7 Biggest Strategy Mistakes Golfers Make! Golf Monthly

Hello everyone, get on your knees, play here from Golf Monthly and welcome to the London Club, where today we look at the 7

biggest

strategy

mistakes

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ers

make

. The information we have for you in this video is courtesy of the guys at Shot Scope Shot. The scope has a unit called a v2 which is a GPS watch that I have here on my wrist that gives you all the distances you'll need while you're on the

golf

course, plus a bunch of tags you can put on it. on the butt of your golf clubs allowing you to keep track of every shot you made during a round of golf.

Now Shot Scope has aggregated all the data from all of its users and it's giving us some really interesting findings and in particular in this video we're going to focus on some of those really simple

mistakes

that you might be making that could save your shots. in the future so guys if you're new to the

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strategy

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golfers

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. 80% of missed greens are missed short, so 47% are short right and 33% are short left, and if you fall into the category of missing below the pin height. more than you think it should, then there are a few different things to consider within your own game.

The first is how consistent your ball striking is. Now it will depend on your handicap as you improve, your ball striking of course improves, but if you feel like it. Your ball stroke is not at the level of your handicap. It can be a really quick and easy way to improve. There are plenty of free tutorials online to help you hit the ball better. We will help you catch it. the ball and then the grass and that's a really powerful shot through impact that could make a big difference. The next point relates to your equipment: Your equipment is forgiving of those slight heel and toe hits that could cause you to stay close to the green.

If the answer to this is not sure, then maybe our modern iron set, more forgiving, it could help you and thirdly, how far you hit each club in the bag, obviously this is where performance tracking technology such as shots van v2 can come in handy. It is really useful to find out how far you hit the golf ball on the course when you are faced with different lies and different weather conditions and are under pressure. It's really useful and can be very different from how far you hit the ball down the field. range of shot after shot from the perfect lie, the other thing is that it's also worth finding out how far you carry each club in the bag because the total distance will depend largely on the ground conditions, while knowing your average G in carry-on luggage will make a big difference.

The difference is knowing which club you should hit in which situations, so for example this is the third hole here at the London club, we are low on water, you really don't want to come up short, the pin is beyond the halfway mark. path. green the front of the green is one through seven the middle of the green is one for two so you really need to make sure that whatever you do on this hole you pick a club that you know goes one through seven and if all you know is that you hit your 9 iron around 135 yards, well you don't know if you hit your 9 iron over 127 yards, so that's something to think about, so if you fall into that category, we'll do some range work on the practice, find out how far you carry each club in the bag and use them as your reference numbers in the future, it could make a big difference in your game, so next on my list relates to what club you should be. using off the tee and what we're looking at here are the average distances that players can hit with their driver versus their 3-wood and typically players give up about 30 yards between the driver and three which is about what we would wait.

However, what we didn't expect to see was that players off the tee using a 3-wood were only one percent more accurate, that's something worth considering because it's something we've said in some of our videos on last. fairway woods are the hardest golf clubs to hit in the bag, obviously a long shaft and small head, you are standing very far away from it, you have to hit the ball from a distance, so you have to make a great athletic swing and complete. Fairway woods are hard. do it right and it's hard to find something that you can really rely on to end up using it well when you need it most when you're competing on the golf course under pressure, so there are a couple of things to consider here, firstly, is its fairway wood, a golf club you can really trust, if it is, then look for it, put it in the bag, if it's not, maybe take a different route, maybe leave the 3 wood behind Kerry, a use of wood 5. something that doesn't go that far, but you feel confident using it and under pressure and the other point about the data that we've seen here is that if you're not going to look for a driver to use something that you know you can hit, You can hit it straight, so make sure you choose a club that you know you can hit straight, so you'll expect to be much more accurate with your fairway wood off the tee than just 1% above your driver, guys, there's real food. to think in terms of your tee strategy, what do you do when there are bunkers in play like there are here when there are problems up there that you need to avoid?

Are you going with the deer? Just keep hitting the driver and take advantage of your opportunities or do you try to hit the fairway with the safer option? If you go with the latter, make sure you pick something you'll be hitting the fairway with most often, and for most peas, it may not be there. wood, then the next point relates to how aggressive your strategy is when you play the greens and what we are going to do here is take a look at the number of birdies that players make on average versus the number of double players bogeys are being made on average and we are going to break down the numbers based on different handicap categories, so what you are seeing here is the average number of birdies per round, so for the category 1 player, 2 birdies per round , category 2 is about one birdie per round and then once you get over a handicap of about 12, golfers aren't making many birdies at all, but conversely, take a look at the double bogey numbers, so useful for Obtain a handicap of 0 to 5, approximately making one double bogey per round.

Category 2 golfers in the round make 2 double bogeys per round and then above category 2 again the double bogey numbers actually increase very quickly again, so the point here for many players is that the most The quick way to improve is not to make more birdies but to make fewer. double bogeys and in the situation I'm in here, this is a very good highlight of exactly where players go wrong, so the flag here on the 18th green at the London club's Heritage course is placed very to the right. It's a real football pin and by trying it you're really putting bogeys and double bogeys into play no matter what your handicap is and I think for a lot of golfers, especially the higher handicap players, it's worth thinking about playing golf in the center of the green more often, so what I would suggest you do is that the next time you go to play golf try to play in the center of each green every time you face it, an approach shot to the green does not matter if I have 100 or 200 yards to aim for a point in the middle of the green, that's where the GPS watch comes in very handy, it gives you your G's to the center of each green, you work those yards and try to hit the center. each green and then take a look at your scoring averages, take a look and see what's going on with your birdie percentages versus your bogey and double bogey percentages because I think, therefore, a lot of players who completely forget about the flag set my improvement in all.

Those numbers might help them make more birdies, but it will definitely help them keep bogeys and double bogeys off the card more often, so in this situation I'll really have to avoid that flag on the right side aiming for the middle of the field. . green trying to make the car take a double bogey certainly offside completely correct, let's try it, my mistake is definitely a mistake to the right. I'll aim for the center of the green. I pushed it a fraction but I still stay. of the flag and it's definitely no bother and it's that kind of thinking that can really save your golf ball shots. 82% of putts hit from outside five feet fall short.

That's an incredible statistic based on the range data we've been on. given and is based on what people do while actually competing and is something worth thinking about in your own game now Dave Pelts did some research a few years ago saying that the ideal pace at which you should hit your parts is make the ball roll about 18 inches past the hole which is where I have the tee pin here and that means the ball will roll fast enough to go over any imperfections on the green without being taken off the line without going too fast and put yourself in danger of three-putting or going out if you do it on a good line, so pace control is a really crucial factor when it comes to your success on the greens.

Now there are a lot of really great exercises. What you can do to perfect your putting speed, so position yourself comfortably around the hole in a box to make sure the ball rolls right past the hole, the more work you can do on your speed control the more likely you will be to putt. the ball right after the hole, if you can do that more often you will most likely be able to last a few more passes. It is often said that when it comes to throwing, it is best to stay a little further back so you can make a full throw.

The idea of ​​the swing is that if you take a full swing you can make a more committed swing and the results will ultimately be slightly better, but the range data doesn't really support this theory. What you're seeing here is average proximity. to the full data on shots from 50 yards versus shots from 80 yards and both from the fairway and rough players hit the ball closer to the hole from closer to the green, it's something worth thinking about in your own game yes I've always tended to put up more yards, well, maybe just consider it, maybe keep some stats of your own so you know if you're hitting it closer or farther because it could be that you're not and if you're not. so a little more aggressive strategy off the tee or from the fairway with your layup shot could pay off, so the shot I have here is around the 62 yard mark, it would be a tough shot. for me, but maybe it's better to hit a shot from here than from 30 yards further back, let's try it a little longer, but I'll take it if you carry hybrids or long irons and the top end of your bag is a question every golfer should ask themselves and as far as the shot range data goes, it's not quite conclusive for lower handicap golfers, so for category one and category two golfers it really depends on the individual and the individual game, but also the the handicaps. increase, so hybrids tend to have much more success and I would say the cutoff seems to skew towards the 13 handicap mark.

Golfers with handicaps of 13 and up tend to have more success with hybrids for a handicap of 13. 20 who face that type of shot. that I'm facing here from around 180 to 200 yards, a 20 handicapper is almost twice as likely to hit the green with a hybrid than with a long line, it really is food for thought and I'm sure it's something that a lot of You guys have considered and thought about your game if you are a high handicapper and carry long irons, just be careful, think about it, keep some stats of your own, find out how successful you are from further away from the green, if you find out. that on another occasion you are falling short with your longer irons, perhaps it is worth changing your three or four eyes for hybrids and, finally, are you more likely to miss to the right or left of the equipment?

It's really invaluable information to know. So the range data reveals that for most golfers they are more likely to miss right: 58% right versus 42% left and it really comes down to knowing your game and understanding your shot patterns. , understand where you are most likely to fail now. The best players in the world don't always make good shots, but what they do understand is that we shouldn't miss and they understand what they are most likely to do. You could incorporate that into your game, so a hole like this is On the 10th hole, here at the historic London club course, you can't go to theleft off the tee and if you are a player who is more likely to miss left, you can build your strategy based on that knowledge.

You can tell yourself, okay, mistake. I'm not going to do is I'm not going to throw a hook into the water, that's where the card destruction was, where the score comes from for me, that water on the left here is a big danger, whereas if you're someone who misses more . often to the right you will know that the water on the left side is not as much of a danger and you can adopt a more aggressive strategy. I know that in my game I am much more likely to miss to the right than to the right.

I left so I'm confident and happy with the controller, that's what I'm going to do here and having a simple strategy based on what you're most likely to do can really help your game.Manage your misses and go from there can make a big difference as predicted. I've lost it slightly to the right side, but I'm fine, I'm in play and I can attack the green from there, so there you have it. are the 7 biggest strategy mistakes golfers make based on range data and there are some really fascinating insights in there. I don't think it matters if you are a category 1 player or if you are just starting to play golf.

Along the journey, there are some really simple findings that could help give you guidance on the best and quickest way to improve your game. Guys, leave comments below. Is there anything you would like to clarify? Is there more information you would like regarding statistics, we will be happy to help you in any way we can. Please also press the Like button if you liked the video, but for now, from the London club, we say goodbye.