Hello and welcome to episode one of this brand new Journey to Scratch Series. In this video, I’m going to tell you a little bit more about what you can expect from this series, I’ll talk about why I am looking to build my golf swing and become a better golfer, and I’ll explain how I plan to do so.
First of all, this series is something that I have been looking to do for a long time. The whole purpose of creating my golf blog and YouTube channel was to document my journey to hopefully becoming a better golfer. The problem is, as I approach the off-season every single year, I have good intentions of working on my golf swing and putting in the hours, but in practice, it never really pans out that way. Life is busy, and to be honest, I end up starting the new golf season where I left off from the previous one, if not a little bit worse. But this year is going to be different.
If I can’t get to the golf course regularly, then I’ve decided to bring the golf course to me. I have spent the last few months working on the back garden to turn it into my very own golf practice area. I now have a large net and a space big enough to hit all of the clubs in my golf bag. I’ll be using this space as often as I can because all I need to do is step outside, day or night, and I can work on my golf swing.
I’ve noticed that hitting balls into the net makes it difficult to get feedback about what I’m actually doing well. So, I have decided to buy a Flight Scope Mevo Gen 2 launch monitor. This gives me real-time data about my ball striking and my golf swing, and the level of data I get is absolutely insane. I’ll be using this to capture my data from various sessions and then I can compare to see what I’m doing better and maybe where I still need to make improvements.
I’ve got the setup and I’ve got the equipment, but one of the things that I need to do is to actually work out how I can get better. Whilst I can analyze the data and try to interpret it as best as I can, I want to actually go through some coaching. I have tried in-person coaching and online before, but I find that the in-person is really reliant on having the time to actually go to lessons, which I usually struggle with. And whilst I like the online coaching, it is varied from instructor to instructor and it is quite expensive.
Instead, I have decided to invest in a one-year subscription to Me and My Golf and I am going to work through their online courses. I really like about that platform is the fact that it’s all delivered in layman’s terms. It’s easy to understand. There are hundreds and hundreds of videos, but they’ve also curated videos into courses which are perfect for beginners or more advanced level golfers. I am a seven-handicap golfer. I’ve been on seven for quite a few years now, so I can play the game, but actually my ball striking, my setup, everything to do with my golf swing, it’s actually really quite poor. So, I have decided I’m going to work through their Pure Your Irons course. This is a perfect place to start because it goes right back to the basics. And what I like is they cover in the videos the fundamentals. They give you the information that you need. They explain why you do things in certain ways. Then they give you the drills and then they give you practice videos where you basically have an allotted amount of time to hit X amount of balls, let’s say 20 balls, alongside either Piers or Andy. So you’re able to work through the practice scenario having worked through the drills having learned from them in the first video. So the plan is to work through the Pure Your Irons videos, and then what I’m going to do is I’m actually going to include some of those videos with the permission of Piers and Andy in some of these future update videos here on YouTube so you’ll be able to actually watch the video to see what they’re talking about and then see me putting into practice hopefully what they have covered.
That is the plan. What I am going to do next is I need to find a sort of benchmark. I need to work out where I am just now before I start really going down the rabbit hole here on this journey. So the plan is for the next episode in this series is to actually film my golf swing from behind, so down the line, but also face on. And I’m going to do a gapping session with my Flight Scope Mevo Gen 2. So I’m going to go into the garden, I’m going to hit at least a minimum of 10 decent shots with every single club in the bag, and then I have an idea of where I’m at in terms of my numbers. I have a visual of my swing with each club either down the line and face on, and then I can keep going back and having a look to see not only in terms of the data where I’m improving, but I can see visually what is looking better with my swing.
I’m really, really looking forward to filming this video series. I’m looking forward to updating my golf blog with regular posts, and to be honest, I’m just looking forward to not only hopefully becoming a better golfer, but being able to share this journey with you guys. So if you are interested in following along, please do make sure that you hit the like button. Feel free to drop any comments or questions that you have in the comments area below, and if you’ve not done so already, please do consider subscribing to the channel and make sure you hit that notification bell so you’re notified when the next video from this series launches. But anyway, that is basically what my Journey to Scratch series is. So it’s going to be available here on YouTube. I’ll have shorts on Instagram, on YouTube, and on TikTok, and I’ll also have more detailed breakdowns and reflective posts over on my golf blog at andesgolfblog.co.uk. So I hope that you’re going to follow me on this journey, and I’ll see you in the next video in part two.