Will is a top lad and great to watch. I think you hit the nail on the head at the end Dan when you talked about strokes gained v skill set. As far as I understand it, strokes gained is a compilation of elite professional golf tour statistics which illustrate where certain pro's pick up shots, or tenths of a shot, versus the field. Amateur golfers do not have strokes gained statistics to base their own games around - they only have their own experiences to compare against based on their own strengths and weaknesses. As Bernie said, if you are iffy from less than 80 yards then don't put yourself there! As handicap golfers we just need to play to our relative strengths, be realistic, and play the percentages. As Bob Rotella says in Golf is not a Game of Perfect, its better to have a cocky swing with a conservative strategy than a conservative swing with a cocky strategy!
Great point about planning out the hole from the flag backwards which I learned to do years ago in my amateur competition days. I’m always looking at the pins on contiguous holes as I play the round, and if I can drive round the course on my way to the course I will do so to get a peak at the pins and do some planning of my round before I pull the clubs out of my car. Will has a lot of skill around the greens, I wish him all the best on the tour.
Interesting to see Wilbur's thinking - shame I don't have his length but the process is still valid especially as our course has very quirky greens where you really need to be on the right side.
One of the best videos I’ve watched for a while. Most you tube instructional videos focus on technical issues as a way of improving a golfer. This can fill your head with too many thoughts. Whilst this is important, I would say that I squander more shots through poor course management than I do from hitting poor shots. When golf re-starts course management will be the number 1 thing that I’m going to focus on.
Excellent stuff, as always, gents. Reassuring to see and hear that the van and truck drivers of Devon enjoy unsettling golfers as much as they do up here in Lancashire!
Great video Dan 👍It would be good to do a pro’s side with Wilbur like you did with Lee ! I know Wilburs playing on tour and is obviously a fantastic player, but he is still young and not got the experience you have? 👍👍👍
At 22:11 Much respect to the golfer on the other fairway stopping and waiting for Will to take his shot. I guess you know him Dan if he is a member, if so, kindly let him know his kind act didn't go unnoticed. Great video as normal. Take care all
One of the best course management videos I've seen, I play my best golf when my course management is good, but it was nice to see another way of managing the course, also was interesting to hear Will say on the down hill putt he'd rather be 3ft past coming back up, than 3ft down hill, which I agree but I'd be saying don't rush it past the hole if that makes sense
Good stuff lads, I like the thought from “Lowest Score Wins” which is “to SAFELY remove as much distance between you and the hole with every shot”. Can’t wait for the courses to open again.
I really think it's helping Will playing & learning from Paul. A player who plots his way round a course and rarely puts himself in positions where he going to throw away multiple shots. Also Will seems very mature for such a young guy.
Brilliant course/training vlogs guys. Your content is by far the best on any golf channel ive seen. Brilliant mix of videos. I especially need more like this. Ive played since the age of 10 but average 6 rounds a year. Playing off 12ish however my plan is after lockdown to focus on breaking 80. Because of the my lack of golf i tend to play all holes the same. Driver off the tee then deal with the outcome when i get to the ball. Videos like theses are prefect for people like me and hopefully i will learn for them.(saved for future viewing) Next time when you edit the video put a little flyover when your on the tee. You descript the hole brilliantly however a little visual would in my opinion make then already brilliant video a mindblower.🥳 Keep well guys. Love to see you on tour in north lincs.
Please keep these types of videos up. This is better than 99.9% of all the other golf content out here. Love your other video too on course management. Please make it a regular series.
Somehow I play like that away but never on my home course. Never hear yardages to front and back which for me is a must know with longer approach shots. Great to hear the thought process.
Great informative video Dan. I think the strokes gained concept is very relevant to Tour Pros searching for that marginal gain but handicap/club golfers don't need to have the impression that "closer and further" is necessarily better. It is better but you require the skill set to get there safely which is often the problem for club golfers, the 180-220 yard approach shots. Perhaps you could play 3 or 4 holes with a Pro, a scratch handicapper and a mid handicapper? Their approaches to those holes would better reflect the true art of course management. Great video, very enjoyable watching Will rip it around. I hope he gets plenty of tour starts this year.
I will always make sure my last club im warming up with is the one I hit on the 1st tee. Always baffles me when I see people hitting driver in the net then to take an iron on the 1st.
Been playing for 50+ years and never really thought my way around. Luckily I was long off the tee with a good short game to bail me out. Now I'm still decent length but my short game isn't as good, so my scores and hdcp have gone up some the last few years. I appreciate this vlog to make me like you said play like it's a chess game. Once Spring hits and the snow is gone I can't wait to actually plot my way around instead of know where to hit it but really poke and hope. Thanks fellas
I'm of the opinion that the closer you are to the hole the easier the shot is (generally, I know there are some exceptions). I'd take a 40 yard shot over a 100 yard shot 98% of the time. Nice thinking vlog Dan, Lester, and Will!
Great advice given, I totally agree with playing the hole mentally backwards from the green. I will play 75% of par 4's back from the green 100 yrds ( my ideal yardage for PW) and the remaining yardage from the tee dictates the club I use.
I think you are spot on Dan, I play best laying up to 100 yard shots in , I am playing off 27 and improving all the time but know that an errant tee shot that is 30 or so yards further on but in the rough is harder to convert than a full wedge shot. Best thing I have learned is distance gapping and wedge shots, I am now trying to progress my driver skills and control of the tee shot although I am usually ok with a three wood. Can you put an end to lockdown please?
This is great content. One other tip I picked up was to do a gapping session with all clubs at the beginning of the year. However, I write the carry distance on the club with a shape. I think I got that from Lee Westwood, it's a great help. The other was knowing by the club the absolute max carry, as I want to be aware of that as well when selecting the shot. I can't calibrate the shortest length because that is very variable and is a shot-making issue, but knowing the longest carry is very useful.
These are my favourite type of instructional videos. I got a lot of out these. Also like the discussion on strikes gained, it’s not just about getting it close to the hole every time. Golf is a game of misses and over 18 holes you can’t go for it every time. #morelikethese!
I like Dan's comment of looking at the 17th green to see where the flag is situated when you are playing the adjacent 1st hole, unfortunately as a senior golfer I would have forgotten where that was by the 3rd hole !! (note book needed ?).
Write it on your score card Roland !! I look at all the flags on the holes as I drive up our long drive past 6 greens. I also look to see if the tee is up on one of our hardest holes, it lifts the spirits to see it off the forward tee !!
Lester summed it up perfectly. “Play to your strengths” . Whatever your handicap, and I’m 61,playing off 22, I know not to leave a 20 yd pitch/chip, as it’s curtains for me. Much prefer to look at a 3 stroke strategy to get to the green rather than trying to take the skin off the ball and top it into trouble. Another great video to get us all prepared for the day we get the green light to play again, probably coinciding with the clocks changing and the courses will be in great condition
I always make a note on my card of flag positions on every hole I can see in advance as I walk past them through the round, takes a lot of guess work out and helps to play that extra 10 yards when needed. On the card mark BL, BR, ML, MR, FL, FR etc
Strokes gained is a great way to think, but you have to keep the ball in play first. For a 15 handicap like me, it’s about keeping the ball in play and eliminating big numbers on the card. Always love hearing how different players plot around the course and have an understanding of their game and how to best score for them.
Cheers guys more useful content. Everyone can take something away from that no matter their level. Hope there is one coming with Bernie now to complete the set and show the thoughts of 3 very different people
Love you saying treat it like a game of chess, can’t wait to go out and apply it all now ... but for now it’s back garden driving range and imagination 💭 Thanks 🙏 great vid again 👌
Great inside into Wills head 🤓 Would be nice to do another one on a course you have never played before. How to plot around and make the most out of it?
That is so useful! To hear the thought processes that Will goes through is so helpful for us (me off 11, my wife off 32) as , to my amazement, we go through the same thought processes despite hitting the ball so much shorter than Will. Really interesting. Thanks Dan (& Will)!
Hey Dan, I really enjoy this style of video. Being a mid handicap golfer off 14.8, it's making me think more about my game and trying to get my handicap down. Really looking at if i miss where is it going to finish and what shot I have next.
Great tips from Will 👍. What a top man. Hopefully try those out when the courses open again. Always a dilemma, wheather to risk making the green or lay back to a number.
Really appreciated your coarse management approach and looking at the ideal distance in to the green with 2nd shot on par 4s and looking closely at club selection to eliminate danger on par 3s Cel👍
excellent. For sure i always have my better rounds when I think about where i want to play my next shot from rather than just hitting it. Great video again
As a high handicapper I take more shots and therefore longer to play holes - which equally gives me less time to walk up to a green, for example, to get a better of idea of how to play a shot onto a green. A bit of a vicious circle - I can do this but speed of play is always a concern when you have 6+ shots on a few holes per round!
Brilliant video 👍 really really interesting! It's great to see how Will plots his way round, always thinking ahead. Really impressive! Keep up the great work guys 🙌
That was great to see it done and be talked through at the same time and to also hear Lester's way of playing the par 4 as well, I also noticed a lot of green rope - if you had carts i hope Lester wasn't doing the driving...teehee
Although I absolutely love Dan’s Vlogs he does still continue to concentrate his ‘training’ Vlogs on lower handicap players. If you are like me and play to a twenty something handicap have a watch on TH-cam of either sidekick’s ‘breaking 100/90’ or even OMP on Golfmates. They are a little more relatable for us weekends sloggers!
Always a pleasure to watch and listen to Will. I completely agree that playing to your strengths not only makes sense to your scorecard but your confidence and general enjoyment this amazing game. Keep up the good work.
As an Amateur golfer, (and not the best striker of the ball) the single biggest improvement I made this year, was to try and hit everything ten yards past the pin, but the reality was that I wasn't ten yards short all the time. (we tend to over-estimate how far we hit each iron.) For the average 12 handicapper, ambition far out-weighs ability.
Catching up on this channel and series continues for me (I knew you as a muppet tour member and didn't know you had started a channel). Great content again, on a topic that is rare on youtube. Good things to learn I thinnk. Even for the high handicaper golfer I am, who has to had a very important parameter : complete miss probability. But I believe it just makes even more important to have a good course management.
Interesting comments re. playing for different sides of the fairway depending on pin location. This is the opposite (most of the time) of what DECADE suggests as a) the angle into a green rarely matters much, and b) even if it does, you lose more shots over time by moving your dispersion pattern into trouble (trees, thicker rough etc...). Statistically, you're better off keeping your dispersion away from areas that can give big penalties.
This content on the channel a few times a month would be very helpful especially during the golfing season when golfers need to be thinking how they get the lowest score out of what they bring to the course. U might have what you call your "normal" game only 20-40% of the time.
Another great video thanks Chaps. Really like Will. Not a trace of arrogance about him. Would like to see something like this aimed at your average mid handicapper who doesn't have Lee's speed. I'm a 10 H/C, 53 yrs old and carry my driver between 220 and 240 yds.
Interesting indeed, and having played with Will, and against him, he thinks stuff I don’t - because he hits it 50 yards past me! It would be interesting to do the same with a shorter hitter - get Brooksey on the Vlog!
Great video guys 👍, I love the short game so I normally get as close to the green as I can and I hit drivers a fair bit and don't like to hit the 3 wood or hybrid I can over draw them 👍
Always good to watch the big man playing golf .... on the point about flag positions; on my course there are 6 or 7 holes where you can’t see flag off the tee. (And you’ve not walked past them or near them to take note) Do you think clubs / green keeper should publish the pin positions with the starter ? I’m thinking a board near the first tee? Do TGC do this?
On 17 could you hit the tee shot over the trees and cut the ball back to the right? In reality it looks like I would hit my 5 or 7 wood. Cheers from Texas. 🤠
Ps after watching till end I’m not good enough a player to even think about strokes gained it’s a complete irrelevance ! It’s more a case of not being intimidated by a hole that I don’t even get passed the ladies tees or actually still have a ball in play I’ve tried playing holes backwards & selecting where I want the next shot from but it just doesn’t work out
Just had a thought to add. How about relating this to the average golfer by using yourself or Will but you aren't allowed hybrids or woods? That way you drive the ball less than 220 and face the same challenges of the average club golfer. Just a thought.
Great vlog. Wilburs mentality is great to see. I’m interested to know why Bernies clothing sponsorship has never been mentioned in any recent vlogs? Lee mentioned they both had it in one of his vlogs..
Great video Dan. You guys are a class act. Very clear that all three of you know so much about the game. I particularly like how you ask Will the right questions to tease the good answers out of him for the video. I think you've mentioned it in a video before but whats the extendable tripod for phone that Lester was holding? Is it a Joby?
@@DanHendriksenGolf thanks Dan. I did wonder if it would be a bit easy to blow over. I’ve seen one called the irange pro which sticks in the ground but I think I’ll get a gorilla pod
Wilbur makes it look so easy and itis. be great to see a handicapped player do that to see different mindset on those three holes
Will is a top lad and great to watch. I think you hit the nail on the head at the end Dan when you talked about strokes gained v skill set. As far as I understand it, strokes gained is a compilation of elite professional golf tour statistics which illustrate where certain pro's pick up shots, or tenths of a shot, versus the field. Amateur golfers do not have strokes gained statistics to base their own games around - they only have their own experiences to compare against based on their own strengths and weaknesses. As Bernie said, if you are iffy from less than 80 yards then don't put yourself there! As handicap golfers we just need to play to our relative strengths, be realistic, and play the percentages. As Bob Rotella says in Golf is not a Game of Perfect, its better to have a cocky swing with a conservative strategy than a conservative swing with a cocky strategy!
This is wrong. Strokes gained is based on data collected from both pro and amateur games.
Great stuff fellas, much more enjoyable than equipment reviews!! 😴 - Oh and nice camera work Lester, even with sound 😯
Great point about planning out the hole from the flag backwards which I learned to do years ago in my amateur competition days. I’m always looking at the pins on contiguous holes as I play the round, and if I can drive round the course on my way to the course I will do so to get a peak at the pins and do some planning of my round before I pull the clubs out of my car. Will has a lot of skill around the greens, I wish him all the best on the tour.
My new mantra... what would Will do??? Great video Dan. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Interesting to see Wilbur's thinking - shame I don't have his length but the process is still valid especially as our course has very quirky greens where you really need to be on the right side.
Love watching all you lads play 10 times better than me. Will one on one is inspiring what a player
This is recommended viewing for golfers at all levels.
Absolutely brilliant!!!
That driver hardcover. 😍😍
Great video guys. Always play to your strength and work out the way to play different holes around the course is a winner.
One of the best videos I’ve watched for a while. Most you tube instructional videos focus on technical issues as a way of improving a golfer. This can fill your head with too many thoughts. Whilst this is important, I would say that I squander more shots through poor course management than I do from hitting poor shots. When golf re-starts course management will be the number 1 thing that I’m going to focus on.
Great video... really like how you talked with Wilbur about approach shots with a weekend golfer. 👍
Excellent stuff, as always, gents. Reassuring to see and hear that the van and truck drivers of Devon enjoy unsettling golfers as much as they do up here in Lancashire!
Iv managed to get my handicap from a 16 to a 9 watching your videos. Thanks for that Dan and team.
Great video Dan 👍It would be good to do a pro’s side with Wilbur like you did with Lee !
I know Wilburs playing on tour and is obviously a fantastic player, but he is still young and not got the experience you have? 👍👍👍
At 22:11 Much respect to the golfer on the other fairway stopping and waiting for Will to take his shot. I guess you know him Dan if he is a member, if so, kindly let him know his kind act didn't go unnoticed. Great video as normal. Take care all
Agreed, top chap 👍
Fantastic video, really informative and more nuanced than the usual strokes gained dogma
One of the best course management videos I've seen, I play my best golf when my course management is good, but it was nice to see another way of managing the course, also was interesting to hear Will say on the down hill putt he'd rather be 3ft past coming back up, than 3ft down hill, which I agree but I'd be saying don't rush it past the hole if that makes sense
Good stuff lads, I like the thought from “Lowest Score Wins” which is “to SAFELY remove as much distance between you and the hole with every shot”. Can’t wait for the courses to open again.
I really think it's helping Will playing & learning from Paul. A player who plots his way round a course and rarely puts himself in positions where he going to throw away multiple shots. Also Will seems very mature for such a young guy.
...for sure, I will be supporting this young fella when he gets on tour.
Brilliant course/training vlogs guys. Your content is by far the best on any golf channel ive seen. Brilliant mix of videos. I especially need more like this. Ive played since the age of 10 but average 6 rounds a year. Playing off 12ish however my plan is after lockdown to focus on breaking 80. Because of the my lack of golf i tend to play all holes the same. Driver off the tee then deal with the outcome when i get to the ball. Videos like theses are prefect for people like me and hopefully i will learn for them.(saved for future viewing) Next time when you edit the video put a little flyover when your on the tee. You descript the hole brilliantly however a little visual would in my opinion make then already brilliant video a mindblower.🥳
Keep well guys. Love to see you on tour in north lincs.
Please keep these types of videos up. This is better than 99.9% of all the other golf content out here. Love your other video too on course management. Please make it a regular series.
We will Tom 👍
Somehow I play like that away but never on my home course. Never hear yardages to front and back which for me is a must know with longer approach shots. Great to hear the thought process.
Very good to see how Wil and Bernie would play holes differently.
Great informative video Dan. I think the strokes gained concept is very relevant to Tour Pros searching for that marginal gain but handicap/club golfers don't need to have the impression that "closer and further" is necessarily better. It is better but you require the skill set to get there safely which is often the problem for club golfers, the 180-220 yard approach shots. Perhaps you could play 3 or 4 holes with a Pro, a scratch handicapper and a mid handicapper? Their approaches to those holes would better reflect the true art of course management. Great video, very enjoyable watching Will rip it around. I hope he gets plenty of tour starts this year.
Love this type of vlog,so much to learn this way
Very nice I often forget to play holes from the green back it does seem having that mentality helps
I will always make sure my last club im warming up with is the one I hit on the 1st tee. Always baffles me when I see people hitting driver in the net then to take an iron on the 1st.
Been playing for 50+ years and never really thought my way around. Luckily I was long off the tee with a good short game to bail me out. Now I'm still decent length but my short game isn't as good, so my scores and hdcp have gone up some the last few years. I appreciate this vlog to make me like you said play like it's a chess game. Once Spring hits and the snow is gone I can't wait to actually plot my way around instead of know where to hit it but really poke and hope. Thanks fellas
Good to watch Wilbur on the vlogs. I did some of my PGA training with him, bloody hilarious! 👍
He’s a good lad 👍
I'm of the opinion that the closer you are to the hole the easier the shot is (generally, I know there are some exceptions). I'd take a 40 yard shot over a 100 yard shot 98% of the time. Nice thinking vlog Dan, Lester, and Will!
Mind set, skill set, no doubt your course management videos are powerful
Great vlog on course management. Something most of us think very little of, if at all. Nice to know what better players are thinking and why.
Great advice given, I totally agree with playing the hole mentally backwards from the green. I will play 75% of par 4's back from the green 100 yrds ( my ideal yardage for PW) and the remaining yardage from the tee dictates the club I use.
The hat is back! 😜
I think you are spot on Dan, I play best laying up to 100 yard shots in , I am playing off 27 and improving all the time but know that an errant tee shot that is 30 or so yards further on but in the rough is harder to convert than a full wedge shot. Best thing I have learned is distance gapping and wedge shots, I am now trying to progress my driver skills and control of the tee shot although I am usually ok with a three wood.
Can you put an end to lockdown please?
Great stuff, Dan and Wilbur. Really insightful. Taken a lot from that.
This is great content. One other tip I picked up was to do a gapping session with all clubs at the beginning of the year. However, I write the carry distance on the club with a shape. I think I got that from Lee Westwood, it's a great help. The other was knowing by the club the absolute max carry, as I want to be aware of that as well when selecting the shot. I can't calibrate the shortest length because that is very variable and is a shot-making issue, but knowing the longest carry is very useful.
Hope will has a great year full of sucess. Nice video guys
These are my favourite type of instructional videos. I got a lot of out these. Also like the discussion on strikes gained, it’s not just about getting it close to the hole every time. Golf is a game of misses and over 18 holes you can’t go for it every time. #morelikethese!
I like Dan's comment of looking at the 17th green to see where the flag is situated when you are playing the adjacent 1st hole, unfortunately as a senior golfer I would have forgotten where that was by the 3rd hole !! (note book needed ?).
Write it on your score card Roland !! I look at all the flags on the holes as I drive up our long drive past 6 greens. I also look to see if the tee is up on one of our hardest holes, it lifts the spirits to see it off the forward tee !!
😂
Lester summed it up perfectly. “Play to your strengths” .
Whatever your handicap, and I’m 61,playing off 22, I know not to leave a 20 yd pitch/chip, as it’s curtains for me.
Much prefer to look at a 3 stroke strategy to get to the green rather than trying to take the skin off the ball and top it into trouble.
Another great video to get us all prepared for the day we get the green light to play again, probably coinciding with the clocks changing and the courses will be in great condition
Play to your strengths and practice your weaknesses. In my case I need to practice everything.
Play to your strengths and put most of your practice time into the short game. The work you put in there pays off the most. 👍
I always make a note on my card of flag positions on every hole I can see in advance as I walk past them through the round, takes a lot of guess work out and helps to play that extra 10 yards when needed. On the card mark BL, BR, ML, MR, FL, FR etc
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Strokes gained is a great way to think, but you have to keep the ball in play first. For a 15 handicap like me, it’s about keeping the ball in play and eliminating big numbers on the card. Always love hearing how different players plot around the course and have an understanding of their game and how to best score for them.
Cheers guys more useful content. Everyone can take something away from that no matter their level. Hope there is one coming with Bernie now to complete the set and show the thoughts of 3 very different people
Good idea and concept and to hear from Will on how he thinks and applies his strategy - good stuff and would be good to see some more!
Love you saying treat it like a game of chess, can’t wait to go out and apply it all now ... but for now it’s back garden driving range and imagination 💭
Thanks 🙏 great vid again 👌
I love these vids on tactics etc. Many thanks
Great inside into Wills head 🤓 Would be nice to do another one on a course you have never played before. How to plot around and make the most out of it?
That is so useful! To hear the thought processes that Will goes through is so helpful for us (me off 11, my wife off 32) as , to my amazement, we go through the same thought processes despite hitting the ball so much shorter than Will. Really interesting. Thanks Dan (& Will)!
Hey Dan, I really enjoy this style of video. Being a mid handicap golfer off 14.8, it's making me think more about my game and trying to get my handicap down. Really looking at if i miss where is it going to finish and what shot I have next.
Great tips from Will 👍. What a top man. Hopefully try those out when the courses open again. Always a dilemma, wheather to risk making the green or lay back to a number.
Really appreciated your coarse management approach and looking at the ideal distance in to the green with 2nd shot on par 4s and looking closely at club selection to eliminate danger on par 3s Cel👍
excellent. For sure i always have my better rounds when I think about where i want to play my next shot from rather than just hitting it. Great video again
Another great insight with Wills chat before and after the shots.
Wilber really does have skills.
playing in a polar bear tournament tomorrow, -1C with -21C wind-chill, I hope I can keep present and think about the next shot
Yes! More of this 👍🏼
As a high handicapper I take more shots and therefore longer to play holes - which equally gives me less time to walk up to a green, for example, to get a better of idea of how to play a shot onto a green. A bit of a vicious circle - I can do this but speed of play is always a concern when you have 6+ shots on a few holes per round!
Brilliant video 👍 really really interesting! It's great to see how Will plots his way round, always thinking ahead. Really impressive! Keep up the great work guys 🙌
Another one full of great advice that’s why I like the vlogs where players, especially better ones, talk through the reasoning for the shots 👍
Loved the thought process will deff take to the course
Very good.
Its always a pleasure to watch your vlg stay safe and warm
That was great to see it done and be talked through at the same time and to also hear Lester's way of playing the par 4 as well, I also noticed a lot of green rope - if you had carts i hope Lester wasn't doing the driving...teehee
Great Advice from Will, easy to understand.
Although I absolutely love Dan’s Vlogs he does still continue to concentrate his ‘training’ Vlogs on lower handicap players. If you are like me and play to a twenty something handicap have a watch on TH-cam of either sidekick’s ‘breaking 100/90’ or even OMP on Golfmates. They are a little more relatable for us weekends sloggers!
My plan over time is to cover this with every handicap number from Pro upwards 👍
Always a pleasure to watch and listen to Will. I completely agree that playing to your strengths not only makes sense to your scorecard but your confidence and general enjoyment this amazing game. Keep up the good work.
As an Amateur golfer, (and not the best striker of the ball) the single biggest improvement I made this year, was to try and hit everything ten yards past the pin, but the reality was that I wasn't ten yards short all the time. (we tend to over-estimate how far we hit each iron.) For the average 12 handicapper, ambition far out-weighs ability.
Another good one here today, Dan and co. -- thx!
Love a course management video. Thanks
Great content Dan, think your way round instead of just hit and hope your way round the course.👍🏼👍🏼
Great insight Dan,your right course management is so important,work from the pin backwards,I'll use that info,👍⛳
Great insight to a great players tactics. Can’t wait for the next on the course lesson Dan, best way to make the most of your existing skill set!
Catching up on this channel and series continues for me (I knew you as a muppet tour member and didn't know you had started a channel). Great content again, on a topic that is rare on youtube. Good things to learn I thinnk. Even for the high handicaper golfer I am, who has to had a very important parameter : complete miss probability. But I believe it just makes even more important to have a good course management.
Hi, I have been going alone for 3 years now and have over 1000 videos for you to get through 👍
I hopw Wilbur gets few good results and keeps progressing. He's a boss lad and he's got the game
Interesting comments re. playing for different sides of the fairway depending on pin location. This is the opposite (most of the time) of what DECADE suggests as a) the angle into a green rarely matters much, and b) even if it does, you lose more shots over time by moving your dispersion pattern into trouble (trees, thicker rough etc...).
Statistically, you're better off keeping your dispersion away from areas that can give big penalties.
Great video, highlights the differences between chess (Will) and checkers (Lee and most of us lol). Different game, same board.
This content on the channel a few times a month would be very helpful especially during the golfing season when golfers need to be thinking how they get the lowest score out of what they bring to the course. U might have what you call your "normal" game only 20-40% of the time.
Dan great video. Some good information on how to look at holes and options on how to play them.
Another great informational video, this is definitely something all golfers can benefit from, keep up the great work guys.
Great video. Very interesting to hear wills thoughts on course management.
Another great video thanks Chaps. Really like Will. Not a trace of arrogance about him. Would like to see something like this aimed at your average mid handicapper who doesn't have Lee's speed. I'm a 10 H/C, 53 yrs old and carry my driver between 220 and 240 yds.
I will be doing a lot more with people 👍
Interesting indeed, and having played with Will, and against him, he thinks stuff I don’t - because he hits it 50 yards past me! It would be interesting to do the same with a shorter hitter - get Brooksey on the Vlog!
Great video guys 👍, I love the short game so I normally get as close to the green as I can and I hit drivers a fair bit and don't like to hit the 3 wood or hybrid I can over draw them 👍
Fantastic content and so informative. Thanks for this Dan 👍
Always good to watch the big man playing golf .... on the point about flag positions; on my course there are 6 or 7 holes where you can’t see flag off the tee. (And you’ve not walked past them or near them to take note) Do you think clubs / green keeper should publish the pin positions with the starter ? I’m thinking a board near the first tee? Do TGC do this?
No, we only produce the for the Pro Am and not really sure why. It can be a lot of extra work for a small club that doesn’t have the man power 👍
That intro 🔥
Thank you 👍
How does your 7 wood fit into your distances / uses ?
On 17 could you hit the tee shot over the trees and cut the ball back to the right? In reality it looks like I would hit my 5 or 7 wood. Cheers from Texas. 🤠
The trees 🌲 may be a little to high the further you go up 👍
Wilburs set up with is feet reminds me of a Seagull patting the ground for worms but he is a great play .And hope he goes far with all is hard work
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Well done 👏✔👍
Ps after watching till end I’m not good enough a player to even think about strokes gained it’s a complete irrelevance !
It’s more a case of not being intimidated by a hole that I don’t even get passed the ladies tees or actually still have a ball in play
I’ve tried playing holes backwards & selecting where I want the next shot from but it just doesn’t work out
Just had a thought to add. How about relating this to the average golfer by using yourself or Will but you aren't allowed hybrids or woods? That way you drive the ball less than 220 and face the same challenges of the average club golfer. Just a thought.
I used to like Will until I saw that headcover 🤮!! Great video as ever Dan
Great vlog. Wilburs mentality is great to see. I’m interested to know why Bernies clothing sponsorship has never been mentioned in any recent vlogs? Lee mentioned they both had it in one of his vlogs..
He decided not to carry on working the IG, Lee is continuing 👍
Great video Dan. You guys are a class act. Very clear that all three of you know so much about the game. I particularly like how you ask Will the right questions to tease the good answers out of him for the video.
I think you've mentioned it in a video before but whats the extendable tripod for phone that Lester was holding? Is it a Joby?
Yeah a joby, it’s not great in the wind, keeps falling over
@@DanHendriksenGolf thanks Dan. I did wonder if it would be a bit easy to blow over. I’ve seen one called the irange pro which sticks in the ground but I think I’ll get a gorilla pod
Good video, he’s a beast. What kinda yardage does he get with driver?
About 290 to 300 👍
Good vlog and well done
Thanks Anders 👍
This video gets me thinking about how I want to play each hole and not just grab the driver and hit away.