Most of the time I write approximately enhancing your mechanics or associated subjects. Today I need to speak about strategy, and specially for those of you who are struggling to interrupt 90. That seems to be a mental barrier for plenty weekend gamers however, when you discover ways to do it constantly, even breaking eighty does not seem that a ways away.
A couple of years ago I wrote a post called A Different Approach to Breaking 90 . It introduced the concept of "level fives" from a book called (appropriately enough) How to Break 90. The idea is simply that if you average five strokes for 18 holes, you shoot 90. And the book included a quote which, while obvious, may never have occurred to you:
Consider, if you will, that on a par-72 path you could bogey 17 of the 18 holes and still damage 90.As I said, obvious but probably something that never occurs to most golfers who are trying to break 90 for the first time.
By all manner, go again and examine the submit I connected to in advance on this one. Today I'd like to position some numbers to this line of notion. Perhaps it will make the method that much clearer to you.
Let's forget about your driver for a moment, maybe even your 3-wood. Do you have a club that you can hit 170-180 yards with reasonable consistency? By "reasonable consistency" I mean you can hit it pretty much that same distance time after time, and you have a decent chance to put it in the fairway each time. It might be a 3-hybrid, or maybe a 7-wood. (For some of you big hitters, it might be just an 8-iron or 7-iron. Whatever.) Let's do a little simple math here.:
- Two 170-yard shots travel 340 yards.
- Three 170-yard shots travel 510 yards.
- Two 180-yard shots travel 360 yards.
- Three 180-yard shots travel 540 yards.
I'll be capable of reach a 510-backyard par-five with 3 shots. If the par-five is shorter than that, it is 7-woods and a shorter membership. If the par-5 is longer, it is three 7-woods and (in all likelihood) a chip or pitch. If my quick sport is simply first rate, that need to deliver me an amazing danger at a bogey six at worse.
I'll be able to reach a 340-yard par-four in pictures. If the par-four is shorter than that, it's one 7-wood and a shorter membership. If the par-4 is longer, it is 7-woods and a shorter club. On a number of the ones longer holes the 1/3 shot will simplest be a chip or pitch. Again, if my short sport is any accurate, I ought to have an awesome chance to stroll off with a bogey 5 at worse.
And even on a protracted par-three, I'm likely simply looking at one 7-wood and a chip or pitch, and I stroll off with a bogey four at worse.
If we make more than one putts someplace alongside the manner, we ought to spoil 90 by way of two or three shots. And no longer once will we have needed to use one among our longer woods -- , the clubs we preserve hitting into the difficult.
Even if you don't use this strategy on each hollow, it's an excellent one to attempt on holes on that you constantly find your self making double-bogey or worse.
Remember: Many times, bad scores are not the result of poor play so much as of poor thinking.
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