 Wait, welcome back to what is effectively part four of this series where Steve Bauer has first of all undertaken a custom fit process which has led to today. It's real time now, we've got clubs in hand and we need to score. We're gonna play a nine hole scramble here at Cardin Park. We're gonna play it off scratch, so no shots, but just as a reminder, Steve currently playing off 15, me off nine, but I wanna see what we can go around two balls, four shots, each off the tee that we must get in and then we've got one that floats and we've got full set of Callaway paradigms in the bag. I'll get some feedback on how you think they've performed along the way and no doubt you can let us know as well. Right, so a fairly short par for Steve, 285. I'm gonna go with my heavenward. Okay. What do you want me to do, skipper? What do you want me to go first, what would you rather? You go first, lead the way. If you've got drive in and let's see where, let's even get this one into some sort of position. Okay. And then over to you with the big dog. Is this a good time to mention we're on beating in Per's goal? Well, we can't get beat today. No, I'll just start putting it out there. Yeah, yeah. Nice. I just, I mean, what I love about this thing is the launch on it is ridiculous. Well, I go as far as say that's position aiming, so. Yeah. You can now let loose with your new driver. And my new driver, which I'm having a love in with, to be fair, which is no surprise. Yeah. Nice shot. That's not a bad start. We're away. We're out. So don't forget, We're quite off the middle, but we'll get there. For those of you who don't know the real scramble, we're gonna pick the best ball from the two and play our next shot from there. Let's see if I can. Got one 20 in a good angle really from your ball we're taking. For those of you keeping a record, this is Steve's drive. That's nice. Nice. Oh, it's very nice. That looks to be pin high. Great stuff. Well done. What did you play just out of interest? Just a little pitch wedge. Pitch wedge, yeah. But that's even, even the custom fits made a difference to my swing on that club. So, go on. He's a kick, Steve. I think mine's bunkered, is it? Oh no. That's fine. It's okay, but I think yours is really good. Right? Let's see if we can get off to a birdie start. It was a great wedge in. This green slope from front to back is very hard to get it to stop. So, you've done well there. You've had the line as well. You've had the line, great effort. Just stick some kind of marker on it, please, bud, and then... Yeah. It's a really difficult first put of the day, isn't it, just getting the pace. At least you can have the man of your putting kawaiiba. I did the opposite when Ray flew through the break there. Do you want to just finish that one off? Don't do that to me on camera. Go on. I'll leave the flag in. So, for a pass start... Yeah, well done, well done. That was all your shots, by the way. Use your drive, your wedge, your two putts. There you go. Time to lie back on camera. Normally him. So, we're going to keep the same order, am I going first, yeah? So, we've got 140 yards, par, obviously par three. We've got off to a par start. This one gathers into a bit of a base, and if you can get it on the... Well, pretty much in that sort of... 10 or 15-yard radius, then it's going to gather into the flag. That's my thought process, anyway. It's putting the bin lid to take the pressure off me. There you go. I've just got to carry it too far, you know. That's stayed on the top tier. I mean, we're on the green, but that's an horrendous putt from up there, you know. Not for a man of your putting skills. The biggest problem I've got, is I'm going to get the excuses in early. I'm going to move this shot tree. So, the problem is we've got a left-hander who tees it up on the opposite side. So, the problem I've got is that, obviously I don't normally play these irons. I've got the paradigm X irons in the bag, and I've got no real idea of quite how far I hit them, and clearly I've got the yardage wrong there, because that's travelled a little bit further. So, that would have been a 1.58 iron. Right, come on, bud. And I pulled it. I pulled it, it's a nice shot, mate. I think it's a better yardage than mine, but unfortunately... In I? Yeah, we're right on. We're on the top tier. That is one difficult two-putt we've got coming up. Right, okay. This is an interesting one. It's no easy two-putt, mate. We've been a little bit unlucky, both of our tee shots, but off the left... Yeah, just gotta roll down, yeah. I think if we want to get it past the hole, but obviously not too far past. I like that. Go on, bud. Oh, that's a great shot. Oh. Take that from there. Yeah, no, I'm happy with that. I just cannot believe there's a little bit more moisture on the ground after quite a bit of rain. Otherwise, I think that'd have been... I was expecting that to be past the hole. So, I went perhaps a little bit too wide as well, Steve. Okay. It's maybe a little bit straighter than you think. Come on, ball. Come on, ball. Gather some pace. I'll add the better line. They're both really good puts to be fair, and I think you'd be happy with them from up there. I'll just put a marker down just in case. The average golfer does not miss these. See? Told you. I'm glad that you didn't have to eat your words, right? That's too past the start, just the warm-up holes, but don't forget, no shots given. We're playing gross scores here, and I think we're happy with the start. Yeah, a steady start, steady away. Right, so we just skipped the hole in that there's a little bit busy there, so to continue filming, we're on the fifth, 373 yards, stroke index 10. Just a reminder of the custom fit, Steve, you've got obviously paradigm driver. Happy with it so far. Really enjoying it, yeah. Ball flight, forgiveness, and obviously distance. I had a message off one of your friends yesterday who said you took a bit of money, and it was going a bit further than your other one. Yeah, so I've got a paradigm driver. Interesting enough, I've got a shaft that I used to have in an older club from Callaway, which is one inch shorter, just trying to get a little bit of control. And control you have. Wow, do you know what interests me? Always when I pick up paradigm, that was in the air a long time, wasn't it? So was your pose. I know. It was, to be fair. You can tell he likes it when he poses. That's beautiful. So that takes the pressure off me. But interesting enough, same thing, you went one inch shorter in the shaft, didn't you, in a custom fit? Yeah, I think it's helping me, I think control is massive with this big stick, and I'm not sure we lose out a great deal. I love this driver. Yeah, I really do. I'm not just saying that. It's made a difference. Yeah, good ball. Good ball. Right, Steve, 136. Another green canna. It's a difficult one, because I think the pin is near the front, and the green runs away from front to back again, so. Good news is this is your range. It's your favorite range. Told your partner, love that. I held the pose for a little while there. It was fully deserved. There was a giveaway. Fully deserved. So with the irons, you were into paradigm, paradigm irons, but we added two degrees of loft, didn't we, in each of the irons? The irons are taking a little more patience than the driver in the woods, but that's to be expected, because that was a stronger part of my game, so. So what you're saying is, and we'll talk about the other clubs that Steve ended up in a bag with, hopefully get to use all of them throughout these nine holes, but you really love driver, five iron, oh, let him play his shot. Oh, nice. Really nice. Sit down. What golf shot, mate, that is fantastic. I'm posing there. There, the irons of these doesn't say it took a while to get used to. What I was gonna say was, you've got five wood. Longest iron is a five iron, and then we've got a hybrid in between. I think it's fair to say driver five wood hybrid, you actually love straight up the bat. Finger. And what you're saying is, you're just taking a little bit longer to get used to on the paradigm irons. Yes, but that's because I was a stronger iron player than I was with my woods. So I knew the woods would make an instant difference, and I've made a massive difference. The irons are obviously different feel, different loft, but I'm getting to doing it, yeah. Good, good stuff. Don't forget, if you wanna go back to episode one of all this, which is the start off of the process, then we'll put a link in the description below. It's a really interesting journey for me. I've watched it all, so from the custom fit of the irons, then we went into the long end of the bag and that gapping session. Then we did the unboxing video, which was nice just to get them out first time on a course, but this is actually trying to make them work today. So, well, we're doing all right so far. Yeah, not too bad. Nice to have a choice. We go with yours. Thanks. I think yours is more straight up. I mean, the interesting thing is there. I mean, I said, I think I did anyway, before we played that shot, that it's very much a sloping front to back, and that front pin is almost impossible to get to. You've got to land it off the green. I think this is, can be a tough hole. So we can two putt from here, keep this par run going. This is tricky. Up hill. I noticed you're still all Callaway in. You've got Odyssey two ball as well. Yeah, I've always been an Odyssey puttaman as well. Come on, let's even get one roll in. Going for it. Hit it. Great, good roll. Good first attempt. Wasn't going to be short of you there, partner. No, it's good effort. So it just came off the right, didn't it? Yes. Yeah, I've got to say the greens... I was just about to say the same thing. Look superb. Beautiful. Go on. That's a lovely putt. You're not that one in. Ah. How about here? I thought we had a bit of a chance. There is a birdie coming. I can feel it. It just started to die off. I'll do the same again. I won't be all through, I'll be a little bit cautious. I'll put a mark down. Yeah. Ever in doubt? Yeah, no, it was a good storming, to be fair. Solid as a rock. Fairway and green and reg and a two putt. Happy with that. Yeah. Right then, Skipper, what's the tactics here? Well, we've got a bit of a debate, because this is a whole... So 236 to the flag. So that means about a... It's on the lower tier, so it's about a 220, maybe 225 carry. That's my kind of... That's on my... I can do that. Do you know what I think we should do? Go on. I think I should go first and try and put one on the fairway. Go on then. And then you let me. If you're there, we'll have a pop, yeah. Yeah. I'm good for that. Is that a good team work? Yeah. Right, come on, mate. Get one in position there, and then... I'm gonna have a pop. Great goal fault. Yeah, that's solid. See, that's where that ball is just flowing off, hasn't it? Yeah. It's not safe as ours is there. It's a good angle in, to be fair. Yeah. Go on. Go on. Oh! Oh, my word. Yeah, it's not far from the flag. No. I didn't quite get all of that. I mean, again, that's... Seriously, when I hit it, unless it's a car... The Carrot and Driver, it's not to do the golfer. There's a bit of a muted sound that comes off of them, though, and I never feel like it's really gone. That's a superb shot. We've got... I reckon we've got 10-4 for Eagle, you know. Take that. Well, well, well. Do you know what the best thing is? I've just been complaining to Hannah because if it wasn't for Damp... Oh, mate. We'd have been. Yeah. Hey, listen, you ain't greedy there. That's greedy, exactly. You're getting greedy. So... Tremendous. I mean, it makes a big difference to the scorecard, mate, if we could roll one of these in. Let's see if I can at least get it to, you know, a sort of gimme birdie. But we need to roll at this. Off the left. Yeah. Get in. Get in. Oh! Word. What a great put, Andrew. Oh, my word. What a great put. I don't know what to say. This one on your own? Come on, mate. So it is only off there. You see, mine just died at the end. Lightly, yeah. Keep it on that left-hand side for as long as you can. Roll out. Roll out. Oh, that is absolutely painstaking, though, isn't it? That's quite frustrating. I won't even mark that one. Well, it's a good birdie. Great roll. Three. Well done. What under? Superb from you to be fair partner. Thought I had that. By Steve next up, so on the back of a birdie, we're a little concerned about getting these owls in, but we switched over to the 14th. 287. Stoke index 15. Again, it's a short par four, but it's really fiddly because a lot of bunkers water down the left-hand side. I mean, to be honest with you, I wouldn't ordinarily go drive, so as long as I can down the left-hand side. Okay. Hopefully with a little bit of left to right. Anything like that last one will be magnificent. You're always listening to your team, mate. That's what I love about you the most. See, it's a long pose again. Do you know what I'm really loving? I've done loads of videos on it. It's just the shortest shaft in Driver. Because that ability, the greater control, I've been playing mini-Driver for the last few weeks, which I've been loving. You know that in my standard Driver stealth, I always play one and shorter. Same in this. I just think it's such a big bonus. Pressures off now. Position glory. Yeah, take your time. It's a worker. That's fine. Nothing wrong with that. It might be a better angle of mind, to be honest with you. Right. Like Steve, I think we take your drive. Okay. You see, now, can I just say that is the forgiveness of a paradigm driver. It wasn't your best strike, was it? No, but look where I've ended up. And my old one would have been... That's one of many features that I'm really pleased with. Yeah, no, I agree with you there. We've got 93 in. Right. Pins right at the front. And we've got the bunkers in theory. You shouldn't come into play. Whereas mines down there, we've got a bit of an angle. Now, this does give me an opportunity to practice with the A-Wedge, which is a new addition to my bag. What did we say, 49? 49 degrees. 49 degrees. So I'm still sort of trying this out, but I've got every confidence in my partner being within about three-fourths of a pin. Brilliant. You've managed to switch the owners on to me and you haven't even hit a shot yet. Correct. Fantastic. Ha! This could be the last shot of the day. Oh, that's magnificent. That is superb. Sit down, ball. There we go. That's tremendous, mate. Welcome to the A-Wedge from the Parading Range. Well done, mate. That's fantastic. Anywhere inside my ball, the flag will be great. Use the rain to put your spin on it. Go on. You've done it as well. Oh, listen to your partner. Wow, come on, Steve. We're in a roll here. Well, we have just had a bit of a rain delete, say the least, a bit of a downpour, but there's not a lot to split them, Steve, but I think... Up here with yours. Not bad there at all. We like those, too. Yeah, really pleased. But don't forget, there's a chance to go back to back as well. And, er... What are you saying? Not lying? No. No? No, I don't think so. Let's just see if I can keep this putter face square and just go right at the middle. Come on. Yes! Didn't look like I was going to fall in, did it? I'll do it. That's great. So, we've gone there. That's Driver, A-Wedge, and all that to do is roll in the pot, mate. Yeah, by the time you came in on that. Right, so 341 yards. That's not too far, but it's soaking next one for a reason, because there's a kind of brook that runs in, pretty much right through the fairway, doesn't it? Yeah. It's a rascal. I think there's no other way to describe this hole. It gets really narrow top. It's a great golf hole. And the problem is, you can't really lay up otherwise you leave yourself too much of a long shot into a well-guarded green. And there's only a postage dam. There's not much to aim at, that green. Right, come on. Oh, yes. I like that, partner. Yeah, I'm happy with that. There was a little bit cautious. I think I've definitely cut it a bit too much away from the water. I would say you'd be a bit more greedy in trying to get tight to the left-hand side. Mine is safe, but leaves a long second. If you want to have a chance of an easy shot or an easy shot, a realistic shot in, then you need to be tight to the left. All my words, Stevie boy. I was going to say for the 150 mark, I think you've landed on it. That's nearly it, that's perfect. Well done. Happy with that, bud. Very good. Isn't it funny how we get competitive and there's absolutely nothing on it? There's two reasons to take your ball on because it's in a good position anyway, but the second is this gives us a bit of pressure off in terms of leaving it too late to get the shots in. OK, I was after that try. Anywhere on or near that dance floor. Yeah. Just need a bounce. And again. And again. And again. Oh, Stevie. I hope that trick of birdie is here, mate. Tremendous. What did you hit, by the way? 7-9. 7-9. Well, well and truly taking the pressure off there, Stevie. Stroking next wall and we've got a I think we've got a 10 footer. Yes. Come left. It's just drifting the tad. I'll tell you that, but I think you've got it, mate. Yeah, I'm happy with that. Two greens in reg on stroke one. Come on, for a bit of a groove. I'll tell you what, Steve. You take them. I can't believe I built this up with stroke one. All day long you take them. I was just a quick opportunity to talk about the fact that these, we're using paradigm X irons. And the big criticism is of these type of game improvement style irons. Often the fact that they stop on greens and perhaps we're a little bit damp right now, but if you see where the pitch mark was repaired and where the ball has stopped, the reason the ball does that is because of the descent angle on these things. So they launch extremely high and obviously come down at a towering kind of height and then stop up fairly quick. So that's a 7 iron. And from a paradigm X, a super game improvement iron. So it often dispels myths when you come out on the course and see what happens in reality with these things. Anyway, we need a birdie. Which one are we going for? Because there's not a lot in them. Do you want to go uphill or? A little hill. See what you think? I mean definitely uphill, but is there a lot of brake in it or? It's not straight forward. No, but not. I think this. Skip is where it's final. Yeah, I think go with that. The fact that we can have a bit of a bolder roll with it. I'm coming over a bit of a crest and I'm a bit further away as well. Come on mate, a birdie, a tragic of birdies. You know me, I don't normally hold these. Come on. See what I can do. What do you think in terms of? Off the right, yeah. Slightly, yeah? Go uphill so it's going to need a little bit of rain on the top of these greens now. All right, let's see if we can just roll this up. Get the flag. Oh, and it did. Well, look, apart from a bit of pace it was the line, wasn't it? Just mark that up, Steve. Yeah. I'm just thinking, I mean, obviously yours broke a little but had a fair bit of pace. I think it needs to be a bit wider, don't I? Not as hard. Not as hard and a bit wider. Come on, come on. Oh! Great pot, my friend. Ah, do you know what, stroke one mate. Great pot. Take a four on the table all day long. All day long. We continue to under with, what's that? Three to go? Three to go. Do I not like that? 109 with a positive, do I not like that? Go mate, lead the way. I'll go on camera. Come on, don't forget we've got two under, we've got three to go. At 109 we should have a birdie chance here mate. I'm going to try a little bit of lofty ground number. Come round. Just kick on first bounce. It's okay with a nice swing. Scared of it? I don't know, it's good. That's rubbish. It wasn't far off. I must admit a bit of indecision on club myself. It's right in between. I didn't want to commit to mine so make sure. I'm going the opposite, this needs hitting. I just got to be careful that hit doesn't become a pull because as you know there's a pond on the left. Kick right. Kick right. Nice shot. That's good you know. I like that. My issue was I played a 52 wedge and I thought I'd have to, I'm not sure I'd have got there. I only just off the green. That was a bit hard on myself but still. It's a little bit further than we'd want to be but again quite a big break. Yeah downhill. I'll see if I can get this to within gimme distance and then you can have a free roll with this. Like it. Turn. Turn. Oh! There you go. That is Sullivan Gold. Oh my God. I didn't need to bring this every other hole. I'll tell you what mate, three under. We've done well there. That's without using any handicap, that's three under gross. I'll contribute to the next hole. Delighted. Right come on Steve, we've got 317. There is an opportunity some days if it's a bit down breeze to go for this one across the angle. It's a great golf hole but for us we're now in a mode here where we just want to get this job done with three under. Two to play, not just keeping the zone. Two to play. That's the best of the day. That carries the bunker which it's flown past the bunker. Water golf shot. You held that pose there mate. Well I'm trying to compete with you on the pose. That was superb. Posey partners. I'm going to be a little bit greedy then I think and go. That was the idea. Tight as we can down that. That was the tactics. This could be a ball in the water but we'll awesome. What a drive. Tell you what, to be fair this club head coupled with that shaft. You're not allowed to talk about yourself too much but I don't think I missed the fairway. I just did. We've gone with Steve's drive there. There was a great deal to split them at all in terms of distance. I was tighter down the water but based on where we are with drives we've got more reach. You've got 95 in mate. Just give us another chance of birdie. They're getting greedy now. We've got a par 5 on the last as well so we can get somewhere in and around this. Oh my lord. He's put it right on top of it. Come on Paul. Offed. Tremendous shot mate. Fantastic. Well done. It's the A-Wage again. You're loving that aren't you? The A-Wage is A1. Off camera maybe a point to mention Steve is the fact I better drop that and keep all things official. Off camera you said how much you don't like that kind of yardage. This distance and this yardage was always in my head. Didn't like it. Now suddenly this club has taken that negativity away. What I'm noticing is as well from a number of yardages you're hitting the same wedge with that wedge. Just practicing. Right shut up Ant, let's see if we can get again, get inside. That is the... Go on. Is it enough? Lovely. Somewhere in between the two of them I'm a tad short you're a tad long but you've got to be happy with them. You'll be happy with two on the dance floor. Yeah. Shame now isn't it because it was kind of almost equidistant past. My fancy at the uphill but like you... Yeah this probably goes a bad option. Yeah. What are you seeing? Off the left? Yeah. Undulation. You're getting the pace up the hill as well isn't it? That's the key isn't it? Yeah. I haven't hit it Steve. Poor effort. More effort than if anything they drifted off to the right. And to be fair there's not been many poor efforts from you today so... Do you know what when you get up here that's definitely falling a bit towards me. That's interesting. Superb Nick. Yeah it's definitely a bit more uphill than I'd allowed for. Yeah it's a much better pace. Get up there. Get up there. Great roll. Well done. Just finish it off. Good effort mate. That was going as well wasn't it? Yeah. Still will take four mate. Well done. Good two putts. Right it was an outside opportunity for birdies. On to the last type and a chance to finish with another birdie in the bag. Right last goal of the day it's a par 5 and it's only 456 yards off the yellows bought. To be honest with you it's all about positioning off the tee that allows you to play a second shot in and then ultimately probably a third into the green that's the hope. So it's just about getting the right position. We want to be sort of as tight to the right hand bunkers as we can without going further right because that will give us a bit of a problem. Right come on on. It's got to carry them. It's got to carry them. Well we're okay but I'm not in a good position. That's the first one I actually tried to force a little bit. Put a bit of pressure on you there Steve. I thought I'd step up to the plate and try and take the pressure off. I've done the opposite. That was one Premier League player said to me this season pressure is a privilege. Come on mate. Let's see. Oh mate that's much better. That's the line we want to be on. Gives us an angle in. It's like steps up mate and does the business. Right Steve we're going with your ball on the base. We've got a good angle in so it's just a case of trannor. If you can get one down the middle of the just between the two trees. Should leave as a wedge in. Nice. That's going to work. That's going to work. If it gets over that path we haven't got a lot left in right. It's a short wedge. So I need to Well anything better than that but I mean to be honest with you that's good Nick. At least we've got a bit of a rip within no real worries about what happens. I love a birdie finish so let's even get something up there. Oh that's glorious. It's a bit tight down the right. Oh now it's through. That's fine. Right Steve what did I just say 80? 80. 80 but uphill. It's one of them ones you don't want to be too greedy because there's a bunker that's right in front. We've got to get a birdie chance. Come on and surely. And that's terrible. Oh my word. Sorry Steve that's back on the pressure to you mate. Pressure is a privilege. Pressure is a privilege. Come on. I've gone to pieces mate let's see if you can keep it together and stick one somewhere on that dance floor. Because I'm definitely long. Oh mate it's the A wedge. It's a down. It's also a little bit long but a lot better than mine mate well played. Well Steve we've left a lot of work here mate it's certainly no birdie opportunity. No. But we can't have our first bogey of the day mate this needs to be a two putt. Okay skip that. Down hill. A pace handbrake which Down hill. Come on now turn ball, turn ball. That's a perfect pace mate. Do you know what I'll be honest with you I thought that was spot on I cannot believe that hasn't turned. Pace though really good. He has a great effort. It's a great effort bro I'd prefer one just a little bit closer. That's a knee knocker. And I'm the eye trust. I like that. Oh my days. Oh no. I thought that was in. It went over the hole. It was a brilliant golf shot. Brilliant golf shot. Oh do you know what it's always a thing with that isn't it. More than I know where it's finished off but I'm gutted that that hasn't gone in. Don't make me put here please. Whatever you do. He never misses those. Never Steve. You're playing with me. Great effort. I think it would have been a bit too greedy getting a birdie on the last there but all told the whole idea of this experiment from start to finish was about getting the process of custom fit and did it do you any good. I'll finish off with your final analysis of the whole process and are you happy with what you've ended up with. I'm absolutely delighted. I love the clubs like I've said before on previous episodes. The fairway was the utility because that was my weakest part of my game. You've seen the A wedge help me. 80 90 100 in and the irons are coming with practice. The extra loft is helping get on the green so I would recommend anyone to do it and certainly recommend these clubs because I am happy. I must admit as well I've played not my normal full bag of paradigm again today and I've really enjoyed it. That's greens and fairways and regulation all that kind of thing. Couldn't be happier with what we've done. Great performance as well like I said it's been a bit stop start. We've got a good half an hour rain delay 300 through 9 holes and a gross score between a 15 and 9 handicap are ain't too bad. Let me know what you thought of today's video and this whole series of four episodes and no doubt you will. That's us done. I will probably see you all tomorrow night.