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0:00 Right, welcome down to another Golf Mates video. You clicked on here cuz you want to lose shots off your handicap and lower your scores. Well, you can do that without even changing your golf swing just with this simple method what the old-timers are using and even some professional golfers. Come with me. Right. So, I'm Liam. I'm an 8.4 handicapper. I've been a single handicapper for over 16 years, but also I'm a professional caddy. I've even won on the European tour. So I've seen different people play golf. Now I have a good friend of mine man parts. He's 84 year old. Would you believe he's been a five handicap and below for over 50 years and we're going to let into a few secrets from the pros and from the old-timers how you can definitely knock five shots off your handicap just doing
0:47 this method. And are you ready? You don't need a golf blessing. Right. This is how you're going to lose shots and get your handicap down. This is what the pros do. and especially the old-timers. This is called the traffic light method, and you don't need a golf lesson or change your swing. Basically, traffic light, red, danger, danger, don't go over amber slightly attack green go, go, go. Let me set you example. Look behind me. Look at that pin there. Three bunkers all in front of it. Attack that pin if you want, but some people do. I can hit a picture 125 yards. Land it still next to the pin. birdie. No problem. You're walking off of a five, mate. Stop sniffing glue and use your law. Use the traffic light method. So,
1:33 I'm going to use this method where I'm going to have this is a red red. I ain't going for the pin. I'm going to hit a club what will go way past the pin. Just forget it. So, it brings them bunkers all at front out of play. So, it's 133 yards. I'm going to hit a nine iron, but I only need 117 yards to clear the bunkers. That's where the madness where these other people will probably hit a pitching wedge. What I am going to say if you're a 10 handicapper and below jog on this video might not be for you. Right, let's put this method into madness. And let me tell you now, guaranteed handicap coming down. And I tell you, if you're playing your mates and just plug plaud, you're going to beat them every time. Watch. Right. Caution, caution, caution. Middle of green or back. So I've got the old nine iron.
2:19 This is the perfect traffic light. Perfect. She's hanging on the green just a decent shot. Plenty, plenty, plenty right on top of it. Two very, very smart shots. More club did not attack the pin. The pinu save that for all the carpet carriers doing the weight. Oh, I can get a pitching wedge onto the green and make it stop and get a five. Let's see what I will get. Right, here we go. Flag.
3:04 Forget about it. Look what's happened. Fact had a dodgy bounce, but I will be honest. Told you me handicap. That first shot worked a great shot. Now, I've probably got the wrong club here, but I think I can get away with putting it. We thought they were on the green. Right. It's not bad indeed. Right. Paw. This is not bad. This is forgetting the flag. If I would have hit this better, that might have been another five yards forward. But I didn't. But I never went for the flag, did I? It's danger danger high voltage
3:55 there. That will stop you going bald and it'll also stop you going gray. That is awesome. Two pars on a very hard. Now, let's see what happens when I do the carpet carrier. I've had my protein shakes. I'm going for the pin. Attack. Attack. Attack. Watch me attack it. probably come off of a six. Right. Pitching wedge. I can get it though. No problem. Green light this. Attack. Attack. Attack. Look at that. I've tried lever that and that's what happened. I have tried hit it too hard because I'm attacking that pin and I had to hit my career best. CB
4:40 career best. And we all can't do that. So, I'm going to try and swing a little bit easier to this one now. Still pitching wedge because I'm egotistic and I can do it. Right. No, I've gone for the pin. Look what's happened. Pin one cuz I'm trying to hit my club too hard. And the next one I didn't get it perfect. That was seven out of 10. I needed a nine out of 10. Right. Let's see how we score on this hole. Right. We go. So, I hit that seven out of 10. I'm left with this shortsided myself. Got a little hard bunker shot here. Even if I hit that nine out of 10, I'm
5:25 probably just there. Eight out of 10. Still not on the green. So, going for the pin was just stupid. Right, I've got my 56 opener face. Just going to get on the green. Get a put for par. But that'll be very, very hard if you're 10 handicapper or above. That was a not bad shot. Stay, stay, stay. I'll take that because you can't you can't be slow. You've got to give it some pace to get over the hill. I'll take that. It's left me a nasty one. And don't think this video is about shooting for the back of the green. It is not. When you get into the next one, you'll understand and it'll be a big light bulb moment and you'll think, do you know what? He is a wally, but he does talk some sense when he wants to be. Right.
6:12 I'm going to try and aim right here cuz it's a bit less lip. I think that's probably the safest shot and should give me a flat put in. Go on then for camera. Yes, not bad. But that'll save me a par. And that was very lucky cuz it's actually I aimed there and I got it there. But you know, we're we're not professional golfers. I'm a golfer just like you. But I've got a little bit of knowledge for who I've played with and what I've managed to do. Seeing other people, sometimes I can't do it myself, but I have an idea what to do. Especially in the proams, you get to see a lot of amateurs when you're caddying and you see it yourself. And I'm an amateur, so it's it should be making more sense for me. And it does
6:58 sometimes, but if it can make sense for me who's a walley, it's going to make sense for you who's very educated and a good person. P. But I am decent out of the bunker. It is a better part of my game. Probably because I've got an over the top swing, right? We've already got two parts playing away from the pin. I mean, it's not se Steven goal. The flag is under the siege. Forget that. But wait, you'll see on the next ones you you'll understand, honestly. Keep watching. It's not a long video, so keep watching. Tell the wife. Be quiet. turn. Great effort, wasn't it? Great effort. Let's be straight. We'll take a borgi.
7:43 But if I didn't go for the flag, I probably won't be putting for a borgi. Onto the next light and you'll understand. This is a big nugget. Onto the next. Brought you to a cracker here. You might be looking at this flag now and thinking green. Eh eh carpet carriers, forget it. You're not attacking this flag. This is an amber because the pins at the back, you don't want to go big. So middle of the green. If the ball lands, brilliant. It's an uphill put. Two put. Get out of way. It's definitely not a green. So I've got my pitching wedge. Rule of thumb. Now let's land it in the middle of the green or just a little bit less. We don't want to go past the flag cuz it's a horrible chip on. It'd be hard to make an up and down. So, a pitching wedge.
8:36 Nice and simple. Nice and simple. So, that'll be a two put par. It's an amber flag. So, we can't attack it again. Exactly the same. And that'll run up all the way. That is great. And I'm going to prove why. Let's have the put. Let's see if we get a two put par from there. Right, here we go. Happy with them. Nice and safe for a two put. But look at that pin. If we went big, you know, we're asking a horrible time for, you know, make a chip and put. So, can we get it in the dust bin lid and get two pars? That's one job done.
9:22 Might hold that. A look at that. So, we've done something good there. Right, here we go. Let's see what happens if I go for it. So, we're in similar position, same club. This time, I'm going to try and fly it and aim for the flag. I'm attacking, attacking, attacking, attacking. We've just done amber and got one under. So, I'm attacking here. It's a lot more on that one. That's a great shot. That That's a good attack. That was good. that I'm going to try and fly it a bit more proper attack because you know on here I'm a nine handicap golfer and I can get this to the pin and make it stop and dance and all that. You know that's what we do as egotistic golfers.
10:09 Right, that's all the way. There you go. That's why it's an amber flag. Let's see if I can get them up and down. See if I can get the same score or better than playing it as amber. That was a good shot as well. That right, this is very interesting. If you're new to the channel, I always chip with this soft pitching wedge and everyone who knows the channel. Now, this was a decent shot, but I just attacked it. Going to go a little bit ill and down. I'm debating what it is to be honest. I'm going to go reel in a comp. Don't know where it goes. I'm actually going to put it cuz I think that's a safest shot. Put pick uh chipping it here. It's a bit dodgy.
10:57 Let's see if I can get this up and down. So, I've got to get it up the other and it should be fast down. So, not bad up and down that. But I'm going to explain something to you in a minute. That's the best part of my game, up and downs. But that could have been any scorer if I would have used a chipper or if I didn't get my putt right. But got a pretty birdie putt. This needs to go in or otherwise. Amber traffic light has beat green. So this needs to go in for all square. But again, that was an amazing up and down and it left me a lot of work.
11:51 No, that is legit. I've had a go at that. You know, I've got a my work cut out. Right. So, I've gone four foot past cuz they were aggressive. It's caught me up actually. I mean, bit disappointed with myself. I won't lie. I've not done that for the sake of the video. That is legit. I'm doing the best I possibly can. All right. Save par. Happy with that. That is why I'm gray on the side of me head. And some of you are bald as a coot because you're making life hard. Right. Let's try and make it easy. Let's see if we can crack this code now by going green, green, green. Attack, attack,
12:37 attack. Let me show you when it is a time to attack. Right, here we go. We are on green light as the Thunderbirds say go. Attack attack attack. Why are we attacking this? Very, very easy. The pin is in the middle. So if you get it on the green, cuz it's in the middle, you're going to have a birdie pot all the way around. So if you go a little bit short, you've got a birdie put. If you go a little bit long, you've got that insurance so you're not going over. So this is green, green, green. We've got 60 yards. Got a little wedge. You're just going to bunt it on and attack. And when I say attack, I mean as long as you're on the green, you're going to have a birdie putt because it's in the middle. So, this is a nice green light one. This is where all handicaps can have a go at this. Just get it going on
13:24 the green. Your favorite club. Look at that. That'll be lovely that. How good was that? Birdie put right again. green green grass blah blah blah. Oh, it's had a douff bounce. But again, let's get up there and you'll see what I mean by birdie putts because it's a green flag because it's in the middle. You'll understand when you see this. So, it's just your favorite club. Now, look at this one. Makable birdie put. This one, it's a birdie putt, but least you're going to get and I didn't hit it great cuz I'm not a professional and neither you. I've already said if you're a 10-hander and below, don't watch this video. But it'll get me my par.
14:13 And more importantly, it won't get me a double. Do you know what I mean? I've not gone cuz I were forcing up middle of the green. So par. All right. For a bird, a genuine birdie. But you're definitely not going to free put this, are you? There you go. P. I'll pop it in. It's all two pars because that was a green light. Hopefully you understand the essence of this video. It's about macho and ego. Lose them, you lose scores, handicapp. If you've liked the video, make sure you comment or like this le and learn some more cuz it's not just me. I can get a lot of golfers, some five handicappers when you watch the swing, you'd think they'd be off 15, but you'd learn so much. So, make sure
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