I can't get over how good your full swing is. It is a real testament to how important it is to get lessons from the beginning so you aren't fighting ingrained bad habits. 86, not bad. A little course management and pitching, chipping and putting work and you'll be shooting in the 70s!

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

Actually currently in Arizona filming with another short game master and I think we figured it out! Excited to bring it back to the courses :)

@naj959

3 ай бұрын

Must be Utley

@gray_citizen

3 ай бұрын

@@naj959 Utley would be very good.

I got the golf bug 5 years ago, and the more I focus on score the less fun I have. Last summer I played 18 holes 10 days in a row, trying to lower my handicap, and I just about sold my clubs by the 10th day. Thankfully, a buddy convinced me to play the next round without keeping score, and it was the most fun I've had playing golf all year. I'm sure I probably shot better than my average too. Sometimes you need to take a break from improving and just have fun with what you've got.

@Jaezon

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely. As a Golfer you need to workout what the game means to you. To me it's many things. A scramble with my mates, to see how low we can go, or the weekly comp at the club where I see if I can play to my handicap and break 80 one-day. Whether I play good, great, or bad - it doesn't matter. I don't get paid to play professionally, it's the opposite - I pay to play club, comps and keep a handicap. The most important thing is to have fun, relax, and let go a little. ☺️

Best advice I ever received from a scratch golfer is to ignore the score and just focus on enjoying the process of improving each stroke. Just count pars and birdies and when those are over 10 per 18 holes you can start keeping score again. I was stuck at a 12 HDC for a couple years. When I followed the above advice I progressed to a 5 HDC over the next 12 months. Your ball striking is great. You just need to play the course and dial in your yardages and chipping with each and every lie. Excellent progress.

just grind on the putting green..your irons and driver are really good now. Your getting there Jerome...well done.

Amazing progress, Jerome! Your approach to mastering golf and aiming for a score under 85 within a year is truly motivational. I admire how you’re continuously working on your swing techniques and engaging with coaches to enhance your game. Each step of your journey offers valuable insights, not just into golf but into the determination needed to improve at any skill. Keep up the fantastic work; you're almost there! Can’t wait to see you achieve your goal!

What a great birdie. You really got good in one year. You had some great coaches. Thanks for all the great videos. Love watching you go through all of it.

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

Thanks! Love you being part of the journey

you can definitely see the change in your game over the last few videos. you seem more in control of your swing and your emotions. Great stuff! keep grinding

It’s great to see how lessons with professional improve your game so much. I started playing golf during Covid and never had any lessons but still mange to break 80 within a year. I wish I had taken some lessons in the beginning when I started. But watching your journey to become S has changed my mind. Time for me to get some lessons and improve my game further. Keep up the good work

I started playing last year and I followed ur journey the whole time! Your videos have helped me so much, thank you!

Your game has come such a long way. I've been with your journey since the beginning. I'm 59 and here to tell you. You never get to told for pb&js😂

I love the fact you cussed on the bogey save. Lol we need more of that hahah

you are getting so much better jerome! i have been following you since you started the journey. i have yet to break 85 too, my best round is 86. i know you will be able to break 80 soon! if youre down id love to play a match in san diego

I started 9 months ago and my best round was 89 2 months ago. Since then I’m averaging 94’s with the occasional 102. I’m trying to break 85 before my 1st year is up. Keep doing what your doing, your getting good!

WOW Your ball striking has improved so much! Well done you and Dana! Putting needs improvement and you will break 80.

Since the last video on the course I watched, you have improved so much

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

Hopefully that trajectory continues to improve

Great game, compared month by month, your now pretty consistent with your drives, your putting most shots in play, so that’s a win, same with your second shot, and imo your chipping onto green was good, your long puts for the most part we’re amazing, I think you had a lot of short puts which let you down and a couple of unlucky mid length puts that could have just as easy gone in on any other day, I wouldn’t be focused on breaking 85, just be waiting for the break 80 as that is just around the corner, for sure you’ll shoot something like a 82/81 within next three games. I do notice if your shot isn’t 100% perfect to your intention, you will say something like “yeh i pulled that a little” or “I pushed it a little”, from my perspective your playing rely well, sure when your on the range and you hit eg a 20 balls with a 8i at a certain marker, you will hit quite a few pretty close, in your head you remember the many close ones and forget the ones that started not so close, so the assumption is when on the golf course, that you can just walk up and hit one ball as if you’ve just hit 15/20 balls at that spot, when in fact it’s pretty much the first ball, so basically give yourself positive re-Enforcement if you can, that when it’s somewhat close, that’s pretty damn good, your narrowing down the misses massively, therefor be happy, your game is damn good already, if you played that same round three more times, one of them would be around 82, and if you practice short puts a bit more, you’d possibly be under 80 otherwise everything perfect for now 👌 wasn’t to long ago I was saying your now starting to hit better than myself now, and I can confidently say your striking, and distance and consistency and chipping is all way better than mine now, and I’ve been playing roughly 3 years, you should congratulate yourself already 🤟 scratch ain’t to far away from where you are now.

Well done 👏 keep at it you got this.

Your game has improved so much. It’s like night and day 💪🏼

I’m 67 and started golfing age 65, not recommended, the coaching tips you’re getting have helped me. I’m much better at the range but learning to actually golf is an adventure

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

Im happy its helping you out!

Nice video and insane how good you got within the year. But the best are those SEO tags in the description 🤣

Just started the video i did this myself as well during covid. Started in august of 2019 and played my first course 8 months after. I didn’t take any lessons just me and my brother went to the range everyday for those 8 months. Came in with a 86 my first time on a course.

You are starting to play GOLF. You hitting different shots and you visualizing the PROPER shot more frequently... regardless if your execution was great. You doing a lot of things better. Really proud of you and been enjoying watching the evolution of the GOLF you have been playing. Im not a fan of the overkill coaching but this is the result of your hard work and you learning the nuances of what happens on the course. Keep doing you!

Good round man. The new coaches are teaching that hinge and hold while rotating the body through to clear. Man, I almost broke my wrist trying to do that. Lol. It makes me draw the ball too much. I don't want to draw the ball into every green. Good luck.

Massive improvement over 12 months! Keep grinding JR!!

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

The grind continues!!!

Hell yes another video! This is my favorite channel bro

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

You the real mvp!!

I was right on the money and I guessed that your chipping would hold you back from breaking 85. If you clean up your chipping and putting you could shoot 80 or better - especially since your driving and long irons are much more accurate. I notice that your aim seemed to creep back to the right bias. Take a look at hole 18 - on the 3 wood drive you were aiming right. On the next fairway shot your were aiming about 45 degrees right - and that's where the ball went.

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

yeah baby steps, got to keep working !

lol at the random keywords in the description trying to get SEO juice.

Great round JR looks like you’re still aiming right . 👍⛳️

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

getting slightly better but yeah still need to be cognizant about it!

Great work JR! Keep going.

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

Wont stop cant stop!!

Your stance is consistently aiming waaaaaaay to the right. You dont have that problem in practice with the alignment sticks. 13:33 and 30:33 are good examples.

Good work

Ur the best!!!! Always positive on here

Holy shit the traffic on/around first hole

@squirrelprooffeeder

Ай бұрын

Ah, the memories. Patrick Henry High School home course for matches back when it was called Navajo Canyon. Now Mission Trails. I remember teeing off so many times with that traffic going by. The driving range was potentially hazardous to that traffic.

That first putt was BEAUTIFUL

Wow! One year and your swing looks that great. Keep it up Jerome

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

Thanks!!!!

Would be great to watch an episode of you going through a club fitting session!

Game is looking a lot better bro! Would love to see a real club fitting video especially driver and irons as you’re ready to level up!!

Seems your shots to the right, you’re aligned that way. I have that problem too but I don’t feel that I’m lined up that way

Great round Jerome! If you have a good putting day you're gonna break 80 biud!

Your swing has improved a ton! One thing I’ve noticed is that your swing seems to get a bit longer on the backswing when you play compared to when you hit on the range.

Swing is looking good; I wish I was that consistent. If the goal is to play tournament golf then you'll surely want to tighten up with the rules. In this round you definitely incurred a general penalty (+2 strokes) with the putt on hole 9.

great video. Can you tell us the distance and which club you are using on the second and third shots. at least on the screen

After seeing the first hole, I think you came so very close, 87? 85 is not easy! I guess we will see. Hopefully I dont fall asleep 😂😴 😂😂

I can’t tell you how many times when I’m playing by myself. I put my score in and move to the next hole. Then check late round and I’m surprised at my score. But I definitely feel like when I look at my score every hole, I stress it and make mental mistakes.

Well played Jerome! Considering how many shots you left out there, you could definately have broken 80 this round. I assumed you would have a couple of holes where you'd blow up and my guess was actually 90, so I was way off... 🙃

Great job dude! Just gotta get the distance control with your putting down to help avoid 3 putting and you're well on your way to breaking 85. Regardless your chipping and putting has greatly improved which helped lower your score.... It's only going to get better in due time. I bet next month you break 85 and later this year you break 80! Look into Aim Point putting which really helped me pick better lines so all I have to do is focus on pace.

Hi man good job amazing improvement!! What app do you use to track your shots??

Based on this new swing. It pure down your toe and shoulder line and seems you're pulling so you'll have to check the video so you'll aim shoulder/toes more towards the target or a few inches left.

The improvement in just a year is really impressive. Best piece of advice I’ve heard over the last few years is to play from the red tees and learn how to score and go low. If you can’t break par most times from the reds, or even shot in the 70s yet, give it a try.

wow you improved so fast for 1 year. Damn wish I could improve this fast ha

Swing looks just fine man. Get on the putting green for hours.

speed and distance control on the greens. thats all you need. maybe some clean up on the wedges, try bump and runs.

I really hope the putting improves this year. In this vid, and in previous ones, you don't know whether you missed because of bad speed, bad aim, or both. There was one 3ft left to right putt you missed and said you overestimated the break. But the putt missed on the low side. Which means you either weren't aiming where you thought, or your face was wide open. 86 is great regardless, the improvement is impressive. Stay focused

What slope rate courses are you playing? That is kinda important too 😅 Great job thus far !

Watching this maybe after like 2 months Jerome! Your Driver + iron shots are now I think single HDC level! Practice on your short game (putter, I thought your wedges in first 16 holes were actually not too bad) and I think you will easily break 80 by end of this year. Thanks for the awesome video!

Shooting 85 in one year of playing is nothing to be ashamed of. You will get there

I just started coughing at 68 years old and I became a 95 in 6 months but now I don't keep score because I love the weather outdoors in the exercise that gets me and there's even 85 year old guys playing out there

I watch your content. I like your content. Its great to see these amazing hof coaches. Would i ever be able to afford any of this? As an average joe.

21:12 We're in the wilderness now. 😂

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

Welcome to the jungle! lol

Swing looks great and you hit a ton of fairways. The chipping was good too, just the putting this round but the same thing happens to me all the time. Bad driving? Putter is hot, good driving and putter is cold.

I wish I can have the funds to have the coaching you get. I’m also on the same journey and started golfing in July las year but consistently scoring in the 90s. I haven’t gotten any lessons and everything is self taught with bits and pieces coming off from your videos.

Hole 9 and 18 are not easy and you were playing from the blues! Those dam uphills lol I scored an 88 but from the whites. Swing is coming in well!

With your power, you are going to have a huge leap in scoring once you get comfortable on the course and get your short game in order. You'll be breaking 80 on the regular, and that's when the real work will begin!

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

year 1 we really been working on full swing, year 2 is going to be grinding a lot of short game forsure! A lot of great short game coaches going to appear on the channel as I see who I like and the style that fits me best!

@TheBirdieparbirdie

3 ай бұрын

@@JeromeRufin One of the difficulties of chasing scratch, even for someone of your athletic abilities and who has poured an incredible amount of resources into the project, is managing your own coaching. The idea that you know what short game style or coaching is best for you given that you have been playing for a year is likely a fallacy. But it's something that we all have to do unless we hire a "project manager" or something like that. Right now there is a huge uproar in the short game arena between the Joe Mayo style and the James Siekmann style (shallow/bounce vs. steep/no bounce). But the important thing is to really understand the nature of chipping and pitching. It is quite easy compared to the full swing, but requires more touch. Keep it up! Cheers!

Dude congrats…what a round!!…legit you almost holed a chip and several long puts!!! You’re right there!!!

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

The grind continues!!

I feel like you need to putt like the golf ball is an egg. Push instead of tap. Smooth forceful push through the ball

Course management. Breaking 85 will be difficult until you stop trying to make hero shots (shots that you don't have, ie. low percentage shots), play the correct shot for the circumstance.

Putting, putting and putting. Oh yes, don't forget putting.

I thought Dana wanted you to aim right on all your full swings and if the shot went right okay and if it drew that was the goal.

You should look at how brooks koepka somehow putts his downhill putts to help what you have going on. He hits it specifically off the toe. So you can still accelerate, but it doesnt POP off the face, instead the toe deadens it. A lot of people I play with do this (I do not have this issue so I dont do it), but maybe look into it or talk to dana about it. Go look up brooks koepka though and see maybe if this would help you.

3 foot circle Swing looks good though

Great work. What do you do for a living? I’m convinced you can only do this with time and money. But all the tips are helpful. Though not all apply to every golfer.

how long of a course are you playing?

What course is this?

Always have been aiming to the right and swinging way to the left .. was that way since under Chris. Still the same now. Chris was still the best coach .. but he got to keep tinkering with his swing and change coaches .. sigh .. the swing at 4-5 month was already quite good, just needed some slight improvements. That switch to Colin Morikawa’s coach did nothing but introduce a hip bum to the left .. so what will happen if you slide to the right in the backswing and hip bump to the left? 😂😂😂 And you wonder why your ball keeps slicing or fading at best and why you keep duffing your iron shots.

Damn I never got a lesson and break 85 every round and your swing looks better than mine

Next vid visiting bob rotella for mental tips?

you had six 3-putt

LFG!

Lowkey broke my heart💔

100% missed that bogey putt on #2, didnt you?

@orrghead

3 ай бұрын

12:32

@anthonyb7003

3 ай бұрын

Great hustle JR

@pobodysnerfect9270

3 ай бұрын

Nah. My guess is he marked it and picked it up since he was playing with a partner.

feel is not maybe the best thing to focus on because it changes every day. Going for correct movements and repetition is the key

putting is getting better but still needs some work..chipping has improved a lot too...need to work on the 40-75 yard shots...and invest in players distance irons..hard to get consistent distances playing game improvement irons...the mid/long irons and woods looks like a 7-10 handicap.

Great improvement! Be more confident over every shot and reset if you aren't. Great work.

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

All at once you will drop 10 strokes at least on 18, but there are ups and downs in golf. Your driver improves, then your irons go goofy, or in your case, you short game, or putting. I have all the confidence that you will break 85 soon, or even 80. Some general advice would be take a couple clubs more than you need and 7 instead of a 9 and hit the distance you were planning to hit the 9 iron say 145 yds. You should be able to hit all your clubs with a full swing but at half speed, or other increments. There is the methodology of slow-motion exercise too. The shot you thought you pushed was not a push. You hit it perfectly straight but were aimed to the right. You looked over your left shoulder at the flag, but you should then realign to the flag, instead of just turning your head to the left which gave your mind the impression you were aimed left, but you need to move your body to the left. Sorry for the long explanation.

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

Love it! Thanks for the involved comment, I really appreciate it !

@Roberto-bd9fq

3 ай бұрын

@@JeromeRufin Oh, not at all, yours is an inspiring story one to all levels of golfer.

Nice content! What is your handicap atm?

Just shows the value of getting lessons

The misses are still in play! Now you can start to really score. Nice round!

Have you thought about upgrading you irons? Feel like you’ll get better feel and control of your shots with less of a game improvement iron

For some reason guys love doing this stuff like make it seem like I’m in a lot of pain but I’m strong so I can play it off, garunteed an ego thing but I’ll never understand it

What handicap would that be?

Yes. I'm basting my comments from your videos and not acting like a super coach. You'll have to remember the speed of the greens from the practice green, which should be the same speed as the course at good courses or from the first 2 greens and or after the temp and sunrise changes the grass. You should do very well in your first tournament if not win. Better courses wont have the desert patches of grass. You'll have to read the slope of the green from 200 yards out if you've never played them. Or go out the day before and makes notes. You're way ahead of the curve which is a blessing and curse since you'll be playing with a better handicap than most 1.5 yr players projecting to when that times comes

confused on the first hole. So you drove 250 yet hit 5 iron 220 out of the rough?

time for some new irons jerome, the stealth irons are great from a distance and forgiveness point of view but you strike the ball so well now that you should be looking for something more consistent. yardages are key and the stealth irons dont provide that. its quite shocking to me that you havent had a real fitting yet given how far you have come on this journey. and please play one type of ball, it will bring sooo much consistency in to your game.

Jeromes running handicap from his rounds on youtube: 16

@Eastmaniac

3 ай бұрын

Probably a bit worse cause the rating on these courses are likely low.

@orrghead

3 ай бұрын

​@@Eastmaniac they are all properly calculated based on each courses slope and rating. Mission trails here is 68.8/118 from the blues

@Eastmaniac

3 ай бұрын

@@orrghead so..if his best round is an 86 on a course rated 68.8. How is his index at a 16? What scores are you calculating?

@Eastmaniac

3 ай бұрын

@orrghead the 86 would be a 14.3 diff. He's definitely had several 90-95+ rounds. So hard for me to believe he's at a 16.

@orrghead

3 ай бұрын

​@@Eastmaniac his 3 lowest differentials are 15.5, 15, 17.4 based on 11 rounds on youtube. Mission trails is a par 71 course. I just keep a running tally on a handicap calculator with each round he posts. His hcp will bump quite a bit as he adds another few rounds and he has a lot of 20-30 differentials that will get counted as his total rounds approaches 20.

lol bro World's Greatest by R Kelly was my jam in high school

@JeromeRufin

3 ай бұрын

LETS GOOO

claw grip putter time? haha

Probably shouldn’t consider % of a shot, but maintain same club speed and take backswing to specific clockfaces.

30:30 not even lined up to the hole

In my opinion your swing is slowly getting better but I think that you are held back by the fact that your hands get too high and you are tilting your hips too much. Some hip tilt is good but if they tilt too much, it is hard to get them back to somewhat level by the strike and inconsistency and some flipping will happen. Think a little more around (including your hips) and less up during your backswing which i think will make your approach into the ball easier to manage with better strikes. But there are a lot of good things happening in your swing. Cheers.

was this before they punched the greens there?