Use Angles for Better Course Management, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Use Angles for Better Course Management, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

So let me suggest a scenario to you here. Let us suggest that you have a great big slice in your golf game. The ball is moving left to right, almost uncontrollably and you are struggling to counter this. Now, obviously I would like you to work on the technical side of things to improve that; but if you are playing golf at the same time, what I would suggest is that you could use your course management to have a bit of discipline about where you setup the golf club to try and encourage a better shape of shot that would still land on the fairway.

So let us suggest that we are playing a golf hole now that runs back down this way towards the camera and if I am standing on the tee box here trying to hit the golf ball down the lens of the camera now, but I am also in a situation where the out of bounce fence runs all the way down the right-hand side of my fairway. So well then that right-hand side is out of bounce, I have a bit of room on the left. Now, who honestly would actually stand on the left-hand side of the teeing ground that is far away from the out of bounce fence as possible and hit the ball from here? I think most golfers probably would, but you have to look at the angles involved with this. If I am standing against the left-hand side of the tee box as far back as I can away from the out of bounce fence, actually aiming back towards the camera towards the middle of the fairway, my out of bounce fence runs here, I am almost aiming towards the out of bounce, it wouldn’t take a big slice to actually hit out of bounce.

So what I would like to do is stand a lot closer towards my out of bounce fence. I actually step a lot nearer to the out of bounce fence which is worrying to most golfers but now when I look towards the center of the fairway, the center of the fairway is actually a lot further away from the out of bounce fence, my angle is moving away. So even if I slice, if I am aiming at the center of the fairway and I hit a slice, it should still come back and stay on the fairway rather than having a movement away from the out of bounce fence, I actually play towards it.

So it might counterintuitive to suggest that, but next time you are on the golf course, just try aiming from the trouble away from the danger and hopefully that will help you hit a few more fairways in each round.

 2012-05-11

So let me suggest a scenario to you here. Let us suggest that you have a great big slice in your golf game. The ball is moving left to right, almost uncontrollably and you are struggling to counter this. Now, obviously I would like you to work on the technical side of things to improve that; but if you are playing golf at the same time, what I would suggest is that you could use your course management to have a bit of discipline about where you setup the golf club to try and encourage a better shape of shot that would still land on the fairway.

So let us suggest that we are playing a golf hole now that runs back down this way towards the camera and if I am standing on the tee box here trying to hit the golf ball down the lens of the camera now, but I am also in a situation where the out of bounce fence runs all the way down the right-hand side of my fairway. So well then that right-hand side is out of bounce, I have a bit of room on the left. Now, who honestly would actually stand on the left-hand side of the teeing ground that is far away from the out of bounce fence as possible and hit the ball from here? I think most golfers probably would, but you have to look at the angles involved with this. If I am standing against the left-hand side of the tee box as far back as I can away from the out of bounce fence, actually aiming back towards the camera towards the middle of the fairway, my out of bounce fence runs here, I am almost aiming towards the out of bounce, it wouldn’t take a big slice to actually hit out of bounce.

So what I would like to do is stand a lot closer towards my out of bounce fence. I actually step a lot nearer to the out of bounce fence which is worrying to most golfers but now when I look towards the center of the fairway, the center of the fairway is actually a lot further away from the out of bounce fence, my angle is moving away. So even if I slice, if I am aiming at the center of the fairway and I hit a slice, it should still come back and stay on the fairway rather than having a movement away from the out of bounce fence, I actually play towards it.

So it might counterintuitive to suggest that, but next time you are on the golf course, just try aiming from the trouble away from the danger and hopefully that will help you hit a few more fairways in each round.