About time!

We've been waiting here for about ten minutes, and as we all know golfers are taking longer and longer to get round - sometimes up to five hours for some competitions. That simply isn't good enough. We need to find a way to speed up play.

What we're going to do today is give you some simple tips to help you play ready golf without having to rush.

Before I play, I like to have my magic tees, and also my pitch mark repairer - because I hit lots of greens - a ball marker, I get my glove ready, and make sure that my ball is marked so that I can identify it.

So we've got all our kit ready and we're ready to play. Ready golf means, in a normal traditional sense, you would have either the honour if you go first on the tee, or you're furthest away from the flag. With ready golf, as long as you're safe, and not in any danger of hitting anybody, you play your golf when you're ready.

Neal's just about to hit his shot. I've got my glove on, I've got my club selected - I'm ready to go. As soon as he hits it, I know where he's hit the ball - onto the green as always - and I'm ready to hit.

Approaching the green, I can see that the tee's up on the right. It's always better to put your bag in the appropriate spot so that when you've finished playing the hole, you can move straight to pick your bag up and head to the tee.

The putting green's a really good place to lose plenty of time if you're not ready. As you'll see here, it's Andy to go first as he didn't hit quite as good a shot as me, and he's going to line his putt up and get ready to go. While he's doing that, I'm going to do the same thing. As soon as he's missed or made his putt, I'm going to be ready to go.

We're off to the next tee, and I can do my scorecard while Neal's hitting off if he's ready to play - so no time wasted there either.

Filmed at Sandford Springs in Hampshire.