Which side of the course do you try to eliminate?

[StrokerAce]

I've been playing around with moving my ball a bit and practicing both fades and draws and my objective is to eliminate one side of the course.  As of now I'm trying to hit a fade as it feels more comfortable to me being right handed.  

Also - I tried playing a draw a few years ago and when I do I sometimes get really hands-y and get caught flipping the club at impact and my draws quickly become hooks...

 

Now I realize that it's not possible on every hole but if I can eliminate either the left side of the course (by hitting a fade) or the right (by hitting a draw), I can control my "miss" better.

 

MGS - what side of the course do you try to eliminate (if any) ?  

Do you try to take a left miss out of play?  A right?  

On a dogleg left do you use a baby fade/cut or do you try to hit it straight or a slight draw even if you tend to play a fade?  

Do you always try to start the ball on one side of the fairway and move it to the other?  Do you have a particular technique you use to do it? (i.e. align your body different from the target line/clubpath, change the clubface/target alignment, etc.)

Do you hit a draw off the tee and a fade from the fairway?

 

Let's hear it!  ... 

PS - you guys that hit it straight... you've been blessed is all I can say.  Enjoy it!

[bullldog]

There ya go. I try to eliminate both sides

[gaussman1]

If you can (and I can't) always eliminate the hook. The fade sits down so much softer that it really widens the target area. If you can play a fade every shot you can play some great golf. Its so valuable to know that your ball will move a certain way in the air and allows you to take what look like very scary lines to someone who isn't sure what's going to happen. When faced with a dogleg left just go to 3 wood and try to hit it straight or fade it there too if you want. Fade, fade, fade (said by a sometime former hooker)

 

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[silver_types]

My smart ass answer is the hazard side. But if it is safe for both sides, I'd eliminate right side since I have natural fade. I'd rather over draw than fade, because sometime my fade can be out of control.

 

 

 

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[Canucklehead]

Not really one particular side for me, because I can hit a fade if push comes to shove. Personally I try to set myself up so that I'll have the most green to work with for my approach shot (right pin placement, I'll try to be centre-left in the fairway)

 

Lately with how windy it has been, I've tried to work the ball into the wind and it goes relatively straight. I try not to work it too much, because overcooking it can make things ugly quick. Probably aim 1/3 of the way into the fairway from the rough and just let the ball come back to the other side of the fairway.

 

I agree with that last part about straight hitters! My straightest shot is a 5 yard draw

 

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[ole gray]

Most of the time I pretty much don't have a frigging clue where the ball is going. With that said I'd bet my left nut that I'd be on the left side more than not. I guess that means I'm eliminating the right side as a rule.

 

 

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[yungkory]

Most of the time I pretty much don't have a frigging clue where the ball is going. With that said I'd bet my left nut that I'd be on the left side more than not. I guess that means I'm eliminating the right side as a rule.

 

 

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If you lose that bet, you might become heavier on the right side of your body, and start hitting towards that side! Watch out!

[Shankster]

I try to take the middle out. That way when I end up there it's a bonus.

 

Depends on the hole really, sometimes being right is really bad. And sometimes being left is really bad. For example, the first hole anything left is blind going into the green with obstacles, right is safe. Next hole left sucks again. 4th left is good. 5th both suck, 6 left is no good, 7th right is really really bad....

 

I try to play to the most playable spot, and I've been getting better at it.

 

 

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[Shankster]

On another note I've developed a sweet sweeping draw that moves about 10 yards with my 3 wood and the i200's... that will be interesting tomorrow.

 

 

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[Yak]

I try to eliminate the side with water...it rarely works though.

 

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[TBT]

My natural shot is a fade and I can play that without thinking...just line up at the far left edge of the fairway and let the ball turnover at its Apex...it should end up in the left center part of the fairway.

[BigtazzGolf]

Myself, I try to eliminate the left side and stay in the center or more on the right. With my fade this usually helps me.

 

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Grip n Rip it

[cnosil]

It depends on the hole but with my driver,  I tend to hit a fade so I try to hit it left.   Unfortunately, I have been hitting a lot of blocks and push fades recently so I end up on the right side. anyway.  

[tony@CIC]

I try to eliminate the left since most of the water is on the left and most of the fairways slope left as well. The problem is I'm a lefty and that means I have to continually work on eliminating my slice.

 

 

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[silver & black]

If I had my druthers, I'd eliminate the right side on my home course. Too bad I rarely get my druthers.

[GolfJunkie302]

I try (key word TRY) to eliminate short, left, and right. Long and straight, baby!

 

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[KB13]

I hit fades off the tee box and then depending on the green and pin placement I will hit both draw or fade with the iron..

Dogleg left does hurt me sometimes because I'll try to draw it, but turns into a slight push

 

 

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[Zylem]

I try to play the left side of the course. It seems like most courses I play are set up to punish the slice. I have a fade in my natural shot so I always try and start my ball down the left.

 

Lol, it's dangerous doing that when it cold and I haven't warmed up though as I seem the duck hook my first tee ball. I actually did this in a Charity tournament in college and one of my random partners sneer at me for having a vanity handicap 🤣

 

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[downlowkey]

I mostly try to eliminate the "short side" via consistently plotting my preferred progress from the hole location backward. But I'm most comfortable playing to the left half of the fairway. My natural tee ball draws ~10 yds and the fade works ~5 yds right. So unless the hole location dictates a drastic tee ball line, it's either a fade off the first cut on the left or the stock draw off the center fairway mow line.

As a fairly proficient right handed golfer, I'm statistically more likely to notch GIRs from the left rough than with a lie of similar quality on the right, because getting the ball to fade out of healthy rough is almost impossible for mere mortals. Which means my natural shot tendency (slight pull draw) from a lie in the left rough opens up a typical green complex and that same tendency from the right rough decreases the high percentage workable angles. Gnarly lies almost guarantee less carry and more roll; so from the left it's hopefully rolling up an opening in front while the shot from right is probably working across that same opening making it a narrower target.

 

 

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[bens197]

Left!!! Holding cuts off the left when possible. It isn't an absolute but when I'm hitting left my swing is rubbish. Blocks and slices are an easy fix.

 

 

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[Mingerd]

Apparently the way I've been driving the ball lately, I'm try to eliminate the fairway. FML I'm struggling like there is no tomorrow! Was the best club in my bag but 2 years ago it was as if I got driver amnesia and can't remember how to hit the ball.

 

 

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[flynn_rozza]

And side that isn't the fairway

 

 

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[revkev]

All things being equal I'd normally prefer to be on the left side than the right because I draw the ball. I'm not trying to eliminate the right side, I'm trying to hit it on the left side. But that's pretty general. Every hole is a little different. I try to fit one of my shots into the hole that lies ahead.

 

 

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[STUDque]

I try to eliminate OB. I'm OK with missing the opposite direction and chopping through trees just to keep from blowing the score. A bogey sucks but a triple sucks more.

 

 

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[Mingerd]

Okay so now that I have been working hard on my game I am really trying to eliminate the right side of the course as my miss. I have found over the course of time if I miss left it is no where near as bad as my miss to the right. Also could just be the courses I play but OB always seems to be on the right.

 

 

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[ole gray]

I would bet the farm 95 percent of my shots end up on the left side of a hole. Not always the desired location but it's where I'll be ...

 

 

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[getitdaily]

I generally try to eliminate the left side because I can get it going left, hard. But it also depends on the hole. If right is out of play, water, etc then I eliminate the right side for that hole. Again, left side 90% of the time. Right side when needed.

[PlaidJacket]

I don't like playing from the left side on most holes at my home course. I tend to play a slight draw to straight ball most of the time. Also on my home course and where water is present it's usually found along the left side. My home course is old school, narrow fairways, small greens, compact/tight - rather short (6560y - tips) and tree lined. Par 70. There is OB either right or left on 7 holes with water hazards in play on 11 holes. I know of a lot of people that poo-poo the course because of it's short length as compared to more modern - longer courses. However, I also see that very few of these guys can rarely break eighty on it. They just don't know or understand how to play it. Not every par 4 or 5 hole allows for a driver but they just can't help themselves. I call my course the home of the original Crying Game. LOL

[McaseyM]

With my current game, seems like I'm avoiding the short, manicured grass closest to my hole

 

 

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[PMookie]

I don't try to eliminate any side, really. I guess I'm not good enough. I play each hole and try to give myself the best chance to par it based on the layout. I've never been one to have this thought of eliminating a side anyway.

 

 

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