The Critical Number Pros Use That Amateurs Don't l The Game Plan l Golf Digest

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  • Cover Numbers. They're some of the most underrated and underused numbers in golf. What's the yardage to clear the hazard? What club should I hit? How do I avoid disaster on this hole? In this episode of The Game Plan, Golf Digest Senior Editor Luke Kerr-Dineen dives into the simple but often underutilized strategy of ignoring the pin and focusing on safety to discover whether or not those aggressive lines off the tee and into greens are actually worth the risk for pros and amateurs alike.
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  • @HuntsT
    @HuntsT หลายเดือนก่อน +17

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

  • @danik4308
    @danik4308 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

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

    • @lukekerrdineen
      @lukekerrdineen หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      It's in the docket!

    • @tnuctaf
      @tnuctaf หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      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.

  • @ShotPattern
    @ShotPattern หลายเดือนก่อน +27

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

  • @thejmac69
    @thejmac69 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

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

    • @lucacollins2592
      @lucacollins2592 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

    • @thejmac69
      @thejmac69 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @bkim01
    @bkim01 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

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

  • @kingpatrick2395
    @kingpatrick2395 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

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

    • @GolfDigest
      @GolfDigest  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Glad you enjoy them. We love making them.

  • @lukejuras8024
    @lukejuras8024 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    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).

  • @timchamberlain5858
    @timchamberlain5858 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    That was a great explanation of "playing the miss"

  • @mr.clutch987
    @mr.clutch987 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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

  • @alisonburgess345
    @alisonburgess345 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is gold - thanks Luke 🎉

  • @zeppelinstudiosllc3007
    @zeppelinstudiosllc3007 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    this is awesome !!!! thank you !

  • @HK-vv9kv
    @HK-vv9kv หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

  • @kevinmcdonald1917
    @kevinmcdonald1917 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you, liked and subscribed.

  • @Jordanericgolf1775
    @Jordanericgolf1775 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Another great one by LKD

  • @1golfer2another
    @1golfer2another วันที่ผ่านมา

    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!

  • @braedenmoore1722
    @braedenmoore1722 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great video!

  • @patricioramos4275
    @patricioramos4275 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Top! Amazing content

  • @basserbestt4063
    @basserbestt4063 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great information

  • @dennishyun7173
    @dennishyun7173 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @oahujuniorgolfassociationc6656
    @oahujuniorgolfassociationc6656 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Super video.

  • @alohaguchis
    @alohaguchis หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Course management is so under rated. Love this

    • @jimralston4789
      @jimralston4789 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      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.

  • @TheeNickyT
    @TheeNickyT หลายเดือนก่อน

    Tremendous video!

  • @kevinogill6726
    @kevinogill6726 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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

  • @almccrann2286
    @almccrann2286 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Reminds me of Scott Fawcett’s DECADE program. 😊

    • @plusfour1
      @plusfour1 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @HyperbrandedGolf
    @HyperbrandedGolf หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Love this series ❤

    • @saufai74
      @saufai74 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you. Great video

    • @GolfDigest
      @GolfDigest  หลายเดือนก่อน

      So do we 😉

  • @ScrewyDriverTheMan
    @ScrewyDriverTheMan หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @petermcgill1315
    @petermcgill1315 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @krusher74
    @krusher74 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @neil840
    @neil840 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @bennettlewis5495
    @bennettlewis5495 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @user-wv5lh1xz4g
    @user-wv5lh1xz4g หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    what a vid

  • @jaygatsby1
    @jaygatsby1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What’s a sholt?

  • @sa_maccas2266
    @sa_maccas2266 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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
      @jordancalanchini3496 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @oahujuniorgolfassociationc6656
      @oahujuniorgolfassociationc6656 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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
      @sa_maccas2266 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @jordancalanchini3496
      @jordancalanchini3496 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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
      @sa_maccas2266 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @tdye19
    @tdye19 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the cover number

  • @jamiekennedy6023
    @jamiekennedy6023 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @BenWaltonNYC
      @BenWaltonNYC หลายเดือนก่อน

      No way. Not with that power fade.

  • @mikechar17
    @mikechar17 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    sand traps are not the worst possible outcome, right?

    • @reidjames2938
      @reidjames2938 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Depends on the hole obviously

    • @freddym6643
      @freddym6643 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @mikechar17
      @mikechar17 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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.

  • @touristguy87
    @touristguy87 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @danielscofield4941
    @danielscofield4941 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    That’s a compass, not a protractor.

    • @jeffarmfield2346
      @jeffarmfield2346 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thing bryson had was a protractor

    • @atbear
      @atbear หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jeffarmfield2346 No, that's a compass.

  • @Simeon-the-Magnificent
    @Simeon-the-Magnificent หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @MrBootleBoy1969
      @MrBootleBoy1969 หลายเดือนก่อน

      His name is in the description.

    • @MrRobd23
      @MrRobd23 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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
      @MichealNolan-jc9hx หลายเดือนก่อน

      Luke Kerr-Dineen

  • @muzaffarabdulhalim1774
    @muzaffarabdulhalim1774 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @RbiTriples
    @RbiTriples หลายเดือนก่อน

    Doesnt hurt to be Rory MclIroy either lol

  • @rc07333
    @rc07333 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @maverick6369
    @maverick6369 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Still no clue what a cover number is

  • @geoffcohen613
    @geoffcohen613 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

    • @thejmac69
      @thejmac69 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @fudhater8592
    @fudhater8592 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @Labgorilla
    @Labgorilla 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @Sheepmanthegoat1
    @Sheepmanthegoat1 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @TheNifster
    @TheNifster หลายเดือนก่อน

    good night isn't this just common sense?

  • @theduke7957
    @theduke7957 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Schauffle lost it. Rory didn’t win it

    • @blobberyo54
      @blobberyo54 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @tessp100d4
      @tessp100d4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Screw Rory

  • @noherekruger3738
    @noherekruger3738 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

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