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| Meta Description | In this video, 2022 US Open Champion Matt Fitpatrick plays a hole with Joe The Pro Ferguson caddying for him to unpack exactly how he goes about playing golf at the highest level to see what amateur golfers can learn from his strategic approach! Matt Fitzpatrick explains how he plays golf, from the tee to the green, what he's thinking over the ball and what he writes in his yardage book. |
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Today we are going to get in the minds of a major champion. I've got Matt Fitzpatrick here. Hello, Matt.
00:06
How are you?
00:06
Very well, thank you. I don't know how well I'm going to be in a minute once I've lugged this
00:09
bag up here,
00:09
but we're going to see how you play your golf and how you strategize your way around your golf course.
00:14
So today I'm going to be your new, improved, taller, better-looking Billy Foster.
00:18
That's what you told me off camera anyway.
00:20
So talk me through this hole here and your approach.
00:23
What the type of thing Billy would be saying to you and what you do to prepare for a hole
00:27
like this?
00:27
Yeah, so obviously this hole, pretty straightforward.
00:30
The bunkers there, I think you told me earlier, were 3.15, so I'm not reaching that today.
00:35
But yeah, we look at this hole and think, okay, well, where do we want to hit it?
00:39
The bunkers, obviously, trouble here. We don't want to run out of that.
00:42
So yeah, we'd hit it short of that and then play from there.
00:45
So how much of your strategy is predetermined from your practice rounds
00:50
or even in the morning before you play when you get the pin sheets and when you figure out the
00:54
wind?
00:54
Are you making your strategy then and sticking to it out on the golf course
00:58
or have you got like a flexible plan plan?
01:00
Yeah, I mean, obviously, we've got a flexible plan.
01:02
You think you've always got to stay that way.
01:03
But, you know, we make our plan Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
01:06
particularly if it's a golf course we've not seen before.
01:08
We'll go through the holes as we play them in practice rounds
01:11
and we'll decide on, you know, what we're going to do.
01:13
Is it a hybrid here? Is it a four-iron? Is it a driver?
01:16
Do we take out the bunker or not?
01:18
You know, there's a lot that goes into it.
01:20
So from there, we'll decide on what we do the night before.
01:24
Obviously, from then, it depends on tournament situation
01:26
as to whether you change it or not.
01:28
So you might change that strategy tournament round
01:30
depending on if you're chasing a lead.
01:32
Need a birdie, you know, need to be play conservative,
01:35
just get it in the house, whatever it may be.
01:37
So it is pretty flexible.
01:38
Right, boss, so I'm going to be caddying for you.
01:40
I'm lugging this monstrosity of a bag.
01:42
It's huge and heavy.
01:43
We've got 316 to that bunker on the right.
01:45
You told me we're not going to go in it with drivers.
01:47
Are you happy with driver?
01:48
Yeah, if you say so, you're caddying.
01:50
You need to tell me.
01:51
No, I'm happy with driver.
01:52
Let's go with it.
01:56
So, crikey, that's heavy.
01:58
Once you've teed up, tell me the process you're going through.
02:01
How do you aim?
02:02
Are you someone who picks out a spot in front of the ball?
02:04
No, I just, you know, know where I'm going.
02:07
That's my target and kind of go from there, really.
02:10
Obviously, I've done a lot of practice before
02:12
with alignment sticks to make sure your alignment's good.
02:16
Yeah, and then you just obviously, you know, bank on your practice.
02:19
I can see you're keen to get going here.
02:20
One more.
02:20
Are you someone who shapes the ball with the shape of a hole
02:22
or against the wind, or do you have your stock shot and go with it?
02:25
Stock.
02:25
Yeah, stock.
02:26
Stock draw off the tee.
02:28
So, that's what I'll do regardless.
02:31
Occasionally, if the hole forces a shape,
02:34
then obviously I'll have to do that.
02:36
And something I'm happy doing,
02:37
but it's just easier to, you know, to stick with what's stock.
02:41
Come on then, boss.
02:42
Stock driver straight out of that marketplace, please.
02:53
I like it.
02:54
Up the right half.
02:55
We're in good shape.
02:57
This is going to be easy.
02:59
I think it just rolled in that bunker.
03:01
Don't you worry about that, man.
03:02
It's not.
03:02
This is going to be easy.
03:05
Right, so we're off and away, boss.
03:06
That was a great tee shot.
03:07
I'm happy with that.
03:08
I think this is going to be easy.
03:09
Now we're walking.
03:11
You do an awful lot of walking.
03:12
So, talk to me about the role of the golf shoe for you,
03:15
how important that is,
03:16
and what you like about these Skechers Go Golf blade shoes.
03:20
Yeah, the thing, the biggest thing for me with the blade
03:22
is the comfort, you know.
03:25
Like I say, play 28 weeks a year,
03:30
four rounds ideally, Thursday to Sunday,
03:32
practice rounds Monday to Wednesday.
03:34
You're always on your feet, you know,
03:35
whether it's playing golf, whether it's in the gym.
03:38
And, you know, these golf shoes just make a hell of a difference
03:41
over the course of a year.
03:42
And, you know, I've not had any soreness in my feet
03:45
since I've moved with Skechers,
03:47
which is obviously a huge deal.
03:49
And that's like one of the biggest things
03:51
as to why I moved over to Skechers in the first place.
03:54
And, you know, these shoes are excellent.
03:56
Right, so we are approaching that second shot
03:59
after that wonderful tee shot.
04:01
And I've got the club yardage book here,
04:03
but I've seen on tour your yardage books
04:05
are a lot more detailed.
04:06
And you're somebody who does an awful lot of writing
04:08
in them, aren't you?
04:08
So, when I see you at the end of the hole
04:10
and you've finished out
04:11
and you start writing stuff down in your planner,
04:13
what are you writing?
04:16
Bit of everything, you know.
04:17
What my target is, what club, where the wind is,
04:20
how the ball's lying below my feet, above my feet.
04:24
And where the pin is, all sorts of things.
04:27
I'll fire on that.
04:28
So you're writing about a specific shot you've hit,
04:31
if that ball was above your feet, below your feet,
04:33
because you want to know what that did to the yardage?
04:36
Well, it could be what it did to the yardage
04:38
or whether, oh, there's a common theme here.
04:40
You've, you know, you're losing strokes
04:41
with your seven iron,
04:43
but actually every shot that you've lost strokes,
04:46
the ball's been below your feet.
04:47
Right, okay, well, I need to practice below my feet.
04:49
Because if you think about when you're playing golf,
04:51
the ground you're walking on now,
04:53
how many golf shots do you hit
04:54
where it's perfectly flat every time?
04:56
The answer is probably 10%, you know.
04:59
So why are you practicing on lies that are flat all the time?
05:04
So when you get home,
05:05
you've written all that information down.
05:07
How are you extrapolating that
05:08
or where are you putting that to make it useful for you?
05:11
I have, yeah, I have a team of people.
05:14
So my sponsor, Protiviti,
05:17
and Eduardo Molinari with Arcos Golf,
05:21
you know, we sort of work together
05:25
to sort of get all that information,
05:27
put it together and, you know,
05:29
give us the feedback that we need to,
05:31
in order to improve.
05:32
Perfect. Well, that's interesting.
05:34
Let's go and stiff this second shot, shall we?
05:37
Right, Matt, we've arrived at the ball.
05:38
You've already given me my first tailing off
05:40
for this running out into the semi,
05:42
but little did you know,
05:43
I think we've got a back pin,
05:44
so I was trying to take a spin off there.
05:45
I'm always thinking.
05:46
So what's the first thing you do
05:47
when you get to the golf ball for a second shot?
05:50
What's the first thing you look at?
05:51
First thing is get a yardage, you know,
05:53
get a yardage to the front
05:54
and then obviously get a yardage to the pin
05:56
so you know where it is.
05:57
From there, you look at your book.
05:59
Tour books have got a lot of detail about the green,
06:01
so whether there's slope short, long,
06:03
obviously bunker right, left, hazard,
06:05
whatever it may be.
06:06
So then once you look at that,
06:07
you go, okay, I've got,
06:09
in this case, we've got 188.
06:12
188, we want to land it
06:14
because we know it's releasing six yards.
06:16
We don't want to land it 182.
06:19
And from there, it's 182 is playing what?
06:22
Yeah, so we've got a bit of downwind.
06:24
Yeah, we might have five yards downwind.
06:26
All of a sudden, that's 177.
06:28
Maybe it's a bit colder or a bit warmer.
06:31
In this case, it's a bit cooler.
06:32
So it's probably playing 170, probably back to 180.
06:36
There you go.
06:37
Watch 180 club, 79.
06:39
Okay.
06:40
And when do you factor in lie?
06:41
Have you thought about that already?
06:42
Have you subconsciously already come up and seen that?
06:44
I mean, in this case, semi, it makes a negligible difference.
06:48
Obviously, if the fairway, it's not going to make a difference.
06:50
Obviously, if it's in the rough,
06:52
you're thinking something that might be a bit heavier,
06:54
take more club, or you could be a flyer, drier rough.
06:57
Then obviously, you've got to think about that.
06:58
Okay, one thing I've seen a lot of pros do
07:00
is mark off certain areas on the planner
07:01
where you just simply can't miss it to certain pins.
07:04
Is that something you'd look at now?
07:06
You'd look at this pin,
07:06
and you'd have something marked on you,
07:08
and you'd go, and just at the back of your mind,
07:09
you'd be thinking, we're veering slightly one side.
07:11
Same deal.
07:13
For example, if there's a water hazard at the screen,
07:16
you aim further left away from the pin.
07:18
If there's a bunker, and it's an easy up and down,
07:20
then you can go a little bit more aggressive.
07:22
So obviously, you've done your homework in the practice rounds,
07:24
and then you can take that into account.
07:26
I'm a great caddie.
07:27
Of course, I've done my homework.
07:28
What do we say, boss?
07:28
Seven iron?
07:29
Seven iron.
07:30
Wrong one.
07:31
That's got a passer grip on it, man.
07:32
That's illegal.
07:33
Right, that's got a passer grip on it.
07:34
We'll go with this one instead.
07:35
That's the luck.
07:37
Talk me through your pre-shot routine
07:38
as you're going with it as well.
07:40
Two practice swings, normally.
07:44
And then, yeah, away I go.
07:47
Cool.
07:50
You're going to need to move a hair right, sir.
07:55
Cameras aren't normally that close.
08:05
All right, we're going on the side of safety here, boss.
08:07
I think I said it's the left edge of the green.
08:09
But we can work it out from there.
08:13
Right, so we've hit that second shot.
08:14
I think we've missed a little bit left of target, maybe.
08:17
You can blame me for that one,
08:18
because I think I gave you the wrong line there.
08:20
As we're walking up, are you starting to think about
08:23
what might lay ahead?
08:25
Are you looking at slopes?
08:26
Are you already getting a picture?
08:27
No, no, not really.
08:28
I mean, it's more like, where's my ball?
08:31
How close is it before making a decision?
08:34
I feel like I get my best reads when I'm fully focused
08:37
and behind the ball, obviously.
08:39
You know, there's no point thinking about it now.
08:40
I can't make a decision,
08:42
or certainly can't make a good decision
08:44
from 50 yards away.
08:45
So, for me, it's just kind of,
08:48
particularly if I'm on the green,
08:49
if I'm off the green,
08:50
you're obviously looking at the contours for the chip
08:52
and what that might, you know,
08:53
what you might be left with.
08:55
Right, Matt, I've put you in a bad place here.
08:57
I'm sorry, we've got hump, we've got downhill chip.
08:59
What are you thinking?
09:01
Yeah, this is short side,
09:03
so that's a severe penalty in itself.
09:07
Not a penalty for the caddy, is it?
09:08
At this point, a hit and hope is a fine, yeah.
09:14
Oh, he's absolutely played one.
09:18
He's got me out of jail
09:20
and we are in there about six inches.
09:23
Boss, that was an easy put.
09:24
We don't need a put.
09:25
Good caddy in.
09:25
Thanks, Matt.
09:26
Well done, knockoff Billy.
09:30
Well, that was a phenomenal cross-handed chip.
09:32
Talk me through why you've gone cross-handed
09:34
and what you think the benefits are.
09:36
Just consistency.
09:37
I feel like I know what's coming every time
09:39
and that's been the biggest thing for me.
09:42
That's the key thing in chipping.
09:43
You know what's coming each time you hit your chip
09:45
and then you can predict what the outcome's going to be.
09:48
So, yeah, it's been really helpful.
09:49
A bit unorthodox.
09:50
Were you nervous the first time you put it out in competition or not?
09:52
No, no, no, no.
09:54
I've been doing it as a training drill for a long time
09:57
and obviously to take it into competition,
10:00
it took a few more reps beforehand,
10:02
but yeah, I'm used to it now.
10:05
Great stuff. |
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# Play Smarter Golf: Matt Fitzpatrick’s On-Course Strategy Explained
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In this video, 2022 US Open Champion Matt Fitpatrick plays a hole with Joe The Pro Ferguson caddying for him to unpack exactly how he goes about playing golf at the highest level to see what amateur golfers can learn from his strategic approach\!
Matt Fitzpatrick explains how he plays golf, from the tee to the green, what he's thinking over the ball and what he writes in his yardage book.
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00:00Today we are going to get in the minds of a major champion. I've got Matt Fitzpatrick here. Hello, Matt.
00:06How are you?
00:06Very well, thank you. I don't know how well I'm going to be in a minute once I've lugged this
00:09bag up here,
00:09but we're going to see how you play your golf and how you strategize your way around your golf course.
00:14So today I'm going to be your new, improved, taller, better-looking Billy Foster.
00:18That's what you told me off camera anyway.
00:20So talk me through this hole here and your approach.
00:23What the type of thing Billy would be saying to you and what you do to prepare for a hole
00:27like this?
00:27Yeah, so obviously this hole, pretty straightforward.
00:30The bunkers there, I think you told me earlier, were 3.15, so I'm not reaching that today.
00:35But yeah, we look at this hole and think, okay, well, where do we want to hit it?
00:39The bunkers, obviously, trouble here. We don't want to run out of that.
00:42So yeah, we'd hit it short of that and then play from there.
00:45So how much of your strategy is predetermined from your practice rounds
00:50or even in the morning before you play when you get the pin sheets and when you figure out the
00:54wind?
00:54Are you making your strategy then and sticking to it out on the golf course
00:58or have you got like a flexible plan plan?
01:00Yeah, I mean, obviously, we've got a flexible plan.
01:02You think you've always got to stay that way.
01:03But, you know, we make our plan Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
01:06particularly if it's a golf course we've not seen before.
01:08We'll go through the holes as we play them in practice rounds
01:11and we'll decide on, you know, what we're going to do.
01:13Is it a hybrid here? Is it a four-iron? Is it a driver?
01:16Do we take out the bunker or not?
01:18You know, there's a lot that goes into it.
01:20So from there, we'll decide on what we do the night before.
01:24Obviously, from then, it depends on tournament situation
01:26as to whether you change it or not.
01:28So you might change that strategy tournament round
01:30depending on if you're chasing a lead.
01:32Need a birdie, you know, need to be play conservative,
01:35just get it in the house, whatever it may be.
01:37So it is pretty flexible.
01:38Right, boss, so I'm going to be caddying for you.
01:40I'm lugging this monstrosity of a bag.
01:42It's huge and heavy.
01:43We've got 316 to that bunker on the right.
01:45You told me we're not going to go in it with drivers.
01:47Are you happy with driver?
01:48Yeah, if you say so, you're caddying.
01:50You need to tell me.
01:51No, I'm happy with driver.
01:52Let's go with it.
01:56So, crikey, that's heavy.
01:58Once you've teed up, tell me the process you're going through.
02:01How do you aim?
02:02Are you someone who picks out a spot in front of the ball?
02:04No, I just, you know, know where I'm going.
02:07That's my target and kind of go from there, really.
02:10Obviously, I've done a lot of practice before
02:12with alignment sticks to make sure your alignment's good.
02:16Yeah, and then you just obviously, you know, bank on your practice.
02:19I can see you're keen to get going here.
02:20One more.
02:20Are you someone who shapes the ball with the shape of a hole
02:22or against the wind, or do you have your stock shot and go with it?
02:25Stock.
02:25Yeah, stock.
02:26Stock draw off the tee.
02:28So, that's what I'll do regardless.
02:31Occasionally, if the hole forces a shape,
02:34then obviously I'll have to do that.
02:36And something I'm happy doing,
02:37but it's just easier to, you know, to stick with what's stock.
02:41Come on then, boss.
02:42Stock driver straight out of that marketplace, please.
02:53I like it.
02:54Up the right half.
02:55We're in good shape.
02:57This is going to be easy.
02:59I think it just rolled in that bunker.
03:01Don't you worry about that, man.
03:02It's not.
03:02This is going to be easy.
03:05Right, so we're off and away, boss.
03:06That was a great tee shot.
03:07I'm happy with that.
03:08I think this is going to be easy.
03:09Now we're walking.
03:11You do an awful lot of walking.
03:12So, talk to me about the role of the golf shoe for you,
03:15how important that is,
03:16and what you like about these Skechers Go Golf blade shoes.
03:20Yeah, the thing, the biggest thing for me with the blade
03:22is the comfort, you know.
03:25Like I say, play 28 weeks a year,
03:30four rounds ideally, Thursday to Sunday,
03:32practice rounds Monday to Wednesday.
03:34You're always on your feet, you know,
03:35whether it's playing golf, whether it's in the gym.
03:38And, you know, these golf shoes just make a hell of a difference
03:41over the course of a year.
03:42And, you know, I've not had any soreness in my feet
03:45since I've moved with Skechers,
03:47which is obviously a huge deal.
03:49And that's like one of the biggest things
03:51as to why I moved over to Skechers in the first place.
03:54And, you know, these shoes are excellent.
03:56Right, so we are approaching that second shot
03:59after that wonderful tee shot.
04:01And I've got the club yardage book here,
04:03but I've seen on tour your yardage books
04:05are a lot more detailed.
04:06And you're somebody who does an awful lot of writing
04:08in them, aren't you?
04:08So, when I see you at the end of the hole
04:10and you've finished out
04:11and you start writing stuff down in your planner,
04:13what are you writing?
04:16Bit of everything, you know.
04:17What my target is, what club, where the wind is,
04:20how the ball's lying below my feet, above my feet.
04:24And where the pin is, all sorts of things.
04:27I'll fire on that.
04:28So you're writing about a specific shot you've hit,
04:31if that ball was above your feet, below your feet,
04:33because you want to know what that did to the yardage?
04:36Well, it could be what it did to the yardage
04:38or whether, oh, there's a common theme here.
04:40You've, you know, you're losing strokes
04:41with your seven iron,
04:43but actually every shot that you've lost strokes,
04:46the ball's been below your feet.
04:47Right, okay, well, I need to practice below my feet.
04:49Because if you think about when you're playing golf,
04:51the ground you're walking on now,
04:53how many golf shots do you hit
04:54where it's perfectly flat every time?
04:56The answer is probably 10%, you know.
04:59So why are you practicing on lies that are flat all the time?
05:04So when you get home,
05:05you've written all that information down.
05:07How are you extrapolating that
05:08or where are you putting that to make it useful for you?
05:11I have, yeah, I have a team of people.
05:14So my sponsor, Protiviti,
05:17and Eduardo Molinari with Arcos Golf,
05:21you know, we sort of work together
05:25to sort of get all that information,
05:27put it together and, you know,
05:29give us the feedback that we need to,
05:31in order to improve.
05:32Perfect. Well, that's interesting.
05:34Let's go and stiff this second shot, shall we?
05:37Right, Matt, we've arrived at the ball.
05:38You've already given me my first tailing off
05:40for this running out into the semi,
05:42but little did you know,
05:43I think we've got a back pin,
05:44so I was trying to take a spin off there.
05:45I'm always thinking.
05:46So what's the first thing you do
05:47when you get to the golf ball for a second shot?
05:50What's the first thing you look at?
05:51First thing is get a yardage, you know,
05:53get a yardage to the front
05:54and then obviously get a yardage to the pin
05:56so you know where it is.
05:57From there, you look at your book.
05:59Tour books have got a lot of detail about the green,
06:01so whether there's slope short, long,
06:03obviously bunker right, left, hazard,
06:05whatever it may be.
06:06So then once you look at that,
06:07you go, okay, I've got,
06:09in this case, we've got 188.
06:12188, we want to land it
06:14because we know it's releasing six yards.
06:16We don't want to land it 182.
06:19And from there, it's 182 is playing what?
06:22Yeah, so we've got a bit of downwind.
06:24Yeah, we might have five yards downwind.
06:26All of a sudden, that's 177.
06:28Maybe it's a bit colder or a bit warmer.
06:31In this case, it's a bit cooler.
06:32So it's probably playing 170, probably back to 180.
06:36There you go.
06:37Watch 180 club, 79.
06:39Okay.
06:40And when do you factor in lie?
06:41Have you thought about that already?
06:42Have you subconsciously already come up and seen that?
06:44I mean, in this case, semi, it makes a negligible difference.
06:48Obviously, if the fairway, it's not going to make a difference.
06:50Obviously, if it's in the rough,
06:52you're thinking something that might be a bit heavier,
06:54take more club, or you could be a flyer, drier rough.
06:57Then obviously, you've got to think about that.
06:58Okay, one thing I've seen a lot of pros do
07:00is mark off certain areas on the planner
07:01where you just simply can't miss it to certain pins.
07:04Is that something you'd look at now?
07:06You'd look at this pin,
07:06and you'd have something marked on you,
07:08and you'd go, and just at the back of your mind,
07:09you'd be thinking, we're veering slightly one side.
07:11Same deal.
07:13For example, if there's a water hazard at the screen,
07:16you aim further left away from the pin.
07:18If there's a bunker, and it's an easy up and down,
07:20then you can go a little bit more aggressive.
07:22So obviously, you've done your homework in the practice rounds,
07:24and then you can take that into account.
07:26I'm a great caddie.
07:27Of course, I've done my homework.
07:28What do we say, boss?
07:28Seven iron?
07:29Seven iron.
07:30Wrong one.
07:31That's got a passer grip on it, man.
07:32That's illegal.
07:33Right, that's got a passer grip on it.
07:34We'll go with this one instead.
07:35That's the luck.
07:37Talk me through your pre-shot routine
07:38as you're going with it as well.
07:40Two practice swings, normally.
07:44And then, yeah, away I go.
07:47Cool.
07:50You're going to need to move a hair right, sir.
07:55Cameras aren't normally that close.
08:05All right, we're going on the side of safety here, boss.
08:07I think I said it's the left edge of the green.
08:09But we can work it out from there.
08:13Right, so we've hit that second shot.
08:14I think we've missed a little bit left of target, maybe.
08:17You can blame me for that one,
08:18because I think I gave you the wrong line there.
08:20As we're walking up, are you starting to think about
08:23what might lay ahead?
08:25Are you looking at slopes?
08:26Are you already getting a picture?
08:27No, no, not really.
08:28I mean, it's more like, where's my ball?
08:31How close is it before making a decision?
08:34I feel like I get my best reads when I'm fully focused
08:37and behind the ball, obviously.
08:39You know, there's no point thinking about it now.
08:40I can't make a decision,
08:42or certainly can't make a good decision
08:44from 50 yards away.
08:45So, for me, it's just kind of,
08:48particularly if I'm on the green,
08:49if I'm off the green,
08:50you're obviously looking at the contours for the chip
08:52and what that might, you know,
08:53what you might be left with.
08:55Right, Matt, I've put you in a bad place here.
08:57I'm sorry, we've got hump, we've got downhill chip.
08:59What are you thinking?
09:01Yeah, this is short side,
09:03so that's a severe penalty in itself.
09:07Not a penalty for the caddy, is it?
09:08At this point, a hit and hope is a fine, yeah.
09:14Oh, he's absolutely played one.
09:18He's got me out of jail
09:20and we are in there about six inches.
09:23Boss, that was an easy put.
09:24We don't need a put.
09:25Good caddy in.
09:25Thanks, Matt.
09:26Well done, knockoff Billy.
09:30Well, that was a phenomenal cross-handed chip.
09:32Talk me through why you've gone cross-handed
09:34and what you think the benefits are.
09:36Just consistency.
09:37I feel like I know what's coming every time
09:39and that's been the biggest thing for me.
09:42That's the key thing in chipping.
09:43You know what's coming each time you hit your chip
09:45and then you can predict what the outcome's going to be.
09:48So, yeah, it's been really helpful.
09:49A bit unorthodox.
09:50Were you nervous the first time you put it out in competition or not?
09:52No, no, no, no.
09:54I've been doing it as a training drill for a long time
09:57and obviously to take it into competition,
10:00it took a few more reps beforehand,
10:02but yeah, I'm used to it now.
10:05Great stuff.
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| Readable Markdown | 00:00Today we are going to get in the minds of a major champion. I've got Matt Fitzpatrick here. Hello, Matt.
00:06How are you?
00:06Very well, thank you. I don't know how well I'm going to be in a minute once I've lugged this
00:09bag up here,
00:09but we're going to see how you play your golf and how you strategize your way around your golf course.
00:14So today I'm going to be your new, improved, taller, better-looking Billy Foster.
00:18That's what you told me off camera anyway.
00:20So talk me through this hole here and your approach.
00:23What the type of thing Billy would be saying to you and what you do to prepare for a hole
00:27like this?
00:27Yeah, so obviously this hole, pretty straightforward.
00:30The bunkers there, I think you told me earlier, were 3.15, so I'm not reaching that today.
00:35But yeah, we look at this hole and think, okay, well, where do we want to hit it?
00:39The bunkers, obviously, trouble here. We don't want to run out of that.
00:42So yeah, we'd hit it short of that and then play from there.
00:45So how much of your strategy is predetermined from your practice rounds
00:50or even in the morning before you play when you get the pin sheets and when you figure out the
00:54wind?
00:54Are you making your strategy then and sticking to it out on the golf course
00:58or have you got like a flexible plan plan?
01:00Yeah, I mean, obviously, we've got a flexible plan.
01:02You think you've always got to stay that way.
01:03But, you know, we make our plan Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
01:06particularly if it's a golf course we've not seen before.
01:08We'll go through the holes as we play them in practice rounds
01:11and we'll decide on, you know, what we're going to do.
01:13Is it a hybrid here? Is it a four-iron? Is it a driver?
01:16Do we take out the bunker or not?
01:18You know, there's a lot that goes into it.
01:20So from there, we'll decide on what we do the night before.
01:24Obviously, from then, it depends on tournament situation
01:26as to whether you change it or not.
01:28So you might change that strategy tournament round
01:30depending on if you're chasing a lead.
01:32Need a birdie, you know, need to be play conservative,
01:35just get it in the house, whatever it may be.
01:37So it is pretty flexible.
01:38Right, boss, so I'm going to be caddying for you.
01:40I'm lugging this monstrosity of a bag.
01:42It's huge and heavy.
01:43We've got 316 to that bunker on the right.
01:45You told me we're not going to go in it with drivers.
01:47Are you happy with driver?
01:48Yeah, if you say so, you're caddying.
01:50You need to tell me.
01:51No, I'm happy with driver.
01:52Let's go with it.
01:56So, crikey, that's heavy.
01:58Once you've teed up, tell me the process you're going through.
02:01How do you aim?
02:02Are you someone who picks out a spot in front of the ball?
02:04No, I just, you know, know where I'm going.
02:07That's my target and kind of go from there, really.
02:10Obviously, I've done a lot of practice before
02:12with alignment sticks to make sure your alignment's good.
02:16Yeah, and then you just obviously, you know, bank on your practice.
02:19I can see you're keen to get going here.
02:20One more.
02:20Are you someone who shapes the ball with the shape of a hole
02:22or against the wind, or do you have your stock shot and go with it?
02:25Stock.
02:25Yeah, stock.
02:26Stock draw off the tee.
02:28So, that's what I'll do regardless.
02:31Occasionally, if the hole forces a shape,
02:34then obviously I'll have to do that.
02:36And something I'm happy doing,
02:37but it's just easier to, you know, to stick with what's stock.
02:41Come on then, boss.
02:42Stock driver straight out of that marketplace, please.
02:53I like it.
02:54Up the right half.
02:55We're in good shape.
02:57This is going to be easy.
02:59I think it just rolled in that bunker.
03:01Don't you worry about that, man.
03:02It's not.
03:02This is going to be easy.
03:05Right, so we're off and away, boss.
03:06That was a great tee shot.
03:07I'm happy with that.
03:08I think this is going to be easy.
03:09Now we're walking.
03:11You do an awful lot of walking.
03:12So, talk to me about the role of the golf shoe for you,
03:15how important that is,
03:16and what you like about these Skechers Go Golf blade shoes.
03:20Yeah, the thing, the biggest thing for me with the blade
03:22is the comfort, you know.
03:25Like I say, play 28 weeks a year,
03:30four rounds ideally, Thursday to Sunday,
03:32practice rounds Monday to Wednesday.
03:34You're always on your feet, you know,
03:35whether it's playing golf, whether it's in the gym.
03:38And, you know, these golf shoes just make a hell of a difference
03:41over the course of a year.
03:42And, you know, I've not had any soreness in my feet
03:45since I've moved with Skechers,
03:47which is obviously a huge deal.
03:49And that's like one of the biggest things
03:51as to why I moved over to Skechers in the first place.
03:54And, you know, these shoes are excellent.
03:56Right, so we are approaching that second shot
03:59after that wonderful tee shot.
04:01And I've got the club yardage book here,
04:03but I've seen on tour your yardage books
04:05are a lot more detailed.
04:06And you're somebody who does an awful lot of writing
04:08in them, aren't you?
04:08So, when I see you at the end of the hole
04:10and you've finished out
04:11and you start writing stuff down in your planner,
04:13what are you writing?
04:16Bit of everything, you know.
04:17What my target is, what club, where the wind is,
04:20how the ball's lying below my feet, above my feet.
04:24And where the pin is, all sorts of things.
04:27I'll fire on that.
04:28So you're writing about a specific shot you've hit,
04:31if that ball was above your feet, below your feet,
04:33because you want to know what that did to the yardage?
04:36Well, it could be what it did to the yardage
04:38or whether, oh, there's a common theme here.
04:40You've, you know, you're losing strokes
04:41with your seven iron,
04:43but actually every shot that you've lost strokes,
04:46the ball's been below your feet.
04:47Right, okay, well, I need to practice below my feet.
04:49Because if you think about when you're playing golf,
04:51the ground you're walking on now,
04:53how many golf shots do you hit
04:54where it's perfectly flat every time?
04:56The answer is probably 10%, you know.
04:59So why are you practicing on lies that are flat all the time?
05:04So when you get home,
05:05you've written all that information down.
05:07How are you extrapolating that
05:08or where are you putting that to make it useful for you?
05:11I have, yeah, I have a team of people.
05:14So my sponsor, Protiviti,
05:17and Eduardo Molinari with Arcos Golf,
05:21you know, we sort of work together
05:25to sort of get all that information,
05:27put it together and, you know,
05:29give us the feedback that we need to,
05:31in order to improve.
05:32Perfect. Well, that's interesting.
05:34Let's go and stiff this second shot, shall we?
05:37Right, Matt, we've arrived at the ball.
05:38You've already given me my first tailing off
05:40for this running out into the semi,
05:42but little did you know,
05:43I think we've got a back pin,
05:44so I was trying to take a spin off there.
05:45I'm always thinking.
05:46So what's the first thing you do
05:47when you get to the golf ball for a second shot?
05:50What's the first thing you look at?
05:51First thing is get a yardage, you know,
05:53get a yardage to the front
05:54and then obviously get a yardage to the pin
05:56so you know where it is.
05:57From there, you look at your book.
05:59Tour books have got a lot of detail about the green,
06:01so whether there's slope short, long,
06:03obviously bunker right, left, hazard,
06:05whatever it may be.
06:06So then once you look at that,
06:07you go, okay, I've got,
06:09in this case, we've got 188.
06:12188, we want to land it
06:14because we know it's releasing six yards.
06:16We don't want to land it 182.
06:19And from there, it's 182 is playing what?
06:22Yeah, so we've got a bit of downwind.
06:24Yeah, we might have five yards downwind.
06:26All of a sudden, that's 177.
06:28Maybe it's a bit colder or a bit warmer.
06:31In this case, it's a bit cooler.
06:32So it's probably playing 170, probably back to 180.
06:36There you go.
06:37Watch 180 club, 79.
06:39Okay.
06:40And when do you factor in lie?
06:41Have you thought about that already?
06:42Have you subconsciously already come up and seen that?
06:44I mean, in this case, semi, it makes a negligible difference.
06:48Obviously, if the fairway, it's not going to make a difference.
06:50Obviously, if it's in the rough,
06:52you're thinking something that might be a bit heavier,
06:54take more club, or you could be a flyer, drier rough.
06:57Then obviously, you've got to think about that.
06:58Okay, one thing I've seen a lot of pros do
07:00is mark off certain areas on the planner
07:01where you just simply can't miss it to certain pins.
07:04Is that something you'd look at now?
07:06You'd look at this pin,
07:06and you'd have something marked on you,
07:08and you'd go, and just at the back of your mind,
07:09you'd be thinking, we're veering slightly one side.
07:11Same deal.
07:13For example, if there's a water hazard at the screen,
07:16you aim further left away from the pin.
07:18If there's a bunker, and it's an easy up and down,
07:20then you can go a little bit more aggressive.
07:22So obviously, you've done your homework in the practice rounds,
07:24and then you can take that into account.
07:26I'm a great caddie.
07:27Of course, I've done my homework.
07:28What do we say, boss?
07:28Seven iron?
07:29Seven iron.
07:30Wrong one.
07:31That's got a passer grip on it, man.
07:32That's illegal.
07:33Right, that's got a passer grip on it.
07:34We'll go with this one instead.
07:35That's the luck.
07:37Talk me through your pre-shot routine
07:38as you're going with it as well.
07:40Two practice swings, normally.
07:44And then, yeah, away I go.
07:47Cool.
07:50You're going to need to move a hair right, sir.
07:55Cameras aren't normally that close.
08:05All right, we're going on the side of safety here, boss.
08:07I think I said it's the left edge of the green.
08:09But we can work it out from there.
08:13Right, so we've hit that second shot.
08:14I think we've missed a little bit left of target, maybe.
08:17You can blame me for that one,
08:18because I think I gave you the wrong line there.
08:20As we're walking up, are you starting to think about
08:23what might lay ahead?
08:25Are you looking at slopes?
08:26Are you already getting a picture?
08:27No, no, not really.
08:28I mean, it's more like, where's my ball?
08:31How close is it before making a decision?
08:34I feel like I get my best reads when I'm fully focused
08:37and behind the ball, obviously.
08:39You know, there's no point thinking about it now.
08:40I can't make a decision,
08:42or certainly can't make a good decision
08:44from 50 yards away.
08:45So, for me, it's just kind of,
08:48particularly if I'm on the green,
08:49if I'm off the green,
08:50you're obviously looking at the contours for the chip
08:52and what that might, you know,
08:53what you might be left with.
08:55Right, Matt, I've put you in a bad place here.
08:57I'm sorry, we've got hump, we've got downhill chip.
08:59What are you thinking?
09:01Yeah, this is short side,
09:03so that's a severe penalty in itself.
09:07Not a penalty for the caddy, is it?
09:08At this point, a hit and hope is a fine, yeah.
09:14Oh, he's absolutely played one.
09:18He's got me out of jail
09:20and we are in there about six inches.
09:23Boss, that was an easy put.
09:24We don't need a put.
09:25Good caddy in.
09:25Thanks, Matt.
09:26Well done, knockoff Billy.
09:30Well, that was a phenomenal cross-handed chip.
09:32Talk me through why you've gone cross-handed
09:34and what you think the benefits are.
09:36Just consistency.
09:37I feel like I know what's coming every time
09:39and that's been the biggest thing for me.
09:42That's the key thing in chipping.
09:43You know what's coming each time you hit your chip
09:45and then you can predict what the outcome's going to be.
09:48So, yeah, it's been really helpful.
09:49A bit unorthodox.
09:50Were you nervous the first time you put it out in competition or not?
09:52No, no, no, no.
09:54I've been doing it as a training drill for a long time
09:57and obviously to take it into competition,
10:00it took a few more reps beforehand,
10:02but yeah, I'm used to it now.
10:05Great stuff. |
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