Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
When we talk about loose ground or waste areas it's basically any area of the golf course where you really don't want to hit the golf ball that isn't covered in grass. You know we can deal with fairway and semi rough and even deal with long rough, but those areas on a golf course aren't necessarily marked out as hazards as in they don't have the red and yellow stakes around the more than not designated as bunkers but there are areas on the golf course where you really don't want to find your golf ball. so you can think particular about a golf course like Augusta. Augusta doesn't really have a long blade of grass on the entire property the fairways the short the greens are really short and even the semi rock for the first cuts of rough as it's often referred to is still quite short but then there's areas between the pine trees which they really classed as their hazards and it's like the pine straw so it's actually bailed up pine straw sometimes a couple of inches deep not silly I'll go still like everything Augusta that's manicure but most of the pine straw or the areas underneath trees that you would find a lot of golf club courses.
It's not manicure there's tree roots in there there's pine cones in there there's branches in there and quite often you can't really get in there and move that stuff out that way because your golf ball might move which is going to cost you a penalty so finding your ball in those areas is almost as severe as finding yourself in a in a bunker or even a hazard and we've got to consider this and actually give those areas quite a lot of respect when we're planning and we're looking at a course management strategy so if we stand on the team we look down to a fairway here will see the fairway down the middle then we might look to the side and go OK well I can't see water hazard and I can't see a bunker and I can't see an outbound stance and there's no longer Ah so final is bomb it down there as hard as they can be bogged down there you walk down and you find that you've crept off under the trees into the pine straw into a waste to a dirt area then you actually look at your neck shot from the situation. The sun It looks a lot more difficult well I've only really got a punch out because my life so bad I've got a tree root behind me I've got a branch in front of me I've got a half back swing because I'm under the trees and suddenly we think oh I wish I'd paid a bit more attention to this area when I was planning my tee shot because in that scenario I might not hit drive I might not hit a club that's inaccurate I might have hit an iron or hybrid club off the tee to keep me in play. So I think the basic rule on those waste areas is give them a deal of respect plan them as if they are hazards and therefore plan to stay out of them and stay away from them give the waste areas respect to improve your got schools.
2018-08-21 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
When we talk about loose ground or waste areas it's basically any area of the golf course where you really don't want to hit the golf ball that isn't covered in grass. You know we can deal with fairway and semi rough and even deal with long rough, but those areas on a golf course aren't necessarily marked out as hazards as in they don't have the red and yellow stakes around the more than not designated as bunkers but there are areas on the golf course where you really don't want to find your golf ball. so you can think particular about a golf course like Augusta. Augusta doesn't really have a long blade of grass on the entire property the fairways the short the greens are really short and even the semi rock for the first cuts of rough as it's often referred to is still quite short but then there's areas between the pine trees which they really classed as their hazards and it's like the pine straw so it's actually bailed up pine straw sometimes a couple of inches deep not silly I'll go still like everything Augusta that's manicure but most of the pine straw or the areas underneath trees that you would find a lot of golf club courses.
It's not manicure there's tree roots in there there's pine cones in there there's branches in there and quite often you can't really get in there and move that stuff out that way because your golf ball might move which is going to cost you a penalty so finding your ball in those areas is almost as severe as finding yourself in a in a bunker or even a hazard and we've got to consider this and actually give those areas quite a lot of respect when we're planning and we're looking at a course management strategy so if we stand on the team we look down to a fairway here will see the fairway down the middle then we might look to the side and go OK well I can't see water hazard and I can't see a bunker and I can't see an outbound stance and there's no longer Ah so final is bomb it down there as hard as they can be bogged down there you walk down and you find that you've crept off under the trees into the pine straw into a waste to a dirt area then you actually look at your neck shot from the situation. The sun It looks a lot more difficult well I've only really got a punch out because my life so bad I've got a tree root behind me I've got a branch in front of me I've got a half back swing because I'm under the trees and suddenly we think oh I wish I'd paid a bit more attention to this area when I was planning my tee shot because in that scenario I might not hit drive I might not hit a club that's inaccurate I might have hit an iron or hybrid club off the tee to keep me in play. So I think the basic rule on those waste areas is give them a deal of respect plan them as if they are hazards and therefore plan to stay out of them and stay away from them give the waste areas respect to improve your got schools.
