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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00:00Hi guys, my name is Fredrik Lindblom and I'm here with my boy Paul Henderson
00:03We both played together on the Latin America tour the PJ tour Latin America in 2019 and both of us
00:11Struggled with the ball striking that year and played pretty pretty horrendous, but we had to develop a pretty good short game
00:16So 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
00:23We're gonna hit two shots on each location
00:25Closest get two points second close to get one if you make it you get three points. Perfect. Simple as that
00:31See if I can well
00:33I'm gonna be Paul. So let's do it. All right first location here about 20 yards a little bit into the wind
00:40This is like a proper sauce opportunity. Yeah, this should be a spinner and
00:46Don'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
00:51That's perfect for a little top
00:55Yeah, I start let's see if I can do this
01:04Okay, not bad, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean respectable let me see your hands straight hand only a little nervous
01:14All right, okay respectable to a foot on the first one, okay, not bad
01:25It's
01:30Good it's just not good enough Paul. It's just not sorry. I'm proud of you there. Yeah
01:36We got time. You guys know it was a quiet ego. Yeah. Oh
01:40gosh
01:41All right. All right. All right. I'm gonna take three points on the first one
01:45Oh
01:53Okay, that might be a little nice clip though, all right
02:02You sure you wanted that open so I hit my shot. Okay. Okay. Just watch and learn. All right. Oh
02:09Oh
02:14Okay, oh that's gonna be close it's it not it what are we thinking Mike
02:23Do we have to measure this one? Oh, you gotta measure it. Yeah, let me do it
02:31All right, well, what are we doing it no, no you do with the flag what what's the kind of deal is this I
02:37Got you. Oh, no, you did it. Did you really look?
02:41Wait, wait. Wait, I'm we need a second. I mean
02:44It's not even close. I got you by three inches. Okay. All right. Well, he showed up
02:50All right. So two points to Paul one for Fred coach
02:54It's not weird to the coach
02:56All right, Frederick second shot here about a 20-yard bunker shot got the green slope left to right
03:02How you feel being down to one to a coach?
03:06I'm gonna get on with it
03:10Chunking in the bunker here. So let's
03:18Oh, there it is, did you see Paul crash and follow up with?
03:27I know that's unfortunate. Okay, so you just need to hit the green
03:33Get hit it close middle and get three-pointer
03:36Oh
03:42Well, that was
03:44That was unfortunate a lot more sand than we anticipated here. So both of us missed the green
03:50I think that's just okay. Let's play the both of those that don't count. You have to hit the green
03:55Yeah, so we're playing for the two-pointer now to end one-pointer
04:01Sure. Oh, yeah, we will be yeah, that didn't really make sense
04:06Oh
04:07No, no, you know, there's so much. Did you pick these shots?
04:12You're supposed to look good in this challenge ball. All right last one a little harder. That's what I've learned
04:24Was that sauce no sauce that was sauce. All right, so I'll stand in that bunker this
04:31No one got the single point so that's two point for me but zero for you. All right fine
04:35Yeah, oh, yeah, I can get all three if you want to know. Okay. All right. All right
04:41No, that means two three one. Yeah three. No, I have two. Oh, yeah
04:48Three three two three two. All right third shot. This is a horrific spot here. Yeah, not ideal. Yeah 20 yards
04:55We need a massive flop shot to be able to stop this one
04:59So, you know what I did last week, yeah, I'd be the only concerns that I'm gonna pitch out
05:04So, I don't know what the heck you did, but you're in a tough spot here, man
05:07Let's see if I can do it big old flopper here
05:12Try to intimidate you a little bit. You got that teed up pretty good. Yeah, I got I got it. Yes, don't go under it
05:23Yeah, now that's pretty good start right there Paul
05:28Yeah, not too shabby
05:32Hey feeling a little nervous, but okay, I don't like being down but you know
05:39See what we can do. Oh
05:47No, it is supposed to go up not forward
05:50Oh
05:57Go practice swings over here. I figure it was a fluke on the first hole when you brought it in
06:02All 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
06:08I'm too good at this. Let's see
06:16All pretty good to
06:20I need this shot. Yeah, you do
06:22Otherwise, that's three points for Fred. I just gotta keep rotating a little bit else
06:27How do you hit this serious in serious though? Like what's your thought here now when you're a coach?
06:32Well, I just got to keep my pivot up before didn't pivot club hit the ground
06:37I just got to rotate through here open the face. Yeah, not a lot of shaft lean
06:45Sit ball. No, no, no, don't get all the way on the green there. No way
06:50Thank you. What a shot. Thank you
06:53He's back folks
06:55I
06:56Don't know man. We might have to call the refs there. Was that actually a flop shot?
07:00That looked like a chunk and run to me. I mean you were all
07:05Here, all right, so
07:08After my first one, we'll forget about that. I got I got the two. Okay. All right. Dang it. We're all square
07:16Fourth hole here. I brought you behind a tree. Yeah sure. You're comfortable with a spot like this. Yeah, I'm very used to it
07:21Yeah, well, we have a small gap, you know a small small gap. We're about 45 yards. You see the flag in the distance
07:29Let's try not to kill each other and see if we can get on the green
07:33I think two possible outcomes we hold it out
07:36YouTube famous right away. We nailed the tree and hit ourself in the head YouTube famous either way
07:42Let's see what we do here win-win all square right all square for four. Yeah, it's a big hole
07:50I'm going pitching wedge. I think I just need this for so it doesn't climb too high. Yeah
08:03Paul Henderson, no
08:05You know, I'm really not used to
08:08Punching out like this, but I think that was pretty good. Well, you would have made Club Pro guy happy there
08:13Oh my gosh, what a shot to start out with. Thank you. Thank you
08:17All right, try not to hit the tree, please. I
08:20Have to hold it now. I stand back. That was wedge. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to get which
08:27Sauce don't know about that. I might climb a little too high
08:38Oh, no, we hit the last state
08:42Dude I think I got I think I got the last branch that was on the green
08:47That was way better than I thought you two out of two on the not gonna lie way better than I thought you were
08:51Okay. Okay. I think I have the perfect love it. I do you oh
08:57We have two shots on the green from this light, yeah, it's pretty good. It's pretty darn good now we just need a
09:04solid hit in the tree here
09:07Okay
09:14Sure 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
09:20Oh
09:33So far, I mean it's a big a bar
09:37It's a big so far. Hey, I got a little bit better angle. I'm gonna a little more left
09:43Because I'm good like that ball. Okay. Let's see. It's a big shot. I'm about 12 feet away. So yeah
09:50You're gonna need a miracle
09:52Happens every day. There's a leaf right? I'll be careful
09:58I told you I told you gap wedge was too high. All right
10:02One up all coach takes the lead
10:05All right, Paul back to where it all began last time you did win this hole
10:10I did chunk and run and we're gonna have none of that now because I put two golf clubs over there
10:15Okay, and you have to carry it past them
10:18To be able to get the points. Okay, if it is short, no points. All right
10:22All right, so we have to hit a little spinner here a little medium flight spinner
10:27Okay, 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
10:31Yeah, one down 65 big hole big big big hole here
10:37I'm gonna just go straight to here. Also, you know, I play the Tiger Woods golf ball. So it's got definitely more sauce than yours
10:45Oh
10:48Dang it. Yeah, not yet. Maybe never but okay, let's do it
10:54High spin
11:00Travel oh my god, Paul Henderson got short. Nope. That was that I was
11:10Don't know what that laugh was
11:13Okay, okay, so that's a foot didn't spin too much but I carried it just perfect
11:21What you thought on these shots like what do you do as an instructor and you try to like swing it left cut across it
11:27No, not really for me. I am more about opening the face. So just increasing the loft on this 60 degree
11:33so increasing the loft not too much shaft lean because this is gonna be a medium one and
11:39I'm just gonna rotate around my body
11:41Okay. All right. See if I can put it in the other swing thoughts in your head before this one
11:49Oh my god, no, you didn't what I go that's a free lesson for you right there. Oh
11:56That is absolutely soft, okay here it is I am
12:01Oh
12:08But that was a pretty shot Paul not pretty enough though, okay
12:12So if I hit this closer now, I could actually go from last to first. Yeah
12:18It's gonna be the softest shit
12:25Oh
12:27Well, that's no points
12:30Okay, all right, well it's up to you if you want to win it you have to hit it closer than mine for the win
12:36Yeah, it is for the win
12:43It's not this playoff straight away
12:48Take one more practice with me
12:51Oh
12:54Right for the super spinner playoff Paul you almost had me
12:59I cannot believe yours is closer. All right, we've gone to a playoff and I brought out some fans here
13:05The pretty one is my girlfriend because she saw me chip once and she's like, yeah, that's my guy
13:11Alright, well first exactly what that's exactly what happened. Yeah first one who makes it wins
13:17So if you make the first one, I have to make it on top of you to tie, but that's it
13:21First one who makes it wins
13:23In order you go first. Let me see. All right
13:28Nope
13:30Honestly thought it was gonna break a little bit
13:33gave me
13:36What do you expect it doesn't break
13:40Give me tips. Yeah
13:42I
13:53Told 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
14:00Yeah pushed it
14:04You go back foot, huh? I always go stab
14:07Okay, so just get it enough left of the hole and it's in
14:16Little chunk
14:21Okay, wow we keep on going
14:24Face is very open. You're missing everything right hate to do this to you. Okay
14:28None of us. Yeah, it's how someone please. It looks like it's gonna go that way
14:33Hey Fred, you said you were gonna do it guaranteed in three. Yep guarantee
14:38guaranteed
14:43Well, at least you missed the left
14:46He's gonna do it
14:48Yeah, he's gonna do it. He's gonna do it. He's gonna do it. He's gonna do it
14:53He's gonna do it. He's gonna do it. He's gonna do it. He's gonna do it
14:55He's
14:59Getting dogs, they're saying okay, we're gonna be a little bit with the insults again. Yeah
15:11I guess I can't do it. Well, you can't I can't do it. You can't do it
15:15That's exactly how you need to think
15:17That's exactly how you need to think
15:26He's got a 12-footer there we're making it
15:36The dream
15:39All right, Paul
15:41If I don't make this one one shot from the front piece closest to the hole is gonna determine it
15:46It can't be all day. Look at I'm already bored
15:55I
16:25Thought it was a pleasure you said absolute like clubbing a baby seal