Yips or Fear? Fixing Your Short Game with Louis Savill

Louis Savill is one of the fastest-rising short game coaches in the world, and a Skillest power user in every sense. He runs his in-person lessons, bookings, subscriptions and a booming online business all through the platform.

Baden and Clappy sit down with Louis to unpack how he thinks about the short game. Hint: there’s no one right way to do it.

We get into:

• Why “just use the bounce” has been leaned on for way too long
• Arc height vs low point: the two concepts that fix most bad contact
• Steep doesn’t mean deep — Louis’s hula hoop explanation of angle of attack
• Yips vs fear: focal dystonia, the fridge that electrocutes you, and why 99% of “yippers” just have a technique problem
• How to practise short game properly: practise for the exam (spoiler: 60% of your shots are from the rough)
• Why the 60° isn’t a break-glass-in-emergency club
• Bounce, grind, and getting fit by Aaron Dill alongside tour players
• His friendship with Short Game Chef Parker McLachlin
• How he coaches online: 15-minute Zoom consults, skeleton analysis, and getting students to film the shots they hate on the course

Plus: Clappy cracks 100K on Instagram. From 4K to 100K by showing up every day.

If you’ve ever bladed one across the green, this one’s for you. 🏌️