What 12 handicap golf looks like in the WINTER - Every Shot 

Great to see winter golf. All the RU-vidrs playing in Portugal and Spain is understandable, but not very relatable to 95%+ golfers.

Love your attitude and mindset throughout the round. Thanks for posting!

Great round, a few observations which might help you: 1. Anytime you talk on the tee about "having to get it there" or "worrying about landing short" you always pull it. - I would humbly suggest using more club, or simply accepting you're going to be short. 2. When you're short-sided on your chips, you seem like you land short or duff. - Perhaps take less loft in these situations and try and bump and run, I think the less it's in the air, the more confidence you'll have. 3. You use your driver a lot, even when you identify the trouble. I think if you had used it four or five times less, your score would have been better. 4. You seem nervous over those 3-4 footers, which I think is effecting your poise on the longer shots, because you're scared of going 3 or 4 foot past. When you do get to the practice green, get confident on that distance. 4. You have an excellent attitude, you seem to really enjoy the game and put the bad shots behind you. Keep that up! Thanks for the video, hope the advice isn't too annoying, can't wait till the next one.

I really enjoy your videos. Keep them coming. Good luck figuring out the short game.

Thanks for sharing. You are improving quickly, well done 👍🏼

Hey man. I just wanted to say I appreciate your videos. I just started golf in August and there were so many videos of pros playing and giving advice and it was a bit overwhelming. Seeing you and how you've progressed in the time I've been watching has been a much more relatable, helpful and inspiring experience. Keep it up 👍🏾

Great video!! I can’t believe how far you’ve come in a short time. When I first started watching, we were hitting our clubs about the same distance….now you’re cranking them. 150y 8 iron!!! Wow!

Winter golf can be very difficult, But you played extremely well Luke! Great video! Keep up the great golf!

Nice to watch some proper winter golf as I put my layers on ready for today's round. A nice reminder to put an extra bit behind the putts 😂 nice round mate, your game has come on so far since I started watching your channel a while back. 🎉

Congrats, man :) Really enjoy your channel 👍

great video and nice game for being winter :)

Well done for getting out for some winter golf. Fair effort taking into account that your short game is a bit of a struggle at the moment (normally a plus for you).

It's been awesome following your progress seeing as you and I started golf round about the same time almost two years back. When it comes to putting, one of the best sayings I ever came across by Dr Bob Rotella that transformed my putting is "Don't putt to two putt. ALWAYS putt to make it". That helped get my handicap down, now at 11, and has seen me often one-putting and often having 30 or less putts in a round. When all else is failing, I know, once I get on the green, that ball is dropping! So, I share the same with you and I hope it shaves more strokes off your rounds! "Always putt to make it".

Enjoy watching your videos Luke. Lovely to watch the consistent hitting, even in the winter conditions. Brilliant narrative, despite runny nose due to the cold. Wonder what the temperature was, minus 4? Liked the T. Though, really nice! Well done. Look forward to more videos. All the best. 👍👏

Very enjoyable winter round. I’d invite you to go back and watch one of your videos from like a year ago. Your ball striking is much improved. In the past lots of shots leaking out to the right - not so anymore. Great progress.

Great video, played Wanstead (london) course last weekend - which made this course look like Augusta!

This is such a cool video.

When I was younger playing on winter greens the group of us that played had a 'Winter Green Rule'. Essentially if you landed on the cut winter green you had a choice of a) take a score with 2 putts OR ) putt out. Unless really close we tended to opt for the former!

That 2nd shot on the 5th was a thing of beauty!

Great video.

Made some good five, six footers mate cracking round 👍🏻💪🏻

Wee tip especially in winter,if it's an 8 iron use a 7 always play 1 more club and play within yourself. Never hit 100%.Enjoyed video look forward to more especially scramble format which hope to see more of.As for chipping have you tried cack handed? do it with zero shaft lean just select club to carry to where you want to land and just chip with shoulders and hips rotation no hands or arms with light grip ,you will never chunk or thin a chip ever again.Mike.

You done well pal 👍🏼💪👊🏻

@ 16:30 I think you should’ve went with a 5 or 6 iron, aimed out to the right, away from the tree & closed the face of the club so it pointed at the green, then just hooked it around the tree ! 👍 love the content, your swing has improved so much since I started watching your vids , it’s looking good! 👍🙏

Nice One Luke. You must have found one of the only days where it wasn’t raining, or blowing a hooley or both. You’re definitely an improved golfer with your approaches.

Good lad, course was in pretty decent nick👍

First time caller; Winter golf is a bit of a lottery in UK ( and I'm inland Scotland so its often shitty), however I need to play in winter to keep my swing going otherwise it take weeks to get in tune in the better weather. Course management is King at all times of year. if you are going to miss, then miss tactically

some of the best temp greens ive seen for a while

Great mixed round again Luke and a decent score in winter conditions,Wooley Park golf club always looks a good course when I watch James Robinson golf channel on RU-vid and he puts some good stuff out there from that course,when did your shoot the video and how much was it to play? Keep up the good work 👍

Like the graphic of hole showing shot moving and where shot lands

Nasty swing.

Great to see your efforts again Luke, winter golf is so much fun....(not..😠!) You really must do something about the chipping & putting side of your game, It's costing you so many shots mate🤔!! But keep up the grand work, I'm off to Spain or is it Portugal..🤣🤣??

Pretty good play, you need to use a mallet putter or something a little heavier in the winter, especially on slower greens. Thats what I do anyway, much easier to get the ball to the hole.

Great videos chief! What kind of bag you have there?

On my course, if we have a temporary green there is usually a slightly oversized hole with bevelled edges. If we were to play on a temporary green with a normal-sized hole, 6 footers are gimmes.

Great round considering the winter conditions. Spring can't come soon enough.

Not on your ‘A Game’ and still scoring well. Sign of a good golfer 💪

Lovely to see some more Winter golf! Considering by your admission your putting was 💩 youve scored well! Game is trending 📈

Iv always said as a golf from 10 years old (49 this Saturday) is just for the enjoyment of the sport

Looks a good course did you see James Robinson lol Still not playing myself not played since October to wet and to cold for me I just hate winter golf also Golf Clubs for Cash do a good range in putters and will take that really wierd sounding putter off you lol

Even in winter that's a good score mate

I luv up and down

Nice vid man. New putter ?

Should be a gimme under putter length on a temp.

can't believe you're using a white golf bas in this weather lol nice round wp

Love the editing in these videos! How do you get the top view of the hole? Google Earth? Looking forward to watching more and subscribed!

Velcro greens!

Good effort that in winter 👍🏻👍🏻 is that where James Robinson films? I’m guessing he’s not the pro anymore 🤔

Might benefit from using less loft around greens, they're soft so you're ending up short a lot and the kicks are more pronounced with the higher trajectory of your 54. No shame in running 8s or 9s up to the hole. Easier strike too. Check out Dan Grieve's stuff. Genius.

there is a real click sound off your putter! Are you using a hard ball? or is it the putter face?

Great to see aerial views of this course unlike you know who( James Robinson!) great video

You should feel blessed to be able to play in the winter. Where I live, in a city with about 240,000 people, only one course stayed open into December and now there are zero outdoor options. Anyway, you'll have to trust me but your game and my game are similar in many ways, we hit about the same distances and our hcp is roughly the same. I just want to share one thing that differs and maybe you can give it a try. When I come to a hole that it at the very limit of a given clubs distance, as you did on the par 3 at 22:57, I always go with the stronger club so that I don't have to hit it perfect and I don't have to hit it with 100% effort. It is much easier for me to hit a nice, relaxed 3/4 9 iron than it is to hit a perfect 8 iron with 100% effort. And the worst thing that can happen is you can be on the back of the green, or perhaps even chipping on from there, instead of in front. Anyway, I've been doing that for years and it's always helped me :)

Have you been fitted for the driver or is that an off the shelf shaft.?

Keep the shoulder turn, but restrict the hip turn on the backswing. You're turning the hips at least twice as much as you should going back. More moving parts means more places things can go wrong. You turn your hips so far that it causes lateral shift to keep your balance. That one change and a better short game attitude and you'd be single digit in no time.

At least you were playing off grass in the fairway fella. So many of our local courses have adopted the stupid fairway mats 🤬🤬🤬

Besides the putting which lets face it we all struggle with on wet cold greens, you played better in this round than I can remember seeing you play mate, it's cold and shitty lies, damp ground so losing loads of carry and run out and on a luckoer day with better putting could have shot 10 less there easily, well done mate!

Well played,9 pars,could have been more,superb iron play again 👍

do you guys not play off matts in winter ?? my local course does that in winter to keep the course in pristine conditions. ps great video

6th made me laugh. After tee shot says it’s lovely and couldn’t have placed it any better. Gets up there, checks yardage and says hmm that’s tricky.

Great round! Just sort that putting out 😂

See this course all the time on James Robinsons channel, good to see someone of a more relatable skill level playing it, only a few holes in, I will shut up and finish watching :)

Are you using a plastic putter or very hard balls?

Going from really fast to really slow greens always not going to be ideal - but great scoring considering everything. Hopefully UK gets some decent weather 😂 nice to watch you in bad conditions whilst it’s decent over here mind ⛳️

You should try a mallet head putter. Leaving that birdie putt short on 5 was criminal. You're also a bit drivey with the handle and have too much shaft lean on chip shots, you need to release more, if you want to keep it low just try taking less loft, 50 deg, PW or 9 even, you don't always need to pull the SW in every situation.

Nice round Luke, if greens weren’t winter greens would have been a much better score. Still, great round!

to break into the 70s you really need the flop shot in your armoury when its soft or youve no room behind bunkers it saves shots hand over fist

Have you tried a mallet putter, Luke?

Good video but I would like to know why you don’t flick your right foot up when you hit your driver?

You might be better with a mallet putter if you're using a blade type but well done 👏 😊

In my experience, trees are 90% wood!!! :D

Woolley Park? Did you run into James Robinson?

My home club hope you enjoy

Some cracking shots there, especially as the temperature would have taken 20 yards off. Well done!

Great round but disqualified I’m afraid for 15 clubs in the bag 😉

Yellow tee? Why not white?

"Stupid" fairway mats replicate firm summer conditions and protect the course for summer - when it matters. Winter golf is just to keep us moving.

Putting a problem why use a blade ???

Jealous...where I leave we have 10 inches of snow.....;p

Since you're in the UK, if I were you, I'd run, not walk to go take a short-game clinic or lesson from Dan Grieve at Woburn. He's a short-game instruction wizard and will have you knocking strokes off in no time.

In some ways you're thinking like a single figures golfer already. Your positive thinking is excellent. Give those putts a chance. I reckon you're still thinking like a 20 handicapper and accepting a 3 putt,

Luke, where's Fents, where's Woody and where are the videos?

I play my best games in the cold. Less people in front and behind me.

Where's Robbo?

a few simple adjustments to your game such as putting & around the greens brush up on these & theres a S/D handicapper in there looking forward to following your progress 👍🏻⛳️🏌🏼

Mate dunno what ur talking about… its like 40 degrees here 😊

I love a preferred lie. I always seem to end up with the worst seem to end up with terrible lies in summer.

Get your self some short game lessons from Chris Dennis.

Not going anywhere near the course when they’re playing off mats

Great video. You have a lot of self-doubt which I think is hurting you. For example, on hole 4, why are you "begging for a 2-putt?" Instead, your thought should be, "Let's sink this for birdie." That self doubt and negative mindset has real-world implications. Instead of being disappointed you didn't make birdie, you are relieved you made par. Change that mindset, and you'll see better scores. Believe me!

Brush up on the putting and work on the driver and your be on single figures soon

the haircut's gone a bit dodgy

winter golf is just the worst

need to sack the camera man lol

Mate your putting problems all stem from really poor and inconsistent setup. When your hands are that close to your legs at address, you don’t have the space to control the stroke with your shoulders and it becomes “handsy” which can cause inconsistent distance control. You also accelerate the putter head through impact a lot of the time which, again, causes inconsistencies with strike and distance control. Look for putts where you have a far longer follow through than backstroke for reference to this. Opposite is desirable. You need to square up your alignment throughout (feet and possibly shoulders open) check ball position (just forward of centre is ideal) and eyeline (just inside or over ball is best for the vast majority of golfers). Thank me later when you start getting a much better roll 👍😁

Who wants to watch bad golf?