Mizuno #YourGame2016: 5-handicap Jezz Ellwood

After being stuck on 5 for several years, the Mizuno #YourGame2016 goal of GM's Jezz Ellwood is to get down to 4 for the first time ever

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After being stuck on 5 for several years, the Mizuno #YourGame2016 goal of GM's Jezz Ellwood is to get down to 4 for the first time ever

Jezz Ellwood

Handicap: 5

Home Club: Holtye

Mizuno #YourGame2016 goal: To get down to 4 for the first time.

I’m probably close to maximising my potential, but like many, I still harbour golfing ambitions. Good chances to get down to 4 in the last few years have been frittered away and my iron play needs to improve if I’m to make it. I hope my Mizuno fitting will prove the missing link.

Strengths In recent years my driving has become pretty reliable - not massively long but in play more often than not off the tee. If I can then get it up somewhere near the green, my chipping and putting is usually pretty dependable too.

Weaknesses

Without doubt my iron play, especially my full wedge play. I don't hit enough greens and certainly don't hit it close enough with my full wedges to give myself the birdie chances I need to offset my mistakes.

Jeremy Ellwood
Contributing Editor

Jeremy Ellwood (Jezz) has worked in golf since 1993 and for Golf Monthly since 2002 when he started out as equipment editor. He is a senior panelist for Golf Monthly's Top 100 UK & Ireland Course Rankings and has played all the Top 100 plus 94 of the Next 100, making him well-qualified to compare our premier tracks. He has played over 1,100 courses in 35 countries, from remote nine-holers in the Scottish Highlands to grand international resorts, hitting the 1,000 mark on his 60th birthday in October 2023 on Vale do Lobo's Ocean course. Put him on a links course anywhere and he'll be blissfully content.

Contact Jezz on X - @JezzEllwoodGolf

Jeremy is playing...

Driver: Ping G425 LST

3 wood: Srixon ZX

Hybrid: Ping G425

Irons 4- to 11-iron: Honma TWorld TW747Vx

Wedge: Ping Glide 54˚

Putter: Ping Fetch