well that's the reason why you should never
ever gamble on your golf game i'm gonna fix you up you're gonna save
par more often than not let's go
my boys hard at work
i think they're taking a test and i'm totally uh
interrupting them right now here's the
instructor she's monitoring all their work
is it a test yes i'm totally interrupting
my boys
on to the video just eat my breakfast okay in this video we're going over the
five keys that's going to help you save par hope you like the video by the way
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you don't miss anything now the first key
for saving par is this bit of advice that i was given many many years ago
and it is uh do not and i was given this advice
not even with golf this applies to your whole life never
number one never rely on anything or anybody for that matter that will
kill you
warm up my coffee so we're looking at uh what do i mean by this don't rely on
things that will kill you well take the uh the hole here at braemar
country club the first hole on their west course
428 yard par four and what do i do right out of the gate i i'm relying
on my driver to put me in a good position
and that is uh that's a dangerous situation anytime you're at a difficult
hole you don't want to rely on things that
will get you in big trouble you want to rely
on something that will put you in a good position
even if it's farther away from the whole so mistake number one
i'm relying on my driver and i'm taking a little gamble
and trying to cut the corner of this par four
so two things i'm relying on the big club
and threading the needle that's a that's a big mistake and it
cost me a few shots right out of the gate
head over to my buddy shop right now this is my favorite vegetable by the way
carrots in case you want to know so in contrast
on the third hole at braemar country club it's a 449
yard par-4 and i'm not relying on threading the needle this time and i
don't know why i just like on this hole i typically hit
hybrid whereas the first of all i usually hit driver
and i usually get a bogey or double bogey on that first hole and
on this hole i mean i usually pour it or make vogue like at worse so i don't know
why i make a better decision here than i do earlier
but that's what we all go through so you could see now on a longer hole
i'm relying on something that were even if i hit a poor shot
it's not going to be so disastrous and i'm not trying to thread the needle so
that's tip number one
my buddy makes those uh those campers pretty cool
so now notice i didn't rely on my driver on this hole but i still
hit a poor shot i didn't hit a great shot and that's gonna happen
all the time so the second tip is you need
to practice a go-to save shot when you get in trouble you just
have to have that so many times people go to the range and
they just practice practice practice but they never practice that rescue shot
so i'm in the trees i have to hit a low punch
hook shot you have to have this shot in your bag
in some way you have to have something that's gonna get you out of
trouble besides just to chip out sometimes you're gonna need to chip out
but here i had a shot you know i wanted to get it as close as
possible and there's a potential you could reach the green with a
phenomenal shot but i need you need we all need
that go-to rescue saving shot and for me that's the four iron
low punch hook shot and i feel like i could hit this
90 of the time maybe more i just feel super confident even if i don't hit it
great it's not going to destroy destroy the
hole so that's what i hit and it put me in a really good position
to get up and down so that's tip two practice that
rescue saving shot that's gonna get you out of trouble
here's my vision board um
that never gets old the next step well the third piece of saving par
is this and we all know it but we just don't always
do it and that's this um you don't always have to go for it
going forward isn't shouldn't always be the the default to decision making
on the first hole so let's take a look at my second shot
well third or fourth shot at this point or more whatever however many i hit it
out of bounds on the d-box uh it's uphill i have to play a fade in
there around these trees it's a long way and
it's a tough shot a downhill slope you know the ball sloped a little
down and you got to hit it up and play a like you got a lot of things
working against you like but what do i do i go for it he went out
of bounds i think i hit two out of bounds not good
so going for it isn't always the case whereas
later on in the third hole am i going for it
it's kind of sort of yes sort of no i'm hitting a
rescue shot but i'm not necessarily trying to put it on the green i'm just
trying to get it up there close so i can get up and down which i
should have done on the first hall but i didn't
so you could kind of see decision making is key
you don't always have to go for it you can lay it up
to a good position and then that will lead you
into step four
uh but um i have a video coming out soon about my uh
my shafts specifically the shafts but this little p
in here see that that means the clubs were pureed
anyways step four tip four step four tip four really on
on saving part is this you need to have a go to shot
what's your go-to shot not your go-to save shot
i'm talking about your go-to uh shot around the greens with your short game
is it a pitch is it a chip is it something else is it a chunk and run
is it a nine iron is it a seven iron bump and run like
what is your go to shot now when uh playing that first hole i
didn't even think about that i was just trying to put it on the green
but you going for the green or looking at let's say that third hole i
was hitting that low hook four iron knowing
that my go-to shot was this little pitch shot
where i can utilize the bounce just you know
it's kind of a chunk but i just use the bounce that chip and slide or pitch and
slide method is my kind of go-to so that's what i was thinking about now
hitting my second shot out of the rough towards the
green was like hey i've got my go-to shot it's
this so therefore i'm gonna hit that four iron as opposed to like a three
wood or a hybrid or five wood something that would could get
me on the green but also get me in trouble so
if i had thought about that on my second shot or fourth shot
on that first hole i would have hit instead of
what i did it i could have hit a wedge and just put it short of the green
and then played to my strength which is my go-to pitch shot
so you have to practice this also have that
go-to short game shot whatever that is for you
you got to know what it is and think about it when you're hitting
your shot in to the green and say that is where
i'm going to miss it if you know need be or that's where i'm going to put it
if things are a little too precarious for getting it on the green
one more step i'm gonna wrap this bad boy up
okay so um we're taking him to the gym and him is driving
we managed to back out of the driveway okay usually he likes to leave it in
reverse
um and then floor it thinking we're going forward but
normally we go backwards this left turn is always tricky
we made it um so anyways my wife won't drive with him
she'll drive with him right now but not him this is all
this is the most exciting part of our day isn't it
i don't know probably sky i don't know it's definitely the most um
disturbing disturbing storm is a good word here we go
so tip number five is uh super critical and it's something you
need to think about early on maybe it could have been an
earlier tip but it's kind of related to like the
first tip where you're not putting uh you're not going for it you're not
taking the risk but this is similar and this is you want
to put the pressure somewhere okay where are you going to
put the pressure on on your game because
there's going to be pressure anytime you face a difficult hole
uh you're going to feel pressure you know it's just the way it is
so what are you going to put the pressure on that's the key
that's the key what do you what do you think where are you going to put the
pressure on let me tell you oh okay so here's the deal
you want to put your pressure somewhere okay and what i mean is this
you you want to lean on one part of your game
uh for the saving of a par okay and if you lean on your driver
for that and you tighten up or you get nervous
uh remember this is going to be on the tee box if you hit your driver let's say
a few degrees open or closed um well we we saw what happened it's off
the planet it's out of bounds it's in big trouble
so putting pressure on this is a bad bad idea i always tell myself when i'm
trying to save par hey rely on your putter rely on your
putter i've never hit my putter into the bushes
i've never uh shanked a putter out of bounds
you know i never had to take a drop after i hit my putter
so this is where i this is what i lean on
this is where i put the pressure if i'm gonna put it somewhere because if i hit
it with a few degrees open or closed sure i'll miss the pot but
it's i'm not taking a penalty stroke i'm just okay i three putted or i didn't
make my par putt but it's less disastrous than the other
clubs so put the pressure here
not here and that's this episode of saving par
hope you like it hope it helps your game some things to think about
as you approach your next round of golf love you guys take care see y'all
in the next video