– It's time to take a
look at what's in our bag, but more specifically, what's new for 2020 and why do we choose what we choose. We're gonna take a look at mine then we're gonna head over
to Piers and see what he uses and why we've got very different games. So let's take a look at the driver. New edition for me this
year is the SiM MAX. I've got a nine degree with a
slightly lower setting here. I wanna reduce the spin. I've got a Fujikura Ventus 6.5, so it's quite a stiff shaft
and quite a low loft for me. Why do I go low loft? Because for me the purpose of this club is to hit it as far as possible. That's what I wanna
achieve out of this club. Yes it needs to be pretty safe, but when it comes to a fitting
and getting the right driver, I wanna be as far down as
possible that I can be. So for me this gives me a nice low spin and a good strong flight.
One thing though, I was using
the adjustable last year. I think I may when I get fitted and test this against the adjustable, I think I'm probably gonna go to that because what I love
about the adjustable is it can protect me against
the shot I don't wanna hit. So I can stick all the
weight in a certain place and that will not hit it left for me or certainly guide against it, which means I can tee the ball up and go a little harder at it as well. So I got the feeling that I might switch but so far I've had
this on the golf course, it's performing very nicely. Okay 3-wood, not a club
that I use that much. It's in the bag but I
would say I use it maybe once every two rounds if that. Might need it for a par
five to get on in two but sometimes, you
know, I'm a lot probably further down there then I'd need a 3-wood. So I've got the SiM MAX
HZRDUS Smoke shaft in a 6.5. It's obviously a great club, I like it, but I don't use it that much.
So let's go down to what's next. Now this is one of my
favorites in the bag. It's a serious weapon. It is the P790 UDI 2-iron. Now this club for me is
such an important club because if I've got a tight par four where I wanna thread it down there, this enables me to be fairly accurate. It's quite a penetrating flight so I can still get the distance. In the summer you can
hit this up to like 270. So with roll that's great. So for me it's a really
important club that I can use if I don't want to use the driver. Great club, really love that one. Irons for me, P760s, same as last year. I'm sticking with these. I've got a 6.5 in the
Project X shaft, quite stiff. Now it's interesting for me,
this club is all about power.
I wanna get as far as I can down there. These clubs are all about feel. I wanna make sure that I can
be as consistent as possible. I'm not looking to hit the ball
as far as I can with these. And you'll see that with
the intention in my swing. I'll swing a lot harder with the driver compared to the irons. Obviously these are forwards, nice feel, but nothing different in these. Then we go down to the wedges. I've got iron to wedge
in that one by the way. Then we go down to the wedges. These are two new ones for me. I've got the Milled Grind 2, 52 and 58. I only have two wedges. Why do I only have two? Because I'm a feel player. I like to actually feel
a lot of certain shots.
So with the 52 for example, I'd probably max out at this at about 120, but I will probably go to 95,
anywhere between 95 and 120, I will hit this. And I will hit some softer, smoother shots in order to feel that. Lot of people don't like that. That's why they'll have
maybe three or four wedges to close the gaps so they can
hit it a little bit more full. But I really like to feel
some of those shots in and therefore I've only
got the two wedges. 58 obviously is the other one, and I love to use this in
a lot of different ways. I'll open the face up, I'll put
the ball back in the stance, forward in the stance, I'll
really vary this with this club and play a lot of different shots.
In terms of bounce angle, a lot of people ask
about the bounce angle. 11 degrees on this one,
nine degrees on this one. Why 11 degrees? I like a bit of bounce on my club. One, because I play this in bunker shots and I wanna make sure
the bounce is being used. But two, I really wanna use the
bounce on the fairway shots. I wanna make sure that when the club is landing on the ground,
it is not digging in. So I really like to use the club. If you watched a lot of our videos, one thing we always say is
we want you to hit the ground and not the golf ball
on these shorter shots. So for me having a slightly
higher bounce with this and a fairly high bounce
on this nine degrees, enables me to actually
use the sole of the club and glide across there.
So these are the wedges, really like them. And in terms of the grips, something I've done this year
which I've never done before, experimented with some different grips. I've got the midsize Tour Velvet. So I've gone for quite a thick grip and I prefer this so much more because before in the past when I've
had a slightly thinner grip, I've just felt that I've had
to grip it a little tighter, I feel uncomfortable. But now with these slightly thicker grips I've got fairly large hands. So from here this just
makes me feel comfortable.
So it's good to get the right grips so you feel comfortable in that. And I like the tall Velvet golf pride because it's nice and simple. I don't like too much
going on with the grips. So that is that but let's
show you the latest edition. Which is the Truss. Brilliant putter. Now the reason I've gone
to this over this one. This is my old one, Spider X.
And what we've got here,
toe hang, really like it, performed well with this. But soon as I saw this at the actually photo shoot last year, well it looked a little
strange with the bridge here. What I thought as soon as
a I put it down in this behind the golf ball,
you can't see the bridge. And I love the shape,
the straight lines for me really help me line up. Properly takes me back to my younger days when I was a junior golfer. I had a very similar putter,
straight edges, straight lines. And I feel when I get inside 10 feet, feel like I'm just gonna hold everything. And that's more from a feeling for me and just feeling comfortable
with these straight lines. When I look at this, it's
great, I've got this nice line. But for me there, this tends
to distract me a little bit even though this has performed well.
I've hold a lot of putts with this, but this one almost
just takes it up a notch and really gives me that
confidence to hold the putts. So this isn't in the bag at the moment, the Truss is in the bag and it's helped me win a couple of matches so far. But that is my set of clubs. So, be interested to get your thoughts. What are you gonna be playing
with that's different? What are your thoughts on the makeup? What wedges do you have,
what bouncers do you have? And make sure if you're new to the channel hit that subscribe button, hit
that bell to see more videos. And now, I think we need to
take a look at Piers' bag. – All right, thanks a lot Andy. Now my sets are obviously
slightly different. The big issue we have
had with SiM obviously is that we haven't been
able to be fit for it yet, so looking forward to
go through that process when we get out of lockdown.
And you'll also notice that
there's 18 clubs in there. There's actually a 9-iron missing. So if anyone knows where my
9-iron is can someone help me? But there's actually 18 clubs in here. So I'm just gonna give you
a little bit of an idea of why I've got different clubs in and some of the experimenting
that I'm doing at the moment. So let's get the old iPhone in there. So I've got SiM Standard 10.5 with the setting in the
fade setting on the bottom, so you can see I've got my
weight in the fade setting. It's standard loft on the loft sleeve. And I've got a Project X
HZRDUS T1100 6.5 75 gram.
So that's the shaft that
I've used for a long time now for a couple of years. I'm messing around with
shafts a little bit, I've got an EvenFlow in there as well, which I used quite a lot last year, 6.5. 65 grams, slightly lighter. And I've also got some TPT shafts as well coming from a Swiss company TPT. Meant to be really
cool, so looking forward to trying those out, give them kinda a little
bit of head to head. But as far as the drive's concerned, I'm thinking that I'm
gonna be going standard because I like the adjustability more so, but if the MAX works better
we'll go with the MAX.
Speaking of MAX, I've got a 5-wood. That's the next loft I've got. So 18 degree SiM MAX, SiM MAX 18 degree 5-wood. And I've got a 6.5 HZRDUS
with a 60 gram shaft in it, which is slightly larger than I'm used to, but again it was just more
of an experiment with that. Now the reason I've gone
5-wood and not 3-wood is the 3-wood, again I
wanna have a fitting for it before I get the club, but I don't really use
the 3-wood that much so I'm looking forward to
finding one that I like, but you'll see from when
it comes to how I like to play my tee shots, there's
only really two main clubs that I wanna use. It's the driver and then it's the 2-iron. So 2-iron, P790, with a Project X black 6.5 85 gram shaft in it.
So that is my real go-to
fairway finder club. And I what I'm gonna do when
I start hitting some shots in a moment is show you
the two kinds of shots that I hit with it and how I do it. I think that'd be really helpful for you. I've also got in here you'll
see a GAPR Low set on standard. Again it's Project X 6.5. Let's get that, there we
go focused, 85 gram shaft. But it's actually my 5-wood shaft, so it's actually longer than my 2-iron. So this basically a
brute of a driving iron. So we're gonna see through time whether I can use this or not. I don't like the feel as
much as I do with the P790, I prefer the feel on the P790. But if that goes a long way it might be worth sticking in the bag. Irons are the same as last year,
P760, 6.5 Project X shafts, half inch longer than standard. No 9-Iron. And I go all the way to pitching wedge. Now before I go to the
wedges, let's go putter 'cause the wedge are gonna
take some explaining.
So Spider X 35 inch long, and I had it slightly more upright. So the guys at TaylorMade, I
think it was Mark Fissleton, he actually made that a
little more upright for me, which I preferred. Now, wedges. Oh my goodness, there's too many in here. The good news is I've just
ordered on by the way as well. So I've just designed my own 60 degree which I'm looking forward to coming. Now look at this here. Let's get that focused. So there's a lot of wedges in here, but basically for me, I
like going 52, 56, 60, that's my standard wedge system because I'm different to Andy.
I like to play relatively full shots, so I like to have more wedges in. Now one thing that I would do if I was playing a shorter course, I'd definitely would be putting the 64 in. So if I'm playing a short
course, maybe my home course that used to be Oxley where I grew up, I'd going with the 64 in the bag there. Smaller greens, lots
of shots under 50 yards where I might wanna get a little
bit of height and stop it, that 64's going in there. But the other things that
I'm messing around with here, you'll notice there's two 56s in here. Now the difference between
these two 56s is actually the length of the shaft, the
lie angle, and also the bounce. Now, and also the shaft as
well, the shaft is softer. So if I look at my traditional
56 degree sand wedge, okay. So it's got a lower bounce then I would actually like on there, so the bounce actually would still be a little bit higher than that. But it's 56 degrees,
it's two degrees upright, it's half an inch longer than standard, and it's got an extra stiff shaft in it.
Now what I have done, I've gone to a, got the higher bounce which I
wanted which is the 12 degree, but I've gone to standard
lie, so it's standard lie, and it's also standard length and it's a slightly softer shaft, a slightly more regular shaft. So what I'm gonna do is in a moment show you why I've done that
from a technique point of view when I'm hitting these shots. Now you might think lie angle with it being a little bit flatter I can hit the ball out to the right. I'm okay with that, but as
I say, I'll go through that when I go through the technique. Obviously there's always
a alignment sticks in here and we have also the Super Speed in here which is gonna be great
for hopefully getting near a little bit more club head speed. All right so that's my set,
that's the breakdown of it. Let's go into the 2-iron first, couple of things that I would do with that and then I'll talk you through
the wedges a little bit more.
All right let's go through
the 2-iron first of all. So there's two main shots that
I like to hit with my 2-iron. The first one is this. So it's just a normal full
swing back and through. Looking to hit this shot
around about 250 yards, around about 70 feet of height. This is great as the fairways
get a little bit tighter where it's more about accuracy and not so much about distance, or maybe I've gotta lay
up shorter somewhere.
So I'm still looking to
get a decent height on it and decent distance. The second shot is more
of a stinger style shot, so it's gets windier then
the fairways get tighter. I've gotta get that ball down low because it's good sometimes
to hit the golf ball low even when there's no wind
because they higher you hit it, the more chance it's got
of curving off lines.
So sometimes it's good to hit it down low anyway with no wind. Now, the way that I do this,
there's a few difference ways, but the one way I'd like
you to experiment with is what you do with your lead wrist. So I'm gonna hit two shots,
I'm gonna hit the stinger, but before that I'm gonna
hit my normal shot again. And I want you to look at my finish. So have a look at my
finish when I hit this one. Okay, so you can see when
I finish the shot now that my lead wrist has got a cup in it, it's got a bend in it, okay? That's great, it means
that I can release the club and create the height that I want.
But if I wanna hit it lower,
what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna work on flattening
that lead wrist off. So I'm gonna flatten that lead wrist off, that's gonna allow me to
lean that shaft forward which is gonna be great
for reducing that loft. So, again there's a few
other things that I do, but this is one of the main things that I'd like you to work at. So that was definitely a lot lower. And we can see now that lead
wrist has flattened off. That's a really cool way for
you to work with your stinger. Now, wedges. So let's explain to you now, sorry about the grinding
going on over there.
Let's explain to you now why
I've gone for a lie angle which is a little bit flatter. So when the golf ball is sitting down, either on a tight lie which really in a little bit of a depression or a divot or even in the rough sometimes,
I like playing this shot so I can get the club
shaft really vertical so the toe is the only part of the club that's in the ground. So think of this, if my
club shaft and the lie angle is more upright anyway,
it makes it harder for me to get that shaft higher
to get the heel in the air.
So by having a flatter lying club, it's gonna help me get
that heel in the air when I wanna put the shaft more upright. Hope that makes sense, but this is just great when the, if I can hit shots out of these bad lies and just get the toe of the
club, the main part of the club which is working through the ground, it makes it easier to hit these shots. So it kinda looks like this. So shaft goes very upright. I'm not really focusing on my wrist much, it's more of a rocking
action from the shoulders. But you can see how much
that heel of the golf club is up in the air. So I'm gonna hit out the toe obviously. But this is a shot that I can
hit anything from five yards to 35 yards with that technique, but it just works really well for me when the golf ball is sitting down.
There's a few other benefits as well for having the flatter lie angle, but that's the main one
for me at the moment. The only trade-off is, when
I come to play a full shot, I may push it a little bit
because the lie angle is too flat but that's okay, I can
just aim a little bit left. I'm more comfortable with the fact that I've got a really good option on the tight lies around
greens as opposed to the fact I'm pushing my full shots a little bit. Okay so there you have it. Hope you enjoyed that. Don't forget to hit
that like and subscribe if you enjoyed it and
obviously leave that comment.
Now, how would you like to Break
100, Break 90, or Break 80? So they are three of
our best coaching plans that we do at menandmygolf.com
where we take your game to the next level to help you
to break that landmark score. So all you have to do is click the link down in the
corner there to check that out. And you know, we've had
so much success with this.
Had thousands of golfers
go through these plans and they have broke their 100, 90, or 80. Thanks for watching
and we'll see you soon..