How To Use Course Management For A Better Round
Posted on July 4, 2008
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Course management is developed only by going to the golf course and getting experience to develop your skills. Of course you will make mistakes, but we can avoid making the same mistakes by learning from them and increase the chances of making a good score.
You should always play to your strengths.
Positional Play
Try to look at the angles, easiest is usually best. Observe the position of flag before you get to the green. It is an easier shot to make if you have the right angle, so if the flag is on the left of the green, coming in from the right of the fairway is best.
If the hole is cut near a bunker or hazard, a shot to the middle of the green is often the best play. Is the flag at the top of a slope, in which case you will want to be hitting your putt up the slope if at all possible.
Try before you start a hole to imagine where you would like your shots to be and play to those positions. We all know it is easier to hit shots from the fairway than the rough.
Hazards
Some holes will present you with hazards that you cannot get over. The sensible play would be to lay up short. Many times, when ‘laying up’ a common error is made and too much club is used with the result of ending up in the hazard. If you decide to ‘lay up’ then it is best policy to choose a club which will not allow your ball to reach the hazard.
Dog Legs
With the dog leg there is always the temptation to cut off ‘as much as possible’. It is nearly always better to be too wide off the tee than too narrow, as this keeps you out of trouble and gives a better view, without obstacles, around the corner.
Recovery Shots
Very often even when we have carefully planned where we would like the ball to be, we find that an ‘escape’ shot of some sort is required. The safe option is alway best - it may mean you possibly will drop a shot, but better to drop one than make a triple. Don’t ‘have a go’ unless it doesn’t matter, or you are very confident you can make the shot.
Make sure that when you are in a bunker, you take a club with enough loft to get you out. That is after all the whole point - if by trying to make a long shot you cannot get out of the bunker because you land back in it, then it costs you more shots.
Course management is the skill of assessing your ability and relating that to the demands of the course correctly. Achieving this to obtain the lowest possible score is what keeps us coming back each week…………………..
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