How To Get The Short Game Of A Tour Pro – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
How To Get The Short Game Of A Tour Pro – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer help you to understand how much better a tour pros short game is than an average club golfer. During this short video, Matt and Pete aim to demonstrate how you should be aiming to improve your short game, with a view on the best players in the world, to understanding how this can cause a dramatic improvement in your golf shot and ultimately your golf handicap.

Here's a wager for you Matt if you were to swap for you to ask any club golfer amateur golfer to swap one part of their game a Tour pro. What do you think they would ask for? It's got to be driver it spurted out of mouth before you even finished then driver definitely. So if I said to you Matt you've got McIlroy here and you've got you hear what you want to swap driver you reckon a 100 percent. I think you're right I think most people choose driver would they be correct to do so I'm going to argue the case the defense says no they shouldn't swap driver with McIlroy because I would argue you could still hit McIlroy tee shot down the middle take a wedge dump in a pond take 4 to get out 3 wack it and you'd still make an 8. Yeah I think that adds up to an 8, but if you hit your drive and McIlroy took over be 8 aren't you. Yes definitely don't have a very long 180 down the middle McIlroy is going to make better than an 8 from there because the scoring zone is the short game. Definitely that's the big area where you see the guys who are the best in the world they've got impeccable short game.

So we could develop a tour pro short game as the title of the video is hear give me the key things that we want to do bearing in mind that we don't all have 15 hours a day to go on practice like a tour player. What's the difference that all tour players can do that club golfers can't. OK so no one is going to be in control of the actual ball and that comes down to strike if your pattering the face of your given club. It's going to be going different distances different directions so if we can focus on getting a really centered strike as a starting point and it's going to impart more spin on the golf ball. Which is going to help us control it when it lands on the green. So as you're stood into it it's getting thinking right strike orientated as your 1st step you see that classics of a thing of the tour pros that you almost like the sweet spot worn out on the line just round in time and time again hitting that same sort of space about the size of a dime coin on the club basically, and they strike it much so that it's going to give you better distance control a little bit more spin and more control

. Where as the toe would be shorter you know that sweet spot be longer hit and heel be shorter you have no control over your distances. I think a 2nd thing they do obviously to try to get it close to the flag they have a landing zone. A lot of people I see play and you know think where you hit it up to the flag, but that's you and target. Yes how's the ball going to react when it lands is it you know running in high, low, and stuff like that, and once you've got the strike control and we've got good spin control. Then we can see some think where we're able to land in the spot we want it reacts and rolls up to the spot we want. Then that tour player is necessarily looking at the flag when he hits he shot it in a landing of like he's looking at the landing you know he's looking at the spot he's going to put that golf ball into initially and then depending on whether the slopes are down you know right to left will feed towards the hole from there. So we've got the strike we've got the landing zone and thirdly it's got to be practice and not a practice if we can do those things you know we can say all about them but we're not out there working on it. If I was to practice and think you know I spent 10 minutes just chipping it to a certain spot on umbrella down on the practice ground it might be and I think OK I can get a strike and get my distance control even. You know 10 15 minutes a week extra on it instead of the 60 practice with the driver.

I like that analogy I think the point is if you've got 10 hours a week to practice all one hour a week to practice is maybe the percentages of practice time. So we're looking for 50 percent should be non-full hits? Exactly yes, so spread that between your short game to bit chipping a bit pitching a bit of bunker play, bit of putting but I would suggest 50 percent is non full hits. If you've got an hour a week half an hour of that is non full hits if you've got 10 hours a week 5 hours even I'd call it that the correct amount of practice for focusing on the ball striking and the correct distance control mixed in with some good practice should encourage some good short game. You're going to you say are you just want to hit one so much, and try to land one at the end of the tee good amount of practice not a yard out. So Matt struck the ball nicely within a yard of his overall target area and I can guarantee if I gave him 3 more shots he'd hone in on that target area being bing, bing, bing, getting to land in the right sort of spot. So those are my 3 best tip techniques and tips that you can work on to improve your short game so sharp like a tour pro.

2018-12-21

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer help you to understand how much better a tour pros short game is than an average club golfer. During this short video, Matt and Pete aim to demonstrate how you should be aiming to improve your short game, with a view on the best players in the world, to understanding how this can cause a dramatic improvement in your golf shot and ultimately your golf handicap.

Here's a wager for you Matt if you were to swap for you to ask any club golfer amateur golfer to swap one part of their game a Tour pro. What do you think they would ask for? It's got to be driver it spurted out of mouth before you even finished then driver definitely. So if I said to you Matt you've got McIlroy here and you've got you hear what you want to swap driver you reckon a 100 percent. I think you're right I think most people choose driver would they be correct to do so I'm going to argue the case the defense says no they shouldn't swap driver with McIlroy because I would argue you could still hit McIlroy tee shot down the middle take a wedge dump in a pond take 4 to get out 3 wack it and you'd still make an 8. Yeah I think that adds up to an 8, but if you hit your drive and McIlroy took over be 8 aren't you. Yes definitely don't have a very long 180 down the middle McIlroy is going to make better than an 8 from there because the scoring zone is the short game. Definitely that's the big area where you see the guys who are the best in the world they've got impeccable short game.

So we could develop a tour pro short game as the title of the video is hear give me the key things that we want to do bearing in mind that we don't all have 15 hours a day to go on practice like a tour player. What's the difference that all tour players can do that club golfers can't. OK so no one is going to be in control of the actual ball and that comes down to strike if your pattering the face of your given club. It's going to be going different distances different directions so if we can focus on getting a really centered strike as a starting point and it's going to impart more spin on the golf ball. Which is going to help us control it when it lands on the green. So as you're stood into it it's getting thinking right strike orientated as your 1st step you see that classics of a thing of the tour pros that you almost like the sweet spot worn out on the line just round in time and time again hitting that same sort of space about the size of a dime coin on the club basically, and they strike it much so that it's going to give you better distance control a little bit more spin and more control

. Where as the toe would be shorter you know that sweet spot be longer hit and heel be shorter you have no control over your distances. I think a 2nd thing they do obviously to try to get it close to the flag they have a landing zone. A lot of people I see play and you know think where you hit it up to the flag, but that's you and target. Yes how's the ball going to react when it lands is it you know running in high, low, and stuff like that, and once you've got the strike control and we've got good spin control. Then we can see some think where we're able to land in the spot we want it reacts and rolls up to the spot we want. Then that tour player is necessarily looking at the flag when he hits he shot it in a landing of like he's looking at the landing you know he's looking at the spot he's going to put that golf ball into initially and then depending on whether the slopes are down you know right to left will feed towards the hole from there. So we've got the strike we've got the landing zone and thirdly it's got to be practice and not a practice if we can do those things you know we can say all about them but we're not out there working on it. If I was to practice and think you know I spent 10 minutes just chipping it to a certain spot on umbrella down on the practice ground it might be and I think OK I can get a strike and get my distance control even. You know 10 15 minutes a week extra on it instead of the 60 practice with the driver.

I like that analogy I think the point is if you've got 10 hours a week to practice all one hour a week to practice is maybe the percentages of practice time. So we're looking for 50 percent should be non-full hits? Exactly yes, so spread that between your short game to bit chipping a bit pitching a bit of bunker play, bit of putting but I would suggest 50 percent is non full hits. If you've got an hour a week half an hour of that is non full hits if you've got 10 hours a week 5 hours even I'd call it that the correct amount of practice for focusing on the ball striking and the correct distance control mixed in with some good practice should encourage some good short game. You're going to you say are you just want to hit one so much, and try to land one at the end of the tee good amount of practice not a yard out. So Matt struck the ball nicely within a yard of his overall target area and I can guarantee if I gave him 3 more shots he'd hone in on that target area being bing, bing, bing, getting to land in the right sort of spot. So those are my 3 best tip techniques and tips that you can work on to improve your short game so sharp like a tour pro.