The easiest way to lower scores

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Hello ladies and gentlemen I’m Jimmy with Tropicana golf everybody wants to lower their golf scores everybody wants to lower their handicap but nobody does the things that you’re supposed to do in order for those things to happen why I’m going to show you these two little tips I’m going to play some

Holes I’m going to implement it I’m going to show you how to do it all you have to do is pay attention and then go and do it and you’re going to lower your scores instantly it’s coming up right now I read an unbelievable stat earlier that said the average 15

Handicap three putts 4.6 times per round astronomically high that means on four out of the 18 greens you three putt he can’t do that and then a higher Stat one that I didn’t even believe three t- shots three t- shots go out of bounds three out of 18 can you

Believe that so that means two four six because each ball you hit out of bounds from the t is two strokes because essentially now you’re hitting three from the T box so that’s 2 four six that’s six stroke and then you three put four times

6 + 4 is 10 Strokes 10 Strokes you’re just giving away wow that’s your 98 now going to an 88 can you believe that your handicap’s going to drop immediately just by keeping the ball in play and not three putting so that’s what we’re going

To do today I’m going to teach you how to do these things now keeping the ball in play seems like it should be a very easy thing how do you do it just keep it in didn’t play Bud sometimes that means hitting a little less Club to make sure that you

Don’t lose it I’ve played this whole 200 times I’ve seen driver from people every time and I’ve seen so many balls I can’t even count going to that guy’s house so many that he has set up a tupperware on the outside of his fence that has hundreds of golf balls for sale

I’m going to drive you up there you’re going to see it that means that the most common thing is that you the golfer misses right slices the ball right now I don’t know about you but I would rather hit 170 yard shot straight or straightish rather than hitting a 230

240 250 yard shot that ends up in somebody’s backyard that’s death that is Death to Your round that is Death to Your score that is death to your match have a little pride in yourself and your game and hit an iron I hit driver when there is absolutely is it

Snowing when there is absolutely nothing that can go wrong I step up and I roast it I’ve been doing it a long time but when there’s issues left or right I don’t play around man keep that thing on the grass now there’s one simple thing that I can tell you if

You’re hitting the ball left you’re looking for it meaning you’re looking for it and if you want the ball to go left look for it that’s it if you don’t want it to go left keep your head down and if you want it to go left look for it so this is a

Par five and I have a three iron in my hand you’re probably going par five hit your driver man no not me I want to keep it in play and I’m not going to three putt when we get closer to the green I’m going to show

You how to never threp putt again but for now we’re going to take one and we’re going to hit it on the grass how do we do that take my hockey slap shot one two three I step up I don’t look for it I just hit it straight as an

Arrow let’s go it’s on grass so guess what those three balls that go out of bounds it ain’t happening with me man that ain’t that’s not my that’s not my jam I Won’t Give Up shots to a golf course for my ego not going to happen I’d rather lose the

Yardage than to hit a ball out of bounds remember that so let’s go see before we go go into how to never three putt again I want to make that clear you must never hit a ball out of bounds on your t- shot it’s teed up it’s

Perfect stop it stop hitting balls out of bounds it’s ridiculous you don’t have to do it it’s just completely unnecessary your ball’s going to end up here in fact let’s go look at the look where is my ball oh it’s perfect it’s right here so look it look what they’ve set up right

Here check this out they have a basket it says what thank you oh I guess you have to pay for them now but anyway this lady gets pounded with golf balls why because the te’s down there and they slice and they end up in here so she set up the

Thing it even has a little venmo thing where you can venmo them look it smart there’s probably a thousand golf balls in there right now because people hit driver and don’t know what to do okay I’m there in the middle of the Fairway the green is about four miles up

There I’m not going to get it to the green there’s no chance there’s absolutely no chance I hit a three iron off the te I have confident in the way of that hit it and I’m confident that I can hit it again the exact same way so

Why not hit it again I’m not going to get it there anyway might as well just hit that I have a three-wood that I could try to roast it up there it’s still not going to get there but this is this is enough watch Boom turn Slap Shot

Turn Slap Shot the green is a million miles up there turn Slap Shot keep your head down here we go perfect perfect swampy that’s it I’ve hit two shots they’re both in play did I hammer either one of them absolutely not but didn’t go out of bounds which is

Number one Focus now the reason I’m not driving on The Fairway today is because it’s rained for the past 72 hours non-stop place is like a swamp look so in order to keep the fairways you know without mud tracks you got to do it now let’s talk about this three putting

4.3 times per round you three putt can’t do that let me tell you why you three putt well number one you don’t really practice putting but number two you hit the ball above the hole what does that mean well here let me uh let me pull over and let me give you an

Explanation where’s the sun Sun’s over there here we go you guys ready to go to school let’s learn a little bit about Golf and putting is that good let me fix this camera so everybody can pay attention Okay most greens I would say 90% of greens are sloped like this back to

Front the flag is usually on the green back to front some are flat very very rarely are they from this where the front is higher than the back it’s usually like this now an uphill putt is super easy so hit the ball below the hole if

This is the hole hit it down here don’t hit it up here ever stay below the hole that’s what that phrase stay below the hole you have to start planting that here on your first shot you have to stay below the hole once you get above the

Hole it’s three put land now my ball is over there right right there and the green is up there I see it’s a blue flag so technically I can’t go any further back than that I have an idea that my ball is 150 yards because that’s the 150 yard

Marker and it’s in front of it so it’s less than 150 but it’s uphill but I don’t want to hit it fast so listen I’m going to take a nine iron and I’m going to take a pitching ledge and if you’ve ever watched my videos you’ve never seen this before this is a

Rangefinder it’s hasn’t had a battery for the last 18 months I went to Walmart today I got a battery and guess what it was the last one $11 for a battery it’s California actually I don’t know maybe there’re that price everywhere but thought it was a little high 11 bucks

Anyway what we’re going to do is we’re going to make sure that this ball from here on out this hole and an xole never gets past the hole never there’s 150 there’s my ball we’re going to shoot it and we’re going to see what it says okay see it looks really far back

There it says 165 my nine iron only goes 155 if I smoke it so good we’re going to get it on the green and it’s not going to get all the way to the hole we’re going to hit an N iron we’re going to turn back slap shot

Keep my head down that’s it turn back slap shot keep my head down here we go never get to the hole that looks great I I don’t believe that it got all the way to the hole I just they couldn’t have and it is wet but it is swampy out

Here and this is not really a fly or lie so I don’t know I hit it well though I hit a nine iron so I don’t think that it got all the way back there I hit it I hit it good so we’ll see what happened but technically with a nine iron that

Shouldn’t go that far so I I took less Club I should have hit eight or seven I should have I should have hit eight or seven for 165 yard uphill shot I hit nine iron because I want to stay what below the hole now I’m just testing

This I’m seeing what happens if we keep the ball below the hole does that get rid of the three putts will that save you1 Strokes ultimately I think it will between the putting and keeping the ball in play I think this is your remedy okay so

We’re going to drive up here and we’re going to see what happened hopefully it’s not pin High hopefully it’s below the hole it should be it’s a nine iron from 165 I’m not that strong I took an easy actually I took a a pretty aggressive type stroke because I knew that hey man

I don’t think I can hit this 165 but sometimes you’re stronger than you think I guess and it was a blue flag so I had nothing to lose let’s see where we’re at hopefully it’s just a little short uhoh guess what it’s not I smoked it by look it is the epitome

Of a downhill PT okay so you have to listen to what I say and not what I do I hit it too hard I thought a nineiron there was no chance it was going to get there but it did but here here here’s a good way to learn about on

This let’s say you did hit it past okay you still don’t want a three putt you still don’t want a three putt so what do you want to do you want to have an uphill putt for your next one okay you don’t want to have another

Downhill putt so this is downhill here I can’t leave the ball here cuz now I have a downhill I must get it all the way to the hole if not here so I can putt uphill okay so I just want to make sure that I give the

Ball a chance to get to the hole if I miss I want it to miss here I don’t want it to miss here okay so that’s my mindset I want to make sure that I don’t miss with another fast downhill putt get it past the hole so I

Can putt up pill this is going to be fast it’s going to break that way so I just aim a little right and get it past the hole that’s past the hole perfect that’s perfect okay I was able to get it past the hole now I tap in for

Five done okay so my one mistake was from 165 yards I hit it past the hole I I guess stuff like that’s going to happen you know you can’t be super precise I was cautious I took less Club I just hit it well sometimes you when you’re smooth about it and when you’re

Trying to do less better things happen I don’t know what to tell you but that’s how you remedy that mistake we’re going to play another par five coming right up and we’re going to we’re going to show you how to do it again we’re going to

Keep the same mindset we’re not going to hit the ball out of bounds we’re going to keep it going and make sure that you don’t three- putt that was a two- putt that was good nothing wrong with that except I hit my my Approach shot a little

Long but hey I was able to save it okay I did one thing right and that’s keep ball below the hole if I would have had a second put going downhill I don’t know what would happened now let’s look at this we have another par five I want you to see something another

One of my many life’s blunders and confusion all of this all of this all the way around is all houses you can’t do it you can’t hit a ball right now over here all of that those are houses too and those are all reachable with what a driver that’s the parking lot

That’s why they put out that huge net so you don’t want to hit it left and you can’t hit it right you must hit it straight so to me when times get tough I hit an iron that’s it it’s it’s my three iron for me and I hit it just like hit my

Nineiron I do nothing different I keep the ball in play and keep the ball going towards the target so that I don’t have to rete I hit a three iron off that last tee I hit three iron three iron nine iron okay so it is possible to do it is

Possible and I had a birdie look so for those of you go yeah but you can’t score like that I had a birdie look and I probably would have made that birdie look but I wanted to make sure that I didn’t leave it short okay three fre

Iron let me fix this so you can see my apologies right there okay so I know that the houses are right and there’s a parking lot left so what does that mean I want to put it probably there right in there keep the ball in play

And keep it a little bit left so let’s tee this up correctly here hockey turn into the back hockey turn into the back hockey slapshot put two hands on the club move the ball back and do not Peak Slap Shot that is marvelous marvelous okay it’s on The Fairway job

Done so now that’s two holes two holes that I haven’t hit a ball out of bounds this is a very out of bounds hitable hole out of- bounds hitable hole sounds right it’s very easy to hit the ball out of bounds here a lot of houses very

Narrow Fairways you must keep it on grass and I did so that’s twice how many shots is that one two three four shots my ball’s in play job done not hard okay that was most important you cannot hit the ball out of bounds that is blood Money that’s what they call

That I don’t know if they call it that but that’s what I call it it’s called blood Money it means you get nothing for it it’s brutal it’s a brutal brutal brutal game hitting balls out of bounds okay I hit a three iron and it’s right there okay now look

Once again I have 475,000 yards to the green I will not hit it there I cannot hit it there all I must do is to what make sure I keep it on the grass I don’t care how far it goes I have probably 300 yards 250 300 I

Have 300 yards let’s call it 300 so if I hit my three iron 200 yards I should have what 100 yards in well that’s easy didn’t even think of it like that I have 300 yards hit it 200 I don’t hit it 200 so what about 150 150

150 I can do that I’m taking a three iron I hit it more than 150 but for you if you hit at 150 hit your 150 shot twice and you’re on the green okay Boom turn turn turn and keep your head down here we go on the grass gets down easy take a

Bite take a bite take a bite guess what one 2 3 four five shots in a row all in play this will help your scoring so much the Fairway is Big take a club that can hit it on there doesn’t matter how far it goes I didn’t hit that

Well and I peaked a little bit ball went a little left cuz I peaked I was looking for it now is the part of the game well we must get really good we have to know exactly how far we are oh and this is a red flag so now it gets even more

Difficult you must keep the ball below the hole as much as possible as much as possible um so I had I was going to have a 100 yards in remember I probably have more so yeah okay here we go let’s take this hey it’s right by the cart path what do

You know smart man it’s cart path only since it’s so swampy there’s my ball right there okay it’s kind of like a little bit of a flyer is lie where’s the hole the hole is right there it’s a red flag ladies and gentlemen that means

It’s at the front of the green this is going to make things a little bit more challenging I can’t hit it past come on tripod come on buddy legs on my tripod I’ve been drinking all night they’re all like so tired all right let’s see what we got

125 125 now there is wind going which way that way so it’s going to push the ball that way 125 I got to make sure I hit a ball 115 to yards no more than that huh okay guess what though I’m going to hit a 56 degree just

To prove a point to you okay this goes 18 yards maximum and it’s a little bit of a weird lie normally I would hit a 50° or a pitching wedge right now for the sake of this video and for the sake of instruction I’m going to hit a 56 and

If it comes up short so be it I’m still below the hole I do everything the same here here here here here here keep my head down and hit the ball dead at it just short very short that’s okay that’s okay that’s what I came here to do keep it below the hole

Let’s go see what happen I hit that 115 yard and it’s 10 yard short so that’s 125 perfect exactly it I would normally hit a 50° but for the sake of keeping it below the hole to see what happens I played it the way you’re

Supposed to play it okay so I stuck by the book I didn’t want to say something and not do it so that’s what we did 115 yards I’m below the hole okay now let’s see if this pays off for me that was my third shot now I have up and down for

Par it’s okay he’s okay let’s go see where it is should be all right there it is right there it’s buried I think it’s plugged so I get a little bit of relief here is it this it that’s not even mine oh here’s mine right here it is buried

That’s a uh looks like somebody was taking practice out here or something all right cool they forgot the balls guess what free balls for me all right free practice balls so this is plugged this is embedded so what you do is you do this it’s lift clean in

Place as you can see when I take it out there’s a giant hole there you clean it off typically with a towel but I’m a sick Marano and I do it with my hands now my hands are all full of gross then you place it okay I have 10 yards my

Pants are full of mud my shoes are full of mud nice now my grip’s going to be muddy I have 10 yards exactly what I expected I just got to make sure that I hit the ball on the green but not past the hole okay remember the whole thing is to stop

Three putting so I take a normal stroke get it on the green let it get up there I keep my head down take a putting stroke and watch this nope the world didn’t end I hit it 11 yards right and the world didn’t end I I I I I I don’t

Know I don’t know it’s golf that’s the way golf goes we get up and we do it again okay stick to the mechanics it wasn’t you you know what to do just hit it take a putting stroke hit it in balls below the hole go make a putt I can’t believe I

Hit that ball like that but guess what it happens it happens it’s golf that’s the way it goes that is life you must continue and you must continue to play look it my ball is below the hole I have a chance to make a putt four

Six right yeah three four was wonky five was there and this is for six I didn’t make birdie I didn’t make par the world is still going I mark this I clean it and I make the putt okay so what I hit a bad chip I’ll do it

Again it’s not the first oh the last all right let’s see which way it’s going to go it’s going to break that way it’s uphill thank God these are the easy ones stroke it get it there keep your head down take a practice putt keep your head

Down no see how I looked that’s no good here we go there one two three never looked up that’s all you got to do come on just stroke it and keep your head down here we go I made it did I hit a weird crazy

Chip Shot yeah I shanked one I hled it I bladed it whatever it happens it’s golf you got to keep going so today’s moral Story number one keep the ball in play number two stay below the hole and practice your wedge shot so you don’t hit 11 yard Shanks okay thanks for

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