 I've managed to get loose straight out of the pro shop, it's not the best of days, it's a bit blustery, but it's perfect conditions for the video that I want Lewis to explain how you execute a shot, which I find particularly interesting and useful, but I'm not really sure how you're supposed to do it. Right, the perfect spot to start things from 150 yards out, because what we're going to do in today's video, I'm going to look at sort of maybe a chip shot in and around the green, maybe 20 to 30 yards out, 150 out, and then maybe from the tee. And what I'm looking for from you is to educate me and our viewers into how you sort of control ball flies. And it's been particularly prevalent when you play, obviously, windy conditions, which we can get on the link. That's where it's come from, isn't it? It's just a bit windy, a bit colder up here. And I've been fighting some stuff down and people have noticed them. They have. We just thought we'd do something and try and help people. Well, it's something again that's come from the members forum that we've got in terms of requests that have been made. So, Lewis starting off 150, and what would be, so first of all, club selection, what would you normally play for just a normal shot into this green? On a day like today, it'd probably just be a full eight iron. Okay. Full eight iron. Will you change club for the flighted down? Maybe a little seven. Depends. It's a bit colder, isn't it? Yeah. So, I definitely will be hitting seven. I'll fly down with seven. So, first of all, in terms of flighting down, you'd change a loftier club in to go to a stronger loftier club. Yeah, definitely. That's the first thing. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, yeah. We'll change camera position, and then you can talk to me next about ball position and everything else that it is in terms of how you're going to execute the shot. Perfect. Great control. So, first of all, great execution. Straight out of the box, first shot of the day. Flight was lower. Swing seemed nice and controlled. Yeah. Tell me what you do then, Lou, in terms of that. Yeah, there's a couple of different things. You know, this is sort of a, it's a pretty stock shot, isn't it? You know, in terms of like a 150 yard from the fairway, but we're trying to manipulate something. So, the things that I've got to change really, I want to present a little bit less loft with the club. So, like I say, I was in between eight and seven. I've clearly gone for seven. But even then, I'm thinking about, I'm just going to pop the ball a little bit back in my stance. I'm not going to really do too much of my weight distribution. I'm just going to keep it the same. Pop the ball back in the stand to leave the hands where they are to create a little bit more shaft lean at a dress. So when you say the hands where they are, that's what they may be there. Yeah, so the hands where they would normally be, but I'm going to pop the ball and the club back. So then you're going to create a little bit more shaft lean that way. And then obviously, I'm going to hope, you noticed it is, the more speed through the shot, it's going to create a little bit more sort of ball speed and generally a little bit more spin, backspin. So backspin really, if the ball is trying to sort of spin that way against the resistance of the air, you know, we're trying to knock it down because the wind is coming that way. It's going to create lift and we don't want that to be. So I'm trying to take, obviously because I've delofted it as well, the club, I can then take a little bit more speed out of the shot, which is going to help just keep that flight down and keep that spin rate down quite a bit. It's something I see quite a bit when people are trying to hit the shot. That's the one element. They get the first bit right and the second bit when they add the speed in and then the ball goes like that. Well, I think it's true again of every sort of average amateur golfer is the minute you stand on the sea and the wind is blowing a hoolly against you, often you'll try a little bit harder in terms of swinging harder as the adverse effect on what it is you're trying to do. So I get that completely. And then what I noticed was it's kind of like nothing else changing in terms of the whole tempo through the swing. There's nothing else in terms of... Yeah, you know me, I try and keep it nice and simple. I think if you try and change too much, I think here there's a little bit of right to left breeze. So if anyone noticed that when I was hitting it, I was sort of a little bit this way. I was just trying to start it a little bit right and then let the wind just drop it back. But try and keep it nice and simple. The big key is good contact. That's the question I was going to ask you, sorry, again. There's no downward blowing. Again, your iron strike position is that kind of... Yeah, so with a normal iron strike, it's a descending blow and then it's going to be a slightly more descending blow with where it's gone. But that's what we're trying to achieve is we're trying to present a little bit less loft to keep that flight down. So not an actively more downward hit, definitely not. Cos again, that way... It doesn't matter that you do that based on where the ball position is. Exactly, and that sort of feeling that you've already created. I like that, Lou, and I got that completely. So that's the first position, that's a mid iron. We'll just step onto the next T-box or thing. And I'd like to see a similar sort of concept with driver in hand if that's possible. Oh yeah, that's a good one. Right, so next up is, like I said, it's from the T and it's with driver. It's not a shot that I'm... I don't mind an iron shot. I can sort of do that, I think, driver off and try to flight it down. The concept of driver is going to be a bit alien for some people. And it's quite a tough shot this, but if we go for it, people can try it, can they? Okay, no. So Lou, the first thing for me that would mess with my head a little bit is that we've changed the ball position with the iron. With driver, everybody would hit towards the front foot. So first of all, does ball position change is the first question I've got for you? Yeah, same principle. Yeah, so we don't want to... There'll be conflicting things about this, I'd just have to say. And this is how I would teach it, this is how I would do it, and hopefully I can do a pretty good demo in a minute. You can hit down on driver. You can. Some of the best players in the world, they hit down on their driver, even though off-tighting. I always like to feel as though I'm hitting up on driver. And even with this shot, when we're trying to flight it down, I am still trying to hit with a positive angle of attack, a sweeping blow, if you like. What I'm trying to do is, like we did with the irons, where it naturally did a descending blow, we're trying to decrease the lofted impact, so dynamic loft if anyone uses trackman. And that's what we're trying to do here, is I'm moving the ball position back, but I'm still trying to get an ascending blow, but we've just quite considerably less loft. And that's really the key with this shot and what makes it so difficult is, the shaft lean that I talked about, the forward shaft lean, is quite difficult with driver. That's why we move it back. We move the ball slightly back of where you don't want me to play it. And we're going to try and feel as though our hands are ahead, and what that's going to do is just sort of decrease the loft. Try and get the loft as low as we can, because ultimately we can hit this with quite low loft. We're not going to change the T-height. I was going to ask you that. I'm not changing the T-height. No, because if you have it off the high T, and again, what I always find with driver now is, spin rate's the key. If your spin rate gets too high, it's just going to go up. You know, you won't get low launch with high spin. We just don't see that. So, trying to keep the spin rate down, keep the launch down. Is the same again principle about the sort of 10-pound speed or swing? I will swing a little bit easier. And am I doing it for anything more than... I'm trying to control my movements, because I know how important it is. If I can get these movements right, I can really hit the shot I want to do. Things like ball speed and distances really irrelevant is you're going to get the distance on the ground if you do the shot with that ball flight. Your carry's going to come down, but your total distance should be way up. Do you want a T1 up? Yeah, I'm really looking forward to this. And then let's see. This is a great hole for me, because I think I'm not sure what the prevailing wind is, but every time I stand on this T, this always seems to be coming to your level. Yeah, it's always par 4. And it's always par 4. It always is. So, here you go. First of all, Lou, that's a super shot in terms of that ball flight, everything we intended it to be. You've got to be happy with that, haven't you? Good demo of that one? Yeah, happy with that. So, basically, I mean, I've recorded you're at the side there as well. Hopefully we can pick up what you were explaining in a sort of slow motion. But that shaffling from where I'm looking, you can see that, again, ball position slightly less forward than what we'd normally do, let's say with driver. Great explanation. Again, I'm going to have a little go at that before we go as well, because I'd really love to be able to execute that. I'm really trying to think it's quite a tough shot that. Yeah. It is. But I think what I would say is, you know, ball position back, but still sort of, you know, don't move the tee height. We're trying to sweep it off the tee and get them hands sort of. Well, I want to give that a go. It's going to feel a bit like a drag to you. OK, twice. I'm going to tee one up and give that a go. And then I want to move to round by the green. Maybe sort of, like you said, 30, 40 yards out, which can be a real awkward position, especially when the wind is blowing. And I just want to see if we've got sort of similar principles in that shot as well. Cool. Bullet. Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. You can throw a blanket over them. You can see again, though, seeing that bounding on down the fairway as well, which was... Yes, we're going to lose a little bit of carry, but we're never going to know, are we? No, that's it. And the idea raises, we've given you a technique where it's still your swing, isn't it? You know, something different happening clearly. What you feel like, just for me anyway, you do feel like you're hitting a ball a lot earlier in the downswing and then you would normally obviously because that ball position was the most alien bit. But clearly, it's something you need to practice, but it works. Yeah, absolutely. I'm glad to hear that. I didn't expect that. I did. Yes, let's start with that bit. So I've told him we're about 30 yards out. 58. We're 58, so only 28 yards out there. But what I'm looking for from this kind of position, we've got a bit of wind in two. I'll tell you what, the question is down to you viewers out there and I want some honest answers in the comments section below. You're 58 yards out. What club are you reaching for in a bag? Because my guess is, a lot are automatically going to go for a high lofted wedge. Now, I'm thinking that they shouldn't be doing that personally, with nothing in the way, no obstacles and whatever else. First of all, what would you be playing from here? And then how do we possibly look to flight it down a little bit into the wind? I've got nine iron. I've got nine iron. I think I like, so normally I would just play a lob wedge, but we're wind into, we're trying to flight it down and stuff. I wouldn't keep the same club and change my technique. I wouldn't be going for that sort of ball back. I'd be trying to keep my technique the same and just naturally just deal off it a little bit. So this is all about, so what you're saying is it's all about taking loft off the club rather than manipulating your swing. It feels like I'm doing something different here. When I'm trying to manipulate flight around the green, I will choose another club all the time to manipulate what I'm trying to do up or down, rather than manipulate technique. I always try and keep my technique the same, keep the strike good. It's interesting for those of you who haven't seen an earlier video that we did with Lewis about chipping and simplifying chipping. I think it's also important to know that you would play this shot in a, I don't see a different way, but you play it in the same way. It's very uniform how I play it. So let's go through that first of all. So just sort of, neutral weight distribution, so no weight left side, and just ball middle of the stance. Just ball middle of the stance, set the club as you, this club's designs will be used in a certain way, just use it that way, just keep the strike nice and clean. Go and watch that previous video, it's a little bit to it, but I think it's simplicity. I would go and watch that video seriously, and since that video, I have changed the way in which I execute my chip shots, honestly, because I would have been one of those players that have watched or listened to people, and I'm leaning forward, I'm leaning backwards, I'm changing the ball position, depend on the club that I've got in my hand. And since that video, I again have gone very much in a uniform way of centre of stance, sort of around your body type of swing, and the only thing I've changed is the loft on the club. So let's see, again, let's see you execute that so far, so good. Let's see if we can go three from three, and demonstrate that shot. So I can see, from my side at least anyway, interesting to see where that ball position is. It's not too wide of a stance you ever take either, I've noticed that. Nope, and then just nice and simple. I'm just going to run it up. Yeah, superb. Right with that, aren't we? Very good. And that's why I'm trying to keep it simple. I know all them other things we're talking about in terms of weight forward, ball back and stuff. I appreciate they ward in this instance, the breeze, help a little bit. But the amount of amateurs I play with that mishit their chip shots must be so frustrating, so that's why we do it like this. Well, I think one thing, like it's almost going off on a tangible, one thing from that particular lesson in terms of the chipping, it's about as average golfers not wasting shots, which we do all-yard graft, you get in and around the green, and the short game is so unreliable that you start duffing one a yard then another yard, and you think this is such a simplistic way of eliminating. Yeah. Those wasted shots. Anyway, really enjoyed that. A person, I think I'd like to hear more from you in terms of what you'd like to see from Lewis out here on the course, but for me, I like, if I play golf with Lou, it's often good to watch what these golfers do in terms of professional golfers and try and take elements from their game and get them into your own. But often what we don't really do is understand fully what they are doing. So for me to see that explained today in today's video, it's been really informative for me. I won't probably try the chip shop, but certainly seeing the iron into the green and the driver that I hit really was very different than what I would normally do. So thanks again Lou. Brilliant. Thanks everyone for watching. Like I said, get your comments down below and let me know what else you'd like to see in terms of lessons from Lou. That's a title for a series right there. Right, thanks for watching. I'll see you tomorrow night.