If you happen to’re not taking part in from the proper tee field, you are solely making golf tougher for your self.
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Till just lately, I at all times simply defaulted to taking part in from the center tee field (of three choices), pondering it was the best choice for my recreation. Then I talked to some GOLF High 100 Academics about this, they usually advised me to strive taking part in from the entrance tees.
Naturally, I used to be slightly bit skeptical. In spite of everything, I hit my drives fairly far, so I’m not essentially somebody who must shorten the course. Plus, there’s a sure notion about taking part in from the entrance tees — whether or not that’s proper or incorrect.
However I gave it a attempt to the outcomes have been really unbelievable, with me capturing 1-over throughout a latest spherical in Canada, after which following that up with a rating of 4-over throughout one other spherical.
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Taking part in from the entrance tees has helped construct my confidence, compelled me to make use of a various set of golf equipment on strategy pictures, and has led me to hitting extra greens in regulation (a key barometer in relation to scoring low).
Since golf is already onerous sufficient, might taking part in from the entrance tees profit you prefer it has me? Extra importantly, is there a option to decide which tee field is greatest on your ability stage?
GOLF Trainer to Watch Todd Casabella helps reply these questions, and says there are 4 components to contemplate earlier than you head to the primary tee field to start your spherical. Try his ideas beneath.
Are you taking part in from the proper tee field? Right here’s the right way to discover out
“Most golfers have the objective of sooner or later transferring to the again tees, in any other case generally known as the ‘ideas,’” Casabella says. “Nevertheless, taking part in a golf course that’s too lengthy could be extra than simply difficult, it may possibly change your complete technique for a specific gap, making that gap play otherwise than the golf course architect envisioned — and resulting in a spherical that’s much less pleasurable for the common golfer.”
Casabella supplies instance of this from his membership’s course, Barrington Golf Membership, in Ohio.
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“As an illustration, gap No. 4 at my residence course is a median size par-4 with a slight dogleg left — making it an important risk-reward tee shot,” Casabella provides. “The opening has fairway bunkers within the left tough touchdown space of the tee shot (about 220 yards), however the fairway runs downhill, so you’ll be able to go away your self with a 100-yard shot, or much less, into the inexperienced for those who take the chance off the tee.”
Nevertheless, Casabella warns that any participant who comes up brief with their tee shot is extra prone to expertise all kinds of potential hazard — like the green bunkers, tough, or longer pictures into the inexperienced.
“If you happen to come up brief together with your drive, you’re left with a middle-iron or extra from the green bunker into the inexperienced,” he provides. “Pull it left, and also you carry out-of-bounds into play. Bail out proper, and you find yourself with an extended strategy from the tough. You have got the choice of taking part in secure to the green excellent of the bunker, however, once more, it will go away you with an extended strategy shot.”
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Whereas the instance gap that Casabella provides is a enjoyable tee shot, it’s clearly a troublesome one for those who’re not taking part in from the proper tee field, and places the stress on to hit an ideal drive to keep away from scrambling the remainder of the way in which.
“If you happen to’re taking part in the course too lengthy, you’re required to hit driver to the proper of the green bunkers [with precision],” he says.
That is why Casabella lists 4 issues to contemplate when deciding which tee field is greatest for you.
1. If you must take away a headcover and use a wooden or hybrid on practically each par-3, you’re taking part in tees which are too lengthy for you.
2. If you’re solely utilizing a wedge into nearly each inexperienced, you’re taking part in the course too brief.
3. If you happen to aren’t hitting a wedge into half of the greens in the course of the spherical, you’re taking part in a course that’s too lengthy.
4. If you happen to can hit all of the par-5 holes in two, you’re taking part in the course too brief.
Provides Casabella: “Decide the proper tees that make the golf course enjoyable to play, and the way in which the architect designed it.”
So for those who’re caught in impartial and might’t fairly attain your golf targets, use Casabella’s ideas above to determine whether or not or not transferring up a tee field can assist. It’d simply allow you to regain some confidence and, like me, result in the bottom spherical of your life.
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