In my opinion this is much better than him doing post round analysis while watching back the footage. Now, he's basically saying what he would during the voice-over, but now its live and raw. Perfect!
Matt, I love your channel. In a few months your content has enabled me to go from breaking 100 now on the cusp of breaking 90 which I will do soon. Most importantly it has made golf fun again. Easy life playa! Thank you. The two must play courses in Virginia are Robert Trent Jones (Gainesville, VA) and Kinloch. Kind regards! Chris
Great idea with the lavalier mic mate. Just knocking it up a notch.. LIKE A BAUS 0:05 "I'm not going to be using the rangefinder today" 7:16 uses rangefinder
The lapel mike is a great idea...hear all the doubts about what went right/wrong, etc, when doing a post analysis of shots into greens, etc...working out the best percentage play to tackle the up'n'downs of each green when needed...it's a constant in golf to coach yourself into what we are doing right/wrong and how to fix it...it's like we are a caddy watching a very good ball striker going about more often than not trying to beat 80 and on the good days beat 75...i love watching the freedom he has with his general play and his smarts around the greens...makes me want to keep practising those short game chips and putts more than the range stuff...will be adopting the sidekick system of 666 for our club championships coming up in feb next month...want to definitely beat 90 on average and try to knock off 85 on average over 4 rounds...want the freedom to think nothing else than 6 greens, 6 up'n'downs and 6 birthday holes and smash those drives...
Now THAT’S relatable golf! Juuuuust a smidge off your game and you end up scoring worse than you’re capable of. I did the same thing today on the front nine. Groovy putt on 9 for par, playa!
After recently learning about Arcadia bluffs, that’s a bucket list course to play for me. I’d also love to play forest dunes. Michigan has some gems for golf courses!
Love hearing your thoughts as you play. Super helpful for someone who is trying to lower their score. These are lessons in course management and managing your on course golf thought demons. And mic is great!
I have the Garmin Approach S60 and used it for a year; the S60 has a full-color map of every hole. You can pick a target, then the watch will give the yardage to the target and the remaining yardage to the green. You can also move the pin around on the green, which would solve the problem you had on hole #6. The S60 seems to be well worth cost of the upgrade over the S40, so I highly recommend the S60. All the best!
Its Golfcourse Deutsche Weinstraße. Perfectly located between orchards and vineyards. And the best: If the tuba ist after you to much, just step out of the course and have a beautiful glass of wine while enjoying the view on the palatinate forest.
My favorite course in Atlanta GA, USA area is Echelon Golf Course. It’s very hard and long but listening to you makes me feel like a real playa there :)
Great video. Must play course is Balboa Park in San Diego California. It is a love hate course. The front 9 is short and plays into a canyon. However, you have to be precise with your tee shots and great with elevation change. The back 9 is scenic with many of the holes overlooking the city, point loma, and the pacific ocean. The last two holes will test you, with a long par 3 off an extremely elevated tee which is difficult to judge and a par 4 uphill with a narrow fairway.
@@arabking1985 I am glad someone agreed with me. The toughest hole on the property is actually on the 9 hole executive. Long par 3 number 4 hole. This is one of those holes that you are actually rewarded for hitting short then chipping onto the green. That green is serverly slope and you are granteed a 3 putt if you land on the green.
Been testing both now - descision after this input: done; will go for watch first. New mic‘ is good; firstly thought maybe too much (audio-) input, but more insight in pre-shot-process is great. Best course around: Attighof Golf and Country Club! Loads of slope, but fine fairways and tugged into the woods; on top: beers and further catering on me. 🤙🏼 Happy new year to all playas!
10:03 - This is the kind of course management I'm usually thinking! "If I top it I still have a third shot." Love it. Hermitage Golf Course in Nashville, TN is a great course here.
A must play in the Minnesota metro area, Loggers Trail! We don't get lynx style courses up here very often, if at all, but Loggers Trail is definitely lynx style, and its a real treat to play especially in the fall. The gold divot tool / birdie feather would be a great home for my Wadda Playa ball mark!
My must-play course in my area (Reno, NV) has to be Toiyabe Golf Club. This course is tucked right up against the Sierra Nevadas and offers breathtaking views as you tour through the natural mountains of the course. It makes for a challenging but fair track but applying your course management strategies has already shedded strokes off of my games. Finally broke my 100 but the grind doesnt stop! Maybe planting some feathers will help!
This is one of the best videos you have produced matt. Maybe it is the lapel mic and no dubbing later. And the distance watch. Since i have a distance watch this is helpful. Good good video!
The weather looks great...Had snow on a couple greens on the course I played last week...Was able to putt thru it tho. Extra roll on the frozen fairways , was nice.
In my area the must play course is The Walker Course. It is on campus at Clemson University, with a signature 17th hole par three including a tiger paw using the green and four surrounding bunkers. It amazes me how many people come to play that course just because of the novelty that it is Clemson University’s course.
I'm a member at a course called West Australian Golf Club - must play. You'd love it. First hole is a 220m+ Par 3 with water on the left and driving range on the right. Tough as hell.
Matt, Consumer GPS receivers are accurate to ~15m, ~95% of the time and generally, you'll see 5-10m accuracy. That's +/- one club, easy, just in the error bars! Put that wrist thing in your bag, Playa, and attack using rangefinder distances that you already trust. Judging by comments here, many people liked the live-voice. I'd rather see you have lots of fun AND play well, and I think voice-over afterwards is better for your game. But you just apply a medicinal brewski and jam. :-D
Must play course: Noosa Springs! QLD Australia :) Beautiful championship quality resort course however the trick is to dodge the Aussie wildlife while you play. Last round I lost 10 balls and shanked my last ball, went walking into rough/trees to retrieve a ball a saw sitting in the open but actually ended up being well disguised swamp and sunk up to my knees in mud. Back 9 in bare feet I had to walk through a herd of kangaroos (and their shit) on hole 12, dodge angry Plover birds on 14, and on 17 tee nearly crapped myself as a brown snake slithered 50 centimetres from my foot (2nd most venomous snake in the world). Haven't fallen into the lake there yet but guarantee there are bull sharks in it too...
My favorite in my area would be Solid Rock National, which my dad and I created in our hayfield when Covid had closed the local courses. We shut it down when things opened back up, but it was a special memory
Must-Play Course in my area is Penn National Golf Club located in Fayetteville, Pennsylvania! Top 50 Nationally ranked. Two courses. Old course is woods style and new course is links style. Great slacking anytime we tee it there! Planting feathers, growing birdies!
Thank you so much for putting your game on display so we can all get better. Must play in my area: Boulder Creek Golf Club, Streetsboro, OH -- Lovely course with plenty of challenge.
Leslie Park Golf Course here in Ann Arbor. Great layout with water and elevation changes. Plus, it's a muni course all can play and multiple tee boxes so you can park your ego at the door and choose the tee that fits your game.
Right now we can’t play golf in Northern Ireland, so the best coarse you’d be able to play is my back garden. Good conditions. No bunkers but watch out for the bird bowl, it’s a dangerous water hazard.
Must play course in my area Palmbrook Country Club. Spent $70US range balls included with green fees. Course has been in great shape. I’ve played $100US courses where balls were another expense. Bang for buck can’t go wrong with it. Park style front 9 with more water hazard on the back. Good challenge for all levels of golf.
Love this style of commentary Matt! Please do more in the future. Must play course near me: Mansion Ridge Golf Course in Monroe NY. This Jack Nicklaus designed course is a must play!! Amazing condition, full of challenges, and they serve a mean hot dog after the round.
Swannanoa in Afton, VA. Some of the greens have sand traps and the sand traps have rough in them but it's cheap and has some of the most beautiful views you'll see.
Happy New Year's!! In my area the best course would be St.Leon Rot!! It held the SAP Open an European Tour event in early 2000's and the Solheim Cup in 2015!!
A must play in my area is Centurion Country Club in Pretoria Sunny South Africa, beautiful course tough to play and island green on 17. Feels like you're playing TPC Sawgrass. Also love the vids learnt quite a bit and improved my game from 120 to BREAKING 100 just by watching these vids and applying them to my game
GPS watches are great for those struggling to increase GIR. The better watches also have a feature allowing you to move a cursor to the area the Pin is for more accuracy, but for better players that attack, a precise measurement from a rangefinder is ideal.
Its not a TPC or anything big league, but Nicklaus North in Whistler, BC. Great landscape, and during the spring, you can play a round in the morning, then go spring skiing in the afternoon
Great video, love the commentary and verbalizing your thoughts. That is a tough course, golden rule is keep it on the fairway, the mounds, hollows and trees off the fairway are brutal, lucky to have uphill lies there, downhill lies would be bigger killer on score. Approach on 8th was PGA quality!
Must play course in my area; Mooroopna Golf Course, Mooroopna VIC, Australia. Also, if this video taught me anything, is that the playa in chief kept the positive vibe going, even after hitting into less than desirable lies. What a PLAYA!!
The Regatta, a wonderful Arnold Palmer designed course. Tons of water and a for sure fairway course. Black stone is also a very good course tons of hills fast greens and just a gorgeous view and hidden gem.
A must play is Paynes Valley here in Missouri. First public Tiger Woods designed course. Plan on playing it this summer and pay tribute to Payne Stewart.
Just north of London, in the county of Essex, is the beautiful course called 'Toot Hill'. Undulating, crossed by streams and lakes, high up over the English country side, green and with beautiful trees all around, and sometimes nearly in the middle of the fairway. A great day out, relaxing but a test. Very fast greens with with slopes that, if covered in snow, could be used for skiing! You have to be in the right place on this course.
I have seen you do Uitenhage & Wedgewood - So I would suggest Humewood next : The true Links. Also (not sure if you have it on or not on your watch) but there is a 'true distance' function on the watch to help with uphill/downhill holes. Obviously in Port Elizabeth
Hi Matt, you probably know but you should be able to change the target on your watch to match the pin location so that the distance is more exact rather than just to the center of the green - I think you said it was an Approach S40 and I use the same. Tap the green and then tap the pin location. Enjoyed the video, looking forward to the back 9! Must play course in my area is Raspberry Falls Golf & Hunt Club (Northern Virginia, USA).
In Germany, I love the Green Eagle courses, just bring enough balls because they have so much water :D My record on an especially devastating round was 8 balls lost to water. Young me was so enraged by the end that the clubs almost went for a swim as well
You gotta come to Italy and close to the sunny Rimini you’ll find the fantastic verucchio golf club! Its not in perfect shape but the views are fantastic and the course layout is lovely.. I’d love to offer you a beer and play a round together! Cheers and happy 2021
Must play course: Highlands Golf Course (Tacoma Wa). cheap Par 9 par 3 through a neighborhood, but just about every shot you have houses in in your view so you have to think about it all the time, keeps your head in the game . Holes go from 90 to 195 so you'll need all your irons. Great course for a quick 60 minute round.
Must play course: Hillside greens in Dawson Creek (mile zero of the Alaska highway). It is a par 3 course but it has nice sized greens, lots of variety, and the best kept greens in the area. Very poorly promoted though, I live less than a mile away and it took me a year to find it. Got my first hole in one on hole 9 in September! Keep up the positive content playa!
Forgot to mention it is owned by a garden company so there is a lot of nice greenery and mini gardens around the course, as opposed to the usual rough grass and willows on every other course around Dawson.
A must play course in New Zealand is Tara Iti although it's super hard to get on. Absolutely stunning though. I hope to play there someday! Worth the trip to NZ just to play that course.
Must-play course? This is a contentious one because many people hate it, but my favourite course is Las Ramblas in south-east Spain. “Proper” out-of-bounds on every single hole. Not long and you have to really think about where to put your shot. Many blind tee shots, massive elevations, it’s almost like crazy golf on steroids. Probably only 3-4 holes where it makes sense to take driver- in fact a big drive is often punished, which is why a lot of people don’t get on with it. If you ask me, if they used their intelligence more and put their ego aside they’d really enjoy it. Ability to shape a tee shot is a huge advantage here. There are some great risk&reward holes too - eg hole 9 short par 4 - a cheeky dogleg, but drivable directly from elevated tee, but you have to clear a big pond and there’s out of bounds to the rear and right. You can take it on and easily make birdie, eagle is realistic, but with a strong chance of going OOB and taking a 6. I am a hideously conservative player, so I go 7-iron into the wide open fairway which leaves a cosy wedge - almost guaranteed par and a strong birdie chance. Same with the short par 5 4th where your drive can easily roll down into the first big ravine. Green easily reachable in 2, but big ravine in front and out of bounds over the back. I find if you lay up the green suddenly looks so much bigger. Personally I’ll take a comfortable par over the risky birdie/eagle attempt 9 times out of 10. Apologies for the length, but based on what I’ve seen from your videos I reckon you’d enjoy it.
If you're around Columbus, OH, there a bunch of nice courses but the one that is must play is Scioto Country Club. This is the course Jack Nicklaus (waddaplaya) grew up on.
anyone who turns from the light, will eventually have to keep turning back to the light and stop once facing it head on. This is the best channel to improve your golf on UA-cam handsdown
Waddaman. Lovely course! A must play course in my area is my home course, Glen View GC in lancashire, UK. About 6k yards from the tips, par 69 but has 9 blind tea shots and is heavily protected by wind Also, I Recently got myself a range finder scope and it's been a game changer.
Must Play: Great Gorge (formerly the PlayBoy Bunny Resort course) in Vernon, New Jersey. Mountain course with a ton of elevation changes, water and well protected greens.
Recommendation: In my direct neighbourhood probably "Hummelbachaue", but I would recommend "Bad Neuenahr", which is a little farther away but a really cool course!
Shadow Creek - Las Vegas Nevada Absolutely stunning course and experience. It’s a must go!! Limousine picks you up and drops you off. Also Wolf Creek - Mesquite NV . Crazy elevation and a really fun course.
My favorite is my home course, Fort Collins Country Club because it is a beautiful parkland course overlooking the Rocky Mountains. Excellent walking course and very good for women, seniors and Kids as not many forced carries into small, very subtle breaking greens. Tree lined so accuracy off tee is critical. Just a great track.
Your watch doesn't give you a front of green reading? I really like this vlog format. Very enjoyable! Nice point on playing to your style. Great video!
Swope Memorial in Kansas City, MO in the states. Designed by Tillinghast who designed Bethpage Black, Winged Foot, and others. Hosted a tour event many decades ago.
Must play course: I live in Virginia (USA), and almost all the best courses in my area are private country clubs, unfortunately. If you manage to make it to central VA and have elite connections, the best clubs are Kinloch and Country Club of Virginia. If you don't belong to a club, the Kingsmill resort and Golden Horseshoe in Williamsburg are amazing. And if you expand my "area" to include the mid-atlantic/southern U.S., Pinehurst is the most famous, publicly available course. Hope you make it to the U.S. at some point, playa.
In parsons, West Virginia, there’s a small 9 hole course that tests ya. It’s open enough for new players but challenging enough to make you work for it. It’s called holly meadows golf course.
My local course down here in Southern Illinois is Keller’s Corner course. By the way @14:10 in this video you told yourself to follow through on that birdie opportunity. Well, it looks like you forgot to follow through and I didn’t see a feather planted? That’s ok you are the waddaplaya-in-chief. Keep up the great content. - signed waddaplaya-in- training
Must play course: Klipper golf course, Kailua, Oahu. I just moved from Hawaii about a year ago and all the courses where I live now are just saddening compared to my Hawaii days.
The lapel mic is making this like a Golf Sidekick ASMR
Love the lapel mic - real-time energy right into my ears
Was thinking the same thing. Love to hear how better players react in the moment to the good, the bad, & the ugly🤣
Matt, the running commentary is really interesting. Will be even more so when compared to your post-round analysis. Great video!
In my opinion this is much better than him doing post round analysis while watching back the footage. Now, he's basically saying what he would during the voice-over, but now its live and raw. Perfect!
Last time I was this early, B-Dog hadn't broken 90
Matt, I love your channel. In a few months your content has enabled me to go from breaking 100 now on the cusp of breaking 90 which I will do soon. Most importantly it has made golf fun again. Easy life playa! Thank you. The two must play courses in Virginia are Robert Trent Jones (Gainesville, VA) and Kinloch. Kind regards!
Chris
Great idea with the lavalier mic mate. Just knocking it up a notch.. LIKE A BAUS
0:05 "I'm not going to be using the rangefinder today"
7:16 uses rangefinder
Love the mic'd up play!!! Totally refreshing and interesting. Greatly appreciated as a long time viewer! Hope it stays.
The lapel mike is a great idea...hear all the doubts about what went right/wrong, etc, when doing a post analysis of shots into greens, etc...working out the best percentage play to tackle the up'n'downs of each green when needed...it's a constant in golf to coach yourself into what we are doing right/wrong and how to fix it...it's like we are a caddy watching a very good ball striker going about more often than not trying to beat 80 and on the good days beat 75...i love watching the freedom he has with his general play and his smarts around the greens...makes me want to keep practising those short game chips and putts more than the range stuff...will be adopting the sidekick system of 666 for our club championships coming up in feb next month...want to definitely beat 90 on average and try to knock off 85 on average over 4 rounds...want the freedom to think nothing else than 6 greens, 6 up'n'downs and 6 birthday holes and smash those drives...
Great format using the mic - from lie condition, shot choice, reaction and emotion - love it Matt
Now THAT’S relatable golf! Juuuuust a smidge off your game and you end up scoring worse than you’re capable of. I did the same thing today on the front nine. Groovy putt on 9 for par, playa!
Arcadia Bluffs is not just a must play in my area, but must play in the entire state. Especially the bluffs course.
Must also need like a zillion dollars. 🤑
After recently learning about Arcadia bluffs, that’s a bucket list course to play for me. I’d also love to play forest dunes. Michigan has some gems for golf courses!
Click the video for the golf, stay for the group matching outfits
Love hearing your thoughts as you play. Super helpful for someone who is trying to lower their score. These are lessons in course management and managing your on course golf thought demons. And mic is great!
Love your videos fam
You are the goat of golfing youtubers
Absolutely awesome that you used a mic. Waddaplaya
Adding the microphone and hearing you talk in real time is a game changer. Nice job!!
I have the Garmin Approach S60 and used it for a year; the S60 has a full-color map of every hole. You can pick a target, then the watch will give the yardage to the target and the remaining yardage to the green. You can also move the pin around on the green, which would solve the problem you had on hole #6. The S60 seems to be well worth cost of the upgrade over the S40, so I highly recommend the S60. All the best!
Great audio, Glendower Golf Club. Cant wait for part 2.
Its Golfcourse Deutsche Weinstraße. Perfectly located between orchards and vineyards. And the best: If the tuba ist after you to much, just step out of the course and have a beautiful glass of wine while enjoying the view on the palatinate forest.
This mic is great. Brilliant to hear your immediate reaction and things you're thinking as you're just about to hit.
My favorite course in Atlanta GA, USA area is Echelon Golf Course. It’s very hard and long but listening to you makes me feel like a real playa there :)
Great video. Must play course is Balboa Park in San Diego California. It is a love hate course. The front 9 is short and plays into a canyon. However, you have to be precise with your tee shots and great with elevation change. The back 9 is scenic with many of the holes overlooking the city, point loma, and the pacific ocean. The last two holes will test you, with a long par 3 off an extremely elevated tee which is difficult to judge and a par 4 uphill with a narrow fairway.
This course is awesome. Great bang for the buck which is my favorite type.
@@arabking1985 I am glad someone agreed with me. The toughest hole on the property is actually on the 9 hole executive. Long par 3 number 4 hole. This is one of those holes that you are actually rewarded for hitting short then chipping onto the green. That green is serverly slope and you are granteed a 3 putt if you land on the green.
Been testing both now - descision after this input: done; will go for watch first.
New mic‘ is good; firstly thought maybe too much (audio-) input, but more insight in pre-shot-process is great.
Best course around: Attighof Golf and Country Club! Loads of slope, but fine fairways and tugged into the woods; on top: beers and further catering on me. 🤙🏼
Happy new year to all playas!
10:03 - This is the kind of course management I'm usually thinking! "If I top it I still have a third shot." Love it.
Hermitage Golf Course in Nashville, TN is a great course here.
LOL!
A must play is whistling straits or Erin hills. Beautiful courses and very tough to go low at.
I live three miles from EH. Let’s play some time, Sam.👍
A must play in the Minnesota metro area, Loggers Trail! We don't get lynx style courses up here very often, if at all, but Loggers Trail is definitely lynx style, and its a real treat to play especially in the fall. The gold divot tool / birdie feather would be a great home for my Wadda Playa ball mark!
Lake Chabot with one of the only par 6's in the country would be my pick for best course in the area. Thanks for all the quality vids
My must-play course in my area (Reno, NV) has to be Toiyabe Golf Club. This course is tucked right up against the Sierra Nevadas and offers breathtaking views as you tour through the natural mountains of the course. It makes for a challenging but fair track but applying your course management strategies has already shedded strokes off of my games. Finally broke my 100 but the grind doesnt stop! Maybe planting some feathers will help!
Ravisloe is the must play public golf course in Chicago. A classic old-school Donald Ross layout, and a perfect course to walk
I second this recommendation. Best walking course in the country.
This is one of the best videos you have produced matt. Maybe it is the lapel mic and no dubbing later. And the distance watch. Since i have a distance watch this is helpful. Good good video!
The weather looks great...Had snow on a couple greens on the course I played last week...Was able to putt thru it tho. Extra roll on the frozen fairways , was nice.
Just want to say I very much enjoyed the running commentary and hope you do more vids with it. Love the channel!
In my area the must play course is The Walker Course. It is on campus at Clemson University, with a signature 17th hole par three including a tiger paw using the green and four surrounding bunkers. It amazes me how many people come to play that course just because of the novelty that it is Clemson University’s course.
Thanks for all the work required to provide the content
This is wonderful. I love hearing the thought process and also how you commit to shots. Well done. Self talk is awesome 🙂⛳
I'm a member at a course called West Australian Golf Club - must play. You'd love it. First hole is a 220m+ Par 3 with water on the left and driving range on the right. Tough as hell.
Matt, Consumer GPS receivers are accurate to ~15m, ~95% of the time and generally, you'll see 5-10m accuracy. That's +/- one club, easy, just in the error bars! Put that wrist thing in your bag, Playa, and attack using rangefinder distances that you already trust.
Judging by comments here, many people liked the live-voice. I'd rather see you have lots of fun AND play well, and I think voice-over afterwards is better for your game. But you just apply a medicinal brewski and jam. :-D
Must play course: Noosa Springs! QLD Australia :) Beautiful championship quality resort course however the trick is to dodge the Aussie wildlife while you play. Last round I lost 10 balls and shanked my last ball, went walking into rough/trees to retrieve a ball a saw sitting in the open but actually ended up being well disguised swamp and sunk up to my knees in mud. Back 9 in bare feet I had to walk through a herd of kangaroos (and their shit) on hole 12, dodge angry Plover birds on 14, and on 17 tee nearly crapped myself as a brown snake slithered 50 centimetres from my foot (2nd most venomous snake in the world). Haven't fallen into the lake there yet but guarantee there are bull sharks in it too...
Bit more global warming... and maybe some crocs too. 😲
@@1pierrr lets not give the golf gods too many ideas mate... some of us are near the water more than others :/
My favorite in my area would be Solid Rock National, which my dad and I created in our hayfield when Covid had closed the local courses. We shut it down when things opened back up, but it was a special memory
Must-Play Course in my area is Penn National Golf Club located in Fayetteville, Pennsylvania! Top 50 Nationally ranked. Two courses. Old course is woods style and new course is links style. Great slacking anytime we tee it there! Planting feathers, growing birdies!
Thank you so much for putting your game on display so we can all get better.
Must play in my area: Boulder Creek Golf Club, Streetsboro, OH -- Lovely course with plenty of challenge.
Rustic Canyon near Los Angeles, CA is an absolute MUST PLAY for anyone coming to the LA area!
Loving the new lavalier mic. Ups your production value exponentially.
Leslie Park Golf Course here in Ann Arbor. Great layout with water and elevation changes. Plus, it's a muni course all can play and multiple tee boxes so you can park your ego at the door and choose the tee that fits your game.
Right now we can’t play golf in Northern Ireland, so the best coarse you’d be able to play is my back garden. Good conditions. No bunkers but watch out for the bird bowl, it’s a dangerous water hazard.
Must play course in my area Palmbrook Country Club. Spent $70US range balls included with green fees. Course has been in great shape. I’ve played $100US courses where balls were another expense. Bang for buck can’t go wrong with it. Park style front 9 with more water hazard on the back. Good challenge for all levels of golf.
New mic life playa. Always a pleasure to watch your content baus.
I love the trumpet music when things go wrong.
Love this style of commentary Matt! Please do more in the future.
Must play course near me: Mansion Ridge Golf Course in Monroe NY. This Jack Nicklaus designed course is a must play!! Amazing condition, full of challenges, and they serve a mean hot dog after the round.
Swannanoa in Afton, VA. Some of the greens have sand traps and the sand traps have rough in them but it's cheap and has some of the most beautiful views you'll see.
Happy New Year's!! In my area the best course would be St.Leon Rot!! It held the SAP Open an European Tour event in early 2000's and the Solheim Cup in 2015!!
A must play in my area is Centurion Country Club in Pretoria Sunny South Africa, beautiful course tough to play and island green on 17. Feels like you're playing TPC Sawgrass.
Also love the vids learnt quite a bit and improved my game from 120 to BREAKING 100 just by watching these vids and applying them to my game
GPS watches are great for those struggling to increase GIR. The better watches also have a feature allowing you to move a cursor to the area the Pin is for more accuracy, but for better players that attack, a precise measurement from a rangefinder is ideal.
Its not a TPC or anything big league, but Nicklaus North in Whistler, BC. Great landscape, and during the spring, you can play a round in the morning, then go spring skiing in the afternoon
Happy New Year Playa! May 2021 be the year our handicaps go down!
Great video, love the commentary and verbalizing your thoughts. That is a tough course, golden rule is keep it on the fairway, the mounds, hollows and trees off the fairway are brutal, lucky to have uphill lies there, downhill lies would be bigger killer on score. Approach on 8th was PGA quality!
Must play course in my area; Mooroopna Golf Course, Mooroopna VIC, Australia. Also, if this video taught me anything, is that the playa in chief kept the positive vibe going, even after hitting into less than desirable lies. What a PLAYA!!
The Regatta, a wonderful Arnold Palmer designed course. Tons of water and a for sure fairway course.
Black stone is also a very good course tons of hills fast greens and just a gorgeous view and hidden gem.
A must play is Paynes Valley here in Missouri. First public Tiger Woods designed course. Plan on playing it this summer and pay tribute to Payne Stewart.
The Ranch in Westfield MA. My brother is 15 minutes from the course. Amazing elevation and superior staff always makes for a great day.
Just north of London, in the county of Essex, is the beautiful course called 'Toot Hill'. Undulating, crossed by streams and lakes, high up over the English country side, green and with beautiful trees all around, and sometimes nearly in the middle of the fairway. A great day out, relaxing but a test. Very fast greens with with slopes that, if covered in snow, could be used for skiing! You have to be in the right place on this course.
I have seen you do Uitenhage & Wedgewood - So I would suggest Humewood next : The true Links. Also (not sure if you have it on or not on your watch) but there is a 'true distance' function on the watch to help with uphill/downhill holes. Obviously in Port Elizabeth
Grew up in uitenhage so played humewood a few times favourite course in SA
the 4-course complex Treetops resort in Northern Michigan, or as I like to call it: "Tuba Town"
Arcadia bluffs is much better
Hi Matt, you probably know but you should be able to change the target on your watch to match the pin location so that the distance is more exact rather than just to the center of the green - I think you said it was an Approach S40 and I use the same. Tap the green and then tap the pin location. Enjoyed the video, looking forward to the back 9! Must play course in my area is Raspberry Falls Golf & Hunt Club (Northern Virginia, USA).
Didnt wana use pin distance. Wanted to see what happens if you go at the center of greens and eliminate the pin. But impossible for my brain!
In Germany, I love the Green Eagle courses, just bring enough balls because they have so much water :D
My record on an especially devastating round was 8 balls lost to water. Young me was so enraged by the end that the clubs almost went for a swim as well
You gotta come to Italy and close to the sunny Rimini you’ll find the fantastic verucchio golf club! Its not in perfect shape but the views are fantastic and the course layout is lovely.. I’d love to offer you a beer and play a round together! Cheers and happy 2021
Must play course: Highlands Golf Course (Tacoma Wa). cheap Par 9 par 3 through a neighborhood, but just about every shot you have houses in in your view so you have to think about it all the time, keeps your head in the game . Holes go from 90 to 195 so you'll need all your irons. Great course for a quick 60 minute round.
Red Rocks Golf Course in South Dakota... hidden gem of the black hills, with lots of character and challenging greens
Must play course: Hillside greens in Dawson Creek (mile zero of the Alaska highway). It is a par 3 course but it has nice sized greens, lots of variety, and the best kept greens in the area. Very poorly promoted though, I live less than a mile away and it took me a year to find it. Got my first hole in one on hole 9 in September! Keep up the positive content playa!
Forgot to mention it is owned by a garden company so there is a lot of nice greenery and mini gardens around the course, as opposed to the usual rough grass and willows on every other course around Dawson.
Great video again Matt. One day can we have a compilation video of "Caddie no good" please? Every time I hear that I repeat it & crack up
A must play course in New Zealand is Tara Iti although it's super hard to get on. Absolutely stunning though. I hope to play there someday! Worth the trip to NZ just to play that course.
Kingsdown Golf Club, Wiltshire, UK. Been there since 1880! On the site of an old quarry so some of the fairways look like jelly - great course.
Mic on the lapel. Love it! Waddaplaya!Now you can really talk us through the shots.
15:41 just needed the lord of the rings music "the furthest ive ever been from the shire!"
Its an honest game play, very interesting to watch playah
Must play. Brabazon, Belfry. Played it once before discovered way of the playa and I was awful. Will take it on again soon
Must-play course? This is a contentious one because many people hate it, but my favourite course is Las Ramblas in south-east Spain. “Proper” out-of-bounds on every single hole. Not long and you have to really think about where to put your shot. Many blind tee shots, massive elevations, it’s almost like crazy golf on steroids. Probably only 3-4 holes where it makes sense to take driver- in fact a big drive is often punished, which is why a lot of people don’t get on with it. If you ask me, if they used their intelligence more and put their ego aside they’d really enjoy it. Ability to shape a tee shot is a huge advantage here.
There are some great risk&reward holes too - eg hole 9 short par 4 - a cheeky dogleg, but drivable directly from elevated tee, but you have to clear a big pond and there’s out of bounds to the rear and right. You can take it on and easily make birdie, eagle is realistic, but with a strong chance of going OOB and taking a 6. I am a hideously conservative player, so I go 7-iron into the wide open fairway which leaves a cosy wedge - almost guaranteed par and a strong birdie chance.
Same with the short par 5 4th where your drive can easily roll down into the first big ravine. Green easily reachable in 2, but big ravine in front and out of bounds over the back. I find if you lay up the green suddenly looks so much bigger. Personally I’ll take a comfortable par over the risky birdie/eagle attempt 9 times out of 10.
Apologies for the length, but based on what I’ve seen from your videos I reckon you’d enjoy it.
If you're around Columbus, OH, there a bunch of nice courses but the one that is must play is Scioto Country Club. This is the course Jack Nicklaus (waddaplaya) grew up on.
Matt,I used to not care for your channel,but,I got my head out of my arse. Now I am trying to be a betta playa.. Thanks
anyone who turns from the light, will eventually have to keep turning back to the light and stop once facing it head on. This is the best channel to improve your golf on UA-cam handsdown
Waddaman. Lovely course!
A must play course in my area is my home course, Glen View GC in lancashire, UK. About 6k yards from the tips, par 69 but has 9 blind tea shots and is heavily protected by wind
Also, I Recently got myself a range finder scope and it's been a game changer.
Must Play: Great Gorge (formerly the PlayBoy Bunny Resort course) in Vernon, New Jersey. Mountain course with a ton of elevation changes, water and well protected greens.
Excellent audio quality and commentary, Matt. Keep it up
Nice course ..played a few times ...followed Tiger Woods around when he won the Johnny Walker back in 2000
No one escapes the tuba😂😂😂
Man I love your videos
Recommendation: In my direct neighbourhood probably "Hummelbachaue", but I would recommend "Bad Neuenahr", which is a little farther away but a really cool course!
Must-play course in my area: The Jewel in Lake City, Minnesota!
I've always wanted to give that one a try
Shadow Creek - Las Vegas Nevada
Absolutely stunning course and experience. It’s a must go!! Limousine picks you up and drops you off.
Also Wolf Creek - Mesquite NV . Crazy elevation and a really fun course.
My favorite is my home course, Fort Collins Country Club because it is a beautiful parkland course overlooking the Rocky Mountains. Excellent walking course and very good for women, seniors and Kids as not many forced carries into small, very subtle breaking greens. Tree lined so accuracy off tee is critical. Just a great track.
Happy new year, Matt (and lil sis Teaski!) and "Frohes Neues" Didi & co... ! :o)
Your watch doesn't give you a front of green reading? I really like this vlog format. Very enjoyable! Nice point on playing to your style. Great video!
Great format, great audio. Waddaplayya!
Swope Memorial in Kansas City, MO in the states. Designed by Tillinghast who designed Bethpage Black, Winged Foot, and others. Hosted a tour event many decades ago.
Play Arcadia bluffs, it’s in northern Michigan and it’s incredible
Must play course: I live in Virginia (USA), and almost all the best courses in my area are private country clubs, unfortunately. If you manage to make it to central VA and have elite connections, the best clubs are Kinloch and Country Club of Virginia. If you don't belong to a club, the Kingsmill resort and Golden Horseshoe in Williamsburg are amazing. And if you expand my "area" to include the mid-atlantic/southern U.S., Pinehurst is the most famous, publicly available course. Hope you make it to the U.S. at some point, playa.
You have to play Club de Golf Chapultepec if you are ever in Mexico City! Waddacourse
In parsons, West Virginia, there’s a small 9 hole course that tests ya. It’s open enough for new players but challenging enough to make you work for it. It’s called holly meadows golf course.
A must play in the San Francisco area is Half Moon Bay - right along the ocean. Just gorgeous.
That’s second shot on hole 8 was 🔥🔥🔥🔥
My local course down here in Southern Illinois is Keller’s Corner course. By the way @14:10 in this video you told yourself to follow through on that birdie opportunity. Well, it looks like you forgot to follow through and I didn’t see a feather planted? That’s ok you are the waddaplaya-in-chief. Keep up the great content.
- signed waddaplaya-in- training
LOL that was following through compared to what i normally do!
Must play course: Klipper golf course, Kailua, Oahu. I just moved from Hawaii about a year ago and all the courses where I live now are just saddening compared to my Hawaii days.