In association with my "struggling with par5's" thread and reading all the replies, and then reading about peoples putting experiences, it begs the question, what is the strongest part of your game, and more importantly, do you adapt to it during a round specifically targeting yourself towards it or do you just let the hole and round take its course and reflect afterwards?
My strongest is definitely my putting and reading the greens, I get a lot of single putts down from various distances and if not I very rarely 3-put so getting to the green in as few a shots as possible for a maximum 2-putt is key to my game.
If your strength is chipping, do you sacrifice risking a long uncertain 2nd shot to the green because your strength and confidence lies in chipping and purposely lay-up, or does all sense and sensibility go out the window at the time? And likewise, if chipping isn't your strength, do you lay-up very short if the 2nd shot is too long so you can use your most comfortable club twice or do you get as close as possible to the green even though your chipping could cost you the hole?
I suppose its that old Course Management thing, but how many of us really adopt it to its fullest when there's still over 225yds to the green with all the hazards waiting in glee?
Does a sense of macho-ism kick-in with 225yds left to an unknown green and you'd feel embarrassed taking two 9 irons ( or whatever) where realistically you'd be on the green with a degree of comfort or is it out with the fairway/hybrid/long iron and then its bunker time or chipping from rough which are both not guarantees of the results we'd want!
My strongest is definitely my putting and reading the greens, I get a lot of single putts down from various distances and if not I very rarely 3-put so getting to the green in as few a shots as possible for a maximum 2-putt is key to my game.
If your strength is chipping, do you sacrifice risking a long uncertain 2nd shot to the green because your strength and confidence lies in chipping and purposely lay-up, or does all sense and sensibility go out the window at the time? And likewise, if chipping isn't your strength, do you lay-up very short if the 2nd shot is too long so you can use your most comfortable club twice or do you get as close as possible to the green even though your chipping could cost you the hole?
I suppose its that old Course Management thing, but how many of us really adopt it to its fullest when there's still over 225yds to the green with all the hazards waiting in glee?
Does a sense of macho-ism kick-in with 225yds left to an unknown green and you'd feel embarrassed taking two 9 irons ( or whatever) where realistically you'd be on the green with a degree of comfort or is it out with the fairway/hybrid/long iron and then its bunker time or chipping from rough which are both not guarantees of the results we'd want!
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), you have 180yds left to the green, its a 2/10 shot for you where if you missed it you'd find yourself in a bunker, ditch, rough, trees and possible more than 1 shot to recover, do you still not even think about it and go for it based on those odds, or do you hit an easy 7i leaving yourself a more confident chip (your strength) which could leave you a single putt?
