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Speaker 1: The Son of a Butcher podcast is back as always.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Claude Harmon, and today we're talking about

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Speaker 1: something that I think costs most golfers strokes every time

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Speaker 1: they play a round of golf, and that is the

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Speaker 1: par five problem. Par Fives should be your best holes.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the theory and the theory behind that

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Speaker 1: is you almost get an extra shot, there's more room

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Speaker 1: for error, and the hole is designed to give you

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to not lose shots. Right on tour, it's

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Speaker 1: the legit holes where tour players can pick up ground

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Speaker 1: against the field. So when we're looking at a golf course,

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Speaker 1: let's say there's four par fives, I mean on tour,

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Speaker 1: you're thinking, okay, I need to take care of the

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Speaker 1: par fives. One of the things I'm always saying to

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Speaker 1: competitive golfers is listen before they go out for a

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Speaker 1: round of golf. I'm always saying, take care of the

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Speaker 1: par fives. You can't make bogies on par fives, right,

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Speaker 1: you can't make big numbers on par fives, always going

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Speaker 1: to make birdies on them. Tour players expect to make

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Speaker 1: birdies on the par fives, right, But for the rest

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Speaker 1: of us. You just can't make bogies or big numbers

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Speaker 1: on the par fives, and to me, that has got

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Speaker 1: to be a non negotiable. So why does that happen.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a greed problem. I think the minute

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Speaker 1: most golfers get on par five, something changes. They stop thinking.

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Speaker 1: The driver immediately comes out, there's no real plan, the

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Speaker 1: math goes out the window, and I think most golfers

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Speaker 1: are thinking about par fives in the way that they

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Speaker 1: see tour players on TV play them in that A

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Speaker 1: lot of times when you're watching golf on TV, watching

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Speaker 1: tour players on all the tours around the world, there's

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Speaker 1: always going to be guys that go for it. There's

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Speaker 1: guys that lay up. But you see the best players

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Speaker 1: in the world going for par fives because they have

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Speaker 1: the firepower to get to these holes, right. They have

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Speaker 1: three woods, any of their woods, they have hybrids. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: we're seeing the really really long hitters on tour hitting

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Speaker 1: irons into par fives, and I think that really does

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Speaker 1: shape and really kind of affect our thought process into thinking, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I've got to hit a wood. I've got to try

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Speaker 1: and get it as close as I can to the hole.

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Speaker 1: To the green, and I think it just throws out

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Speaker 1: any sort of strategy. The problem isn't trying to reach

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Speaker 1: it in two. It's it's trying to reach it into

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Speaker 1: when you probably don't have the firepower to do it.

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Speaker 1: But I think if you can start to think about

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Speaker 1: par five differently, I really think this is a way

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Speaker 1: that you can start to shave strokes and not lose strokes.

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Speaker 1: It's a math problem. So when you're looking at par fives,

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Speaker 1: and you're looking at the par fives on your home course,

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Speaker 1: look at the distance of that par five. Right, Let's

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Speaker 1: just say an average R five of five hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty yards, So look at how far you consistently hit

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Speaker 1: your driver, and then just start doing some basic math.

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Speaker 1: Right now, let's say you can hit your driver two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards. Let's say you hit it dead

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Speaker 1: in the middle and carry it two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: yards on a five hundred and thirty yard par five,

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Speaker 1: And let's say you hit the fairway. That means you've

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Speaker 1: got two hundred and eighty yards left. Right, most of

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Speaker 1: us that are listening to this podcast aren't going to

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Speaker 1: carry any golf club two hundred and eighty yards in

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Speaker 1: the air. You're certainly probably not going to do that

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Speaker 1: off the ground. But I think again, television, what you

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Speaker 1: see when you watch the best players in the world

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Speaker 1: really does start to skew the way that your brain

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Speaker 1: is thinking. So the number one thing, the number one

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Speaker 1: thing on a par five is get the ball in play,

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Speaker 1: get the ball in the fairway. Par Fives become a

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Speaker 1: disaster for most golfers because they don't hit the fairway

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Speaker 1: and they think they need to hit driver all the time.

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Speaker 1: I've had him on the podcast before. I use him

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Speaker 1: as an example because he has an enormous amount of firepower.

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Speaker 1: Noah can't. He's a junior at the University of Florida.

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Speaker 1: I've said this before. Noah cruises at mid one ninety

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Speaker 1: ball speed. I mean, he can hit drives three sixty

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Speaker 1: his scoring over the last year to a year and

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Speaker 1: You would think someone with his firepower. I mean, there

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Speaker 1: aren't really a lot of par fives that he can't

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Speaker 1: reach in two right, But he's making big numbers on

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Speaker 1: par fives, And I say to them all the time.

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Speaker 1: With your firepower, you could hit irons off the tee

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Speaker 1: and then never hit a wood and have legit chances

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Speaker 1: to make birdies. Right, So when you're looking at the

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Speaker 1: par fives, the number one thing, the most important thing

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Speaker 1: it in fairway with your driver? Can you get it

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Speaker 1: in the fairway with one of your woods? Can you

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Speaker 1: get it in the fairway with one of your hybrids.

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Speaker 1: If the answer to all of that is no, if

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Speaker 1: you're not consistent with those clubs, then maybe what you

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Speaker 1: say is, okay, let me just take an iron off

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Speaker 1: the tee. Let me just get the ball in play

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Speaker 1: with an iron. And again, the number one goal is

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Speaker 1: to not lose strokes on par five. So if you're

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Speaker 1: I would say, I'm just gonna go ahead, and I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking maybe around the ten handicap ranch right, everybody else

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Speaker 1: outside of that, you're just trying to not lose strokes

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Speaker 1: on the par fives, right, You're not trying to make

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Speaker 1: birdies on them, but you're just trying to not make bogies,

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Speaker 1: trying to not make doubles. You're not trying to make triples. Now,

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Speaker 1: I think if you're a ten handicap and under, then

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Speaker 1: maybe you can have the strategy of thinking, Okay, maybe

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Speaker 1: I can go ahead and try and pick up some

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Speaker 1: shots on this hole. But I think the majority of

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Speaker 1: the people listening to the pod are in that kind

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Speaker 1: of over ten handicap range. So you're just trying to

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Speaker 1: not You're trying to not lose money, right, You're trying

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Speaker 1: to have the company not lose money on that hole.

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Speaker 1: So that's a good way to think about it. So

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Speaker 1: you hit the fairway two hundred and fifty yards. Again,

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Speaker 1: there are going to be a lot of people listening

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Speaker 1: that are going to be playing a five hundred and

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Speaker 1: hit the golf ball in the air two hundred to ten.

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Speaker 1: So it really becomes a math problem, right to me,

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Speaker 1: starting to think about par five in realistic ways, check

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Speaker 1: the ego at the door. Really kind of ask yourself, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm on a par five, regardless of what the distance is,

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Speaker 1: how far do I consistently hit my driver and be

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Speaker 1: honest with yourself, right, not catch one in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the face and hit your all time greatest drive ever,

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Speaker 1: because that's what tour players do, right. Tour players insistently

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Speaker 1: hit the driver in the middle of the face, right,

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Speaker 1: Rory McElroy, Scotti, Scheffler, John Rahm, the guys I work with,

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Speaker 1: Dustin Johnson, right, Nellie Korda. They hit the driver in

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Speaker 1: the center of the face. So they're going to hit

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Speaker 1: it solid. They're going to get the golf ball out there.

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Speaker 1: So I talk about this on the pod all the time.

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Speaker 1: Playing for the miss golf is a game of missus.

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Speaker 1: So on the par fives, if you can just miss

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Speaker 1: it better, so rule number one. Whatever club you need

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Speaker 1: to take to get the golf ball in play, do that,

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Speaker 1: and then it's a layup competition. Right. Cleaning up on

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Speaker 1: the par fives is not about driving it better, hitting

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Speaker 1: your three wood, your woods, your hybrid's better. It really

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Speaker 1: becomes a third shot problem, right, So how good can

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Speaker 1: your third shot be? You want to start thinking about

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Speaker 1: that third shot on a par five? Right, What can

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Speaker 1: you do to give yourself a really good opportunity to

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Speaker 1: hit the green on a par five with your third shot?

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Speaker 1: And whatever you have to do, think about that as

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Speaker 1: the end goal. The end goal on the par five

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Speaker 1: for the majority of golfers is the third shot. Can

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Speaker 1: going to want to do is have a third shot

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Speaker 1: club that you have a lot of confidence in. So again,

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Speaker 1: work the math on this. What are your short irons

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Speaker 1: Is that a pitching wedge? Is that a nine iron?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a seven iron. We've talked to and I've

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Speaker 1: done podcasts before to kind of stay out of that

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Speaker 1: dead zone, that thirty to eighty yard range. That's a

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Speaker 1: dead zone for the majority of golfers. It's not a

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Speaker 1: full shot. You've got to try and manufacture something. You're

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Speaker 1: going to be in between shots. It's not going to

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Speaker 1: be a full shot of anything. So rule number one

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Speaker 1: on the par fives is get the golf ball in

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Speaker 1: play off the te whatever club you have to use,

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Speaker 1: and then it's a third shot hole. What can you

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Speaker 1: do to strategize to give yourself the best third shot possible.

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Speaker 1: You hear tour players and their caddies always talking about

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Speaker 1: on the broadcast when the caddies are talking to the players,

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Speaker 1: the commentators used to kind of talk over them, right,

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Speaker 1: And I think now what they do is they really

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Speaker 1: and you'll hear them going back and forth between a

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Speaker 1: lot of numbers. You'll hear the caddies saying, listen, we've

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Speaker 1: got this number to the front, We've got this number

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Speaker 1: the player will say, well, and then the caddy will say,

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Speaker 1: what do you want for your next shot? Right? So

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Speaker 1: think of yourself as your own caddy. So let's say

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Speaker 1: got two hundred and eighty yards left. I cannot get

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Speaker 1: one of my woods, since I'm just try and get

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Speaker 1: it down there as far as possible. I think when

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Speaker 1: you do that, you can bring missus into play. You

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Speaker 1: can hit it in the rough, you can hit it

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Speaker 1: into the water, you can hit it into a difficult

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Speaker 1: situation where you're struggling to make par. So do the

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Speaker 1: math and say, okay, what are my irons, my short

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Speaker 1: And then you don't even think about going for the green.

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Speaker 1: You just say, okay, I've hit a good drive, I'm

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Speaker 1: start to think in terms of what do I want

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Speaker 1: for my next shot. So I went out and played

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Speaker 1: golf in Adelaide when I was down there for the

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Speaker 1: live event, and we went and played Royal Adelaide. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's such a cool golf course. It's got train tracks

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Speaker 1: be playing golf and a train goes through. It's really

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Speaker 1: really a cool spot. Now, I hadn't been playing a

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Speaker 1: So really, think about that yardage that you want next.

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Speaker 1: What are the par fives? Are there a lot of short,

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Speaker 1: So if you want to hit driver, go ahead and

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Speaker 1: There's a bunch of math that the majority of golfers

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Speaker 1: Don't care what club you have to do to do that.

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Speaker 1: If there are four par fives, you aren't allowed to

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Speaker 1: hit driver on half of those. You have to hit

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Speaker 1: an iron, and you can't even hit one of your woods.

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Speaker 1: You have to hit an iron off the te on

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Speaker 1: two of the four par fives. Just get the golf

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Speaker 1: ball and play. So thinking about par fives, thinking about scoring,

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Speaker 1: thinking about strategy, I think is really really important. And

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Speaker 1: I think if you can game plan the par fives,

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Speaker 1: I think it's some of the lowest hanging fruit out there.

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Speaker 1: To the goal being I do not give strokes away

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Speaker 1: on the par fives. So a great a great goal

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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six would be to say, I am

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Speaker 1: going to just try and make as many pars on

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Speaker 1: the par fives as I can. That is my goal today.

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Speaker 1: All four are three. You play a really really tough

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Speaker 1: course two of the par fives, right, But the majority

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Speaker 1: of us have four par fives every time we play.

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Speaker 1: And I think a great goal for twenty twenty. Every

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Speaker 1: time you play those par fives, judge your round of

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Speaker 1: golf afterwards, not by the score, but hey, how did

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Speaker 1: to do on the par fives? Was I able to

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Speaker 1: make par in all of them? Was I able to

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Speaker 1: not lose strokes on them? And I think if you

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Speaker 1: can start to think better when you're standing on the

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Speaker 1: tee on the par fives at your home course, I

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Speaker 1: am confident that you would see a big, big shift

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Speaker 1: in your scoring average, in your handicap and the scores

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Speaker 1: that you shoot on a consistent basis. Think better on

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Speaker 1: the par five. Thanks everyone for listening, Rate, review, subscribe

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