Course Vlog: Risk vs Reward

I was fighting my golf swing I was playing golf swing so that was a little bit annoying good morning guys welcome back to the vlog yeah I'm vlogging today haven't really done a vlog in almost week we did a work harder Wednesday their little confessional type thing earlier this week today let's do a little day to day type vlog action gonna play some golf today go into a golf course that I've played a few times called Eagle Landing the reason I think this is something I need to be doing playing a little bit more golf is I've got a tournament next week and I can spend a lot of time on the range sure that's fun that's good that's productive but I need to get out on the golf course and just get a feel for putting a score together so we're gonna head out there I'm golfing my buddy Sean try to grab as much cool food as I can and also talk you a little bit through some of the play little long course vlog let's do this [Music] a little bit earlier than Shawn to get some work done on my short game here it's nice to have a different firmness a green these greens are bit faster the Bermuda here is a little bit fluffier than the Bermuda at my course the Bermuda my course is really hard packed and getting some practice in here is really good because I don't know what to expect in Jamaica so if I've had some work and different types of Bermuda different firmness of greens it's just only gonna help me a flight here a couple of times so I know the golf course quite well I've circled a few holes in the scorecard that will be really good to talk about strategy on because there's a lot of variety out here so these few holes that I've grabbed I'll show you them out there today and talk about exactly how I play these holes and talk a little bit about some strategy here on the seventh hole this is a par 5 as you can see goes around the water there's the green and you basically are faced with the option of how much do you want to bite off how much of this water do you want to take on you can see right there that red stakes to 56 to carry red stake over here is to 76 to carry and then the very end in line with the trees that's to 95 the winds a little bit into us so what I would do essentially I'll split the middle I mean I can carry driver to 90 but I don't need to get too risky so you go right up here know that even if I don't hit it well it's gonna cover that water and just commit I've taken a line that is safe that if I push it right I'm okay that if I pull it left I'm okay but if I take this line and happen to pull it left I'm dead if I take a too modest line and push it right I'm really out of position so you want to take a line that allows you to miss it either way and doesn't force you to have to swing out of your shoes so that's what we're gonna do if I hit that hit that line maybe let the wind moving a little bit left I'm still gonna have a long iron into this green and then we can talk about strategy up there all right well I pulled that drive just a little bit but I'm okay I have 225 to this pin and it's very narrow up there one thing that's unique about this golf course is all their par fives are quite penal when it comes to going for a par five and two so you can see these two bunkers here and here but there's actually a bunker in front of the green and that pin is going to be tucked behind it I believe so I have 225 so this is a shot that if I choose to go for it which I will you want to land it about 210 up the right don't need to mess with the flag and just let it get up there on the green and give yourself a look at Eagle if you can and know that your bail out is short and right this is the 12th hole here Eagle landing and it's a 325 yard par-4 on first glance that's drivable with the right wind but really it's a big risk reward do you want to take on the risk for the reward of having an eagle putt or chip the green is very very shallow so having a 20 yard pitch a 15 yard pitch is really difficult it's hard to spin it so if anything if anyone was gonna try to drive this green you would try to get it in the greenside bunker the smart play is hitting something that stays short of these bunkers up here and gives you about a hundred yards into this hole I pulled that one but I left it short of this bunker you can't see the flag but I have a hundred and seventeen yards to the flag and that was the point of the layup takes all the trouble out of way you can hit it left you can hit it right you still have a shot I'd like to be in a fairway but this is where I'm at [Music] that was pretty scrappy out there today I hope you enjoyed a little bit of that strategy talk though it was nice to be able to share a little bit of the thinking when it comes to going for a par 5 and to being aggressive out of par 5 or a drivable par 4 I shot even par for birdies four bogeys didn't hit it very well I was fighting my golf swing I was playing golf swing so that was a little bit annoying but hey that's what these rounds are for still hit some good shots I chipped and putted it very very well I like where things are headed I just need to spend some more time really honing in these these little tweaks with have my clubs exiting the ball more specifically when it comes to my rhythm and my focus because out on the golf course you just need to focus on the target and just just let it go and swing and good rhythm but I was getting a little too congested in my head when it came to the thoughts and I was thinking about the swing so that kind of was a bummer reason why I made 4 bogeys out there but hey happens to the best of us I got a lot of practice to do between now and leaving for Jamaica next Wednesday so give this video a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't and I'll see you guys in the next episode [Music]