The 6-6-6 Rule That Helps You Break 85

🎯 Want to break 85? You need a new mindset.

In this episode, Coach Will Robins (founder of @thescoringmethod ) and I break down a smarter, simpler way to shoot your best score yet, without swinging harder or chasing birdies. We walk through our 6-6-6 strategy: 6 easy holes, 6 medium ones, 6 disasters waiting to happen, and how to play each of them with purpose.

Learn more from Will https://thescoringmethod.com/

We talk club selection, course management, and why aiming for the middle of the green (yes, really) might be your shortcut to lower scores. You’ll also see us prove the point on the course, in real time, with some very relatable shots 😅

Whether you’re stuck in the low 90s or just looking for a plan that actually works, this is your blueprint for breaking 85. It’s not about playing perfect golf. It’s about thinking like a caddie, playing with intention, and managing your mess-ups like a pro.

Chapters
00:00 – Why breaking 85 isn’t about playing perfect golf
00:35 – The math behind breaking 85
01:17 – What 6-6-6 golf looks like: Easy, Medium, Hard holes
02:36 – Course planning 101: Use the stroke index
05:03 – Stop defaulting to driver (you’re not on tour)
06:41 – Play for position, not hero shots
08:44 – Aim for the middle of the green, every time
10:42 – Managing the “medium” holes: avoid short sides
13:47 – Wedge game wisdom: practice the shots you play
15:28 – Smart up-and-downs are part of the plan
18:29 – On tough holes, passive or aggressive?
22:02 – Good misses keep you in the game
26:11 – What to do when you’re outside your comfort zone
29:01 – The mindset shift: strategy reduces tension
31:09 – Final tips for managing expectations and execution

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If you’re trying to break 85, you need to change the way you think about the math, the strategy, and your mindsets. We’re going to go ahead and engineer how you break 85. We’re going to give you the actual statistics behind how you go out there and play six holes that you play well. Six holes, you kind of are struggling. And then six holes, you’re a total disaster. Yeah. Great up and down. We can still make good up and down, but we’ve got to strategize that neither of us missed it right in the junk in a steep bunker. We have to hit this green in regulation. Well, I know what you’re going to do. You’re going to hit driver. So, let’s go ahead and rip driver and take a look at it. The first place to start with is the math of green in regulation because I feel like we all try to hit the green on every single hole as you know a tour pro does, but that’s not how you shoot 85. Yeah. One of the one of the best stats I’ve ever It’s an equation that somebody showed me. It’s way too intelligent for me to understand it to even come up with it. So, don’t think this is mine. But what you do is to figure out score you do 95 minus brackets GIR greens in regulation times two. So you minus that from 95. So if you if you’re a tour player okay they hit 13 greens around. So 13 * 2 26 26 minus that from 95 69. That’s what a tour player will shoot right. So somebody who’s say like a five handicap. So they’re going to go ahead. Let’s say they hit 10 greens around, right? 10 * 2 20 20 minus that 75. So maybe a little bit lower than a five, right? So for us, all we’ve got to do is hit six screens around cuz 6 * 2 12 12 minus from 95 85 83 83. Right? So the idea is think about this is instead of being aggressive and trying to play the hard holes, well, this is what most people that think if I got to shoot low 80s, I got to play the stroking X one and two really well. I got to get out there and play the hardest holes well. No, you don’t. You just need to make bogeies and a couple doubles. What we got to do is on the easy holes, we’ve just got to go out there and hit the greens and reg and guarantee ourselves six pars. Cuz if we hit six greens, you might have a birdie, you might have a three putt. We’re even par through six. Okay, then we got the six holes where we’re a little bit shaky. We’re around the green, we chip on, we miss the putt. So imagine if we could play those six holes in four over par. So we get up and down twice. So we’re saying, you know, 30% of the time you chip on and make one putt. Okay, we’re left with six holes. We’re four over par. All you got to do is shoot eight over, which is we’re going to show you that you can literally make two doubles and four bogeies. Mhm. Which you’d think is no, no, no. To shoot 80, 82, 83, 84, I got to play great golf. No, you just need to not have a disaster. We’re going to go ahead and be eight over, four over, that’s 12 over, that’s an 83. Y, so we’re engineering how to break 85. All right, let’s look at the scorecard and figure out what holes we got to focus on that are easy when what holes the hard holes that we, you know, we might make a double on these. And you and you got to do that before you play. If if you’re playing your home course, it’s super easy. You know the holes that you can play well. You know the holes that are difficult, right? If you go to a new course, we’re going to show you look at the course handicap, look at the length of the hole, and start to get an idea of just by going off of handicap. All right, let’s do it. Let’s do it. So, let’s talk about the six holes. So, if it’s your home club, you know the holes. You know the holes that you have the blowup holes. You know the holes that you can take advantage of. But at some courses, you’re not going to know it. So, you’re going to have to work off of the handicap on the scorecard and basically the length of the hole. So, let’s take a look. As I said, most people don’t plan. They get on a T- box, they grab a driver cuz it’s a par four. They never actually bother to take a look at the handicap. And this is showing which how hard the hole is. So, this is the 17th easiest hole in the course. So, that’s one that we’re going to hit the green on. So, we’re going to expect to play that in even par. So, that’s a level, right? The next hole is one of the hardest holes on the course. So, we’re going to play that in plus one. Okay. Another tough hole, plus one. Easy hole, even par. mid hole. Remember, we can play those in four over par, right? So, we do a plus one again. So, if you go through this and you see the plan score, this is the hardest hole on the course. This is the one that we know that we are allowed to double. So, that’s a plus two. That gives us a 42. Right now, we go to the back n. Where’s the hardest hole? It’s the hole we’re about to play right now. We’re the we’re going to play the 12th hole and that’s going to be one of the ones that we play. That’s a plus two. Okay. And then obviously the easiest holes on the course like 18, it’s an even. But if you do this, this is 4241. This is an 83. My point being here is is that if you actually got on the T- box instead of just grabbing driver, you looked at the scorecard and said, “How hard is this hole and you took you had the respect to say it’s a tough hole, let’s go out there and play for a strategy of making bogey, which again, if you’re a 12 handicap or a 10 handicap, you get a stroke here anyway.” So it’s a five net four. Yep. Yep. Okay, let’s do it. Okay, so we’re on the easiest hole in the course. This is the first group of six holes. Yep. What does our approach need to be? Cuz I know some of you trying to break 85 can hit it like 260, 270. So you might be tempted like, “All right, I’m going to grab the driver here and we’re going to get it close cuz I got to be close to chip it.” Are we just laying way back? What What do What’s our mindset on this? Well, I know what you’re going to do. You’re going to driver. So, let’s go ahead and rip driver and take a look at it. I mean, why not? Let’s just be honest. Yeah, but I’m not trying I’m not trying No, no. Get a driver. Give it a rip. We’re going to get this on drone footage landing on the green part for eagle. We’ve even got our technology out here cuz Cody likes to know exactly what his data looks like on every single shot. So, come on. Watch this everybody. This is We’ll just hit the baby one here. We don’t All right. So, driver 296. We’re going to hit the the 115 club head speed 280 carry shot. See if we can do it here. Oh, Healey. Okay. Now, that’s what you want to do. I get it. You know, you do sometimes occasionally hit it 280, 290 and you feel like I can get after this. But the point being is we have to hit this green in regulation. The first one Cordy hit before we started filming, he ripped it over the green into the water hazard, which means he wouldn’t have hit the green regulation. He’s now got a 50 yard bunker shot, which means he’s not going to hit the green regulation. Yes. Are you in between those two bunkers? Okay. Well, my eyesight isn’t good enough. But the point is, what I would just suggest to us to do here is 200 yards. Let’s put a 200 yard club out there. Get your hybrid out, a fivewood, a sixiron, 5 iron, whatever. You hit about 180 to 190. Let’s leave ourselves 120 yards in and ensure that we hit this green regulation. You show us just a 200 yard. This ain’t going to go less than that. You You can hit it. I’m hitting 180 yards and we got 120 yards into the green. Oh boy. We’re not going to get into this club data cuz this this technology So on these easy holes, you got to keep the ball in play. Got to keep the ball in play. Absolutely. Yeah, that’s perfect. Yeah, and I mean that’s probably 180 yards. I’m going to have 130 something like that into the green. I’m totally fine with that. Okay. All right, let’s see it. That was 174 carry. Very accurate. Well done. Here we go. Okay, let’s hit let’s hit the easy shot. Keep it in play. This is as low stress as it gets, I think. Perfect. I even pulled it and hooked it. Did I choose the right club? Sandwich into the green. Yeah. So, I mean, I I think the biggest thing, Cord, is is that what we’ve got to help people to do is have become better caddies for themselves because if they had a caddy, a caddy would tell them to do this if they were playing this course. So, it’s about having better foresight. Like, what’s the idea here? So, of 125 yards, I haven’t made any swings today. So, I’m just going to go for the middle of the green. It doesn’t matter where the pin is. I have to hit this green to get my par, right? So, I’m going to a take a take a target right in the middle of the green. And then second of all, I’m taking a little bit extra club. I’m take a pitching wedge so I can swing nice and easy. I’m not going to try and hit anything hard and just try and put in the middle of the green. That looks good. Sit a little. Nice. Great shot on the green. Here we go. You happen to hit it to 10 ft. Happened to hit 10 ft. I’ll take that. All right, let’s get on to yours. Here we go. Just right of the flag. Gross. Okay. Just on the back edge. Yeah, that’s fine. Like I said, it don’t need to be don’t need to be close. We can two putt it. So, here’s uh this drive is great. It’s a good position up here where you really can So, take take all take all the risk. Take all the risk with driver. This is what I’m I’m built for here. Ready? Oh, boy. That’s in the back bunker. So, anyway, I’m glad you took driver there, Courtney. That was purely everybody just to show you that I was that was purely just to show you that to break 85 we do not need to take that much risk. Okay. So the easiest holes we kept our ball in play off the tea. Yep. We hit the green. Hit the middle of the green. Anywhere on the green. Yep. And now two putt and get out of here. Two putt and get out. Right. Even though maybe I’ve got like a 12 12T putt and I’m thinking birdie. It’s like no you just can’t three putt it. Right. And again I know that sounds negative everybody but the point is we’re just playing for the math. We’re just looking for the math here. So let’s go and see it. Yeah. Is this the range where you’re more likely to three putt it than one putt it right here? Right. So, yeah. 28T. 28T is the number for an 18 handicap. Yeah. I mean, we’re right there. So, this is delicate as it gets inside 4T. Great putt. Um, let’s throw it up over here and see. No, you got to make that. This is not not good leg putting. First putt of the day, tell you that. There he is. Easy tap in. Take my paw. Yeah. [Music] All right. Very nice. So, simplicity. Get on six screens. That’s the goal, right? Get on the six screens or six holes on the golf course. I get it. You might get on some other ones, right? That’s good. But you also might miss some of the easy ones as well. But six greens is what we need. That means go for the middle of the green. Take extra club because most of the time you do missit it a little bit, right? So get the yardage to the from the flag to the back of the green. Try and get that extra club in. Put it in play. Get it on the green two putt and get out of there. We’re not trying to make birdies. If we make a birdie, that’s a bonus. We’re trying to make six pars. Okay. Those are the the skills that you need for these easy holes are hit something out there 180 to 200 in play, I would say. Right. You got to be able to hit an iron shot at the middle of the green. Y and then leg putting, right? Those are skills. And again, I would say off the T- box though, it may be it’s a wide open hole so you can hit driver. If it’s an easy hole on the golf course, I mean, take what you can do. If you can bomb driver down there and there’s no trouble, that’s why it’s an easy hole. So really the goal really is don’t start to go flag hunting and miss the green and then cause yourself to make a bogey. Okay, let’s go next. We’ve got the next six holes where they’re kind of hard. Yeah, the ones where it might get a little bit difficult, might be scrambling a little bit. Yeah, let’s do it. All right, let’s go. All right, so let’s talk about the six medium holes. These are the four over holes that we got to play, right? Yep. So par three here, 180 yards. Yep. It is stroke index eight. So again, a hole like this, right? You can make a bogey here, right? So it frees you up. So really, what we’re saying is this is a par4 because we put a we put a bogey down on this. Yeah, cuz it’s stroke index eight, right? You mean? So it’s a one of the middle holes. So we’ve got a bogey here. So the thing is is I look at this, we’ve got um 172 yards slightly uphill. Okay. So if we look at the drone footage, if we go ahead and look at the shot pattern app, well, yeah, I play this hole many times. You’re going to make a bogey at least if you hit it and you’re drops off like crazy off to the right there. Not fun. So anywhere here like you know to me that’s where I’d be trying to go. I wouldn’t even try and get to that bunker because I don’t need to be on the green. What I’ve got to I can’t shortside myself. So you know I just don’t want to be stuck in this in this bunker over here. I would like to be somewhere in the front left of the green or short left inside of 25 yards with an easy opportunity to chip onto the green. two-part. Make a bogey and get out of here. Yep. One of the keys that we’re gonna talk about is chipping on these holes, right? Because that’s what this is all about, getting up and down on these. Yeah. So, let’s let’s hit our shots, then we’ll go up to the green. So, we got 170 number. So, I’m going to play Yeah, but I think he’s playing at 180 uphill. I’m going to play my 170 club. You want me to hit it short, too? Uh, you can do whatever you want to do. I mean, after the last hole, I’m not sure if you have the capability to actually Don’t worry, kids. You’ll see that here in the future because we do we filmed these out of order. So, you can’t make that joke, can you? He He He hasn’t You haven’t yet seen his top. Sometime in in the future, I might not hit an iron. Well, you never know what’s going to happen around here. Okay, so just left of the flag. It short of the bunker. Just short of it. Yeah, I think just short. All right. I might just, you know, try to hit it on the green here. Okay, a little downwind. We’re going to hit an eight. Gosh, that is teed up too high. Who did that? That luck. Yanked it a touch. Okay. Is it right? Bunker. Is it? Yeah. Okay. So, short left of the bunker. Again, the mentality here though is like I don’t have to force myself to get up and down. I’d love to get down in two from here. So, I’m not going to take a ton of loft though. Little nine iron. Landed on the green. Roll it down there. Sit down. Sit. Sit. Yeah, it’s not too bad though. So, just past the hole. I think the biggest thing uh you know, you talk about taking less loft with chips and stuff around the green is most people say like, “Ah, I’d still do better with my 60°ree.” And I guess the comment back to would be like, have you ever practiced or trained hitting those shots? And the answer is always no. No. And have you ever hit 10? Hit 10 from here with your hybrid, 10 with a nine iron, 10 with a sand wedge and prove it to yourself that yeah, you hit two or three really nice ones and you chunk one short and you blade one over. So the average you’re going to be better off with a nine iron, right? Yeah. I love that. Everyone should train and test. I mean, that’s the simple way. Absolutely. Train it and prove it to yourself. Train hard and think. So now you’re on the short side, right? So, we missed it in the bunker. So, this this is the whole thing here, right? If if I would have taken less club, less club like I told you. Yeah, you you had enough club cuz again, guys, Cody keeps forgetting we’re trying to break 85 here and he doesn’t shoot 85 at all. So, point being is he you’re thinking of playing your own game. So, now here we are in the bunker downhill, a running away. Now, it’s still easy enough to chunk it out and make a bogey, right? But it’s, you know, this isn’t an up and down for par, right? I think if you play the hole 10 times, I’d rather be short 10 times than this bunker over there in these these places. All right, let’s see if we can. Nicely done. Go in. Go in. Almost. Okay. All right. So, we got one here for par. If it drops, it’s a bonus, right? But again, it’s over 8 ft, which means it’s less than 50%. Not trying to be negative, but just get the pace right. See what happens. Just low, but again, easy four now for you, Sir Cordy. Yeah, you got the chance to Let’s see if I can. I’ll let you pick that one out when you know you can make it. Okay, here we go. Can we make it? You can do this, Cordy. Yeah. Great up and down. That is a good up and down. So I think the beauty there shows though Cord is that the idea behind the strategy is again, you know, we can still make good up and downs. We can still make good putts, but we’ve got to strategize that neither of us missed it right in the junk in a steep bunker, right? And again, I almost made mine for par. That would have been great. You made yours for par. But again, my goal on this hole was a bogey, so I’m on track with my round. It’s all about that. I mean, understanding where am I going to shortside myself. Okay, let’s not do that because that that’s going to lead to the double to double bogey. Exactly. Yeah. And on that hole, we don’t we don’t want to make that. Yeah. Okay. So, we’re on hole 12, stroke index two. Y. So, again, the first thing I want someone to do is before they just grab a driver and go, I got to go and play. Oh, and it’s a tough hole. Is it’s stroke index two, I get two shots here. Yeah. So, so if I was gambling with you and I told you, listen, for $1,000, if you can make a double here, Yeah. I’ll give you a,000 bucks. You wouldn’t take a club that could go in those trees, would you? I mean, you just bunt something out there. And I’m not trying to like be totally lame and say hit six off every T- box, but to me the the 80 the 85 shooter why they shoot 95 is they play this hole aggressively. I got to hit a great drive and a great 3-wood and get on the green. I’m like, no, that’s what you’re not going to do because the statistically you’re not going to do that. What we’ve got to do is take the trouble off out of play and just get inside of a 100. Yeah. Instead of trying to get on the green regulation, if we get inside of 100, we can wedge on two part get a bogey. Now we’re one ahead of our score, which means we’re going to shoot an 82. Yep. And we’re just playing easy. So, this is my home club, so I’ve seen a lot of people play this. Most people get in trouble cuz they take driver and they’re going to hit it here and they’re going to slice it more than they think. Absolutely. So, then they’re like literally 250 plus, right? Into the green, take it there, miss it, chip, chip, putt, putt, and we’re six, seven, eight. Yeah, exactly. So, it’s like that’s that’s what happens here. That’s how people get. So, the thing is is like like I’m going to go ahead and tee off. I’m going to just say that most people who again, if you’re shooting, you know, that 90, 88, 87, and you wish you were in the low 80s, you’re getting out a club here that’s playing too aggressive. Right now, again, for my senior golfers who hit their drivers dead straight and they hit it 175, of course, you’re going to play driver here because that’s your go-to club. But I want to see a go-to club that if anything, I’ll hit it in the bunker on the left, Cordy. I don’t care about that cuz I can play it out of the bunker, get it inside of 100 yards. How long is this hole? 420. No, your question. Uh 411. 411. Okay. Now, if I hit driver on that line, I’m in the junk, aren’t I? There I am perfectly in the fairway. Right. But you get what I’m saying? If I hit driver, I’m down the right hand side of the fairway. Hit it way further right than I wanted. I’ve lost my golf ball and I’m dropping and I’m going to make a double if not a triple. So, this is the shot pattern app. So, this is the hole we’re on. Um, you can see if I hit at 200, I’ve got just at least 80 yards. Yeah. And that’s pretty much where I’m at. Right now, I’m right about there on the right side right there. Whereas, if I hit driver, you know, I am on that same line here. Going up there. Yeah. Go 250. I’m right there. You know what I mean? Yeah. So it leaves a long shot, but it but but it doesn’t because five it doesn’t because you’re not trying to get on the green in two. Oh, sure. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Like this is the second hardest hole on the golf course. Think about this. The best players in the world hit 13 greens in regulation. They don’t hit the 30 the hardest holes in regulation. They hit the easiest holes in regulation. So again, your goal is not to hit this green. That’s where the pressure is coming from is to shoot break 80. To to shoot 65, you have to hit driver here. Yeah. Do you know what I’m saying? But we’re not trying to break par. We’re trying to break 85. Yeah. Oh yeah, we’re just feeling fresh. Just off of those bunkers, right? Just fresh. Yeah, just out of the bunkers. Aim at the house is what I is the the line on this hole. Is that good? That’s perfect. You ripped it. That was so solid, guys. The sound of that was so crisp. I mean, that sounded that sounded like the clanging of a drum of a the Roman Empire just after they had just won a battle. It was so good. I’m not going to play this hole. Ladies and gentlemen, that was thin. In fact, I think you’d call that a top. But the point being is you’re still in play. And most of you are going to go crazy about this. But Cordy, I’m going to have you get up a seven iron out. Go down there. You don’t need to get in the cart. You can walk to it. and he’s going to hit a seven and get inside the scoring zone and still have an opportunity to go ahead and make his bogey. This is the highlight of my YouTube career since I bring out the best in you, don’t I? I really do. It’s like my goodness, that was so good. Take your seven. Don’t get in the cart. Take your seven. We’re going to go walk. Good lord. I don’t know what’s going on. Okay, we’re just out here making a video. I’m trying to hit the shots. It’s not easy. That’s what you guys got to understand. You didn’t have your uh your shot technology on that one. So, we don’t know the ball speed. Yeah, we didn’t measure that one. We should have We didn’t get the measurement. Does it measure a top? Carry one yard. Yeah. Okay. It’s just unedited beauty is what this is. We got the We got a drone follow shot of that top as well, which is probably one of the greatest shots we’ve ever gotten. I think I’m going to send that footage to the golf club and say like, “Hey, if you need any promo materials like for the golf course, here’s how cool it looks.” Okay, so here we are. But my point being is is that let’s just go ahead blast one down there. For most of you be a hybrid. We’re going to take cordi seven. I don’t want you to take threewood. My point is a lot of times golf I got to make it all up here. My point is no, you don’t. Just put a seven iron down towards the houses. Get ourselves opportunity to get on the green and then two. Can we recover from this? So, I hit the bottom of the ball this time. Okay. Thank you for your advice. That was more of the ball. That went three times farther than my t-shirt. But I but I think that’s where people don’t understand golf. They they struggle because they think they shouldn’t do that. Whereas, if they accepted that that’s a once a round, you’re going to hit a bad drive. But if your bad drive is a top or it’s a hook into a bunker and not a lost golf ball, so that’s a a good miss. It’s in play. Do you know what I’m saying? versus what if you’d have bombed your driver on that line and you lose your golf ball. Yeah. Okay. We’re at your we’re at your two iron here. Two iron. And just like I said, if I hit driver, I’m knocking it in the junk and I’m taking a penalty. But this is the perfect thing here. Right here. I’m 20 I think I’m 205 out. Right. And this is where inevitably you’re probably thinking if I can get it on the green. You’re on a hook lie with a tree in front of you and a water hazard. OB left in a bunker. And it’s this this thing of like look, you just I just need to hit the 150 yard shot and leave it short left to the green. Yeah. I I got to be in a position where I can chip on. If I miss it to the right, I’m shortsided in the bunker. It’s going to be really really difficult. So the mentality here is what I’ll hear golfers say is well I mean I might miss it with an eight iron or a seven iron. And I’m like that’s not true. Like statistically if you hit a 100 golf balls on on Trackman or GC quad, you’d see that you’re more consistent with an eight iron than you are a five iron off the sidehill lie or a fivewood. So, it’s the patience of now to me playing this like a par three because I’m just trying to get inside of the scoring zone, you know what I mean? I’m not I’m not trying to hit this onto the green and anything left of the green works just fine, you know? So, I’m just going to keep it just right of the bunker. Just aiming left left edge of the green of that tree. It’s exactly where I wanted it. Should be about 20 30 yards short of the green. Yep. Okay. So, someone’s going to say, “You know what? I could I could have hit my hybrid and I could have gotten it. It’s that I mean, there’s plenty of room up there. I could have pushed it up there.” Yeah. Exactly. And that’s that same person who shoots 93. You know what I’m saying? Now, talking to you, Cord, you’re standing here. It’s a seven iron from you from 205. Of course, you can do this. We’re not doing break 75 and we’re not doing a video shoot 65. We’re doing a video that’s called break 85, which is you take your hybrid off of this the the 90 shooter and block it, right? Hit the tree, drop into the hazard, and make a triple. You’re actually Yeah, that’s 100% or off of this sidehill. You actually tow hook it and hook it out of bounds. Yeah. And it’s numbers. So, I’m just saying is you you just you’ve got to be willing to get it inside the scoring zone, which is inside of 100 yards, wedge on two, and get the heck out of here with a bogey and be happy because this is the second hardest hole on the golf course. You beat your goal of you beat your goal of a double bogey. Exactly. Let’s see if I can make a a bogey from my Yeah. drive. Perfect T- shot. My great T- shot. Penetrating T-OT. Very Scottish. If I would have hit driver instead of four iron, I would have been sitting right here. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It would have been even lower. All right. 140 the pin all the way in the back. Okay. So, if if the pin was more in the front, it would almost be 105. Pin in the middle, it’s 120. It’s 140. But the point is from here, I would say most people that can shoot 8283, I would say that from here, it’s realistic to go to the middle of the green and try and get something on the green. And if you miss a little bit to the left, so we can just put it onto the green from there. Yep. All right. I mean, the goal doesn’t change whether it’s an easy hole or this hole. It’s hit it on the green, right? Yeah. Get it on the green. Absolutely. And again, just think about it. There’s a ball. There’s the top part that you hit on the first shot. The middle part you hit on the second shot. And this one we’re going to try and hit more towards the bottom of the ball. And the ball goes up. Ah. When you go down. I thought we were supposed to keep it on the ground. Well, yeah. you know, getting ready for bandon and everything, but very nice. Ooh, 20 foot of a par. Yeah. But my point is, you didn’t you didn’t try and make everything up on one shot. He didn’t try and hit a glory shot with a 3-wood and try and get down there for no reason. Cuz even if you’d have hit a 3-wood, you know, okay, he gets an extra 70, 80, 90 yards, but you’re in a bunker in a water hazard. Now he’s got a putt for par. If you miss it, you got your easy bogey. I would say like one of the things that I see so often here from people who are struggling to shoot in the low 80s and break 80 is trying to fly this one back there. You know what I mean? I I would much prefer to see a consistent shot with maybe a pitching wedge or a gap wedge and run it back there and not try and fly it. Uh, again, the mindset, not trying to be negative, but I’ve only got to get down in three from here. So, I’m just trying to chase something back there, land it on the front of the green, and run it back there. Well, you’re just trying to eliminate either the the kind of the chunk that ends up, you know, 60 ft short or Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Just I feel like that’s going to run all the way back there. pulled it a little bit, but again, to me, it’s an easier little pitch shot. Keeping it on the ground, getting it back there. And again, I’ve now got a putt for par, but I don’t need to make it. I don’t need to force myself to try and make this cuz I’m just playing to the numbers. I’m just I know that I can make a double on this hole. If I make a bogey, I’m kind of one up on my round, you know? All right, Cordy. So, here I go. I’m going to lag put this one down if I make it. Delicious. Nice shot in there, by the way. Yeah. Nice. Really good. Okay. But an easy five, right? Yeah. So, I’m one ahead because I didn’t make my double on this hole. All right. Let’s see if we can for the most epic par. But I don’t want you to try and jam par in. I want an easy bogey. Oh, he’s done it. He’s done it. No. Stay short. Thank you. Oh, I didn’t want I didn’t want anybody thinking that this was like, you know, we use multiple shots on these scenes. These are all real here, people. All right. I I That is a success regardless of handicap and skill level. Happy with the bogey there. Yeah. Top to top to four iron. Top to four iron. Seven iron down the fairway. What did you get into the green? Nine iron. 50 50°. Yeah. He hits a long way this guy. It’s a lot of speed training. I don’t know if you’ve seen any of those videos, but check those out. Um, and then again for me to position myself just short of the green, pitch it up onto the green, made my bogey. That’s well done. So, recapping the hard holes, the six hard holes. What most of you are thinking is, I’ve got to play really well here. It’s like, no, just the this is where you’re going to make big mistakes. So, off the tea box, it’s not where you get aggressive. You’re actually more passive on these tough holes than you are on the middle and the short holes cuz you know that there’s room to miss on those. here. There’s no room to miss. So, first thing is play safe off the tea. Thoughts on that? Yeah. Well, I mean it’s what I take away is we almost on the hard holes ramp up the tension. Yep. Because we feel like we need to play better on these holes when it’s we need the exact opposite on these tough holes. We need less tension so we can actually maybe hit a golf because there is water. It is long. It’s a tough green and there’s out of bounds on the left. So, it is tough. So, this is why you got to take, you know, your double bogey up front and say, “Okay, all I got to do to try and get inside the scoring zone.” And then once you’re inside the scoring zone, even for yours, hit for the middle of the green. Everything we’ve been doing on the easy and the middle holes, hit for the middle of the green. If you if you’re not sure if you can get on the green because you’re a little bit further away, miss to the long side. Do not shortside yourself in that bunker cuz that’s going to lead to a double or even higher. Yeah. So, don’t like force yourself to hit the perfect shot on these holes. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Like take the easy shot, lower the tension. Yeah. And again, some of you might be saying, “But well, you know, I still hit these bad shots.” So do I. Cody just topped it. The point being is you have to have intention before you go out there. And most of us are just going out there and just getting on the tea box, hitting and seeing what comes rather than coming with a strategy of this is how I’m going to play the hole. Can I execute it? And then the way to do that is obviously pick a strategy that reduces tension. Okay. So we’ve run through your full strategy, right? And really, it’s a mindset shift of having intention before we go play. Yeah. Which first of all, none of us do that. Whether honestly whether you’re trying to break par or break 85, we don’t do that. And that’s truthful because every time I hear Cordy going out and playing in qualifiers, it’s like, hey, I made seven birdies and had three triples. And I’m like, if I just gattied for you, we could have had three birdies and shot 69. But it is the thing. And one of the things I’d say to all of you is, look, this isn’t easy. You’re not going to get it the first time because one of two things are going to happen. You’re going to go out there and play really good and it’s going to be like I’m doing really really well. I’m go I’m I shot a 41 on the front. Oh, and then hit driver here and then have a terrible back n because you get out of rhythm or you’re going to feel flustered because you’re thinking too much. Oh, this is stupid. This will guy British guy, why the hell is he allowed in this country and and then you’re going to figure out a way to go back to your old way of doing it. So, my thing to you is just try and track it on the round pre-round and then during the round. And at the end of the round, it’s sort of like you’re playing match play against the course. It’s like, hey, I was allowed to make a bogey here and I made a par. You’re one up. And so, you’re really playing match play against 85. And that’s the fun part about it. But it does take discipline. It does take patience and it’s going to take you time. And you’re not going to get it right every time. You’re still going to hit bad hole shots. You’re still going to struggle. You still might make a triple. But if I made a par on that one that I had to bogey, I’m actually tied with my round. Yep. Yep. So, let’s talk about the six easy holes. We got to make sure we’re hitting the middle of the green. I know we’ve all heard this. Yeah. Difficult to do. Easy. Easy to hear. Yeah, but but at least aim for the middle of the green, take extra club, you know, and and don’t go chasing after flag sticks, right? So, just get yourself on six screens in a round and we’re going to be doing great. If you can get on seven or eight, it makes it even easier. The middle holes, it’s all about understanding short side. So, we have those easy chips. Yeah, easy chips. Even like, you know, if you take less club and don’t even get to the green, but somewhere I can putt onto the green, hit a hybrid onto the green, but not a flop shot, not a lob shot, not a bunker shot, because it’s too difficult and you’re going to drop shots there. I I just played a golf course the other day where every green was back to front and it was just you get behind the pin and it was just like well yep this this is a yeah and we’re not getting this up and down. So it’s like understanding where those parts are in your course is super important. Uh and then we’ve got our final six holes which are the hard ones we’re going to make. We might make a couple doubles. We can still break 85 even if we do that. Yeah. And this is where you’ve got to back off. And again I think this is the biggest thing most of you are thinking to to even think about especially breaking 80. I got to play this hole is amazing. No you don’t. You just cannot make a triple on those holes. Don’t make a seven. Don’t put a seven on the scorecard. You’ve got to play those holes passively. So instead of trying to hit a perfect drive and a great, you know, fairway wood would onto the green. Realize I got to get inside of a 100. Just get a three-wood off the tea. Or if you, you know, put the ball in play at all costs. Even if it’s topping a seven iron, okay, or as a four iron topped a four iron, okay? And then don’t try and even get close to the green. Put yourself in 100 yards. And then when you’re inside of 100, don’t go at the flag stick. Go for the middle of the green. in two part and get out of there. So, what you’re going to find is it’s about being very passive and it’s about having great foresight. You know, as we talk about most most scorecards, most data apps, they give you hindsight, which is, “Hey, dumbass, you shouldn’t have hit N, you should have hit eight iron. You shouldn’t hit driver. You should have laid up.” The point is foresight is having a great caddy. Someone who’s going to say to you, “Just lay up with an eight iron. Don’t worry, just hit a seven iron to play. Just chip it onto the green with a nine iron. Don’t take the risky shot.” Like you’ve got to start to think and strategize like a great caddy so it matches up with your expectations and your skill sets. But most of you your expectations are here and your skill sets down here. And the gap is the frustration that you’re trying so hard to play at this level when to shoot your school. You actually have to play at a way lower level. And that’s where tension comes in is in the gap and we all live. Tension and frustration. Absolutely. And so this hopefully will help us all lower that break 85. Uh this is great. Super fun. I never thought about a strategy like this. Bringing the holes up into this, going through handicap. When was the last time you looked at the handicap of a hole and like actually thought about the how you should play it based on that? So, I love it. This is great. Thanks, Will. Absolutely. Good stuff. Boom. [Music]