Hello I'm Brian Fitzgerald The Golf Doctor.
And today I am going to show you a little bit about a strategy.
And this strategy is aimed at helping you break 100.
It can also help you to break 90.But I am particularly looking today at breaking 100.
If you are interested in that.
Stay tuned.
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Alright.
So here we are having a Par 3.
I thought we would get out on the golf course an really work on lowering our score.And we
have a 120 meter Par 3.
Which is 132 yards.
The thing about this hole is we have got 2 bunkers.
One on the left and one on the right.
The one on the left is about 20 yards or so short of the green.The one on the right is
level with the green.
Now if your strategy is to try and break 100.
There is really only 2 places that you don't want to go when you play this hole.
I could say there was 3 but I will focus on 2.
You don't want to be in the bunker on the left.
And you certainly don't want to be in the bunker on the right.
The third one is you don't really want to be over the back.
But we are not really going to worry about that today.
I am going to show you a strategy that will not get you over the back.
So if you are having trouble with bunkers you could always go to my bunker playlist.
And there is plenty of bunker videos that will help you.
But let's say we are not interested in improving bunkers.
We just don't want to get them in the bunker in the first place.
So then you say.
OK that's 20 yards short of the green that bunker on the left.
It's 132 so what club can I hit around about 90 yards.So it could be a variety.
You could hit a pitching wedge 90 yards.
You could hit a 5 iron low and running.
It really doesn't matter.
And the thing about golf is you just have to remember what it's about.
You look it up on Wikipedia and it says something like.
Golf is a game.
It uses clubs and balls.
You hit the ball with the club until it gets in the hole.
Lowest score wins.
It doesn't say anything about having to hit beautiful pretty shots.
It's simply lowest score wins.
So it doesn't matter how you do it.
Make it low.
So if I said to you you were trying to break 100 or even 90 is 4 a bad score on this hole.
And you would have to say no it is not.
Even though it is a shorter hole.
Four is a good score.
In fact if you bogey every hole you would shoot 90.
The best way to bogey every hole is to get on the Par 3's for 2.
Get on the Par 4's for 3.
Get on the Par 5's for 4 and 2 putt every hole and you just shot 90.
So you are certainly breaking 100.
If somewhere along the line you chip it a bit closer and you actually have a 1 putt.
You have just broken 90.
So you don't have to hit amazing shots to break 100 or 90.
You just have to play conservative.
So what I am going to do here is I am just going to play an 8 iron.
And of course I am not going to hit this full.
I am not even attempting to hit the ball on the green.
But what I am going to do is I am going to aim it at that bunker on the right.
Because I am just going to effectively hit a half pitch shot with my 8 iron.
This should go around the 80 meter mark.
Which shouldn't get me in the bunker on the left.
Even if I pull it a little bit.
But it is going to get me down close enough that I have got a simple pitch or chip to
get on the green and we go from there.
Now today the pin is right up the back.
And that is a sucker pin.
If you try and get close to that green the further we hit it on this green the less room
there is up there.
It sort of goes to a bit of a point.
Past there.
So you don't want a bar of hitting the green.
If you hit the green you have accidentally hit the green.
We want to miss it front right.
And well and truly front right.
So I am going to take my aim over at this bunker on the right hand side.
Knowing I can't get into that bunker.
And I am just going to hit a little half shot.
So I just pulled that a little bit.
But it's down there.
Just short of the green.
It's almost run on to the edge of the green.
So I could be saying yeah I am really not happy with that I pulled that.It really wasn't
the best swing of the lot.
But what it's done is set me up nicely to play the hole.
So we will go and see what happens next.
OK so here we have I have arrived at where my ball finished.
You can see I am only about 3 paces off the edge of the green.
I actually caught the down slope so I landed it at the right distance but the ball kicked
a little bit too far off the down slope.
So if I did pull it left I would have been further left and that would have put me in
the bunker.
But I am no where near that bunker on the right.
So I aimed it far enough right to getaway with it.
So I would probably consider putting from here.
Because the grass is fairly low.
We certainly don't want to hit this in the air and that shot you know the Phil Mickleson
type shot.
It looks exciting but it's a fairly low percentage.Let's say we are going to be conservative here.
Instead of using a putter.
I am going to use my hybrid.
So we just take our set up with it.
And I have a couple of practice swings.
You can use all sorts of techniques with a hybrid.
It doesn't have to be perfect.
But I am using the hybrid because there is not much loft on that club face.
So that is going to help me to make the ball run.
So I am here not trying to be a golf pro.
I am here thinking I am trying to be the average guy trying to shoot less than 100 and hopefully
less than 90.
So I can see here that the ball is going to roll a little bit to the right.
I have got to aim a fraction left of the flag.
And I just want to get it up there.
Now the pin is up the back.
So remember the goal here is to get it on and 2 putt.
We don't want to get too tight.
And it go too much at that flag.
So if I can get this ball half way to three quarters of the way.
That is going to give me a fairly simple 2 putt and get my bogey.So we will see how we
go.
So I have hit that it is running along.
It's just up there and it seems to be about a flag stick short of the hole.
Very simple.
Not a lot of technique involved.
I basically just pretended I was putting.
So from there I have got my putter.
So this is what I am faced with.
It's a little bit more than a flag stick from the hole.
But it sets me up nicely to have my bogey.
But it gives me a chance that I can actually get a 3.
So I will stand here.
It's going to break a little bit right to left.
I just get my set up.
Have a little practice swing.
It didn't break.
It stayed there.
Damn I missed the 3.
But that's ok.
I have just made the easiest 4 you could possibly
have.
Very little stress.
Nothing too exciting.But I have made 4 and as I said 4 is a pretty good score.
So start thinking a little more strategically about how you are going to play the hole.
Don't just get up there and say this is a Par 3 and I have to get on the green.
There are many different ways of playing it.
So I hope you have enjoyed that.
Thank you for letting me help you with your golf.
I'm Brian Fitzgerald The Golf Doctor.
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