9 reasons you don't break 90

[@MonkeySaurusPants]

Been watching this video and the break 80 video a few times each to really let the tips sink in, and also scoured your channel for other videos that I thought might help and today I played twice round a 9 hole par 34 course and absolutely smashed my PB score by 12 shots. Shot a 39 the first time round and a 44 the second. Very please with score and I attribute it mainly to the mental game and course management tips from your channel. I'll definitely continue to watch your videos and hopefully continue to improve. Thanks Simon!

[@thehairygolfer]

Now this is the sort of comment that makes my day. Well done! And thanks.

[@Berry-fr5wj]

I am lucky to break 90 on the front 9 Your videos are good advice for the up and coming golfer and the old and bold

[@thehairygolfer]

Best way to break 90 is play 1 hole.

[@Berry-fr5wj]

@@thehairygolfer 😆Good advice

[@daveinacave]

Well said and demonstrated- excellent points!

[@thehairygolfer]

A bit of fun for a change.

[@alangoudie2299]

THANK YOU FOR THE EXCELLENT , COMMON SENSE ADVICE WHICH I INTEND TO FOLLOW. SHOULD I TELL MY FRIENDS & PLAYING PARTNERS ABOUT YOUR TIPS ? !!! AS I AM A SOFTIE I WILL. I WILL HAVE TO PLAY WELL IF I LET THEM KNOW ABOUT YOUR SUGGESTIONS. SERIOUSLY I HOPE YOUR VIDEOS ARE WATCHED BY OTHER GOLFERS.

[@thehairygolfer]

Thankyou Alan. I kind of made them up on the spot. You know when see a player who is 15 and if they could think better they could halve that handicap without improving the swing one bit. It took me years to work out how to play boring golf. It's not easy learning to think better. Cheers

[@andrewquinn6634]

I think I've experienced the 9 reasons many many times.

[@thehairygolfer]

So have I and still do. Good intentions tend to get forgotton from time to time. I tried to overhit a wedge today when an easy 9 iron would of been far more successful. That's golf.

[@steviecee9299]

Excellent points but I think knowing the yardage to a green or trouble and more importantly your own 'carry' yardage are other factors, the amount of people I see grab a 7 iron for a shot of 150 over a bunker, water etc and end up in it (despite hitting it well) is crazy.

[@thehairygolfer]

Ask anyone what they take for 150 yards and it's a 7 iron. Regardless of ability. About 12 years ago I was asked what I took for 150 yards by a short hitting senior. I said 7 iron and he said he took the same. I said your sand wedge must be worn out. I reckon his carry was no more than 125 yards and he got the rest of the distance because of the clay soil we have round here. Bizarre.

[@lewisbayesbrown115]

These videos deserve far more viewers. It would be great to sort out the lighting issues. Perhaps the camera can't cope with the ever-changing light conditions in England.

[@thehairygolfer]

Thankyou. Not sure why the camera did that, it's sone it once or twice recently. Sadly I'm no good with technology. I'm thinking of going back to the phone as the camera and tripod are pretty heavy when I'm 3 hours in and carrying it.

[@Berry-fr5wj]

These videos deserve more viewers , I have no idea about technology

[@thehairygolfer]

@@Berry-fr5wj Maybe I'll get a few more views in the future. It is what it is. Although I've noticed that certain words in the title might have an effect on views.

[@Berry-fr5wj]

@@thehairygolfer Thumb nail ? Algorithm ? I am clutching at straws

[@thehairygolfer]

@@Berry-fr5wj I have no idea how it works. Really.

[@nevillehubbard7347]

Excellent video Simon. I'm just wondering how many of those I don't do!!!! I reckon about 4 of them, but particularly the putting one! I can't get on with a line on my ball, however much I'd like to. I've tried before but find the hardest thing is lining up the line with my perceived line to the hole! I thus find it easier to look at a completely blank bit of ball and determine my line on the ground. It works for me, but I really need to mark more before "finishing off"! I agree completely about taking shorter irons out of the rough (and every time I try a hybrid, I can hear you tutting in the background!!!). I know all about using the tee proactively, but can't always execute the shot!!! And I'm getting better at chipping using an 8-iron, but not much better yet! Loved the bloopers at the end, particularly the shots out of the rough that were perfectly struck!!! Great stuff!

[@thehairygolfer]

We all do some of them, myself included. But rushing a putt just to 'get out of the way' is very common. There are 3 or 4 of you on the green so why rush? Mark it and think about it and most importantly watch everyone elses ball. How can you be in the trees and hit 2 shots straight through without hitting them plumb? That was funny. Put a card in my hand and I'd hit it every time.

[@markdavies3489]

Now I know this is not the place to discuss techniques out of the rough. But here is a classic from the great John Jacobs. Take anything from a 5 wood to a wedge . Open up the club face , offset by opening up your stance/body, ball forward then make a swing using the arms and keep your hips moving on the downswing. Clearly this is not for the very deep entangled rough that no one cares to be in. For that a completely different approach is required.

[@thehairygolfer]

@@markdavies3489 Tips are always welcome, especially John Jacobs. I had a course of 6 lessons from his right hand man and he knew how to hit a ball. I think that was the best year of golf I ever played. Best £250 I ever spent on golf.

[@markdavies3489]

Even though I started golf late in life Play Better Golf with John Jacobs was the first book I ever bought.Ive never forgotten the technique he advised for getting out of the rough.

[@stuartcaldwell2262]

Do you have a name for the not-so-blooper reel at the end?😆

[@thehairygolfer]

How do you stand in the trees with a 5 iron with the intent of hitting a tree plumb and a big noise and then put 2 balls through the leaves and well down the fairway? So I had to nut a 5 iron off the back of the green istead. And how do you forget which way a dogleg goes?

[@metalheads-golf]

😂😂😂 17:23 ... yeps playing bad shots is a skill. One has to practice this. 🤣😅😂🥲 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻

[@thehairygolfer]

It was difficult!

[@metalheads-golf]

@@thehairygolfer 🤣🤘🏻

[@markdavies3489]

Ah...Yes being a member of the Herefordshire recognised all those accursed errors and the associated holes.The video raised a few giggles.Fortunately you left out some of choice language that often follows some of those shots.

[@thehairygolfer]

Mark, it's so hard to make yourself hit a bad shot when you need it. How can you hit 2 5 irons through the trees so easily? I'll bet in the next competition I hit it plumb when I don't want to. Such is golf. My best tee shot on 7 all year when I'm trying to miss it right. Stupid.

[@markdavies3489]

I remember a golf mad Hollywood film producer and screenwriter Michael Laughlin saying Golf has a mystery and elusiveness matched by almost no other sport.

[@markdavies3489]

Then again Mindy Blake Spitfire Pilot during the Battle of Britain DSO DFC Msc who lived at Wentworth said Golf was a science not an art form.

[@thehairygolfer]

@@markdavies3489 When you consider how many feet a club head travels the idea that we can hit a straight shot with a square clubface is absolute madness.

[@paulhorrocks4868]

I’ve watched both the break 80 and the break 90 videos Simon and appreciate both. I’m more interested in the break 90 as I’m trying to break 100 consistently which is a big challenge. I’m making a lot of silly mistakes which I need to correct but also need to work on hitting certain clubs better like my hybrids and fairway woods, like I used too. I need to do more practicing on my own and stop playing rounds of golf week in, week out with my golf buddies. It’s doing nothing to improve my game. I played the Machynys Peninsula golf course today and the wind was really blowing, it frazzled my brain 😵‍💫🤯 with a combination of bad course management as well as many crap shots🤦🏻‍♂️🏌🏼⛳️

[@thehairygolfer]

Hello Paul, the worst thing you can do is play with the same guys over and over. Especially if you can beat them most of the time. Beat them on gross that is. You don't try so hard as when you play with a good player. I watch good players like a hawk when I get the chance. I always say bad players play better with me as they pick up on my timing! I played in wind today and it wasn't fun, so many shots in a left to right wind which is no good for a right hander. I give myself a break on these days and you should do the same. It was a bad round, we know why so forget it. Okay, I've been mulling an idea for a break 90 round and I will try and do that on saturday. Going to be windy though. Still, it will be fun to play a restrained round of golf rather than going balls out for a change. Cheers

[@paulhorrocks4868]

@@thehairygolfer many thanks Simon, I will look forward to your breaking 90 round. I go to Alicante in Spain a week on Sunday to play 3 days of golf🫣⛳️🏌🏼🤞🏻

[@thehairygolfer]

@@paulhorrocks4868 Enjoy the trip. Spot the hazards and do everything to avoid them. A solid safe bogey beats a visit to the water. Short par 5's, 4's and 3's are your target for a par. Best of luck.