re: Golf My Way: Effective course strategy for imperfect golfer

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Correct me if I'm wrong but if you are aiming to miss the shot, why not just lay up and hit your next shot from the fairway, avoiding those crazy lies? I'm probably missing the point. If so, I welcome the education.

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You're not aiming to miss the shot. You're taking precautions that if you do miss, it will miss even more in the direction of your normal shot, which will be away from the trouble, wherever that may be.

So if you're hitting to a front left pin and the trouble is a front bunker that wraps the left side, then your miss needs to be at worst right, if not long right. Taking your typical shot shape into account (let's say it's a fade), your aim point should be at best the left edge of the green with plenty of club. That way, if you hit it normal (a fade) you should be around the pin or right of it (away from the front left bunker) and long. But if you hit it perfect, at worst you'll be on the green and past the pin. So you've effectively taken any chance of leaving the ball short and left...in the bunker.