Be smarter than you use your Rangefinder to save stroke.
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A report rose to x Wednesday BY EspnPaolo Uggetti who said PGA Tour is “testing players to use distance measuring equipment this season.” The hope is that by making the yards faster and more efficient, the pace of the game will become faster.
Now, I’m not expert for whether This will actually accelerate the game but what I know is that if the tournament players have to use Rangfinders, They will use them quite different than the weekend hackers do.
How much do you like? Well, as it would have fate, we have recently filmed a Play awake Segment with instructor Stef Shaw in which she explains the best practices for using a rangefinder.
How are you using a wrong rangefinder
When you go to your ball on the right road or in the box of a par-3, surely catch your rank and zap pin. It’s all good and bold, right? Well, no quite.
Having the number at the top at the fingertips at all times is a great asset, but if the flag yard is all it is counting, you are using a wrong mistake. The number in the pin is only part of the equation.
“I have three different yards that I can track here,” Shaw says. “I can track how far it is to keep the tip of the hill. I have the pin that will measure, and then how far away in the back (green).”
It is important to catch all three of these numbers when you get your range. Why? Because you need to know the range – from front to back – in which you can safely lower your ball to green.
In the video above, we know that the number to transport the hill in front of the green is 100 yards, while the number on the pin is 110 yards and the number in the back green is 120 yards. So, taking into account all those calculations, I have to choose a club that will go minimum 100 yard to hold trouble, and to the maximum 120 yards to stay in green.
“If you look at Trackman, sometimes I will have someone who carries the ball 90 yard, but it revolves to 120, and that will not be enough club here,” Shaw says. “That is why it is important to go to the direction range and understand some basic distances of carrier for your clubs.”
The next time you take your range in the course, remember that you are not just looking for the number in the pin. Instead, build a range before and after the pin that you can lower the ball and select a club based on it. If you do this, you will hit a lot more greens and give yourself more views on birds.
