bobmac
Major Champion
What is more destructive to your game....?
What's more destructive?
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virtuocity
Tour Winner
Charging my GoKart battery but forgetting to flip the switch on really affects my game.
Trying to be too clever, taking on something that blatantly won't work. It turns a bogey into a double bogey. Sometimes you've just got to take your medicine.
Beezerk
Money List Winner
Bad drive.
louise_a
Money List Winner
A drive out of bounds costs you 2 shots, a chip and a 3 putt, costs 1 or 2 depending on what you expect from your chipping.
So from dropped shots the OOB costs more, but psychologically a chip and a 3 putt worse.
So from dropped shots the OOB costs more, but psychologically a chip and a 3 putt worse.
Three
Tour Rookie
None of the above.
Without doubt for me it's the lack of a consistent ball flight shape.
Without doubt for me it's the lack of a consistent ball flight shape.
I voted the same, because either error is probably going to add 2 strokes to my score. 
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Chip and 3 putts for me - that's 4 from close to the green and at least one, possibly 2 shots wasted and a double or worse on the card.
3 off the tee and I still have half a chance of a bogey
3 off the tee and I still have half a chance of a bogey
markyjee
Assistant Pro
I've picked tee shot OOB, my aim around the greens is 50% up n down so the above scenarios will cost me 2 shots or 1 1/2 shots average.
UlyssesSky
Head Pro
Definitely Tee shot out of bounds.
Both will directly cost me 2 shots, so no difference there.
But after the bad tee shot I might hit the second one differently, maybe change to 3 wood or even an iron, leaving me a longer shot into the green and thus potentially further increasing the score on the same hole. Or I could try to make birdie to get one shot back and mess up even more...
So a tee shot out of bounds can potentially do more harm on the same hole, even without taking psychological effect into consideration.
(I know it's theoretically possible to make a "birdie" after your second tee shot and make bogey instead of the double bogey a chip + 3 putt will inevitably put on your card, but for most people who don't have blood made of ice and balls made of steel, that's rarely gonna happen)
I would say the psychological effect of a bad tee shot is much worse than that of a bad chip + putt. They say the hardest shot in golf is the one after a shank, but I'd say the one after a tee shot out of bounds must be a close second.
Both will directly cost me 2 shots, so no difference there.
But after the bad tee shot I might hit the second one differently, maybe change to 3 wood or even an iron, leaving me a longer shot into the green and thus potentially further increasing the score on the same hole. Or I could try to make birdie to get one shot back and mess up even more...
So a tee shot out of bounds can potentially do more harm on the same hole, even without taking psychological effect into consideration.
(I know it's theoretically possible to make a "birdie" after your second tee shot and make bogey instead of the double bogey a chip + 3 putt will inevitably put on your card, but for most people who don't have blood made of ice and balls made of steel, that's rarely gonna happen)
I would say the psychological effect of a bad tee shot is much worse than that of a bad chip + putt. They say the hardest shot in golf is the one after a shank, but I'd say the one after a tee shot out of bounds must be a close second.
paddyc
Challenge Tour Pro
A sherman, It will usually cost you a couple of shots and the psychological effect on the next few shots or the rest of the round can be demoralising.
Leftie
Tour Winner
Sorry Bob, but not enough choices.
A) Don't hit the tee shot far enough to go OOB
B) What's a chip and 3 putt?
C) I don't think that I have a "Same" in my repertoire. Every shot is an adventure.
A) Don't hit the tee shot far enough to go OOB
B) What's a chip and 3 putt?
C) I don't think that I have a "Same" in my repertoire. Every shot is an adventure.
Chip and three stab for me. Usually in bounds and on fairway or first cut so can usually make forward progress. It's when I then come up short in two (par four) chip on and three stab for a double for nowhere that costs me
bobmac
Major Champion
So you hit a nice drive down the middle and a nice second shot which just comes up a bit short. You then fluff the chip and 3 putt. How will that affect your next shot 2 mins later on the next tee?
You can recover from a bad drive but you cant from a 3 putt.
williamalex1
Money List Winner
You can go OOB more than once on most holes at my course, but only chip and 3 putt once on each hole . GIR and you won't have to chip so OOB is my pick.
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I have made par a number of times after hitting a drive OOB - cant from a three putt after a duff chip
moogie
Tour Winner
Out of those listed Ive voted the 2nd option
I hate it if I ever duff a chip shot, and a 3 putt has the same effect
I'd sooner top it off the tee, can recover from that
I hate it if I ever duff a chip shot, and a 3 putt has the same effect
I'd sooner top it off the tee, can recover from that
Tiger
Money List Winner
Thing is Bob though I may be frustrated on the next tee if I've whacked my last tee shot OOB and the next hole has an OOB that would be playing on my mind... If I drive the ball brilliantly all day one dodgy chip/3 putt won't unhinge me. Can't say the same about carving it off the teeing ground though...
ScienceBoy
Money List Winner
Reading posts on a golf forum
selwood90
Head Pro
Voted the same for me, all depends what I'm struggling with on the day. Sometimes the driver behaves and my chipping doesn't. Some days it's the opposite. But all ends up in a pretty consistent 17-20 over par. So being a 20 handicapper I can just about stomach it.
