millsan1
I've figured this game out! Oh wait, no I haven't
So I have watched some videos on the Tube of You and there is this one guy, whose accent I can't stand, but has some good ideas.
One of his ideas is how to shoot a stress free 90.
It basically works out to this:
Find a club you can hit 170+ with great consistency. Tee off with that club.
Then find a club and distance you are very comfortable with, I'll call that my 56 and 75 yards. This is what you use to put the ball on the green.
Then, after your tee shot, hit your second to that yardage. Accept you will be on in 3 for a par 4, and try to two putt.
I have played a hole or two with this strategy in the past, with varying success. But the last two days, I decided to follow this prescription. I forced myself to not take that "If I get hold of it, I can get it there" shot, and basically lay up to that 75 yard range.
The only time I didn't lay up was if my drive put me inside of 150 on a 4, or if my second put me there on a par 5. Obviously Par 3s are different.
End result was a lot more holes where I was on the green, and close to the pin, than normal. Except for a couple three putts, I was right there with a pair of 91s (good scores for me). And the biggest difference was the lack of stress.
The rounds were very easy, because I wasn't trying to reach out on my second shots.
I also didn't have any of my normal "There it goes! Boom, I nutted that one! Wait, it's tailing off into the rough.....tree line... OOB" shots.
While not my best scores, they were good scores for me, and it was also easy. No high stress shots, not many "WTF Anthony" moments, and ended up happy.
I will be applying this for my next few rounds and hope it continues.
One of his ideas is how to shoot a stress free 90.
It basically works out to this:
Find a club you can hit 170+ with great consistency. Tee off with that club.
Then find a club and distance you are very comfortable with, I'll call that my 56 and 75 yards. This is what you use to put the ball on the green.
Then, after your tee shot, hit your second to that yardage. Accept you will be on in 3 for a par 4, and try to two putt.
I have played a hole or two with this strategy in the past, with varying success. But the last two days, I decided to follow this prescription. I forced myself to not take that "If I get hold of it, I can get it there" shot, and basically lay up to that 75 yard range.
The only time I didn't lay up was if my drive put me inside of 150 on a 4, or if my second put me there on a par 5. Obviously Par 3s are different.
End result was a lot more holes where I was on the green, and close to the pin, than normal. Except for a couple three putts, I was right there with a pair of 91s (good scores for me). And the biggest difference was the lack of stress.
The rounds were very easy, because I wasn't trying to reach out on my second shots.
I also didn't have any of my normal "There it goes! Boom, I nutted that one! Wait, it's tailing off into the rough.....tree line... OOB" shots.
While not my best scores, they were good scores for me, and it was also easy. No high stress shots, not many "WTF Anthony" moments, and ended up happy.
I will be applying this for my next few rounds and hope it continues.