9 Golf Tips You Need To Break 90 99% of the time

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I’m going to give you nine pieces of knowledge that you need to know to break 90 99% of the time. Why? Because people love alliteration. And we’re going to play nine holes. So, if you’re thinking you’re one of the people that can’t break 90, you’re wrong. Anyone can break 90. As long as you’re not a brand new golfer and you can move the ball that direction, you can break 90. And I’m going to tell you how you could do that even if you are not having a good day. Now, one of the first things that you need to know is breaking 90 allows for a lot of mistakes. If you’re playing a par 70, you can have a bogey on every single hole and still break. You shoot an 88. Math. If you’re playing a par 72, you you only need one par. So, you don’t need good golf. So, what does that mean in terms of playing golf? Well, let’s first break down the first piece of knowledge that you need to know is you don’t need much to actually break 90. But one of the first most important things in priority that you need to do is not lose the ball. So, how do we not lose the ball? Well, you don’t pick clubs that will lose the ball. I’m going to play two different shots, two different balls. I hit a light five iron out there, probably like 160. That’s not how far my five iron usually goes, but this I’m just showing you the point. play a slice, you need to always be looking what’s on the right side of the course. Because on this kind of hole, if you play a slice, you can’t play a slice here because there’s trees blocking a left. And if you go right, you’re out of bounds. So automatically, it is not a driver hole if you play a slice. So if you have a really bad T-OT, okay, well now I chose a more aggressive approach cuz I wanted some distance. And now what are we? Now, we’re automatically one back because we hit a bad T-OT because I chose the more aggressive approach. So, you can see with our T-ot. Well, you can’t see, but we didn’t go very far with the T-OT. And that’s for a certain point. Hitting the ball a short way off the T, you can hit the ball 100 yards off the T and you can still break 90. It doesn’t require that much. But as long as you don’t lose the ball off the tea, you will be in a good direction. Now, the mistake that people think when they’re not hitting it very far off the tea is, okay, well, now I have to get it up there. I have like 230 left. Well, I now I need to get something way up there. When reality is, you don’t need to. Remember, you only need bogeies. You don’t need pars. So, all I can do, I can just chip another one up there and still be all right. But we’re playing in the rough today. So, as long as you are not losing the ball and wasting a complete shot off the tee, well, then you’re going to be in a much better place 90% of the time when trying to break 90. Oh, go in. Oh, now this is our par chance. So, all we need to do is two putt from here and we’re okay. And we didn’t hit any solid shots all the way down here. We just hit very simple punch shots with a five iron and it’s fine and we got the bogey and it’s very simple. So you don’t need any length and aggression off the tee because that’s going to lose you the ball or put you in a mistake where I am now required to take an extra shot that is not going to move me forward and then we’re just wasting. We’re just wasting. Another good piece of knowledge combined with don’t lose the ball off the tea is that your T-shot is free. Now, this is the philosophy golf sidekick talks about a lot. But if you think about it in this way of adding plus one to every single hole, let’s say you have 400 yard par4, that’s pretty intimidating to a lot of golfers, especially new golfers. Now, let’s say you had a 250 yard par4. That’s pretty simple. Most people are like, I’m going to go for the green. And that is what you can envision with these T- shots. So I could take a nine iron off of here and chop off 150 yards off of this club or a seven iron, whatever your 150 yard club is. But I could take a 150 yard shot and take off 150 yards for free off the tea. And let me explain a little bit more. And I know my 150 yard club, I’m not going to lose the ball. So now we only have 210 yards left into the green. That’s very simple. I could do a 110 shot and a 110 shot. Two wedges and still good off for par. But you can choose your most confident club in this point. I’m going to choose a seven iron and just chip one up there because we only have two 10 left and we’re playing for the bogey. So the T-OT subtracted 150 yards for me. So from now this is my new T- box. Oh, we hit it left. That’s fine. So, in reality, you just want to choose your most confident club off the tee. Doesn’t matter if it’s 100 yards. Doesn’t matter if it’s 150. It can be 200. But anything that you’re not going to lose the ball, hit that off the tea. Don’t lose the ball. And now you subtracted that much distance from the rest of the hole. And now you just play that as the par four, the par three, the par five. I didn’t think I would hit that. Wow. Now, rule number three to breaking 90 is to know and be honest with your numbers. Now, you may think you hit the driver far, but you don’t because you don’t hit it consistently enough to do that. Collars are. So, if I don’t know my numbers and I’m hitting driver now, I could be deluding myself thinking I hit it 280. Maybe in reality I hit a 220, but if I don’t know my numbers and I’m trying to delude myself into thinking I hit it further than I actually do, well, I don’t know how to play proper course management because I don’t what this club takes into account. So, is it going to take into account that water? Is it going to potentially go out of bounds? Is there a bunker in the way? Well, I don’t know because I’m not being honest with myself with the club. So, if I think I hit it really far, but I hit a slice, well, now I hit it into the water because why? I mean, what was the reward of actually hitting driving it there when I don’t know the distance that it actually goes? So, instead, once you learn your numbers, well, then you need to be honest with yourself of, okay, well, I know I’m going to hit this five iron. Let’s just say it goes 180. Well, I know 180 now. I can look on the GPS or I can zap it. It’s in that big open area. when now I know I can play proper course management because all I need to do is aim for that big open area and that’s the safest spot and we’re applying the other rules of not losing the ball into this. So I don’t even need to hit it that far. But now I am safe. I’m not in the water because I did not choose a stupid club that I’m trying to envision. Well, how far do I actually hit it? I don’t really know. yada yada yada. You got to be honest with yourself on how far you hit your clubs. I don’t have too many balls for to be risking like that for demonstration purposes, but we’re going to continue. So now, let’s say I have 155 yards left. If I don’t know properly which club goes between 135 and 165, which is the range of the green, it’s going to be very hard for me to choose which club to hit. Because if I choose the wrong club, we’re not even talking about lies yet, but if I choose the wrong club, I could be in the water. So, if I don’t know my distances yet, well, then I would want to play the safest shot possible. Let me show you the shot and let me show you the risky shot. So, the risky shot would be going for the green, obviously. Now, if you are confident with your club, your 155 club, you know what club that is, well then you could just hit that ball and you’re completely fine. I might even be in the hole. But if you hit it chunky or if you hit a little short, well, then you could be possibly in the water. And if you don’t know your distances, I just played with a few people. Don’t know the distances. They’re choosing three different clubs for the same yardage every other hole. Well, then all you need to do is chip it into somewhere safe. I’m going to avoid all the water. And I’m just going to bunt one down there because we don’t need the pars. Remember, we just need bogeies. So now I’m just going to put myself into a wedge range and go from there. Now, wedges are another area where you need to learn how do I manipulate this club to hit different distances. Can’t always full swing. So, if you know your 100 yard swing with your club, that’s the best way to learn how to take things off because now I can just hit halfway down if I need to hit a 50 yard shot or 80% in my mind if I need to hit a 80 yard shot. But if I need to hit a 100 yard shot, well, then I know it’s my full swing. So, learning how to control your wedges is going to be a very important skill. But if you can leave yourself into wedges where they’re a little bit more full, not hard swings, you may be better off. So that requires better course management, which we’ll talk more about. But we see now we have two different holes, two different approaches. One is for par and the other one is birdie because I took the safe approach off the tea and I know my numbers. Oo, a little aggressive. Of course, you leave that one short. What are you doing? Rule number four is you are allowed to lay up more than you actually think you should. You got to get your ego out of the way and recognize when you can or cannot hit the shot. Can you get the ball on the tea? What? In the case of this, we are going to go for it. Bald eagle. Now, we’re going to go for one and then we’re going to lay up on the other one. And it’s going to take two different decisions on that process. Now, if I have a confident 160 club, great. If I know I’m going to hit that shot nine times out of 10, I can go for it. If I don’t know I’m going to hit it nine times out of 10, you want to lay up even on a par three because if I look at this direction, there’s water and way to the left is out of bounds. So, if I need to lay up, I’m just going to chip one out there into that little collection fairway area, not risk the water, and just be completely safe because it’s better than losing a ball into the water and needing to rete or drop it into a potentially bad area. So, I just chipped one out there into the little collection area. And now, we’re going to have a very easy wedge, if not a putt on. And I’m going to hit an aggressive one and see can we make it. Now, nine times out of 10, we know we’re going to hit this club very hard. We know we’re going to hit this club where Dude, this tea is allergic to golf balls. We know we’re going to hit this ball where we want it, at least a distance. But if something bad happens, well, then we’re introducing the risk of water. And do we need to introduce it? So, you need to ask yourself and be honest with yourself, is can I hit this ball where I want it nine times out of 10? And if you can, go for it. If you can’t, well then just lay up. Now we have two shots that are close to the hole, two different weight. Now in this sort of scenario, it’s a good question to ask yourself. Should I putt this or should I hit a wedge? Now, if you have the confidence to hit a wedge, well, hit the wedge. It’s pretty tricky, but there’s a lot of rough, so you need to be confident with it. But if you’re not confident with it, we want to hit the putt. [Music] Oh, it just kept running. I think we could do better than that with the putter, but it’s wet, so we don’t really know. And that’s why I don’t like putting at all the green. The point is figuring out which one you were most confident with when you are on little areas like this nine times out of 10. Even so, we can still putt this from here. And we’re playing for the bogey. This is for a par, so we don’t even need it. But we’ll go for it. And the good thing about playing for bogeies is pars will come in and they will happen naturally. Proper course management involves three things. Knowing your numbers, knowing your shot shape, and accepting reality. Now, a lot of people will think and see this hole, they play a big slice, they’re like, “Oh, this is perfect. It’s a dog leg left. I can just pull up my driver and whack it as hard as I can.” Maybe. But if you do that and you whack it too and if you don’t know the numbers it takes to say get over those trees, well then you might slice it too short. You might slice it back into the T- box area. You might do a lot of things that you didn’t take proper course management into the equation because once again if you don’t know your numbers, you don’t know how big my slice is going to be. So if you don’t know your slice only goes like 220 because you’re putting 4,000 RPMs of sid spin on it. Well, then this ball is going to go nowhere and it’s not going to reach those trees. So, if you are not playing proper course management, well, then you are just hitting and hoping. You need to hit and know where is this ball going to end up. And you can hit a lot of different shots rather than just going for the most obvious one. The most obvious one from this one is aim over those trees and hope for the best. But if you don’t have that shot in you, you’re not playing crow management. You’re playing hit and hope, which is not going to be a good way to break n. So now, because you’ve been playing hit and hope off the tea, but now you didn’t know about this. You’re hitting into the rough. I don’t know where my ball is. So, I’m just going to drop it over here like most people do. And now I got to hit and hope again because the pin’s over there. So, what am I going to do? Well, I I got a window. Uh, so I’m just going to try to hit it through the window. Hit and hope. Trees in 90% air, right? But now I’m automatically plus one because I hit and hope off the tea. Oh, it was so close. So close. If that tree didn’t get in the way, then it would have been all right. But now you’re talking about Oh, well, if I didn’t know where that rough was, if I had a gallery, you know, spotting my ball, I would have found it in the rough. If I had two more inches, I wouldn’t have clipped the tree. Now I need to make up and down for the bogey. And now I have a tricky wedge shot. But for what? Hitting and hoping. Oh, almost dunked it. So, instead of playing course management, you’re playing hit and hope. And now I got to make this long putt after a great chip for a bokei versus if I just hit it 100 yards into the fairway, I would have an easy angle to get up this way and probably even be closer to the hole than this point for my bogey putt. And now you’re like, “Oh, it’s a little knee knocker. It’s three feet for the double bogey.” You lip out. Now you made a Mac for hitting and hoping. Don’t hit and hope. Understanding proper course management and think about, okay, well, what clubs can actually do what I want them to do and what is needed for this hole, not what does a hole my friends asking me to do. Hit it over those trees and you’re good. Just play it a very simple way. Look at that bird. You see that bird on the T- marker? Another big mistake that people fall into is the delusion of confidence. Once you start getting better at golf, you’re hitting more shots. Maybe you’re practicing more. You start hitting shots on the range with longer clubs and you’re like, “All right, it feels really good on the range.” But then you get out. I’m starting to think it’s me. But now you get out and you’re like, “All right, well, this is perfect. This is what I’ve been practicing the entire time. However, maybe it hasn’t been working today and you keep trying it because you’re like, I’ve been practicing this and I’m gonna keep on going for it. So, you are delusionally confident that you can do it because you’ve been practicing it and maybe it works out, maybe it doesn’t. Maybe you hook it into a tree, but then what? If you keep trying to do that over and over and over, you’re just going to rack up more score because your delusional ego do need confidence to actually be able to hit good shots, but you don’t want delusional confidence. If I’ve been hitting a fade and I’ve been hitting it pretty consistently on the range, well, now I don’t know how it’s going to play in the rough. I don’t know how it’s going to play with this wind. I don’t know how it’s going to play with these trees. And I don’t know if my fade is actually big enough that I’ve been practicing to get to my target. So now I’m going to play a fade because I’ve been hitting the fade on the range. This is calling for a fade around these trees and to get it back into the fairway. Can I actually do it or is that delusional confidence? Well, now I hit a draw. I hooked it. It went straight. And now, is it in the water? I don’t think it’s in the water. Since I don’t feel like looking for my ball, I’m just going to drop over here. But the sentiment remains the same where if you don’t know how the lie affects the ball and slopes and different things like that, it’s going to be much needs to be, okay, I know I can do it on the course. I know I can do it on the range in a flat simple condition. Can I do that with different lies? So, it’s going to take much more practice for you to figure out how do I hit this fade out of the rough on an uphill slope. Probably can’t do it right. So, you wouldn’t necessarily put that shot. So, you need different course management depending on many different circumstances. The wind, the lies, those kind of things you want to start to learn. You don’t need to learn. You just need to stop losing the ball. But once you start learning how does the lie affect things, well, then you can play much better course management. But I don’t want to delude myself into thinking this shot is going to be the same as on the range. And you know, I fall into that I fall into that trap. Just like this wedge shot is going to be different than if I was two more yards right there in the fairway cuz I got the rough. I even going to make it. Yes, it is. But if I hit that same shot right there, it might have been long. And the reality is that you’re thinking a lot differently on the course when there’s scores and pressure versus on the range when there is no pressure. You can make a mistake and it’s not a problem. But on the range yards offline, you know, it still can look like a good shot, but if I do that on the course, that could be in some trees, that could be in a bush, and some rough. Also, you’re just thinking differently, right? So, if you think differently, your body’s going to behave differently. On the range, I hit draws all day with my driver. on the course, I still hit slices. Why is that happening? Well, there’s a lot of reasons why that could be happening. But just don’t let your ego win. That’s kind of the big thing because otherwise you’re not going to be able to play proper course management, which is needed to break knight at number eight, I think. Right. So, we are in this little corridor, right? And within that, to play proper course management, this flies over my head. To play proper course management, you want to know where your ball is starting and you want to know where your ball is ending. Why do I need to know where it starts? Well, let’s envision minus one is to the left, zero is in the middle, plus one is to the right. If I play a big old slice and my ball starts to the left and slings back, can I hit a driver here? Probably not, because I may hit some trees, right? It’s the same thing if I play a big old hook. Can I play a driver here? probably not because I hit a tree, right? And you also have to take into consideration if I start my ball to the left here and it does not come back, well then it’s going to go straight into the trees. So if my start line is aiming out of bounds, one, you need to be really confident that the ball is going to come back inbounds. But two, you need to think about this may not be the hole for this club. I may just need to get one out of this corridor or away from the hazard or anything like that and then go from there. [Music] Now, this is going to be my last tip because I’m running out of time and I got to go home, get to work, help people out well with their psychology rather than the golf. But you need a good short game. Short game is going to be one of the most important things because you I shown you that you can hit it 100 yards off the tea and be all right. But your short game you’re always going to need. If you’re trying to break 90 and you’re not breaking 90, if you’re not breaking 100, you’re going to be scrambling most of the time. And if you have a short game where you’re chunking it, hitting it into water, you’re not going to be able to scramble properly. The thing that we don’t want to happen is the thing like where we end up like this. We’re in a position third shot, let’s say, and I got to kind of hit it over water and I’m not confident with it, right? So, I don’t want to skull it. I don’t want to hit it way over the green. I don’t want to chunk it into the water. So, you need to have the most confidence with your short game just to be able to get the ball in the air that way. You don’t need much. Most of the time you just need less hands involved, a wider turn, follow through, and you’re probably good to go. Don’t make the short game complicated. It’s complicated enough. All you need to do, wide arms, get the ball on the green, and you’re good to go. So, practice that short game and you are going to be breaking 90 in no time. Peace. [Music]