How I Play Golf | Course Management Breakdown

welcome back to the channel my name is Andres great to see you welcome back to southampton we have an evening game tonight it's hot I thought maybe filming in the evening would be okay but it's still a hundred degrees summer is officially here in Jacksonville that's no excuse we're still gonna get out there and employ a little bit of golf follow the lead from the video I made a week a week or so ago about how I practice that video seems to help a lot of people a lot of people really loved it and implemented a lot of the drills and are already reporting great results from that so I want to do basically a follow-up to that that's more about course management so that was how I practice this video today is how I play golf I'm gonna go out and play and talk through all the course management thinking that I go through when I'm out there faced with two shots pro shots plus all that and hopefully you will be able to learn some course management strategies from this video and when I'm done golfing I've got a huge prize announcement I want to share with you we've just crossed 25,000 subscribers in the channel it's unbelievable the hard work is starting to pay off I can't thank each and every one of you enough so I want to give something back to you awesome viewers I've got a huge prize pack that I'm gonna give away to one lucky viewer and you're gonna find out how to enter when we get off the golf course so let's go up [Music] start on the back nine gonna go on the tenth hole here 378 yards these bunkers here straightaway are not in play my line is I'm just trying to smash driver over those bunkers favoring right missing rights totally okay because this green is actually kind of open from the right side hidden it left it's not where I want to be just on a great angle so I'm the trying to driver as hard as I can over those bunkers not my best there got that one kind of high in Spinney but missed it out to the right the bunkers are just right here I've got 98 yards to that pin but like I said the right miss is okay cuz it really opens this green up I've got really nothing in my way a little bit of wind into my face so I'm just gonna chip a 54-degree just sort of keep it down and keep the spin down full lob wedge would get high and have a lot of spin okay I took a little bit too much off of it so I'm right below the hole decent place to be so this is what I was looking at straight at that flag from the right you've got nothing your way like I said back there I just took a little bit too much off of it hated about 10 yard shorts being below the hole is always my objective here it's a pert it's a much easier putt than if I was long right or long left so now I don't have an ideal birdie putt but I've got an uphill 20-some footer for birdie one thing I do with all of my putts is I paste them off just to get a feel for exactly what the number is I've been practicing so much I have a great feel for what distance it is how hard I need to hit it so I'm gonna paste this thing off and get an idea of exactly how far I have twelve phases so 36 feet uphill into the grain this is one that I can be aggressive with but not overly aggressive because if I run it four feet by it's just a trickier power puck greens are shaggy a little bumpy late in the day so this is just one hit a good putt make solid contact and tap in for par you can see how much it's wobbling right below the hole easy easy par eleventh old 401 on the card little into the wind no wind I can really take it over that bunker with ease and have about a hundred yards into this hole but because we're a little bit into the wind I don't need to get too too aggressive so I'm just going to take something little right at the bunker and if I pull it I'll still cover the bunker but I'm basically taking the left trees out of play and I can't hit it through the fairway on that line kind of stuck back on my right foot there but it's a fine mist middle the fairway so I've got 137 but you can see had enough to cover the bunker and didn't have enough to get in there and obviously if I heard a way right I was still okay that back pin I can take dead aim at this this is one where I have no excuse to not hit this inside 20 feet so 137 a little bit into the wind off the right so I can just hit a stock pitching wedge and let it let the wind draw it in and hopefully hit it inside 20 50 feet deadpan hi just got a little steep - pulled it I was actually short of thin high that wind took a little bit off of it when I could have hit it home off more at fault let's see how far we have 27 feet straight up the hill this isn't too dissimilar from the last putt I'm going straight up the hill straight into the grain it could move either way so this is one day I would just play straight and hope I get a good roll out of it this time of day it is kind of leap that way on me had a feeling that might have been the case but didn't trust it if this were a tournament shirt power power start but to really attack a golf course that that 10th hole certainly one where need to hit a really good Drive and then just hit a closed wedge and ideally make birdie at least half the time and then same thing here good drive wedge so this is a two hole stretch where I should be 1-under par if I were trying to you know be competitive but right now we're even par but the key is now not to like push because it wasn't a tight start the key is you just let the birdies come so we have a par three and then a reachable par-5 so first things first folks on the par-3 176 to a front and wind tends to swirl a little bit in this corner so what I do is I look at the lake I just want to see which way the water is movie on the lake and I trust that to be what the wind is doing so it looks like the wind is basically like this so not enough help to hit an 8-iron so it is kind of an in-between clog shot so I'm gonna have to choke down a 7-iron and wear that pin is best place to be is where he's putting from obviously left is no good because you're in the bunker and then the green slopes to the flag right is an easier up-and-down than left so this is one where I could probably tame right at the flag and if the wind pushes it a little right great if not fine and I have up until 180 to be safe so that's why I would go with 7-iron vs. 8-iron if I hit this thing a little long there's a lot of green behind that flag so it's not not the end of the world so I just have to choke down and really trust this and keep the body in arms and sink in the little steep again in-hye just a couple feet right of the green not a good shot but it's a good miss that's a perfect situation we're taking a little bit more Club was a smarter play because if I miss hit it like I did I've still got enough to get to the pin and then I is a great place to be where it's about to hit that 8-iron and really tried to smash it and miss hit it on that exact line I'd be short riding I have a much harder up-and-down so that was a great example of when taking a little bit more Club was the best option and that's why you look at okay what's behind the flag so a front pin there's chances others room up until the middle of the green so that was in the back of my mind as to why I picked that Club versus the 8-iron like I said perfect leave I'm chipping straight up the hill into the grain this is a very chip inable shot but it's one where I just need to make good contact and let the ball do what it needs to do on the green because chipping into the grain into the grain on the green a little miss hit could really ruin a lot like it could just stop or or skim through so this is just making good contact but I'm looking at this one pretty aggressively thinking I can have a good chance of chipping it in a little bit with the grain but still a pretty good leave below the hole three feet into the grain not upset with that what happened [Music] so threes are always good but obviously when you have a chance to make it to you you'd like to make it but now we're moving on to a really reachable par-5 so this is something where I mean I haven't made too many great swings in three holes so I just need to slow it down and then really make a good swing on this tee shot to set myself up for the best chance to make birdie on the next hole 13th oh it's 497 yards so it is a short par 5 and it is a dogleg so you can take a bit of the corner off and have even less into the flag got a pond right here so I'm looking at what the winds doing when is into off the right which is actually great because it helps me try to turn this ball over that bunker is about 242 cover so it's not even am I thinking and I can go as far left it's probably this white tee box right here there is a lot of room left so if you see that bunker beyond this first bunker that's a great line there's a chimney right over that bunker there that I always tend to aim for and if I pull it or draw it on that line or cut it on that line I'm great but with this wind I think I'm gonna go right where his card is and play a draw and try to get some chase and have little into the screen as I possibly can okay so I had a good drive there I've got to 15 to that flag it's a very shallow green so I want to make sure I at least get it two degrees it's 203 to cover that bunker that's all I want everything over that bunker will kick forward so could kick off the greenback but it's not a hard up-and-down so 215 a little downhill lie I'm taking dead aim with a 5-iron and just want to make sure I stay basically on the right side of this screen so I have the easiest potential putt or up and down for birdie I've got a harder look now to get up and down for birdie you can see what I was saying up here a little bit better that front bunker just wanted to cover it it's a very shallow small green if I was a little long I've been okay up and down I pulled it up there so now I just have to deal with a bit of slope but at the end of the day it's not the hardest pitch shot in the world obviously I want to hit better five irons than that but it's a good place to leave it please with that shot there's a little patch here where the grain was actually into me and that's where it landed so that's why it spun as much as it did cuz everything this way was down grain thought it would chase just a little bit more [Music] I mean if they didn't roll very well it's a birdie nonetheless so we're on the right side of par but I had to work a lot harder for that one that I wanted to but you can see four holes I really only made one pretty solid swing so this is something where I'm just gonna have to keep managing it for the next five holes to finish this nine out not take on any undue risks and hopefully find a bit of a groove somewhere in these next five holes which then if this were an 18 hole round I could translate into the rest of the round because I mean getting off to a slow start with your swing isn't the end of the world if you're managing to maintain your score where it should be but it's one thing it's tough when you're swinging it kind of poorly and then you're not scoring the way that you would like to be scoring so then it's like it's a mental test but I just have to keep focusing on my process picking targets and just letting the results take care of itself and not being so focused on results I'm talking about results because of the video but I'm actually not focused on the results so I hope that makes sense 14 here it's 440 yards on the card you'd think it's driver past the 150 it really narrows in so I never hit driver here unless it's howling into the wind I just want to hit it to the widest part of this fairway which is why I hit 3-wood I can keep it anywhere from that car path all the way I mean 25 yards left of the 150 steak I've got a very wide landing area so I can really just free it up here and make a good swing and kickstart some better swing that's why I hit 3-wood cuz if I had hit driver on that line I would be in the hazard you can see there's the 150 and that's what I was telling you about if I'd hit that thing any further left that would have been the crap if I'd hit driver I probably would have chased into that as well so that's why three one was the club a little bit of wind helping I've got one fifty nine to the back flag I'm gonna go with pitching wedge pitching wedge is might like 142 to 144 club and I'll tell you why I'm going with it this this Bermuda can be a little bit jumpy a little bit downwind so this could go anywhere from 150 to 150 to back pin I don't want to be long so that's why I'm gonna air short I'd rather be 40 feet short then potentially fly this green with a jumpy 9-iron I'm just kind of getting steep and flippy but if I had a 9-iron I would have been screwed I hid pitching wedge I'm probably about five to ten feet left of the green obviously missing the green sucks but I can still get up and down from there versus if I hit 9-iron I'd be hitting four from a drop not a great shot this in the green sucks but I've got a very flat pitch slightly into the hill slightly into the grain great lie so this is something around it's gonna take my 54 kind of like on the par 3 and just bump it let it run and hopefully cozy it up there and has a chance going in that's a bonus I will say as a bit of a caveat my short game has been pretty pretty strongly because you see I've been hidden it a little off I've been practicing my short game a lot so I'm looking at chips as if I can make them so that's one thing that's different about how I'm playing right now I'm so comfortable on and around the greens whereas there's times when I'm hitting it great and then on and around the greens I haven't been practicing I haven't been having to push it so that's why short game might let me down oh my gosh how did that miss Oh it's wild I feel like I can ship almost anything in right now it's a very good feeling I just wish I felt that good about my golf swing yeah I'm not on the golf course anymore those dark clouds they they opened up thunder lightning storming ensued oh and channel this is maple unfortunately we had to put a D down back in in April and we got maple she's 9 weeks old and she's amazing this scenario is actually perfect because it would be one of those ones where I'm not playing my best golf out there I'm kind of hacking it around but I'm scoring ok but I would get a reset I would get time to go and warm up again and maybe find a bit of rhythm and then finish this round off hopefully with some better golf swings and and you know maybe keep that good scoring going I hope you learned a little bit about how I managed myself out there how I think through thoughts and like I said I wasn't focused on the score but I talked about the score just for the videos purposes and the only reason you're still watching now is because I said at the beginning we're doing a giveaway yeah we hit 25,000 subscribers it's unbelievable it just further 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