What is the best way to avoid blow up holes? (Video) - by Pete Styles
What is the best way to avoid blow up holes? (Video) - by Pete Styles

I’ve chat with so many golfers about their rounds of golf and they all tell me that you know for 15 holes Pete, I was playing brilliantly, I was level to my handicap for 15 holes but then this happened and then this three holes somewhere in their round of golf that they would class as blow up holes. And it would be holes where they maybe took more than a double boogie so sevens, eights, nines to tens on the scorecard. And it doesn’t what standard a golfer you are, you cant really afford to have more than a double boogie anywhere on your card if you are going to have a good score and reduce your handicap down.

Now often the blow up hole is caused by the golfer being too aggressive, trying to make a birdie and actually results in double boogie or worse. So I think the best way to avoid the blow up hole is to not try and make birdie. That sounds a bit daft, to not try and make a really good score but if you adopt a more conservative approach generally speaking you will have less blow up holes, so that might take the form of leaving the driver a little bit more. So not using the driver on every long hole, there's 14 opportunities on a round of golf, less the four power threes that you normally have 14 chances to hit driver. Try and hit it less than 10 times, that means you are going to be hitting three wood or hybrid club off the tee quite often. If there's an opportunity to go over the water to a tight flag position or play to the center of the green, play to the center of the green, make a more conservative approach, don’t try and make birdie. If there's a bunker in the way that’s a difficult chip shot, play around, play to the side, play to the big part of the green. If it’s a 25 foot downhill putt don’t have a rush of blood and try and hole it, just tap it down there, trickle it down there, tap it in. Take a more conservative approach, avoid the blow up holes, you’ll make less birdies but you’ll definitely make less double and triple boogies. 2015-03-26

I’ve chat with so many golfers about their rounds of golf and they all tell me that you know for 15 holes Pete, I was playing brilliantly, I was level to my handicap for 15 holes but then this happened and then this three holes somewhere in their round of golf that they would class as blow up holes. And it would be holes where they maybe took more than a double boogie so sevens, eights, nines to tens on the scorecard. And it doesn’t what standard a golfer you are, you cant really afford to have more than a double boogie anywhere on your card if you are going to have a good score and reduce your handicap down.

Now often the blow up hole is caused by the golfer being too aggressive, trying to make a birdie and actually results in double boogie or worse. So I think the best way to avoid the blow up hole is to not try and make birdie. That sounds a bit daft, to not try and make a really good score but if you adopt a more conservative approach generally speaking you will have less blow up holes, so that might take the form of leaving the driver a little bit more. So not using the driver on every long hole, there's 14 opportunities on a round of golf, less the four power threes that you normally have 14 chances to hit driver.

Try and hit it less than 10 times, that means you are going to be hitting three wood or hybrid club off the tee quite often. If there's an opportunity to go over the water to a tight flag position or play to the center of the green, play to the center of the green, make a more conservative approach, don’t try and make birdie. If there's a bunker in the way that’s a difficult chip shot, play around, play to the side, play to the big part of the green. If it’s a 25 foot downhill putt don’t have a rush of blood and try and hole it, just tap it down there, trickle it down there, tap it in. Take a more conservative approach, avoid the blow up holes, you’ll make less birdies but you’ll definitely make less double and triple boogies.