What 28 Handicap Golf Actually Looks Like | Wicklow Golf Club | S02 E06 

Great video,well made and well played mate. The graphics and info are spot on ,that all takes work and you have down a great job. I also like you are calm and not a try hard like most. 🙏🫡⛳️

I don’t have to watch this video because I know what a 28 handicap game looks like. FIRST HAND!

It's amazing just how many golfers love to watch high handicap golf including myself I play of 14 but we all can relate to the struggles of golf all the same.keep the videos coming and thanks

Two shots in and I'm hooked. I'm tired of seeing expert golfers all the time. Oh no! The dreaded four-putt😂

“I hope it’s the right green” that’s epic! I’m totally relating to this!

i felt that when you said "i hope its the right green"

I dont even have a handicap score yet so I’m not judging! Nice to see a video about the other side of golf! Im subscribing!

This content is so relatable to my game right now!

Great video and love your celebrations. That's what golf is all about! ❤

This is great! Finally found a video of someone I would feel comfortable golfing with. What an amazing course! Well shot video.

Golf courses on the coasts of Ireland and the UK are absolutely stunning. One of these days I’ll get to golf there.

the celebration on the 14th is what we all play golf for .... top putting sir 😎

Excellent video Jamie - you play like me!

Fantastic video. Just started playing myself. Best round of 36 points so far. All the best and keep the videos coming 👍🏽

Stunning course and beautiful views. Really enjoyed the video mate. Keep them coming.

Gorgeous course!! Those 2 scratches at the end really hurt but otherwise seems like a good round. Love seeing those long putts drop! Keep showing us Americans those beautiful Irish courses!

@ 3:40, what a view, and no wind, wow!

Excellent video. I play off around the same as you and watching your round is really reminiscent of my own experiences on the course. Being a high handicapper our "just about ok" shots leave us with really difficult lies from all manner of odd places on the course. You seemed to play really well though, especially on the greens, and what a beautiful course!

SO enjoyed this! Thanks. 👍

speaking as an avid golfer from the United States, who usually shoots in the mid 90's, I can't imagine just how much effort this was to continually set up the camera on every shot and still concentrate on your game....keep these videos coming and my only recommendation for any future on course golf videos is when editing, if possible, display your yardage after hitting each shot.... this would give viewers a little better insight into your club selection.....thanks for taking the time to create this very interesting and entertaining golf video on a beautiful course !!!

Wow the views are amazing in Ireland and Scotland. Bucket list tour, for sure. We just got back here in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. Look at the video I just did for that "everything brown" feel in contrast to the Emerald Isle you've got going, LOL

From an ex Dublin golfer . I played the Wicklow g / course a few times as an 18 h / cap . You got the picture of the course spot on . I never scored well on it & even lost a six iron after a fit of petulance . My head always got in my way , my biggest problem . I did manage to get down to 13 at one stage , but finished up last year as a 29 . I got my head , eventually together , but medical problems set in . Vertigo , followed by balance & blackouts . I really do miss the game & would love to get out again . Golf really is a game for life . You sound a lot like Padraig Harrington , not a bad man to take after .

I used to be 19, slipped to 28 as i get older. My last round had an 8, 2x7's but the rest added up to 71. So a 93 and 21 over.

What a beautiful scenery! Really enjoyed watching it. Love to play in Ireland soon.

Great video, makes a change from watching the usual low handicap footage, well produced too! Liked & subscribed.

Great video mate

What a golf course,great honest video,love it👏👏

This could be any one of my rounds - getting excited for a double bogey...thats so me...Cheers from Texas!

Nice to see a high handicapper putting their round up. Makes it easier to see what some of us are doing wrong. Your backswing looks ok but then your downswing is very steep and out to in. I struggle with the same problem. I "feel" like im not doing it, but i am. Thats why you see some shots going straight left on contact, because you catch it square on that path. Then other times you leave the face open and it goes right, so its very confusing until you step outside yourself and see it. Im confident if you watch plenty of your own footage you could probably get into the 15 handicap range pretty quickly like I am with a few swing tweaks.

Watching from New Zealand. I have been playing for 7months now and come down to a 19.2 . Started with a terrible slice now have a hook lol . She’s a hard game . Enjoying your videos. BTW you definitely look to be on the improve.

Brilliant video, Jamie, congratulations and thanks for sharing! You played some great golf out there on a wonderful course, especially scoring well on your earlier holes. I have a similar experience that there’s always a major drop off at some point (lost balls, two out of the bunker, fluffed shot) that adds a lot to the score. I guess thats why we are high handicappers! Anyway I will try to follow your lead and keep smiling!

Beautiful course. Enjoyed the video.

That is a beautiful course! Absolutely breathtaking.

7.02 -" miraculously I got close to the green. I just hope its the right green !! " We all do it mate. Your chipping around the green is decent, nice stroke. Good video, enjoyed.

Nice round,and gr8 putting keep it up m8 well done 😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Great video and well played - Some really fantastic shots in the round.

The swings where you follow through with your shoulders tend to be great strikes. Don't "give up" on a swing halfway through, finish your swings! And as always, weight forward when you finish! Love the video, love the game. Great positive attitude out there.

Much enjoyed I play of 26 been playing for about 6 yrs I’m 77 I have a love hate relationship with the ball mostly love though for the great game of golf

1st time watching channel and thoroughly enjoyed it, great video

Great video and stunning course. Looks beautiful. I thought you shot that video really well. New to the channel so have subscribed

What a beautiful course ❤

love it.

Really enjoyed that, looks an amazing course,

Love your vids Jamie, my game is very very similar to yours , it’s the odd great shot that keeps you coming back 👍🏻

As always Jamie, an enjoyable watch, some excellent putts , striking the ball well too - one of these days a course somewhere is gonna get its ass kicked . Couree looks gorgeous with some tricky greens

Keep it up mate. Some good shots.

Hi Jamie! Happy New Year my friend! Have to say that’s one stunning golf course! The round you played just shows all the highs and lows of a typical round so it’s very relative to all of us! Must say 34 points on a tough course you have never played before I think is very commendable 👏👏 Look forward to the next round my friend 👍⛳️⛳️

Very hard course.well played Shann 👏 🇨🇦

10:40....I jumped with you ha! Its great you put a little flag up to show the green location, and identify the club changes too.... Some of the big golf RU-vidrs, could learn a thing or two from you Jamie....well done mate ;0)

What a beautiful course, very similar to a course I played in England recently. As already mentioned your game is very similar to over 90% of golfers including mine, pleased you left the driver in the bag 😀 Keep up the great work and you’ve gained another follower. Shaun - Lancashire

Subscribed after that first hole. Great stuff

Brilliant vid! This is ‘real’ golf. The course looks beautiful and for a ‘links’ course, the greens seem very quick. Keep smiling 👍🏌️

I've only been playing properly for 6 months and consistently shoot 103 regardless of the day or course. I cannot translate my practice sessions onto the course. It probably is 99% mental. But I also don't understand why every club in my bag only goes 100 yards if I'm lucky. No change I ever make makes a difference.

Finally someone I can relate to

I’m moving to Wicklow in the next few weeks. Really excited to play this beautiful course and join the club!

What a course, lucky so and so. Great video, you seem to rush your shots at times , no waggle or practice swing. Well played though.👍🏻

As a high handicapper, I feel your pain here on a few of those shots, I use hole19 when i play and find it great for looking ahead on the course and for club selection. keep up the good work Jamie.

You are are being humble. This is a tough course.

Loved the video man. Always very relatable 😂 i see you didnt hit one driver. To hit around the 100 mark is still very impressive. Looking forward to the next vid and congrats on recently becoming a dad! 🎉

That’s it, I’m recording my game. Great stuff.

My left ear enjoyed this

I would not want to play you in a match even with my 21 handicap. Great video! You displayed a really solid putting stroke,

As someone who just started playing this year at local courses here in New England all I can say is those greens were amazing. I constantly have to dodge geese dropping and leaves 😂 Great video btw just subscribed

My left ear really enjoyed this.

First time watching, the four putt on 2 had me gripped

I love your attitude towards the game, to me it doesn't matter what handicap you are, it's about enjoying it. I play off 9.4 and just love going for a round of golf most Saturday Mornings.

great effort - could almost have been me, I played 103 at Fairmont St.Andrews last summer, which is a similar course.

This is real golf. Well played buddy, your putting is pretty good!

As a 25 handicapper - that was one of my rounds... great stuff

I don’t know how I’ve missed your videos up to now - really great honest content. I live close enough to this course and it’s a tough one! Just as a matter of interest how far are you getting with the hybrid?

Are you not checking your card as you go round ? Hazards not shown ie bunkers ,streams & out of bounds ? Really great to watch your efforts as another high handicapper who is new to playing! Cheers 🍻

That is a beautiful course and considering you got caught out by some hidden traps, by not having played the course before, I though you did pretty well. I loved your reactions when you got those pars. It would be interesting to see you play it again and then compare your scores. You didn't seem to know some of the hole layouts and yardages? Have you thought of an app to show you, or do you use your phone to film. Thanks for the work you put into making these for us, we really enjoy them. (PS You still played that better than I would have done at the moment!)

You’re already way better than me. One thing I’ll say we have in common is you seem to hit the ball pretty fast after addressing the ball for your final setup and maybe going too fast. When I take more time it isn’t a guarantee I’ll hit it better but the odds increase slightly. Anyway, please don’t take this as advice as I’m in no position to give it, just an observation from a worse golfer. Nice vid. 🤙🏼

State of this course really was immaculate.

Play from the tees that reflects your handicap. Golf is to be fun not difficult its hard enough on somedays. Gorgeous course by the way.

great game, very positive too, definitely would have taken a gimme on the drain at 10th hole!

Great fun fab courses great photography ! ( Tip check for sloping horizons on some shots!) use spirit level for photography ! Otherwise fab - love your videos !

First time seeing your video. Fantastic course, and well played. Nothing really wrong with your game.....you certainly wouldn’t hold up anyone behind you haha! You play fast,... maybe take a little more time with your shots and putting? But maybe that’s your rhythm. All-in -all, well done sir. You are very lucky to have access to such an amazing course and I assume the others in Ireland. Maybe I’ll get there some day but for now I’ll just imagine. Again, very enjoyable and fun video. Cheers mate, from Canada 🇨🇦

Good to see some actual bad golf. Well in mate you crush that hybrid

Big fan of Wicklow usually on the annual list of courses

Hit a lot of good shots,know the frustration of high handicap golf.

I watch this in envy. I am a 10 hcp former 6 hcp and I watch that much PGA on TV I compare my golf to these guys on the course and hate my game and standard, worlds angriest golfer. I'd love to just play, enjoy it, not have such ridiculous expectation and be happy.

Really good video. You deserve to be much lower than 28! Great course.

jeez, I so can relate to this

Love the videos 👍 Just a wee hint tho, film with your front to the brightest light ☀️📹

Well that was thoroughly enjoyable. I’m a bit higher than you and reckon some of those 1 putts would have been 2 easily for me. 34, while being 32 through 14 and going 11 over on the last 4 is a pretty good score. Something about seeing nice golf without all the hoopla and seeing the duffs and chips. Course management was solid.

Those greens look very fast lad!

This is a course that has gone under the radar for my research into Irish courses. Looks good though, Have you plaed Woodenbridge or St Margarets? They are both on the list to play when I next on that side of Ireland

Loved the video, very new to golf myself. Shot a 62 on 9 holes yesterday 😂 This is probably a very basic question I should know the answer to, but what scoring system are you using to get the ‘points’ on each hole? I like the idea of getting something on a double/triple bogey! Most of the time I enjoy the golf anyway but it’s a little disheartening to have nothing really to show at the end. Think this score system could help!!

Hi. Just some useful tip, you have a in to out motion on your backswing. You need to reverse that to stop going left.

Your putting 👏🏻👍🏻

Great watch and well done. Was looking look after you went charging round the green like a yank at the Ryder cup 😂 then the high handicap kicked in at the end. Still thought your ball striking and course planning was good. One question - do you hit the driver ok ?

Great video and awesome editing. What camera set up / mic do you use?

I don't remember playing that course but those sure look like my shots.

That course looked pretty nice. I've been playing 6 months and am almost as terrible as you. LOL I can play a Sand Iron or a 60 degree wedge and pitch from 50 yards or less landing almost exactly where I want it and will end up with a good chance of sinking the resulting putt ( most of the time) The rest of the time I flop it up in the air and land it 3 yards in front chunk it or thin it through the green and that's where I drop my shots. The sensible or safe shot is a 7 or 8 iron bump and run. And knowing the shot to play and when is key. Shooting in the 90s is all about percentage play. If you can take 8 iron 99/100 and knock it to 6 feet that's better than knocking it to 3 feet 1 out of 20 times. To 10feet 5x 20 feet 4x on the green somewhere 5x duffing 3x and thinning 2x into bunker bushes woods pond lake or rough. Likewise the shot you played between the trees. OK you kind of got away with it but a chip onto the fairway is the smart play. At the level we play (24-28HC) Hazards are a game killer. Bunkers are usually pretty well positioned to catch out those that think they can get over them. And you'll find that the ones just ahead of that are just the right distance to catch the escape from the previous one you can easily add 2 or 3 strokes to a hole like that. When you hit into trouble as much as it hurts your ego you aren't Tiger Woods.You are never going to pull of a 170 yard shot from a bunker or the rough. you might pull it off 1in 20 or 30 times of trying but more often than not you will just hit into even more trouble with just an unlikely chance of hitting decent shot the next time.. You are always far better of leaving the ego in the car park and playing a high lofted club and chipping 5, 10 or 20 yards forward sideways or backwards into the middle of the fairway. At least then you'll have the best lie to be able to stand a chance of hitting a shot towards the green in a controlled way and avoiding trouble. We all do it after slicing a drive into the right rough and we start to think I've got 145yards left on a par I need to get this near the green before shanking the 2nd shot 10foot into the 2nd cut.Then you think damn this is now my 3rd shot this needs to either go 3 feet away to save par, before you then slice or hook it 40 yards left or right of the green. You'll be making 6 or 7 if you're lucky. Had you taken you medicine and chipped the second shot 20 feet onto the fairway you would very likely put your 3rd shot on the green with 2 putts bogey and an outside chance of making par. Look at it this way If you bogey every hole you're playing off 18. Not 3 putting is key. I happen to be pretty good a putting and would put money on me getting 6 foot or less putts, and I'd fancy myself to hole 10-15 footers ( at least be close enough to get the blood racing) but the way I treat anything longer than that (even from the other side of the green) is Get the speed right and leave it 3 feet or less away. If it finishes 6 foot I've still got a very good chance of holing it. I tend to not spent too much time on long putts reading greens Unless there is an obvious swing I'm really only interested in the last 6 or 8 feet. I usually pick a point 6 inches in front of me that I need to putt over to be on my chosen line I then make practice strokes looking up and down at the hole and ball. When I'm happy with the weight I play my shot. yeah sometimes It doesn't go as planned but mostly it does. And if you're lucky one of those 30 footers might drop. This time next year I want to be breaking 90 not struggling to keep it under 100 when it all goes wrong.

You have a nice swing and when it works it really works, enjoyed watching you battle yourself. You do seem to whip your wrists during transition, like you're trying to skim a stone. Suspect if you can quieten the hands/wrists at top of swing you'll gain some consistency. No guarantees mind.

Love the content - might be an audio thing as majority of audio coming out the left side.

I feel your pain. My consistency is crap. For every good game I have 3 bad ones. Love your videos though. My club is good. We have a lot of low handicappers and playing with them is no problem with them.

Good video and your problem is quite simple its an out to in path. I advise you to start off with little half swings then do 3/4 swings for your full swing. It will stop you from forcing the path of the club which promotes you to cut across the ball.

How tall are you Jamie ? Those clubs look tiny in your hands , also whats your average distance for the hybrid. Great video I always enjoy your rounds especially when you do something that gets you excited !