The Truth About the Tee Shot that Nobody Tells You 

This is such solid information. The biggest issue for me was getting off of my ego and into the idea of scoring. Last round I put my driver away for most of the round. Kept the ball in play. 88, which for me is really good.

I love these insights based on numbers. Unless you're a pro, golf is about avoiding trouble and not making your life miserable in the next shot

I am not usually a commenter but I fired off a 75 after watching your videos for a week which is 9 strokes better than last week and 4 strokes better than my personal best. Would’ve shot 73 if I stuck to the plan but on 18 I tried to be a hero to get to even for the first time.

If you had a blue glove the outfit would have had 100% fashion confidentiality.

Being confident and safe off the tee box changed my game

You should do a few more quick summary videos like this for other types of shots!

8 hcp here, no shame of teeing up with your 7wood with confidentiality. The way of the playa

Well said. Eliminating lost tee balls is so critical to scoring, especially on tight or difficult courses.

I was a 7 handicap. I'm a 11 this year even though I'm hitting my irons better because I'm unconfidential off the tee right now. This founder member of the Blue Man Group knows his stuff. Play on playas.

I left my driver and 3 wood at home on purpose so I wouldn’t be tempted. I hit my 5 wood with confidentiality and landed in the fairway 90% of the time. Most stress free round I ever played. Now I just need to eliminate the 3 putts.

Really like the shorter video format with one or two key take aways. The idea of the intermediate target for alignment and a specific target was great info. As the snipers say, "aim small, miss small". Keep them coming!

I just wanted to say that I really apricate how thorough and well laid out your content is. I really enjoy watching.

I got real close to breaking 90 my last round and I was tee-ing up with my 7i and only using 7i-putter the whole round.

I have not played any golf for over 5 years. I just started watching alot of your videos. I went out and played golf twice this week. I applied your wisdom and played smart and not like a dingleberry. My chipping and putting has improved. I still have to work on the short game and tweaking my driver. My goal this year before getting snow is to stay in the 90's and not the 100's. Thanks for all the great videos. 💯

I agree that tee shot is important as my probability of success on a hole starts with a tee shot into a playable position.

Finally someone who explains clearly the importance of tee-shots. I always have known that if only my tee-shots were faltless, I would score low. No-one could follow this thought (hit for show, put for dough is only correct if you don’t lose any balls from the tee)

Thanks for this advice, you never fail to help my golf game and educate each and every one of us. Keep up the amazing golf content!

Another great video! Need a good acronym for keep it in play off the tee to compliment GIOTG

Thanks. Love the helpful, concise, bite sized clips

I ditched my driver a month ago and started only using 5w,6-sw, putter. Have put down my best scores so far! Just need to keep my 2 beer maximum a reality 😅

My confidentiality comes from the zen that is the way of the playa.

Off the 1st tee yesterday hit 5 iron, as I was still kinda stiff, and it ended in the fairway a decent distance for an old codger...missed a 5 footer and made bogey, but compared to the frequent sixes, sevens, and rare eights an easy 5 put me in a positive frame of mind that carried for several more holes to start the day...shot my best 18 in a month or two...what a head game...!!

Great content as usual, Matt. I saw the results of a robot test recently, which showed a driver actually hits shorter than a 3-wood for club speeds below 90 mph, even with a perfect strike. My speed is 88 mph, so I gain absolutely nothing from a driver. I hit a 1” shortened 3-wood straight nearly every time, 190-210 yards depending on contact. I don’t carry a driver.

You make me a more confidential player , thanks 😊

I love this guy… cracks me up with some of the stuff he says… absolute money! Love that one Great content, very helpful

Really like the vibe of this channel. Solid, practical advice that you can easily apply to your game. You don’t have to overthink 1000 different elements of swing and stance and shaft angle to start dropping shots. I played my first ever 18 holes yesterday and shot 114 (very bad but better than I expected) and thanks to your advice I was able to recognise where I went wrong with my course management and lost unnecessary shots - off the tee box and on the greens mainly. Will continue using the advice in your vids and I’m confident I can get under 100 soon

Mr Playa you are a savant. Told me I’d break 90 soon after 100 and shot 87 today!! Not to mention my roll out distance was 200 max cus I decided to quit hitting my horrible driver. Many thanks bruv!!!

I love these videos so much. Wise, original, fun.

If all of us playas simply committed to practicing our short game for an hour or two for every time Matty posted a new video we’d be gods. Off to the chipping/putting green. Thanks, Matty. You are cranking these videos out my boy - can you hear the collective fairways hit sky rocketing? 🎉

Shifted to a 24 degree wood off the tee. It has made a lot of difference. As always, great content.

Thanks. Excellent advice.

Love these short videos with such info! 👍🏼

I so needed to hear this. Thanks, Playa!

This is great info. I have to be close to 100% of my penalty strokes coming off of the tee, and most of them with the "big stick". Might just stick with hybrid off of the tee going forward and sacrifice that 20-30 yards. Will keep some ShotScope stats for the next few rounds and see what's what. ;-) Cheers Matty.

Unless there is a wide, wide open tee shot I use my 4 iron to tee off. Get about 210, and a fairway roll. Matty Boom Boom taught me this, and it changed my game. Used to struggle to break 100, now a few shots above or below 90 every round.

Thanks Matt short but sweet and timely for me. Have improved massively in the way of the playa over the last couple of months., dropping driver and three wood for more fairways and only slightly less distance with mini driver. Then this morning was tempted by the dark side, watching a n other RU-vidr who was suggesting to go from 13 to single figures I need to add 29 yards to my 230 average. Thoughts of driver experimenting came into my mind before thankfully I watched your video directly afterwards.

More golfers would score better from the tee by leaving their driver in the bag and use a mini driver or a 3wood off the tee ,works for me

I love a short drive that lands in fairway, then a fairway club to the green. Game changer.

Simply put.."the woods are full of long hitters..."

Love golf sidekick

first thing i do on the tee is find flat ground to stand on and i put my club down and make sure the area around where i will tee the ball is also somewhat flat. then i step back and find my target and find my line up spot in front of the ball. i usually tee up 1m from the markers and it gives me lots of imperfections to choose from.

Matt , great content as always. Thx. 😊😊😊

Was going to put some way of the playa tips to work today… stabbed my finger making lunch and had to get stitches 😖 I had a baus session at the range right before. Hitting my 8 iron over 160 yards ever so slight fade

Arccos was telling me that penalties off the tee is my problem also! lol I started using 5 wood (especially when I'm not warmed up) to try to keep things straighter. Only annoyance is one of the guys I golf with makes comments about my club selection which I find annoying and unnecessary.

3 hybrid for the win!

Beste golf channel op RU-vid my maat. Dankie

Gold as always playa. I’m in Thailand from the U.K. at the moment and would love to get a round in boyfriend

Life advice masquerading as golf advice! Jcyak Nickellssen would be proud of soms of those lines and aim points from his early 70s Oscar winning flicks

Thanks. I tee off in 20 minites. Thanks coach

.yup.. good content...3w ,5w , 5i tee shots tidy up a card... carry on

Pared 14 at Gloucester the other day by going 5i, 5i, Gw (missed green), 9i, putt... My mates taking the piss (as right and proper) didn't..😅

Yeah the more I think about it the tee shot is key. You are right a decent distance in the fairway or close to it. I know people who have told me don't spend time hitting drivers. I think short game and putting are also important but you need to get off the tee.

I have a nice fade and a nice draw, I just never know when they'll appear.

Real chads don’t worry about distance off the tee, they get in play. I use my sans wedge and forward it 100 yards if possible, then I go for a 300 yard drive off the deck on the second shot. Much better to lose strokes there!

Absolutely 100% right !

I sold my 12,5 degrees driver 2 weeks ago (Hcp 18) and will play with a 15,5 degrees launcher

We're so brainwashed by driver distance. Notice that most of the ads at the front of golf magazines are for drivers.

Love these videos, but what happens if your shot shape isn't consistent?

I've always wondered though, the average tee shot likely includes artifacts of forced layups due to doglegs, etc. Every good golfer I've played with under age 50, tends to hit it further than 240-260. I'd love to play a few rounds and place my ball in the fairway 240 every time from the tee and see what happens.

Hey playa. Just curious what happened with the aimpoint video? That was such an awesome explanation of aimpoint. Wishing you the best

Do you ever change where in the tee box you start depending on you shot shape? In the example you used, would you tee it up on the right side of the box to give yourself a little more room for the fade?

With total confidentiality, I would have splashed that tee shot into the water about 20 yards in front of the tee box :>)

What nobody also tells you about the tee shots is the "F" word is used more after said tee shot, than anywhere else on the golf course. 65% more, is about the correct percentage

what i sthe app you were shoing to show distance in the video , is it free

I think i am going to stick with your '4 clubs' technique because the other day I played and tried to use the driver and every time I hit it it went 5 metres into the bush or ground 4 Hybrid, Pitching wedge, sand wedge, putter

The Shot Pattern app is only developed for Apple. Is there an alternative for Android users?

Confidentialism and confidentiality really make all the difference.

Where’s the aim point video?

Interesting stats, where do you get them, and do some exist for let's say second shot etc.?

On 17 holes, I can fairly successfully work out strategy from the tee. On 1 hole, 112 yds from red tees, water 30-85 yds, so all carry, I cannot hit a 19 degree hybrid to the green. So my strategy is to pitch about 25 yards and pitch again over the water, which works every time with usually 1-2 putt ok. But, I want to get this tee shot to work over the water and discover what swing weakness is preventing this goal. My HC shouldn’t be a factor, but it is 34 on this course. Any tips? Thanks.

where did you get that chart? I don't understand why the longer the hole the longer you need to hit it to keep up with your handicap. As a back of the envelope calculation using the scratch yardage rating (normalized by 18) rating = length/220 + 2.25 could be used to represent average score of scratch vs length. 440 yard hole would average 4.25 where a 330 would average 3.75. (of course this doesn't take into account difficulty etc but just a rough number for the effect of length). What is it about the longer of the hole that it would be assumed that the scratch golfer would gain some super powers that they don't possess on the shorter holes? Or is the super power in the brain and we are assuming here that the shorter holes on averaged are designed to be more narrow on average so that the typical scratch golfer would be more expected to lay back on their tee shot (ie. the effective length of the holes are longer)?

I know this from my last tourny 1:59

"Confidentiality"! 🤣

Serious question, do you use certain words incorrectly on purpose or is it a second language thing? “Pick a club that you are confidential will go in play…” Also, I enjoy your videos. Thanks for the good advice.

Hi, mentioned a few times earlier too. I like your videos but friend you need to change “confidential” to “confident”. Just lookup what these words mean. Trying to help you here 🙏

Is "confidential" SA speak for "confident"? Is "distan'say'l SA speak first distance? It doesn't matter, love the tips and videos.

But the DATA!

My wife and kids are now referring to me as The Confidential Daddy. Thank you.

Attaboy...always chasing that well manicured grass...always

It’s the most important shot

Do you have any promo codes for the Shot Pattern App?

My psychiatrist told me that you were helping me more than he was and I think I agree

I smash driver every hole I can. I average 13 greens in regulation. I just can’t putt worth a darn. I could break 80 easily if I didn’t 3 putt 10 holes per round.

Baus this is dangerously close to strokes gained chat

What shot pattern app do you use?

Would like to play when I get there if you're interested?

hit a club that u know goes straight with not big despertion

Does no one else play golf in this Country?

The tees brutalized me today, playas. Cost me 8 strokes 😑

Confidential ≠ Confident

Do you want a club to get in play on every hole? Get a Cobra One length hybrid. It's a game changer.

At this point, any RU-vid channel that hasn’t reached out to play a round is obviously lacking confidentiality. They’re plain scared.

I’m confidential that I can hit a slice. Think you meant confident.

confidence, not confidential.