00:01This golf lesson helped me gain 10 yards with the same club and I can prove it wasn't a fluke.
00:08In the first 10 minutes of the lesson, PGA pro Alex James could already see that my hands were too
00:13low at the top of the backswing.
00:15Once we'd managed to iron that out and get those hands a little bit higher, we started to see my
00:19carry distance thanks to the Shot Scope LM1 getting a little bit bigger.
00:23105 to 113 but then with a bit of consistency starting to show up to 115 and eventually, with one
00:32of my better efforts in the early parts of the lesson, those numbers were creeping up to 116.
00:38To really put that progress to the test, Alex set me a challenge.
00:42Hit a green at 115 yards, then 125 yards and then 135 yards.
00:49However, the average 20 handicap golfer comes up short of the green 41% of the time from 100 to
00:55150 yards.
00:57So here's the catch. If I come up short just once, Alex makes me start the ladder again.
01:02Thankfully, it didn't take long for me to tick my first green off the list.
01:06This challenge was never going to be straightforward and on cue, I tug one straight left.
01:10But followed that up by getting straight back on the ladder with a lovely effort that carries the 115 needed
01:16for the first green.
01:17A change of club means that I was now going for the 125-yard target and I just about found
01:24the back of the green with this effort.
01:26The final hurdle was the big one, 135 yards needed and here we go.
01:32It looks like Alex's coaching has helped to improve more than just my distance and now I'm ready to take
01:37this progress onto the course.
