[Uzezqelj]

Off the tee.

When my tee ball is working well, I have no trouble hitting greens. But when I'm "wandering" off the tee, I find myself dealing with way too much "drama" for my second shot.

And what's particularly frustrating is that when my tee game is off, it's usually not off by much, but just enough to put my second shot in a position where I have to manufacture something. Most of the time, it's not that I'm stuck in the "tree line" but rather just the "branch line" - where ten or twenty feet more towards the fairway would solve everything. Hell, sometimes I'd rather just hit it into the trees because at least I'd have a legitimate problem instead of this nickel and dime nonsense that's caused by just a slightly off-center tee shot.

When it comes to tee shots, it's really amazing sometimes, what three yards one way or the other can do to either help or hurt my chances for hitting a green in reg..

-JP