Course management your most common mistakes

[highballin]

As the title says what's your most common mistakes!

My three would be,

1. Shortsiding myself when missing the green
2. Not allowing for pin pos i.e. Front,back,middle when choosing iron
3. Not allowing enough for wind in club selection.

[Stuartd147]

1. Chasing front/back "red" flags instead of playing for middle of green
2. When "in trouble" making sure my next shot gets me is "out of trouble"
3. Laying up too close to the green when I am best at 80-90m
4. Leaving first putts 1-2 feet short

[Archi]

Under clubbing
Playing way too fast

[3Puttpete]

Picking the wrong playing partners

[RobNewy]

2. When "in trouble" making sure my next shot gets me is "out of trouble"
3. Laying up too close to the green when I am best at 80-90m
4. Leaving first putts 1-2 feet short

THis is me to a tee

[highballin]

Picking the wrong playing partners

Yes it's a common mistake!

[Hatchman]

1. Following a very poor shot with another equally poor shot resulting in multiple dropped shots. Happens more often when taking the safe option v the more risky shot.

[goughy]

Not taking into account the lie of the land where my ball is. Is the ball above or below my feet, is it an uphill or downhill lie. The amount of times I look at it afterwards an realise what I should have been doing.

[davidw88]

Always going for the small gap, ending up still being in the trees and not just chipping it out when in the shit.

[AndyP]

Good course management is what got my handicap down to 6. I'm not a big hitter or a flusher, but I manage my game.

Confidence then follows.

[Johnny Canuck]

I don't always choose a definite target, will get lazy and hit towards an area.

[Hatchman]

I don't always choose a definite target, will get lazy and hit towards an area.

Yep guilty of that one too ��
Ties in why I most likely make a meal of so many safer option recovery shots. I'm more focused on small targets with the riskier ones.

The best years I had for ball striking was way back when the Sega Mega Drive was big. I played PGA Tour a lot and used to really think carefully about my aim point in the game. Strangely that same focus transferred through to my real game and I was small target focused rather than general area. I couldn't putt for sh!t back than compared to now so never converted as I could now.
Need to get the discipline to try and do that again but will have forgotten by the time I drive to golf tomorrow ��.

[mrbluu]

Not setting up properly to hit a ball and going ahead to hit it anyway.

[backintheswing]

Not setting up properly to hit a ball and going ahead to hit it anyway.

Sounds like bad alignment

[mrbluu]

Sounds like bad alignment

It was!!!!!

[Lagerlover]

Picking the wrong playing partners

Yes it's a common mistake!

Leave him alone, it's the only way to get on Reddie Bay..

[LarryLong]

1. Taking a shorter club off the tee to stay safe and putting it in the shit anyway
2. Aiming at a bunker because I'm hooking on the day, and hitting it dead straight because it's probably the only time for the day I aimed for something specific
3. Forgetting to think and just hitting it anywhere

[highballin]

Leave him alone, it's the only way to get on Reddie Bay..

Hahaha

[Kaniss]

Laying up too much rather than just going for it. Have to snap out of this playing safe thought process.

[Moe Norman]

I tend to pull my irons a little left occasionally, even when playing well.

Often, if the pin is cut left, with trouble left - I will attack the pin, miss the green in the shit left and wonder why I was so stupid to go at the pin. When a straight shot puts me in the centre of the green, and my little occasional tug will put me in line with the flag anyway.


My other major issue is layups, I tend to just hit them and stuff it up. Or I'll try to lay up to a certain distance, but mess it up.

[live4golf]

Not committing to the shot and steering it, generally low and left.

[Gammon]

1. Never hitting backwards, regardless of the bunker lie being impossible or the chip from the trees being simpler if it goes 20 metres back.

2. Taking a club to match the pin yardage without any regard to its position on the green. Going over the back on back pin positions is my specialty.

[mrbluu]

1. Never hitting backwards, regardless of the bunker lie being impossible or the chip from the trees being simpler if it goes 20 metres back.

2. Taking a club to match the pin yardage without any regard to its position on the green. Going over the back on back pin positions is my specialty.

3. Reading the wrong side of hole signs

FTFY

[WeekendHacker]

1. Turning up

[WBennett]

Running out of beer before we can restock on the 14th