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Good LSW clinic on hole 4. Day and Rose lay up with 3-wood, then hit 6-irons over the green into the rough. Rose chips over the green, chips, back makes bogey. Day fluffs it, twice, triple-bogey. Rory takes driver to carry the fairway bunker, end up in the rough 130 out, just catches the front bunker. Bunker shot to 1' for par.

He's made a 13ft birdie putt on #7. Don't count him out quite yet...

This seems to be the twitter consensus re: Sergio And confirmed:

Amen Corner commentator just acknowledged the discrepancy. and insisted -3 is (was) correct. Sergio now -2 after a bogey on #13.

Look at the yardages on the Shot Tracker on: masters.com http://www.masters.com/en_US/scores/track/index.html Plenty of 325+ drives (check holes 7, 9 in particular for big tee shots)

The most correct word is "flak" as in anti-aircraft artillery, actually. http://grammarist.com/spelling/flack-flak/

An update here: After flirting briefly with the 5-wedge setup I'm down to three and I don't feel like I'm missing anything: 47 53 60 Part of this change may have been from reading LSW and realizing: 1. My longer clubs are my real scoring clubs. 2. I'm not doing as bad as I feel I am on my approach shots. Another part was me losing my 56, replacing it with a 53 and not really minding the 60-53 gap.

Hey guys. It's been a while and the weather in Chicago has been warm so I'm thinking golf again. I didn't play a ton in 2016. Moved in April and my wife had another baby in June (three boys now). My game was off for pretty much the whole year but everything finally came together for the last round of the season in mid-September. Where I finally broke 80 (and with some amount of style). Front nine was solid, but without great excitement. Didn't hit a lot of greens, but I was almost always close and stayed out of trouble generally. Had a good look at birdie on #9 but just slid past for a 39 on the way out. Started the back nine bogey-par-bogey which didn't exactly lift my spirits. 13 was a mixed bag: pushed my drive to the adjacent fairway, flew the green on the approach, but then got up and down for par. Made par on 14 and then I ran a long putt in for birdie on 15. Dropped another birdie putt on 16 and got up and down to save par on 17. I had a 15ft birdie look on 18 but it just slid by so I made par for a 36 on the way back in and 75 for the round. So I made 2 birdies, played the last 6 holes -2, shot even par on the back and got back a little bit of confidence that I can string together a lot of good shots as well as scramble effectively. Looking forward to 2017...

A guy at work mentioned this week that this thread, which I had entirely forgotten about, is on the first page of results for "Top Golf Strategy" so I figured it is time for an update: Our team ended up winning the championship round this past week. The key to winning in this format pretty much came down to having depth, honestly. Our most recent opponents put up a single score of almost 280 (soundly beating our best of 210-ish) but their 2-5 scores were not as good so we still won by a comfortable margin. The winning strategy seems to be to hit to the farthest target you can hit >75% of the time. For me that was the yellow and I topped out in the 180s score wise. the 280 score was from hitting all of his into the back trough, which is the way to go if you have the distance (and requisite directional control).

I have had good results buying microfiber towels and putting a metal grommet in one corner. They cost next to nothing (6pack for $13/on amazon) and come in a decent. selection of colors. I'm too cheap to pay $20-30 for the branded ones. One other general hint: never buy white golf towels. One use and they look dingy in perpetuity.

Quick report: good food, fun game. After trying a few things I ended up just hitting pitches into the yellow target. As long as you get inside the outer circle the value of the next shot is doubled so i was able to get 8-16 points on most shots easily. I played three rounds and had a top score of 183. Next time we go out I might try shooting for the back wall (only brought a 6i and 8i) and see how that goes.

Here is another twist on the game: Since this will be a team competition involving people of various abilities (top 5 scores count, max 1 per person) what is the best strategy for a player with little or no previous golf experience? My best guess is use a mid-length iron to try to bounce/roll the ball into the 50 or 90yd targets but maybe there is a better approach...

The Largest circles appear to be 75ft across according to google maps, @disaster. Total width of ditch is 110ft. Medium circle is 45ft. Another thing I noticed reading the scoring sheet is if you land in the "shaded areas" (which is all of the back two targets and only the inner portions of the closer targets) your next shot counts double so if you can repeatedly hit any of the longer targets you get a 2x bonus on the every ball (like rolling strikes when bowling).

Who has been to TopGolf before? What is the best strategy for high scoring? Here is their scoring sheet: http://topgolf.com/assets/uploads/pdf/topgolf-game-guide-02.pdf Eyeballing it I would think shooting for the 50 and 25 yard targets is not a good choice because the point values are low and the targets are small (my 25 and 50 yard shot zones are probably much larger than those targets). Likewise the 185 and back-wall are probably too long to reach reliably so it seems the choice is between the 90, 125 and 150 targets (all the same size but with different point values). At this point I'm planning to hit into the 90yard target with every shot the first time around and go from there. How would you play it?

@DaveP043 has my number here. Secret may be committing to my routine a little more and find a way break the "aggressiveness <-> attention" connection and commit equivalent mental energy to each shot.

To me this means "shooting the lowest score possible", hence my dilemma: To play aggressive enough to not lose focus is to play so aggressive that I get myself into more trouble than I should. I feel like my game is a little on the knife's edge; Too aggressive and I'm hosed, too conservative and I'm likewise hosed and the middle ground is not that big. To play the best that I can I feel like I need to find a way to play conservative shots "aggressively" or as @DaveP043 said "with specific intent" but I don't know how to internalize that mentally.

Just making something up: Tee Shot. 350yd dogleg left, fairway bunker at the corner, trees left and right (but not overly 'tight'). 210 to fairway bunker, 225 to carry, 255 goes through fairway. Large landing area before bunker. Player's typical driver carry is 215-240. Over-Aggressive: Bomb driver left of the bunker to be closest to the green. Swing out of your shoes. Aggressive: Try to carry bunker, aim at right edge. Conservative: Driver/3w at right side of fairway to stay away from bunker. Safe: 6i to stay short of bunkers. Taken in turn the four approaches seem to produce: Over-Aggressive: 7/10 lost ball, 1/10 Jordan Spieth Aggressive: 5/10 in fairway, 1/10 trap, 1/10 trees, 3/10 rough Conservative: 3/10 in fairway, 4/10 in trees, 3/10 rough Safe: 4/10 in fairway, 1/10 topped, 3/10 right, 3/10 left

After playing some semi-competetive rounds in Florida this week (after playing exactly never since last September) I realized that I am not (currently, at least) capable of playing conservatively. What I mean is this: If I stand over the ball and select an aggressive line I can execute with decent frequency but if I instead pick a 'safe' or 'high-percentage' shot I up making a sloppy swing and end up worse off than if I had been a tad more aggressive. In the interest of full disclosure, if I take too aggressive a line I end up in worse trouble than either other option as well. Yes, I know this is all in my head, but just because it's a mental problem doesn't mean it isn't real and isn't fixable. So my question is this: Do I just need to always be "on the gas" a little bit to stay focused or is there a better way to approach conservative plays which doesn't let me lose focus?

"You want your hands past the ball at impact because that means you are hitting down" Close, but no. Just means you are delofting the club; it says nothing about AoA...

Prior to the Z. Johnson birdie birdie That was beautiful. Sad that they'll never learn...

Get something like this and bolt your cupholder to it: http://www.dx.com/p/aluminum-alloy-mount-clamp-for-camera-camcorder-106426#.Vs9Hq_krLS8

I didn'ty say "pace" I said "flow". Carts make going down the fairway and between holes faster, but you end up spending all that savings driving the other player to his ball, or just goofing off on the greens. It's the difference between slowly moving and stop-and-go traffic. The former is much more pleasant (to me at least) to drive in.

On the topic of "flow" I think motorized carts have a big influence. With riding carts players can cover ground at about 4x the rate of a walking player. This allows groups to play from tee to green very quickly but once they reach the green the speed advantage disappears. The result is that players now stack up in the fairways rather than on the tees which feels like a larger interruption to the flow of a hole. Add to this the irrational over-seriousness of golfers when they get close to the hole and things get even worse...

Finally replaced the SW I lost last April. No more 1/2 swing PW for me! Narrowed down my gap too (53 instead of 56) so now the progression is 47-53-60 which should be a bit nicer (provided I can recalibrate my distances for that club!) I played the Reg 588 wedges for several years. Very nice clubs.