The flag is behind a bunker and you’ve got a little 10 yard pitch to play. You don’t have much green to work with but you can’t help trying to throw it way up in the air and have the ball land soft near the hole. Wouldn’t that be great, you can save par and scoot on down to the next hole.
You take the club back, start your downswing, pop the ball up but don’t hit it hard enough. The ball ends up in the bunker where the sand is still wet from last night’s rain. You try to get cute in the bunker and fluff one near the hole because you still haven’t learned. All of a sudden, what should have been, at worst, a bogey becomes a triple. What a nightmare!
What should you have done?
JUST GET THE BALL ON THE GREEN! DON’T GET CUTE WHEN YOU HAVE TO CLEAR A HAZARD!
I don’t care if you have a 25 foot putt remaining, just get it on the green. Take your bogey and move on to the next hole. As I say in my ebook on breaking 80, bogeys are not bad scores when you are trying to break 80. Doubles and Triples are.
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