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Be very afraid Martin, I'm playing with Fish on Sunday and I'm going to teach him everything I know about course management
Course management the key?
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Be very afraid Martin, I'm playing with Fish on Sunday and I'm going to teach him everything I know about course management
Oddsocks
Ryder Cup Winner
Be very afraid Martin, I'm playing with Fish on Sunday and I'm going to teach him everything I know about course management
And short game?
Odvan
Journeyman Pro
Baby draw mastered though so no need to concentrate on that :thup:
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Be very afraid Martin, I'm playing with Fish on Sunday and I'm going to teach him everything I know about course management
You're making it too easy for me. He'll be a quivering wreck by the 11th and ruined for the season
Oddsocks
Ryder Cup Winner
You'll never go to heaven!!
That was never an option.
jasondransfieldgolf
Challenge Tour Pro
Very good info, I used to highlight my course planner for tournaments. Only take on a shot if you know it will bring success 6 or 7 out of 10. If you can't leave it alone.
HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
What were the bad decisions you made?
selwood90
Head Pro
For me I play to my strengths. Work out the holes you can walk away with a bogey on and still be happy. And play for one. Whether the card is good, or bad at any particular stage don't chase a good card if it's not happening, and try not to protect a good one if you have one. Take it shot by shot with a clear vision in your mind what your looking to achieve from each one and most of all relax. When it all goes tits up laugh your socks off, take a deep breath, look around and ask yourself where else you would rather be. Nowhere is usually the answer for me.
I started on 20.4 and finished on 19.5, so you went up .5 and I came down .9 and I was injured for 4.5 months and missed over 20 qualifiers, with the work I'm putting in and the limited amount of rounds I've had this year so far due to the weather, the signs are still looking very good for me when I get the chance to get out there, as everyone will be able to read about later when I update my blog later today :smirk:
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Sooooo...technically, you "could" have finished at 21.5...😙
Could be interesting
Keys, at least for me, are simply keeping the ball in play and remaining flexible enough to change my game plan depending on how I'm playing.
I get days where the long game is off but the short game is hot - I might take less club off the tee and leave a longer 2nd knowing I'll likely chip it close if I do miss. Being able to adapt to how you're playing is a good weapon to have up your sleeve.
Nah, I was unbeaten in all (5) of my B-team matches leading up to my injury in April, I had won through to all the board comps by finishing in the top 8 of my division in medals during March & April, on return from injury in September and after a couple of rehabilitation rounds getting back into things I was knocking it around well again, so no, another cut last year would have triggered an ESR and I've already got my Pro & HS watching me as there's already grumblings that I'm playing around 5-6 under handicap currently around my course and that's still with a blow up hole, that's mainly down to my much improved course management (no hero shots), a couple of lessons before Christmas changing my swing and I'm having another in the next couple of weeks to tweak something, with my short game so strong, especially my chipping around the green, and now with the new shaft in the driver and the introduction of my mini-driver, my bag is very settled and I can only see me coming down, I'm not taking much from some of the rounds like at Hayling as they were in tough conditions, but I'll give Homer a little wave as we pass in the night though, I'm nice like that :smirk:
#YOTF:thup:
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I agree and will definitely be giving this a go. Although I have decided I am going to be really "gung ho" and agressive at tomorrows roll up.
masterosouffle
Assistant Pro
10th hole hit a pretty good drive but to the base of a tree at the edge of the fairway, tried to hook it at the green with a hybrid - in to more trouble, then more = pick up.
11th hole short par three went for the flag tucked behind the green side bunker, straight in plugged, out a second attempt , chip to back of green, missed putt = pick up
12th hole tight fairway with road to left train track to the right, hit driver (almost perfect) that just drew into the road, reload and hit exactly the same shot= pick up
Then went on to birdie 3 of the next 6 and par two of the others!
Always chip out and take your medicine, these hero shots are what I've cut out, you'll be surprised you can still make par or bogey at worse, but the main thing it's not a blob!
Forget the flag, just go for the biggest part of the green, I tend to use the back yardage now, if I flush it its at the back of the green, if its an average strike it's in the middle of the green, if I get it a bit heavy it's at the front of the green, I take enough club to always clear the bunkers/hazards which are predominately at the front/sides, with inconsistent bunkers they'll cost you a shot at least.
I draw the ball and can just get a bit handsy at times and draw it too much but not quite a hook, but if there's OOB on the left I'll pick a spot on the right of the fairway, if it goes straight, I'm on the right fringe, if it draws nicely it's in the middle, if it draws too much it's on the left fringe, you know your bad shots so when there's trouble on that side make the allowance and keep it in play or take a shorter club, I rotate my driving clubs on the tee now and have stopped reaching for the big dog all of the time and have just concentrated on keeping it in play when there's trouble about, give up the yardage for accuracy, it's working for me, better to be a bogey than picking up after 3 off the tee!
louise_a
Money List Winner
Fancy a wager :mmm:
jamielaing
Q-School Graduate
This is all about simplicity.
If you are faced with a big carry over water to reach the green or you can lay up short your mind is already working out what you should do subconsciously. It knows you can't make the carry (or are unlikely to). You then have a little debate in your head of what you should do which is really your subconscious screaming lay up while the tin cup inside you is saying I can make that shot.
Because your mind is saying no you are subconsciously going to swing harder/ lift your head/ duff it because you know you wont reach. You then have a shocking 3rd shot to play rather than a 50 yard pitch.
If you can identify this before the short shots fly off your handicap.
If you are faced with a big carry over water to reach the green or you can lay up short your mind is already working out what you should do subconsciously. It knows you can't make the carry (or are unlikely to). You then have a little debate in your head of what you should do which is really your subconscious screaming lay up while the tin cup inside you is saying I can make that shot.
Because your mind is saying no you are subconsciously going to swing harder/ lift your head/ duff it because you know you wont reach. You then have a shocking 3rd shot to play rather than a 50 yard pitch.
If you can identify this before the short shots fly off your handicap.
jamielaing
Q-School Graduate
Additionally, we will all get ourselves in bad positions on the golf course. When you do don't try to find the 6 inch gap to the green, spot the chip out that gets you to a position to reach the green. You are then on in 3 rather than playing several more shots trying to get out of the trees that you have inevitably got yourself further into.
Curls
Journeyman Pro
Interesting, when I read the first post I assumed you were flying high after a run of birdies and the wheels came off. That would have been understandable in that you got excited about being somewhere you hadn't before. That day will come and all you can try to do is keep your composure. Someone once said if you grab a birdie, put it in your pocket. Not literally. That would be cruel. What he meant was don't get carried away, counting your score cos now you've just gone backwards from whatever you were on. Just put it in your pocket and play the next hole as best you can.
What happened you was following 3 blobs and the almost certainty of not buffering you were released from the shackles of scoring golf. Free to play your own game without caring what the score was and what do you know? Nailed it. Sounds like you can play when you get out of your own way.
The course management advice in this thread is sound, but being able to apply it means controlling your emotions. Course management is about far more than picking the right shot. There are a lot of variables - Lie, Wind, Slope, Slope at Target, position for next shot, bail out area, no go area, need I go on? There are a lot of calculations going on but you should pull the correct club out of the bag and see exactly the shot you are trying to play, a shot that is within your ability. You have to be in the correct frame of mind to allow you to do that.
Zen Golf – Joseph Parent and anything by Patrick Cohn is worth a read.
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