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**lagunaEl** · 06-26-2012, 05:25 PM

I guess the reason I may go for the green in less than my regulation is that realistically I know a round is not going to be 18 double bogeys, I will have some triples and probably a hole or two that is worse than that, so if I want to score less than 108, I have to make some bogeys along the way, and I have made some pars, so I feel like if I concede those lower scores all together then how am I going to beat my goal?

So I think my mindset is to get double bogey or better on a hole, but the tactic I use to get there is to go for it in par, but since I will not execute flawlessly I will likely do worse than that and that's ok. The caveat on the way I play is that since, I miss right, at this point in my game, if there is trouble right (water, deep rough, dense trees, dogleg left) I go for it in bogey by using a 5i off the tee. and play from there to a comfortable distance. I am curious how other people approach this kind of thing.

06-26-2012, 05:25 PM	#8
lagunaEl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 439 Senior Member	I guess the reason I may go for the green in less than my regulation is that realistically I know a round is not going to be 18 double bogeys, I will have some triples and probably a hole or two that is worse than that, so if I want to score less than 108, I have to make some bogeys along the way, and I have made some pars, so I feel like if I concede those lower scores all together then how am I going to beat my goal? So I think my mindset is to get double bogey or better on a hole, but the tactic I use to get there is to go for it in par, but since I will not execute flawlessly I will likely do worse than that and that's ok. The caveat on the way I play is that since, I miss right, at this point in my game, if there is trouble right (water, deep rough, dense trees, dogleg left) I go for it in bogey by using a 5i off the tee. and play from there to a comfortable distance. I am curious how other people approach this kind of thing.
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