Tiger Five

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All right, golfers, in this bonus video, we're going to talk about the Tiger V,

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which is arguably

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the simplest strategy for playing golf, or at least the simplest kind of goal

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setting before

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a round of playing golf. Now, to be fair, you've got to be a pretty good golfer

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for these five

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keys to work. But if you are a pretty good golfer, by focusing on these keys,

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it can help you with

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some of your automatic decision-making. It'll force you to play a little bit

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more smart or

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conservative. So, Tiger supposedly had five big course management or course

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strategy

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kind of goals that he went into every ground with. So, we'll go through them,

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no apparent order,

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but if you tie them together, you'll see how they'll influence your strategy.

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So, rule number one was no three putts. Rule number two was no blown easy saves

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,

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like up and downs, so simple up and downs. Number three, no bogey inside of a

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nine iron.

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Number four, no bogeys on par fives, and number five, no double bogeys. So, you

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can see how,

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well, if I have, well, we'll come back to the three putts, but if I hit my iron

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shots smart,

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then I should be able to leave myself relatively easier up and downs. And if I

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leave myself

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easier chip shots, I'm going to have easier putts. In fact, I remember one post

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-round interview,

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where essentially the commentator was asking, or the reporter was asking him,

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like, hey, it looked

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like you didn't hit the ball that great, but your wedge play saved you. And he

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basically corrected

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the reporter and said, you know, I actually hit the ball really well, which is

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why I missed it

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in really smart spots. And that led me to have easy up and down. So, it made my

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wedge stats really

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good. So, that's kind of one of the ways to look at how your ball striking can

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impact your short game.

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Third one, no bogey inside of nine iron. Now, it helps if you're long off the

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tee, so that you

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have a lot of wedges and nine irons and even shorter into par fours, because

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you could imagine if you

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only hit the ball 200 yards and you're playing a 6500 yard course, you're

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probably going to have a

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lot of hybrids or maybe even fairway woods into par fours. So, it would be hard

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to shoot down around

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par with that strategy. The only way this one works is if you're hitting it

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pretty long off the

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280 plus. Now, no bogeys on par fives is definitely doable if you're a mid to

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low single digit handicapper.

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We saw or we will see if you haven't watched that video yet on playing

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different golf holes

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that a scratch golfer or a two handicap kind of averages around par. So, having

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a target of no

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bogeys basically means I'm not going to hit it out of bounds. So, I'm going to

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air on a tee shot

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that gets me in play and then I'm going to air on giving myself inside of a

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nine iron or less

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into the par five. So, if I can accomplish those two tasks, then it's

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relatively easy to have no

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bogeys on par fives. It can still happen, but that's our goal. No double bogeys

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usually means I have

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to be smart off the tee. I have to punch it back in play, give myself a good

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wedge shot as a recovery

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if I did hit a bad drive and I have to be pretty sharp with my wedge play in

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putting. So, no double

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bogeys can lead to prioritizing your strategy or prioritizing your practice

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time into three of the

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most important skills that you'll need for shooting lower scores. And then no

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three putts,

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that comes back to missing the greens or hitting it in the appropriate spots on

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the greens, which

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gives you the best reasonable distance but also the lowest chance of hitting it

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in a really

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problematic area, not hitting it way above pins on super steep the greens, not

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hitting it 60,

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80 feet away, but hitting it close enough to be able to be inside 40, 50 feet

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can help with your

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three putt percentage. So, like I said, if thinking through every shot and kind

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of like, you know,

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some of this kind of figuring out your averages and the strokes gains that, if

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that's a little

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overwhelming, then you can always default back to the Tiger 5. It's one of the

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simplest strategies

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to get you into the low 70s scoring. If you make a few putts, you never know,

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you might even shoot

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under par.