Make better decisions on the golf course with these strategy tips.
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Twitter - course strategy skills (or course management skills as they’re also known) are all about using the skills you already have to improve your scores and play to your best potential.
In this video, we’ll look at a difficult green-side chip shot.
There’s a bunker between the ball and the pin, with little room to land and stop the ball. The golf ball is also sitting on quite a tight lie and a sloping lie as well.
A professional or a low handicapper would opt for a flop shot in this situation, aiming to chip the ball high in the air with quite an aggressive swing so that it stops relatively quickly. And I think most higher-handicappers would also choose to chip over the bunker with their most lofted wedge…
If they pull it off, it may give them a good chance of saving par and it’ll look great – what I’d call a ‘Hollywood’ shot…
But the chances of catching the ball thin or fat is high and the price for getting it wrong is probably double bogey at best for most mid-high handicappers.
This chip shot really epitomises the kind of decisions that club-level golfers face and the options they typically go for.
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