Boys today I shot a 78 by following the way of the playa. I have never broken 80 before but today everything just clicked. I finished 18 by sticking a shot onto an island green from 180 into the wind. I put the ball to 3 feet, it was the best shot I have ever hit to cap off my best round ever. I feel like a million dollars today and wanted to share some good golf news with a community that can understand what this means to me. Keep fighting playas

That’s it. I’m clipping on 5 towels next round 😂. Great stuff Baus!!!

The biggest key I learned from this video is scratch golfers typically have 4 towels on their belt right before their birdies. I will try this tomorrow.

I'm 60 years old with a 6 Index and 4 handicap at my home course. My ability to shoot consistently in the 70's is based on my strategy to always play within my skill level. Stop watching and thinking you can hit the shots you see on the PGA, because you can't. I can't tell you how many guys I play golf with will try and hit a 9 iron 170 yards because they saw Rory do it last week. I hit my 9 iron 120-130. I can throw darts at the pin because I follow one simple rule..."Let the club do the work" Stop overswinging and play within your skill level and develop a smooth tempo. it'll make a huge difference.

I have been following you channel and I was all about breaking 100 about 2 months ago and now I just shot my first 90 dead today and that was with a lot of easily avoidable mistakes to boot. Will be chasing to break 80 by Christmas. Keep it flowing my dude.

Definitely worth the watch but I also jotted the cliffnotes down as well. I enjoyed watching his round while giving these tips and this seems like a long form commercial for those towels: 1. Having a "Go to" tee club, even if it's not driver; so a club you know you won't miss with and can always count on 2. 1 Shot shape and stick with it (can make other shot shapes if required) 3. play a lot (on course or off i.e. productive range time with focus on short game) 4. know expectations of a scratch golfer (8/10 on the green from 120yds, avg within 18ft for pros); shoot for perfection knowing it's unattainable and living with the results 5. Superb distance control; focusing on approach shots but also with putting (pick a line then solely concentrate on distance control, removing variables) 6. Need to be able to reliably hit a driver as scratch will play from back tees and par 5's should be looked at as birdie opps; hit the driver well to have shorter irons in, more manageable yardage attacking par 5's 7. Do not use shots on the course that you haven't worked/practiced on for quite a while before; comfortable hitting any shot you use or might use in a real round; play to your strengths and/or get your weaknesses good enough to avoid destroying your card. 8. Got over your shot quickly, once done you move on to focus on the very next shot you have to play; scratch players like to walk as they start assessing the lie and the next shot asap; forget what just happened focus on executing this current shot. 9. Love data but not solely on strokes gained/lost; what clubs hitting, not hitting, distance with those clubs then use this info to adapt their bag and what clubs they are carrying into battle (e.g. find you aren't using a club, replace it with something else more useful, or two clubs hitting very similar distances, take one out and again bring something in more useful) 10. Truly understanding how the club and ball interact with all conditions (lie, slope, wind, temp, etc.); understand how club and ball reacts to lie and landing conditions and adapt swing to that. not copy paste distances for each club

I’ve been watching your videos for about a month. Took 5 clubs to the course, nothing longer than 150. Shot about what I normally do, with maybe the worst I’ve putt in years. Had the most fun I’ve had playing golf in years. No lost ball. No stress. Just enjoyable shots. And by the end, my 7iron off the tee was a thing of beauty. Grooved that thing in. Can’t wait to get back out there. Keep spreading the JOMO.

This is the absolute best advise. Priceless advise! My experience in golf was very deep, for a very long time. Personal lessons once a week from middle school into college. Summers at David Ledbetter Academy in Bradenton. AJGA, NJGA, All the JGA’s….if it was not for the ol’ back issues - who knows. But your advise is spot friggin on. 16 years of maybe a random scramble and finally getting my back issues sorted, and i started playing again this summer (found your videos because i wanted to see Hogans backswing) and i have not lost many strokes from when i was ranked. And everything you said is exactly why. You said what i cannot explain. And perhaps for conversation, or some may find my opinions interesting - A few other items that i like to add - never worry about how you are hitting (in the aggregate) on the range. The range is for working on just fundamentals - that is all. The range is flat - and golf courses are not. On the course your hitting every 10 min and all kinds of shots back to back over extended time - not fire off bombs every 20 seconds. Also - For every one hour on the range, four hours working on 120 yards and in. (If i am within 120 yards, i expect to get up and in. If i am outside of 15’-20’ from the hole - i expect a two putt and that’s perfectly fine every time). Also - on the golf course, during scoring rounds, i will never hit a golf shot i have not hit EXTREMELY SUCCESSFULLY ON A GOLF COURSE before; never think of a driving range shot as a successful shot. It’s like..maste^&tion. Anyways - play a ton a ton a ton a ton of golf shots on a golf course. Play by yourself, and just hit shots that you could see hitting during a scoring round; don’t play around or waist time with stupid shot scenarios. Like seeing if you can snap hook around the trees. If you have the fundamentals of hitting a snap hook. You can hit a snap hook - id go spend my time by throwing a few balls at various “misses” in the fairway - so i am practicing a more likely scenario i would face during a scoring round. And do that every time you have a chance. And this is going to sound weird - do not practice putting outside fundamentals and distance. It gets you thinking you suck, because most putts do not go in and most golfers do not realize how much “rub of the green” outside 5’ you have. Focus on your fundamentals, constant feedback and contact and then its just tempo to match the distance - most do not go in; two putts are fine every-time outside 15’-20’. Last thing on putting - once you understand distance, you will understand how to read a green. So don’t worry about the break until you know how to control the break with tempo to match the distance.

A 1 iron and sinking hella putts. What a video. The slo-mo going into that birdie putt was hilarious and Oscar worthy. I really enjoyed this video but for some reason my brain is telling me I need a golf towel. No idea why my mind wandered there. Oh well.

I have knocked 8 shots off my score by watching your videos. I’m about to break 100 soon. I shot a 108 earlier today and my normal score is 116-120. Your videos are great. Just enough advice to not make you overthink and imagine ball swings you want, then execute. Thanks bro (just bought my first set of clubs this past few months and I have only played golf maybe 15 times in my life)

Your advice has helped me reach my lowest score since I started playing 4 years ago, 83 this July. Now I'm 4 out 5 rounds in the 80s.

Playing lights out while giving valuable lessons like a Shaolin Monk! Awesome + entertaining to watch. Also always enjoy your sister's cameo appearances. Lol!

Caddy is getting the tip of her life

wow, killing it Matt, nice ! love seeing your reaction on those putts... can almost share that feeling.. how great is golf on days like this? thats why i play... for that feeling (i dont care about score) ... and it can stay with you for days after... also, greatness with the 1i , impressive ! great stuff 👏

This is a good back to basics vid. I had it down to a 5 and fell off to about a 9/10 not playing but working to get back and this video is great for anyone shooting in the mid or low 80s

Hey Bro. Had my first youtube charity day. 44 golfers raised £900 for bowel cancer. That would not of happened without watching your channel and inspiring me to start youtube. 👍👍👍

You had an amazing round AND you never hit a stressed shot either from the tee box or fairway. Your driving iron opens up access to your irons, which have always been good to you. You have adapted quickly to your Tokomo clubs!!

Nine straight holes of the “glimpse”. Badass! That 1i is ready for Scotland Baus.

Hi Matt. Boy, it's been fun watching you played on this clip and listening to your talk about scratch golfers. I finally found a KZfaqr/golfer who can play at high level and so glad to see this clip cos I've been watching hundreds of videos on how to improve my own game to shoot in the 70s consistently but most of the time it's mainly to help players to break 100s and 90s. It's amazing to hear how flush the ball came off your clubface and that's what I love playing with scratch golfers. Plus they don't usually get mad or upset when they miss hit their shots. By the way, you played pretty darn well today and your putter was on fire 🔥 😁😊 👍 👍 Thanks for sharing your playing strategies!

Man, I'd love to have a round with you. You speak so much wisdom and if I could remember your words out on the course, I'd be so much better. Keep doing what you're doing man.

How fun. Good for you and your entourage, everyone had a great time.

Whattputta!!!! Nice going, dude. Reminiscent of The Reverend in Caddyshack….Thank goodness it wasn’t stormy! 😆

I used to hit a 1 iron really well. Gave me alot of confidence with the other irons knowing i could smash the 1 iron . Nice to see you playing with it. . Maybe i will put it back in my bag. I made me a 5 2 club. 5 iron shaft with a 2 iron head. Love it into the wind. Great club my little 5 2.

Awesome stuff. Thanks PIC

Man, you had improved tremendously since the last time I watched you , may be like a year ago. Thank you so much for these valuable insights. Will watch it again and again

Matt...Great Golf Playa! It's great seeing you having fun out there!

Great Video! Good information and fun! makes me want to play right now.

I been playing about 6 months and I just hit a 78 the other day. It was crazy. I normally shoot high 80’s. Your vids are great!

As a sub 4 hdcp that has been at scratch twice I agree with everything here. Especially with brushing off a bad shot and just concentrating on the next. I don't look at it as a bad shot but rather an opportunity to make a great shot. Also at 10:10, "always go left here" might be the striping from the mower. The striping points left, right where your ball went. Sometimes things like that get in your head and you don't even realize it. There's a local course I play where the tee box doesn't line up with the fairway. The tee box kind of aims at the left edge the area of play and the markers are centered to the tee box and not the fairway so if you line up perpendicular to the markers you're pointed at the edge of OB and I see SO MANY people hit the ball left off that tee. Even if you line up right down the middle of the fairway it feels like you're aiming right and that can mess with your head. Just a thought.

What a round, wow. Learned a lot. I get greedy in the course always pushing my self to make eagles/birdies... I always fail... Your videos are so good for golf course management and I will make sure to put these amazing tips into action ASAP.

This video is 100% spot on ... the point about geting over a bad shot---- that is habit that is hard to kick--- and its why many scratch golfers shoot 79-82 many times in summer. And yes.. scratch golfers only have their A game a few weeks a year and they work all year to try to make that week, the week of the club championship or the state amateur or 4 ball

Like the bishop in Caddyshack. You only needed a rainstorm. Fun to watch.

The type of day where you can’t miss with the flat stick. Love to see it playa, thanks for another great video!

I didn’t know this round involved a towel party, I was beginning to think you were a car recon guy 😀. Man making putts like that certainly help. I thought only God could hit 1 irons but you proved Lee Trevino and I wrong. You are definitely correct, I know a few scratch and scratch plus golfers locally and where they kill me is every drive is in play and their short game consistently is spot on

You know when that music comes on some shit is about to go down.

Great advice!

Excellent golf strategy video! Thank you.

Beautiful round of golf, Well done.

Bro, vocalizing your golf journey for others to benefit: LEGIT. Greetings from the East Coast, US. Keep going, dude 🤘 P.S. The 1-iron = Gangsta Lean 😎

What a great round. Kudos my good man, kudos!

Those towels are very groovy and another great video mate. Tbanks 👍🏻😎🏌🏻🍻

Hi Matt; truly love your vids! Very informative and with a twist! Love that! 😇. Q: which irons you play? Mizuno? Greetings from Belgium!

Most of my lost strokes are off the tee. I’ve been using your strategy of adding a shot to each hole as I’m trying to break 90. The shorter tee ball is helpful under pressure. Getting a lesson once a month working on path and club face

You’re putting was going NUTS!!! Following you!!

I've been a scratch golfer for about the past 5 years, solid. It took me 20 years to get to that point. The difference? Keeping the ball in play, right off the tee. Around the green, being able to chip, pitch and putt. And don't forget being able to play out the greenside bunkers.

Matty. EZ GAME when you make 200’ of putts. Thanks for letting the joy out when things are going well. ❤❤❤ I share your videos with my students for strategy and attitude.

So effortless. Great attitude.

That smile, that feeling. Waddaplaya Matt, bravo! Good towel style

great to see your short game is back playa!

Matt, your putts were smokin hot! Glad to see one of your 2 to 6 times a year fantastic play. What a playa! 🎉

Having picture perfect weather ALWAYS helps too!!

i cant get my head around, i was practicing tonight and decided to play a 9holes from back tees and shot my personal best 38😂 with only 2 bogies as 13,5 hcp. i was planning the game, approaching longer with thought where to miss. way of the playa, thinking and 'not caring' is the key. also noticed i was leaning again to fade this week and this paid off..

Great vid..love the ever increasing number of towels...

Nice. What a round🎉

Your putting on this round was off the charts 🤩

Matt you killed it on those 9 holes. Your putting was unstoppable

Swing looking pure!

Very well done! The video is a lot better than I thought it would be. However - I have to question the fashion statement you are making with all the towels hanging from your belt! Can't decide whether it's retro like in native - or avant-garde!

Clever placement of the Swingtweaks ad during that par 5 bogey.

I am blessed to be able to hit a consistent 5 yard draw with a 3 wood about 280 off the tee. This allows a wedge into most par 4s with minimal risk off the tee. Its a misconception by most players that distance is only a benifit when pounding driver. Its the ability to hit shorter clubs off the tee and giving yourself more chances to control the ball going into the greens.

Solid round! Super cool to see a -3 nine on you! When the zone is open it's open!! A couple other tips that scratch players do: 1) scratch players literally are unaware of their playing partners. They do but also don't notice their shots, swings, or even their scores. They don't care 2) scratch players like to play with people who motivate them to try. Or when playing with lesser players put themselves into zones to get them hostile and ready to attack.

Great advice here.

Been following for a long time, last season your strategies helped me break 100. I am having some self worth issues with the next goal of 90 and eventually 80. What advice would you give a golfer who's longest iron (5) goes 140. To compound it, my 6 goes 140 and my 7 goes 130. And then a normal 10 yd distance appears after that. I haven't lost a ball in 10 rounds, but I am no where near green in reg and my 150 club is a 4h that has such a wide dispersion because it's a longer club that I can't land it on the green. I work out regularly but it doesn't translate to the game, and I spend my 2 days I get to practice a week on the short game. The grind has been quite discouraging and I don't have the luxury to be able to afford lessons. Just recently tried swingtweaks and my swing exploded because the second I started working on it I couldn't get my swing to not be tense and just shot in the 100s again and feeling like I regressed. I need guidance great teacher.

Nice work playa!

Product placement at its best here Matty 🎉

Great round!

I’ve been a 6 handicap for years, but lately I’m shooting for par every round (even breaking it!) I’ve devoted most practice into developing extreme confidence with the putter, as this has happened the rest of my game has just been let free…Knowing I can actually have confidence over birdie putts has really let me play to win instead of preserve. I used to overthink the rounds where I would go off the front even or 1 or 2 under, which always let to let downs on the back nine. Well things are changing…I shot my personal best 66 last Thursday, I was roping irons at pins with extreme distance control and putts were falling. When you start to correct your glaring weaknesses, you can go low! Believe it!

Nice putt:) Great advice!

Cheers for the thoughts Brian, do you know when Matty Boom Boom is coming back?

I’m off 11 (it’s winter here) at the moment. My strategy is to play bogey golf and find 7 or more pars out there. It sometimes works, but I also find 2-3 double bogies… Bugger.

Dude, 1 iron blades? That is legendary stuff. Love it!

Whooooo. Wadda round. Great 9 Matty.

Nice ! Appreciate the thoughts on how to think differently on the course (and before). did the towels assist? Is my ONE towel throwing me out of balance ? 😂

Fantastic channel man

Matty Boom Boom literally was just planning a normal video for the Playas. Then he embodies the essence of the playa and slowly realizes he is unstoppable. As the adrenaline kicks in he sends his 9 iron 10 yards further.

Loving that putting Matt 👍

Aside of the wisdom ... waddabirdskymeisster this round. Awesome 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻

Wow. Impressive.

I pretty much put my driver away except for long open par 4 and par 5 holes. I’ve already dropped 4-5 shots. It’s a bit humbling, but it’s just smart golf. Really working on long irons and close game.

This dude has the best channel on KZfaq hands down

Wow insane putting

Harman at the 23 Open hit a lot of fairways and only missed 1-2 puts inside 10 feet!

Liked the series of scratch and 1 hcap playing

I was ready to throw in the towel, then I was inspired by your towel subliminal messages - thanks you for saving me 😂

Nice golf , nice attitude ! Day out !

Yes!

Dude, your putting was OUT OF THIS WORLD

That was a lot of tips for the caddy.

Whaddaplaya!!! That round was pure 💰

lol epic man you got new subscriber

I think you need more towels😂

Holy mother of ball striking 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 one-putt Pete! Geeeeez.

Skratch golfer here I’ll react and write as we go let’s see lol #1 A higher lofted go to tee club ✅ it’s 5 iron for me, I know it’s gonna be 220 and in the fairway 95% of the time for dangerous holes. #2 Play to only 1 shot shape ❓Neutral on this one. I do know every shot which direction is more OK to miss, and swing accordingly to either go straight, or miss in that direction if anything. #3 They play / practice a lot ✅ This is true. You can’t maintain scratch if your short game and approaches aren’t dialed in consistently and often. #4 Their goal is green 8/10 times from 125. ✅ This is true, I’m usually around 75% from that range. #5 Supurb distance control ✅ Yep, is why you have to play a lot. To have a feel down to the yard how far certain swings go. #6 Par 5s are birdie holes ✅ Yep but that’s an obvious one. #7 Only do shots you’ve already practiced ❓hm not really. Scratch golfers can adapt. Specialized shaped punch shots, flop shots, etc. #8 Get over a bad shot very quickly ❓Scratch golfers get frustrated and emotional too, not so sure about this one. #9 Setting up bag based on yardages ✅ yep, I love having extra wedges. #10 Understanding lie tendencies ✅ Yep for sure.

I'm currently a 3.4. 73 is my personal best and I've hit it a handful of times, but I seem to struggle to stay under par when I get there. I just can't seem to find the right balance between aggressiveness and safe shots, eventually make a couple bogeys and never hit the goal. I've really thrived with the 6-6-6 system (for my game, it's 9 GIRs and 3 up and downs that I target) getting my mindset right for getting to under 80, but need something similar to guide me to sub 72.

If your go to club off the tee is a one iron....good on you!!!

I've given up the driver and just hit a 2 iron off the tee, I don't hit the ball very far but I can get it in play a lot and then hit a 7 iron and hopefully a pitching wedge for the green but the problem is then all the 3+ putts. At the moment I play with: 2 iron, 4 iron (necessary for some par 3s with houses and club house behind them) 7 iron, 9 iron, 46 degree and 56 degree for the bunkers and my putter. It's a lighter carry around the course too which is nice

Those caddies are so amazing bro

My dude, your voice is so soothing, I can't even.

The Glimpse!

Hey! Gr8 shooting tiger!