Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
We talk an awful lot about course management with the the clients I'm teaching and the people I'm trying to help improve on the game of golf but there's one specific set of course management features that apply an awful lot to par three holes. I think some people really struggle with the par threes on the golf course albeit they're the shortest holes and they should inspire a bit of confidence a lot of people struggle with the with the shorter holes. Now to help you out here we've got to look at some course management aspects that are specifically on par three is now the first thing is although I'm using a relatively short time just a seven iron today I'm going to encourage you to tee the ball up. Now you don't normally tee the ball up with a seven iron because normally it's on the fairway but you've given an opportunity to tee the ball up eighteen times in a round. So let's try and take advantage of our opportunity every time that's important we take the ball up at the right height like as a normally with a seven you don't have the ball on the tee. So to put it on a big high drive eighty would be a bit ridiculous because you'd have to change the angle of the height of your swing to achieve that.
So we tee the ball up pretty low but we tee the ball up so it looks like it's on a nice lie on the fairway to this ball is just maybe seven or eight millimeters off the ground and that just gives me a bit of a chance to get underneath that ball knock it down there on towards the green quite nicely next consideration is my club selection and it might be the case of all my mates have chosen a nine and they're all pulling out eight saying I'm going to head a time today and I think I'm not sure I can get there with an eight drive into a headwind slightly uphill I think I need different club and there's no problem at all and you choosing a different club to suit and satisfy your needs. Rather than to choose the club that everybody else is hitting or even the club that you hit last week you might think well this is always a seven iron for me but into the wind. It might not be it might be a it might be a six iron or even a five iron type choose your club selection carefully and also have a good look at where the pin is because if the pin is in a different position on that green. That might be three different clubs depending on where the flag is if the flag is at the front it could be an eight flag in the middle seven like the back six iron. So even though we're playing one shot to one green different flag positions with on that green can make a big difference to your club selection last consideration would be not being too greedy off the tee we always want to make a birdie on every hole we play we want to try and get the ball as close to the flag as possible, but if it's if it's a big green and the flag is in one corner and it's surrounded by bunkers or water hazards or something like that. We don't want to be too greedy with the shot selection that we're having we want to play largely to the middle of the green and then consider how we can have a putt or two put from there if you get too aggressive and too greedy the risk is you knock it in the hazard you then turned in the relatively easy hole into a very difficult hole and you could come away with a much higher score because of that. So let's consider club selection let's consider taking the ball up let's consider not been too greedy when we play our part three holes.
2018-08-28 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
We talk an awful lot about course management with the the clients I'm teaching and the people I'm trying to help improve on the game of golf but there's one specific set of course management features that apply an awful lot to par three holes. I think some people really struggle with the par threes on the golf course albeit they're the shortest holes and they should inspire a bit of confidence a lot of people struggle with the with the shorter holes. Now to help you out here we've got to look at some course management aspects that are specifically on par three is now the first thing is although I'm using a relatively short time just a seven iron today I'm going to encourage you to tee the ball up. Now you don't normally tee the ball up with a seven iron because normally it's on the fairway but you've given an opportunity to tee the ball up eighteen times in a round. So let's try and take advantage of our opportunity every time that's important we take the ball up at the right height like as a normally with a seven you don't have the ball on the tee. So to put it on a big high drive eighty would be a bit ridiculous because you'd have to change the angle of the height of your swing to achieve that.
So we tee the ball up pretty low but we tee the ball up so it looks like it's on a nice lie on the fairway to this ball is just maybe seven or eight millimeters off the ground and that just gives me a bit of a chance to get underneath that ball knock it down there on towards the green quite nicely next consideration is my club selection and it might be the case of all my mates have chosen a nine and they're all pulling out eight saying I'm going to head a time today and I think I'm not sure I can get there with an eight drive into a headwind slightly uphill I think I need different club and there's no problem at all and you choosing a different club to suit and satisfy your needs. Rather than to choose the club that everybody else is hitting or even the club that you hit last week you might think well this is always a seven iron for me but into the wind. It might not be it might be a it might be a six iron or even a five iron type choose your club selection carefully and also have a good look at where the pin is because if the pin is in a different position on that green. That might be three different clubs depending on where the flag is if the flag is at the front it could be an eight flag in the middle seven like the back six iron. So even though we're playing one shot to one green different flag positions with on that green can make a big difference to your club selection last consideration would be not being too greedy off the tee we always want to make a birdie on every hole we play we want to try and get the ball as close to the flag as possible, but if it's if it's a big green and the flag is in one corner and it's surrounded by bunkers or water hazards or something like that. We don't want to be too greedy with the shot selection that we're having we want to play largely to the middle of the green and then consider how we can have a putt or two put from there if you get too aggressive and too greedy the risk is you knock it in the hazard you then turned in the relatively easy hole into a very difficult hole and you could come away with a much higher score because of that. So let's consider club selection let's consider taking the ball up let's consider not been too greedy when we play our part three holes.
