Finding The Short Short Grass /// Course Management 101

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] ever since I uploaded my first real chorus vlogs at Northampton almost two years ago where I've really broke down the front and the back nine I've gotten a lot of questions about course management and it's popped up in Q&A it's popped up on Instagram and in the comments waited long enough let's let's roll into a proper course management series finding the short grass the importance of keeping the golf ball in the short grass so I'm at Southampton now I'm gonna take you on a whole and really talk through the decision-making to why I hit the tee shot I hit and hopefully it can open your eyes to the multiple decisions you have on any given tea and why one shot might be smarter than another child and so behind me I've got the eighth hole here at Southampton four hundred and thirty nine yards so on first glance you think oh it's just driver bombs away it's a long hole but there's a little bit more up there that you need to pay attention to that I'm gonna break down right now so even though it's a four hundred and forty yard hole there's a lot to pay attention to up here straightaway yes we have just wide open fairway and then you can see it turns to the left it's only 226 yards to the front edge of that bunker and it's 250 yards to cover that bunker you can see the 150 steak just right of the bunker that is only 266 from the T so by straight math obviously the 439 it doesn't play that and the thing that you can't see from here is pass the 150 and on the right hand side of the fairway everything cambers to the right rough it's very thin it's very bare and that bounds into the right trees same thing for the left side so then if I want to take it over that bunker it's 250 to cover it 270 to get back to the fairway if I take it right over the 150 it's 301 through the fairway but like I said that all kicks through into the rough and into the trees and then if I'm taking driver bailing it out to the right parallel to the 150 stake it's only 269 to the end of the fairway yes on first glance you think oh just hit driver up this left side but the reality is to take driver I've got to skirt that right along the tree and I'm opening up quite a bit of trouble if I hit that left I'm dead and then yes I can really bail it right but if I bail it too far right I'm kicking down the firm fairway through the rough into the trees hitting an iron sure I can hit an iron into this fairway and just play it very very safe but then I have to take something that obviously is short of that 226 bunker mark because what if I pull that iron 230 yards while I'm in the bunker so if I hit an iron like a 4 iron off this te well I'm leaving myself with right around 200 yards into a green which that's just too much stress so yes hidden it in the fairway but not a smart shot into that fairway so the play here is actually 3-wood right at the 150 stake and just let it draw and if I happen to pull it while I've got enough to cover the bunker I've got enough to get it back to the fairway over the bunker and if I happen to flail it out to the right taking it at this 150 stake well I'm still gonna be in the fairway because if I fan a 3-wood I'm not Fanning it 275 yards so that's the importance of course management taking a look at everything that faces you on a hole and making the best decision when you make the best decision when you take the club that allows you to miss it left miss it right a bad one or a good one all ends up in a good spot golf's a lot more easy it's stress-free it's more fun but taking driver I'm taking on way too much risk taking an iron I'm leaving myself way too much of a second shot so the play here is 3-wood I've got tons of room right tons of room left it's really just a no-brainer [Applause] oh hey didn't notice you they're just catching up on me on the news did you know that 80% of women prefer a man that is fruiting down there did you also know that golf is 80 percent easier from the fairway wild I know 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sponsoring this series and sharing the importance of the short stuff with us fellow golfers I've talked about all the decision all the all the process that goes into making this decision so now it's just time to put up or shut up put my money where my mouth is and hit that 3-wood knowing I can hit it right and be okay knowing I can pull it left and being okay and knowing that if I hit a really good one I'm in perfect shape I've taken all the stress out of the equation I've taken what the hole is giving me and now I've made a decision that I'm very confident with and I can just free it up and swing I didn't hit the greatest of shots I kind of floated that 3-wood up and to the right but like everything I said back on the tee look how much room I had from left to right where I was going to be hitting the 3-wood roughly if I hit a good 3-wood I'm gonna fly at 266 270 but if I fan it out to the right I'm gonna float it out here and I'm not gonna get that 270 out of it so not a great shot but I left myself with an 8-iron into this green very inviting green so yeah not a great tee shot but I'm happy with my result I'm happy with where I left myself if I had hit that shot with driver I'd be in the trees I left myself with the widest fairway to hit into and good shot bad shot I'm gonna be in okay I found the short grass because golf is much much easier from the short stuff so I hope you learned a little bit about this where I do some more of these we're gonna break into maybe second shots into par five different tee shots shots where you have to hit an iron or might be better off to hit an iron so give this video a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't thank you very much to the sponsor manscaped because like I said they know a thing or two about the short stuff hope you enjoyed this and we'll see you in the next one [Music]