Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
In this week's tip I want to talk to you about how to play a hole with trouble all down one side. Now obviously we don't want it left in the ocean. So how we're going to do that? If we tee up on the right side of the tee box we're going to be putting the ocean right in play. If I come back here and I tee off on the left side of the tee box I can aim or down the right side. So remember always on the side of the T.V. with the trouble and aim away from it and that's what I've done right here. So I'm going to take this ball I'm going to move it just a little bit over here and now I've teed up just a touch on the left side of the tee box and aim to the right.
The 2nd thing I'm going to do is I'm to get behind the golf ball and I will pick out a spot right around in there and that's where I want the ball to start, and that helps me to see where this golf ball is going to begin because once I stand over it and I start aiming away from the the the ocean I want to have a good idea of where I want to start the golf ball. The last thing I want to do after I've teed up on the correct side of pick my spot as I want to make sure that the last look that I have is where I want the ball to go not where I don't want to go. So here again we've teed up on the left side we've picked our spot and we're going to make sure our last look is on the right side of the fairway where I'm going and here we go. As you can see the ball start down the right side drew back into the 3rd of the fairway life is good so remember always tee up on the side of the tee with trouble aim away from it and you won't hit it in the ocean too often.