Breaking Scoring Barriers

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All right, golfers, in this video, let's take a look at overcoming scoring

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barriers.

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So as a quick recap from the benchmarks class of being your own coach, let's

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look at some

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of these goals as far as if our goal is to shoot certain scoring levels, we

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have benchmarks

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that we want to try to address.

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So in general, we want to be able to hit the ball far enough and hit enough

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fairways so

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that we can hit more greens of regulation.

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You'll see the greens of regulation lead to easy pars and more of a stress-free

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interaction.

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At 100 golfer, you're only going to hit a couple greens.

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At about scratch golf, you're going to hit half the greens of regulation.

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So if you're above a scratch golf, then your short game and your wedge play has

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to be part

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of your goal or part of your training program so that that becomes one of your

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strengths.

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Because you can quickly see how it kind of escalates the better you get, the

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more you

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can rely on your wedge game in putting.

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So at about a 90s golfer, you're going to average getting up and down only once

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or twice per

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round and you're going to two-putt most greens.

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If you can improve those numbers without having a dramatic improvement in your

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ball striking,

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your scores will go down considerably.

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Okay, so let's talk about those big barriers.

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If our goal is to break 100, if we break that down, that means we would have to

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average

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five and a half per whole.

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So basically, whether it's par three, four, five, our goal would be to hit the

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green in

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three shots and then average two and a half putts.

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It's going to be a lot easier on the par threes, but chunking it down and

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realizing that

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all you have to do is hit the green in three or even four and then have two or

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three putts

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gives you your first kind of scoring goals.

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Being able to hit the ball repeatedly enough that I'm not topping it, I'm not

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chunking it

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so I'm getting close to the green so that I can get there in a few shots and

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then being

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able to two-putt most of my first putt or putting scenarios.

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Skills don't kill you, but sevens, eights, nines really add up.

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From a process, we want to make sure that we're starting to really work on

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picking a

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target for every single shot.

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You don't have to over stress as far as the strategy of what club to hit.

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In fact, I really think that you should focus on building three shots, like a

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long shot,

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so whether it's a hybrid or fairway wood, a medium shot, which is going to be

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more your

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iron and then a wedge shot, which is somewhere in the 20 to 50 yard zone.

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If you have those three shots and you can get off the tee, then we can quickly

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get you

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into that next zone of shooting between 190.

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One other two or two other little factors that I stress for my 100 shooters,

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think about

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slope on putting.

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I often find that this is where having a good reaction process will help you

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get better

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at anticipating how much uphill, how much downhill do I need to hit, because

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most of

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your three putts are going to come from poor speed control, and our first goal

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is to minimize

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those three and four putts.

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Then, recognize that your bad shots will usually come in bunches.

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When you start hitting a couple bad shots, take a breath, take a step back,

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read the

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feedback.

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It's usually because of a slope or you've lost your swing key, just take a few

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extra

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practice swings and regroup, and hopefully that will help you from making those

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big numbers.

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Next one, breaking 90, so breaking 90 on 18 holes would be averaging five per

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hole would

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shoot 90, so scoring less than five per hole.

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Basically if you were to average hitting the green in three and making two put

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ts per hole,

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that shoots 90.

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Again, this is where avoiding the sevens, the eights, the triples are worse as

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one of our

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major goals.

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One of those is, those typically come from either getting into a funk where you

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're hitting

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a lot of really wild shots off the tee out of bounds, or you are hitting it in

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play,

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but then chunking a bunch of iron shots or thinning, or basically having really

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bad

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iron contact, or you're getting up around the green and you're three, four,

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five puttting.

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I've seen that as an issue, so working on making my five footers will help

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eliminate the five

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putts as well as possibly getting a little bit better with my speed control.

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And then emphasizing having fewer lost balls off the tee, which could come from

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just practice

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or from being a little bit more conservative with my strategies.

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So the process goals here for breaking 90, I want to avoid the big messes,

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either off

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the tee or with the longer clubs, get better with your shorter clubs and rely

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on that more.

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I want to build a basic recovery game.

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So being able to get it out of the bunker in one shot and being able to hit a

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punch shot,

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so if I do put it in the trees, I can get it back in the flow quickly.

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I find that those two areas really hold people back from breaking that 90s

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barrier.

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I only need one good short game shot, just a basic short game finesse wedge

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shot.

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And I want to commit to when I'm hitting my shots, not just distant, or sorry,

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not just

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direction, but also distance.

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So I want you to start getting in the habit of saying to yourself, this is a

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150 yard

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shot.

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I'm going to hit my five iron, and I'm going to take a couple practice swings

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where I feel

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the tempo of the five iron, not just focus on my aim and direction.

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And then we want to start paying attention to our lie tendencies.

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So this is where when we're kind of having trouble breaking 90, that's usually

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when we

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are kind of falling into the same traps, where we'll hit the same bad shots

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when either the

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ball is uphill, or downhill, or below, or above our feet.

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So start reading your feedback so that you can understand why you're having

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trouble with

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those specific slopes.

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That'll help you kind of mitigate some of those really big holes, because oft

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entimes

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when you have that slope issue, when you miss hit it, you still have the same

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slope issue,

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so you don't get to the next zone.

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And then start working hard on alignment.

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You're going to see that as a general trend in all of the scoring barriers.

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Okay, breaking 80, now we're looking at averaging four and a half per whole.

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The goal is to hit seven or eight greens and get up and down about one and four

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This is now where having a good enough short game and enough control to avoid

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doubles is

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really important.

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It is hard to break 80 if you're having more than one double per round.

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If you're consistently having three, four doubles, then you have no room for

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having just

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regular bogeys.

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So one thing that can help is this is a good time to start thinking about

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breaking the

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round into smaller chunks.

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So whether it's hard to focus on one shot at a time, so this is a good place

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where you

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can break the round into three hole chunks.

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And if you can average, or if you can target being one over for every three

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holes, that

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would get you to high 70s, 78.

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So sometimes it's easier.

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And that way if you do have one stretch where you're three over for three holes

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, you can

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kind of shake it off and focus on the next chunk instead of kind of letting the

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emotion

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of being three over for three holes carry over to more holes and more shots.

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Process Gold.

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We want to focus on improving our ball striking and control of our distance so

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that we can

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focus on easy pars from more greens and regulation.

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We really want to get in the habit of avoiding the short-sided misses and

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hitting it out of

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bounds.

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To do that, we're going to focus on having more one curve, especially off the

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tee.

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We want to get in the habit of reading the lie in the window in every shot.

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This is where I often see golfers hit a shot, I'll ask them what they hit.

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They'll say they did it because of the number, but they didn't factor in either

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the slope

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or the wind.

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Even harder than the 90s golfer, work hard on alignment process.

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That's one of the biggest limitations for being able to take your game from the

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range

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to the course and build a putting game where you have no three putts.

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You saw averaging two putts is what it takes to shoot around 90.

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So to get down into 80, we have to have more one putts than three putts, where

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we get three

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one putts and the rest two putts.

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We want to make sure that we're having good opportunities and that we're

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focusing on never

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making three putts.

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Distance control, we want to start to be able to not just make one comfortable

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swing, but

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be able to take off five yards, be able to swing at 80% or a little bit shorter

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so that

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we can hit greens when we're in between clubs.

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Then we want to build a really good punch shot or tend to two that helps us in

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the wind,

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that helps us with our punch shot, that helps us with our distance wedges.

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Those are three of kind of the unsung heroes for being able to save more cars.

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Okay, last section.

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Very few of us are going to get to this level where we're trying to break 70,

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but if we

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are, this is now where we need to start averaging four per whole, which

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basically means I need

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to birdie all the par fives or as many of them as I can and do my best to

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minimize the

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number of bovis elsewhere.

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The tour formula on making birdies is basically I need to give myself putts

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from inside 20

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feet.

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Focusing on how many opportunities for birdie from inside of 20 feet am I

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giving myself?

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If I am consistently hitting greens, 12 to 13 greens, but there are a lot of 30

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, 40 footers,

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I'm going to have a hard time getting below 70.

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What I need to do is I need to refine my scoring ability between, let's say, 80

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yards and 150

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yards or 140 and in.

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So how do I get it inside of 20 feet?

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The tour shows that ball striking wise, if I'm having more 100, 125,

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potentially good

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shots from 140, 150 will give me those opportunities.

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So how do I get more opportunities from 100 to 140 yards?

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I have to be able to drive it 280 plus and be able to control it enough that I

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leave myself

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an un-obstructed second shot.

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So 280 plus is a tough goal, but with a good quality swing, with some

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athleticism and training,

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it's doable and not everybody gets the break 80 or sorry to break 70.

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I think most people with training could be able to break 80 with enough

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training, but

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to be able to break 70 you have to have enough athleticism that you can hit it

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far enough

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to give yourself more wedge shots.

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Now how do you avoid bogeys?

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You're going to have the reliable tee shot, good wedge play and be able to be

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rock solid

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on your 5 to 10 footers.

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To break 70 really, the process goal is every little detail matters, whether it

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's your workouts,

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your recovery, your nutrition, your practice, all of that stuff really matters,

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but a few

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other little kind of process goals would be knowing, like training the anti-

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swing.

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So you want to be able to have a swing that you can absolutely trust that's not

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going

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to go left and a swing that you can trust will not go right.

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So those aren't always the same, you're going to have different keys, but

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knowing how to

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eliminate one side of the course is super helpful for being able to handle

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those really

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challenging holes where there's a bias that you can't miss it in one side or

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the other.

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You want to dominate from 140 in it.

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You want to get really dialed with your low point control, your loft control on

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those

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140 yards and in, putting, you want to own your start line.

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I give the goal of, if you're using some type of metric, whether it's Sam or

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I want you to get within half a degree or less of your intended start line.

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So really, this is where dialing in your start line with some type of station

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and consistent

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training can be really, really important.

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And then for more options, more variety, being able to handle different

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scenarios, for those

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140 and in, I want you to be able to hit the same distance with multiple clubs.

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So I find that kind of if you're stuck in that like 75 zone, oftentimes you're

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pretty

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good at certain shots, but you only have one option.

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So you'll hear players talk about, oh, if I need, you know, like, let's say I

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to hit it 100 yards, well, if I use my, like, one quarter, 50 degree wedge, it

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to land and then release 10 yards.

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If I hit more, like my three quarter sandwich, it's going to hit once and stop.

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And if I hit my full lab wedge, it's going to carry and then spin back.

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You need to have multiple options for being able to handle different scenarios

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to give

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yourself more of those 20 feet and in.

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So hopefully this little, little series gives you some goals if you're trying

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some different scores, it can show you what you need to work on as well as

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like where the, the blind spots might be.

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If you're doing any stat tracking, like I recommend in the benchmarks class or

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be your own coach program, that can help reveal what you need to work on.

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And then you can always ask us the questions or look in the other sections to

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how exactly to work on each one of those skills.