In this short game challenge video, Tour player and YouTuber Fredrik Lindblom takes on fellow pro, Paul Henderson. They have a go at 5 different scenarios around the green to see who has the better short game skillset.
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00:00 Hi guys, my name is Frederik Lindblom and I'm here with my boy Paul Henderson
00:03 we both played together on the Latin America tour the PJ tour Latin America in 2019 and both of us
00:10 Struggle with the ball striking that year and played pretty pretty horrendous, but we had to develop a pretty good short game
00:16 So I'm gonna see if I can take him on today. We're gonna play five holes. You're down. I'm ready the closest to the pin
00:23 We're gonna hit two shots on each location
00:25 Closest get two points second closer get one if you make it you get three points
00:30 Perfect. Simple as that
00:31 See if I can well
00:33 I'm gonna be Paul. So let's do it. All right first location here about 20 yards a little bit into the wind
00:40 This is like a proper sauce opportunity. Yeah, there should be a spinner and
00:44 Don't worry about the four cameras here Paul. I know you're not really used to this. Yeah, you got Michael in the background there
00:51 That's perfect for a little top
00:53 Start
00:58 See if I can do this
01:00 Okay, not bad yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean respectable let me see your hands straight hand only a little nervous
01:12 All right, okay respectable to a foot on the first one, okay, not bad
01:20 It's
01:22 Good it's just not good enough Paul. It's just not good. No, that's all right. I'm proud of you there. Yeah
01:35 We got time you guys know it was that quiet. He got yeah. Oh
01:39 God
01:41 All right. All right. All right. I'm gonna take three points on the first one
01:46 Oh
01:48 Okay, that might be a little nice clip though, all right
01:59 You sure you wanted that open so I hit my shot. Okay. Okay. Just watch and learn. All right. Oh
02:14 Okay, oh that's gonna be close it's it not it what are we thinking Mike
02:21 Do we have to measure this one? Oh you gotta measure it. Let me do it
02:29 All right, well, what are we doing it no, no you do with the flag what what's the kind of deal is this I
02:36 Got you. No, you didn't
02:39 Wait, wait, wait, I'm we need a second. I mean
02:44 I'm not even close. I got you by three inches. Okay. All right. Well, he showed up
02:49 All right. So two points to Paul one for Fred coach
02:53 It's not weird to the coach
02:56 Hi, Frederick second shot here about a 20-yard bunker shot got green slope left to right
03:02 How you feel being down to one to a coach?
03:05 Get on with it
03:08 Chunk that run that you can't chunk it in the bunker here. So let's
03:11 All there is a
03:20 Paul
03:22 crashing follow-up
03:24 I know that's unfortunate. Okay, so you just need to hit the green
03:31 Get hit it close me when you get three pointer
03:35 Oh
03:37 Well, that was a
03:44 That was unfortunate a lot more sand than we anticipated here. So both of us missed the green
03:50 I think that's just okay. Let's play both of those that don't count. You have to hit the green
03:55 Yeah, so we're playing for the two-pointer now to end one pointer
04:01 Sure. Oh, yeah, we will be yeah, that didn't really make sense
04:05 No, no, you know, there's so much did you pick these shots
04:10 You're supposed to look good in this challenge ball. All right last one a little harder. It's what I've learned
04:19 Was that sauce no sauce that was sauce. All right, so I'll stay in that bunker this
04:31 No one got the single point so that's two point for me but zero for you. All right fine
04:35 Yeah, oh yeah, I can get all three if you want to know. Okay. All right. All right
04:39 That means two three one. Yeah three. No, I have two. Oh, yeah
04:46 Okay, three three three two three two. All right third shot. This is a horrific spot here. Yeah, not ideal. Yeah 20 yards
04:54 We need a massive flop shot to be able to stop this one
04:59 So, you know what I did last week? Yeah, I beat onyx Ernst
05:03 I'm in a pitch off so I don't know what the heck you did, but
05:05 Spot here, man. Let's see if I can do it big old flopper here
05:10 Try to intimidate you a little bit. Yeah that teed up pretty good. Yeah, I got I got it. Yes don't go under it
05:17 Yeah, now that's pretty good
05:25 Right there Paul
05:28 Yeah, not too shabby
05:30 Hey feeling a little nervous, but okay, I don't like being down but you know
05:38 See what we can do. Oh
05:41 No, did it supposed to go up not forward
05:57 Go practice swings over here. I figure it was a fluke on the first hole when you brought it
06:01 All right. This is just you know, I'm not used to these flop shots. I don't hit it this bad. I do I do
06:06 I'm too good at this. Let's see
06:10 All pretty good - a little bit maybe
06:19 Alright, I need this shot. Yeah, you do
06:22 Otherwise, that's three points with Fred. I just gotta keep rotating a little bit else
06:27 How do you hit this serious in serious though? Like what's your thought here now when you're a coach?
06:31 Well, I just got to keep my pivot up before didn't pivot club hit the ground
06:37 I just got to rotate through here. Oh, don't face. Yeah, not a lot of shaft lean
06:42 Sit ball no, no, no, no, don't get all the way on the green there. No way. Thank you
06:51 Thank you
06:53 Back folks. I
06:55 Don't know man. We might have to call the refs there. Was that actually a flop shot?
07:00 That looked like a chunk and run to me. I mean you were all
07:03 Here, all right, so
07:08 After my first one, we'll forget about that. I got I got the - okay. All right dang it. We're all square
07:15 All right, Frederick, you know fourth hole here. I brought you behind a tree. Yeah sure. You're comfortable with a spot like this
07:20 Yeah, very you said yeah. Well, we have a small gap. You know a small small gap
07:26 We're about 45 yards. You see the flag in the distance
07:29 Let's try not to kill each other and see if we can get on the green. I think two possible outcomes. We hold it out
07:35 YouTube famous straight away. We nail the tree and hit ourself in the head YouTube famous either way
07:42 So, let's see what we do here win win all square right all square for four. Yeah, it's a big hole
07:50 I'm going pitching wedge. I think I just need this for so it doesn't climb too high. Yeah
07:56 Whoa
08:03 Paul Henderson no
08:05 You know, I'm really not used to
08:07 Punching out like this, but I think that was pretty good. Well, you would have made club pro guy happy there
08:13 Oh my gosh, what a shot to start out with. Thank you. Thank you
08:16 All right, try not to hit the tree, please
08:19 I have to hold it now. So I stand back that was wedge. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to get which
08:25 Don't know about that sauce. Don't know about that
08:29 Might climb a little too high
08:32 No hit the last state
08:44 I think I got the last branch that was on the green
08:47 That was way better than I thought you two out of two on the not gonna lie way better than I thought you were
08:51 Okay. Okay. I
08:53 Think you have the perfect love it. How do you oh
08:55 We have two shots on the green from this light. Yeah, it's pretty good. It's pretty darn good now we just need a
09:03 Solid hit in the tree here
09:06 Okay
09:09 Oh
09:11 Sure sure about that. Yeah, it moved on me. Yeah, that was I would have squirted what right on me. No, we don't want that
09:20 So far I mean it's a big a bar it's a big so far
09:39 Good luck. I got a little bit better angle. I'm gonna a little more left
09:42 Cuz I'm good like that ball. Okay, let's see. It's a big shot. I'm about 12 feet away. So yeah, that's pretty much
09:50 You're gonna need a miracle
09:52 Happens every day. There's a leaf right? I'll be careful
09:54 Was too high. All right
10:03 Coach takes the lead
10:05 All right, Paul back to where it all began
10:08 Last time you did win this hole
10:10 I did chunk and run and we're gonna have none of that now because I put two golf clubs over there
10:15 Okay, and you have to carry it past them
10:17 To be able to get the points. Okay, if you hit a short no points. All right
10:22 All right, so we have to hit a little spinner here a little medium flight spinner
10:26 Okay, and I don't know if you have that in the back. I don't know but you're gonna need something because you're down
10:31 Yeah, one down 65 big hole big big big hole here
10:36 I'm gonna just go straight to here. Also, you know, I play
10:40 The Tiger Woods golf ball. So it's got definitely more sauce than yours
10:45 You're not Tiger Woods, oh dang it. Yeah, not yet. Maybe never but okay, let's do it
10:51 High spin
11:00 Travel oh my god, Paul Henderson. Go that short. Nope. That was that was
11:05 I don't know what that laugh was
11:12 Okay, okay, so that's a foot didn't spin too much but I carried it just perfect
11:20 What you thought on these shots like what do you do as an instructor and you tried to like swing it left cut across it
11:27 No, not really for me. I am more about opening the face. So just increasing the loft on this 60 degree
11:33 so increasing the loft not too much shaft lean because this is gonna be a medium one and
11:38 I'm just gonna rotate around my body
11:41 Okay. All right, see if I can put in the other swing thoughts in your head before this one
11:45 Oh my gosh, no, you didn't what a goal that's a free lesson for you right there. Oh
11:56 That is absolutely soft. Okay. Here it is. I am
12:01 What that was a pretty shot Paul not pretty enough though, okay
12:12 So if I hit this closer now, I could actually go from last to first here
12:17 It's gonna be the sauce
12:20 Oh
12:22 Well, that's no points
12:29 Okay
12:32 All right. Well, it's up to you if you want to win it you have to hit it closer than mine
12:35 Yeah, it is
12:38 Here you'll max my
12:42 It's not this playoff straight away
12:45 Take one more practice with me
12:50 Oh
12:52 Right for the super spinner playoff Paul you almost had me
12:58 I cannot believe yours is closer. All right, we've gone to a playoff and I brought out some fans here
13:05 The pretty one is my girlfriend because she saw me chip once and she's like, yeah, that's my guy
13:10 Alright, well first exactly what exactly what happened? Yeah first one who makes it wins
13:17 So if you make the first one, I have to make it on top of you to tie but that's it
13:21 First one who makes it wins
13:23 In order you go first. Let me see. All right
13:25 Nope
13:30 Honestly thought it was gonna break a little bit
13:32 gave me
13:35 What do you expect it doesn't break
13:38 Give me tips. Yeah
13:45 Yeah, this is definitely a little toe down take off the leading edge
13:49 I told you didn't break kicked right? I told you it didn't break. Okay. Why don't you listen? I gave you another free lesson
14:00 Yeah, push this
14:02 You go back foot, huh? I always go stab
14:11 Okay, so just get it enough left of the hole and it's in
14:14 Okay, Wow we keep on going this is very open you're missing everything right hate to do this to you, okay
14:33 Nope no, we're not missing it, right Paul
14:39 None of us. Yeah, it's how someone please. It looks like it's gonna go that way
14:43 Hey Fred, you said you were gonna do it guaranteed in three. Yep guarantee
14:47 guaranteed
14:50 Well, at least you missed the left
14:55 Getting dark they're saying okay
15:01 With the insults again, yeah
15:06 Oh
15:08 I guess that's my can't do it. Well, you can't I can't do it. You can't do it
15:15 That's exactly how you need to think
15:17 That's exactly how you need to think
15:19 He's got a 12-footer there we're making it
15:29 Oh
15:31 If I don't make this one one shot from the front piece closest to the hole is gonna determine it can't be all day look
15:47 At I'm already bored
15:49 I
15:51 Don't know if I can do it
15:53, oh
16:22 I'm proud of you for sticking
16:24 I thought it was a little bit. You said absolute like clubbing a baby seal
16:30 I
16:32 That's it
16:35 You
16:37 (upbeat music)