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just wondering how many of you plan out how you want to play each hole before a match and then stick to it?

i do once in awhile, but somehow it leaves me sometime after the 1st hole,lol.

probably the inability to focus.

stagday

My course management I'm told is pretty terrible lol!
I try to plan out a safer option, but it's just so much more fun to take risks and hit driver
I have interprovincial matchplay coming up against a couple of scratch players... so I better start making it better!

so what's your strategy going to be in the match play? something to ponder in school when the class gets boring, lol.

stagday

My strategy is win at all costs, that'll do

But how do you do it?

I don't really plan out course strategy. I find I can't hit the ball where I want it to go consistently so it doesn't really make sense for me to plan. I do try to make smart decisions with whatever game I bring to the course with me so I figure things out after I tee off.

Same problem here, victory. Oh, I know how I should be playing the course, but my execution of the shots is so erratic that I rarely end up where I want to be anyway. Thus was born my philosophy of aiming for the middle of whatever landing area beckons--away from trouble, of course--and just hitting the ball as hard as I can without hurting myself, finding it and hitting it again.

it's like picturing your shot before you stroke it. it doesn't always work, but maybe if practiced more it would.

sooooooooooooo maybe, one should imagine how to play each round, hole by hole, and then keep track of the results and just keep doing it and see what happens over the long haul.

Anyway, I think that's my plan for this year. focus,focus,focus, easy to say, hard to do.

stagday

Same here guys - wouldn't it be nice to be able to hit every shot where you wanted it to go?

Basic course management for me, however is knowing when to reach for a low iron or hybrid vs. the driver, or knowing that my "bail out" side off the tee, is to the right or left, even if the ball goes into the ajoining fairway. Basic stuff.

Aim for middle of fairway
Prey
Aim for middle of green
Prey
Aim for middle of hole
Prey

Almost never happens in that order but what the heck its a plan.

So sometimes you play from the green to the fairway, and then to the tee-box???

And by "prey" ... are you hunting your target... or are you Praying???

I have been known to play the golf course backwards.


It's a actually good practice for long game, and approach. You have no thoughts of getting it in the hole, considering there isn't a hole on the teebox. Just don't do it in the middle of the day unless the course is closed, and don't tee off from the green

Stand there, whack it. Find it (hopefully) then give it another thrashing, find it etc.............. not exactly perfect but it works every now and then

NO it doesn't always have to be in that oder. Sometimes, err most times, its tee to ruff to ruff to sand to green. The only constant is the preying err praying. Spell check fails me again.