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Choose When to Play Conservative or Aggressive on the Course

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Evaluate which holes to play conservatively for a safer strategy
  • Identify when aggressive play can lead to lower scores
  • Understand how to balance risk and reward based on your skill level

Discover how to strategically decide between playing conservatively or aggressively during your round. This approach can help you break out of comfort zones and potentially lower your scores.

Video Transcript
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This course game is conservative versus aggressive.

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So as it sounds, basically what you're going to do is when you get to every tee

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or at predetermined holes before you start, you're going to play

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some holes conservatively, some holes aggressively. So if you're playing

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conservatively,

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that means you're going to swing easy and you're going to take less club.

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You're going to aim for either the fattest part of the fairway or the fattest

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part of the green.

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If you're playing aggressive, you're going to take more club. You're going to

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aim at the pins or aim

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at the tightest lines, basically trying to shortcut every dog leg.

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So you can either do front nine aggressive, back nine conservative,

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you could do evens, odds, or you can flip a coin on each tee box

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and see what goes from there. What you'll find is that you're going to grav

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itate

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more towards one style versus the other. And what you'll find is that

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even if you've been trying to play smart, if your skill level is caught up

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and you're doing better than you think you can, you may find that

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playing aggressively actually helps you shoot the lower scores. So this will

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help

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you kind of break out of comfort zones, or if you're struggling with your

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game, realize that playing conservatively can give you a

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bigger margin of air when you don't quite have your stuff.

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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Choose When to Play Conservative or Aggressive on the Course

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Evaluate which holes to play conservatively for a safer strategy
  • Identify when aggressive play can lead to lower scores
  • Understand how to balance risk and reward based on your skill level

Discover how to strategically decide between playing conservatively or aggressively during your round. This approach can help you break out of comfort zones and potentially lower your scores.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000
This course game is conservative versus aggressive.

2
00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.000
So as it sounds, basically what you're going to do is when you get to every tee

3
00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:12.000
or at predetermined holes before you start, you're going to play

4
00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:16.000
some holes conservatively, some holes aggressively. So if you're playing

5
00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:16.000
conservatively,

6
00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:20.000
that means you're going to swing easy and you're going to take less club.

7
00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:22.720
You're going to aim for either the fattest part of the fairway or the fattest

8
00:00:22.720 --> 00:00:24.000
part of the green.

9
00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:26.700
If you're playing aggressive, you're going to take more club. You're going to

10
00:00:26.700 --> 00:00:28.000
aim at the pins or aim

11
00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:32.000
at the tightest lines, basically trying to shortcut every dog leg.

12
00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:36.000
So you can either do front nine aggressive, back nine conservative,

13
00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:40.000
you could do evens, odds, or you can flip a coin on each tee box

14
00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:44.000
and see what goes from there. What you'll find is that you're going to grav

15
00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:44.000
itate

16
00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:48.000
more towards one style versus the other. And what you'll find is that

17
00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:52.000
even if you've been trying to play smart, if your skill level is caught up

18
00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:56.000
and you're doing better than you think you can, you may find that

19
00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:00.000
playing aggressively actually helps you shoot the lower scores. So this will

20
00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:00.000
help

21
00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:04.000
you kind of break out of comfort zones, or if you're struggling with your

22
00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:08.000
game, realize that playing conservatively can give you a

23
00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:12.000
bigger margin of air when you don't quite have your stuff.

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