Course management and club distances are very important, probably the most important. Off the tee, play to distances you are comfortable hitting a second shot from. For example, let's say the hole is a par 4, 350 yards and you hit driver 275 yards. If your shortest club goes 100 yards, now you don't have afull shot into the green, but are still looking at a 75 yards into the green. I would much rather club down off the tee on shorter par 4s and leave myself a full shot for my second shot - this is course management. But without knowing your distances for each club, you would never know your driver off the tee would put you past full shot range and then you may or may not know a full shot from 75 yards with a SW is to much.

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Gord

Quote of the month:
"It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification." ~Bruce McCall