Tournament Vlog: How To Scout A Course

what's up guys welcome back to the vlog my name's Andrew it's a pleasure to see you we're out on the golf course today we're at Orange County national because this is a tournament vlog but what I want to show you guys a little bit more of this time around is just the prep it's howling wind today there's some storms coming so getting out on the golf course and playing probably not the best of ideas not gonna gain a whole heck of a lot so we're out we're driving the course figuring out my tee shots and then getting up on the green paint chips hitting putts analyzing the Greens running down the slopes and all the stuff that needs to go over there that's basically what we're doing today I'm gonna show you some of that tell the camera is not being held by anything Kelly he's holding the camera she's gonna be in this vlog she came with me to Orlando so it's gonna be one couple of days in Orlando so let's go keep checking down the staff course [Music] so I'm here in the ninth fairway and one of the cool things about this hole that scouting it out is allowing you to see is the t's back there and from on the card it's four hundred yards so I'm going to play something out here to a tee there's bunkers here there's bunkers there in the distance but straight line to the green it's only 310 so this is something depending on the wind or the courses is giving you the option to try to be aggressive and maybe go for the green today the wind was dead into snow it's pointless but coming out here and seeing this obviously prepares me for tomorrow's round where I'm not may be enticed at the number where I know this martyr play is tell al [Music] [Music] there are pretty basic but also helpful green diagrams on the scorecard and what I'm doing is when I find undulations or slopes I'll draw you know if I'm makeshift version of it on the card so I just have reference and then also if there's a rise pace off what it's at the bottom of it where it is at the top of it so that when pins do show up around arise or an undulation in the green I know I know my numbers or for example this the 15th hole here I'm basically gonna pace off to the middle of this green because the back of the green is a very narrow little neck back left unpin high but I pull it it's trees if I pin high and I push it it's trouble like it's a very narrow neck so I'm gonna pace off to the middle and that's kind of my max yardage when it comes to this hole that's the max I'm gonna want to land anything even if it's a back pin and if I cleave myself 30 feet to that back then 35 feet I'm happy with that as opposed to trying to get right back to that pin and messing with trouble on this it means 230 yard par 3 3 is great score 18 Kelly's voice on the block guys I hope you enjoyed part 1 of this vlog just showing you through the practice yesterday the prep the weather got pretty nasty basically tornado warnings rolling through so try to practice trying his shots is quite pointless let's round one here nice little perk staying right there walk right up to the wedding to get to warming up point yesterday was just to get a feel for the golf course get good visuals don't hit any shots and that wind and sea bad shots you see just visualize good shots when I'm out there standing on the tee getting my yardages and then checking out the greens and seeing the slopes knowing where I should hit the greens were marvelous pins so I didn't wear the pins would be today and what to what to expect all these considered I feel my prepared I guess I'll show you guys some golf and then we'll check in on the tournaments over [Music] [Music] not Norway I know not at Orange County national tournaments over we hopped in the car right after the round on Tuesday and made it back here to to Jacksonville I'm sitting by the ocean and you hear no wind I would have loved that over there in Orlando the last few days Monday's day was just a nightmare it was blowing 25 miles entire day and there's no trees in Orange County national it was tough only two people broke part in the entire field two people broke Park I was playing well I was one over for most of my day but then to miss hits on the back nine on the par threes I hid it in hazards so I ended up shooting 77 which sucks but wasn't that bad everybody was over par and unfortunately the wind gave me some bad luck and I was in I think 30 34th place going to the final round so I needed to shoot to 300 par to get get into the money and I just didn't I played okay and then pushed a little bit on the back nine and missed a couple putts and it comes back chips couple bad irons and shot another 77 so I was finished in the forties I'm not disappointed about it it's crappy that something I felt prepared for became a bit of luck when it came down to win in round one the line is so thin in a two-day event that if you're on the right side of things and things go your way you're right in the mix but a couple things don't go your way you know you're three four five shots out of a good tournament you just got a sprint and that final round and either comes out roses or it doesn't and that in that instance it didn't the scores don't represent how I played or how I feel about my game so it's all good but what I wanted you guys to take away from this event was the preparation and I mean if you're on short time and you have to play a tournament tomorrow a one-day event a two-day that your club championship your qualifier for your school team whatever it is you can get a lot done when you're just walking the Golf Course visualizing the shots you want to hit but also really scouting out the greens really knowing where you need to hit it where you need to miss it where you need to putt from I want to say I might have been the only player in the field for 36 holes it didn't have a three-putt and I think that came down to knowing where I needed to hit on those greens because I never was on the wrong side of the hole but I was never putting on defense I was putting to make almost every putt I hit yes these last two days so I'm really really happy with that my short game was good a lot of good things like I said the score didn't reflect it but it's all good I've got basically two and a half weeks off now the next thing I'm gonna be playing in is US Open qualifying on May 7th so just time to settle things up here in Jacksonville load up the car and get ready to migrate back north so give this video a thumbs up I hope you learned a little bit about how to prepare for a round on short time and how to scout at a golf course subscribe if you haven't as we do we do have the 10,000 subscriber giveaway coming up and make sure you follow me on Instagram because I've got a really cool adidas giveaway I'm going to start doing today I'm launching it today so if you're not following Instagram go follow me on Instagram and I'm gonna see you guys in the next vlog [Music]