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Hey all.

Just wondering a little about people's approach to course management. Do you ever sit down & plot out a basic strategy, in terms of where you're going to be aggressive & where you'll be playing for position?
Or is it just based on how the swing is feeling that day?

The reason i'm asking is my swing is progressing nicely, my shots are becoming reliable, my putting has improved leaps & bounds, but my scores are not really decreasing on avg.
Maybe i just need to focus better. I think i have a habit of thinking ahead.

http://www.cottonwoodgolfcourse.com/

this is where i play 80% of the time. blue tees. lots of ob. good course for the straight hitter. lightening fast greens. airport borders one side, farmland with 10ft high fence borders other side. many balls to be lost & found here.

any comments, ideas, snide remarks, random musings, etc. would be welcomed. thx, G.

#17 has my vote for hardest par3 in the world. big hump in middle of green. pin back left is almost totally inacessible.

I usually plan to hit driver off the tee unless its a par three or there is a bunker that i can reach but not drive over. Then i either go for it if i'm under 180 if not i lay up to about 60-80 yards my sw

you probably have one or two melt down holes that ruin your scoring for the round. as you become more consistant you reduce the number of disasters and you minimize those disasters with good scrambling.

I play a pretty hard course called royal niagara, links style, and you better use strategy if you want to score well. the rough is brutal and advancing it with anything other than a short iron is silly. I normally will hit driver off the tee but this place taught me to hit 3 wood for accuracy, and on one hole a 3 iron.
great place though.

Royal Niagara

Those are some nice courses guys. Just remember, on the tee plan your attack. Then be confident in your decision & trust you made the right one. This is where I have trouble sometimes. I will decide to hit driver & then not be confident it is going to go where I want it to. Golf is a weird game which causes a person to doubt their decisions a lot of the time. Remove this doubt and you will remove some of the big numbers on your scorecard.

My stratagy basically all comes down to the tee. I either hit Driver or 3-iron stinger. I will normally hit 3 iron on holes where I have an obsticle in my path. Basically trees, water hazard, or bunker, if there are any of these located about 275-300 from the hole I alwase hit iron. From there I break down what im going to do next. And so fourth.

I always play away from trouble off the tee or club down if it's real tight or there is something I have to carry that's anywhere near my driver carry distance. After that I'm a pin hunter, though. I just enjoy playing that way even if I do short-side myself or hit sand more often than I should.