Dave Pelz Game Management Tip

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• Instructor: Dave Pelz
• Category: Lessons
• Topic: Short Game

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You're not going to hit every shot perfect. You're going to hit shots into the rough, into potential problem areas. I've got a problem here. I hit my drive. I'm only 4 steps, 5 steps off the fairway. I didn't even hit it into the bunker, but I've got a heck of a tree problem. I could try to hit it over this tree, but I can't get to the green if I try it, and I probably wouldn't do it out of this lie. I certainly am not going to try to hit it between the limbs of that tree. That'd be crazy. Any shot that's really close to good could turn into a disaster, and you never want to do that. Sometimes you hit bad shots and they're —disasters. Never hit a good shot that creates a disaster. I could hit it left under this limb and try to slice it around to the green, or I could hit it right around this tree and try to hook it to the green. But all of those shots put me in a bad position, potentially, to hit that tree. And you never want to hit anything close to you. And from this position, I really don't want to try to mess with that tree. This is not an easy lie. The ball is 5, 6 inches below my feet. It's on a downhill slope in addition to be below my feet. I want to play it safe here. I want to say I'm going back to the fairway, and if I had hit a perfect drive, it would be right out there. I can go way up here very safely and be way ahead of where a perfect drive would have been, and that'll give me less than a…