Do You Really NEED More Greens in Regulation to Score Better?

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When you’re looking to lower your score most people are telling you hit more greens in regulation I’m going to play this round missing every single green for six holes to see what we score if we just plan correctly it doesn’t make much sense that a 10 handicap Only Hits two

More greens but there’s 10 points between them and a 20 handicap so where does the difference in score actually come from cuz it’s sure as hell is not a lot more greens and regulation step one of actually hitting more greens is to hit a shot to a distance you prefer into

The hole because then you’re comfortable and confident hit a great shot now I’m in a position where I can luckily on a hole like this set up my favorite distance like this of about 120 yard but if you can’t you have to accept that you

Just can’t do it and then take your next best shot and miss the green in a place that’s easy to Chip and Putt people will think you’ll never learn how to score like this this is exactly how you learn to score this is how you learn to score

In Amateur Golf as we are scramblers by default I got 110 yards so I’m going to leave this one short LIF is the best position to be on this hole if even if you’re further away you can aim to finish short left and give yourself a simple as

Chip you lower your score by making your Miss smaller your intended shot is go in the hole if you miss it by 30 ft you’ve made a mistake if you miss it by 20 ft you’ve made a smaller mistake if you miss it by 10 ft you’ve made an even

Smaller small mistake and you’re happy with that so understand every shot is a mistake just reduce the mistakes into places that you can get up and down I highly recommend if you’re screwing around and you’re bad with a driver get yourself a ladies driver secondhand something like that on eBay

And give it a whack you feel like you’re hitting like a a baby seven iron down there this is a really long hole it’s a long PA for you’re just not going to hit these greens in regulation unless you have maximum distance so all this hype about Greens in regulation all the time

It gets to you especially when you can’t reach maybe five or six of the holes in a golf course but holes like this can be tough here after a drive we still have 235 yards to the middle of the green what I’m going to do is hit my 200 club

And see if we can get up and down from 30 or 40 yards instead of getting hyped up about greens and regulation because that’s how you get your lower scores why don’t we just get it to a place where we feel we can get up and down from with a

Comfy shot on our second we left ourselves the 30 yard pitch it’s not an easy one cuz the pin’s cut right on the front so what often happens with this is that you try to be greedy and you leave it short because you’re trying to hold the chip instead of looking beyond the

Pin there you can look left and see how much space there is or you can look beyond the pin dead straight and land it at the hole and leave yourself a 15 foot or so to make the par you’ll make some of them not many but it’s better than

Leaving yourself a double chip so it’s always wise to be less greedy and more more conservative by going a bit longer on this one and then by going longer you trick yourself into actually getting a perfect shot see so I’ve left myself a longish putt but I’m on the green we’re going to

Make a putt every now and then but you’re not going to make a second chip of course I hit the ball a little bit further so it’s very easy for me to say this so I’ve got 166 here I’m going to normally hit a 9 iron okay or pitching

Wedge and I’m going to lay it up short right to show you how easy the hole can be it’s easy for me to do that high Loft what about people though who might need to hit like a fivewood the same distance well this is a fivewood so I’m going to

Slow my swing down a bit and hit that little feder that people hit and just set this one up on the right hand side we want to avoid that big bunk on the left and we want to hit a ball up to the right side there because that’s the

Easiest place to chip from if we do miss the hole and even going long here 177 will probably be good easy chip just stay away from the bunker so let’s say we have a five wood and I’m going to just bunt it down there give myself a shot from the right

Side we’ve left ourselves on the corre cor side of the green but would have been preferable to be up there pin High because it’s flatter we’re coming from below the green so we just have to accept that and make sure we take into account land this two or three yards

On oh maybe a little bit too far left but we give ourselves that put for the par now am I the best putter on YouTube probably but you can also get good cuz I was a very very bad putter I highly recommend putting out of your

Mind by Bob retell no jokes it’s even on YouTube someone’s ripped it and it’s free if you don’t want to pay for it just download it at MP3 and just listen to it daily tell you what it’s going to transfer into the rest of your bag cuz

What you do wrong in your full swing you doing your putting stroke and vice versa on this hole I’m going to set myself up probably about 130 145 yards by hitting a six IR off the te but you know what maybe I won’t maybe I’ll hit a chip 6 and leave myself a

Longer approach to show you how to plan a hole like this too we want to get it to 150 but if we can’t we’re just going to have to deal with it now I’m going to have a very long approach into this green which means I’m

Not going to be able to really hit the green cuz it’s 75% surrounded by water so I’m going to have to plan this perfectly to not give away shots I’ve done it I’ve let myself a long shot into the hole 186 yards that is a very very intimidating shot over water like this

But it becomes much less intimidating when you realize you don’t have to go shooting at the pin which is basically giving away shots if you don’t hit the ball right now you’ve got that anxiety and Boop in the bunker or in the water what I see there is Texas on the left

Hand side big open conservative and safe what distance do I need to carry on the line left to be safe 132 to be safe on the pin line 160 so I have an extra 30 yard to play with on the left side 130 minimum and I can go all the way to pin

High at about 186 I have 50 yard of depth there in Fairway and I can probably go 50 yards left of the pin and still be safe without giving away shots let’s see how close we can get to the left edge of the green with less carry

At 130 135 hitting our 175 y Club so for me it’s very easy to just place an eight iron there very very easy but I’m going to hit the seven wood like some people might and aim it out left with a little fader and see if we can get it to finish

In a nice chable position okay well I’ve hit that to great I’ve left it a bit short here actually got it really nicely on the line with that little Fade to the hole I could go much further left but I’ve left myself this chip and I’ve got a pitching witch here

I could probably even use an eight iron just bump it on the front but I’m going to try it with a pitching good job we leave that to 2 feet now I’m not P I’m not that great good at chipping I haven’t been playing

For a while but if you get if you get out there practice and you start to understand how your ball rolls out with one Club you can pitch with your pitching wedge and just chip with that all the time you’re going to get so much better at this this is where you learn

To score because scoring is not about birdies scoring about reducing the big numbers getting the waste out of your game par FS are really long holes I know and a lot can go wrong between here and the green I know but let’s just get a

Ball in play and from there even if we hit a few shes which I’ll show you if you don’t lose hope and you just keep advancing the ball forward one good shot can save a hole just like those chips have saved me and to be honest I haven’t

Played that much lately but I’m getting back into the groove of it and with a bit of practice you can also start chipping better let’s just get a ball in play just a little wood ski up there now that could be an average drive for a lot

Of people and then I’m from there I’m going to show you what happens even if you shry the ball with 280 yards to go we can split this up into two shots we can do all the best plans but what if you hit a Duffer roon I don’t know how

To simulate a shot of a Duff so I’m just going to hit the chipper down there and see how far I can go because to be honest sometimes you’re better off just splitting it up instead of instead of hitting a top so let’s see how far we get down there with a

Chipper punch 7even wood a chipper I think you can do this stuff too really I do with 163 yards left what are we going to do well I’m taking out the chipper again just to show you I have no control I don’t know what’s going to happen what

A shot I have no idea what’s going to happen but let’s see if we can just plan this to a good position to get up and down short right there you go little little teeth chipper and I’m short right this is golf you can hit the crapp of shots as long

As they go somewhere in the direction you want them and not in a water not in a hazard still in play Closer to the hole I’ve got myself into a chip position here where we can easily get up and down even chip this in I got my 56°

Because it’s a short carry and then a short um roll out to the hole so I want to open this face up get my weight on the left side and just get this lofted and hit the hole even a blind squirrel finds an acorn okay here we go

We’re going to putt this bad boy what a touch this video is sponsored by GX gloves this is my glove of choice for the year absolutely stunning this one is about 15 rounds old and I haven’t even tried using another one I’m trying to keep all of them because they are

Just so stunning GX golf check him out in the link in the description with a QR code on the screen right now so sometimes the poter is better sometimes the wedge is better you got to know what’s going to work in the moment but that’s how you get up and down

Easier by learning which one to use in each situation to score better who might be way right now this is where being out of position makes a big problem for you we going to go over the bunker to W water from firm ground in the cow grass so when you get out of

Position like this now you have a problem so I have to be very delicate here and this is where like Elite short game skills are really what we’re talking about for average pitches and chips you don’t need Elite short game skills you can hack it around so avoid

Short siding yourself like this with trouble between you in the tur this could be really good or really really bad that’s that’s just the nature of this shot it could be to could be fluffed or I could be lucky wow good job and I got seriously lucky because I

Skimmed off the surface there and I kind of te te it using the bounce when it comes to playing like this you have to believe you deserve to make these putts I’m due to miss one I’ve been making all of them could I miss this one I could

I’m due to miss one but I’m going to try my best but believe I deserve everyone is that ridiculous of course it is but golf is a ridiculous game if you want to see how ridiculous it is check this video out it’s going to help you to

Chip and Putt way better to reduce the scores when you miss all the greens just like I did