I played the HARDEST COURSE for miles (Conwy GC)
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A round of spring golf at Conwy golf club in North Wales. It's a par 72 championship links course that holds international tournaments such as the Curtis cup in 2021. The club was founded in 1890 and the course designers were Jack Morris, Frank Pennink, Brian Huggett & Neil Coles.
The green fees were £25 for 18 holes in March 2022 (reduced price due to remedial work on the greens and fairways).
I'm James, a golfer with a dodgy swing now playing off an 15 handicap. I had taken 3 golf lessons to improve my swing on the day of play.
I'm looking to continuously break 90 on the courses I play. Even if I don't shoot a good score I always enjoy strolling around the fairways of North Wales, UK :-)
App for shot tracer: Shot Tracer Pro
App for scorecard: Golfshot
Todays course: www.conwygolfclub.com/
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I am 60 years playing and only watch sports on TH-cam for the most part. This by far is the most positive commentary and comments section I have seen. Well done James, you lead by example. I feel better after every round/episode.
Well said. Totally.agree with you. James is a great guy.
Totally agree. Watching James is a breath of fresh air. Golf on TV is the only sport I’ll watch with the woke crowd in the US.
I second that.
Golf in a nutshell: hole 5, tee to green not great but a magical putt saves par. Next hole, glorious drive and layup, then it all goes wrong. Oh well. Thanks for another great video James, see you on the next one.
Find myself rooting for you on every shot James, another decent round pal. Well done.👍👍
Hi James, great job mate! I live down south but my grandparents live in Llundudno, and the first links course I ever played was Conwy. So cool to see it again, and being played by such a great guy!
Great video to watch! Can’t wait for the next one.
Still watching your video n had to pause to congratulate you on your longest 38 footer par putt on hole 4!!! Awesome new record on camera💪💪💪
Congratulations on beating your goal!! You really have come a long way from where you started. I really love watching your videos and looking at the wonderful scenery of Wales.
Beautiful course. Wish I had a course like that to play on. Really enjoy watching you play. Keep up the good work can't wait for the day you shoot even par.
I love the content! The commentary motivates me to do better with my own game.
Well done James. I enjoyd it again. Thank you
Great round there as always you seem like a real gentleman and your golf is a great watch.
Nice one James, looking forward to the next!
Always enjoy your videos, playing golf with no ego but setting achievable goals and enjoying the round, keep it going👍👍
You have a positive attitude and long may it stay that way, that putt on the 17th looked in all the way then stopped on the lip, we've all been there !! another great video, cheers.
Playing there Wednesday ! Great seeing this, can't wait
Nice course! Very respectable round, James. Enjoyed as always.
Solid round with the tough greens James. I really respect your unflappable attitude. Keep the videos coming.
Another super video, well done James.
Great turnaround on the back nine. Courses started opening here this week. Play nine yesterday shooting a 50. Just enjoyed getting out and swinging the clubs. Can’t complain about anything. Love the course you played.
Very enjoyable. Huge improvement since you started with the vlogs.
Hello James,
I feel your pain on every miss hit and love it when things go well.
Love the commentary and would like to see you commentating a professional tour. 😀
Keep going with your videos, they are a great inspiration to a fledgling golfer like myself.
Cheers🍻
Nice round James. Good to see you doing the gardening, I played yesterday and there were loads of un-repaired pitch marks and un-raked bunkers, not many of them mine but I fixed them anyway. That does make me mildly irritated. It looks like a lovely course, shame the greens are like a ploughed field at the moment, I'm sure they will get better but it didn't help, a bit bobbly sums them up.
I always fix extra pitch marks than my own as it is a habit from playing at Rhos-on-sea. It's a good feeling to think the green is just slightly better than when you played it. Thanks for watching
Really enjoying the views of the Welsh countryside and some great golf content to boot.
Beautiful course and great progress James
Nice course that is James! Always a bit more difficult if you haven't played it before. Great putt on the 4th 👍⛳
Nice round James it is difficult with this strong wind and the winter greens but you still dith good thanks for the video l enjoy it.
Beautiful course. You captured it well!
You played more of the course than expected, but seems you enjoyed it. Well done!
It was tough going especially on hole 6!
Great putt on 4th...30+ ft...Boom!
Real mixed bag on front 9 but so solid on back 9, saved your day.
My game has gone 'off the boil' recently. It's good to get some course management therapy from your videos. Such a frustrating game, but we love it.
Well Done! On to the next challenge.
Yeah, the score could have gotten really out of hand on the back 9 but +8 for those holes is not too shabby! Thanks for watching :-)
Well James bit of a mixed bag of a round there. The course did look quite tough to be fair. Still, some good strikes and your lag putts as always are very good. Need to get on the putting green and drill out those 3 foot putting nerves. I used to suffer with that a couple of years back and spent hours on the putting green just hitting 3, 4 and 5 foot putts until I felt confident everytime I stood over a putt. Keep up the good work and great videos.
Mark
Well done big guy. Keep up the awesome content
Starting off nice and straight James...nice vlog again fella 👍👍👍
A great round on a hard course. I was a member there for about 15 years and it brought back memories of playing on lovely summer evenings then a few ( ? ) pints in the bar. The rough seems a bit easier than when I played, it was thick heather which was a sod to get out of. My old house in view as well. Thanks for loading the video, keep it up.
Cheers Patrick, it's a great course Conwy. A couple of the members mentioned that they still let the rough grow in the summer. I was glad to not lose any balls this day! Thanks for watching
Good round James. Tough course that one
What a beautiful course. And well played despite the wind and the chunky greens
Love your videos and positive attitude
Good round, tough to make putts with aeration of the greens, made a couple of beauties ! happy days..keep at it mate!
Enjoyed watching you play while struggling with Covid and looking forward to getting back out on the course though it feels a little way off still. In the meantime I will settle for watching.
Hope you get better soon! Thanks for watching Robsenga :-)
Conwy has to be one of the most unforgiving courses I’ve ever played so I can totally relate to your round.
You kept it in play and considering the maintenance work going on, especially on the greens, you played the course well.
Cheers mate, it's always a tough day on the fairways at Conwy. I was chatting to a member the last time I played and their handicap was 7 but really they were around a HCP 2 at most other courses nearby 👍 👍
So, in SoCal where I live, a lot of us play tee to green on the punched greens and add two strokes for the green play. But we all know that's a bit forgiving . Anyway, Conwy looks like a course I'd like to play. We have links-like courses here, but nothing like Conwy. One thing I love about your videos is you show all your shots (fats, tops, etc) and not just the shots that make you look good. Excellent work. Keep them coming.
Cheers Randy, that's one of the aims of this channel to show normal golf. So you get the good, the bad and the downright ugly! haha thanks for watching :-)
Great tee shot on hole 3! Even on screen it looked as though that putt would have broke more than it did. Good video, Mate!
the scenary at the courses you play is glorious.
My home course is really hemmed in with a lot of trees - it would be unreal to play a links course like this lol... Enjoyed that!
Looks like you had fun there James and some great holes at Conwy. I'm playing there at the end of April so hopefully the works will be finished by then and the greens running better. Some good approach shots and unlucky on one or two of those putts James!
My 14 year old son is a member at Conwy and we played the same day as this and we were back this week and the greens were much much better
Conway is a fantastic course, really tough off the championship tees and when windy.....enjoyed that
Super looking course!
Very good round, drives are getting longer and straighter. Great putt on hole 4!
Hey James. Boy 13th and 15th were a killer. Conway is now my favorite new course you have played. You have come a long way and you're more consistent. I took you lesson tips on the Grip and Swing and found a Video to complement the same direction. I went out yesterday on the range and although the new grip felt a bit awkward, after a few swings it started to make an impression. I then went out and played 9 without keeping score to just get a feel for the grip and swing. it will be a work in progress but believe it's the ticket to correct my slice. The stronger grip definitely helps correct that. I'm playing in a tournament Sunday. I play in a men's club on Saturdays I enjoy the game so much and the guys I play with. The Shot Tracker is a great visual aide and gives your videos the ability to be watched, without It I wouldn't find it as interesting and harder to follow along. Thumbs up!
Cheers Gregg, good luck with your golf rounds for 2022! :-)
A lovely looking course. I always enjoy your videos, James Thanks. Could I suggest a cap for sunny days? :)
Great round, looks like a great course.
Oh man! I was pulling for a birdie on that 13th!
Enjoyed your video. Had me confused at first with the 15 handicap. Then I remembered you guys HC system is way different than the US. Here, I think you would be a 20+ HC. Keep it up, looks like you are having a great time. Which is all that matters.
With respect to James, he’s a 15 handicap because he plays very short courses. This one was a bit of a reality check, but at 6200 yards from the green tees, it’s still short. I would agree a 25 handicap is more accurate. It’s impossible to get lower if you are hitting a 6 iron 130 yards. But hey, he’s a work in progress! Ps I’m pretty sure we have exactly the same handicap system as the US
Cracking video again.
Good round! Looked like you popped a couple of drives up. I do the same when I am trying to murder the ball. Greens looked slow!
Hi James really enjoying your course videos. With your putting try taking flag out from inside six feet might help you in the long run
great video
My 14 year old son and I met you on the 8th tee and walked to your drives together….you really captured the course and scenery well…lovely chatting to you👍
Cheers John, nice to meet you too. Your son is already a great player he nearly had a GIR on that hole. I'm looking forward to playing both Padewood & Buckley and Mold golf courses this year. It's great that the parkland courses have dried out already. All the best - James
Great vlog once again James. Lovely course with some super scenery…. Well done on hanging in there too on a challenging day! I see you have a few people commenting on technique and offering you suggestions on what to change ☺️ - stick with the PGA pro who I think is teaching you and all will come good. Although well intentioned, the worst thing you can do is follow the advice of “mates” in this game. Keep it up and well played sir 👏
Good advice. My over the top slice action is the first thing that's going to come up in my next lesson! haha :-)
@@notaperfectgolfer3489 you’ll get there chap… just stick with the programme 👌
Good round James. I do think you gave the course a bit too much respect at the start, but you really started to settle in around the 12th-13th holes. I was willing those putts to drop on the 13th and 17th! Good score in the end in tough conditions.
Yeah, at the start I was a little tentative on the first 2 par 4s. The 17th putt should have dropped but the the evening dew kept it out! Thanks for watching.
Lets go pal!
The sceneries is sooo stunning 🤩 and your putts were soooooo close 😅
Well fought James. Man I hate it when a putt is tracking the WHOLE WAY like on 17 and doesn't drop
Nice round James. I wish I had your positive play.
It's tough when you scuff one into the thick stuff! :-)
When you chipped onto the 6th green, that is one situation where you would have had a better chance with your putter. My suggestion would be to try and putt those more often, you have a better chance of holing it versus the chip. That could take strokes off for ya.
Nice video, what app specifically are you using to track the distance of your shots?
Keep up the great work
Golfshot app, it has on course GPS yardages. Thanks for watching
Great round James! I’ve commented before but hitting a full swing could transform your game… with a full swing 150yrds is 8-iron territory as opposed to 5-wood. Nice chilled videos.. but hit it man! ;-)
Could maybe do with gripping higher up the club, rather than near the shaft too, something I picked up on
@@neilhiscutt8796 he can't take it back further because he takes the club away with a closed face, needs some forearm rotation which will get his right arm folding better and enable his hands to get higher.
@@mikewalker1885 er...... OK 👀
Those link-style courses… puts a premium on hitting fairways, huh? 😀 Round was okay overall. If you would for me: in your next practice tee session, see if you can take a series of swings where-in your backswing at 3 o’clock-you might rotate your forearms a tad and get the toe of the club pointing skyward. You’re super-closed in your takeaway. I think rotating the club head (and subsequently, your body) through the swing will provide a more dependable line, thus, more fairways, thus, more GIRs. Just a thought.
Another great video mate. Excellent 38ft putt. Your game was like mine this week. What hybrids do you use???
th-cam.com/video/2eydw1406WM/w-d-xo.html full WITB here :-)
@@notaperfectgolfer3489 I thought I recognised your hybrids, I have a CPR in my bag as well. Very forgiving
That putt on 11 was fun to watch.
That putt on 13 stung. :)
That putt on 17. lol.
Been enjoying watching your videos over the last few months James can i ask what you use to record the footage? is it just a go pro? also how do you then edit it all into one? i am interested in filming our regular three ball and doing similar videos thanks for any input
Iphone 11 pro. I use Final Cut Pro X for editing but you can use imovie which is free. Thanks for watching
What editing software do you use?
Now you've played it would you do anything different ? Different club off the tee to keep it in play ? You seemed to spend a lot of time in the rough today, were the fairways narrower than the other courses you play ? Still a good recovery on the back 9 and loved the look of the course.
Yes the fairways at Conwy are much more narrow than the normal courses I play. I needed to play the front 9 better as I think I was too defensive causing some mishits. Driver off the tee is standard for me as I need at least a 180 yard distance. Thanks for watching
So James one question I have. When you have the tracer for your yardage do you include the rollout or is that the carry distance?
I’m pretty sure it’s just the carry on these shot tracers
I include the rollout so the carry is shorter. It doesn't show up on the tracer unfortunately
What a 6 iron on the second hole!!
Probably the best I ever hit! :-)
It would be nice to see you get faster with your driver. Love to see 220 carry. You’d be a scoring machine
Even with a faster speed, it will massively slice right. Majority of the time I've noticed his driving shots are half swings... He needs to fully extend, and start attacking the ball sooner on the downswing.
Or he could just follow the advice of his PGA qualified teaching pro 👏
@@Mowser63 he needs a new pro then...
Is that is a slazenger v300 putter from sports direct? IF SO you need to replace it 100%, I had one it was terrible, if applicablejust buy a cheap good brand on on ebay, the heavier putters are miles better and easier to hole putts with.
You might be right and I might change it eventually. I did hit just 27 putts in this round on perfect greens: th-cam.com/video/RgKFbgfIVKA/w-d-xo.html
Ow much was the round pal dying to play it
£25, it was reduced and is normally £35+.
I want to be this guys golfing partner and friend.
have you played any Anglesey courses bud?
I played Bull bay in Jan, Anglesey & Holyhead are on the list :-)
@@notaperfectgolfer3489 Yea played Holyhead and Rhosneigr and Henlys Beaumaris last summer Holyhead is hard I'd ya don't hit straight. Rhosneigr is Anglesey I think
my goal is to beat this man to scratch. he doest know it. but thats what makes it fun. i did 87 today. im at a 17 World Handicap rn.
Do you have club handicap of 15 James ?
I'm not a member of any club right now. The handicap is taken from Golfshot app which tracks my scores to par. I have logged over 100 rounds on there now and it's pretty accurate.
If I was at a club my hcp would probably be a few points lower due to less course management errors and bad club selections which plague my rounds.
Thanks for watching :-)
@@notaperfectgolfer3489 to be honest, if you had a club handicap you probably would be a bit higher. Club handicaps are largely taken from club comps played from the members competition tees, normally coloured white. Theses provide a much sterner test of golf than the yellow visitors tees that you have been playing off. Add to that the fact that playing in comps with other people, adds another level of pressure. "Card in pocket competition golf "is a totally different game than yellow tee solo fun golf.
Incidentally I played Old Colwyn this afternoon, had the whole course to myself, not another car on the car park !!! £10 in the envelope and off I went, glorious, wonderful weather today.
Are they cutting the greens with a chainsaw?
Longer par 4s are difficult if you arent a 'big hitter'
Not a perfect golfer catchphrase bingo:
1) missed by a hairs breath
2) splash one on
3) on course analysis 😂😂😂😂 which is the most fraudulent statement I’ve ever heard
4) The thumbs up 👍
5) Long over due
No drama
2nd shot is a layup
& tee shot finds the right hand rough! :-)