YouTube golf

Sheils last video was interesting playing against Guy Charnock. Rick played terrible ended up about 20 over. Interesting see these guys can have horror rounds like the rest of us.

I find crossfield decent enough but he can be nasty too if you follow him on Twitter. Doesn’t like anyone going against his opinion.

Was watching Matt Fryer at The Island last night. Have never seen the course before, but it looks class.

He’s not pro LIV in fairness to him. He’s consistently said how boring he finds it and is sick of them constantly pushing how much money the players are winning. He’s right too, nobody gets enjoyment out of the rich getting very much richer

Rick is at best a 3 or 4 handicap

He's a PGA pro who became an influencer/celebrity through his channel. I don't think he was ever an elite golfer but he's certainly not a terrible golfer. It's just that he has an unenviably high standard to live up to because he's always in front of a camera, same with all of those YouTubers. Clearly, Rick is better than Guy Charnock (who he works with and is a legit low HC player - about 4 iirc). If he can comfortably and routinely beat a real low HC'er like Guy then he's obviously a good golfer. If he was better than his current level there's still a gap to the top amateurs. They'd still then be a step away from a minor tour player. Those lads are in the game full time 24/7. Rick Shiels is most certainly not. Look it's semantics at the end of the day as to what someone perceives as a "good" golfer.

I'd say Shiels is much more concerned about running his business, making content, and looking after a young family than playing good golf. Probably doesn't have enough time or interest in grinding out the reps to be at his best. FWIW I still think he's quite obviously poor at putting for his level and has a tendency to hook the ball quite often. Just waiting for someone to put up the recent video again where he barely breaks 90 and loses to Guy 😂.

I think this is the one- they play at the Belfry.

http://youtu.be/aEy4uc3MouU

Tbh what I said was more so aimed at the previous poster but I quoted you as it was the most recent post. I'm not here to be Rick's defender by any means but I would expect that he's not trying to break 75 on a Par 70 course that's 6000 yards. The tees/slopes he plays off are a mixture of difficult and average layouts. Some of those courses would be quite tough indeed. Even a scratch golfer would be sticking in a close to nett zero differential for posting a 75 on some of them.

If I'm not mistaken he did have a plus HC avg differential for the original break 75 series. Though you can hardly hold up that small number of rounds as a proper sample. He should be easily around scratch and not playing or practicing regularly. I'd imagine when he was a young amateur he understood his ceiling ability-wise and just stuck to the teaching as PGA pro before youtube kicked off. I think that 5hc was the cutoff to do the PGA course and turn "pro". The PGA pro in everyone's home course (primarily teaching) is not the same as a full-time tour pro. There are many high-level amateurs out there with a plus HC who would skin plenty of the PGA pros.

I liked the shows but yes, 100% on board with the last comment.

I think the problem is if you aren't already familiar with and like the guys then it's not very appealing for a newcomer who just wants to see interesting golf content. I feel the same way with Erik Anders Lang, just don't like the guy and a lot of his videos are in the same NLU overly stylish with golf being a secondary concern