Archive for the ‘Course Management’ Category
Monday, April 28th, 2008
By Lawrence Bredenkamp
One of the least practiced aspects of golf is course management. I will give you five tips to help manage your golf game. By learning to manage your game you will find your scores dropping dramatically, and your approach to golf will be a whole lot different.
If you listen to the commentators on the PGA Tour, you will hear them say things like, “That now gives him an easy approach to the pin, cut back behind the bunker on the left” or “That’s not what he would have wanted as he now has very little green to work with.” Listen to what they say and you will learn that there is a totally new and exciting dimension to this game.
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
By Martin Vousden
PREVIOUSLY: Club Membership
We should: Study the hole carefully from the tee, trying to understand what was in the architect’s mind, and why hazards, trees, rough and other potential dangers are sited where they are. We should then focus on a particular spot on the fairway (or green) from which we have the best opportunity to attack the flagstick with our next shot.
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
By Martin Vousden
PREVIOUSLY: During the Game
We should: Make allowances for wind direction and speed; whether the shot is up or downhill, and the way we’re striking the ball on that particular day. If in doubt between clubs, always select the longer, on the basis that our golf ball will fall short of its selected target at least 12 times in a round.
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
By James Langmead
How many times have you selected an option on the golf course where you ignore the signs, go for it anyway and are therefore not surprised with a poor result?
Why do you pull the driver out when you know you’ve ended up in the rough with it all day? Remember when you found the fairway bunker, yet you knew one club less would have left you a little further to the green but playing from the fairway?
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
You won’t get points for visual appeal, but if there’s no trouble between you and the green, trying to get the ball airborne may not be your best option.
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
SOURCE: GolfOnline - Dave Pelz
GIST: Dave Pelz answers the age old question, “When chipping, should you leave the flagstick in the hole or out?” Conclusion? His data proves to leave it in whenever the Rules allow, except when…
“… it is leaning so far toward you that the ball can’t fit.”
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Thursday, August 10th, 2006
SOURCE: HumanGolf.com – David Nevogt
GIST: Learn to hit one club very well (Nevogt pushes for your 150-yard club), then build your course management strategy around it.
MY TAKE: If you do the math, it makes oodles of sense and will likely bring your scores down. But is it fun? I’m in the “What the hey, I’ll try this 3-Wood through that 3-foot gap in the trees 15 yards away” camp. If I actually manage to punch it through without killing anyone, I’ve got one heck of a big fish story to tell for the rest of my life! Somehow, I don’t think I’ll keep them riveted with a “I broke 90 hitting my 8-iron 150 to the fairway again and again and again… and yet again†tale. [GO]
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