25 Secrets Successful Golfers Know About Scoring

For collab/partnerships contact: matt@golfsidekick.com

Video for partial pitch shots.

The Greatest Apparel and Accessories in Golf:
https://waddaplayagolf.com

Excellent REDTIGER Rangefinder

FB GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/waddaplaya/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/golfsidekick/
URL: https://golfsidekick.com/
FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/golfsidekick

scoring in golf may seem like you have to make birdies and go low like the PGA T Pros scoring in Amateur Golf is all about removing the big numbers and I’m going to show you how to do that with these 25 immutable laws of scoring the first law of scoring is that you want to play the hole back from the green what do you want into the green if you cannot plan the club that you want into the Green from the tea your next best bet is to hit the longest possible shot of the te that will stay in play allowing a second shot no hazards no lost balls I’m hitting a mini driver here it’s about 390 y long the mini driver goes 240 to 250 leaving me a nice 140 yard shot up the hill knowing your distances with every Club is absolutely essential if you can’t do that you can’t do anything in this video because you need to know the distance to be able to plan and plot your way around a Golf Course once we know our distances we can plan our approaches we can plan our t-shots and we can get the ball to a position near the gri to allow up and downs now this is a LW that you’re going to be able to take with you on every single shot hit the nine time out of 10 shot the shot you can pull off nine times out of 10 not the 1 out of 10 time from the summer 03 not the 50/50 shot the 9 out of 10 shot whatever is going to be 9 out of 10 for you take that shot that’s going to save you so much grief on the golf course that’s a little bit firm but we’re gonna take it easy game this is not necessarily a law for scoring but always remember it ain’t over until the body positive Big Bone plus-size lady sings go go you’re not going to be perfect in golf no matter how much you try golf is a journey not a destination now the pursuit of that Perfection is fine but we need a plan to get there and this is the law of planning in golf you have a plan for your hole a plan for your shot it’s not always going to come off the way you want it to but a plan gives you feedback no plan no feedback you have a plan you discover whether it’s good or bad you discover how you hit the ball how you set up your shots was it correct could you have chosen something different that’s how we use the plan to get feedback here my plan is to hit a 9wood up on the right because it won’t reach big trouble dispersion right and left offline is not so big compared to a driver and we don’t have enough space up there to hit a driver confidentially with water on the left and kind of like a ob on the right that’s all we need ball in play the law of commitment says we have to commit to the Shot 101% minimum 99% is not enough it has to be fully committed to every shot part of that is picking the shot you can do nine times out of 10 and now we have to find which shot we can hit nine times out of 10 to a free throw distance so the law of free throw distances means we hit the ball to a distance we prefer do I want to have a 60 70 yard shot in here I don’t I really don’t like them give me something inside 50 yards no problem give me something 90 yards plus I’m okay so we can use our surroundings we have a 150 yard marker on the right and further left a 100 yard marker so the 100 yard Mark is a 156 yards away- 15 140 maximum I want to leave myself about 100 yards into the hle year with a beautiful sandwich because the greens are firm here so we’re hitting a 48° up toward the 100 yard marker and from there hopefully we leave ourselves around 100 in and this is a shot I can hit 10 times out of 10 not even nine times money absolutely money look at the Silly Billy there’s the 100 yard we went directly at it on the line and we stopped 15 yards 10 yards short of it we’re still in the Fairway money the law of the fat side means we want to hit the ball toward the fat side of the green not the short side the short side is the side that the pin is cut closest to so if the pin’s all the way on the right the short side is the right hand side the fat side is the left hand side if you hit toward the fat side when you miss you have an easier chip and when you land on the green you’re going to have a longer putt but you’re going to have more putts rather than missing on the short side and having the most impossible up and downs when it comes to your free throw distances it’s completely up to you when you see that distance you see that club in hand you see it behind the ball you feel it you feel it okay we’re going to go just at the pin and this going to should move a little a little bit to the left and that means we’re going to be on the safe side beautiful a lot of stats boys will tell you green and regulation is the key to scoring and you need to hit more greens and I agree you need to hit more greens for sure but just keep in mind that a scratch Hits 10 a five hits eight greens a 10 handicap hits six greens 15 handicap hits five greens 20 handicap hits four greens now between a 10 and a 20 handicap is 10 shots two more greens in regulation that’s not driving the mat’s not driving so for for about green and regulation for a while around the green and regulation is absolutely money especially if you can putt it when people tell you hit more greens that’s the key to scoring no one tells you how and we’re going to talk about position position position just like we set up all those positions intentionally it’s okay it’s okay we we don’t want to go past the hole cuz then we deados the law of the go-to club tells us that if our main primary tea Club doesn’t work on the day we need something to fall back onto to get the ball into play that’s a go-to club you need goto clubs because if you can’t get into play you can’t play golf if you’re going OB topping shanking hooking you’re going to have big problems so find yourself one or two go-to clubs could be a fairway wood and a hybrid a fairway wood and then an iron but get something that’s confidentiality bringing I’m going to hit my normal driver which I haven’t been playing I’ve been playing the mini driver lately so that’s my normal shot requires very little so it’s much easier to just get it straight down the fway with my go-to club when the main one’s off the law of the LIE of the ball tells us that the ball’s lie is the most important part of the shot selection and Club selection I’m now in a mixture of grass in the rough I’m definitely going to get grassp between the ball and the club face and that means it’s going to reduce spin meaning that the ball can either be short because I didn’t catch all of it or I catch it good and it flies so that’s going to increase our distance range that we hit the ball so if I hit a 99 let’s say 160 normally that could go 175 180 or it could go 130 so we have to always interpret the LIE everywhere on the golf course as the first thing we look at the law that extends off of the law of the LIE is the law of trajectory which way is our ball going to fly both in the shape left and right and how high is it going to come out then you can select your Club so the shape plus the height plus the LIE these are the things that shape what shot you take I don’t have much into the hole here that’s why the bylaw of stay in the Fairway is so important look how short I am because of that crappy lie if I hit that shot from the Fairway when next to the pin immutable LW around the greens g i o t g g it’s an Italian word meaning get it on the green it’s a very simple phrase but a lot of people forget it getting greedy and not getting the ball on the green double chipping double chipping is a big waste of shots remember get it on the green and the byw of that the easiest way a lot of the time is toe down chipping so you hit it off the toe of the club with a pting grip and let it roll out get it to land just on the front let it roll all the way to the hole move my hands up hold it like a putt use my putting grip with my hands and use a putting stroke try land it on just on the green maybe a yard or two and that’s as good as we can do it’s a very tough green there’s a big dome in the middle so either you go left of the Dome and it ve off left or you go right of the Dome and it ve off right very difficult shot the law of low expectations in golf this is a 10-footer pg2 pros make 30% of these three out of 10 4 out of 10 maximum and they put all the time practicing if you can reduce your expectations and not try say to yourself I need to make more putts from 10 ft I need to make 50% of them to be able to score better no no so we reduce our expectations we’re going to miss seven out of 10 of these at least and then the low of low expectation for the rest of the round we make the plan that we can we take the N Out of 10 shots that we can if they don’t work out some days you’re going to play good some days you’re going to play Bad bad but we get feedback on every shot come on man what a good putter so into the breeze 188 I don’t have my beautiful six iron with me I’ve got a very limited selection of clubs trying to see how few clubs you need to shoot around level par I’m going to hit my 9wood into the breeze the breeze should hold it up normally a 200 yard Club it should finish middle of the green or even short if I don’t catch all of it leaving a very simple chip we don’t want to go right we don’t want to go long short and short left perfect we’ve wildly missed that but we have missed on the fat side the law of missing in the correct area means to miss on the fat side to give you the best chance at up and down if we go in that bunker no good if we’re go in the bunker there no good and long we’re heading onto a down slope so here we have a good chance of up and down or better than most so all we have to do is get it on the Green that’s just going to break down to the hole because we gave ourselves all the space to hit that shot rather than trying to get greedy from the short side avoid the short side where the pin is cut closest which would be on the right side to give yourself better chance of up and downs so we’re hitting mini driver here because as a Big Driver we’re scared of going with a slice and putting it out of out of bounds even with a 300 yard perfect drive down the middle we still have 2 80 into the hole we’re not going to be making it all the way there so let’s just get this ball in play as long as we can without losing the ball beautiful the law of mechanics away from the course means we can only work on mechanics away not when you come to play a round of golf only if you’re doing practice round if you’re playing a scoring round you cannot have a single mechanic in your mind it’s taking taking away your concentration towards your Target and your free flowing swing if you are trying to find YouTube swing mechanic advice you are going down a very deep dark hole I would highly suggest you avoid see a coach work on it away from the course come to the course and clear your mind slowly those mechanics you’re working with your coach will come into your swing via osmosis slowly but surely a year from now you won’t recognize yourself but on the course they’re out of your mind from here I don’t really care much about half far into the hole I’m not hitting a 260 yard shot I’m not Tak out my seven wood and pummeling it down there for absolutely no reason it’s got the highest dispersion compared to my mid irons or wedges I’m going to use my surroundings and shoot to the 100 yard marker we hit the seven iron just to the left of the 100 yard marker give it a nice wallp and we’re absolutely money up there got a beautiful wedge into the green we have 107 yards yet to the hole that’s about the middle of the green the back of the green is about 112 115 and then the front of the green is about 90 to select a club using the low of approach shots a great strike reaches the back Edge a decent strike normal strike reaches the middle and a poor strike hits the front edge that’s how we choose clubs as amateurs we don’t go for pinpoint accuracy we go for highest probability oh lip out lip out lip out lip out come on come on the law of the game inside 5 ft tells us we can get the short game of a pga2 a pro inside 5 ft very easily with some practice you want to make all of your putts from 2 and 3 ft 90% from 4 ft and 80% from 5 ft this is the area that your ball is going to finish the most after bunker shots chip shots and your first putts if you have high confidential inside 5 ft you’re going to score better I guarantee it now I’m not going to poo poo distance and say it’s not important no no no distance is very important this is a 450 yard hole how are you going to play this hole for par if you’re not hitting at 250 the thing is though if you’re not going to able to make par on this 450 yard hole you’re playing the wrong T’s so while distance is very important to play further back you can always take solace in the fact that there are multiple tea options at most golf courses so inre increase your distance with better strike better technique of course and then you can move back in the te’s and we’re going to hit the driver here because it shapes left to right and the whole shapes left to right so if I go at the white marker down in the corner over this bush on the te in front of me that’s a money line I’m setting up with the low of aiming for your shot shape at that white marker to fade to my target landing area we don’t hit Phantom t- shots we do not hit suddenly a draw when we are a fade of the golf ball we don’t hit a dead straight when we hit a on the day accept your shot shape on the day and aim for it so I’m going to aim for this feeder remember the law of par is a social construct this is a 450 yard hole if you are forced to play this are you seeing it as a par 4 make your own par this is probably a very low index make it a par five hell if it’s really difficult make it a par six and just take the pressure off your game to force yourself to hit stupid shots to try reach it in two when you really can’t an important caveat here when we’re talking about hitting more greens hitting the ball further when you become an elite golfer you look at something by Steve forcer the decade system he advises for his decision Tree on the tea for an elite golfer who hits at about 290 to 300 that he needs to have 65 yards of space between penalize hazards if you want to hit the driver if you can’t you have to gear down so the best case as an elite golfer trying to hit it further the best case you’re going to have 65 of dispersion then an elite golfer let’s say a scratch golfer for us would be elite are hitting nine greens 10 greens out of 18 meaning they’re missing the other half so at your very Peak best you’re going to average nine greens and you’re going to have a 65 yard plus dispersion on your driver that’s not very good odds so let’s say you’re a scratch golf you’re hitting 9 10 greens around what are you doing on the other eight or nine greens you have to get up and down the short game is by default the fullback position for everyone how do you reduce your score when you’re missing most of the greens it comes down to the short game so while we focus on hitting Greens in regulation the real focus should be on getting the ball in play to a place that’s not penalized get the ball up and around the green for easy chips that’s the way amateurs play golf because by default we miss most of the greens meaning we are scramblers if you’re getting the ball in play reasonably and you’re getting a second shot with no interruptions no penalties the only thing that’s going to keep your score down is the short game we’ve got 162 here into the breeze so it’s going to hold the ball up a little bit but we’re From the Rough so we may take some spin-off it’s not going to hold it’s going to bound up the green and the worst place is over the green most difficult chip so I’m going to hit the nine from 160 into the breeze instead of a seven cuz a seven may go over and we want to remember the law of missing in the correct area to give us the easiest chip gang banger you’re going to look online and see so much fud about freaking the short game yes it’s definitely the easiest way to get low hanging fruit but it has a serious diminishing returns the data has disproven you can get some quick wins by working on the short game but then you’re going to have to focus on the distance the data has disproven once you start hitting a ball better once you go to lessons of course you’re going to score lower because you have less chips less difficult chips you put the pitches in their place welcome to the promised land This Is The Duality of golf every course is easy and every course is difficult depends where you put the ball if I put this in the bunker it’s more difficult I didn’t come on [Music] and that’s a tow down seven iron I’m going to miss the green a lot of time you’re going to miss the green more than me even probably and that’s just how you save your squad diminishing returns kiss my little ass change KY yeah yeah yeah the low of the put inside 5T as I told you this is where your chips are going to start ending up if you have confidentiality from here you start saving your score very very quickly very easily the lower confidentiality translates to your 15th Club in the bag confidentiality changes the way you hit a shot compared to low confidentiality High confidentiality shots creates Comfort comfort and confidentiality create trust which give you commitment we talked about commitment earlier 101% minimum you get that commitment with confidential clubs and comfortable feeling we have 148 playing 138 to the hole with a breeze into us we’re going to play the full 148 let’s do it man come on now partner because my caddy is not getting a tip unless we have hole in one the confidentiality stops me from coming up stops me from changing my spine angle stops me from duffing stops me from trying funny things at the top of my back swing if you are thinking don’t screw this up at the top of your back swing or oh just pull out do something different if you can do that and walk away and take confidential shot you’re going to bring your scores down now there are some statistics that we like to quote are averages right so an average scratch goer May three once a round maybe once every two rounds that’s the average that means there’s a lot of people higher than that and a lot of people lower than that so when you’re shooting for like lower three parts our goal is zero because there are scratch golfers out there making zero three puts but there are some making two so that average is one and with putting we have to pick a start line just like on our full shots we have to pick a start line and allow the shot shape or on puts the breake to go toward the hole that’s what I did with a seven iron I picked a uh aiming Point left of the pin and pushed it toward the hole now I’m going to pick an Aiming point right of the hole to let the brake come into the hole I can’t just look at the hole because I’ll miss it on the left so I’m going to look at my brake I’m going to see it and I’m going to put this out couple maybe two three holes outside the right and hopefully the slope just brings it Backle C no good why the law of strength and weaknesses means we play to our strength and avoid our weaknesses the law also tells us we work on our weaknesses away from the golf course and we don’t play into them we play toward our strengths the other thing you’ll find about all these laws is they will very quickly expose what part of your game is deficient most of the time it’s short game people get triggered by seeing their short game being so bad that they just revert to their old style of play and they don’t ever work on that little part of the game that’s going to give them the most benefit they’re going for something sexy something big something distance something big Bo when actual fact the little shots are going to impact your game much better you’re going to build confidence from the hole backwards you take pressure off your lag putting and chipping when you can putt from short when you can chip and lag putt it takes pressure away from your irons to hit it close when you don’t have to hit your irons close and you know you can get up and down your t-shots have less stress too that is the law of strength and weaknesses the law of working back from the hole in practice and in play now I’m going to hit a driver here cuz my strength here is I know what shot shape it’s going to be it’s going to fade the wind’s going to push it right and we have a lot of space Big Texas on the right with the bylaw of hitting into Texas means we hit away from danger all the times away from danger as far as possible so that we can just have a clear shot without any any chance of going in the hazard so we set this one up straight down the center at the red marker which I’ll mark on the screen and we know we’re going to Fed absolutely money I just absolutely wrecked that golf ball now you may have seen some field goal post on every shot in this video that’s just to show you where you’re aiming to hit the ball you have to shape your shot to go between your field goal posts if you can do that you’re going to get in positions you want to be all the time that little area to land the ball is quite big for you but your aiming point is small so you get it in between there that is the law of the field goal where are your field goal posts mine on this hole was anything beyond the the water extending from that bunker all the way to that edge of the Fairway huge area which is why I hit the driver because I know if I catch it okay it’s going to clear the water take it out of play and then my landing area so wide so that’s my big field goal area where are your field goal posts always remember that on your shot where are my field goal posts put them in the areas so that you can take advantage of the law of aiming in the correct Place missing in the correct place and that’s going to help your scores so I’m going to have to take my 56 and try to try to work out a shot here I don’t like this 85 yard shot because I just don’t know how to control the distance so what I have to do is eliminate anything that can go wrong so up on the right I can see some green so I’m going to eliminate this bunker entirely out of my mind and I’m going to hit this to the right of the hole take the take the TT get out of here what can we do and of course I go dead at it and I’m probably right next to the cup this is important information to have check out the book by Tom do on course architecture to understand how a course architect sets up a hole sets up a golf course so that you have to think your way and use the immutable laws of scoring that I’m showing you start line two p is outside the right now from 445 I don’t really need to hit the driver here but the whole look so good people tell you it’s all statistical it’s data it’s on the paper we don’t play golf on paper or on computer screens we play golf on grass and in the air and what we perceive my perception here is this is a great whole for driver a lot of space on the right so I’ll rather ER toward the middle of the Fairway and push it to the right but hopefully we hit a nice and straighter and from 445 it should leave us a pretty short approach in easy game now of course my distance gives me the ability to play the back te’s if you’re getting a lot of shots from 400 or 440 450 yards on par fours you may just be playing the wrong T’s there’s no need to chase distance to play these T’s there’s a lot of fun to be had between 6,000 and 6,500 yards probably the most fun believe that there’s one law I haven’t spoken about and it’s the law of inside 100 I want you to get great at the game inside 100 so that you can hit the ball closer to the green with maximum confidentiality you want to find yourself a 100 yard Club whatever it is just find a club that goes 100 yards get to a fitter he’s going to give you a wedge he’s going to fit you into something that goes 100 yards it’s a really great thing to shoot a distance to 100 yard marker and then hit the ball there and have a confidential 100 yard shot 105 95 90 up to you use the new on use your brain then inside 100 you want a half a swing with all your wedges if you got three wedges use those half swing 50% pitching wedge 50% 50° 50% 54 or 50% 56° same swing different lofs measure how far each Club goes with the exact same swing half a swing I’ve shown that in a video the link is in the description just use half a swing you’re going to get three or four distances to pitch the ball with full confidentiality so you can hit the ball closer to the green to pitch it on come on players partial pit shots are difficult but you can use one swing multiple clubs to become an ace okay we’re going to head we’re going to hit 48° here from 130 140 yard because we straight down wind and it’s not going to hold the green with a 9 iron so we’re going to leave it short and let it run up and downwind the ball curves much less so I’m going to hit a straighter shot here gayed beautiful beautiful confidential this is absolutely in my [Music] [Music] what the hell man where did that come from girl a bloody bird