- [Dan] We're gonna do a little putting competition here.
Who can get closer to the hole?
- I don't know if I should say.
(men laughing)
- We'll keep that confidential.
Dude, that might've gone in.
Birdie! (laughs)
Today we are in Los Angeles, we just got back from L.A.
No, we just got back from Australia not too long ago.
We did have another YouTuber that has around 70,000
subscribers reach out to us and say,
"Hey, next time you're in L.A., come golfing with us."
We're gonna go have some fun with him
and I think his son is coming with.
It's a beautiful day in L.A.
It is sunny today and nice.
(upbeat music)
This is the man right here.
- Oh, hey.
- [Dan] How's it going?
- Good, good.
- [Dan] Thanks for the invite.
- Dude, anytime.
- We are just jumping right into it.
This is a very tight golf course,
and so we're probably gonna lose some balls today
but they've been waiting for us for a while
so there's no way we're gonna be like,
"Let's go to the range and hit a bunch of balls,"
'cause the sun goes down at 4:58 right now.
And it's just at past 12:00 right now
so I wanna make sure we can get 18 holes in if possible.
It's super nice course.
Wow, really nice.
(house music)
- Not very long.
- [Dan] Not very long, okay.
- It's not the longest course.
But man, it's one of the trickiest.
- [Dan] Really? - Yeah.
- [Dan] The whole course or are you just saying
this hole is not really long?
- The whole course.
- [Dan] This is like this elevated tee box.
We're up pretty high.
We're close to like the hills of Hollywood
and this is what you think of
when you're in California is just like
hills and everything, but it's a little chillier
than I planned on.
Here MrShortGame is the name of your channel.
You're a golf pro here at Braemar
is that how you say it? - Braemar, yeah yeah.
- [Dan] Okay, how long have you been a pro?
- I've been a pro the last two years, officially.
According to the USGA.
- We're gonna ask for help on one of the holes today.
Lincoln, what is one thing that I am garbage at in golf?
I know there's a lot of things
but what is the main thing where you're like,
"You're pathetic at this?"
- Hitting straight.
- No, not that, no.
- Putting?
- No, come on.
What's wrong with you?
What's the one thing that you whoop me at
that if I ever hit in this place, I'm like--
- Oh, bunkers.
- Yes, bunkers.
How did that take you so long?
No!
You think you could give me some help with the bunker today?
- Bunker is yeah,
no problem, we'll hook you up.
- [Dan] Just a few tips so I can practice
when I go home.
- No problem.
- [Matt] I don't get nervous when my camera is on.
(Dan Laughing)
- [Dan] Oh, that is a bomb.
Just a little right.
We got Linc, who is a leftie,
we got Jett who is a leftie.
That is weird, two lefties.
I can see why he said this course has trouble.
The wind is blowing,
we both hit the ball to the right.
I think I might have hit mine in the road (laughs).
(house music)
- [Matt] It's on there, nice shot, Jett.
- [Dan] Showing us the way, two holes in a row.
That felt good.
- [Lincoln] That looks really good.
- Oh, it's short.
Hit a nine-iron.
I hit a pure nine-iron.
It's only 136 I think you said.
But it's 148 is what I played it
and still, I'm in the bunker short.
I thought that was going in the hole.
There's some wind out here in the hills of Hollywood.
All right so I said earlier
that my biggest weakness in my game
is hitting it out of the bunker.
Here we are at hole number two
I get a chance to get some tips
on how to hit it out of a bunker.
Let's hear this.
What are some good hitting it out of the bunker tips?
Everybody should know.
- The one tip I always say to people
is like, you've obviously been to prison, Dan,
a few times, right? - [Dan] (laughs) For sure.
- So if you had a prison shank or shiv,
whatever they call it, and you need to jab
someone in the leg.
That's the mindset.
So you're taking your handle
and you're pulling it down here
as hard as you can.
I know it's kinda a horrible--
- [Dan] Huh, didn't think of that, did you think of that?
That's a good one, shiv.
- That's the thought process right there.
You know.
- [Dan] Okay but you're not,
you don't put it way up in the stance.
The thing that people always tell me
they're like, "Put it way in your stance,
put your weight forward and hit down on it."
- No, I don't like that hit down.
The club's going down, so I just think around.
If you can get it around your body,
you'll be much better off.
- I think the best teachers in life
are the ones that are able to give you an example
that you can really visualize and think of.
That's a really good example there.
A shiv and you're stabbing somebody in prison.
So that's what I'm going for here.
So I'm not gonna put it forward in my stance all the way.
I'm gonna open it up a little bit.
- [Matt] Love it.
- And then I'm going to,
it's like I'm stabbing someone.
Shiv, stabbing 'em.
- [Matt] Back around your left pocket,
you'll be good.
- Back around my left pocket, so it's like,
but I still hit in front of the ball.
Like does it matter how much?
- [Matt] Yeah, keep your hands in the center
of your body, too.
Don't put them forward.
Hands back, if anything.
- Really? - [Matt] Yeah, there you go.
- Open my face a little bit more, okay.
Okay, here we go.
- [Matt] Okay, do it again. - I like the feeling of that.
- [Matt] Oh there we go, that's pretty good.
- [Dan] Hey, that was pretty, actually.
- [Matt] That one sounded great.
- That was one of my better (mumbles).
When we were playing at Royal Melbourne,
I used a thing called the hand club.
I'm out.
- [Lincoln] What a shot, look at that.
- I would hit it like three times
and not be able to hit out
and I just grabbed my hand, throw the ball out.
So I gotta get away from the hand club.
(pop rock music)
- Are there any famous members of
this country club at Braemar?
That you're allowed to say.
- That I'm allowed to say.
- [Dan] You may not be allowed to say
who's members here, I don't know.
- I know, I don't know, I don't know.
I don't know if I should say.
- We'll keep that confidential.
- I'll tell you off camera.
- [Dan] Here we are and there's a giant green
downhill sloping quite a bit.
I hear a lot of people say, "If you can putt it, putt it."
Are you that same philosophy?
- Yeah, yeah, if you can putt it,
I like to putt it.
- [Dan] All right, we're gonna do a little putting
competition here, who can get closer to the hole?
- [Matt] We gotta try to stop it right at the ridge
which is right there.
- [Dan] A little too far-- - [Matt] It's pretty good.
Ugh, then it just races by.
- [Dan] Coming up to the ridge,
all right, there's the ridge.
- [Lincoln] That's good.
(hip hop music)
- [Dan] Oh, right past the hole.
Still way closer than mine.
You win, nice job.
Great shot.
No aces, I like to film on the par threes
just in case somebody gets a hole-in-one.
What's a good number of tees to have behind your ear?
- I don't know how many I have back there right now.
- [Dan] Right now you have two.
All right here's the master hitting it
out of the bunker to show us how to do it.
(laughs) No pressure.
See, that's how you hit it out of the bunker.
That's what I need to do.
All right, I'm gonna use that shiv
and I'm gonna be hitting like that soon.
- You see this is a lot of golf commercials, this course.
- [Dan] Really?
- Yeah, when Tiger and Rory at the range
where they're hitting back and forth,
that was at the range.
- [Dan] Really, oh?
- Bubba and Hunter Mahan did it,
did one here and that hole.
- [Dan] That'll work.
Something I've never seen on a golf course.
Watch for poison ivy and poison oak.
Have you seen anybody get stuck in that?
- No, but one time I was looking for balls
over there, it was summertime,
and I'm looking around, there's poison oak
all over me and so I got out of there
and I ran and jumped in the swimming pool.
I guess chlorine's supposed to help.
- There you go, now you've heard it.
If you ever go into poison ivy, jump in the swimming pool.
(Dan laughing)
You've been on YouTube for a few years.
What's one of your favorite things about being on YouTube?
- You know what, my favorite thing,
one, two things.
I get to help a lot of people do something I love
and then mostly I love like I get to spend
more time with my family now
'cause I work at home, I'm my own thing.
I don't have to drive all over the place,
especially in L.A.
- [Dan] That's nice.
- [Matt] That's a lot of time saved.
- [Dan] One of your favorite videos
that you've done on your channel.
- One of my favorite,
my favorite one was I did one earlier this year
where I played a golf course
where I played my first round of gold with my grandfather.
It didn't get a lot of views,
but that one meant the most to me.
And then I did a mission trip
with my oldest son to Honduras so that was fun.
- [Dan] Cool, that's great.
Well nice thing about the Braemar Country Club
is you have an amazing tennis facility
that's right there on this hole.
Unfortunately, there's a few people that have missed.
We've got tennis balls for days.
All right, so Matt did a really interesting video
recently where it was he bought a titlest fake driver.
How much did it cost you?
- 150 bucks.
- $150, it looks just like it.
It's pretty crazy, so in his video,
he shows kind of the difference between the real driver
and the fake driver so that you can spot it
because it can be a little bit difficult.
Now, when you swing the two side-by-side,
you can tell which one's the real one.
But a weight fell inside of it
and it kind of dropped in.
So he's gonna make a video on his channel
where he cuts it open to get the weight out of it
so if you wanna see what's inside of a fake driver,
and I'm trying to convince him
to cut open his real one to do the comparison
so it's more scientific.
- We'll do it, I'll do it.
- You'll do it?
Yes, he's doing it, he said it on camera.
We'll put a link to that video after this
and you guys can go watch it.
But I'm curious now to see what's inside of it,
because we're not gonna be there for it.
Oh, that broke so much.
Oh my gosh, that breaks a lot.
These greens are not easy here.
Birdie opportunity here for Matt.
Birdie!
Yeah, what a putt.
They don't call him Mr. Short Game for nothing.
Okay, that was definitely the putt of the day
that Matt just had.
I mean, that was not easy.
When he was first was lining up,
I'm like, "Really?
Is he gonna go that far over?"
And it just kept breaking and breaking.
(house music)
Dude, that might've gone in.
That could have gone in.
- Did you make a hole-in-one?
- [Dan] Do you have any hole-in-ones?
- Not yet.
- Did Matt's son, Jett, did a hole-in-one?
You guys saw it on video,
it was rolling straight at it
but we're downhill from it so we couldn't see.
- Yeah, there's a lot of break in these greens, too.
If it was rolling right at the pin,
there's a good chance it broke.
- Yeah, that was a good shot.
He shot a six-iron and so with that distance,
I think it probably wasn't rolling too fast.
Jett, Jett, Jett, Jett, Jett, Jett.
Oh, it's so close.
- [Lincoln] What a shot though.
- [Dan] Oh my dear.
Look at this, here's the divot, right there,
nice little divot.
I mean, coming from where we were at,
like here's straight on.
Right there, almost slam dunked it.
If he could've hit the corner, I think it would've dropped
and his ball just rolls right there.
All right, let's see this birdie.
Birdie!
I mean, it's not a hole-in-one
but that's pretty darn good.
So Lincoln, your review of the Baemar,
how do you say it?
- Braemar?
- [Dan] Country Club, give me your thoughts.
- Amazing course, it's so pretty,
but it's very, very tight,
very tight, like you hit one,
it's very tight.
- So that's a really nice course.
Super grateful to play on it.
And yeah, now we're gonna go figure out--
- [Lincoln] We didn't play the best at all.
- We didn't play great,
we didn't play great, but we did have a few pars in there.
And we didn't keep our score
so what did we get on our score?
I don't know, after the first hole,
maybe the second hole, I was like,
"Yeah, we're not keeping score today."
All right Jett, good job today.
- Thank you.
- [Dan] Thank you for almost holing that.
That was awesome.
And Matt, we'll see you on YouTube.
This is the video that you're gonna film right here
with these two, destroying one of them.
This is it.
- So one of these is fake, one of these is real.
- [Dan] Even the head cover.
- Look at the head cover, it's pretty solid, right?
- [Dan] Wow, I like how bright this one is.
- That's fake. - [Dan] Wow.
- This is a little bit more black plastic looking,
whereas this is a matte finish.
- [Dan] Okay, yeah, I see that.
- The top here, this is more of a silver,
a silver color, whereas that is a little brighter.
- [Lincoln] Other side. - [Matt] Oh, right here.
See that?
Too bright.
- [Dan] Is the weight, does the weight feel similar?
- The weight feels similar,
they actually sound very similar.
This goes considerably higher
and it's the same setting, same loft, everything.
- [Dan] Okay, so I am curious to see
the difference between those two
so I'll check that out when you cut that open.
We'll watch that video.
But hey, thank you for the golf today.
How do you say the name?
Braemar, (mumbles)?
- Braemar, Braemar Country Club.
- [Dan] Very, very nice.
And hopefully they don't get mad that I parked
in the Country Club Tow Away Zone, no parking.
But hey, we're leaving the cart there.
- I don't know if I should go this way,
this way, this way,
what's the best way to do this?