DECADE Strategy

Strategy
#82

This is something I started consciously doing this season and it’s really helped. Often when standing on a tee box the visual you perceive may be a tease to lead you into trouble.

As an intermediate, recreational golfer I’ve found that aiming for the fat / safe part of the fairway - just like on an approach shot aiming for the fat / safe part of the green - is working out.

My shot dispersion … of course … is still too unpredictable at this point to fully utilize DECADE, but I am trying to understand and employ the basic concepts. :golf::golfing_man:

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#83

For sure, employing those smart course strategy decisions will help to keep the doubles and worse off the scorecard.

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#84

Thx … really working on that “worse” part!!

Doubles happen and at this point in my game, I can (almost :crazy_face:) accept them; it’s the real blow-ups I’ve got to reduce.

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#85

I too am enjoying this system to evaluate my round - let’s me focus more on where I am losing strokes while at the same time thinking about fewer stats … the first time out I did better than I thought shooting an 80 … I am a 12.7 …

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#86

Just great information. The ‘take enough to get to the back, and aim for the middle’, strategy has already dropped several strokes from my rounds. And amazes my playing partners:
“Why do I want to go for the back of the green? The pin’s up front.”
“How good do you normally hit it? About 15-20 yards off perfect? That’s why.”
“Oh yeahhhhhhhh! I never thought of it that way!”

That Fawcett’s a 2+2er, and therefore speaks my language re: distribution, probability and risk of ruin, is a bonus.

Anyway, I did want to mention that it’s quite easy to pre-play rounds in something like 18Birdies, or my favorite (as it shows their version of distribution), ‘pro visualizer . com.’ I’m enough of a dork to virtually play rounds I’ll never in a hundred years get invited onto, but I can still make all of the decisions ahead of time.

It’s just easier to naturally swing, under even the mild stress of a typical round, when you’ve already made the decisions about clubs and ‘if/then’ ahead of time. Trust it, and go.

I find I’m a lot luckier when I’ve put the work in.

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#87

Tiger 5 errors being made all over the place at Kiawah!!!

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#88

I am going to be completely honest…

I still can’t figure out how to print the yardage books @ScottFawcettDECADE… Do I have to do the thing where I turn the paper or can I print a collated version with two sided printing??

Bring out the dunce cap

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#89

He’s got a video on it… not sure if that helps.

#90

Need to turn the paper. Print page 1-11 first, then insert those based on how your printer output is (this is where I screw up all the time). Then print page 12-22.

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#91

Are you using a “collated” version of the yardage book?

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#92

Yes. Once you get the printer outputting correctly it works. They are a pain to cut and staple though.

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#93

Watch the video. If you can print two sided it’s easier to actually print but you have to make sure the order is correct. The 9th hole is what will wind up in the middle of the book. It needs to be the last page if you’re printing double sided. I think it’s page 12 if you’re doing it how he does it. I’m lucky in that I have the exact printer Scott does so his routine in the video is right for me.

For stapling and folding I bought a long throw stapler. Staple it, then cut from one edge to the middle, then turn it around and cut from the other edge to the middle again.

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#95

My printer prints page one first and it comes out face down. That is what format the directions are based on. Another member had this issue and figured out this sequencing…give it a try and let me know if it helps!

  1. Print pages 1-11 as normal. Pages come out printed face-down.
  2. The printer however needs page 2 fed blank side down - so I take the pages and turn them face up, no rotation (just flip right edge over left edge), ink is now facing up but now they are out of sequence
  3. Manually change/reverse the page order - top page becomes the bottom page of the 11 page stack
  4. Place pages back into the printer and print pages 12-22
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#96

@ScottFawcettDECADE

Loving the foundations content. Kinda stumbled upon all the great stuff in the “scott’s desk” … just a gold mine… also listening to zalatoris tear up brook hollow by sending driver during texas am kinda makes me realize how much i suck off the tee and gives me some inspiration to get better

ANYWAY

Where is vertical/distance dispersion covered in the foundations app? I am messing around with some of @Adamyounggolf tests on charting sets of 10 iron shots and trying to increase the percentage that i can keep within 7 yards of max (ie hit the center of the face more) but as i get better on the range i am still making clubbing errors out on the course

As i am trying to dial that in more i have realized that i kind of struggle with the commitment to the stock swing and accepting my dispersion.

Said differently, i am not getting a clear picture in my head of “hey if you flush this with the stock swing, it should fly xx yards which is a perfect target so just do it”. My brain will just randomly decide to interrupt, i will manipulate the swing and some really crazy shit can happen

Any thoughts or direction to relative decade content would be appreciated

Edit: i finally figured out how to print… there may be hope for me after all

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#97

I don’t really cover that specifically aside from saying you need to know the average distance of your best 75% of shots. From there you need to think of your shot pattern as overlapping Venn Diagrams when you are between clubs. Then for front pins typically go with the longer club and for back pins go with the shorter club. BUT, you really need to trust that your distances somewhat overlap between any 2 irons.

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#98

@ScottFawcettDECADE

The content with Zalatoris at the Texas am and then the US junior is freaking gold. I think the thing that just smacked me in the face is when you talk about Will’s inherent advantage playing those courses because he was such a profoundly good driver of the golf ball. Obviously he is an all around world class ball striker, but the driving advantage is a dividend that makes approach game easier, allows you to play more conservatively into the green, etc and it sounds like he was a standard deviation above his competition off the tee.

Even though I am not in the same solar system as someone like will, it was a real light bulb where I went “most of my game is pretty good for a 6-8 index but my driving is f******* terrible.”

It is a “do not pass go” skill for where I am right now… if I want to lower the index I have to be able to hit that driver 12-14 times a round and just hammer it

It is kind of the hinge DECADE swings on in a way… (at least for me)… I am just not getting the full benefit of DECADE strategy if you are playing a two way miss, huge dispersion etc

EDIT: not sure if this rant makes sense, but sometimes I will look at a hole and try to use the decade flowchart / math to think about what the correct decision is… the profound truth of the situation though is that if I were to improve my driving reasonably… then I would not even need to do the analysis and I would be pulling driver because the dispersion would tighten along with my % of outliers

It has just made it clear to me that if I ever want to be scratch, I HAVE to be able to keep driver on the planet and play aggressive on the tee

If you drive it well the game is SO… MUCH… EASIER

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#99

Scott just gave me a year access to elite… I’m really excited.

Thanks Scott!

I’ll give feedback here vs the foundations… I got a ton of value from the foundations system, but would like to dive in deeper!

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#100

Thoughts on a scenario.

Long par 4.

At 275, the safe width is exactly 65 yds wide with OB on both sides. A well struck drive leaves 140-155. Laying back leaves 180+.

Rip driver and hope for the best or play it as a short Par 5 and think of managing for nothing worse than bogey…???

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#101

How long does the OB run? If you have a satellite picture of the hole, that would help…

65 yards is pretty wide, but you will obviously lose one OB occasionally…

#102

Driver all day. You may hit the occasional shot OB however laying back to that yardage is going to be a much higher stroke average. Scratch player averages .2 shots higher from 180 than 150. Plus your lay up won’t always be a good shot.

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