Always hit your shots with and not against the dog leg.
On my course there is a dog leg to the right which has to be navigated. To hit a straight ball is to be assured of giving your ball a watery grave.
Yes, there is a pond well within hitting distance for even the not so long hitter, and if the ball does not fade around the corner or dog leg, this is where the ball finishes.
Do you have a hole like this?
Ok, you believe you can cut the corner by hitting your ball over the trees or what ever trouble makes the dog leg.
If your dog leg is from left to right, and you have to fade the ball round the corner, to go over the top, draw your ball.
Vice versa for a right to left dog leg. You can see that by doing this, you will avoid drawing or fading your ball into the trouble that constitutes the bend in the fairway.
When you tee off, have a look at the tee. Is it level, or are there some areas where the ground is not absolutely flat?
Make sure you tee your ball up on a totally flat area of the tee. Pay attention to the small details during a round of golf, and your score will improve as a consequence.
What about in a strong wind? What do you do if you are hitting your tee shot into this? Do you tee your ball lower so that it will fly lower and so under the wind?
Well, the most important thing is to hit your ball with the full club face of your driver. So make sure you tee your ball high enough to do this. A solid hit is much more important than a lower ball trajectory.
A low teed ball will have less run.
Also, if you are not a very experienced golfer, you will be aware that your ball is lower, and you may try to hit down onto it. More drastic is your concern about hitting the ball well and opening your club face at impact to try to do this and get it airborne, resulting in a bad slice.
So, even in a strong wind, dont be in too much of a hurry to change things on the tee to make allowances for this. It is much better to play as usual and take what comes.
It really will be very good and you will not be inconvenienced by the wind nearly as much as you thought you would be.
Then there is the iron from the tee on a par three.
You will see people hitting off the turf. Sometimes they give it a bang to raise a small lump of ground to act like a tee.
Why do this when you can use a tee. The problem with hitting from the ground is that if you get a blade of grass between your club and the ball you may get a flyer.
The ball will go much too far and not stop on landing, but run and run. This is a bit like hitting out of light rough where the same might happen.
No, you are allowed to tee up and this is an advantage. So take this option.
For your short irons, tee up about inch above the ground and for a 6, 5, 4 iron tee up about inch.
You will be assured of a good clean hit with your ball so placed.
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