This Blades Brown Video Sent Me Straight To The Driving Range

There are videos you watch and forget. And then there are videos that make you put down your phone, grab your clubs and head straight to the practice facility.

This is one of those videos for me.

Blades Brown is one of the most accurate iron players in the game right now. He’s sitting second on the PGA Tour in greens in regulation at 71.46 percent (right between Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy). Brown posted a video of him on the range working through his entire bag with a Foresight launch monitor. Club by club, he calls his stock yardage, steps up, hits it. Then he looks at the number.

115 yards with a 58 degree. He hits it 115.

181 with a 7 iron. He hits it 183.

Over and over again, within a yard or two of his number. It is one of the most impressive things you’ll see a golfer do.

What I love about Brown’s swing is how consistent his movement stays as he works through the longer irons and woods. It’s hard to even know what club he has in his hand because of the way he controls his motion.

Here are Blades Brown’s stock yardages:

Now here’s the thing. You are not going to replicate this and that’s fine. It’s also not the point.

The point is that Brown knows his 54-degree goes 115 yards. Not 120. Not “somewhere around there.” And he knows his 7-iron goes 183. Not 185 or 190.

Most amateur golfers are playing with made-up numbers. They think their 7-iron is a 155-yard club because they hit one 155 yards once on a warm day with the wind helping. They think their pitching wedge is a 120-yard club because that “sounds about right.”

Watch this video and then go to the range with a launch monitor. Hit 10 balls with each club. Average them out. Write the numbers down. You might be surprised (and possibly humbled) by what you find. But at least you’ll know. And knowing is what lets you stand over a 147-yard approach shot and commit to a club instead of guessing.