 right welcome to what is a new series of videos and first of all I need to welcome back Lewis Johnson to the channel. Lou it's been a while it's been a while but we're going to do a new series of videos where Lewis is going to be well effectively my new coach. I'm looking forward to it yeah. He's got a job in his hands and has plenty of work to do as many of you will know who watch the channel and first of all you've highlighted a big mistake that a lot of golfers make when they go for lessons nearly everyone and that's where we're going to start oh yeah wait does it does there feel natural there yeah let me just take it back a bit yeah no okay cool that's fine it's good that isn't it that's why that's why aren't you yeah brilliant so Lewis I came to you a couple of weeks ago and I did say that I've got a well kind of a major problem with my swing oh my game I would say yeah in general and I was looking for a solution and perhaps a short-term fix and you suggested that we perhaps have a look at things in a different way and I came to you with what I thought was the problem let's put it that way that's it I think I get this a lot where people come and they almost tell me what's wrong yeah and or what they think is wrong and the way I always liken it is you go into the doctors and you tell them what is wrong with you and ask for what you think you need yeah you can do it yeah you just wouldn't do it you wouldn't do it in in many sort of walks of life and with golf we get that a lot so what I kind of explained is the ideal way of doing it and I think this is where we we've sort of highlighted a mistake it's where we're at today a lot of golfers make the mistake of they don't get their game properly assessed and they don't find out exactly what's going to make them better and what the process might entail and so that's what we're doing today isn't it yeah so so ultimately you suggested and and Lewis advised that he has a look at my overall game and we're out here to day friend to to do to do exactly that I'm going to hit some shots and you're going to make some evaluation and then we're going to move forward with how you think the lessons should progress and the route we go down absolutely possibly the route we go down might have some multiple options I assume absolutely yeah definitely I think coaching the two way street it's got a map to what you want yo and a lot of people they have different sort of amounts of time to practice yeah yeah they play some people play three four times a week some people play just once I think again it's ultimately and I know you asked me this question is ultimately what is it the you your level of expectation what is it you want to achieve and I'll let I'll explain after I've hit this shot what I've tried to say or ask of Lewis that he does with my game right Lou that's the best one you can talk about that in a minute very good right so we're stood on the 14th seat at Hollywell and ultimately this is where it all drew to a head for me because it's a fairly tight oh it's a driving hole but it's a par five and I set up on here a few weeks back and my my old swing would have been a bit down the right with a bit of a bit of a draw yeah the odd hook thrown in then I'm kind of looking at a kind of safer bet which is down the left with a bit of fade yeah but at no point do I feel like in it down the middle and so all three of those equations I don't feel like I'm confident to aim at the right rough and bring it back yeah and so I so I study it with no idea where my ball was going to finish I thought you know what and enough is enough we've got to like procure to this but the question that I came to you asked me was there's kind of like there's two scenarios in which lessons kind of transpire yeah so what's the first case yeah so what struck me was your explanation is your you've got your normal right to left yeah then your game had drifted into aim down the left and hit a fade and so this there's two options really is the short-term fix yeah or the long-term and the short-term fix I think is what a lot of people look for yeah they've got a comp on saturday yeah and they just want to cure x whatever x is you know whether it's a right or left a slicer pull whatever and but with your sort of particular case it you had one shape your game had drifted to another and and you kind of lost where normal was and I think you know based on our conversation is there was no option for a quick fix no there was no it was you know I think it was a process yeah and I think well one of the things that Lewis asked me is what do I want to achieve what is the kind of I mean it's a lot don't forget I'm not exactly a young kid and I've been doing it wrong for a long time so that the idea of changing something that's ingrained for a long long time that's potentially difficult but and that's kind of like what you said to me you know you're prepared to do the kind of like yeah hard yards to change it absolutely yeah and my answer is yes I am because I'm fed up with that situation every six months or whatever I'll get myself find myself back and it had gone as well is you know adding on to that you'd said it had gone through the bag it wasn't just the tee shot it was the quality of strike with the irons and a few different things so I think you were sort of got to a stage where you were willing to change you know you know hit a few golf balls which is great so you know I think that was the best course of action for what we need so to reiterate our point is though where we're going to go with this is right back to the beginning we're going to strip it quite a far back to be honest with you and I've already had some discussions with Lewis and we've already been trying some of the things that the direction we're going to go in but we're going to sort of detail that in the lessons ahead but if for today if I can sort of carry on with what your thing is which is an assessment of my overall game we'll hit a few more shots and we'll get some feedback from Lewis in exactly what's going wrong and how we might sort of move this forward stage by stage I think we'll start on this tee I probably play some like five would yeah my line right now with the swing I've got would be cautiously left and expecting to a bit it's a little bit of a cut which is again a cautious so we it's the cautious that's the word isn't it so cautious so I'm thinking that is there was there was nothing ever careful cautious about your swing it was very rotational very rounded full turns and you know created that shape yeah you've now gone to the opposite shape so when we're talking about sort of backswing is ultimately is at impact there you're cautiously going through it yeah so we need to sort of have a look at where he's patting and where the club's going through impact what direction because you're all are you reinventing the shape through swing or is it the your complete approach to this is you're just trying to get the ball in play get the ball in play yeah which would never really used to be like that well I think what it'll be in my head and you said about self-diagnosis I mean I don't know but what I will be doing is sort of almost holding off this a little bit so it's so it just cuts yeah we'll try that anyway and then you hit one dead straight and and ultimately if you'd rather confidence to aim where you wanted to aim there's a brilliant strike it's a brilliant shot so so you know you're looking for in swing and maybe I think what we need to do is really get a well rounded picture of where you are and because if you know we know that your alignment there has cost you yeah and but actually going back is it was your approach of course this approach of what's happening so well it was a typical example of exactly what I'm doing that that was really I mean and unfortunately I didn't have shot trees on that but the line was inside the tree maybe a little bit slightly left of the inside of the tree but it went bullet straight and that's the problem if I don't hold off yeah then and people come into the room and you know let's say they come in for a lesson and they tell me that they they've missed the 14th fairway to the left but what they didn't they don't tell me and this is this scenario one the quick fix is that they aimed up the left yeah and they were trying to play a fade because yeah they're in a bit of a bit of a loss and what they don't tell me is you've struck that fantastic you've hit a nice little draw you've caused his approaches cost you so the miss is is that a bad shot yeah and you have missed the fairway but yeah it was actually really quite good wasn't it yeah okay well the good news is I found me ball but I only missed the fairway by uh I don't know 25 yards maybe I know yeah wait does it does there feel natural there yeah let me just take it back a bit yeah no okay cool that's fine that's good that's why that's why we're out here yeah yeah if I'm honest with you I mean again the the whole swing doesn't feel very natural right now that's that's the problem anyway I shouldn't be doing that really should I it was hard because that's still in the locker isn't it a typical example is that I mean I've just got one three five in you should I nine nine and out and I'm like there's a bit of trouble right and left yeah and I'm not confident anymore do you know what I mean that I can aim at the flag and that was a strong point in your game wasn't it yeah I am yeah definitely yeah so that's the kind of worry so a decent enough strike but you know it's 15 yards left to where I think I'm aiming at least anyway so there's a and it felt I felt normal to you and that's the thing it doesn't feel normally people can tell when they pull they don't no no pushed it so that's something we need to address as well yeah do you ever question anything like ball position or anything no not enough you just it just becomes natural yeah yeah yeah I think again it's always been you know I mean I think this is fairly maybe almost forward of center I mean I don't know whether that's the case or not right so that's the final swing of the day Lou you've pretty much seen enough I don't know to take that really we've seen enough yeah it sounds a bit dramatic doesn't it but no um so yeah we've just we've had a look at your swing um I'm very fortunate enough to know Andy swing well so we got out of it I think what we wanted in a sort of overall review we are going to focus more on swing at me I think that's the assessment so yeah we've got some swings there that we'll probably put up well if the bit I'll throw up now and if you can explain one of the major issues and I think well I have knew it and you've pointed out to me before I do come in very much inside don't know yeah yeah the club goes lower on the inside on the way back you take it there with a sort of strong club face as club face it's probably closed yeah and and then a lower on the inside sort of takeaway would lead to a sort of movement over the top I think people can see that if you over and show that again you sort of the hands go a little bit this way um means that impact the path of the club is going to the left yeah which would normally impart sort of a little bit of cut to it yeah uh depending on where the face is but because your face is strong um on the way back and and coming down you're able to square the the the face up to the path so that's where you get that two way miss is sometimes you know when their face is open to the path it's curving off yeah and when it's squared or even closed you can go left as well so I think if we can get that takeaway right is a strong club face I don't think we'll be a problem because you know like you know like you like to play a right or left shot that's going to help that keeping the the face closed to the path if we can get the path right um so that's where we're going to start that's where we're going to start yeah well I think it's pretty much um and from what I've experienced in recent months that two way miss is a thing and like I said when I turned up on that 14th tee that's exactly where we were at so I clearly need to try and solve that so look forward to it I think we said at the beginning the biggest mistake um golfers make when coming to lessons was sort of not having this assessment and I think that's been a real good thing and like I said maybe a bit fortunate for me and that Lewis has had plenty of time to assess my game over the years it's not too dissimilar to what it's always been but I think that's a real good bit of advice is to go out and have the playing lesson yeah yeah yeah have the have the assessment yeah go in there with an open mind yeah and let the let the pro have a look and then like I say have the conversation of what you want to get out of it and and how much practice time you get and how much playing time you get I think that's really important right so the hard work starts here it's over to me we'll start the lesson procedure and like I said I'll be filming that process as well and we're going to use um we're going to use data as well to try and mark some kind of improvements as well aren't we to see where that sort of yeah that club yeah and the videos we're going to throw up some videos here and see where it is and then what that improvement is and and what the change doors to your golf swing which is the only concern I've got mate is what if I become a better than average golfer what do we do then with the channel name I think yeah is that the goal is that the goal yeah cross that bridge where we come to it right anyway thanks to Lewis thanks to Hollywood Golf Club um look I'd love to see people come up here play the golf course and get involved with Lewis as well but we'll see how that all progresses in the months ahead for now thanks for watching today's little intro video to this new series and we'll both catch up very soon and uh yeah I've got to get some practicing