Can I BREAK 85 in ONLY 8 months of Playing Golf??

Today I try to break 85 on another day on this journey from scratch to scratch golf! Is my golf swing good enough? Is my short game good enough? How about putting? We will see in this course vlog at 18 holes at this amazing golf course. Enjoy!

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One extremely valid news source I read somewhere once said only 26% of amers have broken 85 that’s crazy it’s been about 8 and 1/2 months since I started playing golf and although I’ve already broken 90 I still have not reached this mid- handicap score of 85 so today we

Are back on the grind where we’re going to see some great shots some shots I’ve never attempted before a random playing partner with Big Dreams and loves to send it on the golf course but at the end of the day we are going to see one

Thing and one thing only to see if I have that dog in me to break 85 let’s get into it all one gloomy day love it though we’re playing golf 538 Y part five come on let’s get it slightly open face let’s go get it though playable all right we back we are

Back with another 18 holes not the greatest drive but kind of realized this this hole is um pretty open but I’m other Fairway right for sure all right a little to the right we’re going to hit a five iron sit okay probably have a little more left that one’s straight heck we’re just

Getting warm we’re just getting warm it’s a little cold a little cold but we’re getting warm okay so we are right in front of this tree here so we got to punch it out you know back in the day month three drone would go for it we try

To figure out how to get in the air but we just got to punch it through oh if that didn’t hit the little Branch okay we’re going to 56 56 here we might want to do a pitching wedge but it’s in the cart so I don’t want to walk

Back you know what I’m going to regret it this is pitching wedge move for sure little longer distance let’s chip it over there all sit so subtle so subtle let’s put this let’s putt this for par come on come on I needed that bogey to start it off you never want to start

With a good score though I heard but I wish I had that part okay far four 330 yards I believe there a lot of things we’ve been working on number one thing is really just trying to stay connected here with the driver avoid these like things that are popping way to the

Left went a little high slight popup and it was a slight slight pull we’re no longer going right I decided you know one of those days when you’re just like rushing and you just feel like you’re behind every single time like I I like didn’t even have any food

Today yet I lost my water bottle I think at the gym today uh I got here super late didn’t really get to warm up as much as I wanted to it’s like a cluster of things that’s just you know I just got to say so that I’m a regular golfer that makes

Excuses just in case I play bad today but we’re we have a direct line here um at the green which is pretty good it’s about 136 planing 143 got a 9 iron in hand little nice and easy N9 iron I’m going to be fine the new thing within

Our my coaching is like we got to be very specific on Our intention here here how it’s going to land on the green and everything so we’ve been playing this light draw um we going to land it like 5 ft to the right that’s it oh man we are rushing today not the

Greatest shot in the world that was uphill slope I got in my head 45 times I was like how do I do I reposition this way do I hit a little up it went a little right because of the fact back I was kind of in a slope

But that is not what I wanted it’s okay then we’re going to chip this and we’re going to put bar Easy Does It guys Easy Does It 44 that’s uh 60° Bell button shot boom couple Lo all right get a little on the right side of this screen choke down a

Little oh my goodness sit sit sit you son of a okay that was relatively okay we’re like bouncing back and forth here but we’re going to be fine okay right to left up hill get up get up oh you son of a the worst thing about coming out here

Is I mean I asked for it but everyone’s kind of like seeing the camera and the EXP expect to mebe be really good at this game and it’s quite the opposite we got 151 here we’re going to hit a 9 iron go in did it go

In that’s close H one we just needed the first two Hool to warm up get in the cart man I wonder how many days it’s going to take for me to get it holding one oh what the did it go in wait no wait a minute the illusion dude it looked so

Good God okay well man that was wild that looked exactly like it was right next to the pin go wow wow this so flabbergasted now man we’re just going Bogies Bogies Bogies man oh I swear to God that was like inside the hole still dists from

The the previous hole anyways we go hole four here moving on we got to just stop rushing the last three holes and I again I don’t want to make excuses here but I kind of know I did this I didn’t even go through my proper setup for everything

Kind of Rush my pots didn’t really feel how far I need to go left all of them short 260 to the green par 4 we’re going to hit a seven iron laid up and we’ll have a nice little wedge shot inside we’re just going to take our time now I

Have a good feeling about the rest of the holes it’s going to be a long day a good long day it got slightly disconnected they didn’t really rotate at all went slightly to the right I think we’ll be fine though so while we wait

Here for this guy in front of us who has taken 18 shots um like I said we’re kind of working on a couple things but main thing is the position to the left but also the grip change I mean I’m not like crazy grip change but as as I keep

Playing I’m getting like more and more normal on my right hand grip rather than super super strong maybe like a little reason why that a little bit to the right and how my armpit was disconnected on my left but we got 112 here I think this is a nice a

Wedge oh that’s a lovely lovely feel right there got to take a little left so it doesn’t H the tree let’s get it out of Play Come On Come On yes got a yeah maybe a little tad bit to the left tad bit but definitely

Didn’t want to hit that tree we hit that tree ladies and gentlemen you’re like triple bogey territory all right so they’re irating the greens here so I got to re recalibrate a lot of things uh because it’s a little slower greens but I didn’t warm up again I didn’t realize how slow it

Was oh come on dude come on good bar good par that hole was the definition of um horse management we’re on to the next we’re going to be good we’re going to be good come on we’re adding Larry to the team um man it just got backed up we were smooth sailing and

Then now it’s a little backed up they move this up a little bit uh we got like 250 yard par 4 a little shorter I’m debating if I want to send it but I have no in between clubs as all of you guys know so far on this channel so we might

Just hit how far is this water how far is this water over here uh we might just hit a 7 hour in here lay it up I think that’s a layup I could have not go 200 yards no okay good L it up exactly where I wanted it

Kobe I think you’re going to be next to me man let’s do it tried to kill it yeah man hey go for Glory we just added uh Larry to the group cuz we caught up to him and uh he retired great dude lived in San Diego 30

Years tried to send with the driver didn’t make it uh let’s see where I landed I think I landed exactly where I wanted but who knows anymore I don’t I that procession is all off no way it went 200 yard dude oh that one is that

Is that your ball in there where there’s a ball right here oh probably I’m not going for it dang oh man look at this Li did not want that to happen I wanted to have it a little shorter but I hit it relatively well so this is kind of sitting up

Though even though it’s in the rough uh 74 oh I think I pulled my back just pulling that club out we’re going to hit this at little over a little over 9:00 with a 56° almost landed in the canal thank you okay we got 15 ft unless my

Depth perception’s off again and it’s over the mountains now we’re rolling ladies and gentlemen there’s a good guy he’s my uh he’s uh he heisted me up that’s what I needed sometimes I come out here and I’m all alone I’m all alone this guy who uh commented and is not

Like shout he’s like do you ever meet with any of your friends or do you have any time for anybody else no no I love them all but I you know I’ll see them once in a while um I would say uh to questions of the subscribers

Um I would say it’s like a 85 50% split 90 90 10% split actually let’s go ice in my ve there’s like this comment uh about me saying that because I don’t think a lot of golfers watch a lot of basketball that it’s like a reference to like

D’Angelo Russell and and his like famous taunt yeah if you’re new to this channel I played a lot of basketball in the past so uh we’re integrating that with golf for the rest of my life honestly I’m thinking about collaborations hopefully whenever the channel this S2 family gets

A little bigger we got to get a lot of NBA players out here here Steph Curry you know LeBron I don’t know if any of you guys saw LeBron’s golf swing but he’s a goat don’t at me actually do I want to hear it hey we got a bird it’s a good

Way to start it off removes that double Boby we had we’re going to try to get it over here through these trees a little risky but I think we could do it also can I smash that like button for the birdie I think I deserve a little little

Bit okay you didn’t want to H out of the trap with me I almost did though at address basically what’s kind of happening now is I’m uh setting up a little more close so I could just have a natural draw path I know a lot of people do cuts in the

PGA Pros but a lot of my coaches are kind of T toward the draw path I ain’t mad um eventually I’ll have to learn how to do all these other shots anyways if I put this on then I need to go on your YouTube channel oh mik if you put this

On Yes Man for sure I’ll subscribe to you what are you going to hit you know I should hit like a iron but I don’t know if I can get a four iron yeah you got to hit a four iron really high I know maybe you just hit a

Seven iron just to get it off but I believe in you all right our our guy here Larry he’s in he’s in the the sand let’s go let’s let’s go behind him he’s going for the green but let’s sit back a four and a seven he has a four and iron

And a seven iron and he’s going to go and it’s a high lip let’s see what he does hey you got out okay we’re heading a five iron today oh oh little short like 10 yards straight little short one day one day ladies and gentlemen I’m going to be

Able to buy something that’s not a driver or five iron and we’ll have we’ll have the yardages between the two I say that I think every week I say that like I need something better you’re probably thinking they go buy something this part five so trying to get another uh birdie

Here should have wore a sweater so cold if you’re new here come on subscribe to the channel this is is the greatest Golf Channel of all time I don’t know greatest Golf Community at least love all you guys think we can maybe sort of Discord Channel where we

Could all figure out our lives together figure out this game together oh so that was 28 yards and I calibrated incorrectly because last time I did 28 yards it was on a slope and I was like I got to hit it ex exactly the same didn’t do it it

Went 38 yards and now we’re here we’re about here going to be SL you think cuz it’s air yeah oh save that save that come on come on the number one thing that all my coures say um for my putting is like you got to decide it once you’re there do not

Change your mind regardless if it’s wrong or right and uh that’s exactly what I did I got up there and then I had a weird depth perception and then I changed my mind and it went far right when I I was like aiming more left and then of course of

Course that happened thank God thank God I I knocked it in still Matthew is going to remind me moving forward trust your gut we still got a part there let’s go baby just because we you’re short at 150 with a 9 iron this is 149 Oh short get over get over

It I should have just hit a full on eight iron I mean nine iron we’re in the beach I ain’t mad though I swimming I love swimming yeah I need to just start practicing like softer eight iron because I really my timing is really um kind of situated on like a

Full swing for everything except my wedges and like uh when I for that for for example that one I I was just all out of sequence when I was like going down on my back swing I was like this is so weird this is so weird and so I was short

But I ain’t mad about bunker shots I ain’t mad shot I in my face I in my face o more more left to right than I thought Dang Dang Dang Dang thought I had that one thought I had that one that was good on though man if I save

That oo that would have been my favorite hole of the day the bunker shots and Al honestly just short game in general I feel like long term I’m going to be okay at it it’s yeah know it’s a lot of about feel in my mind and I realized this I had just this

Connection in my brain when I was in uh when I was um practicing the other day and I was like when I played basketball I didn’t I wasn’t so robotic in regards to like this is how far I have to think about to shoot a three-pointer half cour

Shot two layup it’s just like you just know oh way right four right I don’t know if that hit him he looked over we’ll see did not say Still Standing so that’s good yeah the driver right now is uh kind of inconsistent I have days where I’m sending it just

Sending it but it’s so I don’t know it’s so hard to get to the left side you know with a such wide stance and so I end up just using a lot of my arms it’s playable we can see it can see it Lea frog man there’s always a tree in

Front of me always a tree this is what you get when you hit it in another person’s Fairway six iron 163 yards we got to punch it out there oh man far right three things I suck at one is soft whatever shots punch shots and three getting my way to the

Left side on a driver man if we do really well those three come on good distance good distance ladies and gentlemen now we just got to aim correctly I ain’t mad though I ain’t mad though let’s go pip for par get down get down oh is this going in 100% this is going

In boom saved it these these uh longer putts I should be getting closer but you can’t complain when you’re two putting yeah we’re 5 over over nine uh this is the ninth hole coming up which is pretty good this is the greatest front nine I’ve ever had and if history proves me

Right I do better than the back nine so let’s get bities on nine holes I think the scratch dude oh look at this food I’m so excited I I I haven’t had food I’ll day oh Rush that so much go up go up I rushed so much I

Suck not going to lie to you guys while while I was uh setting up there I heard the next group strolling in and I was like oh God more people watching the nerves I’m not ice cold yet I’m not cold blooded as much as I want to be right

Now but I should be eventually also the six iron you know I just don’t hit it a lot that’s no excuse I just suck at this game right now I realize man if you’re not hitting the green on par 3s you’re going to more or less end with a bogey

So we can’t have that anymore oh too short Too Short Too Short should have known I should have known oh it’s so short I like left it short again God this hole oh needed that one you know you’re having a relatively good round and then you end a par three

On a double bogey because you rush everything you just like assess all these things incorrectly still the best front nine I’ve ever had in my life so can’t complain there you missed it I was starving in front nine so we got a little hot dog in us so let’s see if we

Get some hot dog power w it’s hot it’s so hot Back N Drome activated thank you Larry we’re going to try to destroy this hot dog and this round definitely like man if you’re enjoying S2 definitely subscribe if you’re new to the S2 fam let’s get

It I chunked it I chunked it and it’s short that’s how you do it ladies and gentlemen on YouTube old 10 Larry a partner darted it on the green and I chunked it and got it short so um not the greatest way to start but nothing phases us anymore nothing phases

Us I try to tell that to me even though I’ve had a couple double bogeys this is a part of three man these part 3es are really costing my score up that’s what I get to say so so our chips I’ve gotten way too high in the air from the previous round

But this one’s going to be good little choke choke down action That’s it let’s get that for par let’s get that for par realiz par four and Par 3es have a little leeway just cuz like oh have a lot of leeway just cuz like you missed the green it’s fine I get there again but if you don’t if you

Don’t hit the green on a part three you are relatively in a precarious situation to get a me oh man that didn’t break at all okay started with a bogey can’t ever start with a good hole because then you’ll then you go downhill you know now

We just go up up and up that’s all I got to say oh Stay Stay left yeah that’s going to have a little bit of a problem we’ll we’ll find it over there God was out of bounds taking a drop here um got 130 got a pitching wedge in hand there’s a little

On the slope so it’s probably going to go a little left so oh short okay not bad we got a little Earth yeah that’s what I did we got 28 yards here say in a British ACC we got 20 I don’t know how to do that oh definitely the the move a little

Too strong but wow I keep closing the face oh man thank you when I was in h Nebraska I don’t know if that episode has air yet there’s times when I when I bring it back my back swing for my putt I can return the face it turns a little

Open and so James was like you got to kind of Bring It Back and like have like a slight intention to get it closed but for those ones I think I over closed it and it went left who way more left than I wanted on both

Of those putts I felt like I should have made those so just need to practice a lot more I haven’t practiced too much on putting and I know that’s a bad thing don’t shame me all right we’re going to just feel a little more connected here um we’ve been going a

Little right A lot of these times but this is pretty wide open so it’s not the worst thing yes it I think we’ll be fine there oh yep cool I can just swing like that and honestly it’ll be in play every single time but it’ll be like 250 yards

And I always want the 300 number which it’s more of an ego thing at this point but I mean that’s like a relatively good shot it was still a little out to in um the way that path was but we get that situated we’ll be fine

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa I topped that so badly that was unfortunate I’ve never actually done that in my life I’m just kidding I had a lot of those bad shots that was embarrassing I don’t think I could ever show my face around in San Diego ever

Again this might be the last video on this channel let’s have the greatest shot of our lives here 156 oh God 156 is pen eight iron no God oh man I had a lot of anxiety with that shot one thing that we need to start doing is like reacting after every

Shot right my one of my coaches is just like just look at it and just like move on kind of assess what to do next but there’s no point in like reacting look at that look at that oh my God okay that’s not the move

The move is I’m going to hit a pitching wedge I’m going to hit this left-handed I could I don’t know what to do there whatever that was ridiculous let’s go get it I’m going to chip it in okay I’ll the PIN for you oh that hit something there and ended up

Yeah just like tiger just right in the back of the hle yeah just like that let’s go come back right right to that Tre yeah okay we’re doing out to ends today with the driver not the greatest but it’s coming back I’m playing a cut I’ve decided I’m

Playing a cut with the driver today if we just do that then we’ll be on the Fairway every single time how far was this how far is this hole I mean it moved up but dang that was far you know the goal here is to kind of

Just take each shot and kind of reset all the time this is about 44 yards to the pin left to right we’re going to aim a little five yards to the left here choke down 60° dang it nice oh you had to show me up I’ll get that out of the way for

You there you go out sure yes sir I got you I think it’s a par that was a really good uh that was a really good decision with the pitching wedge there I need to start playing more with feeli rather than like I knew knew that going back this far with a 60°

Would not get there but when I like was doing like stock yardages in Nebraska I thought that’s what I did on a mat in order to get that but it was in the rough little uphill we’re playing with more fuel now we’re done with all this actually not done all

Right I was going to ask you the debate that everyone since you watched Jordan what do you want to know I mean my dad always says Jordan’s the greatest but I mean I’m I’m still a LeBron fan uh well no one can be a as big a LeBron fan as LeBron

Is so do you say Jordan’s better yes okay fair enough because of Defense I’ve just realized now if I just connect my my arm to this my armpit then I’ll never go to the right Larry here as As Told write it down Jordan’s better than LeBron comment down below what do you

Guys think okay so LeBron’s the goat um he’s just like so he’s just he’s a genius um and I’m band waging hard even though I’m a Laker fan all right whatever oh I chunked it so bad God one good drop to horrible five iron all right this is this is what

Happens when we talk about LeBron I’m like brushing this of this that’s okay we’re going to figure it out we’ll figure it out from there hilar great dude he found my ball and just left at me look at this look at this God every time I punch it out it just

Goes so right all right this is this has been a tough par five this a high lip 60° in hand and out to the right here come on oh that’s F Dang Dang Dang Dang I think we’ll be hit that I got to rotate more two variables two variables that cause this rotation

Which I don’t do a lot cuz I can’t get on my left side cuz I’m an idiot and the connection part part so we’ll fix both of those but I think we’ll be fine on the right side here okay so that one’s super far we got a

Direct line here we’re going to hit a 56° uh like 90% here or like more or less full swing oh dang it dang it dang it dang it collect yourselves man I am just I’m all over today I’m just so short or so long the

Gauge is so bad Larry what am I doing here what am I doing here it’s golf it’s golf okay yeah I think I just need to hit it a lot better get over it oh no so close that was a good oh that felt good too we’re going to punch it out we’re

Going to try to very much like keep the face Square cuz every time I punch it out I end up going this so just got to like just got to get it straight every time I punch it out it goes right so let’s just make sure the face is uh

Square then I think we would just punch it out straight here for 100 yards that’s it okay okay relatively straight we’re on The Fairway gives us a good direct line no Herer moves a wedge 124 stick it on the green time to stick it come back right I didn’t get clean contact but

Yeah we got a long put we got a long put here we got a long put here man that was an attempt at an accent that’s why I don’t do accents I’m worse at accents than I’m in golf and that means I’m just suck at accents dang it no

No Matthew here behind the screen just distracted me in the the reason I suck right now is cuz of him back n Drome has become front n Drome you go you play golf one day you drive well then you can’t putt the next day you can’t drive and you can putt

It’s so it is man it is all right Larry holding one oh little short dang we’re at a 60° here nice and easy here I’m so bad at this game I just no have no touch right now I didn’t it didn’t go left at

All got to hate Bogies dang D it dang it dang it that was an easier par three that I should have got at least a par on that’s the a w short slight chunk chip short there’s no break in the pot the craziest thing about everything is like

I I feel like really good about my swing relatively right now I feel like I should be performing way better than a uh on this pace we’re going to be like an 18 to 20 handicap nice we got it thanks man okay so really great contact UM came a little out to in

Though and then it’s you know slight cut can’t ask for more really 205 yards we got it on the green on a par three or this is part four I think they they hit it up a little bit so ah we were lucky today that a lot some

Of these were like an extra like 30 40 yards closer but oh my God yeah let’s get a birdie this for Eagle this for Eagle let’s give it a chance oh that would have been crazy oh my God all right bu it’s been a pleasure that’s unfortunate I got to stop being

So cute with those like four Footers and just like hit it straight because you know it is what it is but ended with a plus 18 over 18 definition of a bogey golfer