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Master your club selection and start finding the putting surface more often. Discover why your 'perfect' shot often ends up in the front bunker. Top coach Adam Harnett shares his professional insight on proper yardage assessment and a mental trick to ensure you're always giving yourself the best chance for a birdie putt.
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00:00Under clubbing is an absolute epidemic amongst handicapped golfers and the stats bear that out.
00:07Everyone over a 10 handicap is actually more likely to miss it short than hit the green from
00:13150 yards and when you move to a 20 handicap you will hit half short. So that is an incredibly
00:21high
00:21number which shows we are doing something wrong Adam. Why is that the case and what can we do to
00:26fix it? Most people think they hit it further than they do. So what I like to do is get
00:31a yardage
00:31not only to the flag but to the back of the green. When I get a yardage to the back
00:36of the green I know
00:37what I'm really working with. So here I've got 150 yards to the flag I've got 165 to the back
00:42of the
00:43green so I'm going to choose a club that I know goes a minimum of 150 and a maximum of
00:47165 rather
00:49than a lot of golfers are choosing a club that goes the maximum distance for the yardage that's why
00:53they come up short. And also here we look you can see there's a bunker short. Typically there is more
00:59danger short than long so if you are going to miss to be honest favouring long a lot of the
01:05time
01:05is actually a bit better. Yeah and I think it's great you know I played the game as a kid
01:10and this
01:10is a really great way of doing it. I gave myself a point every time I got past the flag
01:14and that way
01:15I kind of changed the instead of thinking about trying to get it just on the green or near I
01:20was making
01:21sure I got it passed all the time and in reality I actually was getting it much closer. Great stuff
01:25let's see you hit one into this flag and past it hopefully. Let's go past it yeah.
01:39Looks good and there you go on the green but just past the flag brilliant stuff.

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