Tee Box Placement with Dave Pelz

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

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Let's talk a little strategy here. You're going to play 18 or 36 or maybe 72 holes in your tournament, in your major. I want you to, in general, use smart strategy from the start of every hole. I don't want you to just walk out to the center of the tee. Here we are at the 18th hole of the beautiful Boca Raton Resort and Spa. I don't want you to walk and hit this ball from the center of the tee unless you hit every drive dead straight. Most golfers don't hit dead straight shots. I mean, I personally play right to left in most of my game. I just You can't help it. So if you hit the ball in a slight left-to-right flight pattern, most of your shots are curving left to right. I know nobody does everything the same every time, but I want you to move to the right edge of the tee. I want you to learn to tee your ball up as close to the marker as you feel safe to do, because the closer you get to it, the better your angle is to hit this fairway. If you're going to fade the ball from left to right, I want you to start it aiming like at that bunker in the distance. That's just in the left rough from here. But if the ball starts in that direction. A perfect shot will fade just into the left edge of the fairway. Your average shot will fade into the center of the fairway, which is where we want it. And your extreme fades, maybe the slices you'd call them, will go all the way across the fairway and they'll end up in the right rough. But the highest percentage of your f—…