Working On The Game | Breakthrough series 

Maddie with the important questions. She should definitely be on more of your videos. Always dope to hear from her

Damn its tough seeing Matt so down recently. Hopefully he gets healed up and it only makes him stronger. Pulling for you Matt!

I was dying when Maddie didn’t film the ball catch the slot and you hit her with the “oh great so you’re just filmin the grass huh having a good time😂😂”

I always like these ones with you and Maddie. Your personalities are so perfect for each other.

We need more Maddie!

We love ya Matt. You can definitely tell that you aren’t yourself in the videos and as someone with back pain I can understand why. Keep grinding brotha

I've been watching your videos for i don't even know how long now, I've never commented on anything before, but I honestly think this series has shown a much more relaxed, natural side of yourself and I love seeing that more real person vibe idk just a thought. Hope all the back stuff goes smoothly!!

For what it’s worth, very few recreational golfers could play as well as you did in this video…..especially with extreme pain. I understand that you have a desire to play at a professional level and you should continue to strive for that for as long as it is important to you. That said, you are playing a lot of golf and earning a living doing so and making these videos is for the entertainment of the viewers. We viewers are far more interested in your personality, charisma and entertainment value than we are in your final score. So enjoy your day. You’re in a beautiful place, surrounded by birds and nature and sharing time with the love of your life. You are blessed man. Loved the video and sincerely appreciate the entertainment that you and your Good Good buddies bring to us each week. Keep tapping them in.

We appreciate you Matt. And you can’t make everyone happy. Put the mic wherever it feels most comfortable for you. I felt I could hear you really well with it on your hat while you were playing Colin. Hope the back starts feeling a little better. Always nice to see Maddie on the channel with you. Best wishes to the both of you.

The best chiropractor in the world is in Lee summit mo. I'm a severely disabled vet, and if he can keep my bag of bones together then he truly is a miracle worker. On the real, he's incredible and would benefit all of you boys. I'll try and get the info to the good good office for you all.

So happy to see you posting so much lately Matt. Thanks for the awesome content and keep it up brother, lots of love

"OH so your just filming the grass?, ahahahahha". Matt has the humor I like on the course.

Matt, I refer to you all the time for my son who is just starting out. Your advice about keeping your ego out of the round helps so much in keeping him from reacting badly to poor shots and taking the smarter approach to the game - Can't hit driver today, put it away and hit the 3 wood or 7 wood. Have you ever considered the single plane swing? I have a bad back and since I transitioned to it I very rarely have any issues. It takes a lot of the torque out of the golf swing and, when done correctly, should not lose distance. Todd Graves has a great youtube channel with a lot of good info on it.

"OH great! You're jus filmin the grass huh?!" chuckles 10/10 banter

Granted at 54 years old I've got 30 years on you in age, but I'm 100% with you on the back pain. It's hard to take ego out of the equation and not hit the big stick. But I enjoy watching your game most of all. Not just using your physical skills but using your mental abilities to rethink your style of play. Praying that your next Dr visit will go well and that you stick with your therapy routine.

As a fellow back-problem sufferer, I know exactly what you're going through Matt. I've been forced to stay away from golf for 11 years, still waiting to get into surgery and, following that, hopefully getting back onto the golf course to swing a club or two again, because I miss it like crap. Stay positive man and take care. Best of luck.

Brother I’m 23 and had back surgery on my back when I was 16. I ended up herniating my disc on my L5S1 nerve during one of my baseball games. The excruciating pain would go from my left buttocks all the way down to my foot. I couldn’t stand up straight I was miserable. But after surgery and rigorous physical therapy for about a year it helped me get back on the field and play baseball again. I have to do stretches every day but after I knock them out I feel much better. My back will tighten from time to time but I will personally say surgery was worth it. I’ve also been playing golf the past 4 years and my back has held up. Good luck with your decision in the future I wish you nothing but the best🤞

Congrats on the new crib brother.. hope your feeling well.. heads up and keep striving forward

Dude you crack me up. Talking to yourself like we all do. I personally think your swing looks as good as ever. Very smooth and easy tempo. I wonder if you slowed down a hair prior to approaching the ball to get mentally ready would help. Pulling for ya to get better. Patience man, it’s a hard game. I do like the fact when you hit a good shot but it doesn’t turn out it’s important to acknowledge hitting a good shot. Just as bad shots can work out. Crazy damn game!!

Great to see your process and how you grind through it all. Congrats on the new digs... Stay blessed Matt! 🙏

Love how you’re really serious about getting better! Rooting for you Matt!

Matt THE GOATTTTT. This upload made my entire week ❤❤❤ love u Matt

Love this type of videos from you two! We want more!!

So good to see you working through it mate and concentrating on your short game

This is great Matt. To be blunt, your swing is looking great, especially in the last Major. You are hitting it better recently than in the past before you knew about the back issues. Like you said smart golf, not long bombs... plus you will always have a hole in one on a par 4, something .00001% of golfers can say. A series about golfing through back pain and struggles is a brilliant niche, keep at this one guys. Maddie, nice butt zoom shot, had me laughing.

Man I know what you're going through.. I had so much pain that my whole leg would cramp up and I couldn't even walk.. statarted in my butt cheek then went down the leg the more I stood on it.. I did all types of therapy.. I had an epidural and multiple cortisone shots.. in the end I had a small micro diechtomy? Best thing I ever did.. been playing golf for the last 10yrs pain free.. 111 mph swing speed and I can swing as hard as I want.. good luck

Hey Matt, I'm in my late 30s and have had pretty crippling back pain from getting rear ended when I was 17. My two biggest pieces of advice from my personal experience would be: 1: Get a red light therapy belt. This thing has worked wonders for inflammation and I basically just live in the thing on days where maybe I did something stupid the day before 2: Planking. It is one of the easiest, but also most effective ways to work all of your core muscles. I started by getting my baseline and then adding 10 seconds per session until I hit 5 minutes. From there I would try to do two five minute planks 5 days a week. Good luck! We are rooting for you

Still haven't seen someone swing so easy, almost slow looking, yet get great yardage. Will always be my favorite swing in Good Good. When I try the smooth Matt swing, it doesn't go anywhere 😂. And hope the back gets better, mine is bad too.

Hope you heal fast.. love seeing you on your channel. Good luck Matt. Love ya.

matt, you have always been my favorite player and one i try to mimic the swing of. My back is just like yours with terrible mobility/pain constantly.....after watching your series about this, I've been playing to hit "comfortable" shots and not "going for it" shots and my game has gotten waaaaay better. keeeeep it up my guy.

I like this video format, I appreciate seeing what you work on. I also suffer from persistent back pain all connected to my SI joint. However I just like to see other members od good good out working on there game!

Great video! Don’t over strain yourself, but love to see the work you’re putting in!

I watch your channel and the rest of Good Good because of the insane amazing content. Your back issues hit me hard. Ive been dealing with sciatica for three years now due to a herniation in 2 discs. And I’ve tried it all to get better. I’ve found some relief recently and noticed my golf game improving steadily. Keep focusing on getting better! You are a great athlete and though the struggle is real, we battle through it always!

I have had problems with my back for years and have seen doctors and chiropractors and by buy an inversion table and stretching in the table, it has done wonders for me. With what your doin now, add the inversion table to your regimen and hopefully that will help. Love the content

Mad respect for you pushing through. I have constant back pain too as a young lad (29). It really sucks, but it forces me to use my practice time as effectively as possible and curbs my ego.

Great video Matt. Loving this series. Also Maddie bring a lot to these videos. Great mix of golf and comedy.

Love these practice round vids with you just explaining the course management side of things and watching you work out the issues with your back showing how to play smart golf for someone who may not be able to hit driver all the time. Just rember keep your head up you are winning out here in life i get how frustrating it is to have a injury holding you back but dont let it get you down brother

You are a cool guy. I look forward to you keeping at it and finding your new rhythm

Great stuff Matt, keep them coming and keep that back healthy! I feel ya man, back issues suck! Cheers brotha 🍻

You are a monster athlete, Matt. Once your body catches up with your effort, Good Good weeks will be yours.

Loved this video Matt , it made my day , keep them coming ❤

Keep your head up!

Love the swing.

Love the honesty

Maddie is not hard to look at and she is hilarious. She doesn’t hold any punches. 😂 Br nice to ‘ol Sharff

Swings looking great, Matt. Maybe it’s just the camera angles, but your setup looks pretty closed for someone that fades the ball. Im in a similar situation with lower back pain and opening up helped me realize how much strain I was putting on my “trunk” rotating through the ball. Being closed, I was turning my lower body hard left to get the body and club back to the target. Upper body stayed back tho and thats no bueno for the spine. Just a thought! Keep grinding dude

Sweet new pad !! Loving the Vlog style content! So i used to struggle from fairway bunkers as well until i actually started choking up even more than i felt was needed. Obviously lower half has to stay still and unless its a long shot i barely dig my feet in.

Stay positive Matt. And stop being so hard on yourself.

love the content. for your back we all know its a thing, you should show your stretch/warm up routine...i hope you are doing that as well. not the full routine but just what stretches and things you do before just even hitting some pitch shots.

Good luck with your appointment matt,good video and insight ❤

I dealt with some sciatica pain recently myself, took about 4 months before it went away while I was trying to play through it. Eventually just took three weeks off, stretched daily, iced my back as often as possible, until eventually it's dissipated. I had to change my golf swing to keep it away, too. Definitely something I can empathize with. Hopefully yours heals up as well.

I have very similar back issues and recently have been going to chiropractic appointments 2 a week for 10 weeks about 5 weeks in and it’s making an incredible difference and been drinking distilled water which has helped remove the toxins in my body . My good swing has become way more balanced and lose . Just got to get into the stretch exercises

Love ya Matt!

Matt and Steve about to get their handicap parking spot

Matt. I am sorry to hear your back is such a bad issue! I hope you get some solutions from the doctor. I'm a beginner myself, and very quickly learnt some of the things I do can lead to back issues. That's something no one needs in their life! Love your work man!

Nice Matt keep it up your doing it hombre

you know, when i first started watching goodgood you drove me crazy. but i have really grown to appreciate you. always rooting for you now man, keep grinding you seem like an awesome person.

Love the vid Matt! I hope that the doctors can help you eliminate your back pain. Sending prayers your way 🙏🙏

Hey matt! Love this content! Keeping up with you and madison is super fun to watch. You are easily one of the easiest personalities to follow! Hoping your back problem resolves soon! Also, do you know if the good good putter will be back any time soon? And is there possibility of a price drop for us poor folk?

Really enjoyed it

We appreciate you Scharffy🙏

Life’s just better when Matt posts on RU-vid

Love the positivity

Playing (or practicing) within your physical restrictions is the only thing to do if you want to be playing golf five or ten years from now. I have struggled with a bad lower back and hips for decades (72 now and lost my back in my 20s). It only gets harder unless you find a fix (usually surgery) or manage your expectations and ego. You can still be playing in your 70’s if you’re smart now. I just had to slow down a little and restrict my turn a little (not a lot). I played pretty well until I got into my late 60s and still do better than most senior players. Lost a little distance but accuracy keeps the score down.

Your killing it BBBRRRROOOOOOO 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Consider adding acupressure mat sessions to your recovery plan. 15-20 mins every day. Hurts at first, but you eventually get used to it. I fell asleep on mine for 2.5 hours once 😂 It definitely relaxes you a lot and eases some tension. Seems to help me with my back issues when combined with other, more active remedies. Whether or not it actually helps me at all, or it's the other exercises I do, I don't know. But I believe it helps, and that's what matters. A positive mindset for recovery is half the battle!

Fantastic tempo definitely the best tempo in good good 👌

Matt you are a great guy and actually the reason I started watching good good when you were doing the par 3 course with different articles. Remember the snake video?

Maddie is funny af -- great video!

Great video, I like it when Maddie chimes in, it keeps it real. Just my 2 cents.

On the putting thing. Uphill, definitely putt it through the break. Downhill, it really depends on the severity of the slope and how confident you feel hitting the back of the cup.

keep it up!

Matt! Fairway bunker tip: don’t move your head till 1 full second after contact, and don’t move your feet. Mostly upper body then just focus on contact. Not sure if it’s just me or not but that really helps and I’ve been money out of them for awhile.

Being a former powerlifter and bodybuilder it's important to do a lot of rowing and sitting in a chair and keeping your shoulder blades engaged. Through all of this posture is going to make a big difference

7:28 ruthless lmao y’all are great together

Mic sounds better in your hat. Ignore the haters. #teamhat

Matt=Goat Hope your appt goes well

Stay positive all wounds heal

I’m with you Matt on the last hole. I either leave it low and short or blast it 10 feet past. Hate those putts

Hang in there man. Best of luck with your doctors appointment.

Great video, always good to see a great golfer working through their process to improve! Would love to see a video with you working back from the green and see how that scores? Ie if you love the 110 yards shot into the green, what do you then hit off the tee to get there. For me, I love golf but am average so always try to find a yard into the green that’s 90-125

Matt - with fairway bunkers (I weirdly love them) I’ve always tried to stick to the following fundamentals 1. QUIET lower body. 2. 80% swing. Focus on ball-first contact, not power 3. Club up (assuming there isn’t a bunker lip in the way). Extra club will help with the lack of legs and 80% swing speed Keep up the grind buddy 👏🏻👏🏻

Matt, you can definitely tell you are getting older. Acting a little more mellowed out than old videos, not as loud and in your face, back pain.... haha. Still the great sense of humor that we all love though. Good luck with the back rehab, we all look forward to seeing you in top form again.

Matt, See if you can find a stretch lab type place. My sciatica was jacking my game up and tried everything. Having someone stretch your body for you is a game changer with lower body tightness.

When I saw the mic on your hat my thought was "genius!"

Hey Matt, hope your back is doing better. I would recommend a gonstead chiropractor in Texas to help with your sciatica. Hope it helps God bless.

Don't know if you know about inversion tables but it works for me. Hope you can find a way to feel better.

Hey Matt. One of the hardest things to do in life is swallow your own ego. As being as athletic and talented as well as competitive, I understand that mentally you expect yourself to do well, and when it doesn’t go well it weighs on you. I was very athletic in my younger years (40 now) and a very competitive person when it came to sports, and still to this day I struggle with swallowing my own pride and just sometimes admitting I just don’t have it today, when mentally I expect my “A” game which in golf to your standards would be a F-. You just shown that you don’t need the big stick to do well, but that comes with swallowing ego/pride. Maybe one round just leave the driver at home, and play with your 3w or hybrid off the tee. Out of sight, out of mind. Not sure if you’ve mentioned it or not, but have you tried an inversion table for your lower back? Also a chiropractor? I know Dr. Tubio who has a channel is either based out of Houston or Dallas area, I can’t remember which, but he and his associates base their adjustments off of YOUR needs, and not just the same routine over and over like so many out there. I hope your healing process goes well. I would love to play a round with you next time you guys stop back up in Chicago. Be well young man, keep grinding.

Im 33 and got in a skiing accident back in 2012 and my back is really messed up. If you havent gotten an MRI get one and find out whats wrong and get it fixed as soon as you can. What your feeling will only get worse. Ive done physical therapy and all of it. GET AN MRI. I promise you want to do that as soon as possible. PT can only do so much

Also man you were great with BDS. People were being ridiculous and just really wanted to hate without knowing anything. Keep it up

Yo Matt; double, birdie, bogey, double, par, birdie, bogey, par, bogey is +5 brother. Love the lego collection. Keep on grinding.

Yo Matt, had some similar issues with my back as well. Double check you’re all stretched out in your quads and such. Mine is a hip issue where my fascia is hella tight on my sling and it’s causing issues all along the top right to lower right of my back. Not sure if it’s too similar to yours but always worth checking it all out. Goodluck buddy.

1 of the hardest things in the game is course management. That's why Tin Cup is such a realistic movie. Imho. Good vid 👍🏻👴🏌🏾‍♂️🏌️‍♀️⛳🇺🇸🦅

back issues are solved by strenghtening your core, your Welcome!!

eyebrows looking sharp! mady doin wonders on those

I herniated some discs in my back when I was 19 - between L3 and L4, lived with the pain for 14 years or so. Tried massage therapy, acupuncture, nothing helped. Went for a free adjustment at Chiropractor and bam haven't been in pain since, been 10 years since that happened. Have you checked with Chiro? Be Well

I had a really soft mattress and literally just had it changed out for a very firm mattress a month ago. My back feels much better. Night and day difference. My advice to you if you sleep on a soft mattress

I swear by Biofreeze ! My chiropractor gave me a small bottle and he had the single use packs at the desk . Now , i keep a large bottle in my medicine cabinet . And as soon as i know it's below half full , i buy more ! ❤ Good luck with it brother !!

That’s how the cookie crumbles

madison's swing is awesome