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We know when we play golf, there are things we should do that will help us play better golf, however, it doesn't take much to forget everything you told yourself you would or wouldn't do. In this video, Dan Parker goes over 11 things all golfers forget to do whilst out on the course. Making sure you don't forget to do these things each time you play, will definitely help you improve your scores!
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00:00Hello everyone and welcome to this Golf Monthly video where I'm going to be talking about 11
00:03things that all golfers forget to do out on course. Now I'm not talking about forgetting
00:08your 5-iron or leaving your trolley battery at home, I'm talking about tactical things
00:12that you might forget midway through a round of golf. Think of this video as your checklist
00:17before every round to remind yourself how to score better and how to get the best out
00:22of your game. I'm at the very blustery West Hill today, let's get started.
00:30Do you warm up properly before each round of golf? I think this is a massive thing that
00:35loads of golfers forget to do before their round of golf and then their actual game will
00:39suffer for it. Now I know not everyone will have a nice range to warm up like this but
00:43even if it's 10 minutes of putting and chipping or a proper stretch on the first tee, any kind
00:48of warm up will really help your game so don't forget that prior to getting to the course and
00:52play better golf for it. So another thing golfers forget to do when they're out on course in
00:56the middle of a round is use a little bit less loft when they're chipping. I've got a great
01:00example in front of me here on the 17th at West Hill where I can't really putt it although
01:04I'm close to the green there's too much water on the ground but there's also nothing for
01:08me to go over so why would I need to take my lob wedge or my sand wedge, a much
01:13higher
01:13tariff shot in this situation. You'll see now if I try and take my 60 degree I'm more likely to
01:22shank it or thin it because it's a high tariff shot. What I think a lot of golfers need to
01:26do is use a little bit less loft, take your time around these chips, I've got an eight iron
01:31here and hit a lower tariff shot, almost just put a putting stroke on this and get the ball
01:41rolling. Not my greatest effort, I need to practice it a little bit more but I think taking
01:45less loft around the green is a much better idea. Okay another thing I think golfers forget
01:49all too frequently when they're out on the course is to swing a little bit slower into
01:54wind. The tendency is to think oh I'm into wind, I've got to hit the ball harder which
01:58it often isn't the case, you're not going to hit the ball that far anyway so a gentle
02:02swing and a better strike will actually work more often. Great example here today, the second
02:07at West Hill, we're into wind, I've got the big dog out, I'd normally want to hit this
02:11as hard as I can to get down there but into wind today I'm going to swing a little bit
02:14slower,
02:14just try and get a bit of strike on it, get myself down the fairway. So I'm going to swing
02:18this as easy as I can. And away it goes, not my finest hit, a bit cutty but into wind
02:30on
02:30a day like today, not too disappointed with that. So remember into wind, swing a little
02:34bit slower. Right so another thing I think golfers forget all too much when they're out
02:38on the golf course is not going at every single pin. There are loads of sucker pins out there
02:43and if you find yourself short-sided of these, you're going to really struggle to make up and
02:47down. Start going for the centre of the green more often and there will be other pins you
02:51can go at later in the round. I've got a good example here at the first at West Hill
02:55where the pin is in the middle but it's really far to the left. So the last thing I want
03:00to
03:00do is aim at it, go left of it and find myself in that trap or left of that trap
03:04where I'm
03:05never going to make up and down. So on this hole I'm going to almost take my medicine, aim
03:09at the centre of the green, hopefully get my two putt, walk on to the next one. Let's see how
03:13I do.
03:14Make sure I aim nice and central. I tend to hit a bit of a fade so this is a
03:19good pin
03:19for me but I'm going to stay nice and central. I did hit the little fade and I got away
03:30with one.
03:30It wasn't my greatest strike, a little bit thin but because I aim middle, knowing my shot shape,
03:34I knew I couldn't go too far wrong. So don't get suckered into those pins, play for the centre of
03:39the green, two putt and attack those pins later in the round.
03:49Ah, right. That brings me on to my next thing that golfers forget when they're out on the
03:54course and it's to take every shot as seriously as the last. Now I got a little bit angry with
03:59myself there leaving that fairly easy putt short and I've not thought about the next putt
04:03and I've missed it. I've cost myself another shot. Now it's easy to do this when the red
04:08mist descends. I've done it loads of times myself. I'm sure you have at home but it's
04:12really important that throughout the round you remind yourself not to get too angry that
04:17every single shot matters. We'll do this on the fairway every now and again as well.
04:21If you duff one straight in front of you, you'll just take the same club, hit the same shot with
04:25the same amount of anger and the same thing might happen. So after a bad shot, take your time,
04:30remind yourself that every shot matters and hopefully that will save a few shots on the
04:35course. Right, so another mistake I think lots of golfers make is taking their driver off the tee
04:39when they don't need to. Now across this video you might think I'm a bit overly defensive on
04:44the golf course. Feel free to let me know in the comments if I am and if I'm horribly wrong
04:47on this
04:48but I think on a hole like this we've got the 12th through at West Hill, 273 it's playing today,
04:52a little bit downwind. I probably could hit the green with my driver if I really liked it
04:56but there's all sorts in the way. There's bunkers, there's trees, it's times like this that I
05:00think a lot of golfers need to bin the driver like I am there and play something like this.
05:04A hybrid, a driving iron, a long iron, anything just to pop yourself in play. Leave yourself
05:08a nice number in. So I'm going to leave that driver to one side there. I've got my trusty
05:12four hybrid here and it should just be the easiest swing to put myself in position.
05:21A bit like that on the first take as well might I add. So I think a lot of golfers
05:26need to think a lot
05:27more carefully on the course about when they're using their driver, use it in the right situations
05:31and on shorter par fours play for position. Okay so you join me here on the 12th and after I
05:36was
05:36just telling you about playing for position not taking your driver too often I found myself out
05:41of position on a very short par four so I'm not best pleased and that brings on to the next
05:45thing
05:45loads of golfers forget when they're out on course and that is to stay calm. I think if you can
05:51check
05:51yourself when you're out on course you'll save at least I think two shots around especially if you're a bit
05:55of an
05:55angry at a golfer you know you won't hit the angry chip or the angry putt when your head's not
05:59in the
06:00right space. Now I know there's nothing worse than someone else turning you to stay calm that often
06:03actually has the adverse effect but I think if you can check yourself out on course remind yourself to
06:08stay calm it's a really important thing to remember throughout the entire round. While I'm here another
06:13thing I think golfers forget is that bogey is your friend and it is more often than not it's not
06:18a
06:18card killer and while it's not a great score it's not going to ruin your entire round. Now obviously I'm
06:23hoping to make a par from here and I'm not going to say I'm not you know I do want
06:27to try and make
06:27up and down but I'm going to remind myself that if I don't come off here with a par a
06:31bogey is okay
06:32and I'm not going to get too angry and the bogey is my friend it's not a double it's not
06:35something
06:35worse so stay calm bogey is my friend and whatever I hit here I'm not going to get too wound
06:41up about it
06:45and I hit a good shot so I've got a look at par if I get a bogey it's okay
06:48so two things stay calm
06:50bogey is your friend. Okay so another mistake I think a lot of golfers make is not playing for
06:54position on par fives now I know we've already spoken about not taking driver all the time
06:59I don't want to come over as overly defensive on the golf course but I think every now and again
07:03we need to look at a par five for what it is take a bit less club and score a
07:08little bit better for it
07:09I think in the majority. Example here 17th at West Hill hit my Sunday best drive here pretty
07:14pretty pleasing myself but it's into wind we've got trouble left there's trouble right should I really be
07:19trying to hit a three wood to get to this green that's barely in reach probably not so so take
07:23the situation to account on par fives but I think a seven iron is the play here so away with
07:29the three
07:30woods I'm just going to play hopefully I'll have about 100 yards left in something like that with
07:34just an easy seven iron not my best but not my worst should just be a little wedge in from
07:44there
07:45and I'm not going to make anything worse than a par there whereas if my three went left or right
07:48anything could have happened so I think playing position on par fives when the situation warrants
07:53it is really important so one major thing I think loads of golfers forget to do is take a little
07:58bit
07:58more club when the conditions warrant it so I'm talking about heavy wind like it is today colder
08:04temperatures and even consider when you're not striking the ball that well I don't think enough
08:08of us adapt to that mid-round so really think you know on the ninth hole halfway through your round
08:12what's the wind like today how am I striking it should I attack the back nine with a little bit
08:17more
08:17club now I'm criminal for this as well I'm going to flash up some data from one of my recent
08:22rounds
08:22my Arcos data which shows I missed 10 out of 18 greens on a recent round not my not my
08:27finest round
08:28and they were all short all 10 were short and that's because it was a windy day it was a
08:32little bit cold
08:32and as you can see I wasn't hitting the ball that well what I didn't do was take into account
08:36temperature the way I was striking the ball that day which wasn't very good and the fact it was really
08:41really windy so I was ending up short a lot of the time missing all my greens and regulation and
08:45my scoring
08:46suffered for it so when you're out on course think about all those conditions re-evaluate midway
08:50through a round and don't forget to take more club right the final thing that golfers forget to do when
08:55they're out on course and you've probably heard it before and you're going to hear it again from me
08:58is to take your medicine playing partners would have said it coaches would have said it to you you've
09:04probably told this yourself when you've hit a bad shot but it's something we forget every now and
09:07again as we're trying to chase that score out on course I've got a great example of it here at
09:12the
09:12second at West Hill that gap in that trees is quite appealing to me and I think I might suddenly
09:16turn
09:16into Tiger Woods for this shot but I've got to carry over the heather I've got to go below this
09:22tree
09:22through that gap it's a very high tariff shot and for not that much gain a chip out would make
09:27a lot
09:27more sense so I'm going to show you what goes wrong when you don't take your medicine when you try
09:32and
09:32take one on class bonks into the tree there it goes in the heather what I should have done and
09:40I'll show you with this ball it's come way out to the left all that fairway over there take your
09:46medicine and I'm going to go and try and make a par now so let me say it one more
09:51time take your
09:53medicine help you score out don't think you're Tiger Woods so there you have it those are the 11
09:58things that I think all golfers forget to do out on course as I said at the top of this
10:02video
10:03consider this your checklist to remind yourself before every round of golf and I'm thinking you'll
10:07save at least a couple of shots per round if you follow those rules are there any I've forgotten
10:12are there any mistakes that you commonly make out on course that you know you do but you forget halfway
10:16through a round let me know down in the comments I'd love to hear what you have to say but
10:20for now thank
10:21you very much for joining me I'll see you next time
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