I'm down here at jcb with one of the best golfers in the world tommy fleetwood yeah you oh man. And tommy's going to give you five tips that tour players do to help them play amazing golf that's going to help you play great golf straight away these are like the secrets right well they're not gonna be secrets anymore really now we're gonna see what we can do. And we're starting off with the big stick we're starting off with the driver yeah let's do it now quick one you really need to listen to this advice tommy fleetwood is one of the best golfers in the world he's won five times on european tour he's playing two ryder cups he is a legend. So listen up take notes because this is definitely gonna help tip number one what the best players do go with it tommy what is it. So what the driver is it's the only golf club in the bag that you actually hit up on you're hitting a sweeping motion now the tour players we would describe that as attack angle. And we would always look at it as a specific number on um a launch monitor or something but i think what a lot of the players do that i see. And struggle with is they well they don't sweep up on a driver they peg the ball up high low wherever it is. But they they focus so much on making contact with the ball and impact they hit down with the driver and that then.
Results in a spinny cutty slicey drive so there's there's a few tips that that i i do when i see tour players do specifically we would call it we're working on our attack angle. And what we do simply is there are certain things the ball the ball position plays a vital part knowing where that is if you're hitting down you could obviously put the ball further forward in your stance take a right foot back you could think about your head staying behind the ball being centered creating that upsweep motion rather than getting on top of it one of the things i really like to do is i like to use a t in the ground. And this is going to create just something that is going to be a task. For you to miss so i'm going to put a t in front of the ball what i'm going to do is i'm going to try. And mr t on my follow through and that's it so if i was going to hit down on this obviously i would hit the ball driver would hit the t. And that would result in me hitting down to miss it clearly i'm going to have to sweep up driver's going to come in higher than the t. And that's going to create a nice sweeping motion which will hopefully hit the ball higher a bit of a straighter flight. And you're going to start hitting it longer as well you look at guys like a rory mcelroy who hits a long a long way on the up he gets the ball launching really really high going a long long way carrying. And that's what we're going to try. And do [Music]. And as you can see there tommy missed the t-peg still intact hit up on the golf ball. And absolutely crushed the driver good tip tommy thank you so tip number two we're moving into irons now what we got tommy this is going in the opposite direction of what the driver did. And i think. So a lot of guys they hit down on the driver but in the irons they try and hit up they try and they don't trust the loft that is on the iron already they don't create a down hitting motion they don't take a divot. And they don't get that strike and penetrating fight on an iron that um that is. So important and guys like to talk about feeling the ground with their irons they uh i hear a lot of tour players they they feel the ground they use the ground they feel how their feet work and guys hitting up i feel like they never quite get off their right side with an eye and they they stay back here they try and lift it up generally results in a fat or a bit of a skull one of the tips that i like that i've seen a lot of tour players do on the range they take the left foot off in the backswing. And they they try and stamp or step into the shot people have talked about walking through the shot sometimes but i particularly like i've seen a lot of guys take it back stamp in and they and they swing from there and that then.
You can't you can't fall back you have to step into the shot get you get your weight on that left side hit the ball first create that nice flush divot and get that flight that you want so let's give it a go left leg up stamp love it and yeah hopefully that helps i think that's really important i i would definitely agree i think a lot of amateur golfers try. And hit irons up because they want to try and loft it yeah the best players in the world tall players they hit down they compress it ball then.
Turf that's how you get that lovely strike right. So we've had a couple of full swing ones we've now moved on to the chipping green what the tour players do on a shot like this a little short chip tommy well i think something that gets um not spoke about enough is a plan. Or a description for the shot so this chip shot i would like to read it because i'll be looking to haul it look at where i want to land it assess the lie choose my club for instance if i pick this particular shot i know i want to land it just on the green i've read it a little bit right to left i've picked my 52 degree my shot description is going to be i'm going to hit a putt with loft. So it's simply going to be just a putting stroke. But it's with a wedge see the shot on all of that is i've talked my way into the shot. And go in that is pretty good what was really interesting there i think again going back to even what i think i'd be stacking up too many negative thoughts yeah where everything you've just described there was positive on top of positive tell yourself what you're watching yeah tell yourself what you want to do what you're going to do. And then.
Go and do it this is an important one number four hitting tommy well one thing we all know as tour pros is we know how far we hit every club. But not just you know one shot we will have multiple swings. Or hit it harder hit it softer swing it shorter and we all know all our consistent yardages with all our irons and we do that we have launch monitors we have we take notes of how far we've hit it on the golf course we pick targets on the range. And hit it and just knowing how far you hit a golf ball helps you so much in you know where you're gonna hit it and hitting it pin high and hitting it close to the pin a lot of guys hit it online but they don't know how far they're gonna hit it and it's not about knowing your exact number it's not that i have to hit an 8 iron and know that it goes 164 every time i hit it or something it's about knowing you know if you guys go and play on the golf course you just mark it off oh i had 150 to the pin p9 and it went you know 142 it finished well mark it down next.
Time you have an eight and it might go 149 and eventually you have a nice list of shots that you hit and you know next.
Time you come to a hole well my eight i'm really i never hit it shorter than 142 but i never hit it further 155 either and all of a sudden golf becomes a bit easier because you know how far the ball is going to go i would say you probably agree with this as well like if he was playing a problem with amateurs would you say a lot of them under club oh definitely i think um you sometimes you don't realize how much room you have past the pin. And if you think of hitting something i think a lot of players see their full distance as their carry distance yeah. And that's not always the case and also you know you can hit a good shot 40 feet short it is 80 feet further to get it 40 feet long. And it's the exact same distance away so just do it i think maybe we need to be realistic with the distances i think a lot of players think they hit they think they hit 7i. And 150 and that might have been their best shot everything revolves around strike yeah we you know generally try. And strike it pretty well like we are yardage is a are done. For good strikes um but at the same time for us if we if we know something is right on the button if we've got water to carry it right on the limit of the number of a club we're probably not going to hit that club we're still going to go. For the one up and it's even even for the tough players we're being realistic about our chances there okay last tip we've come into the clubhouse the warmth of the fire oh yeah it's beautiful i think this is a really important part that again maybe a lot of amateurs overlook. But tour pros don't what do you do after a round we analyze the rehound we have a we think about what was good what was bad we go through our shots. And see what we want to improve on for us we obviously work every day say so tomorrow we're going to look at what we want to improve tomorrow. Or later in the day today.
Um. But yeah i was watching this it might be what do i want to you know the next.
Time i go to the range. Or something what do i want to prove before i play next.
Weekend what do i want to be better at next.
Week. And one of the things i i always like to do. And um i like to pick out my and i've always done it my dad used to make me do it when i was a kid pick out your three best shots of the day. And sort of leave the day with that and then.
You can leave your golf behind. But that's always a nice thing to do at the end. So regardless of how you played you'll pick three of your best shots the three best ones here and try and you know remember them those are the ones that will make you smile. And bring you bring you back i that's a nice way to finish it analyze your round find out what you need to work on ready for your next.
Round and walk away remembering your three best shots of the day yeah be kind to yourself golf's hard pick your good stuff improve the next.
Time. And off you go keep going i think that line is perfect golf is hard guys thanks. For watching hope you enjoyed it make sure you like and subscribe go check out tommy and we shall see you very soon.
