 Like day three, the plan is, although the plan, it's not going to plan it. This is not what we intended to do, it should have been another loop and nine, but again, the forecast is horrendous, although it's not too bad at the moment. But anyway, the point is this, I've sacked it off yesterday, as you know, due to the conditions, but also realised that there's something fundamentally wrong in terms of the golf swing. I haven't done this for quite some time and I've called up the help of someone you might remember from the channel. He's coming in early before his day starts and he's going to help fix me, I hope. Right, back to it, Lou, back on the channel. He's coming in early on his day off and he's going to help. You reckon that you guarantee that you'll sort me out in half an hour? I mean, guarantee. I'm going to golf from. That's something from Harry Potter, mate. No, we've missed that. Yeah, Lou, he's back. He's had the call for help. It's just gone, I'm struggling, mate. Ever since lockdown, I've come back, first few games, I've actually all right. Short game a bit, if people expected. Yeah, yeah, bit of custody. What is it that's up? So there's a few things really, I don't know, all, you know, within the same thing. Bit of a loss of power. Yeah. Definitely yardages have dropped off. Strike is poor. I've got a bit of an issue with me sort of hand positioning. I'm messing around quite a lot. Whereas the last year or so, fairly plain, smart decent golf. So you know, you just won't think about nothing. So where the hands have been for the last year, no idea. Definitely the time off, isn't it? Yeah. I've seen a lot of that at the minute with people, you know, everyone at least, no matter where you are, I've had a couple of months off. So now we're getting to the tea and all of a sudden, like, I'm like, do the hands go here there? It feels awkward. So then, like I said, strike's been poor. As you know, over the last year, maybe 18 months, I've gone to more of a sort of a putt shot, which is a lot more controllable. I was playing a little bit more consistently. Yeah. When I've come back, it seems to be much more of a, I don't know if the phase is different from a cup, but it just seems to be much more and more moving. Well, right, OK. I'm weaker. So that's the big issue. OK. I've seen enough of your swing where I don't watch, but a lot of them would start with me, you know, watching someone warm up, how they deliver the cup, how they strike it straight down the middle, like that. And they go, I don't know why I'm here, actually. It's the course that gets in the way. It is. That's the shot, isn't it? Yeah. That's just not. You see how weak it is. I mean, you've got potential to hit that with driver. Yeah. One in every 20 balls. Yeah. But you never hit that shot with any of these. No. That's really interesting because your numbers are really different. You know, we normally read this into, like, the club data, don't we? When we're looking at new product and stuff. But actually, your numbers are really quite different there. So what? I'm used to seeing. Yeah. And it all relates back to this technique, where you're actually limiting your range of motion. And it shows in the shot, doesn't it? When you get it right. That's why it feels so easy when you get it right, because it's more speed than, obviously, you can get a path there. But yeah. For me, that would be your standard by shot. Yeah. Are you happy with that? Yeah, I used to be. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And still, I think for me, when you put, you know, a decent enough swing on it. Yeah. That's still a shot that we need to be aware of. Yeah. But that's, you know, it's a completely different flight. Yeah. I hate to think what the difference in the peak height I have of those last few shots. Yeah. It's almost like the good one is double the height and stuff. Yeah. So should we have a look at what? What's wrong? Yeah. Are you happy warmed up? Yeah. I think almost, you know, looking at that screen, that's another decent ball there. You can see. Has that got it? Yeah. Yeah. Right down the middle. So we've got like five balls down the middle. There was a weak one in there. That's a really good, you know, summary of what's going on. It's honestly, yeah. Yeah. That sort of elongated. There's one long, like, short height. Yeah. And then there's absolutely, you know. Well, there's five down the middle, but one was one or even two short and weak, even though they were down the middle. Do you know what I mean? So that's the kind of, well, that would summarize my game. And we always read some comments, don't we, about your backswing. How flat it is, yeah. How flat it is and all that. Well, I think talking about that is really important because you get the club on the inside. You take it flat and on the inside, but the club comes inside your hands. Yeah. Which is really important for you because at the top of your backswing, your hand path goes steeper. Yeah. So if your club, and this is where, I love to talk about match-ups because, you know, people, if you do something, you have to undo it in the backswing because we all stand very square and impact, you know, the club faces square, the body square, everything, you know, goes to settle. So your club goes inside your hands. Yeah. And on the inside. So when your hand path changes on the outside, which is your traditional move of a slice of the ball, yeah, if your club is outside, you know, also in line with the hands and your hand path goes outside of where it went on the way back, the club will then be way outside and you'll become a massive slice of the ball. Yeah. Which is your typical slices of the ball. Yeah. They come way across the ball. So in that changing of the hand path, because you got blown on the inside, when you change the hand path, the club is behind. So the way, I think, the best way for people to visualise that and we've got some footage there that will play over. If you look at someone like a MacBook would be the opposite. He takes it open this way and drops it inside. And then drops it inside. Yeah. So he's making a, you know, he's trying to flatten the swing. Yeah. So in the back swing, he's like this and then he drops it. Where you are compensating for your hand. So, you know, if actually people look and you know, when I had a look last night, I went through some of the course videos that we've done. People can go back, they can pause halfway down on your down swing and the club is in a great position. Yeah. Halfway down on the down swing. So a couple of feet before impact, your club is absolutely textbook. And you know, the specific videos I was looking at, you're playing quite well. Yeah. So what's happening is, you're just doing something in your back swing, which is getting you in a, what looks like a bad position, but it gets you in the correct position halfway down. Yeah. And that's why you think good shots. Yeah. But what is happening here is, when you take it lower on the inside, you will essentially bow the wrist. There's no way of getting that on the inside and low. I'm not changing the angle there to a bowed wrist. But what we find is what was happening now and here what's causing that weak right is, you know, you're going for this position with sort of a neutral or bowed wrist coming down, is you're getting a little bit cuppy. Yeah. So actually the complete opposite of where you are, it's adding loft to making the club face weak and open. Yeah. So when you, you know, we've reverted to a bit of a cut and we can see there from the track line on which your path is, you know, four or five degrees across. So sort of out to in. Here, if you do that with a sort of, you know, a club face that's sort of square to the path or square to the target, it's going to go straight or it's going to curve back to the target. If you have that path with an open club face with a cut wrist, that's it. That's it. So you're adding loft, you're losing distance and, you know, the big thing for you is as well, you're quite a low spinner of the ball, you know. Yeah. And you're adding a load of spin for the first time, you know, some of them shots are really weak and the spinning is short, aren't they? You know, one thing that I always say with your irons, you're a strong knight, your distance with your irons are strong, aren't they? Yeah. So again, you can always, when you hit a weak one, you know, I think, you know, again, we go back to that self-diagnosis. Able to identify. Exactly. You know, if you see a flight through this, it's not your flight. Yeah, it's quite a penetrating, strong flight, isn't it? So again, something that you can look at when you hit some. Okay. And I think that what I will say is, quite simply, a great explanation from Lou in the sense that I certainly understand what he's just said there. Really good resonate with everything that's happened in the last few weeks. It's bang on. The thing I need now though, Lou, is what's the solution? Yeah, the drill. So this is the key. So knowing what's going on is, it's not even half the battle. It just gives you clarity on it. Yeah, yeah. You know, and I think what's important is, I've told you where you've got swings and hopefully that will bring back some, oh yeah, actually. I know what I'm doing. I've seen that. Most people have seen that swing on film. You definitely have. So I think what's important is, the main thing is, I personally think after so long away, is your hand path has changed too much to go, at the top of the back, to make that move back. Yeah, yeah. And I certainly think that's what's causing the two way miss. Yeah. You know, I think the hand path has got outside and essentially, you've then got nowhere to go. So the club is quite sort of out and up. You know, sort of outside and sort of steep. So what we're going to try and do is, just give you a drill to really, do the complete opposite. So this is a drill that you wouldn't use any balls. Yeah. You know, it's just nice and easy. It's something that, you know, somewhere like, I've seen just in Rosie, I can't get in there and put you in that position. Because obviously it was still socially distanced. Yeah, yeah. I'll just demonstrate that for you. So what we're going to get to do is, just get to the top of your back so you can stop. Because again, we're not, we can change that. Yeah. You know, if you come to me and said, rightly, I want to be scratching 12 months, like we would probably have a look at changing it. Exactly, yeah. So it's all about what your desire is and what your goals are. But essentially right now, we just want to get you hit and that's it. Okay. So take it to the top of your back so you can stop. So we're going to go lower on the inside, get it to here. And then what we're actually going to do is we're just going to, from there, take the club straight down to the floor and slide it across the floor. So what that does, when you get it from here, you're taking the club out from there, the only way is down. So you're actually to create room for the club at impact you're getting in this position. Yeah. Okay, which again, you're through good hands and obviously being a decent player, you're creating room for the club that really isn't there. Yeah. Okay. So we're going to get to the top of the backswing when I put the club right on the floor. Slide it across the floor like this and what you'll feel is the club face now being nice and passive because it's on the floor but the wrist angle not changing. So it shouldn't feel that easy. Yeah, yeah. Obviously doing this and all we're trying to do there is stop that there which I think is the root cause of the backswing box cause in a bad impact position. So if you just come in and try that one for me. So it's that bit where it goes down, gets lower. That's the uncomfortable bit, isn't it? Yeah. So it's not actually we've diagnosed it the root cause being club face and wrist angle but if you don't make that move where the hand path goes out then essentially the wrist angle doesn't have to change. Yeah. So actually from the top of the backswing to here will feel really uncomfortable. Yeah. And actually after that probably feels pretty natural. Perfect. Yeah, that looks really good now. Okay, so I'm a few full practice wins there. I feel better. Yeah. I feel connected. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's it. So it should feel now is that you've got a lot more time, room in here where actually you don't have to manipulate the club anymore to find space for it, you know what I mean? Yeah. Which is what you've been seeing lately. Yeah. There is no hint of a curve on that. Yeah. Which is fair. And from that I actually got a little bit of a match as well. But that zero deviation. Yeah. The biggest thing in golf, who is played many times you can't play from the sort of left or way right. But if that was that's down the middle, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. You're again, I think, you know, we've shortened up the process of going through that little. There you go. Oh, mate. Yeah. So it doesn't, you know, essentially, it won't happen every time. But if you can just get that feeling of, you know, familiarity, you know, you're used to hitting decent shots. And recently you haven't been. Yeah. So actually hitting the ball at the middle and looking up and seeing it fly straight. How was that? Oh, yeah, three balls. I think three balls there. We've won that, like I said, turned over the three balls where I wouldn't imagine there's a lot between them. So you can see your path is now less across. Yeah. Which is, the ultimate aim was. Oh, yeah. 0.9, yeah. Yeah. So your path that, you know, average before sort of four or five across there. Yeah. It's, you know, it's less than one degree across there. Yeah. Which again, it's massive. I think you're getting your path as neutral as you can. It's really important to you. Yeah. I think club face varies a couple of degrees either way. And that creates them sort of shots, but path is coming to you. You can get that right. That's four out of five, isn't it? To be fairly. Yeah. Unfortunately, I'll just make a note of that because camera backing, it's really dark. We've already, we've tried it this morning again. It's an unfortunate thing in terms of less than that. I know you can't see both like so. Trust, you'll have to trust the explanation. I mean, obviously there's a bit of backing up in terms of the screen there. Throw some data up there because those Yeah. The carry distance has gone the smash factor's better. Yeah. Because the striker's cleaner. The timing, not there, but we've quickly got to the root cause of it and actually wasn't, you know, that's what was causing the bad shot. Yeah. But actually, your hand path has gone to that side. Yeah. And you know, essentially, me having a good understanding of your swing anyway has accelerated that process. Yeah. But any, you know, any sort of start of the lesson will start with a family if you kind of have come out of a lockdown and struggle. And what are you struggling with? I know that, I mean, I think that the trouble is, the reason I haven't done too many lessons, specific lessons to me, I'm aware that, like I said, I've got lots of issues if I wanted, like Lou said, if you wanted to become a better golfer, there's lots of things that potentially have to change. I don't do lessons because I'm not committed enough or have the time enough to practice them what I'm supposed to be doing to get better. But also, the other fact is that the lesson you give me is not necessarily beneficial to people out there. Yeah, that's why we've probably avoided it in the past, isn't it? That's what I mean. You can type in anything now and get 500 fixes for any bad shock, can't you? But there's no real lesson for the masses, is there? Exactly. So we're going to, you know, we pretend to have a look and anything that relates to, we see some, my golf or your golf, which we think might help. But, you know what I think, some people watching, you know, a lot of people come and I think people potentially don't realise what goes on in a golf and might be fearful of getting ripped apart. You know, your perfect example is, I spend a lot of time with you, but I don't pull your swing apart because, like I said, talk about their match-ups, I just want you to swing the best version of yourself. Yeah. And, you know, if the perfect swing, what, you know, was created the perfect results, Adam Scott would win every week, wouldn't he? Yeah, yeah. But he doesn't, so it's all about what works, what creates the good impact positions and trying to avoid the bad shots. Yeah. That's the key, isn't it? I like it, it's expectation over me in the video as well, what are you expecting? Like, I'm not expecting you to say to me, I know all of a sudden you're going to be a much better goal than you were, but this is like you said, getting my strike bat, something like it was, and that's it. Like I said so far, beautiful. It's like chalk and cheese from where we started. That's your shot, isn't it? Yeah. The start line might be three or four yards, right the target, but it doesn't want to curve at me now. No, it wasn't. That's what I said, it's very controllable. Yeah, that's it. Both like it was good. I think all of a sudden now your swing tree's gone back up to where it used to be. Yeah. Because now you can actually turn properly. Yeah. It was good. I mean obviously that's so like I said, it was a break for me in terms of day three and this little experiment that I've done. Thanks to Lou for coming back in. Great to see you back on the channel. We're going to do a lot more in the weeks ahead. Again now all this restrictions and lockdown has been lifted. So we'll get back doing stuff on the channel. I think for me again in the lessons perspective, I think Lou's got a great short game and again maybe that's something that you can have me out with as well that we can have a look at in the next 30 minutes. Yeah, yeah, yes. And again maybe some bits in there that might resonate with other people as well in terms of. But if anyone wants anything specific that they, you know. Yeah. Feel free to post a comment down below if we can relate that to something in here for you. We can do a little video on it. Yeah, great idea. Throw it in and if we can produce a little video on it, we'll be able to shout out, can't we? Fantastic. Look, thanks for watching. Like I said, I'll be back. So tomorrow now I'll take this we'll obviously do a bit of practice here today. Back on the course tomorrow for day four that will be. And see like I say if I hear it's all right doing the drive and see if I can out onto the course and see how we end up. And if the rain and weather perks up a bit see if we can get a bit of a better score going or at least some better ball striking out there on the course of Conway. So as ever, thanks for watching. Hit that subscribe button if you don't already. Hit the like button like Louis said comments down below any ideas or comments you want to make about this video or future videos then stick it down below. Thanks again then. No problem. We'll see you soon. See you soon. That's really good. Do you know that?