I Challenged An LPGA Tour Pro | Trackman Closest To The Pin

what's going on welcome back to the channel my name is andrew it's great to see you and welcome to yet another video today's video about practicing with purpose diving into a topic that i absolutely love and was one of my best things when i was traveling playing on tour and that was competitive practice with a friend [Music] okay so in today's video i'm down at modern golf in oakville and i'm meeting up with former lpga tour player emma degroot emma works here at modern golf and we're going to have a little head-to-head closest to the pin par 3 challenge on the sim so we're in the oakville modern golf with emma degroot from australia now yep canada is home yep we're going to do a trackman par 3 closest to so i picked the first course which is saint andrews we're gonna play all the par threes at st andrews and then emma's gonna pick the second course total don't know yet total surprise so it'll be essentially eight par threes whoever hits the closest the most wins emma too easy you have the teeth [Music] beautiful views here at st andrews i know it's like we're there i know i feel about that oh look at this chasing oh you're gonna get a hole in one on the first try that's too chubby that's it so eighteen nine i'll just trade camera for club there [Music] that's foreign meters 132 meters all of those working in meters here today a little heavy there's an opening of the door 76-10 beat that that's right oh my gosh two down i never like once i left australia to go to college so in 2007 i've never lived back there full time since then so even when i played on the symmetra tour and then i had the year back and forth with the lpga i was i was always over here for the majority of the year and then when the winter hit here the australian tour would kind of gear up in sort of january february it worked out well because he always had something to clean and it was a great reason to go home but at the same time never having an off season also made it a little bit tough to make swing changes and get your body right and all that kind of stuff because you are forever on the go but that's just sort of the nature of the beast my first year away from playing i didn't do anything golf related um yeah well i was a little bit i don't know kind of like beat down by it i just didn't want it just had become such a grind and it wasn't that i didn't enjoy playing but i it had just gotten so in my head and it was such a stressful period that i just i wanted absolutely nothing to do with it so it was almost 12 months between stopping playing before i actually even picked up a golf club again it was watching watching the masters i guess it was the 2018 masters or maybe 19 masters that i started to get this little itch back again and i was like okay and just sort of picked a wedge out of my bag in the living room while we were watching the masters and i was like okay no i think i can find joy in this again okay emma has selected pga national as our next you still have a t you're two up two up two off the two yeah i like that sure pretty happy with that [Music] i was hit wow get left oh i think you lose a because you're in the fringe do you lose a little bit is that how it works 18 10 lose 10 percent oh 20 foot seven i don't know how big of a chipper i am that would have been just fine there i got kitchen wedge again the last one yeah don't forget to hit the face this time that was the oh my gosh i mean this whole video series is about me getting practicing and getting my game back clearly i need this you are three up come on you've been practicing there's a dip there i remember this yeah there's a gully there okay bit of a chance all right the is the jar you know i had to hit an easy six there because i didn't think the seven would get there and it cost me on the rollout assume you're also hitting a six sign like my last punch chunk of six on her yellow chunk and run there it is oh there you go one more two down 100 100 boundary for that that's oh i think he didn't feel bad enough as it was it doubles your distance thanks trackman so you just have to find ground basically a little off the toe a little bit go is it enough oh it barely covers the water good shot have it enough it covered enough covered the t is yours again so it's four to one right four to one exactly we have essentially two to go we'll play nine holes right okay i gotta win them all the time four to two that was the last one four to two now i'll pick a course it just makes such a big difference to actually get your mind and your swing ready for that competition so even now i mean i don't practice as i don't practice that often but when i do practice or when i play i always want to play a match or i always want to play you know chipping competitions where you throw them all around the green and just you know nearest the pin all that sort of stuff because it it means more so you feel the tension in your body that you're gonna feel on the golf course and it just makes it all a little bit more real doing competitive practice with your friends with your coach is an awesome way to simulate nerves yeah and that's the most important thing that we want you know anyone that wants to get better at the game they need to simulate what it's going to be like when you have to hit that shot to shoot your low score or win your club championship or get your tour card yeah and and you start to the more you do it the more you start to learn what your body feels like in those situations if i know that i've done it and been successful doing it whether it's indoors or in practice then i have the confidence that i can do it when i get out on the golf course okay so it's four to two we've selected our last course which is the olympic golf course it's an olympic year so why not it has five par threes yeah so basically this is an 11 hole match best of 11. best of 11. emma's two away from winning the nerves are getting so i've got no uh no room for air no room for error [Music] oh what's the penalty of bunker probably 70 i'm saying 25. 50. okay 56 feet no it runs away a lot i don't remember that from the olympics oh my gosh although i would like but you might still i might have got you by like five feet no ten percent oh you got me by a foot did i really oh well i was 37 feet away but with 50 yeah i got you you're 50 it's five to two i'm i got i yeah i gotta run the tables or that's it i've been at modern for three weeks and we've had numerous vendor fit days and we haven't had one woman coming to get fit from like that that's a problem yeah and it's it's just it's something that i don't know that many women think a is an option for them or b often think that they're not good enough for sure for it it's intimidating it is intimidating and then you know you you stand there and you have just people staring at you hitting balls and it is a lot so hopefully with the platform of modern we can create a program that makes it a little bit more accessible um makes it a bit more comfortable you see women go to the golf course and and they're self-conscious and nervous or whatever but really everyone is just so focused on their own game and how they're playing yeah that's what no one's paying attention to anybody you keep up with the group in front of you in terms of actually playing golf everyone's happy but i think it's it is just it's an intimidating environment so hopefully we can we can make it a little bit lesser those are really well oh putting the dagger in come on look at this [Music] [Laughter] um okay all right so i have to hit it inside six feet yeah no big deal or uh that's it oh that's so bad that that's like a good kick you got a bad one on the hole before so oh ah awful six to two the old feeling when you can't win but you can still save face you can still say still get a whole one that's true never happened i've never seen a track man holding one before how many hormones do you have i have full cow i have four less than that oh okay well you know there's no better time to start than now [Music] that is just the most annoying shot 10 penalty yeah though so it should just be considered that was nice beautiful all right 205 yards six to three [Music] little under it oh it's david just for the 2016 olympics you might not be in the middle huh absolutely not i don't know uh why team australia and team canada didn't take us for the olympics considering how well they're doing here i know i think this is just we send this to the ioc i don't know what let's do it because it's already too late yeah there's another kicks just in a couple months so i feel ready me too i could play the chorus i feel good oh geez sorry you've got the win that's the i know that's the professional golfer like oh all right this is a halloween one if ever i've seen it let's do it i don't like know how to aim for these things all right you can surely beat that this is quite a big door for a seven to four win sorry doing it again oh geez i just keep being right in between and it worked so well last time oh you took a little off it yeah it's like in the hole not too big there's probably a hill no i was playing to the hill i got you by two feet you got me i think so good come back got you by two feet so six to five was the final tally but let's be honest it was never close you won six to two well congratulations one game winning streak well well done well done i appreciate it all right i hope you enjoyed that video thanks for tagging along and watching me get my butt kicked by emma awesome to hear about her story and what she's doing for women's golf here in ontario and canada and beyond uh give this video a thumbs up if you did like it you see a little red button there means you're not subscribed so if you hit that subscribe button i would love you forever we'll see you in the next video peace you