Lee Trevino final December at the PNC Championship.
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Lee Trevino says golf is like checkers. And chess. But his level is the similar.
The thought is “one of the biggest things about playing golf,” he says.
The thought is to suppose forward.
“You have to make preparations for the next shot,” he stated on a video recently shared by the Arthritis Knee Pain Center, one of his supporters. “Forget the shot that you’ve got. What different shot would you like?
“So if I missed the shot, where is going to be my best chances of getting this ball up and down.”
But how greatest to do it? Trevino had a thought on that, too. Of course, the six-time main winner would. He’s one of golf’s best-ever gamers. He’s one of golf’s best-ever talkers.
On the video, Trevino stated his method featured a line.
“The hardest part of the world is you’ve got to cut the green in half, and you keep the 180 toward you, 180 behind you,” Trevino stated. “Most guys and most of the people that miss greens [and] go in the bunkers which can be on this aspect of that line will beat the man that’s on that aspect of the line each time. This is the place you must try to hold the ball. Don’t go over all the time. You’re at all times going over. You’re at all times going over.
“That’s the whole secret.”
In brief, it’s course administration and being conscious of your miss and bother. But it’s not straightforward. It’s onerous to pump the brakes. Notably, the topic has come up just lately with Viktor Hovland, the winner final month at the Tour Championship.
Hovland had had a breakthrough. In this house at the time, we wrote the following 4 paragraphs (and you’ll learn the longer story on Hovland right here).
“What you’ll want to know right here is that professional Edoardo Molinari is a stats wiz. But his system is greater than what you pencil in in your scorecard.
“‘I think it was right after Augusta — it was right after Augusta National,’ Hovland stated. ‘I had clearly been working with Edoardo for a couple of yr — or much more than that, a yr and a half, and Joe Mayo, my teacher, bought on board earlier this yr and simply from watching me play the first variety of three, 4, 5 months of the season, he was like, look, man, issues are trying actually good, however I’d have a double bogey right here or a double bogey there and it could simply variety of mess up the complete event for me or it could get me out of competition.
“‘He’s simply — he even stated this whereas we have been taking part in the Masters, whereas I’m in competition. It’s like, there’s one thing that’s lacking. There’s one thing that’s not proper. And in poker phrases — we wish to play loads of poker — it’s like my frequencies are somewhat bit off. There’s a sure proportion of the time you’re speculated to guess, you’re speculated to check-raise, otherwise you’re speculated to bluff. And mainly there’s a sure proportion you’re speculated to short-side your self. But mainly I used to be doing that far more than the common participant. And that’s when Joe requested Edoardo to see if the stats backed that up. And, yeah, we bought a fairly good thought of simply that’s mainly what the stats confirmed. I used to be short-siding myself far more than the common Tour participant does. So that was very revealing.’
“Good stuff. On Sunday night, after the victory, Hovland talked of being boring — ‘just trying to play like Tiger [Woods] back in the day when he would post the 69 or a 70 in a major championship and walk away with a victory.’ This is that. Go when it’s there. Don’t when it’s not. There’s strategy. There’s an approach.”
