Jon Rahm's advice for weekend golfers? Know your ACTUAL yardages 

know your game and don't worry what others are doing

I know my yardage is. My drive is 175. Each of my irons go exactly 100 yards. 50 yard pitching wedge. Can't seem to do any better than that.

Great advice. The ball doesn’t care what club you hit It wants to be on the green help him out , get it there

To add to this, what really lowered my handicap into the single digits I’m at now is, if you can’t execute the shot 6 or 7 times out of ten, don’t try to hit it. Simplify your approach and you’ll have way less blow up holes.

Few years ago I was shooting in the mid to high 90's all the time. Picked up a golf GPS unit and started picking clubs for the back of the green yardage instead of the middle or pin yardage ... immediately shooting mid 80's.

I adopted this thought process this year, and went from hitting 25% of greens last year to 39% this year and went from an 18 to 11 handicap! So what if I’m hitting a 6 iron from 150! It works, and my scores are showing it!

I am a 5 handicap and I flush my irons maybe 6/10 times. Which makes club selection difficult. I played this morning and had 180 uphill, hit 5 iron which is a 190 club for me to allow for the uphill and flew it over the green into trouble behind, and had to take a penalty drop. I think people need to take more notice of what’s the better miss short or long and go with that.

very happy I don't have to see him but 4 times a year now. Fantastic

My driver goes 200 on a good day! I'm 63 years old just started golf!

Truer words have never been spoken

it really comes down to how serious you are about your score. sometimes it’s just too much fun to try something ridiculous and hope it works out 😂🙌

It’s quite true but for some people it’s those wonder shots that make the round enjoyable.

Nice perm bro

Yep. I see this every every week when playing.🙉

great advice tbh...this is something I've done for years that I just recently started taking more club...the main thing is, play your game...know your clubs and you will be shocked with the results

Yup, I use my 5 iron for 150, if I hit it lighter, I get it very good. Usually hit my driver anything over 200. But this works great!

I’ve played with those guys, trying to hit a wedge 160, I’m on with a 7 iron and their chipping to try and save par every time

Hit the nail right on the head there. Couldn’t agree more. I used to explain this to people when I was playing my best I was always hitting knock down shots with a club extra and if I barely miss hit it I’m still pin high 10-15 ft. All about giving yourself 18 birdie opportunities.

I always shoot for the back of the green yardages. Give it a try. Itll totally change your game for the better

I never knew my yardage’s until I worked on my ball striking at the range! I still miss hit a ball or two but I’m much more confident!

Also swing more controlled. I hurt my back and my game has never been better. Was playing high 90s low 100s now I am playing in the 80s All it took was to not take my club back as far and have more control over the club face as a result

Spot on. Using a device to track your actual distances is an eye opener and will give you the info needed to hit more greens! Also the vast majority of players underestimate wind and temperature effects. Quick DIY: If it's 50F outside, add 6% to all your yardages (meaning 150 shot is actually 158).

I don't miss!

Hit my 8 iron at a mote green dropped it 5 ft pin high from 143 the hole reminded me of Valhalla !

first ten rounds data ARCCOS. Second shot short. Always short. Now my next stuggle is taking more club and not under hitting but trusting the numbers. Golf is hard! 15Hcap.

Love this. 💯

So many clubs are completely different from each other, lofts and design being the most obvious. I've been fitted for everything from a 36 degrees 7i and hit it an average of 140yrds, then a 29 degrees 7i and hit it 180yrds! Then there's the ball and the individual hitting them, then the conditions at the time and how they're feeling on the day! I really wish that all manufacturers would at least state the loft on the club. I go to the range every time I buy new clubs, hit a heap of balls with each club, take the average and then write all of my lofts and my distances for them on the shafts with a marker pen, then sellotape over it to protect it. You memorise them over time, but it's a really good exercise to do.

On a hilly course where we would walk and carry bag I'd often leave out 9, 7 and 5 iron. So I would hit 6 when I would usually try to stretch a 7, way better results. I learned a lot from that.

Trackman simulator is your best friend. Go through every club in the bag and get your average yardages so you're not guessing on the golf course.

always play your own game. I can hit a 7 iron 185yds or spot on at 138yds depending where I put my hands in the strike zone. Are my hands neutral, forward or back? This changes the range of your hits dramatically.

I'm an expat living in Spain, and have never heard a Spaniard speak English with barely an accent like JR. It's amazing. He must have an incredible ear. Really. And he didn't learn when he was a kid!

an upside down 9 iron 😂😂😂😂😂

Ego on the golf course is a score killer. Nothing wrong with hybrids, longer irons, etc. idc if you’re hitting wedge from 140, I’m certainly now lol

I have been training 3 times a week at a trackman simulator and playing on the course 5 times a week for 1 year now. And i can proudly say that my distances are very simular to the PGA average😎

jokes on you my distances vary buy 30 yards between shots!

I hit my 8 iron 165.. I've gotten it 185 before.. but I don't hit it that far normally. It's my 165 club.

I learned to NEVER care what club i am hitting versus what anyone else in my group hits. So freeing.

He is absolutely right..

I'm 150-160 pw. Everyone hits different.

I like to leave it short - it helps me practice my chipping to a point where it’s like my first putt 🤪🤪

I’m getting older now (67) and weaker. And wiser. Accepting that I hit much shorter than before. Added a 7 wood, started to measure distance yards, and use the number in meters for clubs selection 😂 fooling myself helps a lot. Still, I’m now taking one iron longer than I wrongly measure. One thing, I’m never short anymore and it plays much easier 🎉

Just traded in my new clubs and got my old clubs back! They got the old loft!! I'd rather be comfortable hitting a too a number even if its 7 yd less it's a known number

Right now, if you’re handicap is over 18, and think your hitting 7iron 160 yards. hit that 140 or 130 with that on the field. That’s what is trying to say guys. Just try first 9 whole with that distance. Your swing will be so much softer and balanced. Why? because you know if you hit it hard it will go over. That is why pro players looks so balanced and smooth. Once you understand it, your golf will change completely. Trust me.

Nice Jerry Curls

I play based on how I’m feeling. Some days after a nice range sesh and I’m nice and loose and making good contact. I know I’m swinging a little harder so ill club down. If I’m stiff and find myself not being super accurate because I am trying to power the ball there instead of being smooth. I’ll club up. I could care less about what my playing partners may think because I’m playing my own game. You have nobody to impress in the game of golf. It doesn’t matter if you drive the ball 250 or 300. If you can hit fairway more and give yourself more scoring opportunities that’s all that matters!

I was a PGA club pro in my early 20s, but was really scrawny so wasn't very long. (I weighed 130 pounds) But I'd see this all the time with people I was playing with. They'd grab a 9 iron for a 160 yard shot, I'd grab my 7 iron. They'd rip on me, but they'd wind up 15 yards short, and I'd be pin high. Eventually I put on some weight, so now I'm considerably longer, but don't let pride force you to make poor club selection. The game isn't who can hit the ball the longest, it's getting the ball in the hole. Plus, practice your damn short game.

This is great advice,we all tend to be short. It,s an ego thing.

RU-vid golf is a big problem for this. I'm ex baseball and hit farther than most people I've played with, but I only hit my 8 145-150 on average. Watching the young golf influencers, you'd think 8 irons going 170 was just average. Gave me a bit of a complex when I first started and thought I was doing well but still 30 yards behind every golf video I watched.

Thats me!

Im liking Rhambo more and more

7 iron is my 145... P wedge is my 125 .. But I hit my p wedge on a lot. .my sand wedge never does what I want it to.. so I stopped trying to use it.. What saves my game the most is my putting

Wayne Grady (former PGA Championship winner) said years ago, the best tip he could give to social players is pick a club and go down 1. He said 9 out of 10 times amateurs are short, not long.

1 cathc! As totall begginer I hit ball WELL with 9&PW and couldnt get my 6,5i on the ball so my 8,9&PW werr actuall way better when I begin to play. True story

I track my yardages, but I still pick my club based on the distance to the back of the green, unless there's trouble long. Odds are I won't hit it 100% and I'll end up short, which is still on the green, or worst case I hit my distance and I'm still on or near the back of the green.

so true

I used to play a certain way because of others around me Now I play my game My brother is the best for it. We would be near the same spot and he will pull out a pitching wedge and go that’s a beautiful 9 iron for you mate Not degrading or making a joke He just understands how I should play and encourages it. Another reason why I love him so much

It doesn't matter what club you take as long as you get there I take one or two clubs more 😊

I know my yardages with my irons. But there is more to the game than just know your yardages. But that is a good start.

There is also wind and elevation to factor in

the thing is.. when i try to do that, that’s when i actually pure the 6 iron and fly the green by 50 yards lol

I'd say the bigger problem with amateurs is shooting at flags. With our dispersion it's better to go for the center of the green. As for using too little club to get to greens, idk about where y'all play but I've never seen the grass cut short behind the greens. Being long is almost never a good miss.

I think this is good advice for someone who is a 20+ handicap. But for someone like me who is a weekend golfer sitting at a 6 handicap I feel I can go with an 8 iron and hit it perfect 70% of the time.

This is great advice but I have a hard time trusting it. I usually don’t flush my shots, but when I do, they go a mile. My 8 iron is my 175 clubs so if I’m going into a par 3 and there’s hazard in the back I can trust myself not to flush a 7 iron over the green. I’d rather try to hit the 8 and come up short than possibly a 7 long.

“No you’re not!” 🤣👌

I’m gonna hit 9iron No you’re not!!! Had me rolling 😂

Just put in a simulator, and for the first time, I know with great certainty what my carry is with each club, if I do my part. Doing my part, well that just depends on the day

Always club up!

What advice do you give common golfers? Jon Rambo: "fix your pride!"

True 👍

It's all about knowing your game.

Glad he said average player, the caption said amateur,there are a lot of really good amateurs that swing very good and score. Bobby jones was a lifelong amateur that won thirteen majors and retired at age twenty eight, hell he went months without touching a club and usually won the tournament

How was often do you hit over the green on miss if it's not 10% use more club

I’ll say never look or base your club selection based on someone else game. Just because your buddy is blasting a 9 or 8 but that’s because they can’t hit 5 through 2. The reality is based on your natural swing your distance will come. Personally I think the two most important irons to master as a weekend golfer are 8 and 6. 8 is the best high drop club and if your good with a 9 your ok. The reason I say 6 over 7 is the trajectory. 6 is one of the best irons for most second shots as a weekend golfer for those type courses. If you smoke it you get in the 170s. if you learn to control it, will become a dominant 160s club which is perfect. I see all these cats shanking hybrids or a 5 wood. Get good with a 6 then a 5 iron. If you can hit a 5 iron no tee that’s when your ready to try woods. Ask any pro they will ask, how well do you hit your 5 iron.

I'd rather hit a lower loft club a little lighter and with more control than try to send it with a higher loft club

My younger brother always brags about his club distances all being a bit longer than mine. He borrowed my clubs last week and found out he actually hits the same distances with in a few yards as me. Turns out his clubs are stroger lofted.

I hit an 8 iron 355 yards once, so i am in big trouble. If you ever played the 10th Hole at Craigmillar Park in Edinburgh you will know how that is possible.

Managing your own expectations is key. It takes a while to humble yourself especially if you’re good at other sports. It tickles me when the low caliber players I play with throw big tantrums on the greens when they miss 12 foot putts. Like they think that’s easy and reading the greens is too formal for a casual round.

Yep. That’s totally my dad. 😂

I always think about the opening scene in inglorious bastards when I see Rhambo

Most amateur golfers think the game is all about hitting long. It’s about scoring low and using all 14 clubs.

That's how I feel when I play golf. Dudes are pulling a 9 iron and I'm reaching for a 7 or 6

I usual play my 8 iron from 180 out 😮

Yah that’s good in theory (if you miss) but if you do flush it, you could be screwed going long.

I agree with this, but then when I’m clubbed up I get so nervous of going long. In my head I’m like, surely this isn’t going to be pure and compressed and sail the green right? And then I hit a bad shot anyways 😂

Idk. My 8 iron goes reliably 175. My issue is accuracy. Its either on the money or left. But every once in a while i top it 50 yards.

Im hittting my 8i 170 every time with a easy swing and its straight 170 but into the fields or trees left or right 😂

This is facts but I’m still pulling my 7 iron when I’m 200 out

yup my 180 club is a six.

I’ve stopped caring about yardage, especially seems how these days, I only play like 6000-something yard courses. Striping the ball 250 off the tee consistently and consistency over all are what I care about

Most amateurs don’t know their true yardages and always overestimate their abilities…. I have mine listed on a table on my golf cart and it keeps things real…more club when it’s cold and damp, less club when it warm and dry….it’s not rocket surgery!

Hit a 6 when you should have a 9 and you’re murdering someone on the next tee box

...yep , I'd go with the same club as him... ☝️🤣

A lot of ego with distances. My driver is about 240, sometimes I can really pipe one 270 or longer but that is probably 1 out of 20 good shots. One of my best shots is an 80 yard low flying 8 iron pitch that runs, I prefer that shot over a wedge almost every time when the hole allows it.

i hit an 8 iron off the tee on a par 3 that was 150 metres to the flag with severe down wind and got it pin high. ever since then i realised my 150 metre club is a 7 on a good day and a 6 on a bad day.

See I have the opposite problem where like 1/10 times I absolutely pure the ball and blast an 8 iron like 150 yards when that's like my 130 club

I'd be air-mailing greens all day. I hit my 8 iron 165 to 170 depending on the lie, wind, temp, etc. If I hit 6 and connect properly it will be g-o-n-e. I'd say know your distances and he is correct, don't try to muscle it, just play within yourself.

Don't worry about it. We're good. U do U.

i golf with some guys like that, always trying to hit a hero shot but then i can win.

Great advice except I’m consistent on hitting my distances it’s the side spin, pushes and pulls that’s throw it off. I’ll hit my P wedge 150 yards every time…. But is it 30 yards left/right or right at the pin where Ill still 3 putt it that’s what makes you a pro 🤣

Whatever Jonny, i was a brickie for 15 years, my forearms are strong as heck from spreading mortar and squishing bricks into it, i hit my 9 iron easy 150 everyweekend bud, i shoot 10 over at 5300 yard courses or 7000 yard courses regularly, just cant putt so i suck