YouTube golf star Wesley Bryan has offered advice that could dramatically help amateur golfers on the course.
Bryan, who lost his full PGA Tour status after The RSM Classic, is now firmly entrenched in the YouTube scene alongside Rick Shiels, Peter Finch and Grant Horvat.
Bryan, alongside his brother George, recently hosted a content creator week at Solina Golf Club in South Carolina, during which some of YouTube’s most prominent names collaborated.
A $100k skins match was the highlight, although plenty of exciting content was filmed. One of the last videos released saw Finch and the Bryan Bros attempt to Break 50 from the front tees, and Bryan believes it’s a concept more amateurs should be looking to emulate.
Wesley Bryan urges amateurs to use front tees
Playing from the front tees shortens courses massively, with most par-fours around the 200-250-yard mark. As a result, some holes are made considerably more manageable.
Bryan has now claimed that playing from the furthest forward tees is an excellent exercise for those looking to improve.
“If you’re watching this video and you haven’t experimented, I do think this is the single best exercise that high handicappers can do to improve quicker,” Bryan said.
“It gets you close to the green quicker, and as a higher handicapper, that’s where you end up losing a lot of strokes, and you don’t realise it because you worry about the ball you hit in the water or the one that you duffed down the fairway. You don’t think about just how many strokes you waste from inside 100 yards.”
Finch, who was playing alongside Bryan, added: “It’s one for if you’re a better player as well and you’re scared of going under par, like when you get to two under, you **** yourself. If you play this game as well, it can get you used to going low.”
Two massive benefits from playing forward tees
Most amateurs are convinced the majority of their shots are lost tee-to-green. However, as Bryan mentions, this isn’t the case.
By shortening the course, the dreaded 40-60-yard pitch shot suddenly becomes a much more frequent occurrence. How many times do high handicappers fail to hit the green from such a distance? The answer is more often than they should.
Working on weaknesses is always the key to improvement, as opposed to fine-tuning areas that aren’t that weak after all.
Furthermore, for those in and around single figures, playing from the front tees can sometimes help them understand what it actually feels like to be in the red and get used to that feeling.
Looking to break par does involve making birdies, and this can happen more often when playing slightly further forward.
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