Great Ball Striking Is Only Effective if You Understand How To Play A Golf Course | golf SMARTER #862

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Josh Karp

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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0:00.0	So if you take a round green and you put the pin in the middle of the green, I would say that the best place to miss that typically,
0:08.0	because greens typically slope from back to front. For a right-handed golfer, the best place to miss is short right,
0:13.0	because it's going to leave you an uphill right to left put.
0:16.0	The worst place to miss, even if you're on the green, would be long and left. Because now you're going to have a downhill left to right putt, which is typically more
0:24.3	difficult for most people to make a downhill left to right putt than an uphill right
0:28.6	to left putt.
0:30.1	So we would call the short right quadrant.
0:32.4	If we broke it into four quadrants, we call that the green zone down in the right and the
0:36.9	red zone up into the back left.
0:38.3	And then you might have a yellow zone, short left or long and right.
0:42.3	Better to have a right to left put coming down the hill than left to right for right-handers.
0:47.3	So what we do is we teach a golf swing and a way to set up our gear so that when we miss a shot,
0:53.3	our miss is typically going to be short
0:55.7	right and not long left. Hi, this is former tour player John Erickson from advanced ball striking
1:01.7	dot com. Today I'm talking with Fred on Golf Smarter at number 862. Great ball striking is only
1:09.4	effective if you understand how to play a golf course with John Erickson.
1:14.1	This is Golf Smarter.
1:16.9	Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.
1:24.7	Here's your host, Fred Green.
1:27.0	Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast, John. Hi, Fred. It's good to see you
1:31.4	again. It's been a while. It has been a while. I was looking back and, because you wrote to me and said,
1:37.8	yeah, we did this before in your studio. I'm like, we did. Oh, okay. Well, oh, well, that's because
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