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**Feelundseenna** · 06-26-2012, 05:32 PM

I guess the reason I may go for the green in less than my regulation is that realistically I know a round is not going to be 18 double bogeys, I will have some triples and probably a hole or two that is worse than that, so if I want to score less than 108, I have to make some bogeys along the way, and I have made some pars, so I feel like if I concede those lower scores all together then how am I going to beat my goal?

So I think my mindset is to get double bogey or better on a hole, but the tactic I use to get there is to go for it in par, but since I will not execute flawlessly I will likely do worse than that and that's ok. The caveat on the way I play is that since, I miss right, at this point in my game, if there is trouble right (water, deep rough, dense trees, dogleg left) I go for it in bogey by using a 5i off the tee. and play from there to a comfortable distance. I am curious how other people approach this kind of thing.

If there is trouble on the right, try teeing off on the very right side of the tee box and then try to play for the left side of the fairway. This should make it a lot harder to go that far right to get in trouble. Golf is a sport where you can use the angles to your advantage.

06-26-2012, 05:32 PM	#13
Feelundseenna Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 457 Senior Member	I guess the reason I may go for the green in less than my regulation is that realistically I know a round is not going to be 18 double bogeys, I will have some triples and probably a hole or two that is worse than that, so if I want to score less than 108, I have to make some bogeys along the way, and I have made some pars, so I feel like if I concede those lower scores all together then how am I going to beat my goal? So I think my mindset is to get double bogey or better on a hole, but the tactic I use to get there is to go for it in par, but since I will not execute flawlessly I will likely do worse than that and that's ok. The caveat on the way I play is that since, I miss right, at this point in my game, if there is trouble right (water, deep rough, dense trees, dogleg left) I go for it in bogey by using a 5i off the tee. and play from there to a comfortable distance. I am curious how other people approach this kind of thing. If there is trouble on the right, try teeing off on the very right side of the tee box and then try to play for the left side of the fairway. This should make it a lot harder to go that far right to get in trouble. Golf is a sport where you can use the angles to your advantage.
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