Tommy Fleetwood’s BEST short game tips (copy to IMPROVE!) [Video]

0:00 | Tommy share with me and the audience

0:02 | your top three short game tips I’d like

0:05 | a chipping one yeah a bunker and a

0:09 | putting yeah let’s go chipping first put

0:11 | me on the spot but I was I was

0:13 | semi-prepared with a chip when you said

0:15 | I’ll have to do a chipping one um this

0:17 | this is one that I quite like and it was

0:18 | kind of how I um was taught to chip in a

0:22 | way and so for me um I was taught that

0:26 | you put

0:28 | until you can’t put anymore so really I

0:31 | could still put this but once you can’t

0:32 | put and once it gets a bit too far for a

0:34 | put or there’s a bit too much grass you

0:36 | would carry on putting but you would

0:37 | just add Loft okay so um for instance

0:41 | I’ll do I’ll do it with a with a lob

0:42 | wedge but um you know the first shot

0:46 | here if I just put it with a a lob wedge

0:50 | and and like belly wedge it that would

0:52 | be a put and then the next thing I would

0:55 | do if I had to Loft it did anybody get

0:56 | that one that was that was a nice shot

0:58 | um so there’s a couple of different

1:00 | things maybe in setup but only my you

1:02 | but I would carry on and just put this

1:04 | one with Loft and then

1:09 | um to go further into

1:12 | that so my typical setup for a put with

1:15 | loft or a chip would be very similar to

1:17 | a put so the the ball would be just from

1:19 | a setup

1:21 | base ball would be sort of somewhere in

1:24 | between the middle of my stance and my

1:25 | left

1:27 | heel and I would rest the club on my

1:29 | left thigh

1:32 | and then the rest of it then would be I

1:34 | wouldn’t add wrists into it or anything

1:35 | cuz I wouldn’t add wrists with my

1:36 | putting stroke really unless it got

1:38 | really long so so for you it’s it’s very

1:40 | very similar to a putting stroke the

1:42 | first yeah this is what I yeah so very

1:44 | very similar where putting for me I know

1:47 | I use the the saw grip but it’s very

1:49 | arms and shoulders so if you just do the

1:53 | same arms and shoulders there there’ll

1:56 | be there’ll be certain differences when

1:58 | when you chip but I try and make it as

2:00 | similar as possible just for a minute

2:02 | appreciate those three shots they’re

2:05 | pretty special so then um so I would

2:08 | spend a lot of time working on that

2:09 | being really structured in your setup

2:11 | and adding that you can even hit a put

2:13 | first like I did and then walk into the

2:15 | next ball and try and do exactly the

2:17 | same but just hit a chip and then

2:19 | onwards from that just as a simple dist

2:22 | I would call it distance control for

2:23 | chipping I would have three clubs so

2:26 | here I’ve picked a a lob wedge a

2:29 | pitching wedge in an eight

2:31 | iron so all three will be a different

2:33 | pace they’re going to land in a

2:34 | different spot but there’ll be a

2:35 | different pace so you can pick whichever

2:37 | one you would normally chip with first

2:39 | so if I went with a lob wedge here’s my

2:41 | setup put with

2:44 | Loft there’s my lob wedge shot and then

2:47 | if I took a wedge out straight

2:50 | away and I’m going to do the exact same

2:52 | move but I know I can’t land it that far

2:55 | so now I’ll just figure out what uh

2:58 | there’s my setup just inside the left

3:00 | heel

3:03 | wedge and then

3:07 | go and then finally I will do the exact

3:10 | same thing with an a time and if you do

3:12 | this to a bunch of different shots and

3:13 | different distances you start gaining

3:16 | The Loft is always the natural Loft on a

3:18 | club and you’re never changing that

3:19 | because you’re putting you’re doing the

3:21 | putting stroke and then you will get a

3:22 | feel by using different clubs you start

3:24 | to get a feel with what you might prefer

3:26 | to chip with how hard to it each chip

3:28 | it’s only like hitting

3:30 | three different shots with a wedge or 79

3:32 | on a range really and you’re just doing

3:33 | different things it’s just different

3:34 | Landing spots so again there’s that

3:37 | setup eight and I’ll probably maybe just

3:39 | land on the green just

3:42 | short oh just got a little it landed on

3:44 | the collar didn’t it it landed on the

3:46 | you got a uh a fringe boost a little

3:48 | Fringe boost I’ll hit another maybe just

3:51 | land it but again always being pretty

3:53 | disciplined with my

3:55 | setup I’ve gone for The Fringe boost

3:57 | again but even doing that I would

3:59 | realize I would get better at that shot

4:00 | but realize 9’s not the right shot for

4:02 | this one and then I know I’d use one of

4:03 | the other two but that there nothing

4:05 | really changes and I just find it a very

4:07 | simple way of dialing in your chipping

4:09 | while actually doing something that you

4:10 | do all the time putting I love it

4:13 | perfect on to the next shot BN

4:19 | shot okay Tommy tip number two give us

4:23 | your top tapes from the sand from in the

4:25 | bunker okay uh well the first thing I’ll

4:28 | do I umum I’m a big believer in having

4:30 | like setup stations if you like uh that

4:34 | are in the bunker but one thing couple

4:36 | of things that I will talk about is just

4:38 | understanding properly I think there’s

4:39 | always um everybody talks a lot about

4:42 | bunker it’s the you know one of the only

4:44 | golf shots that you’re not going to hit

4:45 | the golf ball you’re always hitting the

4:47 | sand but people always ask where to hit

4:49 | the sand um and this is uh what this is

4:53 | how I set it up quite often so here’s

4:55 | the ball that I’m going to hit now I’ll

4:58 | put one ball directly behind IND it and

5:01 | that will

5:02 | be one strike Mark so like as a as a

5:06 | general rule I’ll try and hit one golf

5:08 | ball behind now while we stick on

5:13 | setup I’m not trying to hit the golf

5:15 | ball so every time you actually set up

5:17 | to any other shot your ball position is

5:20 | relative to actually trying to strike

5:22 | the golf ball so if you’re on an iron or

5:23 | a Chip Shot you’re actually hitting the

5:25 | back of the ball and compressing down

5:26 | after that whereas in the bunker you’re

5:28 | trying to hit the sand so I want my left

5:32 | heel on the line that I’m going to

5:34 | strike and I want the club to actually

5:37 | match that line and everything’s going

5:40 | to try and return to there

5:43 | so if you if you take if you take those

5:45 | two things there’s the club on that line

5:47 | there’s my left heel on that

5:49 | line um Club face is variable open it

5:53 | open it as much as you like I always

5:55 | prefer if you’re going to do anything

5:56 | open it more because we don’t want as

5:58 | soon as the Leading Edge starts digging

5:59 | into the sand and that’s where it’s

6:01 | going to stop but anyway so there’s the

6:03 | setup and then the weight one thing that

6:06 | we want to do people people often I find

6:09 | bounce the club off the sand so some

6:13 | people dig too much with the Leading

6:15 | Edge that would be wrong but also people

6:17 | try and get it up and they feel like

6:19 | when they hit the sand the club bounces

6:20 | we want to be hitting

6:22 | Down Down and Under the ball through

6:25 | this through this area so there’s where

6:27 | we’re going to make contact with the

6:28 | sand but we’re also going

6:30 | down at this point so we’re going to set

6:33 | the weight nicely on that left side so

6:35 | now all of a sudden I’ve got left heel

6:38 | shaft and Mum they’re behind the ball

6:42 | but they’re all on this Mark and they’re

6:43 | all going to be ready to hit down to

6:45 | there so from there let’s give the first

6:47 | one a

6:52 | go love that would you say with a little

6:55 | bit behind the sand but would you say

6:57 | with that Tommy cuz it was quite an

6:58 | interesting point you made there in

7:00 | relations between the Leading Edge going

7:02 | down and players almost bottoming out

7:05 | too early would you then say you’re

7:07 | almost trying to get the back of the

7:09 | golf club because you’ve laid it so open

7:11 | are you almost getting the back of the

7:12 | club to hit down yeah absolutely um

7:16 | again that can be misconstrued because I

7:17 | think sometimes people try and get the

7:18 | back and they and the and and the club

7:21 | bounces so they feel that they sort of

7:24 | get flicky and behind San comes in here

7:27 | and the back hits here and bounces where

7:28 | again what you’re trying to do is get

7:31 | under the ball and if you watch people

7:34 | that have the Leading Edge the club this

7:36 | sound’s actually quite light but the

7:38 | club will struggle to get through it

7:39 | enough if it’s not designed for that

7:41 | it’s designed to get through grass not

7:42 | heavy sand so you’re absolutely trying

7:44 | to hit down with the back of the club

7:47 | and try and get that smacking sound

7:48 | there it is an interesting take as well

7:50 | what what sort of acceleration are you

7:52 | looking to take when you come to hit a

7:54 | shot and obviously it varies on the

7:56 | distance yeah it does and it’s it it’s

7:59 | funny really because I um from an

8:02 | individual standpoint I try and if I’m

8:05 | ever working on my bunker player I try

8:06 | and get the longest swing possible where

8:08 | I actually feel like I don’t have to

8:10 | accelerate through the ball because I

8:12 | have energy in the back swing so the

8:14 | club will fall but I’m always going to

8:17 | be accelerating through but I would

8:19 | never want you know um like short swing

8:23 | and trying to force it out just even

8:27 | though it might work sometimes is is uh

8:29 | it might work as you is no good but like

8:32 | I always like um Freddy Couples is a

8:34 | great image for me I always thinking

8:36 | he’ll be nice and long

8:38 | and and I just feel like the club gets

8:41 | under the under the ball more into the

8:42 | sand and pops up that’s what I always

8:44 | like I find like it’s very hard to get

8:47 | it’s very hard from

8:48 | here or shorter when you’re accelerating

8:51 | to get any height on the ball and I

8:53 | think Bunker

8:54 | play there’s there’s nobody on the

8:57 | planet that gets too much height bunker

9:00 | like I just don’t have it so like for me

9:02 | again I’m always a lot of this is based

9:04 | on setup isn’t it yeah I’m a big like um

9:08 | you know from when I’ve had lessons in

9:10 | the past but chman said a great thing to

9:12 | me where he said wants to set up grip or

9:14 | takeaway WR the rest of the Swing you

9:16 | spend trying to fix it you know get one

9:18 | of those things right so and these are

9:19 | things that require nothing it’s just a

9:21 | bit of discipline and making sure you’re

9:22 | on it so um you know and again always I

9:27 | always like weight going this way just

9:29 | because you’re always trying to hit down

9:30 | into the

9:33 | sand and that one went really nice and

9:36 | in the air that one love it that is very

9:39 | very good do you feel do you feel you’re

9:41 | a strong bunker player I like bunkers

9:43 | yeah um I like practicing in bunkers

9:45 | because there’s so many different

9:46 | there’s so many different things you can

9:48 | do I mean there’s a number of different

9:49 | lies but you can have it you know you

9:51 | can have one teed up you can have one

9:53 | you know plugged you can have an average

9:55 | lie you can have all those lies on an up

9:57 | slau you can have them all on a Down

9:58 | slow have less sand more can have less

10:00 | sand more sand you can hit different

10:02 | shots there’s so many there’s so many

10:04 | different things you can do in a bunker

10:05 | so I quite like being in a bunker and

10:06 | just um you know like messing around and

10:08 | playing love

10:13 | it so Tommy currently world ranking 13th

10:17 | in the world we want to get to that

10:19 | number one spot but where you are strong

10:22 | is you putting and certainly long puts

10:24 | right statistically strong long put in

10:26 | and strong within five foot let’s have

10:29 | to TI for lag putting long putting it’s

10:31 | it’s a good one because when you’re sort

10:34 | of stronger at some things other you you

10:36 | don’t often like practice it or think

10:39 | why think of like think that you’re

10:40 | going to be uh well even even just go

10:42 | through your process people will

10:43 | probably pick up on something from that

10:45 | yeah well I think number one thing that

10:48 | I uh and my my kids don’t do this and

10:50 | I’m always rattling it on and I’ll go

10:52 | and watch them and I can see it straight

10:53 | away is they don’t walk around the hole

10:56 | like it’s it’s the most simple thing

10:57 | like this one this part we actually set

10:59 | up is is

11:00 | uphill and you can see pretty much most

11:02 | things because the puts fa in you but so

11:04 | often I mean like doesn’t take much to

11:07 | start walking to the side and have a

11:10 | look and I think

11:11 | people yeah like people might struggle

11:13 | from this distance but I think also you

11:16 | can hit a good Putt and hit it to 8 feet

11:18 | and wonder like what happened there yeah

11:20 | because you because you’ve almost not

11:22 | assessed it you’ve not assessed it yeah

11:24 | and it and it’s just W it’s just walking

11:26 | around I would say the important thing

11:28 | is to all always find you should always

11:30 | walk around the put but also read the

11:32 | put from where the you know where the

11:33 | lowest where the put’s facing you yeah

11:36 | uh I always think of it is like reading

11:37 | a book I wouldn’t read a book like from

11:39 | that way um so that that’s like that’s

11:42 | that’s one of the first things make sure

11:43 | you have a walk puts easiest to read

11:46 | when it’s when it’s facing you and you

11:47 | know what some some players are a bit

11:49 | conscious about time and slowing up play

11:52 | Etc obviously you’re you’re on tour and

11:54 | it’s every single shot is outrageously

11:56 | important but you know when a a good tip

11:58 | for a lot of golfers when they can do it

12:00 | is actually when you’re almost getting

12:01 | onto the green yeah yeah yeah I actually

12:03 | I think boogies maybe stop that

12:05 | sometimes cuz you drive a boogie up and

12:06 | then just get your club and walk to the

12:07 | green but you can always be looking you

12:09 | can always have a look and there’s a lot

12:10 | of green actually over here but if we

12:11 | were stood over here and we’ parked up

12:13 | you can start to see the green might be

12:16 | you know flowing that way there might be

12:17 | an edge where it’s higher than the other

12:19 | you know there there’s things that you

12:20 | can always see and pick up and you start

12:22 | to build just a picture of that pop

12:24 | exactly you need to have an

12:26 | understanding like say if you’re walking

12:27 | up to the green or you’re getting put

12:29 | her out your bag or whatever it is or

12:30 | even if you were get saying hey all Lads

12:32 | I’ll get the flag yeah I’ll go and get

12:34 | the flag for everybody cuz that again is

12:36 | an opportunity for playing at the

12:38 | weekend you have a you have a chance to

12:40 | be able to have a quick look at the PO I

12:43 | do like that one so always read it from

12:44 | the lows side yeah have a quick look

12:46 | around when you get opportunity do and

12:48 | then from that then what’s kind of how

12:50 | how do you best judge the speed control

12:53 | um like like I say when things come

12:55 | naturally to you like it’s hard to it’s

12:57 | hard to tell but one thing I would

12:58 | always say is I’m always looking at the

12:59 | put but I like to make sure that the

13:02 | putter is is always moving I actually

13:05 | only have one practice stroke but I

13:08 | don’t spend long between that one

13:10 | practice stroke where it’s um a

13:12 | realistic hit at the put or rehearsal if

13:14 | you like and then in and hit but I just

13:16 | always think the putter should be moving

13:18 | at a pretty constant like pace and rate

13:22 | so then everything everything in your

13:24 | stroke is similar there’s no big hit and

13:27 | there’s no massive de de ation so that

13:30 | whenever you’re having a feel for it the

13:33 | putter is always in one kind of motion

13:35 | so you have a decent assessment that

13:38 | that motion there at that speed is going

13:40 | to hit the P that far yeah yeah that’s a

13:42 | good idea so it’s like it’s just having

13:44 | those nice steady practice puts you ever

13:47 | now when you’re doing your practice puts

13:49 | there what what are you seeing in your

13:51 | mind if we were to tap into the brain at

13:52 | Tommy Fleetwood now on those practice

13:54 | puts is there is there anything visual

13:56 | you end up seeing um like I for a long

13:59 | put I think you can be very now you’re

14:02 | trying to hold the putt don’t get me

14:03 | wrong like that’s the first try and hold

14:05 | it but I very unspecific so I’ll have

14:08 | some kind of start line somewhere or or

14:11 | a point where I’m trying to aim at and

14:13 | then the rest of it is I’m just looking

14:14 | I’m kind of looking at the hole really

14:18 | um but again you know we’re 45 ft away

14:21 | here nearly 50 ft so I just want kind of

14:25 | want to break it down as simple as

14:26 | possible there’s so much space for the

14:27 | ball to roll so I’ll have some a point

14:29 | where I want to aim and then then let’s

14:31 | the rest take over let’s just judge the

14:33 | speed then and and you’ve got two things

14:35 | to worry about and that’s it nice okay

14:37 | so always read it from the low side have

14:38 | a little bit of a look around have those

14:40 | kind of look how how Tommy’s putter is

14:42 | flowing and flowing look at nice look at

14:46 | the

14:47 | hole go in do

14:50 | it

14:54 | oh if You’ have boxed that then that

14:56 | would have been ridiculous

14:59 | I thought I’d made it you try harder

15:01 | Tommy that was so good the other thing

15:04 | as well you know just do one one more

15:05 | time I’m almost going to commentate on

15:07 | what you do so you’ll not if you just go

15:10 | through your whole process kind of not

15:11 | not reading the put as much but as

15:13 | you’re setting over the ball now so

15:14 | you’ll notice looking at the hole

15:16 | practice P looking at the hole practice

15:19 | p and then stood over it another

15:24 | look I think there’s also a do it that’s

15:28 | awesome

15:29 | there’s an important lesson there you’ll

15:30 | see where there wasn’t much time between

15:33 | the very last look at the hole and the

15:35 | put you know you’re looking at the hole

15:37 | you’ve got your your putter going back

15:39 | and forth your head looking at the hole

15:41 | soon as you go down one last look back

15:43 | and and you’re off yeah and it’s not um

15:46 | I wouldn’t recommend anybody to rush but

15:49 | it you know just when you’re ready hit

15:51 | it don’t you know there’s no nothing

15:52 | else to do so just let it just just let

15:54 | it go I’m going to hit one more cuz I

15:56 | feel like I’m want to he dialed in a top

15:59 | tip should be should always stop when

16:00 | you’ve hit some good ones

16:04 | but but you just never know go on baby

16:07 | ah it’s Miss but anyway look at look at

16:10 | those speeds like literally three shots

16:12 | that are perfect Tommy you’ve been a

16:13 | pleasure Tim always thank you my friend

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