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Joel Tadman runs through the 10 biggest problems only golfers can relate to. Whether it's temporary greens or leaving a club behind on the previous hole, we know how frustrating certain things can be to a golfer and we highlight them all here. Hopefully you haven't had to deal with too many yourself!
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00:00Hello everyone, Joel Tabman here from Golf Monthly and in this video we are counting
00:03down the 10 biggest problems that all golfers can relate to. Now at this point I need to
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00:16and also comment on the video, tell me if there's any problems that we've missed in
00:20this video I'd love to hear from you. But for now let's head on to the golf course here
00:25at Burley Park Golf Club in Stamford-Lincolnshire and count down the 10 biggest problems that
00:30golfers have to deal with starting with playing partners offering advice.
00:39We've all got that one person in our foreboy who watches one instructional video on YouTube
00:44and suddenly he thinks he's Butch Harmon and while I'm sure they mean well I do have two
00:49main issues with this problem. The first is that this person is almost certainly not
00:55no better qualified than any other Tom, Dick or Harry to dish out swing advice and therefore
00:59I would advise you to take it with a pretty heavy pinch of salt. And the second issue I
01:04have is that people really shouldn't be giving advice during the round. Fair enough if they
01:08want to offer some sort of tip or a bit of feedback after the round because if you do it
01:13during the round that can really play havoc with your mind you start to think about it during
01:18your swing and it can have an adverse effect on the shots that you hit afterwards. So my advice
01:22to you would be that if you are thinking about giving advice really think about whether it's
01:28necessary and if you're on the receiving end of some advice maybe just politely ask them
01:33to wait until after the round to give you that advice and hopefully you won't have to experience
01:37this problem that much out on the course.
01:48Now the next problem on our list refers to putting on temporary greens like this one or
01:54holotide greens. Now I'm of course aware that temporary greens are important to maintain the
01:58integrity of the actual playing surfaces in wintry conditions but it is a frustrating problem. You see
02:04the pins in the fairways 20 yards short the green you get that instant deflation knowing that you're
02:09going to be playing on some pretty substandard surfaces let's be honest. Yeah the surfaces are a
02:14lot bobbly they're a lot longer and it really is difficult to judge the consistency of the roll and
02:18hole out from short range and the level of ice and frost that thaws during the round is really
02:23difficult to judge when you're pitching and chipping onto those greens. Sometimes you get a really firm
02:27bounce that shoots over the green and sometimes it digs into a soft patch it's impossible to judge.
02:31And the other problem I have with temporary greens especially is that it really does equalise
02:36the kind of handicap so the high handicappers have much more of an advantage because the course is
02:41a lot shorter and the skill that is required for chipping and putting is taken out of it from the
02:46lower handicappers. It is more luck based so really high handicappers do have a much bigger advantage
02:51when playing on temporary greens. Similar for holotide greens to be fair although you are as likely to
02:57see a puck bubble back online as you are offline hopefully they kind of even itself out during the
03:02course of a round. That's just another problem that golfers have to deal with unfortunately out on the course.
03:13So the next problem golfers have to face relates to the rules of the game and I would say golf
03:17compared
03:18to pretty much every other sport out there has one of the most complicated sets of rules and USGA and
03:24the RNA have made some changes for this year attempting to make them simpler but even then
03:28the players edition of the rule book has 24 different categories over 120 pages so it's going
03:35to be impossible for golfers to know every single rule. For example I've hit my ball in this penalty
03:40area now it's called it's got red stakes how are they different to yellow stakes you start dropping it
03:45from shoulder height and then you realise you've got to change to knee height. There's an awful lot to
03:49remember and obviously you're playing an outdoor sport and your ball can get in a whole host of
03:53different scenarios and there's been situations where I've been asking my playing partners for
03:58advice and none of them know what the actual rule is so you know it's an incredibly frustrating
04:03problem that golfers have they'll end up calling the pro shop asking for advice shuffling through the
04:07pages of their rule book maybe going on the app which is really good by the way but still can
04:11be
04:11difficult to find the ruling that you want so my advice to you would be try and learn kind of
04:16the basic
04:16ones the simply one that you're going to be experiencing most out on the golf course the
04:21golf month youtube channel has some great rules videos that you should definitely check out to swat up
04:25on your knowledge and if you do that hopefully you won't face these problems and you'll become the
04:29john paramour of your four ball.
04:36Right so the next problem on our list relates to lessons which will usually take place on a driving range
04:42as you can see here and the big problem golfers often have with lessons is the fact that often
04:47they make you play worse before you play better now i'm not for one second advocating the idea that
04:54golfers shouldn't have lessons lessons are really important to improve your golf and they're definitely
04:58the fastest way of improving your golf over things like club changes or other methods but the problem
05:04with lessons is you have that phase of unfamiliarity with a swing change so maybe you change your grip or
05:10your posture or your swing plane and there is that inevitable kind of transition period where you're
05:15going from your old swing to your new swing where everything feels alien it feels strange and on the
05:21golf course you feel like you're not even going to make contact with the golf ball let alone hit a
05:25good
05:25shot and often golfers fall into the trap of going back to their old ways just because it feels comfortable
05:31for them obviously my bit of advice for you around lessons would be to really stick with it have a
05:37plan
05:37and really accept the fact that maybe your results out on the golf course aren't going to improve
05:42straight away there is that period of bedding them in getting them ingrained so that they feel more
05:47natural and if you do that hopefully those changes will then produce better more consistent results
05:53also think about when you have lessons so maybe peak height of summer isn't the best time to do it
05:59because that's when all the competitions and you can be playing a lot more golf so think about having
06:03lessons during the off season and don't space them too close together give yourself a few weeks apart
06:08so you can really work on it and embed it in time for your next lesson if you do that
06:13hopefully you
06:14won't experience the problem of lessons making you worse before you get better
06:23right so the next problem that golfers often face relates to leaving stuff behind without you
06:28realizing there's a lot of things that can potentially fall off for example your rangefinder if you
06:33haven't zipped up properly might fall out of its holder you might you drop your towel a head cover
06:37might fall off or the most common one is you've taken a wedge up with your putter to do a
06:42chip by
06:42the green here uh your hole out you walk off without realizing you've left your wedge by the side of
06:48the green you might only realize that you've done it say four or five holes later when you come to
06:53use
06:53that wedge for your next shot and obviously there's two problems there the first problem is you haven't
06:57got that wedge that you really like to use for that next shot and therefore you have to use a
07:01different one
07:01you're unfamiliar with and the performance and the results could suffer as a result but then you've
07:06got the other problem the fact that you're worrying about where that club is who's got it
07:11whether they're going to hand it in the pro shot whether they're going to try and give it to you
07:14during
07:14the round and that can affect your concentration and affect the quality of your shots after that
07:19obviously the problem is compounded even more by the fact that product is often worth quite a lot of money
07:24and you're kind of worrying about whether you're even going to get it back at all but hopefully you know
07:28you will rely on the the good nature of the your fellow
07:31members they would try and give it to you or hand it back at the pro shop afterwards often golfers
07:36will
07:37get into a bit of a flap and a panic and start waving at people frantically or two fairways across
07:41in some sort of unwritten awful golfing code as to have you got my club or towel or whatever it
07:47is you've
07:48dropped and it all can get a bit embarrassing but you know the problem that golfers face it is annoying
07:52but i guess the moral of the story is try and keep track of all your bit of kit and
07:56hopefully your
07:57playing partners will spot it if you have dropped something behind
08:05right so the next problem relates to winter mats now i know they are there to preserve the integrity
08:11of the actual tees and they are in use during the winter months but there's a lot of problems i
08:17have
08:17with winter mats the first is that they generally get a lot of wear and tear and they can become
08:21quite
08:21muddy and therefore quite slippy which is not what you want when you're trying to hit a drive but my
08:26main issue with winter mats is how it can be very difficult to get the correct tee height for the
08:31club that you're using now obviously a lot of golfers have different tricks on this and there are a lot
08:36of different heights of tea you can use so for example i use this pink castle tea for my driver
08:43it's
08:43the perfect height for it so if you can get it in the ground fully then that's problem solved but
08:48if
08:48you're hitting so for example this hole is a risk reward par four here at burleigh park the fourth
08:52hole i like to hit a three wood so i need to get the ball teed up ever so slightly
08:56but it can be
08:57quite difficult to do it especially if the mats are quite firm as they are at the moment you can
09:03get
09:03these very small castle tees which are ideal but they only work if you can actually get the tee physically
09:08in the mat which can be very difficult my advice to you would be try and use holes that have
09:13been
09:13previously used and don't go forward with the shot if the ball isn't teed up to the correct
09:18height because you'll only end up either roofing the shot and putting a horrible mark on the top
09:23of your club if you've got it teed up too high and if you give up all together and use
09:27the off the mat
09:28especially on a par three and you like to use a tee with the orions and you give up and
09:32don't use a
09:33tee then you probably end up thinning it or hitting a pretty bad shot so persevere with it invest in
09:38some
09:38very small green castle tees like i've got here and hopefully this won't be a problem for you
09:49right so the next problem golfer's face is a pain so excruciating i wouldn't wish it on my worst
09:54enemies it is the dreaded ankle bash where you knock your putter head against the little bone that
10:01sticks out on the side of your ankle i would liken the pain to standing on an upturn plug or
10:07a piece
10:07of lego in barefoot it's that bad and really something you want to try and avoid because it
10:12can leave you hobbling around the side of the green it often happens also if you're in the bunker maybe
10:17you've played your bunker shot and you're tapping the sole of your shoe to get the sand out of your
10:21cleats and suddenly you miss your shoe and the club strikes that part of your ankle so my only
10:26advice to you would be to be very careful where you swing your wedge or your putter
10:40right the next problem that golfers face comes in the bunker and specifically if you're playing
10:45on a dry windy day often the sand when you're hitting a bunker shot will pop up and if you're
10:51hitting into the wind it will then fly back right into your face and that can be a really
10:56uncomfortable situation you get sand in your eyes it's incredibly painful but also the sand can get
11:01down your top and it gets very very itchy in all sorts of different places and it's very very
11:06uncomfortable and difficult to shake off you find yourself walking funnily after in the next few holes
11:12trying to shake it out and get it all out of the areas where it feels uncomfortable i guess my
11:17only
11:17advice to overcome that problem is to turn away as quickly as you can so you hit the shot you
11:22know the
11:22sand's going to be blowing into your face obviously don't turn away too soon you need to hit the shot
11:27properly but then just kind of turn away hopefully the sand won't get into those places where you
11:31don't want it to but that's the best advice i can do i'm afraid it's a problem golfers have to
11:37experience
11:37sometimes unfortunately out on the course now the next problem that golfers have to deal with relates
11:47to these premium golf balls now we all know if you want the best performing golf ball you have to
11:52pay
11:53a premium price for example this type of pro v1x golf ball that i play comes in around about 50
11:58pounds
11:59per dozen which equates to just over four pounds a golf ball which in the grand scheme of things
12:04is quite a lot of money when you consider how long these balls potentially last we've all done it we've
12:09pegged up a brand new pro v1x on the first tee that brilliant white finish is gleaming back at you
12:15and then you hit a raging snap hook into the cabbage or the out of bounds never to be seen
12:20again and that four pound golf ball has lasted literally 10 seconds of course titleists have
12:25less expensive offerings that might well be worth considering but if you don't want to go down that
12:29route the chances are at some point you will lose a brand new premium ball and unless you're on tour
12:34that's a pretty painful experience but unfortunately it's just a problem golfers have to deal with
12:44right the next problem on our list relates to pockets now pockets are really important for
12:50a golfer because golfers have to store a lot of different items during a round whether it's tees
12:54markers pitchmark repairs pencils that sort of thing and often those sorts of things can be left in your
13:00pocket for longer than you might like so for example maybe you're out shopping and then you suddenly
13:05realize you've left your glove in your back pocket and you obviously feel incredibly embarrassed about
13:09it and another problem that golfers have to deal with when it comes to pockets is perhaps leaving
13:14your scorecard in your pocket when you put your trousers through the wash taking your trousers out
13:19for its next outing having put it through the wash and then finding that you've left your scorecard
13:24in the pocket and it's turned to that horrible papery mush material that's almost impossible to get fully
13:30out of your pocket and you spend the next few days really trying to brush everything out of there
13:34it's a horrible feeling hopefully you haven't done that after your competitive round but after your
13:38social round you might have left your scorecard in there so that's one of the big problems golfers
13:42leaving things in their pockets for too long right so that concludes the 10 problems that all golfers
13:48can relate to hopefully you really enjoyed this video and if you did make sure you give us a thumbs
13:53up by clicking the like button and comment down below i'd love to hear from you how many of these
13:57problems
13:57have you had to deal with and have we missed any out so make sure you let us know but
14:03for now from
14:04the 12 club here in stanford it's goodbye from me we'll see you next time
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