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[@ShotPattern]

These are so so good!! These videos are becoming a quality playlist of tutorials for the Shot Pattern app!

[@HuntsT]

Bryson is holding a compass, not a protractor. They are commonly confused.

[@aliasErEf]

NO ! It’s an astrolabe 😂

[@danik4308]

can you make a Video where you dive into the mentioned „runout number“?

[@lukekerrdineen]

It's in the docket!

[@tnuctaf]

Your run out number is where the ball lands to where the ball finishes. This number changes with each club. You can get this number by finding your ball mark and stepping off to where your ball finishes. A long iron like 4 or 5 iron might have 4 to 5 yards of runout depending on green speeds and hardness. While a wedge might have a negative roll out depending on your skill level.

[@thejmac69]

This clarified something I had wrong in my head but thought was right: the difference between “carry” and “cover”. Thank you!

[@lucacollins2592]

I didn’t catch it, what’s the difference?

[@thejmac69]

@@lucacollins2592 Cover is the distance to safely avoid hazards, in your dispersion cone. Carry is you clubs avg carry distance.

[@HK-vv9kv]

These vids are great. Strategies like this can help so many golfers as opposed to swing tips

[@kingpatrick2395]

I love these videos, they really help with my golfing game! Thank you

[@GolfDigest]

Glad you enjoy them. We love making them.

[@timchamberlain5858]

That was a great explanation of "playing the miss"

[@bkim01]

"... demolition of Sergio Garcia." Ouch haha.

[@mr.clutch987]

Love this video... I had a par 3 180 yards over water and i decided to hit my hybrid and landed a perfect pin high shot

[@lukejuras8024]

My lesson learned at a new course this week: if you have to hit it past a creek that's just at the upper limit of your max carry distance, for goodness sake just club down and play it as a bogey hole. (Lesson learned as I was hitting my third ball off the tee, with a shorter club).

[@1golfer2another]

Great video and well put together. Very clearly explained. Now I know what I was doing wrong on the course I played yesterday but seldom do. Made several fatal flaws in this regard that helped to ruin my score and leave me frustrated. Had a generally good ball striking day but lousy thought process!

[@alohaguchis]

Course management is so under rated. Love this

[@jimralston4789]

Course management seems like "what's the big deal, just use your common sense", but it takes a lot of thought and strategy to navigate a round well.

[@aliasErEf]

Any pro fitter at a golf club….should do an 18 holes with you to teach Igolf on courses…..

[@Jordanericgolf1775]

Another great one by LKD

[@alisonburgess345]

This is gold - thanks Luke 🎉

[@kevinogill6726]

Excellent video, thanks Easy wasy to explain to my friends who are constantly scoping the distance to the flag and I am constantly telling them it doesn't matter

[@braedenmoore1722]

Great video!

[@almccrann2286]

Reminds me of Scott Fawcett’s DECADE program. 😊

[@plusfour1]

The same idea. Was thinking that myself. Fine tunes it

[@patricioramos4275]

Top! Amazing content

[@zeppelinstudiosllc3007]

this is awesome !!!! thank you !

[@kevinmcdonald1917]

Thank you, liked and subscribed.

[@HyperbrandedGolf]

Love this series ❤

[@saufai74]

Thank you. Great video

[@GolfDigest]

So do we 😉

[@TheOtherKine]

Well, they worry about that more than regular folks because most of the time they play on hard, firm surfaces where the ball would bounce hard first, then come to a stop, as opposed to when it's soft conditions where they could hit more at the pin or even behind it to suck it back. Depends on the distances and height and landing angle of the ball, of course, but you have to be able to cover first when it's so damned firm with that first bounce

[@dennishyun7173]

Luv your content~~!!! Thanks~~!!!!

[@hog561]

That was awesome🤩

[@oahujuniorgolfassociationc6656]

Super video.

[@krusher74]

So as a bogie golfer with a front-to-back dispersion of 30/40 yards stick to the number to the back of the green, because when you fat it 40yards short of the club flushed it might just creep on the front.

[@petermcgill1315]

I always have the distance to the rear of the green. I’ve hit some shocking spots that still find themselves somewhere around the green. The one or 2 I hit pure, I can deal with.

[@neil840]

Very interesting and informative. Except I find going over the green to be very penal. Yes, there's usually not a bunker there. But, it slopes away, you're short sided, and sometimes your ball is lost in the trees, the tall grass, or you find the OB that you didn't even know was there! On the other hand, the pros will always find their ball when it's over the green and often have the benefit of matted down grass.

[@basserbestt4063]

Great information

[@TheeNickyT]

Tremendous video!

[@sa_maccas2266]

But what would the cover number be at a hole like the 6th at Humewood links, 2 deep bunkers on the left and right basically covering the length of the green

[@jordancalanchini3496]

The cover number would be whatever the yardage is to clear the bunkers lmao

[@oahujuniorgolfassociationc6656]

It’s whatever you need it to be based on your shot shape, where the flag is and so forth. I do think sometimes the carry number is simply the actual front of the green because otherwise it may roll back down or just stop too quickly. Sometimes the carry number is a ridge in the green. And sometimes there’s so much trouble everywhere you just gotta hit a shot.

[@sa_maccas2266]

@@jordancalanchini3496 they cover every part of the side of the green, if you carry the bunkers you've missed the green

[@jordancalanchini3496]

@@sa_maccas2266 if you carry the bunker and miss the green, that means the flag is not right behind the bunker. Therefore you should not be taking it over the bunker

[@sa_maccas2266]

@@jordancalanchini3496 yes, but if you miss pin high right or left, you'll be in the bunker

[@donschultz7759]

Love this. Golfing for 30+ years and nobody told me about this. Kinda upset. Can someone tell me how to calculate this?

[@mrthik1]

Also, golf sidekick has a ton of course and club management videos out there.

[@jaygatsby1]

What’s a sholt?

[@bennettlewis5495]

I don't have a cover number, I have a "crap-shoot" number.

[@jamiekennedy6023]

Could have used this strategy better in my round yesterday 🤦‍♂

[@BenWaltonNYC]

No way. Not with that power fade.

[@HoldenHirsch]

what a vid

[@mikechar17]

sand traps are not the worst possible outcome, right?

[@reidjames2938]

Depends on the hole obviously

[@freddym6643]

They're much worse scoring wise than many realize in most situations.

[@mikechar17]

@@freddym6643 always hear its better to hit there than almost anywhere else unless it might be really short side but they are usually wizards anyway. For the normal guy its the worst nightmare.

[@tdye19]

the cover number

[@danielscofield4941]

That’s a compass, not a protractor.

[@jeffarmfield2346]

Thing bryson had was a protractor

[@atbear]

@@jeffarmfield2346 No, that's a compass.

[@touristguy87]

Could you make a video that doesn't put me to sleep

[@Simeon-the-Magnificent]

Who is the narrator in this? What's his name?

[@MrBootleBoy1969]

His name is in the description.

[@MrRobd23]

1:04 look on the left side in the center of the screen. Also written in the video description. Also 2:27 you can his name and see him speak for himself.

[@MichealNolan-jc9hx]

Luke Kerr-Dineen

[@geoffcohen613]

Just shows how club golfers have been conned into buying lasers, instead of using the old note books.

[@thejmac69]

This vid definitely got me shooting the laser at nearby targets vs the pin for club selection.

[@Labgorilla]

His pronunciation of Valhalla makes me think that he was born at Buckingham palace.

[@RbiTriples]

Doesnt hurt to be Rory MclIroy either lol

[@muzaffarabdulhalim1774]

haha not gonna lie. But I broke 90 keeping this in mind and ot works perfectly 😅

[@rc07333]

Its hard to judge a cover # when you chunk one and then skinny the next 🤣🤣

[@BankAngleCheck]

Still no clue what a cover number is

[@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb]

Nah, I always go for it and pray. 1/50 times I bask in glory. Worth it!

[@Ugghahbuggah]

IT’S A COMPASS 😢

[@fudhater8592]

The point of putting a bunker behind the green is to make it a harder shot than chipping 🤦‍♂

[@TheNifster]

good night isn't this just common sense?

[@Sheepmanthegoat1]

People play golf and don’t think about this? LOL, doubt it

[@markwalters7498]

Oh yeah I see it all the time and occasionally I’m guilty too. Flag at 165 and slightly uphill? Play my 175 club and hit half of them short. Shoulda played the 185

[@theduke7957]

Schauffle lost it. Rory didn’t win it

[@blobberyo54]

Bro went -7 through 8 holes and you don’t think he won it😂

[@tessp100d4]

Screw Rory

[@rwrae72]

Woods "the best of all time"? Laughable. Virtue signal much?

[@noherekruger3738]

Jack was the best of all time, not pill popper.