How does a high handicap golfer play? How should he play? Should anyone care?

[George Pazin]

"So playing conservative doesn't always yield good results, or even satisfactory results, for a hh'er like me."

George:

Of course not. No kind of strategy (aggressive or conservative) yields satisfactory results if sprinkled with an assortment of complete misses.

However, as Behr said----"It should not be the job of the architect to inform the golfer of his bad shots---that should be the business of the golf professional."

And he combined that with the suggestion that architects do not need to design to punish the complete misses of HHers because their own games are punishment enough.

What I'm talking about in a conservative vs aggressive sense in the context of strategy or course management is this----if a HHer hits what is for him an excellently struck shot, perhaps right at a green and the best it could ever do is land in the end of a pond immediately in front of a green he just isn't thinking well----eg he is thinking in a course management sense too aggressively for his own almost ideal capabilities.

This is the kind of thing I'd like to see HHers avoid in a course management sense. Total misses don't have much to do with that.

That was entirely too rational - how am I supposed to argue with that?

 

I'm slowly coming to the realization that most of my frustrations on the course have little to do with the course.

[Adam Clayman]

Thats great George.

Pebble Beach is another course you would hate because of your game, yet, is undeniably a great GC. I can't tell you how many times a HH was in a spot, and would only see the flagstick. Meaning they were oblivious to the bunker waiting directly inline with their shot. When the suggestion to aim away from the hole was made, the surprised look on thier face, sums up what most of this post is about.

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