Top Winter Golf Tips - Adjust Your Golf Game for Winter Success

[@MidHandicapGolf]

I can't believe those 7 iron distances coach 😮

[@alunpugh6301]

Great video coach. Lots of information to take in. I have a club match tomorrow morning and by the look of the weather it will be waterproofs. Keep 'em coming coach.

[@CoachLockey]

Glad it was helpful! Good luck tomorrow 🤙

[@pierredollo8485]

I'm from Canada and I got to play on screen if I want to play golf.

[@loutennant99]

My course in Italy, no mats. It’s on a mountain so most holes seem to be hitting into an upslope 😢 the weather has been atrocious this year, before the course coped well with rain, but the amount we’ve had this year has been unbelievable, i lost balls that landed in the fairway never to be seen again, buried.

[@jonlilley9288]

Great tips Thanks Matt

[@CoachLockey]

You bet!

[@linski561]

Preferred lies during the Winter certainly helps my chipping.

[@micko2007]

Great video, it all makes sense. We use the same tee boxes in my golf club, in Ireland, as the summer but from more forward tee markers. I hate those mats...

[@pbode1]

That's one beautiful picture at 0:15. Production value for Coach! Got me fully distracted from the excellent drive :-) Almost makes me want to search for an old Celtic Mist CD

[@CoachLockey]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@gatorwhiskers9011]

I used to hate winter. So I moved to Honolulu.

[@johncreet1254]

Good video with some surprising and interesting stats. Will definitely impact my club selection.

[@kevinjeffery1865]

Great video 👍

[@CoachLockey]

Thanks 👍

[@guybrown1865]

Mats lol, ice skates are in style 😂 Guy Canada 🇨🇦

[@jamesparsons5633]

Good stuff as always. Those numbers are a bit hard to believe though. 15hc averaging 253? Even if that's tossing outliers its seems doubtful.

[@bobbyperu5800]

My course - Poulton Park - is on winter mats now.

[@philk4645]

we play in every condition all year long. central texas

[@TEKXS00D6]

@3:54: "It's going to be a slog if you're losing 40 yards off your tee shot AND playing a full length golf course." True ... but it'll give you an idea of what it's going to be like when playing golf in your seventies!

[@terryread7347]

Last week my mate was reported for wearing non golfing bottoms under his waterproofs. He had his waterproofs on for the whole round. lol!

[@CoachLockey]

😂 move clubs

[@terryread7347]

You know it! You ,Mark and Andy Sullivan video. 😀

[@annefilippobertozzi7601]

Stats on chipping and long putting’s winter improvements are probably based on well maintained golf courses, where water is brushed away regularly from the greens. Otherwise, chips tend to skid instead of spinning and checking, making harder to control their distance, and putts don’t roll slowed down by water…

[@johnmolloy2049]

What % handicap suggested for informal comps over winter when playing of mats on fairways and mats around greens and the tee moved forward for shorter course? 95% or 80% or 75%

[@petercrews4709]

That looks a nice course you're playing Coach, where is it in the south west? Although I'm in Devon a.t.m. I usually live in France and to answer you question, my course there has winter tees, but they are the worst I've ever come across! Just old range mats thrown down, not even levelled or taken up in the summer. They are curled at the edges and solid as rocks - so most players prefer to tee up in the mud behind!

[@CoachLockey]

Boringdon Park 👍 That’s a shame about your course 😣

[@BarrieFitzgerald-ch2rw]

I prefer it

[@CoachLockey]

Really? Because of the type of competitions I’m guessing? More team events and fun?

[@davidcavon637]

Winter golf? Mats? I’m in Ontario Canada, and my course closes on November 3! Winter golf is not an option, we’re going to have a couple feet of snow and about 180 days of waiting for the course to open! Some travel to warmer climates, and I’m jealous 🏌️‍♂️

[@Melvs15]

Went to vegas in March this year and got paired with a couple from Kitchener. They do 6/6 between the 2 and play every day. Alright for some!

[@andrewquinn6634]

We don't do winter golf in Chicago

[@kw12784]

Chipping improves (I think) because greens are softer, and more importantly, they can pick their lie so the chips become easier to predict rather than guessing the lie

[@annefilippobertozzi7601]

I would say pitching more than chipping: chips tend to skid instead of spin and check, therefore making harder to control the distance.

[@Crumbleofborg]

My group plays off the yellow tees in the summer. We have mats in the winter but the course is the same length so that the tees keep the same rating. It's a slog losing 50 yards off a drive and lots of yards off all the clubs. I would prefer to play off the red tees in winter but they haven't been measured for men and don't have mats so it's not allowed. I won't name the course but it's in the north of England.

[@fredlarke3806]

how about using a low compression ball when it's cold?

[@CoachLockey]

Why change the feel you’re used to?

[@samwhite8093]

Any tips for chipping from those bloody plastic mats that our club are insisting on us using all winter?

[@fontyyy]

@@samwhite8093 be firm, it's soft once its on the floor, and keep the loft down, taking a 54, 58 or 60° from a mat is nigh on impossible, you can't use the bounce. It's a different shot, but use an 8i and get it rolling. Make sure you get yourself a putt.

[@dubs8511]

2 words. Ball striking

[@thomasreed49]

Good information for your presenting style shouting at the time gets really irritating. Try turning the volume down but it’s still got to me. Thanks again interesting content.

[@TeddyGolf]

I've never been able to get those 7 iron distances, even when I was your age (I'm 63 now). Must be doing something wrong...

[@CoachLockey]

Probably delivering too much loft. Do you hit it high?

[@papab3272]

Don't feel bad those numbers are incorrect. We all make mistakes coach. The Shot Scope average number for a 0 handicap 7 iron is 159yds not 181. The PGA Tour average isn't even as high as 181

[@TeddyGolf]

@@CoachLockey Not that I've noticed, though that was my first thought. I've been playing off 7 with best rounds being 2 over so I've been quite solid. My strike is often spoken of as being really good by teaching pros. Quite frankly I can't think of anything other than a slow swing speed or delivered loft. Thanks for all your videos by the way, they've been getting me thinking and are always enjoyable.

[@alphaklg]

Yes bloody mats ...

[@pbode1]

Just checked my own up and down stats in the Shot Scope app. I am 31% for this season apparently -3% compared to my 15 hcp peers. That's not what your 8:08 stats screen shows? Same company, different numbers? Confused subscriber.

[@CoachLockey]

Are you looking at strokes gained in the app?

[@pbode1]

@@CoachLockey No Up and Down % versus 15 hcp

[@lmc1dj]

Rule 1, quit golf at October, restart in April!. If live in England.

[@jordanmurray4875]

I live in England and play all year round

[@lmc1dj]

@jordanmurray4875 You don't live in Yorkshire do you?.

[@jordanmurray4875]

@@lmc1dj I live in Essex, which is in England. You didn't say "if live in Yorkshire"

[@jackwest5295]

@@jordanmurray4875 The. UK is Broken...

[@sandersson2813]

They're not "hacks", they're tips FFS

[@CoachLockey]

Calm down

[@pbode1]

On the subject of footware... Coach do you use the same spiked shoes without spikes during summer and the screw them in later? I just got a new spiked pair and thinking about it as I am going somewhere Sunny (an old Muppet Tour course actually) but worried that the spike holes will wear down not allowing me anymore to screw the spikes in later.

[@CoachLockey]

Always have spikes in your spike shoes. Never play without spikes in a spiked pair of shoes bruh.

[@jackwest5295]

My Best winter hack, Leave the UK... ASAP, and head to southern Spain, Canary island s , Morocco, or South east Asia,, ..don't be a Masochist...golf is supposed to be FUN ...