a bit. That video that went 42K views has done roughly £165 on it's own. I'm just amazed. Short game is where it's at if you want to score on a bad day. I love it when you have a good day and the short game just helps you to that one round a year score that is brilliant.

I've got a fair bit of experience using the rough as a brake. The idea that you should land every chip on the green is wrong. Needs must when you're short sided. Got to chip and putt, I was using most of the face of the driver and quite a few other clubs. That round had 85 written all over it. But there you go. Putter is a Domino from 1990 model 8811. They do come up on ebay but they look like they have been dragged behind a car the length of the M1. I have no idea why people don't look after their gear. It cost me £35 which was a lof of money back then. I'll never change it. A Scottie isn't going to make me better. Cheers

That round had 85 written all over it. One thing about missing loads of greens is you get plenty of practice chipping! Cheers Ian

A good imagination Tim and having plenty of practice missing greens for 36 years. I do like using the rough as a brake to slow the ball down.

My handicap isn't real Paul. I'm between golf courses at the moment. Until April and I start putting regular competition cards in I don't really know where I am. Casual golf is non pressure golf. Cheers

Thankyou. I'm creaking this morning. Who would of thought a desk job is as hard o nthe body as a physical one? Cheers

Hello Alan, was if Jack Nicklaus who said you should remove clubs from your bag until you get to one you can hit the fairway with? Sadly I see beginners trying to hit driver. It's a peer pressure thing.

Trouble with being in Ireland or Britain is if we play forwards we get ripped in the bar after! The banter is the same. Ego is an issue. Whne i have the choice I play upto 6500 on a dry course and 6000 on a wet course. But so many people need 5000. I've never hit it 300 on a flat hole with no wind to help me. I need a bit of elevation, some wind behind and a baked fairway. I never used to worry about 395 metres. Now I do. Our longest is 460 yards in a competition, 455 where I normally play it from. It's getting a bit of a stretch now. Cheers

Hello Ian, struggling to hit my hat right now. TP9's? I am not worthy to hit those. Be fun though wouldn't it to try. I've looked at the forecast for the next 2 weeks to make videos and it's miserable. Where do you play Ian? Perhaps if we get a break we can manage 9 holes after work. Just got to have a coherant plan before we go out and not make it up on the spot. To record I need dry weather and little wind. It's a big ask but I can't risk the camera getting soaked or falling over. Cheers

I don't either Peter and i'm not 60 until next year. Golf is becoming harder. I can't see why courses over here can't have some 5000 yard tees instead of us having huge handicaps? I still want to make pars as I get older. Thanks for the comment.

Johnny, that's a good innings! Glad you still get pleasure from the game and little challenges. Next tuesdays video is just for you. I'm uploading it shortly. Cheers

Hello woodenclogs (love that name) I expect when I get to 75 I will be just as short as yourself off the tee. It cannot be avoided. I'm still trying to get the weight through the ball, these days it's a little more weight than I would like. I piled it on during lockdown and it wont leave me! Thankyou

I'm making some changes too right now. Which means the timing is way off. Hitting sideways on occasion. We have to keep plugging away and then the timing will come and it will go where we want it. All the best.

Alan that's brilliant. Played with Neville today and his 190 yard drive at age 69. He shot 84 (par 70) - 1 over handicap on a course he has never played before. It can be done. I hope I'm still going at 81. All the best.

I wouldn't spend that kind of money either David. It's silly money. I try and seek out affordable golf courses. Apparently the EGU is short of staff and it's simply taking time. Some courses are still old fashioned but the rest are in the queue. They might of caught up by the time I need to move forward, you never know! Cheers

Wow that is late to the game. Better than rotting on the sofa though in front of the tv. I wonder how they would cope on slow and bumpy greens. Plus the out of bounds so close to fairways. They would have to reign in the driver a bit. But in reality they take apart a short course. Would be fun to watch. AP? I'm going to see if I can work out where that is. Of course, Alexander Park. I drive past it. If the weather had been kinder this year I would of played it already. It does help being at a tough course, your handicap will travel well. Thanks for joining the regulars. The channel is growing a bit now. Cheers

I'll be mentioning it in a later video. I did some research of my own county and 78% of clubs are not assessed for men off the reds. Problem is some clubs don't want it plus the EGU are a little short of staff to get the courses done. There is a bit of a queue. We will get there Barry. Perhaps by the time I'm in my 70's.... Cheers

Hello Alan, if you feel that your body is in the way try a tiny bit open for a round. I usually aim at the 150 yard marker in the left rough and try to bring it back. Some days are better than others. Give it a go and if it doesn't work then abandon it. Thanks p.s. I hope I will still be playing at your age. Hell! I hope I get to your age. Enjoy every day.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELPFUL REPLY. I am looking forward to trying the different stance.

I FOLLOWED YOUR ADVICE & MY DRIVES USUALLY FOUND THE FAIRWAY AVERAGING A TOTAL DISTANCE OF 153 YARDS FOR 8 DRIVES. CONSIDERING IT WAS A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE OF STANCE & BALL FLIGHT IT WAS A VERY SATISFACTORY CHANGE. I HAVE ALTERED MY PING G430 DRIVER LOFT FROM 13 degrees TO 12*6 degrees ready for my next trial. THAT WILL REDUCE THE FACE ANGLE & DRAW BIAS. I USED MY IDEA THAT OTHER OF YOUR GOLF FOLLOWERS MIGHT WANT TO TRY. TO ACCURATELY CHECK WHERE ON THE DRIVER FACE YOU STRIKE THE BALL I USE DRIVER WOOD IMPACT PAPER STICKERS & MARK MY BALL WITH A 1 cm. diameter circle with black permanent marker which shows up clearly on the sticker after each strike. ANOTHER GREAT TIP IS TO READ ALL THE COMMENTS & YOUR REPLIES TO GET A GENEROUS SUPPLY OF PRACTICAL TIPS & IDEAS. I AM DELIGHTED I DISCOVERED YOUR SITE & LOOK FORWARD TO WATCHNG YOUR OTHER VIDEOS. CONSIDERING THE BIG CHANGE OF STRIKING THE BALL I WAS PLEASED WITH IRON,HYBRID & FAIRWAY WOOD STRIKES BUT THERE IS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT AS GOLF IMPROVEMENT TAKES TIME,LOTS OF TIME. IF YOU LIKE I HAVE SEVERAL OTHER IDEAS I COULD MENTION IN THE FUTURE.

@@alangoudie2299 Alan, that is wonderful news. I have fiddled with loft in the past just to get the right flight, to keep it mid rather than too high. I've settled on 10.5 degrees but then I do play it back a little bit, I'm a bit old fashioned in that. Started so long ago. When I want to check the face I use some masking tape, something that wont leave a sticky mark. I'm in lessons now and making changes so my strike has got worse in the short term. I don't worry as I know it will get better. Thanks for joining the channel. Some great people in the comments.

Thank you for your advice.